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West Mercia Police said a post-mortem carried out on 16 September had not established the cause of his death.
Investigators are examining dental records to work out his identity. The skull was found on 20 August by junction four of the M54 at Shifnal.
Tests determined the remains had been at the scene for at least two years.
The skull was found by maintenance workers at the eastbound exit slip road of the motorway.
Police are being helped by the National Crime Agency, the UK Missing Persons Database and forensic anthropologists to identify the person, the force said.
A police search by the slip road ended on 10 September. | A near-complete skeleton was found by a Shropshire motorway slip road after a man's skull was discovered there last month, police have revealed. | 34,317,102 | 138 | 37 | false |
The economy grew 0.5% in the quarter, while the annualised rate of growth was 2.2% - the fastest rate for a year.
The figures means Japan has now recorded its longest period of expansion in more than a decade.
The economy's prospects have been boosted by strong exports, a pick-up in consumption and investment for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
Exporters have been helped by the recent falls in the yen against the US dollar, which has made their products more competitive and has boosted the value of profits earned overseas.
The data could provide a lift to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as his government tries to encourage Japanese consumers and companies to spend more.
Mr Abe's grand plan to kick start the world's third largest economy, known as "Abenomics", was aimed at tackling nearly two decades of stagnant growth and falling consumer prices.
David Kuo, chief executive of the Motley Fool Singapore, said the numbers showed that "Abenomics could be working."
He Kuo added: "Consumers appear to be regaining their confidence which should provide sustainable growth if it continues."
But he warned that Mr Abe's work could be undone if the political controversy surrounding President Trump led to further falls in the US dollar.
The row over the firing of FBI director James Comey has led to growing scepticism about Mr Trump's ability to deliver tax and regulatory reform.
This has hit both US shares and the dollar. The US dollar is currently trading near six-month lows against other major currencies. | Japan's economy grew faster than expected in the first three months of the year, according to official data. | 39,960,332 | 334 | 24 | false |
The sum is more than 3% of Welsh local government's annual budget of £4.4bn.
Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews said the report he ordered supports the need for reform.
He said "savings can be delivered now" to boost frontline services by improving the management of areas like property management, IT and finance.
The 22 Welsh councils are facing the prospect of merger to 12, 10 or even fewer authorities with a proposed map expected to be unveiled next week.
But Mr Andrews said there was already scope for savings.
"When I commissioned this review in November last year, I made it clear I expected all local authorities in Wales to focus the limited resources available to them on delivering front line services to citizens, and to reduce spending on administration and backroom services," he said.
"The report emphasises the value of authorities benchmarking these services against their peers within Wales and best practice internationally.
"Many of these savings can be delivered now without the need to await wider structural reform to local government in Wales.
"We will now consider the recommendations in the report, which will enable local authorities to compare and contrast expenditure and understand where practice should be changed to move a greater proportion of the spending to delivering services to citizens." | Local councils in Wales have been told they can save £151m a year by cutting their administration costs before any consideration of mergers. | 33,108,983 | 262 | 30 | false |
The cycle race covers 304 miles (490 km) split into three stages.
The event, in its third year, began as part of the legacy of the county hosting the 2014 Grand Depart for the Tour de France.
The men's race starts later in Bridlington, East Yorkshire later and ends on Sunday at Fox Valley in Sheffield.
The women's race starts in Tadcaster and ends in Harrogate on Saturday.
The race is jointly organised by Welcome to Yorkshire, the region's tourism agency, and French company Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO), which organises the Tour de France and other prestigious races in the European calendar.
Welcome to Yorkshire said the 2016 race attracted about a million spectators, generated about £60m for the local economy and was watched by 11.4 million TV viewers in 178 countries.
As in previous years, many of the towns and villages along the route have entered into the spirit of the race and decorated the roadside.
ASO race director Christian Prudhomme said it was "amazing"
He added: "In every village there are blue and yellow flowers, with bikes, with bunting and huge flags and smiles on everybody's face."
Welcome to Yorkshire's Sir Gary Verity said there was huge enthusiasm for the event.
"We have 2,500 volunteers this time compared to 1,200 last year.
"There is an increased level of interest in the event and we have been getting messages from people coming from all around the UK and beyond."
For spectators it is a chance to glimpse elite cyclists, including Olympic gold medal winner Owain Doull and former Women's Tour winner Kirsten Wild.
Frenchman Thomas Voeckler, who won the men's race in 2016, will also be defending his title.
Under the Egyptian-brokered deal, an interim government will be formed and a date fixed for elections.
The groups have been divided for more than four years, with Hamas in power in Gaza and Fatah running the West Bank.
Israel immediately said that the Palestinian Authority could not have peace with both Hamas and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "I hope the Palestinian Authority will make the right choice - peace with Israel."
Hamas has carried out bombings and rocket attacks against Israel for years and does not recognise its right to exist.
The US responded to the news by saying that any Palestinian unity government would have to renounce violence and recognise Israel.
Thousands of Palestinians protested in Gaza this month, calling for reconciliation.
The protests were inspired by uprisings elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
The split between Fatah and Hamas occurred when violence erupted a year after Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006. Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.
By Wyre DaviesBBC News, Jerusalem
In recent years relations between the two main Palestinian factions have been nothing short of poisonous. Hamas has consistently refused to recognise the legitimacy and authority of Mr Abbas, because it says his term of office expired more than a year ago. Fatah loyalists have often been unable to hide their hatred of fundamentalist hard-liners in Hamas who took control of Gaza in 2007.
But Palestinian unity is a goal cherished by most people in Gaza and the West Bank, who say that the four-year split has seriously undermined and harmed chances of the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
But there is still a long way to go. Elections would have to be held in Gaza and the West Bank, presumably later this year for a new Palestinian parliament and the presidency. Also, as Hamas is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by many Western countries, it is difficult to see how they could co-operate with any future administration unless Hamas formally changes its attitude and constitution vis-a-vis Israel.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Cairo says that if the deal goes ahead, it will end the bitter hostility between the two sides and remove a significant barrier to the Palestinian campaign for statehood.
But he says there are many difficult issues to resolve - such as how the two factions will share security, how Gaza and the West Bank, separated by Israeli territory, will be governed, and whether the international donors will be willing to recognise Hamas.
At a news conference in Cairo, Fatah delegation head Azzam al-Ahmad said: "We are proud that we now possess the national will to end our divisions so we can end the occupation of Palestine... the last occupation in history."
Hamas's deputy leader, Moussa Abu Marzouk, said: "Our rift gave the occupation a chance. Today we turn a new page."
Mr Ahmad rejected Mr Netanyahu's opposition to the deal, saying: "[Mr Abbas] has said we want Hamas, Hamas is part of the Palestinian national fabric."
Hamas spokesman Tahir al-Nounou said Israel was "not concerned with Palestinian reconciliation and has been an impediment to it in the past".
He said: "The final signing will be in a week from now. Cairo will invite Mahmoud Abbas and [Hamas leader] Khaled Meshaal, and representatives from all Palestinian factions, to attend the signing."
Mr Ahmad said: "We have agreed to form a government composed of independent figures that would start preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections.
"Elections would be held in about eight months from now," he said.
Fatah and Hamas had been close to a deal last year but Hamas withdrew, saying the terms had been revised without its agreement. Mr Abbas has since been pushing for reconciliation.
The BBC's Wyre Davies in Jerusalem says the Netanyahu government has repeatedly said it will not sit down and talk about a two-state solution if Hamas is any way involved.
Mr Netanyahu told the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday: "There cannot be peace with both [Israel and Hamas] because Hamas wants to destroy Israel and says so openly. It shoots missiles at our cities, it fires anti-tank missiles at our children.
"I think that the idea of reconciliation shows the weakness of the Palestinian Authority and raises the question whether Hamas will take over Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] as it has taken over the Gaza Strip."
US National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said: "The United States supports Palestinian reconciliation on terms which promote the cause of peace.
"Hamas, however, is a terrorist organisation which targets civilians. To play a constructive role in achieving peace, any Palestinian government must... renounce violence, abide by past agreements, and recognise Israel's right to exist."
Violence between Israel and militant groups in Gaza escalated this March following a rocket attack on an Israeli school bus that killed a teenage boy.
Israel also launched a full-scale ground operation - named Cast Lead - in the Gaza Strip that began in December 2008 and ended in January 2009.
He travelled from his home in South Africa to be at the ceremony in Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
He received his prize from the Duke of Buccleuch at a special event during the Borders Book Festival.
The Garden of Evening Mists is the first novel by an overseas writer to have won the four-year-old prize.
A new rule was introduced last year making books by authors from the Commonwealth eligible for entry.
The novel prevailed over a strong shortlist including Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, which has already carried off some of the UK's most prestigious literary awards, and novels by English writers Rose Tremain, Pat Barker, and Anthony Quinn, and by Australian author Thomas Keneally.
Earlier this year Tan Twan Eng won the Man Asian Literary Prize with the same book.
The Scott Prize judges commented: "All the authors on this year's shortlist have written wonderful books, illuminating times and breathing life into personalities in a way that is enlightening and which brings lasting pleasure to the reader.
"However, The Garden of Evening Mists is the book that left the deepest imprint on us.
"The poignancy of both remembering and forgetting is what this book is all about."
They said one of the strengths of the Walter Scott Prize was its "broad reach".
"Set in the jungle-clad highlands of Malaya, this year's winner leads us into the troubled aftermath of World War Two," they added.
"It is pungent and atmospheric; a rich, enigmatic, layered novel in which landscapes part and merge, and part again."
The award ceremony in Melrose was presented by James Naughtie.
Earlier in the day, the authors had the opportunity to tour Scott's home, Abbotsford House, which reopens to the public on 4 July following extensive refurbishment.
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"Zayn" - not his real name - said girls as young a 14 would be taken to locations including parks and side streets and sexually assaulted by up to three men at a time.
He said the majority of the girls were from the Pakistani community.
He told the BBC's Asian Network the memories "haunt me to this day" and said he regretted not speaking out sooner.
Women made up 28% of the assembly, compared with 19% in 2011.
And while that was a significant mark of progress, Stormont still lagged well behind the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly for female representation.
The 70 women running this time make up 31% of the overall number of candidates, a 4% increase on last year's figure.
The Green Party is unique in running an equal number of men and women, a repeat of the numbers it fielded last year.
But leader Steven Agnew admitted that almost came about by accident - the party had initially set a target to field six women.
"We took a decision to increase the number of female candidates and set a one-third quota," he said.
"But once we started to ask women to come forward we realised we had a lot of talented women in our party."
Mr Agnew said it is a positive move that other parties have increased their percentage, but he believes they are following in the Green Party's wake.
"When we went round for candidates this time, at one point we actually had 10 female and eight male, but unfortunately one person had to pull out because of work issues, so it ended up being balanced again.
"We find with female candidates they're again more likely to come forward [when asked], whereas men often are maybe more inclined to put themselves forward without being asked."
Heading away over election day? Perhaps there's another reason you'll not be able to cast your vote in person?
Don't worry - you can still have your say in who gets a seat at Stormont, but Friday is your last chance to register.
If you can't pop down to the polling station on 2 March, you can apply to vote by post or by proxy.
A postal vote can be sent out to any address within the UK and must be returned before 22:00 GMT on polling day.
Proxy votes allow you to get someone to fill in your ballot paper for you, if, for example, you fall ill or happen to be abroad.
The deadline for applications for postal or proxy votes is at 17:00 GMT - visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to find out more.
She said it would be a "brutal" election battle, and it looks like Arlene Foster has been looking for a few tips for the fight.
Opponents of the Democratic Unionist Party leader have been trying to land a few knockout blows.
But after going toe-to-toe with former world boxing champion Barry McGuigan she could be more confident of rising up to the challenge of her rivals.
Plenty of rounds left in the brawl of the election campaign, so will the gloves come off before the bell rings for polling day?
Election hopefuls clock up plenty of miles when they're driving around on the campaign trail.
And it appears that those bumpy country roads in North Antrim have put the brakes on Philip McGuigan's canvassing.
But he didn't let a breakdown put his lights out or puncture his enthusiasm.
With a wheely good turn of luck, the Sinn Féin man received a little help and he was soon back on the road.
Election systems can be hard to get your head around and knowing whether to put an X in a box or a 1, 2, 3 can be confusing.
Assembly, council and European elections in Northern Ireland use a system called Single Transferable Vote (STV), where voters rank candidates on their ballot papers in order of preference.
STV gives smaller parties a better chance of getting candidates elected, as they may benefit from transfers from larger parties.
But how do those preferences make up who is elected or eliminated?
Using an emoji parliament, we explain in the video above how the STV system works.
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 and BBC Radio Foyle's The Breakfast Show at 07:40 GMT, and on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra at 17:40 GMT each weekday.
Revenue & Customs has ruled care workers sleeping overnight to provide safety and reassurance should get the national minimum wage for all hours.
But Harington fears people such as his cousin Laurent, who has Down's syndrome and autism, could suffer as a result.
The government said it would "ensure that action taken to protect workers is fair and proportionate".
But Harington said: "If the charities can't pay this bill, then people are going to be left without the care they need."
Pay row threatens overnight care for vulnerable
Patients with learning disabilities missing out on health checks
While on night shifts, most employees providing care in people's own homes or accommodation run by Mencap and other organisations are allowed to sleep, providing they can be woken to deal with any incidents.
According to minimum wage legislation, employers must take into account shifts where staff are allowed to sleep as long as they are "at work and under certain work-related responsibilities".
Until recently, many overnight care workers were paid a flat rate allowance for the "sleep-in", about £30.
But in April, following an employment tribunal appeal ruling, all workers were granted a minimum of £7.50 per hour for the whole shift.
Last week, the government announced a temporary suspension to enforcement action by HMRC until October, but many charities say they will not be able to cover the bill for back pay.
Harington, who plays Jon Snow in the television series, said: "If this legislation goes ahead and the back pay bill lands squarely at the charities' and providers' feet and they have to pay it, many people like Laurent are not going to have that 24-7 care.
"This bill cannot be paid by the charities. For me, it's as simple as this can't be allowed to stand.
"Laurent loves swimming, he loves Zumba, he loves dancing, and he loves going to the disco. He needs to live the life he loves living.
"When my aunt can't care for him the way she has, we will need to find that for him, and my worry is that the way things are going, it's going to be harder and harder for Laurent to find what he needs.
"Basically, I think the government needs to pay it. The bill needs to be footed, and it needs to be footed by the government."
Harington said that he feared for charities and individuals paying for care for family members.
He said: "This issue is of the greatest importance, I think, not just for me but for our society that we live in.
"Our duty for society is to care for the most vulnerable in our society. If this bill is having to be paid by the charities that cannot pay it, the most vulnerable in our society are going to be left without care.
"That's not a society I believe in or want to live in, so it's of the greatest importance, and it's urgent."
Mencap chairman, Derek Lewis said: "Employers are keen to fulfil their responsibilities to employees. But if the government changes the rules on how sleep-in payments should be paid, it must expect to have to pay for the changes.
"We reiterate our call to government to accept its responsibility and make an urgent commitment to fund the back pay bill, for the sake of those vulnerable people who depend on this care and for the dedicated people who provide that care. Time is running out."
Unison, which represents a number of overnight carers, said: "It's the government's failure to fund social care properly that risks devastating the care sector, not the workers asking for a legal wage.
"Charities and care companies have known for a long time they must pay sleep-in staff at least the minimum wage. But it's only now HM Revenue & Customs is in pursuit that many are pleading poverty and asking for an exemption from the law."
A Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: "The government will continue to look at this issue extremely carefully alongside industry representatives to see whether any further support is needed and ensure that action taken to protect workers is fair and proportionate, while seeing how it might be possible to minimise any impact on social care provision."
The loaded pistol was uncovered on Monday after officers in Brisbane, Queensland, discovered a second handgun in his car.
A body search revealed the biker had the handgun "secreted between his buttocks", Queensland Police said.
He was charged with weapons and drug offences.
Police also searched his inner-city apartment where they discovered a Taser, explosives and drugs.
The man is scheduled to appear in Brisbane Magistrates' Court on 21 December.
Police allege he is connected to the outlaw Rebels gang. In Australia, motorcycle gang members are known as "bikies".
The Rebels are Australia's largest motorcycle gang and have been responsible for crimes including killings and dealing drugs.
Detective Superintendent Mick Niland said authorities were "relentlessly" targeting organised crime.
The scheme was set up by the Savile estate, the BBC, the NHS, the charity Barnardo's and lawyers acting for alleged victims. It was approved by the High Court earlier this year.
But the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust, a beneficiary of the estate, said the scheme would not weed out fake claims and too much money would go to lawyers.
Appeal judges dismissed the challenge.
The court also rejected the trust's application for NatWest to be dismissed as the executor of Savile's estate.
Meanwhile, abuse survivors who met Home Secretary Theresa May on Monday said the government was creating £2m fund for groups helping people who will give evidence to the forthcoming public inquiry into abuse, and a separate £1.5m fund for charities which help abuse survivors.
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood said it was represented at the meeting, but the Home Office has not yet announced any details.
Court of Appeal judges heard that Savile, who died in October 2011, was accused of being a "serial child abuser and sex offender" in a documentary broadcast in October 2012.
The former BBC presenter was also alleged to have abused people in hospitals.
The court heard that a "large number" of people had come forward to say they were abused by him following the programme.
The number of people making compensation claims was now more than 200, lawyers said.
In February, victims were advised that, under the compensation scheme, they could make claims against the Savile estate, the BBC or the NHS, with payments capped at £60,000.
Experts initially put the value of Savile's estate at around £4m. But a "range of expenses" was incurred and the estate's value was reduced to about £3.3m, judges said in February.
Liz Dux, a lawyer at law firm Slater & Gordon which represents victims, said: "Today's ruling will bring great relief to Savile's many victims who have been living with the uncertainty of not knowing whether they would be blocked in their claims.
"They just want some recognition of what they have been through so they can then be able to move on with their lives. Hundreds of Savile's victims, who are represented by Slater & Gordon, have already signed up to the scheme in the hope that they would receive some form of justice without the need for drawn-out and costly litigation."
The 25-year-old, in her first Games, scored 199.4 in 20 shots to set an Olympic record in her win.
Russia's Vitalina Batsarashkina (197.1) won silver and Greece's Anna Korakaki (177.7) finished with the bronze.
Zhang, ranked five in the world, was the most consistent shooter and none of her rivals could match her, especially once she went into the lead.
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Scaffolding was used to hoist up the protuberance, which is reported to weigh about 12 tonnes (12,000kg.)
The restoration operation was funded by a crowdfunding campaign which raised about 227,000 kroner ($27,000).
But tourists will have to wait a week before they can see the formation in order to allow it to fasten properly.
Cement, glue and metal fastenings were used to re-attach the Trollpikken, or "The Troll's Penis" to the cliff near Oslo.
Police last month said that indentations in the rock suggested vandalism was responsible for the demise of the stone. They say a suspect has been questioned over the incident.
Hikers found the stone, which originally came out from the rock face, resting on the ground.
Days afterwards The Troll's Penis Will Be Re-Erected appeal was launched and had received money from close to 1,000 people.
The rock formation is located in the municipality of Eigersund, in the south-west of the country.
The crash happened at 18:30 on Sunday near Yucaipa on the edges of the San Bernardino National Forest, some 80 miles (128 km) east of Los Angeles.
It took rescuers more than two hours to get all the passengers out of the bus.
Officials said 27 people were taken to nearby hospitals, at least six of them in a critical condition.
The cause of the crash is not yet clear, but California Highway Patrol spokesman Mario Lopez was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the bus driver reported brake problems as he descended a road leading from the Big Bear ski resort area.
The bus was in collision with a sedan car and a pick-up truck pulling a trailer, Mr Lopez said.
Her colleague, Michelle Profant, described the gruesome scene.
"It's really a mess up there with body parts," she said.
Some of the passengers were said to have been thrown from the bus, while others were trapped inside.
As firefighters worked to free those stuck, rescuers from at least eight different agencies were on the scene to help stabilise and transport the wounded, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The passengers were part of a tour group from Tijuana in Mexico, the Department of Transportation spokeswoman Michelle Profant was quoted by AP as saying.
A representative from the Mexican consulate reportedly went to the crash scene.
Some Labour MPs urged Mr Corbyn to stay away from Friday's event over concerns about a controversial blog posted by campaigners following attacks in Paris.
But new chairman Andrew Murray said their criticism was "ridiculous".
Mr Murray, who replaces Mr Corbyn in the role, said the Labour leader was part of the campaign's backbone.
Mr Murray, a trade unionist and journalist who previously chaired Stop the War for 10 years, said the quarter of a million people who had voted for Mr Corbyn to lead Labour "did so because of his stand against war, not in spite of it".
He said: "This unity between a mass campaigning movement and the leadership of the Labour Party clearly makes some uncomfortable.
"Their new year's resolution needs to be to get used to it."
He described the fundraising event as "a very successful evening" with lots of money raised, adding that Mr Corbyn was given a "warm reception".
"All the attacks on us have simply served to draw attention to our cause and our campaign," he said.
Mr Corbyn has described the group as a "vital force" and "one of the most important democratic campaigns of modern times", which had brought "hundreds of thousands of people" to protests.
On Saturday, Stop the War protesters gathered at BBC headquarters in central London for a rally denouncing UK airstrikes against Syria, before marching to Downing Street.
Mr Corbyn, who has been a leading member of the Stop the War coalition since it was founded, used Friday's speech to praise its campaigns against military interventions.
"It has been shown to be right in opposing more than a decade of disastrous wars - in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya - while many of its most vociferous critics supported them," he said.
Senior Labour figures, including MPs Caroline Flint and Tristram Hunt, had urged Mr Corbyn to shun the event.
Green MP Caroline Lucas has also resigned as a patron of Stop the War, citing concerns about the positions it has adopted.
A tweet and article published in the wake of the attacks on Paris last month suggested France had "reaped the whirlwind" of Western support for extremist violence in the Middle East.
Both were later removed and disowned by the organisation's leaders, but critics have highlighted another article last week which argued jihadists were driven by a "spirit of internationalism and solidarity" akin to the International Brigades that fought in the Spanish Civil War.
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband told the BBC's Newsnight he would not "commentate on what organisations Jeremy Corbyn chooses to be member of".
"He's got a long-standing association with this organisation, he's got a long-standing opposition to different types of intervention," said Mr Miliband. "He spoke on this in the Syria debate.
"I think our party's focus should be on taking the fight to the Tories and working out the ideas that are going to win us the next general election, not Jeremy Corbyn's political engagements."
The company said it needed fewer staff now that it has completed the move to a new contact handling system.
A source said it was confident that it would achieve the target through a voluntary redundancy scheme.
The job cuts are from a customer service workforce of 1,800, spread across five sites, three of them in Glasgow and Hamilton.
A company source said: "We have started discussions with the unions and employee representatives, and there will be opportunities for around 200 people to leave the retail business over the course of 2017.
"We have always managed major change programmes through voluntary means. Indeed, should we receive too many applications for voluntary redundancy, then we will have to prioritise according to operational requirements.
"Our last similar programme was oversubscribed. This follows the implementation of our new customer service system, which is now fully embedded."
The forward, 29, quit after missing in a penalty shootout as Argentina were beaten by Chile in the Copa America - a fourth major final loss in nine years.
"Those saying he should quit don't want us to see what a disaster Argentinean football has become," Maradona told La Nacion newspaper.
"Messi must go on."
Maradona, who captained Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup and managed the team at the 2010 World Cup, added: "Messi has to stay because he will reach the 2018 World Cup in Russia in conditions to become world champion.
"The lads have to be supported more to help him take the team forward."
Messi said after Sunday's defeat that for him, the national team was "over" and that "it hurts not to be a champion".
Argentine President Mauricio Macri said he called Messi to tell him "how proud he feels of the national team's performance and asked him not to listen to the criticism".
He added he hopes to meet the player next week and convince him to return to the national team.
"The truth is that it's good fortune, a joy, a gift from God to have the best player in the world in a country like ours that is so football-crazy," added Macri.
Messi has won eight La Liga titles and four Champions Leagues with his club, Spanish side Barcelona.
But his only major international honour is Olympic gold at the 2008 Games.
Defeat on Sunday was the second time in two years Argentina have lost the Copa America final to Chile on penalties, while they were beaten 1-0 by Germany in the 2014 World Cup final.
Messi, who was been awarded the Ballon d'Or five times, was also on the losing side against Brazil in the 2007 Copa America final.
Argentina are already six games into their qualification campaign for the 2018 World Cup. They are third in the table, two points behind leaders Uruguay.
The top four teams progress to the finals in Russia, while the team finishing fifth qualifies for a two-legged play-off against the best team from Oceania.
Compiled by BBC Monitoring
Lionel Messi's announcement that he is retiring from international football is dominating Argentine press and social media, and there is a national push to persuade the forward to stay.
The news has prompted a campaign across social media, urging the football star not to quit. Argentine President Mauricio Macri was one of millions to tweet using the hashtag #NoTeVayasLio [Don't Go Lio], one of many hashtags to have emerged following Messi's announcement.
Newspaper La Nacion says that the country's focus is firmly on convincing Messi to stay, rather than any disappointment caused by the team's defeat, in an article titled 'Clamour for Messi eclipses frustration'.
The paper also notes the overwhelming support for Messi on social media, in contrast to the "indifference" of the Argentine Football Association.
Clarin newspaper is also running several features on the story. Their front page includes the results of a poll on whether Messi should stay (76% say yes), an editorial by editor Ricardo Roa entitled 'Come back and forgive us, Leo', and speculation as to whether other national stars will follow suit and quit.
Osvaldo Pepe, writing for Clarin online, defends Messi's decision and says it "is not an act of cowardice, nor a dribble of confidence [...] but the dignified act of a person who is emotionally broken". Pepe adds that it does not matter if Messi retires now, for Argentina "will always be waiting" for his return.
The extra provision was expected after the deadline for PPI claims was extended to June 2019
The announcement came as the bank announced that pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of September fell 15% to £811m.
Total income for the quarter rose by 1% to £4.27bn.
Lloyds is 9% state-owned, but earlier this month the government said it was scrapping plans to sell its remaining shares in the bank to members of the public.
It is now planning to sell its shares via a "trading plan", with small tranches of shares sold to institutional investors.
The extra provision for PPI claims comes on top of the £16bn Lloyds has already set aside to tackle PPI mis-selling. It is the bank worst affected by the PPI mis-selling scandal.
In the third quarter, Lloyds also took a charge of £150m to cover the cost of other "conduct issues" - mostly related to the sale of packaged bank accounts.
Underlying profit - before for the provisions for PPI compensation and the other conduct issues were taken into account - was £1.91bn for the three-month period, down 3% on a year earlier.
The bank said its net interest margin - the difference between the interest it gets from borrowers and what it pays savers - was 2.69% for the third quarter, down from 2.74% in the second quarter, "partly reflecting the base rate change in early August".
That was when the Bank of England cut its key interest rate to 0.25% from 0.5% as it attempted to stimulate the UK economy in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
Low interest rates have a negative impact on banks' performance, because it means they make less from long-term loans.
"The bank's net interest margin continues to be significantly hampered by the low interest rate environment, because it earns less of a turn on each £1 it takes from depositors to lend out to borrowers, but at least that margin is holding steady," said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
Lloyds made a £204m provision to cover bad loans in the quarter, up from £157m a year earlier. However, it said the credit quality of its lending portfolio remained "strong".
"One positive offshoot of the low interest environment is that bad loans are still at exceptionally low levels, because debt is so affordable," said Mr Khalaf.
In the nine months to the end of September, pre-tax profits were up by 52% to nearly £3.3bn, while total income was little changed at £13.15bn.
"The third-quarter figures are largely disappointing, whilst the nine months year-to-date performance is rather more impressive," said Richard Hunter, head of research at Wilson King Investment Management.
"There are some concerning developments within the quarter, such as the additional PPI provision, an increase in impairments, the reduction in net interest margin and the overall profit decline.
"Meanwhile, as viewed as a proxy for the UK economy, the shares have been under pressure in anticipation of a hard Brexit, with all its negative connotations and with interest rates remaining at historic lows, the sector in general faces ongoing challenges."
Shares closed down 0.96% at 55.88p.
Dorrie Kempsell and Ivy Peck celebrated the occasion at the care home in Exmouth, Devon where they both live.
The sisters, originally from Liverpool and supporters of rival football clubs, both married men named Ronnie.
The twins said getting lots of fresh air and being "interested in everything" were key to a long life.
Mrs Peck said: "We've always been active - cycling when we were much younger and we played games that kept us going."
The only time in their lives the twins have lived apart was when Mrs Kempsell lived with her husband.
When he died after seven years of marriage Mrs Kempsell moved in with her twin and her husband in Suffolk before moving to Devon.
Mrs Kempsell is a supporter of Everton Football Club while her twin has always supported Liverpool.
The sisters welcomed their matching cards from the Queen which Mrs Kempsell described as "lovely".
OK, investors have been known to overreact to dramatic events and sell too hard and too fast but regardless, the lower level of sterling is having a widespread impact across many aspects of our lives - and it looks like it's here to stay.
Get used to the new low.
If you're holidaying in Europe, you will see just about everything rise in price. Hotel, apartment and even Airbnb owners all price in euros, and it takes 25% more of your pound now to buy a euro or anything priced in euros, so the roof over your head will cost more. You could camp, but unless you're wild camping, you will have to pay more in pounds for your campsite fees.
And whether you eat in expensive restaurants or picnic, you'll pay more for your food. Going to the US? That's not as bad, but you'll still feel a hit. The pound has lost about 15% against the dollar since last year, so you'll only be paying 15% more for everything.
Good for you. You won't be facing such a shock every time you work out what a bill costs in "real" money.
But if you're driving, the price of petrol is already creeping up, because oil is priced in dollars, and as the pound is at its lowest level in 31 years against the dollar, more of your pounds are needed to buy each dollar than before Brexit. The Petrol Retailers' Association says it is expecting a litre of fuel to cost 5p more by the end of the month. And as for food...
Retailers have been flat-out in competition for many years - particularly the supermarkets. That's hardly likely to change. But we do buy a lot of our foodstuffs from abroad, meaning our pound will go less far in that area as well.
Same but more so for clothing, where almost all of what we buy is produced overseas. Indeed, Sports Direct, for one, has already warned that its profits will be dented by £15m to account for the fall in the pound alone, as its goods are more expensive to buy. That could lead it to raise its prices to rebuild its profits. And household goods, such as washing machines, are already up in price.
I'm reminded of the Sex Pistols here, "Cheap holidays in other people's misery". The answer is yes. Numbers visiting the UK and the amount they spend has already risen. After all, if it's 25% more expensive for us to visit them, we're 20% cheaper. Bargain. Anything made in this country, including holidays, is now cheaper. Expect exports to increase, too, while the pound stays low.
Shares in UK companies priced in pounds are now cheaper on the international market, in a sense. Many of the major 100 companies earn most of their money overseas, in foreign currency. That gets translated back into pounds.
The stronger dollar, say, buys more pounds than last year so profits are suddenly higher, and the share price rises to match those prospects. As a result, the FTSE 100 has hit a new intraday record high.
That's great if you hold UK shares and want to spend that money in the UK. As long as it stays in the country, its value is as good as it was.
There are economists who point out that the UK was running a deficit - a gap between imports and exports - of 7% of gross domestic product. Some say this is because an overvalued pound allowed us to buy more than we as a country should be able to afford.
The upside of a weaker pound is not only that it makes our products cheaper abroad: just as for tourists coming here, business investors could also find bargains and want to invest.
Of course, set against that is the fact that the rules that will govern business post-Brexit are utterly unclear. Will we have tariff-free access to the EU? Will we use World Trade Organization tariffs? And will we abide by EU law-governing regulations? No-one knows, and business may like to know before committing precious funds.
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The Briton continues his Olympic build-up in Cardiff against several athletes he will face in Rio this summer.
Kenyan Geoffrey Kamworor is seeking to defend the title he won in 2014.
"A world medal would be amazing," said Farah, 33. "It's going to be like a mini Olympics because you have all the guys who'll be competing in Rio."
Kamworor leads a strong Kenyan contingent in Wales that is likely to provide the stiffest test to Farah this weekend.
"The field is really strong. You have the Kenyan team I'm going to be competing against in Rio. It doesn't get much tougher than this," added Farah.
"After a good block of training it's important you race and test yourself. In my heart I wouldn't be turning up if I didn't want to win."
Farah held off Kamworor's challenge at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing last year as he successfully defended his 10,000m title.
However, the British athlete believes his opponent - and his compatriot Bedan Karoki - have the pressure of being the favourites over the half-marathon distance.
"It was a close race in Beijing and Geoffrey will go out there and push all the way - but that's what I need," he said.
"He's the favourite along with Bedan Karoki - which is nice as there's a little bit of pressure off for a change."
Kamworor, 23, is also the world cross country champion while Karoki, 25, won his last half marathon.
Farah has twice won the Great North Run over the half-marathon distance and has increased his training mileage from around 100 to 120 miles a week as he looks ahead to a future away from the track.
"I'd like to see how Rio goes. I really want to do the 5,000m and 10,000m double again, then come back to the World Athletics Championships in London in 2017," Farah said.
"I'm not sure what I could do after that but when I finish on the track I'd like to see what I can do on the road."
Clarke was responding to former player Garth Crooks who said he should "consider his position" following claims the matter was ignored at the League's 2013 annual general meeting.
"There's not a chance the shrill voices of the vested interests will stop me continuing to campaign for a better lot for our managers," he told BBC Sport.
However, Crooks, a trustee of the Kick It Out anti-racism campaign, responded by stating Clarke had "bottled it" over the Football League not addressing the subject of black managers.
"We were given assurances that that debate would start at the AGM, so imagine the disappointment. Instead of Mr Clarke explaining to us why is it hasn't occurred, he's making this lily-livered statement," Crooks told BBC Radio 5 live.
Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, said Clarke did not bring up the 'Rooney Rule' at the League's AGM, having "promised" to do so. The rule has been credited with an increase in black coaches in the NFL.
Clarke said he did intend to raise the Rooney Rule at the 2013 AGM and propose a trial within one division. But he explained that the club director who was going to put forward the proposal lost his seat on the League's board when his club were relegated.
"If he hadn't been relegated we would have gone into that meeting and pitched the idea. I'm continuing to try to gain traction," he added.
"The main problem I have is that if you put your money and your reputation into a football club, largely you do not want to be fettered in who you can hire. I say this is not fettering you, this is merely increasing choice. But that debate is still running within the league."
Crooks had initially responded to Taylor's claims, before Clarke gave his reaction.
The former Stoke and Tottenham forward said: "Black footballers are supposed to be part of the structure of the game, but how can that be true if the game itself is not even prepared to acknowledge their existence at the highest level?
"Let's be clear here, what we are actually talking about is giving a player an interview."
Taylor told BBC Sport that there was a "hidden resistance" preventing black managers getting jobs. Chris Powell at Huddersfield and Carlisle's Keith Curle are the only black managers employed within the 92 clubs of the Premier League and Football League.
Crooks's fellow ex-professional and BBC pundit Jason Roberts also responded to Taylor's interview, stating there was an "open resistance" and adding that black managers were finding it harder than ever to get a job in football.
Clarke is eager to change this, but said it might be difficult to enforce his objectives.
"I've fought behind the scenes to try to find a way to improve the lot for black managers in our game," he added.
"Why, with 72 clubs [in the Football League] and 30% black players have we only got two managers?
"We've got to get to the bottom of that, and we've got to fix it and step up to the plate of being a more just and equitable place to work. But the solution to that needs a consensus building around it and that's why I'm working behind the scenes.
"If I just jump up and down and say, 'we must do this', you know these are 72 independent clubs. They're going to say, 'well, I might disagree with that, I might not think that works, I don't want people telling me' who to hire and who not to hire'.
"So I have to build a consensus for change, which is what I'm trying to do."
Sir John Sawers told the BBC that casting a ballot with pencil and paper was "actually much more secure".
He warned: "The more things that go online, the more susceptible you are to cyber attacks."
But campaigners for electronic voting said there was "no evidence" it was more open to fraud.
Electronic voting allows people to make their choices via a computer or smartphone, instead of people having to go to a polling station.
Sir John's warning comes after the US government accused Russia of hacking into the emails of leading Democrats and interfering in the recent presidential election.
This has increased concerns among security experts as to whether vital national electronic systems are vulnerable to malicious disruption by other countries.
Sir John, head of MI6 from 2009 until 2014, told the BBC Radio 4 documentary The New World: Axis of Power, which examines the state of international tensions between the world's leading powers: "We need to have systems which are robust."
He said: "The only trouble is, the younger generation of people expect to be able to do things remotely and through electronic devices.
"Bizarrely the stubby pencil and piece of paper that you put your cross on in the ballot box is actually much more secure than anything which is electronic."
Commons Speaker John Bercow's Commission on Digital Democracy has called for secure online voting to be an option for all voters by the 2020 UK general election.
And the Electoral Commission has also been looking into making "radical changes" to the system.
Areeq Chowdhury, chief executive of WebRoots Democracy, which campaigns for electronic voting, said: "There is no evidence to show that online voting is more susceptible to fraud than the paper alternative.
"There have been more instances of fraud across the world with paper votes than electronic ones, and the recent recounts of electronic votes in the US showed no evidence of hacking."
But Sir John told The New World: "One of the big problems we face with cyber is that it hasn't really been discussed internationally about what is an acceptable use of cyber powers and where are the red lines and what happens when those red lines are crossed.
"We're at a very early stage. It's a bit like with nuclear weapons back in the 1950s. We've got the capabilities, but there are no rules lined up as to how they should be used."
The New World: Axis of Power is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 09:00 GMT on Tuesday, 3 January 2017, and is available here.
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9 January 2015 Last updated at 07:27 GMT
You would often see squirrels in parks, woods and even in your back garden - but the red ones were rare.
Red squirrels have been under threat for years, battling against other animals for food and territory.
They've also faced the deadly pox virus.
Martin visited a red squirrel reserve in Formby to find out the reason for the rise.
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The new laws state players can be punished for making contact with an opponent's head even if the tackle starts below the shoulders.
World Rugby said the laws aimed to "ensure the head is a no-go area".
"People should be allowed to go to work without being expected to be hit in the head," Jones told BBC Radio Wales.
"The game is hard enough as it is. We can't allow the laws to allow players to hit high accidentally and for people to say 'oh, that's just rugby'. It's not.
"I think it's going to be rough for a while but I think in time people will change their behaviour because the sanctions are so harsh, if you don't tackle low you're going to be really seriously penalised."
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The laws, which came into effect on 3 January, state that players can receive at least a yellow card for a high tackle that makes contact with the head of an opponent while a penalty will be awarded if head contact is accidental.
Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy said the new laws were making referees' lives difficult. after fly-half Sam Davies was sin-binned in their Pro12 win against Connacht on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Scarlets controversially beat Ulster when Sean Reidy was yellow carded for a high tackle at the try-line on Aled Davies and referee Marius Mitrea awarded the Welsh side a penalty try and just two minutes later, Scarlets second row Jake Ball was also sent to the sin bin for a high tackle.
In the English Premiership, Saracens prop Richard Barrington and centre Brad Barritt were cited after their part in a dangerous tackle that knocked out Exeter lock Geoff Parling in their 13-13 draw on Saturday.
Barrington was sent off for the tackle under the new interpretation of the laws.
Jones believes that there has been a shift in the way that players tackle in the last 20 years, along with the introduction of professionalism into the sport.
"It comes down to a cultural change in the game. Since professionalism and the influence of rugby league coaches and the way offload and contact area has dominated rugby now, the tackle has risen in terms of its height," Jones continued.
"Perhaps the influence of the southern hemisphere and the Polynesian countries tend to tackle a bit higher in the past. Everyone's doing it now.
"There's an inherent danger in doing that. If you get it wrong by 10 centimetres then instead of getting them in the chest you can hit them in the head or face. That's got to stop."
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21 March 2015 Last updated at 12:33 GMT
The race, known as the "Vertical" involves racing up 1,665 steps.
The runners had to contend with cold weather and high winds as they raced up the famous landmark.
The race was won by Piotr Lobodzinski from Poland, who climbed the 324 vertical metres in 7 minutes and 50 seconds.
Another competitor, Madeleine Fontillas-Ronk, said: "It's 10-15 minutes of all out effort. You feel your lungs, your throat, your brain is telling you to stop. But you want to finish."
PC Adrian Goldsmith, 50, known as "Otis", murdered 49-year-old Jill Goldsmith at their home in Northampton last March.
He was told he must serve a minimum term of 15 years.
A jury dismissed his claim that he acted in self-defence after he admitted in court that he stabbed himself.
Goldsmith wiped his eyes as he was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court.
His wife, who was found dead in the foetal position in a pool of blood in their porch, had more than 70 injuries, the court heard.
Judge Paul Glenn said she would have suffered before she died in the "spontaneous" attack.
"She must have been in terror as she fought for her life," he said.
Goldsmith had "lied repeatedly" to the police, doctors and the prison chaplain, the Judge added.
Goldsmith, who served with Northamptonshire Police for 28 years, had told officers that his wife attacked him before hitting herself on the back of the head with a mallet.
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He disapproved of her smoking cannabis and was frustrated by her [lack of] sex drive as she went through the menopause, the three week trial heard.
The couple lived next to Northamptonshire Police's HQ in Wootton Hall Park, where computer logs showed that at 12:40 GMT on 26 March Mrs Goldsmith was looking at houses online.
Half an hour later, her husband called 999 to say she had tried to kill him.
He was arrested at their home, where his colleagues found him holding a kitchen knife and broken glass.
Goldsmith had typed up notes saying he was "ready to explode" and had "scared Jill", who had called him a "Jekyll and Hyde" character.
John Lloyd-Jones QC, prosecuting, said he was a "commended, hard-working officer and murderer all wrapped up in one".
A victim impact statement by Mrs Goldsmith's son, Charlie Bailey, was read to the court before the sentence was handed down.
Mr Bailey said: "He has left me feeling that there is a massive part of me missing. He should have known above everyone how to calm things down."
Human rights violations carried out by armed groups battling for control of the country could amount to war crimes, the report says.
Victims include detainees, journalists and human rights activists. Scores of people have been tortured and killed.
Libya, fragmented since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, now has rival militia-backed parliaments.
There are hundreds of different armed groups and the chaos has allowed so-called Islamic State to gain a foothold.
The report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Libya describes a country descending into violent chaos.
Other tactics documented in the report include indiscriminate attacks on civilians, rape and other sexual violence.
This is all happening in a climate of "complete impunity", the report says, made worse because Libya's justice system has collapsed.
The crimes are committed by "a multitude of actors - both state and non-state".
The UN says the report is the most comprehensive to be carried out in Libya in recent years.
Interviews were carried with hundreds of people inside the country and with Libyans forced to flee to Italy, Tunisia and Egypt.
The report lists in detail:
The report says that evidence of sexual violence is difficult to document because of fear of retaliation, stigma, family pressure or trauma.
It says that the plight of children, migrants, human rights defenders and journalists has been made worse by "the systemic failures of the justice system".
The UN says the international criminal court should be able to carry out investigations and prosecutions, and protection programmes should be set up for victims and witnesses.
It also calls on the UN Security Council to consider economic sanctions against Libyans found responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In findings seen by the BBC, the Equality and Human Rights Commission says there were "serious gaps" in the care of people who had been detained.
It urged the Home Office to consider transferring responsibility for health care in police stations to the NHS.
The government says numbers are down but each death represents a "failure".
The commission examined data from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) from April 2009 to the end of March 2016.
It says it decided to review the figures because there had been "considerably less attention" to people who died in the "immediate aftermath" of state detention than on deaths in custody.
The report shows there were 400 "apparent suicides" of people who had been detained at police stations during the seven-year period.
Almost all of the "hidden deaths" included in the statistics occurred within 48 hours of release from custody, although a small number, which happened outside that timeframe, were also among the total.
Of those who died, 128 (32%) had been arrested over allegations of sexual abuse.
The commission said: "Sexual offences, especially in relation to children, are particularly taboo and lead many offenders to feel high levels of shame and experience high levels of social exclusion."
A further 83 people (21%) who had been investigated over crimes of violence took their own lives; 44 (11%) had faced breach of the peace or criminal damage allegations, and 38 (10%) had been in custody on suspicion of driving offences.
The underlying trend over the seven years was upwards, although the number of deaths last year - 60 - was the lowest it had been since 2011-12.
The Home Office highlighted the fact that there were 10 fewer deaths than in the previous year - down from 70 in 2014-15 - but said it was not "complacent" and had launched an independent review to identify "areas for improvement."
A spokeswoman added: "Every death in or following police custody represents a failure and has the potential to dramatically undermine the relationship between the police and the communities they serve.
"Over recent years police forces have worked closely with NHS England to improve the quality and provision of custody health services and build better local partnerships.
In 2014 Michael Parkes, from Daventry, Northamptonshire, hanged himself a couple of days after being questioned by police on suspicion of sexual offences.
Mr Parkes had been caught by an internet "paedophile hunter" having arranged to meet someone he thought was a 12-year-old girl.
A separate case, highlighted in the EHRC report, concerned a young person who had been caught in possession of cannabis while on a family holiday.
He killed himself after being later wrongly issued with a further summons at his home address.
"The review has consulted with the ECHR and we will consider all of the findings in detail when the report is published."
But the commission has called on ministers to set up an "inter-agency summit" to tackle the issue.
David Isaac, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: "When the state detains people, it also has a very high level of responsibility to ensure they are safely rehabilitated back into their communities, particularly those who may be vulnerable.
"Our report reveals a fractured state of post-detention care that is potentially leading to hundreds of deaths."
The commission said all apparent suicides within two days of release should be referred to the IPCC.
As a "minimum requirement" it said custody health care staff should have "prompt access" to NHS records.
Its report also looked at cases of prisoners who had died within 28 days after being released. However, these statistics were thought to be less reliable than the police data, showing 66 non-natural deaths over five years, most of which were from a drug overdose.
Foreign Office funding for the service will stop in April 2014 when it will be paid for out of the licence fee.
The Foreign Affairs Committee said the World Service could not "plan properly" because the BBC had yet to issue an operating licence to define its budget.
The BBC Trust said it had shared a draft licence with the service.
A World Service spokesman said the change in funding next April, when it will be integrated with the BBC's domestic news services, "provides certainty and stability".
But the committee of MPs said it did not see how the World Service could prepare when it would not know "either the priorities, targets or characteristics which have been set for it, or its budget" until a few months before the change came into force.
"We do not see how the BBC World Service can plan properly how to reflect its new priorities, pursue its new objectives or shape its output... given the short lead-in time," the report said.
The BBC Trust said in a statement: "We are in regular, ongoing discussions with the World Service about the transition to licence fee funding from 2014 to ensure that this transition is as smooth as possible, and we are already delivering on a number of the committee's recommendations."
It said it had "already consulted the World Service on the draft operating licence" and would publish the draft for wider public consultation in the summer "as has always been our intention".
There had been regular discussions with the World Service about the draft since February, it added.
The committee has also called for "some form of direct representation" from the World Service on the BBC's executive board, instead of by the director of news.
The report said World Service interests would be "in direct conflict" with those of other departments.
In October, the World Service announced it was to lose a further 73 jobs as part of the latest round of cutbacks to save £42m, with 25 jobs going in the English-language service.
Savings of £30m have already been made following its reduction in funding by the government in 2010.
The committee also warned that, while it was logical to withdraw shortwave radio in dwindling markets where audiences had access to the internet and TV, such services still had a place.
"The World Service must continue to take into account significant audiences in certain parts of the world, such as rural India and Africa, who currently rely on shortwave radio," it added.
The committee's report, which also covers the work of the Foreign Office and the British Council, also warns that the UK risks losing credibility if more senior diplomats are not fluent in a range of languages.
The former minister and MP talks to BBC Parliament's Conversations about the dangers of political correctness, why she rarely encountered sexism during her long career and why she would relish a return to the government.
Political correctness is "silencing a great body of thought", the 69-year old says, to the point where she wonders if we can still claim to live in a free society.
She worries that almost everyone is under pressure to keep their views to themselves, not just those with strongly-held political or ethical convictions
"You actually get bright, intelligent people that could hold their own anyway, saying to you: 'Well, of course you can't say that these days'. And I think: 'Yes you can'.
"This is not the Soviet Union. You should not be constrained by state orthodoxy.
"You should be able to say what you individually think and if it is unpopular, you should stand your ground."
The ex-politician, who is a practising Roman Catholic having converted from Anglicanism, cites the case a few years ago of British Airways employee who was told she couldn't wear a small cross around her neck at work.
"You can be disciplined at work for wearing a tiny Christian symbol. I do it quite openly, why shouldn't everyone be able to do it quite openly."
In such a climate, she says it is doubly important that politicians speak out.
"The only people who don't have to (keep quiet) are the parliamentarians. We can say what we like. We can be against gay marriage, we can be against abortion, we can want to limit immigration - we can say what we like.
"The ordinary citizen is much less blessed these days. I've always said if you hold a view what is the point of holding it if you don't stick by it."
Ann Widdecombe left front-line politics in 2010 but has remained in the public eye, most famously when she took part in Strictly Come Dancing.
Having served in government for seven years under John Major in the 1990s - latterly as prisons minister - does she ever dream of returning to government?
"Yes. Undeniably, I'd like to be doing Brexit. I'd like to be doing the health service. I'd like to be tackling immigration. I'd like to be doing all those things."
But whose job would she like most - Theresa May's, Boris Johnson's, Liam Fox's?
No, it turns out what she would like most is to fill Justine Greening's shoes, trying to raise educational standards.
"I'd love to be doing education where my biggest bugbear at the moment is prescriptive marking - where you just tick points that have to be made rather than the overall structure of the answer.
"That is not education. That is a travesty of education and explains why we have got grade inflation."
Although she rarely encountered sexism in her early political career - partly, she says, because she did not go "looking for it" - she acknowledges it did exist.
The politician, who stands at just over 5ft, recalls a story of the reception she got when she applied to be a Conservative candidate in the early 1980s.
"Occasionally it came out... I went up for one of the Sunderland seats and one of the women - it is always the women - on the interview panel said to me ... 'you are very small and frail, are you sure you are up to it?'
"When I went out, there in the anteroom was a decidedly under-sized man and I bet she didn't ask him that."
Despite being in a very small minority as a female MP in the late 1980s, she says she never "found a problem" in how she was treated.
"I went into Parliament expecting to be taken on my own merits. It never occurred to me that I was a woman MP. I was an MP who happened to be a woman.
"I wasn't this peculiar thing which was a woman MP, a great curiosity."
Other MPs weren't so sanguine, however. She remembers a Labour MP elected in 1997 - among the intake that was labelled Blair's babes by sections of the media - approaching her to complain about the behaviour of male colleagues.
"I said 'yes and how horrible is it that they are so rude to each other'. She hadn't thought of that. She had just been roughed up in the chamber. She assumed it was because she was a woman and the fact was, it was because she was useless."
"I never went round looking for problems so I never found them. The only problem I found as a woman MP were there were insufficient loos."
Conversations, featuring Ann Widdecombe, will be broadcast on BBC Parliament at 20:00 on Sunday, 11 December and will be available afterwards on BBC iPlayer.
Nice fans held lit candles during the minute's silence, with French national anthem La Marseillaise played before the game at the Allianz Riviera.
The country's government announced on Tuesday that the weekend's Ligue 1 fixtures would go ahead as planned.
But Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve imposed a ban on away fans in games this weekend as a security measure.
Fans were searched as they entered the stadium, as will be the case at all games this weekend.
The Stade de France was among the venues targeted during last Friday's attacks in the capital as three attackers blew themselves up near the stadium, where France were playing Germany in a friendly.
La Marseillaise will be played before all matches this weekend in Ligue 1, Ligue 2 and the Coupe de France.
Frederic Thiriez - president of the Ligue de Football Professionnel, which governs the French league - said: "Playing football is an act of resistance in the face of barbarism.
"After the pain, after the tears, life must go on. Sportspeople, just like artists, can set the example."
There were also three Ligue 2 matches on Friday, plus two more in the Coupe de France.
Nice moved up to third in the table thanks to their win, while second-placed Lyon remain 10 points behind unbeaten leaders Paris St-Germain, who visit Lorient on Saturday.
Match ends, Nice 3, Lyon 0.
Second Half ends, Nice 3, Lyon 0.
Attempt missed. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alexandre Lacazette.
Substitution, Nice. Stéphan Raheriharimanana replaces Vincent Koziello.
Jérémy Morel (Lyon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jérémy Morel (Lyon).
Jérémy Pied (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Alexandre Mendy (Nice) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nampalys Mendy.
Maxime Gonalons (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alexandre Mendy (Nice).
Substitution, Nice. Jonathan Correia replaces Valère Germain.
Substitution, Nice. Alexandre Mendy replaces Niklas Hult.
Attempt missed. Romain Del Castillo (Lyon) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alexandre Lacazette.
Substitution, Lyon. Steed Malbranque replaces Mathieu Valbuena.
Attempt missed. Jean Seri (Nice) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Hatem Ben Arfa (Nice) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Vincent Koziello.
Attempt saved. Valère Germain (Nice) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jérémy Pied with a cross.
Corner, Lyon. Conceded by Paul Baysse.
Maxwell Cornet (Lyon) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Niklas Hult (Nice).
Goal! Nice 3, Lyon 0. Vincent Koziello (Nice) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Jérémy Pied.
Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vincent Koziello (Nice).
Foul by Romain Del Castillo (Lyon).
Mouez Hassen (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Nice. Conceded by Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa.
Substitution, Lyon. Romain Del Castillo replaces Sergi Darder.
Substitution, Lyon. Maxwell Cornet replaces Claudio Beauvue.
Corner, Nice. Conceded by Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa.
Attempt blocked. Sergi Darder (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Corentin Tolisso.
Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jean Seri (Nice).
Attempt missed. Claudio Beauvue (Lyon) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jérémy Morel.
Attempt saved. Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Ferri.
Attempt missed. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Rafael (Lyon) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Maxime Le Marchand (Nice).
Attempt blocked. Hatem Ben Arfa (Nice) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Niklas Hult with a cross.
Own Goal by Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Lyon. Nice 2, Lyon 0.
Second Half begins Nice 1, Lyon 0.
The child was pulled from the water at Waveney River Centre, at Burgh St Peter, near Beccles, just after midday.
She was taken to James Paget Hospital in Gorleston where she died four hours later.
Police said her death is being treated as unexplained but it is not believed to be suspicious and they are continuing to investigate.
Forensic officers were at the site earlier carrying out inquiries.
Featherstone, 26, made 29 appearances for Walsall last season and on a week-to-week deal earlier this term, but never played a game for the League One side.
Dutchman Schmeltz, 25, has been training with Hartlepool all week having left the Latics in the summer.
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The US financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is already suing unnamed traders for insider dealing.
Last Thursday, Heinz was bought for $23bn by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway fund and 3G Capital.
Unusual trading activity in the shares was noticed the previous day.
"The FBI is aware of trading anomalies the day before Heinz's announcement" a spokesman said. "The FBI is consulting with the SEC to determine if a crime was committed."
The SEC believes that some traders knew about the takeover before it was announced and made $1.7m from the knowledge. It obtained an emergency court order to freeze assets in a Swiss-based account.
The traders in question made risky bets that Heinz's stock price would increase, using financial instruments called options. After the official announcement of the deal Heinz's share price rose by 20%.
"Irregular and highly suspicious options trading immediately in front of a merger or acquisition announcement is a serious red flag that traders may be improperly acting on confidential non-public information" said the SEC's head of the Market Abuse Unit, Daniel Hawke.
There is no implication that Heinz or its new owners have committed any wrongdoing.
The SEC said a bank account at Goldman Sachs was used. Goldman Sachs has said it is co-operating with the investigation.
The FTSE 250-listed firm saw its share price close down 6.2% after pre-tax profit fell from £104.4m to £17.9m.
Overall, the FTSE 250 was 0.26% lower at 19476.35, while the 100-share index was down 0.63% at 7387.80.
On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.91% against the dollar at $1.2931 and 0.65% higher against the euro at 1.1377 euros.
Dixons Carphone started the day strongly after reporting record annual profits, but gave up all its gains and was down 0.74% at the close.
The firm, formed through a merger of Dixons and Carphone Warehouse in 2014, said income rose by 10% to £501m.
Governments have agreed to keep the global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels - and preferably 1.5 degrees.
"This is a moment to celebrate," United Nations climate chief Patricia Espinosa told Reuters.
"It is also a moment to look ahead with sober assessment and renewed will over the task ahead."
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is expected to be lit up in green light on Friday to mark the entry into force of the historic climate pact.
Delegates from almost 200 countries are meeting in Marrakech next week to consider the way ahead beyond Paris.
The deal agreed in the French capital less than a year ago commits governments to moving their economies away from fossil fuels.
On Thursday, a UN review of national pledges to cut carbon said they fall short of the levels needed to keep the rise in global temperatures under 2C.
The report found pledges from governments that have ratified the accord would see the world on track for a rise in temperatures by the end of this century of between 2.9 and 3.4 degrees C.
Roger Harrabin, BBC environment analyst
The Paris climate pact comes into force less than a year since it was agreed. The last major climate deal - the Kyoto Protocol - took eight years to come into force. Paris is the first agreement tying rich and poor nations in a common endeavour to protect the climate. However, the national targets for cutting carbon emissions are voluntary. The UN tried a mandatory approach but countries that were failing to meet their targets simply quit.
The process of the Paris deal is binding, including a commitment for governments to keep returning to the issue to ratchet up the clean energy targets that they all agree are inadequate. Governments that rushed to enshrine Paris in law have had one eye on the US elections. Hilary Clinton has pledged to take President Obama's emissions cuts further. Donald Trump wants to tear up the agreement.
Environmental groups and other experts have urged governments to do more.
World Bank group president Jim Yong Kim said even with the commitments made in Paris and encouraging action on the ground, "we will not meet our aspiration of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees unless we move faster and at the scale that is needed".
"As the world heads into (the meeting) in Marrakesh, we must regain the sense of urgency we felt a year ago," he said.
In Marrakech governments and parties will work on details of a "rulebook" which will measure and review global climate action.
What was agreed in Paris?
• To peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and achieve a balance between sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century
• To keep global temperature increase "well below" 2C (3.6F) and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C
• To review progress every five years
• $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, with a commitment to further finance in the future.
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It is the fourth time he will have joined the club after two loan spells and a permanent move - between July 2010 and July 2011 - with the Cherries.
The 28-year-old has signed a two-and-a-half-year deal for a fee understood to be £200,000.
"I was surprised by the interest. But Eddie Howe's a good manager and knows what I'm capable of," said Wiggins.
Wiggins, who made only nine appearances for the Owls this season, did not endear himself to Bournemouth fans when he handed in a transfer request and left for Charlton in 2011.
"It's not nice to be getting some stick from the fans," he added, speaking to BBC Radio Solent.
"But hopefully I can go back out there and put in some good performances and show that I'm dying to be out there again.
"A lot of people have their opinions, but if you're doing the business out on the pitch, people will support you."
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Horner scored three of Cameron's biggest films - Titanic, Avatar and Aliens - and was signed up to compose the music for the next three Avatars.
"There's so much music he could have done. We were looking forward to our next gig," Cameron told People.
The pair both won their first Oscars together for Titanic in 1998.
In a joint statement Cameron and his Avatar producing partner Jon Landau said "the Avatar community has lost one of our great creative lights".
"James's music was the air under the banshees' wings, the ancient song of the forest, and the heartbeat of Eywa," they said.
"We have lost not only a great team-mate and collaborator, but a good friend.
"James's music affected the heart because his heart was so big, it infused every cue with deep emotional resonance, whether soaring in majesty through the floating mountains, or crying for the loss of nature's innocence under bulldozer treads.
"The beauty and power of Avatar lay not just in the superb performances and the visual splendour, but in the music that made us cry and exult along with our characters. Irayo, James. Fly brother.''
Horner, who was a trained pilot, is reported to have been alone aboard a small private plane when it crashed in Santa Barbara, California, on Monday.
He and Cameron met while working on sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars in 1980 and Cameron later hired him for his debut feature, Aliens. However after a "rocky" experience it was a decade until they worked together again on Titanic.
The film's soundtrack became one of the best-selling albums of all time and won Horner Oscars for best score and best original song - for Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On - while Cameron picked up best director and best picture.
The director remembered his reaction when Horner first played him the score.
"I literally teared up at each one, and it was just him at his piano, by himself, no technical people around or anything and I knew it was going to be a fantastic score at that point," Cameron said.
"I think he's up there with John Williams and Hans Zimmer, firmly implanted at the top of the firmament of the current great masters."
Cameron told the Hollywood Reporter "the orchestra loved him", adding: "It was his room and they were sure to make something great."
He said he last saw Horner at the Royal Albert Hall in April.
"The orchestra did the entire Titanic score live to the movie. James was there to take his bows. Jon Landau and I went to London just for the concert, and we had a kind of reunion.
"It was emotional and I'm glad that was my last personal memory of James."
Tanweer was a sports science graduate whose interests included cricket and ju-jitsu. In 2004, he was arrested for disorderly conduct and cautioned.
Throughout the same year, Tanweer was working closely with Mohammad Sidique Khan on their joint plans to join the jihad in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
MI5 saw the men meeting other known plotters four times in February and March of that year.
The pair later left together for a Pakistan training camp in November.
Within weeks, they sent a message back to Leeds that they would be returning - an indication they had been retasked with carrying out an atrocity in the UK.
Speaking shortly after the bombings, Tanweer's uncle said his nephew and fellow bomber Khan spent a great deal of time together in the lead-up to their departure for Pakistan.
Tahir Pervez said: "They used to be up all the night talking to each other whenever Khan visited Tanweer during this period."
The greatest insights into Tanweer's life come from two people he was close to.
Waheed Ali was one of three friends of the bombers acquitted of involvement in the attacks. Ali, who was separately convicted of planning to attend a terrorism training camp, told his trial that Tanweer was known to his close friends as "Kaki".
Ali had planned to join Tanweer and Khan on their 2004 training camp trip - but when he got to Pakistan, he said he found the pair had moved to another location. He told the jury that when Tanweer returned to the UK, he was aloof and kept his distance.
The trial also heard Ali recount how Tanweer's hair had bleached towards the end of June. The bomber said he had been swimming regularly in chlorinated water. The bleaching had been caused by the chemicals he had been mixing.
However, "Witness A", a former secret girlfriend, told the inquests that Tanweer had told her the bleaching was an after-effect of Pakistan's sun.
The woman had a close, but not intimate relationship with Tanweer which was explained in court in limited terms to protect her identity. The pair had been close, but then unspecified circumstances forced them apart.
The pair clearly had feeling for each other - and they spent a secret night together in the days before the attacks.
Witness A broke down in tears as she recounted the meeting at which she had no idea of what he about to do. Tanweer suggested they could have a future together - but he told her that he was first going to Scotland for a week.
Shehzad Tanweer detonated a bomb on a Circle Line train between Aldgate and Liverpool Street stations, killing himself and seven people, and injuring more than 100.
The night before the attacks, he had played cricket with local friends. He told his family he was going camping near Manchester for a few days.
His remains were buried near his family's ancestral home town of Samundari in Punjab province, Pakistan, in October 2005.
The US Geological Survey said the quake struck at a depth of 20km (12 miles) northeast of the city of Hotan, followed by a series of aftershocks.
Officials said more than 3,000 houses and buildings in the mainly ethnic Uighur region were damaged.
China is regularly hit by earthquakes, particularly in Sichuan and Yunnan.
"Buildings were trembling and people rushed to the streets," said Hotan resident Jin Xingchang.
The government said it would send 1,000 tents and other relief materials to the area, said AFP news agency citing the Xinjiang Bureau of Civil Affairs.
In 2008, a 7.9 magnitude quake rocked Sichuan killing more than 80,000 people, making it the worst earthquake to hit China for more than three decades.
The luxury soap firm, which was founded on Arran in 1989, has six retail stores and generates sale of £6m per annum.
But it needed new investment and, in a deal put together in just a week, the company was put into administration and bought by the private equity firm Endless.
It is believed that 32 of the jobs to have been secured are based on Arran.
Endless has put the former head of Moulton Brown in charge of the business.
Arran Aromatics, which was set up by the Russell family 28 years ago, was recently rebranded "Arran, Sense of Scotland".
Andrew Russell, the son of the founders and brand director, said: "We are delighted to have received the investment from Endless, which has been delivered at a vital time for Arran.
"The investment in the brand over the past few years has positioned it well for growth across a wide range of geographies and this new investment will help us make this a reality.
"'Arran, Sense of Scotland' is poised to join the best-loved Scottish brands around the world and we are all very excited about the future."
Endless has previous experience of retail investments, in businesses including The Works stores, Bathstore and The West Cornwall Pasty Company.
Francesco Santinon, who led the investment for Endless, said: "We are delighted to be working with the Russell family to continue the progress of recent years of establishing Arran on a global stage and expect to be announcing more retail stores in the future.
"Due to the growing pains experienced over recent years, it became evident that Arran required further investment that has now been secured as has the future for its employees. Its manufacturing and retail operations will continue to operate as normal."
And only a third (33%) of 1,000 parents polled for the parent teacher umbrella group, PTA UK, said they understood government changes to education.
PTA UK wants the remit of the new regional schools commissioners to include consultation with parents.
The government said it "regularly" engaged with parents
But PTA UK executive director, Emma Williams called the findings "a concern".
The survey forms part of PTA UK's written evidence to an MPs' inquiry into regional schools commissioners by the education select committee which will include public evidence sessions later in the autumn.
Eight regional schools commissioners for England were appointed in 2014 to approve new academies and intervene when academies and free schools underperform.
They act on behalf of the secretary of state for education, performing some of the functions carried out by local authorities within their network of schools.
The government wants to expand the role of the commissioners, to include decisions on whether underperforming and "coasting" schools should become sponsored academies.
But PTA UK, which represents parent teacher associations in more than half of schools in England, says too few parents understand the role of the commissioners in their children's education.
The association argues that as regional schools commissioners will have a role in raising standards in under-performing schools, effective dialogue with parents is crucial.
Parent teacher associations are often associated with running fund-raising events in schools but PTA UK wants a wider role in which they could represent the views of parents.
"The two primary influences on children's education is that of the school and their parents, However, the parent voice has, up until this point, been largely absent from the national education debate," said Ms Williams.
"This imbalance is something PTA UK are striving to rectify, by working to represent the parent view and bring their needs, as well as that of their children, into the fore.
"It is crucial that parents, schools and parliamentary bodies work in unison in order to provide the best possible education experience for children across the country.
"PTA UK believes that as primary stakeholders in their child's education, parents should be consulted and that schools should be accountable to parents."
A separate online survey of more than 1,300 active PTA members revealed almost all (97%) felt they should be consulted about big changes to their child's school with 96% saying being consulted made them feel included in their child's education.
Even among this more active group of parents, only 15% said they understood the role of the commissioners.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said the government welcomed parents' views.
"We regularly engage with parents, through social media, surveys, newsletters or meetings with our regional schools commissioners (RSCs) who will also seek the views of their communities through their head teacher boards, which are made up of outstanding local school leaders."
The government is currently running three public consultations on education policies including changes to GCSE and A-level content, the spokeswoman added.
"Where parents are unhappy with a procedure, schools should have a process in place for tackling complaints. The department also has a robust system to handle school complaints and we take all parents' concerns seriously, routinely passing them on to the relevant bodies."
Carlin missed out on a place in the British team for London 2012 but has since won five titles and collected bronze at the 2015 World Championships.
The 25-year-old is happy with her form as she looks to qualify for the individual freestyle events in Brazil.
"I love racing more than ever now," Carlin told BBC Wales Sport.
"2015 was a good year and I was happy with how it went but obviously it's all about 2016 and hopefully qualifying for the Olympics."
Carlin won 800m freestyle gold and silver in the 400m freestyle at the 2014 Commonwealth Games before securing two gold medals at the European Short Course Championships.
The Bath-based swimmer missed out on the 2012 Olympics through illness and a resulting lack of form and is determined to qualify for Rio.
"Four years ago I was in a completely different position and I wasn't ready for the Olympic trials with illness. It really was a tough time," Carlin added.
"Four years on I can appreciate everything that I've been through and it's about making sure I stay fit and healthy.
"I've got a lot of fast competitors around but if I've done everything right and I've done everything I can do then that's all I can really ask of myself."
The Olympic trials will be held in Glasgow in April and Carlin believes Great Britain's swimming team in Rio will feature a healthy Welsh contingent.
Georgia Davies also won gold and silver at Glasgow 2014 while Calum Jarvis and Daniel Jervis secured bronze medals and Carlin is confident there will be an increase on the five Welsh swimmers who featured at London 2012.
"The Welsh team is getting stronger and stronger," Carlin said.
"There's quite a few I'd like to put my money on that would go [to Rio] and I'll be supporting all of them as we're a really close team.
"The Welsh swimmers can do great in Rio and I definitely think it will be a stepping stone leading into the next Commonwealth Games."
Ashley Dawe, 23, sat on Melissa Parr's feet and repeatedly stabbed her with a knife while she was in bed in her Cardiff flat on 19 February this year.
Dawe was jailed for nine years at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday.
Cardiff Recorder, Judge Eleri Rees, said he posed a "significant risk to the public".
Dawe, who has previous convictions for domestic violence including assaulting Miss Parr, had been due to stand trail for attempted murder.
He pleaded guilty to a less serious charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Judge Rees imposed an extended 14-year sentence, meaning Dawe will spend nine years in prison and five on parole.
She said Dawe had a pattern of violence towards women.
"This was a frenzied attack. She thought she was going to die," he said.
The court heard how on 19 February 2016, Dawe was in bed with his girlfriend of almost 12 months when he quizzed her about seeing other men.
When she admitted kissing another man, he jumped out of bed and kicked her in the head before going downstairs to the kitchen, grabbing a knife, returning upstairs, sitting on her legs and repeatedly stabbing her.
Neighbours heard screams coming from Miss Parr's flat and saw blood on the windows before alerting police.
Prosecutor Michael Jones said: "The neighbour describes her top being covered in blood and she was crying hysterically."
Miss Parr was taken to hospital with two "significant" wounds to her chest and abdomen, although they did not require surgery.
She also suffered other stab wounds to her lower body, as well as defence wounds and cuts to her head and face.
Ruth Smith, defending, said Dawe had an abusive childhood and had been failed by his parents and the care system.
"Two psychiatrists agree that he has an emotionally unstable personality disorder which results from the experiences in his childhood," she said.
"He has struggled with the belief that he could have committed this act. He does bitterly regret the offence upon a lady who for a long while was his partner," she added.
Det Insp Dan Michel, of South Wales Police said the case was domestic violence at its absolute worst.
"It is very lucky that we were not dealing with circumstances that are even more tragic," he said.
Two-time world champion Alonso is under contract until the end of next season.
However, the Spaniard, 35, has said he wants to see how the new 2017 cars behave before deciding on his future.
"If the car and the engine are good, and he enjoys the new rules, there is no reason why he shouldn't stay," said Capito, who became McLaren Racing CEO in September.
"Fernando is a great asset for the team and we should do everything to keep him."
F1 is introducing rules that will make the cars up to five seconds a lap faster, while Pirelli has been tasked with providing tyres on which drivers can push to the limit throughout races, which has not been possible since the Italian company introduced fragile rubber six years ago.
Capito, speaking exclusively to BBC Sport in his first interview since joining McLaren, said his friendship with two-time Spanish world rally champion Carlos Sainz, who drove for the German in his previous role as head of Volkswagen Motorsport, had helped him form a bond with Alonso.
He said: "Carlos has a good relationship with Fernando and I have a good relationship with Carlos - that helped quite a lot to create very quickly a very good and close relationship with Fernando."
The 54-year-old also said:
Dennis announced his decision to hire Capito in January, but the German had to wait until his responsibilities at VW had been discharged before joining McLaren on 1 September.
Dennis has now been put on 'gardening leave' pending the end of his contract as chairman and chief executive, and no longer runs the company.
Capito said: "Ron employed everyone here because he was the guy in charge - but I came to join McLaren and that's it."
McLaren climbed to sixth in the constructors' championship this season after a dire 2015 in which they finished ninth of 11 teams in the first year of their renewed engine partnership with Honda.
And Capito says they could make another significant step forward next year.
"I expect improvement on the car from McLaren and a big step from Honda on the engine," he said. "It takes always a certain time to form a team with a new partner like this.
"McLaren and Honda were partners before [from 1988-92] but it was a long time ago. All new people are involved and it takes a while for Honda to understand how McLaren works and for McLaren to understand how Honda works. I think this is now achieved.
"It is a very good partnership and the Honda guys understand more what is needed from the chassis side and we understand more what is needed from the engine side as well.
"I expect really not just the improvement of each but also the improvement of the overall relationship. So one plus one is not two - it should be three."
Eric Boullier has undertaken a restructuring of McLaren since joining as racing director at the start of the 2014 season.
However, Capito, who is the Frenchman's boss, said further alterations were required.
"Lots of changes have to be done - but with changes you always have to be careful about how and when you apply them," he said.
"I am pretty clear. I have a clear wish in what should be done.
"I had lots of talks with many employees from the cleaner to the racing director and I think I know what has to be done. Mainly there has to be a cultural change - it has to become more of a race team again."
Capito would not say whether he wanted to change the design leadership structure Boullier has imposed.
The team has been reorganised so aerodynamics leader Peter Prodromou, engineering director Matt Morris and technical director Tim Goss all report to Boullier and chief operating officer Jonathan Neale, rather than the team having a single technical leader, such as at Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari.
Capito refused to say whether he would retain this structure or designate a specific person to have the final say on design and engineering decisions.
"It's early to say that," Capito said. "It will not be a hierarchical staff. On the principle of hierarchy, we have to become leaner and not more complicated - and it will be maybe not a usual organisation, but very clear for everybody who is involved.
"The right people have to be in place but everybody has to be aware of his own responsibilities and accountability. The engineering team we have is fantastic, that I absolutely believe."
Any major changes to McLaren Racing would have to be approved by Neale and the new executive committee running the company, comprised of 25% shareholder Mansour Ojjeh and 50% shareholders Mumtalakat, the Bahrain sovereign investment fund.
The second round contest pits centrist Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker, against the far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen, 48.
Citizens in some overseas territories and many French expats abroad have begun voting.
The polls open in metropolitan France at 08:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Sunday and close at 19:00 (17:00 GMT).
Polling stations will remain open in some big cities until 20:00 local time (18:00 GMT), with early estimates of the result due to be reported immediately after they close.
The two candidates, who topped a field of 11 presidential hopefuls in the first round election on 23 April, have offered voters starkly different visions of France.
Mr Macron, a liberal centrist, is pro-business and a strong supporter of the European Union (EU), while Ms Le Pen campaigned on a France-first, anti-immigration programme.
She wants France to abandon the euro in the domestic economy, and hold a referendum on France's EU membership.
Mr Macron is widely expected to win the vote, but analysts have said high abstention rates could damage his chances.
The run-off will be keenly watched across Europe, ahead of elections in Germany and the UK and as Britain negotiates its exit from the EU.
In whittling down a field of candidates to Mr Macron and Ms Le Pen, France's voters rejected the two big political parties - the Socialists and the Republicans - that have governed for decades.
The campaign has been marked by its unpredictability, and in a final twist on Friday evening, soon before campaigning officially ended, Mr Macron's En Marche! political movement said it had been the victim of a "massive" hack, with a trove of documents released online.
The Macron team said real documents were mixed up with fake ones, and electoral authorities warned media and the public that spreading details of the attack would breach strict election rules and could bring criminal charges.
En Marche compared the hack to the leak of Democratic Party emails in last year's US presidential election that was blamed on Russian hackers.
Mr Macron has previously accused Moscow of targeting him with cyber attacks, which Russia strongly denied.
On Saturday, French President François Hollande promised to "respond" to the attack.
Management of the economy, security, immigration and France's relationship with the EU have all been key issues in the campaign.
One of the overriding issues is unemployment, which stands at almost 10% and is the eighth highest among the 28 EU member states. One in four under-25s is unemployed.
The French economy has made a slow recovery from the 2008 financial crisis and both candidates say deep changes are needed.
Ms Le Pen wants the pension age cut to 60 and to "renationalise French debt", which she argues is largely held by foreigners.
Mr Macron wants to cut 120,000 public-sector jobs, reduce public spending by €60bn (£50bn; $65bn), plough billions into investment and reduce unemployment to below 7%.
Read more: Economic challenges facing next president
If voters opt for Mr Macron, they will be backing a candidate who seeks EU reform as well as deeper European integration, in the form of a eurozone budget and eurozone finance ministers.
Ms Le Pen promises quite the opposite. She wants a Europe of nations to replace the EU.
They are similarly divided on other foreign policy issues. Mr Macron opposes any rapprochement with Russia, while Ms Le Pen met Vladimir Putin in Moscow recently and has previously stated her approval of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.
The presidential election will be followed by legislative elections on 11 and 18 June. Mr Macron, who quit the Socialist government of President Hollande to found his new political movement, has no MPs, and Ms Le Pen has only two.
Whoever wins the presidency will need to perform well in those crucial elections if they want to win a parliamentary majority to push through their proposals.
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On TV, you can watch a BBC World News Election Special, from 18:30 BST (17:30 GMT/ 19:30 local time in France) on Sunday, which will be broadcast on BBC News in the UK and on BBC World News internationally, with Christian Fraser presenting from Paris.
For radio, BBC World Service will broadcast a special extended edition of Newshour from Paris at 18:00 GMT on Sunday.
The girls reported that a man, driving a white van, called them over and asked them to get inside.
It happened at a play park on the Lismenary Road on Saturday at about 11:00 BST.
A male passer-by asked the man what was going on and he drove off in the direction of the nearby Larne Line.
The driver of the van was described as being about 40 years old and was wearing a black baseball cap.
First I heard shouting at the security entrance then I saw policemen bundling members of the public and then moving others like me back from the entrance.
Then through the glass doors, I saw dozens of members of the public rushing along the riverside. MPs and staff were rushed to one of the emergency exits but were then moved back to the main part of the building.
MPs tell me they heard three or four gunshots on the way to a normal vote and then they ran. It still seems unclear what exactly has happened but with eyewitnesses reporting bodies on Westminster Bridge this is clearly the most serious kind of situation.
The normal routine of a Westminster Wednesday afternoon shattered.
Pro-Russian rebels have tried several times in recent weeks to take the airport, which lies to the north-west of the city, despite an official truce.
The Ukrainian military said the rebels were moving on "a broad front".
However a spokesman denied claims they had taken a large part of the airport and insisted it was not surrounded.
Both sides have accused each other of violations since the ceasefire was called on 5 September.
Late on Thursday, a Swiss employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross was killed by shelling in the centre of Donetsk.
A spokesman for the aid organisation told Reuters news agency that the shell had landed near its office.
On Wednesday, four people were killed by a shell which landed on a school in Donetsk, and six died when a minibus was hit.
A spokesman for what the Ukrainian government calls its anti-terrorist operation said Ukrainian forces repelled four attacks on the airport on Wednesday evening.
A T-64 tank was destroyed and seven rebels were killed, Vladyslav Seleznyov told Kanal 5 TV.
The rebels used tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems, artillery and mortars, he said, resuming their attacks on Thursday morning with small-arms fire.
The airport is strategically important, lying just outside Donetsk, the largest city held by the rebels. Its capture by the separatists would help them to resupply.
Government forces have been using it to shell separatist positions inside the city.
A reporter for Associated Press in Donetsk said on Wednesday there were indications the government may already have lost control of the airport.
Rebel-leader Alexander Zakharchenko, speaking on Thursday, said it was now "95%" under separatist control.
But military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters that the airport was still in Ukrainian government hands and reinforcements were getting through.
"They have manpower, they have munitions and food supplies. They have everything to sustain defence," he said. "Reinforcements are coming regularly because the airport has not been surrounded."
More than 3,500 people have been killed in Ukraine in the conflict between pro-Russia separatists and the Kiev government since it began in April.
In a further sign of the economic cost, the World Bank said on Thursday that Ukraine's economy was now likely to contract by 8% this year.
World Bank representative in Ukraine, Qimiao Fan, blamed reduced economic activity in the east. The bank had previously forecast a decline of 5%.
The fighting arose from deep divisions in Ukraine over whether the country should take a more pro-Western or pro-Moscow direction.
Russia seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March and separatists later declared independence in the two eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Russia denies Western accusations that it is sending heavy weaponry to the rebels or Russian soldiers to back them. But the Kremlin concedes that "volunteers" have travelled to eastern Ukraine.
Newly appointed Nato Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, called on Wednesday for Russia to change its behaviour and return "to compliance with international law and its obligations."
Kelly was a veteran of stage and screen, his career lasting 60 years.
He had more recent roles in Emmerdale and Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie.
Kelly revealed last November that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, although he said he would continue to work.
He had received the all-clear from bowel cancer in 2011. He was treated for skin cancer last year and also had heart problems.
The actor passed away exactly 18 years after the death of his Father Ted co-star Dermot Morgan.
Morgan died on Sunday 28 February 1998. His son, Don Morgan, tweeted about the coincidence of the date.
Graham Linehan, the writer of Father Ted, tweeted his condolences.
"Just hearing from various sources that Frank Kelly has passed away," he tweeted.
"Terribly sad news. Thanks for everything Frank."
The sitcom's co-writer, Arthur Mathews, also responded on Twitter.
"Sad news," he said. "Comedy legend. So thrilled we had him in Father Ted."
Kelly's co-star Ardal O'Hanlon, who played Father Dougal McGuire, called him a "gentleman".
"Very sad news. We had lunch together at Christmas when he was in his usual feisty form," he said.
"Frank was an all-round talent, an institution in Irish entertainment, a very determined professional and he'll be greatly missed by all who knew him."
Brendan O'Carroll, star of Mrs Brown's Boys, spoke fondly of working with Frank Kelly in Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie,
"News of Frank Kelly's passing just reached us in Australia. Such a lovely man and a joy to work with," he said.
Irish president Michael D Higgins described Kelly as "a friend" and "a distinguished actor who made such a wide and valued contribution both on the stage and in film".
"He will forever be remembered for his roles."
"To his wife Bairbre and his family I send deepest sympathy; for theirs is the greatest loss of such a great and loving person."
The actor is survived by his wife of 51 years Bairbre, seven children and 17 grandchildren.
The 14-year-old from Northampton beat her old S6 50m butterfly mark of 37.53 seconds with 36.70 in the heats and then 36.34 in the final.
"It hasn't sunk in yet that I'm in line for Rio," she told BBC Sport.
"Those times have given me a huge amount of confidence."
Robinson, who has a form of dwarfism, which left her on crutches aged 11, was inspired by watching her now-Great Britain team-mate Ellie Simmonds, among others, at London 2012.
"Ellie was my main influence at 2012 and I love what she did," she added. "I thought then that I really wanted to do this."
Robinson now has Ukrainian Oksana Khrul's world record of 36.05 in her sights when she makes her GB debut in next week's IPC Swimming European Open Championships in Madeira, Portugal.
There was disappointment, however, for world bronze medallist Alice Tai in the S10 100m butterfly after she failed to make the required standard.
Tai, who has moved back to Bournemouth after being based for a time at the National Performance Centre in Manchester, needed a time of one minute 8.36 seconds.
But the 17-year-old could only manage 1:10.69 to leave her hopes of a Rio berth in the hands of the selectors.
So far, 17 swimmers have achieved Olympic qualification times, with two days of the competition remaining.
Officers received several calls about a disturbance, an explosion and a fire at a property in Hall Street, New Stevenston, on Tuesday night.
A short time later, a 38-year-old man arrived in a white van at Monklands District General Hospital.
He had suffered stab and burn injuries, and is in a serious condition.
Police Scotland said the incidents were linked and investigations were ongoing.
The two-storey building in New Stevenston partially collapsed after the fire broke out at about 23:40 on Tuesday.
Police said there had been an explosion followed by a "significant fire" which destroyed the building.
At least two men were seen going into the building and, following the explosion, two men left the building just prior to it going up in flames.
One of those two is believed to be the injured man who went to the hospital about 20 minutes later.
Det Supt Kenny Graham said the injured man had been chased by the driver of a light coloured car from Hall Street into Stevenston Street, where it had been reported that a man -possibly the same one - was chased by another man brandishing a weapon.
The car then made off along Stevenston Street towards Holytown.
Det Supt Graham said: "Officers have been in the area all day checking CCTV and a number of people have come forward to police already and their information has been very helpful.
"However, we are still keen to hear from anyone else who was in the vicinity between 23:30 and midnight, who may have seen the car, the man with the weapon or indeed any information that will assist our enquiry.
"While we have not yet had access to the building, we believe that there has been some sort of criminal activity taking place there and that the attack on the man and the fire was linked to that.
"We do not consider this to be a random attack. We believe at this time that the injured man got his burns as a result of the fire/explosion."
Jed Duncan, from Aberdeen, was cleaning a corridor at the Stirlingshire facility when staff became concerned he was performing the task too slowly.
Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that the 21-year-old attacked the warden after being asked to hurry up.
The officer was unhurt in the incident which took place on 8 April last year.
Prosecutor Ann Orr told the court: "A prison officer asked him to hurry up. He started arguing and was told to go back to his cell.
"Reinforcements were called and he picked up a mop and struck the officer with its wooden handle."
Duncan had been due for release in August after serving a sentence for a series of offences including repeated joyriding, threatening and abusive behaviour, and assaulting a prison officer.
The company said it has suspended deliveries at Holly Road in Risca.
The move comes after staff had items "regularly thrown" at them as they tried to deliver residents' mail, it said.
Residents will now have to collect their post from Abercarn Delivery Office, about three miles (4.8km) away.
"The safety of our staff is of paramount importance to us and the decision to suspend mail deliveries is never one we take lightly," a company spokeswoman said.
"We are working with the local council and the police to find a way to resume deliveries safely as soon as possible."
A Gwent Police spokeswoman said: "We have been informed that deliveries have been suspended in the area and we understand the concerns raised.
"Local officers patrol the area on a regular basis and we are liaising with the council concerning anti-social behaviour."
In the last 12 months: Martyn Rose, its chairman left acrimoniously, Henriette Gotz its executive director stepped down a few days later, John Berry, its controversial artistic director left, as did Edward Gardner, its charismatic conductor.
In addition, Arts Council England (ACE) rejected it from its National Portfolio of Regularly Funded Organisations and put the organisation into 'special measures', demanded a 'new business model' and set 'rigorous milestones', which it oversees closely. ACE also cut the ENO's annual budget by £5m, reducing it from £17.6m to £12.4m.
The ENO is now in a process of rebuilding. It has appointed a new CEO, Cressida Pollock, a 33-year old management consultant with no experience of running an arts organisation, and a new chair, Harry Brunjes. It also has new conductor in the shape of Mark Wigglesworth, but to date there is no artistic director.
In fact, it doesn't want another artistic director in overall control, but something more akin to a director of opera who would work with Pollock and Wigglesworth. This is closer to the model at the Royal Opera House.
The ENO sees a traumatic 2015 as a chance for a major overhaul and to reinvent itself as an opera company for the 21st Century. It wants to reduce its current staff of around 350, a review process that will include both its chorus of around forty full time staff, and orchestra of 60+ full time employees. It says it wants to be more flexible and potentially not have its musicians on year-round contracts.
It also wants to deal with its home venue, the mighty Coliseum near Trafalgar Square, which - at 2359 seats - is bigger than the Opera House. It has long been a burden for the ENO, filling it is difficult, the overhead significant. One option being looked at, is sharing the venue with other arts organisations, allowing the ENO to reduce its programme of operas at the Coliseum from around eleven a year, to around eight. The programme could then be embellished with newer, more experimental work performed in small venues.
Other ideas to reform its business models including a partnership with commercial producers to put on West End-type musicals, such as the forthcoming Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close. It is also looking at turning its foyer into a venue with a cafe.
It says that it is likely that life at the Coliseum is likely to get worse before it gets better, but hopes that come April / May and the announcement of the new season, that the worst will be behind the organisation and it will be able to move forward with more confidence with a sustainable way of working.
Stenny's Colin McMenamin and Rovers' Paul Archibald dragged shots wide before Love forced Colin McCabe to make the first save of the evening.
McMenamin fired another effort over the bar before Ross Meechan put Stenhousemuir ahead with a right-footed effort.
However, Love earned the hosts a draw when he fired home.
The point moves Stenhousemuir above Stranraer into sixth place, but Rovers remain three points ahead in fourth.
Match ends, Albion Rovers 1, Stenhousemuir 1.
Second Half ends, Albion Rovers 1, Stenhousemuir 1.
Alan Reid (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Cook (Stenhousemuir).
Substitution, Stenhousemuir. Lewis Small replaces Colin McMenamin.
Colin McMenamin (Stenhousemuir) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alan Cook (Stenhousemuir) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kyle Turnbull (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Alan Cook (Stenhousemuir).
Foul by Alan Reid (Albion Rovers).
Alan Cook (Stenhousemuir) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Stenhousemuir. Alan Cook replaces Jason Scotland.
Ally Love (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Robertson (Stenhousemuir).
Goal! Albion Rovers 1, Stenhousemuir 1. Ally Love (Albion Rovers) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Ricardo Talu replaces Gary Fisher.
Michael Dunlop (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ross Meechan (Stenhousemuir).
Corner, Stenhousemuir. Conceded by Ross Dunlop.
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Callum McRobbie replaces Paul Archibald.
Ross Meechan (Stenhousemuir) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ally Love (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ross Meechan (Stenhousemuir).
Ross Dunlop (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Colin McMenamin (Stenhousemuir).
Corner, Stenhousemuir. Conceded by Ally Love.
Attempt saved. Kieran Millar (Stenhousemuir) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Ross Davidson (Albion Rovers).
Colin McMenamin (Stenhousemuir) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Spas Georgiev replaces Mark Ferry.
Goal! Albion Rovers 0, Stenhousemuir 1. Ross Meechan (Stenhousemuir) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Stenhousemuir. Conceded by Michael Dunlop.
Corner, Stenhousemuir. Conceded by Michael Dunlop.
Attempt missed. Colin McMenamin (Stenhousemuir) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Ally Love (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Robertson (Stenhousemuir).
Paul Archibald (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Meechan (Stenhousemuir).
Attempt missed. Ciaran Summers (Stenhousemuir) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Second Half begins Albion Rovers 0, Stenhousemuir 0.
The 25-year-old Netherlands international helped the Black Cats avoid relegation last season.
"Patrick was an outstanding performer last season, contributing not only solid defensive performances, but also assists and vital goals," said Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce.
The left-back arrived at the Stadium of Light from Chelsea in 2014.
He has scored five goals in 69 appearances, including four in the Premier League last season.
"It is fantastic to be able to secure the long-term services of such a talented footballer and athlete, who will hopefully continue to improve here for many years to come," added Allardyce.
Rooney opened the scoring after Jonny Hayes' header put him through on goal, with McGinn arrowing in a brilliant second before half-time.
Rooney doubled his tally from the penalty spot following a Morgyn Neill hand-ball soon after the break.
McGinn completed the rout with a neat finish from outside the box.
It was no surprise the in-form Hayes had a hand in the Dons' breakthrough goal, as the Cardiff City transfer target headed on McGinn's cross for Rooney to hook home.
That came half an hour into proceedings, the hosts finally breaking the stubborn resistance of the League One bottom club, who had defended as though their lives depended on it up until that point.
They threw their bodies in the way of wave after wave of Aberdeen attacks and when the Premiership side did threaten, goalkeeper Cameron Belford bailed them out with a series of breathtaking saves.
There was nothing he could do to prevent McGinn increasing the lead as the Northern Ireland international raced on to a Kenny McLean pass to angle a stunning finish into the far corner.
It was only ever going to be a case of how many after that, but Aberdeen were given a helping hand when Neill needlessly handled and Rooney swept home his 13th goal of the season from the resulting penalty.
Four minutes later McGinn swept in Aberdeen's fourth - and his 10th of the season - with only the brilliance of Belford preventing a real hammering.
Newly-appointed Stranraer boss Stevie Farrell - watching from the stands - replaces the dismissed Brian Reid on Monday and can be confident if his players show the same fighting spirit they did at Pittodrie they can clamber off the foot of the league table.
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes: "Their goalkeeper was excellent and maybe we should have been more clinical early on but we kept working away and it was hard for Stranraer to cope with our movement.
"It was a thoroughly professional performance today as there is always a bit of worry that you might not pick up quickly after a three-week break that we have just had.
"Now we hope to make one or two signings before the transfer window closes as we want to add some quality to help the squad as we are bit stretched for what we need."
Stranraer caretaker manager Chris Aitken: "I'm pleased with the effort my players put into the game and there are a lot of tired boys in the dressing room.
"Aberdeen were four-up after less than an hour but they stuck at it - a lot of teams could have folded in that situation.
"There is a lot from today for the new manager (Stevie Farrell) to build on to try and get us off the foot of the table."
Match ends, Aberdeen 4, Stranraer 0.
Second Half ends, Aberdeen 4, Stranraer 0.
Foul by Scott Wright (Aberdeen).
Scott Agnew (Stranraer) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Frank Ross (Aberdeen).
Scott Agnew (Stranraer) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Steven Bell.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Frank Ross replaces Kenny McLean.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Kyle Turner.
Hand ball by Craig Malcolm (Stranraer).
Foul by Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen).
David Wilson (Stranraer) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Morgyn Neill.
Attempt blocked. Peter Pawlett (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Morgyn Neill.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Scott Wright replaces Andrew Considine.
Substitution, Stranraer. Giuliano Morena replaces Ryan Thomson.
Attempt saved. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Stranraer. David Wilson replaces Mark McGuigan.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Peter Pawlett replaces Jonny Hayes.
Attempt saved. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Cameron Belford.
Foul by Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen).
Scott Agnew (Stranraer) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Turner (Stranraer).
Substitution, Stranraer. Kyle Turner replaces David Barron.
Attempt missed. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Goal! Aberdeen 4, Stranraer 0. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andrew Considine.
Attempt saved. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Cameron Belford.
Goal! Aberdeen 3, Stranraer 0. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Morgyn Neill (Stranraer) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Attempt saved. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Second Half begins Aberdeen 2, Stranraer 0.
First Half ends, Aberdeen 2, Stranraer 0.
The national curriculum was given the go-ahead in 1988 under education reforms by the then education secretary Kenneth Baker and started to be taught in schools in September 1989.
Mr Baker had said that "we can no longer leave individual teachers, schools or local authorities to devise the curriculum that children should follow".
The world was a bit different 26 years ago - the mobile phone was in its infancy; the internet had not been invented.
There have been attempts at tweaks since but this has led to an over-complicated and incoherent system.
Prof Graham Donaldson of Glasgow University - a former teacher and chief inspector of schools - was asked to lead a wide-ranging review by the Welsh government nearly a year ago.
Prof Donaldson wants to do away with the idea of having four key stages in schools.
He says the "transitions" between them leads to too much of a disconnect for pupils; that teachers and schools do not see the education system as one long process, but rather a series of blocks.
They all have different characteristics which are "unhelpful" for pupils whereas they should feel their time in school is one "journey". It is all too complicated at the moment, it is seen as "stop-start".
So he wants to see five "progression steps" at three-year intervals.
The idea is that, instead of going from stage to stage, a pupil's time in school will be one long process.
It would mean, for example, that primary and secondary schools would have to work together much better, rather than being seen as a "new beginning".
At the moment in Wales there is a Literacy and Numeracy Framework (LNF). Those two elements are embedded into every aspect of the curriculum; they're weaved into every subject.
For example, even pupils in PE lessons are expected to work out the maths of how far they run and how quickly.
Prof Donaldson wants that to continue, but wants a third cross-curricular element to be included - digital competence.
Testing in schools should continue but be very different to what we have now.
At the moment, pupils are tested every year in Wales from the age of seven. The results are used to track and monitor the progress of pupils and also to judge the relative success of schools.
This needs to change. Without saying so explicitly, Prof Donaldson suggests very heavily that there is too much testing and that it is not being used correctly.
He thinks pupils should be tested less often, and that it should be "part of learning".
At the moment he thinks there is too much emphasis on testing for accountability rather than for learning.
He said: "Testing can be an important learning tool. And if I'd have to choose between accountability and learning, I'd go with learning every time."
In his report there will be more details about what tests should look like in future, although he thinks there needs to be a conversation within the profession about how they should be used in future.
But he added: "There needs to be a radically different way of working in future."
At the moment, Prof Donaldson thinks the national curriculum is too prescriptive. It does not give schools the flexibility they need to tailor teaching to their own needs.
In England, academies make up half of all schools. They have much more freedom over what they teach. This should not happen in Wales.
He says there should still be a central curriculum but schools will be able to interpret the curriculum, rather than have to follow every element to the dot.
He added we should stop obsessing about comparing ourselves to England.
At the moment, subjects are taught within a "core" and "non-core" framework. It basically ranks subjects in order of importance: English, Welsh, science and maths are the core subjects.
The non-core subjects are: art and design, design and technology, geography, history, information and communication technology, modern foreign language, music, physical education and Welsh as a second language.
This needs to go, Prof Donaldson says and instead there should be six areas of learning.
Prof Donaldson will not be drawn on a precise timescale but is keen that while we do not rush it we do not lose momentum either.
Education Minister Huw Lewis has said it could take a decade or more of "heavy lifting and hard work" from teachers before the new curriculum is in place.
Wednesday's announcement will not be the end. To paraphrase Churchill, it will not even be the "beginning of the end". It will, however, "be the end of the beginning".
Wexford, one from bottom of the Premier Division, took a sixth-minute lead when Paul Murphy put Eric Molloy through to beat keeper Gerard Doherty.
Rory Patterson equalised with a deflected shot just before half-time.
Lucas Schubert put Derry ahead in the 67th minute and Barry McNamee wrapped up the victory.
Austrian Schubert pounced to net his third of the season after Aaron McEneff's free-kick had struck a post.
McNamee then advanced to shoot past home keeper Graham Doyle at the near post to make it 3-1.
Derry are now one match away from reaching the final for the 11th time, having won five and lost five of their 10 appearances in the showpiece occasion.
Elsewhere on Friday, Cork City beat Shamrock Rovers 5-0 in the quarter-final at Tallaght Stadium while Dundalk won 1-0 away to UCD.
Members of the group, the UK's biggest mutual organisation, voted on the issue at their annual general meeting.
They passed a motion by 48,579 for, to 39,479 against, to approve "political expenditures" of up to £1m which support the movement's objectives.
Last year the Co-op Group gave £625,000 to the Co-op Party.
This figure was down on the sums donated in previous years.
The AGM also included a vote on new corporate governance procedures which would mean members having less of a direct say.
The Co-operative Group is still recovering from a period of financial mismanagement and some members have recently expressed concerns about how elections to the board are chosen.
The banking arm of the group came close to collapse in 2013, bringing the whole group to a £2.5bn annual loss that year.
The Co-op Party includes among its members a number of Labour MPs, including shadow chancellor Chris Leslie and Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy.
The politicians stand as candidates of both the Co-operative Party and the Labour Party, and the two political movements have strong historical ties.
The board asked the members of the Co-operative Group whether they wanted to continue financially supporting the Co-operative Party, or any other party.
Allan Leighton, chairman of the Co-op Group, said: "There's a clear remit from the members to continue to support the Labour Party.
"It allows us to now have a conversation with the Co-op Labour Party about what we do next."
There was also a members' motion on the agenda, put forward by those in favour of making political donations of up to £1m a year.
The motion to approve political funding "not to exceed £1m per annum" was carried by 55.17% to 44.83%.
BBC business correspondent Joe Lynam said: "To meet a £1.5bn hole in its accounts - mostly stemming from its banking division - the Co-op Group has had to sell off parts of its businesses and hand over majority control of its bank to American hedge funds.
"It's also in the process of radically changing the way it runs itself into a more corporate structure with less of a direct say by its members."
He said that "in theory", each of the 2.8 million Co-op members could vote on a series of motions about the reforms, as well as how its bosses are paid, and retaining the links to the Co-operative party.
One of the group's largest independent societies, Midcounties, recently threatened legal action over a shortlist of six candidates for the group's board being reduced to three - the number of positions available - before a member vote.
It could mean the end of a regular cycle of university inspections.
There are believed to be proposals for a more "risk-based" approach, with higher levels of scrutiny for less established institutions.
There have also been questions about the future of the current watchdog, the Quality Assurance Agency.
The plans for discussion, which will be published next week, will set out major changes in how standards are assessed and monitored in universities.
The plans aim to create a way of ensuring quality at a time of increasing consumer pressure from students and doubts about standards in some new private providers.
An annual survey published this month by the Higher Education Policy Institute showed that less than half of students believed they had had good or very good value for money from their courses.
The shake-up is expected to propose different levels of supervision for different parts of the higher education sector. Universities are said to be resistant to a "one-size-fits-all" monitoring system.
This could mean that established, mainstream universities would no longer face a cycle of inspections of the kind carried out by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).
Newer entrants offering higher education courses would face a tougher level of scrutiny.
For established universities, there would be a stronger emphasis on student "outcomes" - such as data on the employment record of graduates and information from the National Student Survey.
There would also be a strengthening of the "external examiner" system, in which experts from other universities are used to check on the quality of degrees being awarded.
If there were particular concerns about an institution, there would be a formal, hands-on inspection.
It is expected that university governing bodies would have a bigger role in being accountable for quality.
And the plans are expected to "embed" the idea of a way of measuring the quality of teaching in universities. The Conservatives' election manifesto promised a way of comparing university teaching standards as well as research.
The intention is to move towards a regulatory system with a stronger focus on what courses mean for students and employers, rather than monitoring the internal processes of universities
A number of leaks - including in the Times Higher Education magazine and the Wonkhe higher education website - have fuelled debate within the higher education sector.
But there are suggestions that there are still some final decisions to be taken.
There are questions about whether there will in effect be a two-tier system - with a more light-touch approach for established universities and more robust scrutiny for those outside this group.
There were concerns earlier this year from the Public Accounts Committee about an "abuse of public money", when ineligible overseas students had been accessing funding for courses in private colleges.
The Quality Assurance Agency had also raised questions about the quality of higher education courses taught in further education colleges - with inspectors failing about a third of college providers last year.
The future of the agency itself is also uncertain, if it were no longer to carry out regular inspections.
Last October, a public tendering process was announced to run the university inspection system from 2017. But it now seems that it is going to be a different kind of system from the one currently operated by the QAA.
The proposed changes are also likely to raise questions about the independence of a regulatory system that no longer has regular external checks.
Universities might be offered a more light-touch form of accountability, but in an international market will there be a need for evidence of an independent evaluation?
Would relying on an in-house check be a long-term risk for standards and reputations?
The questions about how university standards are monitored come as students are being increasingly voluble about challenging the quality of their courses.
The increase in tuition fees has brought into sharper focus value-for-money questions about teaching standards, contact hours and how degree standards compare between different institutions.
The plans will be presented jointly by the higher education funding councils for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. But even if the plans are adopted in England, it is possible that Wales and Northern Ireland could go in different directions.
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Alt Meadows, which is the city's 48th park, was developed over two years, on a 20-acre site in Croxteth.
More than 2,000 trees, nearly 4,000 shrubs and 2,100 wetland plants have been planted in the area, Liverpool City Council said.
The park also involved the diversion of a 0.6 mile (1km) section of the River Alt and was opened by Mayor Joe Anderson.
He said: "It is a great example of how we are converting disused land into a vibrant space and making more of it accessible."
Local people chose the park's name and were involved in the planting. The area now includes accessible paths, meadow, wetland and woodland habitat.
Liverpool charity, The Cass Foundation, led the project with the Community Forest Trust.
Chairman Richard Cass said: "We hope the new park will encourage people to enjoy the fresh air, walk and cycle."
Their last meeting with Crystal Palace - a 3-3 draw on Monday 5 May - could quite justifiably lay claim to being named game of the 2013-14 season. Perhaps more pertinently, it produced quite possibly the most important result of the campaign.
Liverpool went into the match on the same number of points as Manchester City at the top of the Premier League. Both teams had two games left but crucially, City had a superior goal difference of nine.
The Reds had an opportunity to go top when they visited Palace 24 hours before City next played, at home to Aston Villa.
Here, BBC Sport recalls the dramatic events which followed at Selhurst Park, with the help of Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, his then Palace counterpart Tony Pulis, the Liverpool Echo's Anfield reporter James Pearce, ex-Leicester striker Steve Claridge who was a summariser for BBC Radio 5 live that night, and Reds supporter Nico Fleche.
James Pearce: "Going into the game, there was talk of Liverpool having to win but also score a lot of goals in doing so. The goal difference was nine and Brendan Rodgers had spoken about how he had not given up hope of turning round that deficit. Liverpool had been so free-scoring, with the firepower of Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge."
Nico Fleche: "We did believe we would win the title. We had that much momentum that we actually believed we could beat them [Manchester City] on goal difference."
Tony Pulis: "Don't forget, we were on a good run of form ourselves - we had won five out of our previous six matches. It was a great game to be involved in."
Steve Claridge: "I saw Liverpool at Cardiff a couple of months before the match at Palace and they were 2-1 down but won 6-3. They could have conceded six. It was all down to Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge that they won that game."
Liverpool opened the scoring after 18 minutes through Joe Allen. Palace then brought a couple of fine saves out of Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet while Suarez and Sturridge were a constant menace at the other end.
Pulis: "We had not conceded a goal from a set-play since I came to the club then Joe Allen, the smallest player on the pitch, scored with a header. If you looked at that Liverpool team, they scored a lot. Players like Suarez were a nuisance going forward but, at the back, I knew we could cause them problems. Their defence didn't look strong at times. If they were put under pressure, we had a chance."
Liverpool went into the break 1-0 up, having dominated possession with 12 shots on goal compared to Palace's three.
Brendan Rodgers: "Our objective was just to win the game - we said that at half-time, the message was clear… if it's 1-0, it's 1-0."
Pulis: "At half-time I had a go at my centre-halves, Scott Dann and Damien Delaney, for not getting tight enough to Suarez and Sturridge."
In the first 10 minutes of the second period, Liverpool scored twice in quick succession - Daniel Sturridge's low, deflected shot trickling past Julian Speroni and being credited as an own goal by Damien Delaney, before Suarez made it 3-0 to the visitors after a neat one-two with Raheem Sterling.
Pulis: "After the break, Delaney gets an own goal and Suarez scores. I just turned to one of my coaches, Dave Kemp, and said something along the lines of 'well, that half-time team talk worked'."
Pearce: "When the third goal went in, the players went to celebrate and quickly realised they needed to get the ball because there was still 35 minutes left. At that point, you kind of thought that Palace, who had nothing to play for, might just capitulate and it could become five, six or seven. Suddenly Rodgers's dream of turning that goal difference around could have happened."
Claridge: "They were now 3-0 up and had missed three or four other good chances, so they had every right to think about overturning that goal difference."
Fleche: "At 3-0, there was a genuine belief that we would go on and win 6-0 or even 7-0. After each goal, there was a lot of chanting which centred on 'attack, attack, attack'. Then it all went wrong."
Pulis sent on striker Dwight Gayle for Jason Puncheon after 65 minutes, the first of three attacking substitutions which also saw Glenn Murray and Tom Ince summoned from the bench. However, with 11 minutes left, it was defender Delaney who pulled one back for Palace with a deflected 25-yard shot.
Rodgers: "We got two quick goals after the break and maybe the excitement and enthusiasm to try and claw back the goal difference overtook us."
Pulis: "I felt if we scored, the pressure would build on Liverpool. Then, once we did score, the ascendency seemed to be with us because of our wonderful support. It's as if Liverpool opened the gates and we poured through them. We had nothing to lose. The goal lifted the lads and the stadium. We had momentum."
Pearce: "I'd love to say the alarm bells were ringing when Palace pulled one back but I thought it was purely a consolation. At 3-0 up with 11 minutes to go, Liverpool were cruising and they were pushing players forward in search of more goals. Once the first Palace goal went in, you thought that would kill the goal difference issue but the thing that struck me about that night was that the atmosphere was sensational in the last 10 minutes."
Claridge: "My main memory is that Liverpool continued to play in the same way, right from being 3-0 up to it being 3-3. It was bonkers to watch it."
Suddenly, Palace had momentum and substitute Gayle scored the hosts' second goal in two minutes when he swept into the back of the net from Yannick Bolasie's square pass. It was 3-2 to Liverpool with nine minutes of normal time to play...
Claridge: "I wasn't surprised Liverpool didn't tighten up because it's the way they played all season. I was disappointed in some of the senior pros who should have told the rest of the team to kill the game. They kept playing the same way even though they weren't dominating the game.
"The game had changed so all that needed to happen was for the full-backs not to run forward and the midfielders to sit. Get men behind the ball and Liverpool would have won the game. But nothing changed. Ultimately it was the manager's fault, he's the man who had to tell his players just to sit back for 10 minutes."
Fleche: "The tactics were right in that by scoring a lot of goals it would have put a lot of pressure on City. In hindsight, I think that was the only way we could have won the title. We had to go for it. When it got to 3-1 and 3-2, it wasn't to do with tactics, it was more a case of things going wrong quickly and the belief draining from the players who suddenly lost their confidence."
Liverpool's title hopes came crashing down around them when Gayle scored his second of the game with two minutes to go, the young striker latching on to a chest-down from a long ball and rifling past Simon Mignolet. 3-3.
Fleche: "The equaliser felt like the end of everything, like the season was over. It felt like all the pressure had been taken off City's shoulders."
Pearce: "It's still pretty vivid, and not one of my greatest nights in the job for many reasons - not least for having to file a match report on the final whistle for a game which gets transformed like that in the final 10 minutes."
Claridge: "Liverpool were a team who looked completely disorganised, like a team who were just rolling the dice."
Pearce: "Ironically, Liverpool went back to the top of the table that night, courtesy of that point, however everyone knew that was the night when the title race was decided."
Pulis: "Both Dwight Gayle and Victor Moses missed great chances to make it 4-3 for either side right at the end."
Pearce: "At the end, there were scenes of absolute devastation. Suarez was reduced to tears and Steven Gerrard was shooing the cameras away."
Fleche: "Everyone was deflated. There were some tears around and there was a television clip that went around of fans crying, which I'm on. I wasn't crying, I was consoling the others. There was a lot of silence, awkward looks and deflated faces."
Pulis: "There was a lap of honour after the game so I didn't see much of Brendan. I knew he would have been devastated and I did feel for my fellow manager.
"My overriding memory of that night is that lap of honour. Twenty minutes after the final whistle, no Palace supporter had left the ground. It turned out to be my final home game in charge."
Pearce: "I had 10 minutes to do my rewrite and, what made it worse was that the wifi went down in the press box. There were people all around me cursing because they couldn't send their copy through. After that I had another 45 minutes to do a more considered piece.
"In that time, we had to take in all of what we had just seen. It's very rare you get a night like that where the whole complexion of a season is transformed in the space of a few minutes. I remember one person saying it was like Istanbul in reverse, and it really was.
"We had two people at the game so I went down to the mixed zone to try and interview some players. Kolo Toure was the only person who stopped to speak to us and he very briefly answered a couple of questions. It was just a scene of absolute devastation."
Rodgers: "That night probably ended our hopes of winning it, but I was still incredibly proud of my players."
Pearce: "What happened at Chelsea a week earlier had handed the initiative to Manchester City, but the players knew it was that night at Selhurst Park when the final nail was put in the coffin. From putting City into a position where they had to win two home games, they suddenly only needed four points out of six. They knew a golden opportunity to end the club's 24-year wait for a league title had slipped from their grasp."
Claridge: "It was almost an underachievement not to win the league with a player like Suarez. I've never seen a player like him in the Premier League. Gareth Bale came close, but the impact he had on the season was just scary. Everything he did was just incredible.
"I didn't like Liverpool's system but they had two players [Suarez and Sturridge] who were unplayable. Together, their play beggared belief - I have never seen anything like it. But having a player like Suarez covered over a multitude of sins, and I think we are seeing that this season."
Cailey Fiesel said she bought the $40 (£32; €37) dress from Zara but weeks later detected a "disturbingly pungent odour" while at her desk at work.
Ms Fiesel, 24, felt something scratch her leg and discovered a mouse's foot poking out of the lining, she said.
"I froze, I was paralysed with fear," she told the New York Post.
"I saw the little leg that was coming out of the seam that I had touched, which was really horrifying," she said.
Ms Fiesel has filed a lawsuit against Zara, a Spanish fashion retailer. It describes how she wore the dress to work but was overwhelmed by a foul smell.
"I felt something brushing up against my leg and thought it was a string from the seam of the dress," she told the Post.
"When I went to pull at it, it didn't feel like a string. I then felt the hem of the dress and it felt like there was some sort of sensor.
"I turned up the seam of the dress and saw it was not a sensor and that it was a mouse."
Ms Fiesel's lawyers allege that she suffered emotional distress and developed a large rash that was diagnosed as a "rodent-born disease".
She's suing for an unspecified amount.
A spokesman for Zara USA said the company "is aware of the suit and we are investigating the matter further."
"Zara USA has stringent health and safety standards, and we are committed to ensuring that all of our products meet these rigorous requirements."
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Despite some valiant performances from his compatriots, Andy Murray is the sole British representative in the second week and faces 6ft 11in Croatian Ivo Karlovic in his fourth-round match.
The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, have won five Wimbledon singles titles each and face each other for the first time in six years. Of their five previous meetings at SW19, four have been in the final.
Nine Grand Slam winners are in action, including Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka and Maria Sharapova, so it is set to be one of the most exciting days of an already thrilling championships.
The first match on Centre Court sees the Williams sisters do battle at SW19 yet again.
There must have been times when elder sibling Venus doubted if she would face her sister for a sixth time at Wimbledon, and a 26th time in total.
Diagnosed with auto-immune disease, Sjogren's syndrome, Venus has battled her way back to fitness and rediscovered her form over the last 18 months.
As a result, Serena thinks her sister will have the support of the crowd. "I would be rooting for Venus," she said. "She's been through so much; she's just an incredible individual".
Serena's bid to win her 21st Grand Slam title and her fourth in succession suffered a scare at the hands of Heather Watson.. But her famous mental strength saw her through: "The older I get, I think the tougher I get upstairs," she said.
World number one Novak Djokovic has a tricky looking match against South Africa's Kevin Anderson.
The South African reached the final of Queen's last month and defending champion Djokovic believes the 14th seed is "playing the tennis of his life".
On court two French Open champion Stan Wawrinka takes on David Goffin, the 16th seed from Belgium.
Seven-time champion Roger Federer faces 20th seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain, and 2004 ladies' singles champion Maria Sharapova takes on Kazakhstan's Zarina Diyas.
Of the 10 British players who began in the singles, only Andy Murray remains.
The world number three faces an old foe in Ivo Karlovic on Centre Court.
Murray has never lost to the big-serving Croat in five previous matches, including a controversial second-round clash at Wimbledon in 2012.
Karlovic questioned the integrity of Wimbledon after he was foot-faulted 11 times and accused officials of favouring the home player and said he felt "cheated".
"It was outrageous, outrageous," he said. "It's Wimbledon, Centre Court, and they do this. The whole credibility of this tournament went down for me."
There was a sense of inevitability that Murray would be the last home hope left in the second round, but on the whole it has been a good Wimbledon for British tennis with more than half of the entrants making it through the first round.
"Make no mistake, Andy Murray faces a very difficult match against Ivo Karlovic. It will be an uncomfortable afternoon trying to deal with the Croat's serve which comes down from such a height and at great speed.
"That said, Andy has beaten him before at Wimbledon, so I think he will win in four sets after a couple of tie-breaks. Also, Richard Gasquet v Nick Kyrgios could see some amazing tennis on show. Aussie Kyrgios is oozing with self-confidence and I see him winning this one in style."
The second week of Wimbledon starts as the first ended, with a pleasant day in store.
However, the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday is not looking quite as good, with rain expected to fall.
The bank is investigating how two million accounts were opened without customers' permission.
Last month, it said Mr Stumpf, who was paid $19.3m last year, would not receive a salary during the inquiry.
He will be succeeded by the bank's current president and chief operating officer, Timothy Sloan.
The bank's independent chairman, Stephen Sanger, will take over as board chairman.
Last month, Wells Fargo was fined $185m and accused of "widespread illegal practice" by US regulators.
The fine imposed on the bank by the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was the largest to date by the watchdog.
"While I have been deeply committed and focused on managing the company through this period, I have decided it is best for the company that I step aside," Mr Stumpf said.
Wells Fargo has fired more than 5,000 staff in response to the scandal.
The bank has said it will be contacting every deposit customer across the country to see if their accounts were properly authorised.
It will also contact hundreds of thousands of customers with valid credit cards to see if they want or need those cards.
In the future, confirmation emails will be sent to customers within one hour of the opening of a new deposit account.
The bank's former head of retail operations, Carrie Tolstedt, has forfeited $19m of bonuses and left without a payoff.
The Guardia Civil in Palmanova told the BBC the holidaymaker's body was found late on Monday night in Magaluf.
A police spokeswoman said hotel staff were alerted when they saw water coming out of the room and that they had tried to resuscitate her.
Post-mortem tests found alcohol in her body and death was determined to be accidental through drowning, she added.
The Foreign Office said it was "providing support to the family of a British national following their death in Mallorca on 2 May 2016".
"We are in close contact with local authorities," a spokesman added.
The Welsh government's Free Breakfasts initiative, launched 10 years ago, ensures primary school children can have a healthy meal to start the day.
But shadow education minister Angela Burns said some parents should pay to help improve the scheme's funding.
Education Minister Huw Lewis said take-up of free breakfasts was increasing.
Overall throughout Wales, eight out of 10 (82%) schools in Wales offer free breakfasts, even though it is available to them all.
In Newport, for example, it is around three in 10 schools.
Last year, out of the 264,186 pupils in Welsh primary schools, 46,262 had a free breakfast on the day numbers were collected.
That is fewer than one in five pupils who turned up for the scheme, which usually runs in breakfast clubs before the school day starts.
Ms Burns AM, said it was "regrettable" that after "tens of millions of pounds" a third of Welsh children were not able to access free school breakfasts.
"We believe that parents who can afford to make a small financial contribution towards the cost of their child's free school breakfast should do so to improve the scheme's funding and enable more children to benefit," she added.
But Mr Lewis said take-up of the scheme had consistently been on the increase since the scheme launched in 2004.
"We know that in the last five years alone, around 10 million free and healthy breakfasts have been served to our primary school learners," he said.
In England, every child in primary school gets a free lunch, instead of breakfast.
Aled Roberts, education spokesman for the Liberal Democrats in Wales, said it should be the same in Wales too.
"Despite Scotland having followed England's lead, the Welsh Labour government continues to use free school breakfasts as an excuse not to implement this vital policy," he added.
The announcement came as a large crowd turned out to hear Mr Corbyn speak at a party leadership re-election rally in Ramsgate.
The Labour leader wants a regional investment bank, greater emphasis on renewable energy on the coast and improved broadband connectivity.
He said he wanted the funding to go to "the places that need it most".
Mr Corbyn and Owen Smith are going head-to-head in the Labour Party leadership contest, which will conclude on 24 September.
Before he addressed the crowd in Ramsgate, Mr Corbyn tweeted his pledge to invest in coastal towns.
On Friday, Mr Corbyn said: "I want to... focus on turning around the places that have been on the wrong side of the decisions made elsewhere" and "restore pride and prosperity to those places in so-called left-behind Britain".
The Labour leader said a £130m project in Cornwall to bring in superfast broadband had brought it one of the fastest-growing digital economies in the country.
He said the investment should be extended east into Kent "to unlock potential" in coastal towns.
Addressing the rally, he said: "We live in a deeply unequal society. We cannot afford this level of inequality."
About 3,000 people were present to hear the Labour leader speak.
His supporters tweeted their delight at the turnout in a predominantly Conservative area:
But local young Conservative Ruben Thorpe dismissed Mr Corbyn's chances of winning an election.
He said: "I like him. He will keep us in power because he stands no chance of winning."
Mr Smith's policies announced during the leadership campaign include an investment fund of £200bn - a "British New Deal" - to "rebuild Britain".
But his victory, with 49% of the vote, underlies the tensions in the vast and chaotic country.
At 40, he is nearly half the age of his main rival Etienne Tshisekedi, who took 32% of the vote mainly in the west of country.
President Kabila enjoys most of his support in the east, where he was born in a rebel camp in the mountain forests where his father was leading the struggle against former strongman Mobutu Sese Seko.
He was a low-profile military commander when his father Laurent-Desire Kabila was assassinated in 2001, and was handpicked by the presidential inner circle to lead DR Congo as it was being torn apart by half a dozen warring armies.
Many opposition activists accused him, without proof, of being a national of neighbouring Rwanda, which had twice invaded its much larger neighbour.
Mr Kabila spent his childhood in Tanzania and spoke better kiSwahili and English than the languages most spoken in Kinshasa - French and Lingala, which he had to learn on the job.
Winning DR Congo's first democratic elections in more than 40 years at the tender age of 35 gave him the legitimacy to stamp his authority on the country and move out of his father's shadow.
But he tends to keep a low profile, shying away from public speaking.
"Kabila is not shy, he is reserved. This is part of his Swahili cultural background," said his one-time personal secretary, Kikaya Bin Karubi, who is now DR Congo's ambassador in the UK.
This reservation is in sharp contrast to the usual Congolese effusiveness.
His smiling face, however, has been seen all over the country in the last few weeks, beaming down from huge advertising hoardings.
His campaign has been built around what he has called the "five building sites of the republic": Infrastructure; health and education; water and electricity; housing and employment.
Eight years after the end of the war, many Congolese complain that the pace of social development is too slow.
His power base of eastern DR Congo bore the brunt of the fighting during the civil war, which drew in other countries including Uganda and Rwanda.
Rebels and militias still roam the area despite attempts by the UN and army to disarm them, earning money from the area's rich mineral wealth.
The army itself has been accused of human rights abuses and profiteering.
DR Congo holds more than half of the world's cobalt, 30% of all diamonds, 70% of coltan - a vital ingredient in mobile phones - as well as huge deposits of gold, copper and various other minerals.
However, this year's UN human development index placed DR Congo bottom of the 187 countries surveyed.
The president has acknowledged the shortcomings, saying on the campaign trial that he had a debt to settle with Congolese voters, so they should give him another term to let him repay it.
According to Mr Bin Karubi, Mr Kabila often relaxes at weekends on his farm on the outskirts of Kinshasa, where he enjoys motorcross.
Just before the 2006 elections, Mr Kabila married his long-time girlfriend Olive Lembe di Sita. The couple have a daughter, Sifa born in 2001, and a son, Laurent-Desire, named after Mr Kabila's mother and father respectively.
His schoolmates at the Zanaji secondary school in Dar es Salaam nicknamed him "War bus" because of his enjoyment of war films and martial arts.
Still, they were all surprised when they saw the first pictures of him and his father fighting a real war, which ended when they seized power in DR Congo (then Zaire) and overthrew Mobutu in May 1997.
Correspondents say in order to avoid the attentions of Mobutu's intelligence service, he grew up in Tanzania pretending to be a member of the country's Fipa ethnic group.
"We didn't even know he was Congolese," recalls one of his contemporaries, who did not want to be named.
With his father installed as DR Congo's leader, Joseph Kabila was sent to China for military training and became army chief of staff before inheriting the presidency.
His experience as a general in the Congolese army helps him to keep direct control over an estimated 7,000-strong army unit known as the Republican Guard.
The five-year civil war led to shady business deals to mine its rich resources, but Mr Kabila has not been directly implicated in any.
The same cannot be said of "the Kabila boys", his close circle of advisers.
One of them, Katumba Mwanke, a minister at the presidency, was forced to resign because of accusations in a 2002 United Nations report that he was profiteering from the war through deals made with Zimbabwean officials.
With a second term in office, Mr Kabila has an opportunity to capitalise on cleaning up the mining sector.
He will also be keen to see the departure of the 19-000 strong UN mission in DR Congo, Monusco, within the next five years.
But his biggest challenge will be keeping a lid on the violence, with opposition supporters crying foul over the election results about allegations of vote-rigging.
The stretch of the famous prom had been closed between Adelaide Street West and Talbot Square since March.
The revamp, which includes improving sea defences and tramways, is costing an estimated £250m.
The resort's famous tower is also being overhauled. It is due to be completed in the autumn.
Councillor Fred Jackson, deputy leader of Blackpool Council, said: "It has been a long wait and we do thank the people of Blackpool, and the visitors, for putting up with these works that have had to take place.
"We are delighted that the promenade is now open again."
He said he new road layout was "very unusual" and motorists and pedestrians would have to learn to "share the space as nobody has the right of way".
"It works on the continent very well," he said.
One short section of the prom is still restricted one-way, but that is expected to be finished by Friday.
It is the eighth largest fine ever imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
The FCA said the bank's London and international operations had failed to look after their clients' investments.
BNY Mellon said it regreted its failure, but insisted it had now improved its policies.
The rules, improved after the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008, ring fence clients' assets if a firm becomes insolvent.
When Lehman's collapsed, it was difficult to sort out which money belonged to the bank, and which to customers.
In this case, BNY Mellon failed to account properly for shares, bonds and other investments, and, according to the FCA, would have found it difficult to return them quickly to the right clients.
"The firms' failure to comply with our rules was particularly serious given the systemically important nature of the firms, and the fact that safeguarding assets is core to their business," said Georgina Philippou,acting director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA.
And she warned other banks and wealth management firms to take note.
"Other firms with responsibility for client assets should take this as a further warning that there is no excuse for failing to safeguard client assets."
The Bank of New York Mellon Group is the world's largest global custody bank.
The FCA investigated the bank's activities between 2007 and 2013, when the London and international operations of BNY Mellon held client funds worth up to £1.3 trillion and £236 billion respectively.
The FCA said that the risks taken by the bank had been compounded by the stress in the financial markets at the time.
In reaction, BNY Mellon said the fine would be fully covered by its reserves, and the company remained financially robust throughout the period in question.
It said no client lost out as a result of the issues identified by the FCA.
"We have taken clear steps to put in place a framework of new and improved policies and operational procedures, as well as enhance our specialist resources," said a spokesperson.
It said it had been trusted by clients to look after their assets for 230 years, a trust that could not have been earned without "robust regulatory compliance".
The defender, 32, returns to the role he held in his previous stint at the club, and replaces midfielder Perry Kitchen as skipper.
Cathro also described the signing of the Scotland international as an indication of the "serious" intent of the club's summer recruitment plans.
"It reflects the type of moves we know we have to make," he said.
"It was important to bring the level of player that Christophe is, but he also has a connection with the club.
"One of the roles he will play is returning to the position of club captain.
"It's an indication of this being the start of the building of the new team. We're serious. We're very serious about what we intend on doing.
"It's important for us to add to the leadership."
Berra, who has agreed a three-year contract at Hearts, started his career at Tynecastle and left for Wolves in 2009, moving on to Ipswich for a four-year spell in 2013.
He set his sights on a return to Edinburgh to be closer to his family and believes Hearts can challenge at the top end of the Premiership table this season, if their recruitment goes to plan.
"Hopefully we're going to get some good players in, some good characters and we want to get back to cup finals, challenging at the top end of the table," Berra said.
"We know it's difficult, Celtic have far [more] money than everybody else, but we want to be challenging Aberdeen, Rangers and getting back up where we belong, qualifying for Europe.
"I've had conversations with the manager and what we want to do is very exciting, we've got a vision and it's about getting the right players on the pitch to carry that out.
"I've heard good things about the manager, I've spoken to boys who were at Newcastle, and they had good things to say about him. They were really positive. It's been an up and down season [but] there's a lot to work with. It won't be easy, but we've got a right good chance."
Cathro, who took over from Robbie Neilson as head coach in December, led Hearts to a fifth-placed finish in this season's Scottish Premiership.
Their domestic campaign in 2017-18 will start with League Cup fixtures in July.
Hearts have released six players from last season's squad - Alexandros Tziolis, Andraz Struna, Tasos Avlonitis, Lennard Sowah and Dylan Bikey were all released while on-loan Stoke City winger Moha Choulay will return to his parent club.
They were all signed during the January transfer window, but Cathro insists the club is in a better place for their summer signing plans, with Berra just the first of several to be moving to Tynecastle.
"We expect to do business, we expect to bring players," Cathro said.
"The difference now is that we've had time to prepare. The summer window is different and gives us a better way of being able to do our business.
"We are more prepared, we have a better understanding of exactly what we need to bring, a better understanding of how we need to redress the balance of the team and the blend of the squad. We're in a more informed position. It's the first step, a very important step."
While Berra has been appointed club captain, Cathro added that expects leadership from other senior members of the squad, including midfielder Don Cowie and defender Aaron Hughes.
American Kitchen replaced defender Alim Ozturk as Hearts captain in September and Ozturk has since left the club.
"We've had Perry and [midfielder] Don Cowie taking that position and Don will continue to be one of the important leaders inside the group," added Cathro.
The choir has consisted of boys and men since the cathedral was consecrated in 1887.
In September 2015, 20 girl choristers aged 13 to 18 joined the music foundation.
At a special service on Sunday the treble section was made up entirely of girls as the boys were given the day off.
A cathedral spokesperson said girls are educated at Truro School, where they receive a 25% scholarship which can be supplemented by a means-tested additional bursary to ensure selection is based purely on ability.
The spokesperson said girls from any school are eligible to apply, though if successful they have to move to Truro School.
The Dean of Truro, the Very Reverend Roger Bush, said: "It was a very significant occasion for us. The atmosphere in the place was really electric."
"An aspiration has become a reality and we're all celebrating the fact."
A Chinese man and three Hong Kong nationals are facing life in prison after the seizure.
Authorities said the 720 litres (160 gallons) of liquid methamphetamine was sent from Hong Kong.
Justice Minister Michael Keenan said crime gangs had sought to profit from Australia's "lucrative ice market".
He said it was among the largest drug busts in the country's history.
"Ice" is a street name for methamphetamine in Australia.
The liquid seized in Sydney could have made 500kg (1,100 pounds) of high-grade crystal meth, Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commander Chris Sheehan said.
Mr Sheehan said the AFP worked closely with Chinese authorities as part of Taskforce Blaze, which cracks down on international methamphetamine trafficking syndicates.
Mr Keenan said: "3.6 million individual hits of ice were taken off our streets with a street value of $1.26 billion".
However, the A$1.26bn figure was questioned after Australian media noticed that police had changed the way they calculated the street value of the drug.
The AFP uses figures from the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) to calculate the value of illicit drugs. While it had previously used mid-point figures from the ACC, an upper-range figure was used to calculate the value of this haul, broadcaster ABC reported.
The 23-year-old only made eight first-class appearances this year, taking eight wickets at an average of 53.
"I've got this tag of having potential and I want to start fulfilling that now," he told BBC Radio Kent.
"In 2016 my thought process should be to start anew. I'm determined to work hard over the winter and hit the ground running in pre-season."
Sidcup-born Riley had an impressive 2014 campaign for Kent, taking 48 Championship wickets at an average of 32.58 and ending the year with a call-up to the England Lions.
"Last winter was a great experience for me and one which will stand me in good stead, being in a new environment with new coaches," Riley added.
"2015 was very frustrating but there are more lessons to be learnt than the year before."
Riley says the pitches in Division Two this year were not conducive to spin bowlers.
"There have been some pitches that have not warranted bowling spin at all, which has not been the way in county cricket down the years," he said.
"People talk about how the spin cupboard is bare in England - and these pitches do no favours to developing the young up-and-coming spinners.
"I think the people higher up have got feedback from various captains and coaches that the pitches went a bit too far in favour of the seam bowlers.
"Maybe it was just a freak year and it will go back to some more spin-friendly wickets after the first couple of months. We can only bowl on the wickets we are provided with."
Wales won 3-0 in all three ties of the European Championship qualifier.
"I was a little bit nervous but it was good. I played well, but I think I could do a little bit better," Hursey told BBC Wales Sport.
The result sees Wales finish second in qualifying Group F, and they will face Belarus away on 10 April.
The match in Cardiff was originally scheduled for early March but was called off twice as Kosovo encountered visa problems.
Beth Roberts, 19, also won on her debut with captain Charlotte Carey, 20, setting the ball rolling with a dominant display in winning the opening game.
Annette Gration, 58, was told she could not stay at Searles of Hunstanton, as the company had a policy against people staying by themselves.
Mrs Gration, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, was eventually allowed to stay after saying she would be joined by her son.
The company said the issue would be addressed at its next policy review.
Mrs Gration, whose husband Phil died from cancer last July, said she decided to speak out after failing to receive a response to her complaint to Searles.
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She said she went to the camping site last November in her camper van with two friends who were travelling in their own van.
When she arrived she said she was told she was "was not allowed on because I was a single person".
"I felt I was an oddity and not welcome because of my marital status," said Mrs Gration.
"Why was I discriminated against as a single person? I'm quite angry."
Jean McQueen, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, said she had also been told she could not stay as a single person at the camp site.
Searles issued two statements after the BBC contacted them in connection with the concerns.
The spokesman for the firm said they were "prepared to exercise discretion" on issues like single person bookings "if we feel it appropriate."
The "question of single occupancy on touring pitches" would be addressed during its next review of customer feedback, the company added.
Trenton Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, are charged as juveniles in the incident in Steubenville after an alcohol-fuelled party on 11 August.
Prosecutors said the accused had known the girl was too impaired to consent, but the defence denied she was raped.
If convicted, the accused could be held in a juvenile jail until they turn 21.
The case, which spread from social media to the national mainstream media, has sharply divided the small town.
The alleged victim and two other witnesses from her home state of West Virginia are expected to be called to testify, a defence official said on the eve of the trial.
On Wednesday, prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter told Judge Thomas Lipps, who is hearing the case without a jury, that the girl was "somebody who was too impaired to say no, somebody who was too impaired to say stop".
"This case hinges on their exploitation of their knowledge of that impairment."
She argued that the defendants were aware of the 16-year-old's state and took advantage of it throughout the evening of the alleged attack.
A defence lawyer for Trenton Mays said his client "did not rape the young lady in question". Mr Richmond's lawyer made no opening statement.
Mr Mays, the team quarterback, and Mr Richmond, a wide receiver, were arrested some 10 days after the alleged attack.
Prosecutors say the girl was attacked twice after the party while intoxicated beyond the point of consent, first in the back seat of a moving car and then in the basement of a house.
Witnesses said the girl was so drunk that she vomited at least twice and had trouble walking and speaking.
In an excerpt of a videotaped interview with the ABC News programme 20/20, Mr Richmond said the photo of the girl being carried out of a house by him and his co-accused was a joke. He contends the girl was awake.
But the alleged victim's civil lawyer, Bob Fitzsimmons, said those claims were "bizarre".
"The family wants this matter over so they can move on with their lives and their daughter's healing," he told the Associated Press.
Three other students who witnessed the alleged attack were not charged. Those witnesses include two who took a video and photograph, then deleted the images.
The Ohio attorney general's office told lawyers for those students last autumn that if the images had been found, they would have been charged.
The case, which has fiercely divided the town, was thrust into the national spotlight amid interest by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous.
A video originally posted on YouTube emerged in August of a student joking about the alleged rape and referring to the girl as "dead".
Some claimed that the community had sought to cover up a crime in order protect the two accused.
A blogger, Alexandra Goddard, received threats after she named the alleged attackers, posting messages on Twitter and an image taken on the night of the incident.
Steubenville officials say outsiders have unfairly criticised the police's handling of the case.
They have created a website, attempting to refute a number of allegations, including that the local police department was full of ex-football players who played on the Steubenville high school team.
A student of modern history in his undergraduate days at Oxford, his is that cast of mind with a tendency to see himself as the inheritor of distant traditions.
When I had a cup of tea with him in No 11 a couple of years ago, he spent the first seven or eight minutes talking about the provenance of the grand portraits in his room, and the figures depicted. I got the message pretty clearly. Here was a historic figure, he seemed to imply, who felt he had no judge so fair or firm as posterity.
"He's fascinated by history," the Tory MP and historian Keith Simpson told the Financial Times a few years ago. "He looks at different historical institutions and mechanisms which may have lapsed and sees whether they can be given new life."
Like the mechanism by which being an MP is very much a part-time job, perhaps.
Osborne will need to mobilise all his knowledge of history when defending the decision to mix two full-time jobs - that of an MP and a newspaper editor - with each other, let alone with his four days a month at BlackRock, the asset manager, for which he gets an annual figure of £650,000 - what most people earn in around a quarter of a century.
The fact is, he has no journalistic credentials whatsoever.
Most people who edit newspapers will have spent years crafting headlines, sub-editing copy, designing pages, planning stories, and above all reporting.
Osborne has never done any of that, and will need to grasp some basic skills very quickly if he is to keep Standard staff on-side.
Of course, there is a long tradition of journalists becoming politicians, from Churchill and Horatio Bottomley to Nigel Lawson, Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper, Michael Gove, Ruth Davidson, Benito Mussolini (who edited two socialist papers) and the fictional Jim Hacker.
Fewer have tended to go the other way. Bill Deedes was an editor of a newspaper (the Daily Telegraph) and a cabinet member, though not at the same time.
Boris Johnson, who in ancient history was thought of as Osborne's main rival for the Tory crown, was editor of the Spectator while MP for Henley. And, long before he entered politics, Michael Foot was editor of the Standard at 28.
Evgeny Lebedev, the 36-year-old who is now Osborne's boss, is fond of Evelyn Waugh and 20th Century literature generally (full disclosure: I was for several years Lebedev's adviser, and then his editor at the Independent).
I imagine Lebedev will like the idea of reviving quaint, romantic 20th Century ideas about the relationship between politics and newspapers.
But Osborne's constituents have daily concerns that are more rooted in 21st Century Britain. He has a huge majority, but together with his four days a month at BlackRock - which is about a fifth of a full-time job in itself - he won't have much time for parliamentary representation.
Frankly, I can't see this arrangement lasting. Perhaps forthcoming boundary changes to the constituency will concentrate his mind - and that of his electorate.
Tatton has a population of around 85,000, which intriguingly is almost exactly a tenth of the Standard's readership. The latter are his new constituency. What kind of editor will he be for them?
Osborne flirted with journalism before entering politics. Years ago he was interviewed for a job on the Economist, the publication whose world view he most closely adheres to, by Gideon Rachman, now the Financial Times' brilliant foreign affairs commentator. He didn't get the job, despite having grown up on the same street as Rachman, and having the same first name (Gideon) and alma mater (St Paul's).
There is a strong resemblance between the politics of the Standard, which backed the Remain camp and Zac Goldsmith's mayoral campaign, and Osborne's: globalist in outlook, metropolitan rather than provincial, socially liberal, unashamedly in favour of capitalism, and reliably Tory.
In the past, Osborne has also spoken at length about his faintly bohemian upbringing. His interest in the arts, particularly theatre, is genuine.
Naturally he will sharpen the paper's political edge, and his appointment serves up the truly delicious prospect of several assaults, under varying degrees of disguise, on the prime minister who so unceremoniously dispatched him to the back benches.
Ultimately he will be judged not just on the paper he produces, but on whether together with the commercial team at ESI Media he can reinvent the company.
Heavily reliant, like Metro, on print display advertising which is disappearing at the rate of around 20% a year across the industry, ESI Media - which houses the Standard, Independent, and TV station London Live - needs to be re-engineered, perhaps with events, data and ticketing to the fore.
Among his key lieutenants beyond the editorial floor will be Manish Malhotra, the former finance director who now runs the company, and Jon O'Donnell, the managing director for commercial whose ad team is outperforming the rest of the market.
Osborne was one of 30 applicants, 10 of whom were interviewed, and four of whom were shortlisted.
In four meetings in central London with Lebedev, he sought and received reassurance about the proprietor's willingness to invest in the paper and its website.
He can take heart from the fact that the Independent, which is now digital-only (I was the last editor of the print edition) is now humming commercially, well ahead of budget and set to make a multi-million pound profit this year.
Unimaginable even three years ago, the Independent is currently the financial powerhouse within ESI Media, of which TV channel London Live is the other component.
The Independent is co-owned by Justin Byam Shaw, who is also the chairman of the Standard and attended two of the four meetings between Lebedev and Osborne.
Relative to the rest of Fleet Street, Osborne won't have much in the way of an editorial budget, and the need to raise revenues means sponsored content and native advertising of a sort that journalists instinctively resist may creep further into his pages.
Then again, doing more with less - or austerity - was the ethos that defined his contribution to political history. Not in this for the money, because he will be paid substantially less than his predecessor, the Austerity Chancellor has just been reborn as the Austerity Editor.
What his constituents make of that we're about to find out.
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The Northern Irishman, 43, has signed a 12-month rolling contract in succession to Ronny Deila, who left the Scottish champions at the end of the season.
"Celtic's one of the biggest clubs in the world, and for me to come up here out of the Premier League, it's certainly not a step down," he said.
"It's an institution in its own right," added the former Liverpool manager.
"I've been a Celtic supporter all my life," said Rodgers, who left Anfield in October after more than three years in charge.
"I've been very lucky to have been given an opportunity to step out the stands and manage the team."
In addition to extending Celtic's run of five domestic league titles and making progress in the Champions League, Rodgers cited creating sufficient excitement among the support to regularly fill Celtic Park again as one of his objectives.
"Myself, my staff and players will be doing everything we possibly can to meet the challenges set for us - dominate Scotland, and to qualify for the Champions League," the former Swansea boss said.
"My idea is to get the stands filled again. I think in the last few years the top tier of the Lisbon Lions Stand has been closed or empty.
"It's my job to get over 60,000-odd people in here again and inspire the supporters to come back and watch a game of football that excites them, that's about scoring goals and is about winning."
One of Rodgers' first tasks is likely to be trimming a squad that numbers 31 - including nine players out on loan from last season - given he stated he prefers to work with a "tighter squad" of around two players for each position as well as three goalkeepers.
He expects to confirm the makeup of his backroom staff "over the course of the next couple of weeks".
While Rodgers said he has the backing of biggest individual shareholder Dermot Desmond and chief executive Peter Lawwell in terms of transfer funds, he emphasised his "first look" would be to the youth team to improve the first-team squad.
"I know I won't have the same budget as what I've been used to before [in the Premier League]," he said.
"But I've been given enough assurances if the right player becomes available and we can afford him [we'll try to sign him] - that's the same at any football club, whatever level.
"You have restraints up here but affordability and availability are the two key aspects of getting any player and hopefully when we identify a player that fits, we can get him here."
Lawwell said it was important to strike a balance between "creating value" from existing squad members and recruiting established players.
"We've got to realise here we live within our means, we create value from finding and developing players or from our own," said the long-standing chief executive.
"But it's a bit of both and if there are players we feel can compliment the way we're developing, that would be there as well, as it was for Ronny."
Blyton's Green Hedges home in Beaconsfield was knocked down in 1973.
Nothing was heard of the sundial which once stood upon the eight-bedroom house for the next 40 years.
But in 2013, a retired builder contacted The Beaconsfield Society offering up the sundial he salvaged from the Green Hedges rubble four decades previously.
Kari Dorme, from the society, offered it to Bekonscot Model Village and Railway, the attraction for which Blyton - best known for her Famous Five and Secret Seven books - dedicated The Enchanted Village to.
The restoration has been carried out over the past two years with advice from the British Sundial Society.
Ms Dorme said: "I believe that the history and heritage of the town is very important and this sundial will be a lasting reminder of the connection between Enid Blyton and the town of Beaconsfield."
The Irishman, 34, is expected to take over from injured captain Sam Warburton for Saturday's series decider in Sydney.
It will be his ninth Lions Test, equalling the tally of current tour manager Andy Irvine and Irish legend Syd Millar.
17 - Willie-John McBride (1962, 66, 68, 71, 74)
13 - Dickie Jeeps (1955, 59, 62)
12 - Mike Gibson (1966, 68, 71)
12 - Graham Price (1977, 80, 83)
10 - Tony O'Reilly (1955, 59)
10 - Rhys Williams (1955, 59)
10 - Gareth Edwards (1968, 71, 74)
9 - Syd Millar (1959, 62, 68)
9 - Andy Irvine (1974, 77, 80)
*O'Driscoll is currently one of 15 players - including Martin Johnson and Jeremy Guscott - who have played eight Lions Tests
"Brian has been one of the greatest players on the planet for the last 20-30 years," said Irvine.
"He has been an absolute role model, off the field as well. On this tour, any kids that come up and ask for an autograph or photo, he is always the first to find time.
"He is an absolute star. He is just a great ambassador of the game, and you only have to look at this record on the field.
"I do feel for him. He has had so many bumps in the last 12 or 13 years. I am amazed he is still in one piece. Even at his age he is unbelievably heroic, and a great trainer. I can't speak highly enough of him."
Irvine believes there are "three or four" players in the squad who could lead the side on Saturday, in the absence of Warburton and 2009 Lions captain Paul O'Connell, another injury victim.
Wales lock Alun Wyn Jones and Ireland number eight Jamie Heaslip have both led their countries, while Welsh flanker Dan Lydiate led the Lions in their last midweek match against Melbourne Rebels.
"There is so much analysis and structure to it now, I don't think the role of captain is quite what it was perhaps 20 or 30 years ago," said Irvine, the former Scotland full-back who toured with the Lions in 1974, 1977 and 1980, scoring a record 274 points - including 20 tries - in 42 games in all.
"All the players study the analysis and plays so closely they are all pretty tuned in. Alun Wyn [Jones] would have to be a possibility, but that is up to Gats [head coach Warren Gatland] and the coaches.
"I would say there are three or four potential captains, and obviously Brian has been there and done it all with the Lions and Ireland."
Tours: 4 (2001, 2005, 2009, 2013)
Matches: 18 (8 Tests)
Tries: 9 (1 in Tests)
Captain: 7 times (1 Test)
Test record: 2 wins, 6 defeats
O'Driscoll has led sides at international level on a world record 84 occasions, in 83 of his 125 Tests for Ireland, plus the Lions in the first Test in New Zealand in 2005.
Irvine, who believes this tour has been "possibly the most successful ever" in terms of the interest and excitement generated, insists there is no air of despondency in the Lions camp after the agony of their 16-15 second Test defeat in Melbourne.
After a couple of days off recovering and relaxing in the tranquillity of Queensland's Sunshine Coast, instead of what he called the "concrete jungle" of Sydney, the Scot believes the players will relish resuming rugby activity on Wednesday.
"They are raring to go again," he said. "Don't feel sorry for us. Saturday was not catastrophic. It was disappointing and obviously they were down afterwards, but a sign of a good side is how they bounce back.
"I have a lot of confidence in these guys and the coaches and medics and physios looking after them. We will be up for it on Saturday. They don't need any sympathy from anyone.
"If Australia whip us by 30 points on Saturday, then it will be catastrophic. But I would like to think we will be there or thereabouts come the final whistle.
"It would be a gut-wrencher if we lose. We have come so close. We would be bitterly disappointed, but thankfully we get two bites at the cherry."
Under the new rules, pay will reflect financial performance more closely.
The chief executive's package will be limited to 10m euros (£8.5m), with a 5.5m euro cap for other board members.
Former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, who quit over the diesel scandal, took home 17.5m euros in 2011 because of large bonus payments.
VW reported a net profit of 5.1bn euros for last year, bouncing back from a 1.6bn euro loss for 2015 in the wake of the emissions-cheating scandal.
"While the past fiscal year posed major challenges for us, despite the crisis the group's operating business gave its best-ever performance," said chief executive Matthias Mueller after a meeting of VW's supervisory board at its Wolfsburg headquarters on Friday.
The scandal did not stop the group, which also owns the Porsche, Audi and Skoda brands, delivering a record 10.3 million vehicles last year, driven by strong demand in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
That allowed VW to overtake Toyota and claim the crown of the the world's top-selling car maker.
Revenue was a record 217.3bn - 2% higher than 2015. The company expects that figure to rise 4% this year following a "moderate" increase in vehicle sales.
"Volkswagen is very solidly positioned in both operational and financial terms. This makes us optimistic about the future," Mr Mueller said.
However, the company took higher-than-expected one-off charges totalling 7.5bn euros, of which 6.4bn euros were related to the emissions-test rigging. Analysts had forecast provisions of 4.2bn euros.
VW has now set aside a total of 22.6bn euros for fines, fixing or buying back affected vehicles and compensating owners.
Some 600,000 vehicles in the US were affected and last month the firm agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges.
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They wisely mixed classics like Plug In Baby and Supermassive Black Hole with new material, displaying the confident assurance of a band headlining the festival for the third time.
A crowd of almost 75,000 watched the show, on a day that also saw ZZ Top and Jess Glynne play the Pyramid Stage.
Singer Matt Bellamy said little, other than: "Thank you, merci, danke schoen."
But Uprising, from 2009's Resistance album, and Starlight, from 2006's Black Holes and Revelations, provided ample opportuny for a singalong amid the Sturm und Drang of their more uncompromising rock excursions.
Muse opened their set with Psycho, a hard driving anti-war song from their current album, Drones - a concept record about modern warfare, and soldiers "who kill by remote control".
Although the band's recent shows have featured actual drones flying over the audience, they were refused permission to use them at Glastonbury.
The group have often been compared to Queen, thanks to their multi-layered vocals and cod-operatic tendencies. But like Queen, everything that makes Muse faintly ridiculous on record works to their benefit in front of such a vast audience.
From start to end (the belting crescendo of their signature send-off Knights of Cydonia) the skyscraping scale of their songs kept the crowd entertained and on their feet - unless they were simply stuck in Glastonbury's increasingly viscous mud.
Muse are now the first band to headline the Pyramid Stage on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday night.
Coldplay will match the achievement on Sunday - their fourth time at the top of the bill - while Adele notches up her first headline slot on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, many of the acts addressed the Leave vote from Thursday's referendum.
Damon Albarn told the audience "democracy has failed us", while bands including James and Bastille voiced dissatisfaction with the result.
Preceding Muse on the Pyramid Stage were Oxford band Foals, whose frontman Yannis Philippakis has also been vocal about his positive experiences in Britain as the son of Greek / Ukrainian immigrants.
"My family have benefitted from an inclusive Britain which gave me health, education and a sense of belonging, despite the length of my name," he tweeted earlier this month.
However, he kept political messages out of the band's thrillingly visceral set, simply declaring: "Love each other. That's all we're good at."
Pop star Jess Glynne brought a party disco vibe to the Pyramid Stage, and rock veterans ZZ Top played a set full of crowd pleasers, including Legs, Gimme All Your Lovin' and Jimi Hendrix's Foxy Lady.
Grime took centre stage at the festival's Sonic Stage, whose line-up read like a who's who of UK hip-hop - Stormzy, Section Boyz and Kano all played, while Skepta made a guest appearance during Novelist's set.
BBC Sound of 2016 winner Jack Garratt packed out the John Peel tent, while Savages and Ronnie Spector drew large crowds to the Park Stage.
Meanwhile, dance duo Disclosure are currently competing with Muse for the "band with most lights" award.
The band are certainly the louder act of the two, with a pounding bass that pummels the chest.
Perched on elevated, spaceship-like platforms, brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence were joined by a number of guest vocalists during their set, including Kwabs on Willing & Able, and Aluna Francis on White Noise.
Howard also sang the band's current single, Boss, shifting the pitch of his voice down to a deep baritone with an effects unit.
"It's just me getting a glimpse into what it would be like to be Barry White," he told the BBC.
He added that the set was "the pinnacle" of their career before.
"There's something rewarding about playing at a festival like Glastonbury, where half the crowd are just passing by and stopping to see what you're all about," he explained.
"You've got to earn their respect and keep them there. There's an element of a challenge to that, as opposed to when people have come specifically to see you."
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Ms Cavell served in a hospital in Belgium and treated Allied, as well as German and Austrian, soldiers.
She was executed by a German firing squad on 12 October 1915 after helping Allied prisoners of war to escape to Holland.
A dedication and memorial service will be held at a war memorial and gardens in Inverness named after her.
The events to be held on the 100th anniversary of her death will also see the unveiling of a new memorial stone to the nurse in the gardens.
Inverness' Cavell Gardens War Memorial was constructed to honour men from Inverness and the surrounding area who lost their lives in WW1.
It was one of many places dedicated to the nurse following international condemnation of her killing. After the war, the name of a mountain in Canada was changed to Mount Edith Cavell in her honour.
It now carries the names of armed forces personnel killed on operations and in training in the years since that conflict.
Highland Council and the Royal British Legion Scotland Inverness Branch have organised the commemoration.
Branch chairman Joe Davidson said: "We are proud to assist Highland Council with this venture to erect a new memorial to honour Edith Cavell - a lady who helped so many injured allied soldiers and the enemy alike. She showed great courage even in the face of death.
"She hid many French and Belgian civilians, as well as soldiers, and helped them with a safe passage to safety.
"She was urged to stop by her colleagues but refused, and was arrested on the 4 August 1915 and accused of treason.
"Her trial, it is said, lasted about four minutes and she was condemned to death. Her bravery and courage should be an inspiration to us all."
Ms Cavell was from Swardeston near Norwich.
Two films were also made about her war-time exploits - 1928's Dawn and 1939's Nurse Edith Cavell.
An inquiry was started after the seven-month-old died at a house on Melrosegate, York, on 3 November.
North Yorkshire Police and Sheffield City Council have asked anyone who has ordered a bed from Magical Dream Beds Ltd since then to contact them.
Sheffield-based firm Playtime Beds Ltd was served a cease and desist order following the death, police said.
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Officers found a company trading under the name Magical Dream Beds Ltd was set up by an ex-employee of Playtime Beds Ltd, with at least one bed supplied after the order had been served.
Police said two men had been arrested on suspicion of fraud offences in relation to an investigation into Magical Dream Beds Ltd.
The inquiry was not in connection with the death of the baby, a force spokesperson added.
No cause of death for the infant has been confirmed.
The decline coincided with a compulsory catch-and-release scheme to help salmon conservation.
However, a council report said that was not the only reason for the downturn between 2015 and 2016.
A general reduction in interest in fishing, particularly with younger people, and increased regulations are also cited as potential causes.
Money generated from the Nith burgh fishery goes into the Dumfries common good fund.
Income last year was less than £8,000, compared with nearly £14,500 the previous year.
The cost of maintaining the fishery is about £20,000 a year, so the fall in income and season ticket sales - down from 52 to 28 last year - is said to be a cause for concern.
A council report said the compulsory catch-and-release scheme was a factor and a further fall in ticket sales has been predicted if it continues.
Councillors will be asked next week if they want to continue to ban the taking and killing of fish in 2017.
Alternatively, they could relax the restriction to allow two salmon to be taken per person per year, which the current conservation designation of the Nith would allow.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also voted to give honorary Oscars to British editor Anne V Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary maker Frederick Wiseman.
Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs described the recipients as "true pioneers and legends in their crafts".
They will be honoured at the Academy's Governors Awards on 12 November.
Chan, 62, has starred in dozens of martial arts films in his native Hong Kong, including Police Story, Armour of God and their various sequels.
He went on to have huge international success with hits like Rumble in the Bronx, animated film Kung Fu Panda and the Rush Hour franchise.
In addition to starring and performing his own stunts, Chan has written, directed, produced and choreographed many of his films.
According to the Academy, he has spent four decades "charming audiences with his dazzling athleticism, inventive stunt work and boundless charisma".
The star posted a message on Facebook thanking his family, his fans and the Academy.
"I'd like to say a heartfelt thank you to the Oscars for giving me this award of encouragement and recognising my achievements while I'm still 'young'," he wrote.
"I'm absolutely honoured to be the first Chinese in history to receive this award.
"To be honest, making an action movie isn't easy. It's normal for us to get hurt and bleed. Many of us have sustained a body full of injuries and I'm no exception to the case.
"That's why I'd like to share this honour with my brothers of the JC Stunt Team who have been with me through good times and bad times over the many years, and I'd like to share this award with every action movie star from all over the world!"
Chan, who has never been nominated for a competitive Academy Award, added that he had set himself a goal that the honorary statuette "won't be my last one".
"I don't think the Oscars have a rule where you can't win another golden statue after receiving an honorary award, right?" he continued.
Born in Reigate in Surrey in 1925, Anne V Coates has spent more than 60 years as a film editor and won an Oscar for her work on 1962's Lawrence of Arabia.
Now 90, she recently worked on Fifty Shades of Grey, the successful film version of EL James's racy international best-seller.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1927, Lynn Stalmaster has had a hand in casting more than 200 feature films, including The Graduate and Deliverance.
Frederick Wiseman, meanwhile, has made almost a film a year since 1967, among them his three-hour 2014 epic about the National Gallery in London.
The honorary awards are intended to celebrate "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy".
Film-maker Spike Lee and actress Gena Rowlands were among the recipients of last year's special statuettes.
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Labour lost control of Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend, and its leader in Merthyr Tydfil, but held seven councils.
Wayne David said the Tories made fewer gains than expected as Welsh Labour was "in touch with people's realities".
The highlight for Conservatives was winning a majority in Monmouthshire, but they also made progress elsewhere.
Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies said his party made "huge strides in the Vale of Glamorgan, doubled our representation in Wrexham, and reached double digits right in the backyard of the first minister [in Bridgend]".
Labour held seven councils, including Cardiff, Swansea and Newport, despite the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru making inroads into their vote.
Ten Welsh councils now have no party in overall control, the Liberal Democrats failed to make gains, UKIP did not win any seats while independents won many seats across Wales and now control Blaenau Gwent.
As political parties began focusing all efforts on June's general election, Mr David told BBC Wales: "We have a Labour Party in Wales which is in touch with people's realities, we have a very effective leader in Carwyn Jones and we're going to stress that we are the party of Wales, we are the party of devolution."
Labour in England, he said, might want to "learn some lessons from Wales", where Welsh Labour ministers were introducing "very effective and popular" policies.
Asked if Jeremy Corbyn was an electoral asset, Mr David said: "Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party...he's had a very, very hard press, I think it's our job to make sure that people recognise Jeremy for the honest, decent person which he is."
Mr Davies said the Conservatives were taking nothing for granted in Wales.
"We know there's a huge amount of work to do, to keep that confidence, earn that trust, so that we can build Theresa May into the strong prime minister we want her to be to negotiate on Brexit," he said.
Plaid Cymru increased its majority in Gwynedd and announced it would continue running Carmarthenshire in coalition with independent councillors, as it remains the party with the largest number of seats there.
Plaid also overtook independents to be the largest group in Anglesey, but it remains a council with no party in overall control.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: "We are now the biggest party in Rhondda and we've made significant gains from the Labour Party in their own strongholds such as Neath, Aberavon and Blaenau Gwent."
She added: "Across Wales there will be more Plaid Cymru councillors defending their communities and standing up to the Tories.
"The story in Wales is Plaid Cymru and Tory gains versus Labour and UKIP losses.
"Only Plaid Cymru is fit to defend our communities and defend our country from the Tories in Westminster."
The Liberal Democrats lost 11 councillors across Wales, with its Welsh leader Mark Williams conceding "it may take us time to rebuild and to reform" but insisting "we are ready for the fight ahead".
"We are ready to fight for an open, tolerant and united Wales in the [EU] single market," he said.
"From our town and county halls to Westminster, people want a strong opposition who will stand up for them. Labour have abandoned that role."
UKIP fielded 80 candidates and returned no councillors but the party's leader in the Welsh Assembly, Neil Hamilton, said they would bounce back.
"It's clearly a very disappointing result but UKIP will live to fight another day," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"I believe the wheel of fortune will turn. We may be back to where we were five years ago but look what we achieved after that."
Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Ramesh Tawadkar said treatment would be offered to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders to make them "normal".
Many have taken to social networking sites to criticise Mr Tawadkar's "shocking statement".
India's treatment of homosexuals has been under the spotlight recently.
The Indian Supreme Court's 2013 decision to reverse a lower court order striking down a 153-year-old British colonial-era law criminalising homosexual acts caused global outrage with many describing it as "disgraceful".
According to Section 377 of the law, a same-sex relationship is an "unnatural offence" and punishable by a 10-year jail term.
A BBC correspondent in Delhi says although the law has rarely - if ever - been used to prosecute anyone for consensual sex, it has often been used by the police to harass homosexuals.
Also, in deeply conservative India, homosexuality is a taboo and many people still regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate and our correspondent says Mr Tawadkar's comment is an endorsement of that conservative thought.
"We will make LGBT [lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender] youth normal. We will have a centre for them... like Alcoholics Anonymous centres. We will train them and give them medicines too," Mr Tawadkar said on Monday while discussing the Bharatiya Janata Party-run state government's policy report on youth.
"As in the case of other target groups such as juvenile offenders, drug afflicted youth, marginalised or migrant youth, geographically disadvantaged youth, a detailed survey would be carried out of the LGBT community so that their problems could be specifically addressed," the minister added.
The minister's statement has led to outrage in India with many people condemning it on social media sites like Twitter.
Journalist Barkha Dutt said it was the "insensitive" minister who needed treatment:
Congress party spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi called it "sick":
Writer Aparna Jain wondered: "Why are people we elect so stupid":
Journalist Anahita Mukherji asked if there was any "cure" for Mr Tawadkar:
Activist Samar Anarya said the minister was "homophobic" and a "fanatic":
Meanwhile, the head of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who is visiting Delhi, said he "staunchly opposed the criminalisation of homosexuality" in India.
"I am proud to stand for the equality of all people - including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender," the UN chief said in a statement late on Monday.
"I speak out because laws criminalising consensual, adult same-sex relationships violate basic rights to privacy and to freedom from discrimination. Even if they are not enforced, these laws breed intolerance," he added.
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Jones, 30, made his debut in 2006 and has won two Six Nations Grand Slams.
Wales coach Gatland hopes his side can make it a special night at Eden Park as Wales look for a first win over the world champions since 1953.
"Hopefully we can do some justice to the occasion," he said.
Ospreys captain Jones, who has also won six caps for the British and Irish Lions, becomes Wales' fifth centurion.
Gatland continued: "He's been a tremendous servant to Welsh rugby. He really deserves this. To achieve this milestone is something pretty special.
"He's been a constant for us in terms of his leadership.
"He's often the benchmark in terms of setting the standard, demanding excellence in training, pushing the other players. He's a very special part of this team.
"He's definitely matured as a player, a lot calmer now than he was as a tempestuous youngster."
Gatland hopes Jones' decision to sign a national dual contract (NDC) at Ospreys will help the second row continue to flourish on the international and regional scene.
"The great thing about him is that he's stayed in Wales and he's signed an NDC," he said.
"Part of that is the longevity of his career and managing him over the next three to four years, particularly to the 2019 World Cup.
"Hopefully Welsh rugby will get a huge amount of benefit, not just us but the Ospreys [too]."
Wales have lost 26 consecutive games against the All Blacks, while the Kiwis are unbeaten at Eden Park since 1994.
The match will be New Zealand's first since beating Australia 34-17 in the 2015 World Cup final.
Head coach Steve Hansen has named a side showing six changes from that victory at Twickenham in October.
An inspection found risks were "not escalated in a timely way, if at all" at the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT) in Greater Manchester.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) watchdog stopped short of putting it in special measures following the appointment of a new leadership team.
A PAT spokesman said "immediate actions" were being taken.
Formed in 2001, PAT runs four hospitals alongside community services, with 9,000 staff serving a population of 820,000 people.
After inspections in February and March, the CQC report criticised staffing levels, culture and systems. The patient care was rated as good but its previous leadership was described as inadequate.
Inspectors found patient safety was "of significant concern", particularly in the A&E departments, maternity services, and services for children and young people.
Ellen Armistead, CQC's deputy chief inspector of hospitals, said: "Although we mostly saw staff treating patients in a compassionate and sensitive way, we had serious concerns about the systems and procedures that are in place to keep people safe and free from harm."
Following the inspection, the nearby Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, whose leadership team has been rated outstanding by CQC, was asked to take charge of PAT.
Sir David Dalton, who became chief executive in April, said that, while the report "doesn't make comfortable reading", he believed it was "fair... [and] holding up a mirror to the organisation".
Professor Matthew Makin, PAT medical director since March, said the new management had "taken immediate actions to strengthen the leadership and staffing arrangements".
The Trust has been given £9.2m to spend on improving services.
Lord Peter Smith, chair of Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Strategic Partnership Board, said that the recent devolution deal in which the area became the first English region to gain control of its health spending, had provided "the opportunity to work together... so that we can collectively raise standards".
However Jim McMahon, Oldham West and Royton MP, said it was "disappointing that no-one thought to inform the region's MPs of the results of this report before it was published".
"Responsibility for healthcare was devolved to Greater Manchester in a bid to improve things and to help create services that best suited the people of the region. But this is clearly not what is happening.
"I have made repeated requests for a meeting with the trust's chief executive Sir David Dalton and I will do everything I can to provide whatever support is needed to turn things around."
New Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue postponed reductions in sodium, relaxed requirements for whole grains and allowed sweetened flavoured milk back.
One in five US children is obese, the US government says.
More than 30m mostly poor children eat federally-funded school lunches.
The 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act made federal grants for meals conditional on reductions in calories, sodium and trans fat content and increases in fruit, vegetables and whole grains.
But speaking at a primary school in the state of Virginia, Mr Perdue said some aspects of the standards had "gone too far."
"If kids aren't eating the food, and it's ending up in the trash, they aren't getting any nutrition, thus undermining the intent of the program," he said.
The Agriculture Department said the change would give schools "greater flexibility".
Health campaigners say they are most concerned by the failure to reduce sodium, which is linked to high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes.
The sodium limit for a high school lunch is now about 1,400 mg, or three-quarters of the recommended daily maximum, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) said. Mr Perdue's move delays plans to reduce that figure to 1,080 mg in this school year.
"This will lock in very high levels of sodium in school lunches," said Margo Wootan from CSPI.
The School Nutrition Association, which represents the industry that sells food to schools as well as cafeteria workers, had lobbied to weaken nutritional standards, particularly those on sodium content.
A Harvard university study found that vegetable consumption per student increased 16% from 2011 to 2012, when the healthy eating regulations went into effect. But students continued to discard 40% of their fruit despite the new regulations.
The raccoon was apparently also spotted taking The Tube on Saturday night.
In the picture captured near Oxford Street, the pet appears to be dressed in a jacket to protect it from the cold.
London is no stranger to curious animal sightings. A ferret was spotted being taken for a walk in Camden last year.
Hopping on the Central Line in June you may have seen what looked like a red-dyed pigeon contentedly snoozing on its owner's shoulder.
These sheep were spotted going for a stroll in Brockwell Park near Brixton this summer.
A receptionist contacted BBC News to say she saw the raccoon out with its owner on the Tube.
She said: "It was about five o'clock on Saturday night. I think I was on the Central Line. This raccoon was just sitting happily on her lap. She seemed to be very loving towards it and some people wanted to hold it, and she let them, but most people just left them to themselves."
Transport for London initially said taking racoons on the Tube was "probably not in our conditions of carriage", however, a spokesman later clarified there was no specific restriction as such.
"Inoffensive animals" that do not appear to present a danger to passengers may be transported on the Tube providing the owner keeps them on a lead and under control as Tube staff are not allowed to handle them.
The RSPCA warned raccoons do not make good pets and it is difficult for the charity to re-home them adequately.
A spokesman said: "We would strongly discourage anyone from buying or keeping them. Sadly, the needs of raccoons cannot adequately be met within typical household environments.
They need a great deal of space, can be carriers of diseases including rabies and if they escape or are released into the wild they are a high invasive non-native species risk to the UK."
Vettel was ahead of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen by 0.292 seconds as Mercedes appeared to struggle for grip.
Lewis Hamilton was 0.354secs behind title rival Vettel in third place, while his team-mate Valtteri Bottas survived a wild moment at Turn Four.
The Red Bull of Max Verstappen split the Mercedes with fourth fastest time as the track improved.
The Dutchman's position - just 0.393secs off Vettel's best - was probably flattered by the timing of his run. He ran at the end of the session when the Ferrari and Mercedes drivers did their qualifying simulation runs about 15 minutes before the end of the session.
Under big, blue Quebec skies, there were fewer spins than during Friday practice but a couple of very near-misses with the walls.
Bottas came the closest, his Mercedes flicking from side to side as he pushed the limits through the tricky Turn Three/Four chicane, where the track cambers change mid-corner and the circuit drops away downhill on exit.
Jolyon Palmer also had a moment there, the Renault missing the wall by millimetres as he suffered a flick of oversteer on the exit, as did Sauber's Marcus Ericsson, who took to the grass after misjudging the entry.
Palmer, whose seat is under threat, continued to struggle, the Englishman ending the session 15th - nine places and 0.6secs behind team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, who was an impressive sixth fastest.
Williams' Felipe Massa was seventh, his team-mate Lance Stroll struggling so far on his debut at his home race with the 18th fastest time, nearly a second behind the Brazilian.
The second Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo was eighth, but at least managing a full session after missing most of second practice on Friday because of a major failure of his Renault engine.
Force India's Esteban Ocon took ninth ahead of the Toro Rossos of Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat, and the McLaren-Honda of Fernando Alonso.
They said they were being exposed to inappropriate images, messages of self-harm and bullying.
The NSPCC surveyed 1,696 11- to 18-year-olds, who rated Ask.fm and Facebook among the riskiest sites.
Ask.fm said it took the report "seriously" and had contacted the charity to "discuss the findings".
A spokeswoman from the website said: "We recognise our responsibility and continually strive to improve our tools and polices to protect our users."
The children were asked questions on their experiences of signing up to the app, site or game, to assess how appropriate the content was for their age group, and say whether they were able to report and block people, change privacy settings and contact support.
One 16-year-old girl was asked to review Ask.fm, a site where users ask each other questions, and said: "It had no strict controls which led to lots of hurtful messages being spread about people, which I believe contributed to people self-harming or just feeling negative about themselves."
Of those surveyed, 1,380 children said social media sites needed to do more to keep them from coming across inappropriate or harmful content.
Children also rated Omegle, which randomly pairs users to have one-to-one conversations, and IMVU, a 3D virtual world which allows people to talk via avatars.
An 18-year-old boy who uses IMVU said he liked "getting to be myself".
"Picking how I look, and how I present myself to people. I enjoy talking to people that don't know me."
The research is part of the NSPCC's Net Aware programme to give advice to parents about the risks of children using websites.
NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said: "Children do not feel that they are shielded from upsetting, dangerous, and adult content.
"It's vital parents know about their child's online world and regularly talk with their children about how to get help if they need it."
Mr Wanless admitted it can feel "nearly impossible" for parents to keep up with their children's social media use because of how fast the internet is developing.
In January, the children's commissioner for England said the internet was not designed for children. Anne Longfield urged companies to simplify their terms and conditions so young people would know what they were signing up to.
A few months later, Lib Dem peers told MPs that schools needed to have staff who were "really up to date with technology".
However, former government mental health tsar Natasha Devon told the health and education committees that children were getting around ways to control their online activity by owning multiple handheld devices.
Facebook said the safety of young people is a "priority" for them and that they have resources for parents and users to prevent bullying and harmful content from being accessed on their site.
Omegle's company website warns people to use the site at their own peril but to disconnect with someone if they feel uncomfortable.
By using the site, it said people agreed to behave in a certain way including not transmitting nudity or sexually harassing anyone. But the company said people were "solely responsible for their own behaviour".
The BBC also contacted IMVU for a response to the NSPCC's findings.
Without anonymising tools, many people will find it far harder to express opinions without censure, it says.
Any attempt to weaken encryption software will only curb this ability, it warns.
The report comes as many governments seek to put "backdoors" in encryption software to aid law enforcement.
"Encryption and anonymity, separately or together, create a zone of privacy to protect opinion and belief," says the report written by David Kaye, a special rapporteur in the UN's office of the high commissioner for human rights.
The tools to bestow such protection are essential, it says, given the "unprecedented capacity" governments, companies, thieves and pranksters now have to interfere with people's ability to express themselves.
Lacking such tools, it adds, many people will be unable to fully explore "basic aspects of their identity" such as their gender, religion, ethnicity, origins or sexuality.
The software acts as a "shield" for opinions against external scrutiny - a fact that is "particularly important in hostile political, social, religious and legal environments", says the report.
"States should not restrict encryption and anonymity, which facilitate and often enable the rights to freedom of opinion and expression."
The report acknowledges the need for police forces and other agencies to get at encrypted messages and other communications - but says this should be done on a "case-by-case" basis and should not be applied to a "mass of people".
It also cautions against the use of backdoors and weak encryption systems that can put anonymity in peril as much as they aid law enforcement.
The report is being released against a background of calls from the US and UK governments to hobble encryption - so intelligence agencies and others have access to scrambled communications to help tackle crime and terrorism.
Mr Kaye's report is due to be presented to the UN's Human Rights Council in June.
Dean Platt, from Verbena Gardens in Basildon, Essex, was caught after a forensic breakthrough, police said.
The 44-year-old planted the fake devices at Eastgate Centre in Basildon between January and November 1997.
He admitted four charges of placing a hoax bomb and was sentenced at Basildon Crown Court.
Det Con Andy Copley said Platt was caught after a forensic breakthrough.
He was arrested in February 2016 on unrelated offences. His fingerprints were found to match those at the scene of each hoax.
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"Bomb-like packages", made from digital stopwatches, circuit boards, wire and candles wrapped in black tape, were planted by Platt at the shopping centre on 3 January, 29 January, 18 April and 11 November 1997.
He attached a written warning to each one - the November note said the "device was set to go off in 10 mins and there is 12 more in Eastgate".
Essex Police said the fake bombs "brought chaos and fear to the streets of Basildon".
Eastgate Centre was evacuated, the bus station and surrounding streets were closed and train services were suspended.
An Army bomb disposal unit carried out controlled explosions on the devices.
Det Con Copley said: "Platt carried out these bomb hoaxes without any thought for the sheer terror they would cause at a time when those living in the UK were subjected to repeated and horrific terror attacks by the IRA."
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Leg-spinner Rashid, 29, struggled for consistency as England lost a Test series in India 4-0 late last year.
He was dropped after the first one-dayer against India but performed well in the West Indies series in March.
"He's a huge asset for us and hopefully he gets it right in the middle of the summer," said Morgan.
Rashid's figures on Friday were the second best by an English spinner in one-day internationals, behind the 5-20 taken by Vic Marks against New Zealand in Wellington in 1984.
"It was a tough time in the winter and he's clearly learned from it," Morgan told BBC Test Match Special. "He's slowly building back enough confidence.
"Coming out with his career-best performance after having a very tough winter in India and starting to put something together in the West Indies - it shows the threat leg-spin has."
England play the second and final one-dayer against Ireland at Lord's on Sunday (11:00 BST).
Ireland were 81-2 but lost eight wickets for 45 runs as they collapsed to 126 all out in 33 overs. Seven of those wickets fell to Rashid and part-time off-spinner Joe Root, who took 2-9.
Rashid finished with his first five-wicket haul in ODIs, with the Ireland batsmen struggling to read his variations.
Asked how he rated the performance, Rashid said: "It's probably up there.
"It's a great feeling getting a five-for in any conditions. I feel as though I am improving and hopefully I can carry it on.
"You have good days, you have bad days. It's how you deal with it. Sometimes you don't feel great but you have to find a Plan B, Plan C."
Ex-England spinner Graeme Swann on BBC Test Match Special
Adil Rashid did the job any captain wants when you open the door into a side. Your leg-spinner comes on and kicks it wide open and that's exactly what he did.
I think he's a very good one-day bowler with the white ball. He knows he can do it and he's confident.
With the red ball, I don't think he's got the confidence - he doesn't believe he's a Test match bowler. As a result, he bowls a lot more bad balls with the red ball."
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England have won six of the seven completed one-day matches against Ireland, and eight of their past nine at home.
Morgan's side are scheduled to play 21 matches across all formats by 29 September, plus up to five matches in the Champions Trophy 50-over competition, which begins on 1 June.
"Putting in a clinical performance is as good as we can ask for as a side. It is how ruthless we need to be going forward," Morgan said.
Having almost qualified from their group at the 2015 World Cup, Ireland have struggled recently and are 12th in the one-day rankings, seven places behind England.
They suffered heavy ODI defeats against Pakistan last August, and to South Africa and Australia in September. In March, they lost T20 and ODI series against Afghanistan.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, Swann said Ireland "fell to pieces" as they lost a succession of wickets to "abysmal shots".
Ireland captain William Porterfield said: "I think we started off pretty positively and wouldn't necessarily have envisaged that spin would do the damage.
"Not taking anything away from Rashid, we should have played it a lot better. That's something we need to mentally put right for Sunday."
They say a male suspect is now in custody and children have been moved to safety after the shootings at La Loche Community School and another location.
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said earlier that five people had been killed, but this was later corrected.
The school shooting was "every parent's worst nightmare", Mr Trudeau said.
"The community is reeling."
Mr Trudeau, who was speaking in Davos, Switzerland, also praised "the first responders who acted quickly and bravely".
Witnesses at the school described screaming and more than half a dozen shots.
Kevin Janvier, acting mayor of La Loche, said that his 23-year-old daughter Marie, a teacher, was one of the victims at the school.
He also said police had told him that the gunman first shot two of his siblings at home and then made his way to the school.
At a news conference, Maureen Levy, a senior officer at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), said: "There's no risk to public safety at this time. This is truly a tragedy."
She provided no further details.
The RCMP said officers were called about "an active shooter" at 13:00 local time (19:00 GMT) and detained the suspect 45 minutes later, Canada's CBC broadcaster reports.
"Words cannot express my shock and sorrow at the horrific events today in La Loche," Brad Wall, the premier of Saskatchewan, said in a statement.
"My thoughts and prayers are with all the victims, their families and friends and all the people of the community."
About 900 students attend La Loche Community School for kindergarten through to grade 12 (the last year of high school).
"I ran outside the school," Noel Desjarlais, a Grade 10 student, told CBC.
"There was lots of screaming, there was about six, seven shots before I got outside. I believe there was more shots by the time I did get out."
La Loche is an aboriginal community of about 3,000 people.
It is located nearly 900km north of the provincial capital, Regina.
The judgement prevents Microsoft from registering a trademark for Skype's name and bubble-design logo.
The US company intends to appeal against the decision.
Judges at the General Court of the European Union said: "Conceptually, the figurative element conveys no concept, except perhaps that of a cloud."
"[That] would further increase the likelihood of the element 'Sky' being recognised within the word element 'Skype', for clouds are to be found 'in the sky' and thus may readily be associated with the word 'sky'."
Microsoft had brought the case to challenge an earlier ruling by the European Union's Office for Harmonisation of Internal Markets, which, following a 2005 complaint by the broadcaster, also said Skype branding was too similar to Sky's to be granted an EU-wide trademark.
This is not the first legal clash between the two companies.
In 2014, Microsoft changed the name of its cloud storage service from SkyDrive to OneDrive after the High Court in London ruled Sky's trademark had been infringed.
However, a spokeswoman for Microsoft said it was not now facing the prospect of another imminent rebrand.
"The case was not a legal challenge to Skype's use of the mark, it was only against the registration," she told BBC News.
"We're confident that no confusion exists between these brands and services and will appeal. This decision does not require us to alter product names in any way."
Microsoft believes it still had the means to prevent anyone else from trying to call their product Skype.
In theory, Sky could now try to pursue Microsoft for a licensing fee even if it did not want to block the use of Skype's name outright.
However, the firm did not directly address this point in a statement released following the ruling.
"Sky notes today's decision from the General Court of the European Union," it said.
"This relates to a long-running dispute with Skype over the extension of its trademark applications to cover a broad range of goods and services that overlap with Sky's own trademark registrations - including, but not limited to, TV related products and services.
"Our intention has been to protect the Sky brand with our research showing that similarities in name and logo have the potential to confuse customers."
Sky has acted in the past against another US company to protect its identity.
In 2012 it threatened to sue the smartpen-maker Livescribe for trademark infringement.
The American company opted not to fight the case and instead changed the name of the product in question from the Sky Wifi to the Livescribe Wifi pen in the UK, while retaining the original name elsewhere.
The Taliban have also threatened to destabilise Pakistan, where they have controlled areas in the north-west in recent years. Despite a major military offensive against them since 2014, they continue to mount frequent suicide bombings and other attacks across the country.
Many observers now believe that future peace in Afghanistan can only come if the government in Kabul negotiates with the Taliban.
The announcement of Taliban plans to open an office in Qatar in June 2013 was seen as a positive step in those negotiations, but mistrust on both sides remains high.
Despite this, talks between the Taliban and Afghan government officials took place for the first time in July 2015.
Those talks came a month after a group of Afghan women met Taliban representatives in Oslo. Further contacts with the group have failed to make progress.
In September 2015, the Afghan Taliban said they had put aside weeks of infighting and rallied around a new leader in the form of Mullah Mansour, who had been the deputy of longstanding leader Mullah Omar.
The previous month the Taliban admitted they had covered up Mullah Omar's death for more than two years.
Mullah Mansour was killed in a US drone strike in May 2016 and replaced by his deputy Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, a hardline religious scholar.
The Taliban emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
A predominantly Pashtun movement, the Taliban came to prominence in Afghanistan in the autumn of 1994.
It is commonly believed that they first appeared in religious seminaries - mostly paid for by money from Saudi Arabia - which preached a hard line form of Sunni Islam.
The Taliban's promise - in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power.
In both countries they introduced or supported Islamic punishments - such as public executions of convicted murderers and adulterers and amputations of those found guilty of theft.
Men were required to grow beards and women had to wear the all-covering burka.
The Taliban banned television, music and cinema and disapproved of girls aged 10 and over from going to school.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it was the architect of the Taliban enterprise.
But there is little doubt that many Afghans who initially joined the movement were educated in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan.
Pakistan was also one of only three countries, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which recognised the Taliban when they were in power in Afghanistan from the mid-1990s until 2001.
It was also the last country to break diplomatic ties with the Taliban.
Although Pakistan has in recent years adopted a harder line against Taliban militants carrying out attacks on its soil, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif - who was elected in May 2013 - has said talking to the militants is one of his priorities.
At least three key leaders of the Pakistani Taliban were killed in US drone strikes in 2013. Mullah Nazir was killed in January and Waliur Rehman was killed in May.
In November 2013, the group's leader in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in a drone strike.
But despite these setbacks for the militants, there is evidence that their influence in Karachi has significantly increased.
What is arguably one of the most internationally criticised of all Pakistani Taliban attacks took place in October 2012, when schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was attacked on her way home in the town of Mingora.
The attention of the world was drawn to the Taliban in Afghanistan following the attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001.
The Taliban in Afghanistan were accused of providing a sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda movement who were blamed for the attacks.
Soon after 9/11 the Taliban were driven from power in Afghanistan by a US-led coalition, although their leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was not captured.
In recent years the Taliban re-emerged in Afghanistan and grew far stronger in Pakistan, where observers say there is loose co-ordination between different Taliban factions and militant groups.
The main Pakistani faction was led by Hakimullah Mehsud until his death. His Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is blamed for dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks.
Observers warn against over-stating the existence of one unified insurgency against the Pakistani state, however.
For years the Taliban in Afghanistan were led by Mullah Omar, a village clergyman who lost his right eye fighting the occupying forces of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Afghans, weary of the mujahideen's excesses and infighting after the Soviets were driven out, generally welcomed the Taliban when they first appeared on the scene.
Their early popularity was largely due to their success in stamping out corruption, curbing lawlessness and making the roads and the areas under their control safe for commerce to flourish.
From south-western Afghanistan, the Taliban quickly extended their influence.
They captured the province of Herat, bordering Iran, in September 1995.
Exactly one year later, they captured the Afghan capital, Kabul, after overthrowing the regime of President Burhanuddin Rabbani and his defence minister, Ahmed Shah Masood.
By 1998, they were in control of almost 90% of Afghanistan.
They were accused of various human rights and cultural abuses. One notorious example was in 2001, when the Taliban went ahead with the destruction of the famous Bamiyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan, despite international outrage.
On October 7, 2001, a US-led military coalition invaded Afghanistan and by the first week of December the Taliban regime had collapsed.
Mullah Omar and his comrades evaded capture despite one of the largest manhunts in the world.
Many senior Taliban leaders take refuge in the Pakistani city of Quetta, from where they guide the Taliban, analysts say.
But the existence of what is dubbed the "Quetta Shura" is denied by Islamabad, even though there is much evidence to the contrary.
Despite ever higher numbers of foreign troops, the Taliban have steadily extended their influence, rendering vast tracts of Afghanistan insecure, and violence in the country has returned to levels not seen since 2001.
Their retreat in the years after 2001 enabled them to limit their human and material losses and return with a vengeance.
There have been numerous Taliban attacks on Kabul in recent years and, in September 2012, the group carried out a high-profile raid on Nato's Camp Bastion base.
In the same month the US military handed control of the controversial Bagram prison - housing more than 3,000 Taliban fighters and terrorism suspects - to the Afghan authorities.
In September 2015 the Taliban seized control of a provincial capital for the first time since their defeat in 2001, taking control of the strategically important city of Kunduz.
The US is keeping close to 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, but the Taliban finds itself an increasingly splintered organisation - that is also threatened by the rise of the so-called Islamic State militant group in Afghanistan.
Slate Magazine uncovered similarities between the site's entry on Moby-Dick and Dylan's speech, in which he discussed the three books that had the biggest impact on his career.
The investigation was prompted by the discovery that the musician had quoted a passage which does not appear in any current editions of Herman Melville's novel.
Dylan quoted a Quaker priest who, in the aftermath of a storm at sea, tells another character: "Some men who receive injuries are led to God, others are led to bitterness."
Writer Ben Greenman observed the line did not appear in Melville's novel, suggesting Dylan may have misremembered the book.
However, Slate discovered that SparkNotes used similar phrasing, describing the preacher as "someone whose trials have led him toward God rather than bitterness".
It then noted 19 further similarities between Dylan's description of Moby-Dick and the summary on SparkNotes, including:
Dylan: "There's a crazy prophet, Gabriel, on one of the vessels, and he predicts Ahab's doom."
SparkNotes: "One of the ships ... carries Gabriel, a crazed prophet who predicts doom."
Dylan: "Captain Boomer - he lost an arm to Moby. But... he's happy to have survived. He can't accept Ahab's lust for vengeance."
SparkNotes: "Captain Boomer has lost an arm in an encounter with Moby Dick... Boomer, happy simply to have survived his encounter, cannot understand Ahab's lust for vengeance."
Dylan: "He calls Moby the emperor, sees him as the embodiment of evil."
SparkNotes: "He sees this whale as the embodiment of evil."
In each of these cases, the key phrases ("predicts doom"; "lust for vengeance"; "embodiment of evil") do not appear in Melville's original text.
Representatives for Dylan and the Nobel Prize Committee have yet to respond to a request for comment.
The musician won the the Nobel Prize for literature in October and had until 10 June to deliver his lecture or forfeit the prize money of 8m krona ($900,000, £727,000).
He delivered the speech in the form of a beat poem, recited over a meandering piano, just before the deadline on 4 June - raising the delicious prospect that, like any teenager in a band, he cribbed his homework off the internet in a last-minute panic.
But this is not the first time Dylan has been accused of copying someone else's work.
He poached some stanzas from 19th-Century Confederate poet Henry Timrod for Modern Times; while some of the lyrics on his 2001 album Love and Theft were allegedly based on Junichi Saga's book Confessions of a Yakuza.
In June 2009, Christie's of New York auctioned one of his earliest handwritten poems, Little Buddy, which had been submitted to his summer camp newspaper in 1957.
But eagle-eyed historians spotted that the poem was a thinly-veiled rewrite of a Hank Snow song, also called Little Buddy.
And, earlier this year, a British photographer spotted an uncanny similarity between his shot of Blackpool Pier and one of Dylan's paintings, which purports to show Norfolk, Virginia.
The musician has defended his interpolation of other people's work as being part of the folk tradition, paying homage to the artists who came before, and re-contextualising their work for a modern audience.
"If I was a master thief, perhaps I'd rob them," he sang on Positively 4th Street; while, in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, he defended himself against accusations of plagiarism on Love and Theft.
"I'm working within my art form," he said. "It's that simple. I work within the rules and limitations of it. There are authoritarian figures that can explain that kind of art form better to you than I can. It's called songwriting. It has to do with melody and rhythm, and then after that, anything goes.
"You make everything yours. We all do it."
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Former world number one Donald, second in last week's RBC Heritage in South Carolina, shot a four-under 68 to move to nine under in San Antonio.
American Barnes - chasing his first PGA Tour victory - carded a 66 to lead by a stroke from compatriot Brendan Steele, who went round in 72.
Ireland's Padraig Harrington is four shots off the lead after a 68.
Many expats see it as a land of opportunity. Some come to make their fortune, others simply to get a job often unavailable at home. Meanwhile, more Emiratis are joining the workforce to shape the future of their country.
The BBC's Amandeep Bhangu meets five people living in Abu Dhabi to hear about their working lives.
Hamda al-Qubaisi represents a new wave of working Emiratis. Aged 26, she is a first officer for Etihad Airways and regularly piloting an Airbus A320 on short-haul flights around the region.
Like many of her compatriots who have shared in their country's vast oil wealth, she has no need to work, but she says: "I want to work. I want to give back to my country because they've given so much to me."
She spotted an advert in a newspaper for trainee pilots, applied and was accepted for Etihad's training scheme, which is fully paid for by the government.
"I couldn't have become a pilot without this funding," she says. "If it was based abroad I don't think my family would've allowed it.
"I just applied to tease my brothers. I told them that I wanted to be a pilot and they said you cannot do it. So from that point I thought I have to do it, I have to prove that they're wrong."
Aviation is a key part of the government's goals to diversify the economy beyond oil dependency.
The UAE is riding a boom in long-haul travel, particularly between Asia and the West, providing a prime stopover.
Dubai is now the busiest airport in the world but Abu Dhabi is home to the national carrier, Etihad one of the world's fastest-growing airlines.
The more challenging part for Ms al-Qubaisi has been making her way in a male-dominated working industry
"I always do double the effort of my male colleagues to show them I can do the job. Eventually I want to be a captain. I love flying. Everyday there's a different view."
Another Emirati woman on the move is Shaikha Mohammad al-Kaabi, a business developer by day who was driven by her passion for Emirati food to set up a food truck to entice visitors away from the city's five-star restaurants.
"I realised when people come on holiday to Abu Dhabi they don't try Emirati food, and even when you ask people who live here what their favourite Emirati food is, they often name Middle Eastern or Lebanese food," says the 33-year-old.
Last November she established Meylas, a food truck restaurant that serves Emirati snacks. Customers use social media to find out where it is and can tuck into dishes inspired by her mother's and grandmother's recipes.
She comes from a wealthy and influential Abu Dhabi family but insists her work is her life.
"I couldn't exist without working. It's important to me. I want to prove myself to my parents. And as Emiratis we want to prove ourselves to the outside world, which thinks we live off our family and country's wealth.
"But if you come here, you'll see we work and we are happy to share our home and culture with those that move here."
In fact, the name of her business captures this spirit. Meylas is a local expression that means "a place to gather, akin to a living room".
Dorian Paul Rogers moved from the United States to Abu Dhabi in 2011, as one of the millions of expats who come to the UAE for better work opportunities.
A teacher by profession, he says his real passion is organising cultural events. Three years ago he started Rooftop Rhythms, a poetry and music open-mic evening that tapped into the growing grassroots cultural scene. What began as a monthly event evidently hit a chord with expats and Emiratis, and is now one of the biggest poetry open-mic events in the Middle East.
"Now I'm running several events throughout the month, from Arabic poetry to soul-and-blues nights, and I just hosted an international poetry festival," Mr Rogers says, adding that he has decided to give up teaching and do this full-time.
"I couldn't have dreamed of the success I would see in the UAE." As someone who has toured the world, he says Rooftop Rhythms is one of the most diverse events he has seen as regards the nationalities of performers and those attending.
Mr Rogers, reflecting on his experiences of organising and performing at such events in the US, says there are differences.
His events have "a few rules to make sure we are aligned with the UAE's appropriateness" guidelines. Each performer is aware that offensive language, vulgarity, speech on politics involving the UAE, or promotion of any religion besides Islam will not be tolerated.
But he does not feel compromised as an organiser or as a spoken-word artist himself. "I moved to the UAE with the idea that I was a humble guest ready to adapt to a new society and culture. When you visit anyone's home, there are house rules that you must follow. There's still plenty of scope for artists without a need to be offensive."
With 80% of residents in the UAE coming from abroad, expats fall into many categories. There are plenty of bankers and others who go to work in a suit but there are also people such as Elsa Fortuna Callado, a taxi driver who came to the UAE from the Philippines five years ago.
"The money is much better here and there weren't enough jobs back home," she says.
"Here I earn tax-free and the tips are really good, so I can save up enough to send back home."
Her day usually starts around 7am because many of her regular customers are families with children to drop off to school. She sees her friends during her lunch break, before the afternoon school run starts.
"I like my job because I get to talk to lots of people every day and there is no boss," she says. "I am my own boss."
She also has a lot of single female passengers.
"They prefer a female driver, especially for long journeys," she adds.
Her company requires her to wear a shayla as part of her uniform, as she must cover her hair if there is a man in the taxi.
Away from work, Ms Fortuna Callado spends time with friends, visits her local Catholic church - next to a mosque - and spends time with her sister and cousin, who also work in Abu Dhabi. They share a small apartment together.
Relaxation sometimes takes her to her favourite Filipino restaurant in the backstreets of the Old City. This is the alternative side of Abu Dhabi, away from the glitzy five-star hotels, that most tourists do not see but which is popular with those in the know who want international cuisine at cheap prices.
"It's proper home cooking and reminds us of back home," she says.
Hamza Kazim is a senior figure in the Masdar Institute, an Abu Dhabi organisation whose ambition is to advance the clean energy industry not just in the capital of the UAE but "around the world".
He is certainly in the right place.
The car-free environment of Masdar, powered by the sun and cooled by wind, is working to become the world's most sustainable low-carbon city.
"I was here when it was just sand, and I've watched it grow in front of my eyes," says Mr Kazim, who is Masdar's head of finance and operations.
Masdar, designed by the London-based sustainable architecture practice Foster + Partners, combines 21st Century engineering with traditional desert architecture to deliver zero-carbon comfort.
"The compact design of these narrow streets, based on ancient Arab cities, provides shade to pedestrians and funnels breezes through them so it's much cooler here than within the cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi," he says.
The town, due to be completed in 2025, will eventually be home to 50,000 people. It relies entirely on solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and a desalinisation plant will provide water, 80% of which will be recycled. Biological waste will be turned into fertiliser.
"I'm really excited about the cutting-edge discoveries we're working on here that could revolutionise medicine and science, not just renewable energy technology," says Mr Kazim.
"People don't often see these types of ideas coming from the Arab world, so it's great that we can be a platform for this."
Working Lives is part of UAE Direct a season of features online and on BBC World News about the United Arab Emirates.
The officers are 10 of 13 referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) by the force.
Two are not being investigated while a third officer remains under review.
A report, published by Professor Alexis Jay in August, found the abuse of 1,400 children in Rotherham over a 16 year period was ignored by agencies.
IPCC Commissioner Kathryn Stone said: "The amount of public concern across the country about this episode and the impact on confidence in the police means it is important that a fully independent investigation is conducted to establish how South Yorkshire Police dealt with child sexual exploitation.
"I sincerely hope that victims and their families will see this investigation as a positive step towards answering the many questions they must have."
1,400
children were abused, 1997-2013
1/3 of victims were already known to social services
157 reports concerning child sexual exploitation made to police in 2013
10 prosecutions were made between 2013 and April 2014
The IPCC probe comes after a whistleblower told the BBC she had regularly passed details about alleged abusers to senior police officers but they had failed to act.
The 10 officers - some of whom are still serving with South Yorkshire Police - were identified in Professor Jay's report, which detailed how children had been subjected to trafficking, rape and other sexual exploitation between 1997 to 2013.
Allegations against them included failures to progress investigations into children being abused and the loss of evidence.
A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said: "The force has met with the IPCC and remains absolutely committed to assisting them with their independent investigation in any way we can to ensure the full facts are established relating to any alleged misconduct.
"We will fully co-operative with the investigation into the force's handling of child sexual exploitation and anyone found to have not acted appropriately will be held to account."
The controversy that followed the report led to a series of high-profile resignations, including Rotherham's strategic director of children's services, Joyce Thacker, and South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright, who had been the councillor with responsibility for children's services between 2005 and 2010.
The Mercedes driver has been hit with a series of penalties for using too many engine parts.
Hamilton has a 19-point championship lead over team-mate Nico Rosberg.
He said: "I envisage it will be hard to get into the top 10. All I can do is to aim as high as possible. A podium feels unlikely but it's not impossible."
Hamilton said his attempt to fight back through the field would be made more difficult by the fact that the Pirelli tyres are not lasting at the Spa-Francorchamps track.
There are unexpectedly high temperatures at the fast and demanding circuit in the Ardennes mountains this year and high tyre pressures chosen by Pirelli to protect against failures following two high-speed blowouts at last year's race are exacerbating the situation.
"With these tyres the way they are, which is a bit of a mess, it is going to be tough out there for everyone," Hamilton said.
"It's a long race. I don't have to go crazy at the start. That's the same whenever we start at the back.
"There were failures last year and they didn't want failures this year so they put the pressures up to 23, 24psi whatever it is. It's so high. I have never seen pressures like that my whole racing career. That doesn't help."
Hamilton said the problems caused by the tyres would make chasing other cars more difficult. The Pirellis overheat and lose grip if a driver follows another car closely. This has the corollary of reducing the number of laps the tyres can manage.
"It is going to be a very, very hard race," he said. "Being this hot it is going to be hard to follow. Being in the traffic it is going to be hard to get to my stop target, or go longer than the guys in front of me.
"But I hope I prove myself wrong and I hope I'm pleasantly surprised."
Hamilton's remarks on the tyres were echoed by McLaren driver Jenson Button, who said the pressures were "unbelievably high".
"It is amazing what we have to do to get the tyres in the working window," said Button, who starts ninth.
"If you push on the out lap (from the pits), they are done by turn three, blistering and overheating. What we have to do is crazy. I have never had to do this in my career before.
"It's the pressures. It's not helped by the temperatures, but we go to hot countries and Pirelli know that.
"It is shame we are so high on the pressures because we are in a position at the moment with the tyre where you can't push the car. You are just rolling around with the tyre.
"Hopefully with the new tyres for F1 next year it will not be the case because it is not a nice feeling at the moment."
Pirelli has been set the task of providing tyres in 2017 that drivers can push flat out for entire race distances, as opposed to having to lap under the limit to ensure the temperatures remain under control, as is the case currently.
Tierney, 19, last played in October and Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers said: "He's now back training, he played in a practice game and he looked fantastic.
"Now he'll be firing and ready for the second part of the season."
The Premiership leaders return from their winter break with a Scottish Cup fourth-round meeting with Albion Rovers on Sunday.
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Defender Tierney, who was also nursing a shoulder injury, and team-mate Moussa Dembele, 20 - Celtic's top scorer - have been linked with moves in recent weeks.
But Rodgers said: "All these young players, Moussa, Kieran, you see them linked with five, six, seven clubs. That's part of the game nowadays.
"Their concentration is very much here, they've still got a lot of learning and development left in them. The most important thing for Kieran was getting back fit.
"The time out wasn't great, in terms of him missing games, but it will do him good because he was able to repair his shoulder, the ankle and get that bit stronger."
Bill Bett, from Markinch, bought the Monopoly Millionaire card from his local Co-op on 1 June.
"When I saw the amount it didn't really click at first. On the card it reads 1MIL and I thought what does this mean - I've won a pint of milk?" he said.
But the shop confirmed to the 69-year-old he had indeed won the top prize.
"I went back into the shop and asked them to check it. They confirmed that I had won and that I'd have to call the Lottery line. I couldn't believe it but I actually remained quite calm," Mr Bett said.
"When I got home I phoned my three sisters who all thought I was winding them up. But they said it couldn't have happened to a better brother and are so happy for me."
Mr Bett then tucked the scratchcard behind the cover of his tablet to keep it safe until it was validated a week later.
He said he had already bought a new bungalow to help with health issues which mean that he struggles with stairs.
"It will make a huge difference having everything on one level. I will have a conservatory and a garage for storage which means I will have space to take up painting again.
"I used to teach art to children with learning difficulties but I haven't painted for years.
"We've talked about taking a ferry trip to Brussels or France and maybe getting a caravan on the east coast. And of course I'll be looking after my three sisters too."
Our correspondent, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were stopped by officials on Friday as they were about to leave North Korea.
He was questioned for eight hours by North Korean officials and made to sign a statement.
All three were held over the weekend but have now been taken to the airport.
The BBC team was in North Korea ahead of the Workers Party Congress, accompanying a delegation of Nobel prize laureates conducting a research trip.
The North Korean leadership was displeased with their reports highlighting aspects of life in the capital.
Jones was found guilty of "directing insulting and directing abusive language" and "a lack of cooperation and respect" towards the official.
United were also fined £8,900, while defender Jones, 25, was fined £4,450.
His team-mate Daley Blind was also charged with an anti-doping rules violation, but was only fined £4,450.
It is understood Jones was angry because an anti-doping official refused to let him pose for a photo after the game in which the United players held up a banner in tribute to victims of the attack in Manchester on 22 May.
United's 2-0 win over Ajax in Stockholm came two days after 22 people were killed by a suicide bomber following a concert at Manchester Arena.
Jones, who was an unused substitute for the match, will be ineligible for the Uefa Super Cup match against Real Madrid on 8 August in Skopje.
He will also miss the first match of the Champions League group stage.
Blind, 27, played the whole match against Dutch club Ajax in Sweden.
He was charged for "violation and non-compliance" with a rule that states: "Every player designated to undergo as doping control is personally responsible for reporting immediately to the doping control station as notified."
Uefa said that the decisions are open to appeal.
It said there is nowhere else for them to go because of a lack of specialist facilities.
The Scottish government said it wants people to be treated in their own homes or as close to home as possible.
Minister Jamie Hepburn said it plans to invest £250m a year to "protect and grow" social care services.
Romana was placed in a care home for the elderly at the age of just 23, after suffering a severe brain haemorrhage when she was four months pregnant with her second child.
She couldn't see her children apart from short visits.
"It felt very strange because everyone around me was so much older; I was a very young girl at the time, and I felt I had lost my family," she said.
After two years, the Sue Ryder charity heard of her case and offered her a place at their neurological centre in Aberdeen.
With specialised rehabilitation, Romana learned to walk and live independently.
She is now looking forward to having her own flat, and sleeping under the same roof as her children for the first time in seven years.
Sue Ryder asked every local authority and health board in Scotland how many people with neurological conditions are being cared for in old people's care homes.
Neurological conditions include Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, Huntington's disease and brain injuries.
Only a third of local authorities provided figures. They said 63 people under the age of 65 were being cared for in such an environment.
If those figures were replicated across the remaining health boards it would mean about 250 people are in an inappropriate environment.
They said a further 182 people aged over 65 with neurological conditions were in a care home for older people.
The charity said this meant a total of nearly 1,000 people could be missing out on specialist treatment, support and rehabilitation.
Sue Ryder's assistant director Scotland, Pamela Mackenzie, said: "Romana was quite a different lady when she first came. She was withdrawn and depressed and she really had been written off.
"Older people's care homes do a great job for people in their 80s and 90s, but people like Romana need a different environment. Their conditions are quite different.
"It is clear from our research that the needs of people with neurological conditions have largely been overlooked in recent years.
"We urge the Scottish government to take immediate action to address these inequalities so people with neurological conditions get the chance of a better quality of life."
The minister for health improvement, Jamie Hepburn, said: "Our 2016/17 budget sets out plans to invest a further £250m per year through health and social care partnerships, to protect and grow social care services, and invest £11.6m to implement self-directed support.
"We also recognise the vital role specialist nurses play in patient care. This is why we committed £2.5m of recurring funding for specialist nursing and care, including up to £700,000 to specifically target MND care.
"The health boards involved are currently recruiting additional nurses, or increasing the hours of existing nurses in order to fulfil our pledge to double the number of MND nurses in Scotland.
"Some posts have already been filled and the remaining posts are expected to be filled by spring 2016." | Inverness is to hold a memorial service in honour of English World War One nurse Edith Cavell.
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Landowners carry out culls from August that they say are necessary to protect game, such as grouse, from disease.
Campaign group OneKind said about 40% of the hares killed were shot for sport while about 50% died as part of organised culls.
The Scottish government said numbers needed to be controlled but it would not tolerate large-scale culls.
In its report, OneKind highlights three culls that took place on grouse moors, including two carried out last year on the Balmoral Estate in Royal Deeside.
They also said that at least 25 Scottish game estates were currently offering the opportunity to shoot mountain hares for sport.
An independent review looking at the sustainability of grouse moor management, including mountain hare culling, is being established.
The campaigners estimate that there are between 175,000-500,000 mountain hares in Scotland. They are classified as a priority species by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, giving them an added importance for biodiversity.
OneKind director Harry Huyton said mountain hares were an iconic species in Scotland and should be protected.
He said: "Our report shows that instead they are persecuted in enormous numbers for entertainment.
"This killing is unregulated, and there are no guarantees that it is not further driving the decline of these species or causing unacceptable suffering.
"Today, the day before the open season begins, OneKind is calling on the Scottish government to take urgent action and introduce a moratorium on large-scale hunts and culls before the season gets into full swing."
Previously, groups including the Cairngorm National Park Authority have called for restraint over hare culling. However, landowners have consistently said that culls are only implemented when hare numbers are high.
A Scottish government spokesman said: "We have been very clear that we will not tolerate large-scale culls of mountain hares, but we recognise that numbers need to be controlled in some specific circumstances.
"Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham has already announced the Scottish government is setting up an independently-led group to examine the sustainability of grouse moor management, which includes mountain hare culling.
"We are also commissioning research into the costs and benefits of large shooting estates to our biodiversity and economy." | An animal charity has called on the Scottish government to impose a ban on mountain hare culling on grouse moors. | 40,769,277 | 509 | 31 | false |
Hayley Okines, from Bexhill, East Sussex, became known as the 100-year-old teenager through her efforts to raise awareness of progeria.
Her mother, Kerry, announced Hayley's death on Thursday evening.
"My baby has gone somewhere better. She took her last breath in my arms at 9.39pm," she wrote.
Her father Mark said Hayley was being treated for pneumonia, and had briefly returned home from hospital on the day she died.
"She came home for an hour and she saw her puppies, little brother Louie and her sister Ruby," he said.
"I think she wanted to come home to say goodbye to everybody.
"I think she knew that yesterday was going to be the time."
Hayley, who published an autobiography at the age of 14, had made a number of appearances where she spoke about her condition.
The teenager had been told she would not live past the age of 13, but she went on to undergo a pioneering drug treatment in the US.
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome causes accelerated ageing in those affected.
People with the condition also suffer heart problems, lack of growth and loss of body fat and hair.
It affects just 124 children worldwide.
The Progeria Research Foundation posted on its Facebook page: "The entire Progeria family mourns together with many as we say goodbye to Hayley Okines, our smart, beautiful and spirited English rose, who passed away today at age 17."
Phoebe Smith, whose 11-year-old daughter Ashanti also has the condition, said Hayley had inspired a lot of people.
"She will always be loved. She is my inspiration - her and her mum," she said.
"Her memory will definitely live on." | A girl with a rare genetic condition which made her body age eight times faster than normal has died at the age of 17. | 32,174,131 | 376 | 26 | false |
The number of people visiting shopping centres surged by 6.2% compared with last year, while footfall on the High Street slipped 0.1%, according to retail analyst Springboard.
Retail parks were the most popular destination, with visitors up 8.5%.
Overall, footfall was up on last year.
Springboard Insights director Diane Wehrle credited strong consumer confidence for the rise.
"Consumers are feeling much more confident about their job prospects and wage increases, so they are willing to go out and spend," she told the BBC.
Separately, business lobby group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said its monthly survey showed economic growth had continued to pick up pace in the three months to August.
It also said there were "strong expectations" for the next three months.
The CBI's monthly survey includes 754 private firms from a range of sectors.
The lobby group's monthly private sector growth indicator showed an overall reading of 31% for the three months to August, just below the 2015 high recorded in May.
The percentage reading indicates the number of firms reporting that business performance was up, compared with those reporting it was down.
"The weather may have been a washout this month, but the sun has certainly been shining on the British economy," said CBI director of economics Rain Newton-Smith. | Wet weather over the bank holiday weekend drove shoppers indoors, with many opting for covered shopping centres instead of the High Street, figures suggest. | 34,110,342 | 280 | 31 | false |
But it is a document notable for failing to commit to what have been major Welsh Labour Government projects - up until now.
The party promises to form a government that will be "there for you and your family at the moments that matter".
"All schools will be better funded, but not in competition with one another. Our NHS will be modernised, but not privatised," says party leader Carwyn Jones in the forword.
Big pledges include childcare support for working parents, more money for schools, 100,000 all-age apprenticeships, tax cuts for small businesses, a new treatment fund for the NHS, and a "better deal" for people who need care in old age.
But the document does not say how many local councils should be cut, nor exactly which M4 relief road route should be built.
There's a lot of information on past delivery. But by leaving out some of the most contentious proposals by the Labour government, could this manifesto be the starting point for a post election deal?
And like the Welsh Conservatives and UKIP, there is sparse information on how the policies will be afforded.
The party insists the manifesto is costed, however.
The most remarkable thing about the document's details on transport policy is the lack of information on Welsh Labour's biggest infrastructure project - the M4 relief road.
A Welsh Government consultation is currently underway on plans to build a six-lane motorway south of Newport and over the Gwent Levels.
It is a scheme known as the "Black Route" that is thought to cost more than £1bn and has proved controversial with all political parties.
But the manifesto just says Labour will deliver "a relief road for the M4", and doesn't mention the specific route.
It means that no party is going into the election with a specific manifesto pledge to build the black route - something that could be useful for post-election negotiations with parties that have rejected the project.
Mr Jones told BBC Wales that Labour's preferred option was the black route but added: "We have to keep options open, as we see for example the environmental assessments on the black route".
The manifesto says the South Wales Metro - a plan to upgrade existing transport networks in South Wales - will open "further opportunities to strengthen and diversify the economy of the Valleys", and says the government would start work on the development of a North Wales Metro system
Other pledges include:
Labour says it will "continue" to invest more money per person in health and social services in Wales than is being invested in England.
There is a big stress in the manifesto on the responsibility of individuals to look after themselves. The website says that "everyone in Wales has a responsibility to look after their own health, supported by the NHS".
The document vows there will be no "top-down, large-scale reorganisation under the next Welsh Labour Government", in contrast to proposals from Plaid Cymru.
For North Walians, Labour says it will start discussions with locals about the future of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
The document says a Labour government would "provide ongoing support" to the health board, which is still in special measures, "including reviewing the governance structure if necessary".
It also proposes a new £80m treatment fund to enable most advanced drugs and high cost treatments for cancer and other life threatening illnesses.
One omission is that Labour says it would "re-introduce a Public Health Bill", but they do not say they will try to bring in any kind of e-cigarette restrictions - perhaps a recognition of the reality that it would be very difficult to pass them through the assembly.
Other pledges include:
Mr Jones, who is the current First Minister, has made a big play of the party's business policies - saying Welsh Labour is passionate about growing the economy in a recent Telegraph column.
As well as a Welsh development bank, one of the party's stand out pledges is a business rate cut for all small firms. The manifesto says this would help 70,000 companies and reduce business rate bills to zero for half of eligible firms.
Other economic pledges include:
Labour is promising £100m extra to drive standards in schools, and to create 100,000 "all-age" apprenticeships.
It also says the party would invest £2bn between now and 2023 in the 21st century schools building programme, which is already in operation.
The manifesto is perhaps the least specific of the five big parties when it comes to the issue of tuition fees, suggesting this will be decided after the election.
It says there will be a "better package of student support than that on offer in England based on the recommendations of the Diamond review."
Other pledges include:
Another surprise is a lack of detail on how many local councils there should be, following mergers.
The manifesto does commit to "stronger, larger local authorities" but does not say how many.
The Welsh Labour Government has previously stated it thinks eight or nine authorities are the best model for Wales.
But like the M4 relief road Black Route it is hugely contentious, with no real support from any other party for the precise map.
It's extraordinary given how the government has pushed the issue - the wording could again prove useful for coalition building.
Mr Jones said on Monday that he would prefer it "if we could work with other parties to get to an agreed position on the number we need".
It all suggests Labour is prepared to move away from the eight or nine council map.
There is not much in the way of new pledges in the area of natural resources and rural affairs. Labour says it will continue to improve animal welfare, and that sustainable development will remain a central organising principle of the government.
Other notable pledges include: | Labour on Tuesday published the party's election manifesto online, a response it says to people's concerns across the country. | 36,081,965 | 1,239 | 28 | false |
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Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November.
It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran flat.
The comet has moved nearer to the sun since and Philae has enough power to work again, says the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos.
The Philae craft made three short contacts of about 10 seconds each at roughly 9.30pm on Sunday.
Watch Jenny's report. | The European Space Agency (ESA) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth. | 33,139,967 | 135 | 30 | false |
As the black-and-white sun rises over a black-and-white street, authentic-looking extras with a variety of contemporary hairstyles walk past a dilapidated warehouse.
A shoeshine boy flicks open his newspaper, passing time until a customer arrives. None ever will, because shoeshine boys only exist in the movies.
Perched on an upturned milk crate is a tall and slender young man. Let's call him Lil Buck, because that is his name. Bored, he puts in his earphones and fires up a song.
Suddenly, the music brings him to life. He springs off the crate and contorts his body to an irresistible beat, defying gravity as he dances on walls and shop-fronts.
That's how Apple chose to promote their new wireless headphones earlier this year - and the song selected for the soundtrack was Marian Hill's Down.
A sparsely atmospheric track, it pits Samantha Gongol's husky voice against a simple piano figure before crashing into a staccato beat in the chorus.
Apple's advertising agency, Media Arts Lab, stressed the importance of finding "an unknown band" for their commercial.
"People get excited when they discover a new band," music supervisor Peymon Maskan told Music Week earlier this year.
"They pull out their phone to Shazam the track and they tell their friends. That's a music fan's experience when discovering an ad like this."
Within days of the advert airing, the song had racked up 12 million views on YouTube and Down became the most searched-for song in America - ahead of Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars.
Nielsen Soundscan, which compiles the charts, said sales of the song jumped from "negligible" (not worth reporting) to 101,000 in the space of a week. In the UK, it was streamed more than 3 million times.
"That commercial was the catalyst for a lot of things," says keyboardist and producer Jeremy Lloyd.
"It put us in so many people's living rooms - and to have them instantly love the song felt so validating for all the work we had done."
As they take a break from making their second album, the duo tell the BBC how they got together and found their sound.
How did the band get together?
Samantha: Jeremy and I have been friends since we were about 12 or 13. We got the name Marian Hill from a production of The Music Man that we were in together in eighth grade. He played Harold Hill, I played Marian Paroo and we combined our character names.
We stayed friends throughout high school and college, until Jeremy showed me a beat and asked if I wanted to write with him. That song was called Whisky, and the rest is history.
Right out of the gate you had a unique, minimalistic sound. How did it come about?
Jeremy: We really stumbled into it. At the time we'd written a couple of other things together that were all over the map musically. Then I was playing Sam a couple of different beats and I had one that had this hip-hop feel to it - and that was the Whisky beat. Neither of us had ever made anything like it before.
I was able to recognise how much better it was - and so, for me, the goal became, how do you carry this forward?
And what was the answer?
Jeremy: At that point, it still wasn't that serious, necessarily. It was just a thing we'd made. And when I was about to graduate college, I decided I wanted to give it a real try, so I emailed, like, 50 blogs and thankfully people picked up on the song and liked it. From then on it's been this slow, steady stream of people wanting to hear more.
Samantha, your vocals are very jazzy. Who were your influences?
Samantha: I grew up loving the diva vocalists - Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James. I was a huge Norah Jones fan too. That was a huge watershed moment for me, in terms of discovering a contemporary vocalist that I connected with.
Jeremy: So often in songs, there's no room for the vocal to sit - the voice is just pasted on top, so the whole mix is throbbing at the seams. With our stuff I try to make sure the vocal has space, and you can hear all the textures and nuances that would otherwise get lost.
Before Marian Hill, Samantha did some work as a "top liner", writing melodies for big pop singers. What was that like?
Samantha: Writing sessions are kind of like blind dating: You're just thrown into a room together and you hope you get along and make something incredible.
How did you go about writing Down?
Samantha: We were just messing around in the studio and I think the piano line came first, Jeremy?
Jeremy: Yeah, it was the first thing we'd written on a piano. I was goofing around and I stumbled on that piano line. It wasn't like, "OK, we're writing a song now." I wasn't quite sure about it. But I asked Sam, "Do you think we could do something with this?" and she figured out a melody.
Looking back on it, it was such a simple process. I'm pretty sure it was all one night.
The song's about going to a party against your better judgment, is that right?
Samantha: We just wanted to have fun with it. There are so many party songs about getting on the dancefloor and throwing your hands in the air (like you just don't care).
We thought it could be cool to write it from the perspective of Marian Hill, and what it would sound like if we did a song like that. "I'm not sure I want to go, but do you?" And then the crash of the chorus was the party itself.
The Apple commercial really fitted the song. How much input did you have?
Jeremy: We probably would have had a veto if we'd hated it, but it very much was on them. They put it together and we were just like, "Wow, this is perfect."
What effect did it have?
Jeremy: It was amazing because our album [Act One] had been out for a minute and our fans were loving it, but it hadn't really broken out to a larger audience. Having this spotlight, it put us in so many people's living rooms, and to have them instantly love the song felt so validating for all the work we had done. It was a great way to finish off the album campaign.
So what comes next?
Jeremy: We've been writing a lot over the last two months, together in New York and at home in Philadelphia. It's an exciting point to be at, coming off the success of Down, so we're really excited to get these songs out to our new fans.
What changes are you making compared to the first album?
Jeremy: It's the same aesthetic, only it's a little more brash. But we're right in the middle of it and that direction could change.
And when do we get so hear it?
Jeremy: It will be within a six-month window. We have a deadline in mind.
Samantha: Probably in the fall.
Marian Hill's Act One (The Complete Collection) is out now. They play a headline gig at London's Scala on 9 October.
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In May, Leeds owner Massimo Cellino said he regretted buying the club, and that he wanted to sell his 80% stake.
A proposed sale to a Leeds fans' group collapsed in October 2015, despite a deal being agreed in principle.
Previous talks over a sale to Red Bull also fell through with the deal reportedly close to completion.
The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that a sale of the club to Radrizzani is not close, with talks at an early stage.
Radrizzani co-founded leading sports media agency MP & Silva in 2004.
He was photographed with Cellino at last weekend's opening game of the season between Leeds and Queens Park Rangers.
Cellino bought Leeds in April 2014, but his ownership of the club has been the subject of regular protests by supporters since then.
The Italian was banned from running the club in December 2014 until the end of the 2014-15 season after being found guilty of tax evasion by an Italian court, but later had his suspension quashed when his conviction was overturned.
He has sacked six managers and head coaches since taking over at Elland Road, with Garry Monk appointed as his latest head coach in June.
Judge George O'Toole granted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers' request for more time but refused their pleas to move the trial from Boston to Washington.
Mr Tsarnaev, 21, has pleaded not guilty to 30 federal charges and could face the death penalty if convicted.
Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured by two explosions near the finish line in April 2013.
The defence team had asked for the trial to be delayed until at least September 2015, saying a November trial would not have given them enough time to prepare.
They also asked that the trial be moved due to the media coverage in Boston and the local public mood.
But the judge said there was no reason to assume in advance that a fair jury could not be selected in Massachusetts.
Tsarnaev is accused - along with his older brother Tamerlan - of placing two pressure cooker bombs near the marathon's finish line.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in an exchange of fire with police officers several days later.
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Mr Freeman said benefits should go to "really disabled people" not those "taking pills at home, who suffer from anxiety".
The Labour leader recalled a speech Theresa May once made to the Tory conference and said Mr Freeman's remarks were "proof that the nasty party is still around".
The prime minister said Mr Freeman had "rightly" apologised for the remarks and accused the last Labour government of doing "nothing" to give mental health parity with physical health care.
Hans Reid, 26, took the Stagecoach vehicle from Aberdeen Bus Station in May and was pursued by police.
It mounted pavements, struck parked vehicles, and other drivers had to take evasive action to avoid a collision.
Reid admitted various charges at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. Sentence was deferred and he was remanded in custody.
He drove in the middle of the road to stop police overtaking him, and through red traffic light signals.
Defence lawyer Gail Goodfellow told the court her client had been under the influence of drugs.
After the hearing, Sgt Andy Duncan, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a particularly dangerous course of action committed whilst Aberdeen city centre was busy with night time revellers.
"Police Scotland is committed to keeping people safe and this case demonstrates that anyone who endangers the public with their actions will be prosecuted.
"Hans Reid will now have to face the consequences of his reckless and dangerous behaviour."
A spokeswoman for Stagecoach North Scotland said: "Fortunately nobody was injured as a result of this incident.
"However, the bus involved sustained significant damage which has now been repaired. We are pleased that the police were able to track down the person responsible."
Saturday's Championship showpiece between Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday is worth an estimated £170m to the winners.
Barnsley and Millwall will contest the League One final on Sunday, with AFC Wimbledon and Plymouth Argyle rounding the 2015-16 campaign off in League Two on Monday.
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Hull manager Steve Bruce is a promotion veteran, having overseen Birmingham City's rise to the Premier League in 2002 and 2007 and leading the Tigers there in 2013.
Saturday, however, will be his first trip to Wembley for a play-off final - and it has not been an easy road for Bruce and his squad.
Inconsistency blighted their season and then they almost squandered a 3-0 first-leg lead in their play-off semi-final against Derby County.
"You can just detect there's a big game around the corner," Bruce told BBC Radio Humberside.
"The players are tackling each other and champing at the bit. You just have to put them on a little bit of a leash at times because we need to let them go on Saturday."
Hull were last at Wembley in 2014 for their FA Cup final defeat by Arsenal, and the experience gained during Bruce's 18-year managerial career could prove crucial as they attempt to return to the top flight at the first time of asking.
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At the opposite end of the scale, the closest Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal has come to Wembley is watching English league football on television as a child in Portugal.
Carvalhal had a modest career managing in his homeland and in Turkey before joining Wednesday in June 2015.
His side have marched steadily up the table throughout the season and their performances in the play-offs were clinical, as they defeated Brighton over two legs to secure their place at Wembley.
The South Yorkshire side have not visited the national stadium since appearing in both domestic cup finals in 1993, and have only finished in the top half of the Championship table twice since they were relegated from the top division in 2000.
"Hull City are a strong team with a very spirited coach - they are a premier team and it will be very tough," Carvalhal told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"My players know exactly what they need to do and we will prepare for this game like any of the others. We expect a very good answer from the players to the plan we will put into place."
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In November 2015, Barnsley were bottom of the League One table having won just five of their 20 league games.
Six months on, they have won the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, snatched the last third-tier play-off spot and ruthlessly beaten Walsall 6-1 on aggregate in their semi-final tie.
Caretaker manager Paul Heckingbottom built on the work started by Lee Johnson, leading Barnsley through a run of 12 wins in 15 league games between December and March.
"Everything is bigger about the play-offs," Heckingbottom, who was part of the Barnsley squad promoted via the play-offs in 2006, told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"It's not just the prize at the end, but the bigger opposition, better-quality football and away games at bigger stadiums that come in the Championship.
"It's a cup final after 46 rounds and a two-legged semi-final and that brings its own unique tension, adrenaline and excitement for everyone. That's what makes a win that much more sweeter."
Millwall are eyeing an immediate return to the Championship, after seeing their five-year stay in the second tier end last season.
Club legend Neil Harris has masterminded their promotion push, having overseen a clear-out of players following relegation.
"We have come a long way as a group. We have a terrific bunch of lads and they have great spirit," the 38-year-old told BBC Radio London.
"Whatever happens on Sunday, the pride is back in the club and we have foundations to build on."
Harris, Millwall's record goalscorer, was part of the Lions side which won the League One play-off final in 2010, beating Swindon 1-0 at Wembley.
"Barnsley played there this year but they didn't play against Millwall or in front of our fans there," he said.
"The noise at The Den in the second leg against Bradford was something special. That is what we will have at Wembley, with 35,000 passionate fans going to back their team.
"Every time we have had that, the players have performed. You have to have the link between the terraces and the pitch at this club."
Monday 30 May, 15:00 BST
Phoenix club AFC Wimbledon could reach the third tier for the first time in their short history on Monday.
Formed in 2002 after an independent panel allowed the old Wimbledon FC to move to Milton Keynes, the Dons won five promotions to reach the Football League in 2011.
Neal Ardley, in charge at Kingsmeadow since October 2012, guided the club to seventh in the table following seven wins in their last 10 matches of the campaign.
"Somebody asked me if it is the biggest game in the club's history," ex-Wimbledon midfielder Ardley told BBC Radio London.
"Terry Brown getting them into the Football League would have been, and maybe us staying in the Football League on the last day in 2013.
"But it is the biggest occasion in the club's history. Wimbledon and Wembley has a lovely ring to it and we know why.
"To take these fans to Wembley, it is a most unique club and a wonderful feeling for me and the players to do that for this group of fans - who, 14 years ago, were dealt the biggest kick you could possibly imagine and rolled their sleeves up and said 'no, it's not happening'."
Plymouth Argyle have not been to Wembley since 1996. In that time, the Devon club has gone from topping the Championship in August 2004 to almost going out of existence seven years later.
Relegation from the Championship in 2010 led to financial instability at Home Park, the administrators turned up soon after and Argyle went down to League Two in 2011.
The club's players threatened to go on strike that September, having not been paid in full since the previous December, and only survived relegation out of the Football League on the penultimate week of that season.
"We nearly died, so to be here in this position is absolutely fantastic," Argyle president Chris Webb, who helped rescue the club, told BBC Sport.
"We had a torrid time with the players and staff not being paid for 10 months, but out of that we united the fans, the staff, and the city and the club was almost reborn.
"I believe if we can make that step at Wembley then we're well set up to challenge in League One as well."
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David Walliams, Alesha Dixon, Gary Lineker and Greg James were among those who hosted the BBC show, broadcast from London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Highlights included a Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em sketch featuring tennis siblings Andy and Jamie Murray.
The total of £55,444,906 breaks the previous on-the-night record of £51m.
Britain's Got Talent judge Walliams, who has a long association with Sport Relief, revived Little Britain character Emily Howard for a sketch with former England footballer Peter Crouch.
Actor Idris Elba starred as Luther in a one-off sketch which reunited him with Ruth Wilson, who plays nemesis Alice Morgan in the BBC One crime drama.
The overall total included money raised by Sport Relief Challenges, including Jo Brand's Hell of a Walk.
The challenge saw the comedienne take on an incredible 135.7 miles as she walked across the UK from east to west, raising £1,159,220.
Eddie Izzard is still raising money for Sport Relief by running a gruelling 27 marathons in 27 days across South Africa. He has completed 24 marathons so far.
And BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James raised more than £1m by completing a triathlon a day for five consecutive days, across five different UK cities.
Fundraising efforts will continue on Sunday as the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Games take place around the country.
Wayne Bulpitt, UK chief commissioner of the Scout Association from 2009-16, was one of four Guernsey residents recognised in this year's honours.
He introduced the alternative promise, welcoming all young people regardless of their faiths or religious beliefs.
Mr Bulpitt said it was "a privilege and an honour" to be recognised.
"If I've been able to help today's generation and future generations... I think that in itself is the only reward I think many volunteers would ask for," he said.
"As I've said many times before, scouting and in particular, the volunteers who make it happen, gave me the skills I needed to succeed in life.
"Any success I may have achieved, in whatever field, is down to those volunteers, and so it has been very satisfying to be able to help future generations in similar ways myself, especially in recent times when the needs are even greater."
Judge Russell Finch was also recognised in the honours, and was appointed an OBE for services to the judiciary in Guernsey.
He said the nomination was a surprise, adding: "You can't count on anything and it came to me out of the blue."
Businessman Stephen Landsdown was made a CBE for services to business and the community.
Lilan Bale, who was made an MBE for services to fostering, said the award was "humbling" for something she loved to do after her own troubled childhood.
"I felt called to do it," she said.
Beatrice Webber was also awarded the British Empire Medal for services to the blind on the island.
It is the seventh time Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to protect the Syrian government.
China has also vetoed six Security Council resolutions on Syria since the civil war began in 2011.
Syria agreed to destroy its chemical weapons in 2013 under an agreement negotiated between Russia and the US.
The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad is accused of carrying out chemical attacks on its own civilians - a charge it denies.
However, investigations by the UN and international chemical weapons watchdog have found that Syrian government forces carried out three chemical weapons attacks in 2014 and 2015.
The reports said that Syrian air force helicopters had dropped chlorine gas on rebel-held areas, twice in March 2015 and once in April 2014.
The use of chlorine as a weapon is prohibited under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
Islamic State (IS) militants had also used sulphur-mustard gas in an attack, the watchdog found.
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Tuesday's resolution had been drafted by the US, the UK and France.
It would have banned the sale of helicopters to Syria and would have led to sanctions against 11 Syrian commanders or officials, and 10 groups linked to the chemical attacks.
Nine Security Council members supported the resolution, while three - China, Russia and Bolivia - voted against it.
The final three members - Egypt, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia - abstained.
A Security Council resolution needs nine votes in support, and no vetoes from the five permanent members (the US, France, Russia, UK and China) in order to pass.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had said sanctions against Syria would be "totally inappropriate", saying "it would only hurt or undermine confidence" in peace talks.
Moscow has long-standing links to Syria, with many Syrian military officers trained and equipped by Russia.
Moscow says its military and political support for the Syrian government has helped the fight against IS militants.
But Western critics accuse Moscow of targeting opposition groups backed by the West.
Meanwhile, China's UN ambassador, Liu Jieyi, said Beijing opposed the use of chemical weapons but that it was too soon to impose sanctions as investigations were still ongoing.
China has said in the past that it has a long-standing policy of non-intervention in other countries' affairs.
Analysts say China may be worried that some of its Muslim populations in western Xinjiang have joined militant groups fighting in Syria.
China's stake in the Syria stand-off
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said: "It is a sad day on the Security Council when members start making excuses for other member states killing their own people.
"They put their friends in the Assad regime ahead of our global security... the world is definitely a more dangerous place."
UK Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said: "Not taking action against chemical weapons' use undermines confidence in the international community's ability to tackle flagrant violations of international law - and undermines the trust of Syrians affected by these horrific attacks."
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Russia bore a "heavy responsibility toward the Syrian people and humanity as a whole".
The number of calls abandoned by people who could not get through during flooding in 2015 was 15% - better than a peak of 27% in 2012.
While the report found much good work had been done, it identified areas that needed more work.
Delivering flood defences on time and on budget must also improve, it said.
The report was carried out by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, which assesses the River Agency's effectiveness in identifying and reducing flood risk.
Comptroller and auditor general Kieran Donnelly said there was "scope to improve the performance of the flooding incident line".
While the agency had spent £33m on flood defences over the last five years, he said, most had come in late and over budget or both.
In one case a section of work at a stream in Mount Vernon in north Belfast had cost £590,000 instead of the projected £189,000.
New flood walls at Moneymore, County Londonderry, cost £2.2m instead of the expected £1.2m.
The report found that some of the overspend appeared to be due to overly optimistic initial estimates.
Mr Donnelly said while recommendations had been made to prevent this happening in the future, it would be several years before it could be judged whether they had worked.
Around 43,000 homes in Northern Ireland are at risk of flooding from either rivers or the sea - about 5% of the total.
The Rivers Agency, which is part of the Department of Infrastructure, manages 400km (248 miles) of culverts, 107km (66 miles) of earthen flood embankments and 26km (16 miles) of sea defences.
There have been a series of flooding incidents in recent years caused by localised downpours, sea surges and large storms.
In 2012 about 1,600 homes were damaged when south and east Belfast were badly affected.
Christian Pay, of Millom, was among five people taken ill at Kendal Calling in Cumbria on Friday.
He later died and police believe three different types of tablet could be linked to his death.
Two men aged 18 and 20, also taken to hospital have been discharged. A 19-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman are still said to be critically ill.
Four people have been arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs with intent to supply and bailed, Cumbria Police said.
Mr Pay was pronounced dead after being admitted to the Cumberland Infirmary.
According to police, drugs seized included a blue tablet with an Adidas logo, a yellow powder believed to be MDMA (ecstasy), an orange oval tablet with a Rolls Royce logo, a green tablet with a white fleck and a plain grey tablet with a white fleck.
Malachy O'Rourke's men won the provincial crown for the second time in three years by beating Donegal in the 2015 final.
Down lost to Derry last year and boss Jim McCorry quit after just one season.
Derry have been drawn against Tyrone while Cavan meet Armagh and Donegal face the winners of the preliminary round tie between Fermanagh and Antrim.
Ulster Football Championship 2016
Preliminary round
Fermanagh v Antrim
Quarter-finals
Donegal v Fermanagh or Antrim
Derry v Tyrone
Cavan v Armagh
Monaghan v Down
Leinster Football Championship 2016
First round
Laois v Wicklow
Louth v Carlow
Longford v Offaly
Quarter-finals
Laois or Wicklow v Dublin
Louth or Carlow v Meath
Longford or Offaly v Westmeath
Wexford v Kildare
Connacht Football Championship 2016
Preliminary round
Roscommon v New York
Quarter-finals
Roscommon or New York v Leitrim
Semi-finals
Roscommon/New York/Leitrim v Sligo
Mayo or London v Galway
Munster Football Championship 2016 quarter-finals
Tipperary v Waterford
Clare v Limerick
Semi-finals
Clare or Limerick v Kerry
Tipperary or Waterford v Cork
A landmark ruling from the Supreme Court earlier this year led to tens of thousands more requests for deprivation of liberty assessments in care homes and hospitals.
Most are not being carried out within the legal deadlines, new figures show.
Councils have called for urgent government help.
The Supreme Court ruled in March that disabled people have the same rights to "physical liberty" as everyone else.
This lowered the threshold of deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) under the Mental Capacity Act to cover disabled people living in care homes and hospitals.
When someone in a care homes or hospital, usually suffering from a severe learning disability or dementia, has limits put on what they can do or where they can go for their own safety, the institution has to apply to the local council to authorise the deprivation of liberty
It means councils should assess if their human rights are being respected and that there are no unnecessary barriers to them moving around - being confined to one room all day or making the garden out of bounds, for example.
The safeguards should ensure that a care home, hospital or supported living arrangement only deprives someone of their liberty in a safe and correct way, and that this is only done when it is in the best interests of the person and there is no other way to look after them.
Someone's liberty can be deprived by a doctor, for instance, if they believe the person, who usually has a severe learning disability or dementia, would be in danger otherwise.
If a hospital or care home deprive someone of their liberty - for example, by putting restrictions on where they can go - they must get the restrictions approved by the local authority.
Figured obtained through Freedom of Information requests by the online journal Community Care reveal councils have seen a surge in DoLS assessment requests.
In 2013-2014, 174 councils in England and Wales received 8,602 requests. Since April this year they've had 33,476 applications.
Hertfordshire County Council has seen applications rise from 262 last year to 2,623 so far this year.
Best Interest Assessors, usually social workers, who carry out the assessments say they have neither the time nor resources to carry out applications and that it's impossible for them to meet legal timescales - the supervisory body should arrange for an assessment to take place within 21 days of receiving an application. An 'urgent' one must be done within seven days.
Last year, just 2.2% of assessments breached legal timescales; so far this year it's 50.2%.
Mathieu Culverhouse, an associate solicitor at Irwin Mitchell who was involved in the Supreme Court judgement, said: "It was anticipated that the Supreme Court's judgment would lead to a significant increase in applications for DoLS assessments and this is now reflected in these latest figures.
"This increase is to be welcomed, as it means that large numbers of vulnerable adults who were not previously considered to need DoLS authorisations will now have the benefit of regular reviews of their protective care regimes. It is concerning that in many cases the assessment process is not taking place within the required time limits and it is to be hoped that the government will take note and provide the necessary resources to ensure that DoLS assessments can be carried out promptly in all cases."
The Local Government Association says the demand for assessments is likely cost councils £88 million and is wanting the government to provide additional funding.
Councillor Izzi Seccombe, Chair of the LGA's Community Wellbeing Board, said: "These alarming figures back up our previous warnings that councils would buckle under the financial pressure of a rise in assessments. We completely agree with the principle of having broader, more robust checks for people needing care, but the Government needs to provide adequate funding so that councils have the time and money to do this properly.
"Failure to do this will have a hugely damaging impact on crucial social care services on which people rely and will lead to more vulnerable people left facing long waiting times for assessments."
David Pearson, president of the Association of Directors of Social Services said the delays in carrying out assessments were "very regrettable but inevitable".
"This matter is very urgent and the government needs to share responsibility with us for urgently responding to the challenge of getting this right for people who lack capacity."
A government spokesman said: "The Health and Social Care information Centre is collecting data on this impact and we will carefully consider the results when they are published shortly."
The Sunday Politics remit and interview duration means we are able to carry out proper forensic interviews on such matters.
It is becoming a hallmark of our programme, whether it's challenging the global warming assumptions of the climate change secretary, the NUT's historic resistance to school reforms by Tory and Labour governments, or the activities of the leader of the English Defence League.
Many of the criticisms of the Davey interview seem to misunderstand the purpose of a Sunday Politics interview.
This was neatly summed up in a Guardian blog by Dana Nuccitelli, who works for a multi-billion dollar US environmental business (Tetra Tech) and writes prodigiously about global warming and related matters from a very distinct perspective.
He finished by saying: "[Andrew] Neil focussed only on the bits of evidence that seemed to support his position".
This is partly right. We did come at Mr Davey with a particular set of evidence, which was well-sourced from mainstream climate science. But it was nothing to do with advocating a "position".
First, the Sunday Politics does not have a position on any of the subjects on which it interrogates people.
Second, it is the job of the interviewer to assemble evidence from authoritative sources which best challenge the position of the interviewee.
There is hardly any purpose in presenting evidence which supports the interviewee's position - that is his or her job.
It is for viewers to decide how well the interviewee's position holds up under scrutiny and the strength of the contrary evidence or points put to him or her.
It is how the Sunday Politics approaches all the longer forensic interviews on the programme, no matter the subject or the interviewee. It is how it will approach any future interview with a leading light of the global warming sceptic camp. They can expect just as fair, forensic and robust an interview as Mr Davey.
Taking an opposite or challenging position from the person being interviewed is pretty much standard practice in long-form broadcast interviews.
But the contrary position has to be based on reputable evidence. The Guardian blog and other critics on Twitter alleged that the challenges put to Mr Davey were based on errors, false evidence or parroted the perspective of "deniers". That is untrue.
The main purpose of the interview was to establish if the government thought the recent and continuing pause in global temperatures meant it should re-think its policies in response to global warming.
This is a vital policy issue since the strategy of this government and the previous Labour government to decarbonise the economy involves multi-billion pound spending decisions, paid for by consumers and taxpayers, which might not have been taken (at least to the same degree or with the same haste) if global warming was not quite the imminent threat it has been depicted.
It might also be argued that challenging interviews on matters in which there is an overwhelming consensus in Westminster - but not necessarily among voters who pay for both the licence fee and the government's energy policies - is a particularly legitimate purpose of public-service broadcasting.
The recent standstill in global temperatures is a puzzle. Experts do not know why it is occurring or how long it will last.
Climate scientists have proffered a variety of possible explanations. But there is no consensus.
Extensive peer-reviewed literature regards it as established yet unexplained. It is widely accepted that the main climate models which inform government policy did not predict it (which raises interesting issues of the models' predictions about the future course of temperatures).
For many climate scientists the plateau - which may or may not have long-term significance - has come as something of a surprise.
Recently Nature, which has published extensively on global warming, called it one of climate science's greatest mysteries.
So it is legitimate to ask if the government takes the pause seriously and if it has any implications for policy ie, if there is a pause in warming, is there a case for the government to pause or slowdown its expensive efforts to decarbonise the economy until the picture becomes clearer?
The graph we presented illustrating the temperature plateau was not constructed by the Sunday Politics but taken from a website, produced by Phil Jones, a leading figure at the Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, which works closely with the UK Met Office and whose work, especially on temperature measurements, has done so much to inform government policy here and abroad. The basis of the graph can be found here.
The graph we presented on screen is pretty much identical to the post-1980 data in the graph created by the CRU. It is based on HadCRUT 3 data rather than HadCRUT 4, but the discrepancy between the two is small.
We made it clear on air that the graph had been "smoothed" - not by us but by the CRU - to iron out fluctuations and to highlight the trend.
This is legitimate for TV when viewers only have a view seconds to take in a visual. We used this graph in the belief that the CRU would not do the smoothing in a manner that distorted either the post-1980s rise or the post late-1990s plateau in temperatures.
We chose 1980 as the start date for the graph because that is roughly when the IPCC says man-made warming became the dominant factor in global temperature rises.
The IPCC said in 2007: "The rapid warming observed since the 1970s has occurred in a period when the increase in greenhouse gases has dominated over all other factors."
It said that, prior to then in the 20th century, any man-made heating was offset by other natural variations in the climate; but that human-released greenhouse gasses are the dominant explanation of the rise in temperatures post the 1970s.
Global temperatures between 1940-80 were broadly constant. They started rising in 1980; and especially here
So it is reasonable to start the graph circa 1980 to show how temperatures rose thereafter - overwhelmingly as a result of greenhouse gasses, according to the IPCC - until the late 1990s; and then started to plateau, albeit at a high level compared with the rest of the 20th century.
Some have detected a slight decline in temperatures since circa 2004 but we did not dwell on that since it is statistically insignificant.
The 2007 IPCC study reported that the likely rise in equilibrium temperatures in response to a doubling of C02 in the atmosphere was between 2C and 4.5C, with 3C "most probable" (a slip of the tongue on air said 3%, but it was clear what was meant).
The plateau has made some climate scientists wonder about the efficacy of the IPCC central forecast, which has been seminal in informing official policy, and some are re-considering the IPCC's measurement of climate sensitivity i.e. the extent to which temperatures rise in response to any given amount of C02 emissions.
There are reports in the media that the upcoming 2013 IPCC report might conclude that the climate is indeed more insensitive to emissions than previous concluded. We have no views on such matters, other than they are worthy of examination and debate - and have policy implications.
Mr Nuccitelli points out that temperatures have plateaued in the past, which is true. But since that was before, according to the IPCC, global warming became the dominant factor in temperature rises, it is not clear past plateaux are relevant to this debate; and the current hiatus is one of the longer ones.
It is also not clear from his blog if Mr Nuccitelli denies there is a plateau.
He has been a voluble exponent of a controversial "missing heat" theory that somehow the extra energy from global warming has started to bypass the atmosphere (hence the stalling in surface temperatures) and is storing up in the deep ocean; so perhaps he does accept the plateau.
Mr Davey said in his interview - and others echoed the point later - that we should not concentrate just on land temperatures, but look at what was happening to ocean temperatures and the polar ice melt for evidence that global warming was continuing unabated.
This is a reasonable point. But in a 15-minute interview we wanted to stick with the metric that most viewers would understand and which has been used most to judge the course of global warming in public debate i.e. surface temperatures, which are central to the science and, for viewers, the principle point of interest.
At the Sunday Politics we are also used to public figures who try to change the metric when the one they've put their faith in does not behave as expected. We try not to let that happen.
Moreover, the purpose of the interview was not to question all aspects of climate science, just the one metric that has commanded most attention. Other possible indicators of climate change - ice melt, ocean temperatures and extreme weather events - are a matter of widespread debate in which the science most certainly is not "settled".
For example, trends in Arctic ice decline and ocean warming are not necessarily irrefutable evidence of continued global warming, though many climate scientists believe they are indeed caused by global warming.
Others point out that satellite observations began in 1979 and caught a decline in Arctic ice already in progress. So the origin of the decline could be many decades ago, and might not have been started by man (though global warming could now be exacerbating a previous "natural" melting trend).
There is evidence of great variability in sea ice in the Arctic from historical records and old newspaper cuttings from decades ago reporting the disappearance of the ice.
A new paper by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) suggest that Greenland ice sheet melting is related to solar activity and "a considerable fraction of the current withdrawal could be a natural occurrence".
These are fascinating and contested matters and could easily be pursued in future interviews. The Sunday Politics has no views on their efficacy; but they are issues worthy of investigation and interrogation.
The question in the interview which stated that the Arctic ice melt this year is "normal" should have been qualified: it is normal in the sense of the much greater normal summer ice melt of recent years i.e. it has not got worse - but even that cannot be said for sure until September when the ice melt reaches its greatest extent. This illustrates that we cannot do justice to the canon of global warming in 15 minutes - and justifies the decision to stick to one well-known and crucial metric.
It is not true to say - though it was said by Mr Davey and subsequently - that we ignored ocean temperatures altogether. The HadCRUT data measures surface temperatures across the globe, including ocean surface temperatures.
There is a huge debate in climate science over the relationship between global warming and ocean temperatures. As pointed out above some scientists (and Mr Nuccitelli) believe that global warming is causing the depths of the oceans to heat up and that one day this heat will be released.
This is widely contested and even, by some, dismissed. The data is short-lived and contentious (the "warming" at depths of many hundreds of metres is being measured in hundredths of a degree C). We did not have time to go there in the interview.
We stuck to the advice of Professor Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a world authority on global warming, that: "… the best (most mature, highest quality) data set for inferring recent climate change is the surface temperature data record."
Mr Nuccitelli is also one of the authors of the recent study of climate science abstracts which concludes that 97% of climate scientists are part of the global warming consensus.
This survey has been quoted several times by Mr Davey in interviews to assert that the science is "settled"; he did so again in our interview. It was reasonable to point out that the methodology and conclusions of the survey have been fiercely challenged by Prof Richard Tol, a respected academic quoted extensively in the Stern Report. Other academics have their misgivings.
There is now an argument underway between critics and authors about how much raw data they are prepared to make available for examination; and that neither the academic publication which carried it nor the Guardian will give Professor Tol a right of reply.
These are matters for academia. We simply wanted to point out, when Mr Davey called it in aid, that the survey, especially given the strongly partisan positions of the authors, is not uncontested.
More important, the survey's definition of "global warming consensus" is so wide as to include most who are regarded as sceptics, most of whom agree that global warming is happening and that there is a man-made contribution.
The survey was recently attacked in testimony to the US Congress by Dr Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama Hunstville, which carries out world-renowned and heavily-relied upon satellite measurements of global temperatures.
He told Congress the definition of consensus in the survey was so widely drawn as to be "innocuous" and would include him within the consensus even though he is often depicted by people like Mr Nuccitelli as being on the sceptical wing of climate science.
The differences that separate climate scientists even within the "consensus" are over the speed and extent of warming, the consequences (economic and environmental) and the importance of other climate factors which are not man-made and which may affect the climate's sensitivity to the rise in C02 emissions.
Only those who have been dismissed as "deniers" deny that man is playing any role whatsoever, though the word is often applied to sceptics too (and even, ridiculously, to the Sunday Politics!).
Contrary to many unfounded claims on Twitter, the research work behind our interview and the evidence it gathered was not influenced by any deniers. We relied on Nature magazine, the work of the Climate Research Unit, Professor Judith Curry of Georgia Tech and Professor Hans von Storch of Hamburg University among others, all of whom think man-made global warming is real and some of whom have been at the very heart of the climate science community. We quoted no deniers or even sceptics. All our evidence came from mainstream scientists who do not doubt the fundamental tenets of global warming.
Professor Tol is a climate economist. He has strong views on the economic impact of climate change. But we are not aware he denies it is happening.
At no stage in the interview was it ever claimed that global warming is not real or that it is not man-made. It is not for the Sunday Politics to take such positions.
Our focus was on a global temperature plateau which could be a challenge to the forecasts of climate models which have determined government policy. The plateau could continue for the foreseeable future or melt away as temperatures resume their upward trajectory.
The Sunday Politics has no views on such matters. We have put the existence of this plateau into the broader public domain. It is for others to determine its significance.
In 2009, Aurora Leasing lent the homeowner, Paul Campbell, around £1m on the strength of the valuation.
When he defaulted there was so little equity in the house that Aurora was unable to get any of its money back.
Aurora is suing the Belfast office of Colliers claiming it failed to provide a proper valuation.
The case in Belfast High Court centres on Terrace Hill House, a five bedroom house at Shaws Bridge in south Belfast.
It is owned by Mr Campbell who, in 2008, wanted to borrow money to fund a firm called Rippingham Bristow that was set up to deal in modern Irish art.
He was introduced to London-based finance firm Aurora Leasing by a financial adviser and the company agreed to lend him £901,000, plus interest payments of £378,000.
At that time Mr Campbell's net worth was estimated at £18m and his businesses included the now defunct sportswear brand Gaelic Gear.
Aurora agreed to lend the money on the condition that Terrace Hill House would act as security.
In January 2008, Colliers valued the house at £4.5m, revising that up to £5m in August 2008.
In early 2009, Aurora became concerned after seeing negative reports about the Northern Ireland property market and asked Colliers to confirm the valuation.
Shortly before Aurora agreed to release the money, in May 2009, Colliers confirmed the value was still £5m, explaining that various planning consents had offset any potential fall in value.
Terrace Hill House already had a £2m mortgage with Bank of Scotland that gave it first call over the property.
However Aurora's barrister, Nicholas Hanna QC, said his clients drew comfort from the £3m of equity that was still available, based on the Colliers valuation.
Mr Campbell made only two payments before defaulting and when Aurora got a new valuation in December 2009, the house was worth at most £2.5m.
In October 2010, Aurora won a judgment for almost £1.3m but by then there was not enough equity in the house for them to enforce the judgement.
Aurora are now seeking to recover some of that money from Colliers with Mr Hanna QC saying their valuation had been "indefensibly high."
Aurora's expert witness, the estate agent Beth Robinson, told the court that in her opinion the house was only worth £3m in January 2008 and by May 2009 would have fetched just £1.8m.
She said that from Easter 2008 it was "like someone had switched the lights off" in the Northern Ireland property market.
Colliers expert witness, the estate agent Gerry O'Connor, said that Terrace Hill House was a "special property" that would have been "immune" from the fall in the market in 2008.
He cited a large refurbished stable block, which he said was unique for that part of Belfast and would be "very attractive to the horsey set".
However he gave a valuation of just £3.75m and said Colliers "might have to admit they erred" although he emphasised that valuation was always a matter of opinion.
Briefly outlining Colliers case, Gerry Simpson QC said he would explain how the planning consents had added significantly to the property's value and that he would also cite contributory negligence by Aurora due to their failure to do proper due diligence checks.
The case resumes on Monday.
Inamulhaq Anwar and Akeel Ahmed were banned from teaching in February.
It followed allegations the former workers at Park View secondary school in Birmingham had imposed "an undue amount of religious influence in pupils' education".
A High Court judge has now ruled they were treated unfairly.
The February bans came after a panel concluded pupils had been "immersed in orthodox Islamic doctrine" through measures including the use of the school loudspeaker system to broadcast a daily call-to-prayer to Park View's pupils.
But giving his ruling in Birmingham, Mr Justice Stephen Phillips voiced "considerable doubt" about the fairness of the original hearing.
He allowed the appeal because of the failure to disclose or order disclosure of key evidence to the men's lawyers.
A Department for Education spokesman said they were "disappointed" with the judgement and were considering options.
"In light of the fact that the judge has found against us on a technical, procedural point, we intend to ask for a re-hearing," the spokesman said.
The "Trojan Horse" inquiry centred around anonymous allegations which claimed there was a plot by Islamist hard-liners to take control of several Birmingham schools.
The allegations sparked investigations by several agencies, including the Department for Education and Ofsted. Park View Academy was among the schools placed in special measures.
The school has since been renamed Rockwood Academy.
Results in the 13 decoupled subjects have been "relatively stable in recent years", says exams regulator, Ofqual.
But this year "we expect that there will be more variability than between 2015 and 2016", warns the report.
Students and teachers are "getting to grips" with the new system, says Ofqual associate director, Cath Jadhav.
"We know that students tend to do less well in the first year of a new qualification," writes Ms Jadhav, in a blog.
"That, in part, reflects the time it takes for teachers to become comfortable with new content and assessment design."
AS-levels have been split from A-levels since last September and no longer count towards the final A-level grade.
Ms Jadhav says there could also be changes in the ability range of students taking AS-levels this year which would also affect overall results.
Ofqual has noted that the number of entries for AS-levels has fallen by 20% on 2015 in subjects where the grade will no longer count towards the final A-level.
It is possible that for some students this exam could be their final school qualification, explained Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
Some schools may have decided that students who are aiming for A-levels should skip AS-levels altogether, said Mr Trobe.
In her blog, Ms Jadhav says the regulator will rely on statistical predictions to ensure students are not disadvantaged by being the first cohort to sit the new linear AS qualifications.
She warns that exam boards "won't be slaves to the predictions" when they set grade boundaries.
But "exam boards will need to be able to justify any grade boundaries that are different from those suggested by the predictions", she adds.
"We would expect to see some variability," said Mr Trobe.
"What is important is that there will be appropriate checks and balances in place so that young people are not disadvantaged in any way.
"It would be good to have an absolutely clear and transparent system in place so that schools can see how it has operated this year."
Ofqual plans to publish its 2016 AS-level analysis when the results come out on August 18.
The 13 AS-levels affected are:
Mobein Ali, 20, of Cromwell Avenue, Whalley Range, has been remanded in custody and is due in court on Friday.
He was detained after a 37-year-old woman and man, aged 45, were hit by a car in Hulme on Tuesday night.
Three other people detained in connection with the case are on police bail.
Greater Manchester Police said the woman was declared dead at the scene of the crash, in Princess Road at the junction of Greenheys Lane, and the man died later in hospital.
Mr Ali is due to appear at Manchester City Magistrates' Court on Friday.
A man, aged 59 and two women aged 19 and 47, who were arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, were earlier released on bail.
The figures, from the Needle Exchange Programme in Belfast, show an increase in visits from 7,500 in 2012 to just under 15,000.
Because heroin is illegal, it is difficult to get a true picture of the number of users.
There are 18 needle-exchange facilities across Northern Ireland with plans to open three more early next year.
A mother from Belfast has told BBC News NI about the moment she learned her 17-year-old daughter had overdosed on heroin.
"It was just after seven at night that I got the call from the Royal to say she had been brought in by ambulance - could I come down," she said.
"It was terrible - I just looked at her and then I texted her daddy and said 'I think you need to be here'. I definitely thought we were going to lose her.
"That night it seemed like there was a wee bit of a breakthrough, because she was crying and telling us that she didn't want to die and that she needed to get off this and she needed help.
"I wanted to hit her. I wanted to hug her. I wanted to shout at the doctor. I wanted to shout at her - but I just sat there I didn't open my mouth."
The woman said her daughter had been battling mental health issues from the age of 13 and started abusing drugs in her early teens.
"She started to get very aggressive very quickly. She was self-harming. It took over my life from then - I was constantly searching her room for knives," she said.
Her family has struggled to get help for her and her mother says she feels let down by the system.
The girl told her mother that a man injected her with heroin before she learned to do it for herself.
"I just feel numb. I lost my feelings a good couple of years ago now from all the trauma," the mother explained.
"I'm worried that she'll end up dead.
"Everyday I wake up thinking: 'Is this the day we get the call to say that she's dead?"
The Public Health Agency (PHA) says it is closely monitoring heroin use in Belfast.
The Belfast Trust was contacted for a comment on the issue of drug users accessing mental health services but declined to comment.
The 21-year-old has made one first-team appearance for the Swans and spent part of last season on loan at ADO Den Haag.
"He's somebody I looked at a couple of years back and he was at the age where they wanted to keep him," Cobblers boss Rob Page told BBC Radio Northampton.
"We'll have to be patient, he's not the finished article. If he was, he'd be playing in Swansea's first team."
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All 42 Scottish Professional Football League clubs will vote on 23 April on a motion from Hibs, their Edinburgh rivals, Hearts and Motherwell.
The three clubs want to halve the amount of Premiership play-off gate receipts going to the league.
League bosses have recommended that the clubs vote against the proposal.
Motherwell, who are second bottom in the top flight, and Hibs, who sit second in the Championship, could both be involved in a series of play-offs for a place in the Premiership next season.
But Hibs chief executive Leeann Dempster said: "No club will receive less from the play-off levy this season than they did last season.
"This is possible because the board of the SPFL has negotiated a live TV broadcasting deal for the Premiership play-off matches - all six games could be broadcast - at a match fee which is just 10% of what clubs receive from televised Scottish Cup ties.
"The TV deal has been approved by the Premiership clubs, but only one Premiership club will feature and the Championship clubs whose home gates could be affected by live TV were not consulted and didn't have a vote.
"All clubs benefitted from the levy last season and will continue to benefit this season."
The rules governing the play-offs were agreed by clubs - including Hibs, Hearts and Motherwell - two years ago, when the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League merged to form the SPFL.
Current rules state that 50% of the cash generated through gate receipts goes to the SPFL, with every club not involved in the games getting a share.
It was designed to reduce the financial impact on the 42 clubs by paying parachute payments for a possible two clubs being relegated from the Premiership.
Hibs' proposal would reduce that to 25% and the difference in cash distributed could be as much as £500,000.
Dempster said: "The debate began in October when the board of the SPFL sought to introduce minimum pricing for play-off matches and to change the rules to state that season tickets were not valid.
"We disagree, because we believe clubs should be allowed the flexibility to deal with their season ticket holders as they think best."
Dempster pointed out that the Scottish FA was presently funding the parachute payment and said: "In those circumstances, all the levy does is take money paid by supporters to watch the team they support and redistribute that to every other team in the league.
"Any club which can imagine itself in that situation would say that was unfair."
The SPFL says that, as result of opposition from clubs, it will withdraw its proposal to prohibit admission via season tickets and impose minimum prices.
However, its board recommends rejecting Hibs' proposal, arguing that it is wrong to make a change that benefits only a few clubs at such a late stage in the season.
Meanwhile, Hibs say that Premiership clubs benefit most from the levy, with the champions earning 50 times as much as the winners of League Two.
Paul Sandford, also known as Paul Dyson, 38, was found injured at his home in Littlehey Close, Maltby, at about 01:00 BST on 30 October.
He was taken to hospital where he died five days later.
The 29-year-old, who was arrested on Thursday, was bailed while detectives continued their inquiries, police said.
A post-mortem examination was found to be inconclusive and further tests are due to be carried out to determine the exact cause of death.
Det Ch Insp Craig Robinson, from South Yorkshire Police, said: "We are in the very early stages of our inquiry and officers remain in the local community, examining CCTV footage and gathering information.
"A number of lines of enquiry are being pursued by the investigative team and I want to reassure local residents that we are working incredibly hard to understand the circumstances surrounding this man's death."
The force appealed for any witnesses to come forward.
The council is considering ways to counter "nuisance and safety issues", mostly at Llandudno and Conwy quay.
One idea is a previously mooted byelaw to make feeding gulls in urban areas an offence.
Officers have recommended a task group looks at other options and "religious matters" arising from any restrictions.
In a report to Conwy's communities scrutiny committee, officers said herring gulls remain a problem in some urban areas, despite a decline in numbers.
"The gulls will pester people walking and eating open food, having picnics, as well as flying to any area where there is a food source, including to where food is accidentally dropped/discarded, or where members of the public deliberately feed birds," it said.
"The gulls will take food indiscriminately, including that not necessarily intended for them."
The birds can also be "large" and "intimidating to some people" and have been known to cause minor injuries, the report said.
However, officers recognised gulls were a "traditional part of the seaside environment" and many people regard them as an "integral part of living or holidaying by the sea".
The report said any byelaw alone would be "expensive and ineffective" but a "preventative educative approach to feeding gulls and the control of food waste would, however, be appropriate".
Conwy council told the Daily Post in July 2015 it was previously put off of the idea of introducing fines after being told people had the right to feed birds in some religions.
The report will be considered at a meeting on Thursday.
Wiltshire Police has been told of seven incidents in the local area, and PCSOs have been patrolling schools at Church Road, Laverstock and Southampton Road.
So far no offences have been disclosed and police inquiries continue.
Insp Dave Minty asked children and parents to "be sensible" and take proper precautions to ensure safety.
"All of the reports have involved children of secondary school age and these have been only verbal approaches," he added.
"No one has been injured and there has been no attempt to get the young people in the car.
"Nonetheless, we want to remind children to stay safe and report anything suspicious to the police."
The force said local inquiries into the seven reported incidents this month were still ongoing.
The firm is accused of giving donations to non-profit foundations operated by Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of President Park Geun-hye.
The donations were allegedly made in exchange for political support of a controversial merger.
Mr Lee will face special prosecutors on Thursday, officials said.
Samsung declined to comment.
Mr Lee is currently vice-president of Samsung Electronics. But since his father, Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack in 2014, he is considered de facto boss of the entire Samsung Group conglomerate.
Politicians voted on 9 December to impeach President Park over the scandal - a decision South Korea's constitutional court has six months to uphold or overturn. Until then she remains formally president but stripped of her powers, which are handed to the prime minister, a presidential appointee.
- Grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul, son of current chairman Lee Kun-hee.
- Aged 48, he's spent his entire career in the company and is vice chairman of Samsung Electronics.
- Last year was nominated to join the board of Samsung Electronics - an appointment confirmed on 27 October.
- Widely expected to take overall control of Samsung once his 74-year-old father steps down.
- Critics say his position on the board is due to his birth, not his business experience.
The claims circle around a merger between the electronics giant's construction arm, Samsung C&T, and an affiliate firm, Cheil Industries.
Prosecutors allege that Samsung gave €2.8m euros ($3.1m; £2.5m) to a company co-owned by Ms Choi and her daughter, in return for Ms Park's support for the deal.
Lee Jae-yong has already given evidence to politicians over the scandal, but this is the first time he will be quizzed as a suspect by investigators.
At the parliamentary hearing in December Samsung admitted giving a total of 20.4bn won (£16m; $17.46m) to the two foundations, but denied seeking favours.
And Mr Lee also confirmed the firm gave a horse and money to help the equestrian career of Ms Choi's daughter, Chung Yoo-ra, something he said he now regretted.
Earlier this week two other Samsung executives were interviewed by the special prosecutors, but were treated as witnesses rather than suspects.
Ms Park's position began to unravel in October last year when details of her friendship with Ms Choi began to emerge. They included revelations that the president had allowed her old friend - who holds no government role - to edit political speeches.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of protestors have gathered every weekend to demand Ms Park stands down.
Ms Park denies wrongdoing but has apologised for the way she managed her relationship with Ms Choi, who also denies committing criminal offences.
Ms Choi has been charged with coercion and attempted fraud.
If the amendment had been passed, children between 16 and 18 years of age could have been tried as adults.
They could have faced the same sentences as adults, and been sent to adult jails, for serious crimes.
The bill's supporters argued that it would have acted as a deterrent.
They said that under the current system, teenagers who have committed serious crimes often only serve short sentences.
Opponents however said the bill would have had "disastrous consequences", with young people put at risk in Brazil's overcrowded and dangerous adult prisons.
Justice Minister Eduardo Cardozo called the proposal an "atomic bomb" for the prison system.
He also said that some Brazilian jails were "veritable crime schools" where young people would be negatively influenced by hardened criminals.
A majority of members of the lower house voted in favour of the move, but they were five short of the number of votes needed to pass the bill.
The bill had been amended to restrict the age reduction to only the most serious crimes, such as murder and rape.
The original bill, which seeks to lower the age at which youngsters can be prosecuted as adults for all crimes, still has to be voted on.
However, some of the lawmakers who supported trying 16- to 18-year-olds as adults for the most serious crimes said they would not do so for all crimes.
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The billionaire businessman has dominated headlines since descending on an escalator in Trump Tower, New York, to announce his candidacy in June.
Thursday's debate offered his rivals a chance to close the gap on the outspoken populist - but would they seize the opportunity?
First they were forced to stand around looking awkward while the Fox News presenters waited for the green light.
Once the beauty pageant was over, it was presenter Megyn Kelly who took aim at Mr Trump, asking him about derogatory comments he's made in the past about women.
Mr Trump was having none of it though, insisting he'd only taken issue with one woman - liberal actress Rosie O'Donnell - before rallying against political correctness. The crowd loved it.
Ms O'Donnell, presumably watching at home, was less enthused.
Each of the candidates eventually got a chance to speak, although some of them took a less obvious line than others - like neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
Jeb Bush, the early frontrunner who has slipped behind Mr Trump in recent polls, was eager to point out he was more than just another Bush. Unfortunately, he chose slightly ambiguous language.
The audience were still scratching their heads when Ted Cruz popped up to say what America really needed was its own version of Egyptian strongman Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, which struck some as a bit odd.
Mr Trump then reappeared to clarify his relationship with Democrat rival Hillary Clinton. Sure, he'd spoken to her husband on the phone and given money to her in the past, he told the audience, but he had an explanation.
Around this point, a few of the candidates were finding it hard to get a word in. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker looked a little lost and Ben Carson seemed to have disappeared.
Chris Christie and Rand Paul, however, were determined to be heard and went into battle against each other over mass surveillance and fighting terrorism. It got pretty personal pretty quickly.
While the others caught their breath, Mr Trump returned to talk about building a wall along America's border with Mexico to tackle illegal immigrants.
This is a favoured topic for the businessman but it was the first time he'd mentioned including "a big beautiful door" on the wall to let legal immigrants through.
Earlier in the night, Rick Perry had been forced to deny saying "Ronald Raven" in the second-tier Republican debate - sending Twitter's meme-makers into meltdown.
So, did anyone manage to deliver a fatal blow? We'll have to wait for the next round of polls to find out.
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Brown will take on the position after Dennis was last week put on gardening leave by fellow shareholders pending the end of his contract in January.
The 45-year-old American rejected a senior position at F1's owners Liberty Media in order to accept the job.
"I'm immensely proud to be joining McLaren Technology Group," he said.
"I have the utmost respect and admiration for what the business has achieved to date, and I look forward to contributing to the next important phase in its development," Brown said in a statement.
"Having worked closely with McLaren for many years, I've been struck by the talent and ambition of the entire workforce, and I very much look forward to complementing the business' many existing strengths, and building on them to drive future success."
Dennis, 69, remains chairman and chief executive officer but following the collapse of his relationship with the other shareholders he is no longer actively engaged in running the company, although he remains a board member by virtue of his shareholding.
Dennis owns 25% of McLaren, with Bahrain's Mumtalakat sovereign investment fund having 50% and Saudi-born French businessman Mansour Ojjeh the remaining 25%.
Ojjeh and the Bahrainis forced Dennis out of the company last week after a breakdown in their relationship.
Dennis is reportedly considering whether to launch a legal action against his fellow shareholders but has already lost one bid in the High Court in which he attempted to prevent being placed on gardening leave.
Brown, who will be responsible for racing and marketing in his new position, was revealed as a major contender for a role running McLaren by BBC Sport last month and decided over the weekend to accept their offer.
He was of particular interest to McLaren because of his success in finding sponsors for a number of teams in his former role at Just Marketing International (JMI).
"As founder of JMI - now the world's largest motorsport marketing agency - I've often worked closely with McLaren and I've developed some excellent relationships across the company," he added.
"Together we've delivered some great sponsorship deals, including Johnnie Walker, GSK, Hilton, Lenovo, Chandon and NTT.
"In my new role I'll be able to combine my absolute passion with my unparalleled area of expertise - respectively motorsport and marketing - while ensuring the two stay totally aligned."
McLaren have not had a title sponsor since parting company with mobile phone company Vodafone at the end of 2013 and Dennis' failure in that respect was among the reasons for him being forced out.
He also fell out with Ojjeh, a former friend and business partner for more than three decades, some years ago and the pair have since failed to patch up their relationship.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicts house prices will rise 5.6% this year, higher than its previous forecast of 4.7%.
A lack of properties being put on the market was pushing up prices, it said.
This comes despite a 14% rise in mortgage approvals for house purchases, according to the major banks.
The British Bankers' Association (BBA) said that the rise in September compared with a year earlier was partly due to first-time buyers being able to find a "good deal".
However, the 44,489 mortgage approvals for house purchases in September was down 4.5% on the previous month.
The CEBR said price gaps between different property types were widening, making it harder for people to climb up the property ladder.
In London, someone who wanted to move from a flat to a terraced home would need to find an extra £176,000, it said.
It called on the government to extend its current housebuilding programme, claiming that prices would continue to rise - by 3.5% in 2016, and by around 4% in the four years that followed.
Housing charity Shelter has warned that further house price rises will "push the goal posts even further away for those hoping to become homeowners".
Researchers at Brown University in the US have combined predictions of climate change with the geographic ranges of well-studied amphibians.
While the animals will try to migrate to areas with more suitable weather, short-term temperature fluctuations can cut them off.
The findings suggest more effort should be made to relocate vulnerable species.
It has been recognised for the past decade that the continuing future trend of global warming may drive species to permanently migrate in order to stay in an ideal habitat.
Amid concerns that this long-term migration may be disrupted by towns and cities, scientists at Brown University Dr Regan Early and Prof Dov Sax set out to predict the shifts in species' ranges over the next century.
Predictions of global climate change generally show warming trends, though both global annual oscillations and local climatic effects will play a role for given species.
The researchers combined these climate models with information on the ranges and tolerances of various species of frogs, toads and salamanders in the western US, with results that "really surprised", said Dr Early.
While they set out to find the disrupting effect of urban areas, they instead saw that the short-term climate fluctuations were enough to stop a species' migration in its tracks, cutting it off from ideal habitats and driving it to extinction.
They have published their results in the journal Ecology Letters.
Fifteen species of amphibians native to the western US were modelled in the study, as their ranges are well-known and their tolerances to physical extremes have been well-studied.
While none of these species is currently at risk, they predicted that over half of them would become extinct or endangered in the next 100 years due to these climate fluctuations.
Among the factors determining whether a species would survive were the speed at which it can migrate and its persistence, or robustness, in the face of climatic change.
For example, the models suggested that the Foothill Yellow-Legged frog would be able to make it into a new area, despite climate fluctuations, while the California newt would not fare so well in its migration across the Californian Central Valley.
Dr Early said: "This species isn't endangered now, and in the future there is more than enough suitable habitat for it to remain safe, but…the newt has a really hard time following its climate path to its future range because repeated climatic fluctuations cause it to retreat over and over again."
The tolerance of an animal to less-than-ideal climatic conditions will determine whether it can survive long enough to complete its migration.
"There is a lot of uncertainty in the ability of species to persist, and this is an under-appreciated factor," said Dr Early.
"For example, if an animal lives for a long time, it may fare better," she said. "If its eggs don't survive one year, being able to lay again the following year will increase the chances of survival."
While the study was carried out on only a few species in a limited geographic range, the researchers are confident that the global climate fluctuations will drive similar patterns all around the world.
Small mammals, insects and plants are expected to react in a way similar to the amphibians, as they have similar tolerances to climate change; larger mammals may be less affected as their habitats are less climate-specific, the researchers believe.
The findings from this research are expected to add some clarity to discussions on whether to actively relocate species at risk from climate change.
There is concern over this "managed relocation" from conservation groups and governmental organisations, as the reactions of an ecosystem to the sudden introduction of a non-native species are poorly understood.
But research published in the journal Nature in 2004, which suggested that climate change-driven habitat loss could result in the extinction of 15-37% of all species, lends support to the idea of managed relocation as a way of maintaining biodiversity.
This new study from Dr Early and Prof Sax highlights the specific risks to species from climate fluctuations cutting off their migration paths.
"There are a lot of species that won't be able to take care of themselves," Prof Sax said. "We may instead need to consider using managed relocation more frequently than has been previously considered."
There was a 10% rise in the number of mortgages approved for house purchases from March to April, the biggest month-on-month increase since 2009.
This took the total to 68,706 in April, the Bank of England said, far below a peak of 129,996 in November 2006.
Mortgage activity can feed through to prices, but other factors are in play.
Matthew Pointon, property economist at Capital Economics, said: "A strong labour market and record low mortgage rates are supporting the market. But with lending standards still tight, this pace of growth will not be sustained."
Potential buyers still have to pass strict affordability tests imposed by the regulator. These are designed to ensure mortgage borrowers can cope with a rise in interest rates and, consequently, a larger mortgage bill.
This means activity in the UK housing market is unlikely to reach the levels seen in 2006 and 2007.
However, there has been a notable pick-up in the spring compared with the later months of last year.
The increase in mortgage approvals in April confounded predictions that borrowers would be more cautious and delay purchases owing to the General Election.
Figures published by the Land Registry on Monday showed that house prices in England and Wales rose by 5.1% over the year to the end of April, and by 0.9% from March to April
This was driven, in part, by a 5.6% increase in the value of semi-detached homes over the year, ahead of flats (up 5.4%) and detached homes (up 5.1%).
It was also the result of some rapid rises in some areas of England. Prices rose the fastest in London over the year, up 10.9%, and in the South East of England, up 8.8%.
The slowest annual property price growth was in Wales, where they rose 0.3%.
Earlier this month, parliament said anyone visiting the building with their face covered would have to sit in a separate area of the public gallery.
The move was widely seen as being aimed at Muslim women in burkas or niqabs, prompting discrimination accusations.
Officials said visitors would now have to show their face briefly to security.
"Once this process has taken place, visitors are free to move about the public spaces of the building, including all chamber galleries, with facial coverings in place," the Department of Parliamentary Services said in a statement.
The plans would have affected Muslim women wearing niqabs, full-length garments where only the eyes are visible, and burkas, where no part of the face can be seen.
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Stephen Parry, president of the Senate, said the initial ruling had been made because of rumours that a group of people were planning to attend prime minister's questions on 2 October wearing veils and stage a protest in the public gallery.
He said the measure was intended to be temporary and, as it had come on the last day of the parliamentary session, had never been enforced.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott - who has previously described burkas as a "confronting" item of clothing which he wished people would not wear - had asked Speaker Bronwyn Bishop to "rethink that decision".
The rule had come amid growing concern about the threat of terror attacks in Australia and the involvement of Australian jihadists in the Islamic State (IS) militant group fighting in Iraq and Syria.
Australia has joined the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq, and domestically, police have conducted anti-terror raids in recent weeks.
But critics said that as everyone entering parliament was subject to security checks there was no reason for people with faces covered to be considered a specific threat.
Opposition Labor frontbencher and former immigration minister Tony Burke welcomed the reversal, saying the decision had been taking without proper security advice and for no good reason.
"In 2014 for two weeks, the official policy of the Australian parliament was to practice segregation and we need to ensure this does not happen again," he said in a statement.
There are about half a million Muslims in Australia, making up just over 2% of the population.
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The fire broke out in Aberdeen Road, Huntly, just before 07:00.
Four engines from Huntly, Keith and Aberchirder attended, along with a height appliance from Aberdeen.
The fire has now been extinguished. There were no casualties.
The body of Colin Taylor was discovered by a member of the public at about 09:20 BST at the Marsh Lane site in Marston.
Thames Valley Police said his death was not thought to be suspicious and a file was being prepared for the coroner.
In a statement the club said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with Colin's family and friends at this time."
It said the directors of the club made the announcement with the "deepest sadness".
Chairman Brian Cox, who had been friends with Mr Taylor for more than 25 years, said he was "shocked" by the news.
A police spokeswoman said: "At this stage there appear to be no suspicious circumstances.
"The next of kin have been informed. The family have asked for privacy at this very difficult time."
Scott Davies, who plays for the National League South team, said he was in "absolute shock".
"Only knew him for a short period of time but what a lovely bloke he was," he added.
Further tributes have been paid to Mr Taylor, thought to be in his 60s, on Twitter.
Christian Lawrence said: "Sad sad news this morning, RIP to Colin Taylor. A great man who was the heart and soul of Oxford City FC. You will be missed."
Susan Gibbens tweeted: "Such awful news, a true gentleman. Thoughts are with his family at this sad time. RIP Colin"
Rob Tutton, said: "Unbelievable & shocking news. Saw him yesterday at the first team game... [he] gave so much to the club".
The new store will be based at the site of the former B&Q outlet at Faustina Retail Park on the Buncrana Road.
It will be the second Range store to open in Northern Ireland.
The company opened a branch in Ballymena in October last year. The retailer now has over 130 stores across the UK and Ireland.
In a lengthy introduction for the world's most expensive footballer, club president Florentino Perez outlined what he expected in return for the £86m his club handed over to Tottenham.
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He said: "We are the most demanding club in the world but we will always be by your side."
History tells us that this rule can be rather flexible at Real Madrid. Succeed and they will be by your side - fall short and plenty can produce evidence of how quickly they can cut you adrift.
And it was on nights such as this, as Madrid decamped to Lisbon for the first one-city final in Champions League history, when those demands are at their most intense, when moments can decide whether Real will stand at your side or you become another casualty of their ruthless pursuit of success.
Amid a tumultuous atmosphere in the Estadio da Luz, with Real confronted by arch-rivals Atletico mirroring the hunger, desire and intensity of their combustible Argentine coach Diego Simeone, Bale answered the call.
The list of demands Real made of Bale included helping end a 12-year sequence without the Champions League and finally deliver "La Decima" - their historic 10th win in the competition.
For long periods of an absorbing final, Bale trod the wrong side of the line that can define players of his calibre on occasions such as this. The chances came and went as Atletico fiercely protected the lead Diego Godin's first-half header had given them.
Sergio Ramos's equaliser deep into stoppage time floored Atletico, if not Simeone, and it was left to Bale to ensure his name will be remembered for ever whenever the story of Real Madrid is recounted.
Undaunted by his previous frustrations on a night when he was not at his best, Bale did what players of the greatest quality do. He still managed to exert influence on Europe's biggest club game when he was needed.
The moment that may just have been in the 24-year-old Wales star's mind's eye when he indulged in some showboating for his new fans in the Bernabeu sunshine last summer arrived with 10 minutes of extra time left.
Man of the match Angel Di Maria's shot was blocked by the legs of Atletico keeper Thibaut Courtois and Bale's natural instincts and optimism sustained him enough to follow up and direct an angled header into the net.
In that moment "La Decima" - the mission which has hung like a dark cloud over Real in the 12 years since they last won the Champions League against Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park - was finally secured.
It set up a moment of history for Real with their 10th triumph, history for coach Carlo Ancelotti as he joined Liverpool's Bob Paisley in winning the trophy for the third time and ensured Real will remain at Bale's side for many years to come.
Real and Bale may say it was the sort of history-shaping moment that sparked emotions money cannot buy - but in reality it was the contribution they envisaged when they concluded a summer of negotiation with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy by parting with £86m.
Further goals from Marcelo and a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty may have deprived Bale of the status of match-winner, but he hardly looked troubled as he danced in front of Real's fans draped in the Wales flag.
When examined in years to come, the emphatic 4-1 winning margin will go nowhere near telling the tale of this epic piece of local rivalry with Atletico, downtrodden by Real for so long, just moments away from securing a victory of the sweetest redemption before Ramos broke their resistance.
It will not illustrate the magnificent defence of Uruguay's Godin and the relentless approach of Atletico's Koke and Gabi, a symbol of their renaissance under Simeone.
It will not tell of the compulsive viewing provided by Simeone, slicked back hair and black shoes glinting in equal measure under the glare of the floodlights, of how the Argentine lives on the edge, racing on to the pitch to confront referee Bjorn Kuipers at the break in extra-time and how he appeared dangerously close to offering an old-fashioned "straightener" to Real's Raphael Varane for kicking the ball in his direction after a goal.
Simeone was applauded in and out of his press conference by Spanish journalists who admire his determination to fight Atletico's bigger and more powerful rivals, an approach he seems a little too willing to take literally at times.
And then there was Ancelotti, his own conference hijacked by a group of Real players led by Ramos, embracing the popular Italian while singing the club song.
Ancelotti is one of football's nice guys, with a neat line in dry humour and a sanguine approach that ensures he does not get too high in victory or too low in defeat.
He was dignified in defeat when Liverpool beat his AC Milan side in Istanbul in 2005 and here he was gracious in victory, qualities he shares with the late, great Paisley, who would have approved of Ancelotti's measured outlook.
This was an occasion to make Madrid proud. Real's fans revelled in their win but there was a faith-restoring moment after Marcelo's goal which ended any hopes of Atletico adding the Champions League to La Liga, won after an 18-year gap.
As one, the Atletico fans at one end of Estadio da Luz, to the left of Simeone, rose in spontaneous applause for the players who had given so much but who were now lying on the turf in despair. The noise levels increased in a wonderful show of support.
And at the final whistle there was Bale, beaming with delight as ticker tape rained around him, clutching his medal and acknowledging his homeland's proud heritage with his flag.
Perez had laid out his demands and Bale had met them on the biggest European club stage of all. He came through adversity in the first 110 minutes to do it - but that was the price Real were prepared to pay to sign him.
Mandy Dickson said she placed her 20-month-old son Devon on a slide at Green Grosvenor Park in Salford so she could discreetly photograph the men.
She said the play area was littered with cannabis joints and a drug pipe.
Salford Council said it had begun an investigation and was working with Greater Manchester Police (GMP).
The incident in Lower Broughton on Thursday at about 11:00 BST was first reported by the Manchester Evening News.
Ms Dickson told the BBC: "My son wanted to use the slide and I noticed the people on the ground, who I thought were homeless."
She said Devon then kicked over what she thought was a water bottle belonging to one of the men.
The 35-year-old said she then realised the bottle had been "turned into a drug pipe".
Ms Dickson said she had received criticism on social media for "letting my son play near drug addicts" but explained she had placed her son on the slide only "for a few seconds" in order to get some photographic evidence to warn other parents living nearby.
"I would absolutely not be able to live with myself if I'd done nothing and another kid had been harmed or died because of what they left behind," she said.
Insp Darren Whitehead of GMP said: "The Broughton Neighbourhood policing team regularly patrol this area and we have not had any previous reports of this nature.
"We will continue to conduct high visibility patrols and identify any individuals causing anti-social behaviour."
Salford City Councillor David Lancaster said the images were "very concerning".
"It would appear from the pictures I have seen that drugs are involved," he said. "For these young men to be seemingly unconscious in the middle of a family park - in the middle of the day - completely undermines the safe environment we need in which to let our children play."
The Celtic midfielder, 23, hopes the Tangerines, who are 13 points adrift at the foot of the Premiership, can avoid relegation.
United chairman Stephen Thompson has challenged his squad to preserve their top-flight status and "redeem" their professional reputations.
"It's very sad to see," Armstrong said. "Their future is not looking good in this league."
Armstrong was one of three players United sold in to Celtic in 2015. Since his departure - along with Nadir Ciftci and Gary Mackay-Steven - United's form has slumped.
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Mixu Paatelainen's side lost 3-0 to Motherwell at Tannadice on Tuesday and Thompson then apologised to the club's supporters for their "abysmal" display and position in the table.
"I was hoping they would get a result on Tuesday night," said Armstrong. "It was not to be.
"But you have to remain optimistic and hope they can finish the league strongly and then if they do come down they come back up as soon as possible."
Meanwhile, St Johnstone boss Tommy Wright believes no-one should be writing off the Tangerines until it is arithmetically impossible for them to stay up.
"I would never say anything is done until it is done." Wright told BBC Scotland.
"They are not in a great position, that is an obvious thing for me to say.
"What they have got is a difficult position to get themselves out of. It shows the change in Scottish football."
Scotland's top flight has lost Rangers, Hearts and Hibernian in recent years, though Hearts have since returned to the Premiership and Rangers and Hibs are trying to get promoted to the top tier for next season.
Wright admits it would be "disappointing" for Saints to lose one of their Tayside rivals out of the league.
"We always enjoy the derby games with them," added Wright.
"Rangers or Hibs would probably be an automatic replacement but everybody wants to see the top clubs in the league on merit."
Dundee striker Greg Stewart would also miss local derby matches with United but concedes his own club's supporters may not feel the same way.
"Personally I enjoy playing in the derbies but I suppose Dundee fans won't agree with me," said the 25-year-old. "I'm sure they are wanting them down just to get the bragging rights in the city.
"The atmosphere in the games is brilliant for players and it makes you more determined and you want to win them.
"We have one more at least this season and hopefully we can make the most of it and get the win."
Fire officials told local media that one victim was a 67-year-old woman.
Most of the 50 structures in Fairdale were flattened and all were damaged, the fire department said.
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The teams will work to determine the magnitude of the tornadoes, and their precise paths overland.
Roger Scott, Sheriff off DeKalb County, said that approximately 15 to 20 homes in Fairdale were completely destroyed.
In nearby Rochelle, authorities have said 30 homes are destroyed or uninhabitable.
One resident of Fairdale told the Associated Press that his tiny community of about 150 people now looks "like a landfill" this morning.
Much of the damage was inaccessible to rescue crew on Thursday night due to wreckage blocking roads.
By Friday crews have continuing searching the collapsed structures for additional victims.
Authorities say that threat of tornados has dissipated Friday, although there is still a chance of rain and high winds.
A small family owned zoo was damaged by storm winds in Belvidere, Illinois. Three animals were killed and their shelters destroyed.
Sommerfield Zoo's owner, Tammy Anderson, told local media that after the winds died down she emerged from her basement to view find the zoo severely damaged and the animals gone.
"It was really hard to find the ones that were loose because it was so dark," she told the Chicago Tribune.
An online campaign has already raised over $40,000 (£27,000) from the public to rebuild the animal enclosures and fences.
Wales, competing in round two of the World League for the first time, finished second in their pool behind Italy with two wins from three.
Natalie Blyth, Beth Bingham and Eloise Laity scored against a Thailand.
It was also the second consecutive clean sheet for goalkeeper Rose Thomas after their 7-0 win over Singapore.
Wales' tournament opened with a 3-0 defeat by Italy and the convincing win against Singapore followed in Kuala Lumpur.
It is the first time Wales' women's hockey side have played at this level of competition.
In the Pool A clash with Singapore, Natasha Marke-Jones opened the scoring.
There were two goals each for Lisa Daley and Phoebe Richards, whilst Abi Welsford also found the net and Sarah Jones completed the rout.
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Humza Yousaf was speaking after a meeting of the government's resilience committee looked at what will happen when strikes clash with major events such as T in the Park and The Open.
The next RMT strike takes place on Sunday and Monday - days when many people will be travelling home from the music festival.
Further strikes clash with The Open, which is taking place at Royal Troon between 14 and 17 July.
The railway union is backing industrial action over concerns about the operation of more trains without guards.
ScotRail said it would always schedule a second person on trains.
It also claimed that 59% of its customers currently travel on a train where the doors are safely opened and closed by the driver.
Mr Yousaf said: "It is disappointing to see these strikes continue to affect commuters who simply want to go about their everyday lives without any further rail disruption.
"I would once again urge both parties to come together, get back round the table and resolve this dispute.
"This latest round of RMT strikes coincide with some of Scotland's major summer events, most notably T in the Park, The Scottish Open and The Open. However, transport planning for these events is well developed with information available to let people plan their journeys in advance."
Seven people have contacted solicitors alleging they were assaulted by Jon Styler at Malpas Church in Wales Primary School.
Mr Styler, who killed himself in 2007, reportedly denied the allegations.
Gwent Police said it was not currently investigating Mr Styler.
Jeff Parry from Newport, who was a pupil at the school in the 1970s, claims he was abused during private reading lessons in Mr Styler's office, when he was 10-years-old.
He said he felt no-one would have believed him at the time, but now wants an investigation to find out what the authorities might have known.
"I would like there to be an inquiry now into what happened because I don't want it to happen to any other child," he said.
Another alleged victim, who did not want to be named, claims he was abused at school, at a holiday caravan and after trips to the theatre.
Other media reports suggest Jon Styler had been arrested and released on bail over historical allegations.
The same reports also claimed he strongly denied the allegations in a letter written before his death.
A signed statement from a senior teacher who worked at the school at the time, seen by BBC Wales, alleges he told a number of organisations about his concerns "young vulnerable children were at considerable risk".
They include the Church in Wales, a teaching union and the then Gwent County Council.
The teacher claims Mr Styler was spoken to but no pupils were questioned.
Mr Styler also worked at Brynglas Primary School, Newport, from 1968, before later moving to Malpas Church in Wales Primary School.
No allegations have been made against him at any other institution.
Newport council said it took the allegations seriously but it could not comment further as the matter was subject to a legal claim.
Malpas Church in Wales Junior School said any allegations "should be fully investigated" but said "nobody connected with the school at that time remains".
The Church in Wales said it had "no record on file of claims against Mr Styler", while Gwent Police said there was currently no investigation into Mr Styler.
They refused to attend in March as they argued Mr Lungu was not the legitimate winner of last year's election.
Parliament speaker Patrick Matibini said the MPs' boycott was "gross misconduct", Lusaka Times reports.
The suspension comes as UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema is in detention facing treason charges.
Zambia's government has faced criticism from the country's Conference of Catholic Bishops over its handling of the case of the opposition leader. It warned that Zambia was slipping towards a "dictatorship".
The suspended 48 MPs represents nearly the entire parliamentary party of 58.
The speaker said their ban takes effect immediately and dared the suspended MPs to resign:
"I therefore challenge the UPND members that if they still maintain that they do not recognise the president, they should resign on moral grounds."
Zambia has been locked in a political crisis since Mr Hichilema was arrested in April following an incident in which a convoy he was travelling in allegedly refused to give way to the presidential motorcade.
Mr Hichillema, who lost to Mr Lungu in last year's close election, is accused of endangering the president's life. His lawyers argue that the charges are politically motivated.
Pte Matthew Boyd, 20, was off-duty in the barracks town of Brecon when he was allegedly attacked by Jake Vallely.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Mr Vallely, 24, of Brecon, punched and beat Pte Boyd on the ground before running off.
Mr Vallely denies murder. His friend Aaeron Evans, 23, also of Brecon, denies manslaughter.
Pte Boyd, who served with the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, was on his way back to his barracks when he was found unconscious by police in the early hours of 15 May.
The court was told Mr Vallely, an art gallery worker, had been on a seven hour drinking session by the time of the alleged murder.
He was said to have gone on a bar crawl following a game of football for Brecon Town FC.
Prosecutor Christopher Quinlan QC told the court Mr Vallely had said he was the "hardest man in Brecon" an hour or so before the attack.
"A little after midnight, he [Boyd] was attacked, he was beaten and as a consequence, he died," Mr Quinlan said.
"Matthew Boyd was punched, he went to the ground, and then he was beaten until he moved no more.
"Vallely dragged and dumped his body and then ran off."
Mr Evans is accused of manslaughter for allegedly helping in the attack.
Mr Quinlan QC said: "Both were involved in that violent, senseless attack that caused that young man's death. Evans assisted his friend.
"When interviewed by police Vallely accepted that he chased and punched Matthew Boyd. Evans said he played no part in it."
Pte Boyd was on a training exercise at the infantry battle school in Brecon at the time of the attack.
The jury was shown CCTV images of the assault in the street outside a bar in the town called The Cellar.
Mr Quinlan said Mr Vallely sent text messages to friends in the hours after the incident after hearing emergency services were at the scene.
He allegedly wrote: "But the little fight we had surely couldn't warrant that?
"The only thing I can think is he's fallen and hit his head or got run over. Is there CCTV down that street?
"I just ragged him on the floor a bit. Nothing serious. Wasn't even a beating like."
The court heard Mr Vallely later handed himself in at a police station.
Officers recovered his white polo shirt, stained with blood from Mr Vallely and Pte Boyd, from the gallery where he worked. Pte Boyd's blood was also found on a pair of Mr Vallely's trainers.
The trial continues.
Whilst most of the class used Lego or papier mâché for their masterpieces, Daisy decided that biscuit were her ideal building material.
With six packets of custard creams, and icing for glue, Daisy recreated the Colosseum.
She completed the creation with jelly-sweet gladiators, and a rubber lion.
It took a whole afternoon for Daisy to build the model, because she had to wait for the icing to dry on each tier of biscuits before adding the next one.
But it took much less time for the class to eat it!
The ex-Portsmouth, Bolton and West Ham man, aged 34, was released by Burnley after playing 28 games last term and helping them to win the Championship.
Taylor, who has made 617 career appearances, turned down contracts from two Championship clubs to move closer to his family in Oxfordshire.
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The union Unite said the action at the Kilmalid site was in response to a pay offer from Chivas Regal.
Unite has accused the company of "ignoring the voice of its workforce" who rejected the offer of a four-year deal on pay.
An overtime ban is already in place at the bottling plant, which is being expanded as the company moves work there from Paisley.
The firm has offered the workforce a four-year pay deal, with a 1.5% increase in the first year. The increase in subsequent years would be an average of the CPIH official measure of inflation for 2017- 2019.
Chivas last year announced plans to invest £40m at the Dumbarton plant.
It will be part of a three-year programme which will see all operations moves from Paisley to Kilmalid.
Unite official Elaine Dougall said: "Our members are angry that this offer which was tabled on 18 July and was rejected overwhelmingly in a ballot by 86% fails to recognise the contribution our members make to the success of Chivas.
"We will continue to press hard for a settlement to this dispute until the eleventh hour but our members are clear: they want to see a significantly improved offer and harmonisation of terms and conditions on the table before they will consider withdrawing from industrial action.
"This dispute will only be settled if our members get a genuine commitment from the company which is an improvement on its recent offer."
She added: "Unite would urge Chivas to see sense and improve their offer and work with us to get this dispute settled."
Defence ministers from the three countries signed the deal on Friday.
Poland's defence ministry said the brigade would be based in the eastern Polish city of Lublin but the soldiers would remain in their home countries.
Poland and Lithuania are eager to bolster defences following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula earlier this year.
Russia sent thousands of troops to the peninsula in March, eventually forcing Ukrainian soldiers to withdraw.
Shortly afterwards, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions declared their independence.
More than 3,000 people have died in fighting between Ukrainian government forces and separatists since April.
A spokesman for the Polish defence ministry said work to form the joint unit with Ukraine and Lithuania first began in 2007, adding that it would operate under the guidance of the UN, Nato and the EU.
The unit would participate in peacekeeping missions, the spokesman added, but no details were given on any potential role in Ukraine's conflict.
Earlier this week, soldiers from Poland and Lithuania joined about 1,300 soldiers from 15 countries - including the US and other Nato members - in military exercises in western Ukraine.
In response, Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said it must boost its forces in Crimea to counter the presence of Western troops in Ukraine.
Also on Friday, Nato defence chiefs agreed to set up regional centres in several Eastern European countries, during a meeting Lithuania's capital Vilnius.
Lithuania's chief of defence Jonas Vytautas Zukas said the "command-and-control" centres would be launched in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Romania and would each employ up to 120 military personnel,
Meanwhile, Sweden said on Friday that it had lodged a complaint with Russia's ambassador in Stockholm about two Russian fighter planes entering Swedish airspace.
Swedish officials said the jets had briefly violated Swedish airspace on Wednesday near the eastern island of Oland.
In another diplomatic row, Lithuania said it had summoned Russia's ambassador to Vilnius after a Lithuanian fishing vessel was detained by Russian authorities earlier this week.
Virgin Kitesurfing Armada UK's attempt off Hayling Island, Hampshire, involved 423 participants parading over a one-mile (1.6 km) course on Sunday.
Guinness World Records has verified the attempt was a new record.
The previous record was set by Virgin Kitesurfing Armada South Africa when 415 kitesurfers completed a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) course off Cape Town.
Kitesurfers from around the world took part in the record attempt at Hayling Island, which took three-and-a-half hours to complete.
Event organiser Dan Charlish said: "It has been an amazing experience - 423 kitesurfers is a fantastic total and everyone should be really proud."
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The Stones came close to claiming an upset but Frannie Collin was denied by the feet of keeper Chris Day.
Boro almost won it late on with Roarie Deacon's strike from a narrow angle before Chris Beardsley's header came off the outside of the post.
The replay will now take place on a 3G pitch - just days after Football League clubs voted against their introduction.
The SNP launched its youth manifesto at an event in Cumbernauld, while Labour insisted that a vote for the nationalists will "put Scotland on the road to a second referendum".
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson focused on her party's "biggest ever doorstep campaign".
Deputy Lib Dem leader Sir Malcolm Bruce has been campaigning in the north east.
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy visited a school basketball court in Edinburgh and challenged Nicola Sturgeon to "come clean on her plans for a second referendum".
He said: "The priority for SNP MPs after this election won't be improving the economy, it will be planning the second referendum campaign.
"A vote for Scottish Labour will put Britain on the road to a fairer economy. With Scottish votes, Labour can get the Tories out of power, stop austerity, ban zero-hours contracts and end the need for food banks.
"Only Labour can stop the Tories being the largest party.
"The choice is simple - the road to a second referendum with the SNP or the road to a fairer economy with Labour."
Meanwhile Ms Sturgeon joined actor Martin Compston to commit her party to policies "to support and empower our young people".
The SNP youth manifesto states that 16 and 17-year-olds should be entitled to vote in all elections, as well as pledging to increase the minimum wage for under 18s by £1.20 an hour and create 30,000 modern apprenticeships each year.
The party said it would also continue to oppose the introduction of tuition fees for Scottish students at universities north of the border, and that its MPs would vote in favour of reducing tuition fees across the UK.
Ms Sturgeon said: "The biggest investment we can make in Scotland's future is in our young people - and as first minister I am determined to do everything I can to support and empower them.
"We are doing all we can to strengthen and grow our economy to provide more opportunities for young people close to home.
"In numbers at Westminster we go further - pushing for an increase in the minimum wage for under 18s by over £1.20 an hour to ensure more young people are better paid.
"A strong team of SNP MPs will stand up for the rights of young people at every turn and deliver the progressive action that is needed to support more of our young people into work, education or training."
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, Scottish Conservative leader Ms Davidson has been highlighting what she calls her party's "ground war".
She said: "This is the biggest doorstep campaign ever run by Tories in Scotland and the best planned, regimented, resourced and recruited campaign we've had since 1992."
Speaking on BBC Scotland's Sunday Politics Scotland programme, Ms Davidson also commented on the issue of a second independence referendum.
She said: "I've been saying since January that Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon are half way down the aisle to a deal, what's this going to mean, is there going to be second referendum?
"And people in Scotland are genuinely worried about this. I have been doing street stalls all across the country and people have been walking up to me and saying they are genuinely scared about this."
For the Liberal Democrats, Sir Malcolm has been campaigning in Aberdeen.
He set out Lib Dem plans to build "a stronger, greener economy to create jobs and protect the environment". He said protecting the environment was "in Liberal Democrat DNA".
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie also appeared on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme. He accused the Conservatives of stirring up English nationalism.
He said: "I think it is despicable what the Conservatives are doing in this campaign.
"I think they way they are trying to use Alex Salmond and the SNP to represent Scotland, to demonise Scotland, is festering English nationalism."
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Cardiff-born Reynolds, 24, missed three consecutive darts at double top that would have given him a 3-0 whitewash.
Englishman Blackwell, 42, battled back to record a 3-2 first-round victory.
Meanwhile, last year's losing finalist Jeff Smith of Canada overcame England's Brian Dawson 3-2 to progress to the next round.
Lawn Tennis Association chief executive Michael Downey will serve a six-month notice period that will see him remain in place until after Wimbledon.
"I've been honoured to have led the LTA over the last three years," he said.
"I am hugely proud of the foundations the team at the LTA have laid in order to turn participation in Britain's beloved sport around. "
He added: "It's an exciting time for tennis in this country and I look forward to the next six months, maintaining the momentum we've built in our continued mission to get more people playing tennis, more often."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
Three and a half years in a role such as this is often not long enough to leave much of a mark, but after an uncertain start, Michael Downey has left his imprint on British tennis.
The performance department was allowed to remain in a state of flux for far too long, but with Simon Timson now at the helm, the LTA has a man who in the same role at UK Sport oversaw Britain's stunningly successful Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games.
There has been a rise in the number of people playing tennis under Downey's watch and he certainly brought a phenomenal work ethic with him. Given the salary on offer and a potentially bright future for the sport, there is sure to be a lot of interest in succeeding him.
Ministers want to begin the process of reducing the 22 councils to eight or nine after May's assembly election.
The local government committee has urged the Welsh government to consider lending councils money for the mergers.
Ministers said options to pay for mergers include using reserves or other "borrowing approaches".
Merger plans have had a hostile reception from political opponents and some Labour council leaders.
An assessment for the Welsh government of how much local authorities would need to spend preparing for mergers in 2019-20, the year before new authorities would be established, puts the costs at between £54m and £90m.
The total cost of the merger process, from 2019-20 to 2023-24, is estimated to be between £97m and £246m.
The Welsh Local Government Association has warned it would be "impossible" for councils to meet the costs of mergers without significant cuts to services.
The committee's report, published on Wednesday, said: "While we recognise the potential for savings in the medium to long term, we consider it unrealistic to expect authorities to meet the upfront costs without any assistance from the Welsh government."
The report said the committee was "pleased to hear" Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews would "not rule out" giving councils repayable grants.
"While this may not be the preferred solution for local government, we believe it would be more acceptable than the current position and a positive step forward," the report said.
The Welsh government said: "The minister for public services has previously highlighted the net savings of up to £650m over 10 years which would arise from mergers.
"He has made it clear that there are a number of routes open to local authorities in paying for mergers including using reserves, invest-to-save and other borrowing approaches."
One user complained of receiving more than 90 marketing messages from Orange, one of EE's brands, in a four-day period.
The text messages were reminders that the customers were eligible to add to their plans numbers that they can call for free.
EE said it was the result of a technical error that it was still working to fix.
Customers complained on social media and on the firm's own website.
"What is going on here? Both my wife and myself have been bombarded with texts about adding a new magic number for several days now and I'm getting mighty sick of it," wrote one customer on EE's website on Saturday.
"Orange have now texted me 40 times in three days telling me I can add a magic number. Yeh, that's not annoying at all," wrote Laura Brannan on Twitter.
And another Twitter user Siobhan Ring wrote: "If I get one more text from @orange saying I can add a new magic number I may scream!! Receiving around 50 a day!"
The messages read: "Hi from Orange. Congratulations: you can now add another Magic Number." It included a link customers could follow to do so.
In response to the complaints on the website, a member of EE's community team named as Miles wrote on Sunday that the firm was "having an issue" with the text message service.
He wrote: "This reminder should only be sent once, but some customers are getting multiple reminders.
"If you've received any of these duplicate messages, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience. Remember: you're not charged to receive magic number reminders."
He added that he expected to be able to give customers an update on Monday, but none has been issued so far.
An EE spokesman confirmed the details of Miles' post, but could not give any information on the number of people affected.
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The prime minister said India "can be a difficult country to do business in" but insisted he wanted the UK to become India's economic "partner of choice".
He wanted to see UK firms playing a bigger role in a "more open, more flexible" Indian economy, he said.
Mr Cameron is on a three-day visit to India with a British trade delegation.
The PM has also outlined a same-day visa scheme to make the process easier for India's business community.
During what is Mr Cameron's second trip to India as UK PM, he is due to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee.
Speaking to the BBC's Jon Sopel, Mr Cameron said he would examine with his Indian counterpart how to "take down the barriers" between the two countries.
"We'll be saying to the Indians: 'We'd like to see your economy more open, more flexible, more easy to invest in, so that British firms in insurance or banking or retail can play a bigger part in the Indian economy.'
"It's a conversation we need to have, but a conversion that has two sides."
By James LandaleDeputy political editor
The prime minister insisted that India was "one of the great success stories of this century", adding that he believed it would be a "top three [world] economy" by 2030.
"I want Britain to be its partner of choice, helping to build those motorways, helping to provide those universities, helping to invest in healthcare and also encouraging Indian investment back into the UK," he said.
But Mr Cameron sounded a cautionary note over corruption in India, while admitting the British economy was not immune to rogue trading.
He said: "I don't come here to preach to anybody, but clearly every country has to be on their guard against bribery and corruption as the Indians themselves know."
Mr Cameron arrived in Mumbai on Monday with the biggest entourage of British business people ever taken on an overseas trip by a UK prime minister.
Those represented include BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, the London Underground and the English Premier League.
At a question-and-answer-session at Unilever headquarters in Mumbai, Mr Cameron said: "India's rise is going to be one of the great phenomena of this century and it is incredibly impressive to see.
"We've only just started on the sort of partnership that we could build. As far as I'm concerned, the sky is the limit."
Mr Cameron promised up to £1m to help fund a feasibility study into using British expertise to develop a "business corridor" between Mumbai and Bangalore.
"It would unleash India's potential along the 1,000 kilometres from Mumbai to Bangalore, transforming lives and putting British businesses in prime position to secure valuable commercial deals," he added.
Among the businessmen joining Mr Cameron on the trip is the chief executive of the English Premier League, Richard Scudamore, who told the BBC that football was the fastest growing sport in India.
He said interest in the league had been growing exponentially.
"Ten years ago it was very small, and it's grown and we've just concluded our deals for the next three years, and we've had exponential growth here both in audience and revenue terms, so it's an increasingly important market for us."
Mr Scudamore added that the Premier League runs a skills and coaching initiative in India, in conjunction with the British Council, to further Indian interest in the sport.
Another of the trip's aims is to address controversy over the recent toughening of UK visa rules.
Mr Cameron said there was no limit on the number of Indian students that could come to British universities, as long as they had an English language qualification and a place to study.
In a round of TV interviews in Mumbai, Mr Cameron said Britain welcomed Indian university students.
"We want to make sure that we are attracting... the best and the brightest," he said.
"And in terms of our visa operation here in India, it is the biggest one we have anywhere in the world. Nine out of 10 of those who apply for a visa get one."
The prime minister also spoke of making Britain's visa system simpler for Indian businesses.
"We are introducing today a same-day visa service for business people who want to come to Britain for linking up their businesses for trade and other things like that," he said.
Later on Monday, Mr Cameron visited a memorial to the 16 Indian police officers killed during the terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008.
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But he fancied his video game skills and entered Nissan's GT Academy competition while on a gap year.
After beating 90,000 other gamers at racing simulation game Gran Turismo, Jann was offered the chance to train as a professional driver.
He's now joining Arden Motorsport to compete in the 2014 GP3 series, which is just two rungs below Formula 1.
The 22-year-old from Cardiff has also been taken on by Infiniti Red Bull's driver development programme.
Jann says winning GT Academy was a huge shock: "I thought I was pretty good because I could beat my friends on my street, but it was the first time trial I ever entered.
"I just wanted to see how I stacked up against people across Europe but I didn't expect to win. No way I thought that!"
Since 2011 he has competed in British GT, Formula 3's European Championship, and a series in New Zealand, but describes the latest step up as "big boy time".
GP3 launched in 2010 and follows the entire European leg of the Formula 1 season.
That means Jann will be racing at Silverstone on the same weekend as the British Grand Prix.
"There's a lot more power, more downforce, and it's going to be more difficult to shine.
"But it's in the shop window on the same weekend as Formula 1, on the same tracks, and in front of all the right people."
Three of the four GP3 championship winners have graduated to Formula 1.
Jann says that's the dream, but still just a dream for now.
"It's the top of motorsport and it's what I want to achieve. That would be amazing if it happened but I'm not trying to plan things out.
"I just want to live in the moment and go as hard as I can - see what happens after that."
And is he still gaming?
"I still play Gran Turismo, play a few shooting games," says Jann.
"It's not quite the same, but you can't always be in a racing car!
"But even for new tracks I still use it as a bit of testing, to learn the tracks.
"You don't want to be go into Stowe and miss your breaking point - so you can take a few risks on the game that you wouldn't take in real life."
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Switzerland has for centuries been a neutral state, which means that it cannot take part in armed conflict unless it is attacked. Its forces can only be used for self-defence and internal security.
It joined the United Nations only in 2002. Surrounded by the European Union, it has vacillated between seeking closer engagement with its powerful neighbour and other international organisations, and preferring a more isolationist course.
The people are given a direct say in their own affairs under Switzerland's system of direct democracy, which has no parallel in any other country.
They are invited to the polls several times a year to vote in national or regional referendums and people's initiatives.
Population 7.7 million
Area 41,284 sq km (15,940 sq miles)
Major languages German, French, Italian, Romansch
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 80 years (men), 85 years (women)
Currency Swiss Franc
Federal President (rotating): Doris Leuthard
Switzerland is unusual in having a collective head of state, the seven-member Federal Council, which doubles up as the country's cabinet.
The council was set up by the constitution of 1848, which is still in force today.
Members are elected for four-year terms by a joint session of both houses of parliament, although in practice changes in membership are rare, making the Federal Council one of the world's most stable governments.
The election of a new female minister to the Federal Council in September 2010 gave the cabinet a majority of women for the first time in the country's history.
Each year, by tradition, a different member of the council fills the largely ceremonial post of federal president on a rotating basis. The office does not confer the status of head of state, which is held jointly by all the councillors.
Doris Leuthard - the president for 2017 - has been energy and transport minister since 2010, during which year she held the post of president. Trained as a lawyer, she is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (PDC/CVP).
Broadcasting is dominated by the public Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG/SSR). Most of its funding comes from licence fee revenues; a smaller proportion comes from TV advertising.
About 87% of the population was online by the end of 2015.
Some key dates in the history of Switzerland:
1291 - Origin of the Swiss confederation when three cantons form an alliance to resist outside control.
1815 - In the wake of the Napoleonic wars, the borders of Switzerland - and the territory's neutrality - are established at the Congress of Vienna.
1939-45 - Switzerland declares neutrality at start of Second World War.
1971 - Women granted right to vote in federal elections.
1998 - Swiss banks agree $1.25bn compensation deal with Holocaust survivors and families.
2002 - Switzerland becomes a member of the UN.
2009 - Switzerland says it will relax its rules on banking secrecy to allow financial institutions to co-operate with international investigations into tax evasion.
The Qatari support for Islamists throughout the Middle East as a strategy to establish itself as a regional powerbroker now looks increasingly threadbare.
In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad is slowly but surely gaining the upper hand on rebel forces that have had substantial backing from Qatar but it is Egypt where the young Emir may be left holding onto a policy that has cost the Qataris billions while backing the Morsi government.
The strategy of support for Mr Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood looked a shrewd one just a year ago. Egypt had emerged from its Arab spring revolution to hold its first fair and open presidential election. Mr Morsi won a slight majority.
Key to his election victory was the promise to revitalise Egypt's moribund economy. The Qataris positioned themselves to prime the pump with massive transfers of cash, some $10 billion (£6.5bn) since Mr Morsi came to power.
But this was not a charitable giveaway. It was in the nature of an investment. A Qatari economist told the BBC: "We couldn't stand by and let Egypt collapse", but the billions came with an expectation - "I'll give you the money, show me the outcome," he said.
The Qataris had already secured a lucrative deal to sell their gas to the Egyptians and they were proposing to heavily invest in the redevelopment of the Suez Canal.
The thinking was that with a functioning economy and a grateful nation, Qatar would be in pole position to capitalise on a resurgent Egypt.
But as Mr Morsi stumbled from one failure to another, the promised economic recovery never got off the ground.
On Wednesday that cost Mr Morsi his job and left the Qataris busy attempting damage control. Al Jazeera, based in the Qatari capital, Doha, and funded heavily by the royal family, carried a statement from what it called a foreign ministry source that said in part "Qatar will remain a supporter of brotherly Egypt".
And the new Emir Tamim sent best wishes to the interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour.
Michael Stephens, a Gulf analyst with Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) Doha agrees that damage limitation is the order of the day for Qatar.
"The Qataris got into bed with one side and now that side is out," he said.
Mr Stephens said that a senior Qatari businessman had told him "it's like we've dumped our girlfriend", but Mr Stephens said it is not quite as simple as that.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is out for now but in a fair and free election they could be voted back in."
Even so, Sheikh Tamim and his advisors will be scrambling to establish a new position on Egypt, one that for the time being at least extricates them from their close relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood while striving to protect the billions they have already invested.
And his task is made all the more difficult with the departure of the long-serving Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim al Thani.
He was seen as the architect of an assertive Middle East foreign policy that saw Qatar backing Islamist rebels in Libya and securing American agreement to arm Syrian rebels, Islamist and non-Islamist alike (though the suspicion was that the Qataris were directing weapons to hardcore Islamist factions like the al-Nusra front rather than to secular rebels).
And of course the unwavering support - until the events of Wednesday - for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
The prime minister left his twin posts at the same time that Sheikh Tamim took over. HBJ as he is known has been replaced as foreign minister by Khalid al-Atiyya.
Mr Atiyya will need all of his reputedly formidable intellect in assisting the new Emir to devise a foreign policy shorn of an Islamist agenda.
It was the aggressive pursuit of that agenda that annoyed Qatar's Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) allies, neighbouring Saudi Arabia being the most important of those, but certainly the United Arab Emirates, which is in the midst of a harsh crackdown on a Muslim Brotherhood associated religious society al-Islah, may be forgiven for a bit of a gloat at the expense of the Qataris.
And both those countries will be looking to advance their position in Egypt at Qatar's expense.
The hosts declared on their overnight total of 264-4, but rain forced an early lunch with the Kiwis 48-1.
Opener Martin Guptill resisted for 133 balls for his 23, while Kane Williamson added 59 to his first-innings 140 but fell just before tea.
The rain returned to wash out the final session with the Black Caps on 142-3.
With only 53 overs possible on day four, the fifth and final day will start half-an-hour earlier at 23:30 GMT.
When play does resume, much will depend on the two experienced men at the crease - New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum (four not out) and his predecessor Ross Taylor (20 not out) - if the tourists are to save the Test, although the weather may again play a part.
Guptill was dropped at short leg in the second over but Tom Latham was the first wicket to fall when he was trapped lbw by an inswinging yorker from left-arm paceman Mitchell Starc.
But it was off-spinner Nathan Lyon who took the other two wickets, finally inducing an edge to slip from the obdurate Guptill.
Williamson was adjudged lbw but he narrowly failed to overturn the decision on review, the ball-tracker suggesting the ball may have just clipped the top of the bails with an "umpire's call" verdict from the third umpire upholding the on-field decision.
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Gordon McRorie's penalty and a DTH van der Merwe try put Canada 8-0 in front at half-time.
The lead became 15-0 as Jeff Hassler bounced his way out of some tame tackling to touch down.
But number eight Mihai Macovei went over for two late tries and Florin Vlaicu's penalty won it for Romania.
It is the first time Canada have lost all four of their group matches at a World Cup, while Romania can still finish third in Pool D - securing automatic qualification for the 2019 World Cup - if they beat Italy on Sunday.
A Canada victory seemed on the cards after a one-sided first half. Van der Merwe became the first player from a tier-two nation to score a try in four successive World Cup matches, after scores against Ireland, France and Italy.
The 29-year-old showed the one moment of clinical finishing in an opening period that saw numerous promising situations.
Van der Merwe is set to join Scarlets from Glasgow at the end of this tournament and the Welsh side will no doubt have been impressed by his powerful running and ability.
When Hassler took full advantage of some weak defending to touch down for a converted try after the interval, Canada were in full control at 15-0 up.
Romania's predictable battering-ram approach up front was making little impact against a resolute wall of red.
Countless times the Canadians saw off several phases of play and the lack of progress and defensive pressure resulted in an inevitable Romania handling error as they tried to play the ball out wide in slippery conditions.
Finally Romania seemed to twig, keeping the ball within yards of their huge pack and driving forward from close quarters, with their captain Macovei the inspiration.
He went over to set Canada nerves jangling and, after Jebb Sinclair was sin-binned for bringing down a rolling maul, Macovei's second close-range score made it 15-12.
Vlaicu added the extras and slotted a nerveless late penalty in a game that saw both sides miss several kicks at goal.
Romania coach Lynn Howells: "They've earned the right for a beer but it won't be to a great extent.
"It'll be in the team room and we'll have control over them."
Canada captain Jamie Cudmore: "What do you think it feels like? It's horrible. The guys are extremely disappointed after working so hard."
Canada manager Gareth Rees: "To echo Jamie's comments, it is totally unacceptable to finish a campaign with that performance, for 30 minutes, and to finish a game like that.
"I would like to apologise on behalf of the players that we let those people down."
Canada: Jones, Hassler, Hearn, Blevins, van der Merwe, Hirayama, McRorie, Buydens, Barkwill, Wooldridge, Beukeboom, Cudmore, Sinclair, Moonlight, Carpenter.
Replacements: Pritchard for Jones (74), Trainor for Blevins (49), Mack for McRorie (49), Sears-Duru for Buydens (45), Ilnicki for Wooldridge (67), Dala for Moonlight (63).
Not Used: Piffero, Gilmour.
Sin Bin: Sinclair (73).
Romania: Fercu, Lemnaru, Kinikinilau, Vlaicu, Botezatu, Wiringi, Surugiu, Lazar, Turashvili, Ion, Popirlan, van Heerden, V. Ursache, Lucaci, Macovei.
Replacements: Gal for Wiringi (51), Calafeteanu for Surugiu (22), Tarus for Lazar (74), Radoi for Turashvili (65), A. Ursache for Ion (45), Carpo for Lucaci (77).
Not Used: Burcea, Apostol.
Sin Bin: Fercu (20).
Att: 27,153
Ref: Wayne Barnes (RFU).
A 12th defeat in 20 league games leaves the Buddies seven points adrift at the foot of the Scottish Championship.
At full-time, Ross entered the lower reaches of the main stand to exchange words with a supporter.
"It was done in a calm and controlled manner and I would do it again," he told BBC Scotland.
"I felt it was appropriate at the time.
"There are some aspects of the game in Scotland that I've become hugely frustrated with and one of them is this myth that people can say what they want. I don't agree with that and I know other managers feel the same way.
"Fans have every right to express an opinion and every right to be passionate.
"However, sometimes people draw a line and that's not in any way saying I am not able to accept criticism.
"The point was to speak to the gentleman in question and say 'I'll happily have a conversation with a supporter at any time and hear his thoughts'.
"These supporters have been there long before me and they'll be there long after I'm gone. But they must understand my passion for the role as well.
"I know it has probably created a debate but, for me, there was not an awful lot in it."
Ross, a former St Mirren player, took over from Alex Rae in early October and concedes the club are in "a very difficult place" but remains optimistic about avoiding relegation.
"Our performance level in the main has been good over the last two or three months and there is a solid argument to say we should have picked up more points," he said.
"However, there have been one or two games in that period where we've looked like a team in the position we are for a reason. Yesterday, was one of those days.
"Of course the situation is serious but we still have a significant number of games left in the season.
"The points difference between us and Ayr didn't change, so when we go back to work on Monday the challenge remains the same, albeit with one game less to go.
"There's a fragility about the players that comes with the way the season has panned out. As the manager it's my responsibility to try to create a different mentality within the group."
Aberdeen midfielder Craig Storie joins the Buddies on loan from Monday and Ross is hopeful of bringing in one or two more new recruits.
"I understood completely the situation I was coming into and where we were budget-wise," he explained. "I knew there would not be any extra funds.
"With [loan players] Tom Walsh and Ryan Hardie leaving, that frees up some money.
"Whether I can bring in any more is subject to me being able to have more turnover of players, that's the stark reality.
"I still have complete faith in getting more out of the players and then you are looking at bringing in the correct ones who can contribute.
"There are good foundations in place at this club and if we can drag ourselves out of this position the potential is huge."
Loye, 43, left his role as high performance head coach of the Bangladesh Cricket Board in October 2015 amid security "worries".
In July an attack targeted at foreigners killed 20 people in a cafe in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital.
"ECB security has done a good job in the past," said Loye.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) carried out a security review in the country following a series of deadly attacks and consulted players and officials on 25 August, before deciding to go ahead with the tour.
Last autumn, Australia postponed a tour to Bangladesh for security reasons, after an Italian aid worker was killed in the country, in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State.
Loye, who played in seven one-day internationals, also represented Northamptonshire and Lancashire in the County Championship, before taking up a coaching role with Bangladesh in May 2015.
"There is always doubt. I'm not saying anything would happen - because anything can happen in Paris, London, Manchester, wherever.
"I would go," added Loye. "England - I feel - should get past the security issue and embrace the challenge with what happens on the field."
4 October - Tour match, Mirpur
7 October - First ODI (day/night), Mirpur
9 October - Second ODI (d/n), Mirpur
12 October - Third ODI (d/n), Chittagong
14-15 October - Tour match, Chittagong
16-17 October - Tour match, Chittagong
20-24 October - First Test, Chittagong
28 October-1 November - Second Test, Mirpur
The incident happened near Central Park football ground in Cowdenbeath.
Members of a visiting circus discovered the leak as they were dismantling their equipment at about 20:40 on Sunday.
They were sent to bed and breakfast accommodation for the night, along with residents of Chapel Street and Rowan Street.
A police spokesman said the residents were out of their homes for about seven hours.
It said the training would help police address changes in crime-fighting.
Prospective officers can either complete a three-year "degree apprenticeship", a postgraduate conversion course or a degree.
The National Police Chiefs' Council said the changes would "help modernise the service".
Recruitment requirements currently vary from force to force, with some insisting that applicants have A-levels or a certificate in policing and others demanding experience in a policing role.
The College of Policing, which is responsible for setting standards of ethics and training for the police service, said about a third (38%) of those currently going into policing have a degree or post-graduate qualification.
But the college's Chief Constable Alex Marshall said the current workforce was not getting the same investment in training and development as people in other professions, such as medicine or the military.
"It is very lopsided and we don't do a lot of professional development training," he said.
"The nature of police work is getting quite complex and it is quite contentious, and the public expectation is that you'll be patrolling in my street and, by the way, you'll be patrolling online."
"We don't think the investment has been made in policing in terms of professional development and this is one of the ways that we start to address that."
The money for the apprenticeships, due to be introduced next year, is expected to come from a new 0.5% apprenticeship levy on all employers with a wage bill of more than £3m.
Under the apprenticeship, due to be introduced next year, new recruits will undertake a three-year course, spending 80% of their time on the frontline, and the rest completing their degree while receiving a salary.
A six-month postgraduate conversion course would also be funded by the police.
In contrast, the policing degree would be self-funded and the student would need to apply for a police job once qualified.
The syllabus is likely to cover the law, safeguarding the vulnerable, understanding how an officer behaves on the street and how an officer builds trust by interacting well with communities, Chief Constable Marshall said.
The College of Policing is in talks with 12 universities about running the courses.
The announcement follows a two-month public consultation which received more than 3,000 responses.
Almost 80% of the responses were from police officers, with the majority keen to gain accreditation for their existing skills, Mr Marshall said.
Other changes to be introduced include:
Andy Fittes, general secretary of the Police Federation of England and Wales, welcomed the move to accredit qualifications to serving officers, and supported the idea of a framework that might standardise courses.
He added that the federation was glad to see a move away from requiring minimum education requirements for those joining the service.
"There is a balance to be struck around encouraging people to have a certain level of education before joining the force, and marginalising and excluding good quality candidates from all communities by limiting the pool of potential candidates if they are unable to afford it," he said.
Chief Constable Giles York, the National Police Chiefs Council lead for workforce, said police need the right skills and knowledge to keep people safe in the 21st century.
He said: "It is also fair and right that police officers, as professionals, receive the recognition and accreditation they deserve, meaning the public will continue to get the high quality service they need."
They could be moderate Muslim clerics, human rights activists or local elders, but their task is probably far more difficult because of the media glare on Nigeria - a point ex-US Navy Seal Dan O'Shea makes.
"Hostage releases were done in Iraq. They were done in secrecy. They were done in back-door channels," Mr O'Shea told BBC Newsday.
"This case has brought such worldwide attention that it takes that option off the table for the Nigerian government."
Boko Haram has a propaganda arm, known as the "public enlightenment department".
It is not as sophisticated as that of militant groups such as Somalia's al-Shabab which runs a radio station and has propagandists with a good command of English. It also had several Twitter accounts until recently.
Instead, Boko Haram hand delivers videos to journalists in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the group's former headquarters, containing messages from its leader, Abubakar Shekau, in the local Hausa language and Arabic.
The videos are given to local newspapers and one foreign news agency - French-owned AFP, which obtained the video showing 136 of the abducted girls on 12 May.
"The media focus makes it more challenging," says Mr O'Shea, pointing out that it gives Boko Haram the opportunity to gain maximum publicity and "leverage" over the Nigerian government.
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Why Nigeria has not defeated Boko Haram
Some analysts believe the intervention of countries such as the US, UK and Israel - which have sent experts to Nigeria to help deal with crisis - will also complicate efforts to gain the freedom of the girls.
Boko Haram has a deep-seated hatred for these countries, and it is bound to toughen its position in the hope of humiliating the Western powers to enhance its status in the eyes of the global jihadi movement.
The abduction of the girls has, after all, put Boko Haram in the big league of African jihadi movements - alongside al-Shabab, which was responsible for the siege of the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya in September 2013, and Mokhtar Belmokhtar's Signed in Blood Battalion, which seized control of a gas plant in Algeria in January 2013, with about 800 workers in it.
Both these sieges ended in a bloodbath - in Kenya, at least 67 people died while in Algeria, where the security forces stormed the gas plant after refusing to accept foreign help, about 80 people were killed in the ensuing shoot-out.
In Nigeria, more than 200 children are being held in the vast Sambisa forest - the main hide-out of Boko Haram, along the border with Cameroon.
Grant Fredericks, a forensic video analyst who teaches video science at the FBI's national academy, says experts will study the the video carefully.
"The investigators will look at the kind of vegetation in the area that will narrow to a degree some of the potential locations. They will also look at shadows and try to determine, if they can, where and when it was recorded," Mr Fredericks told the BBC's Today programme.
He says the US once did this effectively with the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, using an "iconic" video of his to establish his location while he was on the run after the overthrow of the Taleban in Afghanistan in 2001.
In Nigeria, locals already have clues to the whereabouts of the children and their captors.
Hunters - with expert knowledge of the area - tried to enter the forest soon after the 14 April abductions to track down the girls, but turned back after villagers warned them that the Boko Haram base was well-protected and they risked death.
Mr O'Shea says there are bound to be casualties if the security forces launch a rescue mission.
"Many of the young girls could be caught up in the crossfire. There are very few options for everyone involved - the Nigerian government [and] the Western governments that are sending law enforcement, military and intelligence capabilities to help with the search for these girls," he told the BBC.
Boko Haram and the government have quietly negotiated prisoner swaps in the past - including that of Mr Shekau's wife in exchange for the release of the wives and children of government soldiers.
And last year, Reuters news agency reported that the Nigerian government paid a ransom of more than $3m (£2m) for the release of a French family of seven, including four children, abducted by Boko Haram in neighbouring Cameroon.
So if intermediaries are involved in efforts to free the girls, money is bound to change hands - and that would help strengthen Boko Haram's war chest.
"How this ends no-one knows but there just isn't a lot of good endings to this story," says Mr O'Shea.
"No matter what path you go down - be it negotiations or the attempt to launch a hostage rescue mission that will be fraught with danger."
The American, 22, won the Masters and US Open, missed out by one shot on a play-off at The Open and finished second in the US PGA Championship.
Spieth has won twice in 2016 but blew a five-shot lead at the Masters in April.
"Most of the questions are comparing to last year and that's unfair because that's happened less than a dozen times to anybody in golf," he said.
"I would appreciate if people would look at the positives over comparing to maybe what would hopefully happen to me a few times in my career, a year like last year.
"So it seems a bit unfair, at 22, to be expecting something like that all the time."
Spieth made four birdies in the first seven holes at The Open on Saturday but dropped five strokes in seven holes as he finished five over for the tournament after three rounds.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was "concerned" the 13 February release could lead to a "spike" in people being stuck or trapped in handcuffs or rings.
Since April it has attended 393 such incidents.
LFB said people should use "common sense" but always call 999 in a genuine emergency.
The film, based on the novel by EL James, has been described as a "mummy-porn romance" and follows an affair between student Anastasia Steele and billionaire Christian Grey.
Dave Brown from LFB said: "The Fifty Shades effect seems to spike handcuff incidents so we hope film-goers will use common sense and avoid leaving themselves red-faced.
"I'd like to remind everyone that 999 is an emergency number and should only be used as such."
The brigade said on average it was called to more than one embarrassing incident every day at a cost of about £295 to the taxpayer each time.
In November, firefighters were called by doctors at King's College Hospital to cut two steel rings from a man's genitals, which he had been unable to remove for three days.
On another occasion, the brigade was called by a woman whose husband had become locked in a chastity belt.
A spokesman added that while there could sometimes be a "funny side" to some of these predicaments, they could be painful and "end up wasting emergency service time".
He added: "Our advice is to try and avoid getting in that position in the first place."
The data, collected by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, showed 88% of A&E patients were treated or admitted within four hours - below the 95% target.
The figures are based on evidence submitted by more than 40 trusts - one in five of the total in the UK.
Hospitals also reported significant problems discharging patients.
In some places, a fifth of hospital beds are occupied by patients who are ready to leave hospital but cannot be discharged because of a lack of community services available to care for them.
The problems have developed despite three-quarters of hospitals increasing their stock of beds to try to relieve the pressure, and a growing number of routine operations being cancelled.
College president Dr Cliff Mann predicted the "worst is yet to come".
"The majority of hospitals have endeavoured to increase the number of beds available to cope.
"Despite this, elective operations have had to be cancelled and postponed as bed capacity is insufficient to cope."
He also said the problems with delayed discharges - which have caused a number of hospitals to declare major incidents - showed no signs of diminishing.
The college has been collecting the data for the past seven weeks to monitor the pressures on hospitals during winter.
It shows a gradual worsening in performance since hospitals started submitting the data at the start of October.
Then, just over 92% of patients were seen in four hours, compared with 88% in the week ending 13 November.
If that performance is replicated across the NHS - and the college says the data should reflect the national picture - it means hospitals are in the worst shape heading into winter for a generation.
Weekly data on the four-hour target in England has been provided by NHS England and the government in recent years, but they have now stopped that.
Instead, it is published monthly, but with a six-week time lag.
That means the latest official data is from September. It showed the four-hour target was being missed along with other targets covering ambulance response times, cancer care and diagnostics tests.
Scotland, which has tended to have the best performance on the four-hour target recently, is the only part of the UK that now publishes on a weekly basis.
Data up to mid-November showed that 94.4% of patients were seen in four hours.
A spokeswoman for NHS England, which oversees more than three-quarters of the hospitals in the UK, said the key to dealing with the strain on the system was to create more joined-up care between the NHS and council-run social care - something that has been made a priority across the UK.
"It's important patients who are well enough to leave hospital can do so at the earliest opportunity and are helped to recover with dignity and compassion," the spokeswoman added.
The Peak District National Park Authority has raised £60,000 by selling 7.54 hectares (18.6 acres) of woodland in separate plots
The new owners, who include a family and a woodland fancier, face restrictions on the use of the plots.
Another six plots of woodland will be marketed in the next few months by an estate agent.
The first woodland plots sold were in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire and were former rubbish sites, quarries or plantations.
Sarah McKay, from the authority, said: "We feel we have done what we can with the woodland.
"We've established or improved them and we feel it is time to return them to the community, at a time where we are also reducing our liabilities in terms of the budget reductions we have to make."
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"The sales will allow us to focus on the protection, improvement and maintenance of our remaining woodlands.''
The Woodland Trust said it would monitor the situation, adding the new owners were subject to the same planning regulations as national parks.
The parkland plots were located near Chapel-en-le-Frith, Hathersage, Newhaven and Baslow in Derbyshire, Wildboarclough in Cheshire and Wetton in North Staffordshire.
All national parks have been facing large cuts in grants - the Peak District authority has lost £3.5m in funding since 2010 - a reduction of 36.5%.
Cornelius Van Der Wetering, 54, was last seen in the Tomich area, about 30 miles from Inverness, on Wednesday 28 December.
He had been staying at a guest house in Inverness.
It is thought he had planned a walk to Kyle of Lochalsh through Glen Affric, a distance of more than 70 miles.
Officers are appealing to any walkers, guest house owners, bus or taxi companies in the area to contact police if they have seen him.
Mr Van Der Wetering is described as tall, slim and with short grey hair. He was wearing outdoor clothing and carrying a large rucksack when last seen.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Mr Van Der Wetering was last seen in the Tomich area on 28 December, having previously stayed in guest house accommodation in Inverness.
"It is understood he planned to walk from Tomich towards Kyle of Lochalsh via Glen Affric.
"Officers are appealing to anyone who may have seen a man of his description walking in the Tomich/Glen Affric or Lochalsh areas since December 28 to make contact via 101."
Introduced in 2013, it was hoped they would help improve matters after the 2010 rankings saw Welsh pupils falling behind.
But what effect have the tests had in the classroom, and will they work?
We asked three generations of a family from Newport.
THE GRANDPARENT
John Healy was head teacher at two primary schools in Monmouthshire before helping to improve school performance across south east Wales.
He says the "testing culture" in Wales is affecting some pupils' wellbeing.
"I would define the action that was put in place as almost punitive," he said.
He feels the "richness" of the curriculum has been "put on hold" to improve Pisa performance and says measuring how far individual pupils have improved would be more beneficial.
"Some children come into school and they're not fully toilet trained with significant speech and language difficulties," he said.
"They can make enormous progress in schools with the good work that teachers do, but that's not necessarily measured because they might not meet the 'age norm' expectation."
After several decades in the education system, does he think the current, regular testing system will improve our Pisa performance?
"Yes" he says, with a wry smile, but there might be a catch.
"You could argue that we may well improve our test performance... but does that give us better all-round individuals?
"Creative children, children who are going to be good digitally, entrepreneurial children who are going to develop our businesses in future?
"Or are we going to have a generation of disaffected pupils who have become disengaged, disillusioned and demoralised by the effect of continual testing year after year?
"That's the educational diet they've been brought up on, and we need to ask ourselves are we producing well rounded individuals who will be life-long learners."
THE PUPIL
Sixteen-year-old Callum is in Year 11 in school and like other pupils across Wales he is now tested at the end of each year on numeracy and literacy.
He said: "When I was in Year 8, the teachers were told they had to integrate numeracy into all their lessons... it wasn't really beneficial, it was kind of forced upon us and the teachers.
"Then, in Year 9, quite of lot of emphasis was put on [the annual tests] by the teachers.
"In the weeks leading up to the national tests, our normal curriculum was dropped and we focussed solely on doing Pisa-style questions.
"Our teachers were worried that we were going to be selected, so we went through a fair bit of how the Pisa test worked and what they were.
"I'd say there are a fair few people who do get worried and anxious about these tests, some who did work harder and paid attention due to the test, but there were also people who didn't really bother.
"I think it [testing] is useful in high school, comprehensive school, it helps us prepare for GCSEs, but I don't really see the point in tests being used in primary school."
THE PARENT
Callum's mother, Kath Hall, says her son has always achieved the grades expected of him, but feels there are more tests than in her day, and more data for parents to consider.
"There seems to be a lot more tests, not just in the summer... there always seems to be one coming up," she said.
"It does seem very confusing as a parent to understand what all these levels mean really... I do go to each parents' evening and ask what do these numbers mean, what level should he be at?
"It's just kind of overwhelming as a parent."
Asked if she takes any reassurance from such detailed information about her sons's education, she said: "Not a huge amount. I find it very confusing. What is the data being used for?
"If it's being used to say Wales is underperforming in comparison to England, are we comparing like with like?
"We've got a very different curriculum in Wales - we've got the Foundation Phase, we've got Welsh language schools, it's not a direct comparison to me."
Colin Ingram led the home effort with a gritty unbeaten 72, sharing stands of 62 with Aneurin Donald (36) and 78 with David Lloyd (37).
Notts claimed three scalps in the first 20 overs but had to labour hard for wickets.
The visitors still have a full day to record a fourth Championship win.
Ingram reined in his attacking instincts to bat for five hours as Glamorgan dug in stubbornly for much of the day, despite Steven Mullaney's inventive efforts in the field as acting captain.
Lloyd supported Ingram for 42 overs before Luke Fletcher had him caught at slip with the second new ball for his second wicket.
Stuart Broad got through 23 wicket-less overs conceding just 37 runs.
Glamorgan batsman Colin Ingram told BBC Wales Sport:
"We let ourselves down (in the first innings) with the way we played, it's not where we want to be as a team and I wanted to make sure I kept it nice and simple and prepared to grind it out.
"Sometimes you've got to take those options, that's what red-ball cricket teaches you. I like to hit the white ball out of the ground but this was a good lesson for me to stick to a simple plan and grind it out, to see where I can go.
"It was nice to see everyone committed to a stronger performance today and nice to see the way the young guys (Donald and Lloyd) played as well.
"We'll just keep it simple, their bowlers have bowled a lot of overs and the pitch isn't doing too much so if we can keep gutsing it out, you never know where we can go."
Debutant Notts batsman, India's Cheteshwar Pujara, told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I'm used to fielding for two days, especially in Indian conditions where you expect any team to bat for at least 90 overs. We expected better results today but they batted well, we're still nearly 50 runs ahead and we hope to get five more wickets,
"I'm getting used to the conditions, I had jet-lag initially but I'm over it, I'm getting used to the weather and conditions and hitting a few balls every day so hopefully I don't have to bat in the second innings, but if I do I'll be prepared.
"I knew Samit Patel because he played in 2012 when England toured India, apart from (Patel and Broad) I didn't know many players but they are really friendly and I'm enjoying the dressing-room atmosphere."
Sam Jones opened the scoring following a clever one-two with Danny Johnson, placing past Elliot Justham.
Mitch Brundle curled in a free-kick to double the lead just after the break, as goalkeeper Justham was left disappointed with his positioning.
It became comical in the Dagenham defence as the excellent double act of Manny Smith and Jones combined, the latter scoring from his team-mate's tidy flick on.
After a Johnson penalty made it four, Smith added further gloss when given far too much space in the box to head home with 26 minutes left.
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Match ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 5.
Second Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 5.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Tyrique Hyde replaces Jordan Maguire-Drew.
Substitution, Gateshead. Wes York replaces Danny Johnson.
Substitution, Gateshead. Luke Hannant replaces Russell Penn.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Paul Benson replaces Oliver Hawkins.
Substitution, Gateshead. George Smith replaces James Bolton.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 5. Manny Smith (Gateshead).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 4. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 3. Sam Jones (Gateshead).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 2. Mitch Brundle (Gateshead).
Second Half begins Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 1.
First Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 1.
Russell Penn (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Scott Heard replaces Sam Ling.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 1. Sam Jones (Gateshead).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
You asked us where the phrase "Yam Yam" to describe someone from the Black Country came from.
You wanted to know why the cooling towers at Ironbridge's power station are set to be demolished?
Another question was who has spray painted owls on walls in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent and why?
And are there secret tunnels under Hereford?
The Urban Dictionary website said it derived from the Black Country dialect for "you are" - "yam".
Terry Price, a historian born in Great Bridge in West Bromwich, said the pronunciation in dialect was nearer to "y'owm" or "yo am" instead of "you are".
"I'd never heard of that expression in my youth," said 78-year-old Mr Price. "I think it's a relatively recent thing."
Birmingham historian Carl Chinn said he believed the phrase may have been introduced in the 1970s or 1980s but could not say so with certainty.
The editor of the Black Country Society's magazine, The Blackcountryman, Michael Pearson, said when he worked in the police in the 1980s they used the phrase to distinguish Black Country folk from Brummies, who they called Lardi's (as in la-di-dah).
He said it came from a take on the Black Country accent in phrases like "y'am alright".
The bridge isn't the only landmark in Ironbridge Gorge. The nearby power station's cooling towers have stood since 1969 but they are scheduled for demolition. Here's why.
The subject has generated a lot of debate on the BBC Shropshire Facebook page.
Tom Rochester is in favour of knocking them down, writing: "People are strange aren't they. Build anything like these now and people complain. Demolish them now and people complain. People just don't like change I suppose."
Sharon Jones said she wanted to keep them: "We can't let them be demolished. It's my all time high when I see them. It's a big part of Ironbridge."
Some readers described them as a "blot on the landscape" or an "eyesore", but others suggested they would look good if they were illuminated.
Hidden in plain sight the owls of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent stare back - but who created them and what inspired the pictures? Here is the answer.
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There are certainly urban rumours about a secret tunnel running from an archway under the old bridge across the Wye to the cathedral.
But a spokesman for Hereford Cathedral said: "If there is a secret tunnel then it's very secret, because we don't know about it."
Alfred Watkins, the Hereford-born author and photography pioneer, also investigated the legend that there was a tunnel connecting the Priory of St Guthlac with its vineyard on the banks of the River Wye.
He'd found traces of it on a map dating from 1865. Watkins was also an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist and he and a friend conducted a dig on the "tunnel".
He was disappointed to find it was "some kind of natural fault or crevice [and] not man made".
There are, however, plenty of plenty of interesting tunnels across this area, some secret, other not - here's a slideshow of some of them.
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Until 1932 Thailand had been ruled by an absolute monarchy, with the king exercising power over the judiciary, the appointment of government officials and over state policy.
The idea of kingship had been developed over centuries from the Buddhist concept of a dhammaraja, a just king acting in accordance with the 10 dhamma virtues like integrity and self-restraint, and the Hindu concept of an all-powerful god-king.
But the pressures of the modern, globalised world intruded in 1932 when a group of soldiers and intellectuals overthrew the absolute monarchy and imposed a constitution limiting the powers of King Prajadhipok, on the throne at the time.
Unable to accept these limitations he abdicated in 1935 and lived the rest of his life in exile.
Bhumibol's elder brother, Ananda Mahidol, was next in line, but their mother insisted they stay away from the volatile political climate in Thailand and they were brought up in Switzerland.
As a result there was no sitting king until the family returned after World War Two in 1945 and it was not clear then what kind of monarchy might be re-established.
Following the still unexplained shooting to death of King Ananda on 9 June 1946, that task fell to the 18 year-old Bhumibol.
Thailand was divided then between progressive politicians and ambitious military men who preferred a weaker monarchy, or perhaps no monarchy at all, and members of the royal aristocracy who were determined to rebuild a political system with the monarchy at its heart.
The royalists relied on the young Bhumibol for this plan, and over the next 40 years it succeeded.
Until the mid 1950s the king's position was still too insecure for him to challenge the then-military strongman Phibul Songkram, who had also ruled during the war. He was not even allowed to travel freely outside Bangkok.
But the other royal princes helped build up his public profile by emphasising his role as the protector of the Buddhist faith, restoring royal rituals like the replacement of sacred cloths at the most important temples, or presiding over the annual ploughing ceremony in the main royal square in Bangkok.
Thai society is still a deeply religious and spiritual one, and those royal roles have been central to upholding King Bhumibol's image as a man who embodies dhamma virtues.
The king proved skilled at behaving in a manner which reinforced that image. Today the sacred aspect of the monarchy is an important source of its popularity.
From the mid-1950s on, the king travelled widely, and took an active interest in rural development projects.
How effective his interventions really were is difficult to gauge, given the swirl of royalist propaganda, but they certainly established him as a caring ruler who was working hard for his people.
His visits to rural areas, where he would often chat to the farmers prostrated in front of him, contrasted with the apparently uncaring attitude of corrupt local government officials.
Today the monarch is expected to be involved in the country's development, and substantial resources have been devoted to promoting King Bhumibol's philosophy of a "sufficiency economy" - a focus on balanced development that stresses environmental and social responsibilities as much as conventional measures of economic progress.
From the mid 1960s, when central government authority was challenged in the countryside by a communist rebellion, the king's visits helped rebuff the influence of the insurgents.
King Bhumibol became an essential figure in the fight by the Thai military and its US-backers against communism, although his role became more controversial in the savage anti-leftist coup of 1976, in which dozens of students were brutally killed by the security forces and royal-backed militias, and thousands forced to flee to seek sanctuary with the Communist Party.
But the legacy of this anti-communist role is a monarchy which is still seen as central to upholding the authority of the state throughout the country.
Throughout his reign King Bhumibol worked with a series of military-dominated administrations, prompting accusations that he was more comfortable with authoritarian than democratically-elected regimes.
Certainly he established close relationships with three long-standing military rulers, Sarit Thanarat 1957-63, Thanom Kittikachorn 1963-73 and Prem Tinsulanonda 1980-89, giving them the legitimacy of royal backing in return for the armed forces' unwavering support for the monarchy. The king also enjoyed handling and using military weapons, and often wore his own military uniform.
Royalists explain this, and the king's inevitable endorsement of every coup d'etat, as him accepting his limited constitutional powers - that he could not play an overt political role, and had to go along with whichever regime prevailed in Thailand.
Critics, though, believe he shared the disdain for elected politicians held by many of Thailand's traditional elite, as money-grubbing, classless opportunists.
In interviews the king referred to politics as something unseemly with which he did not want to be associated.
But the deep polarisation of Thai society at the end of his reign, and the widespread belief that the palace had taken sides against the successful electoral machine of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, gave rise to a perception of the monarchy as hostile to untrammelled democracy.
One other side of Bhumibol's role was often talked about during his reign, as a mediator at times of crisis. Officially he could not intervene. But on two occasions, in 1973 and 1992, when bloody clashes between troops and protestors had taken place on the streets of Bangkok, he is credited with defusing the situation and allowing a compromise to be settled.
In 1973 he decided to allow protesting students to shelter inside his palace, undermining then dictator Thanom and forcing him into exile.
This allowed the formation of Thailand's first democratic government since the 1940s, although this brief period ended tragically in the violence and repression of 1976.
In 1992 the king mediated again, summoning a military-backed prime minister and the leader of the protest movement, and allowing video of them prostrating themselves before him to be broadcast. Following this, Thailand had enjoyed its longest period of democracy, up to the coup of 2006.
There is debate about how decisive the king's role was in these crises, but the incidents allowed him to be portrayed as the ultimate arbiter of disputes.
Another "intervention" in April 2006 saw the king ordering the country's top courts to rule on whether an election won by Thaksin Shinawatra should be annulled.
Ostensibly he was rebutting calls from anti-Thaksin protesters to appoint a prime minister himself, something he said was beyond his power. But the judges took the hint, and annulled the election on the grounds of fairly minor irregularities, which then led to the September coup of that year.
Royalists in Thailand often compare the powers of the monarch to those described by the historian Walter Bagehot for British kings and queens: the right to be consulted, the right to encourage and the right to warn.
But King Bhumibol, viewed as semi-divine by much of the population, clearly had more than that; what former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun has described as his "reserve power or moral authority", something that can be hugely influential, but only if used sparingly.
The strictures of the lèse-majesté law make any open discussion of King Bhumibol's role and legacy impossible inside Thailand.
Thailand's lese majeste laws explained
No true measure of his popularity or influence is possible in this environment. But outside the country arguments have been made that challenge the official view of a wise, benevolent and adored king who held his country together at times of crises.
Some of these argue that the king was a central player in undermining democracy, others that he was more of a pawn used by conservative forces.
One point on which critics and supporters do agree is that the project started in 1946 to restore the status of the monarchy in Thailand succeeded largely because it was centred on the young king.
Whatever the truth behind the gushing praise for his personality and achievements, he played all the various roles ascribed to him, of the caring but restrained king, the renaissance king keen on arts, music and handicrafts, the religious king steeped in Buddhist ritual, extremely well.
Thailand's modern monarchy is one built almost entirely around one man. And that will make it difficult to sustain after his death.
All-night weekend services are set to begin on 12 September on sections of the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines.
However, the union Aslef has already announced its members will strike for 24 hours on 8 July from 21:30 BST over pay and conditions for the service.
District organiser Finn Brennan said drivers would have to work unlimited night shifts for no extra pay.
'It's easy enough to produce a map, but if London Underground management want to have an all-night service in September, then they need to sit down and negotiate a fair deal for the staff they expect to provide it," he said.
2015 Night Tube services
"Aslef aren't opposed to all-night services but they have to be introduced in a way that is fair and protects the work-life balance of the hard working staff."
The RMT and TSSA unions are also balloting their members for industrial action over the same issue.
Gareth Powell, from London Underground, said: "As well as making life easier for people, the night Tube will also boost London's night-time economy - supporting thousands of jobs and stimulating hundreds of millions of pounds in economic growth."
The hope is that all-night services will be extended to the London Overground in 2017 as well as the Metropolitan, Circle, District and Hammersmith and City lines.
A round-the-clock service is planned for the Docklands Light Railway by 2021.
The party claimed the public had been given no say over Labour plans to cut the number of authorities from 22 to eight or nine.
Voluntary mergers would be allowed, the Conservatives said, but only if people backed them in a referendum.
Local government spokesperson Janet Finch-Saunders said only the Tories were promising residents the final say.
"Labour are totally committed to forcing through local government reorganisation and, unlike the Welsh Conservatives, they are refusing to give local communities the final say in a referendum," she said.
"That could mean curtains for historic Welsh areas with distinct local identities.
"Whilst we all accept that the cost of politics has to be reduced, Labour's plans identify a genuine problem - but take the views of local communities completely out of the equation.
"Worse still, their plans put the cart before the horse and they have made no effort to consider what services the new council structure would be asked to provide.
"It's a huge missed opportunity, and an abuse of the democratic process."
In March, Labour's Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews said consultation on the bill to cut the current 22 councils to eight or nine was supportive, but he said more work was needed to ensure councils stayed connected to their communities.
Plaid Cymru said it would keep the current councils, but use them as "building blocks" to create up to six regional combined authorities.
Led by elected mayors, these would give a "strategic overview" of local services to be delivered by the existing councils.
"This means that we will get economies of scale through working together, but keep the advantages of local scrutiny and accountability," a Plaid spokesman said.
Welsh Liberal Democrat Peter Black said his party felt there were too many councils, many of which were "too small" and "underperforming".
But he said larger councils should have a fairer voting system, and that "the lines on the map shouldn't be drawn by politicians".
"It should be up to the independent Boundary Commission to establish a fresh map, which should be based on natural communities," he added.
UKIP spokesman Mark Reckless said his party saw the case for fewer councils, but added: "We believe mergers should be 'bottom up' in response to community views, and not 'top down' imposed."
Taloa Foster, 33, was charged with child endangerment.
Witnesses said the toddler grabbed the wheel and steered the truck across lanes of traffic after his mother fell from the vehicle on Wednesday.
The boy's twin brother was also in the truck at the time.
The vehicle eventually crashed into an embankment along the road near Ada, about 80 miles (130km) southeast of Oklahoma City.
The boys were unhurt, police said.
Police said Ms Foster told them that the boy had unbuckled his seat belt and she was trying to secure him when she fell out of the vehicle.
It was the second night of violence in and around Souda camp. About 4,000 migrants and refugees are on Chios.
Several tents, including one housing 50 people, were damaged in the violence, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says.
On Wednesday four migrants were arrested after fireworks were thrown.
Greek police said the four were three Algerian teenagers and an Iranian man. The fireworks were allegedly stolen from a shop.
More than 16,000 asylum seekers are still living in camps on Greek islands.
A UNHCR spokesman in Greece, Roland Schoenbauer, said that on Friday someone on the wall above Souda camp had thrown a stone, hitting a Syrian refugee on the head and seriously injuring him. He is now in hospital.
On Thursday night, "Molotov cocktails were thrown from the wall, which destroyed several tents", Mr Schoenbauer told the BBC. "People are scared - it's hard to convince them to go back [to Souda camp]."
The government-run camp is overcrowded.
The situation is still tense at Souda and the UNHCR has not managed to replace all the damaged or ruined tents.
"Volunteers helped with small tents outside the site," Mr Schoenbauer said, urging the Greek police to step up patrols in the area.
"Not all the migrants will have a dry place to spend the night because of the current insecurity there."
About 60% of the Souda refugees and migrants are Syrians, 20% Iraqis, 10% North Africans and 10% other nationalities.
Two local aid workers were also assaulted by a crowd of about 30 people and needed hospital treatment in Thursday's violence.
According to some reports, Greek far-right militants were involved in the violence.
"Some 100 people lost a dry place to sleep in the first two incidents, so they'll get new tents," Mr Schoenbauer said. New blankets, sleeping bags and other items are also being provided.
The UNHCR has offered to help the Chios authorities to find new accommodation for migrants, whether in hotels, apartments or public buildings.
To ease the pressure, Mr Schoenbauer said, the UNHCR is also helping to identify asylum seekers for transfer to the Greek mainland, and arranging ferry tickets for them.
Some migrants have already been transferred, after being processed and receiving an asylum card.
According to the UNHCR, migrant arrivals on Chios are down to a daily average of six, compared with 21 in October. In April the daily average was 38.
Last month, violence also erupted at an overcrowded migrant camp on the neighbouring Greek island of Lesbos.
There has been a dramatic fall in the numbers of migrants making hazardous boat journeys across the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek islands since March, when the EU signed a deal with Turkey to curb the influx.
But the processing of asylum claims is very slow and tensions have risen between migrants and local residents. In many cases, migrants are sheltering in squalid conditions in Greece.
The Greek islands have been returning some irregular migrants to Turkey, after rejecting their asylum claims.
The UNHCR is not involved in those returns, Mr Schoenbauer said, but does not object, provided the correct safeguards are followed and the country of origin is safe.
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.
The latest Office for National Statistics figures show 4.6% of people were out of work in Wales in the quarter to May.
It is the third successive set of figures where Wales has outstripped the rest of the UK.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the Welsh Government had been "working hard" to create and safeguard jobs.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said it was the sign of a "buoyant economy" with businesses confident to take on staff.
More than 1.4m people in Wales are now in work - up 4,000 over the quarter - and just below record levels.
The unemployment rate in Wales has fallen faster than any other UK region over the year - and compares to a 4.9% for the UK as a whole.
It is the lowest since 2005.
There were 70,000 unemployed people in Wales in the latest figures, the lowest since early 2008.
Mr Jones said: "We are ahead of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland with the fastest growing rate of employment over the last 12 months. Economic inactivity in Wales has also declined over the past year and quarter.
"As a pro-business government, we have been working hard to create the right economic conditions to help create and safeguard jobs right across Wales and our policies are continuing to reap the rewards."
Mr Cairns said: "Brexit will mean significant challenges but entrepreneurs thrive on change.
"Business leaders are telling me they are optimistic about the future and excited about export opportunities further afield.
"We are making the UK trade and industry team available to help Welsh businesses explore new markets and demonstrate that Wales is open for business."
Damjan Marjanovic, 20, and 21-year-old Zoran Baljak were killed in a road crash, the Slovenian club said.
A Maribor statement said the news has "shattered us deeply".
"A cruel fate has intervened in its severest form and taken away two young members of our Violet family."
Marjanovic and Baljak were both in the B team at Maribor.
Aberdeen, who visit Slovenia following a 1-1 draw at Pittodrie, said they were "deeply saddened" by the news.
Chief executive Duncan Fraser said: "I spoke with my counterpart Bojan Bon this afternoon and have passed on our condolences from all of the Aberdeen family.
"This puts everything into perspective. The clubs have developed an excellent relationship in the build-up to the games and we will co-operate fully with any wishes that NK Maribor may have to mark this tragedy." | Three years ago Jann Mardenborough had never even been to a racing track, let alone driven on one.
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A stunning Andy Murdoch strike and a Kris Boyd goal either side of half-time put Rangers in firm control.
Ryan Conroy's deflected effort gave Raith hope of drawing, but the visitors held on for the win which takes them above Hibernian in the table.
It also ends a run of three straight defeats in all competitions for Kenny McDowall's men.
Nicky Clark threatened first for Rangers, his strike from 25 yards out sailing high over the crossbar.
Lee Wallace and Haris Vuckic combined down the left, with the Scotland full-back crossing for Boyd, whose header beat Raith keeper David McGurn but came back off the bar.
An error from Marius Zaliukas allowed Mark Stewart a sight of the Rangers goal, but Sebastien Faure bailed out his defensive partner with an excellent challenge.
Clark headed a good chance wide from eight yards after he was picked out by Vuckic's free-kick, and Faure directed a similar chance wide moments later.
Boyd teed up Clark for another attempt on goal, but he dragged his shot from the edge of the box just wide of the post.
Rangers were well on top in the opening 35 minutes, and they got their reward in stunning fashion.
Murdoch took possession from Wallace 30 yards from goal, turned and fired a superb drive into the top corner to claim his first Rangers goal.
The 20-year-old was clearly full of confidence and his angled 30-yard pass early in the second half found Clark in the penalty area, but his volley on the turn flew just wide.
Rangers did not have long to wait to double their lead, however.
A Wallace shot was blocked, but the ball ricocheted around the box and eventually fell to Boyd, who prodded it home from close range for his 10th goal of the season.
Substitute Darren McGregor headed just over the crossbar from a Law corner as the visitors looked to put the result beyond any doubt.
Faure's dangerous cross was cleared only as far as Vuckic, whose volley was well struck but straight at McGurn.
The Raith keeper had to be alive just a minute later when the ball dropped at the feet of Faure from a corner. The defender looked like he would smash home the third from close range but McGurn reacted well to block.
The stopper could only parry Vuckic's strike from outside the box, but Clark nodded wide with the goal at his mercy.
Raith were hanging on, but they were given a lifeline 20 minutes from time.
Stewart held up play well in Rangers territory and found support in the shape of Conroy, his shot from 20 yards deflected off Wallace and looped up and over Robinson into the net.
Ross Callachan's well-struck volley brought Robinson into action as Raith sensed a point could be theirs for the taking, but Rangers regained control of the ball and the match in the closing stages to see out the victory.
Rangers coach Gordon Durie: "The performance was great last week, but we didn't get the result and I think we got both tonight.
"We probably made it a bit harder for ourselves in the last 15 minutes by switching off and giving them a goal.
"We probably should have been out of sight by that time, but we're delighted with the three points and I think the score flattered them.
"I've had Andy [Murdoch] with the Under-20s. He's got a great attitude and has goals like that in his locker.
"He's got his chance and he's come in and taken it.
"I'm delighted not just for him. I think the whole team showed a spirit that's what we need for the rest of the season.
"Great for Boydy as well. He's not scored many goals and he had chances before that, but that will hopefully put him on the road to a lot more."
Raith Rovers manager Grant Murray: "It didn't feel like we got high enough up the pitch to bother them.
"We did get a goal back, but it was not enough in the end.
"It seems we have come up against Rangers in the league three times and they have been bang on each time.
"It now makes it difficult for us for the play-offs regardless of what Falkirk and Queen of the South do tomorrow.
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The announcement comes days before President Donald Trump's new US travel ban comes into effect on Thursday.
In a statement, the group said the "ability of all our members to equally enter this country is currently uncertain".
The suspension includes short trips and all travel through US airports.
The group has also scrapped a planned summer camping trip to California in favour of a different destination.
Sarah Kiriliuk, national manager of marketing and communications for the Girl Guides of Canada, said the decision was "absolutely not" political but instead an operational decision made over a "general uncertainty" around Canada-US border travel.
"Girl Guides is a microcosm of Canada," she said.
"We're diverse, we're multicultural. I don't want to speak to any one girl or situation, our main priority was making sure our girls who had been planning trips for up to a year sometimes weren't going to be turned away at the border because of one or more situations that were beyond their control."
Under the new US travel ban, all nationals from Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen will not be permitted to enter the US or be issued an immigrant or non-immigrant visa for a 90-day period.
Ms Kiriliuk could not say how many members might have been barred from US entry under the new temporary ban, if any.
"At Girl Guides of Canada, we know our members value the safe, inclusive and accepting space that Guiding provides," the statement said.
It went on: "These values are reflected in all we do, including the Girl Guide travel experiences we offer girls and women. This was a very difficult decision to make. We hope that members will appreciate this reflects our commitment to inclusivity and equal opportunities for all girls and women."
The Girl Guides of Canada has chapters in provinces across the country and some 70,000 members and 20,000 adult female volunteers.
Any US visits already booked and paid for by regional Girl Guide chapters prior to the announcement would be reviewed on a "case-by-case" basis, Ms Kiriliuk said.
Some Canadian schools have also cancelled trips to the US in the wake of the travel ban, including the Greater Essex County District School Board in south-western Ontario.
According to figures provided by US Customs and Border Protection, the number of people being denied entry at the Canada-US boundary is roughly in line with previous years.
But confusion during the first few days of the previous US travel ban, which was eventually blocked by a federal court, and a series of recent incidents of Canadians going public with their experience being turned away at the border has led to questions over whether people are facing tougher measures when entering the US.
Jordan Watson's body was found under a blood-stained tree in a Carlisle cemetery on 15 June. He had suffered a "brutal and sustained attack".
Carlisle Crown Court has heard George Thomson, 19, was so obsessed with the 14-year-old girl that he killed Jordan.
He and co-defendants Brahnn Finley, 19, and Daniel Johnston, 20, deny murder.
The girl, now 15 and who cannot be identified, said in police interviews shown to the jury, that Mr Thomson told her he wished Jordan was dead.
The court was told that during a police search of Mr Thomson's Carlisle home they recovered a blood-stained Gurkha knife and a collection of other weapons, including a machete and a cleaver.
Also found were a number of letters written by Thomson declaring his love for Jordan's girlfriend.
One said: "I am writing to you to tell you my feelings for you because I think you don't believe me. But I am telling you I really do love you and I would die 100 times for you and I would kill anyone for you."
She told police she and Jordan "loved each other" and denied any relationship with Mr Thomson.
She said: "He [Mr Thomson] asked me if I would cheat on Jordan with him and I went 'no'. He was always saying I was beautiful and if I went out with him he would treat me like a princess."
Asked if Mr Thompson mentioned any threats to Jordan, she said: "He said at one point he wanted to kill him. He said 'sometimes I wish he was dead'.
Jurors were told Mr Thomson's "obsessive desire" for the girl "festered and grew" and he wanted Jordan "out of the picture".
Simon Medland QC, prosecuting, said Mr Thomson lured Jordan to Upperby cemetery with an "almost certainly fictional" arrangement to sell weapons to another man.
The prosecution allege Mr Thomson's co-defendants were present during the murder to "lend support".
Mr Thomson, of Upperby Road, Carlisle; Mr Finley, of Furze Street, Carlisle, and Mr Johnston, of Petteril Bank Road, Carlisle, all deny murder.
The trial continues.
Onomah, 20, was in the England team that won the Under-20 World Cup in June.
He made his Spurs debut aged 17 and played 32 times for Mauricio Pochettino's side.
"I can't wait to get started. I know that promotion is the aim and I am here to help us achieve that," he told the club website.
Onomah, who had three years left on his previous Spurs contract, could make his debut for Villa in Saturday's opening Championship match against Hull City.
He made 12 senior appearances for Spurs in 2016-17, including a Champions League debut off the bench at Bayer Leverkusen.
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Leeds went ahead when Chris Wood brought down Hadi Sacko's cross before lashing home a half-volley.
Michael Jacobs hit the post as Wigan fought back, while Pontus Jansson had a header cleared off the line for United.
Wood had a looping header brilliantly saved by Adam Bogdan before MacDonald scored via the woodwork as Latics secured a third successive draw.
Tuesday's EFL action as it happened
It was the Welshman's first goal since signing from Bournemouth and resulted in the first league draw between the sides.
Gary Caldwell's side remain in the bottom three despite denying Leeds a fourth successive home victory, something they have not done since December 2013.
For the home side it was just a second league draw of the season, after Wood scored a 93rd-minute equaliser against Fulham in August.
Leeds United head coach Garry Monk: "We are very disappointed not to get the three points. We paid a very high price at the end.
"We need to not rest and try to dominate. We need to go on and get a second and a third goal, that is the next step for the group.
"Wigan are a decent enough team but we should have won, we had the best chances."
Wigan Athletic manager Gary Caldwell: "We are happy to get the point and I'm really happy with the performance.
"We got what we deserved. Sometimes we just try and walk it in, but we have to be more ruthless in the box.
"The players have kept believing and were fantastic. When you are chasing a game it's never easy. We kept asking questions of Leeds."
Match ends, Leeds United 1, Wigan Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Leeds United 1, Wigan Athletic 1.
Goal! Leeds United 1, Wigan Athletic 1. Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Max Power with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Pontus Jansson.
Offside, Leeds United. Matt Grimes tries a through ball, but Marcus Antonsson is caught offside.
Substitution, Leeds United. Marcus Antonsson replaces Chris Wood.
Offside, Leeds United. Alex Mowatt tries a through ball, but Kemar Roofe is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by William Grigg.
Hand ball by Chris Wood (Leeds United).
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Shaun MacDonald.
Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United).
Offside, Leeds United. Charlie Taylor tries a through ball, but Alex Mowatt is caught offside.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Dan Burn tries a through ball, but William Grigg is caught offside.
Attempt missed. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Stephen Warnock with a cross.
Substitution, Leeds United. Alex Mowatt replaces Pablo Hernández.
Attempt saved. Chris Wood (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Luke Ayling with a cross.
Foul by Chris Wood (Leeds United).
Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leeds United. Matt Grimes replaces Hadi Sacko.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Jordi Gómez replaces Nathan Byrne.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Craig Morgan replaces Jake Buxton.
Attempt blocked. Kemar Roofe (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Wood with a headed pass.
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Pontus Jansson (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Adam Bogdan.
Attempt saved. Luke Ayling (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kemar Roofe.
Attempt missed. Jake Buxton (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nathan Byrne with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Kemar Roofe (Leeds United).
Nathan Byrne (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Pontus Jansson.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Charlie Taylor.
Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Jake Buxton.
Attempt blocked. Hadi Sacko (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Wood.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Adam Bogdan tries a through ball, but William Grigg is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Pontus Jansson (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Pablo Hernández following a set piece situation.
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic).
The results offer an insight into the little understood biology of roots and could help breeding effort to improve drought tolerance, say scientists.
Many of the world's key food and energy crops belong to the grass family and are often grown in drought-prone areas.
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"What we were really surprised to see is that under drought stress conditions, there is a fairly simple but dramatic change in the structure of the root system," said lead author Jose Dinneny, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science, based at Stanford University, US.
"If you imagine a grass plant growing in the field, at the base of the plant - the part that interacts with the soil - there are a large number of these specialised roots (crown roots) that penetrate into the soil," he told BBC News.
"We were able to find that these particular roots were the target of the drought stress signalling. By analysing their development, we were able to get a very clear view of how the root system changed.
"Initially, this was counterintuitive as we saw, during periods of water deficit or drought, the plant actually reduced the number of roots it produced."
Dr Dinneny, also an assistant professor at Stanford University's department of biology, said this behaviour helped preserve the limited availability of water in the soil.
"When we think of a drought, especially in California, people often turn to using groundwater resources and people can over-extract groundwater, affecting the structure and sustainability of important aquifers," he observed.
"Plants are, essentially, more intelligent than people in periods of drought as they restrict the rate in which they are taking up water and that preserves the lifespan of water in the soil. This is generally known as water banking.
"As the plant reduces its water up take, the water supply lasts for a longer period of time, meaning that the plant will be able to survive for a longer period of time and hopefully enter reproduction and produce seeds."
Dr Dinneny added that the change in the root system's structure was not a permanent one.
"if there is rainfall, the plant has tremendous capacity to switch rapidly into the activation of crown roots and the development of a very large and robust root system," he explained.
Grass, as a family, include many of the critical food, feed and fibre crops in the world, such as rice, maize, sorghum, millet, wheat and barley.
"To understand how this family responds to changes in water availability is absolutely critical," he said.
"Water is also the most limiting resource in agriculture, so looking at root responses to water was an area we wanted to focus on.
"It is also an area where very little was understood, in part because of the difficulty of accessing the biology of roots in field conditions," Dr Dinneny added.
"Part of the innovation in the research we have published was to develop new methods that allowed us to visualise living root systems and the changes in root growth that occurred in drought stress conditions."
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If that seems like a loaded question - can you at least say you're interested in what you're doing, and feel motivated?
If the answer is no, don't worry. You're not alone. In fact a massive 70% of US workers are "not engaged" or are "actively disengaged" at work. Workers elsewhere appear to agree.
So what can we do about it?
Dave Coplin has a few ideas.
He is Microsoft UK's chief envisioner. But he's also something of an influential expert when it comes to how we work.
It's something he's passionate about, and that comes across clearly in his new book Business Reimagined: Why work isn't working and what you can do about it.
"Fundamentally I think work isn't working," he says.
"We ended up in containers that are no longer relevant, we still think about work as a destination when we should think about it is as an activity.
"It's something that we do, it's not a place we go - I can work from anywhere."
He sees technology as part of the problem. Rather than creating a world where the ability to work anywhere frees us up to enjoy life a little more, he sees the opposite happening.
"I grew up on Star Trek and comic books, and had this belief that technology is a force that is supposed to bring positive things to society.
"Then I look around at what we're doing and I see how technology has become a cage to lots of people."
He cites email as a particular example of an out-dated use of technology - using email for everything, rather than pick up the phone, say, or using other collaborative applications. This, he says, stifles both productivity and creativity.
As well as spending hours in the office dealing with it, we've become trapped by the need check our email weekends, evenings, at the school play, at the supermarket, wherever we are.
This is partly self-inflicted and partly down to corporate culture and a basic misunderstanding of how these tools should be used says Mr Coplin.
"We allow technology to overtake us, and this way we become slaves to it, so all of these things conspire.
"I know there is more to technology, I know what it can do, I see this stuff we do, the stuff that our competitors do, the potential technology offers a modern society whether it's just work or play.
"It's huge and the challenge is, unless we open our eyes to use that we're never going to get that."
Part of the change Mr Coplin is advocating involves the physical spaces where we do our jobs.
The office was originally the place work had to be done.
Then it was the only place that had the technology necessary to do your job. Now, most of us have better devices at home.
"One of the basic premises of our theory is that the future belongs to creativity. So if we are going to be more competitive as businesses, we are going to do more things differently," he says.
"If you buy that theory open plan offices are terrible."
The argument is that the large open spaces so beloved of modern architects and HR departments end up destroying the very things they were supposed to nurture and encourage.
Technologist and writer Ben Hammersley wrote the introduction to the book.
He likens them to the African savannah - herds of antelopes - or staff - in groups, while at the edge sit the hunters, the managers, with their screens shielded, ready to pounce on the weak or visibly unproductive.
Recent research says these offices make us sick, less productive and unhappy.
To do our best work, we need to get into something called a 'flow state' - it takes the average human 15 minutes to get there.
"When was the last time you had 15 minutes where you weren't distracted by a phone call, email or someone telling you about last night's Eastenders?" says Mr Coplin.
The answer, says Mr Coplin, is to embrace a flatter hierarchy while giving your staff freedom to work flexibly.
But this doesn't necessarily mean what you think it does.
"When I talk to people about flexible working, what they will typically say, oh you mean working from home?" he says.
"Well, sort of. Actually what I really mean is being mindful of the location that you are going to be able to do the work you have do today. And being really thoughtful about what that is."
The other problem is that working flexibly is often seen as a perk for individuals or people with children - and causes trust issues.
But Mr Coplin's research turned up something interesting.
"The [trust] issue is not between the employer and employee like we thought it would be, it is actually between employees."
The fear of earning your colleague's disdain results in sometimes paranoid behaviour.
"I start to do stupid things. I start to send more emails, I get up early, send a really early email, and then all of a sudden, I am not using the tools effectively," he explains.
"I am doing this because I am worrying about what they are going to be saying."
"You [have to] make it an organisational objective, you say that actually, yes, it is important for individuals but we believe that every single member of the workforce should have the capability to work flexibly."
Although Mr Coplin points out that certain jobs and professions obviously do require bodies on site.
All of this of course hinges on the right technology. And that means using the right tools in the right way, according to Mr Coplin, building his definition of the social enterprise. Simply running a Twitter feed doesn't count.
"We're locked into this really bizarre world where we have a richer technology experience at home than most people have at work. We now communicate really differently at home and in our personal lives than we communicate at work."
"You see the power of what you can do socially, but you see the constraints on how you share and collaborate at work.
"It's going to start to merge, because I think [people have] a higher expectation of how to collaborate."
This is a democratisation of knowledge and participation that Mr Coplin says could help employees feel more invested in their employer.
He describes the 'Ask Me' group used by IT company Merlin, where staff post questions and get answers from people across the company and around the world - shortcutting the route to the right person with the right knowledge.
Despite all this, the majority of organisations that have tried to implement social collaboration have failed.
If this is so beneficial to business, how can this be?
According to Mr Coplin, companies can't be half-hearted - these policies and technologies have to be integrating into the fabric of what people do, rather than used in barely-supported pockets, or in isolation, where they languish and die. As with flexible working, it should be for everyone, not a 'special' few.
"We talk about flexible working, social collaboration, managing people differently, to me it's like a conveyor belt of topics," he says.
"You don't do those three things and then voila, you have re-imagined your business. That's just the beginning of how you start.
"The most important thing is you've got to think differently about both the world that you live in, and the opportunities that lie in front of you as a business, and how you could think differently."
As he talks you get a sense of just how passionate he is about this.
"It's a philosophy, it's a different state of mind about the potential of work," states Mr Coplin.
"I am really lucky, because I sit in this incredible vantage point called Microsoft, and I can see right across different sectors, different sizes of customers, see how all this stuff comes into play.
You can see the potential that exists ... we've got to change."
A pitch inspection at 09:15 BST found the surface to be in an unplayable condition following heavy overnight rain.
No new date has been set for the rearranged fixture.
The announcement of a new Night Tube service will support the city's "vibrant night-time economy" and boost businesses, jobs and leisure opportunities, Transport for London said.
Tube users largely supported the move praising increased convenience and a move away from a reliance on night buses, but some were concerned about safety late at night.
Charlotte Lindsey-Cook, 19.
I think it's wicked. They do it in Berlin and it makes going out so much easier. If you go out till one or two you are stranded and night buses aren't great. We went to Berlin on holiday and you didn't have to worry about the buses.
Helen Stansfeld, 56.
I don't use the Tube at night but my kids do. I think it's probably a good idea. We used to live in Hong Kong and they had night stuff happening much more than here. It's good to know your young people can get home safely.
Sam Olaleye, 32.
I don't go out much because I've got kids but when I did it was a case of 'how do you get home?'. It would be good for safety. One night I had to wait for a night bus in a not-so-nice area. Running Tubes at night will make it safer and quicker to get home.
Tim Ednie, 48.
I think it's a good idea. London is a 24-hour city so why can't the Tubes be? It should have happened years ago. I've never known why London doesn't when the clubs are all licensed to 2, 3 or 4am. The people I drive don't generally take the Tube. If they come into London at the weekend I'll be driving them.
Patricia Armario, 23.
I think you will have more independence. When I go out I have to take the bus. I live in the south so it's faster to get to the centre of London on the Tube. I think it might make things more dangerous though because people will be drunk and there might be strange people on the Tube. There are good things and bad things.
Here's some of your reaction to news that LU ticket offices are closing and Tube trains will run for 24 hours
Some £12m will be spent refurbishing the foyer of the 250-year-old theatre, its studio theatre, 18th Century Coopers' Hall and bar cafe areas.
Last year the playhouse's main auditorium was completely revamped.
Architect Steve Tompkins said Bristol City Council's decision was unanimous and he was "delighted and relieved".
"It is an important development for Bristol, both architecturally and culturally, and we've got to make sure it's right," he said.
The theatre's artistic director, Tom Morris, said he saw the two-stage redevelopment plans as a partnership between the theatre and the people of Bristol.
He said: "To go through that democratic process, and to have the quite radical plans interrogated by a committee of councillors, and to get that unambiguous endorsement is really exciting.
"It means the city council understands how important it is, for everyone in Bristol, that this redevelopment will be able to open out the theatre to the street.
"Everyone will be able to come into this wonderful new foyer and see the theatre ahead of them as they did in 1766 when they went through a house into a courtyard."
The plans show the open foyer being fully accessible to wheelchairs as well as having more toilet facilities.
The studio theatre will also be made fully accessible and Coopers' Hall will be returned to its original purpose as a function hall for the city.
So far £5m of funding has already been earmarked for the project from the Arts Council, but the theatre will need to raise the rest.
In a letter to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, Michel Cadot cited the "exhaustion" of overstretched police and the threat of terrorism, according to AFP.
Paris is one of 10 host cities during the competition that starts next week.
This week, the US warned the tournament could be targeted by militants.
"The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists," the State Department said.
Paris has been preparing the fan zone at the foot of the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
Every match will be screened at the fan zone, but Mr Cadot is aiming for it to be shut during all 12 matches that take place in Paris' two stadiums.
Mr Cazeneuve is yet to publicly respond to Mr Cadot's proposal.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said fan zones in all 10 host cities should go ahead as planned during the tournament unless there is a specific threat.
Up to a million foreign fans are expected in France for the tournament, which involves the continent's top national teams and runs between 10 June-10 July.
France is already under a state of emergency following last November's attacks in Paris that were claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS).
The near-simultaneous assaults on a stadium, concert hall, bars and restaurants left 130 people dead and many more wounded.
In March, 32 people died in neighbouring Belgium when suicide blasts hit Brussels airport and a metro station. IS said it was behind both the Paris and Brussels attacks.
2.5m are expected in stadiums for the games
1m foreign visitors
51 matches are taking place
10 venues across France are hosting games
90,000 security staff deployed
France's state of emergency has been extended to include the tournament, and it also plans to deploy anti-drone technology as another precaution.
More than 90,000 police, soldiers and private security agents are being deployed as well.
Lib Dem MP John Pugh said Vince Cable should replace Mr Clegg after the party lost all but one of its 12 MEPs.
The MP told the BBC it was "ludicrous" to carry on as usual.
But Mr Clegg said he was proud of having taken on UKIP and "stood up for the values that we believe in", even though, he said, "it didn't work".
And he got support from Mr Cable, the business secretary, who said: "There is no leadership issue... now is not the time for infighting and introspection. The party must hold its nerve."
The Lib Dems got 6.9% of votes, down from 13.7% in 2009, leaving them in fifth place behind the Green Party, as they lost seats in every region apart from the South East of England.
Mr Clegg told the BBC: "There are some individuals who say they want a change of leadership, a change of strategy, or who want to pull out of the coalition altogether. Of course it is right to have searching questions in the wake of such a bad set of election results.
"The easiest thing in politics, and sometimes in life, when the going gets really, really tough, is just to walk away, to wash your hands of it.
"I'm not going to do that and my party's not going to do that.
"The vast majority of Liberal Democrats do not believe that we should lose our nerve and walk away just now."
The election results had been a "huge setback", he said, but his party was "the most united, resilient, toughest party in British politics" and he was "immensely proud" of leading it.
"Uniquely in British politics, the Liberal Democrats decided to take on UKIP and argue for the things we believe in: a generous-hearted, open-minded, internationalist Britain," he said.
"It didn't work but it is right that we stood up for the values that we believe in."
He also defended the decision to enter coalition with the Conservatives, arguing that the Lib Dems had enabled the UK economy to recover while bringing about policies that were fair to people on low incomes.
Lib Dems expected to fare badly in the elections but party president Tim Farron has said its performance - coupled with the loss of 250 council seats in the local elections - was "staggeringly disappointing".
Mr Farron, Sir Menzies and Lord Ashdown - another former leader who is running the party's general election campaign - have defended Mr Clegg's leadership and appealed for party unity.
But Mr Pugh, the MP for Southport, said the party was underestimating the difficulties it was in and there was an "overwhelming" case for Mr Clegg's future to be discussed.
"We have just lost 72% of the council seats we were defending and 91% of the Euro seats," he said.
"The vast majority of the UK this morning is without Lib Dem representation at any level. If that does not prompt a serious, sharp review focussed view both of strategy and leadership, then whatever will!
"Orders just to press on regardless are genuinely of Somme-like insanity."
Mr Pugh said a "section of the electorate" was not listening to Mr Clegg and that his "personal preference" was for a "Cable succession".
Any transition to a new leader must take place "without aggravation or discord", he told the BBC News Channel, and if the party decided to stick with Mr Clegg, he said he would "knuckle" down and accept it.
Asked whether other MPs shared his views, he said. "All MPs see the problem. What they don't all agree on is the solution."
A third general election candidate, Helen Flynn, has called for Mr Clegg to stand down amid mumblings in the party which the BBC expects to increase during the day.
Martin Tod, a member of the Liberal Democrats' federal executive, claimed voters were "not prepared" to listen to Mr Clegg and said his party's response to the election reversals had been "complacent".
Former MP Sandra Gidley, one of about 250 people to have signed an online letter demanding a change of leader, said Mr Clegg was "associated with the broken promises of the coalition".
She told the BBC's Today programme that a new leader would be able to better articulate the "positive difference" the party had made by working with the Conservatives.
But Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander, who has been touted as a future leader himself, insisted Mr Clegg was "by far the best spokesman" for the Lib Dems.
Sir Menzies said the Lib Dems had had to fight the election in a "febrile" eurosceptic climate.
"There's no doubt in my mind that Nick Clegg is the person with the courage and the resilience to take the party through to and during, and indeed after, the next general election."
Catherine Bearder, the only Liberal Democrat MEP to be elected so far, said Mr Clegg had been right to go out and campaign on a positive EU platform.
"It's been very difficult," she told Sky News. "We fought a very good, positive campaign on our issues of being in the European Union and standing up for Britain in the European Union."
She denied Mr Clegg or the EU as a whole had proved unpopular on the doorstep, but added: "People don't understand how the European Union works and they don't think it is important to their daily lives."
Some MPs have expressed reservations about the leadership of the party but none have yet called for Mr Clegg - who took over in 2007 - to stand down.
Among MEPs to lose their seats include veterans Sir Graham Watson, Andrew Duff and Bill Newton Dunn as well as Edward McMillan-Scott, an ex-Tory who was the only British vice-president of the European Parliament.
Almost 85% of the electorate turned out to vote, an unprecedented proportion in recent decades.
The overall result was reached by simply adding together all ballots but data from the 32 Scottish council areas reveal differences in voting patterns.
The overall result was slightly wider than predicted with 55% No to 45% Yes but the split varied across areas.
The closest result was Inverclyde with 50.1 No to 49.9% Yes.
The most emphatic No vote was Orkney where 67.2% voted against independence, followed by Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway.
Dundee was the most pro-Yes with 57.4%, followed by West Dunbartonshire and Glasgow, which has an electorate of half a million people.
John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the result was not as close as opinion polls had been predicting.
"That is not uncommon in these referendums where people are being asked to make a big change. They often draw back at the last minute," he said.
An extraordinarily large turnout of 84.6% is the highest seen in recent decades. The last UK general election to come close was in 1951 with 83.9%.
To beat it means looking back to 1910 when women did not have the vote and many men were also disenfranchised.
Glasgow had the lowest turnout at 75%, followed by Dundee on 78.8%.
The highest was East Dunbartonshire at 91% with East Renfrewshire and Stirling also nudging over 90%.
The European election in May 2014 gives some indication of party political support across Scotland although the turnout was much lower than that for the referendum.
In May, the SNP had the largest vote share overall with Labour second.
In the referendum, three of the four areas to vote Yes had backed Labour in the European election.
Dundee was the exception, backing the SNP in May and voting Yes in the referendum.
Professor of politics at Edinburgh University, Charlie Jeffrey, said party loyalties did not seem to have mattered in the referendum vote.
He said: "We have seen results in Labour strongholds like Glasgow and North Lanarkshire where there has been a 'Yes' vote, and in SNP strongholds like Angus and Perthshire there has been a 'No' vote.
"What we have found is a very strong correlation between the Yes vote and a higher level of unemployment.
"But also a slightly less strong relationship between the more British you feel, the less likely you are to vote 'Yes'.
"These seem to be more significant influences than political party in the outcome."
The latest annual unemployment figures show North Ayrshire the worst affected with a rate of 13.5% of the adult population. This area returned a narrow No vote of 51%.
Neighbouring East Ayrshire has the second-highest unemployment rate with 11.4% and Dundee - which voted Yes - is third with 11.3%.
At the other end of the scale, Shetland, which voted strongly No, has the lowest unemployment with 3.2%, followed by Aberdeenshire on 3.3%.
Some 109,533 youngsters aged 16 to 17 registered to vote after being given the chance to do so for the first time.
A snap poll by Lord Ashcroft asking voters how they had cast their ballots found this age group had voted overwhelmingly for independence, with 71% for Yes.
However among the wider 16-24-year-old age group the Yes vote was 51%, according to the poll.
Glasgow is the area with the biggest total population in Scotland and also has a high number of teen voters. Figures from the 2011 Census show the city had more than 18,000 people aged 13-15.
Depending on when their birthday falls, these youngsters will now be aged 16-19.
At the other end of the demographic spectrum is Scotland's rising older population. The proportion of people aged 65-plus now stands at 16.8%, slightly more than the proportion of under 16-year-olds.
Unsurprisingly, the issue of pensions consistently registered as one of the key issues in the independence debate.
Those areas with a relatively older population are the places where "No" did well.
The Lord Ashcroft overnight poll of 2,047 voters found that 73% over 65s chose No.
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Roberts, 19, put the Scottish champions ahead with a fine individual goal before City fought back to draw the Champions League group match 1-1.
The England Under-19 international joined City from Fulham in July 2015 for a fee in the region of £12m.
"He has potential. I am so happy with his performance," said Guardiola.
"We are going to talk about his future at the end of the season. We know his quality but the decision is not about one game. It is for one season."
Roberts has scored 10 goals for the Scottish Premiership leaders since arriving on an 18-month loan deal in January.
Celtic manager Rodgers described him as a "top young English talent" and said he is "in the right place at this time in the career".
"There's no point in him sitting on the bench and not playing," the Northern Irishman added.
"I'm sure there will be a big career for him at Manchester City. He'll come back here in the summer and Pep and his staff will have a real good look at him.
"But I think they'll be really encouraged by what they saw."
City already knew they were guaranteed to finish to second in Group C - behind Spanish champions Barcelona - no matter what happened against Celtic.
Guardiola's side had mixed fortunes in the group stage, hammering Borussia Monchengladbach in the opener before dropping points for the first time under the former Bayern Munich coach in a thrilling 3-3 draw at Celtic Park.
The Blues then recovered from a chastening 4-0 defeat at Barcelona by beating Guardiola's old club for the first time at the sixth attempt.
And a 1-1 draw at Monchengladbach secured a place in the last 16 for the fourth successive season.
City, who reached the semi-finals last season, will be paired with one of Atletico Madrid, Napoli, Monaco, Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus or Sevilla when the last-16 draw is made on Monday.
"Considering Manchester City in their history just once reached the semi-final, and just four times in a row the last 16, we are so happy," said Guardiola.
"The Champions League is not easy, especially for the teams who don't have a lot of experience in Europe. We cannot forget that.
"We have to win the respect during our performances and through the next years. We are going to see the draw and see how is our level in February."
Phil McNulty, chief football writer
Manchester City's group stage was a mixed bag, but was more than good enough to get them out of a tough section in the place most would have predicted.
City's performances can be summed up by their two displays against Barcelona - mauled 4-0 in the Nou Camp, City were magnificent when winning 3-1 after going behind at Etihad Stadium.
This is a side who could beat the best and yet may still have the capacity to lose to those outside the elite.
Guardiola, however, is well within his rights to be satisfied with a campaign that saw them ensure qualification with a game to spare.
For Celtic, manager Brendan Rodgers knew it would be tough to progress but their display here showed signs that they have learned lessons from the experience.
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The three women and a man have been charged with the wilful obstruction of a highway in Nottingham.
Traffic in parts of the city centre was "gridlocked" when people lay across tracks during rush hour on Friday.
The four accused are due to appear before the city's magistrates' court on 22 August.
They are:
During a day of action protesters also caused disruption near Heathrow and Birmingham airports.
Police have arrested 10 people in connection with the protest at Heathrow and a further five in Birmingham.
The action came a day after the fifth anniversary of the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot by police in London.
Founder Zahroun Alloush, 44, was among those killed when rockets hit a meeting place, rebels and the Syrian army said.
The Saudi-backed Islamist group is one of the biggest factions and is dominant in the Eastern Ghouta countryside.
It recently joined an opposition summit in Riyadh which produced a framework for peace talks with the government.
Ten rockets struck as Jaysh al-Islam commanders met, Saudi-funded al-Arabiya TV reported. The group's deputy leader was also killed, al-Arabiya said.
Jaysh al-Islam later named Issam al-Buwaydani - who is also known as Abu Humam - as its new leader. He is from Douma - a town to the east of Damascus.
The killing of Zahran Alloush comes days after the UN passed a resolution endorsing a path to peace in Syria.
It sends a strong message as to whom the Russians and the Syrian government are willing to sit at the negotiating table with, when and if peace talks take place.
Russia, President Assad's strong ally, has presented a list of rebel groups it identifies as terrorists. Jaysh al-Islam was one of them.
Jaysh al-Islam controls most of the Eastern Ghouta agricultural belt on the edge of Damascus.
It succeeded in forcing so-called Islamic State out of the area, which has been under heavy bombardment from the regime since early on in the war.
In a statement carried by state television, Syria's army command said it had conducted the "special operation" that killed Alloush.
Some activists had suggested it was a Russian air strike.
Analysts called it a severe blow for rebel forces and a threat to the nascent efforts to find a political resolution.
Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been waging an air campaign in Syria since the end of September.
Moscow insists it has been targeting so-called Islamic State, but rebels and Western officials say the Russian strikes have mainly been hitting other groups.
Jaysh al-Islam, whose fighters number tens of thousands, took part in the conference in the Saudi capital which agreed a common approach among disparate rebel groups for UN-backed peace talks planned for January.
Syria and Russia dismissed the meeting, saying the groups did not properly represent the opposition and that those that did attend were unacceptable.
Samantha Furmston almost cancelled her training with the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) because her daughter Rosie was unwell.
However, the day after the course Rosie stopped breathing and Ms Furmston had to perform CPR - cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
She recovered and Ms Furmston has urged people to get basic first aid training.
Ms Furmston said: "Rosie had been coughing and being sick and I was starting to get worried and I'd been advised to take her to hospital.
"She was suddenly struggling to breathe and had turned a pale, almost blue colour.
"I instinctively pulled her out of her car seat and everything that I had learnt from the evening before about choking just kicked in.
"I gave her four back blows and then noticed some vomit come out of her mouth. I then felt her take a deep breath and she started crying."
Richard Lambert, of the NWAS, who gave the training, said: "On occasions like these it proves that knowing basic first aid along with having the confidence to use the skills means the difference between life and death."
The founder of the seized Megaupload websites is wanted in the US on charges of copyright infringement, racketeering and money laundering.
The US had opposed his proposal to broadcast the hearing on YouTube.
Dotcom said on Twitter that the decision was "breaking new ground" and streaming would start on Wednesday.
He told the BBC there was a definite public interest in his case.
Dotcom's lawyer said the move was "democracy at its finest".
"It provides everybody in the world with a seat in the gallery of the New Zealand courtroom," Ira Rothken told the Associated Press, saying there would be a 20 minute delay on the live feed.
Kim Dotcom has won a major victory here. By getting the hearing livestreamed, he'll hope to expose what he says are some of the incompetencies of this entire case. By bringing the world's technology community into the court room, instead of relying on media reports, he hopes to build support.
Mr Dotcom praised the judge for being "brave" enough to allow the streaming to happen. But it does come with an odd stipulation which many might find a tad naive on the part of the court.
As well as a 20 minute delay, in which some details can be beeped out from what goes out on the internet, the judge has also ruled that once the six-week hearing is over it cannot be kept online forever.
But to think, given all the people likely to watch it online, nobody is going to record it independently and publish shows a poor grasp of how the online community operates. The video of Kim Dotcom's hearing will be all over the internet, in perpetuity, whether the judge wants it to be or not.
German-born Dotcom ran file-sharing site Megaupload.com, which once had millions of users storing files and downloading movies and songs.
The FBI took control of the site and other domain names belonging to the business in January 2012. Federal prosecutors said it had cost movie studios, music labels and other copyright-holders more than $500m (£382m) in lost revenue.
Last December, a New Zealand court ruled that the German-born entrepreneur could be extradited to face charges of copyright infringement, racketeering and money laundering.
But Dotcom's lawyers launched an appeal, arguing that he should not be held responsible for the actions of the site's users, and did not get a fair hearing.
The request for livestreaming came on the first day of the appeal hearing in Auckland, which is expected to last up to eight weeks.
Another defence lawyer, Ron Mansfield, said there were "unprecedented issues of public and international interest" raised by the case and added that coverage should not be limited to traditional media.
Lawyers for the US had said streaming could influence a potential future jury.
The High Court judge, Justice Murray Gilbert, criticised the fact the request had not been made in advance but said he wanted to hear the views of local media outlets before making a decision.
Debate still rages as to whether televising trials is a necessary part of transparent justice or something that turns legal procedure into a circus. But some very high profile cases have been put on camera:
The claims emerged from an investigation into alleged failings in the organisation's culture.
British Cycling responded by admitting it did not pay "sufficient care and attention" to staff and athletes well being at the expense of winning medals.
But James said: "I've had an amazing experience with British Cycling."
Published in the Daily Mail, the leaked report claims British Cycling "sanitised" its own probe into claims former coach Shane Sutton used sexist language towards Jess Varnish.
It also spoke of a "culture of fear", with some staff "bullied" and said weak leadership allowed first Sir Dave Brailsford, described as an "untouchable" figure, and then Sutton to work without supervision as British Cycling chiefs, creating a "dysfunctional structure".
In October of 2016, British Cycling found Sutton, who has left the organisation, guilty on one from nine charges of using sexist language towards Varnish who was dropped from British Cycling's elite programme in April.
Sutton under scrutiny
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James said she was unaware of the leaked report and the subsequent British Cycling statement.
She has outlined the role Sutton played in her recovery from almost two years of injury and illness which culminated in battling back to win two silver Olympic medals in Rio.
"I didn't work very closely with Dave but I work closely with Shane," James told BBC Radio Wales.
"He was the one that supported me through my injuries, he was the one that believed in me getting to Rio.
"He pushed me through my training and believed in me.
"He told me if I trained hard and knuckled down that I could get to Rio and I did and I won silver medals.
"I've always had support from British Cycling."
Post Olympics break
The 25-year-old has not returned to full training yet and will not compete in the World Championships in Hong Kong next month.
"It's been amazing [since the Olympics]," said James.
"It takes a long time to sink in. I have loved my life and enjoyed every minute of it.
"I have worked so hard and it's been like a bubble. It's nice to live in the real world for a bit.
"It's natural for riders [to take a break] after an Olympics and I have seen people benefit from it.
"It's hard to get back but I am still young and I have needed this break mentally and physically and have enjoyed it.
"I have learned so much about myself in the year leading up to Rio. This will benefit me in the long term."
Future goals
The Commonwealth Games will be held on the Gold Coast in 2018 while the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo looms.
"Once I start back full-time training, that's where I know where I am at and set my targets and what my long-term goals are," said James.
"It is something for me to sit down and see where I want to get to.
"It is just ticking over at the moment, getting fit on the road and getting strong in the gym before building up the next event."
Non-league side Cheadle Town were beaten 22-0 by Russia U19s at the weekend.
So their keeper Stephen Piggott was left with more grazes than usual.
"We thought they'd be a good team. Because Russia is such a big country, obviously it's the best of the best of that age group," he says.
"You could see the quality they had, well organised, fit. They had loads of coaches with them as well so you know they're being well trained.
"We only train twice a week, once a week if we've got a game."
The club tweeted all of the action, including when they won a corner.
"Just to be up the other end of the field I think was a good thing for us, to keep it away from our goal for a bit."
Despite picking the ball out of the net 22 times, Stephen still hopes he impressed.
"I'd like to think I made seven, eight, or nine great saves on Sunday. Hopefully the manager would have seen that and I can get back into the first team.
"Twenty-one out of the 22 goals were pretty much tap-ins for them.
Stephen says the half-time team talk was still positive, despite being 9-0 down.
"Just keep your heads up and keep trying to play football," he says they were told. "We knew they were going to be good and it was just nice to play in a game like that.
"I don't think it was humiliating, I think the side they had out would have given some championship sides a game. I think one of their lads played for Zenit St Petersburg in the Champions League."
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The Briton revealed he hit a stationary car in his home town on Monday, and delayed his flight to the Brazilian Grand Prix after feeling run down.
The crash was reported to have occurred at 3.30am on Tuesday morning.
"It was a result of heavy partying and not much rest for 10 days," Hamilton said of the crash and his health.
"I am a bit run down. I have been non-stop and trying to fit training in at the same time and not getting a lot of sleep."
It was also reported that Hamilton was believed to be driving his limited edition Pagani Zonda at the time of the incident.
Explaining the accident on Wednesday, Hamilton said on his Instagram account: "I've not been well with a fever but I also had a road accident in Monaco on Monday night.
"Whilst ultimately, it is nobody's business, there are people knowing my position that will try to take advantage of the situation and make a quick buck. No problem.
"Nobody was hurt, which is the most important thing. But the car was obviously damaged and I made very light contact with a stationary vehicle.
"Talking with the team and my doctor, we decided together that it was best for me to rest at home and leave a day later."
The party led a Senedd debate saying its £55.7bn budget should be spent on projects like a South Wales Metro.
Labour and the Welsh Conservatives called for work to ensure HS2 has good connections for passengers in Wales.
Plaid Cymru insisted on extra public funding for Wales under Barnett rules, claiming HS2 only benefits England.
The £55.7bn HS2 project aims to create a new high-speed line to link London to Birmingham by 2026, with routes to Manchester and Leeds by 2033.
In July, new Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said he had "no plans to back away" from HS2, despite criticism of the cost and the impact on people living along the route.
UKIP Wales transport spokesman David Rowlands told BBC Wales HS2 was a "a hugely expensive project" which he felt would have a "detrimental effect on the Welsh economy".
He said his party felt the new line could swallow up money better spent on other projects, such as electrification of the south Wales main line and valleys services, a South Wales Metro and improvements in north Wales.
"Because of the huge cost of HS2 - which is rising on a daily basis - it could mean that the UK Government doesn't have the funds to secure a Metro system in Wales," he said.
A Department for Transport spokesman said UK ministers "remain fully committed to delivering HS2, with construction set to start next year".
"HS2 will be a transformative project that will support growth and investment across the country, create extra capacity on the rail network and generate thousands of jobs.
"It will deliver significant benefits to passengers in Wales, which will be linked up to HS2 through the north Wales main line into Crewe," he said.
"Journeys from central Wales to London, Manchester and Leeds will also be quicker."
Louise Wright was on her way to work in Nottingham when her bike was struck at traffic lights by Adam Haywood's beer delivery truck in July 2014.
Derby Crown Court heard he failed to check his mirrors before turning left and hitting Ms Wright.
He denies causing death by careless driving and said he believes Miss Wright was in his blind spot.
Miss Wright, 29, was killed instantly at the junction of Lower Parliament Street and Pennyfoot Street in Nottingham city centre on 3 July 2014.
In court Mr Haywood, 31, from Whitwell, Derbyshire, was asked by defence barrister Paul Rogers: "Did you see Miss Wright in your mirrors?"
He replied: "No."
Mr Rogers asked: "If you had done what would you have done?"
Sobbing, he replied: "I would have stopped."
The trial has heard that Mr Haywood was stationary at the traffic lights when Miss Wright cycled down the left side of his lorry and waited near the front of his truck.
Jurors were told it is not illegal for a cyclist to come up the inside of a lorry, but the Highway Code recommends not to do so.
Mr Haywood told the jury he could not remember if he had put on his indicators, but that was his normal practice.
Jurors were told there is nothing in law to say that a driver must indicate, but the Highway Code says they should.
The trial continues.
Terry Hill, from Bridgend, was involved in a collision on the A4233 near Wattstown, Porth, at 22:00 BST on Thursday.
The 45-year-old was described as "a pillar" to his family and the community through his involvement as a rugby coach and with a brass band.
A man, 40, from Ferndale, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and police have appealed for witnesses.
Mr Hill, from the Broadlands area of Bridgend, coached Bridgend Athletic under 15s rugby team and was a member of Tylorstown Brass Band.
A tribute from his family, released by police, said: "Terry was a much-loved and devoted husband, father, son and brother. He was a pillar, not only to his family, but the wider community.
"The family is devastated by this tragic event and Terry will never be replaced."
Cazorla has been out since limping out of the Champions League group stage game against Ludogorets at the Emirates Stadium in October.
He underwent surgery in December and Gunners boss Arsene Wenger hoped the 32-year-old would be back before the end of the season.
But Spain international Cazorla is now focusing on being fit for next season.
Chairman Ian Connell is hopeful that work will start on the arena in April 2016 after it was granted planning permission last month.
The club currently play at the Mennaye Field, in Penzance, but the ground is unsuitable for Premiership rugby.
"Our target is that we're going to be playing in pre-season in August 2017 in the new stadium," he told BBC Sport.
While the stadium has permission to be built, there are still issues to be resolved over the adjoining retail development which will help fund the building of the new ground.
"I'm as confident as I can be," Connell said in regards to the retail development.
"Lots of things can happen as you go down the journey of a major infrastructure development.
"But all the indications are from the developer, and the builder Henry Boot, that as long as we progress with the timescale that we've already laid out and get their reserved matters dealt with in quick time then that timescale of 2017 should work."
Connell is also looking to increase the number of shareholders in the club.
Currently 70 parties own 240,000 shares in Cornish Pirates, with a further 160,000 shares remaining unsold.
"With the prospect of moving to Truro, we think that is now the opportune time to start to market those shares and that marketing will commence once the season commences in September," he added.
"Existing shareholders can increase their investment up to a limit, but we would also want to attract new people.
"If we can put 50% on the shareholding that would be a huge success.
"Whether we can do that, I'm not too sure at the moment, but that would be an aspirational target that we would look at."
But the UK as a whole has voted to Leave - raising the prospect of Scotland being taken out of the EU against its will.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland had delivered a "strong, unequivocal vote" to remain in the EU.
The result prompted David Cameron to announce he would step down as prime minister by October.
Speaking in Downing Street, he said he would "steady the ship" until then - but would hand over to a new leader in time for the Conservative Party conference.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said he had served the office of prime minister "honourably".
She added: "His decision to remain in post over the short term is the right one, and will help ensure greater stability in the days ahead.
"It is right that he has already spoken to Nicola Sturgeon to ensure the Scottish government is involved in the negotiations that will follow.
"Our two governments need to work together for the benefit of all people in Scotland, and they will. All of us need to take stock of this decision, and put the stability of our country first."
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who has arrived in Scotland to visit his Trump Turnberry golf resort, meanwhile said it was a "great thing" that the people of the UK had "taken back their country".
With all the votes declared, the Leave side won by a margin of 52% to 48%.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told a media conference a second independence referendum was "highly likely" after the UK voted to leave the EU.
The SNP manifesto for May's Holyrood elections said the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum if there was a "significant and material change" in the circumstances that prevailed in 2014, such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against its will.
At a news conference in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon said: "It is, therefore, a statement of the obvious that a second referendum must be on the table, and it is on the table."
Her predecessor as first minister, Alex Salmond, was quick to suggest there should now be a second Scottish independence referendum.
Mr Salmond told the BBC: "It means that Nicola Sturgeon has to go forward with the manifesto, which as you remember said the Scottish Parliament should have the right to call a second referendum on Scottish independence if there was a material and significant change in the circumstances, like Scotland being dragged out of the European Union against the will of the Scottish people.
"Now that has happened and I'm certain that Nicola will go forward on that manifesto commitment."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale described the result as "distressing" but said the priority now was best summed up by the Scottish phrase "keep the heid".
She said: "First and foremost our priority must be to stabilise the economy - to reassure people about their jobs, about their pensions and about the opportunities that are yet to come.
"It's going to be a long drawn out process now."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said he was "angry that we have lost our place in Europe".
He said: "It is bad for our country and the people who live here. It means cutting our ties with our biggest economic market despite the consequences for trade, business, jobs and incomes.
"It means we are turning our back on co-operating with our closest neighbours on security, peace, the environment and workers' rights."
Scottish Green co-convenor Patrick Harvie said Scotland "must keep open every option for protecting ourselves from this threat" and said it was "devastating to see that the deceitful, manipulative and at times downright racist Brexit campaign has succeeded south of the border".
Tom Harris, of Scottish Vote Leave, played down the Remain majority in Scotland, and said more than a million Brexit supporters in Scotland had made a "huge contribution" to the overall result.
He told BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "It's not the case that Scotland voted one way and England voted another. The voice of more than a million Scots cannot be simply be dismissed."
Earlier, Mr Harris predicted there would not be a second independence referendum after the EU result.
The Scotland Stronger In Europe campaign said the scale of the Remain majority in Scotland was "exceptional".
Spokesman John Edward said: "We are proud that every single local authority area in Scotland voted Remain with an overall lead of 24 points over Leave - that clearly stands out as an exceptional result compared to the rest of the UK.
"Scotland even recorded a higher level of support to stay in the European Union than in the 1975 referendum.
"We are pleased to have won well in Scotland, but of course the only result that decides the issue is the UK-wide vote."
Overall, 1,661,191 voters backed Remain in Scotland, with 1,018,322 voting for Leave.
Glasgow voted by 168,335 (67%) to 84,474 (33%) in favour of Remain, although turnout was relatively low.
Edinburgh backed Remain by 187,796 (74%) to 64,498 (26%), but results in England and Wales were much better for Leave.
Moray saw the closest result in Scotland, with Remain finishing just 122 votes ahead of Leave.
But there were big wins for Remain in heavily-populated areas such as Aberdeen, Dundee, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Fife and West Lothian.
Another day, another constitutional crisis.
The final results from the EU referendum weren't even declared before there was discussion of what happens next in Scotland.
Scots have been to the polls five times in the span of just over two years. Many may now be wondering if they'll be back again soon.
The overbearing theme in the counting halls was one of tension.
Remain knew they had done well north of the border, but were startled by the strong showing Leave recorded in the early results across England and Wales.
In Edinburgh, for example, Remain scored a whopping win. But the cheers from the gathered few observers were rather muted, with the national result hanging in the balance.
The pattern was repeated across the country - albeit with smaller margins of victory in some places, such as Moray, where less than 200 votes separated the sides.
And in the end, when the Scotland-wide result was announced in Grangemouth, it was the Leave side who were slapping each other on the back and jumping for joy, despite losing the Scottish vote by 62% to 38%.
This result will raise a lot more questions than it answers in Scotland.
Orkney became the first Scottish area to declare its result at about 00:05, with Remain winning 7,189 votes (63%) and Leave on 4,193 (37%). Turnout was 68.4%.
It was followed by Clackmannanshire, which backed Remain by 58% to 42%. A majority of voters in Shetland, the Western Isles and the Scottish Borders also backed Remain.
YouGov had published an on-the-day poll which had Remain on 52% and Leave 48%, while an Ipsos-Mori poll from Wednesday and Thursday put Remain on 54% and Leave on 46% - but the pollsters got the result badly wrong, as they had done in last year's general election.
About 46.5 million people were registered to vote - including four million in Scotland - in what was the third nationwide referendum in UK history.
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Mr Swinney was speaking at the conference of the EIS, Scotland's largest teaching union, which has backed a ballot on strike action.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan warned there should be no return to a "league table approach" to schools.
The minister said new assessments would be "as short as possible".
Speaking at the conference in Dundee, Mr Swinney said: "In one of my first interviews as education secretary, I was asked whether the assessments will be internally or externally marked. I wasn't ready to give an answer then. I am now.
"My answer is this: that's the wrong question and it fundamentally misunderstands what we are doing.
"You all know - because schools already use these systems - that assessment can be delivered using modern technology that provides the results automatically. No additional workload - no high-stakes, externally marked tests. It's not internal or external. It's automatic.
He added: "That is the modern approach to sensible, proportionate, teacher-led assessment that we need and that is exactly what we will work with you to deliver."
Mr Flanagan said he was "encouraged" by the education secretary's approach.
He said: "He reiterated the Scottish government's commitment to investing in education and, in particular, to tackling the poverty-related attainment gap that persists across the country.
"Clearly, as the cabinet secretary himself noted, we will not agree on every issue.
"Delegates in the hall made clear their very real concerns over the Scottish government's plans for national standardised assessments within the National Improvement Framework, and Mr Swinney was left in no doubt that any return to a target-setting, league table approach to education would be fiercely resisted by teachers."
World number nine Wawrinka, who beat fellow Swiss Federer in last year's final, lost 6-1 6-2 to Bulgaria's world number 11 Grigor Dimitrov.
Second seed Federer was beaten 6-4 7-6 (7-5) by Frenchman Gael Monfils, the world number 18 and 14th seed.
Eight-times winner Rafael Nadal beat America's John Isner 7-6 (8-6) 4-6 6-3.
The Spaniard, who won every title at the clay court event from 2005-12, saved two set points in the opener but broke big-serving Isner in the fourth game of the decider.
Nadal faces compatriot David Ferrer in the fourth round after he beat France's Gilles Simon 6-2 6-7 (3-7) 6-1
Monfils's victory over 17-time Grand Slam champion Federer was his second successive triumph on clay after his straight sets win during last year's Davis Cup final.
Federer, 33, four times a beaten finalist in this event, was competing for the first time since losing to Novak Djokovic in the Indian Wells final nearly four weeks ago.
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A baby born in January is among the people to have helped push the population up to 105 this year.
In 1997, when islanders made their historic community buyout of Eigg after years of issues with absentee landlords, there were 64 people.
Eigg is one of the Small Isles, which lie south of Skye. The other islands are Rum, Muck and Canna.
Maggie Fyffe, secretary of the lsle of Eigg Heritage Trust, said the population increase had come as a surprise.
She told BBC Radio Scotland: "It's crept up on us.
"We never sought out to increase the population to a certain level."
Ms Fyffe added: "It is great that we have got more people and it is always exciting to have new babies here. It is a big celebratory event."
More than 400 years ago, every resident of Eigg barring one elderly woman was killed during a clan feud.
About 400 islanders, who were members of the Macdonald clan, were murdered by a raiding party of Macleods from Skye.
The islanders had been hiding in the cave for three days when they were discovered.
Macleods blocked the narrow entrance to their hideout with heather and other vegetation before setting the material alight.
The Macdonalds were suffocated by smoke and their bodies left in the cave.
It is believed that the massacre happened in or around the year 1577.
In modern times, Eigg has become known for its innovative use of renewable energy.
Following the community buyout in 1997, islanders worked towards having most of the electricity they use generated by renewable energy projects.
These include micro hydro, solar and wind schemes.
The National Audit Office (NAO) says the estimated cost of the project since 2013 has shot up by £2.1bn to £5.6bn.
Meanwhile delays have added between 18 and 36 months to the project's timescale.
Yesterday the government said electrification of four short parts of the network would now be "deferred".
The audit office's report puts the blame for the project's problems firmly on poor government planning.
It said the modernisation plan was a "case study in how not to manage a major programme".
"Before 2015, the Department of Transport did not plan and manage all the projects which now make up the Great Western route modernisation industry programme in a sufficiently joined up way," said Amyas Morse, head of the NAO.
The Great Western network, which stretches from London out to South Wales and the south west of England, is particularly busy and overcrowded.
The number of passengers arriving at Paddington during the daily peak period is predicted to rise by 81% in the five years up to 2018-19.
Because it will take longer to electrify the lines, the government has been forced to change a multi-billion pound order for new, all-electric trains.
They will now have to be fitted with diesel engines, so that they can go anywhere, but that makes them heavier, which means they are more expensive to run, more polluting and do more damage to the track.
They may even be slower than the trains they are replacing, so believe it or not, journeys could possibly take longer.
And it is not just passengers in the south west that will suffer.
When one line gets brand new trains, the old stock is used to upgrade services in different parts of the country.
So problems in the west country may also mean people in the north of England and Scotland have to wait longer for their better trains.
Modernisation of the Great Western network started in 2014 and involves electrifying various lines including the one between Maidenhead and Cardiff; ordering new trains; modifying or building new bridges; and changing various services.
Among the problems identified by the NAO were that by the time an overall plan was eventually devised last year:
The result, the NAO said, was that electrification alone would cost an extra £330m and the extent of that element should now be reconsidered.
The government auditor also said that the new trains would have to be reconfigured so that they could run under both electrical and diesel power.
Meanwhile the Great Western franchise operator, FirstGroup, would have to bear much higher costs which, combined with less passenger revenue than expected, meant the government would earn less money than expected from the franchise.
Mr Morse added an optimistic note, saying: "It is encouraging that since 2015 the department and Network Rail have a better grip and put in place structures to manage the programme in an integrated way."
"However, significant challenges to the timetable still remain and there is more to do to achieve value for money," he added.
But Meg Hillier MP, chair of the parliamentary committee of public accounts, was not impressed.
"The Department for Transport and Network Rails' failure to integrate crucial elements of the modernisation into one programme from the start has cost passengers and taxpayers' time and money," she said.
"I do not understand why it took the department two years from agreeing to buy new trains to produce a business case," she added.
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A spokeswoman for Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport said: "The situation is almost intolerable and that is still the case today."
The unit was full by 18:30 GMT on Saturday.
The hospital had seen 173 people by that time, more than they would usually expect on New Year's Eve.
The spokeswoman added: "As we were getting towards midnight the cases were still very high, they all needed to be admitted."
An earlier statement said the hospital had been "completely overwhelmed" and asked people only to attend in an "absolute emergency".
The Colossus at Thorpe Park, Surrey, was halted when staff saw on CCTV that someone had "ignored restrictions". Riders were walked to safety.
"We e-stopped the ride as soon as possible and evacuated all guests," a spokeswoman said.
No-one was hurt and the Colossus was "back up and running" a short time later.
Injury-time goals from Erhun Oztumer and Kieron Morris secured the Saddlers' fourth home win in a row.
With Posh furiously appealing for a foul on keeper Luke McGee, Oztumer scored direct from a controversial corner in the 92nd minute.
Posh captain Chris Forrester was sent off for leading the protests before Morris then sealed the points with Walsall's second in the seventh minute of stoppage time.
Morris, only playing because of an injury to Florent Cuvelier, found the bottom left corner with a left-foot shot which squeezed under McGee's body.
McGee had been the star of the first half for Posh, making a fine near-post reaction save on 25 minutes to keep out Simeon Jackson's close-range flick from Jason McCarthy's low cross.
But the game seemed set to peter out into a goalless draw before McGee fumbled Oztumer's corner over the line under pressure from Amadou Bakayoko in injury time.
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Match ends, Walsall 2, Peterborough United 0.
Second Half ends, Walsall 2, Peterborough United 0.
Goal! Walsall 2, Peterborough United 0. Kieron Morris (Walsall) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Lee Angol (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Walsall. Franck Moussa replaces Erhun Oztumer.
George Dobson (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Martin Samuelsen (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Dobson (Walsall).
Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Luke McGee (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Goal! Walsall 1, Peterborough United 0. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Luke McGee.
Attempt saved. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Adam Chambers (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Dobson (Walsall).
Substitution, Peterborough United. Martin Samuelsen replaces Gwion Edwards because of an injury.
Delay in match Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dominic Ball (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall).
Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United).
Substitution, Walsall. Amadou Bakayoko replaces Simeon Jackson.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by James O'Connor.
Attempt missed. Kieron Morris (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Lee Angol replaces Michael Smith.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Marcus Maddison replaces Paul Taylor.
Substitution, Walsall. George Dobson replaces Isaiah Osbourne.
Attempt blocked. Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Simeon Jackson (Walsall).
(Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Kieron Morris (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
A disciplinary panel found that Donna Wood, a senior nurse, dishonestly suggested that the temperature of Ms Cafferkey was lower than it was.
The pair were tested for the virus on their arrival at Heathrow Airport in London from Sierra Leone in 2014.
Ms Cafferkey became seriously ill with the disease the following day.
She was recently cleared herself of misconduct over claims she hid her infection, when the panel ruled that her judgement had been impaired by her illness.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council disciplinary panel will now consider whether Mrs Wood's behaviour constitutes misconduct, and whether it has made her unfit to practise as a nurse.
Mrs Wood was accused by another volunteer returning from Sierra Leone - Dr Hannah Ryan - of suggesting that Pauline Cafferkey's temperature be recorded as 37.2C, when she knew it was at least one degree higher.
Under protocols at the time, a temperature above 37.5C would have triggered an investigation into the presence of Ebola.
Dr Ryan told the hearing that Mrs Wood said, "let's put it down as 37.2 and get out of here and sort it out later".
The hearing concluded: "The panel found that you intended to conceal it from the Public Health England screening staff in order to leave the screening area earlier and deal with it later."
And it added: "The panel found that these actions would be dishonest by the ordinary and honest standards of your profession, and that you must have realised that your actions would be dishonest by those standards."
Mrs Wood, who was a senior sister at a Stoke-on-Trent hospital, had told the panel that she couldn't say whether she had or had not written a temperature for Ms Cafferkey on a screening form - but denied knowing that she had a temperature above 38 degrees, an allegation she described as "preposterous".
However the panel said it found Mrs Wood's evidence to be evasive at times, and occasionally implausible.
It said it could not work out why she could remember conversations she had with colleagues in the toilets and in the baggage reclaim area, but not in the screening area.
The panel was unable to establish who had recorded Ms Cafferkey's temperature on the screening form.
But it noted that Mrs Wood was aware at some point that Pauline Cafferkey's temperature was raised, and said: "Everyone working there (in Sierra Leone) was very aware of the need to take their temps.
"You were well aware of the significance of a raised temperature as a warning sign of Ebola. "
But even if that stacks up it is effectively offset by funds that have to be found from Stormont budgets to pay for welfare mitigation.
The cut in corporation tax will also have to be paid for, but the bills for that will not arrive until 2019.
All this is taking place against a tough public spending environment directed from Westminster.
Stormont can expect its so-called block grant to fall by up to 2% a year until 2019-20.
Savings made through public sector redundancies and other measures should ease a bit of the pressure.
Senior officials tell me the implementation of welfare reforms will make the budget "manageable."
But even with this agreement Stormont's finances will remain under pressure.
The living wage of £7.20 per hour was introduced in April, benefitting more than a million staff aged 25 and over.
Some business organisations have been lobbying the government to restrain future increases in the hourly rate.
But the Resolution Foundation said that women, the young and older workers were most likely to lose out if future rises are limited.
Conor D'Arcy, policy analyst at the foundation, said some businesses were unhappy about a higher minimum wage, but the wage policy was pegged to typical hourly pay and therefore reflects changing economic circumstances.
Abandoning increases "would also be costly for millions of low paid workers, so the prime minister should stick to her guns", he said.
After the Brexit vote in June the government was lobbied by 16 trade associations who called on ministers to be cautious about future increases in the national living wage.
Low-paid workers are due to get above-average pay rises over the next four years as the policy approaches its target of paying 60% of average hourly pay.
Based on independent economic forecasts published by the Treasury, the Resolution Foundation expects it to rise to about £8.70 in 2020.
That is lower than the £9 forecast in the March 2016 Budget because overall wage growth is expected to weaken.
The projected figure for 2020 is likely to fluctuate in coming years as wage forecasts are updated and the impact of implementing Brexit becomes clear, the foundation added.
The think-tank has previously estimated that by 2020 the national living wage should benefit more than six million workers.
Many are predicted to gain directly, while some will benefit from a "ripple effect" as the new policy pushes up wages more generally.
The Low Pay Commission will meet in October to decide its recommendation for next year's national living wage increase.
The Resolution Foundation says that if there were no further increases relative to average hourly pay, then by 2020 low paid workers would lose as much as £1,500 from their prospective annual pay.
In early August, 21 trade associations wrote to the new business secretary, Greg Clark, asking him to "exercise caution" on the rate at which the living wage might rise, because of "economic uncertainties the country faces" after the Brexit vote.
A spokeswoman for Theresa May appeared to brush that aside, saying: "The prime minister has been clear about building an economy that works for everyone, and making sure that people earn a decent wage for a day's work is an important part of that."
Police Scotland said co-driver Andy Mort, 47, from Mull died and his driver John MacCrone, also from the island, was seriously injured.
Mr MacCrone, 26, was airlifted to hospital in Glasgow for treatment for serious injuries.
An investigation into the circumstances of the crash is under way. No-one else was involved in the incident.
Police said they responded to reports of a serious crash at the event at about 13:10.
Mr Mort was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. His family has been informed.
Sgt Archie McGuire, who is leading the inquiry, said: "For the spectators and participants of the annual Mull Rally, this has been a desperately saddening event. We are working closely with the event organisers in investigating the incident.
"Specialist officers are at the scene and have begun the process of determining the circumstances which have led to this crash. "
He urged anyone who may have witnessed what happened and had not already spoken to police to come forward.
He also appealed for spectators with any mobile phone footage to contact officers.
A statement from the Motor Sports Association said: "As with any serious incident in or around UK motor sports, the MSA is now working with the event organisers and relevant authorities to establish precisely what happened on this occasion.
"The MSA is saddened by this tragic incident and sends its condolences to the family and friends of the co-driver, and offers its best wishes to the driver for a full recovery."
Barbara Murray, from Banchory, breastfed Lucy and changed her nappies between four laps of the Strathpuffer near Strathpeffer in the Highlands.
Her partner Ian Taylor looked after their daughter when she was on her bike taking part in the 24-hour team event,.
Held at the weekend, the 'Puffer involves laps of a 6.46m (10.km) hilly route.
Most of the race is done in darkness and this year riders encountered freezing temperatures and ice-covered ground.
Ms Murray, who is originally from Kildare, Ireland, said her daughter was snug in a campervan and a hotel room during the night.
She was also able to make use of the event's feeding station to feed Lucy between her day-time laps of the course.
The keen cyclist, who was doing the Strathpuffer for the first time and took part "for fun", said a family friend who had done the event previously encouraged her to take part.
Ms Murray said: "Everyone was supportive of my decision to take part.
"The organisers said before I arrived they would look after me and Lucy, but they were even more supportive than I imagined they would be.
"Between laps as I was able to feed Lucy in a campervan and also the feeding station where it was a lovely 18C inside."
She travelled to a nearby hotel to look after Lucy between her night-time laps.
Ms Murray said her experience of getting up through the night with Lucy meant she was "trained" for the sleep deprivation of taking part in the relay cycling event.
But she added: "The logistics of completing a lap and then going to Lucy was the hard part.
"There were also parts of the course where it was covered in ice. It helped that I had such a laugh with the other three members of my team. I couldn't have asked for a better or more supportive team."
In her team were friends Ben Blades, Paul Elliff and Emily Murphy.
The 23-year-old won the Shanghai Masters in September by beating world number six Judd Trump in the final, and he also reached the Champions semi-finals this month.
Wilson's form means he feels well set for a good run at the UK Championship.
"I go very high in confidence," the Kettering potter told BBC Sport.
"Winning in Shanghai has definitely been a lift, but I have always believed I could win tournaments. But until you prove it, saying it is worthless.
"And playing in the Champion of Champions is a high standard and a prestigious event. It didn't go according to plan in the semi-finals, but reaching that stage is not be sniffed at."
World number 22 Wilson also beat Trump at the Champions of Champions in Coventry, but lost to Mark Allen in the final four.
He wants to make the most of impressive form when faces Paul Davison in the first round of the UK Championship on Thursday.
"I'm really looking forward to York," Wilson added.
"It's the second biggest tournament in the season, it's a great place and I love this time of year building up to Christmas.
"Judd is a class player and then beat him and then Zhou Yuelong. I was really pleased with how I handled both games. Against Judd I was a big underdog and then I was the favourite; it's a contrast and all wonderful experience.
"I always believed I would make that breakthrough but it's mad how it has happened so quickly. I am still quite young in snooker terms.
"I love to play and in front of the television cameras. You can't be too confident and I like to think I am pretty grounded and nice and relaxed when I play, but also full of belief."
The artwork at Tintagel Castle, the legendary birthplace of King Arthur, was criticised for "commercialising" the landscape.
English Heritage, which commissioned the piece, said it was unsure whether the damage was "deliberate or natural".
Police are yet to confirm whether they are investigating any complaints of vandalism to the nose of the structure.
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Peter Glaser, a photographer based in north Cornwall, said: "It looks like somebody has put a chisel on it and given it a damn good whack."
English Heritage unveiled the carving by local craftsman Peter Graham in February, but the charity has since been accused by councillor Bert Biscoe of damaging the geology.
Mr Biscoe said he was "not sad" about the damage and would "not be surprised" if it was deliberate.
"People are extremely angry about the way English Heritage has marched in and done all of this", he said.
Alex Page from English Heritage, said "the carving has been immensely popular with the public since we unveiled it" and the organisation would be "disappointed" if it was a case of vandalism.
Poland halted talks with French company Airbus to buy 50 of its Caracal helicopters for around 3.14bn euros (£2.8bn / $3.51bn) on Tuesday.
Warsaw said the contract was not in the country's economic and security interests.
Mr Hollande's office said Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault would travel to Poland instead.
The switch over the meeting scheduled for next Thursday is being seen as a display of French anger.
A visit by the French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian scheduled for next Monday has also been cancelled, AFP reported.
Poland's development ministry announced that differences between the two sides had sunk the talks over the defence deal.
"Poland considers the talks for a deal to be over," it added. The proposed package included an agreement that France would invest in Poland to offset the cost of the helicopters.
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The agreement to buy 50 Airbus utility helicopters was made in April 2015 by Poland's previous government, with the aim of modernising its military and improving coordination with its Nato allies.
However, since the election of a right-wing government in Warsaw in October 2015, relations with other EU governments have become strained.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls took a swipe at Warsaw on Friday, saying: "Poland is a big country, but questions need to be asked to Poland, notably its defence industry, after the choices that have just been made.
"As far as France is concerned, we're worried because negotiations had started, but also for the very concept of European defence."
Mr Erdogan is urging his supporters to vote Yes in a referendum next month to give the Turkish leader greater powers.
He accused Germany and the Netherlands of "Nazi" tactics after they refused to let Turkish ministers hold referendum rallies in their countries.
A German politician said Mr Erdogan was no longer welcome in Germany.
Volker Bouffier, vice chairman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said "enough is enough... Mr Erdogan and his government are not welcome in our country, and that must be now be understood."
Another CDU politician, Reiner Haseloff, said: "Those who compare us to Nazis are not welcome."
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Germany is home to 1.4m people who are eligible to vote in Turkey's 16 April referendum.
Speaking on Tuesday, Mr Erdogan announced he would review relations with the EU, and promised a "very different Turkey" after the referendum.
"This Europe, like before World War Two, is a racist, fascist, cruel Europe... An anti-Islam and anti-Turkish Europe," Mr Erdogan told a rally in Ankara.
"Give such a response, that those watching us on the screen, those watching us abroad, our citizens, all of Europe, all of the world can hear this."
The EU has criticised the referendum, saying it would concentrate too much power in the president's hands.
President Erdogan's scramble for the votes of the far right goes on. After hitting out at European leaders last week, Turkey's president has turned his wrath on the entire EU.
The inflammatory rhetoric is wholly focused on winning over nationalists before a referendum on expanding the president's powers: they could be the kingmakers.
But it also typifies Mr Erdogan's bellicose style. The man who launched Turkey's EU membership talks 12 years ago has become increasingly anti-western and suspicious.
He feeds the perpetual paranoia from Ottoman times about outside forces destroying the state. The old Turkish saying "the only friend of a Turk is a Turk" could easily have come from President Erdogan's political rulebook.
The problem is that once the referendum has passed, the bad blood with Europe will remain. Calling Turkey's closest European and Nato allies "Nazis" and "fascists" isn't exactly a recipe for closer future relations.
President Erdogan thinks the EU needs Turkey more than the other way around. But he may be dangerously mistaken.
Mr Erdogan told the rally Turkey would no longer be threatened by the prospect of EU membership, which it applied to join in 2005 - an application which has since moved at a glacial pace.
He also said he would not allow any European agents onto Turkish soil.
Last week, Mr Erdogan said the EU could "forget about" Turkey re-admitting failed asylum seekers who had reached Europe via Turkey, despite a previous agreement to do so.
The EU Commission has said that it expects Turkey to comply with its commitments under the accord.
Mrs Merkel and French President Francois Hollande also criticised Mr Erdogan's "Nazi" comments, calling them "unacceptable".
The 47-year-old, who previously worked in the club's academy system, will oversee all aspects of the professional game at Hove.
"We believe Keith's extensive experience will drive improvements," said chief executive Zac Toumazi.
"His commitment and calm approach makes him the perfect candidate for this role, which will focus on the implementation of the Sussex strategy."
Greenfield, who played 78 first-class and 160 List A matches for Sussex between 1987 and 1999, will be responsible for reviewing the quality of coaching at the club as well as reaching objectives in participation and community cricket.
On-field performances will remain the responsibility of head coach Mark Davis, who will report to Greenfield.
Carl Hopkinson, who has been a coach at the club since retiring in 2009, will now assume the role of academy director while continuing to work with the first team as a specialist fielding coach.
"We are also thrilled to see Carl taking over from Keith to build on the excellent work he has done with the academy," added Toumazi.
"He can now bring his own style and expertise to help develop the next generation of Sussex's players."
Fr Stephen Crossan is reported to have sniffed coke through a £10 note on a night of drinking in July 2015 in Banbridge, County Down.
He was in a room with Nazi memorabilia and seemed to say "I shouldn't" as he snorted, the Sun on Sunday reported.
The bishop of Dromore said in a statement that he had no knowledge of the incident.
It allegedly occurred in the parochial house last July after a party.
The Sun on Sunday said it happened at what was then Fr Crossan's parish home in the grounds of St Patrick's Church, Banbridge, in July 2015.
Father Crossan told the newspaper that he took the drugs but said: "It was just the one night and that was it."
A source said that a group ended up back with Fr Crossan after a party and found Nazi memorabilia including flags, hats and an eagle with a swastika on a plinth on his mantelpiece.
In his defence, Fr Crossan told the paper that he was no Nazi and that he collected historical items from every country.
He said he had been on sick leave with depression at the time of the video and said he had since left the Church but was being backed by the parish.
In his statement, Bishop of Dromore John McAreavey said that Fr Crossan had asked for and been granted leave from his pastoral duties at Seapatrick parish in May 2015. He said he had been receiving counselling and was considering his future.
At the start of February 2016, the statement said that the priest had asked for an extended leave of absence from the priesthood.
Bishop McAreavey said he was concerned for the priest's health.
Fr Crossan is no longer living at the parochial house.
One Lib Dem councillor was elected to Christchurch Borough Council in 2011, but he defected to the Conservative group.
The council is made up of 22 Conservatives and two Independents.
Lib Dem constituency candidate Andy Canning said the local party "wanted to concentrate on the general election campaign".
Of the 69 candidates standing in the Christchurch borough election, across 11 wards, 24 are Conservatives, 20 are Labour, 16 are from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), six are from the Green Party, and three are Independents.
A spokeswoman for the Christchurch Conservative group said her group had been getting very good support but added it was not for her to speculate about why the Lib Dems had not put any candidates forward.
The Christchurch Labour group said the Lib Dems' share of the vote at the last local elections in 2011 was "significant".
A spokesman said it would be "a very interesting fight here in Christchurch" with a "strong possibility" of Labour councillors being elected.
Janet Dover, Lib Dem group leader at Dorset County Council, said she was "disappointed" but had not been involved in the recruitment process in Christchurch.
The candidates for the Christchurch Parliamentary constituency are:
Constanta is the oldest continually inhabited city in Romania. The sun will soon be beating down on the thousands of holidaymakers who flock here every summer, although these early British tourists have been treated to rain, strong winds, single digit temperatures - and even the occasional flurry of snow.
The outdoor clay court looked very sorry for itself on Thursday and Friday, as the players were forced under cover.
For the third time in six years, Britain are a play-off win away from the World Group. They were well beaten in Sweden in 2012, and then again in Argentina in 2013, and have once again travelled as underdogs.
But they have at least earned themselves the opportunity after successfully negotiating a week of Euro Africa Zone qualifying matches in the Estonian capital Tallinn in February. It is a week which does little for the exposure of the Fed Cup and ends most countries' involvement for the year before the daffodils have come into bloom.
"I think it's damaged the competition if I'm perfectly honest," GB's captain Anne Keothavong said told BBC Sport in Constanta.
"There's no momentum if you look at where we have been in recent years. We've been in a group where there have been 15 other nations and only two of those nations go through for a chance to even play for a World Group position.
"It's been notoriously tough and one we have struggled with, and even this year - with a top-10 player - we only just managed to do that in a deciding doubles match."
Johanna Konta, partnered by Heather Watson, lost the first set and twice had to recover from a break of serve down in the decider to win that match with Croatia and set up this play-off tie.
Romania boast a strong line-up. Simona Halep, who will open the tie against Watson at 10:00 BST on Saturday, can be horribly inconsistent but she is the world number five, the French Open runner-up of 2014, and a major star in her home city of Constanta.
Every other member of their team is a top-100 singles player, while Britain - after Watson's recent fall in the rankings - has just the one.
But that 'one' is some player.
Konta is the world number seven and third in the annual points race after her victory in the Miami Open earlier this month. Halep finds herself at 44th in the same list and has lost both her matches to Konta, although this will be a first meeting on clay, which is very much the Romanian's favourite surface.
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Having a player of that ability - who could well play two singles as well as the doubles this weekend - opens up exciting possibilities for the team. The eleven points Andy Murray contributed as Britain won the Davis Cup in 2015 may never be matched by another British player, but Keothavong recognises the contribution made by her number one.
"She brings a lot to the team," the captain agrees.
"Just the way she is, the way she operates and the level she demands from everyone is great, and hopefully it filters down to the other players and inspires the others to really step up."
And Fed Cup can be a two way process. Konta described the week in Estonia as "one of the most adrenalin driven weeks I've experienced in a while."
"I felt I took away a lot of really positive emotion, and a lot of new experiences," she continued.
"The adrenalin and the nerves you get during Fed Cup are unlike others you experience during the season, and I really really enjoyed that."
But will Konta - who plays world number 33 Irina-Camelia Begu in Saturday's singles - get to feel that on a regular basis, and will the competition become as relevant to British audiences as the Davis Cup has been in recent years?
If Britain lose this weekend, they will return to the 16-team Euro Africa Zone shoot-out in February 2018, but if they win they could start next year as one of the 16 teams which will contest the trophy.
As things stand, the winners will be promoted to World Group 2, but the International Tennis Federation wants to merge the two existing World Groups to form an elite 16 team top tier to mirror the Davis Cup.
The semi-finals and final would be played in one city, in one week, at the end of the season - but all of this is subject to the approval of the ITF's member nations at August's AGM in Ho Chi Minh City.
One other incentive this weekend is the possibility of a home tie next February. Since Monique Javer, Clare Wood and Amanda Grunfeld dispatched Turkey in Nottingham in May 1993, Britain have played every single Fed Cup tie on the road.
Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Malta, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Turkey have many charms. But next year, there really would be no place like home.
Retired solicitor Donald Lock was stabbed 39 times on the A24 at Findon, West Sussex, last July.
Matthew Daley, 35, denies murder but has admitted killing Mr Lock, claiming diminished responsibility.
In an video played at Lewes Crown Court he told police he saw Mr Lock in his rear view mirror looking "very angry".
"I just saw someone very close and very angry and I wanted that scenario to stop because it was intrusive," said Mr Daley.
"It was aggressive. I know some people drive close sometimes but this person was very, very close and I didn't know why.
"I thought he would see my red lights and think maybe he shouldn't be driving so close to me, because that's not how people are supposed to drive."
The pensioner's widow, Maureen Lock, left the courtroom when Mr Daley showed police during the interview how he had stabbed her husband.
Mr Lock was fatally stabbed after he hit the back of the defendant's Ford Fusion in July and then asked why he had braked so abruptly.
Mr Daley continued: "I'm not happy that the man has died. I'm not happy that in the final minutes of his life he was in that much pain, and I don't want to be reminded of it.
"I feel very sorry about what I have done and I don't want to see anything like that happen in my lifetime again."
When he was asked why he did not stop stabbing Mr Lock after he fell to the ground, he replied: "It's as if his anger has been put on to me and I'm trying to get rid of it."
When asked why he had to use a knife, Mr Daley said it was "in his mind to protect himself".
He also said he had stopped taking medication to help him sleep a year before the attack.
During the interview he said he had recently split up from his girlfriend but was "making efforts to win her back".
Jurors have been told Mr Daley had suffered from mental health problems for 10 years, and his family had "pleaded" with mental health experts to have him sectioned.
Defence counsel David Howker QC told the court he would not be calling Mr Daley to give evidence, but added: "There is other evidence to call."
The court heard Mr Daley saw consultant forensic psychiatrist Jake Harvey the day after the killing and told him he felt he had been getting less help with his mental health, was being seen by "too many trainee nurses", and had not been taking an anti-psychotic drug he had previously been prescribed.
He described hearing "so many juvenile voices running through my head" which he said were "angry" and "overwhelming", jurors heard.
In a statement, Mr Harvey said although he believed Mr Daley had a mental disorder, he was not so acutely mentally unwell that he needed urgent transfer for psychiatric treatment, and was fit to be charged.
Consultant clinical psychologist Dr Michael Lawson assessed Mr Daley in November 2015 when he was admitted to Hellingly medium-secure unit.
He said his primary diagnosis was paranoid schizophrenia and exaggerated autistic traits.
He said: "My conclusion was that at the time of the alleged offence, Mr Daley was in all likelihood beginning to break down and experiencing the acute symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, although I don't think he was at the point of being incapacitated."
The case continues.
James Hurley, 54, took part in an armed robbery in Hemel Hempstead, during which PC Frank Mason was shot.
He pleaded guilty to robbery but denied murder and told the appeal court he was intimidated into keeping quiet by Charles McGhee, who pulled the trigger.
Hurley said he now feels safe to try to clear his name as McGhee died in 2009.
His barrister Joel Bennathan QC is asking the court to overturn the verdict.
Hurley, from Luton, was the getaway driver in the £14,000 armed robbery of Barclays Bank when PC Mason was killed with a .45 handgun.
He was convicted of the murder along with gunman McGhee and robber Perrie Wharrie in May 1989 and the three were jailed for life.
Hurley claims he was not aware a gun would be used and had nothing to do with the murder.
The court heard from Hurley and nine other prisoners or ex-prisoners who said McGhee, who died in prison, had admitted Hurley had "not known that guns - or tools - were to be carried in the robbery".
Hurley claims he did not speak up during his trial because he was told not to by McGhee, who was described by witnesses as "powerful within the prison system", a "maniac" and "a volatile person who you would not want to cross".
Mr Bennathan said the court "may be reluctant to disturb so serious a conviction so many years later" but "fresh evidence makes clear that Charles McGhee threatened Mr Hurley to prevent him from giving evidence in his own defence".
He said: "It is submitted that the combination of all the material that is now before the court is so powerful and raises such doubt as to Mr Hurley being guilty of murder that this application and appeal should be allowed."
The case continues.
Patricia Mountbatten married celebrated film producer Lord Brabourne in 1946, and the pair had seven children.
The couple were among a seven-strong boat party blown up by the IRA at County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, in 1979.
Their son Nicholas, 14, was killed in the attack, as was Lord Brabourne's mother, Dowager Lady Brabourne, and her father Lord Mountbatten.
The Countess, then known as Lady Brabourne, was badly injured but her husband survived as did Nicholas's twin, Timothy.
Paul Maxwell, a 15-year-old local boy, was also killed.
For more than 30 years she used her experience of her loss to help other bereaved parents, through her support of the charities Child Bereavement UK and Compassionate Friends.
A spokeswoman for the family said the countess died peacefully on Tuesday at her home in Mersham, Kent, surrounded by her children.
Lord Brabourne passed away 12 years ago.
She was godmother to the Prince of Wales who paid tribute to her in a statement. It reads: "I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of my very special godmother, Lady Mountbatten, whom I have known and loved ever since I can first remember.
"She played an extremely important part in my life and I shall miss her presence most dreadfully."
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: "The Queen and the Duke are aware and have privately passed on their condolences."
When the Countess married in 1946 the then Princess Elizabeth, her third cousin, was one of her bridesmaids.
The family lived at Broadlands in Romsey, Hampshire, near Southampton, which has a hospice named after Countess Mountbatten.
The arrangements for a funeral in London followed by a burial service in Mersham, are to be announced at a later date.
They called for an independent assessment of the Welsh-language television channel's funding needs.
S4C says it has lost 36% of its income since 2010, when UK ministers transferred responsibility for most of its budget to the TV licence fee.
Culture Secretary John Wittingdale has said it is "reasonable" to expect S4C to make the same cuts as the BBC.
The broadcaster is waiting for two big political decisions: the chancellor's comprehensive spending review, later this month, and the review of the BBC's charter, due to be completed in 2016.
In evidence to an assembly committee, S4C said more cuts could mean more repeats, less drama and fewer documentaries, and fewer original children's programmes.
Repeats already account for more than half its output.
Chief executive Ian Jones said he did not want decisions about S4C's future "to get lost" in the debate about the BBC.
Looking at all sources of funding, he told the assembly's communities committee, which is holding an inquiry into the BBC's charter review: "I'm not saying that there are cuts, but at the highest level across everything you could look at a cut of about 50% to S4C's budget over a four, five-year period.
"There really needs to be fairness, and fairness for us is taking account of the 36% cuts we've had to date, and fairness is not from today onwards."
He added: "What we don't want to be is a second class citizen."
S4C receives 90% of its funding - around £75m from the licence fee.
About 8% comes from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the rest from advertising and commercial sources.
It also gets about £19m worth of programmes from BBC Wales.
In a statement, DCMS said: "We are committed to the provision of minority language broadcasting, and this includes S4C."
Supporters of the services said the Church should offer a welcome to people to mark their transition.
Others have suggested the services would be counter to parts of the Bible that state that humans are created as either male or female.
The Church's four-day general synod meeting in York started on Friday.
The motion recognised the need for transgender people to be "welcomed and affirmed" in their parish church.
Chris Newlands, the vicar of Lancaster Priory church, posed the motion as a way of the Church welcoming people who suffer from transphobia in society.
Mr Newlands said he would speak on behalf of the transgender community, as there were no transgender people in the synod.
He said: "I hope that we can make a powerful statement that we believe trans people are cherished and loved by God, who created them."
After the Synod voted for the motion, he added: "I'm euphoric and exhausted.
"I did think there were some comments which reflect some of the extreme views which we would wish to counter.
"I'm getting so many messages from trans friends around the world. Synod has changed - we have turned a corner."
During the debate, lay member Tim Hind, who was supportive of transgender people, argued that the motion would make the Church look "foolish".
An amendment to the motion asking bishops to consider the theological, pastoral and other issues around gender transition, was rejected.
A transgender liturgical service would not be a second baptism, however, as the Church's teaching is that humans are made in the image of God - transcending gender - and baptism takes place only once.
The Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend John Sentamu, said that "theology has to be done" by the House of Bishops, but "it can be done very quickly".
During an earlier debate, the Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Reverend Paul Bayes, said: "As the world listens to us today, the world needs to hear us say that LGBTI orientation and identity is not a crime, not a sickness and not a sin."
Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, said the Church would spend three years on a document outlining a new stance on sexuality.
Current rules ban the marriage of same-sex couples in the Church.
Services of blessing for civil partnerships are also prohibited, but informal prayers are allowed.
Four Costa Rican companies that have volunteered their help say they possess the skills to create a prosthesis for the injured bird.
They say they will use 3D printing to create the first prosthesis of this kind in the region.
In the US, prosthetic beaks have been created for an eagle and a penguin.
The male toucan, named Grecia after the area where it was found, was taken to an animal rescue centre in January.
Pictures of its mutilated beak caused outrage after they were circulated in Costa Rican newspapers and on social media.
A campaign to provide the bird with a prosthetic beak quickly raised thousands of dollars and a number of local companies offered their help.
Four of them, Elementos 3d, Ewa!corps, Publicidad Web and Grupo Sommerus, said on Tuesday that they were confident they could design a suitable prosthetic for Grecia and fit it.
Toucans use their beaks to eat and also to regulate their body temperature.
Veterinarian Carmen Soto, who looks after Grecia at the Zoo Ave rescue centre, said the toucan was recovering well and had even started eating on its own.
"The quantity he manages to eat on his own is very small, so we have to help him," she said.
Designer Nelson Martinez said the priority was to create a prosthesis which would help Grecia eat.
He told newspaper La Nacion that he and his team had been studying toucan beaks to come up with a suitable design for Grecia.
He said they were working on a model that would have "a fixed part and a moveable part so it can be cleaned or replaced as the toucan is still growing".
Ms Soto said Grecia's wound was scarring well and that within the month it would be possible to scan its stump.
This will be key to ensure the prosthesis fits Grecia and will also influence how it is fitted.
"We couldn't use any type of adhesive with chemical components as it could compromise the structure of the beak," Mr Martinez said.
The team is studying if it could be fixed with screws instead.
Ms Soto warned that the prosthesis would have to be both lightweight and hard-wearing to ensure it would not come off or be damaged.
The team said it was planning to create models of Grecia's stump to be able to experiment with different fittings.
Karley Fu, of Grupo Sommerus, told La Nacion that another unknown was whether Grecia would accept the prosthesis.
The aircraft were launched from RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, on Monday and helped guide an Air France plane to a safe landing in Newcastle.
People reported their houses shaking at about 21:50 BST after hearing what sounded like two loud explosions.
These were later confirmed to have been sonic booms.
An RAF spokesman said: "Quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft were launched today from RAF Coningsby to identify an unresponsive civilian aircraft.
"Communications were re-established and the aircraft has been safely landed."
Reports suggested the jets had escorted the plane after it went off course.
Air France confirmed that the unresponsive civilian aircraft was one of its planes.
The airline tweeted from its official UK Twitter account: "Air France confirms that due to a radio communication problem AF 1558 had to be accompanied by two British fighter aircrafts according to the procedure.
"The aircraft landed in Newcastle at 22:20 (LT). Safety of clients & crew is an absolute priority."
North Yorkshire Police had tweeted to reassure people there was no danger, later writing: "Confirmation from RAF that loud bangs heard across the county were sonic booms from RAF Typhoon jets. No cause for concern."
One woman wrote: "house shook & whole street was out, car & house alarms gone off. Apparently was a sonic boom".
There was one slight problem for the former Olympic rower.
He had not been invited to take the seat which had become vacant when David Cameron sent his party's previous MEP, Timothy Kirkhope, to the House of Lords in his resignation honours list.
There followed weeks of claim and counterclaim which must have completely baffled those who hold the simplistic view that in a democracy the local electorate decide who will be their member of parliament.
What has emerged is that when it comes to the European Parliament things are a bit more complicated than that.
After weeks of wrangling, John Procter, a Leeds city councillor, has now been chosen to become the new MEP.
The choice was made by the Conservative Party with no need to bother asking for a new vote from any of the 1,296,701 people who turned out in Yorkshire and the Humber at the 2014 European Elections.
The party had that power because at the Euro elections we vote for a party not an individual candidate under a system of proportional representation.
Under the EU election rules the party keeps the seat even if its choice at the time has to step down before the end of their five- year term.
That can be puzzling for a UK electorate used to the "first-past-the-post" system of electing MPs to the House of Commons where a by-election is triggered if the seat becomes vacant.
So why did Mr Story think the Conservative Party should hand the seat over to him and not the choice it eventually made?
He was so convinced that he went as far as applying for a High Court injunction in what turned out to be a vain attempt to stop it being awarded to anybody else.
He based his claim on another bit of the European Parliament election system which is unfamiliar to UK voters: the "list system".
Before the elections each party draws up a list of candidates chosen by local members and ranks them in order of preference.
In 2014 Mr Kirkhope, as the sitting MEP, held first place on the Conservative list for Yorkshire and the Humber and was re-elected to become the region's only Conservative MEP.
Mr Story was in second place on the party's list and Mr Procter third.
In most circumstances the list then becomes a piece of almost forgotten party political history.
It is only dug out of the filing cabinet when an MEP steps down because under the rules a replacement has to be one of the "also-rans" on the list.
Mr Story assumed he would be given the nod because he has been the official second-placed candidate in 2014. He reacted with a mixture of anger and frustration when he was passed over.
Party managers told me it was up to them which candidate they chose and Mr Story was ineligible because since the European elections he had been given a poor "report" for the way in which he fought the 2015 UK General Election when he unsuccessfully stood for one of the Leeds seats.
As a result he had not been retained as a potential candidate for any future elections and that included being picked to take up the vacancy as an MEP .
It was put to me that this was a fairly routine decision fully complying with all election rules and the handover would be speedy and straightforward.
In the event a time slot which had been reserved for an announcement to be made at the party conference came and went.
Weeks went by until a High Court judge decided not to give Mr Story the injunction which could have led to a judicial review.
The irony is that Mr Story was a leading Brexiteer during the Referendum campaign so has been fighting to take a job that he has ultimately helped abolish.
All this begs another question.
If the party keeps a seat when a sitting MEP steps down how can it lose one when an elected member switches party?
Step forward Amjad Bashir who was one of the top three from UKIP's list who were awarded Yorkshire and the Humber seats after the party's barnstorming result in 2014.
He has now now defected to the Conservatives but, apparently, in those circumstances the candidate keeps the seat.
So that's all right then.
The vehicle got into difficulty in wet sand after the driver had retrieved his rigid inflatable boat at The Mumbles on Friday.
The alarm was raised at 11:45 BST, as the tide reached above its wheels.
A recovery firm pulled the 4x4 clear, with no one injured, Milford Haven Coastguard said.
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City could still be eliminated even if they win their final group games - against Bayern Munich and Roma.
Pellegrini will be without Fernandinho and Yaya Toure against Bayern after they were sent off in the second half.
"It is a crisis of confidence and we must find out why by talking to the players every day," said Pellegrini.
"We must try to find out what happens with this team in the Champions League. These players are important players so I don't understand why they cannot play in the Champions League.
"You can never imagine you are out when the maths says you are still in. We must try to work hard and get back to our normal style of play."
Pellegrini refused to blame the performance of Greek referee Tasos Sidiropolous, who infuriated City by refusing late penalty appeals by Sergio Aguero, and also spared CSKA's Pontus Wernbloom - who had already been booked - a red card by mistakenly cautioning Sergei Ignashevich.
The Chilean said: "The difference was not just the referee. I don't want to have any excuses about the way we played. I don't want to link the referee with the result.
"The referee must decide if they are red cards or not red cards or whether it is a penalty or not. It is more important for me to analyse why we are not playing in the way we normally play."
Toure also seemed to accept the official's decision to issue him with a straight red card for a shove in the face of Roman Eremenko. The Ivorian said sorry to City's fans via his Twitter account, adding that it was "important to apologise".
City will be out before the final round of matches if they fail to beat Bayern and there is a winner in the match between CSKA and Roma.
Zohore, Cardiff's top scorer in 2016-17 with 12 goals, made his first appearance since Championship rivals Hull failed in a bid to sign him.
New signing Nathaniel Mendez-Laing and Idriss Saadi also scored twice apiece as Cardiff led 6-1 at half time.
Joe Ralls got the seventh goal late on while new signings Danny Ward and midfielder Loic Damour also featured.
Adam Carter scored both Tavistock goals, including one from the penalty spot.
Ayling, who played 33 league games for the Robins last season as they finished 18th in the second tier, has signed a three-year contract at Elland Road.
The 24-year-old joined Bristol City in July 2014 from Yeovil, where he had played in 162 league matches.
He started his career at Arsenal, but failed to make a senior appearance before joining the Glovers in 2010.
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The hosts had led 14-6, Colin Wilkie scoring two tries with Terry Campese converting both and kicking a penalty.
Anthony Walker's try just before half time brought Wales back into the match with Andrew Gay edging them ahead before Ben Morris' second decisive try.
"I'm glad we've got there and it does give impetus to the work that is going on in Wales," said coach John Kear.
"I was absolutely delighted. I'm really pleased with what the players demonstrated in the second-half with regards to the collective spirit, unity and determination.
"There's no doubts they fully deserved that. It was tough to come here. We've played an Italy team of which 15 of the 17 are heritage players - Australian-based.
"It's been a tough old afternoon, but it's been a rewarding afternoon."
Gavin Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male, sued his school board over their policy which prevented him from using male facilities.
The Supreme Court had scheduled for a hearing on 28 March.
However, it has now sent the case back to a lower court after Donald Trump's administration issued new policy guidance relevant to the case.
The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit originally ruled in Mr Grimm's favour in April last year.
It deferred to then-president Barack Obama's directive on the issue - which said that federal law banning sex discrimination in public schools extended to protecting transgender bathroom rights.
The supreme justices later accepted a petition from Gloucester County, Virginia, to hear an appeal - in what would have been the first Supreme Court ruling on transgender rights.
However, in late February, Donald Trump's administration overturned the guidelines laid down by President Obama.
Mr Trump's new guidance allows individual states to decide what bathroom facilities students may or may not use.
In light of the change in circumstances, the Supreme Court decided to return the case to the lower appeals court to reassess its decision.
A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union representing Mr Grimm maintained that Title IX - the legislation Mr Obama decided should protect transgender bathroom rights - still applied.
"Nothing about today's action changes the meaning of the law," Joshua Block said.
"While we're disappointed that the Supreme Court will not be hearing Gavin's case this term, the overwhelming level of support shown for Gavin and trans students by people across the country throughout this process shows that the American people have already moved in the right direction and that the rights of trans people cannot be ignored.
"This is a detour, not the end of the road."
The Supreme Court is petitioned to hear more than 7,000 cases in an average year, but usually considers about 80.
Gavin Grimm is now unlikely to have his case resolved by the Supreme Court before graduation. However, there are several other pending cases in other states about the application of Title IX to transgender bathroom rights.
If one of them makes it to a hearing at the country's highest court, it would set a precedent for all future disputes on the issue.
The Policy Exchange think tank says they will become an "ever more significant part of Britain, especially in future elections".
So politicians must stop treating the various communities as if they are "one homogeneous" group, it adds.
There are "striking differences" between them, its report says.
Policy Exchange's study, A Portrait Of Modern Britain, argues immigration from the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent and Africa since World War Two has resulted in diverse groups with widely differing opinions, experiences and traditions.
But politicians have failed to address them individually, it says, even though there are "meaningful differences between each of these communities, which need to be fully understood".
Report co-author Rishi Sunak said: "These communities will continue to become an ever more significant part of Britain, especially in future elections.
"However, as our research demonstrates, ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.
"From education to employment, housing to trust in the police, politicians from all parties must understand the different issues affecting individual communities."
The report looks at the five largest minority groups in the UK:
Policy Exchange, which is a centre-right think tank, says eight million people, or 14% of the UK population, are currently from ethnic minorities.
But the BME population now accounts for 80% of growth and has doubled in the past decade, while the white population has remained constant, it adds.
Voters in BME communities overwhelmingly identify with and vote for the Labour Party "regardless of class or association with Conservative policies", Policy Exchange says, with 68% voting for it at the 2010 general election, compared with 16% for the Conservatives and 14% for the Liberal Democrats.
Welsh ministers aim to increase the role of third sector bodies as council budgets continue to be squeezed.
Auditor General Huw Vaughan Thomas's report said it was "unclear if these aspirations are deliverable".
A Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) spokesman called the third sector a "key and valued partner".
Mr Thomas's report said the Welsh Government envisaged "a growing role for the third sector in delivering services," but poor arrangements for awarding money "currently impose heavy burdens on organisations".
Third sector organisations are neither state run, nor part of the private sector and include voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises.
There are about 32,500 different third sector organisations, 230,000 trustees, 1.3 million volunteers and 51,000 employees in Wales.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are currently preparing guidance on good practice in relation to third sector compacts between third sector organisations and local public services. We will look carefully at the recommendations of the report in relation to the guidance."
With ever tighter budgets, councils across Wales have turned to alternative providers to run services such as leisure and libraries.
Mr Thomas said: "We found that performance management arrangements are too inconsistent to provide an adequate level of assurance that services are working well and resources are being used effectively."
On Thursday a £1.5m mental health centre developed by charity Hafal will open in Swansea.
Local government funding of the third sector rose from £154.1m in 2009-10 to £248.8m in 2013-14. Welsh Government grant funding was £240m in 2013-14 and £208m in 2014-15.
Recommendations include clarifying expectations of local authorities and AMs playing a key role in ensuring any gaps or weaknesses are identified and addressed.
A WLGA spokesman said the report showed "more needs to be done to engage earlier and more strategically with third sector organisations in terms of funding decisions and service redesign".
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From right and left, praise was showered on the commander-in-chief for acting against the Assad government after this week's chemical attack.
But one or two members of Congress and some of Mr Trump's right-wing fringe supporters are upset.
On the eve of the strikes, he was the most unpopular US president in decades.
His approval rating has fallen to 40% amid the collapse of his efforts to overhaul US healthcare, investigations into possible links between his inner circle and the Kremlin, and a narrative of general disarray in his administration.
But Republican senators whom Mr Trump ridiculed during last year's election wholeheartedly approved of the action.
John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina praised the president in a joint statement.
"Unlike the previous administration," they said, "President Trump confronted a pivotal moment in Syria and took action. For that, he deserves the support of the American people."
They also urged him to go even further and "take Assad's air force… completely out of the fight".
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, another former Trump punching bag, tweeted: "I know @POTUS was deeply moved by the images & stories emerging from #SyriaChemicalAttack".
"'Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished'" Proverbs 11:21," he added.
Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, said the action "needs to be followed by a broad strategy to end Syria's civil war".
Mrs Clinton backs the same hawkish Republican calls for the US military to take out the Syrian air force.
But she added that she hoped the administration "will recognise that we cannot in one breath speak of protecting Syrian babies and in the next close American doors to them".
On the orders of President Donald Trump, Navy destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross fired dozens of cruise missiles at Shayrat airfield in western Homs province at about 04:40 Syrian time (01:40 GMT).
They targeted aircraft, aircraft shelters, storage areas, ammunition supply bunkers and air defence systems at the Syrian government-controlled facility, according to the Pentagon.
Her husband, former US President Bill Clinton, was accused by critics of using Tomahawk missile strikes against Iraq in 1998 to divert attention from the burgeoning scandal of his affair with a White House intern.
One of Mr Trump's most outspoken critics, Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer, said the president's military action was "the right thing to do".
The reaction was also laudatory among conservative radio hosts.
"We're proud of you," said talk show presenter Mark Levin of the president.
Salem Radio Network host Hugh Hewitt tweeted that the strike was "justice for these children".
But not everyone approved.
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky - often dismissed as an isolationist by the national security establishment - insisted that Mr Trump needed congressional authorisation for such action, adding: "The United States was not attacked."
Democratic Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in January, condemned the US strike as "short-sighted".
"This administration has acted recklessly without care or consideration of the dire consequences of the United States attack on Syria without waiting for the collection of evidence from the scene of the chemical poisoning," she said in a statement.
Ann Coulter, a conservative media personality who wrote a book titled In Trump We Trust, was not impressed either.
"Trump campaigned on not getting involved in Mideast," she tweeted. "Said it always helps our enemies & creates more refugees. Then he saw a picture on TV."
There was also dismay among the alt-right - a magnet for white nationalists and anti-Semites - some of whose members celebrated Mr Trump's election win with Nazi salutes.
Richard Spencer, a figurehead of the group, condemned the missile strikes.
Paul Joseph Watson, a London-based editor for conspiracy theory website InfoWars, tweeted: "I guess Trump wasn't 'Putin's puppet' after all, he was just another deep state/Neo-Con puppet.
"I'm officially OFF the Trump train."
Daryl Burke, 30, from Portadown, was fishing on Lough Ree with two friends when the boat sank on 20 March.
David Warnock, 27, from Richhill, County Armagh, died after being rescued from the lake.
Another member of the fishing party, 60-year-old John Trimble, is recovering from his injuries.
Their fishing boat was located at about 19:00 BST on Monday, nearly two weeks after the accident.
Dara O'Malley-Daly, from Malin coastguard, who is co-ordinating the search, said a marker had been placed on the location where the boat was found.
He said the discovery of the boat was a very significant development.
"It is excellent to have an exact location now," he said.
"We've been searching in the area extending three miles, four miles, at stages. Now we have located the boat. It's sitting in five metres of water, so today we will be concentrating all our efforts in that particular area."
He added: "It's a very long wait for the family. We are all conscious of that. The whole aim of this is to return the missing angler back to his family."
Divers resumed a search of the lake at about 09:00 BST on Tuesday.
The three fishermen belonged to a County Armagh angling club. They had been planning to camp on an island when they got into difficulties.
Police divers and volunteers from local sub-aqua clubs have been searching the water, while civil defence volunteers have been combing the shoreline.
Mick Fanning and Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina were removed from the water on Wednesday after a shark sighting forced a halt to the J-Bay Open in South Africa.
It was the same event where Fanning made his escape in 2015.
Fanning, 36, thanked organisers for intervening in the latest incident.
"I am really glad they got us out of the water but I felt really safe out there with the skis, the drones and the plane," he said.
Organisers had stopped the event after spotting the 3m (10ft) great white shark swimming into the competition zone and coming within about 700m of Fanning.
They ferried the surfers on to boats via a jet-ski, and later resumed the competition. Medina beat Fanning to advance to the semi-finals.
It is the second shark sighting at the surfing event this week.
In the 2015 incident, Fanning survived being attacked by a shark when it knocked him from his surfboard into the sea.
The three-time world champion later said he had been able to "get a punch into its back" and startle it.
Mariette McHarg, of Barry, also made 59 visits to an emergency department at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, attended a poisons unit at Llandough hospital 55 times and called the GP out of hours service 127 times.
The cost of care was estimated at more than £170,000.
She was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison.
McHarg appeared on Tuesday at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on a number of charges, including the assault of a police officer and the assault of two nurses.
Robin Petterson, the Welsh Ambulance Service's clinical support officer for Cardiff and Vale, said it was essential the service was protected for life-threatening situations.
"We recognise that some frequent callers have complex needs," he said.
"In this particular instance we have dedicated a large amount of time working with multiple partner agencies to provide increased support and advice for her to access appropriate services.
"Unfortunately, despite repeated attempts to identify her unmet needs, there was an escalation in her behaviour which led to us having to pursue court action as a final deterrent."
The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) in Victoria is forecasting poor water quality at 21 of the 36 beaches it checks in Port Phillip Bay.
Contaminated water can cause gastroenteritis - a stomach bug - especially in children and the elderly.
A "poor" quality forecast equates to an illness risk of between 5% and 10%.
Australia's public broadcaster ABC said the risky beaches run from Werribee South in Melbourne's south-west to Frankston, about 40 kilometres south of the city's Central Business District.
Dr Anthony Boxshall, the EPA's manager of applied sciences, told ABC News 24: "We have indicators we look for (in water tests), which is an indicator of faecal contamination, which is a really nice way of saying poo."
"It's bird poo, it's horse poo, it's cow poo and it's people poo.
"It is everything that washes in from the streets, and everything that comes out through the storm water system."
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Dr Boxshall said the water should be back to normal within around 24 to 48 hours, unless there is more rain - which forecasts suggest is possible.
EPA Victoria publishes alerts on its website to help beachgoers around Port Phillip Bay avoid hazards like sewage spills and jellyfish.
It plans to conduct more tests this week and post the results online.
He was "very quickly overpowered and arrested" and no-one was hurt, the company that runs the landmark said.
France has been under a state of emergency since the November 2015 attacks in the capital that left 130 people dead.
The incident at the Eiffel tower happened at 23:30 pm (21:30 GMT) on Saturday night.
After the arrest, police evacuated the tower.
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The detained man, wearing a Paris Saint-Germain football shirt, shouted "Allahu Akbar" - God is greatest - as he broke through security, a source told AFP news agency.
The tower was lit up with PSG's team colours and hosted a screen displaying a message welcoming Brazilian star Neymar to the club.
French prosecutors have opened a counter-terrorism investigation because of the suspect's statements to police and his apparent radicalisation.
The unnamed source said the knifeman was aged about 19 and had a history of psychological problems.
He told investigators that he wanted to attack a soldier and that he had been in contact with a member of the Islamic State terror group, the source added.
Behind the puce green walls topped with razor wire and gun turrets, some 2,500 men live inside the prison which was designed and built for just 500.
At least a fifth of them are non-Peruvian, and almost without exception all have been jailed on drug trafficking charges.
Most inmates are Spanish or Dutch, but the number of UK citizens is increasing rapidly.
There are 42 British prisoners in Peru - the largest number in any South America country.
Apart from its famed tourist attractions, Peru now rivals Colombia as one the world's top cocaine producers and it is estimated the country is now the source of around 60% of the drug in Europe.
Nick Jones from west London, described his reaction at being caught at trying to smuggle nearly 2kg of cocaine out of Peru's International airport in Lima as "very surprised".
He was arrested in April 2009.
"I was told that everything was taken care of, that the airport security had been paid in order to let me through," he said.
"I believed those lies so I thought it would be plain sailing."
But Nick's illusion of easy money soon came crashing down.
He said: "There is no such thing as a quick buck. They will tell you that the airport security has been paid off but all they are trying to do is get one out of 10 to come through for them and they've made their money.
"They don't care about the nine that go to jail."
The 34-year-old now faces the standard sentence of six years and eight months for trafficking any amount of cocaine under 10kg.
He describes his experience of Peruvian prison as tougher than he ever could have imagined.
Nick's jail time will be harder still because his family is so far away and he is short of money. He relies on 350 Peruvian Soles ($125) given to him every three months by the Prisoners Abroad organisation and delivered through visits by British Embassy officials.
But he is denied even this small amount: "It's impossible for me to keep it because as soon as I come into the pavilion there are people who know that the embassy has brought money and they will be demanding it from me."
While the prisoners in effect run the understaffed prison, the officials also collude in the corruption, he says. He claims he and other prisoners are charged entry fees and even for the upkeep of the prison.
"This hell hole is not a jail, it's a business - it is just about making money," he claims.
Some foreign prisoners are released early on probation, but have to remain in Peru while not legally being allowed to find a job. It is not a prospect which he relishes.
"Being stuck here after the years I've spent inside in hellish conditions without being able to work? What kind of justice is that?" he says.
He says the hardest part of all is the day-to-day survival in jail.
Nick says the overcrowding is so severe that he finds it extremely difficult to sleep as he and fellow inmates are crammed together "like sardines" in a pavilion which is fit to bursting.
With some 350 people crammed into a space for 70, he says "every time someone moves or sneezes there's tension, sometimes violence".
"The food is literally inedible," he adds.
"They bring you food with stones in it, or used toilet rolls. If you try to live on this food you will permanently suffer from diarrhoea and stomach sickness."
James Brokenshire, the Home Office minister for Crime Prevention who has been visiting the region, saw first hand the conditions in which the British inmates are living in Sarita Colonia jail.
"The liability that you will be caught is very, very high," he told the BBC.
"The prisoners said to me that they'd like to get that message back so that through their experiences people won't make the choices and the mistakes that they've made, because being here is no easy ride."
The minister is helping to encourage more cooperation between the UK and the authorities in countries like Peru to tackle the cocaine trade.
"It's shared problem because of the problems posed here [in Peru] as well as the social breakdown, the addiction and crime issues it causes in the United Kingdom," he said.
The UK is the largest single cocaine market in Europe, closely followed by Spain, according to the UN's 2010 World Drugs Report.
In contrast to the shrinking market in the US, the number of users in Europe has doubled in the last decade to more than four million.
Meanwhile, Nick Jones would do anything to turn back the clock.
"The stress and the strain of being in a situation like this when you can't sleep, you don't eat, you can't drink the water is very, very hard.
"I would say to anyone thinking of doing what I did, think again, think again and look for a better and legal way to make the money that they need."
Alan Knight, 47, from Swansea, conned his neighbour out of £40,000 but was caught by police on shopping trips and holidays.
Knight then admitted himself to hospital claiming his health had worsened, Swansea Crown Court heard.
He was sentenced on Friday.
Judge Paul Thomas QC said Knight, who waived his right to attend the hearing, was devious, a "dishonest a man as I have ever come across".
He said he should serve half his sentence.
Last month, Knight's court case was told he was living on benefits after claiming he had suffered a massive neck injury in a fall.
The court heard he claimed his injury had caused him to have seizures which left him in a comatose state.
But the whole time he was attempting to evade prosecution after carrying out an elaborate fraud targeting neighbour Ivor Coslett Richards' life savings and shares over a three-year period, the court heard.
It also heard how he "systematically" funnelled £41,570 out of the pensioner's bank account, which he used to pay for holidays and to buy a caravan in Dorset.
Jim Davies, prosecuting, said CCTV footage showed Knight "in high spirits as if he had won the lottery".
The judge said an aggravating feature was that Knight had attempted to put the blame on others for his actions since being arrested in 2011.
He lied to police claiming his estranged son had burgled Mr Richards' home which led to his arrest before a subsequent investigation found it was without foundation.
Lesley Titcomb said: "We were not, as I'm aware, advised in advance. We learnt about the sale from the newspapers."
She was giving evidence to MPs about the collapse last month of BHS, whose pension fund had a £571m deficit.
The pensions watchdog was first in discussions with BHS in 2009 about its pension fund deficit.
As soon as the sale of BHS by Sir Philip Green to a consortium called Retail Acquisitions was announced, Ms Titcomb said the Regulator opened an anti-avoidance case to determine whether the previous owners should be pursued to make up the fund's shortfall.
Richard Fuller, one of the MPs attending the joint hearing of the Work and Pensions and Business select committees, said the pensions watchdog did "not sound like much of a regulator".
Ms Titcomb disagreed and said it would be inappropriate to put a greater burden on most employers who behave properly.
When pension funds had deficits she said the company it belonged to had to be given sufficient time to rectify that situation. It was difficult when people were "irresponsible", but that was not the case in the vast majority of situations, Ms Titcomb told MPs.
However, the head of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) earlier told MPs that rescue plans to erase deficits for pension schemes should have time limits.
Alan Rubenstein said that in 2012 BHS's pension fund trustees had submitted a 23-year plan to return the fund to a surplus.
He said the average length of a recovery plan was nine years: "We've learned that 23-year recovery plans are rather ambitious."
The PPF wanted recovery periods to be "as short as possible", but he acknowledged that the Pensions Regulator did not want to "push companies over the edge".
He told MPs that the cost to the PPF to rescue BHS's pension fund would be about £275m - a sum that he said would not affect the fund's finances.
The PPF, which protects pensioners in the event of a company failing with a pension fund that is in deficit, is funded by a levy on all UK pension funds.
Mr Rubenstein said that the Pensions Regulator should have more power to intervene in takeovers when it was concerned about a company's pension scheme deficit.
He told MPs that a subsidiary of the Arcadia Group called Davenbush withdrew a guarantee for the BHS pension scheme in 2012. Arcadia is the retail empire controlled by Sir Philip.
Sir Philip, the owner of Top Shop, has agreed next month to answer MPs' questions about the sale of BHS, which he owned for 15 years.
Tom McPhail, head of retirement policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the UK's pension system was "creaking at the seams".
"The revelations that the BHS scheme had a 23-year deficit reduction programme and that the Regulator didn't know about the sale of BHS until announced in the papers raises uncomfortable questions about the adequacy of the protection of pension scheme members generally," he said.
"Pension investors, whether in final salary schemes or money purchase arrangements, have a right to expect their retirement savings to be protected by professional managers operating to high regulatory standards."
Separately, the Work and Pensions Committee said it had invited the former and current Chair of Trustees and Trustees of the BHS pension fund to give evidence on 25 May.
Ollie Floyd, 20, from Ross-on-Wye, died after an agricultural spraying vehicle rolled into the lake on 3 March.
The subcontractor was taken to the city's Royal Gwent Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
An inquest was opened and adjourned in Newport on Tuesday and Mr Floyd's body was released to his family.
Senior Coroner for Gwent David Bowen was told that emergency services were called to the golf course at 08:05 GMT after Mr Floyd got trapped.
Mr Bowen adjourned the inquest for two months to allow police and Health and Safety Executive investigations into the death to continue.
Anders Ygeman said charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants but it would take several years.
Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.
The numbers have fallen significantly since Sweden imposed tighter border controls this year.
Along with Germany, the Scandinavian country is a prime destination for refugees and other migrants entering the EU illegally.
Of the approximately 58,800 asylum cases processed in Sweden last year, 55% were accepted.
Of those facing expulsion, Mr Ygeman was quoted in Swedish media as saying: "We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000."
But he later tweeted to say he had not taken a position on how many migrants had grounds for asylum, it being a matter for the authorities and the courts.
Sweden earlier this week became the latest of a number of European nations to see tensions over migrants heightened by violence. A 15-year-old asylum seeker was arrested in Molndal, near Gothenburg, after a 22-year-old asylum centre employee was stabbed to death.
Mikael Ribbenvik, head of operations at the Swedish Migration Agency, told the BBC that assessing all the asylum applications would be "an enormous feat to accomplish" and would require more resources from the government.
"A lot of people leave voluntarily and a lot of people abscond. And then we have a few people that are staying on that are impossible to remove because of identification purposes," he said.
More than one million refugees and migrants travelled to Europe last year, most fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The UN says another 46,000 people have arrived in Greece so far this year, with more than 170 killed making the dangerous crossing from Turkey.
In the latest such accident, at least 11 migrants drowned - mostly children - after their boat capsized off the island of Samos, the Greek coast guard says. Several are still missing.
On Wednesday, a draft European Commission report said Greece "seriously neglected" its obligations to control the external frontier of Europe's passport-free Schengen zone.
Greek government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili accused the Commission of "blame games" and said it had failed to act on a programme agreed last year to relocate tens of thousands of migrants and refugees stranded in Greece.
Denmark has also faced criticism this week after approving legislation to seize the valuables of refugees in the hope of limiting the influx of migrants.
Some have likened the Danish proposals to the confiscation of gold and other valuables from Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The firm, based in Coventry, said it wanted to make the UK a "global centre of excellence" for battery research.
However, it said it needed support from government to improve infrastructure and power supplies.
Coventry City Councillor Jim O'Boyle said it was important the government "stepped up to the plate".
"We want to be at the forefront of this new technology, we don't want it to go abroad," he said.
JLR's challenge comes after Nissan announced it would produce two new models at its Sunderland plant, backed by assurances from the government over investment in research and development.
Mr O'Boyle, in charge of regeneration in Coventry, said the problem faced by JLR was due to the large power capacity needed to produce the latest electric vehicles and their batteries.
He said any solution would involve "putting a lot of cables in the ground".
Already Britain's largest carmaker by volume, JLR said it hoped to double production to one million vehicles a year.
JLR's Whitley site has already been earmarked for further expansion, but if the firm's latest plans come to fruition, Mr O'Boyle said they would need more space and a new site.
He said that could be land identified as part of the £250m Gateway business park scheme on greenbelt land around Coventry airport, which was vetoed by then Communities Secretary Eric Pickles last year.
Thomas Telford, 23, was alleged to have put his hand on a woman's crotch while she was posing for a photograph.
Mr Telford, of Golf Road, Kenley, Surrey, was found not guilty of one count of sexual assault at Exeter Crown Court.
He said he may have touched the woman by accident as he tried to "photo-bomb" the picture.
The court heard the 21-year-old female student was posing for a photo with another woman at the University of Exeter graduation ball in July 2016.
In a series of four mobile phone photos shown to the jury, Mr Telford can be seen standing next to the two women, but there was no evidence of physical contact.
Giving evidence Mr Telford said he had drunk six pints of lager during the ball, which was attended by about 2,000 students.
He said: "I was drunk. I was a bit more jolly after a few pints. I remember everything, I remember the incident.
"I photo-bombed a group on stage and one of them turned to me and gave me a tirade and said I had touched her friend."
Mr Telford, who has served as a marine for four years, was attending a course at the commando training centre at Lympstone, near Exeter and had been invited to the graduation ball by a friend.
Now a specialist maritime sniper, he is stationed at Faslane in Scotland.
The pair obtained huge amounts of information about the browsing habits of three million German citizens from companies that gather "clickstreams".
These are detailed records of everywhere that people go online.
The researchers argue such data - which some firms scoop up and use to target ads - should be protected.
The data is supposed to be anonymised, but analysis showed it could easily be tied to individuals.
People's browsing history is often used to tailor marketing campaigns.
The results of the research by Svea Eckert and Andreas Dewes were revealed at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas this weekend.
The pair found that 95% of the data they obtained came from 10 popular browser extensions.
"What these companies are doing is illegal in Europe but they do not care," said Ms Eckert, adding that the research had kicked off a debate in Germany about how to curb the data gathering habits of the firms.
Before the data is used to customise the range of adverts which people see, any information that could be used to identify exactly who generated the clicks is supposed to be removed.
However, said Mr Dewes, it was "trivial" - meaning easy - to tie the information directly to people and reveal exactly where they went online, the terms they searched for and the things they bought.
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The data analysed by the pair connected a list of sites and links visited to a customer identifier. However, he said, by drawing on public information that people share about their browsing habits, it became possible to connect that entry on a list to an individual.
"With only a few domains you can quickly drill down into the data to just a few users," he said.
The public information included links people shared via Twitter, YouTube videos they reported watching, news articles they passed on via social media or when they posted online photos of items they bought or places they visited.
In many cases, he said, it was even easier to de-anonymise because the clickstreams contained links to people's personal social media admin pages which directly revealed their identity.
"The public information available about users is growing so it's getting easier to find the information to do the de-anonymisation," he said. "It's very, very difficult to de-anonymise it even if you have the intention to do so."
The information revealed an intimate portrait of the browsing habits of people, said Ms Eckert.
"This could be so creepy to abuse," she said "You could have an address book and just look up people by their names and see everything they did."
In many cases the browsing habits did not expose anything illegal but might prove difficult for public figures to explain or justify, she said. In some cases it could leave them open to blackmail.
"After the research project we deleted the data because we did not want to have it close to our hands any more," she said. "We were scared that we would be hacked."
When asked about UK plans to make ISPs gather clickstreams on every Briton for security purposes, Ms Eckert urged the government to restrict for how long the information could be kept.
"If you are strong on data protection then you should not be allowed to do it," she said, "But for security purposes then perhaps you can hold on to it for a while."
Limiting how long it could be held would lessen the damage if the clickstreams were leaked or hacked, she said.
"You have to be very careful," she said "It's so, so dangerous."
However recent figures from the Scottish government show a decline in youth violence, indicating a cultural change in some communities.
Darren McGarvey - also known as rapper Loki - says he grew up in a community where, "gangs were part of everyday life".
BBC Scotland's Timeline programme sent him to meet three teenagers from Glasgow's east end to find out what stopped them from getting involved in gang violence.
Prince, Tkidd and and Ace came to live in Scotland with their families in the 2000s.
Ace describes how racist attacks prompted him to consider involvement in street gangs as a means to protect himself from abuse.
"Being the black family in the neighbourhood, not everybody was as welcoming. We had stuff drawn on our windows. Our windows would get smashed twice in a month," he says.
"If you knew some of the people who could stop that from happening, obviously you're going to get close to them people. So I thought, alright, to fit in I got to do all this kind of stuff that they're doing.
"Our music kept us away from doing all that, music kind of becomes your voice. Even when you feel you can't talk to nobody else, you've always got the pen and the paper."
Youth focused initiatives like the Fuse Youth Café in the east end of the City provide programmes for young people in the area to participate in.
Gerry Baldwin who runs the centre says young people need places to learn skills they may not necessarily pick up through mainstream education.
"We try to push life skills. We think there's a gap in young people's learning. There's lots of institutions and even locals who ask why young people don't understand what's right and wrong? But how do they learn that?
"There's no gaps in timetables to learn life skills. They're expected to become adults but nobody shows them how to be it."
Mr Baldwin continues, "In the 15 - 18 age group it's about providing options and raising aspirations; providing somewhere to be that's more positive. Rather than young people kicking about the streets we deal a lot now with social isolation.
"Where in the past they used to gang fight, they now stay in the house. Gaming and social media play a big part and it can affect them trying to get a job and pass exams.
"There is certainly less reported gang activity, BUT there are a few hotspots still in some areas of the city.
"It's a lot to do with the activities young people take part in, a lot of which are indoors as technology has moved on. We're not the only answer but we're one of the answers; there's projects like ourselves and there's also restorative justice. A whole bunch of strands make it work."
According to the Centre for Social Justice, in 2008 there were 170 youth gangs on the streets of Glasgow. London had 169, despite being a city six times the size.
Scottish Government figures, comparing youth prosecution rates from 2006 to 2016, indicate the amount of young people being prosecuted in Scotland's courts has fallen by 78% in ten years.
The average number of people below the age of eighteen in custody in Scotland has also fallen, by 64%.
Speaking to BBC Scotland's Timeline programme, Karen McCluskey of Community Justice Scotland, and formerly of Police Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit, says young people in the country are more "aspirational" but she warns against complacency.
"They're drinking less, they're taking less drugs - all the stats and the research back that up.
"But are there still problems in the background? Of course there are. We've still got kids brought up in houses where there has been domestic abuse, where there's inequality and poverty and a whole range of other issues.
"There is no room for complacency, we have made some huge strides. Glasgow and Scotland is a different place from what it was ten years ago. Whilst that Calvinist bit of us wants to say, you know it's still bad, it's not. We need to make sure the next ten years is even better."
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Rosberg set the pace in both Friday practice sessions and said Hamilton was not happy with his car.
The German said he was "one step ahead of Lewis at the moment".
"It is going well for now, I am feeling comfortable," added Rosberg, who is 21 points behind Britain's Hamilton in the drivers' championship.
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"It also means tonight he is more likely to take over my set-up because he is a bit unsure what is going on, that is usually the tendency. That is always better."
However, Rosberg admitted that he had suffered "a bit of a dent of confidence" following a dramatic tyre failure at 190mph during the second practice session - ahead of qualifying on Saturday and the race on Sunday, live across the BBC.
He said the incident was "quite a shock" and added that the fact he had not crashed "wasn't down to my skill. It was just luck that I stayed out of the wall".
The incident happened at one of the fastest sections of Spa - one of F1's most demanding and unpredictable circuits - heading towards the flat-out Blanchimont left-hander.
Mercedes executive director (technical) Paddy Lowe said: "It was a very unusual situation where there seemed to be some bits of the tyre structure coming out up to a minute before the terminal failure of the tyre.
"It's not something I've seen before. Pirelli have taken the tyre away to analyse. We are double checking the car as well and it's something we'll keep working on this evening."
Hamilton said: "The car was feeling good. Nico was quick but otherwise I really enjoyed the day. I'll try to find the time and keep pushing.
"Red Bull are looking closer this weekend than they have for a while, so it should be close."
Meanwhile, rookie Max Verstappen is set for a 10-place grid penalty in Sunday's race after his Toro Rosso team changed their Renault engine.
The Dutchman has exceeded his allocation of four engines this year, and is now on to his sixth.
Where better to blow away the cobwebs of Formula 1's summer break than arguably the greatest motor racing circuit in the world?
Cascading through Belgium's Ardennes mountains, Spa-Francorchamps encapsulates in one ecstatic 4.3-mile ribbon of asphalt why Formula 1 drivers love what they do. "It is like a dream," says Lotus driver Romain Grosjean. "It is a circuit with a soul."
Fast, sweeping, demanding, dangerous, scenic, carved out of what were once real roads over real contours, it is the very essence of the sport that celebrates it.
Eau Rouge, the exhilarating, flat-out left-right-left, down-up-over-a-crest, stomach-in-mouth swerves at the start of the lap, defines the place.
And the rest of the lap unfolds in a series of demanding sweepers, up-and-down valleys, with the unpredictable weather sometimes changing by the minute.
It is an unmissable experience, for competitors and viewers alike.
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Cardiff Blues have been keen on signing Francis, 24, on a dual contract with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU).
"As far as I'm concerned, as far as he's concerned, he's an Exeter player for at least the next two years because he's under contract," Baxter said.
"I've had no contact from anybody - either Cardiff Blues or from Wales."
Francis has 22 international caps and started four of Wales' five Six Nations matches this year, but the York-born tight-head has never played his club rugby in the country.
He has made 11 appearances for Premiership side Exeter this season and it is understood any deal for the forward would involve a fee.
"We're expecting him to be here, he's an important part of our squad and we're expecting him to have a big end to the season for us," Baxter added to BBC Radio Devon.
The 19-year-old has made 13 league appearances for Phil Parkinson's side so far, scoring once.
He briefly went back to the Premier League club for treatment on a knee problem, but now returns to Yorkshire.
"We are very pleased Reece is remaining with us. We are going to need everyone over this busy Christmas period," City boss Parkinson told the club website.
He will go before the Culture, Media and Sport committee after a series of claims by the Daily Telegraph.
The allegations have already led to Sam Allardyce losing his job as England manager.
The committee said recent events had shown "continuing major failings" in the system of football governance.
The FA's director of governance, Darren Bailey, will also give evidence at the hearing on 17 October.
Allardyce left his post last week after claims he told undercover reporters posing as businessmen how to "get around" player transfer rules.
Among other claims reported by the Telegraph, former Premier League manager Harry Redknapp is alleged to have said his players bet on the result of one of their matches.
The newspaper also claimed that eight current or ex-Premier League managers had taken bribes for player transfers.
The commons committee issued a strong statement saying it had "repeatedly urged the football authorities to improve self-governance".
"Although the committee's recommendations have been backed by successive sports ministers and progress has been promised by the FA, in practice very little has changed: the governance of football is cumbersome, and power lies with the clubs, especially in the Premier League," the statement said.
It added: "Real reform in relation to the ownership of clubs, transfers of players, the influence of fans, the role of agents and investment in the grassroots - amongst other issues - has stalled."
In the last Parliament, the committee recommended legislation to enforce good governance if no further progress had been made.
Following the revelations, ex-FA executive director David Davies said the FA was "screaming out to be reformed" while former FA chief executive David Bernstein, said the organisation produced "poor results" adding "it isn't a coincidence these things keep happening".
They were fatally injured when the car they were travelling in left the road, collided with a pole and came to a stop in a parking area for trucks outside Ballybofey.
It happened at about 16.15 local time on Wednesday.
The 19-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene, while the second woman was taken to Letterkenny General Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
A man in his 40s, who was also in the car, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The road between Ballybofey and Logue's Bridge is closed and diversions are in place.
The county has seen a high number of road deaths in recent months - in July five people were killed on the roads within the space of two days.
A formal identification is yet to take place but it is believed the man found on a roundabout on Saturday morning near Darlington is Darren Bennett.
Durham Police confirmed the car the body was in belonged to Mr Bennett. They are not sure when the Renault Megane crashed.
Mr Bennett, 28, from Newton Aycliffe, was last seen at a party on 27 August.
He was reported missing three days after the party but Durham Police said there had been no information about the possible route his car had taken.
It is thought the car was travelling from Burtree Gate on the A68 when it failed to negotiate the roundabout and went through a chevron board before hitting some trees.
The driver was confirmed dead at the scene. Durham Police said they were talking to Mr Bennett's family.
Sgt Andy Sutherland from the Road Policing Unit said: "Although a formal identification has not so far been possible, we can confirm the car belonged to Mr Bennett and has not been reported stolen.
"We are pursuing various lines of enquiry to establish when the crash took place, and we would be keen to hear from anyone who might have seen the Megane on the roads at any time since the weekend of 27 August."
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The 28-year-old, gold medallist in 2012 and 2016, will take part in the race over the longer distance on 22 April.
"It's no secret that I am going to spend a couple of years racing some different distances," said Brownlee.
"I'm really looking forward to preparing for some longer distance races and competing at them."
While the Olympic triathlon distance involves swimming 1.5km, cycling 40km and running 10km, the race Brownlee will attempt includes swimming 1.9km, cycling 90km and running a half-marathon (13.1 miles or 21.09km).
She is the first British monarch to ever celebrate a sapphire jubilee, as well as being the UK's longest-reigning monarch.
Ceremonial gun salutes took place in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and York.
A special photograph of the Queen was released by British photographer David Bailey.
A special sapphire jubilee stamp has also been released to commemorate the occasion
Prime Minister Theresa May has given her congratulations to the Queen, calling her: "an inspiration to all of us".
The current version of the fares system lets so-called regulated fares rise by the annual rate of inflation, as measured each July by the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
About 45% of fares in England, Scotland and Wales are regulated.
Broadly speaking they are season tickets, some off-peak returns, some standard returns, and commuter fares into and out of the London area.
Yes. About 55% in fact. These include all first class tickets, all advance purchase ones, and some off-peak fares.
For these, the train operating companies can decide their own increases, which can be more or less than the regulated ones.
The government must agree to the rise being implemented. It will not come in automatically.
But assuming the government gives its blessing, the increases will affect fares from 1 January next year.
The train companies do not in fact have to implement the increase if they do not want to. It is a ceiling.
But obviously the chances are they will go the whole hog.
Not quite. In Wales rail fare increases are also capped at July's RPI figure.
But in Scotland the maximum increase affects some regulated peak fares, including Anytime and Season tickets.
However, regulated off-peak fare increases are set at 1% below RPI.
The train companies say that some of their most important costs go up each year in the same way.
These include the track access charges, which they must pay to Network Rail for the right to run trains on its rails, and to use its stations and signals.
Also, under the various franchise agreements which govern the economics of each train operating company, payments they make to the government are also linked each year to the RPI.
Regulation of some fares has existed since the old British Rail was privatised and split up into many separate companies in the mid-1990s.
The point of regulation was to stop the new regional rail franchises abusing their near monopolies to overcharge their passengers.
However, since 2007 it has been explicit government policy for passengers to pay more of the overall cost of running the country's rail system, and for taxpayers as a whole to pay less via subsidies.
The coalition government continued the policy of shifting the financial burden to the wallets of passengers, though with less aggressive price increases than before.
A research paper, published earlier this year by the House of Commons Library, cited earlier figures from the rail regulator in March 2016 showing that "passengers have contributed an increasing proportion of the rail industry's income relative to taxpayers over the past four years - up from 55.6% in 2010-11 to 65% in 2014-15."
No, according to the rail industry trade body the Rail Delivery Group.
But any fare increases which are implemented should be made public by individual train operating companies this November or December.
Not necessarily at all.
According to the annual analysis published by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), in January this year average fares across the rail system - regulated and unregulated - rose by only 1.2%.
It was "the second year in succession when fares have risen below inflation," said the ORR.
How come? Because train firms in fact chose to keep the lid on unregulated ticket increases, limiting them to just 0.8%.
And even the regulated rises averaged just 1.8%, slightly below the cap of 1.9% set by the July 2016 RPI figure.
David Headley was testifying against Tahawwur Rana, a Chicago businessman accused of helping plan the attacks.
Mr Rana is accused of providing Headley with a cover to scout attack locations.
Mr Rana has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers say he was tricked by Headley, a former friend.
More than 160 people were killed in November 2008 when a group of 10 men stormed a train station, hotels and cafes and a Jewish centre, shooting and throwing bombs.
At the opening on Monday of Mr Rana's trial, Headley testified that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) coordinated with each other.
The ISI provided military and moral support to the group, he said.
He said a Pakistani agent paid him $25,000 (£15,500) for the operation. Headley has separately said he was trained by LeT.
Pakistan believes Headley is an unreliable witness and analysts expect Islamabad to flatly deny alleged links between militant groups and the Pakistani secret intelligence service.
Mr Rana denies the 12 charges that have been levelled against him.
His lawyers say he was tricked by Headley, a longtime friend from their days at a Pakistani military school. Mr Rana was arrested in 2009, and if convicted, he faces a life sentence.
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Headley's testimony revealed an insight into the workings of LeT and its alleged links to the ISI. He had free access to the group's leader, Hafiz Sayeed, who has been charged by India as the mastermind of the attacks.
Besides LeT, said Headley, two other militant organisations - Hizb-ul-Mujahedeen and Jaish-e-Mohammed - worked "under the umbrella of the ISI". He named several men who he said were officers in the ISI who collaborated with LeT, including one called Maj Iqbal.
Headley said he took pictures and video of the sites and shared them with the ISI officer and LeT members. Headley said he was drawn to LeT in 2000 after he attended one of its meetings.
He said LeT was planning attacks on India and he joined them because he hated India for dismembering Pakistan in 1971. He said the Mumbai attacks had been planned in 2005 but the dates were not firmed up until later.
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"David Headley... has been manipulating people for years. Dr Rana is by far and away not the first," Mr Rana's lawyer Charles Swift said in his opening statement.
Prosecutors say that in 2006 Mr Rana allowed Headley to open an office of his Chicago-based immigration services firm in Mumbai, which Headley then used as cover to scout sites for the 2008 attack.
"The defendant knew all too well that when Headley travels to a foreign country, people may die," assistant US Attorney Sarah Streicker told jurors on Monday.
"The defendant didn't carry a gun or throw a grenade. In a complicated and sophisticated plot, not every player carries a weapon. People like the defendant who provide support are just as critical to the success."
In November 2008, the 10 gunmen attacked the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, a Jewish centre and a major train station, each of which Headley had scouted in advance.
In March 2010, Headley, a US citizen who spent much of his childhood in Pakistan, pleaded guilty to taking photographs and video of the targets. He could face up to life in prison and a $3m (£1.86m) fine.
In addition, prosecutors say Headley and Mr Rana plotted an attack, which was never carried out, on Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, in revenge for its printing of cartoons featuring images of the Prophet Muhammad.
Also charged with planning the Mumbai attack are four Pakistanis, including one said by prosecutors to be a Pakistani intelligence officer. None are in US custody.
The party came third in all but two of the 11 constituencies in Bristol and south Gloucestershire in 2015.
The decision may boost the Conservative vote in marginal seats like the Thornbury and Yate constituency.
Conservative candidate Luke Hall is defending a 1,500 majority, where UKIP won more than 5,000 votes in the previous election.
UKIP's Russ Martin stood in the 2015 election for Thornbury and Yate. He was also re-elected as the prospect ive parliamentary candidate.
"This is tactical strategic decision, I'm looking at the bigger picture for Brexit and I don't want to jeopardise the outcome," he said.
Thornbury and Yate was held by the Liberal Democrat pensions minister Steve Webb before he lost his seat to the Conservatives in 2015.
Lib Dem candidate Claire Young said: "Two years of Conservative government has shown people what we actually did in coalition because they've seen, without us as a restraining influence, what they are doing."
Conservative candidate Luke Hall said: "This is a vital seat for the Conservatives nationally.
"There has never been a Conservative majority government without this seat."
Other candidates standing in Thornbury and Yate are Green Party candidate Iain Hamilton and Brian Peter Mead for Labour.
Speaking of UKIP's decision, Mr Hamilton said it was "not surprising" as UKIP "completely collapsed".
He added: "I know a lot of people say where will UKIP's votes go, but there are lot of people who don't like either of the main parties, and they're happy I'm standing, as it gives them other options."
Mr Mead said: "I'm standing to give people the opportunity to vote in favour of Labour policies of investment in public services run for the many and not the few and against the austerity agenda."
The storm brought rainfall of more than an inch an hour in San Francisco and winds gusts of 140mph (225km/h) in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Flooding has already closed two major motorways in the area, delayed public transport, cancelled 240 flights and shut ferry services.
The rain is much needed in the drought-hit state but mudslides are a concern.
Power cuts were widespread, from the suburban area south of San Francisco to Humboldt, near the Oregon border.
"It's a two-pronged punch - it's wind and rain," National Weather Service forecaster Diana Henderson said. "Once the ground gets saturated and the winds are howling, there's a bigger chance of trees going down on power lines."
There were multiple vehicle accidents but no serious injuries.
Rain and floods also led to rare weather-related school closures for students in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz County.
Some 240 flights at San Francisco's airport were cancelled and delays averaged two hours, said a spokesman.
In Santa Cruz, a young child was trapped after an 80ft (24m) tree fell on his arm and shoulder,
Rescuers with chain saws cut it apart and the student was taken to hospital in a good condition.
In the small town of Healdsburg, cars were stalled in heavily flooded streets.
Grocery store employee Laura Cobar said the water was rising and she feared it might enter the shop.
"We got kids canoeing in our parking lot, and there's water up to our doors" she said.
But surfers welcomed forecast of waves as high as 15ft and unseasonably warm temperatures near San Francisco Bay and ski resorts in the northern Sierra Nevada were hoping for more than two feet of snow.
Samar Badawi was detained for allegedly managing a Twitter account calling for the release of her husband.
Amnesty International called the arrest "the latest example of Saudi Arabia's utter contempt" for human rights.
Abu al-Khair was jailed for 15 years for "undermining the regime" in 2014. He is the founder of the Monitor of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia group.
Mrs Badawi is also the sister of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who in 2014 was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for insulting Islam.
Raif Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, also reported the arrest in her tweet: "Urgent: #Samar_Badawi was arrested on the charge of directing @WaleedAbulkhair twitter account."
Samar Badawi was arrested on Tuesday in Jeddah and transferred along with her two-year-old daughter to a police station, Amnesty International USA quoted local activists as saying.
After questioning, she was sent to prison and is expected to appear before a prosecutor later on Wednesday, it says.
Amnesty's Philip Luther said the arrest "demonstrates the extreme lengths to which the authorities are prepared to go in their relentless campaign to harass and intimidate human rights defenders into silent submission".
Saudi officials have not publicly commented on the issue.
He follows the lead of midfielder Kieron Morris, who signed a new deal on Wednesday.
Bakayoko, 20, who has been with the club since he was 16, missed the end of the season with a knee injury.
"It's about getting fit through the summer now because next season is a big season for me," Bakayoko told the club website.
"There are high expectations at this club and I really want to step up and become a big part it.
"There's lots of young players who have been given a chance here. I'm in the same age group as Liam Kinsella and Rico Henry and we really push each other on."
Bakayoko has had three separate loan spells with non-league clubs, first at Southport, then last season at AFC Telford United and fellow National League North side Worcester City.
Highly-rated Henry, 18, has been called up to represent England Under-19s against Mexico in June, replacing Manchester United's Cameron Borthwick-Jackson.
This third international call for the Saddlers' young player of the season comes on top of his three goals in 44 appearances as a first-team regular during the 2015-16 season.
Crowdfunding is a way of raising money through lots of small investments from a large number of people, not necessarily professional investors.
Murray said he had "always been interested in investment" and that helping UK start-ups appealed to him.
He recently purchased the Cromlix Hotel near Dunblane, where he was born.
The two-time Grand Slam champion has committed to investing a "substantial amount" of his own money, as well as joining the advisory board, a spokesperson said, but details of how much he was putting in were not disclosed.
He has already invested in several Seedrs start-ups.
Seedrs chief executive and co-founder Jeff Lynn said: "We believe he can bring a different perspective into certain aspects of the early-stage business community in the health, sport and wearable technology spaces."
Murray is currently ranked number three in the world and has just reached the semi-finals at the French Open.
He is the reigning Olympics champion in singles, and has also won the US Open and Wimbledon titles.
The investigation by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) centres around the arrest of an unnamed individual in April 2015.
It will focus on the actions of "a number" of serving officers within Police Scotland.
No further details of the case at the centre of the probe have been released.
The arrested man contacted Pirc after he was unhappy with the way police dealt with his complaints about how he was treated.
Potential criminality involving the officers was then discovered when Pirc's review team began an examination of how the police handled the man's complaints.
The matters were then drawn to the attention of the Crown Office, which has now given the go-ahead for Pirc to conduct a full investigation into the whole circumstances surrounding the case.
A Pirc spokesman said: "The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner is undertaking an investigation into allegations of criminal neglect of duty against a number of officers serving with Police Scotland.
"The potential criminality was identified by the commissioner while conducting a complaint handling a review into how Police Scotland dealt with complaints relating to the alleged wrongful arrest of a man in April 2015.
"The matter was drawn to the attention of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), who have now referred it to the Pirc for investigation.
"A report on the Commissioner's findings will be submitted to the COPFS in due course."
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "We are aware of the investigation and, as such, it would be inappropriate to comment further."
Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 21, from Wirksworth, Derbyshire, was killed in Queensland in August.
Smail Ayad, 29, has been charged with her murder and that of another British backpacker, Thomas Jackson.
The ceremony at St Mary's Church, Wirksworth, included Buddhist, Islamic and Sikh readings.
A funeral held for Mia in Queensland earlier this month was crowd-funded by her friends.
Her mother Rosie Ayliffe said the ceremony for family and friends in Australia was a "moving and beautiful", but the memorial was for the Wirksworth community.
In her eulogy to her daughter, Ms Ayliffe said: "She embraced the world, she had a generosity of spirit, she was a caring, loving soul who loved caring for children.
"Her year in Australia was her happiest ever. People have told me since Mia's death they are holding their dearest tighter.
"Tom Jackson showed extraordinary bravery and paid the ultimate price for someone he barely knew. It was a testament to his compassion.
"We must try and find ways to make her memory live on through acts of kindness.
"The girl with the smile lives on."
Ms Ayliffe said the memorial was a "Christian service" with contributions from Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism to reflect Mia's travels and beliefs.
Canon David Truby conducted the service and said it was important people in the UK had a chance to say goodbye.
He said: "Mia was in Australia for almost a year before this tragic event happened and so people who knew her... will have a sense of having her torn away from them."
Les Jackson, whose son Tom tried to save Mia, also attended the memorial service.
Mia's ashes will be scattered by fellow travellers in countries she visited or wanted to visit.
The outbreak affected pupils at Glyn Gaer Primary School in Gelligaer and there was also a case at Ysgol Rhydywaun in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
It began in April and cases continued to be identified until June.
Public Health Wales said a multi-agency outbreak control team had taken measures and it was now over.
Heather Lewis, consultant in communicable disease control, said: "Hepatitis A has a long incubation period - or time during which the illness can develop in the body - which is why we have needed to wait three months to declare the outbreak over.
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While he admits the bank may have to move some activities to bases in Dublin or Germany, he believes that most of their European banking business can continue to be done from the UK.
"I don't believe that the financial centre of Europe will leave the city of London. There are all sorts of reasons why I think the UK will continue to be the financial lungs for Europe"
He admitted that other European capitals had been heavily courting the bank to move operations their way.
"It's very interesting that one minute no-one wants bankers in their back yard, the next they are inviting you over to a barbecue."
His commitment to the UK will be welcomed by the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, who will address delegates at Davos today. It comes 24 hours after HSBC said it would move 1,000 jobs to Paris and UBS said it would shift up to 1,000 jobs to Europe after the government resolved it would be leaving the European single market.
Theresa May will be meeting big Wall Street bosses while here today, including Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs and Larry Fink of giant asset manager Blackrock - both card carrying members of the "global elite" she has been so scathing about.
Barclays is the world's biggest underwriter of European government bonds and it seemed to many watchers that it might be difficult to continue that activity outside the European single market.
Mr Staley said he believed that changes in the legal structure of the bank - by opening a German branch of its Dublin operations for example - would be enough to satisfy European and UK regulators and be in the interests of European governments.
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Shakespeare sang the praises of the golden fortified wine from the sun-griddled vineyards of southern Spain.
The English in particular have been drinking it by the barrel since Sir Francis Drake began looting supplies from the Spanish harbours he attacked.
The sherry wineries or bodegas in and around the southern city of Jerez de la Frontera are a handy vantage point from which to survey the trade landscape of post-Brexit Europe - an EU minus the UK.
On the one hand, times have been tough in recent years - sales of mass-market sherries have plummeted in the years since the 1980s, when every household in the UK kept a cheap bottle to hand, to pour into trifles on Sundays and relatives at Christmas.
On the other hand, the trade has historically showed extraordinary resilience at difficult historical moments, emerging successfully from World Wars One and Two, the Spanish Civil War and the Great Depression.
It was a point emphasised to me by Pedro Revuelta Gonzalez, in the elegant wood-panelled library of the Gonzalez-Byass bodega in Jerez.
He produced from the archive a ledger neatly recording the company's business in Britain during the early 1940s - the years of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain. The neatly-bound ledger, with handwritten entries in faded fountain-pen ink, was recovered from the wreckage of the company's London office, which was damaged in a German air raid.
Mr Gonzalez favours a soft Brexit - one which protects not only the interests of the sherry trade, but also those of the British expatriates who live on the coast, a short drive to the south, and the huge numbers of Britons who come every year to the resorts of Benidorm and Torremolinos.
"We believe in free trade," he told me. "And we hope and we're sure that the regulators in the UK and Europe also believe in that. So they'll try to find a solution that will be good for Britain, for Europe and of course for consumers, so there won't be big barriers in commerce."
If Brexit were to become a bitter affair, which involved British departure from the EU customs union and the single market, and strong restrictions on freedom of movement into the UK, then in theory at least those tourists in future might require a visa for their Spanish holidays.
Perhaps because this region of Spain has such close links with the UK, that confidence that a benign Brexit deal can be arranged seems fairly widespread.
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In a party of British tourists on a tour of the Gonzalez-Byass bodega I met Mick Irwin and Glenys Nicholls, who told me they voted for Brexit. And if there are Brexiteers experiencing "Buyer's Remorse", as some commentators have suggested, then Mick and Glenys are not amongst them.
"No, no, no way - that's it, we've made our decision," Glenys told me. "I hope they don't go back and do another vote, because it's not the best of three until the other side get their way. We're coming out, come what way, and we'll just have to stand by our conviction and survive one way or the other."
When I asked Mick if there was some sort of contradiction between voting Brexit and then heading off to an EU member state on holiday he couldn't have been clearer.
"Not at all. They still want to sell us their sherry and they want to sell us their sun and sangria and they'll be cutting off their noses to spite their faces if they try to put British tourists off."
There was a general sense of surprise in Spain at the UK's vote to leave the EU.
Spain joined the EU only a decade or so after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, and membership here is associated more with an anchoring of the democratic process and a modernising of the economy, than with unnecessary bureaucracy and untrammelled immigration.
Eugenio Camacho, the presenter and editor of a news programme on Radio Jerez, put it like this:
"The concerns about Brexit are mostly in terms of the historic commercial relations over sherry between Jerez and Great Britain. More than fear, there's uncertainty. At the moment when the consumption of sherry has started to recover in an important market like the UK this really puts the brakes on that recovery."
The process of negotiating the terms on which the UK leaves the EU has not yet begun. And it is possible that when it does it will be long and tortuous.
Southern Spain, with its strong historic British trading links, provides a reminder that when the EU is trying to settle on a negotiating strategy there will be voices calling from within for a soft Brexit and a soft landing - for what may be a difficult and protracted process.
Known as Woody island by most, it is occupied by China, which calls it Yongxing. It is also claimed by Vietnam, which calls it Phu Lam, as well as by Taiwan.
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His death came shortly after three people were seen leaving the building and entering a police vehicle. It has not been confirmed they were hostages.
The gunman had opened fire at the industrial unit on Monday morning, killing a man and injuring two others.
Police quickly surrounded the factory, located in the industrial suburb of Ingleburn in the city's southwest.
Authorities have named the gunman as Wayne Williams.
His motives and relationship to those in the factory remain unclear, but the Sydney Morning Herald said Williams was a member of a motorcycle gang and that the man who was shot dead was connected to another motorcycle club.
The two injured men were transported to Liverpool Hospital and were in a stable condition, staff told the BBC.
One of the men underwent emergency surgery, while the second suffered superficial wounds to his lower body.
Reports from media at the scene said the man was believed to be using an automatic rifle.
Photographs show heavily armed police surrounding the Inline National Signage factory, and what appears to be a body underneath a white sheet on the sidewalk.
A man was arrested at the scene, but police said he was detained for "hindering" the investigation.
The 33-year-old ex-England international moved to Clermont in 2015, after five years at Saracens.
The defending champions are on track for a successive double as they also look to retain their Premiership title.
"Saracens don't have a bad day, they are consistently good", said Strettle.
"They are for me the number one team in Europe," Strettle told AFP. "However, Clermont's good days are better than Saracens' good days so if we are playing well, we can win."
Clermont are the nearly men of French rugby, having lost to Toulon in Europe's top club tournament in the 2013 and 2015 finals, and won only one of their 12 French finals - and that at the 11th attempt.
"It doesn't affect me if Clermont have won or lost 11, 12 finals," said Strettle, who scored in their 27-22 semi-final win over Leinster.
"That shouldn't affect me, I am playing just the one game, in my head it is the same. The players just have to ignore the history, it's just one game. For the fans, it's different."
Cables Wynd House, known as the banana flats due to its distinctive curved shape, is a post-war building in Leith.
The flats were built in the 1960s, and residents are being asked for their views on the plan.
Historic Environment Scotland is planning to stage a consultation event next month.
The plan also includes neighbouring Linksview House, which is also mostly owned by the City of Edinburgh Council.
Cables Wynd House was made famous for its part in the Irvine Welsh book where it featured as the childhood home of the character, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson.
Along with the 10-storey building Linksview House, the "banana flats" mark an important period in the city and Scotland's social housing landscape.
A proposal to consider the property for listing by Historic Environment Scotland has reached an initial view that the building may meet the criteria as a category A listed property, meaning that it would be recognised as being of national importance.
Dawn McDowell, Historic Environment Scotland's Deputy Head of Listing, said: "Scotland is renowned for its rich architectural heritage.
"While our palaces, abbeys and castles are a key part of this, they are only a fraction of our diverse historic environment which ranges from industrial buildings to the homes we live in.
"Cables Wynd House and Linksview House were innovative, ground-breaking designs at the time when they were built and offered a new vision for social housing and for those who lived in them.
"A key aim of listing is to recognise the special architectural importance of these buildings as well as celebrating and sharing their wider social and cultural role."
Residents of Cables Wynd House and Linksview House will receive a letter from Historic Environment Scotland about the consultation.
Residents and owners can also go to an informal drop-in meeting on 6 December at Leith Library, on Ferry Road from 16:00 to 19:00.
Listing is the way that a building or structure of special architectural or historic interest is recognised by law through the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.
The two held talks in Geneva to try to find a way of reviving a cessation of hostilities that faltered months ago.
Mr Kerry said they were close, but would not rush into an agreement.
The talks come as the Damascus suburb of Darayya was evacuated after a four-year siege by the government.
After meeting for nearly 10 hours, Mr Kerry said the "vast majority'' of technical discussions had been completed, adding that experts would remain in Geneva to work on the unresolved steps in the coming days.
He stressed that the only way to solve the conflict was through political agreement.
"We want to have something done that is effective and that works for the people of Syria, that makes the region more stable and secure, and that brings us to the table here in Geneva to find a political solution," he said.
Nearly 10 hours of talks were not enough to close the gaps.
It is clear some progress was made, but the question is whether Russia and the United States will ever be able to reach a lasting deal on crucial and complex issues.
One goal is to strengthen their military co-operation in the fight against so-called Islamic State and forces linked to al-Qaeda.
But they, and their Syrian allies, still disagree on which groups are legitimate targets.
They also want the Syrian government and the opposition to accept a truce.
But, on the ground, fighting intensifies with all sides still trying to gain advantage. In the town of Darayya just outside Damascus, rebels were forced to surrender after four years of bombardment and siege.
The government regards these local deals, on its own terms, as a way forward, not talks by outside powers in foreign capitals.
Mr Kerry reminded journalists of the image, widely shared on social media, of a five-year-old boy sitting dazed in an ambulance after an air strike in Aleppo, saying "that image needs to motivate all of us, to get the job done".
Mr Kerry said the Syrian government, with the help of its allies including Russia, continued to breach the terms of an existing cessation of hostilities agreement.
"Aleppo continues to be besieged and bombarded by the regime and its allies, including Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, and the regime just today forced the surrender of Darayya after a brutal four years of siege," he said.
He was speaking hours after the first buses left Darayya, accompanied by ambulances and Red Crescent vehicles.
The UN has expressed concern over the plan, saying it is essential that those leaving do so voluntarily.
The Syrian army encircled Darayya in 2012 and just one aid delivery has reached the town since then.
Opposition fighters are due to be given safe passage to the rebel-held city of Idlib, while civilians are going to government shelters in Damascus.
The withdrawal of rebels just a few miles from Damascus is a boost for President Bashar al-Assad, analysts say.
For years those living in Darayya have endured constant shelling, as well as suffering shortages of food, water and electricity.
Some of those leaving said the town had become uninhabitable.
Darayya saw some of the first protests against the Syrian government, an uprising that transformed into a full-blown civil conflict.
It is the latest ruling in a long running battle with Cadbury.
Nestle wants to stop rivals producing a similar shaped bar.
But the court agreed with Cadbury that the shape was not distinctive enough for consumers to identify all such bars as KitKats.
Nestle said in a statement: "KitKat is much loved and the iconic shape of the four-finger bar, which has been used in the UK for more than 80 years, is well known by consumers.
"We believe that the shape deserves to be protected as a trade mark in the UK and are disappointed that the court did not agree on this occasion."
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.
In September last year the company 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.
Now it would appear Cadbury, which is owned by US company Mondelez International, has scored a significant but not final victory in the continuing chocolate war.
It has always argued the shape alone was not distinctive enough for consumers to associate it with the rival snack.
Nestle has not sought to trademark the two-fingered bar.
On the 10th hole at Silver Lakes in Glencoe, Alabama, Clifton McDonald began badly with a double bogey seven.
Things got significantly worse, and he was 14 over par after six holes by the time he stepped on to the 16th tee. Fourteen furious swipes later, he had completed the par five.
Most people would have walked off. But not Clifton.
He forged on regardless to make what the Alabama Golf Association says is without doubt "the highest score we've had in any qualifying event".
"The guy was really nice. It's just you could tell he was in over his head," executive director Andy Priest told BBC Sport.
"It was a beautiful sunny day, it wasn't breezy at all. It's just a tough golf course.
"The feedback we got from other players was that it was firm and fast. Honestly it's good qualifying for the Open at Erin Hills.
"We got his scorecard and he confirmed what he had shot, but we didn't speak to him for very long. You could tell he had had a long day.
"But it I will say one thing, the gentleman played it out."
Lee McCoy, who finished second on Wednesday to take one of five qualifying spots, tweeted the picture above, adding: "The scorecard of the guy that played in front of me at US Open qualifying today. Shot 68 on his front 9 and decided to finish #NeverGiveUp."
McDonald was, perhaps not surprisingly, bottom of the pack in 67th.
This year's US Open takes place between 15-18 June in Erin Hills, Wisconsin.
About half of the field is made up of players who are exempt from qualifying - such as the defending champion, Dustin Johnson.
But any professional golfer, or an amateur with a handicap of 1.4 or lower, is eligible to enter local qualifying, which is played at 114 courses around the US and Canada.
Those who are successful advance to sectional qualifying, which takes place at 10 sites in the US as well as in Japan and at Walton Heath in Surrey.
The ban was due to be imposed after an inquiry found overwhelming evidence of animal cruelty, including mass killings and the use of live bait in training.
State Premier Mike Baird said he had "underestimated" the desire to give the greyhound industry "one last chance".
"We got it wrong - I got it wrong, cabinet got it wrong, the government got it wrong," he said.
The ban, which was due to be introduced last year, was criticised by the industry as too extreme a reaction.
There were also concerns that large numbers of dogs would be abandoned or put down.
Abuses in the racing industry were uncovered by an ABC TV report aired in 2015 that showed piglets, possums and rabbits being chased and killed by dogs in training sessions.
The government subsequently launched its own inquiry. It found up to 68,000 "uncompetitive" greyhounds were slaughtered over the past 12 years and nearly 20% of trainers used live animal baits.
Dozens of trainers were suspended. Some were banned from ever participating in the sport again and others were charged under animal cruelty laws.
One Sydney-based dog trainer said the ban proposal had "turned everyone's life into turmoil".
Mitchell Pryce told the Daily Telegraph newspaper he was considering moving states to avoid the ban.
Mr Baird said on Tuesday that the government "did not give the good people in the industry the chance to respond, a chance to reform".
Instead, a number of reforms will be put in place to tighten welfare standards, including reducing the number of tracks and dogs bred for racing plus tougher animal cruelty penalties.
Mr Baird's approval ratings have declined from 61% to 39% since December and his policy reversal follows months of political upheaval since the state-wide ban was announced in July.
He has been criticised for his reversal, with people on his Facebook page describing it as "spineless", "disappointing" and "pathetic".
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Australia released a statement describing the announcement as a "sad day".
"They say fortune favours the brave and in this case, Mr Baird has shown he is anything but," it said.
Ansaru was formed in January 2012, though it rose to prominence only about six months later through the release of a video in which it vowed to attack Westerners in defence of Muslims worldwide.
"For the first time, we are glad to announce to the public the formation of this group that has genuine basis," said a statement issued by the group in January 2012 and quoted in local media.
"We will have [a] dispassionate look into everything, to encourage what is good and see to its spread and to discourage evil and try to eliminate it."
Its full Arabic name, Jama'atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan, means: "Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa".
This suggests that it has a wider regional agenda, with the UK listing Ansaru as a "terrorist group" linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Just two months after it was formed, the UK said the militant group had killed a Briton and an Italian taken hostage in the north-western state of Sokoto after a failed attempt to rescue them.
Then in December 2012, it abducted French national Francis Colump, 63, following an attack on a well-guarded compound in the northern town of Rimi, about 25km (15 miles) from Katsina city.
About 30 Ansaru gunmen used dynamite to force their way into the compound, seizing Mr Colump who, officials, said, was working on a wind power project.
It carried out a similar attack in February 2013, capturing seven foreign nationals from a housing compound owned by the Lebanese construction company Setraco.
It said the attack was to avenge "transgressions" by European nations in Mali and Afghanistan, where Western forces are battling Islamist insurgents.
On Saturday, it released a video saying it had killed the "Christian" hostages because the UK and Nigerian forces were planning an operation to rescue them - an allegation the UK denied.
It has also carried out attacks on Nigerian targets.
In January 2013, Ansaru said it had carried out an attack which killed two Nigerian soldiers as they prepared to deploy to Mali.
The group said it targeted the troops because the Nigerian military was joining the French-led military campaign to "demolish the Islamic empire of Mali".
French journal Jeune Afrique-L'Intelligent says Ansaru is led by the little-known Abu Ussamata al-Ansary.
It quoted a statement by him as saying that the Nigerian government was "incapable of defending Muslims in inter-religious violence with Christians".
The group also said it was fighting to reclaim "the lost dignity of Muslims of black Africa" and the creation of an Islamic caliphate from Niger to Cameroon and northern Nigeria.
Analysts believe it is an off-shoot of Boko Haram, which launched an insurgency in 2009 to create an Islamic state in Nigeria, rather than across the region.
"To some, the sect headed by Ansary is seen as one that will compliment the 'struggle' by the Boko Haram sect under Imam Abubakar Shekau but to many it is an indication that all is not well with the leadership of the Boko Haram sect and that there has been conflict about its ideology and its understanding of Islam," wrote journalist Tukur Mamu in Nigeria's Desert Herald newspaper last year.
"Hence, the decision to form a new group."
According to Nigeria's Standard newspaper, Ansaru has denounced Boko Haram's style of operation as "inhuman to the Muslim ummah [nation]", an apparent reference to killing of innocent Nigerians - Christian and Muslim - through bombings and assassinations.
"Islam forbids killing of innocent people, including non-Muslims. This is our belief and we stand for it," Mr al-Ansary said in the video released last year.
But Mr al-Ansary added that non-Muslims can be killed "in self-defence or if they attack Muslims", which seems to explain the killing of Nigerian soldiers to be deployed to Mali.
However, analysts say it does not justify the killing of civilian hostages - unless Ansaru holds them accountable for the actions of Western governments in countries such as Mali, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Analysts believe that Nigeria's government will find it more difficult to end the Islamist insurgency now that two groups are operating.
The government is said to be working with counter-terrorism experts from several countries - including the US and UK - in an attempt to neutralise the threat posed by Boko Haram and Ansaru, amid fears that they could worsen instability across West and central Africa.
The country that is synonymous with steaks as big as Texas is suffering a serious shortage of cattle. The US national herd is now at an all time low. Numbers peaked at 132 million head of cattle in 1975. At the start of this year this was down to just under 91 million.
Across the US, cattle are sometimes housed in what are called feedlots to be fattened for slaughter. These huge operations on average contain around 3,000 have also suffered a significant drop in numbers, down around 12.5 % on last year.
All bad news for cowboys - So what is going on?
There are long term factors in terms of profitability and rising costs but what's really pushing the decline right now is a potent mix of environmental issues and politics.
The US has been suffering a desperate drought that has affected around 80 % of the agricultural land across the country. It has been so severe that in certain parts, farmers have been forced to get rid of their cattle as they simply don't have any pasture for them to graze on.
The drought has also affected the yields of grain crops, which are estimated to be down around 13 % on last year. And because US farmers depend on grain to fatten their beef herds, this has increased pressure to get rid of cattle.
Adding further complication is the politics. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has had a mandate in place since 2005 that requires a certain percentage of US liquid fuel comes from renewable sources.
In practice this means blending ethanol made from grain with regular gasoline. This year, as the drought persisted, desperate farmers asked the EPA to set the mandate aside to help cut corn prices. They refused.
This year ethanol production will consume a whopping 42 % of the corn crop, says the US Department of Agriculture.
According to Dr Stan Bevers from Texas A&M University, this factor is having a huge impact.
"The US beef industry was built on abundant corn supplies, so when a new source of governmental demand takes away roughly 40 % of the corn for ethanol production, the cattle industry must adjust and get smaller."
But bizarrely as the size of the herd has gone down, the size of individual steers has gone up. The cattle are getting fatter with carcass weights around 2 % higher than last year.
But it won't last.
According to Dr Derrell Peel, from Oklahoma State University the current problems could have long term impacts on US beef. He thinks it is likely there will be changes in how cattle are fed. Less grain, more grass, lighter cattle.
"In general that's the tendency," he told me. "The incentives have changed to a more moderate animal size, we could well see finished weights moderate."
The future for American beef cattle is smaller, thinner, fewer.
And the future of world meat production tastes a lot like chicken - but that's a story for another day.
The 100-30 second favourite, ridden by Robbie Power, held off runner-up Empire Of Dirt with Don Poli in third.
Sizing John was cut by bookmakers to around 12-1 from 25s for next month's Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Disko won the Flogas Novice chase for trainer Noel Meade from Our Duke with favourite Bellshill a tired late faller.
Bacardys, trained by Willie Mullins, wore down stablemate Bunk Off Early to claim the Deloitte Novice Hurdle.
Placed seven times behind Douvan, the seven-year-old Sizing John - formerly trained by Henry de Bromhead - relished the step up to three miles.
He prevailed by three-quarters of a length with the same distance back to third. Carlingford Lough, winner in 2015 and 2016, was fourth while More Of That fell in the closing stages.
BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
No longer facing two-mile star Douvan, Sizing John is really thriving.
The question here was whether his stamina would last out on this first go at three miles, and even though it was not perhaps the most examining challenge of all time, he lasted it out very well, and jumped beautifully.
No decision on the Cheltenham Gold Cup, staged over a quarter-mile further, has been made, but on this evidence you'd be happy enough to take a chance.
Empire Of Dirt and Don Poli ran solid Aintree Grand National trials in second and third, as did Perfect Candidate at Exeter.
Mr Salmond said the move could bring down the government if Labour joined in, with David Cameron "locked out".
The Conservatives accused him of "trying to sabotage the democratic will of the British people".
Labour has called his balance of power prediction "bluster and bluff".
In recent days Mr Salmond, who is bidding to become a Westminster MP at the 7 May general election, has claimed his party could "hold the power" in a hung Parliament and would be able to influence the Budget of a minority Labour government.
This was dismissed by Labour leader Ed Miliband, who has ruled out a formal coalition with the Scottish nationalists.
The SNP currently has six MPs at Westminster, but recent opinion polls suggest its share could increase dramatically at the general election.
James Cook, BBC News Scotland correspondent
If the Conservatives attempt to form a minority government and enough MPs vote against their Queen's Speech the administration would fall at the first hurdle and the leader of the opposition would have a shot at forming a government.
That's how parliamentary democracy works in the event of a hung Parliament.
And yet the Conservatives are saying that by planning to vote against a government he opposes Alex Salmond has "confirmed he would sabotage the democratic will of the British people in order to make Ed Miliband prime minister".
It is part of their continuing attempt to portray Mr Miliband as a weak leader whose strings are being pulled by Mr Salmond.
This kind of language causes despair among Tories north of the border who fear that the party in London is waltzing into an SNP trap.
They know that many voters in Scotland will read the phrase "democratic will of the British people" and hear "democratic will of the English people".
Because, if it is illegitimate for Scottish MPs, from whatever party, to vote against one government and support another in the British parliament, then what, voters may ask, is the point of the union?
Who is dancing to Mr Salmond's tune now?
Mr Salmond, the former Scottish first minister, told the New Statesman that in the event of a hung Parliament, a minority Conservative government would have to "go straight effectively for a vote of confidence - usually the Queen's Speech, although it could be otherwise, of course - and we'd be voting against."
If David Cameron lost this vote, he said, there would be a two-week period for another government to be formed.
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said Mr Salmond had "hardened his anti-Conservative rhetoric" in the interview.
A Conservative spokesman said: "Alex Salmond has confirmed he would sabotage the democratic will of the British people in order to make Ed Miliband prime minister.
"That would mean chaos for Britain, with weak Ed Miliband dancing to Alex Salmond's tune."
He said the "only way to keep Britain together" was to vote Conservative.
Mr Salmond's latest comments come after Mr Miliband said the only people writing a future Labour Budget would be himself and shadow chancellor Ed Balls.
Speaking in Clydebank on Monday, he added: "It's not going to be Alex Salmond - not in a million years."
Toulon full-back Halfpenny's contract expires in the summer, Cardiff Blues have offered him a deal and he has also been linked with Scarlets.
The 27-year-old says he will consider his options before making a decision.
"We'd love to see him back," said Davies, the boss of the organisation representing the four Welsh regions.
"That is certainly our hope and that is certainly our intention.
"I have absolutely no doubt that the Blues, ourselves and the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) will do everything possible to make it attractive for Leigh.
"As with any individual making a decision on their future, there are many things they will take into account."
Blues chief executive Richard Holland said the region had been in discussions with the player's representatives "for some time".
Holland added that in conjunction with the WRU they were hopeful of "putting a package on the table by way of a national dual contract".
Halfpenny, who joined the French club from Blues for the 2014-15 season, said his international career was a major consideration.
His current contract gives him full release to play for Wales, but it expires at the end of 2016-17.
Should he decide to remain in France, Halfpenny would rely on a wildcard pick to play for Wales under terms of the WRU senior player selection policy.
Toulon head coach Mike Ford said Halfpenny will not return to Wales on the basis of the WRU's selection criteria for Test players.
The station is a subsidiary of established France-based network Euronews and broadcasts via satellite, digital terrestrial TV and online.
It says it is carried by pay TV providers across Africa, reaching 7.3 million homes in 33 countries.
Re-broadcasting deals with stations in Cameroon, Senegal, Madagascar and Mauritius give it additional reach in 3 million TV homes.
The "fully-fledged pan-African network" says its mission is to "empower people through independent and reliable news".
Currently broadcasting in English and French, it has ambitions to launch in Swahili, Portuguese, Hausa and Wolof and other languages.
As on its sister network, Africanews bulletins do not have in-vision presenters and correspondents, relying instead on voiced-over video. Footage - much of it sourced from Euronews and French news agency AFP - is accompanied by an on-screen ticker.
Bulletins on launch day, 20 April, featured the burning of poached ivory in Cameroon and the kidnapping of Red Cross workers in Mali. A business news section looked at plans to reopen a Kenyan bank and at unemployment in Zimbabwe.
Africanews says it aims to meet a demand for news without "ideological preference" and to reflect diverse points of view.
The channel is not "Euronews Africa" and will be editorially independent of the Lyon-based parent network, says CEO Michael Peters.
"The demand for unbiased news is unmet. There is a gap to fill. This is why we are launching Africanews to pioneer independent news from the African perspective," Mr Peters says.
"We're going to steer people away from the African stereotypes. This is going to be one of the best things ever for African media," says Robert K'Odingo, an Africanews journalist.
But distribution via pay TV networks may limit the station's reach. Many African viewers opt for free-to-air terrestrial platforms and most African countries are still to make the switch to digital terrestrial broadcasting.
Political pressures could also arise. The Congolese government exercises strong controls over the media and the country is experiencing political turbulence following the controversial re-election of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso for a third term.
Mr Peters defends the decision to base the station in Congo, saying it was the only country to meet three key criteria: access to fast internet; easy access to other parts of Africa; and guarantees of editorial independence.
Africanews may benefit from a lack of competition. With 24-hour tailored news output dedicated to Africa, the TV could give other international broadcasters operating in Africa a run for their money.
Euronews itself has expanded its reach in sub-Saharan Africa in the last year, signing distribution deals with South African pay TV giant DStv Africa and Senegal-based Ouest TV.
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Promoters did not disclose details but said "the condition is too severe to allow him to participate".
Fury, 28, beat Ukraine's Klitschko on points in the first bout between the pair in November last year.
The original rematch, scheduled for 9 July at Manchester Arena, was postponed in June after Fury injured his ankle.
The rearranged rematch - with the WBA and WBO belts on the line - had been scheduled for 29 October.
"Tyson will now immediately undergo the treatment he needs to make a full recovery," Hennessey Sports added.
"We and Tyson wish to express our sincerest apologies to all those concerned with the event and all the boxing fans who had been looking forward to the rematch. Tyson is understandably devastated by the development.
"We will be making a further statement in due course."
At a media conference before the initial scheduled rematch in April, Fury taunted Klitschko by telling him he was beaten by "a fat man" in their first encounter.
In August, Fury was charged with a doping offence by the UK's anti-doping body Ukad, with a hearing into the alleged violation to take place in November.
By Ben Dirs, BBC Sport:
"Few in the fight game will be surprised to hear that Fury-Klitschko II is off again.
"Last week, Fury failed to show up to a press conference in London, at which Klitschko said he suspected the rematch would never happen.
"Rumours have circulated that he has not been training and there is a real possibility that he will be stripped of his world titles, having not defended them since dethroning Klitschko last November."
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The collection of images, along with medals and badges, will go on auction later in July.
The find "is like a time capsule that sheds new light on the war", auctioneer Charles Hanson said.
The photos were taken by Robert Oliver, who survived the 1899-1902 war.
He was awarded the Queens Medal for South Africa after fighting in Cape Colony, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in 1901 and 1902.
"The graphic images record the harsh reality, and true horror, of war - something the Victorian press did not portray at the time, as the British Empire was deemed undefeatable," Mr Hanson said.
The photos include prints of war dead lying in fields, the funeral of a British serviceman and a Boer War dog.
The collection also contains two pairs of original kid gloves, spurs, an ammunition bandolier, caps and hats, an original South African feathered headdress and a cartridge belt.
Mr Hanson said: "Robert Oliver was quite a rogue in his youth. At the age of 16, he ran away, ending up on a ship to Canada where he found work as a lumberjack.
"He later joined Staffordshire Police and was considered … funny but firm and strict."
He also owned and ran the Devonshire Pub in Hartington, Derbyshire.
The sale will be held on 25 July.
The Home Affairs Select Committee was told about "apparent corruption right at the heart of New Scotland Yard".
Officers investigating Nigerian fraudster James Ibori were accused of taking cash payments for information.
The former inspector has denied any wrong-doing and the two serving officers have declined to comment.
The allegations surfaced during a parliamentary hearing on the role of private detectives.
During evidence from lawyer Mike Schwarz from solicitors Bindmans, MPs were told of documents which allege that private investigation firm, Risc Management Ltd, was involved in "wining and dining and paying" officers working on the James Ibori case.
Ibori was the former state governor of the oil-rich Delta region in Nigeria, a corrupt official who stole hundreds of millions of pounds from his homeland. He was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment last month after pleading guilty to laundering millions of pounds in the UK.
Mr Schwarz, representing Ibori's London lawyer who was jailed as part of the case, said: "The key culprits appear to be the key players who are the senior investigating officer, DI Gary Walters, and two of the key investigators who are DC John McDonald and DC (Peter) Clark."
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Mr Schwarz told the committee there were records that "show about half a dozen payments totalling £20,000 over eight or nine months."
The allegations were originally made in an anonymous bundle of documents sent to former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) last summer.
In October last year, the IPCC instructed the Metropolitan Police's Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) to conduct an internal investigation.
The paperwork included what purported to be detailed invoices and expense ledgers from Risc Management Ltd, headed at the time by two former Scotland Yard detectives, Keith Hunter and Cliff Knuckey.
Among the entries in the documents are details of what were said to be payments made to sources for confidential information about the on-going police investigation into Ibori.
One entry, dated shortly before police were due to interview James Ibori's London solicitor, reads: "Engaged with source in eliciting information re: forthcoming interviewing strategy to de (sic) deployed by police."
Immediately below, the entry states: "Cash payment made to above source for information provided. £5,000.00."
The DPS has said it has "an open mind" as to whether the documents are genuine or an elaborate forgery designed to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Schwarz criticised the internal inquiry into the corruption allegations as having "huge failings".
"Two of the key officers are still on duty on the same case and one has retired and joined Risc Management," he told the committee.
In a statement the Metropolitan Police said: "The MPS is investigating an allegation that illegal payments were made to police officers for information by a private investigation agency.
"The DPS referred the matter to the IPCC in October 2011 which agreed to supervise a DPS investigation into the allegations.
"This is an ongoing investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage whilst the investigation is under way."
The BBC has confirmed that in the seven months since the DPS inquiry was launched, neither Risc Management, nor the law firm who hired them on behalf of James Ibori, have been contacted. No police officer has been asked about the allegations.
Already under fire for not properly investigating allegations of phone hacking, and with officers facing allegations they accepted cash from News International journalists, the new claims heap further pressure on the Metropolitan Police.
It is not possible to be certain whether the documents at the heart of the corruption allegations are genuine or elaborate fakes nor whether corrupt payments were actually made.
Risc Management denies it has ever paid money to any police officer.
Two of the animals suffered internal bleeding following visits to Forthquarter Park in Granton.
Environmental health officers are in talks with the dead dogs' owners.
However, there are no plans to carry out tests at the park, which is owned by the National Grid and sits beside a former gasworks.
Extensive ground decontamination work was carried out before the park opened 10 years ago.
John Young, whose dog Holly had to be put down, said: "I was in the park with her last Sunday and we did our usual walk and went home.
"As I was getting into the house she slumped on the floor. I thought it was strange but helped her up and she slumped again.
"I kept an eye on her that day and she wasn't getting better so first thing on the Monday I took her to the vet.
"She was kept in overnight and put to sleep the following morning.
"It was awful, the vet told me she had severe internal bleeding so I told him to put her to sleep."
A spokeswoman for the National Grid said they were in contact with the City of Edinburgh Council's environmental health team, and their advice was that there was no need to close the park.
One of the speakers, Chelsea Clinton, told delegates that women were a "crucial, vital and necessary" part of delivering global food security.
Data shows that progress has been made in recent years, but there is still a long way to go to close the gender gap.
The call for equality was made at the 2015 Borlaug Dialogue in the US.
"Certainly, we are not on track at the moment to feed the population we expect to have around the world in 2050," Ms Clinton, vice-president of the Clinton Foundation, told the gathering.
One of the themes of the three-day event, which focused on the "fundamentals of global food security", was inspiring young women to take up careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem).
Global problem
Another speaker, Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg - director of the Kenya-based African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (Award) - outlined some of the challenges.
"We need to increase the number of women scientists but first of all we need to create a conducive environment in which they work. It is as much about institutional transformation as it is about investing in individuals," she said.
"It can be a little too easy to pretend that this is only an African problem, hence a cultural problem. But that is not true; we have got the same challenge in the UK, across Europe and in the US.
"It is a global problem so we have to change the global culture surrounding science and who can be a scientist."
A report produced by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case) that examined diversity in UK Stem said that just 9% of those involved in non-medical Stem posts were women.
However, it also highlighted that the problems facing the science sector in the UK went beyond gender equality. The authors reported that there was an annual shortfall of 40,000 skilled Stem workers.
Dr Kamau-Rutenberg told the BBC the shortfall illustrated why it was critical to attract more young women to pursue careers in the Stem sector.
"We need to expand the pool of talent and increase the number of scientists. Investing in women scientists is a really good way to solve the problem of not enough scientists being available to do the work."
Mentoring
She said Award offered a career development programme that was "investing in high-potential African women and agricultural scientists".
As well as developing technical skills, Award provided leadership training and a mentoring network.
"We just know that people do so much better at achieving their potential as a result of mentoring - when they are in a community of peers and when they are connected to senior scientists," she said.
Dr Kamau-Rutenberg added that just under half of the mentors in the network were men: "This is fantastic because we are able to engage men in this journey of investing in women scientists."
She said that a speech by US President Barack Obama, during his visit to Kenya in June, showed the importance of giving women the opportunity to "earn a place at the decision-making table".
Mr Obama had told a gathering at a sports stadium: "Any nation that fails to educate its girls or employ its women and allow them to maximise their potential is doomed to fall behind the global economy.
"We're in a sports centre. Imagine if you have a team and don't let half of the team play. That's stupid. That makes no sense."
Beyond the farm gate
Data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows that the gender gap extended to access to agricultural resources and opportunities.
The FAO said: "Closing the gender gap in agriculture would generate significant gains for the agriculture sector and for society.
"If women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20-30%."
Dr Kamau-Rutenberg went further: "It is not enough to talk about African women in agriculture and leave the conversation at the farm level.
"There is no point pretending that the only place it is important to talk gender, and the roles of men and women in agriculture, is on the farms.
"We also need to transform the landscape when it comes to research and development. It is really important that we have both men and women setting the research agenda."
The Wisconsin family posted the update on a fundraising website, which raised about $22,000 (£13,000) in less than a day for her legal and medical bills.
Her two alleged attackers, classmates Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, have been charged with attempted murder.
They told police they were trying to impress a fictional character called Slenderman, according to officers.
Doctors said the knife had just missed a major artery near her heart.
"Our little girl is a fighter and is making strides of improvement each and every day," her parents wrote on the website, but added they were limiting visitors as she was easily overwhelmed.
"She has been able to walk the halls of the hospital with her dad. No machine, no tubes, just she and her dad. She has been out of bed watching TV in her wheelchair as well."
They are hoping to raise $250,000 in total for legal and medical costs and have asked to keep the girl's name secret.
The victim was reportedly found by a cyclist on Saturday after crawling from the woods with stab wounds to her arms, legs and torso.
Both suspects were later found walking near a local highway, and a knife was found in one of the girls' backpacks, police said.
According to police, the girls planned to stab the classmate during a sleepover but instead decided to commit the crime the next morning in a nearby park.
Following their arrest they told investigators about their belief in paranormal figure Slenderman and their desire to become his "proxies" by killing to demonstrate their loyalty, police said.
They said that after the murder, they intended to walk to Slenderman's mansion, which they believed was situated in Wisconsin's Nicolet National Forest, police said.
In a poll of 1,301 school pupils aged 11 to 17, 47% said their parents' worries put them off, and 41% thought traffic was dangerously fast.
A lack of safe routes was cited by 38% as a barrier to cycling.
Cycling Minister Robert Goodwill said his department's investment in cycling "will help keep young cyclists safe".
The survey suggested that 44% of people in this age group never cycled and were therefore "missing out on the benefits of cycling entirely".
However, Brake also found more people surveyed disagreed (59%) than agreed (41%) with the idea that current speed limits in their area are too fast for the safety of cyclists and pedestrians.
Brake's deputy chief executive, Julie Townsend, said: "That so many teenagers are being held back from walking and cycling by safety fears, in spite of its great benefits, is a shocking indictment of our road infrastructure."
The government has proposed an amendment to the Infrastructure Bill currently going through Parliament which would require the transport secretary to come up with a "cycling and walking investment strategy" for England.
Mr Goodwill said: "Our record £374m investment in cycling will help keep young cyclists safe.
"By March 2015, 1.6m children will have received cycle training through the Bikeability scheme.
"We have also made it easier for local authorities to introduce 20mph zones which are designed to help increase safety as cycling becomes an increasingly popular transport option in Britain."
Bikeability is a government-run agency which offers lessons in safe cycling in England. A similar scheme operates in Scotland.
Department for Transport statistics show that 35 pedestrians aged 0 to 17 were killed in Great Britain in 2013, the latest full year for which figures are available, and 1,506 were seriously injured.
Nine cyclists in the same age bracket were killed and 381 injured.
Brake is among campaigners calling for a 20mph speed limit to be adopted more widely in urban areas.
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Farah made it three successive world 5,000m titles and has now won golds in both track distance events at the Olympics and two World Championships as he once again found both the perfect tactical response and the form to pull it off.
This time he would not be allowed to lead it out from 500 metres to go, as we have seen so often, with Kenya's Commonwealth champion Caleb Ndiku going to the front before the bell and stretching away down the back straight.
But as the field splintered Farah first hung on and then, coming off the final bend, surged past Ndiku to go away to his seventh global track title in a row.
"It's great to make history," Farah told BBC Sport.
"I didn't feel great, my hammy (hamstring) was playing up a bit, but the medical team helped me through it and to come out here and make a double means so much to me.
"I was kind of getting nervous for the first time in a little while, but thanks to all the medical team. It was amazing to do it."
It had been a slow race, and Farah's finishing time of 13 minutes 50.38 seconds was in itself not remarkable, Ndiku 1.37 seconds back in silver and Ethiopia's Hagos Gebrhiwet taking bronze from his compatriot Yomif Kejelcha.
Yet this was about the response to a fresh and dangerous challenge: a final 800 metres of 1:48.6 and a last 400 metres that none of his rivals could possibly match.
With a series of allegations made against his coach Alberto Salazar - all denied by the American, and with no suggestion Farah has done anything wrong - this has been a difficult summer for the man who won the 10,000m and 5,000m double at both the last Worlds in Moscow and the London Olympics.
But in the same Bird's Nest stadium where he failed to make it through the 5,000m heats of the 2008 Olympics, Farah continued his unparalleled sequence of distance victories in wonderful style.
The race was slow to unfold, Britain's Tom Farrell taking them through 2,000 metres in just under six minutes.
Farah was content to sit at the back, going wide to pick up a drink of water from the feeding stations on the back straight early on and dump it over his head.
Only with seven laps to go did he move up through the field, cruising into second behind Ethiopia's Imane Merga before easing to the front with 1,600 metres to go.
Gebrhiwet went to his shoulder with three laps to go and was joined by his two Ethiopian team-mates as the pace finally quickened.
Ndiku then threw in a big effort with 800 metres left and as Farah tried to come past him at the bell held the Briton off and kicked again.
But Farah would not be beaten, the best distance runners left in his wake once again.
Brendan Foster, Olympic medallist and BBC athletics commentator said: "I would say Mo is the greatest sportsman Britain has ever had.
"Tonight has put him at the top table. When you talk about the greatest distance runners of the world, he has gone alongside them. He is up there with the greats Haile Gebrselassie, Kenenisa Bekele, Emil Zatopek and Lasse Viren.
"Nobody has worked out how to beat him and he's got the Rio Olympics next year and then maybe the Worlds again in London in 2017.
"This guy is still adding to his record books. He is getting better as he gets older."
No details have emerged on what sports the bets were placed.
Athletes and officials placing bets at the Olympic Games is not illegal, but is against the rules of the International Olympics Council (IOC).
Belfast boxers Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan have told the BBC that they are not the boxers involved.
The OCI said the two boxers at the centre of the investigation have been spoken to about "inappropriate betting activity".
"The matter is still under review so there will be no further comment at this stage," it said in a statement.
The Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) said it had not received any notification from the OCI regarding the allegations of inappropriate betting activity but understands that the matter is being reviewed.
In a statement, it said any form of gambling was prohibited for athletes taking part in the Olympics and that it would be "very disappointed" if members of the team had broken the rules.
The incident is the latest in a series of controversies to hit the Irish Olympic team.
Boxer Michael O'Reilly was prevented from competing after failing a drugs test before the games. He said he unintentionally took a supplement that may have contained a banned substance.
Former OCI president Pat Hickey is being held in a Rio prison after being arrested in connection with the alleged illegal sale of Olympic tickets. He denies any wrongdoing.
Jack Crocker, 41, of Chacewater, Cornwall, and Robbie Long, 21, of Redruth, were given suspended sentences after admitting causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Crocker encouraged his saluki dog to attack and kill the fox on his farm in June, Bodmin Magistrates' Court heard.
The RSPCA became aware after films of the incident were posted by Long.
The court heard how the young fox got into a barn where chickens and a pet rabbit were kept.
A video filmed by Long, of Lower Tolgullow Vean Farm, showed the dog, called Lady, being taken into the barn by Crocker, where it found the fox and gripped it around the neck.
The fox then appeared to escape and jumped into a neighbouring barn.
A second video showed Crocker, of High View Farm, taking the dog into the second barn and pushing it towards the fox, prompting it to carry out a two-minute attack, during which the fox died.
Judge Diana Baker said: "The fox went on to the land voluntarily. He [Crocker] had the right to protect his animals and to dispatch the fox, but he had to do so humanely.
"The DVD clearly shows him encouraging the dog to attack the fox. Most concerning there were howls of laughter during the two minutes.
"This action is deliberate and cruel."
The men have not been disqualified from keeping animals but two dogs have been removed from the farm.
Crocker had previously pleaded guilty to shooting a wild rabbit with a bow. This also only came to light when the RSPCA became aware of a photo on Facebook.
Both were given six-week jail sentences for causing unnecessary suffering to the fox, and Crocker received an additional two weeks for the bow offence.
The sentences are suspended for 12 months.
RSPCA chief inspector Ian Briggs said: "We hope this case being brought before the court will encourage others to report any concerns they have about animal welfare to the police or RSPCA."
Ipswich Borough Council says it plans to buy part of the former Co-op department store on Carr Street, with the help of Suffolk County Council.
The free school could be run by the Active Learning Trust (ALT), which operates four schools in the town.
Borough council leader David Ellesmere said he was glad "a very complex project" could happen, after previous setbacks.
A proposal for a new free school on the site was rejected by the government in April.
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A spokesman for the borough council said the cost of the land was "commercially sensitive" so would not be revealed at this time. The proposed purchase of the site will be discussed by the borough council's executive committee on 19 June.
The Labour-led borough council has agreed to buy part of the store from the East of England Co-op, but will hand most of this land over to the government's Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).
It will retain a small part of the site for use as a car park, with revenue from that used to cover the purchase cost of the store.
The Co-op would retain the remainder of the site to the west of Cox Lane.
The choice of free school provider is the responsibility of the ESFA. The borough council says it is anticipated it will be run by the Active Learning Trust (ALT), which already operates Chantry Academy and Gusford, Sidegate and Hillside primary schools in the town.
Colin Noble, leader of Conservative-run Suffolk County Council, said the move demonstrated the authority's "commitment to addressing the educational needs in our county town".
Among the injured is the USS Fitzgerald's commanding officer, who was taken to hospital by helicopter.
The destroyer collided with the container ship about 56 nautical miles (104km) south-west of Yokosuka.
Aerial images showed heavy damage to the Navy ship's starboard side after the collision at about 02:30 local time on Saturday (17:30 GMT Friday).
The collision occurred near Yokosuka, a Japanese port city that is home to the US 7th Fleet, which comprises up to 80 submarines and ships and including the USS Fitzgerald.
It is unclear where the 154-metre (505ft) guided missile destroyer ship was heading at the time.
The ACX Crystal, a 222-metre (730ft) Filipino-flagged container ship, was travelling between the Japanese cities of Nagoya and Tokyo.
Marine traffic records suggest the ACX Crystal made a sudden U-turn roughly 25 minutes before the collision with the USS Fitzgerald. It is not clear why it changed course.
Marine traffic records suggest it was travelling at 14.6 knots (27km/h) at the time of the collision.
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Marine traffic records for the USS Fitzgerald are not publicly available.
Japan's coastguard is co-ordinating the search with US teams for the seven missing crew members. As of late afternoon local time, the 7th Fleet said the crew members were still unaccounted for.
The Navy ship's commanding officer, Cdr Bryce Benson, was in a stable condition after being transferred to US Naval Hospital Yokosuka, according to Navy officials.
Two other sailors were flown to hospital by helicopter for treatments for "lacerations and bruises", the 7th Fleet said on Twitter.
By mid-afternoon local time, it said that all flooding on board the USS Fitzgerald was under control. It is not at risk of sinking.
The ship has now returned to Yokosuka - under its own power, but with limited propulsion.
The Japanese coastguard said the ACX Crystal weighed just under 30,000 tonnes, about three times that of the USS Fitzgerald.
It sustained lighter damage to its port bow, and has now reached Tokyo.
The Associated Press agency said there were no injuries reported among the 20 Filipino crew members on board the 222-metre (730ft) vessel.
Relatives of those on board the USS Fitzgerald have been posting on the US 7th Fleet's Facebook page, requesting information on their loved-ones. An information hotline has been set up.
The collision took place in waters that get heavy traffic and that have experienced prior collisions, Japanese broadcaster NHK said. Ships travelling to and from Tokyo, as well as crossing the Pacific in both directions, pass through the bay where the crash happened.
NHK said that an association of commercial ship captains is calling for the creation of east-west lanes in the area to avoid collisions.
In a statement released on social media, US Navy operations chief Adm John Richardson said: "As more information is learnt we will be sure to share it with the Fitzgerald families and when appropriate the public. [...]
All our thoughts and concerns are with the Fitzgerald crew and their families."
The area where the collision took place is extremely busy, with shipping heading in and out of Tokyo bay.
However, the USS Fitzgerald is one of the most advanced warships in the world - with highly sophisticated radars systems.
At the moment the focus is on the search for the missing sailors. Later will come the investigation into how one of the world's most sophisticated warships failed to avoid colliding with a 30,000-tonne cargo ship on a calm, clear night.
Police were called to Overdale Road, Old Basford on 11 April, to reports of shots. A 22-year-old man was found with minor injuries.
The 24-year-old appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with affray and possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
He was remanded in custody and is due to appear before Nottingham Crown Court next month.
Two women, aged 33 and 30, and a 32-year-old man have been bailed pending further inquiries.
The trial was told Mohammed Zaman had cut corners by swapping the thickening agent almond powder for the cheaper groundnut powder, which contained peanuts.
Although the vast majority of restaurants are safe, a number each year are found to have breached laws and guidelines. BBC News looks at some things to be careful of when ordering food.
Since December 2014, takeaways and restaurants have been required by law to let customers know if any of the 14 most dangerous allergens are ingredients in their food.
They include peanuts, eggs, milk, fish, crustaceans and mustard.
Paul Wilson, who suffered an anaphylactic shock after eating a meal from Zaman's business, died before the change in the law, but the trial heard he had flagged up his peanut allergy to the restaurant and his meal had been labelled as "nut free".
David Pickering, of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), said: "Some [restaurants] will have it in a book, some will give you the information verbally. If they can't give you it, don't eat there."
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) says people are often still not given this information.
In a recent FSA and Allergy UK survey of more than 1,000 people, one in four said they or a family member had suffered an allergic reaction while eating out.
Chun-Han Chan, FSA allergy expert, said the food safety watchdog had translated allergy advice information into several different languages to provide the best possible guidance.
She said: "We want to stop unnecessary deaths and hospitalisations by helping food businesses provide accurate allergy information."
In 2014, the consumer organisation Which? sampled 60 takeaway lamb curries and lamb kebabs in London and Birmingham and found 40% contained other types of meat, with some containing no lamb at all.
The FSA then conducted a wider study, published in February 2015, with 84 of 307 samples containing non-declared meat.
Of these, one-fifth had used beef instead of lamb. Others contained a presence of beef, chicken, pork or turkey. The law requires food to be accurately described with fines of up to £5,000 enforceable.
The FSA described this as "one of the simplest forms of food fraud", with spicy sauces often used to "mask differences in taste".
The CTSI said the move was usually driven by the price of meat.
Mr Pickering said: "Sometimes the takeaway isn't aware of the meat they are actually getting from their supplier.
"People want to know what they're eating, mostly due to their personal preference, but more importantly for religious reasons, as pork or beef are often used as substitutes."
It is not just meat which can be substituted. Other ingredients such as oils, milk, honey and spices are commonly mislabelled to cut costs, according to research published in the Journal of Food Science.
Often, the restaurant or takeaway is helpless to spot this if it has been mislabelled by the supplier.
Saffron, a key ingredient in several cuisines, including Indian, Spanish, Turkish and Persian, is labour intensive and famously expensive.
Spanish saffron, which is known for its high quality, is sometimes actually saffron imported from other countries before being relabelled.
Mr Pickering said: "We're hoping the FSA will be more active in using international intelligence to spot where and when then these substitutes may appear."
The FSA said it monitored "shortages of raw materials and spikes in consumer demand" through its Emerging Risks programme.
Many of the nation's favourite takeaway dishes often contain artificial colour to make them look as appealing as possible.
It is a criminal offence to sell dishes containing excess artificial colour, with food vendors facing fines of up to £5,000.
The FSA has long called for the phasing out of artificial colourings, including sunset yellow (E110), allura red (E129), carmoisine (E122), tartrazine (E102), quinoline yellow (E104) and ponceau 4R (E124) because of their reported link to hyperactivity in some children.
An EU-wide mandatory warning has to be placed on the labels of pre-packed foods that contain any of these colourings, but there is no requirement for it to be stated on takeaway or restaurant menus.
These colourings produce yellow, orange and red shades, but restaurants and takeaways also use natural spices such as turmeric and paprika to provide colour.
In 2015, Walsall Council trading standards found seven out of eight chicken tikka or chicken tikka masala dishes tested contained sunset yellow (E110) or ponceau 4R (E124).
Mr Pickering said eateries often fail to "look at the label", so are not aware of maximum limits.
Green hygiene stickers are frequently seen on the front of restaurant or takeaway businesses in the UK, but it is only in Wales where they have to be displayed by law.
All eateries are subject to unannounced inspections by local environmental health officers, with a rating of 0 to 5 awarded.
The FSA provides ratings for takeaways and restaurants throughout the UK on its website. Poor food hygiene or quality can be reported to the relevant local authority.
Mr Pickering said: "We need information from people - we may not investigate each complaint, but it will help to give us a general picture if certain places crop up again and again."
Earlier in May, the BBC's 5 Live Investigates programme found almost 47,000 fewer inspections were carried out in the UK in 2014 than in 2003, due to factors including reduced council budgets.
An anonymous inspector said there were "fewer officers trying to do more inspections", with the FSA describing the situation as one of "growing concern".
As many order takeaways over the phone or online, measures are being introduced to make sure the customer is always aware of hygiene ratings.
From November, takeaway leaflets and menus in Wales will have to point customers to the food hygiene ratings website and remind people they have a legal right to ask for the rating when they order.
It is expected the FSA will shortly be presenting research to the government to build the case for the mandatory display of ratings in England. | Before there was Brexit - before there was a European Common Market or a Treaty of Rome - there was the sherry trade.
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The charity said Hull was the most deprived local authority in Yorkshire and among the most deprived in the country.
It said £4.9m funding would be used to step up how quickly patients are seen.
The project aims to speed up referrals, and improve treatment for people from socially-deprived communities.
The charity said that said in the period 2012-14, the number of people diagnosed with cancer per 100,000 people, was 689 in Hull, compared with 627 for Yorkshire and 615 for England.
Mortality rates for the same period, showed that per 100,000 people the figures were 353 for Hull, 299 for Yorkshire and 282 for England.
Nikki Johnson, from the charity, said: "Early diagnosis is key. Lots of people in Hull are diagnosed late on, at Stage Four cancer.
"Lung cancer in particular is a huge problem, Hull has one of the highest smoking rates in the country - the incidence rate is 131 per 100,000 people, while across England as a whole it's just 78."
The charity is working with the University of Hull, the Hull York Medical School and Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust on the programme.
Interim chief executive Dr Kathryn Scott, said: "Areas with high levels of deprivation often have poor cancer outcomes."
"Smoking and drinking alcohol, poor knowledge and awareness of symptoms, and barriers in access to healthcare", were contributing factors, she explained.
Mike Lind, professor of oncology, said it was important to try to tackle the lung cancer problem, especially.
"I believe research is the best way to understand why people don't come forward, and why treatments don't work," he said.
Former cancer patient, Harry Good, from Long Riston, near Hull, said any scheme which encouraged people to take action was a good thing.
The 73-year-old sought medical help for what he thought was a chest infection, but was diagnosed with lung cancer after having an X-ray.
Mr Good is now cancer-free and said he was one of the "lucky ones".
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In the majority of cases, candidates who have fared well in Super Tuesdays have traditionally gone on to contest the presidential election for their party.
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PCBs were once used in electrical gear, paints and flame retardants, but were banned from the 1970s because of their toxic effect in humans and animals.
However the manmade chemicals have persisted in the environment, and are accumulating in top predators.
The study finds Europe's cetaceans have levels of PCBs that are among the highest found in on the oceans.
Lead author Dr Paul Jepson, a wildlife veterinarian from the Zoological Society of London, said: "For striped dolphins, bottlenose dolphins and killer whales, we have mean PCB levels that are excessive - they are really high - probably the highest in the world right now, by some way.
"Europe is a big big hotspot."
The contamination is so high that some populations of killer whales are facing extinction, he added.
The research is published in the journal Scientific Reports.
PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls, were manufactured from the 1920s, but were banned in the US in 1979, in the UK in 1981 and in the rest of the EU in 1987.
They were found to have a wide-ranging impact on human and animal health, from links to cancer, to suppressing the immune system and causing reproductive problems.
However, these chemicals are extremely durable and despite the ban they are still found in the environment.
"Europe produced about 300,000 tonnes of PCBs from 1954 to 1984. That was about 15% of the world's total," said Dr Jepson.
"A lot of this PCB, we don't know how much, has not been disposed of and is slowly leaking into rivers and estuaries, from landfills, and eventually into the marine environment."
The chemicals then gradually work their way up the food chain and into the top marine predators, where they accumulate in the cetacean's blubber.
The researchers analysed samples taken from more than 1,000 killer whales and dolphins in Europe's waters.
"Our findings show that, despite the ban and initial decline in environmental contamination, PCBs still persist at dangerously high levels in European cetaceans," explained Dr Jepson.
The levels are higher than those found in cetaceans in the waters around America, and also in those in the Arctic, where much of the PCB pollution is thought to end up.
Europe may have such high levels because it banned PCBs later than some other parts of the world.
Europe's PCB hotspots included the western Mediterranean Sea and south-western Iberian Peninsula.
Dr Jepson said the contamination seemed to be having a marked effect on breeding success and was particularly problematic for newborn calves.
"Because these are mammals, they have a very high-fat milk - so when an adult female is pregnant, and then she has her calf, then she can offload up to 90% of her body burden of PCBs through the milk, through a long lactation," he explained.
"So at a time when the new calf is very vulnerable... this is the time when the PCBs from her blubber can be mobilised and go from the milk to the calf."
He said this appeared to be causing significant problems for striped dolphins and bottlenose dolphins. But Europe's coastal killer whales appeared to be among the hardest hit.
"There are only eight killer whales left around the west of Scotland and Ireland," said Dr Jepson.
"This is a population studied for many years, and there has not been a calf in all the years that this group has been studied, so that population will go extinct."
He added that two pods of 36 killer whales in southern Europe had only have five calves that survived between 1999 and 2011.
"This population is clearly at risk of extinction, and then that is it."
The researchers say more needs to be done to remove or seal off PCB-laden waste on land.
Co-author Prof Robin Law, also from ZSL, said: "Our research underlines the critical need for global policymakers to act quickly and decisively to tackle the lingering toxic legacy of PCBs, before it's too late for some of our most iconic and important marine predators."
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David Lancaster, 60, struck wife Helen, 54, six times with the weapon and smothered her with a pillow at their home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The father of one took the sledgehammer from the garden shed before creeping upstairs, Bristol Crown Court was told.
Lancaster must serve at least 11 years and nine months in prison before he can be considered for parole.
Judge Neil Ford said a house owned by the couple in Lincoln - which was in Mrs Lancaster's name but had been bought by Lancaster with money he had inherited - was a source of "further annoyance and upset" for the defendant, who killed his teacher wife on 30 September.
The judge told him: "Your relationship had been in difficulty for some time.
"You suspected she had been having an affair with another man. On 20 August your suspicions were confirmed and you confronted Helen".
He added: "I have no doubt that you began to contemplate the benefit of killing your wife.
"Helen had revealed to friends that you had accused her of stealing your inheritance."
The judge told Lancaster: "You said you had been driven to commit murder by the way your wife had treated you and your daughter.
"You also said what you had done was less serious than what your wife had done to you and Amy.
"You have effectively deprived your daughter Amy of both her parents."
After the attack Lancaster fled the house, driving to a beach at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, where he was later arrested.
He rang the police and confessed to murdering his wife and told them where to find her body.
Lancaster pleaded guilty to murder at a previous hearing.
The French sculptor's Eternal Springtime was created from a single block of marble around 1901, according to art experts.
The sculpture's buyer has not been disclosed by Sotheby's New York.
The previous highest price paid for a Rodin was $16.6m (£11.5m) in February and that work was in bronze.
The bronze, called Iris, Messenger of the God, is considered Rodin's most audacious and sexually explicit work.
Several versions were cast and one of the others was once owned by the late British artist Lucian Freud. Stallone's was particularly prized as it was cast in Rodin's lifetime.
Eternal Springtime features a floral motif base of two lovers in a passionate embrace.
It is believed to be the fifth in a series of 10 known carvings of the same subject created in marble by Rodin.
It was modelled during Rodin's most active period and was intended as part of Rodin's most famous collection of sculptures, The Gates of Hell. In the end, it was not included - in the same way that Rodin's most famous individual work The Kiss was not.
It is thought that Eternal Springtime's subject - the happiness of two young lovers - was ultimately assessed as being too jovial for the tragedy played out in The Gates of Hell.
Eternal Springtime was very successful and was translated several times into bronze and marble.
Other highlights of the Sotheby's sale included an important pointillist painting by Paul Signac.
The Port Houses, Saint-Trope sold for $10.7m (£7m). The painting depicts the French Riviera town of Saint-Tropez in 1882.
The painting had been in the same family for nearly 60 years.
The auction record for a Signac work is $14m, paid in 2007.
An early portrait of Claude Monet's wife Camille was also in Monday's auction and sold for $49.4m (£34m).
The most paid to date for a work by the French impressionist is $80.4m (£56m), set in June 2008 at Christie's in London for Le Bassin aux Nympheas,
John Yuill, 28, and Lamara Bell, 25, were found in a blue Renault Clio just off the M9 near Stirling on Wednesday.
The force later admitted they had been told about the crash on Sunday morning.
Ms Bell's family has told BBC Scotland they were angry and disgusted by the police's handling of the case.
They said Ms Bell was in a medically induced coma in hospital after suffering broken bones and kidney damage which was caused by dehydration.
Doctors at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow have described her condition as "critical".
Mr Yuill's father, Gordon Yuill, has told the Daily Record newspaper that his son's injuries were so severe that he would have died on impact after the Clio left the motorway and plunged down a tree-lined embankment.
But Andrew Bell, the father of Lamara, told STV News his daughter was conscious when found and had been speaking to firefighters.
He added: "She thought she had been there for 30 minutes."
Mr Bell also revealed that on Sunday morning he had unknowingly driven by the spot where his daughter was later found.
He added: "I went past the crash, not even 100 yards away from her. If anything happens I've got to tell myself that."
Mr Yuill and Ms Bell both had children of their own.
Scottish Justice Secretary Michael Matheson, who was speaking as the MSP for Falkirk West, said he wanted "early answers" about the tragedy, and that Police Scotland had assured him all relevant information would be passed on to investigators.
He told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme: "My understanding is that it appears that this car has come off the road at some point on Sunday and that a call was made to Police Scotland.
"And the call handler for some reason noted that information, but a crew was not dispatched to investigate the issue.
Mr Matheson added: "It's understandable that the families have many questions they want answers to. I want answers too on their behalf. Why was a crew not dispatched at the time when the initial call was received? Even then, why was there a gap of several days before police then investigated?
"I'm keen to ensure that this investigation is taken forward in a quick and very swift way."
Police could be seen on Thursday afternoon searching the area where the couple's car had eventually been found.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) is looking into the case, but there have been calls for a wider inquiry, with several politicians saying Police Scotland had serious questions to answer.
There had been an ongoing search for the couple in the area earlier this week, with police circulating photographs of the couple and their car after their families reported them missing on Sunday.
They had last been seen leaving Loch Earn in Stirlingshire in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A Pirc spokesman said the investigation into why the telephone call made to Police Scotland later that day, which reported their car was off the road, was not followed up.
He added: "The commissioner's investigation will also examine the robustness of Police Scotland's missing person inquiry and look at why that inquiry was not linked with the information received in the call."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the government should review whether a "wider independent investigation" should be held, saying the couple had been "failed" by police.
He said: "Everyone agrees that a three day delay between the initial call to the control room and finding the couple is unacceptable and we need to establish why this happened.
"I know police officers have been deeply affected by this case. There is great upset within the force, and it is of such importance that serious questions must be answered.
"It is right that the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner is investigating the matter but that may not be enough - a wider independent investigation may be required."
Scottish Labour MSP Elaine Murray said: "Local Police control rooms across Scotland have been closed and the effectiveness of the 101 service has been called into question. It is essential that the Pirc inquiry investigates whether the new call centre arrangements led to the report of this tragic accident not being followed up."
Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser also said the "truly shocking incident" must be investigated in depth.
He added: "People lying unattended at the side of the road for days is something you'd be surprised to encounter in the third world."
The Iron Age coins, about the size of a thick modern penny, were minted by the Iceni tribe whose territories covered much of East Anglia.
Museum finds officer Adrian Marsden said the coins probably belonged to "a member of tribal hierarchy".
The Norwich Castle Museum hopes to acquire them for its collection.
"This number of coins is unusual," Mr Marsden said. "We did have a hoard of 82 from north-west Norfolk in the 1980s but 44 is certainly sizeable and more may turn up.
"Although these aren't the bright yellow gold of earlier Norfolk wolf staters (coins) they would have represented a fair amount of wealth... the person who buried these would have been someone of account.
"These coins get debased over time, so you get bright yellow buttery gold ones, then years later ones that are more coppery with a bit of silver," he added.
The Norfolk wolf coins were among a number of treasure items found by metal-detecting enthusiasts, featured at the Norfolk Coroner's Court.
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I hear to-day how old rich Audley is lately dead, and left a very great estate, and made a great many poor familys rich, not all to one.
The coroner also ruled on a gold mourning ring created to mark the passing of prominent money lender and Buckenham landowner Hugh Audley.
Measuring 23mm across the external diameter it features a stylised skull and black enamel, and was found in Carleton Rode.
"This one is interesting as we know who the chap is as he's mentioned in Samuel Pepys' diaries," said Mr Marsden.
"His name is inscribed on the inside of the band and we believe Audley's will gave instruction for the making of a few of these rings.
"We know that Audley was a very wealthy man so he could afford to have had quite a few of these dished out, probably a dozen or two."
"They were a way of marking your mourning and showing people you were bereaved."
Other items at the inquest included a hawking vervel from a "royal" hunt, a hoard of silver pennies from Edmund of East Anglia's reign and two sliver strap-ends, used for fastening clothes.
He was speaking in Belfast as his party launched an election billboard entitled: "A People's Pact".
The election advertisement which states that the party wants "equality not austerity" was unveiled at Belfast Castle.
Senior party figures and election candidates were present.
"Any parties which contemplate endorsing or supporting a cabinet of millionaires who are behind budget cuts, cuts to public services and cuts to social protections are ignoring the needs of the people in favour of narrow self interest," Mr Adams said.
The Louth TD said if local parties did a post-election deal to support larger parties at Westminster, they were effectively "signing up to austerity".
Even in the event of a hung parliament, he said that his party would not reverse its long-held policy of abstentionism.
Questioned over whether his party might be tempted to take their seats if it came to down to three or four seats, he said Sinn Féin would not reverse their position.
"All of this is a distraction," he said.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Adams said: "We are active abstentionists."
He stressed that there were no moves to discuss the party policy of boycotting the House of Commons chamber.
"The party is very settled on this issue," he said.
The party's billboard calls for voters to back candidates who embrace reconciliation, equality and progressive politics.
"We want to see a society based on equality, inclusion and safeguards for children with disabilities, adults with severe disabilities and the long-term sick," Mr Adams said.
"We are committed to defending the core public services of health, education and the welfare system."
He said that previous Conservative and Labour British governments had imposed cuts and he told the BBC that whoever won the general election would be "committed to more austerity".
Asked if he would choose between a Conservative government or a Labour administration, he rejected both options saying that in "the last 100 years very little good has come out of Westminster".
Lily Owsley gave GB the lead from close range but Kitty van Male equalised just before the break.
Helen Richardson-Walsh got the winner when she scored her 39th international goal after Giselle Ansley had a shot parried.
The teams will play the second Test on Thursday.
"It was a slightly disjointed but winning performance," said GB head coach Danny Kerry. "We can be better with the ball but we were defensively solid which won us the game.
"We're looking forward to 48 hours time when I feel we will have made some good adjustments to our game."
The announcement sent ructions through the retail sector, with Tesco shares sinking 5% and Sainsbury's down 4%.
Marks and Spencer, which also has a sizable food business, fell 2%.
Neil Wilson at ETX Capital said the deal was "yet another signal of the seismic shift in the market caused by the Amazon model".
Shares in Morrisons, the UK's fourth-largest supermarket chain which has its own tie-up with Amazon, fell sharply at first before recovering to close 1% higher.
"Whole Foods has just nine stores in the UK so the impact on Morrisons... should not be too significant, and if anything could support Morrisons if it signals how Amazon might be able to help it grow market share," Mr Wilson said.
The FTSE 100 share index closed up 44.18 points at 7,463.54.
Away from the retail sector, shares in Rolls-Royce rose 1.4% after the engineering group said it had made a good start to 2017, with "all businesses performing in line with expectations".
The company also revealed that the weakness of the pound was set to lift revenues by £400m and profits by £50m. The drop in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote means that Rolls-Royce's dollar earnings are worth more when converted back into sterling.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.2% against the dollar to $1.2787, but slipped 0.16% against the euro to 1.1424 euros.
James Craig, from Dunragit near Stranraer, is accused of tweeting false news designed to make share prices fall, so he could buy and resell shares for profit.
Fraudulent tweets were allegedly made about two firms by Mr Craig in 2013.
Prosecutors claim shareholders lost more than £1m as a result of his alleged tweets.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it had filed securities fraud charges against Mr Craig in a federal court in California.
The tweets were about two companies, Audience and Sarepta Therapuetics.
Several tweets, suggesting Audience was under federal investigation, were said to cause the share price of the mobile audio company to fall 28% before the Nasdaq temporarily halted trading.
Further alleged tweets that claimed Sarepta Therapuetics was also subject to an investigation sent stock in the drug firm tumbling by 16%.
Prosecutors claimed shareholders had lost more than $1.6m (£1.05m).
Jina Choi, director of the SEC's San Francisco regional office, said the fraudulent tweets "disrupted the markets for two public companies and caused significant financial losses for their investors."
Formerly known as Caithness Heat and Power (Chap), the district heating scheme was run by a community-run enterprise to help tackle fuel poverty.
Highland Council later took over the running of it and spent £11.5m trying to make it work before scrapping it in 2009.
Now run by a private firm, the scheme provides heat to about 200 homes.
NHS Highland said the hospital would be supplied with "low-cost renewable energy" by the heating plant's operator Ignis.
Eric Green, the health board's head of estates, added: "Connection of Caithness General Hospital to the district heating produces the best combination of security of supply, cost and environmental benefit.
"Not only does the proposal from Ignis have the added advantage of being more efficient, and will therefore save us money, but it is also much more environmentally friendly and will reduce our carbon emissions."
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing welcomed the move.
He said: "When I visited the biomass energy centre in Wick, I was delighted to hear that almost 200 houses were seeing a significant reduction in their fuel bills after switching to the heat network."
Craig Ibbetson, of Ignis added: "We are delighted that NHS Highland has approved our proposal to connect Caithness General Hospital to the district heating scheme.
"We are looking forward to working with them, and believe that this is a good development for the NHS and Ignis, and the wider community in Wick."
Last year, Highland Council was criticised for its handling of Chap.
In a report for the Accounts Commission, Audit Scotland said a "lack of good governance" when Chap was affected by technological and financial problems led to an "expensive lesson" for the local authority.
Sciver, 22, shared a 122-run fifth-wicket partnership with Lydia Greenway (53) as England chased down 239 in the one-day international at Taunton.
An impressive 78 off 96 balls from Ellyse Perry helped the visitors to 238-9 after Katherine Brunt took 3-48.
England fell to 80-4 in response, before Sciver's highest ODI score handed the hosts victory.
Victory earned England two points, with a further 14 available from the remaining six games in the multi-format series.
The second of three ODIs takes place at Bristol on Thursday, after which the teams play one Test - worth four points to the winner - and three Twenty20 internationals.
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Australia replaced Nicole Bolton with Jess Cameron after the opener was ruled out with concussion having been hit on the back of the head by Rene Farrell in the nets on Monday.
The visitors chose to bat first after winning the toss but England's three-pronged seam attack soon made inroads despite a batting-friendly pitch.
Brunt bowled consecutive wicket maidens to dismiss both of Australia's openers as Elyse Velani (18) chipped the ball off her legs straight to Edwards at square-leg before Jess Jonassen bottom-edged the ball into her stumps in the right-arm bowler's next over.
It took just four balls for Kate Cross to claim her first home Ashes wicket as she trapped Meg Lanning lbw to reduce the Southern Stars to 35-3.
However, a 121-run fourth-wicket partnership between Perry and Alex Blackwell helped rebuild their innings with both players earning reprieves through dropped chances.
Heather Knight's excellent run-out of Blackwell for 58 was the first of four in the match as superb fielding from England slowed Australia's push towards a score of 250.
Perry, who passed 1,000 ODI runs when she reached 27 in this innings, finally holed out to Sciver - who took a brilliant catch above her head - for 78 before Alyssa Healy hit a quick 29.
The Australia all-rounder ensure England's response got off to a poor start as she bowled Edwards via a bottom edge for 15.
Knight and Amy Jones fell cheaply, while Sarah Taylor made an entertaining 30 before Osborne (3-35) had her caught behind.
With the pressure on, Sciver and Greenway's relatively chanceless century partnership tested Lanning's captaincy as the 23-year-old regularly rotated her seamers and spinners - to no avail.
After both players fell having passed their half-centuries it was left to Georgia Elwiss (25 not out) to take England home.
"Mad" or "Black Friday" is one of the busiest nights of the year as it marks the start of the festive season for many who are finishing work.
A triage unit will be set up in Cardiff city centre, Swansea has a help point and Wrexham's welfare centre will open.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said it took 800 calls last year.
On a typical Friday night it receives about 630 calls.
"Parties and get-togethers are a big feature of this time of year which in turn puts pressure on ambulance crews and clinical contact centre staff," said Gordon Roberts, the trust's interim assistant director of operations.
"It's easy to forget how much alcohol you have consumed when you're enjoying yourself, but while we are dealing with alcohol-related incidents, we could be delayed in treating someone whose situation really is life or death.
"We are not killjoys but we are asking the public to drink responsibly and enjoy themselves safely."
Wales' four police forces have been carrying out a campaigns throughout the festive period.
South Wales Police said officers would have a "visible presence" in Swansea.
Supt Jane Banham of North Wales Police said: "We know from experience that at this time of year some people will come to harm due to alcohol excess and it is the emergency services and local councils who are left picking up the pieces.
"We make a significant contribution to keeping our town centres safe so people can enjoy a good night out.
"But we must get the message across that people need to take greater responsibility for themselves and their friends to reduce the likelihood of them being injured, becoming a victim of crime, or being involved in violence through excessive drinking."
O'Brien, 21, was airlifted to hospital after being injured when her mount Druid's Cross slipped and fell fatally during a race at Killarney.
The jockey, a daughter of star trainer Aidan O'Brien, also fractured cheek bones in the fall.
Druid's Cross was trained by the jockey's brother Joseph.
The injured jockey has a fractured C1 vertebra in her neck and T6 in her back, as well as fractured cheek bones bilaterally, but Dr Adrian McGoldrick, chief medical officer for the Irish Turf Club, was able to issue more positive news on Wednesday.
"She has had her MRI scans and Professor Paul Redmond, the head of department at Cork University Hospital, has looked at them and confirmed that she does not need surgery," said McGoldrick.
"They will continue to review her facial injuries."
McGoldrick added he expected O'Brien to be out for three to four months.
O'Brien secured her first race win in 2013 at 16 and rode for her father in this year's English Derby and Irish Derby.
The City of Edinboro was one of the last sailing trawlers, called smacks, to be built in Hull.
It was sold for £1 to a charitable trust based in Lowestoft where it currently sits under a giant plastic tent awaiting restoration.
The Excelsior Trust is seeking lottery funding to restore the ship and return it to Hull.
It was unable to say how much the planned restoration would cost, but the trust said the price of the oak timber was estimated at £500,000.
The 84ft (26m) long vessel was built in 1884. It fished in the North Sea and the North Atlantic and continued sailing until the mid-1990s.
Trust chairman Geoffrey Copeman said the vessel would require almost a complete rebuild.
"It would be a lasting token for the maritime heritage of Hull," he said.
"It's so worthwhile. She is in the wrong place here. She mustn't be allowed to lie here any longer. She really must be picked up and used."
Cybersecurity company Cyberint said it had discovered posts on a variety of dark web forums whose members had described the lender as being a "cash milking cow" and "easy to cash out".
It is not clear, however, whether there is any link between these claims and the money stolen just over a week ago.
The bank has repeatedly declined to give details of the crime.
It says it is unable to do so while a criminal investigation is being carried out.
Elsewhere, the Sunday Times suggested that the raid had involved the use of contactless payments triggered by smartphones.
And a second cybersecurity company said it had warned Tesco of problems with several of its mobile apps four months ago, but had been ignored.
The Financial Times was first to report that Cyberint had carried out its own probe of hidden web pages following the thefts over the weekend of 5-6 November.
The Israeli company said it had found discussions about a tool that "brute forced" access to Tesco's accounts by testing thousands of login and password combinations until one was found to work.
It said the bank had repeatedly taken steps to prevent such attacks, but the hackers had apparently bypassed the measures.
"It was a cat and mouse game, but we saw indicators starting from September - so two months before the actual attack - of quite a few threat actors saying, 'We've been successfully getting into accounts and cashing out through various means.'" Elad Ben-Meir, Cyberint's vice-president of marketing, told the BBC.
"This was on the AlphaBay forum, Hacking Forum and some lesser known places - and there was plenty of proof.
"One of the guys said, 'I used to cash out £1,000 every week without anyone ever noticing.'"
Mr Ben-Meir said his company had attempted to pitch for business with Tesco Bank earlier in the year, but the talks "didn't proceed anywhere".
Mobile app specialist Codified Security said it had not received any response when it had contacted the supermarket Tesco and its subsidiary Tesco Bank four months ago by email.
"We were doing research into mobile apps across the UK market and found some problems with various apps that they have and reached out to try and warn them," the London-based company's chief executive, Martin Alderson, told the BBC.
Mr Alderson is not making public what the flaws involved, but said Tesco Bank was not the only lender his company had contacted.
"The top tier banks are really good with their mobile security - so, NatWest, Barclays et cetera are fantastic," he said.
"But the second-tier banks and some of the financial tech companies can struggle with this.
"They are pressured to bring out a coherent mobile strategy because their customers are demanding it.
"But often I'm not sure they have the understanding of all the technical aspects to make them secure."
Mr Alderson said roughly half of the companies Codified Security wrote to never responded, so Tesco's handling of the matter was not unusual.
The bank has not officially commented on this, but a source at the company told the BBC: "Tesco Bank regularly receives promotional information from consultancies, but in all areas we have first-class colleagues working hard to serve our customers."
The Sunday Times says the attack was carried out by thieves using mobile phones that used stolen Tesco Bank data to set up contactless payment accounts.
It says fraudulent purchases of thousands of low-priced goods were made at Best Buy electronics stores in the US as well as other American and Brazilian retailers.
The paper does not credit a source for this information.
However, it might tie in to an alert from Europol two months ago that criminals had begun using Android phones to trigger fraudulent tap-and-go payments.
"The possibility of compromising NFC [near field communication] transactions was explored by academia years ago, and it appears that fraudsters have finally made progress in the area," the organisation's Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment said.
"Several vendors in the dark net offer software that uploads compromised card data on to Android phones in order to make payments at any stores accepting NFC payments."
A spokesman for Tesco Bank said that "none of our systems were breached" and no personal data had been lost, but would not comment further.
The nominations processes, criteria and voting details (where applicable) for each award are outlined below.
This award goes to the sportsperson whose actions have most captured the UK public's imagination during 2016.
An expert panel (hereafter 'the Panel') will be convened in November 2016 to decide the shortlist of sportspeople for the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year production team will provide the Panel with an extensive list of the top sportspeople from 2016, including information on their achievements. The Panel will be free to consider other potential candidates.
The Panel will comprise 12 members this year:
The Panel will select a short list of sportspeople for the main award on the basis of the following criteria:
Sportspeople are eligible to win the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award if they are UK citizens or all of the following criteria apply:
Non-playing coaches or management are not eligible.
The Panel will endeavour to produce a shortlist based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached on all or some of the candidates, then the Panel will be asked to vote for the remaining candidates. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision (Director, BBC Sport) will be binding.
The shortlist of contenders will be announced during 'The One Show' on Monday, 28 November 2016 (BBC One, 19:00 GMT) and will also appear on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year website.
The Panel will also:
The Panel reserves the right to amend elements of the awards such as the criteria or numbers shortlisted, should a consensus view be reached - provided such changes remain within the spirit of the award.
The public will decide the winner from the shortlist of contenders during the live show with a vote. This will be overseen by an independent adjudicator.
In the unlikely event of:
1. Voting for the main award will be from a shortlist of 16 contenders presented during the live show on Sunday, 18 December 2016. Voting will be available by phone or via the BBC website. The number to call for each contender will be revealed during the programme. There is no voting via email, Red Button or by text. The telephone numbers will be available through Red Button and via the BBC website.
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This award goes to the overseas sportsperson whose actions have most captured the UK public's imagination during 2016.
The expert panel responsible for choosing the shortlist for the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award will decide the winner for the Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached, then the Panel will be asked to vote. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision will be binding.
The winner will be announced during the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme on Sunday, 18 December 2016.
This award goes to the coach who has made the biggest impact on sport in the UK during 2016.
For the purpose of this award, the term 'coach' includes roles such as managers, coaches, trainers and performance directors.
The expert panel responsible for choosing the shortlist for the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award will decide the winner for the Coach of the Year award based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached, then the Panel will be asked to vote. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision will be binding.
The winner will be announced during the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme on Sunday, 18 December 2016.
This award goes to the team in a sporting discipline, individual sport or sporting event that has achieved the most notable performance during 2016.
The team must have significant UK interest or involvement.
The expert panel responsible for choosing the shortlist for the main BBC Sports Personality of the Year award will decide the winner for the Team of the Year award based on reaching a consensus view. If a consensus view cannot be reached, then the Panel will be asked to vote. In the event of a tied vote, the chairperson's decision will be binding.
The winner will be announced during the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme on Sunday, 18 December 2016.
This award goes to the outstanding young sportsperson aged 17 or under on 1 January 2016, selected from nominations made to the BBC and by sports governing bodies via the Youth Sport Trust. Nominations closed on 11 November 2016.
Young sportspeople are eligible to win the award if they are citizens of the UK or all three of the following criteria apply:
Judging panel
The Young Sports Personality of the Year award will be determined by the following panel:
The panel meet to shortlist the contenders from the list of nominations collected by the Youth Sport Trust and the BBC. They will select the winner by secret ballot and the final vote will be independently verified.
The top three will be announced on Blue Peter and invited to the live event at the Genting Arena in Birmingham. The other shortlisted contenders will be notified out of courtesy that they have not made the final three.
The winner of the award will be presented with their award ahead of BBC Sport Personality of the Year taking place on Sunday, 18 December.
By way of explanation, the young judge selected by Blue Peter will be done so using the following criteria:
This is a special BBC award recognising outstanding achievement in the face of adversity. It is decided by senior management in BBC Sport.
The award will be presented on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme on Sunday, 18 December 2016.
This award honours someone who has made a major impact on the world of sport during their lifetime. It is decided by senior management in BBC Sport.
The award will be presented on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme on Sunday, 18 December 2016.
1. Any UK resident (including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) aged 18 or over on 1 January 2016 is eligible to be nominated, except previous winners of the BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Awards, BBC employees or any person connected to the Awards and their close relatives. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested.
2. The nominee must:
(i) either be an individual, or no more than two people, who are both involved in the same sporting activity
(ii) help amateurs participate in a sports activity
(iii) offer help that does not form part of their job or take place at their place of work
(iv) help voluntarily with no financial reward
(v) in the opinion of the person nominating be deserving of a BBC Award
(vi) not bring the BBC into disrepute (in the BBC's sole discretion)
(vii) have consented to be nominated
3. The nomination form can be found at bbc.co.uk/unsunghero and can be submitted via email to [email protected] or sent by post to:
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Nominations will be accepted from Wednesday, 24 August 2016 and must be received no later than 23.59 BST on Sunday, 23 October 2016.
4. Only one nomination is permitted per person and it should be on an official BBC form. Persons nominating should declare any professional or personal relationship with the person or people nominated.
5. The BBC will appoint a representative in each of its 12 English Regions plus Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who will each shortlist no more than 10 nominees for their regional voting panel. The shortlisting criteria will be:
6. Regional judging panels consisting of BBC staff and non-BBC members will meet to select a BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Award for their respective area from those shortlisted and based on the criteria above. The 15 regional winners become eligible for the overall BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero 2016 Award.
7. Persons nominated may be asked to disclose details of any, and all, criminal and civil actions pending against them, or served against them plus any unspent convictions. Persons nominated asked for this information must keep the BBC informed of any changes to that disclosed up to the point the winner is announced. This information will be handled in the strictest confidence and, as with all personal information, in accordance with the BBC Privacy Policy.
8. Following standard industry practice the BBC may undertake background checks of the shortlisted finalists. Information discovered or that may have been disclosed by the entrants themselves will inform the decision as to the selection of the regional winners and overall winner.
9. A national judging panel will then meet to select the overall winner from the 15 regional winners based on the aforementioned criteria, any supporting documentation and a short BBC film about each of them. It is intended that the panel will consist of representatives from the BBC, leading sports figures and a previous BBC Unsung Hero winner dependent on availability. The judging process will be overseen by an independent verifier.
10. The overall winner will be announced live on BBC One's Sports Personality of the Year 2016 programme, to be held in Birmingham on Sunday, 18 December and to which all regional winners and their guest are invited to attend.
11. The judges' decision as to the winner is final. No correspondence relating to the awards will be entered into.
12. The regional winners will each receive a regional BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Award 2016 trophy and the national winner will receive the national BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Award 2016 trophy. There are no cash alternatives and the award cannot be sold or transferred in any circumstances.
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Bell, 34, led Warwickshire to the One-Day Cup final on Monday with an unbeaten 94 as Warks won by eight runs.
He has not played international T20 cricket since 2014 but captained Birmingham Bears in the T20 Blast.
The Scorchers are the most successful Big Bash team, winning in 2014 and 2015 and twice finishing as runners-up.
Bell was recently tipped for a recall to England's Test side before their winter tours to Bangladesh and India.
He retired from international one-day cricket in August 2015 as England's record run scorer in the format with 5,416 runs in 161 matches.
"He's played at the international level for more than decade so brings experience and leadership, and we're delighted to have him on board," Scorchers head coach Justin Langer said.
England bowler Stuart Broad will also appear in the 2016-17 Big Bash League after joining the Hobart Hurricanes.
It was voted third best country to head to, behind Brazil which took the top spot and Antarctica which came second.
Lonely Planet said Scotland's "jam-packed schedule of world-class events" made it "the place to be" in 2014.
The Commonwealth Games take place in Glasgow next summer. The Ryder Cup will be held at Gleneagles and next year is also Scotland's Year of Homecoming.
The book also cited Highland Games and the Edinburgh festivals as events that will draw travellers to Scotland next year, and it said the country's cities were well worth a visit.
The guide described Edinburgh as "the most gothic city outside Transylvania" and encouraged travellers to "take the high road to Loch Lomond, Loch Ness and Cairngorms National Park and fall in love with the landscape that inspired poet Robert Burns".
SOURCE: Lonely Planet Best of Travel 2014
Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2014 contributor Tom Hall said: "Next year Scotland will be well-deservedly taking the spotlight on the world stage.
"The country's buzzing cities and stunning scenery have plenty to offer visitors, combined with an incredible calendar of events and Scotland looks set for a year-long celebration."
Mike Cantlay, chairman of VisitScotland, said: "It's clear that 2014 is Scotland's chance to shine on the world stage, and to have this commendation from Lonely Planet is a fantastic seal of approval.
"From the bells bringing in our year-long Homecoming celebrations on Hogmanay, to the biggest ever sporting events to take place in Scotland - the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and the Ryder Cup, this could be the greatest ever chance for our country to be seen as a globally recognised, must-visit destination for many years to come."
Lonely Planet said its Best in Travel annual is a collection of the world's hottest trends, destinations and experiences for the year ahead. It highlighted the top ten countries, cities and regions to visit in 2014.
Yorkshire came third in the list of top 10 world regions for 2014.
SOURCE: Lonely Planet Best of Travel 2014
Alluding to the Olympics success of UK competitors from the English county, the guide said: "If the good people of Yorkshire were proud of their heritage before, the 2012 London Olympics only served to cement what they have always thought: that their county is better than - and really the best of - all the English counties."
The Lonely Planet guide went on: "In 2014, this welcoming region of rugged moorlands, heritage homes and cosy pubs will be able to hold its head even higher when the Tour de France begins its grand depart from Leeds."
The destinations featured in the book were selected because they meet certain criteria.
A Lonely Planet spokeswoman said: "It could be that there is something special going on that year, that there's been recent development and a lot of buzz about the place, or that we think it's up-and-coming and suggest travellers visit before the crowds do."
As host for the football World Cup, Brazil was the top country destination for 2014, with a visit to second placed Antarctica described as "a chance to take life on and follow in the path of other intrepid explorers". Next year marks the centenary of the start of Ernest Shackleton's infamous attempted Antarctic crossing.
The Sikkim area of India was chosen as the best region to go to, with Paris the top city in a list that also included Cape Town, Shanghai and Chicago, while the Greek Islands were seen as the best-value destination.
Best family travel spot was Denmark, while Cappadocia in Turkey with its "fairy chimney" landscape was the best honeymoon destination.
Appearance codes in the workplace can mean that self-expression has to be carefully managed - subtle piercings, discreet tattoos and now hidden rainbow hair.
The latest hairstyle to go viral - vivid rainbow streaks concealed under a top layer of hair - seems as if it's clearly aimed at those who want to be just a little bit daring, those who are itching to express themselves while staying within the constraints of a corporate dress code.
The BBC spoke to two young women about what alternative style means to them.
Sophia Hilton, owner of the London salon which is credited with creating the hidden rainbow style, says her stylists are aware that their clients need a hairstyle to match the level of colour in their life.
Not Another Salon, situated in London's Brick Lane, is also famous for offering the brightest of bright dye jobs and Sophia says: "What's changed is the perception now.
"People used to see bright-coloured hair as an act of rebellion, but it's just about knowing who you are."
The 28-year-old says her clients are given a blank piece of paper and are asked to write down which job they do and the hairstyle they would want in an ideal world - something she calls a "no judgement policy".
"Fashion, media and design, they are quite open industries, whereas less creative and more academic or office jobs don't allow as much freedom," she says.
"We want to help people to have the confidence to challenge perceptions of what is acceptable in the workplace because of social and occupational restraints.
"So we think about things like could this lady still wear dark emerald green hair in the office if she wore more make-up or dressed smarter."
Sophia adds that while a lot of women who ask for unusual hair colour designs may seem confident, it's not that simple.
"The salon is positioned right next to the financial district and the banking areas, and we see a lot of professional women coming in asking for things like hidden rainbow hair, "because they want to be able to get rid of it at work".
"It's a case of trying to work out what's an acceptable balance between their job and who they are.
"We also have a lot of school teachers who come in the summer and want dyed hair, and then get it changed back before they go back to school."
For 22-year-old PR executive Laura Moore, expressing her personal style at a young age was important - but she was careful to get tattoos on specific parts of her body that would be easier to cover up when she needed to "go corporate"
"You can see I have my hair dyed black and have piercings, but I made a point of only tattooing my torso and my upper legs because I know some employers aren't up for visible tattoos," she said.
In total, Laura, from Edinburgh, has two nose piercings and 13 tattoos - including one of a tooth behind her ear.
"I have never been asked to cover them, but I usually do if I'm out seeing clients. We work with hotels and food companies, so it's not quite as open as, if say, I worked in music and fashion PR."
"Covering them up doesn't bother me", she says, "because even if I have got something covering them but my tattoos are still there, it makes me feel more confident".
"I think the artwork in tattoos is beautiful and having them makes feel more like myself, they make me more comfortable in my own skin. I feel like they make me more productive as I'm more relaxed with myself."
"The first tattoo I got was on my arms... and my mum said 'you're not going to get a job'," Laura adds.
"She doesn't want me to get any more because she thinks that people won't take me seriously.
"But sometimes I wear skirts or short dresses in the office and it's never been mentioned."
She thinks that piercings are seen to be more acceptable than tattoos, and explains: "I feel that piercings are accepted now, none of my clients have ever mentioned my nose piercings to me, but I don't have a lip piercing any more.
"Maybe if it was a different piercing (on my face) or I had a different face tattoo, it would be different."
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His car flipped and came to rest upside down after hitting the wall following a spin out of the Hungaroring's Turn 11, caused by a rear suspension failure.
Perez climbed out of the car and told his team he was unhurt.
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton ended the session fastest after a very impressive 90 minutes, 0.109secs ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg in second.
Perez's car was pitched into a spin when the right-rear suspension broke as he ran wide, and flipped when a front wheel was caught under the chassis.
The initial spin sent the car spinning across the track into the inside wall, after which it continued to spin and then turned over.
Perez conducted media interviews minutes after the crash following his return to the paddock.
"Thanks to God, everything is OK," Perez said.
"I lost the rest and went into the wall. On the Astroturf, it is very slippery. The car is quite badly damaged but hopefully we can recover and do a bit of second practice. I hope we can recover from this."
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The incident was a reminder of the ever-present dangers involved in F1, just three days after the funeral of Jules Bianchi, who died last week from injuries sustained in a crash in last October's Japanese Grand Prix.
The teams and drivers are all carrying tributes to the Frenchman on their cars and helmets at this weekend's race.
On track, world champion Hamilton was two seconds clear of the field after the first 20 minutes, as he reached the limits faster than his rivals.
At the end of the session, Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was third, 0.671secs slower than Hamilton and 0.241secs ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo in fifth.
The second Red Bull of Daniil Kvyat was sixth, ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.
Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz, Perez, Williams's Valtteri Bottas and Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen completed the top 10, ahead of the McLarens of Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button.
Raikkonen's session ended a few minutes early when the front wing dropped off his car coming out of Turn 12, leaving debris on the track and puncturing the Ferrari's front tyre.
Some teams did sneak out for an extra couple of laps when the green light came on again with less than a minute to go.
Lotus did very limited mileage after solving a financial dispute with tyre supplier Pirelli shortly before the session, Pastor Maldonado ending up 17th and reserve driver Jolyon Palmer 20th after not setting a time.
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Whether it is admitting to levels of poverty, the inflation rate or weaknesses in the education system, Mr Bullrich says Argentina has been ill-served by a political culture which has not wanted to face up to uncomfortable truths.
Improving the quality of schools is the task facing the minister and he says the first point is to admit to the extent of the difficulties.
This is an education system where most schools are only open for four hours a day and he says that despite previous claims to the contrary - only about half of young people actually successfully complete their secondary education.
The results of the latest international Pisa results, published by the OECD this month, seem emblematic of the challenge.
Argentina was not included in the results after confusion over the sample of schools taking the tests - so it remains uncertain where the country stands in such international rankings.
The problems with the test pre-dated Mr Bullrich's time as education minister, but he is now picking up the pieces.
Another awkward question is why Latin American countries have been left standing by the rising Asian star performers, such as Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam, who are building their economies on investment in education.
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Mr Bullrich says that in the 1970s, Argentina had a GDP per capita that was five times greater than South Korea - now it is three times smaller.
Argentina has failed to keep up and economies such as South Korea and Singapore are reaping the rewards.
Even though South Korea started from a long way behind, the world is watching Samsung televisions rather than any technology built in Argentina.
The challenge for Mr Bullrich is how to begin to catch up - and he dismisses the self-serving argument that Pisa tests are really for European and Asian systems and not applicable elsewhere.
He says education has to be taken seriously - on an international as well as a national stage.
So when Argentina hosts the G20 summit in 2018, he says an education section will be introduced for the first time.
Mr Bullrich has an ambitious set of reforms - but speaking in London, he says it will mean long-term investment rather than relying on "magic answers" from "messianic leaders".
It will take until 2030 to turn around his country's school system, says Mr Bullrich, which will mean any political benefits will come long after his time in office.
He wants to extend the school day to six hours - and for teachers to have an eight-hour day, including time for lesson preparation.
That will mean extra cost - but he says the challenge in Argentina is not about funding, but how efficiently the money is targeted.
At present, he says Argentina spends about the same proportion of GDP on schools as Finland and adds: "But we're not spending it wisely."
Mr Bullrich wants to take ideas from the most successful education systems.
He wants to learn from the "exemplary" teacher training approach in Finland and is copying some of the recruitment incentives used in Singapore to get the best graduates into teaching.
Ideas for improving vocational training and skills are being borrowed from Australia, he says.
There are plans for building 400 to 500 new schools, equipped with up-to-date technology.
But it is a complicated system to change. Mr Bullrich is the national education minister - but he has to seek a consensus with 24 regional education ministers.
When Mr Bullrich was an education minister for Buenos Aires he took a direct approach to trying to tackle chronic industrial relations problems, complicated by having to negotiate with 17 different teachers' unions.
He gave teachers his personal mobile phone number and invited them to call him with any problems. It was a symbolic statement of wanting to listen - and for politicians to show some "humility".
And what really surprised teachers was that he called them back, to get details of the real-life problems with leaking buildings and unpaid salaries.
As Argentina's education minister he has tried to protect the status of teachers - with a proposal that anyone physically or verbally attacking a teacher should face a higher tariff in fines or jail sentences.
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And in particular, he says he was pleased to see the closing of the achievement gap between rich and poor.
The school system already delivers - particularly for those from affluent families - and he says that for those pupils, standards are as high as anywhere.
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They called for action against UKIP's lead candidate for South Wales Central Gareth Bennett.
He had linked rubbish problems in Cardiff to Eastern European immigrants.
Meanwhile UKIP Wales head of media Alexandra Phillips is stepping down as a candidate, citing personal reasons.
Another assembly candidate for the party, Neath's Llyr Powell, has confirmed he will not be standing for election because of the decision.
Mr Bennett's fate as a candidate was discussed at a meeting of UKIP's national executive committee (NEC) on Monday.
UKIP Wales party chairman Dave Rowlands said the NEC decided to leave Mr Bennett in place as the lead candidate for South Wales Central.
Mr Rowlands said Mr Bennett has his support.
But Mr Powell, a UKIP volunteer political adviser, confirmed he would not be standing for Neath or as number four on the South Wales West list for the party following the decision.
He previously said he would not continue as a candidate if Mr Bennett was not deselected.
A separate UKIP Wales source told BBC Wales the decision by the NEC was a "complete joke".
UKIP has not officially confirmed what decision has been taken.
The formal complaint about Mr Bennett, made in a letter to UKIP chairman Steve Crowther seen by BBC Wales, said: "We believe the party should take swift and immediate disciplinary action against Mr Bennett.
"We as candidates and many members who support us are deeply considering whether UKIP really represents us."
The complaint letter, signed by 16 candidates for the assembly and the police and crime commissioner elections, said Mr Bennett had "undermined the party and our own ability to campaign through his offensive... comments about immigrants to Wales".
It said the comments "are contrary to UKIP's fair and ethical stance on immigration", and he had "degraded our ability to campaign and connect with voters by saying it is pointless to knock on doors".
"Mr Bennett is not fit to be a lead candidate in a grassroots party where engaging the public is crucial to our success."
The South Wales Central candidate linked rubbish problems in Cardiff's City Road area to immigration in a Wales Online interview in March.
He said: "I think with some of the ethnicities that have moved in, possibly the Eastern Europeans, they just don't have any awareness of the hygiene problem that is being caused at times."
He stood by his comments in an interview with the BBC's Daily Politics programme and said he had served a draft legal letter to his party saying UKIP could face action for lost earnings of £300,000 if he were to be deselected.
Nigel Farage, party leader, said last week he was "less than impressed" with Mr Bennett.
UKIP's vetting committee met on Sunday and was due to report to the NEC meeting.
The party announced their regional lists for the assembly elections in March, but UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill has said the candidacies were subject to a "final ongoing assessment".
Meanwhile, Ms Phillips, who was to be UKIP's number two candidate on the South Wales Central regional list behind Mr Bennett, said she would continue in her media role for the campaign, but would no longer be seeking election herself.
"I've given it a lot of thought and have decided party politics is not for me," she told BBC Wales.
"It's a personal decision - I don't want to take on a partisan role."
Police were summoned to his Paisley Park estate early on Thursday and found his body in a lift. An investigation has been opened.
Prince became a global superstar in the 1980s, with albums such as 1999, Purple Rain and Sign O' the Times.
No cause of death has been stated. A post-mortem investigation will take place on Friday.
His innovative music spanned rock, funk and jazz. He sold more than 100 million records during his career.
"It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer, Prince Rogers Nelson, has died," his spokeswoman said.
In a statement, Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said his deputies responded to a medical call at about 09:43 local time (14:43 GMT) and later found an unresponsive adult male in an elevator at Paisley Park Studios.
First responders tried to revive him with CPR but he was pronounced dead at 10:07.
Hundreds of fans gathered outside Paisley Park. US President Barack Obama said the world had lost a "creative icon".
Born in 1958, Prince was a prolific writer and performer from a young age - reportedly writing his first song when he was seven.
A singer, songwriter, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, Prince recorded more than 30 albums. His best known hits include Let's Go Crazy and When Doves Cry.
A musical prodigy from a broken home, Prince famously wrote, arranged, produced and played almost all of his hit records.
But the Purple man's purple patch really came with his first band The Revolution.
With them by his side, he wrote more than two dozen rock classics in a five-year flurry.
Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette, 1999, Raspberry Beret, When Doves Cry, Kiss... At the same time, he dashed off Manic Monday for The Bangles and Nothing Compares 2U, made famous by Sinead O'Connor.
In the studio, he was unstoppable. But the magic really happened on stage. He would vamp, preen and tease an audience into a frenzy, then slay them with a quiet moment of crystalline beauty. He was a joy to watch.
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He also wrote music for several artists - Sinead O'Connor's version of Nothing Compares 2U became a worldwide smash in 1990.
In 1984, he won an Oscar for the score to Purple Rain, a film in which he also starred.
Throughout his career he had a reputation for secrecy and eccentricity, once changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol.
In 2004, Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which said he "rewrote the rulebook".
He had a mercurial relationship with technology. In 2000, he released singles via the pioneering music-sharing service Napster, but he later declared the internet "completely over" and refused to allow his music on major streaming platforms.
Prince's latest album, HITnRUN Phase Two, was released last year and he had been touring as recently as last week.
On 15 April he was taken to hospital after his private plane made an emergency landing in Illinois. It happened just hours after he had performed on stage in Georgia. He was treated and released after a few hours.
Tributes have been pouring in from artists young and old, across the musical spectrum.
"It's such a blow. It's really surreal. It's just kind of unbelievable," Aretha Franklin told MSNBC. "He was definitely an original and a one of a kind. Truly there was only one Prince."
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The bride and groom married on the Shiniuzhai bridge in Pingjiang, Hunan province on Chinese Valentine's Day on 9 August, China News Service reports.
Despite dangling 180m (590ft) above the ground, they were still able to smile for the camera in their wedding photos.
Glass bridges have become increasingly popular in China recently.
Just a few weeks ago, five other couples chose to exchange their vows on the same bridge - although their feet stayed firmly on the glass floor.
The 45-year-old had been linked with the role for some time, and in January he had announced he would be leaving The Stoop at the end of the season.
He will succeed Frenchman Jacques Brunel, 62, in the Italy post.
O'Shea said he was "honoured, humbled and excited" to coach Italy, who lost all five of their matches in the recent Six Nations Championship.
"I feel the end of this season is the right time for me to take on a new challenge," he added.
"I am honoured, humbled and excited that I will be working with everyone in Italian Rugby to ensure they can achieve on the undoubted potential they have as a rugby nation."
Mike Catt, who won the 2003 World Cup with England, has been named as attack coach three months after leaving the same post in the wake of England's disatrous 2015 World Cup campaign.
O'Shea, who won 35 Ireland caps between 1993 and 2000, guided Harlequins to the 2012 Premiership title as well as the European Challenge Cup and the LV= Cup during his six years at the club.
Quins are currently sixth in the Premiership with five matches remaining, and will face London Irish, the club where O'Shea spent five years as a player, in the quarter-finals of the European Challenge Cup.
Brunel coached Italy in 50 Test matches after taking over following the 2011 World Cup.
After seven thrilling laps of the 4.25-mile Billown Circuit on the Isle of Man, the Bennett's Suzuki rider edged out Manxman Dan Kneen by 0.15 seconds.
Dunlop led after lap one, but Kneen had hit the front by the end of the second circuit, only for Dunlop to regain the lead on lap six.
Bradford's Dean Harrison completed the podium positions in third.
For Ballymoney rider Dunlop, this was his 18th success at the Southern 100 meeting but he was made to battle all the way by Penz13.com BMW pilot Kneen.
Kneen set the fastest lap of the race at 114.185mph, with Dunlop also breaking the previous lap record for the race with 113.910.
"I felt a bit rusty as I haven't raced since the TT so it's good to be on a bike again. The bike wasn't running 100% but we'll get it sorted," said Dunlop after the race.
English riders Jamie Coward, Ivan Lintin and James Cowton made up the top six.
Race debutant Joe Thompson won the concurrently-run 600cc class from Isle of Man rider Brendan Fargher, with Darryl Tweed third.
Tweed came home ahead of fellow Ballymoney rider Seamus Elliott to take the 125/400cc honours for the second year in succession with Dan Sayle from the Isle of Man claiming third.
Richard Charlton was the victor in the 600cc B event.
Racing continues on Wednesday night with four scheduled races down for decision.
The main Solo Championship race takes place on Thursday, with Dunlop favourite to win the feature race for a fourth time.
The European Court of Justice said it was lawful for the UK to withhold family benefits to EU migrants who were not working if they did not have the right to reside in the UK.
It said it was justified on the basis of "protecting" a state's finances.
The ruling was welcomed by the government and EU remain campaigners.
But Vote Leave said it was "absurd that the UK had to run every nut and bolt of domestic policy" past a court in Luxembourg and engage in "lengthy and expensive" legal battles.
The UK will decide on 23 June whether it wants to remain in the EU or leave.
Tuesday's court ruling relates to conditions introduced in 2004 on the right of migrants from the EU and European Economic Area who are "economically inactive" and their family members to claim certain benefits, known as the "habitual residence" test.
The European Commission had argued that the British process of checking whether claimants of child benefit and child tax credit were legally resident discriminated against foreign EU workers because British citizens were not checked in the same way.
The court said the condition might amount to "unequal treatment" but did not go beyond what was necessary to attain the "legitimate objective" of protecting a member state's finances.
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This was a vital victory for the government, in a case that was potentially explosive during a closely fought referendum campaign.
Although the ruling focused on a complex point of law, the case itself affected a key plank of government policy - the right to restrict benefits for EU migrants who are not considered "economically active".
Although this particular legal battle actually began several years ago, the prime minister recently put further benefit curbs at the heart of his EU renegotiations.
So losing the case would certainly have come as a major embarrassment for Mr Cameron and those campaigning to remain in the EU. In the event, the court sided with the government. Yes, its rules treated people unequally, the judges said, but that was allowed to protect the country's finances.
The Remain campaign may now be breathing a large sigh of relief. However, Vote Leave may not be too unhappy either; they can point to the fact that a major decision about the government's policy has just been taken by judges in Luxembourg.
"The court rejects the Commission's principal argument, that the UK legislation imposes a condition supplementing that of habitual residence contained in the regulation," it ruled.
"There is nothing to prevent the grant of social benefits to EU citizens who are not economically active being made subject to the requirement that those citizens fulfil the conditions for possessing a right to reside lawfully in the host member state."
This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe.
In response, a government spokesman said: "The UK welcomes the judgment, which supports our view that we are entitled to ensure only EU migrants who have a right to be in the UK can claim our benefits.
"Once again this confirms that member states have the ability to protect their own national welfare systems.
"The government has taken action to ensure we have a fair system which provides support for genuine workers and jobseekers but does not allow people to come to this country and take advantage, and today's judgment supports this."
The ruling was welcomed by those campaigning to keep Britain in the European Union.
"This ruling is a victory for Britain, confirming we have a fair immigration system as well as having full access to the EU single market," said Catherine Bearder, a Liberal Democrat MEP.
"The right to travel and work abroad is a two-way street, around 1.2 million Brits choose to live in the EU."
But former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, a Leave campaigner, said the European Commission should never have been able to challenge the UK's actions in the first place.
"As well as the cost to taxpayers of fighting these lengthy drawn-out cases, it's clearly an illegitimate challenge to our sovereignty," he said.
"Although David Cameron didn't want to admit it, this case and others like it are proof positive that the unelected European Court of Justice is now supreme above our elected Parliament."
The left-leaning IPPR thinktank said the judgement was a sign the Court was "becoming more sympathetic" to the UK's interpretation of the EU's free movement rules - which is that they do not give migrants an unconditional right to claim benefits.
But it said that there was "no guarantee" that this would last for ever and "future judgments may go against the UK".
The ruling will have no direct impact on the welfare changes secured by David Cameron as part of his renegotiations of the UK's EU membership - which concluded in February.
The prime minister had wanted a complete ban on migrants sending child benefit abroad but had to compromise after some eastern European states rejected that and also insisted that existing claimants should continue to receive the full payment.
As a result, child benefit for the children of EU migrants living overseas will now be paid at a rate based on the cost of living in their home country - applicable immediately for new arrivals and from 2020 for the 34,000 existing claimants.
Tony McMahon's shot deflected into the path of Lee Evans, who superbly volleyed in left-footed from 25 yards.
Chesterfield were reduced to 10 men when Sam Hird brought down Jamie Proctor as the Bradford striker bore down on goal.
Proctor then found Billy Clarke in the six-yard area, and the Irish striker calmly slotted in to double the lead.
Bradford will face Millwall in the play-off semi-finals, with the Lions scoring a dramatic last-minute penalty at Gillingham to secure second-leg home advantage.
Chesterfield finished 18th, seven points clear of the relegation zone.
Odlanier Mena, who was 87 years old, was serving a six-year jail term.
The crimes were allegedly part of the "Caravan of Death" - a military operation thought to have killed more than 100 opponents of the 1973 coup.
On Thursday, President Sebastian Pinera announced plans to close the jail where Mena was being held.
A lawyer representing Mena said his client had been worried about having to be moved from Cordillera to another military facility at Punta Peuco.
Mena is said to have shot himself in the head at home on Saturday. He had been due to return to prison the following day.
At Cordillera, prisoners have access to the internet, cable TV, a tennis court, gardens and a barbecue area.
"He had been terribly upset by the move. It affected him a lot that in Punta Peuco he would not have the medical attention he needed," Jorge Balmaceda told 24 Horas TV.
The comfortable conditions at the prison have been sharply criticised by many in Chile, including former Presidents Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet.
Critics say military prisoners should not be given different treatment to others serving prison terms.
President Pinera's decision to move the prisoners of Cordillera to Punta Peuco also follows a controversial interview by one of its 10 inmates, the notorious former head of Pinochet's intelligence agency, Manuel Contreras, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the 1973 coup.
Contreras told reporters there was no torture at the Villa Grimaldi, one of the secret police's main complexes, and that all of the dead during the Pinochet dictatorship were killed in armed confrontations with security forces.
More than 3,000 people died or disappeared in Chile between 1973 and 1990 and nearly 30,000 are believed to have been tortured.
The 20-year-old came through the academy system at the Premier League club and is a regular member of their Under-21 squad.
He is available to make his Football League debut for the Glovers in Saturday's game against MK Dons.
"We've got strikers but no-one has really hit that bit of form yet," boss Gary Johnson told BBC Somerset.
"I know they've got high hopes for him. He's got electric pace and a good goal-scoring record.
"This is his first loan, so we're taking a bit of a chance but I think he's ready."
To adapt a quote from the cult film Withnail and I, I had gone on a cycling holiday by mistake.
An overweight, middle-aged man on a road bike in the mountainous wilds of mid Wales, looming above me was a stretch of tarmac called the Devil's Staircase.
The demonic name is apt, as it is a vertiginous wall of a road. It was squeaky Lycra time.
Putting my bike into its lowest gear, I nervously started the climb. Within seconds my legs were in agony and my lungs rasped for air.
Half a mile later, I finally reached the top, exhausted, but utterly elated. Hugging my four cycling companions, the holiday - cycling the length of Wales over three days back in June - was immediately wonderful again.
After doing next to no exercise for two decades, I bought a road bike in 2012 to get fit, and I have been an obsessive cyclist ever since. I love the challenge of long rides and steep hills, and the sociable nature of cycling with friends.
But why have so many other adults - both men and women - also caught the bug?
More than two million people across the country now cycle at least once a week, an all-time high according to British Cycling, the sport's governing body in the UK.
For businesses in the cycling industry this means booming sales. At Halfords, which is responsible for one in three bikes sold in the UK, sales of its bicycles were up 11% in the year to 27 March 2015.
This growth was led by the retailer's most expensive "premium bikes", which saw sales expand by 24.9%, following growth of 30% in the previous 12 months.
Meanwhile, sales of UK manufactured bikes rose by 69% in 2014, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Cycling clothing firm Rapha, which supplies the Team Sky pro road bike team, is another business to have benefited from the big increase in the number of people cycling.
The London-based business says its sales have grown by more than 30% per annum for 11 years in a row.
Rapha's founder and chief executive Simon Mottram says there are a numerous reasons, or a "perfect storm" behind the big rise in the number of regular cyclists in the UK.
"You can probably trace it back to the bombing attacks in London in 2005," he says. "The day after, the tube lines were all still closed, and suddenly there were lots of people on bikes to get to work.
"You got the impression that many hadn't ridden in quite some time, but then enjoyed it so much that they stuck to it.
"Then you have the effect of the 2007 Tour de France starting in London, the eight gold medals won by the GB cycling team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 2012 Olympics in London, and of course Bradley Wiggins and then Chris Froome winning the Tour de France.
"Not to forget the government's Cycle To Work scheme [introduced back in 1999 and which allows people to buy a bike tax-free]. And the underlying increased focus on health and fitness, and concerns about congestion."
Most media reports on the growing number of cyclists on the road focus on the so-called "mamils", which stands for "middle aged men in Lycra", and Mr Mottram says that while this group is a large one, his typical customer is a bit younger.
"Our average customer is a man in his mid-30s," he says. "Yet at the same time, our fastest-growing customer section is female road bikers.
"That goes under the radar, and it is still less than 10% of the business at present, but it is seeing the biggest growth."
Londoner Claire Kearney is one such woman who an avid cyclist.
The 35-year-old HR manager says: "I didn't own an adult bike until was 28.
"People I was working with at the time persuaded me to join them on a charity ride from London to Paris. So with only six weeks before the ride I said 'yes', bought a bike, and started cycling everywhere.
"I found the charity ride really, really hard to start with, but then I really loved it.
"Cycling is such an enjoyable and sociable form of exercise, and such a friendly sport. You can join a club, or go on a sportive [an organised ride], and meet lots of people, and everyone smiles and chats away."
But while a growing number of women and young adults are indeed taking up cycling, you cannot ignore the mamils.
With more disposable income that younger riders, they are the group that spends the most on their bikes, buying the ultra-lightweight carbon models, with the best gears and other high-end components.
And such is the continuing popularity of cycling among men over 40, that it has often been said in recent years that cycling is "the new golf", with cycle rides replacing rounds of golf as the preferred out-of-office activity during which business deals are agreed.
Architect Peter Murray, chairman of think tank New London Architecture, has been organising charity cycle rides for the past decade, including an annual ride from London to Cannes on France's Mediterranean coast.
The 71-year-old, who took up cycling when he was 51, says: "You can definitely do business deals on cycle rides. On one of the first rides I organised to the south of France, a group of young architects came along.
"One of them recently sent me a chart detailing all the work he had got from 10 years of joining the rides to Cannes.
"He had three people in his team originally, and now he has a growing office of 25 people. And almost every project he has won traces back to links he made on the rides."
Yet for other businessmen who are cycling obsessed, you should never talk shop while on your bike.
This is the opinion of public relations entrepreneur Chris Ward, 52, who bought his first road bike when he was 40, and now competes in the amateur world championships.
Mr Ward, who cycles an average 175 miles a week, says: "I'm happy to take business calls when I'm in a cafe, but not when I'm cycling. Cycling is for getting away from work."
So the BBC asked residents of the commercial capital, Lagos, what they thought was best about living in Africa's most populous nation and what they wanted the rest of the world to know about Nigeria.
Here are their 10 favourite things.
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Highland Council said the road linking the A82 on the east bank of the River Ness with Dores Road would ease travel across the city.
A campaign had opposed the road's construction because the route will cross areas of green space.
The start of building work could mean delays at the A82's Bught Drive junction for six weeks.
Highland Council expects to spend £55m building the road and creating new rugby pitches and also a new course and clubhouse for Torvean Golf Club.
The project forms part of the £315m Inverness City Region Deal announced in March.
The first stage of the West Link's construction is expected to last until late next year.
By 2020 people should be able to travel from the Southern Distributor Road to the A82, using a new bridge over the River Ness, and avoid having to go through the city centre.
Margaret Davidson, leader of Highland Council, said: "It is good to see this section of the work under way.
"The West Link will deliver significant economic benefits to the city and surrounding area, reducing congestion and enabling jobs and housing development."
The former Ryder Cup captain, who led Europe to glory in Medinah in 2012, has been out of action since April 2015 due to rheumatoid arthritis.
"Although I'm feeling better, I'm still not 100%," the Spaniard, 50, told the European Tour website.
"It gets a bit painful from time to time but that's just getting old."
The 1994 and 1999 Masters Champion has suffered with the condition throughout his 31-year career, but is hoping his body will withstand a competitive round.
The tournament is being held at The Grove, Hertfordshire, from Thursday.
"I want to see how the body can cope with the regular competition, rhythm of practice and 18 holes," Olazabal added.
"The two weeks at the British Masters and Portugal Masters will be a good test to see if I can stand up all day."
Matu'u has scored three tries in 42 appearances for Hurricanes since joining from Wellington in 2012.
The 28-year-old has won seven international caps for Samoa.
"His powerful, abrasive style of play is well suited to the Premiership," director of rugby David Humphreys told the club website.
"He will add further strength in depth to the Gloucester front five."
Gloucester are currently seventh in the Premiership table, eight points outside the top four.
James Ward-Prowse scored a brilliant 25-yard curled free-kick and a penalty for his first goals of the season as Saints cruised into a half-time lead.
West Brom boss Tony Pulis made two attacking changes at the break but the home side remained in charge.
Serbian forward Dusan Tadic sealed the three points from a tight angle after a clever pass from Matt Targett.
Ronald Koeman's Southampton move up to 10th in the Premier League table, while the Baggies stay 13th.
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Reaction to all of Saturday's games
Shane Long and Sadio Mane sparkled up front for Southampton, Tadic made a brilliant contribution with his goal, while last season's top scorer Graziano Pelle was on the bench.
Before you even get to midfielder Ward-Prowse's two goals, the signing of Charlie Austin from QPR certainly leaves the Saints with plenty of scoring options.
Austin was watching on from the stands, and will have been delighted with what he saw from his new team-mates, who played with real fluency and verve going forward.
The only minor concern for Austin could be over how regularly he will fit into a team that appears to have rediscovered the qualities that drove them into a seventh-place finish last season.
"We like to make the squad stronger, and that means Charlie in, nobody out," Koeman said.
"We're looking forward to having more competition. That will be good. Will someone be sold? No. Nobody is for sale in January."
The Baggies' showing at St Mary's was a world away from the dogged away performance that earned a 2-2 draw against Chelsea on Wednesday.
There was little of the determined harrying that unsettled the home side at Stamford Bridge, with Southampton at times afforded far too much time on the ball.
The highlight of the away side's opening 45 minutes was a back-heeled clearance off the goalline by James McClean to block Targett's low shot - denying the 20-year-old a deserved goal for his excellent overall performance.
In West Brom's defence there was an improvement after Pulis' attack-minded substitutions at the break, but Southampton were intelligent in the way they protected the lead, and ruthless in the way they extended it.
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman: "Ward-Prowse's early free-kick opened the game. It gave us confidence, meant we could control the game.
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"It's important to score early against a side like West Brom, as it gives you the patience to try and score the second. At 1-0, we could be more patient.
"Now we are back playing our own way, how we like to play. Everyone looked very comfortable today - that's the most important thing. The players looked more confident than they have done recently. We totally deserved the win."
West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "You've got to give Southampton credit, they were the better team and deserved to win the game.
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"It would be interesting to see how many teams played away midweek and then picked up points away from home this weekend, because our players did look leggy.
"It just wasn't our day. All season we've done well away from home. Today we didn't and got punished."
West Brom play away at Bristol City in an FA Cup third-round replay on Tuesday before hosting Aston Villa in the Premier League on Saturday.
Southampton's next match is at Manchester United in the league, also on Saturday.
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Shaw resigned after being shown eating the pie during February's fifth-round defeat, after a bookmaker had offered 8/1 odds on him doing so.
The 45-year-old has been charged with intentionally influencing a football betting market, and improper conduct.
He has until 18:00 BST on Friday, 21 July to respond to the charges.
Following the match, Shaw admitted to being aware of the betting promotion, but said the incident was "just a bit of fun".
He was also made the subject of an investigation by the Gambling Commission, after Sun Bets claimed to have paid out a "five-figure" sum for a bet placed on their promotion.
"We are told we are not allowed to gamble as it is full-time professional football," Shaw told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme at the time.
"In no way did I put anyone in jeopardy of that - this is not the case here, this is just a bit of fun and me being hungry."
But singer-songwriter Laura Marling's latest project marks a change of direction.
She has composed the music for a new production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, which opens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on Wednesday evening.
"I got the real fear about doing this," she told the BBC.
She said she was "daunted" when the Royal Shakespeare Company first approached her.
"I have no knowledge of theatre and I'd say not a huge knowledge of Shakespeare either."
But she was also intrigued. As well as writing the music, she adapted the words of the songs that are already in the play. "I wanted to shake it up a bit," she said.
A self-confessed neurotic, Marling has described her music as "melancholic" and "reflective". "It's very insular, I live it to some extent."
But although she is not known for her light-heartedness, she enjoyed the challenge of writing the music for one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies. And she said would like to write more music for the stage.
But she is not remotely tempted to try her hand at acting. "Absolutely not. That does not lie within me in any way."
Marling is only 23. She has been playing the guitar since she was five and was soon writing and performing her own songs. By the age of 16, she had dropped out of school and been offered a record contract.
Her parents were "justifiably terrified" when she told them she planned to move to London. But they had run a recording studio together, so the music world was not completely alien to them.
"They patted me on my back and off I went with my guitar - and that was that," she said.
She has not looked back and is set to release her fourth album, Once I was an Eagle, next month. And she is performing at the BBC Proms later this summer.
But despite her success, she prefers to stay out of the limelight.
And she is scathing about television talent shows such as The X Factor and The Voice. She said she cannot bear the way "they make a human zoo of people and their dreams".
And she added that the programmes were "an awful part of our society".
She believed they teach "the wrong thing ... that you want fame. It's not that you want fame, you want satisfaction, which is a very different thing".
After several years spent touring, Marling has recently moved to Los Angeles. "I needed a little break from the UK," she explained.
And while she said she missed her family and friends "painfully", she said she found California "incredibly magical and beautiful."
"I've got space out there," she added. "And I feel sort of limitless and I enjoy that feeling."
There may be even more change on the horizon in the future. Much as she loves music, Marling said she can envisage a time when she will walk away from her career.
"I don't see myself doing it forever, because I don't think it's any way to live, full-time."
And she said there was a lot more that she wanted to do.
"I'd like to do some more thinking, and some more reading. I'd like to be better informed in general."
"But there has always been a lot I'd like to do."
There is a caveat however.
"The only thing I'm good at is playing guitar."
"So, that's worked out nicely," she added with a wry laugh.
As You Like it is running at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from 12 April to 28 September 2013 and at the Newcastle Theatre Royal from 29 October to 2 November.
The film portrays an alliance between gay rights' campaigners and pit workers during the 1984 and is largely set in the Dulais Valley in south Wales.
Writer Stephen Beresford and producer David Livingstone received the award at the ceremony in London on Sunday night.
Beresford said it had taken him 20 years to persuade anyone the story would make a "sure fire comedy smash".
The committee will hear from seven head teachers on Friday.
Figures in October showed 2.8% of grammar pupils are eligible for free school meals compared with 13.4% in non-selective schools.
Councillors are also examining grammar schools' admission criteria and their outreach work to support poorer pupils.
Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Vye said the statistics were "appallingly low" and the gap was still too wide.
He said he believed more could be done in primary schools to bring children from poor households to a level where they could face the Kent Test - the county's selective 11-plus - "with confidence".
Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle said figures were improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over 3%.
Adding that she would like the figure to double, she said: "Clearly we need to do more."
Both councillors are on the Kent County Council committee set up to tackle social mobility in the county's grammars. The committee is chaired by Ms Whittle.
The firm has seen "false news, disinformation, or networks of fake accounts aimed at manipulating public opinion", it revealed in a new report.
"Several" such cases during the US presidential election last year required action, it added.
Some of the activity has been of a "wide-scale coordinated" nature.
Fake accounts were created to spread information stolen from email accounts during the 2016 US presidential election, the firm noted, though it said the volume of such activity was "statistically very small".
Facebook did not attribute it to any specific state or actor, but it did say that its data did not contradict the US Director of National Intelligence's claim that Russia was involved.
The company added that efforts to tackle "information operations" had led to the removal of more than 30,000 fake accounts in France - where a presidential election is currently under way.
In general, Facebook said it faced a new challenge in tackling "subtle and insidious forms of misuse, including attempts to manipulate civic discourse and deceive people".
Facebook described much of the activity as "false amplification" - which included the mass creation of fake accounts; the coordinated sharing of content and engagement with that content (such as likes); and the distribution of "inflammatory and sometimes racist memes".
It added, however, that there was not much evidence that automated bots had been set up to do this, but humans appeared to be directly involved.
"We have observed many actions by fake account operators that could only be performed by people with language skills and a basic knowledge of the political situation in the target countries, suggesting a higher level of coordination and forethought," the report explained.
The apparent objectives of those behind the propaganda efforts included one or more of the following:
Facebook said that it was working on a variety of methods to curb the spread of propaganda on its platform.
These included building new products to help stamp out fake news and creating new systems - some with artificial intelligence capabilities - to help quicken the response to reports of fake accounts or spam.
The rise in people who get their news from social media meant that propaganda on sites like Facebook was an important issue, suggested Ewan Lawson, an information operations expert at the Royal United Services Institute.
"If you can influence what people are reading and what version of the truth they're being shown, it has the potential to have an effect," he told the BBC.
However, he added, it was difficult to quantify this.
"I think the most interesting thing is the fact that Facebook has come out so publicly - there's been a sense of a little bit of reluctance on the part of the large communications companies to acknowledge the extent to which they have been abused," he said.
Mr Lawson also said he thought Facebook's efforts to tackle the problem were "very positive".
That is one of the key findings of the most in-depth research of its kind ever carried out in Northern Ireland.
The study - Mobile Devices in Early Learning - was carried out over two years and involved about 650 pupils in five Belfast primary schools and five nursery schools.
Schools which took part were in some of the most deprived areas of the city.
They were each supplied with sets of iPads for nursery, primary one, primary two and primary three classes.
Researchers from Stranmillis University College then assessed how pupils, parents, principals and teachers used them over the course of two years.
Among their key findings were that:
IPads helped young children to be more motivated and engaged in class, said Dr Colette Gray from Stranmillis, who was one of the study's authors.
"It's not a panacea or the holy grail, but is another method to reach children who might otherwise underachieve," she said.
"For many children it does seem like a playful learning activity. Children, even if working alone, would talk to each others or talk to the teacher.
"There was actually an increase in communication in the classroom, which we didn't initially anticipate."
The five primary schools which received ipads and took part in the study were Black Mountain PS, Donegal Road PS, Gaelscoil na Móna, Holy Trinity PS and Elmgrove PS.
The primary three teacher at Elmgrove PS, Hannah Maxwell, said that using iPads had helped to engage many of her pupils.
"We don't replace pen and paper with the iPad," she said.
"It's all about having a balance between using the iPad and using old school methods.
"They're using different methods and trying different things to learn.
"It does take planning but the benefits are shown at the end of it."
The principal of Elmgrove, Jayne Jeffers, said using iPads had improved many pupils' academic performance.
"We have found that attainment has increased in a lot of areas because the children are more engaged," she said.
"All of the children we have in school now have been born knowing about smartphone technology and mobile technology.
"We have a duty as a school to prepare children for their future and that includes digital learning.
"We have two nursery units and the children are using iPads there right the way up to P7.
"We are situated in inner east Belfast and there would be a lot of deprivation in the local area, but we're trying to give them every advantage we can."
The study also found that although some teachers were initially nervous, many had developed their own confidence by using iPads extensively in class.
There were concerns, however, that parents needed to know more about the safe use of technology if young children were using one outside school.
The total cost of the project, which was funded by Belfast Regeneration Office, was £299,400.
His declaration this week that he is "proud to be gay" was hailed as an important moment for the gay community.
Campaigners say they know of bosses of other big firms who are gay, but are reluctant to be open about it.
They hope Mr Cook's public acknowledgement will spur them to come out.
So what is holding them back?
"When I was at university, people who did gay things, homosexual acts, usually went to prison and stayed there a long time," Lord Browne said in an interview with the BBC earlier this year.
He resigned as chief executive of BP in 2007 after it emerged that statements he had made in legal documents about a four-year relationship he'd had with a man had been "untruthful".
Like Lord Browne, many chief executives would have grown up in times that were much less tolerant of gay people.
Campaigners says that formative experience has probably made senior executives reluctant to come forward.
"Societal views have changed considerably, but that has only really been in the past 10 years," says Suki Sandhu, founder of professional network Outstanding.
Gay people now in their 50s and 60s could have been keeping their sexuality a secret from colleagues for years, perhaps decades. That lengthy secrecy is another reason to maintain their silence.
"Some of our best leaders are known for their honesty and authenticity, to kind of then turn around and go, 'Actually, there's a big thing that I haven't quite mentioned', is quite difficult," says Ruth Hunt, chief executive of Stonewall, the lesbian, gay and bisexual equality organisation.
Most business people are "squeamish" about speaking about their personal lives, says Jan Gooding, group brand director of insurance giant Aviva and chair of Stonewall.
They would rather be known for their work as professionals than for their sexual orientation, she says.
But chief executives are now under pressure to reveal more about their personal lives.
"When I came out, it became clear that my life was public property and I think that when you are a leader of a large organisation, that is the case nowadays - you have to leave your privacy to one side," said Lord Browne.
Executives who do come out can expect to be a role model for younger gay staff, which can be an added pressure.
"Once you come out, you are expected to suddenly be an expert on all things gay, but of course you are an expert on your job - not all things gay," says Ms Hunt.
Chief executives could have another concern. Could coming out damage their business prospects?
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association lists 78 countries with criminal laws against sexual activity by the groups it represents.
Many of those countries are in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Those regions are growing fast and are where ambitious companies would be eager to expand.
Sukhi Sandhu of Outstanding thinks having a gay chief executive "could impact sales" in those countries. But that remains to be seen, as there is no data to support the theory.
After Tim Cook's announcement, we might find out over the next few years whether customers might consider the sexuality of a chief executive when choosing a mobile phone.
So what about gay people trying to work their way through the ranks in the current era?
Over three-quarters of America's 500 biggest companies have non-discrimination policies that bar firing someone because they are gay or lesbian, says Justin Nelson, co-founder and president of the US National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
But he says those policies can only go so far.
"There are still times that, even when you have a policy, the guy in the cubicle next to you might have a personal belief that is not fully inclusive," he says.
Some industries are working harder than others to overcome such issues.
The UK fashion industry can boast the only openly gay chief executive among FTSE 100 companies, after Christopher Bailey became chief executive of Burberry earlier this year.
Mr Sandhu says diversity is "in the DNA" of Burberry.
But the fashion industry is not necessarily leading the way in encouraging gay staff.
Stonewall chief executive Ruth Hunt says that law firms and banks are among those that have recently made the most progress recently.
The building trade is also making a big effort, she says, with construction giant Balfour Beatty working closely with Stonewall to help gay staff.
Despite the efforts of campaigning groups, many young gay people still feel under pressure to hide their sexuality.
"It's quite shocking to learn that even now graduates who are openly gay at university are going back into the closet because the business world is a little behind," says Mr Sandhu.
The handover took place outside the north-eastern border town of Arsal, where the men had been seized.
Earlier, al-Nusra Front handed over to officials the body of one of four security personnel killed in captivity.
The release is part of a deal brokered by Qatar that saw the Lebanese authorities free 13 Islamist prisoners.
One of them was Saja al-Dulaimi, an ex-wife of so-called Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and daughter of an al-Nusra Front member.
Jihadist militants from al-Nusra and IS, which are violently opposed to each other, seized more than two dozen soldiers and policemen during a major attack on Arsal in August 2014.
Al-Nusra demanded that the Lebanese government free radical Sunni Islamist prisoners in exchange for the captives, and killed four of them in an attempt to force Beirut to act.
Relatives of the security personnel also set up protest camps outside the government's headquarters in Beirut and organised regular demonstrations to press officials to negotiate their release.
On Tuesday, the Lebanese General Security Directorate (GSD) confirmed that 16 soldiers and police held by al-Nusra had been handed to the Red Cross in wintry conditions in Wadi Hamid, in the hills near the Syrian border.
In a deeply-divided country which has not been able to elect a president for 18 months, the release of the Lebanese army and police prisoners in a deal with al-Nusra Front provided a rare moment of national joy and unity.
The army and police personnel seized by Nusra and Islamic State in August last year came from across the sectarian spectrum, so the affair transcended the sectarian rifts that bedevil Lebanese politics.
They included Christians as well as Muslims of different denominations. The Druze chief, Walid Jumblatt, played a key role in discreet mediation led by Qatar, which has channels to the Syrian militants.
The tortuous complexity of the negotiations, which broke down several times, led to some optimism that other intractable problems might also be solvable, not least the thorny issue of the vacant presidency
Suleiman Franjieh, a Syria-leaning northern leader whose late grandfather of the same name was president in the 1970s, is currently in the spotlight as a figure who might win broad support.
Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV interviewed one of the captives as they were being driven to the exchange point, accompanied by masked men armed with rifles.
"We would like to thank al-Nusra Front for releasing us. We would like to thank everyone who took part in the negotiations that led to our release," the captive said.
Three women, one of them wearing a full-face veil and carrying a baby, were also shown getting out of a separate convoy of vehicles that included Red Cross cars.
The woman wearing the veil confirmed in an interview with Al Jazeera that she was Saja al-Dulaimi. She said that she had been divorced by Baghdadi "six or seven years ago", adding that she would probably head to Turkey following her release.
Lebanese officials said Ms Dulaimi, who is now married to a Palestinian, was pregnant when she was detained along with her two sons and a daughter - believed to be Baghdadi's - at a border crossing with Syria last November. She was reported to have given birth to a son in prison.
Earlier, the body of a soldier killed in captivity in September 2014 by al-Nusra, Mohammed Hamiya, was handed over to the Red Cross and GSD agents.
Another nine Lebanese security personnel are still being held by IS. Their fate is unknown, and there are no known channels for negotiation.
The GSD said on Tuesday it would exert all possible efforts to secure their release.
The conflict in Syria has heightened sectarian tensions in Lebanon, with violence regularly spilling over its border and more than a million refugees arriving.
The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has removed 340 dogs from the farm in Myshall in County Carlow over the past nine days.
The ISPCA said the majority of the dogs had heavily matted coats, and were also suffering from chronic skin, eye and teeth problems.
Eleven horses were also rescued.
The rescued dogs were mostly adult females ranging in breeds from cocker spaniels, Siberian huskies, Yorkshire terriers, Bichon Frise crosses, Cavalier King Charles and Shih Tzus.
Their paws were badly infected from being soaked in urine, according to the charity.
Most of the animals have been transported to the ISPCA's national animal centre in Longford, with others taken to welfare groups.
A closure notice has been served on the breeding premises.
ISPCA chief inspector Conor Dowling said: "The conditions in this dog breeding establishment were absolutely shocking and it was imperative that it be shut down."
Dr Andrew Kelly, the charity's chief executive, said it was an "appalling and horrific case".
"Many of these animals were living in squalid conditions and there were dead animals scattered around the site," he added.
Campaigners say faster, more frequent trains would bring 70,000 new jobs to the region in the next 20 years.
Ashley Rogers, chairman of north Wales' business council, said improvements would play a "key role" in boosting the economy.
The campaign calls for electrification, better rolling-stock and the doubling of services on some lines.
Businesses representing 300,000 people from Cheshire, Mersey Dee and north Wales have backed the Growth Track 360 campaign.
Many hope rail improvements will reduce traffic on the A55 and create better connections to the rest of the UK.
Employers such as Siemens, based in Llanberis and Moneypenny in Wrexham, are among the backers.
Mr Rogers said: "Improved infrastructure has a key role to play in ensuring this vision becomes reality - opening up opportunities, attracting talented, skilled people from across the UK and helping the region to capitalise on its intrinsic strengths and grow and develop."
About 75% of large businesses, who responded to the campaign, hope the improvements will deliver time savings, while 64% of small businesses want to see better access to customers.
Martin Gray, finance director at Siemens, said high quality transport links were essential to ensure access to key talent across the region.
Rachel Clacher, director of Moneypenny, who want to grow their workforce from 500 to 1,000 over the next three years, said better connectivity was crucial.
The Growth Track 360 campaign was launched by the north Wales and Mersey Dee rail taskforce, which represents enterprise zones, local authorities and businesses across Cheshire, north Wales and Merseyside.
Earlier this year the Welsh Government, backed by north Wales' businesses, submitted a business case to the Department for Transport (Dft) for cash to electrify the line between Crewe and Holyhead.
They hope to secure £800m from the DfT to upgrade the 105 miles of track within the 2019-2024 funding period.
Bartlett, 31, made 29 first-team appearances during an 18-month spell at Victoria Park.
The ex-Kidderminster, Hereford and Gateshead player has previously coached in a part-time capacity at Newcastle.
Pools still have keepers Ben Dudzinski, Ryan Catterick, injured Trevor Carson and on-loan Joe Fryer in their squad.
"Everybody at the club would like to wish him all the very best in his new career," the Hartlepool statement read.
Meanwhile, former Bristol City and Wolves goalkeeper Adriano Basso has been appointed as the new goalkeeper coach at Victoria Park.
The 41-year-old left his position at FC United of Manchester to join up with Pools, and was part of Saturday's coaching team for the 2-0 defeat by Wycombe.
It is understood more than 400,000 daily passengers are affected by the strike.
Dublin Bus has said it expects its services to operate as normal on Saturday morning.
Two more 48-hour strike actions are planned for this month.
These are set for 15 and 16 September and 23 and 24 September.
Police have said bus lanes are only for use by taxis, emergency vehicles and vulnerable road users such as cyclists while the strike is on.
Unions say they will review progress next week and an all-out strike has not been ruled out.
The dispute arose after Dublin Bus unions rejected a Labour Court recommendation of a general 8.25% pay award for employees over a period of three years (or 2.75% per year) without productivity changes.
Dublin Bus has said it accepts the recommendation, which it said will add 30m euros (£25.29m) to payroll costs over that period.
However, the company estimates that the 15% sought by the unions would cost at least 50m euros (£42.17m), which it says it cannot afford.
The Football Association charged both Rangers and the Whites following a clash between the two clubs' coaching staff and a melee involving players.
Both clubs admitted two breaches of FA rules at an independent hearing.
R's coach Marc Bircham and Fulham medical manager Marco Cesarini have each been fined £2,000 for misconduct.
Rangers and Fulham were charged with failing to "ensure their players and/or officials conducted themselves in an orderly fashion" during the 1-1 draw at Loftus Road.
The respective benches, along with several players, were involved in a clash in the 91st minute, while Fulham players Tom Cairney and Chris Martin and QPR defender Joel Lynch were all booked by referee Keith Stroud following an off-the-ball incident in the 94th minute.
Several former players suggested that Croke Park would cater for the wider interest in seeing the match and well above the 36,000 capacity of Clones.
However, the Leinster minor and senior finals are scheduled for Croke Park on the same date.
The Ulster Council confirmed on Monday that Clones will host the final.
Card payment data and security codes for reservations were accessed at 14 properties when the central reservation system at Sabre Corp, a third party, was breached.
The attack has affected other travel companies working with Sabre.
In some cases, guests' names, emails, phone numbers and addresses were also obtained.
The first unauthorised access during the latest breach was recorded on 10 August last year, and the last occurred on 9 March 2017, according to a notice about the breach on the Trump Hotels website
Trump Hotels has not said how many customers were affected.
Two separate breaches have been made public since 2014.
In one, seven Trump hotels were affected by malware targeting payments between May 2014 and June 2015. The other case was reported in 2016.
It was a common criminal tactic to go after smaller third parties when targeting customer data at bigger brands, said security expert Rik Ferguson, at Trend Micro.
"Ultimately, it's the customers of Trump hotels that have been affected.
"Can you say that Trump's chain is without reproach?
"Not really, it's part of your due diligence to ensure that your suppliers are of the same security standard."
Mr Ferguson added that the stolen data, including personal information on customers, was sensitive and that similar caches were frequently traded in underground communities.
"It really illustrates the importance of learning a lesson from past breaches, which doesn't seem to be the case here," he told the BBC.
The former Wales fly-half believes Howley has key selection issues if Wales continue the expansive style employed against New Zealand in June.
Wales face Australia, Argentina, Japan and South Africa in November.
"I do think it's a bit of a grenade for him because expectations will be high," Davies said on BBC Wales' Scrum V.
"Australia are not going well, Wales will expect to beat Argentina and Japan so maybe three out of four, or four from four - that's the expectation aspect of it."
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Wales lost all three Tests against New Zealand in the summer, but impressed ex-All Blacks scrum-half Justin Marshall who said their tactics were a revelation.
Davies believes Wales will only continue the style change if they believe it can win Test matches.
And he thinks established players like Dan Biggar and Jamie Roberts will be at the heart of selection issues facing Howley if that is the case.
"Will they change their style?" he asked.
"If they think they can win playing the style they have, then I'm sure they'll go with the same combinations and same style of football with a little bit of tweaking.
"If they are going to change it drastically they are going to have to change personnel.
"The way that Sam Davies plays - he plays on the front foot - Dan hasn't played enough yet so we'll have to see how Dan's form comes.
"The Blues are going well with [fly-half Gareth] Anscombe. Do you put Scott Williams in or do you ask Jamie Roberts to play a little bit differently?
"The two crucial areas of selection will be 10 and 12, those are the ones who will orchestrate how Wales want to play.
"Liam Williams will have to be nailed on full-back and Leigh Halfpenny on the wing so those are the changes that are going to be crucial to this autumn."
Howley is deputising for Gatland for the second time, having been in charge during the New Zealander's first stint as Lions coach in 2013.
Gatland coached Wales for autumn 2012 defeats by the All Blacks and Wallabies with Howley in charge for wins over Argentina and Samoa and the successful 2013 Six Nations campaign.
Davies contends Howley is now solely in charge of Wales for this season.
"And now his stamp is going to be on it. In 2013 Gatland was overseeing it. Now it's up to Rob and I wish him well.
"And I hope that he does make a few changes and we do evolve a little bit and we play a little bit differently."
"I just want to ask the security personnel who fired pellets at me what my fault was," Miss Mushtaq says, as she stands by the same window she was sitting at when pellets blinded her.
She has been in and out of hospitals for the past three months in an attempt to regain her vision. Nothing has worked so far, but she remains hopeful.
Ms Mushtaq says she wanted to become a doctor before losing her vision. She brings out her text books to show me, and flips the pages though she cannot read them anymore. "I can only feel them now," she says tearfully.
Concern in Kashmir over police pellet guns
Photoshopped celebrities used for Kashmir pellet gun campaign
She also shows me a school photo identity card.
The continuing unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir has seen the deaths of 89 civilians with thousands injured.
India blames Pakistan for stirring up violence in the region, a charge that it denies. Both countries claim Kashmir in its entirety but only control parts of it.
The region has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years, sparking two wars between the countries.
Within the Muslim-majority territory, some militant groups have taken up arms to fight for independence from Indian rule or a merger with Pakistan.
And the widespread use of pellet guns to quell protests in recent months has led to more than a thousand people sustaining eye injuries.
Pellet guns - a form of shotgun - were first used by the police as a non-lethal weapon to quell protests in Indian-administered Kashmir in 2010. They are normally used for hunting animals.
The gun fires a cluster of small, round-shaped pellets, which resemble iron balls, at high velocity.
A pellet gun cartridge can contain up to 500 such pellets. When the cartridge explodes, the pellets disperse in all directions.
They are less lethal than bullets but can cause serious injuries, especially if they hit the eye.
Doctors treating pellet gun wounds in Kashmir told the Indian Express newspaper they were seeing "sharp and more irregular-shaped pellets" which were causing "more damage" this time.
Miss Mushtaq's family is struggling to come to terms with her injuries.
Her mother bursts into tears as a family member helps Ms Mushtaq don a scarf and sunglasses to hide her eyes and scarred face.
"If she was killed, I would have been able to overcome the grief but the sight of her blinded eyes kills me every day," her father says as he shows me pictures of her daughter in the hospital ICU.
As for Miss Mushtaq herself, she is trying to stay positive.
She greets every guest coming to enquire about her health with a smile, drinks her tea and tries to console her family members and relatives.
Later, she goes out for a walk with some of her relatives, smile still intact.
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In the short and censored clip, the man says: "My name is Kim Han-sol, from North Korea, part of the Kim family."
He says he is with his mother and sister, but there are no details on the date or location. It's the Kim family's first public comment since the murder.
His father was killed in Kuala Lumpur airport on 13 February by attackers who smeared his face with VX nerve agent.
Officials at South Korea's Unification Ministry and National Intelligence Service say the man in the video is Kim Han-sol.
The 40-second clip features the man identified as Kim Han-sol sitting against a grey wall. In perfect, slightly accented English, he introduces himself and says: "My father has been killed a few days ago. I'm currently with my mother and my sister."
He shows what appears to be a North Korean diplomatic passport to confirm his identity, though the details have been blocked out, and says he is "grateful to..." before the audio and image are censored.
He ends by saying: "We hope this gets better soon."
As his father was killed on 13 February, it is unclear when and where the video was filmed, and what Kim Han-sol's current whereabouts are.
It was put online by a group called the Cheollima Civil Defense - they have not previously been heard of, and appear to have registered a website and YouTube account only recently.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the group presumably assists escaping North Koreans - there is a town south-west of Pyongyang named Cheollima. They sent the video link to the Malaysia correspondent for Channel News Asia.
A message in English on the CCD website said it had responded to a request for protection from "survivors of the family of Kim Jong-nam".
"We have in the past addressed other urgent needs for protection. This will be the first and last statement on this particular matter, and the present whereabouts of this family will not be addressed."
It also thanked several countries for offering emergency humanitarian assistance, including the Netherlands, China and the US and "a fourth government to remain unnamed", while giving particular thanks to the Netherlands ambassador in South Korea, AJA Embrechts.
He is believed to be 21, and has lived a low-profile life since his father's exile, growing up in Macau and China.
In 2012, he appeared in a TV interview for Finnish TV from Bosnia, where he was studying, saying he had never met his powerful uncle or his grandfather, the late Kim Jong-il.
He said he had "always dreamed that one day I would go back and make things better and make it easier for the people" of North Korea.
Kim Jong-nam was once seen as a potential future leader of North Korea, but was bypassed for succession in favour of his younger half-brother. He has since lived in exile.
Though it fiercely denies this, North Korea is widely assumed to have carried out the attack with the deadly toxin, potentially to remove a threat the leadership.
Mr Kim's body remains in a mortuary in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has said it will not release it until the Kim family provides DNA samples.
Two women have been charged with murder - one Indonesian, one Vietnamese - but both say they were duped into killing Kim, and believed they were taking part in a televised prank.
Malaysia is seeking seven North Koreans, including a diplomat - it believes three suspects are hiding in the North's embassy in KL, which has been surrounded by police.
North Korea has yet to confirm that the dead man is Mr Kim - he was travelling under a passport in a different name.
It says the man died of a heart attack, not chemical attack, and is furious that a post-mortem was carried out. It has accused Malaysia of conducting a biased investigation and colluding with its enemies, and is demanding to be given the body.
In an extraordinary move on Tuesday, North Korea banned Malaysians in the country from leaving, citing security reasons.
Malaysia called this an "abhorrent act" which was "in total disregard of all international law and diplomatic norms", then did the same thing for North Koreans in Malaysia.
Both countries have already expelled each other's ambassadors.
Her condition has resulted in a severe facial disfigurement and the constant risk of life-threatening nosebleeds.
She doesn't get many "haters" on her channel but admits that when she began vlogging, the cruel comments did upset her.
"It definitely got to me at first, and I may have shed a few tears - but, as I've grown as a vlogger, I've learnt that the comments from the haters are basically all the same.
"They may say things like, 'You are ugly,' but really they don't like themselves and they have nothing better to do."
Nikki currently has more than 200,000 subscribers to her channel and hopes to break the million mark at some point.
Making videos started as a hobby, a natural follow-on from the role-playing games she already loved.
When she began posting them to YouTube in 2013, she became part of a new generation of tweenagers - children from eight to 13 - who run their own channels.
She advises any newbies to "make sure they always show what they have made to their parents".
At first, Nikki's parents, worried by the reaction she might receive, insisted that the comments section was turned off.
But her mother says that once they saw how much it meant to Nikki and how much she craved feedback, they changed their minds.
Shauna Pomerantz, associate professor at the department of child and youth studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, says Nikki is a great role model for young girls.
"She is the champion of the not-perfect girl, and she is absolutely inspirational to watch," she told the BBC.
"I can see why people love her - she is a hero to anyone who feels like an outsider."
Across the pond, 13-year-old American dancer and singer JoJo Siwa vlogs about much the same thing as Nikki Lilly, although, with more than three million followers, she is better established.
There are, says Prof Pomerantz, thousands of similar girls on YouTube and they are "mostly white, upper-class, pretty and thin".
Prof Pomerantz's own nine-year-old daughter is a mega-fan of JoJo's, and while her daughter doesn't know why she likes her so much, her mother thinks there are two main reasons.
"Firstly, this is a world where no adults are visible and it is fantastic for children to see a world where kids are in charge."
The second reason is likely to be the normalcy of the videos.
"This stuff is really very mundane," Prof Pomerantz says.
"Any adult watching would be bored within seconds.
"These vloggers invite their fans on closet tours, show them how to do a high ponytail, show them their underwear."
And this means children can relate to these "stars" in ways a previous generation could not, says Prof Pomerantz.
Gone are the days when celebrities were one step removed, in the pages of a glossy magazine or on the set of a TV programme - now children are quite literally invited to look around their bedrooms.
Nikki Lilly is a huge fan of Zoella, who, at the grand old age of 27, is a veteran of the beauty vlog.
She says she loves her because "she is like a chatty girl next door".
But Zoella, like other celebrity vloggers, has another secret to her success, a willingness to share her vulnerability with her fans - in her case, crippling anxiety.
Much has been written about how the YouTube generation are growing up with no privacy - willing to share on social media every detail of their lives, but Prof Pomerantz is not overly concerned.
"While their mothers may have kept a diary under lock and key, now there is a different way of sharing secrets and young people are happy to tell the world," she says.
"In some ways, this is a form of empowerment.
"Young people are more likely to be open and honest."
Journalist Zoe Williams worries, though, that YouTube could be spawning a generation of egotists.
Writing about Zoella in the Guardian newspaper, she says: "Her delight in the inconsequential is perversely infectious; there is something rather relaxing about the company of a person who will say out loud anything that pops into their head."
But, she adds: "The depth of her fascination with herself is also rather alienating."
There is no shortage of children desperate to mimic their YouTube heroes and start their own vlogs - but, for the vast majority, stardom is unlikely to follow.
Amanda Lenhart, a senior research scientist at the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, says for those who do not get many followers, it is simply a valuable life lesson.
"It is not pleasant, but is it any different from wanting to be a professional football player and finding you are not good enough? It is part of growing up," she says.
Justin Escalona, 20, who started a YouTube channel with his friends when he was 11, has some advice for children wanting to do the same.
"I think having an outlet for young kids to express their creativity is a positive thing," he says.
"Just don't put stupid or inappropriate stuff online and don't worry about getting views."
Now a film student, his vlogs have morphed into slick, cinematic affairs, but he advises children against feeling the need to always be "camera-ready".
"Just be genuine," he says.
"If you're faking the best version of yourself, it will show over time.
"If you're sharing your genuine high points, along with maybe your not-so-high points, people will respect and like you for being real."
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Alun Cairns made the comments on the BBC's Question Time programme.
During the fractious exchange with Ms Wood he said it "wasn't so long ago" that "cottages were being burned down".
Ms Wood called for the "outrageous" comments to be withdrawn.
The Wales Office declined to respond to her criticism of the secretary of state.
Plaid Cymru leader in Westminster Hywel Williams said Mr Cairns should consider his position.
Speaking to BBC Wales, he said: "I think he should apologise and consider whether he really is up to the job.
"I'm not calling on him to resign. It's a matter for him - is he really up to it?"
Labour AM David Rees also called for Mr Cairns to apologise.
He tweeted that the Welsh Secretary should "withdraw" his allegation.
"Unacceptable comments from any politician," he said.
Mr Cairns had told the programme, as recorded in Neath on Thursday evening, that Ms Wood "seems to be very open to immigration into the UK but if it goes into Welsh-speaking communities then she's got something very serious to say".
Ms Wood challenged him, saying: "What are you talking about? Give me a quote, quote me."
The cabinet minister continued, saying "when there's a migration into Welsh-speaking communities, the integration in those communities, and I'm a passionate Welsh speaker... isn't necessarily as it is and many of your members have taken direct action in the past, many have broken the law to that effect".
"I would hope that you'd condemn them bearing in mind the standpoint you're taking now," he said.
Ms Wood protested: "Who are you talking about? What are you talking about?"
The Conservative MP for Vale of Glamorgan replied that there were "communities in Wales where there are nationalist activists that take direct action against people who come in".
Mr Cairns added: "It wasn't so long ago that some of the cottages were being burned down."
Ms Wood said that was "nothing to do with Plaid Cymru", calling the comments "outrageous".
On Friday, Ms Wood accused the Welsh secretary of "distorting history with smears and insinuation", saying he was "in denial over the divisive rhetoric coming from numerous voices in his own Tory party".
"‎The secretary of state for Wales is guilty of peddling the exact sort of myths and smears which breed hostility and turn people against each other," she said.
"Such comments and insinuations are not what you would expect from a government minister. If he had any integrity, he would withdraw what he said."
Defending her party, Ms Wood said that "Plaid Cymru is an out‎ward-looking and internationalist party" and that since the referendum "we have challenged the Westminster establishment's lurch to the right as well as growing casual racism".
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Council waste officers will use a smart phone to log, photograph and plot fly-tipping incidents onto a GPS mapping system in real time.
It will pinpoint fly-tipping hotspots in Carmarthenshire, Gwynedd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Newport, Denbighshire and Cardiff.
The current system logs data on to a spreadsheet.
The Flymapper was developed by Fly-tipping Action Wales.
Culprits face fines of up to £50,000 or imprisonment.
The current system records data on a spreadsheet but the app allows officers to upload images and pinpoint them to GPS locations, which shows hot-spots for fly-tipping.
"What it will give us, crucially, is the location of the incident, a photograph of the incident and the time it's being fly-tipped," said Fly-tipping Action Wales programme manager Gary Evans.
"It allows local authority officers now to be far more strategic in targeting resources to combat the problem."
Waste officer at Carmarthenshire council Mike Roberts added: "Various incidents have been mapped within the first month, and already benefits are apparent, the map illustrates the concentrations of incidents, and over time will allow for targeted campaigns to reduce fly-tipping in those areas."
The House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) are designed to block access to sites containing unauthorised copyright material.
Content owners would be given the power to request court orders to shut down sites associated with piracy, and advertisers and ISPs would be forbidden from doing business with infringers based overseas.
Sopa would also require search engines to remove suspect foreign sites from their results.
A more detailed explanation of thebills can be read here.
The English-language site of Wikipedia, the user-generated news site Reddit and the comedy website network Cheezburger took part in the protest.
The WordPress blog system also took its homepages offline andurged the ownersof the 70.4 million sites that use its service to join in.
The BBC asked some of the parties involved in the dispute to explain their positions.
At Wikipedia we are very strong defenders of freedom of speech and the open internet. We believe that if you want to combat piracy then measures that ask search engines to delist things or DNS services that block things are the wrong approach.
The right approach is to follow the money. To go after the people who are engaging in large scale criminal enterprises rather than burdening the entire internet with a regime that doesn't have very much promise of working.
And things could get really bad if we get into a situation where some of the worst burdens of these rules go through.
We have strong indications from venture capitalists that they would find it hard to invest in new start-ups in the user-generated content space.
Certainly innovations like Wikipedia would become very difficult if it were necessary for us to police everything that users were doing against some blacklist of websites.
In the worst case scenario we could have a situation where the US creates a Chinese style firewall in which sites can get blacklisted merely on an accusation. Some of the variations of the bill make it a little harder to get blacklisted, but in general we just think the entire approach is the wrong one.
Bad US law affects people all around the world. Look at the case of Richard O'Dwyer [the British student who created TVShack - a site which provided links to other pages containing pirated material].
The young man is being threatened with extradition to the US over alleged violations of US copyright law even though he lives in the UK and everything he did was on servers based in the UK.
A big part of Sopa is about dealing with overseas websites. That will have a huge impact on the very exciting UK IT internet start-up scene if it becomes likely that on a single complaint from a US movie studio some promising young British firm would be shut down.
We think it is a global issue because the US has such a strong impact on the internet.
Many of the supporters of this bill portray those of us who are against it as being somehow pro-piracy.
That is absolutely false. We are pro-freedom of speech.
Many of us, including me personally, are quite anti-piracy. I just want to fight piracy in a way that will really work and make a real difference.
Mr Wales is the co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia
I've built my life on a free and open internet. As the co-founder of WordPress.org, a free software project that aims to democratise publishing, and the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com that hosts blogs from around the world in pursuit of the same goal, the proposed US legislation to regulate and censor the free and open foundation of the internet makes my mouth go dry with fear.
The rise of the web over the past two decades and the freedom to publish and express yourself online will be looked back upon as a cultural revolution.
We have gone from a world split between gatekeepers and media "consumers" to a world in which anyone regardless of geography, finances, social class, race, gender, or any other demographic identifier is free to engage with the rest of the world on their own terms.
That freedom is of paramount importance and must be protected.
That's why we're blacking out our websites on the 18th to raise awareness of this issue, and giving our users tools to do the same.
The tech world is fiercely competitive and companies seldom agree on anything, when you see so many united in solidarity on a single issue, you know there's something to it.
What concerns me the most about Sopa and the Protect IP Act is not that media companies and legislators want to have measures in place to protect copyright - for example we reply to and comply with DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices on WordPress.com when we receive them, it works well for everybody - it's that the authors of the legislation don't seem to really understand how the internet works.
The definition of domestic versus foreign sites shows a woeful lack of comprehension about how domains are used and how traffic flows on the internet.
Where do I stand? On the side of publishing freedom.
What do I hope for? That these pieces of legislation be set aside, and that any future legislation in this arena be drafted by people who understand how the internet works - and how it won't if they do the wrong thing.
Mr Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress
There is a growing problem that entertainment and technology companies face across the world: rogue websites that profit from stolen content and counterfeit goods.
Many countries have taken reasonable measures to target this activity. Intellectual property laws have allowed commerce, innovation and free speech to flourish on the Internet.
In the United States, criminal websites located in other countries are engaging in destructive behaviour but are currently beyond the reach of our courts and law enforcement agencies. So, there should be nothing controversial about taking measures to limit the access of these foreign rogue websites - that engage in behaviour that is illegal for domestic websites - to American consumers and the American market
Measured legislation, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, has been introduced in Congress to address rogue websites and has been modified to address the concerns of the technology industry.
The importance of this legislation is evident in its broad support. It has the rare bipartisan support of Democrats and Republicans, the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) and Chamber of Commerce as well as a large coalition of businesses, unions, law enforcement officials and elected leaders from across the country.
The bills will encourage innovation while preserving millions of jobs that depend on intellectual property protection, including about 2.2 million Americans whose jobs depend on the film and television industries.
Unfortunately, opponents of the legislation have resorted to attacking the legislation without engaging in a real discussion of the provisions of the bill. Hopefully, this is not a stalling tactic to avoid targeting these foreign rogue websites and the profits they create for American companies that facilitate their illegal behaviour.
Recently, the Obama Administration stated that it looks forward to working with all parties to pass legislation this year to combat foreign piracy. All industries should work together to pass the legislation.
Every day that Congress fails to act on the legislation, American jobs are at risk and more consumers are vulnerable to criminal and malicious behaviour.
Mr O'Leary is the MPAA's senior executive vice-president of global policy and external affairs.
The controversy around the Protect IP and Stop Online Piracy Acts (Pipa and Sopa) has certainly gotten a lot of attention. We'd be concerned, too, if only the hyperbolic claims being thrown around actually pertained to these bills.
As it stands, there is a disconnect between the actual contents of the legislation and the claims being made against them.
Last week, both Senator Leahy and Congressman Smith, in a good-faith effort to address the concerns raised about the bill, announced they would roll back the provisions of these bills designed to block foreign criminal websites, striking a major conciliatory note with those who raised legitimate concerns.
That was on top of the changes that guarantee the bill applies only to foreign sites.
What remains are two pieces of legislation that are narrowly tailored and commercially reasonable for taking an effective swipe at the business models of rogue sites.
To those who are familiar with the legislation, the claims for potential of censorship, breaking the internet, and lack of due process have left us scratching our heads.
Both bills include narrowly tailored definitions of rogue sites, targeting the worst of the worst online counterfeiters and pirates.
The bills say only the Department of Justice can initiate a full and comprehensive federal court process to obtain a court order to ask payment processors, ad networks, and search engines to cut off their services to these illicit websites.
The victims of rogue sites are given an opportunity to bring a case at their own expense, with no possible chance to recover any money whatsoever, and an even more limited set of remedies. Further, an extensive checklist of due process and checks and balances are ensured to protect from potential misuse.
These bills are critically important and needed now. Our economy is hurting as we watch foreign counterfeiters and pirates recklessly chop away at our creative industries and the more than 19 million people they employ.
And rogue sites harm consumers with websites that look authentic, but in fact sell fakes like clothing, electronics, and medicine that are often shoddy and sometimes dangerous.
How big is this problem? Rogue sites garner over 53 billion visits a year.
Enforcement of intellectual property has yet to reach the 21st Century: Pipa and Sopa help plug this massive loophole.
We all recognise that theft is not a free market principle, which is why IP thieves are not allowed to flourish in the physical marketplace. We applaud our enforcement agencies for taking a hard stance on counterfeiters in the brick and mortar world, but they frankly lack the tools to apply existing laws to our digital storefronts.
What cannot be done is to do nothing. Indeed, there is broad consensus that something must be done to address online counterfeiting and piracy, which already costs the global economy $650bn (£432bn) annually.
Supporters and sponsors of the legislation have made a good faith effort in addressing reasonable concerns while constructing and amending the bills.
Mr Tepp is chief intellectual property counsel for the Global Intellectual Property Center at the US Chamber of Commerce
James Green, head of planetary science at Nasa, told BBC News that the agency was investing in the technology and looking at how best it could be used.
Scientists studying these "smallsats" believe they have now proven their utility for cutting edge science.
They could be deployed from larger spacecraft to carry out targeted investigations, Dr Green explained.
These would complement the objectives of the main mission. Indeed, the Insight mission to Mars will test this approach, despatching two small satellites to collect data as the main lander descends to the Red Planet's surface.
But smallsats could also operate in constellations of 10 or many more.
"We're thinking about some other cubesat concepts, not only at Mars, but at the Moon, at asteroids, at Venus," the director of Nasa's planetary science division told me here at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Texas.
Dr Green said: "There's an array of ideas that we're kicking around right now. So I think what we'll see in the next 10 or 15 years is that the smaller satellites will have their own way to be implemented in planetary science that will be very complementary and we'll get some exciting science from them."
These spacecraft typically weigh less than 180kg compared with several tonnes for the satellites commonly used for bigger, costlier planetary missions.
"What we're seeing is a capability that we haven't really seen before in terms of small satellites that can do pretty good science at a much reduced cost compared to the big missions," Dr Steve Mackwell from the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) in Maryland told BBC News.
"The miniaturisation and new capabilities means that we can open up science to places that we would have had to send a larger mission, and as a result it may never have flown."
"We're really opening up the opportunity to look at the inner Solar System, to places like Venus and the Moon."
At a Nasa briefing here at the LPSC, Dr Green said sending miniature satellites to other planetary bodies had previously presented challenges: "The further you are away, you get power difficulties, communication difficulties. There's a number of problems that arise from that. But we shouldn't be afraid... we need to figure out what are the technologies we need to make them a viable set of missions."
Dr Mackwell cites a few advances that are already helping bridge the gap. "The propulsion systems are compact enough now to put them in places where they can get a ride and then manoeuvre to their ultimate destination," he explained.
Engineers are also demonstrating innovative ways to fold up solar panels into smallsats, in order to boost their capabilities.
He added: "These [spacecraft] aren't limited to orbital components, some of these smallsats could go down to the surface of a planet potentially. We've talked about Venus for smallsats to do exploration.
"It's difficult to do anything at Venus… it has a surface temperature of 470C and a surface pressure of 90 bars. So the risk associated with a large mission may be too high to absorb that, whereas with a small mission you can send them very capably."
Progress is being made on the technology required to achieve this. Engineers at Nasa's Glenn Research Center recently demonstrated printed electronics that could operate for prolonged periods in the harsh conditions found on Venus.
Nasa's announcement on smallsats follows a 2016 report by the US National Academies that concluded that the technology platforms had demonstrated their ability to provide high value science.
Last year, Nasa put out a call for smallsat ideas, which drew 102 proposals from the planetary science community. The space agency considered missions costing up to $100m (£80m).
From this longlist, an initial 10 missions have been selected, two each for Venus, the Moon, asteroids, Mars and outer planets and icy bodies. But several more that didn't quite make the cut this time could be funded in the near future as Nasa expands its mission roster of smallsats.
Nasa largely escaped the large cuts made to other federal agencies for 2018 in President Trump's budget request announced late last week. Its budget was reduced by only 1% to $19.1 billion.
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"The IMF conducts its negotiations in good faith, not by way of threats, and we do not communicate through leaks," Ms Lagarde wrote in a letter to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
Her letter comes after Wikileaks published a transcript of IMF officials discussing bailout negotiations.
One says a "crisis" could force a deal.
Greece publicly demanded an explanation after the leak, suggesting the comments meant the IMF could be planning to deliberately prolong debt negotiations until the country was close to running out of money.
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Ms Lagarde said the "incident" had made her "concerned as to whether we can indeed achieve progress", but said she had decided to allow the IMF team to return to Athens to continue debt discussions.
However, she also warned that the latest bailout deal was "still a good distance away".
She said that the IMF could only support a deal that would enable "robust growth" for Greece, while also allowing it to tackle its debt repayments.
Last year, Greece agreed a multi-billion dollar bailout with the EU and IMF that was needed for the country to avoid bankruptcy and stay in the eurozone.
Talks between Greece, the EU and the IMF on a bailout review, assessing Greece's progress at implementing money-saving reforms and aimed at unlocking further loans, are due to resume this week.
The review has been suspended twice since January due to disagreement among the lenders over the estimated size of Greece's fiscal gap by 2018, as well as different opinions on pension reforms and how bad loans are being managed.
"In the interest of the Greek people, we need to bring these negotiations to a speedy conclusion," wrote Ms Lagarde.
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Broad, 30, who made his Test debut against Sri Lanka in 2007, credits the selectors, who he believes are more patient than in the 1970s or 80s.
He says things were different when his dad Chris made his Test debut in 1984.
"I feel very fortunate I've played in an era where selectors have looked after players," Broad told BBC Sport.
"They almost pick characters and techniques that they feel will succeed at international cricket."
Broad struggled on his debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo, conceding 95 runs for one wicket, but has since gone on to take 360 Test wickets at an average of 28.48.
"There's no doubt if I was a bowler in the 70s or 80s there's a huge chance I'd have played two or three Test matches," he said.
Broad, like his father, was predominantly a batsman until the age of 17, when he says he "grew a foot in a year" and within two and a half years was bowling for England.
"It was quite a quick rise and I did a lot of my learning playing international cricket, which is quite a tough thing to do," added the Nottinghamshire right-armer.
"My first 15 to 20 Tests I was almost fourth seamer with Freddie Flintoff in the side, thrown the ball when nothing was happening - trying to make something happen.
"When you become more experienced in the team you get given the responsibility to bowl at the better times, bowl with the new ball, and that makes a big difference."
Broad praised the role of England's leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson, 34, in his own rise to the top.
Anderson, who has taken 463 wickets since making his Test debut in 2003, is set to join the squad before the first Test in Rajkot following a shoulder injury.
"There is no way I would be sat here without Jimmy Anderson, because every bowler needs a partner that you feed off," said Broad.
"The amount I have learned from him. The amount of spells I've taken wickets that I've owed to him, where he has created pressure at the other end.
"There is no doubt the partnership has gone from strength to strength in the past five years and he has become a friend for life as well.
"I owe a huge amount to Jimmy and hopefully I have got a few more years learning off him. We have always talked and tried to learn off each other, but we have never had that competiveness against each other."
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Broad will be "extremely proud" to win his 100th cap but is keen to play down his own achievements this week, instead focusing on the first Test against India.
"It's going to be an exciting week," he added. "It's a huge game. We all know how important it is to start well in India.
"I'm only 30 and it's another game really. I've got a lot of things to achieve. I want to play for a lot more Test matches."
"Right now we are doing nothing," said Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
"I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies. For now, that is certainly enough."
Dylan has yet to comment about winning the prestigious prize last week.
The 75-year-old performed in Las Vegas shortly after his win was announced but made no mention of the award.
It is not known whether the singer-songwriter will travel to Stockholm to receive his award in person on 10 December.
"If he doesn't want to come, he won't come," Danius told reporters. "It will be a big party in any case and the honour belongs to him."
Dylan is the first person to receive the award for songwriting and the first American to win since 1993.
The balladeer, artist and occasional actor was recognised "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
A message recognising the honour was posted on Dylan's official Facebook page.
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The study also estimates the tax might raise £45m a year, which the party say could help employ 1,000 extra doctors.
But there is also a warning in the study that the extra tax is likely to hit people on lower incomes hardest.
First Minister Carwyn Jones criticised Plaid's "pop tax" arguing it is not a "sensible" long term policy.
The policy was first announced by Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood at her party's annual conference last October.
The research, by LG Research, is based on existing studies of how a sugary drinks tax might work.
The findings include:
Plaid health spokeswoman Elin Jones said the research suggested a 20% tax could lead to a 15% reduction in consumption of sugary drinks.
"It's absolutely right for the state to look at taxation as a means of dis-incentivising bad habits by the population," she said.
"The state already does it in the context of tax on cigarettes, tax on alcohol.
"Now we think it's time that Wales can lead the way in putting additional tax on sugary drinks to reduce consumption of sugar, which is at too high a level in people's individual diet."
The policy was again dismissed by Carwyn Jones at First Minister's Questions on Tuesday.
"It's not sensible, in my view, to say that you're going to pay for a thousand doctors by ensuring people drink more pop," Mr Jones told AMs.
"It's not a very firm foundation on which to build a policy, namely that you must ensure that people drink more pop in order to have more doctors; less pop, fewer doctors.
"I don't see how that would work in the longer term."
The British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) insisted such a tax would "neither have the health nor economic impact" suggested "not least because obesity stems from a range of factors, not one product".
BSDA director general Gavin Partington said: "In France a soft drinks tax led to an initial sales fall of 2% in 2012 but they rose in 2013 and are up 6% this year.
"Denmark scrapped its 'fat' tax when consumers travelled across the border to do their shopping and Belgium abandoned its plans, too, noting that there was no evidence that tax is effective."
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Rooney scored a penalty in England's Euro 2016 qualifying match against Switzerland, taking his goal-scoring tally to 50.
Legendary footballer Sir Bobby Charlton was the previous record holder, who scored 49 goals for England.
After a 2-0 victory Rooney said that breaking the record was a "dream come true" and that he felt very "proud" of his achievement.
Three new episodes, starring the show's iconic puppets, including Lady Penelope and Parker, will be produced at Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire.
The children's TV programme was written and filmed at the site of the estate between 1964 and 1966.
The project will use audio recordings of the original voice cast.
As well as these recordings, which were first released in 1966, the Thunderbirds 1965 project will feature recreated puppets and sets.
The project, created by Stephen La Riviere, is supported by ITV, which first aired the programme in 1965, Sylvia Anderson, and the Gerry Anderson estate - represented by his son Jamie Anderson.
"Knowing that Thunderbirds will return to the Slough Trading Estate - its spiritual home - fills me with pride," Mr Anderson Jr said..
"I cannot wait to see these new episodes being shot on Stirling Road, which was the site of the original studio building where the classic series was filmed."
Mr La Riviere said he hoped returning to the trading estate site, run by Segro, would "inspire us in the same way it did the original production team".
A crowdfunding appeal set up to raise money for the project has so far raised more than £150,000, which Mr La Riviere said was three quarters of its target.
Gerry Anderson, who lived in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire before his death in 2012, also created other TV classics including Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Stingray.
The minister was requested to appear again at the committee after it had heard claims in January that she had been briefed on safety concerns as far back as 2012.
Ms Ní Chuilín took an oath before addressing the committee on Thursday where she was then asked to proceed with her opening statement.
The minister was appearing before Stormont's culture, arts and leisure committee on Thursday morning.
She began by saying no other witness had been asked to give evidence under oath to the inquiry and expressed concern at what she described as an alteration in procedure "at this late stage".
She also questioned the committee's fairness. Ms Ní Chuilín spoke for more than 80 minutes, reading from a prepared text, outlining the chronology of events surrounding the planning and design for Casement.
She then said she would allow the committee to make its own mind up on whether it would recall all witnesses to be questioned under oath rather than singling out individuals.
She said she would be happy to take questions in the future only after the committee had reached a decision.
She said only then would she return to the committee and looked forward to hearing from it.
Ms Ní Chuilín then got up to leave and was asked by the committee chairman, Nelson McCausland, if she was not taking questions.
She asked if he wanted her to read the statement out again.
Mr McCausland then asked: "Minister could you please sit down and answer questions?"
She said she had made her position clear and that she was not going back to answer questions until the position was clarified.
The committee adjourned, resuming just over 10 minutes later.
When it resumed Sinn Féin's Cathal Ó hOisín reported comments to the chair that he said had been made from the public gallery as the previous session had closed.
Mr McCausland said in response that he "did not hear it".
William Humphrey of the DUP said it was unprecedented that the minister had left without answering questions and said it was "the latest in a string of discourtesies extended to this committee by the minister and the department".
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) wants to build a new stadium on its existing grounds at Casement Park, west Belfast, but the multi-million pound project has been beset with problems and delays. Its planning permission was overturned last year.
The culture, arts and leisure committee is conducting an inquiry into whether "appropriate consideration was given to plans for emergency exiting during the design process".
It will include mid-morning flights on weekdays, early morning flights on a Saturday and a Sunday afternoon service.
Edinburgh Airport described the new service as "great news" for business and leisure passengers.
It added that the airline and airport "shared a commitment to improving UK connectivity".
The Millers are bottom of the Championship having only won one game this season.
"It's such an obvious handball. It's not acceptable he can miss that," Stubbs told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"He's a former Premiership referee who should be getting basic decisions right."
Stubbs added: "I hope the assessor wasn't assessing him tonight. I thought there was a real lack of communication between referee and linesman.
"You had the linesman pointing for a corner, then suddenly raising his arm for a goal-kick.
"They were pausing for four or five seconds before making a decision. I thought they were pretty average."
Rotherham equalised in the 34th minute through Danny Ward's volley after trailing early in the game, but Huddersfield's Nahki Wells scored just four minutes later to take the Terriers back to the top of the Championship.
"It was by far our better performance away from home but we've come away with nothing," Stubbs continued.
"We have to do better. I'll keep beating the drum until they get it right. We're not good enough to give teams a start.
"I keep telling them you have to believe yourselves, without belief there's no point in turning up."
The midfielder, 32, was taken off on a stretcher in the 76th minute of the 2-1 loss at the Emirates Stadium.
"It doesn't look like a quick one. He is waiting to see the specialist today [Thursday] so we should know more after that," Dyche said.
Marney has made 21 appearances this season, and scored one goal.
The former Tottenham and Hull player also suffered cruciate knee ligament damage in February 2015.
The White Tigers suffered another postponement on Tuesday as their game with Weston-super-Mare was called off.
"That's the whole reason I asked the chairman about a month ago to get a couple more players in," Tully said.
"I believe I've got the players who can play two or three games a week, they're fit lads and we also have cover in depth which is what we needed."
Truro are currently one place outside of the National League South play-off spots on goal difference, but have at least one game in hand, and in some cases four matches, on the teams above them.
"They're all good players and they all want to be in the starting 11," Tully added to BBC Radio Cornwall.
"The more numbers you have, as long as you've got quality in those numbers, then you shouldn't be afraid.
"I'm not afraid to swap and change players in and out and I know that I have a starting 11 on Saturday and I'm quite happy to change five or six for Tuesday and still be as strong as we were."
Six fire appliances were sent to the McKechnie Jess factory in Port Glasgow Road when the alarm was raised at 03:22.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said about 35 firefighters were tackling the blaze, and there were no casualties.
Diversions were in place, though HGVs were advised not to use these.
Brian Coleman, a Barnet councillor, admitted a charge of common assault by beating at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court.
The 51-year-old was arrested in September after assaulting cafe owner Helen Michael in Finchley High Road.
His lawyer said he had been trying to stop her filming him on a mobile phone as he parked in a loading bay.
Coleman, of Essex Park in Finchley, was ordered to pay £1,385, including a £270 fine, prosecution costs of £850 and £250 to the victim as compensation.
Ms Michael, 50, a mother-of-two, who suffered injuries including scratches to her wrist and soreness to her shoulder and chest, called on Coleman to resign.
She said: "[I was] looking at my phone and all of a sudden he's upon me, it was pure shock.
"I think he's bullied and intimidated people for a long long time and I think he has now got what has been long overdue."
A charge of driving without reasonable consideration was dropped after the prosecution offered no evidence for it.
The court heard Coleman had helped bring in parking charges in the area which were "extremely unpopular" with local residents and businesses.
Ms Michael, a parking campaigner, filmed him after she was informed he had parked in a loading bay and was withdrawing money from a cash machine, the court heard.
The incident was caught on CCTV and the footage shown in the court.
Sentencing Coleman, District Judge Deborah Wright said the "well-known politician" was a man of "previous good character" who had made significant contributions to society.
"I have no doubt that his motives were to avoid the embarrassment of the publicity," she said.
A struggle ensued and there can be "no doubt that struggle was instigated by Mr Coleman", the judge added.
Prosecution lawyer Manjit Mahal said: "He was applying one rule for himself and another for the traders."
But Neville Rudston, defending, said the incident had to be viewed in the context of a campaign "with uncomfortable and personal elements" which the councillor had faced.
Coleman decided to change his plea to guilty after he found it "difficult" to look at footage of the assault, the lawyer added.
After he was charged in October, Coleman was suspended by his party and stripped of his council committee duties.
He was mayor of Barnet between 2009-10 and chair of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.
The actress was widely rumoured to be leaving her role as Clara Oswald after a cliffhanger in the series eight finale, Death In Heaven.
Moffat confirmed to Doctor Who magazine she had asked to be written out.
"That was her last episode," he said. "Then she asked me if she could be in [the] Christmas [episode]. So I said, 'OK, I'll write you out in Christmas.'"
"She came to the read through and did the 'write out' version - and again changed her mind."
"But the truth is I never wanted her to go. And with Last Christmas, I'd already written the alternative version where she stayed, and I preferred that version.
"Frankly, I didn't want to lose her. She's an amazing actress, and she never stops working to make Clara better.
"I was very happy to go the extra mile to make sure we could keep her."
Coleman, who began her career in ITV soap Emmerdale, will now return for a third series as the Doctor's companion.
It makes her the longest-serving assistant of the show's modern era, ahead of Karen Gillan and Billie Piper.
Confirming she would return to the show last December, the 28-year-old, from Blackpool, said: "I couldn't walk away with the story being unresolved.
"The arrival of the 12th Doctor has just kind of dropped this whole bombshell and allowed the dynamic to totally change, so I think just when Clara was feeling more comfortable in the relationship, it has suddenly thrown something new up."
Peter Capaldi, who plays the titular Time Lord said: "I'm thrilled. Jenna has just been fantastic and such a pleasure to work with."
The show is due to return to the BBC this autumn.
Steven Beards, 34, had already been convicted of the rape and murder of Susan Whiting, 20, who was drugged, raped and killed in August, Leicester Crown Court heard.
He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 33 years. His wife Julie Beards, 36, who also has learning difficulties, had denied murder and was convicted of manslaughter.
Miss Whiting's body was found wrapped in a shower curtain under a bed in the Beards' home in Walsall.
Steven Beards, whom the judge described as "a sexually motivated violent killer", denied the charges.
Julie Beards will be sentenced at a later date.
Miss Whiting went to stay the night with the Beards on 16 August, which she had done before. She had become friends with Julie Beards through a local adult community centre.
The following day she was reported missing to the police.
The couple from Bloxwich in Walsall told the student's mother she had left their home safe and well, but the next day police found her body wrapped in a shower curtain under a bed in their house.
Miss Whiting was raped after her food had been laced with a 'sedating hypnotic drug' Zoplicone, and died of a fractured skull when she had been struck on the head at least three times, a post-mortem examination found.
Steven Beards, who has also been convicted of rape, told the court he had "no idea" how evidence of his sperm had been found on Miss Whiting.
He claimed he was planning on being a sperm donor so had kept a sperm sample in his bathroom.
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Susan Whiting placed her trust in two people she thought were her friends.
Susan had stayed with the Beards before and her family trusted them - that trust was totally broken, totally abused.
Julie accused her husband of extreme violence towards her in the past, and even rape - which he denied.
But the police believed she too was to blame for drugging vulnerable Susan and helping to conceal her body.
Steven's head was bowing down in the dock as the judge passed a sentence. He will be spending at least 33 years behind bars.
Det Supt Mark Payne said: "Susan Whiting was a vulnerable young woman who lost her life at the hands of this pair, who betrayed her trust.
"The two have never given a reason why Susan was killed, but we believe the attack was pre-planned and sexually motivated."
Steven Beards initially told police he had not stayed at the house that night and claimed to return home the following morning.
Julie Beards said she was in the bathroom and accused her husband of being a murderer.
Miss Whiting's mother, Maureen, paid tribute to her daughter saying: "She was just 20 years old, an easy-going, loving young lady, enjoying her life. I know she was loved and will be missed by so many people".
Julie Beards lived in a specially adapted bungalow run by the charity Brighter Futures which released a statement: "Our thoughts and sympathy go out to the family of Susan Whiting.
"This has been a very difficult and distressing time for everybody involved in the case. Brighter Futures has been working hard to support our customers and staff as they deal with what has happened."
The museum closed on 27 December after parts were submerged by flood water from the River Foss.
It is set to reopen on 8 April with an improved visitor ride through a new recreation of a Viking city.
Along with experiencing authentic sights, sounds and smells, visitors will be able to listen to the voices of Vikings in different languages.
The refitted centre is said to show a more multi-cultural side of 10th Century York, following new scientific research.
It will tell the story of people who came to the city from the Middle East, Russia, the Mediterranean, and Ireland.
A £1.5m fundraising campaign for the attraction, owned by the York Archaeological Trust, has so far reached £750,000.
Ms Maltby, director of attractions at the museum, said people on the ride would hear more diverse languages from the inhabitants of the city, represented by animatronic models being built by an American firm.
"People came to Jorvik from all over and you would have heard many different languages in the street", she said.
"Archaeological science has moved on so far we can now tell where a person was from, or grew up, from testing his or her skeleton", she said.
People came to Jorvik to trade, settle and some even arrived as slaves, she added.
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Party members gathered in Inverkeithing with the leadership promising that their candidates will stand up for local people with a positive message that "will say a clear no to a second divisive independence referendum".
Party leader Willie Rennie has promised to focus on mental health and education, and to put an end to the council tax.
Borthwick-Jackson, 19, started his career as a trainee at United and has made 14 senior appearances.
Netherlands international John, 24, has been with the Portuguese side since leaving Dutch club FC Twente in 2012 and was on loan at Reading last season.
He previously played for German Bundesliga side Hamburg in 2014.
Former England Under-19 international Borthwick-Jackson made his Premier League debut last season.
"My aim is to play as many games as I can, gain experience and go back and challenge for a place in the team because Jose Mourinho has told me I've got a future there," Borthwick-Jackson told BBC WM.
"I had interest from Premier League clubs and other Championship clubs but I wanted to come here and help the club get back to where they belong, which is the Premier League."
Both players could make their Wolves debuts in Tuesday's EFL Cup second-round tie against Cambridge United.
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The Mail on Sunday says a report by Attorney General Lord Goldsmith in 2003 said the conflict could be challenged under international law.
It claims PM Mr Blair was horrified and those who had a copy were told to "burn it, destroy it."
Any idea of destroying such a report was absurd, Mr Blair's office said.
The newspaper alleges the "burn it" order was issued after a 13-page legal opinion was presented by Lord Goldsmith to Mr Blair less than three weeks before the outbreak of war.
The Mail quotes a senior No 10 figure at the time as saying: "There was pandemonium. The date when war was expected to start was already in the diary, and here was Goldsmith saying it could be challenged under international law. They said 'burn it, destroy it' and got to work on the AG."
The paper reports that among those who were told to destroy their copy was the Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, who it says flatly ignored the order. It says Mr Hoon told it that he would not comment on the allegations while the Chilcot inquiry into the war was still under way.
"This is nonsense as far as Tony Blair knows," his spokesman said of the Mail's allegations.
"No one ever said that in his presence and in any event it would be quite absurd to think that anyone could destroy any such document.
"Mr Blair and Lord Goldsmith dealt with all the circumstances surrounding the advice at the (Iraq) Inquiry at length and with all the documents. The fact is the advice given was that the action was legal and it was given for perfectly good reasons."
While giving evidence at the Iraq Inquiry in January 2010 Lord Goldsmith admitted he changed his legal view of the Iraq war but said it was "complete nonsense" to claim he did so because of political pressure.
He said that until a month before the 2003 invasion, he believed it was "safer" to get a fresh UN resolution but gave the "green light" after deciding force was justified.
Last week Mr Blair apologised for mistakes made over the Iraq War - and said there were "elements of truth" in claims that it caused the rise of Islamic State.
He said "those of us who removed Saddam" did bear some responsibility for the situation in Iraq today.
Sir John Chilcot's inquiry, which began in 2009, is due to published its report in June or July next year.
Dr Michael Grey, who is trialling the technology, said the £500 Oculus Rift system can quickly help medics detect "subtle changes" in players.
Trials of the technology follow several studies linking heading of footballs to degenerative brain disease.
The FA said it took the issue "extremely seriously".
Dr Grey, who has worked on the trial at the University of Birmingham and the University of East Anglia, said virtual reality technology helps to establish whether a player is concussed by testing their ability to balance at the same time as following instructions.
It would come into use when club doctors are forced to make decisions on the sidelines as to whether players should continue to play, he said.
'250 more' footballers with degenerative brain disease
"With our virtual reality balance test we're having the brain do one thing and then challenge it by tilting the room and it's only by doing this we see subtle changes that might not show up in a standard neurocognitive test."
"You will have players who say: 'No I'm fine, I want to go on'. But you do this test - or one like it - I think those questions go away," he added.
BBC reporter Laura May McMullan took the technology to West Bromwich Albion Football Club.
Baggies legend Jeff Astle died 15 years ago. A coroner ruled his death was caused by brain trauma, brought on by heading heavy leather footballs.
His family has campaigned to football authorities for more research into the link between football and dementia.
The club's director of performance, Dr Mark Gillett, said: "I think we're looking for functional tests that allow us to make a quick decision and technology such as that could potentially be very helpful."
At present, players have a baseline test - a clinical, physical and cognitive test at the start of the season.
Machinery is used, but it is far from state-of-the-art.
Currently, a pitch-side doctor is forced to make a decision on whether a player is concussed using more basic methods.
Virtual reality would work alongside the clinical tests to give the medics concrete neurological responses.
The daughter of a former professional footballer who died from brain trauma has walked out of a meeting with a top official in the game.
Dawn Astle was meeting Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), who she believes has a duty of care towards former players. But frustrated with his response, she leaves the room.
Her father Jeff Astle died in 2002 at the age of 59. A coroner ruled his brain trauma was caused by heading footballs.
The Astle family has campaigned for more research into the link between football and dementia.
Former Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion striker Andy Gray has backed the technology.
He tells the programme: "What football has no excuse about is embracing modern technology. It has no excuse. It can't say we don't have the money, it's awash with money.
"Paying millions and millions of pounds to footballers and then worrying very little about their health."
The FA's head of medicine, Dr Charlotte Cowie, said it established an expert panel in 2015 which issued new guidelines on concussion.
"These guidelines were designed to help recognise and manage concussion - from the time of injury through to a player's safe return to football," she said.
"The expert panel further agreed that research is particularly required into the issue of whether degenerative brain disease is more common in ex-footballers."
"We have recently agreed with the PFA to jointly fund and support this research as we believe that a collaborative approach will strengthen the credibility and resource available to the project."
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Bill Watkin, operational director of the school support and training body SSAT, said many heads felt the EBacc was not appropriate for all youngsters.
It comes as Education Secretary Nicky Morgan confirmed pupils would have to study the EBacc from September.
She said the move would ensure pupils received a rigorous academic education.
From September, all pupils starting secondary school will have to study English, a language, maths, science and history or geography at GCSE, in the EBacc.
Those schools that do not have 100% of pupils studying this set of subjects as part of their GCSE courses will not be able to obtain Ofsted's top rating of "outstanding".
The government said the wraparound qualification had been introduced to ensure pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds were not deterred from studying academic subjects.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "As part of our commitment to delivering real social justice, we are determined to ensure that every child who is able studies the core academic subjects that will set them up for later life and help them reach their potential.
"We will work with the sector to make sure there are enough teachers with the right skills and knowledge to allow pupils to study EBacc subjects at GCSE.
"Teaching remains a popular career and we provide bursaries for those training to teach many of the EBacc subjects."
The proportion of pupils entered into the EBacc has almost doubled in recent years, rising from 22% in 2010 to 39% in 2014.
But Mr Watkin said: "The risk is that pupils who can't access some of these subjects will become disaffected and disenfranchised.
"It may cause some pupils to do less well in their exams."
He said a recent snapshot survey of members had been inundated with school leaders saying they would rather lose their top rating than adopt a one-size-fits-all approach.
Mr Watkin said there were also serious consequences for school staffing, with dramatic changes needed in about half of schools.
The likelihood was that the arts, technology, physical education and religious studies would be lost to accommodate compulsory history and geography, he said.
His views were echoed by Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, who said: "We do believe in a broad academic grounding for everybody, but I believe the EBacc is too rigid.
"There are some schools that are very concerned that this rigidity will not meet the needs of their students.
"Therefore, they will offer a broad academic grounding, but they will not offer these specific subjects, even if that means they would lose their outstanding grading."
NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: "A bad idea has suddenly become much worse. Parents, like teachers, want a broad and balanced curriculum for their children.
"It is the responsibility of government to translate that aspiration into a curriculum that reflects the many demands that are made on the school, and that can involve and engage all learners."
An Icelandic court found him guilty of market manipulation in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis.
"This sentence is a big surprise to me as I did not nothing wrong," Sigurjon Arnason told Reuters.
The former chief executives of Iceland's two other big banks, Glitnir and Kaupthing, have already received jail sentences.
The three banks imploded in 2008 after acquiring assets worth approximately 10 times the size of Iceland's economy.
A Reykjavik court said that nine months of Mr Arnason's sentence would be suspended.
Two of his colleagues - Ivar Gudjonsson, a former director of proprietary trading, and Julius Heidarsson, a banker - were also convicted and sentenced to nine months in prison, of which six months would be suspended.
Unlike other Western countries, Iceland has pursued prison sentences for the chief executives and others who were involved in the 2008 financial crisis.
Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, the former chief executive of Kaupthing - formerly Iceland's largest bank - received a jail sentence of five and a half years - the heaviest sentence for financial fraud in Iceland's history.
The country's former prime minister, Geir Haarde, was also found guilty of negligence leading up to the crisis but was not given a jail term.
Judges said the order should be enforced within 10 days and audiences must stand when the anthem is played.
In the 1960s and 1970s, cinemas regularly played the anthem but the practice declined. Opinion on the court move is divided on social media.
There is no uniform law in India regarding the anthem and the 29 states have had their own laws on the issue.
According to the new ruling, the anthem must be played in all cinemas, accompanied by an image of the Indian flag.
"The people should stop following individual notions of freedom and have a sense of committed patriotism," Indian media reports quoted judges as saying.
The hashtag #NationalAnthem was one of the top trends on Twitter India on Wednesday afternoon.
Shyam Narayan Chouksey, a 77-year-old resident of Bhopal, had petitioned the court asking for the national anthem order.
"Over the years I've been seeing that the proper respect for the national anthem is not being paid by the common people as well as the constitutional functionaries," he told the BBC Asian Network.
Shaina NC, spokesperson for the ruling BJP party, called the court ruling a "fantastic" move.
The BBC India Facebook page asked its followers for their opinion.
"Why are we moving backwards[?]" asked Krushik AV. "Patriotism is something through education..."
Another follower, Sachin Sudheer, disagreed saying it was a "wonderful feeling to stand up with everyone".
Although there is no specific law that mandates standing for the anthem in India, the home ministry's rules, which carry the force of law, specify that it is compulsory to stand to attention when the anthem is played.
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The 29-year-old was hurt in the British and Irish Cup tie with London Irish at the Mennaye in December.
He initially had surgery on the problem, but needs more to help it.
"We'll be able to gauge a timeframe from that, but he'll be returning to play at some point next season," Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"I don't want to speculate too much on it," added Cattle of Evans, who has scored four tries in eight Championship games this season and crossed the whitewash against Ireland in November.
"I know a lot of people want to know what's going on with Matt because he's a very popular member of our squad and been a star for us on and off the pitch."
In his 38 caps for Canada, Evans has scored 10 tries and played at the last two World Cups.
Mr Cameron's former director of communications Sir Craig Oliver said in a book that Mrs May was regarded by some as "an enemy agent".
But Mr Duncan Smith urged Remain campaigners to "get behind Theresa May instead of carping".
Sir Craig said the book was an attempt to explain "what went wrong".
In his book, Sir Craig claimed that Mrs May failed to back the Remain campaign 13 times and he also said Boris Johnson believed the Leave campaign would be "crushed".
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Duncan Smith said in a statement: "In the past, a knight of the realm who had failed in battle and lost would have quit the field and retired in humility to better understand their own failings.
"How surprising then to find that far from that, Sir Craig Oliver, one of the leading lights of Remain, has decided to instead try to pin the blame for his failure on others, particularly the new prime minister.
"Craig Oliver's is one of a growing number of foolish attempts by ex-government Remainers who lost to shift responsibility for their failure.
"The grown-up thing for them to do, instead of carping, is to show some humility and get behind Theresa May as she seeks to get back control of migration with the EU as we leave."
Mr Duncan Smith said far from failing to support Mr Cameron in his bid to get a better deal with the EU, Mrs May made her backing for tougher migration controls quite clear.
In response, Sir Craig said Mr Duncan Smith appeared to have got the "wrong end of the stick".
"I have not made the specific allegations he claims," he said. "The book is a sincere and honest attempt to explain what went wrong; and I take full responsibility for the mistakes made by the campaign."
Sir Craig's book, titled Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story Of Brexit, is being serialised in the Mail on Sunday. Neither Downing Street nor Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson have responded.
Speaking on the Murnaghan programme on Sky News, Conservative Party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin said he did not think it was true "at all" that Mrs May had let down Mr Cameron.
"Theresa May during the referendum campaign made her position very clear, " he said. "This is a book that has been written after the event. You have got to have certain spicy things in a book to sell it.
"I don't blame Craig for doing that. At the time, Theresa was very much part of the Remain campaign."
However, former Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, a pro-Leave campaigner, said there were times when she "did wonder" if Mrs May was listening to both sides.
She told BBC One's Sunday Politics: "Her major speech of the referendum campaign expressed real concerns about the possibility of Turkey joining the EU. It also said that the sky is not going to fall in if we leave."
In the book, Sir Craig said Mr Cameron briefly considered staying on as prime minister, despite losing the referendum.
However, he said he decided against it, saying he feared remaining in Downing Street would have left him "being prepared for the slaughterhouse".
Mr Cameron resigned as prime minister the day after the result and was replaced by Mrs May.
Sir Craig said Mrs May only came "off the fence" in favour of Remain after Mr Cameron became "visibly wound up" and gave her a dressing down over the telephone.
Sir Craig's book suggests Mr Cameron was left uncertain over whether Mrs May favoured staying in the European Union.
He said Mrs May was referred to dismissively by aides as "submarine May" during the campaign.
The then home secretary's "sphinx-like approach" became difficult, he added in the book, as the press were questioning which way she would jump.
Sir Craig said matters finally came to a head after a newspaper warned Mr Cameron faced "last-minute opposition" from Mrs May to his deal for EU reform.
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Briggs missed the Six Nations because of a hamstring injury but is named in a squad that includes 12 players with previous World Cup experience.
Claire Molloy, Marie-Louise Reilly and Nora Stapleton will be playing in their third World Cup.
Scrum-half Nicole Cronin, who has played for the Ireland sevens team, is the only uncapped player in the squad.
Ulster players Ashleigh Baxter and Claire McLaughlin are included while Stapleton is joined by fellow Donegal native Larissa Muldoon.
Molloy, Reilly, Stapleton, Ailis Egan, Heather O'Brien, Sophie Spence, Ashleigh Baxter, Paula Fitzpatrick, Alison Miller, Muldoon, Jenny Murphy and Briggs all featured at the 2014 tournament, when Ireland were beaten in the semi-finals by eventual champions England.
England also defeated Ireland in this year's Grand Slam decider in March.
Ireland coach Tom Tierney said the squad had been developed over the past three years with the World Cup in mind.
"As a result of the programme, many players have had the opportunity to prepare for this moment and play international rugby and show their skills at the highest level," said Tierney.
"We have named players who have been here before and are aware of the challenge that lies ahead.
"Then there are a number of players in the squad for whom this will be their first ever World Cup and I am extremely confident they will compete for starting positions throughout the campaign."
Ireland will take on Australia, Japan and France in their World Cup pool with only the winners guaranteed a semi-final place.
The three pool winners will be joined by the best second-placed team in the semi-finals at Kingspan Stadium with the final also taking place at the Ravenhill venue.
"The opportunity to play in a World Cup on home soil is a once in a life time opportunity," added the Ireland coach.
"While we are in a tough pool with Australia, Japan and our Six Nations rivals France, I am sure the players will rise to the occasion in front of their home fans."
Ireland women's World Cup squad
Forwards: Ashleigh Baxter (Cooke/Ulster), Anna Caplice (UL Bohemian/Munster), Ciara Cooney (Railway Union/Leinster), Ailis Egan (Old Belvedere/Leinster), Paula Fitzpatrick (St. Mary's College RFC/Leinster), Ciara Griffin (UL Bohemian/Munster), Leah Lyons (Highfield/Munster), Claire Molloy (Bristol/Connacht), Cliodhna Moloney (Railway Union/Leinster), Heather O'Brien (Highfield/Munster), Ciara O'Connor (Galwegians/Connacht), Ruth O'Reilly (Galwegians/Connacht), Lindsay Peat (Railway Union/Leinster), Marie-Louise Reilly (Old Belvedere/Leinster), Sophie Spence (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
Backs: Niamh Briggs (UL Bohemian/Munster) capt, Eimear Considine (UL Bohemian/Munster), Mairead Coyne (Galwegians/Connacht), Nicole Cronin (UL Bohemian/Munster), Jeamie Deacon (Blackrock College RFC/Leinster), Katie Fitzhenry (Blackrock College RFC/Leinster), Claire McLaughlin (Cooke/Ulster), Alison Miller (Old Belvedere/Connacht), Larissa Muldoon (Railway Union), Jenny Murphy (Old Belvedere/Leinster), Sene Naoupu (Harlequins FC), Nora Stapleton (Old Belvedere/Leinster), Hannah Tyrrell (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
Now Mount Stewart, the historic 18th century house in County Down, can add another accolade after winning a top UK prize for conservation.
It scooped the building conservation award at the 2016 RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) Awards.
The honour was for work carried out as part of a three-year £8m refurbishment.
Mount Stewart, which is located near Newtownards and has been owned by the National Trust since 1977, reopened last year after the refurbishment was complete.
Judges said the project used "highly innovative" techniques to "repair serious structural defects throughout the property".
"Judges were further impressed by the clear collaboration in pioneering the approach of undertaking the works whilst maintaining the building open to the public with the highly successful outcome of increasing visitor numbers and visitor experience," the judges said.
Mount Stewart won the award ahead of competition from projects across the UK including Cardigan Castle in Wales and the Garden Building at Oxford University.
The house has belonged to the Marquesses of Londonderry since 1740 and visitors to the residence over the years have included members of the Royal Family and Winston Churchill.
William Butler Yeats was a frequent visitor to the house and a friend of Lady Mairi Bury, the youngest daughter of the Marquess who died in 2009.
Lord Dunlop said that after the Tories' general election success in Scotland, it was a "good moment" for him to go.
He was given a peerage by David Cameron in 2015, allowing him to take on the role of Scotland Office minister.
The then-prime minister was forced to take that approach after the Tories won just one seat in Scotland in the 2015 election.
Following Thursday's vote, the Conservatives now have 13 MPs from north of the border - their best Scottish Westminster result since 1983.
But the party's success in Scotland stands in stark contrast with the situation in England, where the Tories lost seats leaving Prime Minister Theresa May forced to seek the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to continue in government.
She is now carrying out a cabinet reshuffle - although only has limited room for manoeuvre after the election resulted in a hung parliament.
Lord Dunlop announced his decision on Twitter, stating: "Joined govt 6 years ago to help keep the UK together. 13 Scottish Tory MPs & a 62% Unionist vote share seems a good moment to bow out."
He put on record his thanks to "all friends & colleagues in government", particularly Scottish Secretary David Mundell, as well as "those from across political parties with whom I've worked".
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson was among those who replied to his announcement, thanking him for his "tremendous service".
Mr Mundell also paid tribute to his former colleague. He said: "Andrew Dunlop has been an outstanding minister for Scotland.
"He ensured the Scotland Act 2016 passed successfully through the House of Lords, delivering the Smith Commission powers in full. Since then he has taken forward a host of vitally important initiatives.
"Andrew played a key role in delivering UK City Deals across Scotland and he's provided a strong voice for Scottish business in the UK Government.
"From my personal point of view, Andrew was an invaluable source of support when I was the only Scottish Conservative MP, and I know he will also be greatly missed by everyone at the Scotland Office.
We all thank him and wish him well for the future."
When he took on his role in the Scotland Office Lord Dunlop denied claims from the SNP that he had helped impose the "hated poll tax" as an adviser to Margaret Thatcher, with the Conservative stating that was a "complete myth".
The bodies were excavated at Thornton Abbey in North Lincolnshire.
Between 1347 and 1351 the "Great Pestilence" swept westward across Europe killing millions of people. It later became known as the Black Death.
It arrived on Britain's shores in 1348 and is believed to have wiped out up to 60% of the population at the time.
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Dr Hugh Willmott, from the University of Sheffield's Department of Archaeology, said: "The finding of a previously unknown and completely unexpected mass burial dating to this period in a quiet corner of rural Lincolnshire is thus far unique, and sheds light into the real difficulties faced by a small community ill-prepared to face such a devastating threat."
The large burial site suggests the community was overwhelmed by the Black Death and the number of people who died, he added.
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Remains of teeth from the skeletons found at the site were sent to a university in Canada where ancient DNA was successfully extracted.
The tests revealed the presence of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the plague.
Two further 14th Century plague pits were also uncovered - one in 2013, the other in 2014 - during the building of the Crossrail project in London.
McCaw, who captained the All Blacks to victory in the 2015 World Cup, is the youngest ever member of the order.
It does not carry any title but is restricted to 20 living members at any one time.
"It's an incredible honour," said McCaw, who will be 35 on 31 December. "I've never been comfortable with titles, it's not who I am."
McCaw retired in the wake of New Zealand's success at the World Cup in England, as the All Blacks became the first country to win consecutive tournaments.
He played a world-record 148 Tests, winning 131, and is also a three-time winner of the World Player of the Year award.
"To have my rugby career recognised in this way is very special," said McCaw.
"I've been so lucky to have played with some truly awesome men and while I receive this award, my team-mates are a huge part of our success over the years."
Fellow World Cup winner Dan Carter and the team's mental skills coach, Gilbert Enoka, were made Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Keven Mealamu, Tony Woodcock, Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith, who all retired from international rugby after the World Cup, were made Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Child benefit and public sector pay will be frozen and 25% cut from public service spending - but alcohol, tobacco and fuel will escape tax hikes.
Unveiling his first Budget to MPs, Mr Osborne said "tough but fair" action on debt was "unavoidable".
But Labour said it was "reckless" and would "throw people out of work".
Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said Mr Osborne's budget would stifle growth and hit hardest "those who can least afford it".
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BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson described the financial statement as a "massive gamble economically and politically".
It represents a major departure from the previous government's economic policies, with business leaders saying they hoped it would be a "defining moment" in Britain's economic recovery.
But trade unions have warned hundreds of thousand of jobs could be lost in the public services, potentially wrecking local economies and sparking a "double-dip" recession.
Setting out his plans in the Commons, Mr Osborne said "decisive" action was needed to prevent a "catastrophic collapse" in economic confidence but stressed it would be done in a "fair" way with the better-off shouldering most of the burden.
"Everyone will pay something but the people at the bottom of the income scale will pay proportionately less than those at the top. This is a progressive Budget," he said to jeers from Labour MPs.
UK households, on average, will be about £400 a year worse off, Budget documents suggest, with the poorest 10% losing £200 and the richest £1,800, although the poorest will be hit harder than most as a percentage of their income.
Mr Osborne vowed to balance Britain's books within five years, with the bulk of the savings to come from cuts to benefits and public services rather than tax increases.
And he laid the blame for the state of the nation's finances squarely at the door of the previous Labour government, saying: "The years of debt and spending make this unavoidable."
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Tax credits will be cut for families earning more than £40,000 a year - and there will be a two year pay freeze for public servants paid more than £21,000. Those earning less will get a £250 rise for two years.
Mr Osborne also announced real terms cuts across all government departments of 25% over four years - except health and foreign aid which are ringfenced.
Will Hutton, of the Work Foundation, who is advising the government on public sector pay, described the cuts as "brutal" and questioned whether they were achievable without wrecking the coalition government.
He described Mr Osborne's Budget as the "biggest gamble a post-war government has made".
The full details of the impact of the cuts will not be revealed until Wednesday 20 October, when Mr Osborne publishes his spending review.
The VAT increase, which Mr Osborne said would raise £13bn a year, is to come into effect in January.
Capital gains tax will be increased to 28% for top rate taxpayers - less than the 50% some Conservative backbenchers had feared. This will come into effect at midnight.
In other moves, Mr Osborne pledged to pledge to link pensions to earnings - or prices or 2.5% if they are higher.
Housing benefit will be reformed with a maximum limit of £400 a week, in a package saving £1.8bn a year by the end of the Parliament.
Other benefits to be cut include the health in pregnancy grant while the Sure Start maternity grant will be restricted to the first child only and lone parents will be expected to look for work when their youngest child goes to school.
But there will be an extra £150 a year for the poorest families, through changes to family tax credits.
The government is also to introduce a medical assessment for Disability Living Allowance from 2013 for new and existing claimants.
Mr Osborne also announced plans to help the low paid by raising personal tax allowances, taking an estimated 880,000 people out of the tax system and give millions of basic rate taxpayers a tax cut of £200 per year.
From January 2011, the government will introduce a bank levy, which will apply to the balance sheets of UK banks and building societies and the UK operations of foreign banks. Mr Osborne said the move would raise £2bn a year once it was fully in place.
Mr Osborne said public sector workers paid more than £21,000 a year would have a two year pay freeze with those paid less getting a flat pay increase of £250 for the next two years.
The plan is the first step towards a key Liberal Democrat coalition demand of taking all those earning less than £10,000 out of tax.
The chancellor must find £3.5bn to pay for the giveaway - which will be clawed back from top rate taxpayers - and Labour are likely to argue it is irresponsible in the current climate.
Mr Osborne also froze the Civil List payments to the Royal Family at £7.9m a year and said in future years they would be subject to scrutiny by the National Audit Office.
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He stressed that the pain of his austerity measures would be shared by "everyone" - but said all would share in the proceeds of the "enterprise-led recovery" that he promised would follow.
"Yes it is tough, but it also fair," said Mr Osborne of his first budget, adding: "Everyone will share in the rewards when we succeed. When we say that we are all in this together, we mean it."
He said that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now estimated growth this year of 1.2% and 2.3% next year - compared to its previous forecasts of 1.3% of 2.6%.
Giving her response to Mr Osborne's statement, acting Labour leader Harriet Harman poured scorn on the Liberal Democrats for providing a "fig leaf" for their Conservative coalition partners, arguing "this reckless Tory budget would not be possible without the Lib Dems".
"The Lib Dems leaders have sacrificed everything they ever stood for to ride in ministerial cars and to ride on the coat tails of the Tory government," she added.
Plaid Cymru also lashed out at the Lib Dems, with Treasury spokesman Jonathan Edwards accusing party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of sitting next to Tory leader David Cameron "like a nodding dog, agreeing with every word as VAT was raised".
Lib Dem reaction to Budget
"They are running out of major election policies on which to U-turn," he added.
The SNP welcomed some Budget measures, such as the freeze on whisky duty and the restoration of the pensions and earnings link, but branded planned spending cuts "irresponsible".
In a message to Liberal Democrat supporters, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the government had "no choice except to clear up the financial mess that Labour left us".
And he said the Budget had taken "difficult decisions in an honest and fair way and with the clear stamp of Liberal Democrat values running through it," citing examples including the restoration of the pensions and earnings link and the tax boost for the low paid.
Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes, who has vowed to protect the party's core values, issued a statement in support of Mr Clegg after the Budget statement, saying it would protect the "needy and vulnerable".
So far only one Lib Dem MP, Bob Russell, has publicly suggested he might vote against the Budget, as the party had campaigned against VAT increases at the election because "the low paid disproportionately pay more".
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I am not at all happy. I need to discuss with colleagues how it is we have got into this situation."
Dave Prentis, general secretary of public service union Unison accused the coalition government of "declaring war" on public services, saying the Budget would "raise the spectre of breadline Britain" in some parts of the country.
"Public sector workers will be shocked and angry that they are the innocent victims of job cuts and pay freezes".
But CBI director general Richard Lambert called the Budget "the UK's first important step on the long journey back to economic health".
Green MP Caroline Lucas called Mr Osborne's statement a "budget for pointless austerity" full of cuts that were "neither unavoidable or fair".
But in an e-mail to Conservative supporters, Prime Minister David Cameron said: "In this emergency Budget I believe you have the measure of this government.
"Will it provoke debate? Certainly. Will it cost our coalition some popularity? Possibly. But is this the right thing to do - for the health of our economy, for the poorest in our society, for the future of our country? I passionately believe it is."
A brick was reportedly thrown through the window of the Village Shop, in Magdalen Street, and a small fire started in the early hours of Friday.
Police said they were keeping "an open mind" after suggestions it could have been racially motivated.
A crowdfunding appeal on the JustGiving website has so far raised £28,509.
Officers were called to the shop, which sells "Eastern European and British products", at about 03:00 BST.
They said two people who were inside a flat attached to the shop at the time were unharmed, but that stock had been damaged and a window broken.
Maria Burgea, who works in the shop and was sleeping in the flat when the fire started, told the BBC via a translator she was "really, really scared".
The fundraising appeal was launched by Helen Linehan, who posted on the website: "While protesters rallied against Brexit in Norwich last night, an Eastern European food store was petrol-bombed.
"The owner was asleep upstairs with her daughter. She has no insurance. She could do with an act of kindness from her neighbours. Please donate. A small token will go a long way."
Det Insp Chris Burgess said: "We are aware of suggestions this may have been a racially motivated incident and whilst there is currently no information to suggest this to be the case we will of course keep an open mind."
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board (ABMU) said patients could face significant difficulties seeing their doctor as the population grows.
The proposals would place GP, dental, research, fitness and library facilities under one roof.
ABMU said move was the best way to "promote good health".
Sian Harrop-Griffiths, ABMU's director of strategy said the proposals were still in the early stages and nothing was set in stone.
"The NHS is facing rising costs, increasing demand and an ageing population, by working across all sectors we aim to tackle these issues by putting prevention and improved health and wellbeing in a joined up way," she said.
Discussions are taking place to see if the wellness centre could be part of the Swansea city centre regeneration plans.
A report being considered by Swansea Public Services Board - a partnership of local agencies including Swansea Council and ABMU - says the hub would help ease pressures at GP surgeries, many of which are out-of-date and "unsuitable" for dealing with modern health care provision.
It warns that problems recruiting GPs teamed with increasing demand threaten the sustainability of primary health care in the city.
Earlier this month the British Medical Association (BMA) warned primary care was in "crisis" in Wales, saying more family doctors could quit unless surgeries get more support.
The proposed centre would provide GP services for 35,000 patients as well as housing dental, sexual health, podiatry, speech and language and mental health services for around 150,000 people.
A GP academy, library, fitness facility, art therapy and computer courses could also be based in the building.
Proposals for the 7,000 square-metre centre are being looked at by Swansea Public Services Board as part of the wider regeneration plans.
Tavare and Dent shared an 83-run second-wicket stand before the latter was caught behind off Paul Collingwood.
Captain Collingwood completed a double-wicket maiden as Graeme van Buuren fell for a duck as the hosts fell to 97-3.
Chris Rushworth had Tavare caught behind for 61 before Keaton Jennings took two wickets in two balls to leave the hosts 265-7 at Bristol.
Wicketkeeper Phil Mustard made a useful 38 in his first innings against his former club, and shared a 64-run sixth-wicket partnership with Jack Taylor as Gloucestershire looked to push on following Tavare's dismissal.
But Jennings had Mustard and Craig Miles caught at first slip by Collingwood to leave honours even as bad light brought play to an early close on day one.
The England Under-21 international scored nine goals for the Royals after joining from Chelsea last season.
Swift, 22, made 42 appearances in all competitions as he helped guide Reading to the Championship play-off final.
"Everybody knows the quality he has. He showed us all last season what a great player he is and the difference he can make," Reading manager Jaap Stam said.
In Morning Has Broken he will play a US TV producer brought in to save the show.
The six-part series will air in 2016 and is written by, and co-stars Julia Davis and Nick Mohammed.
Channel 4's commissioning editor, Rachel Springett, expressed delight that the broadcaster had landed Schwimmer.
"Julia is undoubtedly one of our most talented comedic writers and actresses and it's a testament to the quality of her writing that she can attract such a big star," she said.
Davis will play the role of Gail Sinclair, the Queen of Daytime and star of Good Morning...with Gail Sinclair.
She said she was "looking forward to experimenting with friends whose work I love".
Schwimmer, who has mainly been working behind the camera and on stage since his 10-year stint on Friends ended, added: "I've been a massive fan of Julia's for years, and I'm thrilled to be able to finally work with her and Nick on this fantastic comedy."
Schwimmer is the second former Friends star to appear in a British TV comedy.
Matt Le Blanc has achieved international and critical success in the BBC's Episodes.
The Spaniard has been linked to the vacant Mercedes seat alongside Lewis Hamilton in 2017, following world champion Nico Rosberg's retirement.
But on a visit to McLaren's factory in Surrey, he said: "I believe in this project.
"I'm committed and I want to be world champion with McLaren-Honda."
The team announced his remarks on their Twitter account.
Alonso had earlier posted on Instagram a photo he had taken of some of the team's iconic cars in the ground-floor display area at the factory, accompanied by emojis with hearts in their eyes.
The 35-year-old's comments follow an interview his manager Flavio Briatore gave to the Italian newspaper Gazetta dello Sport last week in which he said: "We have an agreement with McLaren and we are going to respect that. It's simple."
Alonso is contracted to McLaren until the end of 2017, the final season of a three-year contract in which he earns a salary of $40m (£31.5m).
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said last week that he "had to consider" Alonso as a replacement for Rosberg, who announced his retirement five days after winning his first world title in the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi last month.
But BBC Sport revealed on Sunday that Wolff's number one choice is Williams driver Valtteri Bottas.
Mercedes last week made an offer for the Finn which included a reduction of Williams' engine bill by €10m (£8.3m) - more than half the total amount.
Williams have rejected this initial approach but negotiations are expected to continue this week.
Williams also have the option taking Mercedes reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein as a replacement for Bottas, although that is not a requirement of the deal.
Mercedes are reluctant to promote the German because they feel after just one season in F1 he lacks the experience to score sufficient regular points finishes to help the team win the constructors' championship.
Williams' reluctance to lose Bottas is related to the same issue. Their other driver is the Canadian rookie Lance Stroll and they feel they need a reliable, experienced figure as their lead performer to guarantee points.
Mercedes' problem is that all the potential candidates with sufficient experience and ability are under contract to other teams.
The decision was part of an "ongoing comprehensive review" of security measures at the White House and its surrounding grounds, the agency said.
It comes one month after a man armed with pepper spray jumped the fence and was inside the grounds for 16 minutes.
Two Secret Service agents who were on duty that night were fired.
President Donald Trump was there at the time, but the intruder did not make it into the White House building.
The new restriction moves public view on the south side of the White House about 82ft (25 metres) farther back from where people were previously able to stand.
Secret Service Communications Director Cathy Milhoan said on Wednesday "that vantage point... is still there. It's just a few feet further back".
A higher fence has also been approved for the White House, she told WTOP News.
The White House will begin viewing bids later this year, with construction to begin next year.
In 2014, a second barricade was erected on the northern side of the building in response to a fence-jumper who was able to run through the doorway of the building while carrying a knife.
That incident prompted Julia Pierson, the first woman to lead the agency, to resign.
The Welsh county eased to a seven-wicket win over Surrey in Guildford, the first time since 2010 that they had won three four-day matches in a row.
Glamorgan reached their target of 247 with a session to spare, with Will Bragg making 83 and Ben Wright 68.
"I can tell you we will be pushing for promotion," Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport.
"I've played for Yorkshire in the first division and I've got a good idea what it's about.
"I've said to the guys from the start that if we can get onto a run, we've got the makings of a team that can play in the first division."
The top two teams are promoted to Division One.
Surrey stay second in the table but Glamorgan have a game in hand and remain the last unbeaten side in the division.
Bragg, who also top-scored last year in a 50-overs win in Guildford, paid tribute to his captain.
"It's not about ifs and buts, we're here to win whatever the situation in the game," said Bragg.
"A lot of people and the media write us off but we know how good we can be and we've got a strongly-knit team.
"With Jacques Rudolph coming in as captain, he's been fantastic and we're making big strides."
Rudolph admits Glamorgan are dependent on keeping their frontline players fit with a relatively small first-team squad facing a hectic schedule of four-day and T20 games.
"It's going to be tricky to keep the guys fit but they are up for the challenge.
"At the moment no-one's injured so we've been very fortunate.
"It's going to be tough but the guys are well aware of that, and as long as they keep managing themselves well and I'm managing the amount of overs they bowl, we should be ok."
Glamorgan move straight to Essex for a T20 Blast game at Chelmsford on Friday, and entertain Sussex at the SSE Swalec Stadium on Sunday, 21 June, before hosting Leicestershire in the Championship the following day.
The race at the Sepang International Circuit has been a fixture on the F1 calendar every year since 1999.
Razlan Razali, the chief executive of the circuit, said Sepang, which can hold 120,000 fans, drew just 45,000 to the 2016 race on 2 October.
"If there is no economic value, why should we continue?" Razlan added.
Malaysian Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said competition from other Asian venues was also taking its toll.
He tweeted: "When we first hosted the F1 it was a big deal. First in Asia outside Japan. Now so many venues. No first mover advantage. Not a novelty."
By contrast, organisers of last weekend's United States Grand Prix say a record crowd of 269,889 attended over the three days at the Circuit of the Americas.
Last month it was announced that US firm Liberty Media would take over Formula 1 for $4.4bn (£3.3bn).
The 25-year-old from Glasgow took control after the interval when the players were tied at 2-2, resuming with a break of 96.
A tight final frame was settled when McGill cleared up after potting the last red.
The win lifts him from 29th to 18th in the world rankings.
Having never been beyond the last eight in a ranking event, McGill is Scotland's first new winner at this level in a decade.
He defeated former world champions Stuart Bingham and Shaun Murphy en route to the final.
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City lost 3-0 loss at Liverpool on Wednesday - their third league defeat in a row - and now trail surprise leaders Leicester City by 10 points.
Title rivals Arsenal and Tottenham also lost, but centre-half Kompany said: "We can't make any more mistakes."
City are at home to bottom club Aston Villa this weekend, while Leicester visit Watford and Arsenal face Spurs.
"It is an awkward season," said Kompany. "Good for the fans, but you can't predict anything, can you?
"If there is one guarantee for this season, it is nothing is sure."
City, who have a game in hand on Leicester, have now lost eight times in the league this season, while Leicester have lost just three.
The last time City suffered three league defeats in a row was in 2008.
"We will see what is happening at the weekend," said Kompany. "We need to get the three points and maybe Leicester will drop some points."
His comments at a rally in Ohio came hours after suicide bombers killed 41 people at an airport in Istanbul.
"You have to fight fire with fire," said the Republican's likely nominee, after referring to IS beheadings.
Waterboarding, described by President Barack Obama as torture, was banned by the US in 2006.
The Turkish authorities believe the so-called Islamic State was behind the attacks at Ataturk International Airport on Tuesday.
"We have to fight so viciously and violently because we're dealing with violent people," Mr Trump said.
At one point, he asked the crowd: "What do you think about waterboarding?"
They cheered as he gave his answer: "I like it a lot. I don't think it's tough enough."
The New York tycoon lamented that the US is prevented from waterboarding but "they [Islamic State] can do chopping off heads, drowning people in steel cages, they can do whatever they want to do".
Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, who will face Mr Trump in November's election, said in response to the attacks in Istanbul that the US "cannot retreat".
"We must deepen our co-operation with our allies and partners in the Middle East and Europe to take on this threat".
Mr Trump has faced much criticism - even from within his own party - by calling on the US to close its borders to Muslim arrivals.
Recently there are signs that he is retreating from that and instead recommending a ban from people arriving from "terror nations" although it's not clear which countries they are.
Earlier on Tuesday, he compared the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement to rape and threatened to confront China in a trade war.
He says that free trade, which has been Republican orthodoxy for many years, hurts American workers.
The club announced a deal to acquire land at Bramley Moore Dock on which to build the new £300m ground on Thursday.
Mayor Joe Anderson said talks about using the stadium, which will seat 50,000, will happen "in due course".
Liverpool has expressed an interest in hosting the event in 2022 after the original hosts Durban pulled out.
It follows the city's announcement in 2016 that it would bid to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Source: Museum of Liverpool
Mr Anderson said in a report to the city council's cabinet, who are due to discuss a deal which would see the authority acting as guarantor for the football club on Friday, that the new offer would be an "accelerated" version of that plan.
He added that the club could submit a planning application by the end of 2017.
A council spokesman said the new ground would be the city's Commonwealth Games stadium, but further details were not available as "at the moment, we are just discussing the deal".
Bramley Moore Dock was announced as the preferred site for the club's proposed new stadium in January.
Two other Premier League sides have taken up residence at stadiums built for international multi-sport events in recent years - Manchester City, whose Etihad Stadium was part of the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and West Ham United, who moved to the stadium used in the 2012 Olympics.
Red or Blue, most Liverpool residents will be behind the idea of regenerating North Liverpool's docklands.
If a new stadium can do for Kirkdale Ward what Manchester's Commonwealth Games stadium did for East Manchester, far more people will benefit from the plan than football fans.
Taken alongside the council's ambitious plans for what it calls the "Ten Streets" - essentially the roads shooting off the main thoroughfare to Bootle - this could be transformative for the area.
It is already coming alive with art. The influential gang behind The Kazimier recently opened their new venue nearby, and there are tech start-ups and social enterprises springing up amongst the pubs and garages.
But, Liverpool has seen a few false dawns when it comes to massive regeneration projects - and stadiums - and there is the small issue of decent transport links to sort out before hoards of sports fans can be welcomed.
But a charity which helps farmers and rural families in Northern Ireland says there's been a 25% increase in the number of farmers calling them for help in the past year.
Rural Support's chief executive, Jude McCann, told the BBC the most common reason for calls was financial worries.
He was speaking at the Farmers Health Conference, in Cookstown, County Tyrone, on Thursday.
Health organisations and government groups came together to discuss the problems facing farmers.
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill has blamed falling farm gate prices for some of the stress farmers face.
She says: "People are at the end of their tether.
"There is no doubt about it, this has been such a financially challenging year.
"The prices they're receiving are putting farmers out of business and the impact on them is obvious. I am engaging with farmers who aren't sleeping because of the worry and the stress they are under. It's just so important that we have this conversation."
The conference brought together people from across the agri-health sector to try and improve the support services currently on offer.
Community mental health worker, Mellissa Andrews, told delegates a more tailored support is needed to reach out to farmers.
"Not everyone is comfortable going to a meditation class, or yoga or even a computer class - that's not the farmers' way," she says.
"The best thing to do would be to get out there into their communities; the local shows and vintage rallies and meet them on their own level."
Cormac McKervey is agri-manager at the Ulster Bank and deals with farmers everyday.
He says that although the bank has to focus on the financial side of things, they need to be aware of what support services are out there too.
"There's all the social issues and the impact on the family inside the farm door, which we don't have access to.
"The biggest single thing we can do is to make our staff aware of the issues and the trigger points, to be aware that maybe this farmer needs more than purely financial help.
"If we can signpost them to rural support or other agencies that are trying to help them then hopefully we've done something."
The man had an accident at work in 2014 and went on sick leave.
Concerns were raised about the length of time he was off and the suspicion he could be exaggerating his condition to assist in a personal injury claim.
As a result a senior manager authorised covert surveillance.
In June 2015, the man was filmed laying several flagstones in the driveway at the front of his house.
As a result he was sacked for gross misconduct.
The tribunal found that this was a "reasonable response" by Bombardier.
The six, all from Birmingham, appeared at West London Magistrates' Court.
Irfan Nasser, 30, of Sparkhill, Irfan Khalid, 26, and Ashik Ali, 26 both of Balsall Heath, and Rahin Ahmed, 25, of Moseley, have been remanded in custody until 21 October.
Bahader Ali, 28, of Sparkbrook, and Mohammed Rizwan, 32, of Ward End, have been remanded until 24 October.
Mr Nasser, Mr Khalid, Mr Ashik Ali and Mr Ahmed are due to appear at the Old Bailey, while Mr Rizwan and Mr Bahader Ali - who is the brother of Ashik Ali - are to appear before Westminster magistrates.
Mr Nasser and Mr Khalid are accused of preparing for an act of terrorism, including travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism, making a martyrdom video and planning a bombing campaign.
They are accused of "being concerned in constructing" a home-made explosive device for terrorist acts and stating an intention to be a suicide bomber.
Ashik Ali is accused of preparing for an act of terrorism, which involved planning a bombing campaign, providing premises for the planning of terrorist attack and stating an intention to be a suicide bomber.
Mr Ahmed is accused of helping fund terrorist acts, collecting money for terrorism and helping others travel to Pakistan for training in terrorism.
Mr Rizwan and Bahader Ali are both charged with failing to disclose information about potential acts of terrorism.
It is alleged that between 29 July and 19 September both men had information which they knew may help prevent the commission of an act of terrorism.
Mr Ali is also charged with "arranging the availability of property for terrorist purposes".
Mr Rizwan made no application for bail, while Mr Ali was refused bail.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between Christmas Day 2010 and 19 September this year.
The men were arrested after a police operation in Birmingham last week.
A seventh man from the city, aged 20, who was arrested on Thursday, continues to be questioned. Officers have until 29 September to charge, release or apply for further time.
The men were arrested as part of an operation carried out by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit. Police said the arrests were unarmed, pre-planned and intelligence-led.
Timeline: Justice for Rachel Nickell
Police 'errors' in Nickell probe
Serial rapist Robert Napper admitted killing Ms Nickell on Wimbledon Common, south-west London in 1992.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found Napper, 42, was identified as a threat to women in the mid-1980s.
The Met said it "regrets" that Napper "was able to carry out dreadful acts".
Colin Stagg, the man wrongly accused of murdering Ms Nickell said he was considering through his solicitor whether to pursue his own complaint through the IPCC.
His solicitor Alex Tribeck said his client wanted to ensure that the "professional negligence" of the Metropolitan Police should never be repeated.
But it said it did not intend to read out a statement of apology.
The IPCC said two other killings by Napper could have been prevented.
Samantha Bissett and her four-year-old daughter Jazmine were killed at their home in Plumstead, south London, in 1993.
Ms Nickell, 23, was sexually assaulted and stabbed 49 times by Napper in front of her two-year-old son Alex.
The IPCC says the Met apologised in private to Ms Nickell's partner, Andre Hanscombe, and to Alex but recommended it should now issue an "unreserved" public apology.
In a statement, the Met said Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick will write to Alex and Mr Hanscombe to apologise again and she has offered him a face-to-face meeting.
"The Met has accepted that more could, and should have been done, and had more been done we could have been in a better position to have prevented very serious attacks by Napper," the statement added.
A Met spokeswoman later made clear that it regards the statement it issued this morning about the Rachel Nickell case as a "public apology", as called for by the IPCC.
But she said the Met does not intend to read out a statement of apology.
Reacting to the report, Mr Hanscombe said the IPCC shared his "sense of shock and disbelief" at the police errors.
He added: "Nothing is going to bring Rachel, Samantha or Jazmine back.
"But having had some time to come to terms with this new reality, I now believe the best way to serve those who paid most heavily is to make sure all the lessons have been learned, to make sure that this could never happen again."
Samantha Bisset's step-father, Jack Morrison, said he was not prepared to criticise the Met.
"We have a very good police force, but we can all make mistakes," he said.
"The police have been extremely kind to me and my family since Samantha's death, right up until the present time."
By Dominic CascianiBBC News Home Affairs correspondent
Mothers don't usually contact the police to say their son is a rapist.
But had the Metropolitan Police acted on the 1989 call from Robert Napper's mother, they could have got him before he attacked more women and murdered Rachel Nickel and Samantha and Jazmine Bisset.
The IPCC's report underlines "gross errors of judgement", but it is largely symbolic because officers who could have been disciplined have retired.
The Met says it has changed. Modern detective work is less about hunches and card indexes and more about rolling reviews of what teams know, with computers to help join the evidential dots.
Investigators are trained and retrained and a national murder squad manual guides decisions in the incident room.
This modernisation has come from above.
The IPPC believes these changes have trickled down - and that the culture of officers who might come across another Robert Napper has changed too.
Rachel Cerfontyne, the IPCC Commissioner, said officers "inconceivably" eliminated Napper over a series of rapes on parkland in south London - known as the Green Chain rapes - because he was thought to be too tall.
She said: "It is clear that throughout the investigations into the Green Chain rapes and Rachel Nickell's death there was a catalogue of bad decisions and errors made by the Metropolitan Police.
"The police failed to sufficiently investigate after Napper's mother called police to report that he had confessed to her that he had raped a woman and, inconceivably, they eliminated Napper from inquiries into the Green Chain rapes because he was over 6ft tall.
"Without these errors, Robert Napper could have been off the streets before he killed Rachel Nickell and the Bissets, and before numerous women suffered violent sexual attacks at his hands."
Ms Cerfontyne said the mistakes by the force were "dreadful".
But she said no police officer will face disciplinary action because they had all retired, and one key senior detective has died.
Many of the mistakes had been publicised after Napper had been convicted.
But the IPCC said it had received fresh information from an ex-police officer that Napper had come to the attention of a police sergeant as a "serious threat to women" in the mid-1980s.
Another person said he contacted police two months after Rachel Nickell's death to say that he had overhead a conversation in a pub between Napper and a friend in which they were laughing about the killing.
A record on a police intelligence system in 2002 said Napper confessed to killing Rachel Nickell while he was detained in Broadmoor in 1997 or 1998.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility in December 2008.
Colin Stagg was cleared of her murder by the Old Bailey in 1994, after spending 13 months on remand.
He was subsequently awarded £706,000 in compensation from the Home Office in 2008 for wrongful arrest.
The Syria Solidarity Campaign said 10-year-old Ali "passed away today due to his injuries from the bombing of his house by Russia/Assad".
Russian and Syrian jets have carried out heavy raids on rebel-held areas.
Omran, five, was filmed caked in dust and blood after his home was hit.
The pictures - symbolising the suffering of Aleppo's trapped civilians - caused worldwide outrage.
An unidentified witness in Aleppo quoted by Reuters news agency said Ali Daqneesh had suffered internal bleeding and organ damage after the 17 August bombing.
And a tweet from Kareem Shaheen, a Middle East reporter, said: "Have confirmed with Omar Daqneesh's doctor, his older brother died from wounds sustained during strike that wounded Omran".
Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial centre, has been divided roughly in two since 2012, with the government controlling the west and rebels the east.
That is because the singer will play two concerts on the tree-lined Belfast street that gave its name to one of his songs to mark his 70th birthday.
People from around the world have descended on Morrison's home city for the shows taking place a short distance from where he spent his childhood.
Among them is one Vanatic who has travelled more than 10,000 miles for what will be his "dream come true".
For Andrew Robertson, from Adelaide in Australia, Morrison's lyrics on the song Saint Dominic's Preview that "it's a long way to Belfast city, too" ring truer than they do to most people who will be at the show.
He has had a near life-long obsession with Morrison's music, and along with his wife Gayle has secured tickets to both gigs.
"Some people think we're mad, others are amused," he said.
He has already seen Morrison in concert twice since he arrived in Northern Ireland, at two intimate gigs at the Slieve Donard Hotel in Newcastle, County Down.
Mr Robertson first heard Morrison's songs when he was a teenager and was immediately hooked.
"In the '60s, music was so exciting - the Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. But of everyone, the voice that stood out for me was Van.
"He has an amazing voice. He's often been called the best blues singer.
"His musical style, how he has embraced rock, soul, jazz, traditional celtic and other forms to create virtually his own version.
"He can write in a unique and simple way. "
Mr Robertson said he was aware of people from 18 different countries, including the United States, India and South Africa, that have journeyed to Belfast for the gigs.
It is the first time the Australian native has visited Ireland.
On Sunday, he will join about 200 others at a gathering of international fans who have arrived in Belfast for the sold-out Cyprus Avenue shows.
"We're so lucky to get tickets to both concerts," he said.
"His music has enriched my life."
BBC Radio Ulster will exclusively broadcast Van Morrison's full 70th birthday concert live from Cyprus Avenue on Monday from 14:45 BST, while BBC One Northern Ireland will screen it on Friday 4 September at 22:35 BST.
They include reducing the period of bankruptcy to three years from the current 12 years.
The reform of personal insolvency laws is a response to some of the problems thrown up by the country's banking and property crash.
High profile property developers and individual home owners have been saddled with huge, unpayable debts.
In many countries the solution for these people is to declare bankruptcy and then try to make a fresh start.
In the UK, the period of bankruptcy typically lasts for a year, after which former bankrupts can regain their financial freedom.
However the long bankruptcy period in the Republic makes it an unattractive option - in 2010 just 30 people were declared bankrupt.
"Bankruptcy tourism" is also becoming an issue with Irish people declaring bankruptcy in the UK. At least four major property developers have gone down this path.
Ireland's former richest man Sean Quinn also declared bankruptcy in Northern Ireland, a decision which was later overturned by the High Court in Belfast. He was then bankrupted in Dublin.
Making the announcement the Minister Alan Shatter said: "The bill will radically reform our insolvency legislation and, in particular, will assist those in unexpected difficulties as a result of the current fiscal, economic and employment conditions.
"When enacted, this legislation will be one of the key legislative instruments for addressing the financial difficulties of general insolvency, mortgage debt and negative equity."
Across the typically mild South, about 750,000 homes and businesses lack power, and about 6,500 flights have been cancelled.
The weather system has affected people in about 22 states from Texas to Maine and caused at least 18 deaths.
The storm dumped up to 15in (30cm) of snow in the Washington DC region and 8in around New York City overnight.
Snow-covered streets were deserted during the morning commute in the nation's capital, where the federal government shut down its offices.
As much as 10-20 inches of snow in total could fall from north-eastern Pennsylvania to New England on Thursday, said the National Weather Service.
Almost 6,500 flights were cancelled on Thursday, according to airline-tracking website FlightAware.com.
While temperatures at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, rose to 17C (63F), the US was shivering in bitter cold once again.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio was criticised for keeping schools open despite the snow piling on the ground.
"Why [aren't] schools all around NYC closed? It's going to take some kid or kids getting hurt before this goofball policy gets changed," Al Roker, a prominent meteorologist and television figure on NBC, wrote on Twitter. He is currently in Sochi, Russia, for the Olympics, but has a child in a city school.
Mr de Blasio responded that many parents depended on schools to watch over their children while they work.
Ironically, a celebration of winter tourism in the village of Lake Placid, New York state, was cancelled because of the storm.
Described by the National Weather Service as an event of "historical proportions", the storm leaves in its southern wake a wreckage of snapped tree branches and power lines coated in as much as an inch of ice, motorways turned to car parks, road accidents and residents shivering in darkened homes.
Forecasters said it was one of the worst storms to strike Atlanta, the largest city in the South, since 1973.
President Barack Obama declared a disaster in the state of South Carolina and all northern counties in Georgia, opening the way for federal aid.
On Wednesday evening, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it was moving supplies, including generators, meals, water, blankets and cots to an emergency centre in Atlanta.
At least 18 deaths have been blamed on the storm, many of them in traffic accidents.
Three people were killed on Wednesday when an ambulance slid off a west Texas road, flipped over and caught fire.
Meanwhile, a firefighter died when an out-of-control vehicle knocked him off an icy motorway bridge in Dallas, Texas. And a pregnant woman in New York City was killed after being struck by a snow plough. Her baby was delivered in critical condition via caesarean section.
A man in Georgia was killed after slipping and falling on a patch of ice.
On Wednesday, thousands of vehicles were stranded on snow-shrouded motorways around Raleigh, North Carolina, with some people abandoning their vehicles.
Soo Keith, of Raleigh, left her office shortly after midday, but after two hours had only driven a few miles.
She told the Associated Press news agency she eventually abandoned her vehicle and continued on foot, arriving home four hours later.
"My face is all frozen, my glasses are all frozen, my hair is all frozen," said Ms Keith.
Residents of Georgia appeared to have heeded official warnings, with motorways in the state clear but with many people stuck at home without electric power.
"Thanks to the people of Georgia," Governor Nathan Deal said. "You have shown your character."
Mr Deal asked those waiting for power to be restored to be patient, saying he was hearing of "good response times" from the state's utilities.
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Cwmbran-based MDS Recycling was ordered to pay £45,000 plus £3,207 costs at Cwmbran Magistrates' Court.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service brought the case after a visit by safety officers in July 2014.
The company faced nine charges, with prosecutors saying staff were at risk of death if a fire started.
An MDS Recycling spokesman said the firm regretted what happened and it currently complies with all regulations.
The company was visited at its Avondale Industrial Estate base as part of a risk-based inspection programme.
The court was told one fire exit was completely blocked by stacked recycled material, and the only other one available had LPG cylinders and combustibles stored by it.
Other offences included storing waste materials and LPG Cylinders inappropriately at the site.
It was also found the site was not fitted with an appropriate working fire alarm system or any emergency lighting.
The maximum fine of £5,000 was imposed for each offence.
Successive defeats by Wales and Australia had already ensured England would be the first hosts to go out of the tournament at the group stage.
Nick Easter, 37, and Jack Nowell scored hat-tricks against a Uruguay side with only four professional players.
Anthony Watson grabbed a well-finished brace, while Henry Slade also crossed.
This was not how it was supposed to end for Stuart Lancaster's men, in a meaningless contest which saw the crowd frequently make their own entertainment with Mexican waves and paper aeroplanes aimed at the pitch.
With the Super League Grand Final - held a few miles west - coming to a thrilling conclusion just before kick-off, this was not even the biggest rugby match in the city on Saturday.
The bonus point picked up for scoring four or more tries also meant that had England drawn against Wales a fortnight ago - and with a penalty within Owen Farrell's range with three minutes to go they had had the chance - they would have gone into the quarter-finals as Group A's runners-up.
Instead their tournament is over, Lancaster left hoping he will be given the chance to rebuild the team around the core of younger players like the impressive Watson and Slade.
After shipping an early penalty, England worked a neat opening try when Watson accelerated on to Nowell's kick ahead and veteran Easter - who became the oldest player in Test history to score a hat-trick - drove over from a line-out to make it 15-3 after a somewhat messy first quarter.
Easter added his second when he picked up from the base of a ruck and smashed over again from a few yards out after a sniping break from Danny Care.
Watson stretched the lead to 26-3 after capitalising on quick hands from Care and full-back Alex Goode to escape down the right but, with Uruguay down to 14 men after the sin-binning of Santiago Vilaseca, England struggled to make both numbers and experience count.
Slade's quick-thinking changed that, charging down scrum-half Agustin's Ormaechea's kick and then booting on ahead for his first international try.
And Nowell - another man making his World Cup bow - added the sixth try when Care dummied and fed him on the left wing, before Easter rumbled off another rolling maul for his third.
George Ford's long pass gave Nowell his second with 10 minutes to go, and the fly-half's quick thinking from a tap penalty allied to Slade's perfectly timed final pass set the winger away for another.
As time ran out, England were awarded a penalty try, but it will be for the earlier failings that their World Cup will be remembered.
The Rugby Football Union has already announced a review into England's hugely disappointing campaign, the first time they have failed to make the knockout stages.
Lancaster has been bullish about his future this week but it is almost certain there will be change, whether in the head coach's own position or in those around him.
Slade's performance in the 13 shirt - he can also play fly-half and ended up at inside centre on Saturday - both promises a brighter future for England and raises questions about why it took this long to get him involved.
The Exeter man was not even on the replacements' bench against Wales or Australia, yet he brought both a guile and speed in thought and deed that was sorely missing in those two critical defeats.
England boss Stuart Lancaster: "I think anyone in my position who has worked since December 2011 to this point would say it would be hard to walk away from but I understand it's a results business.
"It's not just what's in my mind; there's a lot of other people who are going to have a say but it has been a tough week and I just wanted to get it over with.
"It has been a tough week for the players and certainly the reaction of the crowd was a lift, I thought the crowd were brilliant tonight."
England: Goode; Watson, Slade, Farrell, Nowell; Ford, Care; M Vunipola, T Youngs, Cole, Launchbury, Parling, Haskell, Robshaw, Easter.
Replacements: Brown for Watson (67), Joseph for Farrell (60), Wigglesworth for Care (72), Marler for Vunipola (73), George for T Youngs (30), Wilson for Cole (44), Kruis for Parling (56), Wood for Haskell (62).
Uruguay: Mieres; Gibernau, Prada, A Vilaseca, Silva; Berchesi, Ormaechea; Sanguinetti, Arboleya, Sagario, S Vilaseca, Zerbino, Gaminara, Beer, Nieto.
Replacements: A Duran for Berchesi (75), Blengio for Ormaechea (75), Corral for Sanguinetti (63), O Duran for Arboleya (72), Klappenbach for Sagario (63), Palomeque for Zerbino (63), Magno for Beer (69), Alonso for Nieto (69).
Sin Bin: S Vilaseca (42).
Att: 50,778
Ref: Chris Pollock (New Zealand).
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Her lawyer successfully argued that she might be regarded as "some kind of hero" if she was sent to prison.
At Livingston Sheriff Court the 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted shouting homophobic abuse at the couple.
A television news crew recorded her comments as they filmed the pair arriving at court for their trial.
They were found guilty on Tuesday of murdering Rachel's son, Liam Fee, and of abusing two other children.
The teenager, from Livingston, pled guilty to behaving in a manner likely to cause a reasonable person fear or alarm by shouting and swearing aggravated by sexual orientation.
Sheriff Jamie Gilmour took other unrelated offences into account when he sentenced her to be electronically tagged on a nine-month curfew.
He also placed her under supervision for two years and ordered her to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work within nine months.
First Lady Rosario Murillo already has a prominent role as the chief government spokeswoman and is widely seen as sharing power with her husband.
She appears on Nicaraguan television almost every day.
Critics accuse the first couple of running Nicaragua - which has elections in November - like a personal fiefdom.
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While President Ortega rarely speaks to the media, his wife is regularly seen on TV discussing policy and promoting her own brand of New Age spirituality.
Mother of the president's seven children, she is fluent in English and French in addition to being a renowned poet.
She also has a reputation for wearing colourfully extravagant outfits and jewellery more commonly seen in the hippy 1960s.
Correspondents say many Nicaraguans see Ms Murillo as wielding the most power in her country because of her higher public profile.
Husband and wife officially submitted their candidacy papers in the capital Managua, accompanied by the legal adviser of their Sandinista party.
Hundreds of Sandinista supporters cheered the couple when they left the building.
But opposition supporters are concerned her promotion may herald the rise of a new family dynasty in the impoverished Central American nation.
Mr Ortega, 70, is a former left-wing guerrilla who formed part of the government junta following the Sandinista revolution against the dictatorship of the Somoza family, which ruled Nicaragua for four decades.
The Cuban-inspired Sandinistas seized power in 1979.
The party lost elections in the 1990s, but Mr Ortega returned to power in January 2007, after a successful election campaign.
A consultation on how the Scottish government should run its own welfare system comes to a close on Sunday.
Holyrood is taking over the administration of disability benefits, carers allowances, winter fuel payments and a series of other welfare systems.
Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman welcomed the response so far.
Hundreds of people across the country have taken part in the consultation, which has been running since July.
The Scottish government is setting up its own agency to deliver social security payments, with the ability to top-up existing benefits and create new ones.
Holyrood is taking on social security powers under the Scotland Bill accounting for about £2.7bn of benefits. Areas of competence being transferred to Scottish control include:
The UK government will retain control of universal credit, which replaces jobseeker's allowance, tax credits and housing benefit, the state pension, child benefits and maternity and paternity pay.
Ms Freeman said: "I am delighted we have had such a good response from people across the country giving us their views.
"Social security is an investment we all make in ourselves and in each other. None of us know when the day might come when we will need that support and thousands of people across Scotland rely on social security - in one form or another.
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At 07:45 BST on Sunday, police were called to a Birmingham hotel as guests complained of a rowdy party, which the Daily Mail reports Grealish attended.
No arrests were made and Grealish, 21, was not one of up to 12 people ejected.
"We are aware of an incident at the weekend," Di Matteo told BBC WM 95.6.
"We started an internal investigation about it, which is still ongoing. When we finish the investigation, we will see what disciplinary action to take."
Grealish was warned by former boss Tim Sherwood in 2015 after he was pictured apparently taking nitrous oxide.
He also previously spent time training with Villa's youth team as a punishment when Remi Garde was in charge at Villa Park, after reports he visited a nightclub following a 4-0 loss at Everton.
"Unfortunately it has happened again. We expect our players to behave in a professional manner at all times, so it is something that we don't tolerate," added Di Matteo.
"It's important that he understands what he has, and he needs to grow up very quickly."
The Solihull-born former England Under-21 player signed a new four-year deal with the Championship club on 7 September.
Villa owner Tony Xia contacted Grealish directly via the social media platform Twitter on Wednesday, saying: "As I said before, focus every minute, on and off the pitch, choose the right people to be with."
Xia added: "It's not a warning but just elder brother's talk. I trust Jack can really learn and be a man."
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The name should be changed from Andrew Mbugua to Audrey Mbugua, it ruled.
Audrey Mbugua has been battling to get recognition to live as a woman, says the BBC's Robert Kiptoo in Nairobi.
This is a significant ruling for the transgender community in Kenya, a country with conservative views towards sexuality, he adds.
"We won. It's a huge watershed moment," Ms Mbugua told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The court gave the National Examinations Council 45 days to comply with the order to to change the name on her high school exam certificate, without marking her gender.
Judge Weldon Korir said the council had failed to demonstrate why it could not make the changes she desired.
The transgender activist had stunned many Kenyans with her decision to be recognised as a woman, our correspondent says.
The court ruled that Ms Mbugua will have to pay for any extra costs incurred by the council to make the change.
This is Ms Mbugua's second legal victory.
In July, the high court ordered the authorities to register her lobby group, Transgender Education and Advocacy, saying their refusal to do so had no legal basis and was an abuse of power.
The 24-year-old spent last season on loan at Eintracht Frankfurt, where he made 11 appearances.
He was suspended by the German club in May when he suffered an infection after getting a tattoo against orders.
Varela became the first player to sign under David Moyes' reign at Old Trafford, when he joined on a five-year deal in 2013.
He went on loan to Real Madrid Castilla in Spain the following summer, having failed to make an appearance for United.
On his return, in 2015-16, he featured just four times in the Premier League.
He scored an injury-time winner to help United clinch the Under-21 Premier League title in April 2016.
Sgt Mark Prendeville was taken to the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, after an accident during a training exercise.
A member of staff moved him so other patients could not see the 38-year-old.
A previous "altercation" involving a man in uniform led to the sergeant being moved, the hospital said.
The aircraft engineer needed medical attention after chemicals from a fire extinguisher got into his eyes while training at RAF Manston, Kent, on Wednesday.
Sgt Prendeville was asked to move from the hospital's main waiting area into a different part of the accident and emergency department by a female member of staff, out of the view of the public.
The hospital told the BBC he responded warmly to this proposal.
But Sgt Prendeville's father, Jim Prendeville, told BBC Radio 5 live the treatment of his son was "shameful".
"To say I was incensed would put it mildly.
"He's a very quiet man he didn't want to make a lot of fuss.
"He was more upset by the way he was treated because of his uniform, than he was about the burns in his eyes," he said.
Sgt Prendeville has served in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq, and he was wearing his combat uniform when he arrived at the hospital.
A spokesman for East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "A member of the armed forces in uniform attended our A&E and was asked by a member of staff if he wanted to sit inside the department rather than the waiting room.
"This employee was acting in good faith because previously, there had been an altercation between a member of the public and a different member of the armed forces in uniform."
The spokesman also said the hospital trust was "absolutely clear that members of Her Majesty's armed forces, whether in uniform or not, should not be treated any differently to any other person".
"We are now making this point clear to all our members of staff and will seek to make sure that this never happens again," he added.
The music star, businessman and actor, reported in court papers that he has assets and debts in the range of $10m to $50m (£6.5m- £32m), according to the Wall Street Journal.
The filing comes days after a jury ruled that he must pay $5m to a woman suing over a sex tape case.
50 Cent's 2003 album Get Rich or Die Tryin' catapulted him to global fame.
Real name Curtis James Jackson III, the Grammy-award winning rapper's business interests have included clothes, boxing, drinks, and mining.
His stake in VitaminWater reportedly netted him tens of millions of dollar when Coca-Cola bought the drinks brand in 2007.
Chapter 11 allows companies time to re-organise their finances while protecting them from creditors' demands.
The court case stemmed from a video in which the rapper is accused of adding a commentary to a tape that the woman made with her boyfriend. The tape was then leaked online.
In addition to the $5m penalty, the jury was due this week to consider punitive damages in the invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. However, it was unclear if this would go ahead.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten had requested that 50 Cent disclose details of his finances.
However, the rapper's lawyers told the court that he had filed for Chapter 11 in Connecticut, where he owns a mansion he bought from boxer Mike Tyson.
Later, a lawyer for 50 Cent (Mr Jackson), William A Brewer III, said his client's business operations would continue.
"Mr Jackson's business interests will continue unaffected in the ordinary course during the pendency of the Chapter 11 case,'' the attorney said in a statement.
It added: "This filing for personal bankruptcy protection permits Mr Jackson to continue his involvement with various business interests and continue his work as an entertainer."
50 Cent, aged 40, has sold more than 30 million albums and won a Grammy Award in 2010. The star's latest film role is in the upcoming "Southpaw," in which he plays a boxing promoter.
In May, Forbes estimated 50 Cent's net worth at $155m.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala, who's originally from Pakistan, rose to fame after her efforts to increase awareness about girls' education in her home country.
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In October 2012 Malala was shot whilst getting on her school bus in Pakistan.
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The Real Madrid player also refused to shake the hands of the Iceland players after the group match in Saint-Etienne.
"I thought they'd won the Euros the way they celebrated at the end," he said.
"It was unbelievable. We tried hard to win the game and Iceland didn't try anything. This, in my opinion, shows a small mentality and they are not going to do anything in the competition."
But former Iceland international Hermann Hreidarsson called Ronaldo "petty" and a "sore loser".
The former Ipswich, Charlton and Portsmouth defender, 41, told BBC Radio 5 live: "He thought he could have goals handed to him on a plate.
"If he would have worked as hard as every Icelandic player, he wouldn't have had to say anything because I'm sure he would have got his rewards.
"He didn't fancy it on the day and he just got beaten up."
Ronaldo, making his 127th appearance for Portugal, said it had been a "lucky night" for his opponents and accused them of putting "the bus in the net".
Portugal had 72% of the possession and 26 shots on goal to Iceland's four.
"Portugal try to play football and try to win the game," said skipper Ronaldo, 31. "Iceland didn't try anything.
"They were just defend, defend, defend and playing on the counter-attack."
Ronaldo's words have drawn plenty of comment on social media.
DunsbyOwl tweeted: "Great Result for Iceland. Shame Ronaldo couldn't show a bit of magnanimity."
Paul said: "Just when Ronaldo was winning the footballing world over with his talent, he opens his mouth again..."
AndyG added: "Cristiano Ronaldo has just reminded me of all the reason why I just can't like the bloke. Still recall his wink after Rooney's Euro red card."
Iceland, appearing in their first major tournament, boast a population of just 330,000 and are the smallest nation to play at a European Championship finals.
They finished second in their qualifying group, above Turkey and the Netherlands, who failed to make it to France.
Birkir Bjarnason's volley earned them a point against Portugal after Nani had opened the scoring in the Group F game in Saint-Etienne.
Hungary top the pool after beating Austria 2-0 earlier on Tuesday.
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In a tame first half, Jon McLaughlin thwarted Rangers pair Pawel Wszolek and Tjaronn Chery, while Jamie Ward's free-kick was tipped wide for the hosts.
Ward put the Brewers ahead, stooping to head his first goal for the club after Lloyd Dyer's deflected shot.
But just after coming on, Polter poked home Massimo Luongo's cross on Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's return to Burton.
Both sides remain in the bottom half of the table and are on five-game winless runs in the league.
In the first ever league meeting between the sides, Dyer had the best chance to claim all three points, blasting over from 20 yards after a Lucas Akins cutback.
Polter, who had been an injury doubt, headed just wide for QPR late on as Hasselbaink's side chased victory in his first match at the Pirelli Stadium since leaving Burton in December 2015.
Match ends, Burton Albion 1, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 1, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Foul by Lucas Akins (Burton Albion).
Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Foul by Lucas Akins (Burton Albion).
Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery with a cross.
Hand ball by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Attempt missed. Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Ben Turner.
Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Pawel Wszolek (Queens Park Rangers).
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Lucas Akins.
Attempt blocked. Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery.
Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Joel Lynch tries a through ball, but Sebastian Polter is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Joel Lynch replaces Jake Bidwell because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jake Bidwell (Queens Park Rangers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Lucas Akins.
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers).
Attempt saved. Marcus Myers-Harness (Burton Albion) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jackson Irvine.
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers).
Goal! Burton Albion 1, Queens Park Rangers 1. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Massimo Luongo with a cross.
Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Sebastian Polter replaces Ariel Borysiuk.
Attempt blocked. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
But instead of feeling sorry for herself, she started to write a wish list of 100 things she wanted her husband and two sons to experience after she was dead.
Mrs Greene, from Clevedon, near Bristol, died in January at the age of 37, two years after she was diagnosed.
She and husband Singe had already been through a tough time before she was diagnosed with the illness.
In 2005, a tumour was found in their first son Reef's abdomen and the two-year-old was given two weeks to live.
"It was a very aggressive type of tumour and our world just fell apart," Mrs Greene's widower Singe said.
At the same time Mrs Greene gave birth to their second son, Finn, seven weeks early so both of their boys were in separate hospitals at the same time.
Reef managed to recover from the tumour, but in 2008 Mrs Greene found a lump in her breast.
Her husband said: "She started chemo within a week of it being found.
"It's just one of those things where everything about you is falling apart... you can either fall apart with it, but I don't think Kate would have let me do that.
"Once she realised her time was going to be limited, then she started planning for 'her three boys' to do, the activities she wanted us to do."
The 44-year-old said the idea for a wish list was dreamt up by his wife one day at 4am, and from then on they worked on it together.
"It was horrendous. Kate was at home, she was on oxygen, she was in bed and she was pretty frightened to go to sleep because she didn't think she would get through the night.
"Everything she thought about she would write down in a little diary and if she couldn't write she would text it to me on the phone."
Mr Greene said his wife had been a part-time scuba diving instructor and wanted both of their sons to learn to snorkel and scuba dive.
"She really wanted them to snorkel and scuba dive with the fishes in Egypt, so we've booked that one up for Christmas."
Another of her wishes was for them to attend an international rugby match.
"When she was going through all the chemo we used to sit and watch the rugby together in the hospital bed.
"There were four of us on one of the gurneys with the TV in front of us, squished in cuddling up. That used to be brilliant."
He said Reef and Finn had started playing rugby.
"We've also got an extension to build so we get a dining room table in the house, and she wants us to make sure the boys have a play room. All those sorts of things that every mum would probably want for their children."
Other requests were more simple, such as kissing the boys goodnight and teaching them not to be late.
The list also includes "do nots" such as not letting the boys ride a motorcycle, smoke or join the Armed Forces.
"The list is not a chore, it's a pleasure really," Mr Greene said.
But one wish on his wife's list he has so far put off is finding a girlfriend.
Mr Greene said his "soul mate", whom he met at a roller-skating rink 23 years ago, was "a hard act to follow".
"I guess it will come in time. The boys need me so it's quite difficult at the moment. It's something for the future."
South Wales Police are "concerned over the well-being" of Alec Warburton, 59, who has not been seen since 31 July.
Officers have been searching in and around his home in Vivian Road and a police tent was erected on the street on Thursday.
Police are searching for Mr Warburton's tenant, David Craig Ellis, who they think may have information about his disappearance.
Police are also trying to locate Mr Warburton's green Peugeot 205, which CCTV inquiries have confirmed was being used until 2 August.
A CCTV image of the car, registration M805 HFJ, has been released by officers in the hope somebody will recall seeing it.
Det Supt Simon Davies, said: "We are concerned for the well-being of Mr Warburton as he does not seem to have spoken to, or been seen by anybody, since 31 July.
"We urgently want to speak to David Craig Ellis - a tenant of Mr Warburton - as we believe he may have vital information which could help with our investigation."
Former England Under-21 striker Marvin Sordell scored the only goal with a close-range shot in the first half.
Elsewhere, Adebayo Akinfenwa scored to help League Two side Wycombe beat League One Millwall 3-1.
Bradford City also reached the last 16 with a 1-0 win over Cambridge thanks to Nicky Law's second-half header.
The draw for the third round takes place at 11:30 GMT on 8 December, with three second-round matches still to be decided.
Walsall host Oldham on 13 December, Southampton and Reading's development squads face each other at St Mary's on 21 December, while Leicester's development team travels to Cheltenham on 10 January, in a match postponed because of the Foxes' Champions League schedule.
Scott Coupland 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.
He claimed his computer had crashed and he had lost vital information which meant his VAT returns ended up being for the wrong amounts.
But the jury found him guilty on two charges of being "knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of Value Added Tax".
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.
A 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.
HMRC compliance officer Chrystal Symons told the court that she became suspicious about the company when Coupland claimed to have sold over £2m worth of potatoes in two months.
She told the trial: "You would need to have a large company to be doing that amount of business."
A raid on Coupland's home and business was carried out to search for the company's records, but he repeatedly avoided meeting investigators.
The court was told that Coupland had cancelled a number of interviews at the last minute as the investigation was carried out.
Coupland told that court that on one occasion he was unable to meet the tax inspectors because he had been stranded on a business trip to sell seed potatoes in Nigeria.
Sheriff William Wood deferred sentence for the preparation of reports.
Claire Keatinge told the BBC that care being provided is failing to meet older people's needs due to underinvestment.
Her office has carried out a wide-ranging report on home care services.
It asks why many people have to be assessed as "critical" before receiving any care, and also queries the pay and training of domiciliary staff.
The report, entitled Domiciliary Care in Northern Ireland, calls on the government to match need with resources.
Ms Keatinge said older people deserve better.
"You cannot provide personal care in the amount of time - often 15 minutes - that is often being awarded to older people," she said.
"Older people don't want to be put to bed at 5.15pm having had their afternoon meal at 3.15pm."
It is the first time Northern Ireland's domiciliary care services, including the commissioning, regulation, inspection and delivery of care, have been held to scrutiny.
Demands on the service will continue to grow, according to the commissioner.
"Since our summit in September, I have spoken to lots of different people in the sector and those getting care at home.
"I was shocked to hear of care workers being expected to provide incontinence management when they aren't trained or experienced to deal with that level of care - it really is shocking."
One worker, who spoke to BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, said the care has gone out of caring as people are reduced to "numbers on a spreadsheet".
The man, who chose to remain anonymous, said the care industry has worsened since he began working in it almost 14 years ago.
"Whenever I first started, we would have a personal care-call in the morning and we would have an hour for that, to get someone up out of bed, washed, dressed, get them their breakfast, things like that.
"Now, it's 15 minutes to get somebody out of bed, dressed, ready for the day. Fifteen minutes and you're out the door."
He said the timeframe within which care workers are expected to operate wasn't feasible.
"You constantly run over your time. You can't really talk to the client because you're rushing about trying to get it done and on to the next one."
He explained that when he first started, he had time to build up a relationship with his elderly clients because he was assigned to each one for sustained period of time.
"Now our clients could have different carers every single day. I know of one case where the person had 19 different care-workers in a week."
The man believes that those he cares for appreciate the work he and his colleagues do, and he says they understand the pressure they are under.
"They know it's coming from the top down. Morale in the health service is rock bottom at the minute. We have that many people to report to, everybody is under strain."
He suggested that if care-workers were given more control of the rotas and the assignments, the work would be done more efficiently.
"We cannot get from a call on, say, the Cregagh Road, to the top of Carryduff in rush hour traffic in ten minutes. It's just not possible.
"They should let us work in the same areas, with the same people. That way, all the calls will get done and the clients will be happy.
"It's just simple little things, but it's not thought of."
He blamed budgets cuts for the ongoing problems.
"It's just a case of doing the job as fast as you can and getting out.
"Nobody is happy but we do this job because we love it - if I didn't I'd have left years ago."
This is Claire Keatinge's final day in office as the commissioner for older people.
On taking the job, she described herself as a champion for older people - someone who would be their voice before government.
Now she makes a final parting shot to Stormont Health Minister Simon Hamilton.
She said her office attempted to make appointments with the minister but he was never available.
"Without a doubt, being unable to see the minister for health as he wasn't always in office made a significant difference," she said.
"I haven't been able to present the findings of my work on home care to him directly and to have that direct conversation about what needs to be done, and that's a disappointment.
"We must have government in place with certainty they will listen, pay attention and act."
The BBC has also learned that the commissioner's post has yet to be advertised, despite it being known in March that she was leaving her post.
It has been a tough tenure, but in the past 12 to 18 months, Ms Keatinge had begun to rattle cages.
Many will regret her leaving. Others will see the fact there is no replacement in the wings as disappointing and unfortunate.
While the domiciliary care service is currently described as fragile, there are concerns it will become worse as demand grows.
"Northern Ireland has an ageing population with the number of people aged 65 and over projected to increase by 44% in the next 15 years," the report said.
"This increase, coupled with growing demand on the health and social care system, is likely to further drive up the demand for community-based care."
The report has highlighted that visits of 15 minutes or less are too short to provide dignified personal care.
In a worrying development, it also said pressures on the service were so high that many are not receiving a package until their needs are assessed as "critical".
The Health and Social Care Board said financial constraints meant trusts had to focus on providing care to those with critical or substantial needs.
It said that the 15-minute visits referred to by the commissioner were "not a basic currency for determining what service a person receives".
Brief visits were "entirely appropriate" for some people but not suitable for those with "high levels of clinical need", it said.
"Domiciliary care services are coping with increasing numbers of people with high-level needs, and the number of intensive domiciliary care packages has been increasing in recent years," a spokesperson said.
"It is also important to note that, due to financial pressures, care packages are subject to ongoing monitoring and review, and that the level of service can increase or reduce in response to changing circumstances."
The BBC has spoken to one older couple who can continue living together in their own home as a result of a domiciliary care package.
Margaret Johnston, from Ballymoney in County Antrim, suffers from dementia, but she can remain at home with her husband.
Dr John Johnston said the four visits a day meant he still had a little bit of contact with his wife.
"That is so important to me because, although I am not doing the heavy work and I am not doing that type of care, I am hanging around the other side of the door when they are there," he said.
"And I appreciate it so much that I can keep a thread of communication that would be cut if she had to go into a nursing home."
But this standard of package is not typical across Northern Ireland.
Instead, the report has referred to a postcode lottery system, with the commissioner citing poor leadership as a major problem.
As well as focusing on the needs of those who are older and more vulnerable, the commissioner also looks at the worker - their pay, training and working conditions.
Northern Ireland has the lowest average hourly rate paid for domiciliary care in the UK.
With more than 300 local private domiciliary contractors, the report suggested that any costs, including transport and uniform, are reimbursed by the employer and that zero-hours contracts are reduced.
It also said that all domiciliary care staff should be trained to the level required to provide safe and effective care.
The report has highlighted a number of gaps in the system, including that there is currently no reliable data on the number of domiciliary care workers looking after the elderly and vulnerable in Northern Ireland.
In September, Northern Ireland began the compulsory registration of workers, and it is hoped that will be completed by March 2017.
Joe Lynch of the Unison union, said he believed the report would only make a difference if "people listen to it".
"We want the older person to stay at home for as long as possible, but in order for that to happen you need to have staff going in that are well trained that are feeling valued, respected and supported by their company and that are receiving mileage that is not costing them £20 or £30 to go to work," he added.
As election campaigning resumes after the attack in Manchester, the Labour leader will point to links between wars abroad and "terrorism here at home".
In a speech, Mr Corbyn will say the "war on terror is simply not working".
Security Minister Ben Wallace told the BBC his comments were "inappropriate and crassly timed".
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Theresa May will chair a session on counter-terrorism with G7 leaders in Sicily, Italy, on Friday.
She is expected to focus on what can be done to deal with the threat posed by extremists online.
In London, Mr Corbyn will deliver his speech as the bigger political parties return to the campaign trail following Monday night's suicide bombing at Manchester Arena that killed 22 people, many of them children, and injured 116.
According to pre-released excerpts from his speech, Mr Corbyn will pledge a "change at home and change abroad" if Labour wins power.
He will say that "many experts... have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here at home".
"That assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children. Those terrorists will forever be reviled and held to account for their actions.
"But an informed understanding of the causes of terrorism is an essential part of an effective response that will protect the security of our people that fights rather than fuels terrorism."
Mr Corbyn, who opposed UK military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, and voted against strikes in Libya and Syria, will say: "We must be brave enough to admit the 'war on terror' is simply not working.
"We need a smarter way to reduce the threat from countries that nurture terrorists and generate terrorism."
He will add: "No government can prevent every terrorist attack. If an individual is determined enough and callous enough, sometimes they will get through.
"But the responsibility of government is to minimise that chance - to ensure the police have the resources they need, that our foreign policy reduces rather than increases the threat to this country, and that at home we never surrender the freedoms we have won and that terrorists are so determined to take away."
Shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner said there was no "simple causal relationship" between foreign intervention and terrorism, but "we need profoundly to reassess the way in which there are linkages".
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Gardiner said it was "undeniable that young radicalised men from this country have used the excuse of British foreign policy and the chaos that has often resulted".
He used the example of British foreign policy in Libya - where the Manchester attacker Salman Abedi is known to have visited - as one that had failed to deal with the aftermath of military intervention.
Libya is in "complete chaos", he said.
But Conservative Security Minister Ben Wallace told Today Mr Corbyn's timing was "appalling".
"We have to be unequivocal, that no amount of excuses, no amount of twisted reasoning about a foreign policy here, a foreign policy there, can be an excuse. The reality is, these people hate our values.
"The way to see that off is not to feed excuses, not to allow these people - that right now our police are trying to find - to give them any cause to think: Well I'm slightly justified.
"They are not justified.
"In this country it's democracy, the rule of law, equality that we stand for and we absolutely reject terrorism - and so should Jeremy Corbyn - on all fronts."
Mr Corbyn is also expected to say that a Labour government would fund more police and ensure the security services had sufficient resources "to keep track of those who wish to murder and maim".
Labour's former home secretary, Charles Clarke, told BBC Two's Newsnight that Mr Corbyn was "simply wrong" about the war on terror.
He said the primary motive of radicals was not the UK's foreign policy but was instead "about the destruction of all the core elements of our society", adding: "It's about a totally opposed vision of what society should be."
Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown said: "Some political leaders have sought to politicise the events of the week, but now is not the time, and this is not the event, to seek political advantage."
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Several hacks on US institutions have been blamed on China, including one involving millions of government staff.
Mr Obama said the US needed to be more rapid in its response to such attacks.
Separately, the White House said Mr Obama will no longer stay at New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel, which was bought by a Chinese company last year.
White House Spokesman Josh Earnest would not comment on whether the purchase raised concerns about Chinese spying.
"There are a range of considerations that influence where the president will stay when he's not at the White House... everything from available space, to cost and to security," Mr Earnest said.
Mr Obama made his remarks after meeting members of the US military at Fort Meade, Maryland, with Mr Xi due in Washington later this month.
"We have been very clear to the Chinese that there are certain practices that they are engaging in, that we know are emanating from China and are not acceptable."
He suggested the two sides would have to agree on common rules in cyberspace, arguing "there comes a point at which we consider this a core national security threat and we will treat it as such".
But he said that China should fear confrontation online: "I guarantee you we will win if we have to."
Aside from China's suspected involvement in the attack on the Office of Personnel Management, US prosecutors last year charged five Chinese army officers with economic espionage.
But China has said it is the victim of US cyber attacks, allegations Beijing said were supported by the revelations from US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
"If you have a little question you can type it in," he says showing off his app, Babylon Health.
"We'll have a doctor respond to your question in minutes."
Babylon Health is a subscription service which you access via a smart-phone app.
For a monthly subscription of £4.99 ($7.55/€7.99) customers can get unlimited medical consultations by text and video. Once you've had an online exchange, a doctor can send a subscription to your nearest pharmacy and arrange a referral for a follow-up consultation.
"If you had something wrong and wanted to see a doctor you used to take half a day off and go to the surgery," Dr Parsa says.
"Today you can make an appointment in seconds, see a doctor in minutes and get an answer straight away."
250,000 people are already using Babylon Health in the United Kingdom and Ireland either as direct subscribers or through a private medical insurance policy.
But can seeing a doctor on your phone compete with visiting one in person?
Dr Maureen Baker, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the professional membership body for family doctors in the UK and overseas says "Mobile phone apps and medical devices have huge potential to support patients and the health professionals who provide their care."
But she adds, "We have concerns about the patient-safety implications. Patients will be having consultations with GPs who are unfamiliar with - and won't necessarily have access to - their medical history, or information about drugs that they have been prescribed."
"Medical histories provided by patients themselves will rarely be as comprehensive as those held by their family doctor. There are also many signs and symptoms that GPs look out for when making a diagnosis, that the patient might not think to raise."
Babylon says that if a patient wants to see a doctor they have already seen on the app they can request it but they may have to wait longer to see them.
The company adds that: "Records of all our patient consultations are stored so GPs can look over the history before they speak to a patient. Patients can also access videos and notes from their previous consultations."
Doctors and patients can also access the medical and health data that many phones now collect.
The idea for Babylon came while Ali Parsa was working in the British health system.
"I used to run hospitals," he says. "But most healthcare doesn't have to do with hospitals"
In 2012, he quit as the boss of the first privately run hospital in Britain's National Health Service and that hospital has since been returned to being run by the NHS.
However, the NHS is offering Babylon Health to customers in limited areas and the company tells the BBC that other tie-ups with the service will be announced imminently.
Babylon is also looking beyond the UK and Ireland and plans to launch in East Africa in 2016.
"50% of the world's population don't have access to the very basic healthcare that they need," Ali Parsa says.
"Yet we have a device that they all carry, on which we can deliver healthcare to wherever they are."
The global application is part of what is making the business investment community interested in Babylon and its competitors.
"As an investor, healthcare or med-tech is hugely important to us," says Eileen Burbidge from Passion Capital.
"The addressable market is the whole world, it's every individual in the world, they're going to need healthcare, they require healthcare or they'll benefit from healthcare."
"A company like Babylon Health, by using mobile devices and mobile technology is hugely interesting because it's not as capital intensive, you don't require quite as much investment as a life-sciences business or a pharmaceutical company."
But competition is intensifying.
"Self-serve healthcare on your mobile phone sounds massively appealing," says Ben Wood of CCS Insight. "But the challenges are: can it scale? And is this the company which is going to break through, as so many people are chasing the opportunity?"
Ali Parsa is determined to turn Babylon into a global player.
"The biggest problem is to get London to think like Silicon Valley," he says.
"If today we can deliver 95% of your healthcare over your mobile phone, imagine what we can do in three years time, five years time, ten years time."
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Kane broke through the Saints defensive line and finished coolly for a 10th goal in his past 10 games.
Soon after, Dele Alli benefitted from some lax defending to score from close range and put Spurs firmly in control.
Spurs managed the game superbly in the second half against a Saints side who are now without a win in six matches.
It represents a shocking start to what Southampton manager Ronald Koeman had described as a crucial two weeks for his team, who remain seven points clear of the relegation zone but in need of an upturn in form to avoid slipping closer to danger.
In contrast, Tottenham gave the perfect riposte to last weekend's surprise defeat at home to Newcastle with a professional performance to take them to 29 points from 17 league games.
For much of the first half, it was an even encounter between the sides, but Tottenham seized a control they would not relinquish with two goals in the space of three minutes just before half-time.
In Kane, they had the one quality striker on the pitch and he proved his class with a superb show of strength, skill and composure to give them the lead.
Erik Lamela broke on the halfway line and found Alli, who managed to move the ball on to Kane shortly before being taken out by a wild challenge from Jose Fonte.
Kane did the rest, darting between two home players before poking the ball past Virgil van Dijk, running in on goal and finishing neatly past Southampton keeper Paulo Gazzaniga for the 47th goal of his Spurs career.
Clearly shaken, Southampton gifted the visitors a second as the excellent Alli went from provider to scorer, finishing unchallenged at the back post after Kyle Walker's low cross made its way through a host of static defenders.
During their poor recent run, Koeman has complained that his side's biggest problem has been a failure to convert the numerous chances they have created.
This was certainly the case in the opening 20 minutes on Saturday as Sadio Mane spurned a number of good opportunities.
The best two saw the forward's angled drive blocked by the boot of former Saints defender Toby Alderweireld, before Hugo Lloris saved his first-time shot from the edge of the area.
Having conceded twice before the break, Southampton failed to recover as Tottenham withheld their limp and increasingly desperate forays forward with ease.
They only seriously threatened in added time when Lloris produced a superb low save to palm away a shot from substitute James Ward-Prowse, but by then it was a case of much too little, way too late.
Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino left Southampton to take over at Spurs in May 2014, following 18 months in which he helped sculpt Saints into an effective Premier League outfit.
It has taken time for the Argentine's preferred high-energy pressing game to bed in at White Hart Lane but, with the addition of the likes of Alli in midfield, Alderweireld in defence and significant contributions from Lloris and Kane at either end, they are reaping the rewards.
Prior to Saturday, they had given away more points - 11 - from winning positions than any other Premier League club this season, including three last Sunday against Newcastle, which can be an unfortunate by-product of such an attacking style.
However, Tottenham ensured they did not add to this unwanted stat with a pragmatic and intelligent display in the second half to see the game out, playing largely in the Saints half to earn a deserved and impressive win.
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Southampton manager Ronald Koeman: "If you analyse the game and watch the first goal, I am very worried because the defending was at amateur level and not the level you need to win this kind of game. It was so naive.
"One of my criticisms this season is that we are too nice people. Until the first goal, Southampton was the better team but they showed us what is a 'killing mentality'. They won the battles and second balls and were more clever in one-on-one situations.
"It might also be about confidence, but we need to be more clinical. If you get three or four good chances, you have to score. We maybe need to change players because they are not responding to our strategy."
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "I am very happy because it was a very difficult game. Southampton are a very good team and the first 20 minutes were difficult but after that we settled and managed the game and deserved our victory.
"I am pleased with the victory after a difficult week and after our defeat by Newcastle.
"The table is not the important thing at the moment. We need to keep working hard because the Premier League is very tough."
Southampton are at home again in a week's time, on Boxing Day, when they face Tottenham's north-London rivals Arsenal at St Mary's.
Tottenham's 26 December fixture is against Norwich, who beat Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Two officers were on patrol in Bute Street just before 03:00 GMT on Thursday when they saw a woman in labour.
Police said she was trying to make her way to hospital, but gave birth in the street with an ambulance attending soon afterwards.
Mother Mary and baby Princess are understood to be doing well.
Here are a few other things were learned backstage and on the red carpet.
Rotterdam, about a lesbian couple, one of whom wants to start living as a man, won the award for outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre.
"It's really exciting that trans-narratives are being brought into the mainstream," said Anna Martine Freeman, who plays the lead character of Fiona/Adrian.
"As far as we have been made aware, it is the first transgender-themed play to be nominated at an Olivier Awards."
Jon Brittain's comedy started at fringe venue Theatre 503 and transferred to Trafalgar Studios, and will play in New York next month.
"It's come from what feels like humble beginnings and is really flying," Anna told the BBC.
"With everything going on, I'd love for Rotterdam to have a larger effect on inclusion and understanding around the world."
Sir Kenneth Branagh and Andrew Lloyd Webber were among those who spoke out on stage in support of arts in education.
So too did Cursed Child director John Tiffany who admitted backstage he got angry about cuts to arts subjects in state schools.
"I'm doing what I'm doing because of free guitar lessons, because I had a grant to go to university... and they don't exist anymore," he said.
"If I was graduating from high school now I certainly wouldn't be holding this," he added, waving his Olivier statuette.
"And I'm not being dramatic!"
Groundhog Day, which won best new musical, is about to open on Broadway after its run last year at the Old Vic.
"The production here was gorgeous and came after thousands of hours of grind and self-doubt," songwriter Tim Minchin told us.
"It closed and that was always the plan, but we'll be back here within the year," he added.
In the West End? "Certainly that's the plan. It'll come back before you know it."
Which all sounds a bit like the plot of Groundhog Day.
"I'm in a show where the three leads are three black women - I think that's exceptional," said Amber Riley backstage after picking up her award for best actress in a musical.
"In the theatre you want to see people who look like you sometimes," the Dreamgirls star said.
"I'm not ashamed to say I'm not necessarily the standard of what the industry may feel is beautiful or could be a star, but I'm doing it anyway because I'm making my own way."
Last year's best actress winner Denise Gough presented this year's award to Billie Piper.
The Irish actress will be back on stage at the National Theatre soon - after her acclaimed performance in People, Places and Things - in the epic Angels in America.
Tony Kushner's two-part play is set in mid-1980s New York in the midst of the Aids crisis.
Gough plays Harper Pitt in a cast that includes Andrew Garfield (her co-presenter at the Oliviers), Nathan Lane, James McArdle and Russell Tovey.
"It's the hardest job I've ever done," Gough confided on the red carpet. "There were three rehearsal rooms going at one time. It's been a big gig."
So could we be seeing Gough bag another Olivier for Angels in America?
We'll find out in 2018...
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Police said Kyle McCusker lost control of his black Ford Mondeo and hit a traffic light pole and a bus stop pole.
The car then overturned and hit the parked Vauxhall Corsa.
The incident happened near the White House pub on Main Street in Holytown at about 00:35. Mr McCusker, from New Stevenston, died at the scene.
Pc Craig Martin said: "We have spoken to a number of people from the pub who came out to help, but would also appeal to anyone who witnessed the crash, who has not already come forward, to contact officers at the Road Policing Department at Motherwell via 101."
Mourinho, 53, who was sent to the stands by referee Jon Moss, was charged with improper conduct on Monday.
He has until 18:00 GMT on 1 December to respond.
It is the second charge for the Portuguese in two months after he was sent off against Burnley on 29 October.
Mourinho received a one-match ban and an £8,000 fine for that incident.
Because Mourinho has already been sent off this season, the punishment for Sunday's offence will be determined by a commission, whether he accepts or denies the charge.
The former Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid boss was also fined £50,000 for comments he made about referee Anthony Taylor before the Liverpool match at Anfield on 17 October.
In Sunday's game, Mourinho reacted after Paul Pogba was booked for diving following an apparent incident with West Ham captain Mark Noble.
Replays showed Noble did not make contact with the 23-year-old France midfielder.
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The team sitting eighth in League One were second-best for much of the first period against Southern League Premier Division opponents.
Posh eventually hit the front through a long-range thunderbolt from Coulthirst five minutes before the break.
Marcus Maddison, Michael Smith and substitute Gwion Edwards all squandered glorious opportunities in the second half before Coulthirst doubled the lead with 20 minutes to go, sliding in to meet a low Smith delivery from the right.
But Chesham, who are 94 places below their hosts in the English football pecking order, refused to roll over.
They halved their arrears when Ryan Blake - who struck in their famous first-round win at Bristol Rovers last season - pounced on a weak Michael Bostwick back pass to score.
Chesham were not far away from earning a replay when Bruce Crilley put a late diving header over from a corner, but there was no fairytale fightback for Andy Leese's men.
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Match ends, Peterborough United 2, Chesham United 1.
Second Half ends, Peterborough United 2, Chesham United 1.
Foul by Lee Angol (Peterborough United).
Ben Crilley (Chesham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United).
Matt Taylor (Chesham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bradley Wadkins (Chesham United).
Lee Angol (Peterborough United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Matt Taylor (Chesham United).
Foul by Paul Taylor (Peterborough United).
Toby Little (Chesham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ashlee Jones.
Attempt saved. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Martin (Chesham United).
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Ben Crilley (Chesham United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Chesham United. Conceded by Chris Forrester.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ashlee Jones.
Attempt saved. Andrew Hughes (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Goal! Peterborough United 2, Chesham United 1. Ryan Blake (Chesham United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Chesham United. Barry Hayles replaces Sam Youngs.
Substitution, Chesham United. Toby Little replaces Bruce Wilson.
Attempt missed. Sam Youngs (Chesham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Paul Taylor replaces Marcus Maddison.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Bruce Wilson.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ashlee Jones.
Delay in match Ashlee Jones (Chesham United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Lee Angol replaces Tom Nichols.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ashlee Jones.
Attempt saved. Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Goal! Peterborough United 2, Chesham United 0. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Michael Smith.
Attempt missed. Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Chesham United. Ryan Blake replaces Drew Roberts.
Attempt blocked. Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Ricardo Santos (Peterborough United).
Bradley Wadkins (Chesham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Michael Smith (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant has been invested in sites of natural, industrial, maritime and sporting heritage.
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She will have to remain lying down as much as possible in the next three weeks and several visits will be cancelled, Steffen Seibert said.
She also suffered heavy bruising in the accident, in the alpine Engadine region of eastern Switzerland.
Ms Merkel was not skiing fast at the time, the spokesman added.
He called the injury "severe bruising linked with a partial fracture on the left, rear part of the pelvis".
Immediately after the accident, during the Christmas holiday in December, Ms Merkel was not aware that part of her pelvis had been fractured, the spokesman said. It was a visit to her doctor on Friday that revealed the exact injury.
He did not give details about how it happened. She was skiing near the resort of St Moritz.
Ms Merkel still intends to chair a cabinet meeting on Wednesday - the first gathering of all her coalition ministers. She is now walking with the aid of crutches.
But mostly she will be working from home. She has cancelled a trip to Poland this week and will not receive Luxembourg's new prime minister Xavier Bettel in Berlin, the spokesman said.
Ms Merkel's injury comes just days after fellow German Michael Schumacher's life-threatening skiing accident in France.
The Formula One motor racing star, who retired in 2012, is in a medically-induced coma and has had brain surgery after slamming his head on a rock while skiing off-piste at the French alpine resort of Meribel.
His injury has sparked much debate about speed on the slopes and the risks some skiers take.
Mourinho could not afford any mistakes in this third-round tie after Premier League defeats by Manchester City and Watford, with a Europa League loss to Feyenoord sandwiched in between.
It was eventually smooth passage, assisted by Northampton keeper Adam Smith, who endured a nightmare evening and played a big part in two of United's goals.
The highly rated 23-year-old picked up a back pass in the 17th minute and when Wayne Rooney's resulting free-kick was blocked, the recalled Michael Carrick fired home the loose ball emphatically.
Alex Revell gave the Cobblers hope of a shock from the penalty spot just before half-time after Daley Blind fouled Sam Hoskins - but this was not the night for an upset.
United regrouped and Ander Herrera's powerful drive put them in front after 68 minutes before Smith's misery was complete seven minutes later when he missed a simple long clearance to allow substitute Marcus Rashford to roll the ball into an empty net.
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Jose Mourinho has been reluctant to use the 35-year-old England midfield man since his arrival at Old Trafford. This was his first start since Manchester United's win against Leicester City in the Community Shield at Wembley.
On this evidence he surely has a strong case to force his way into Mourinho's plans - not least because he possesses the style and composure to bring the best from United's £89m world record signing Paul Pogba.
Pogba has looked restricted in his early performances and the selection of Carrick, so reliable in possession and even chipping in with a goal here, would allow the France midfield man freedom, play to his strengths and give him the opportunity to do damage further forward.
Carrick's experience and expert reading of the game adds to Mourinho's options and could finally bring the best from his showpiece summer signing. Surely he will start against Leicester City at Old Trafford on Saturday.
As Pogba got the night off and Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Rashford started on the bench with Mourinho making nine changes from United's 3-1 loss to Watford at Vicarage Road, there was no respite for Rooney.
United's embattled captain, who has bore the brunt of much of the criticism aimed at the side this season, was in the starting line-up but endured another night of frustration.
He worked hard but nothing is coming off for the 30-year-old. He missed one easy chance early on and when he did hit the target after Timothy Fosu-Mensah's header hit the bar, he was adjudged offside.
With Carrick and Herrera excelling and with a host of attacking options available to Mourinho, will Rooney's place come under threat against Leicester City at Old Trafford at the weekend?
Northampton may not have been able to spring the big shock and increase the woes for Mourinho by knocking Manchester United out of the EFL Cup - but there was still plenty for the club lying 11th in League One to be pleased about.
The neat Sixfields stadium was packed with a record crowd of 7,798. With a new stand in the process of being built, the club can be proud of the way it handled the big occasion.
Northampton's 31-game unbeaten run ended with defeat by Chesterfield on Saturday and for spells they showed United too much respect. This is, perhaps, understandable, but this was a night when Northampton as a club did itself great credit.
If there was a sadness, it was the disappointment suffered by keeper Smith, who has attracted Premier League attention but was badly at fault here.
Smith was included in the League Two team of the season as the Cobblers clinched the title in the previous campaign. There will be better days ahead for a talented young goalkeeper.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho: "It was as difficult as I was expecting but we looked to be in control for the first 35 minutes and then we looked to be in control for the last 45. I think the team was in control from the beginning and the subs were just a contribution.
"The game should be easier, we should have been playing against 10 men very early in the second half. Northampton fought and they tried to cause us problems which sometimes they did but it was a positive performance overall.
"I don't like to individualise the players, I think it was fine, the midfield were in control."
Northampton manager Rob Page: "When you get back in to it at 1-1 you never know.
"I'm really proud of the players, we had to be disciplined. They've had a tough week by their standards but we knew we had to be strong. When you give away soft goals you will get punished.
"He (goalkeeper Adam Smith) was outstanding last season and he'll bounce back from this. He's a strong character, we've all had moments like that as players."
Match ends, Northampton Town 1, Manchester United 3.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 1, Manchester United 3.
Attempt missed. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alfie Potter with a cross.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wayne Rooney with a cross.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Wayne Rooney.
Alfie Potter (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Alfie Potter (Northampton Town).
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Gabriel Zakuani.
Attempt blocked. Alfie Potter (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Matthew Taylor.
Attempt missed. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Attempt saved. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic with a through ball.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Manchester United 3. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ander Herrera following a fast break.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Daley Blind (Manchester United).
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Morgan Schneiderlin.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Marc Richards replaces Jak McCourt.
Foul by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United).
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Manchester United 2. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alfie Potter replaces Kenji Gorré.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ashley Young (Manchester United) because of an injury.
Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) hits the right post with a left footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Ashley Young.
Foul by Michael Carrick (Manchester United).
Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marcus Rashford replaces Timothy Fosu-Mensah.
Substitution, Manchester United. Zlatan Ibrahimovic replaces Memphis Depay.
Substitution, Northampton Town. John-Joe O'Toole replaces Harry Beautyman.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Sam Hoskins.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Brendon Moloney.
Attempt saved. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Carrick.
Labour-run Sandwell Council said it would co-operate with the police when their work began in October 2014.
Former deputy leader Mahboob Hussain and former economy chief councillor, Ian Jones, stood down from the ruling cabinet after the investigation began.
A separate internal investigation is ongoing, said the council.
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Mr Jones said he had been told he would not be allowed to run in local elections this year on a Labour ticket because he remained in "administrative suspension" from the party as he had voluntarily stood down to await the police and council's findings.
He said: "I've been left in limbo because of a witch-hunt. My reputation of 25 years as a Walsall Council officer and 18 years as a Sandwell councillor has been threatened by malicious allegations.
"It's been a nightmare for myself and for my family and friends but I would like to thank them for supporting me throughout."
He said he was taking legal advice over the council investigation.
Mr Hussain said he was "pleased" the investigation was over.
Insp Jonathan Jones, of West Midlands Police, said the probe had followed "serious allegations... suggesting irregularities regarding the sale of former Sandwell Council properties between June 2012 and September 2014".
He said after a "thorough" investigation there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
Sandwell Council chief executive Jan Britton said the authority "co-operated fully throughout" and was satisfied no further police action would be taken.
The former HM Coroner's office in Smethwick, West Midlands, was put up for sale in December 2012.
The council's asset land and disposal committee, which was formerly chaired by Mr Hussain, approved council officers' recommendations to sell the office.
It was bought in May 2013 by Azeem Hafeez - according to the Land Registry, Mr Hussain's son - for £80,000. In December 2013 it appeared for auction for £120,000.
Although there was no suggestion Mr Hussain knew his son would bid for the property, when the committee authorised the sale, or that either Mr Hussain or Mr Hafeez behaved improperly with regard to the sale, the difference in value of the office building at the time led to calls for an investigation into whether the council obtained best value on the sale to Mr Hafeez.
Mr Hafeez was arrested in April 2015 but has already been told he would face no action and previously said he was considering taking legal action.
In October 2014, Oldbury ward councillor Mr Hussain stood down as chairman of the committee. Mr Jones was also on that committee but stood down in February 2015.
At the time, the council said Mr Hussain's resignation was a neutral act that did not imply any wrongdoing.
The council first agreed to sell the site after a kitchen fire in October 2012 that made it unusable and the Coroner's Service moved to alternative accommodation.
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Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said half of the homes built would be council and housing association homes which would be "for rent and totally affordable".
Labour said figures showed its councils had built more homes than Conservative ones since 2010.
The Conservatives said they had a "clear plan" for affordable housing and Labour's policies were "uncosted".
With six weeks to go before election day, Mr Corbyn reaffirmed his party's housing pledge on a visit to the Conservative-held seat of Harlow, saying: "We want our country properly housed.
"We want our young people growing up with security so they can achieve more in school and college and go on to university, because this election is about the future and removing that sense of insecurity that so many face.
"We are for the many. They are for the few."
Labour councils have built on average 2,577 new homes between 2010 and this year, compared with 1,679 in Conservative-led areas, according to a Labour-commissioned study of House of Commons library analysis.
It showed Liberal Democrat councils performing slightly worse than the Tories, building on average 1,660 new homes.
But challenged over housing at prime minister's questions on Wednesday, Theresa May said that more council housing had been built under the Conservatives than under the last Labour government showing the Conservatives were "delivering on housing and delivering for ordinary working families".
The government says it has measures in place to boost the numbers of affordable homes.
Following Mr Corbyn's comments, Conservative Party Chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin said: "Yet again, Jeremy Corbyn's uncosted policies demonstrate what's at risk at this election.
"Under Theresa May, we have a clear plan to deliver more affordable housing - and the number of housing starts is up by three-quarters since 2010. But that would all come to an end with Jeremy Corbyn in charge of our Brexit negotiations, bringing grave risk and uncertainty to the British economy."
Labour Housing spokesman John Healey earlier said Labour councils in power were helping people to get that first foot on the property ladder, building super-efficient homes in Exeter and "genuinely affordable" homes in Islington, north London.
Asked whether Labour's approach to house building was through councils, Mr Healey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "You have to have councils building and commissioning new homes as part of a much bigger effort from housing associations, private house builders and councils."
Mr Healey, a housing minister in Gordon Brown's government, said that decades of missed housing targets was a "test that all us as politicians have to meet".
"It's no good announcing big figures and targets. People have lost confidence in that.
"We have got to show not just what we want to do, but how we will do it and how we will fund it."
House prices in England and Wales have risen 259% between 1997 and 2016, according to the Office for National Statistics, while average earnings have risen only 68%. Home ownership in England is at its lowest level since 1985, according to the government.
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The housing strategy for England included giving councils powers to pressurise developers to start building on land they own.
Ministers also pledged to make renting more "family friendly" with longer tenancies offered.
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The winning ticket was bought in Merthyr Tydfil or Rhondda Cynon Taff for a one-off Team GB-inspired Lotto Medal Draw on 27 August 2016.
It was one of 27 millionaires created to celebrate the number of gold medals won at the Rio Olympics.
If it is not claimed, the cash will go to charity.
Camelot said it has a code of RUBY 6863 3083.
There was another £1m ticket purchased in the area - in the Euromillions UK Millionaire Maker draw which has four winners weekly, two on Tuesday and two on Friday.
That one was successful in the 3 February draw and had a winning code of ZXPR 17675. The ticket's owner has until 2 August to come forward.
"Try checking in the pockets of clothing, in wallets, bags and down the back of the sofa. We have the champagne on ice and our fingers crossed that the lucky winner comes forward to claim their winnings," said the National Lottery's Andy Carter.
There was grumbling, there was pleading, and there were several sharp retorts.
It was sometimes hard to remember that all the leaders who turned up here professed to want the same thing: an end to the chaos that increasingly marks the migration route through the Western Balkans.
They don't agree on the way to do it.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who called the meeting, was hoping to rekindle a spirit of co-operation and trust that would allow countries to co-ordinate with each other - taking time to register new arrivals, and not simply waving them through to their next destination, or, as Slovenia has put it, "dumping" them on their border.
The pressure is real: 9,000 people a day have been crossing into Greece. And on Sunday alone, the government of Slovenia - a country of two million - said 15,000 people arrived at their border.
Without agreeing concrete steps soon, its Prime Minister Miro Cerar said Europe "will start to fall apart".
It's already splintering.
Deep rifts have opened up in the region, as the number of migrants has increased, and Mr Juncker's new proposals to strengthen Schengen's external borders in Greece and Slovenia play into national fears, as countries further along the route fear being turned into buffer zones.
In the story of Europe's migrant crisis, one nation's protection becomes another nation's problem.
In the end, he got a watered-down version of the co-operation he'd been hoping for: a commitment from countries to inform their neighbours before sending migrants and refugees their way, and to make an effort to process them properly.
In return, he promised extra border police for Greece and Slovenia, and 100,000 new places at reception centres along the West Balkans route.
Even before the meeting began, Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic labelled the plan "unrealistic", drafted by someone "who had just woken up from a months-long sleep". The solution, he said, lay in Turkey and Greece.
It's a sentiment echoed by many of the leaders here - that without action from Turkey in stemming the number of people crossing its border into Greece, anything else is just tinkering around the edges.
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, acknowledged that the meeting was about managing the situation rather than tackling the root cause; any real solution, she said, would have to involve Ankara.
So was it all worth it? The Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksander Vucic, summed it up. One of the optimists going in to the meeting, he was the first to speak after it broke up.
Standing slack-limbed in front of the microphone, he told waiting reporters that the agreement would not be "immediately helpful". We're looking at "small steps," he said.
"Hopefully, step by step, things will get a bit better."
The influx of migrants into southern Europe has escalated, driven by the wars in Syria and Iraq, as well as conflict in many parts of Africa. More than 150,000 have arrived this year - far more than in the first half of last year.
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For months Italy has been on the frontline of the crisis, as boatloads of desperate migrants risk their lives trying to reach Lampedusa or Sicily.
Last year Italy controversially reduced its naval patrols off war-torn Libya, telling its EU partners that they must contribute to efforts to stop the migrant boats coming.
After hundreds of migrants drowned off Lampedusa this year, the EU agreed to launch a joint naval operation to rescue migrants in distress. But aid agencies say patrols ought to cover a wide area on the high seas - not just the EU's territorial waters.
Italy says its EU partners must also share the burden of housing migrants and processing asylum claims.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi voiced anger at East European leaders who rejected an EU plan for mandatory quotas to distribute migrants across the 28-nation bloc.
Recently France blocked hundreds of migrants at Ventimiglia, on the Italian border.
Many migrants staying at makeshift camps in Italy are desperate to move on to northern Europe.
The boatloads of migrants heading for Greek islands have increased sharply this year.
Lesvos is a particular pressure point. Many of the migrants are Syrians, and many of them will be entitled to refugee status, having fled the civil war.
But Greece's reception centres are overcrowded and some are in a deplorable state.
Heavily indebted Greece, already unable to pay its bills, cannot cope with the influx. It has a massive backlog of asylum claims to process.
There is much hostility in Greece towards non-EU migrants, and many of them quickly try to move north via the Balkans to reach other EU countries.
In the current economic crisis many Greeks fear competition from foreigners for scarce jobs.
In recent years France has sent many poor Roma (Gypsies) back to Romania and Bulgaria, after they entered France illegally.
But now the French focus is on the growing numbers of migrants entering Europe from the Mediterranean. They include many sub-Saharan Africans, some of whom have camped out on the streets of Paris.
The latest pressure point is Calais, where about 3,000 irregular migrants are sleeping rough, getting little local help. They want to get to the UK - and pictures of them jumping on to UK-bound lorries triggered fresh British criticism of lax security at the French port.
France says the UK must provide more help to solve the Calais crisis.
153,000
migrants crossed into Europe so far this year
149% increase from 2014
63,000 migrants reached Greece by sea
62,000 migrants reached Italy by sea
10,000 on Hungary/Serbia border in May
The UK's emphasis is on breaking up the people-smuggling networks - trying to tackle the problem before the migrants turn up in Europe.
UK politicians point out that the UK spends more than many other EU countries on development aid, which can help stem the flow of economic migrants from poor countries.
The UK and some other EU countries also want stronger EU efforts to send failed asylum seekers back. Last year the rate for sending migrants back was just 39%.
But the British debate has tended to focus on the Conservatives' ambition to reduce immigration from EU countries. The government wants to tighten the rules on migrants' social benefits, as a disincentive for would-be immigrants from the EU.
The UK is involved in the Mediterranean naval operation, but has opted out of the EU plan to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers from overcrowded migrant centres in Italy and Greece.
Germany has more asylum seekers than any other EU country. Its strong economy is a magnet for migrants desperate to start a new life.
But like other EU countries, Germany wants much better screening of migrants, to determine who has the skills that the German economy needs.
The birth rate in Germany, as in Italy, is low - so both countries will need immigrants to fill labour market gaps in future.
Germany has a tradition of welcoming migrants - after all, Turks, Yugoslavs and some other nationalities contributed greatly to Germany's post-war economic boom.
Germany and Austria support the EU plan for resettling asylum seekers. That contrasts with the reluctance of most East European countries to take in more migrants.
Germany has been the preferred destination of many Chechens, who fled Russia's bloody crackdown against separatist fighters.
Partly the East Europeans are worried that they could see an influx from Ukraine, where fighting continues between government troops and pro-Russian rebels.
But apart from Hungary and Bulgaria, the other eastern countries have relatively low rates of immigration.
Tensions have risen between Hungary and neighbouring Austria recently, since Hungary announced that it would not take back migrants who had moved elsewhere in the EU.
Hungary now says it is a temporary measure, because of a sudden influx - not a violation of the EU's Dublin Regulation. That rule says the country where a migrant first arrives is responsible for handling the migrant's asylum claim.
This year Hungary has experienced a surge of migrants trying to enter from Serbia. It has announced plans to fence off the Serbian border.
Many of Hungary's recent immigrants are escaping dire poverty in Kosovo, and many of their asylum claims are likely to be rejected.
Hungary and Bulgaria are exempt from the new EU plan to relocate asylum-seekers across the EU.
Bulgaria, like Hungary, says it cannot cope with any more, as its reception centres are overcrowded.
The head of Venezuela's National Defence Council, Alexis López Ramírez, said he had resigned over President Nicolás Maduro's plans for a constituent assembly.
The general said he did not agree with the way the assembly was convened and how its members would be selected.
His resignation amid a political crisis has caused waves in Venezuela.
While polls suggest that 80% of Venezuelans are unhappy with the way Mr Maduro runs the country, the military has so far expressed its loyalty to the president.
Government critics have repeatedly tried to get the armed forces to switch sides. Most recently, jailed opposition leader Leopoldo López published a video message on Twitter calling on the military to rebel.
But so far there has been very limited dissent within the armed forces.
When news of the renunciation of Gen López filtered through on Monday, speculation therefore was at fever pitch about what had triggered it.
On Tuesday, he broke his silence and published a letter on Twitter [in Spanish] in which he stated his "appreciation, gratitude and friendship for President Nicolás Maduro" before writing that the reason for his renunciation was due to "my disagreement with the procedure used to convene and elect the constituent assembly".
President Maduro first announced plans to create a citizen's assembly to rewrite the constitution on 1 May.
The move has been heavily criticised by the opposition, which says it is an attempt by the president to increase his powers by sidestepping the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
But there has also been criticism from some "Chavistas", people loyal to Mr Maduro's mentor and predecessor in office, Hugo Chávez.
They say there is no need to change the constitution, which was drawn up and passed under President Chávez in 1999.
President Maduro argues that the constituent assembly will "bring peace" to Venezuela, where more than 60 people have been killed in protest-related violence since 1 April.
The president says a new constitution will also enshrine some of the social programmes Mr Chávez introduced and prevent them from being abolished should a new government come in.
There is also disagreement over whether the way the assembly was convened was legal, with some saying the president should have held a referendum.
However, a legal challenge filed by the chief prosecutor has been dismissed by the Supreme Court, which critics say is stacked with supporters of President Maduro.
Opposition politicians have called on Venezuelans to further increase the pressure on the government by stepping up their protests.
Tanveer Ahmed, from Bradford in Yorkshire, attacked Asad Shah outside his store in the Shawlands area on 24 March. Mr Shah later died in hospital.
The 40-year-old was stabbed after publishing hundreds of videos about his spiritual beliefs online.
Mr Shah was an Ahmadiyya, a group known for its peaceful interfaith concerns. Ahmed said he had "disrespected" Islam.
He pled guilty to the murder at a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow. Sentence was deferred until 9 August and Ahmed was remanded in custody.
The judge, Lady Rae, said he would face a very lengthy period of imprisonment.
She told Ahmed: "This was a truly despicable crime, motivated, it seems, by your sense of offence at a man's expression of his religious beliefs, which differ from yours.
"Let me be clear - there's no justification whatsoever for what you did."
The court heard Ahmed, a cab driver, was in Glasgow a couple of days before the murder with a friend who knew Mr Shah and who showed Ahmed Mr Shah's Facebook page.
The shopkeeper had uploaded hundreds of videos about his spiritual beliefs to Facebook and YouTube, most of which were filmed behind the counter of his shop.
The court was told Mr Shah had posted some videos which could be seen as him claiming that he was a prophet.
Advocate depute Iain McSporran, prosecuting, said: "The accused's consistent and repeated account as to his motivation for murdering Asad Shah was that Shah claimed to be a prophet, which so offended his feelings and his faith that he had to kill him."
Ahmed, a Sunni Muslim, returned to Bradford but then drove to Glasgow on the day of the murder. On the journey, he watched online footage of Mr Shah and said: "Listen to this guy, something needs to be done, it needs nipped in the bud."
He arrived at the shop at about 21:00 where Mr Shah was working with an assistant, Stephen McFadyen.
After walking around the shop, Ahmed approached the counter and began speaking to Mr Shah.
Mr McSporran said: "The accused having apparently not received the response he was looking for, reaches into the robes he is wearing and removes a knife which which he attacks Asad Shah, moving behind the counter to do so.
"Stephen McFadyen, approaches and attempts to assist but the incident is fast moving and he is unable to prevent the attack, involving repeated stab wounds aimed at the head and upper body, continuing.
"Asad Shah attempted to flee his assailant and moved outside the shop but the accused kept hold of him and continued striking him with the knife."
Mr Shah was taken to hospital in Glasgow, but despite CPR and surgery he could not be saved and was pronounced dead at about 22:00.
He suffered multiple broken bones and the base of his skull was fragmented in a way more commonly seen in victims of road traffic accidents, with "numerous powerful blows" to his head and back, the court heard.
To many in Pakistan, Mumtaz Qadri was a cold-blooded murderer. But to the tens of thousands of his supporters he was a hero who defended Islam and its prophet.
Mumtaz Qadri was hanged in February for killing the governor of Punjab Salman Taseer in 2011. Mr Taseer had spoken out against the country's blasphemy law.
Riots broke out after Qadri's funeral with many vowing to carry on the cause. One banner said: "We're all Mumtaz Qadri".
I met Qadri's brother, Dilpazeer Awan, in their family home in Rawalpindi. He said Tanveer Ahmed was one of his brother's biggest supporters.
I asked him if he thought he killed Asad Shah because his brother inspired him.
He told me: "Yes no doubt he was very much impressed by Mumtaz, he used to send him messages in jail. Let me tell you it's only Mumtaz Qadri's body which was hanged but his spirit still lives on."
Blasphemy is a capital crime here in Pakistan and while no one has ever been executed for it, dozens have been killed before their cases even made it to court.
Human rights groups have long called for a change of the law which they say is used mainly against religious minorities.
But it's a very sensitive and often life threatening subject that many people especially politicians prefer to avoid.
Mr McSporran said the nature of the attack was such that "only death could possibly have been the intended outcome".
Ahmed then calmly walked to a bus shelter and sat "head bowed as if in prayer" and made no attempt to escape.
He told the police officers who found him: "I respect what you do and I have nothing against you and so I am not going to hurt you.
"I have broken the law and appreciate how you are treating me."
Ahmadiyya Muslims are persecuted in many parts of the world and are banned by the constitution of Pakistan from referring to themselves as Muslims.
Mr Shah was born in Rabwah, Pakistan, but moved to Scotland after he and his family were persecuted for their faith. They were granted asylum by the UK.
On the day Mr Shah died, he had posted a message on Facebook which read: "Good Friday and a very happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nationx."
However, Mr McSporran stressed this specific post had no bearing on the crime.
After being arrested, Ahmed released a statement through his lawyer saying he had killed Mr Shah as he had falsely claimed to be a prophet.
The statement was immediately condemned by Ahmadiyya Muslim leaders, who said killing for "blasphemy" was "completely against the teachings of Islam".
"We must not let the same mindset of hate and violence take root here in Glasgow, and for that matter, the UK and anywhere in the world," they added.
The court heard Ahmed was not motivated by malice towards Ahmadiyya Muslims as a group, but by his offence at Mr Shah's comments.
However, a victim statement from the shopkeeper's family - his wife, parents and six siblings - said they could no longer live normal lives and some intended to leave Scotland.
His parents said: "We brought our children to this country to seek refuge from Pakistan in 1991 fleeing persecution, religious hatred, discrimination and a danger to our lives because we were Ahmadis.
"We never thought that we could be in danger here. We feel imprisoned by our pain and suffering and we have little hope of ever having a normal life again.
"Most of the family, unable to live with this turmoil, pain and fear, has taken a decision to leave Scotland forever."
The murder of Mr Shah, who was well-known in the area, shocked the local community, with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon among those to pay their respects to him.
Asst Ch Con Steve Johnson, from Police Scotland, said Mr Shah had been a "peaceful family man" who was well-liked in the community.
He added: "Mr Shah's murder was the result of an extreme act of violence; an attack which was concluded within the space of four minutes. It is clear that the actions of Tanveer Ahmed were motivated by his religious beliefs.
"There is a consensus across all of our communities that there is no place in Scotland for religious or cultural intolerance which generates crimes of hatred, intimidation or violence. Religious or cultural beliefs, no matter how strongly held, do not entitle anyone to commit murder or acts of aggression."
The 21-year-old from Ipswich, who became the youngest ever winner in 2014, eased to the first set 10-5.
Cambridge's Falkner, 37, responded by taking a 5-2 lead in the second set.
But Rednall came back to claim the set 10-6 and deny Falkner what would have been a record fourth title.
"Coming back here each year is an absolute pleasure," Rednall told BBC Sport.
"It was an incredible game and it was what you hope for from a final."
Betsi Cadwaladr's Simon Dean said it was due to "extreme difficulties" in recruiting doctors.
He said it was a daily challenge to fill rotas.
On Tuesday, the board will discuss downgrading units at either Glan Clwyd, Ysbyty Gwynedd or Wrexham Maelor hospitals.
The health board favours making the doctor-led unit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, a midwife-led unit. Mothers needing more complicated care will be transferred to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.
Critics of the controversial proposal have claimed some expectant mothers would be at greater risk from having to travel further.
The Betsi Cadwaladr board initially argued it did not have time to hold a public consultation on its decision because the changes had to be implemented urgently.
However, campaigners challenged the decision in court and managers backed down.
The consultation document which will be discussed on Tuesday also includes a proposal to maintain services as they are, but Mr Dean told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme that would not be safe.
"Clearly if we thought things were safe as they were - we wouldn't be entering into consultation," he said.
He said it was important to "recognise the warning signs that things are much more difficult before a tragic event happens. We're trying to manage risks in anticipatory way - looking at the things that could go wrong".
If the decision is given the go ahead, the public will be invited to have its say.
Mr Dean took over as interim chief executive after its previous boss stepped aside following the health minister's decision to put the board into "special measures" following a series of scandals.
He said his priority has been to "rebuild the trust and confidence of the public and staff" and "create the conditions which staff could succeed".
The traditional opening parade took marchers and several bands around the city's historic walls.
Members of the Apprentice Boys then made their way to the Diamond for a wreath laying ceremony.
After the ceremony there was a religious service in St Columb's Church of Ireland cathedral.
A re-enactment of the Siege of Derry of 1689 was staged by a local drama group, before the main parade got under way on Saturday afternoon.
About 8,000 Apprentice Boys and 145 bands participated in the demonstration.
There was a visible police presence around the city centre.
The memorial ceremony is held on the second Saturday in August each year, to commemorate the ending of the 105-day siege of the city in August 1689.
The siege took place against the background of the deposed Catholic King James II's attempt to regain his crown from his Protestant son-in-law, King William III.
Also known as William of Orange, or King Billy, the new monarch was supported by Protestants in Derry, who shut the gates of the walled city to keep out the advancing Jacobite army.
Mr Mattis was briefing Nato allies on future strategy, amid reports the US will boost its military presence.
His comments were in direct contrast to Nato's secretary-general, who said the withdrawal should have happened sooner.
US troops reached 130,000 in 2011 but were drawn down, leaving the Afghan military in control at the end of 2014. There are now 13,500 Nato troops there.
Mr Mattis was speaking at a press conference after meeting Nato defence ministers in Brussels.
He said: "Looking back on it, it's pretty much a consensus that we may have pulled our troops out too rapidly, reduced the numbers a little too rapidly."
However, Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insisted it was right to end Nato's combat role in 2014, saying: "If anything, we should have done it before."
Diplomatic and US sources have suggested the number of US troops could increase by between 3,000 and 5,000 to try to counter a resurgent Taliban and the presence of an Afghan branch of so-called Islamic State.
Mr Mattis said: "I don't put timelines on war; war is a fundamentally unpredictable phenomenon.
"The bottom line is that Nato has made a commitment to Afghanistan for freedom from fear and terror, and freedom from terror demands that you can't let this be undone."
The conflict in Afghanistan has dragged on for 16 years, since the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
At the end of 2014, Nato assumed the Resolute Support mission, helping train the Afghan military while handing over frontline combat duties.
Mr Stoltenberg said there would be more Nato troops for Afghanistan but gave no precise figure and said they would not be in combat roles.
UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon pledged 100 more troops on top of 500 already in Afghanistan.
"We're in it for the long haul," he said.
Afghanistan has been hit by numerous violent attacks in recent weeks, including a massive bomb attack in the capital, Kabul, that killed more than 150 people.
It was a notable moment for Steve Paterson, part of a story that began with a £10,000 cash inducement before he fell into gambling, a drinking problem and now, a sense of having come out the other side to a place of serenity.
"I've been at the highest level and now it's almost like I've returned to my roots," Paterson says. "That makes me happy."
The arrival of Tommy Docherty in an expensive car in the small Moray village of Mostodloch in 1974 would have caught the attention of locals, although Paterson was already well known at home and beyond. He made his Scotland Under-18 debut while only 15 and after playing against England at Old Trafford his signature was widely chased.
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Paterson was drawn to the history and romanticism of Manchester United, although he insisted on completing his education before moving south. By that time, he was already an enthusiastic gambler.
"[It] began about a year before, when I got money from Man United," he says.
"It was laid out in £10 notes in the middle of my living room and my mother and father - pretty working class, just managed to pay the rent and get a couple of screw tops on a Saturday and fags - couldn't cope with the sum of money and left it to me.
"It was £10,000, a huge amount. I stuffed it in a big Bisto tin and kept it in my mother's wardrobe. I started to dip into it.
"The club should have put it into a trust to get at the end of your contract, but it was a long time ago. And it would have been illegal. Back then, the top schoolboys were getting bunged, that was the norm, but I was naive and I'd have signed for nothing."
The game's culture at the time offered no protection from his personal demons. At Old Trafford, the youth players spent their afternoons playing snooker or gambling. Attending the Wednesday afternoon drinking club was expected.
"I fell into the bookie and racing gang," Paterson says ruefully. "If I had to change anything, it would be that."
He left Old Trafford in 1980, with a move to Sheffield United eventually falling through because of an injury, followed by spells in Hong Kong, Australia and Japan, before a return to Moray, his "comfort blanket". Back home, Paterson ended up as player-manager of Elgin, embarking on the next chapter of his football career.
"I couldn't do anything but win for the first 10 years of my [management] career, yet off the park I wasn't putting in anything," Paterson says. "I wasn't into the theory and science of the game. I had a good eye for a player."
His finest hour and a half came at Celtic Park in February 2000, when he steered Inverness Caledonian Thistle to a 3-1 Scottish Cup victory over Celtic.
At the time, Paterson was considered one of the most promising managers operating outside the top-flight, but the success was in spite of an increasingly chaotic personal life.
"I got away with an awful lot of things at Inverness," Paterson says. "Some of my behaviour was shocking. I let a lot of people down, none more so than myself.
"I was very much into gambling. I was very much into drinking. But I pulled off the football because you can put on a mask and function when inside you're in turmoil.
"I was a runaway train, an accident waiting to happen and unfortunately it happened when I got the biggest job of my life."
Paterson joined Aberdeen in December 2002, but within three months the addictions in his personal life finally spilled over into his professional one, and he failed to turn up for a game against Dundee following a night of heavy drinking.
Aberdeen stood by him, but he was eventually sacked at the end of the 2003-04 season, and left Pittodrie in the boot of a car to avoid the waiting press.
"I had a drink problem whereby I never knew when to stop," he says. "It's the biggest regret of my life and I firmly believe I should have been sacked right away. I've never been back to Pittodrie because I feel ashamed.
"If [Aberdeen] had done a bit more research they would maybe have had second thoughts, but I was so successful and in days gone by, it was fairly common that a lot of managers would have a drink or gambling problem.
"For the next five years I lost the plot, my behaviours escalated in terms of irresponsible drinking and gambling. I hit a few years of clinical depression."
Paterson spent two months at the Sporting Chance clinic in 2008 and wrote a book about his life that was in many ways a confession.
Even then, it took longer to fully cope with his addictions. Football, though, was a constant, with Paterson managing Forres Mechanics, Peterhead, Huntly, Formartine United and now Dufftown since leaving Aberdeen, combined with his job as a social worker.
"I was very much into self-pity and I had loads of really bad character defects," he says. "It's only the last few years that I've grown a bit. When you're in the grip of an addiction, your emotional growth is stunted.
"My life has been really good [now] and I feel at peace. I've changed a lot for the better. My ambitions and aims now all revolve around my family and friends and my partner. I'm in a good place.
"I played for a wee village team called Fochabers and I'm now managing Dufftown, which is a lovely wee club. I've come a full circle."
Listen to the full interview with Steve Paterson on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound on Thursday evening, from 18:30 BST.
In those days, between 1995 and 2005, it was often a title decider. Everything was completely different about Sunday's game at Emirates Stadium, and it summed up where both teams are at right now.
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It was a match between the teams in fifth and sixth place in the Premier League but it felt more like it was ninth versus 10th, in one of those dead rubbers you get at the end of the season.
Yes, Arsenal won, to end United's long unbeaten run, but nobody really cared - including United manager Jose Mourinho.
It was the first time Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has beaten him in a competitive game, at the 16th attempt and after 13 years of trying.
But watching Mourinho afterwards, it was probably the first time in about six months that I have seen him relaxed and smiling.
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It was a game that was clearly a nuisance for him, sandwiched between the two legs of United's Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo that he has made it obvious is his priority.
So, for United, Sunday was just a case of survival - to get off that pitch without getting any more injuries - or at least that was how it looked.
Arsenal were clearly short of confidence, and in a different way they were looking to survive the game too.
They eventually worked out that United were not at full strength and they might be able to win, but for most of the first half they looked nervous, as if they were thinking 'let's not lose and have more fans protests after the game'.
The Gunners might have got the three points but the way they did it did not make any sort of statement about how strong they are.
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When I played for United against Arsenal, I always thought I was going into a situation that was totally out of my comfort zone.
It was a matter of life and death, or it felt like it anyway.
This time, Mourinho had been telling us for the past 10 days that his priority was the Celta Vigo tie.
That completely knocked the stuffing out of the build-up and the game matched it - it was completely flat.
I was watching it with former Arsenal defender Martin Keown in the Match of the Day 2 production office, and he agreed that the lack of atmosphere and intensity was the most disappointing thing.
Even in the tunnel beforehand you saw everyone hugging and smiling, which would never have happened when Martin and I played.
Our teams were at each other's throats most of the time - literally on a few occasions.
There is a famous picture of me being throttled by Arsenal defender Lauren in September 2003 - in 'the battle of Old Trafford' - while a few weeks earlier in the Community Shield at the Millennium Stadium I was booked after only 27 seconds for a tackle on Patrick Vieira.
Sunday was a million miles away from that kind of occasion. I tweeted during the game that it was like a testimonial, and it was certainly played at that kind of pace - which is what you would expect from a pre-season friendly between two Premier League teams played in the United States.
It felt like a veterans game but if Martin and I were playing each other now, there would have been more sparks flying than there were at the Emirates.
United's eggs are all in one basket now - for them, making the Champions League is all about winning the Europa League.
It makes sense in lots of ways because, as well as looking like the easier route, it gets you straight into the group stage and you avoid starting the season early in the qualifying rounds, which you have to do if you finish fourth.
If they do win the Europa League, then I think Mourinho has had a brilliant season. If not, then that is when the criticism will probably come his way.
The pressure is on them for Thursday, when Celta Vigo come to Old Trafford, and it is a dangerous game to play, but I think Mourinho did the right thing with his team selection against the Gunners.
Some of the players he rested conserved energy and the ones who came back from injury have got some playing time under their belts, which bolsters the squad a little bit.
That sort of performance would not be acceptable from United in normal circumstances, and in general they need to improve when they go away to the top clubs.
Looking at their performances in their 0-0 draws at Liverpool in October and at Manchester City last month, they did not offer enough of an attacking threat.
I think United fans will expect far more in those games from the start of next season, especially because by then it will really be Mourinho's team.
Arsenal have put themselves back in touch with the top four with Sunday's win but I don't think they will make it, from what I have seen of them recently.
I think there is a big job in store for whoever is the Gunners' manager next season, and that is the key issue when you talk about their future.
You cannot assess who Arsenal will buy in the summer until you know who is going to be in charge - if it is, say, Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone then it will be 10 warriors; if Wenger is still manager it will be 10 really nice and pretty footballers.
In contrast, with United, you can predict that Mourinho is going to grab hold of that squad and say to his players that if they are not mentally tough enough, they will be out of the door.
Three or four of the team that lost to Arsenal might not be at the club next season but you know there will be some big characters arriving in the dressing room.
Mourinho is building a team that he can go to war with, and it will not be long until these kind of games are back to being the big battles we all remember.
Phil Neville was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
The National Association of Mayors asked the federal government to offer added security to mayors "at risk".
On Saturday, the mayor of the town of Pungabarato in southern Guerrero state was shot dead only hours after a mayor in southern Chiapas had been killed.
Local officials are often targeted by criminal gangs in Mexico.
The association asked the government "to prepare and put in place security protocols for mayors" and to investigate the killings.
An armed gang ambushed the mayor of Pungabarato, Ambrosio Soto, on Saturday evening as he was travelling along the main motorway.
The men blocked the motorway with lorries and opened fire on Mr Soto's car, killing him and his driver.
Two weeks previously, Mr Soto had said on Twitter that he had been threatened "by organised crime" and that his cousin had been killed.
"It's time to act, Mr President @EPN," he said addressing Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
"#TierraCaliente needs you." Tierra Caliente is the name given to the an area of Mexico State, Guerrero and Michoacan characterised by its hot temperatures.
The area has seen a sharp increase in violence over the past years with drug gangs and vigilantes battling for control of the region.
Mr Pena Nieto has said the area is "one of the greatest challenges" in terms of security.
Local press reported that Mr Soto had received threats after he had refused to hand over part of his budget to a local drugs gang.
Extortion is common in the region and many businesses are forced to hand money to gangs or self-styled vigilantes for "protection".
Mr Soto had a police escort of two officers in a patrol car at the time of his killing. They were both wounded in the attack.
The state governor of Guerrero said Mr Soto was also given protection by Guerrero state police, but that he had asked them to watch over his family while he travelled to a neighbouring town to attend to some personal business.
His killing came just hours after that of the mayor of the town of San Juan Chamula, Domingo Lopez, and his deputy, Narciso Lunes, in southern Chiapas state.
The two officials were holding a meeting with protesting residents in the main square of San Juan Chamula when unidentified gunmen opened fire.
A total of four people were killed and a dozen injured.
The motive behind the killing is not clear.
Each petal represents a Scottish soldier who lost their life or was wounded during the 1917 conflict.
The battle saw the greatest concentration of Scottish battalions of any during the World War One.
The event included a commemorative service led by the Royal British Legion Scotland (Legion Scotland).
Poppyscotland's head of fundraising, Gordon Michie, said: "The sight of thousands of poppy petals gently fluttering to earth was a dramatic and fitting way to mark the centenary of the Battle of Arras.
"It was also a moment to remember those for whom the poppy is a symbol of hope today and to show our support for the Armed Forces community living in Scotland.
"We were delighted so many were able to come along and witness the poignant spectacle of the Arras Petal Cascade."
The Battle of Arras was fought in April and May 1917 to support a French offensive on the Aisne by diverting large numbers of German reserves to the north.
Three Scottish infantry divisions took part in the assault and 44 of the 120 participating British infantry battalions were from Scottish regiments.
The report by one of the government's own agencies, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), found the creation of Enterprise Areas has had a "minimal" effect on employment since 2012.
Even within the areas, there has been only a '"small" growth in employment, and that displaced jobs from elsewhere.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said the policy "continued to evolve".
The report authors found that in nine out of 15 Enterprise Areas, no new employers had moved in and in others, new employers had already been planning to move in anyway.
Many companies moved into Enterprise Areas without knowing they had that designation.
There was no evidence of any inward investment into an Enterprise Area.
Having heard from other public sector agencies and companies in the sectors targeted, HIE's report concluded: "There is a general impression that the financial incentives are lightweight, and would not be significant in larger companies' location decision".
Enterprise Areas were a key element of the Scottish government economic strategy published in 2011. Fourteen areas were chosen the following year, and a 15th in 2013.
In life sciences, these included sites in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Forres, Inverness and Irvine.
In renewable energy, the areas were specific sites in Lewis, Orkney, Easter Ross and Caithness, as well as the ports of Dundee and Leith.
In growth sectors of manufacturing, the policy drew in part of Glasgow and Prestwick, with Broxburn and Livingston in West Lothian.
As they were based on important growing sectors of the economy, it was found that the designation of Enterprise Areas had a merely "limited" effect beyond existing work.
The HIE review of the policy, covering all of Scotland, said that Enterprise Areas barely changed existing strategies for the sector or area.
Promotion of the opportunities brought by the policy was found to be "minimal".
About £300m of public sector investment had already been committed ahead of the choice of the 15 areas.
Once designated, some areas - including Nigg in Easter Ross, and Scrabster in Caithness - got no further public sector funding.
Eighteen companies together saved only about £100,000 per year from their business rates bills as a result of the policy, which was a "windfall" for some of them rather than an aid to investment.
There was one example of a capital allowance being claimed, and that was for only £90,000.
Skills Development Scotland, another Scottish government agency, should have helped with training and recruitment. But the review found no evidence of that happening, and some participating companies were unaware that it was meant to.
On a more positive note, streamlining of planning decisions in Enterprise Areas was found to have been "successful".
The report explains that constraints are placed on government support for industry by European state aid rules. The initiative also struggled due to a low appetite for private investment in the years following deep recession and constrained access to bank finance.
There was also a big shortfall in the expected development of offshore renewable energy. The Enterprise Areas had been seen as one of the ways to build up Scotland as "the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy". But there has been only a low level of investment in on-shore manufacturing.
HIE recommended that the Enterprise Areas be given a chance to continue for five more years, particularly to give more time for the marine energy sector to develop. It said there could be a change of focus to other sectors.
Enterprise Areas did not feature in the updated Scottish government economic strategy, which was published earlier this year. Yet last September, the first minister visited BioCity in Lanarkshire, announcing it should be added to the areas covered.
At the time, Ms Sturgeon was quoted saying: "Enterprise areas in Scotland at sites like Irvine and Edinburgh's Bioquarter are already doing a terrific job creating new economic opportunities, new partnerships with education and - most importantly - new jobs across the country."
Following publication of the HIE report, Deputy First Minister John Swinney sought to find some positive messages, stressing that it was "a mid-term evaluation", showing how Enterprise Area status "complements wider support".
He cited figures showing 48 companies that are located in Enterprise Areas, and employing 1,000 people.
"This report provides valuable insight as this long-term policy continues to evolve," he said.
Keith Towler said children wanted someone to listen to them and act on what they say.
He said it was about "making sure you get the basics right".
He made the comments following the suspected overdose of a teenager from Rhondda Cynon Taf whose mother said he could not cope with being bullied.
Talking to BBC Radio Wales, but not specifically about 15-year-old Simon Brooks, Mr Towler said: "At the heart of all of this is about listening to children's complaints.
"Sometimes we overlook the basics, that's absolutely true."
Mr Towler believed adults sometimes "lose sight" of the fact children expect them listen to their fears "and act on what they say".
"It's all about (children) feeling safe," he said.
Mr Towler said the Welsh government's guidelines were good, but added: "Sometimes the systems can over-complicate things.
"It's about making sure you get the basics right."
The commissioner spoke after Simon Brooks, of Tonyrefail, died on Tuesday following a suspected overdose.
His mother said her son left a goodbye message on his phone saying he been bullied.
Julie Brooks said Simon had suffered bullying at both his current school, Y Pant, in Pontyclun, and former school.
RCT council and the schools have been asked to respond to the allegations of bullying, but have not yet done so.
The probe went into orbit around the inner-most world in March, and has been relaying a stream of data ever since.
Its latest pictures from just a few hundred kilometres above the surface are expected to provide important new clues to the origin of the planet and its geological history.
Nasa believes much of what we thought about Mercury will need to be revised.
"We had many ideas about Mercury that were incomplete and ill-formed that came out of our three flybys with Messenger and the flybys in the 1970s by the first spacecraft to visit Mercury, Mariner 10," said Messenger principal investigator Sean Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, US.
"Many of those ideas are having to be cast aside as we see orbital data for the first time. We are confirming a few theories but many others are being cast into the dustbin of science."
Messenger has now returned more than 20,000 pictures, a great many at resolutions that finally allow scientists to begin a proper interpretation of surface features.
This is particularly true of the polar regions, where previous imagery was poor or even absent.
At the north pole, Messenger can discern a huge expanse of smooth plains some four million square kilometres in area - about half the size of the continental USA.
"From our more detailed look at this beautiful large unit of smooth plains, we're seeing all kinds of evidence for volcanism and tectonic deformation," explained Brett Denevi, a mission scientist from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "You can see 'ghost craters' that were impact craters that were later covered over by lava."
Messenger went to Mercury to prove or disprove a number of cherished theories.
One concerned a 20-year-old hypothesis, supported by radar observations from Earth, that suggested some polar craters might hide reserves of water-ice.
On the face of it this seems an extraordinary proposition given that surface temperatures on Mercury, certainly at the equator, can exceed 400C - hot enough to melt lead.
But without a thick atmosphere to trap heat, it is possible that permanently shadowed regions could stay cold enough to preserve ices for millions, if not billions, of years.
Messenger has begun testing this theory by deploying a laser altimeter to map the shape of craters at the poles - with some encouraging results. Already it has found a depression that is deep enough and dark enough to have the right conditions.
"Stay tuned," said Dr Solomon. "This is a very exciting hypothesis that has stayed with us for 20 years, and it has passed its first test with flying colours.
"We look forward to results from our geochemical remote-sensing instruments - the neutron spectrometer, in particular - which will demonstrate whether or not the material at the poles is likely to be water-ice on the basis of excess hydrogen."
Messenger's X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) has been investigating the presence and abundance of different atomic elements in surface materials, and has established rapidly that the rocks have a distinct signature that sets Mercury apart from its planetary neighbours.
"What's clear here is that Mercury is not the Moon and it's not the Earth," explained Larry Nittler, also of the Carnegie Institution.
"The surface of Mercury occupies a fairly unique location on the diagram for the surfaces of terrestrial planets. It's got lower aluminium and more magnesium relative to silicon, so it has a lower abundance of feldspar [minerals], and so it has clearly undergone a unique geological history."
XRS observations also reveal significant quantities of sulphur - at least a factor of 10 times higher than is seen at Earth. Why that should be is not clear, but probably points to the fact that Mercury formed in a different part of the Solar System to Earth where the raw materials for planet growth had a different composition.
Another new discovery concerns Mercury's magnetic field. The planet, along with Earth, is alone among the terrestrial planets in having a global magnetic field.
The probe has now identified a north-south asymmetry in this field which will allow far more charged particles streaming off the Sun to strike its south pole than its north.
These impacts are what lift atoms off the surface - sputtering, as scientists call it - to create Mercury's super-tenuous atmosphere (more properly described as an exosphere). The impacts also change the colour, reflectance and chemistry of the surface over time.
"What we thought on the basis of our flybys was that Mercury's magnetic field was a miniature version of Earth's magnetic field, produced by similar processes and with broadly similar geometry," said Dr Solomon. "Now we are in orbit, we can measure that magnetic field every day, and what we are seeing is that it is not a miniature of the Earth's field."
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In January, British dealers made $2.2m (£1.7m), 16% of the online market.
Commissioned by the Netherlands government, research company Rand Europe trawled the eight largest drug marketplaces on the dark web.
These online sites can be accessed only using a specialised web browser.
They do not show up in mainstream search engine results.
Rand Europe found the number of drug deals taking place on the dark web had tripled since 2013, when police in the US closed Silk Road - one of the first online drugs marketplaces.
Online drug market share in January
Source: Rand Europe
Online deals still represent a small portion of the overall drugs trade, which Rand says is estimated to be worth £1.7bn a month in Europe.
Rand acknowledged that it faced difficulties collecting some of its data, due to the secretive nature of the online drug trade.
However, it suggested that a majority of deals were between buyers and sellers on the same continent, which it attributed to the popularity of locally grown cannabis.
Cannabis was the most popular item on the underground websites, accounting for a third of transactions.
Purchases of prescription-only medicines accounted for a further 19%.
Bought on the dark web in January
Source: Rand Europe
The researchers noted that online transactions were dominated by "drugs typically associated with recreational or 'party' use" - such as cannabis and ecstasy.
Offline, heroin is thought to account for 28% of the total European drugs retail market.
Rand said: "A possible explanation for these differences between online and offline markets may be that crypto-market purchases typically require an element of planning, which may not suit the daily use of dependent users of, for instance, heroin."
Meals by Jamie Oliver, Lorraine Pascale, Nigella Lawson and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall were compared to those from Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco.
The meals in TV chefs' cookbooks contained more calories, fat, saturated fat and sugar - but less salt.
The researchers said this was not about "bashing" chefs as many campaigned to tackle obesity.
The team said it was widely agreed that cooking from scratch was healthier than buying prepared meals, however, they said there was a lack of scientific testing of the claim.
In the study, published in the British Medical Journal, they compared 100 main meals from four TV chefs, who had books at the top of the bestseller charts, to 100 supermarket ready meals. These were then compared to nutritional guidelines set by the World Health Organization.
On average, meals in the chef's books were less healthy and "more likely to achieve red traffic light labels", the researchers said.
Prof Martin White, from the Institute of Health and Society at the university, told the BBC: "Both ready meals and those by TV chefs are not as healthy as they could be.
"We're not bashing TV chefs, among them are chefs that have done a huge amount for healthy eating and tackling obesity."
The study does not attempt to look at how often the meals are cooked - if they are part of people's daily diets or just dishes for a special occasion.
However, the researchers did call for chefs and publishers to put nutritional information alongside their recipes in cookbooks to allow budding chefs to make a more informed choice about the nutritional content of their meals.
"Educating and informing consumers should apply as much to TV chefs as for food in shops," said Prof White.
A spokesman for Jamie Oliver said: "We welcome any research which raises debate on these issues.
"We would regard the key issue to be food education so that people are aware of which foods are for every day and which are treats to be enjoyed occasionally."
They added Jamie's most recent book already had nutritional information per serving.
A spokeswoman for Lorraine Pascale said: "Some of the recipes in Lorraine's book are healthy, some not quite so much so.
"There are plenty of salads, soups and light meals as well as the richer dishes.
"Her books and shows to date haven't been about healthy eating, they are about cooking."
Supermarkets said they had been making their food healthier.
Stuart Gallear, 51, admitted fatally stabbing his wife Mandy, 42, at their home in Hindley, Wigan in October 2016.
He claimed he did not intend to kill her and lost his self-control after learning the identity of her lover, joiner Mark Prescott.
A jury at Manchester Crown Court rejected his account and unanimously found him guilty of murder.
Police found Mrs Gallear motionless on the kitchen floor of their home in Makinson Avenue with three deep wounds to her chest on 6 October.
A post-mortem examination revealed one of the stab wounds was 19cm deep and cut through the breast bone.
Gallear had found out his wife was having an affair with Mr Prescott the previous day, when the son of Mr Prescott's partner called at his house, jurors heard.
He sent text messages to Mr Prescott, one of which said "big mistake", and the next day threatened to kill him over the phone.
Six months earlier, Mrs Gallear had confessed to her husband, a warehouse manager, about an extra-marital relationship, but denied it was with Mr Prescott and said it had ended.
Gallear, who is originally from Wolverhampton, told police he remembered talking "amicably" with his wife on the afternoon of the attack after he returned from drinking five pints of lager in a local pub.
He said she then told him "I love him more than you" but his memory of what happened next was "blurred".
He claimed he "just snapped out of it", put the knife aside and rang for assistance after his wife protested "what are you doing? I still love you".
Prosecutor Alaric Bassao accused him of having "selective memory loss" and said the stabbing was the culmination of his anger and resentment.
Gallear is due to be sentenced on 12 April.
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Second Half ends, Europa 1, The New Saints 2.
Toni (Europa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, The New Saints. Greg Draper replaces Steven Saunders.
Javi Muñoz (Europa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Europa. Toni replaces Guille Roldán.
Substitution, The New Saints. Adrian Cieslewicz replaces Wes Fletcher.
Second yellow card to Álex Quillo (Europa) for a bad foul.
Álex Quillo (Europa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kike Gomez (Europa) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Paul Harrison (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Europa 1, The New Saints 2. Liam Walker (Europa) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Aeron Edwards (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second Half begins Europa 0, The New Saints 2.
First Half ends, Europa 0, The New Saints 2.
Goal! Europa 0, The New Saints 2. Scott Quigley (The New Saints) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Goal! Europa 0, The New Saints 1. Wes Fletcher (The New Saints) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Scott Quigley (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jonathon Routledge (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Sargeant has not travelled to Portugal, which hosts the Gibraltese side's home leg, after he was involved in a car accident.
Saints trail 2-1 after the first leg.
"It wasn't a serious car crash, but he had to go to hospital to be checked out," interim manager Scott Ruscoe said.
"I think he suffered a bit of whiplash. He wasn't in a good state and he felt groggy, so we took the decision out of his hands.
"It wouldn't have been good for him to travel and be on a plane, so he's stayed behind."
Ruscoe also confirmed left-back Chris Marriott will not feature for the Welsh champions at the Estadio Algarve.
Marriott has failed to recover from the knee injury that kept him out of the first leg.
The winners of the tie will face Croatian side HNK Rijeka in the second qualifying round.
The 38-year-old former Ireland international suffered the injury in Sale's 34-34 draw at Worcester.
Stringer joined the Sharks from Bath last season and made 24 appearances in his debut campaign.
"He snapped his bicep tendon on Saturday so he's going to be out for two to three months," director of rugby Steve Diamond told BBC Sport.
"The rest of the walking wounded are about two or three weeks away."
Diamond also confirmed that former Bath, London Welsh and Newport Gwent Dragons winger Nick Scott has joined on a deal until Christmas.
Hewitt, who has been involved with Saints for 25 years, held the role of acting-chairman since June and the late Leon Barwell's illness.
Hewitt said: "Over the last 18 years Keith [Barwell], and then Leon, have set a very high standard as to what it means to be chairman of Northampton.
"Without their investment, vision and hard work, Saints would not be where we are. They are a hard act to follow."
Hewitt joined the club's board of directors when the game turned professional in 1995, having worked in the commercial property market for 40 years. He became vice-chairman in 2011.
We are now in the enviable position where we are matching playing success with consistent profitability
"We are now in the enviable position where we are matching playing success with consistent profitability, and this stems from the foundations that the Barwells laid two decades ago," said Hewitt.
"It is important that we continue balancing the need to maintain that profitability, which enables us to invest in the playing squad and challenge for the silverware at the end of the season, with retaining the unique ethos that makes the Saints such a special club.
"It is certainly a massive responsibility and I am committed to maintaining our record of investment and growth, while also continuing open communications with our supporters.
"The dialogue with our supporters will continue with our season ticket holders' forum next Monday."
The shareholders' annual general meeting also confirmed the appointment of John White as deputy chairman and Keith Barwell as the club's president.
White joined the board of directors in November 2012, having played for Saints in the late 1970s.
Keith Barwell first invested in Saints in 1995 and helped the club with the transition to professionalism, running the club as chairman until 2011.
He was awarded an OBE in 2009 for his services to Northampton and remained on the board of directors at the club, which he will now combine with the role as president.
Frankie Dettori sealed a double on the 14-1 shot, a first British win for trainer Xavier Thomas-Demeaulte.
Fair Eva, a daughter of legendary racehorse Frankel, failed to win for the second time in a row, having finished third in the Lowther Stakes.
Dettori also won on 11-8 favourite Journey, who took the Nayef Stakes for a second successive year.
Journey finished three and a quarter lengths clear of Lady Of Camelot in a 1-2 for trainer John Gosden.
But Dettori was denied a treble as Nathra finished third in the Joel Stakes behind 15-2 winner Cougar Mountain, ridden by Ryan Moore for trainer Aidan O'Brien.
But experts insist the drug digoxin is still safe to use.
The trial in the European Heart Journal of 4,000 patients found digoxin treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF), an abnormal heart rhythm, was linked with a 41% increase in deaths.
For every six patients on digoxin for five years, one would die who may not have otherwise, say the authors.
Investigators at the University of Kentucky looked at the findings of a study involving 4,060 patients. Around half of these were prescribed digoxin while the others were given different heart medications or treatments.
Over the course of the study, 666 patients died and 375 of these had been on digoxin at their last follow-up visit.
After taking into consideration other risk factors, such as general health and other illnesses and medications, digoxin appeared to be independently linked with:
UK heart experts say although the study found a link between digoxin and deaths, this does not necessarily mean that the drug itself is to blame or that it should no longer be used.
Around 800,000 people in the UK have AF, the most common type of arrhythmia.
Natasha Stewart, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), said: "Heart patients should not be too alarmed by this study as digoxin is not the primary treatment for atrial fibrillation in the UK.
"However, there are good reasons why some AF and heart failure patients are still taking digoxin, as it can help them to manage their condition.
"Before we jump to any conclusions about the dangers of the drug, we'd need to see further research into what might be causing these increased risks.
"Patients who are prescribed digoxin should not stop taking their meds without discussing their concerns with their doctor."
The BHF says that in 2011 there were 4,659,000 prescriptions for digoxin in the UK.
AF can be treated with medication to slow the irregular heartbeat and blood-thinning drugs to cut the risk of clots developing in the heart, which can lead to a stroke.
Doctors considering prescribing any drug take into account the relative risks and benefits.
The researchers say it is unclear precisely why digoxin is linked with deaths, but say the findings "call into question the widespread use of digoxin in AF patients".
Lead researcher Prof Samy Claude Elayi said: "We found death risk was linked with the drug itself and not because patients taking the drug were sicker.
"We are not saying digoxin should never be used. There are some occasions where there might be no other alternative. But we are saying it should not be used as a first-line treatment and we should be extremely careful.
"When you do use it, it should be at low doses and with close monitoring.
"And there should be more studies of the drug."
Weeks of speculation came and went. The very idea of an early election was emphatically dismissed. In the event, it came out of the blue just when the engine room of local politics was fully-engaged with the mayoral and county council elections.
It feels as though we've spent the past seven weeks playing catch-up, planning and delivering our coverage at one and the same time. And then came the final days of the campaign, against the appalling background of horrific terrorist atrocities and the threat that they imply: the inevitable 'stop-start' routines have a added another peculiarly unsettling air of unreality to the proceedings.
But with polling day almost upon us now is the time to focus, or re-focus, on what is at stake for our part of the country in this election.
A month ago I spent two days in this "weather-vane" North Birmingham constituency.
The Conservatives were fighting hard for the 7% swing they needed to capture one of the seats that would set them on course for their projected landslide. Since then of course we have seen the general narrowing in the polls, including a local seat-by-seat YouGov survey which suggests that the Conservatives will not gain any of their Birmingham targets and may miss-out on others too, including Dudley North and Walsall South.
So I decided to return to Erdington. It's where Theresa May's Downing Street Joint Chief of Staff Nick Timothy grew up. And it was he who oversaw that Conservative manifesto commitment on Social Care which is now widely considered the biggest single reason behind their apparent loss of support.
But it is also the constituency which registered the city's biggest Leave vote of 63% in the EU Referendum. Now it happens to be one of 28 Midlands seats where UKIP are not fielding candidates, which could well boost the Conservatives.
This just is one of many reasons why applying the national trends from headline poll ratings to individual seats can be so misleading; especially when so many local Labour candidates seem to be keeping references to Jeremy Corbyn and his manifesto to a minimum and fighting this campaign more like a series of by-elections.
In the North Eastern corner of the constituency stands Jaguar's sprawling Castle Bromwich plant. A gleaming silver sculpture, soaring above the roundabout outside the factory, celebrates the factory's wartime history making Spitfire fighters. Now, it's Jaguar's access to their main European markets post-Brexit that most worries the firm's German boss.
So it's here that I rendezvous with one of our most influential local business leaders, Paul Faulkner, Chief Executive of the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce.
Even though the Midlands registered a larger proportion of Leave votes than any other region, our local exporting businesses are way ahead of the UK curve on EU exports. For most regions, he tells me, Europe accounts for around 40% . But here that figure is "well north of 60%".
"So what about that 'no deal' option?" I ask him.
"I think there's a very long way to go before we reach that point", he replied.
But this election really is also about public services: health, the police and of course those run by local councils on which Labour say the least well-off depend most heavily. Birmingham happens to be Britain's biggest local authority, so the further £76m being taken out of its budgets for this year alone reflects its sheer scale.
But when I meet a leading expert on public service reform, she tells me it's a debate which cuts both ways.
Professor Catherine Staite heads the Institute of Local Government at the University of Birmingham. She tells me local authorities' finances have been squeezed under successive governments. But councils run by a variety of parties have been open to accusations of responding too slowly to the challenges this presents.
With the Library of Birmingham looming behind me, she suggests more could be done, for example, to encourage volunteering so that highly-prized local assets might come closer to reaching their full potential.
Equally, though, she credits local government as the most efficient of all the public services and questions the role of central government in "micro-managing it".
By now you will have realised I am concentrating on the 'twin-track' election defined by the two biggest parties: and our region has generally proved to be more of a two-party affair than most other parts of the country. All the more so this time round.
So it's Labour's anti-austerity agenda vs the Conservatives' focus on Brexit. That, after all, is why Theresa May called it in the first place. But there is a problem with snap elections called on a single issue. Take Edward Heath for example. Locked in an apparently endless battle with the miners' unions in 1974, the then Conservative Prime Minister called an election on the question "Who Governs?"
"Not you Ted", came the voters' reply. The Labour Leader Harold Wilson returned to Downing Street initially, in February, with a minority administration and then, in October, with a working majority.
The election will be about what the voters want it to be about. And remember, that old truism "the electorate is never wrong".
And it is looking more and more like a throwback to the Seventies, with two dominant parties and the smaller ones fighting the dreaded squeeze. UKIP's decline could be terminal. And that "Progressive Alliance" between the Liberal Democrats and the Greens has got precisely nowhere here.
So the parties of the Left continue to fight one another, while the Conservatives hope to consolidate the Centre and the Right. The big difference this time though is that Labour are bidding to win this election not from the Centre, but from the Left.
Prosecutors said the 33-year-old man, named as Nourredine H, is also accused of being part of a terrorist group.
He and his brother, named as Hamza H, were arrested on Friday after searches in the Mons area and the city of Liege.
Hamza H was released on Saturday without charge. No weapons or explosives were found in the searches.
Prosecutors did not name the organisation Nourredine H is accused of working for.
Belgium has been on high alert since 32 people died in bombings at Brussels airport and a metro station in March.
Many more people were injured in the attacks, which were claimed by so-called Islamic State.
"Based on provisional results from the investigation, it appears that there were plans to carry out attacks in Belgium," the federal prosecutor's office said following the arrests.
But the statement added that as yet no link had been found to the Brussels bombings.
Security was boosted in the run-up to Belgium's national holiday on 21 July, amid fears of something similar to the lorry attack in the French city of Nice on 14 July, Bastille Day. | A £1m prize winner will lose their cash unless they come forward by midnight on Thursday, lottery operator Camelot has said.
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After a mini-summit, European leaders have agreed steps to strengthen border controls along Greek and Slovenian borders, to try and slow the movement of refugees and migrants through the region.
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Europe's migration crisis affects EU member states in different ways - so it is proving difficult to agree on common rules.
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A Venezuelan top general who resigned last week has revealed his reasons for stepping down.
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A 32-year-old man has admitted murdering a Glasgow shopkeeper in a religiously motivated attack.
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Katherine Rednall beat defending champion Ellen Falkner to win her second World Indoor Bowls Championship women's singles title at Hopton-on-Sea.
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Maternity units in north Wales have previously been forced to temporarily shut over safety fears for mothers and babies, a health board boss has said.
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The annual Apprentice Boys demonstration has taken place in Londonderry.
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US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said that the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan was done too rapidly.
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Forty years ago, a tall, wiry 18-year-old defender, with a hairstyle that was an unruly mass of black curls, ran out at Old Trafford to make his Manchester United debut against Ajax.
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When I played for Manchester United, Arsenal was always our biggest game of the season - the build-up was electric and I felt as if I was going into battle against our greatest rivals.
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Mayors in Mexico have demanded they be given extra protection after two of their number were killed in separate incidents on Saturday.
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Poppyscotland has released 46,000 poppy petals from the top of the National Wallace Monument to commemorate the end of the Battle of Arras.
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One of the Scottish government's key economic policies has had hardly any impact, a report has found.
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Some victims of bullying could be failed by an "over-complicated" system, the children's commissioner for Wales has said.
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The US space agency's (Nasa) Messenger spacecraft is starting to open up a whole new vista on the planet Mercury.
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UK-based dealers in illegal drugs earn more money online than any of their European rivals, research suggests, while US dealers had a 36% share worldwide and took home $5m (£3.8m).
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Recipes by prominent TV chefs are less healthy than supermarket ready meals, Newcastle University researchers say.
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A man has been convicted of murdering his wife in a jealous rage a day after he found out about an alleged affair.
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Midfielder Chris Sargeant will miss New Saints' Champions League first qualifying round second leg against Europa FC.
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Sale Sharks scrum-half Peter Stringer could be out for up to three months with a torn biceps.
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Northampton Saints have made Tony Hewitt their new chairman.
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French filly Spain Burg beat odds-on favourite Fair Eva to win the Rockfel Stakes at Newmarket.
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Research suggests a common heart drug used by thousands in the UK is linked with a significant increase in deaths.
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The tenth general election I have covered for the BBC was always going to be one of a kind.
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Resuming on 133 in Somerset's overnight total of 349-5, Hildreth remained unbeaten on 220, backed by a colourful 130 by Trego, who hit three sixes.
Having declared on 565-5 at Taunton, Somerset broke through with the ball.
Lewis Gregory got two of the wickets as the visitors closed on 44-4.
Worcestershire failed to take a wicket on a second day shortened by one session, having failed to get back on after tea due to rain and bad light.
Steve Rhodes' side must now resume on Sunday against their County Championship Division One relegation rivals needing a further 372 to avoid being asked to follow on. | James Hildreth completed his double century and shared an unbroken 221-run sixth-wicket stand with Peter Trego as Somerset put themselves in a commanding position against Worcestershire. | 34,023,870 | 153 | 44 | false |
The company said 11 customers worldwide had been injured after the glass shades, from some of their "Lock" and "Hyby" lamps, had fallen.
In a statement it said: "In a few cases medical treatment was required and one customer reportedly needed stitches."
It has received 224 reports in total due to the retaining clips breaking.
In the UK, Ikea said there had been 12 reports of the incident, two of which involved injury.
The retailer said a full refund would be offered without a receipt.
Ikea has been selling "Lock" lamps since 2012 and the "Hyby" models since 2012.
The lamps have domed white frosted glass shades and three plastic clips that attach the shade to the electrical light fitting.
Ikea said it took product safety very seriously and apologised for the inconvenience.
In January it asked customers to return LATTJO drum sticks and LATTJO tongue drum as a precautionary measure because of fears they could be a choking hazard for young children. | The Swedish retailer, Ikea, has asked customers to return two popular glass ceiling lampshades due to concerns about their safety. | 35,541,884 | 216 | 26 | false |
New host Chris Evans said earlier in the week he would be "disappointed" with anything fewer than five million viewers for the show's first episode.
The final Top Gear featuring former host Jeremy Clarkson attracted 5.3 million viewers last June.
But the new show was still the most watched programme in its 20:00 time slot, attracting 22.8% of the audience.
Its nearest rival was the British Soap Awards on ITV, which were seen by an average of 3.9 million viewers.
The first episode featured Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc driving Reliant three-wheelers from London to Blackpool.
Viewing peaked just before the show ended, with 4.7 million watching.
Evans seemed pleased with the show's first outing in a series of tweets he published on Monday.
The new presenters were signed up after the old team left following a fracas between lead presenter Jeremy Clarkson and a producer.
Evans opened the show saying: "Welcome to Top Gear with our all-new, improved audience."
Clarkson was fired from Top Gear in March last year after he punched a producer following a row about the provision of food late at night while filming on location.
by Lizo Mzimba, entertainment correspondent, BBC News
There's bad news and good news for Top Gear in the overnight figures from its launch programme. Such has been the media attention surrounding the show, it's certain to have attracted many who haven't been regular viewers in the past. But it still didn't manage to reach the five million figure hoped for by lead presenter Chris Evans.
However, it was still the second most watched programme of the day on any channel (after Countryfile), with a figure well up on the majority of BBC Two shows. And it actually achieved a larger audience share than the launch of the last Clarkson, May and Hammond series in 2015.
It's one of the BBC's most important programme brands, making tens of millions for BBC Worldwide, so a lot of attention will also be paid to how it performs internationally over the next few days.
But the real test, both here and abroad, will be the figures when people who recorded to watch later or who used catch-up services are taken into consideration. And particularly where those figures are later in the series - when it's either built a larger audience or lost viewers who've decided the show's not for them.
Evans made a jibe about the incident at the start of the episode, adding: "We don't make jokes about catering on this show any more."
Another joke referencing Clarkson's departure was made when Evans bragged he had "won custody" of masked driver The Stig.
The revamp featured many of the same elements the show is best known for, including a profile of a supercar and a head-to-head challenge between the presenters.
Reviews of the show by TV critics were mixed, with many saying the format had changed little since the last series, while some felt it was enjoyable and just needed some time to bed in.
Final consolidated figures - where on demand and catch-up viewing is taken into account - will not be known for a week. | The relaunch of BBC Two's Top Gear was seen by an average of 4.4 million viewers, overnight figures show. | 36,411,819 | 702 | 27 | false |
The 76-carat Archduke Joseph diamond, described as internally flawless, comes from India's famous Golconda mines.
The diamond was sold to an anonymous bidder by the Christie's auction house in Geneva.
The price was well above the $15m (£9m) pre-sale estimate, and was far in excess of the $6.5m (£4m) it reached when it was last sold in 1993.
"It is a world record for a Golconda diamond and a world record price per carat for a colourless diamond," Francois Curiel, director of the international jewellery department at Christie's, told reporters.
"The market is not on the best form at the moment. The sale tonight was almost flabbergasting."
The diamond's seller, American jeweller Black, Starr & Frost, said they thought it would be "going to a museum", Reuters news agency reports.
Christie's specialist, Jean Marc Lunel, said the Archduke Joseph is prized because it boasts the highest quality of shape, colour and clarity that can be found in a diamond.
And it has an illustrious history.
The diamond came from the ancient Golconda mines, where the famous Koh-i-Noor and blue Hope Diamond originated.
It was named after Archduke Joseph August of Austria, a prince of the Hungarian line of the Habsburgs, who reportedly deposited it in a bank vault in 1933.
"Three years later it was sold to a European banker, and kept in France, locked away in a safe deposit box, where fortunately it remained undiscovered during World War II," the auction house said.
Decades later it surfaced at auction in 1961 and again at Christie's in November 1993. | One of the world's most admired diamonds has been sold at auction for more than 20m Swiss francs ($21m;£13m). | 20,315,424 | 401 | 35 | false |
The 26-year-old's loan at Swansea has come to an end after he joined from the Championship side in February.
Dutch international Fer, who made nine appearances for Swansea, still has a year to run on his QPR contract.
"The clubs have to sort it out, but I'm very happy [at Swansea]," he said after the 1-1 draw with Manchester City.
"Hopefully in the future I can sign a deal. I want to be more and more important for Swansea because the four months went well.
"I just need to wait and hopefully I can stay in Swansea."
Swansea manager Francesco Guidolin has admitted he will not have the final say on transfers this summer, but former Norwich player Fer says the Italian and chairman Huw Jenkins have been pleased with his contribution as Swansea secured their Premier League status.
"They're very happy with me right now, but they have to speak to QPR," he said.
"I was happy at QPR, but I always said I want to be playing at the highest league."
Fer, capped 11 times by Netherlands, joined QPR on a three-year deal in August 2014 from the Canaries, for a reported £8m.
He was part of the Rangers side relegated from the Premier League in 2014-15, and he was also relegated with Norwich in the previous campaign.
A Labour politician claims she used Twitter to link the Pakistani flag with the grooming of girls in the area.
Simon Danczuk, who's been the town's MP since 2010, accused the columnist of "causing trouble" to create headlines.
He has sent an email to Greater Manchester's Police Commissioner, Tony Lloyd, asking him to investigate whether a crime had been committed.
Mr Lloyd's office told Newsbeat that the complaint has now been forwarded to Greater Manchester Police.
The reality TV star began tweeting after Mr Danczuk attended the raising of a Pakistani flag for half an hour over Rochdale's town hall to mark National Pakistan Day on 23 March.
The 40-year-old posted a series of messages including a picture of eight men convicted of child exploitation offences.
She asked Mr Danczuk, who had tweeted a picture of himself at the event, if they were his friends.
Explaining his decision to make the complaint, Mr Danczuk said: "It is not right that somebody who has little to do with Rochdale incited hatred of this kind.
"Rochdale is a very cohesive community - people work well together.
"Of course there are tensions, like there are in other communities, but people rub together really well and we don't need outsiders like Katie Hopkins to come in and cause trouble just for the sake of causing trouble and creating Sun headlines."
Newsbeat has contacted Katie Hopkins for a response, but so far has not received one.
However, she did reference the situation in a tweet on Sunday, as well as referring to Mr Danczuk's admission that he watches porn.
Katie Hopkins, 40, finished third on The Apprentice in 2007 and has also since appeared on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Celebrity Big Brother.
She writes a column for The Sun, appears as a commentator on This Morning and stood as a candidate in the European Parliament election in 2009.
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Jolyon Maugham QC wants the case to go to the European Court of Justice for a ruling on whether British MPs could reject a Brexit deal after it is done.
He wants to raise £70,000 in donations to start proceedings.
The case will also raise the possibility that Article 50 has in fact been triggered already.
Mr Maugham says he anticipates that UK MEPs will be the plaintiffs in the court action against the Irish government and EU institutions for alleged breaches of Article 50.
If it has already been triggered, he argues, the Commission is in breach of its duties by not starting Brexit negotiations.
However, if Article 50 has not yet been triggered, he argues that the EU Council and Irish state are in breach of their duties by excluding the UK from Council meetings.
If the funding is gathered, the Irish, and potentially the EU courts will be asked whether parliament should be having a say on the final deal negotiated between the EU and Britain.
By bringing this case in the Irish Republic, Mr Maugham believes the EU's highest court in Luxembourg will have to consider the issue.
Mr Maugham said: "Everyone - those who voted Leave and Remain; the people and Government of Ireland - deserves to know the answer to these questions. People must plan their lives. Businesses need certainty to invest.
"The people of Ireland are entitled to a Government that can work for the best possible future for Ireland. It's right that we all have the maximum certainty that the law can give.
"Referring these questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union is the only way to deliver that certainty."
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said: "The government's been arguing in the Supreme Court all week that parliament should not have the right to decide when Brexit negotiations should start.
"Now it's facing a second legal challenge to see if parliament has the right to decide when the talks should stop."
Igor Lebedev has drawn up rules for "draka" - the Russian word for fight - which he said would involve 20 unarmed competitors on each side in an organised brawl.
Groups of Russia fans were deported from France after repeated scenes of violence at Euro 2016.
Russia will host the next World Cup in summer 2018.
Lebedev, who represents the opposition Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, is also on the board of the Russian Football Union.
He published the proposal on his party's website, stating: "Russia would be a pioneer in a new sport. Fans arrive, for example, and start picking fights. And they get the answer - challenge accepted. A meeting in a stadium at a set time.''
Following clashes between his country's fans and England supporters at Euro 2016, Lebedev said he "did not see anything terrible about fans fighting".
The European Parliament is debating a motion expressing concern at the political impasse in Northern Ireland.
Talks involving the British and Irish governments and the five executive parties are continuing at Stormont.
Mr Robinson said he had been stressing in Brussels that they "genuinely and sincerely want to get a satisfactory outcome to the talks process".
"We are going to put everything we have into getting that outcome," the DUP leader said.
"Until you come out with agreements at the end of a process, there's always scepticism and I think that's something you have to take for granted.
"It gives us the encouragement to try and prove the sceptics wrong."
Speaking in Brussels ahead of Wednesday's debate, he said: "In the early parts of any talks process, people keep their cards close to their chest - they state their positions, and it's really at the latter end of it that you test the other people who are around the table to see how far they are prepared to go on various issues."
The motion being debated by MEPs has been endorsed by a cross-section of parliamentary groups, and has been signed by Sinn Féin's Martina Anderson and the UUP's Jim Nicholson.
It expresses concern that the implementation of the peace process has reached an impasse, and urges all parties "to work constructively towards a lasting resolution of the conflict and the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and subsequent agreements for a long-lasting and enduring peace".
It says continuing violence by "fringe elements" is undermining the peace process, and "stresses the need to combat such criminal activity by tackling existing economic challenges such as unemployment and low incomes and living standards".
The motion also says the European Parliament stands ready to offer any assistance it can to political parties in Northern Ireland.
It invites Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers to address the European Parliament "upon the successful completion of the all-party talks".
Both Mr Robinson and Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt have been in Brussels this week ahead of Wednesday's debate.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin briefed European parliamentarians last month.
It also attended 354 road traffic collisions, of which 133 were pedestrians hit by vehicles.
The E14 postcode area of Tower Hamlets was the busiest area with 27 incidents, while the Muswell Hill area was second.
The figures, released as part of National Air Ambulance Week, show it treats on average six seriously injured people a day, new figures show.
The air ambulance has an advanced trauma doctor and paramedic team onboard to carry out emergency procedures.
In 2013, it attended 411 shootings and stabbings, and 636 road traffic incidents.
The 95 Tory MPs want each state to be able to impose a "red card" if rules hurt the national interest.
The foreign secretary said this was impractical, as "common rules" had to be followed by all 28 EU members.
But he said national parliaments needed to have a "bigger role".
The Conservative leadership has promised that, if the party wins a majority at the next general election, voters will get an "in-out" referendum on EU membership before the end of 2017. This would follow a renegotiation of the UK's relationship with Brussels.
The commitment follows concerns over the direction the EU is taking - with eurozone countries becoming further integrated - and the effects of free movement of people across member countries.
Meanwhile, the pro-European cabinet minister Ken Clarke has told the Financial Times that immigrants make the UK "far more exciting and healthier", dismissing claims that EU membership has caused "vast migrations" of foreigners.
The minister without portfolio also criticised "rightwing, nationalist escapism", which he said was informing debate on the issue.
The idea of a red card for of the EU's 28 national parliaments, proposed by the 95 MPs, was first put forward by the Commons European Scrutiny Committee last month.
In the letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, the MPs said the move would enable the government to "recover control over our borders, to lift EU burdens on business, to regain control over energy policy and to disapply the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights".
Mr Hague told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We do want to have a much bigger role for national parliaments. It's common ground in the Conservative Party and in the country that the powers of the European Union have increased too much, are too great and need to be diminished."
He added that a red-card system would "be part of the British position", but this would rely on groups of countries getting together to act - rather than individual member states having a veto.
Mr Hague said: "What you can't have in any system that relies on some common rules is each of the parliaments saying 'We are not going to abide by this or that arrangement'."
The foreign secretary, regarded as a Eurosceptic, also told Today: "I've never changed my view, which I characterise as in Europe but not run by Europe."
He said: "We are engaged in a negotiation process now... we are putting the case for a reformed Europe."
Asked about Mr Clarke's comments on immigration, Mr Hague said of people within the EU: "They should be able to move for work but not to take advantage of benefits systems."
Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who also served as the EU's competition commissioner, told Today he agreed with Mr Hague, adding that "a country like the UK in practice relies heavily on a functioning single market across Europe".
He said: "If all parliaments and all member states were to be able to tear through small bits or big bits of the single-market legislation, then this would be a patchwork, not a market.
"One of the countries that would suffer most would be the UK."
A survey has suggested that more people think Britain should stay in the EU but try to reduce its powers (38%) than want to leave (28%).
The poll of more than 2,000 people for think tank British Future also found that people thought migrants who came to the UK from other European countries should learn English (69%), get a job and pay taxes (64%) and not claim benefits (48%).
Keep up to date with all of the confirmed deals in our list below.
Signings confirmed in April and May can be found on the relevant pages, while you can see who each club has released on our dedicated page.
For all the latest rumours check out the gossip page and, for all the manager ins and outs, see the our list of current bosses.
Premier League
Robbie Leitch [Motherwell - Burnley] Compensation
Lys Mousset [Le Havre - Bournemouth] Undisclosed
Jerome Sinclair [Liverpool - Watford] £4m
Football League
James Berrett [York - Grimsby] Undisclosed
Tom Bolarinwa [Sutton - Grimsby] Undisclosed
Rigino Cicilia [Roda JC - Port Vale] Free
Max Clark [Hull - Cambridge] Loan
Anthony Forde [Walsall - Rotherham] Undisclosed
Callam Jones [West Brom - Accrington] Loan
Otis Khan [Barnsley - Yeovil] Loan
Sam Mantom [Walsall - Scunthorpe] Free
Ryan Shotton [Derby - Birmingham] Undisclosed
Myles Weston [Southend - Wycombe] Free
European
Samuel Umtiti [Lyon - Barcelona] £21m
International
Hulk [Zenit St Petersburg - Shanghai SIPG] £46.1m
Premier League
Nathan Ake [Chelsea - Bournemouth] Loan
Football League
Lewis Alessandra [Rochdale - Hartlepool] Free
Nauris Bulvitis [Spartaks Jurmala - Plymouth] Free
Jack Byrne [Manchester City - Blackburn] Loan
Paris Cowan-Hall [Millwall - Wycombe] Loan
Ben Davies [Portsmouth - Grimsby] Free
Brennan Dickenson [Gillingham - Colchester] Free
George Dobson [West Ham - Walsall] Loan
Eoin Doyle [Cardiff - Preston] Undisclosed
David Goodwillie [Aberdeen - Plymouth] Free
Kevan Hurst [Southend - Mansfield] Free
Nicky Law [Rangers - Bradford] Free
Joel Lynch [Huddersfield - QPR] Undisclosed
Reece Mitchell [Chelsea - Chesterfield] Free
Michael O'Connor [Port Vale - Notts County] Free
Dexter Peter [Unattached - Colchester]
Christopher Schindler [TSV 1860 Munich - Huddersfield] Undisclosed
Matz Sels [Gent - Newcastle] Reported £5m
Jimmy Spencer [Cambridge - Plymouth] Free
Joey van den Berg [Heerenveen - Reading] Free
Apostolos Vellios [Iraklis Thessaloniki - Nottingham Forest] Reported £1m
Dominic Vose [Scunthorpe - Grimsby] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Michael Duffy [Celtic - Dundee] Loan
Lee Hodson [MK Dons - Rangers] Undisclosed
Scottish Championship
Grant Holt [Wigan - Hibernian] Free
International
Stephen Pearson [Motherwell - Atlético de Kolkata] Free
Premier League
Sadio Mane [Southampton - Liverpool] £34m
Football League
Marcus Antonsson [Kalmar - Leeds] Undisclosed
Dan Butler [Torquay - Newport] Free
Carl Dickinson [Port Vale - Notts County] Free
Paul Digby [Barnsley - Ipswich] Free
Tyler Garrett [Bolton - Doncaster] Free
Denny Johnstone [Birmingham - Colchester] Undisclosed
Kjell Knops [Maastricht - Port Vale] Undisclosed
Milan Lalkovic [Walsall - Portsmouth] Undisclosed
Jason McCarthy [Southampton - Walsall] Loan
Christian Ribeiro [Exeter - Oxford] Free
Jordan Roberts [Inverness - Crawley] Free
Courtney Senior [Brentford - Colchester] Free
Luke Summerfield [York - Grimsby] Free
Liam Wakefield [Accrington - Morecambe] Free
Chris Whelpdale [Stevenage - AFC Wimbledon] Free
George Williams [Barnsley - MK Dons] Free
Scottish Premiership
Moussa Dembele [Fulham - Celtic] Undisclosed
European
Stefan Scepovic [Celtic - Getafe] Undisclosed
Football League
Nicky Ajose [Swindon - Charlton] Undisclosed
Troy Archibald-Henville [Carlisle - Exeter] Free
Paul Downing [Walsall - MK Dons] Free
Richard Duffy [Eastleigh - Notts County] Free
Brad Inman [Crewe - Peterborough] Free
Chris Kirkland [Preston - Bury] Free
Glen Rea [Brighton - Luton] Undisclosed
Tommy Spurr [Blackburn - Preston] Free
European
Dani Alves [Barcelona - Juventus] Free
Premier League
Nathan Redmond [Norwich - Southampton] £10m
Football League
Nicky Clark [Rangers - Bury] Free
Liam Feeney [Bolton - Blackburn] Free
Aaron Martin [Coventry - Oxford] Free
Jordan Slew [Chesterfield - Plymouth] Free
Wes Thomas [Birmingham - Oxford] Free
Gregg Wylde [Plymouth - Millwall] Free
Scottish Premiership
Anthony O'Connor [Burton - Aberdeen] Free
Football League
Ashley Chambers [Dagenham & Redbridge - Grimsby] Free
Gwion Edwards [Crawley - Peterborough] Undisclosed
Joe Edwards [Colchester - Walsall] Free
Zeli Ismail [Wolves - Bury] Free
Dan Jones [Hartlepool - Grimsby] Free
Elias Kachunga [Ingolstadt - Huddersfield] Loan
Elliot Lee [West Ham - Barnsley] Undisclosed
Niall Maher [Bolton - Bury] Free
Jak McCourt [Barnsley - Northampton] Free
Karleigh Osborne [Bristol City - Plymouth] Free
Oliver Rathbone [Manchester United - Rochdale] Free
Alex Rodman [Newport - Notts County] Free
Robert Tesche [Nottingham Forest - Birmingham] Free
Christian Walton [Brighton - Luton] Loan
Ben Williams [Bradford - Bury] Free
Gabriel Zakuani [Peterborough - Northampton] Free
Scottish Premiership
Flo Bojaj [Huddersfield - Kilmarnock] Loan
William Boyle [Huddersfield - Kilmarnock] Loan
Jonathan Burn [Middlesbrough - Kilmarnock] Loan
Jamie Cobain [Newcastle - Kilmarnock] Free
Souleymane Coulibaly [Peterborough - Kilmarnock] Free
Oliver Davies [Swansea - Kilmarnock] Loan
Jay McEveley [Sheffield United - Ross County] Free
Matt Gilks [Burnley - Rangers] Free
Jordan Jones [Middlesbrough - Kilmarnock] Free
Callum McFadzean [Sheffield United - Kilmarnock] Free
Martin Smith [Sunderland - Kilmarnock] Free
Mark Waddington [Stoke - Kilmarnock] Loan
Joshua Webb [Aston Villa - Kilmarnock] Free
Premier League
Victor Wanyama [Southampton - Tottenham] £11m
Football League
Jazzi Barnum-Bobb [Cardiff - Newport] Free
Mitchell Beeney [Chelsea - Crawley] Loan
Dan Burn [Fulham - Wigan] Free
Jason Demetriou [Walsall - Southend] Free
Simon Eastwood [Blackburn - Oxford] Free
Andrew Fox [Peterborough - Stevenage] Free
Danny Graham [Sunderland - Blackburn] Free
Pat Hoban [Oxford - Mansfield] Free
Sean McAllister [Scunthorpe - Grimsby] Free
Jermaine McGlashan [Gillingham - Southend] Free
Gary Miller [Partick Thistle - Plymouth] Free
Frazer Shaw [Leyton Orient - Accrington] Free
Michael Smith [Swindon - Portsmouth] Undisclosed
Matt Tootle [Shrewsbury - Notts County] Free
Ben Turner [Cardiff - Burton] Free
Scottish Premiership
Jacob Blyth [Leicester - Motherwell] Free
Ben Heneghan [Chester - Motherwell] Free
Niko Kranjcar [New York Cosmos - Rangers] Free
Richard Tait [Grimsby - Motherwell] Free
Football League
Ariel Borysiuk [Legia Warsaw - QPR] Undisclosed
Mike Jones [Oldham - Carlisle] Free
Paul McGinn [Dundee - Chesterfield] Free
Drew Talbot [Chesterfield - Portsmouth] Free
Scottish Premiership
Nikolay Todorov [Nottingham Forest - Hearts] Free
Premier League
Luis Hernandez [Sporting Gijon - Leicester] Free
Football League
Andrew Boyce [Scunthorpe - Grimsby] Free
Ryan Clarke [Northampton - AFC Wimbledon] Free
David Cornell [Oldham - Northampton] Free
Rhys Browne [Aldershot - Grimsby] Undisclosed
Florent Cuvelier [Sheffield United - Walsall] Free
Stephen Hendrie [West Ham - Blackburn] Loan
Shaun Hutchinson [Fulham - Millwall] Free
George Moncur [Colchester - Barnsley] £500,000
Elliot Parish [Colchester - Accrington] Free
Luke Prosser [Southend - Colchester] Free
Connor Smith [Wimbledon - Plymouth] Undisclosed
Dayle Southwell [Boston - Wycombe] Undisclosed
European
Alvaro Morata [Juventus - Real Madrid] Undisclosed
Football League
Padraig Amond [Grimsby - Hartlepool] Free
Jack Compton [Yeovil - Newport] Free
Tommy Elphick [Bournemouth - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Ched Evans [Unattached - Chesterfield]
Bastien Hery [Carlisle - Accrington] Free
Jack Payne [Southend - Huddersfield] Compensation
Sean Rigg [AFC Wimbledon - Newport] Free
Football League
Antony Kay [MK Dons - Bury] Free
Yann Songo'o [Blackburn - Plymouth] Free
Football League
Omar Beckles [Aldershot - Accrington] Free
Matt Urwin [AFC Fylde - Fleetwood] Free
Premier League
Emerson Hyndman [Fulham - Bournemouth] Compensation
Football League
Aaron Chapman [Chesterfield - Accrington] Free
Michael Duckworth [Hartlepool - Fleetwood] Undisclosed
Shaun Miller [Morecambe - Carlisle] Free
Byron Moore [Port Vale - Bristol Rovers] Free
Lee Novak [Birmingham - Charlton] Free
Jim O'Brien [Coventry - Shrewsbury] Free
Erhun Oztumer [Peterborough - Walsall] Free
Anthony Stokes [Celtic - Blackburn] Free
Scottish Premiership
Clint Hill [QPR - Rangers] Free
Jake Mulraney [QPR - Inverness] Free
Scottish Championship
Kevin McHattie [Kilmarnock - Raith Rovers]
European
Alberto Paloschi [Swansea - Atalanta] Undisclosed
Igor Vetokele [Charlton - Zulte-Waregem] Loan
Football League
James Bittner [Plymouth - Newport] Free
Ryan Donaldson [Cambridge - Plymouth] Free
Peter Hartley [Plymouth - Bristol Rovers] Free
Billy Knott [Bradford - Gillingham] Free
Ricky Holmes [Northampton - Charlton] Undisclosed
Harrison McGahey [Sheffield United - Rochdale] Free
Jennison Myrie-Williams [Sligo Rovers - Newport] Free
Aristote Nsiala [Grimsby - Hartlepool] Undisclosed
Kyle Vassell [Peterborough - Blackpool] Free
Scottish Premiership
Danny Devine [Inverness - Partick Thistle] Free
David Syme [Kilmarnock - Partick Thistle] Free
Premier League
Bernardo Espinosa [Sporting Gijon - Middlesbrough] Free
Football League
Mark Byrne [Newport - Gillingham] Free
Adam Collin [Rotherham - Notts County] Free
Zak Mills [Boston United - Grimsby] Free
Josh Morris [Bradford - Scunthorpe] Free
Tom Parkes [Bristol Rovers - Leyton Orient] Free
David Worrall [Southend - Millwall] Free
Scottish Premiership
Neil Alexander [Hearts - Aberdeen] Free
Ade Azeez [AFC Wimbledon - Partick Thistle] Free
Joe Lewis [Cardiff - Aberdeen] Free
Callum Morris [Dundee United - Aberdeen] Free
Premier League
Sofiane Feghouli [Valencia - West Ham] Undisclosed
Football League
Carl Baker [MK Dons - Portsmouth] Free
Ben Hall [Motherwell - Brighton] Undisclosed
Raheem Hanley [Swansea - Northampton] Free
Jamie Jones [Preston - Stevenage] Free
Jamille Matt [Fleetwood - Blackpool] Free
Alex Revell [MK Dons - Northampton] Free
Scottish Premiership
Faycal Rherras [Sint-Truiden - Hearts]
Conor Sammon [Derby - Hearts]
Scottish Championship
Stewart Murdoch [Ross County - Dundee United] Free
Football League
Medy Elito [Newport - Cambridge] Free
John Marquis [Millwall - Doncaster] Free
Scottish Premiership
Robbie Muirhead [Dundee United - Hearts] Free
Scottish Championship
Gavin Reilly [Hearts - Dunfermline Athletic] Loan
European
Miralem Pjanic [Roma - Juventus] £25.4m
Football League
Callum Kennedy [AFC Wimbledon - Leyton Orient] Free
Paddy Kenny [Rotherham - Northampton] Free
Steve Sidwell [Stoke - Brighton] Free
Football League
Rhys Bennett [Rochdale - Mansfield] Free
Luke Conlan [Burnley - Morecambe] Free
Gary O'Neil [Norwich - Bristol City] Free
Scottish Premiership
Scott Boden [Newport - Inverness] Free
Premier League
Eric Bailly [Villarreal - Manchester United] Reported £30m
Football League
Danny Andrew [Fleetwood - Grimsby] Free
Chris Arthur [Woking - Crawley] Free
Andy Lonergan [Fulham - Wolves] Undisclosed
Gavin Massey [Colchester - Leyton Orient] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Mark O'Hara [Kilmarnock - Dundee] Free
Football League
Joel Coleman [Oldham - Huddersfield] Undisclosed
Matt Godden [Ebbsfleet - Stevenage] Undisclosed
Joss Labadie [Dagenham & Redbridge - Newport] Free
Simon Makienok [Palermo - Preston] Loan
Yusuf Mersin [Kasimpasa - Crawley] Free
Jake Orrell [Chesterfield - Hartlepool] Free
Ivan Paurevic [FC Ufa - Huddersfield] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Paul Paton [Dundee United - St Johnstone] Free
European
Emre Mor [FC Nordsjaelland - Borussia Dortmund] Undisclosed
Football League
Matt Clarke [Ipswich - Portsmouth] Part-exchange
Nicky Deverdics [Dover - Hartlepool] Free
Jamie Devitt [Morecambe - Carlisle] Free
Josh Doherty [Watford - Leyton Orient] Free
CJ Hamilton [Sheffield United - Mansfield] Free
Andrew Hughes [Newport - Peterborough] Free
Reggie Lambe [Mansfield - Carlisle] Free
Gary McSheffrey [Scunthorpe - Doncaster] Free
Ryan Tafazolli [Mansfield - Peterborough] Free
Adam Webster [Portsmouth - Ipswich] £750,000
Robbie Weir [Burton - Leyton Orient] Free
Football League
David Gregory [Crystal Palace - Cambridge] Free
Ashley Hemmings [Dagenham & Redbridge - Mansfield] Free
AJ Leitch-Smith [Port Vale - Shrewsbury] Free
George Maris [Barnsley - Cambridge] Free
Ryan McGivern [Port Vale - Shrewsbury] Free
Aaron Phillips [Coventry - Northampton] Free
Danny Rose [Northampton - Portsmouth] Free
Ed Upson [Millwall - MK Dons] Free
Premier League
Ilkay Gundogan [Borussia Dortmund - Manchester City] Reported £20m
Football League
Josh Brownhill [Preston - Bristol City] Compensation
Piero Mingoia [Accrington - Cambridge] Free
Football League
Mark Duffy [Birmingham - Sheffield United] Free
Chris Hussey [Bury - Sheffield United] Undisclosed
Dean Winnard [Accrington - Morecambe] Free
Joe Wright [Huddersfield - Doncaster] Free
Josh Yorwerth [Ipswich - Crawley] Free
The page covers signings by Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership clubs, along with selected deals from overseas and the Scottish Championship.
The Harry Potter novelist published the book - The Cuckoo's Calling - as Robert Galbraith.
The book had sold fewer than 500 copies before the secret emerged in the Sunday Times, according to Nielsen BookScan's figures.
Within hours, it rose more than 5,000 places to top Amazon's sales list.
The digital version is now also at number one in the iTunes book chart.
The book was published by Sphere, part of Little, Brown Book Group which published Rowling's first foray into writing novels for adults, The Casual Vacancy.
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Little, Brown's David Shelley confirmed to The Bookseller the publisher had ordered an "immediate reprint" with the number not yet confirmed.
Rowling said she had "hoped to keep this secret a little longer".
The author described "being Robert Galbraith" as "such a liberating experience".
A spokesman for bookseller Waterstones said: "This is the best act of literary deception since Stephen King was outed as Richard Bachman back in the 1980s."
One reviewer described The Cuckoo's Calling as a "scintillating debut", while another praised the male author's ability to describe women's clothes.
Crime writer Peter James told the Sunday Times: "I thought it was by a very mature writer, and not a first-timer."
Fellow crime author Mark Billingham, who reviewed the book ahead of its publication in April, said he was "gobsmacked" at the revelation.
The fictitious Galbraith was supposed to have been a former plain-clothes Royal Military Police investigator who had left the armed forces in 2003 to work in the civilian security industry.
However a clue that Rowling was behind the novel was that she and Galbraith shared an agent and editor.
In previous interviews, Rowling has said she would prefer to write novels after Harry Potter under a pseudonym.
Another Cormoran Strike book by Robert Galbraith is in the pipeline, to be published next year.
The 46-year-old who received an OBE in the New Year's Honours List, had been favourite to be Swansea new manager.
The Swans are now expected to appoint Paul Clement but Roberts says Coleman could manage his hometown club one day.
"It is an honour to manage your country and Chris has been doing that with great success and he would be reluctant to walk away from it," he said.
"I think it is inevitable that he is linked with most of the top jobs that are available at the moment, and since the summer, because of the fantastic job he has done with Wales.
"So I think that is quite natural. But of course, he is in a job and it is a fantastic job. It is an honour to manage your country and he has already stated publicly that this will be his last campaign.
"He will want to finish this campaign, hopefully by arriving in Russia in 2018. So if it all goes to plan - and we know that things change quickly in football - that would be his wish and hopefully it pans out like that.
"That is purely because this is probably Chris' one and only chance of managing Wales."
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Coleman led Wales to the semi-final of Euro 2016 and Roberts thinks it is possible that he will one day want to manage Swansea, even if his immediate focus could be on a stint abroad.
"As he has stated already, his preference is to go back into club football, whether that be domestically or abroad [when his contract expires]," Roberts told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"I don't think any job is bigger than managing your country.
"Perhaps there will be an opportunity to come and manage Swansea at the Liberty in the future, who knows? Whether he will want to do that or not remains to be seen.
"But Wales have some big games coming up and that is what our sole focus is on."
It worked. He managed to walk pass the Azeri police that guard the embassy and was admitted onto foreign soil.
For over six months, the whereabouts of Emin Huseynov, a prominent human rights campaigner, were unknown, until the Swiss broadcaster SRF broke the news last week that the country's embassy in Baku had been sheltering him since August 2014.
The Swiss foreign ministry has confirmed that an Azeri national has been allowed to stay at the embassy on humanitarian grounds and in a statement said that Switzerland was negotiating with the Azeri authorities to resolve the issue "in the interest of the individual".
Mr Huseynov, the founder of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), a non-governmental organisation monitoring rights violations against journalists, is accused by the Azeri government of tax evasion and abuse of power.
Similar charges have been brought against a number of other civil society activists - charges that rights groups describe as "bogus".
Like most pro-democracy NGOs, Mr Huseynov's IRFS was under surveillance by the Azeri security services.
Activists like Mr Huseynov and others currently in detention - such as Rasul Jafarov, human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev, Leyla and Arif Yunus, and Anar Mammadli - have for years openly criticised their government, raising awareness of human rights abuses in the oil and gas-rich country.
They have earned recognition for their work from the international community. But Azeri officials, such as President Ilham Aliyev's chief adviser Ramiz Mehdiyev, have branded them "traitors".
The most recent victim of the government's campaign to silence its critics is the investigative reporter Khadija Ismaylova, known for her corruption investigations into the financial schemes of Azerbaijan's president and his family.
In December 2014, she was charged with inciting a man to commit suicide. Last week, she was additionally charged with embezzlement, tax evasion and abuse of power.
Her colleagues, whom I met in December in Baku, described her detention as an attempt to silence her.
"By arresting Khadija, the government is sending a message to journalists and to the public in general that those who fight for truth and free speech, those who fight for their rights, will be arrested." said Kamran Mahmudov, who briefly stood in for Ms Ismaylova on her popular radio talk-show on US-funded Radio Liberty.
A few weeks after this interview, the authorities raided the offices of Radio Liberty and took the station off air.
Still in his pyjamas, Kamran Mahmudov was dragged out of his home by the police and taken for questioning.
The closure of one of the few remaining independent voices in Azeri media was criticised by the US State Department, the EU and several human rights organisations.
According to the New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists, Azerbaijan is the leading jailer of journalists in Europe and Central Asia.
However, the government insists that all the charges against journalists and civil society activists are legitimate.
"No one is prosecuted in Azerbaijan based on his or her professional activities or political beliefs," said Hikmat Hajiyev, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's foreign affairs ministry.
"Khadija Ismaylova has been engaged in journalistic activities for more than 10 years and could write different stories. Now there is a real criminal case based on the criminal code of Azerbaijan," he added.
"It is so unfortunate that the human rights issue is being politicised, and certain groups and circles under the pretext of human rights are trying to interfere in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan."
President Aliyev pardoned 87 prisoners shortly before the new year, among them two journalists and two members of a pro-democracy youth movement.
But most of the activists, journalists and lawyers detained remain behind bars. They face long prison terms if found guilty of their charges.
Human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev, who has taken several hundred cases - ranging from violating rights to freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial - to the European Court of Human Rights, is now on trial himself, with his hearing set to resume on February 17.
The Kurdakhany detention facility on the outskirts of Baku, where he is being held, has been dubbed "the university" because most of the bright minds deemed a threat to the state are being held there.
Shortly after visiting him in December, his son, Necmin, wanted to deliver a message from his father to the outside world.
"In today's Azerbaijan defending human rights is a crime," he said. "He and his friends are paying the price for doing just that."
Stanley Gibbs, 35, covertly set up recording devices in the woman's Glasgow home and published them online under the username "Psycho Stan".
He was caught when a friend of the woman saw them online. Police later recovered 60,000 stored moving images.
Gibbs was also placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court he was also made subject of a non-harassment order relating to his victim for the same length of time.
Sheriff Andrew Mackie told Gibbs he had reduced his jail term from 18 months because of his guilty plea.
"Your behaviour as you know was deplorable and appalling," the sheriff told Gibbs.
"It was a gross breach of trust and it was a gross invasion of your victim."
Gibbs, a business analyst from Erskine, Renfrewshire, pleaded guilty to using electronic devices to record the woman in a state of undress.
He also admitted uploading indecent footage of her on to the internet and recording her without her knowledge between October 2012 and June 2014.
The court heard Gibbs and the woman had been friends for a number of years and that he regularly visited the flat where she stayed.
In June last year, a friend of the woman was online and recognised various pictures of her.
The person who uploaded the images claimed that the woman was unaware they had been taken and that he got "sexual gratification" from the pictures.
The friend saved everything on a USB stick and contacted the woman to advise her she should leave her flat.
The police were then alerted and a search warrant was granted for Gibbs' house.
He was detained and interviewed by police before being cautioned and charged.
Electronic equipment was seized including a laptop, hard drive, mobile phone and tablet, as well as a digital camera.
They were analysed and 60,000 moving images were found which had been taken "covertly".
The court heard much of the footage was of "day-to-day" business, although indecent footage was also captured.
It was heard that the woman was "shocked and disgusted" and that she had "trusted the accused like family".
The newspaper has estimated the 88-year-old and his family's fortune at just over £1bn, putting them at 114th in the list.
It said profits at Glasgow-based Arnold Clark Automobiles reached a record £107.2m in 2014, on sales of £3.2bn.
The business is estimated to be worth £1bn. Other assets include the yacht Drum, once owned by Simon Le Bon.
Sir Arnold started his business in 1954. He was knighted in 2004.
The highest-placed Scots on the rich list, at 49th, are the Grant-Gordon family, owners of Banffshire whisky distiller William Grant.
Their fortune is estimated at £2.16bn - £10m more than last year.
The Sunday Times valued the business at £2bn, with past dividends and other assets adding £160m.
The distiller's brands include Grant's, Glenfiddich, Drambuie and Hendrick's Gin.
In 72nd place are Aberdeen-based oil tycoon Sir Ian Wood, 73, and family, whose fortune is estimated to have risen by £55m last year to £1.44bn.
At 108th, engineering entrepreneur Jim McColl is estimated to be worth just over £1bn - up by £10m on 2015. The Sunday Times values his company Clyde Blowers at £1.7bn, valuing Mr McColl's stake at £1.02bn. Other assets added £50m.
Tied in 117th place are Sir Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, founders of Perth-based transport giant Stagecoach. They are estimated to be worth £1bn - down by £40m on 2015.
Author JK Rowling is tied at 197th on the list, with an estimated fortune of £600m - £20m more than in 2015.
Other wealthy individuals with connections to Scotland include Jim Radcliffe, boss of the Ineos chemicals group which includes the giant petrochemicals plant in Grangemouth.
He was tied at 30th with an estimated worth of £3.2bn.
Mahdi al-Tajir, Bahrain-born owner of Scottish mineral water firm Highland Spring, was 60th in the list with a fortune estimated at £1.735bn. Highland Spring turned in a £1.6m profit on record sales of £100m in 2014, according to the Sunday Times.
Scottish tennis stars Andy and Jamie Murray were 11th in the top 50 young rich list with a fortune estimated at £58m - £10m more than 2015.
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The traditional St Patrick's Day final was a closely contested affair held in difficult wet and windy conditions.
All the tries came in the first half, with Rhys O'Donnell and David McCann touching down for RBAI and James Hume kicking a conversion to make it 12-0.
Chris Larmour crossed for Methody, with Paul Kerr adding a second-half penalty.
Outside centre Hume, who scored all 13 points in Inst's success 12 months ago, skewed an early penalty effort wide of the posts.
O'Donnell darted over and stretched to score on the line in the 15th minute, Hume adding the extras with a well executed kick from a difficult angle near the touchline.
Seven minutes later, second row McCann rumbled over beside the posts after a driving maul, Hume scuffing his conversion attempt on this occasion.
The signs looked ominous for Methody at this point but Larmour completed a superb move along the back-line by diving over for a try in the corner to reduce his side's deficit to seven points.
The second half saw both sides reduced to 14 men in rapid succession for high tackles, Kerr first seeing yellow and then Hume being sent to the 'sin bin' for seven minutes for an infringement on Michael Lowry.
Larmour almost grabbed his second try of the game, but was tackled into touch by the corner flag before he could ground the ball.
RBAI captain and playmaker Lowry was then taken off injured, and while Methody pushed for a potential winning score, they could only muster Kerr's three-pointer to eat into their opponents' lead.
"The boys stuck at it well, they showed real effort and grit in the last 20 minutes, and the boys off the bench put in a great shift too. It's a real privilege to lead such a great bunch of guys," said RBAI skipper Lowry after the match.
The meeting was the 15th encounter between the schools in the showpiece decider, Inst having now emerged victorious on 10 occasions.
RBAI last lifted the cup in three consecutive years in the 1940s, when they actually won the final six times in a row between 1943 and 1948.
Thousands of people took to the streets in New York and other US cities, disrupting traffic and holding sit-ins.
The protests began on Wednesday, after a grand jury decided not to press charges over the death of Eric Garner.
Civil rights activists are pinning their hopes on a federal investigation into the case.
The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, said the city's 22,000-strong police force would be retrained in how to better communicate and remain calm when making arrests, and they will be fitted with body cameras.
US President Barack Obama welcomed the mayor's commitment to act, adding: "Too many Americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap between our professed ideals and how laws are applied on a day to day basis."
America saw a wave of race-related unrest only last week over the decision not to indict another white police officer who had shot dead a young black man, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri.
UN human rights experts have expressed "legitimate concerns" over the decisions not to bring to trial the cases of both Mr Brown and Mr Garner.
Policing and race
13%
of the US population is black
28% of suspects arrested in the US in 2010 were black
32% of people killed from 2003 to 2009 in arrest-related incidents were black
42% of inmates on death row in 2012 were black
On Thursday night in New York, protesters carried coffins across the Brooklyn Bridge and marched in several groups through Manhattan, carrying banners saying "Racism kills" and "This stops today".
"People are sick and tired of the systemic problems of racism in this country," said one protester, Jason Pollock. "We are out here in the streets to say that black life matters."
Police in riot gear told protesters staging sit-ins that they would face arrest if they did not move along. Police arrested more than 80 people in Wednesday's protests, though the demonstrations have been largely peaceful.
Smaller-scale protests were held in cities including Chicago, Washington, Denver, and Boston. In Minneapolis, some protesters blocked traffic by marching or lying in the middle of a highway.
Activists have called for another march in Washington on 13 December, followed by a summit on civil rights.
Mr Garner, 43, was stopped on a street in New York on 17 July on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
After a confrontation with police officer Daniel Pantaleo placed his arm round Mr Garner's neck. Mr Garner, who had asthma, was wrestled to the ground and restrained by force.
On video of the incident, he can be heard repeatedly saying "I can't breathe". He became unresponsive and later died.
The city's medical examiner's office found in the summer that Mr Garner's death was caused by "the compression of his chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police".
Police unions and Mr Pantaleo's lawyer, Stuart London, have said he used an accepted takedown manoeuvre on Mr Garner, rather than a chokehold, which is banned under New York City police regulations.
Mr Pantaleo testified to having heard Mr Garner say "I can't breathe" but said he had believed that once he got him down on the ground and put him on his side, he would be revived by paramedics, according to Mr London.
Mr Pantaleo also testified that he had tried in vain to talk Mr Garner into complying with police instructions - something not seen on the video. "Let's make this easy, you've been through this before," the police officer is said to have told Mr Garner.
Attorney General Eric Holder promised "an independent, thorough, fair and expeditious" federal investigation into potential civil rights violations in the case.
A review of how to heal a "breakdown in trust" between police and communities is also under way.
Elsewhere in the US several other racially sensitive cases appeared this week:
Jean Ping, ex-head of the African Union commission, said he was waiting for the president to call and congratulate him.
Mr Bongo, whose family has governed for nearly 50 years, has called for calm and for people to wait for official results on Tuesday.
Gabon is a major oil producer, but still has high levels of poverty.
The head of the 70-strong European Union election monitoring team in the country has said the polls "lacked transparency".
The atmosphere in the capital Libreville was calm overnight, according to a BBC correspondent on the ground.
The head of the African Union election observer mission in Gabon, Casam Uteem told BBC Focus on Africa that he was not worried by the uncertainty.
"So long as as the results are not made official, I don't think anybody can claim victory at this stage," he said.
Ali Bongo won disputed elections in 2009, following the death of his father Omar Bongo, who led the small West African nation for 41 years.
President Yahya Jammeh ruled the country with an iron fist after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1994. His 22-year rule appeared to come to an end in 2016 when he was defeated in a shock election result by the main opposition candidate, Adama Barrow, but Mr Jammeh declared a state of emergency and refused to step down.
Stability has not translated into prosperity. Despite the presence of the Gambia River, which runs through the middle of the country, only one-sixth of the land is arable and poor soil quality has led to the predominance of one crop - peanuts.
Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange, as is the money sent home by Gambians living abroad. Most visitors are drawn to the resorts that occupy a stretch of the Atlantic coast.
Population 1.8 million
Area 11,295 sq km (4,361 sq miles)
Languages English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula
Major religions Islam, Christianity
Life expectancy 58 years (men), 60 years (women)
Currency dalasi
President: Adama Barrow
Adama Barrow defeated longtime President Yahya Jammeh in a shock election result in December 2016.
Mr Barrow, a property developer, ended Yahya Jammeh's 22-year authoritarian rule by winning more than 45% of the vote.
A member of the United Democratic Party, during his election campaign Mr Barrow pledged to revive the country's economy.When Mr Jammeh refused to step down, Adama Barrow took the oath of office at the Gambian embassy in neighbouring Senegal.
Outgoing president: Yahya Jammeh
Yahya Jammeh seized power in 1994 as a young army lieutenant.
He won four largely criticised multi-party elections and faced down several coup attempts before suffering a shock election defeat at the hands of opposition candidate Adama Barrow in 2016. He refused to step down, and declared a state of emergency. Regional states ordered him to quit office or face military intervention.
A controversial leader throughout his tenure in office, he raised eyebrows early in 2007 when he claimed that he could cure AIDS with herbs and bananas.
Mr Jammeh's government has been criticised by international rights groups for its attitude to civil liberties, especially ahead of the December 2016 presidential election.
He called homosexuals ''vermin'' in 2014 and said the government would deal with them as it would malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
A "pervasive climate of fear" forces most journalists to practice self-censorship or flee the country, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
The law provides for jail terms for libel or sedition. Freedom House notes that journalists are regularly arrested on "flimsy and superficial" charges.
State-run Radio Gambia broadcasts tightly-controlled news, which is relayed by private radio stations. Radio France Internationale is available on FM in Banjul.
The government operates the only national TV station and blocks critical websites.
Many news websites and blogs are based overseas and some are run by exiled journalists, according to Freedom House.
Some key dates in Gambia's history:
1889 - Present boundaries of The Gambia set by agreement between Britain and France; five years later it becomes a British protectorate until its independence in 1965.
1982 - The Gambia and Senegal form a loose confederation called Senegambia, which collapses in 1989.
1994 - Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh takes over the country in a coup. He is elected president two years later in a vote that three major political parties were barred from taking part in. He goes on to win three more elections and defeat several coup attempts.
2013 - President Jammeh announces Gambia's withdrawal from the Commonwealth, describing it as a "neo-colonial institution". Critics say the move was prompted by wide-spread international condemnation over the government's human rights violations.
2015 - President Jammeh declares the country an Islamic republic to break from the country's "colonial legacy".
2016 - President Jammeh's 22-year-rule seems to draw to close after shock election defeat by Adama Barrow.
In a visit to St Thomas' Hospital in central London, the couple met Jonny Benjamin and Neil Laybourn - the stranger who persuaded him not to jump off Waterloo Bridge in 2008.
The men were reunited six years later when Mr Benjamin started a Twitter campaign to trace him.
The 26-year-old is now a campaigner.
An emotional Mr Benjamin told Prince William and his wife how his psychological problems began at an early age with hearing voices, and when he turned 16 he started struggling with depression.
He was diagnosed with a combined schizophrenia and bipolar condition and had hit "rock bottom" at the time of the incident on Waterloo Bridge.
Mr Laybourn described how he was walking to work when he spotted Mr Benjamin - now his good friend - wearing just a T-shirt and trousers on a freezing winter day perched on the side of the bridge.
"It was a real snap decision, all the time I was walking up to Jonny I was thinking, 'Why was he there, should I talk to him or not?', he told the duke and duchess.
"I just felt he needed help."
The Cambridges were at the NHS hospital - where Mr Benjamin was treated after the bridge incident - to hear about support services for people experiencing suicidal thoughts.
Mr Benjamin tracked down his saviour in 2014 after he launched a campaign using the hashtag #FindMike search.
Goals from John O'Sullivan and substitute Romuald Boco halted the Magpies' unbeaten run, which included one Checkatrade Trophy success.
The hosts had yet to score first in a League Two game this season and continued that run as they fell behind in the 17th minute to O'Sullivan's deflected strike.
Jonathan Forte did his best to level, but his shot towards the near post brought a fine save from visiting goalkeeper Aaron Chapman.
Notts were out of sorts, but having come from behind to snatch results in their last three league games, they came out with purpose and a much quicker tempo at the start of the second half, with Louis Laing volleying straight at Chapman from a Michael O'Connor free-kick.
But an inspired substitution from Accrington boss John Coleman helped his side deservedly extend their lead when Boco fired an effort past Adam Collin.
With Notts fans restless, John Sheridan's side did their best to launch a comeback but they were indebted to Collin for keeping the score down with an excellent save from Billy Kee.
Reports supplied by Press Association.
Match ends, Notts County 0, Accrington Stanley 2.
Second Half ends, Notts County 0, Accrington Stanley 2.
Alex Rodman (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Thierry Audel.
Richard Duffy (Notts County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Steven Hewitt (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Jordan Clark.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Carl Dickinson.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Steven Hewitt replaces Scott Brown.
Richard Duffy (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Foul by Michael O'Connor (Notts County).
Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Adam Collin.
Substitution, Notts County. Adam Campbell replaces Vadaine Oliver.
Jonathan Forte (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Zak Vyner (Accrington Stanley).
Substitution, Notts County. Robert Milsom replaces Matt Tootle.
Foul by Alex Rodman (Notts County).
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Seamus Conneely.
Alex Rodman (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Brown (Accrington Stanley).
Goal! Notts County 0, Accrington Stanley 2. Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Seamus Conneely.
Foul by Carl Dickinson (Notts County).
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Romuald Boco replaces John O'Sullivan.
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Jon Stead.
Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Omar Beckles (Accrington Stanley).
Zak Vyner (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vadaine Oliver (Notts County).
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by John O'Sullivan.
Matt Tootle (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John O'Sullivan (Accrington Stanley).
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Matty Pearson.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Zak Vyner.
Bitwalking dollars will be earned by walking, unlike other digital currencies such as Bitcoins that are "mined" by computers.
A phone application counts and verifies users' steps, with walkers earning approximately 1 BW$ for about 10,000 steps (about five miles).
Initially, users will be given the chance to spend what they earn in an online store, or trade them for cash.
The founders of the project, Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi have attracted more than $10m (£6.6m) of initial funding from mainly Japanese investors to help launch the currency and create the bank that verifies steps and any transfers.
Japanese electronics giant, Murata is working on a wearable wristband that will provide an alternative to carrying a smartphone and show how many BW$ the wearer has earned.
Shoe manufacturers are poised to accept the currency, and a UK high street bank is in talks to partner with the project at one of the UK's biggest music festivals next year.
The founders have a track record in disruptive technology that could help developing nations as much as richer ones.
Last year they launched Keepod, a $7 USB stick that acts like a computer in Nairobi, Kenya.
The idea of Bitwalking is to take advantage of the trend for fitness trackers by offering an additional incentive to keep fit.
The global scheme plans to partner with sportswear brands, health services, health insurance firms, environmental groups, and potentially advertisers who could be offered unique insights into the audiences they are targeting.
In the future employers may be offered a scheme to offer to their employees to encourage them to stay fitter, with the currency they earn converted and then paid alongside their salaries.
In developed nations the average person would earn around 15 BW$ a month, but its hoped that in poorer countries where people have to walk further for work, school, or simply to collect water, the Bitwalking scheme could help transform lives.
Salim Adam walks around 6 miles (10km) a day to work as an IT teacher at his local college in Mthuntama in northern Malawi.
He has worked out that he can earn 26 BW$ a month just by having the app running on his mobile phone. His current salary is the equivalent of $26 USD.
The impact Bitwalking could make in developing countries isn't lost on the founders. It is one of the central reasons for creating the currency. In Malawi, one of the African nations to join at the launch of the project, the average rural wage is just US$1.5 (£1) a day.
Business advisor, Karen Chinkwita runs Jubilee Enterprises, giving business guidance to young people in Lilongwe. She said "there may be a temptation for some to walk instead of work."
"But most people want to earn more money and will do both. With some education we can teach them how to use that money to create even more opportunities."
The Bitwalking manager for Malawi, Carl Meyer, has set up the first two Bitwalking hubs in Lilongwe and Mthuntama where local people will be trained how to trade the BW$ online for US$ or the local currency Malawi Kwacha.
Eventually an automatic online exchange is planned that will match up buyers with sellers and a rough exchange rate will begin to emerge.
The Go! app for iOS and Android devices will initially be offered to a handful of countries including the UK, Japan, Malawi, and Kenya to give the organisers a chance to iron-out any difficulties before other countries come on board.
The idea isn't completely new. Several start-ups have tried to connect keeping fit to earning rewards but most have failed to measure movement accurately enough to avoid scammers.
Bitwalking hasn't officially released the algorithm used to verify steps but says it uses the handsets' GPS position and wifi connections to calculate the distance travelled.
The team has created it's own walking algorithm to verify users' workouts after testing Google's and finding that steps could be spoofed.
The phone reports the speed and type of movement as measured by the accelerometer.
At its launch the total amount someone can claim in one day will be capped at around 3 BW$ (roughly 30,000 steps) and running multiple accounts will be banned.
The success of the scheme is likely to depend on how much interest there is from established companies such as big sportswear brands, health insurance firms, or charity and environmental groups all of whom have an incentive to work with the fitness sector.
In Japan, it is not unusual for firms to offer employees rewards for fitness activities. Bitwalking's founders hope their project could help extend this idea to other nations.
The country's largest convenience chain store, Lawson, runs a successful scheme that pays its workers up to $50 a year to eat healthily and keep fit.
But the Lawson scheme is based on promises and trust, so unlike Bitwalking it is not verifiable. The vouchers earned cannot be traded for cash.
Despite the freedom to trade, it is likely that unless BW$ can be freely used to buy goods and services they are likely to drop in value from parity with the US$ - the point where the founders are launching it.
The online store will sell goods for the same price in BW$ as US$.
Keeping the virtual shelves of this online store fully stocked will be one of the first challenges.
The shop isn't expected to be open all the time, but plans are in place for other retailers and service providers to accept the currency in their stores too.
It is still not clear how a currency that appears to be so easy for users to produce could maintain its value, nor if the initial funding for the scheme will be sufficient to sustain it in the initial period while confidence in its value is being built up.
The Bitwalking website will invite people to apply to join the scheme so the company has some control over user numbers.
Because the new scheme necessarily tracks its users they'll be data available that could be particularly valuable to advertisers and accompanying concerns over privacy.
"That won't be for sale," says co-founder Nissan Bahar.
"We may explore offering advertisers the opportunity to focus on different groups depending on how active they are, but we won't pass on any information relating to individual's movements."
Transfers of the new currency will also be carefully monitored with transactions going through a central 'bank' which verifies each deal using the block chain method used to transfer other crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin.
Users will have access to their own wallet which stores the dollars they've earned and will be able to transfer them to others via the app.
"It's a currency that can be earned by anyone regardless of who they are and where they live," says Franky Imbesi.
"For some it will be a free cup of coffee a week perhaps offered by local businesses to encourage people to explore their local shops. For others it could be a game changer, transforming their lives by enabling them to earn and trade in the same way with the rest of the world."
"And all while encouraging us to protect the planet and stay healthy."
A shortage of doctors is often the reason which has left expectant mothers being transferred at short notice to give birth further away from home.
It is understood the three maternity units in Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Wrexham have on different occasions implemented "emergency closures".
These usually last for several hours.
"It's incredibly disruptive (for mothers)," said Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board's head of midwifery, Fiona Giraud.
"The first that any woman would know about it would be when they phone the unit in early labour or when seeking advice in relation to their pregnancy.
"But this is a service that's currently run as if it's in emergency mode 24-hours a day and it is monitored to that level. No other maternity service in Wales or any of the other countries are monitored to this level."
Staff sickness, a lack of a temporary locum positions, or mothers with high level or complex care can bring levels at any one unit below what bosses deem to be safe and they say they have no option but to shut the doors.
The health board argues full-blown maternity services cannot be kept running at all three hospitals.
It wants to temporarily transfer maternity doctors from Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan to strengthen the teams at Bangor's Ysbyty Gwynedd and the Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
Glan Clwyd would only have a stand alone midwife-led maternity unit - for low-risk pregnancies. Higher risk mothers would need to go to Bangor or Wrexham.
But the proposal has caused uproar amongst some campaigners.
Following a public consultation, the health board will decide what to do on 8 December.
Interim chief executive Simon Dean said: "The whole point of these changes is to offer the best possible treatment to the people we serve and on occasions that may have to mean travelling distances that in an ideal world they'd prefer not to."
The Irishman, 27, was set to fight Rafael dos Anjos for the Brazilian's lightweight title on 5 March but the champion pulled out with a foot injury.
McGregor said: "As long as there's an opponent and a date, you'll see me.
"The only weight I (care) about is the weight of them cheques, and my cheques are always super-heavyweight."
McGregor is predicting a quick victory over America's Diaz, 30, in their non-title welterweight fight at UFC 196 in Las Vegas.
He added: "His soft body and his lack of preparation, he will not be able to handle the ferocity. End of the first round I feel he will be put away.
"There's a respect there between us but it's business in there and business is business. He will be KO'd inside the first round."
McGregor was looking to make history against Dos Anjos by becoming the first fighter to hold titles in multiple weight classes at the same time.
And he was critical of the Brazilian for pulling out of their bout.
McGregor, who also distanced himself from Diaz's claims that all UFC fighters use steroids, said: "Dos Anjos has a bruise on his foot. Did ya see it?
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George Ferguson won with a total of 37,353 votes, 6,094 more than Labour's Marvin Rees in second place.
The two candidates went through to a second round of counting after neither had over 50% of first preference votes.
The turnout was 28%, which was higher than in the May referendum when Bristol voted for the new post.
After being declared winner, Mr Ferguson, 65, said the result was "a mandate".
He said: "I believe that today we voted for a new way of doing things. I don't see this as a vote for me - I see it as a vote for Bristol.
"I want to use that mandate to go and ask the prime minister and the government in general for more powers for Bristol and for more resources. I think we deserve it.
"We have delivered what they wanted, now they have got to deliver what we want."
He said he was "honoured" to be a servant and invited voters to judge him by what he does.
An architect famous for always wearing red trousers, Mr Ferguson also owns restaurants and bars in Bristol and has lived in the city for almost 50 years.
By Robin MarkwellPolitical reporter BBC Bristol
George Ferguson chose not to make big policy commitments in his campaign - knowing the mayor must work within a shrinking budget.
He has however promised to deliver an arena for the city, intends to ask government for powers to curb the expansion of supermarkets and to ask for permission to found an integrated transport authority.
He has two other big tasks to tackle over the next few days. He must form a cabinet made up of councillors who belong to political parties and he must find at least £26m to cut from the council budget.
He set up the Bristol 1st party so that he could be distinguished from other independent candidates on the ballot paper.
However, he has pledged to dissolve the party - of which he is the only member - once the election is over.
Mr Ferguson finished his victory speech by paying tribute to Marvin Rees, "a great guy" who came in second place.
The Labour candidate said he had "failed today" but the real challenge was about what to do next.
"There is a greater good in my not achieving this today, so that people can see that we keep going," he said.
The result confirms that the Liberal Democrat party has lost control of the authority.
Jon Rogers, the authority's deputy leader, came fourth in the race with 6,202 of the total number of counted votes.
He said: "It is obviously disappointing but it has been a really interesting few weeks.
"Essentially people decided that George Ferguson was a better bet and they wanted an independent this time so we have to accept the view of the electorate."
A former lord mayor of the city, Conservative Geoff Gollop, said it was an "interesting" result after coming third with 8,136 votes.
"It's a sign of the fact that people are seriously disillusioned with what they see as mainstream politics," he added.
"What is extraordinary is that, after a fantastic campaign, even the Green candidate was actually brought into the same consideration."
In May, 24% turned out to vote in the referendum, with 41,032 in favour of a mayor and 35,880 against.
Turnout across Bristol for the mayoral election varied from 42.64% in Henleaze to 11.21% in Hartcliffe.
Londoner Waters, 30, who beat world champion Laura Massaro in the quarter-finals, lost 11-6 11-9 9-11 11-5 to third seed Raneem el Weleily in Cairo.
Meanwhile, world number one Nicol David reached her eighth world final after coming back from two games to one down to defeat Egypt's Omneya Kawy.
The Malaysian, 31, will face Weleily, who is in her first final, on Saturday.
After rallying to win 11-9 9-11 8-11 11-5 11-5, David said: "I played with more purpose with my shots and she attempted a few things which were out of reach, and made a few unforced errors."
Weleily, who will play the final in front of her home crowd, said: "Somehow I have to handle it as if it were just another match."
He represented the Black Country constituency for 18 years after being elected at the second attempt in 1992.
Before becoming elected to Westminster he was also a Wolverhampton councillor.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair described him as "a kind, gracious man" who "was hugely popular in Parliament and will be sorely missed".
Steve Evans, chairman of the local Labour party, said he would be "sadly missed and fondly remembered" for his commitment to the Black Country.
"He was the kind of guy that wanted to tackle unfairness and challenge inaccuracies," he said.
"You'd be out on the doorstep campaigning with Ken and you'd always lose him, and you'd find he was actually still at the first house where you'd started the door-knocking and he's still trying to challenge and convince someone on the doorstep.
"It was commonly known that if he went to do the weekly shop with his wife Brenda at the local supermarket it could take four or five hours, and that's because he always had time to spend with people and listen to people."
Emma Reynolds, who succeeded Mr Purchase as Wolverhampton North East MP, described him as "a great champion for Wolverhampton".
Politicians and constituents took to Twitter to praise his political work.
Mr Blair added: "Ken was a passionate and effective representative of his beloved Wolverhampton and a lovely Parliamentary colleague. A kind, gracious man who even when he disagreed did so with charm and without meanness of spirit.
"He was hugely popular in Parliament and will be sorely missed and greatly mourned."
The deal was launched last year and was described as a world first for the snowsports industry.
Ski-Scotland, which promotes winter pursuits, said the recent skis season in both Scotland and Iceland had proved to be problematic.
It also said the scheme would need time to become a success.
The initiative involves Scotland's CairnGorm Mountain, Glencoe Mountain, Glenshee, Nevis Range and The Lecht ski centres.
All nine of Iceland's snowsports centres are involved in the scheme, which was agreed at the North Atlantic Ski Areas' Association's 2016 conference.
A spinoff of the first year of the initiative was the exchanging of ideas and experiences between Scottish and Icelandic professionals.
One of Glenshee's ski patrollers spent the winter season at Iceland's largest ski area, Hlíðarfjall near Akureyri, close to the Arctic Circle.
Glenshee's director Kate Hunter was also invited to visit and she travelled to Iceland both at the end of January to deliver a ski patrol clinic for local patrollers and again at Easter, the busiest time for the Icelandic ski areas.
Ms Hunter found several differences between Scottish and Icelandic skiing.
She said: "One, which was very noticeable, is the relaxed attitude of the Icelanders with only the chairlift and moving carpet actually being manned at quiet times.
"Ski hire is semi-automated and in the early winter, so far north, a lot of the skiing is under floodlights.
"They also have a very keen race-training programme."
The deal offers season ticket holders at all the Scottish and Icelandic ski areas the opportunity to ski or snowboard at any ski area in the other country.
It is also linked to Ski-Scotland's all-area season pass which covers all five Scottish mountain ski areas.
Heather Negus, chairwoman of Ski-Scotland, said: "When this was agreed, we acknowledged that it would probably take a good few winters for interest to build up, based on good conditions in each country.
"Winter 2016-17 was problematic for both Icelandic and Scottish ski areas, with snowfalls frequently followed by mild weather.
"It is therefore no surprise that there was limited take-up of this offer in its first winter."
Customers of Glencoe Mountain and Glenshee inquired about what was available in Iceland, but it was not known how many of these enquiries resulted in skiers travelling, said Ski-Scotland.
Several ski touring enthusiasts did visit Iceland, but Ski-Scotland said that it seemed unlikely that they also skied at the recognised snowsports areas.
Scotland's most recent snowsports season was described as "challenging".
Fluctuating temperatures meant a stop-start season, with periods of heavy snow followed by milder conditions and melting snow.
However, the Scottish industry has enjoyed successful years recently.
In 2012-13 there were 290,996 skier days generating more than £29m for the economy.
The 2014-15 season involved 230,634 skier days, raising £23.2m.
It was also the first in years that all five of Scotland's outdoor ski centres opened for snowsports before Christmas.
A skier day means one person who skis or snowboards on one day. Many of the same people return to the slopes several times during the season.
The decision means e-Voke, produced by British American Tobacco, could be prescribed on the NHS.
Public Health England says e-cigarettes are far less harmful than tobacco and help smokers quit.
But some experts, including the British Medical Association, say the benefits and harms are not yet known since e-cigarettes are still relatively new.
The Royal College of GPs said doctors would be reluctant to hand them out to patients without clear merits.
Around 10m adults - one in five - in the UK smoke cigarettes.
Many of these would like to or are actively trying to kick the habit and an increasing number are turning to e-cigarettes, the NHS says.
In the year up to April 2015, two out of three people who used e-cigarettes in combination with the NHS stop smoking service managed to successfully quit.
Prof Kevin Fenton, National Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England, says e-cigarettes have become the most popular quitting aid in England.
And he thinks more people should benefit.
"Public Health England wants to see a choice of safe and effective replacements for smoking that smokers themselves want to use," he said.
But Dr Tim Ballard of the Royal College of GPs said it would be unreasonable for the NHS to be asked to fund lifestyle choices for people.
"Potentially, there may be a place for the prescription of e-Voke as part of a smoking cessation programme, but GPs would be very wary of prescribing them until there was clear evidence of their safety and of their efficacy in helping people to quit," he said.
"At the moment there isn't the evidence and the guidance hasn't been written to help GPs make those decisions."
1. On some e-cigarettes, inhalation activates the battery-powered atomiser. Other types are manually switched on
2. A heating coil inside the atomiser heats liquid nicotine contained in a cartridge
3. The mixture becomes vapour and is inhaled. Many e-cigarettes have an LED light as a cosmetic feature to simulate traditional cigarette glow.
Different brands of e-cigarettes contain different chemical concentrations.
Deborah Arnott of Action on Smoking and Heath (ASH) said: "Electronic cigarettes are a much safer alternative source of nicotine for smokers than cigarettes, but that doesn't mean they are risk-free and we would discourage anyone who's not a smoker from using them.
"It is good news that an electronic cigarette has received a licence from the medicines regulator, as we know that they have been effective in helping smokers quit, and the cost, as part of a quit attempt, will be far lower than treating the diseases caused by smoking."
Another type of nicotine inhaler which closely resembles a cigarette, called Voke, was licensed in 2014 to be marketed as an aid to help people stop smoking.
March's figure was revised down from 215,000 and February's was also revised from 242,000 down to 233,000.
The jobless rate remained at 5% and average hourly earnings rose 2.5%.
April's report is being closely watched, as it could influence an upcoming interest rate decision by the US Federal Reserve.
Fed policy makers hold a two-day meeting starting on 14 June and some thought they might decide to raise interest rates.
But some think the latest jobs report has diminished that prospect.
Aberdeen Asset Management, investment manager Luke Bartholomew, said: "Anyone wanting a June hike should probably look away now. The headline number is disappointing, while the household survey looks particularly ugly.
"If there's a bright spot then it's wages which were a bit better than expected. That's important. The lack of any meaningful increase in wages has caused much head scratching at the Fed. But there's probably not enough here to keep a June hike a clear and present danger."
However, Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics, thinks that a rate increase is still possible.
"Overall, there is nothing here to swing the Fed's June rate decision very far in either direction. We still think the Fed will hike next month, but it's shaping up to be a close call," he said.
Mr Ashworth said the increases in average weekly hours worked and average hourly earnings were "reassuring".
In December, the Fed raised rates for the first time in ten years. That rise was seen as the first of a number of moves upwards and Fed officials have forecast two more rate rises for this year.
But since then the economic news has been mixed.
In April, official figures showed that US growth slowed to an annual pace of 0.5% during the first quarter of the year.
This is a rather disappointing report.
Slower growth in jobs - compared with what was expected and compared with previous months.
There was also a marked increase in the number of people not in the labour force. That means people are not looking for work, which can sometimes mean they don't expect to find any.
The good news was the slightly faster rise in average earnings. This has been a weak feature of the recovery after the financial crisis, so the acceleration, modest though it is, can be seen as encouraging.
Still, this was just one month's worth of data. That can give some clues about the underlying state of the labour market, but it's no basis for drawing firm conclusions.
Today's report showed the strongest jobs growth was in business services and healthcare.
Professional and business services added 65,000 jobs in April and healthcare recorded a 44,000 increase.
The number of those employed in mining fell back as the energy sector continues to suffer weak profits thanks to the low oil price.
The share of working-age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, fell 0.2% to 62.8%.
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Former Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman was answering questions about a mystery medical package delivered to him in 2011 for the team's former rider Sir Bradley Wiggins.
Freeman, who now works for British Cycling, said the Jiffy bag contained only the legal decongestant Fluimucil, but added he "regrets" failing to back-up his clinical records.
Damian Collins - chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which has been conducting an inquiry into doping - said the evidence "leaves major questions for Team Sky and British Cycling".
The delivery, on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine race in France, has also been the subject of a UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) investigation.
Dr Freeman withdrew from a planned appearance in front of the parliamentary committee earlier in March citing ill health. During the hearing, Team Sky and British Cycling's record-keeping was questioned, with Ukad chief Nicole Sapstead telling the committee her organisation did not know for sure if Fluimucil was in the package because there was no paperwork.
Freeman has now provided written responses to a number of questions.
He said "only Fluimucil was contained in the package sent" and he had requested it "a day or two before the end of the Dauphine".
Freeman explained he did not believe the specific form of Fluimucil he required was available in France and added: "My first thought was of the supply I had in Manchester, and that the team would be able to access that supply quickly."
In response to questions around record-keeping, Freeman said: "The present system of medical record-keeping and medicines management is a massive improvement to that which existed in 2011.
"I accept that it would have been desirable to have backed up my clinical records, whatever system was used. I regret not doing this."
In response, Collins said in a statement: "Once again, this new evidence leaves major questions outstanding for Team Sky and British Cycling. In particular, why were no back-up medical records kept for Bradley Wiggins in 2011, beyond those on Dr Freeman's laptop computer?
"Why were there not more formal protocols enforced on record-keeping, and whose responsibility was it to make sure that Team Sky's own stated policies were being enforced."
In December, Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford told the committee the package in question contained Fluimucil, and while Team Sky have admitted "mistakes were made" over the medical package, they deny breaking anti-doping rules.
There is no suggestion either Wiggins, 36, or Team Sky broke any rules.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has spoken out after Jermaine Baker was shot dead on Friday during an alleged attempt to spring two convicts from a prison van.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has opened a homicide investigation.
Sir Bernard said it was an "unusual turn of events".
Following the shooting of Mr Baker, in Wood Green, north London, the men being transported in the prison van - Erwin Amoyaw-Gyamfi, 29, and Erun Izzet, 32 - were jailed for 14 years each, for their part in an attempted "professional hit" in October.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Bernard said he hoped to hear more details at a community meeting being held in Tottenham later.
The event is hosted by the Peace Alliance and Tottenham Rights and representatives from the police, the IPCC, Haringey Council and Mr Baker's family are due to attend.
It was called to address concerns about the renewed strain the shooting has placed on relations with police.
It comes after the Metropolitan Police faced criticism for the way it handled the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan in 2011 in Tottenham - leading to riots.
Sir Bernard said: "There will be limits on what the IPCC can tell but at least they will be able to share what they know and we will explain what we can."
He told Today: "I don't have access to the IPCC's investigation.
"They are an independent investigator and of course they have had the chance to talk to witnesses and make some assessment of the scene."
Referring to the homicide investigation, he said: "We are waiting to hear some of the reasoning. But it is an unusual turn of events."
When the investigation was launched, the Met suspended a firearms officer.
The IPCC said Mr Baker died of a single gunshot wound.
The investigation does not mean criminal charges will necessarily follow.
Sir Bernard added it was "frustrating" no way had yet been found for officers on covert operations to wear cameras, because they have been deemed too large.
He said: "I'm sure that would have been really helpful in this case to show what exactly what happened."
But 1,500 uniformed officers have worn them this year, he said.
The athletes, nine of whom come from former Soviet Union nations, all tested positive for various steroids.
No gold medallists were among the 10, but there were three silver medallists from weightlifting and wrestling.
Greek triple jumper Chrysopigi Devetzi and Ukrainian pole vaulter Denys Yurchenko have lost their bronzes.
Six more athletes who did not win medals in 2008 were also disqualified, including Russia's Elena Slesarenko, who won gold in the women's high jump in Athens in 2004 but was only fourth in Beijing.
The IOC has been retesting samples from both the Beijing and London Games and it brings the total of banned athletes from 2008 to 76.
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The toddler was savaged by Andrew McGowan's American bully dogs in Dingle, Liverpool, leaving her with serious injuries to her head and body.
McGowan later admitted the animals had been dangerously out of control.
The 35-year-old, of Cockburn Street, Dingle, was jailed for 18 months by magistrates in Liverpool.
He was also banned from keeping dogs for 12 years.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was taken by air ambulance to Alder Hey Children's Hospital after the dogs pounced, on the afternoon of 7 May.
Neighbours said they heard the girl screaming and shouts of: "The dog's got the baby! The dog's got the baby!"
The dogs also hurt a 57-year-old woman who tried to rescue the girl in the garden on Cockburn Street.
Five dogs and six puppies were seized after the attack, two of which were put down.
In a victim impact statement, the girl's mother described seeing her in an ambulance "covered in blood".
"I could not make out any of her facial features and with shock I left the ambulance because I knew I needed to remain strong for my baby girl," she said.
"My daughter and I were airlifted in the helicopter to the hospital and the journey in itself was traumatic. She lost consciousness and I honestly thought my baby girl wasn't going to make it."
She said her daughter had been left traumatised, scared to leave her home and could remember the attack in detail.
However, she said she had "defied the odds" and was recovering well from her physical injuries.
Speaking after the sentencing, she said: "He [McGowan] will only serve nine months in prison but my baby girl will have to live with this for the rest of her life."
Det Ch Insp John Webster said it was only through "sheer fortune" that other children playing in the garden had not been injured.
He added: "The injuries and the trauma the girl suffered will probably stay with her for a long time, but I hope with the love and support of her family it is something that she will in time be able to fully recover from."
American bully dogs, which are similar to pit bull terriers, are not a banned breed.
Mason, 25, clashed heads with Chelsea defender Gary Cahill 13 minutes into the Premier League match.
He was carried off on a stretcher wearing an oxygen mask after receiving eight minutes of treatment and taken to St Mary's Hospital in London.
"Ryan is in a stable condition and expected to remain in hospital for the next few days," said a Hull statement.
"Everyone at the Club would like to express their sincere thanks for the excellent and swift care given to Ryan by both the Accident and Emergency department and Neurosurgery Unit at St Mary's Hospital."
Hull added that they would issue a further update on Monday.
Cahill, who continued playing, said: "I tried to get on the end of the cross. We smashed heads. I wish him all the very best."
Goals from Diego Costa and Cahill gave the Blues a 2-0 victory as they moved eight points clear at the top of the Premier League.
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Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission Ltd, a division of energy giant SSE, said the "needs case" was a key part of the planning process.
Regulator Ofgem will assess whether the interconnector is efficient and economic.
The project has been hit by delays and a rise in costs to an estimated £780m.
Islands local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, has said major renewable energy projects planned for the isles cannot go ahead without the cable.
The comhairle has welcomed the submission to Ofgem.
Leader Angus Campbell said swift approval of the project could allow a contract for the cable to be awarded this year.
The interconnector would export electricity to the mainland for distribution.
It would stretch to about 50 miles (80km) from Gravir on Lewis to Ullapool on the north-west coast of mainland Scotland.
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The 31-year-old striker said he hoped to "play a full part" in the rest of the Premier League club's season.
United boss Jose Mourinho had refused to rule out the prospect of Rooney's exit this month, although a deal before the Chinese transfer window closes on 28 February was always unlikely.
"It's an exciting time at the club and I want to remain a part," said Rooney.
Rooney's agent, Paul Stretford, had travelled to China to see if he could negotiate a deal, although it is not known which clubs he spoke to.
Two of the three clubs who looked the most likely options - Beijing Guoan and Jiangsu Suning - dismissed speculation about a transfer.
Rooney's representatives had already spoken to the third option - Tianjin Quanjian - but their coach, Fabio Cannavaro, said talks did not progress.
Rooney is United's record goalscorer and has won five Premier League titles and a Champions League trophy since joining them as an 18-year-old for £27m from Everton in 2004.
The forward, whose contract expires in 2019, has said he would not play for an English club other than United or Everton.
United are sixth in the Premier League and remain in three cup competitions, having reached the last 16 of the Europa League on Wednesday.
They face Southampton in the EFL Cup final on Sunday before taking on Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-finals on 13 March.
"Despite the interest which has been shown from other clubs, for which I'm grateful, I want to end recent speculation and say that I am staying at Manchester United.
"I hope I will play a full part in helping the team in its fight for success on four fronts.
"It's an exciting time at the club and I want to remain a part of it."
Simon Stone, BBC Sport
Rooney's statement settles his short-term future but does nothing to address long-term issues over his future.
Rooney has only started eight Premier League games this season - fewer than Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Henrikh Mkhitaryan - and has featured only three times since breaking United's goalscoring record at Stoke last month.
He remains committed to United and ideally would stay at Old Trafford.
However, should he not play regularly between now and the end of the season, he would explore other options.
These would include Major League Soccer, as well as China. It is understood his previous statement, that he would only play for United or Everton in the Premier League, still stands.
Interest from China is genuine but despite long-time adviser Paul Stretford travelling to the country this week, there was never any realistic possibility of completing a deal before Tuesday's Chinese Super League transfer deadline.
Rooney has scored five goals in 29 appearances for the Red Devils this season, but has started only three games since 17 December and may yet leave in the summer.
Former Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says Rooney would be an "ideal" signing for United's Premier League rivals Arsenal.
"Arsenal lack somebody like Rooney - a winner, a leader," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He could easily go into somewhere like Arsenal and get a few of their players by the scruff of the neck on the pitch and improve their performances."
Redknapp, who was speaking before Rooney's announcement, also suggested the player could make "a dream move" back to Everton.
But Rooney's former team-mate Phil Neville said the striker "shouldn't write off his United career" and he could not see him moving to China.
A militant ring was found to be operating in Sardinia, and there had been possible plans to target the Holy See, according to investigators.
The Vatican has downplayed the significance of the claims.
Some of the suspects are believed to have organised the 2009 market bombing in Peshawar in Pakistan.
Local media said two of the men had provided protection for former al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
Police issued 20 warrants and made nine arrests in raids on Friday.
Prosecutor Mauro Mura told a press conference in Cagliari, Sardinia, that wiretaps indicated the suspected terrorists had been planning a bomb attack at the Vatican in March 2010.
There had been "signals of some preparation for a possible attack", including the arrival of a suicide bomber in Rome, the Associated Press quoted Mr Mura as saying.
"We don't have proof, we have strong suspicion," police chief Mario Carta said.
But Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi issued a statement saying: "From what it appears, this concerns a hypothesis that dates from 2010 which didn't occur.
"It has therefore no relevance today and no reason for particular concern."
Police earlier said those arrested came from Pakistan and Afghanistan and the operation was ongoing.
The suspects were accused of staging attacks against the government in Pakistan.
More than 100 people were killed when a huge car bomb ripped through a busy market in Peshawar, Pakistan, in October 2009.
The Italian militant ring was also said to be engaged in trafficking illegal migrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Europe, providing them with false documents.
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano praised the operation, which started in 2009, saying it had not only dismantled a "network of people traffickers" but detained also several individuals accused of conspiring with "terrorists".
"Our system works," he said.
With his sweetly self-conscious dad dancing, garish fancy dress, health and safety-defying lifts and faintly obscene hip thrusts, he has made strangely compelling viewing, and viewers propelled him further into the competition than most other "novelty" contestants in Strictly history.
So now he is out, one question looms - where on earth does his career go from here?
He has achieved a unique if peculiar place in the nation's affections - even being described as a national treasure. Balls has successfully worn away his bland image, but has surely lost some political credibility in the process.
Here are some ideas for Balls's next move.
If the political world closes the door on the former shadow chancellor after his stint in sparkly suits, and if any alternative media career fails to take off, there will definitely be one career option open come next Christmas.
He would surely make a wonderful Dick Whittington or Widow Twankey, and would be a panto producer's dream booking - a huge national star who doesn't take himself too seriously.
He would also be following a familiar route - the year after her Strictly appearance, Ann Widdecombe reunited with Craig Revel Horwood for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Dartford's Orchard Theatre.
Before Strictly, Balls took part in a special Sport Relief edition of The Great British Bake Off and impressed with his baking skills by rustling up muffins, beef pie and a show-stopper cake shaped like a ski slope.
Of course, there will be some vacancies on the Bake Off line-up when it moves from the BBC to Channel 4.
But, in all honesty, it is hard to picture him filling the shoes of judge Mary Berry or hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, who have all opted not to stay with the show.
If Bake Off doesn't want him, another offer this time next year will undoubtedly come from ITV for him to sample kangaroo testicles on the next series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
It was good enough for fellow ex-politician and ex-Strictly contestant Edwina Currie two years ago.
But if he doesn't fancy that, there are enough other reality TV shows to keep him going for a while - he could follow George Galloway's footsteps on Celebrity Big Brother or Widdecombe again on shows such as Celebrity Antiques Road Trip and 24 Hours in the Past.
Or he could follow the example of Michael Portillo and many other mid-career personalities and forge a career at the altogether classier end of factual TV by hosting genteel travel documentaries.
Portillo has got trains stitched up, though, and most other forms of transport are already spoken for. So Balls may need to resort to pitching more unusual ideas like Up the Thames in a Pedalo, or Britain By Tandem, perhaps co-starring his wife and fellow Labour politician Yvette Cooper.
There are other potential subject areas of course - Portillo (surely Balls's role model in this arena) has thrived with documentaries about subjects as varied as World War One, classified state secrets, classical music and capital punishment.
A likely option is for Balls to become a regular contributor on political programmes such as The Daily Politics and (again, like Portillo) This Week.
It would also be very little surprise if he ended up with a column in the Daily Mirror or New Statesman.
Balls could always combine his political nous with his recent television experience by applying to be chairman of the BBC.
There will be a vacancy - the corporation is currently chaired by Rona Fairhead, who is standing down early next year when the BBC Trust is replaced by a unitary board.
It is a role that involves a lot of political wrangling, so Westminster expertise would be a definite bonus - former Conservative Chairman Lord Patten did the job from 2011-14.
And his insight into one of the BBC's biggest shows would no doubt come in handy.
Is it totally inconceivable?
Given his recent record in public votes, and given the political shocks of the past 12 months, might Balls return as an MP at a by-election between now and the next general election in 2020, and might the Labour Party look for someone the public connects with (and has heard of) if another leadership contest should come to pass?
And, if Brexit begins to unravel between now and the next election, might the great British public look for an alternative to the Conservative administration?
Stranger things have happened. A reality TV star is US President-elect, after all.
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Ms Homer's departure after four years in charge of the UK tax office comes just weeks after she was awarded a damehood in the New Year's honours.
But under her leadership, HMRC has been criticised by MPs for "unacceptable" customer service and "disappointing progress" on tax evasion.
She will take a break over the summer after 36 years as a civil servant.
Her damehood aroused controversy among MPs, who argued her record in charge of HMRC and before that, the UK Border Agency, did not merit such recognition.
Ms Homer said she felt it was "a sensible time to move on" as HMRC had started to implement the government's latest spending plans.
"It has been a privilege to have been with HMRC during a period when the improved performance of the department has been increasingly recognised and we have the full backing of ministers for our future plans," she said in the announcement.
Chancellor George Osborne said Ms Homer had put foundations in place to make HMRC one of the most digitally-advanced tax authorities in the world.
"It is to Lin's great credit that the National Audit Office last year judged HMRC to be one of the strongest departments in government - a legacy of which she can be rightly proud," Mr Osborne said.
But in November, MPs on the public accounts committee issued a critical report, arguing HMRC must do more to ensure all tax is paid.
"It beggars belief that, having made disappointing progress on tax evasion and avoidance, the taxman also seems incapable of running a satisfactory service for people trying to pay their fair share," committee chair Meg Hillier said.
HMRC's customer service was considered "so bad" it could be leading to lower tax collection, the committee said.
The government has started the process to find Ms Homer's successor.
She is not "actively seeking" her next role, the government said.
The hosts took the lead through Elliott Ward before Shane Duffy was sent off for handling a Joe Garner effort on the line and the former Rovers striker then levelled from the spot.
Jordan Hugill's volley put Preston in front just before the break.
Rovers pressed for an equaliser after the break, but visiting keeper Anders Lindegaard was largely untroubled.
The home defeat capped a bad week for Rovers after they announced the club's debts have exceeded £100m earlier this week.
They started brightly and Ward's close-range volley after Hope Akpan's header had come back off the bar gave them a deserved lead before Duffy's red card changed the complexion of the match.
Preston have now won six of their last 10 matches and are six points outside the play-off places, with seven games to play.
They host struggling Fulham on Tuesday, while Paul Lambert's 14th-placed Rovers travel to Sheffield Wednesday.
Blackburn boss Paul Lambert:
"I'm disappointed to lose. It was an absolutely fantastic effort with 10 men.
"I thought we started the game brilliantly, were well on top, got the goal. The penalty changes the course of the game, but it should never have been a penalty.
"Danny Graham was fouled at the edge of the box so the ball should have never been at that end of the pitch, because Danny has nutmegged the guy. You can see with Danny's reaction that he's definitely been fouled.
"I thought today, he got more calls wrong than he got right. If there's a delegate here or somebody watching it, maybe they might get a phone call in the morning."
Preston manager Simon Grayson:
"He's done well, Jordan. He's a handful. He knows what he needs to do.
"I'm delighted for him. It's a great ball from Gally (Paul Gallagher). He knows where to put it and the areas for people to get into.
"It wasn't an easy finish but he's delighted and we were all delighted to see it hit the back of the net.
"I think it (the sending off) was the correct decision. They started the game better than us. I'm disappointed we gave away the goal we did but it's handball on the line and the referee made the right decision."
Khan, who was handed a five-year jail term in May for running over five homeless men in Mumbai, killing one of them, is one of India's biggest and most popular film stars.
The 49-year-old actor, who has acted in more than 80 Hindi-language films, is known for his romantic roles as well as action films and has won several prestigious Indian cinema awards.
Khan is that rare Bollywood star who has a huge fan following across the vast spectrum of Indian society.
His fans include the middle-class English-speaking audiences as well as poor slum dwellers for whom the 350-rupee ($5.20; £3.40) tickets do not come cheap.
His films are released to coincide with major festivals like Eid or Christmas, and are screened in thousands of theatres, which are generally packed for days.
Every time Khan romances his heroines on screen, his fans respond with approval; loud whistles fill the theatre when he shows his dance moves; and resounding claps encourage him whenever he beats up the "baddies".
But his fame has brought with it a long-held image of a larger-than-life macho superstar who lives dangerously.
While the hit-and-run incident has dragged on for nearly 13 years, Khan's fan base has remained loyal - in fact, it has kept growing steadily and the hits have kept coming.
Several of his latest films - Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Dabangg, Ready, Bodyguard, Ek Tha Tiger and Dabangg2 - have been huge blockbusters.
The eldest of the three sons of well-known screenplay writer Salim Khan, he is a hit on social media too - his Facebook page is liked by 28.2 million fans while on Twitter, he has 15.1 million followers.
But there is another side to Khan.
Stories about his brawls at parties have long filled the Bollywood gossip columns, and his link-ups with some of his leading ladies have also proved controversial.
In one notorious incident, an angry Khan was reported to have emptied a bottle of cola over the head of an ex-girlfriend in a restaurant.
Another relationship, with actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, ended acrimoniously with Ms Rai later making allegations that she was beaten up by Khan - a charge he has denied.
And the 2002 hit-and-run incident in Mumbai was not his first brush with the law.
Khan was arrested in the western state of Rajasthan for illegally hunting and killing a protected blackbuck deer in 1998.
He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison in 2006, but spent less than a week inside before being released on bail. His appeal is pending in court.
In the past few years, the actor has worked hard to shed his "bad boy" image - with some success.
His devotion to his family, particularly his brothers, is well known and he is reputed to go out of his way to help friends and even strangers.
A few years ago, he started Being Human, a charity to help the underprivileged through education and healthcare. The charity sells T-shirts and other products online and in stores, and the proceeds are used for charitable work.
His relationships with women also seem to have matured. Although he parted ways with actress Katrina Kaif some time ago, they remain good friends and the couple acted together in Ek Tha Tiger.
When the trial court convicted him in May, many said the misdeeds of his past might have finally caught up with him.
With the high court overturning his conviction, the pressure on the actor has eased for the moment.
But with the prosecution likely to appeal in the Supreme Court, Khan's troubles may not yet be over.
He renewed a waiver for a law requiring the relocation, as his predecessors have done every six months since 1995.
The White House said Mr Trump would fulfil his campaign pledge but wanted to maximise the chances of a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
Palestinian leaders had warned the move would threaten a two-state solution.
Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war. It annexed the area in 1980 and sees it as its exclusive domain. Under international law the area is considered to be occupied territory.
Israel is determined that Jerusalem be its eternal, indivisible capital. But Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state.
Successive US administrations since 1948 have maintained that the status of Jerusalem is to be decided by negotiations and that they would not engage in actions that might be perceived as prejudging the outcome of those negotiations.
During last year's election campaign, Mr Trump expressed his strong support of Israel and vowed to order the relocation of the embassy on his first day in office.
But three weeks later, he acknowledged in an interview with an Israeli newspaper that it was "not an easy decision" and that he was still "studying" the issue.
Last month, the president avoided any public mention of a potential move during a visit to Israel and the West Bank, when he declared that he would "do everything" to help Israelis and Palestinians achieve peace.
On Thursday, as a deadline loomed, the White House announced that Mr Trump had continued his predecessors' policy of signing a six-month waiver for the Jerusalem Embassy Act.
"President Trump made this decision to maximise the chances of successfully negotiating a deal between Israel and the Palestinians, fulfilling his solemn obligation to defend America's national security interests," a statement said.
"But, as he has repeatedly stated his intention to move the embassy, the question is not if that move happens, but only when."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office expressed its disappointment, but said it appreciated Mr Trump's "commitment to moving the embassy in the future".
"Israel's consistent position is that the American embassy, like the embassies of all countries with whom we have diplomatic relations, should be in Jerusalem, our eternal capital," a statement said.
"Maintaining embassies outside the capital drives peace further away by helping keep alive the Palestinian fantasy that the Jewish people and the Jewish state have no connection to Jerusalem."
The Palestinian ambassador to the US welcomed the decision.
"This is in line with the long-held US policy and the international consensus and it gives peace a chance," Hussam Zomlot said in a statement.
"We are ready to start the consultation process with the US administration. We are serious and genuine about achieving a just and lasting peace."
The claim: Home Secretary Theresa May says: "Free movement makes it harder to control immigration, but it doesn't make it impossible to control immigration.
Reality Check verdict: Free movement does make it harder to control immigration. But leaving the EU would not necessarily mean abandoning free movement, and the government has not managed to meet its immigration ambitions even for non-EU migrants, over whom it has greater control.
This compares with migrants from outside the EU, for whom the UK currently has a points-based system that allows in people with skills needed in the economy as well as students and some temporary migrants.
The UK is not signed up to the Schengen agreement, so passports are still checked at the borders.
EU passport-holders are not automatically allowed in, but the bar is set quite high if EU citizens are to be rejected - just having a criminal record is not enough, they must pose a current threat. Last year, 2,165 EU passengers were turned away.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest the UK's annual net migration - the number who have come minus the number who have left - from the EU stands at 172,000.
From outside the EU, it is 191,000.
The Conservative manifesto in 2015 said the party would "keep our ambition of delivering annual net migration in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands".
Clearly, even for just the non-EU migrants, over whom the government has greater control, the country is still well over that limit.
It should be said Norway and Switzerland also currently accept free movement, despite not being part of the EU, in order to gain access to the single market.
But Justice Secretary Michael Gove said last week the UK could be part of the European Free Trade Area, allowing it to trade with the EU without having to accept free movement.
Even so, it is possible, if the UK were to leave the EU, an eventual trade deal would mean it still having to allow favourable terms for EU migrants.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
The twice-capped ex-England left-back, 34, first joined the Latics on loan until the end of the season in March.
But, having played the final 11 matches to help Gary Caldwell's side return to the Championship, they were keen to make the deal more permanent.
"Bringing Stephen permanently was one of our immediate priorities," he said.
"His experience will be invaluable to the squad in the Championship, a league he knows very well. Everyone saw for themselves his contribution last season."
Ormskirk-born Warnock, who played 40 first-team games for Liverpool after coming through the academy, moved on to Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa and Leeds United before joining Derby on an 18-month deal in January 2015.
Subject to him passing a medical, Warnock will officially become a Wigan Athletic player when his Derby contract expires on the final day of June, having not been offered a new deal.
He becomes the first deal to be done for next season by the Latics since returning to the Championship as League One champions.
Warnock added: "I really enjoyed my time on loan. We achieved something great, so I can't wait to work with the gaffer and this group of players again."
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The party's Welsh leader said she would not seek to replace Nick Clegg if he stood down after the general election.
Ms Williams told BBC Radio Wales the assembly was "not a training ground or a nursery for Westminster".
"I cannot understand this obsession with people thinking you can only achieve in politics if you happen to go to Westminster," she said.
On Friday, Ms Williams became the last of six party leaders in Wales to be interviewed by presenter Jason Mohammad and take calls from listeners.
She denied any ambition to seek election as an MP and, when it was suggested she could be the next leader of the Lib Dems, Ms Williams replied: "I don't know how many more ways I can say no - categorically."
Occupied by Germany during the First and Second World Wars, it has experienced an economic boom in the past 50 years to become a model Western European liberal democracy.
However, there has also been a growing divide between the mainly Dutch-speaking north and the mainly French-speaking south, as well as concerns about the growth of Islamic extremism among immigrant communities in the capital, Brussels.
Brussels is the headquarters of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), making it the polyglot home of an army of international diplomats and civil servants.
10.8m population - similar to Somalia
30,528 sq km area - similar to Lesotho
77 - 83 years - life expectancy (men - women)
$41,700 GDP per capita - similar to Finland
Monarch: King Philippe
King Philippe succeeded to the throne in July 2013 on the abdication of his father, the 79-year-old Albert II, who stepped down on health grounds.
Respect for the monarchy is one of the few factors that crosses the communal divide in Belgium, and King Albert exercised his constitutional authority in advising political leaders on the formation of a government during the 2010-2011 parliamentary stalemate.
Prime minister: Charles Michel
Following elections, Reform Movement leader Charles Michel formed a right-wing coalition in October 2014, becoming at 38 the country's youngest prime minister since 1841.
His liberal party comes from the French-speaking community, but the other three parties in the coalition represent Flemish speakers - including the nationalist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), which came first in the elections.
Belgian broadcasting mirrors the unique political and linguistic nature of the country. The cultural communities, rather than the federal authorities, are responsible for regulating radio and TV.
Some key dates in Belgium's history:
1830 - Declaration of independence from Netherlands.
1914-18 First World War - Occupied by Germany.
1940-45 Second World War - German occupation.
1993 - Constitution changed to recognise division of country into three administrative regions: Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels.
2002 - Euro replaces Belgian franc.
2016 March - Islamic State suicide bombers kill 35 people in attacks on Brussels.
But what about the Chinese baby dragon?
Well, that's the name of a new dinosaur species discovered in China.
The fossil of the baby dinosaur was found more than 25 years ago, but it's only now that scientists have been able to tell what type of dinosaur it is.
It was found in a nest of dinosaur eggs, and has even been given a name - "Baby Louie" .
Palaeontologists - scientists who studies fossils - have called it Beibeilong sinensis, which translates to "Chinese baby dragon".
It's been described as a gigantic bird-like dinosaur, covered in feathers and with a beak, but no teeth.
It's the first ever dinosaur we've found that's like this.
One scientist said it would have looked quite a bit like Big Bird, from Sesame Street!
The fossil of the baby dinosaur is small, only about the size of a guinea pig.
But it would have grown into an adult weighing more than 1,000 kg. That's almost as much as a small car!
Their eggs are believed to have sat in nests larger than a monster truck tyre.
Researchers have found similar dinosaur eggs in China, South Korea, Mongolia and North America.
This might mean this kind of dinosaur would have been common around 100 million years ago.
The players were asked to remove the Islamic head scarf before taking on Mongolia but refused and forfeited.
World basketball regulations list headgear and hair accessories among the items that are prohibited on court.
With no sign that the rule would be relaxed before their next match against Nepal, the team decided to pull out.
In a statement, basketball's world governing body Fiba said its regulations applied "on a global scale and without any religious connotation".
The statement added: "While certain groups have interpreted the provisions of the official basketball rules as a ban against the participation of players of certain faiths in basketball competitions, the uniform regulations are of a purely sporting nature."
Other sports at the Asian Games allow athletes to wear the hijab; all four members of the Iranian lightweight women's quadruple sculls team wore it as they rowed to a bronze medal on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, football's governing body Fifa officially authorised the wearing of head covers for religious reasons during football matches.
Basketball remains one of the exceptions, although Fiba said earlier this month that it had held discussions on the issue and was introducing a two-year testing phase on what players can wear.
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) issued a statement on Wednesday, saying: "The right of the athletes must be the highest priority."
After forfeiting the Mongolian match, Qatari player Amal Mohamed A Mohamed said they had been assured before they travelled to the Games in Incheon that they would be able to wear the hijab.
"We were told that we would be able to participate in matches by wearing a hijab," she said.
"We will not attend any games in this Asian Games unless the officials change their decision."
The Asian Games, held every four years, are recognised by the International Olympic Committee and feature more than 9,000 athletes from 45 countries competing in 36 sports.
The 2014 edition concludes on 4 October.
Alistair Cooke, 22, who studied geography at Durham University, is alleged to have followed the woman home from a house party in June last year.
The third year student, from Perranarworthal, Truro, Cornwall, denies three counts of rape.
Durham Crown Court was told his accuser consented to sex.
The woman said she remembered Mr Cooke had his hands on her chest and that "he was laughing at me, he was hurting me, he was raping me".
She said: "I remember waking up and seeing him opening up a condom packet, I tried to sit up but he pushed me down like a ragdoll.
"I could not even stop this happening in my own house. I blamed myself so much, maybe if I had not drunk so much I could have stopped it."
During cross examination, defence barrister Cathy McCulloch told the woman: "You did participate in sex willingly and now you are just regretting it and this is a story of regret not rape.
"He sat next to you on the bed. You leaned up and started to kiss him as you had done at the party."
Ms McCulloch asked the woman why she did not go straight to the police and accused her of waiting six days so they would not have been able to test how much alcohol she had in her system.
The court has previously heard Mr Cooke was a volunteer with the Nightline student listening service and during his training he role-played being accused of raping a drunken woman after following her home.
The trial continues.
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The fortunate survivors parachuted to safety before the plane hit the surface of Lake Taupo.
The plane suffered engine problems shortly after taking off but fortunately everyone on board parachuted to safety.
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His departure was said to be one recommendation of a report by former US Attorney-General Eric Holder about the company's culture and practices.
Uber said the board had voted unanimously to adopt all the report's recommendations.
However, its contents will not be released until Tuesday.
Mr Holder was asked to undertake the review in February after former Uber engineer Susan Fowler made claims of sexual harassment.
The Financial Times reported that neither Uber nor Mr Michael would comment on whether he had resigned or been fired.
James Cakmak, an analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt, said Mr Michael's departure reflected Uber's need for a "fall guy" and could help protect Mr Kalanick.
"If Kalanick did leave, we think it would be very difficult for him to come back," Mr Cakmak told Bloomberg.
It is possible Mr Kalanick could be forced to take a leave of absence or have his role altered. That issue was on the agenda at a seven-hour board meeting held in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Mr Kalanick has been on bereavement leave following the death of his mother in a boating accident.
An Uber insider said the recommendations in Mr Holder's report include introducing more control on spending, human resources and other areas where executives led by Mr Kalanick have had an unusual degree of autonomy for a company of Uber's size.
The San Francisco-based ride-hailing service has more than 12,000 employees.
Mr Kalanick has earned a reputation as an abrasive leader and was criticised earlier this year after being caught on video berating an Uber driver.
He said in response to the video: "I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up."
Uber board member Arianna Huffington has said Mr Kalanick needed to change his leadership style from that of a "scrappy entrepreneur" to be more like a "leader of a major global company".
One Uber investor said the board's decisions were a step in the right direction, giving the firm an "opportunity to reboot".
Jan Dawson, an analyst with Jackdaw Research, said: "This week we finally learn just how committed Travis Kalanick and the rest of the senior leadership team at Uber is to meaningful cultural change."
Last week Uber said it fired 20 staff after another law firm examined more than 200 cases including complaints about sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying.
As part of its attempt to draw a line under its recent problems, Uber said it had appointed Wan Ling Martello, a Nestle executive and Alibaba board member, as an independent director.
She is the third high-profile female appointment to the company in the past week.
Uber, which is still privately owned with voting control resting with Mr Kalanick and his two board allies, is valued at about $68bn. Although revenues hit $6.5bn last year, it is yet to make a profit.
Chwarae Teg boss Cerys Furlong said women were "outnumbered" by men in many areas of public life.
Just over 25% of Wales' 1,264 councillors are women with 25 women among 60 AMs, and nine out of 40 MPs.
And among Wales' top 100 businesses only 2% of chief executives are women.
Ms Furlong said: "Politics is very visible and if there were more female politicians, then other women and organisations could draw inspiration from this.
"The way our politicians are selected is governed by the political parties who choose candidates.
"We've seen various different models such as twinning, zipping and all women shortlists."
She added: "Parties all commit themselves to seeking greater diversity but we're not seeing that happen quick enough.
"The political parties need to take a robust look at themselves and be willing to have those difficult conversations with their local members and say 'if we want this change it's going to mean some tough love' to make it happen," she added.
Two years ago, in an attempt to address the issue, the WRU appointed its first female board member, former businesswomen Aileen Richards.
Speaking to The Wales Report programme, Mrs Richards said she did not believe in quotas or legislation as a way to tackle the issue.
"Particularly with women, you've got to give them confidence, you've got to give them mentoring, you've got to give them encouragement," she said.
"Because we know all the research shows women are less confident standing for positions, whatever field that's in."
She added: "You've got to persuade people it's the right thing to do.
"So there has to be a belief we will run a better board, we will run a better business, we'll run a better parliament, whatever it might be because it's more diverse."
His liberal PLDM party - in Moldova's ruling coalition - condemned the move as "purely political" and "a violation of his rights".
He was arrested on Thursday, suspected of involvement in the disappearance of $1bn (£646m) from three Moldovan banks.
The scandal has thrown Moldova into economic and political chaos.
In recent weeks thousands of people have protested in the centre of Moldova's capital Chisinau, demanding that the government and top civil servants resign.
The missing money is equivalent to an eighth of the ex-Soviet republic's entire GDP. Moldova is one of Europe's poorest countries.
The scandal caused a rapid fall in the value of the national currency, the leu, hitting Moldovans' living standards.
Mr Filat, leader of the PLDM, was initially detained for 72 hours, accused of theft from the state-run Banca de Economii. Earlier parliament had stripped him of immunity from prosecution. He denies wrongdoing.
Anti-government protesters welcomed his detention. One of their leaders, Renato Usaty, called it "our first victory".
Moldova's central bank has withdrawn the operating licences of Banca de Economii and two other banks - the private Banca Sociala and Unibank.
The scandal erupted in April, when the central bank found that the three banks had lent $1bn to unidentified beneficiaries.
The trail points to a UK-registered company, Fortuna United, which is a limited partnership made up of two Seychelles companies.
Fortuna United is named in a leaked report, by the New York-based corporate investigative agency Kroll, as the firm that is ultimately owed the entire proceeds of the Moldovan fraud.
Businessman Ilan Shor, a former chairman of Banca de Economii, has told prosecutors that Mr Filat received payments from the bank, Moldova's Infotag news agency reports.
Mr Shor denies involvement in a scheme to siphon off money from the banks.
Stuart Lancaster's side will face the Pumas on Saturday, 8 June and Saturday, 15 June with both matches kicking off at 20:10 BST on BBC Two.
The first game will played in Salta, with the second in Buenos Aries.
Pundits Sir Clive Woodward, Jonathan Davies, Brian Moore and Keith Wood join presenters John Inverdale and Jason Mohammed. Eddie Butler is commentating.
Philip Bernie, BBC head of TV Sport said: 'We know that there is always a keen audience to watch England's rugby internationals, so we're delighted to be covering their two Tests in Argentina, who will provide a strong challenge.
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Four of the 10 performers who will share the lead roles in Let It Be took to the rooftop bar of a London hotel to perform six of the Fab Four's hits.
Organisers intended the event to mirror the band's 1969 performance on top of the Apple Building on Savile Row.
Let It Be begins previews at the Prince of Wales theatre on 14 September.
The show inherits the venue from the long-running musical Mamma Mia!, which is shortly to transfer to the Novello.
The show, which features a number of Abba hits, is often described as a "jukebox musical" - one that uses popular songs to score what is often a fresh storyline.
Later this year the West End will see the premiere of Viva Forever!, a show in a similar vein that will feature the songs of the Spice Girls.
Let It Be producer Jamie Hendry, however, was keen not to have the "jukebox" tag appended to his production, previously staged on Broadway under the title Rain.
"It's a term I thought we would be tarnished with," he told the BBC News website on Thursday. "We call the show a theatrical concert.
"We're not shoehorning the musical around a book," he continued, referring to the theatrical term for a script for a musical with a story.
The performers chosen to portray Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison were selected after an international talent search.
"It's all about the music," continued Hendry. "We weren't looking for lookalikes, but for guys who could recreate every nuance and movement."
At Thursday's event, the role of "Paul" was played by Emanuelle Angeletti, from Civita Castellana near Rome.
The 37-year-old Italian called his casting "destiny", having had the opportunity to record at Abbey Road studios - the historic 'home' of The Beatles - seven years ago.
The role of "George", meanwhile, was taken by Stephen Hill, from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.
"Hearing is believing," the 30-year-old said of the show. "You've got to believe you're seeing The Beatles for two hours.
"If it's not done right, it's going to look and sound like a sack of spanners."
More than 30 Beatles tracks will be included in the show, among them such standards as Twist and Shout, A Hard Day's Night, Yesterday and Daytripper.
"It's a story in music basically," Hill continued. "From 1962 to 1970 you get the full picture."
The show marks the first time the theatrical rights to The Beatles' back catalogue have been granted to a West End show.
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The Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Roads Policing Unit tweeted pictures of the vehicle found just before 06:00 GMT on Sunday.
"Driver crashed on M1, then drove off it," the tweet said, before adding the driver was "found optimistically trying to change the front wheel".
A man has been charged, police said.
He will appear in court next month accused of driving with excess alcohol.
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the legal limit of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath is 35 micrograms.
Officers said a post-match inquiry was ongoing into the use of flares, smoke bombs, offensive singing and banners, which could result in more arrests.
They said there were also a number of inquiries being carried out into incidents of violence across Scotland.
They were investigating whether these incidents were football-related.
Police Scotland said of the 18 people arrested on Sunday, eight men had appeared in court for offences including sectarian threatening or abusive behaviour, assault and running on to the pitch.
Three men, aged 18, 52 and 27, were arrested and released on an undertaking over offences under the Offensive Behaviour at Football Scotland Act.
Seven men were reported to the procurator fiscal for street drinking, possession of drugs and threatening or abusive behaviour.
Ch Supt Brian McInulty praised the majority of fans who behaved well during and after the match.
Rangers won the match 5-4 on penalties after the game ended 2-2 after extra time.
Wrexham had the best of the first half, but could not break down a stubborn Spitfires defence.
Eastleigh goalkeeper Ross Flitney saved at John Rooney's feet and substitute Callum Powell saw his curling shot go just wide.
The game petered out after the break, with an injury to defender Curtis Tilt a concern for Wrexham boss Gary Mills.
Wrexham manager Gary Mills: "I thought we were excellent today, different class. Excellent at the back, excellent in midfield, excellent. I loved watching my lads today.
"It is a good point against a good side, but we were the better team. The players want to play for each other."
Match ends, Wrexham 0, Eastleigh 0.
Second Half ends, Wrexham 0, Eastleigh 0.
Substitution, Wrexham. Nortei Nortey replaces Mark Carrington.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Mikael Mandron replaces Jai Reason.
Substitution, Wrexham. Tyler Harvey replaces Curtis Tilt.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Yemi Odubade replaces Adam Dawson.
Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Ryan Bird.
Second Half begins Wrexham 0, Eastleigh 0.
First Half ends, Wrexham 0, Eastleigh 0.
Substitution, Wrexham. Callum Powell replaces Michael Bakare.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The hole was caused by a burst water main and damaged three cars in Newcastle, north of Sydney, on Thursday.
Newcastle resident Simon West was woken by a loud "crunch" as the road gave way just before dawn.
"The front end of the car broke through the hard surface of the road," he told the BBC.
He said he was left to rue his bad luck after recently cancelling his car insurance to pay for other bills.
Around 40 properties in the street were without water for several hours while authorities began repairs.
A gigantic sinkhole swallowed a five-lane street in one of Japan's biggest cities earlier this month, creating headlines around the world.
Construction workers managed to repair the damage and reopen the road a week later.
The club issued a statement after demonstrations before, during and after their 2-0 victory on Sunday.
"This is a confused approach," the club said. "Following this logic leads to exactly the opposite of what we all want: staying in the Championship."
Supporters are angry at how owner Roland Duchatelet is running the club.
A campaigning group called CARD (Coalition Against Roland Duchatelet) want the Belgian to sell his stake in the Addicks, who are 23rd in the Championship, five points adrift of safety.
"Last Sunday, some individuals did not come to the Valley to watch the game and support the team, but came to create disorder on the pitch and interfere with the players and the game," the statement said.
A mock funeral was held before kick-off while the game was briefly halted when a number of beach balls were thrown on the pitch and some supporters staged a pitch invasion.
Head coach Jose Riga told BBC Radio London he understood the protests but stressed he has a job to do to keep Charlton in the division.
"We still have the chance to make it (Championship survival) happen with the support of the fans until the very last game," the club's statement added.
"We must believe it is still possible. Every football fan knows the 12th man is a crucial factor in the success on the pitch."
The 35 cards, signed Elizabeth R and Philip, were sent between 1959 and 2001 and show the growing Royal Family.
The Queen has been sending official Christmas cards to friends and employees every year since 1952.
They were sold for £1,530 at auction in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on Friday.
A spokesman for auctioneers Moore Allen and Innocent said: "The cards have created a fascinating record of the Royal Family growing year by year, with photographs taken by The Duke of York, Lord Snowdon, and official photographers.
"The top individual lot price was the £280 paid for the earliest cards - those from 1959, 1960 and 1961."
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Manager Gordon Strachan has named two squads for the matches against Czech Republic and Denmark later this month.
Strachan will use the games to assess some uncapped players as he builds towards the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.
The Scots face Czech Republic in Prague on 24 March before hosting Denmark five days later.
Two squads of 19 have been named for the matches by Strachan, with only Gordon Greer, Steven Whittaker, Charlie Mulgrew, Ikechi Anya and Steven Fletcher featuring in both.
McLean's form this season was recently described as "outstanding" by Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes, who suggested this week that the midfielder's displays merited a call-up. That wish has been granted, with the midfielder included in the squad for the first international away to the Czechs.
Former Celtic striker Tony Watt, now on-loan at Blackburn Rovers from Charlton, is also included in the squad.
McGinn, 21, has been instrumental in Hibs' challenge on three fronts this season, having joined from St Mirren in the summer of 2015.
The Easter Road outfit face Ross County in Sunday's League Cup final after McGinn's semi-final winner against St Johnstone.
Alan Stubbs' men also have a Scottish Cup quarter-final replay against Inverness Caledonian Thistle and are in the hunt for promotion from the Championship.
McGinn is one of five uncapped players called up to the squad for the match against Denmark at Hampden.
Another is Tierney, his call-up capping a remarkable rise for the young full-back. Having made his Celtic debut less than a year ago, the 18-year-old has this season displaced Emilio Izaguirre as the club's first choice left-back.
Nottingham Forest midfielder Oliver Burke, Brighton's Jamie Murphy and Leeds United defender Liam Cooper also receive a first international call-up for the clash with the Danes.
Goalkeepers
Scott Bain, Allan McGregor
Defenders
Christophe Berra, Gordon Greer, Alan Hutton, Russell Martin, Charlie Mulgrew, Andrew Robertson, Steven Whittaker
Midfielders
Ikechi Anya, Barry Bannan, Darren Fletcher, Kevin McDonald, Kenny McLean, Matt Phillips, Robert Snodgrass
Forwards
Steven Fletcher, Steven Naismith, Tony Watt
Goalkeepers
Craig Gordon, David Marshall
Defenders
Ikechi Anya, Liam Cooper, Gordon Greer, Grant Hanley, Charlie Mulgrew, Kieran Tierney, Steven Whittaker
Midfielders
Liam Bridcutt, Scott Brown, Oliver Burke, James Forrest, John McGinn, Jamie Murphy, Matt Ritchie
Forwards
Steven Fletcher, Leigh Griffiths, Chris Martin
The report for the Russell Group of universities says investment in buildings and facilities will generate thousands of new jobs.
The study analysed 69 capital projects at the group's 24 member institutions.
The group's director general, Wendy Piatt, said investment would help keep UK universities among the world's best.
The study looked at building plans for the four years to March 2017.
Projects range from new student accommodation to medical research facilities, science labs, office space and facilities to help start-up businesses and universities work better together.
They include Sheffield University's £81m engineering building, expected to open in 2016.
The university says the building will:
Sheffield has already built a new student union and a management school.
At Manchester University a new engineering campus and redeveloped business school are part of a £1bn plan for the next 10 years.
In London, Imperial College is building a new campus at White City, part of it on the site of former BBC offices.
The University of Cambridge plans to spend £1bn on "the largest single capital development project in its 800-year history" on farmland to the north-west of the city.
Birmingham University is building a £55m sports centre for students, staff and the wider community, which will include the city's first 50m (165ft) swimming pool, a state-of-the-art library and a cultural centre.
The report estimates that overall spending plans by the 24 Russell Group institutions will generate £44.3bn for the UK economy over the next 25 years and support 37,800 temporary construction jobs and over 60,000 permanent jobs.
The most recent figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show that in the year ending March 2013 capital spending by all UK universities was £3.1bn.
Dr Piatt urged the government to "step up big capital investment in our universities".
She added: "We will keep investing on behalf of our students and academics, but the rest of the world are snapping at our heels and spending money to match their ambition. We must do the same."
A spokesman for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills said the report showed universities were benefiting from government reforms, with "strong institutions, a world-class research base and dedicated staff".
"Overall university income is increasing and institutions are now on a firm financial footing," he said.
"To support the industry and ensure the sector continues to thrive, we have protected the research budget and are delivering a better student experience."
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The Football Association gave the 29-year-old permission to leave the England camp on Monday so he could travel to Italy for a medical.
"Signing Joe Hart is a source of great satisfaction," said a statement on Serie A side Torino's website.
Hart could make his debut in Torino's next game at Atalanta on 11 September.
The England number one has 63 caps for his country but had been told by new City manager Pep Guardiola that he was free to leave.
"I am convinced I can still learn a lot at Torino," said Hart, who will rejoin the England squad for Sunday's 2018 World Cup qualifying match in Slovakia.
Hart failed to feature in the Premier League under Guardiola, who has signed Chile goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, 33, from Barcelona.
"It's been a difficult few weeks but that will never cloud the amazing journey and experience your great club [City] has given to me," Hart wrote in a message to fans on his official Facebook page.
"The feelings I felt during the recent Steaua Bucharest game [his final appearance] will live with me forever."
Officials at City had vowed to help Hart "find the best solution" in order to keep his international place.
City are paying some of Hart's wages to allow him to move to Serie A for the season, though the amount is not known.
Torino are seventh in the Serie A table, with three points from the first two games of the season.
Former England full-back Tony Dorigo, who spent a year with Torino between August 1997 and October 1998, believes Hart can be a success at the club.
"I think Joe needs to get stuck in there with the right attitude, learn the language and just enjoy the experience," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
City have also loaned out midfielder Samir Nasri and striker Wilfried Bony - to Sevilla and Stoke respectively.
Defender Eliaquim Mangala is set to join the trio in leaving Manchester. Mangala has travelled to Valencia to agree a deal with the La Liga club.
The 25-year-old France international had a number of options after being told he could find another club.
City paid Porto £32m for the player in 2014.
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Hiddleston, star of the recent Night Manager TV drama, says "the strongest have to stand up for the weakest".
A visit to South Sudan as a Unicef ambassador accidentally brought Mr Hiddleston to the scene of a mass abduction of children.
"It felt very bleak, walking into an empty playground, seeing desks upturned. It felt very desolate."
On a trip last year in support of Unicef's work, Mr Hiddleston had been in a village in the north of South Sudan where 89 children had been seized from a school where they were preparing for an exam.
It is believed they were forcibly recruited by one of the country's armed groups - and have never been returned.
The actor told the BBC that he found himself "standing in the playground where pupils had been taken away".
His trip had also brought him to a "reunification ceremony" where the release of hundreds of former child soldiers had been negotiated allowing them to return to their families.
He said the visit ended up following in the footsteps of this story of child abductions and political violence.
Mr Hiddleston also travelled to a remote part of the country delivering food and medical supplies to families forced out of the towns by violence.
"You stand in the landscape and the horizon is so wide - and you see that there is nobody else helping," he said.
"It's our responsibility to stand up for those who don't have a voice.
"The world is a much smaller place than it once was, we're all so inter-connected. If there is cynicism, I'd say come and see for yourself if you don't believe me."
He said that the UK government should become a "leader in galvanising the attention of other countries" in the need for humanitarian relief, whether caused by natural disasters or political conflict.
"Everything we do as a nation, every single pound, goes towards making these children safer, to increasing their chances of survival and getting a fair start in life," he said of fund-raising efforts for Unicef.
Tens of thousands have been killed and about two million people left homeless in the violence in South Sudan.
The world's youngest country has been blighted with conflict since independence in 2011 - with renewed attempts at peace and reconciliation being launched last month.
Mr Hiddleston's call for more support came as Unicef published an international report warning that 462 million children, a quarter of the world's school-age children, were living in areas affected by a humanitarian crisis.
Among these, 75 million were in danger of missing out on access to education.
The millennium development goals had promised that all children would have access to primary education by 2015 - but that deadline passed with tens of millions still out of school.
There have been new global goals set for education for 2030 - and later this month there will be a World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, which will have education as one of its priorities.
There are plans for a $4bn (£2.8bn) emergency fund to support education in crisis, such as ensuring the refugees can have access to schools as well as food and shelter.
Josephine Bourne, Unicef's global chief of education, said: "Education changes lives in emergencies.
"Going to school keeps children safe from abuses like trafficking and recruitment into armed groups and is a vital investment in children's futures and in the future of their communities."
Dumfries and Galloway Council said some workers were wary of the cars' 100 mile range in the sprawling rural area.
It came as new figures obtained by BBC Scotland revealed that the local authority had spent £57,600 on four electric Nissan Leafs since 2011.
Yet, in total, the cars have covered fewer than 26,000 miles in that time.
A spokesman for the local authority insisted the scheme had been "relatively successful" but admitted levels of usage were "considerably lower" than for conventional cars in its pool.
He added: "Staff have been asked to comment on use of the vehicles, and 'range anxiety' is certainly a consideration."
Dumfries and Galloway Council was the first in Scotland to add electric cars to its fleet in a drive, partly, to "inspire residents and local businesses to consider the benefits they bring".
They were part-funded by Transport Scotland as part of a wider scheme to ensure the "decarbonisation" of road transport by 2050.
But data obtained under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act revealed that even the oldest Nissan Leafs in the fleet had each covered fewer than 10,000 miles in four years on the road.
One car built up a mileage of just 1,471 miles over three years. A council spokesman said that the car was allocated to a service department and since the original FOI enquiry, it has been moved to the general pool and now has a mileage of 3,229.
In contrast, the best-used car in the pool, a Vauxhall Insignia diesel, covered more than 47,000 miles in two years - at a cost of £2,331.49 a year.
A council spokesman said: "The scheme has been relatively successful in introducing electric vehicles (EVs) to this rural area, although clearly the use levels are considerably lower than for conventional vehicles, which are generally within the range of 10,000 to 15,000 miles a year.
"The EVs tend to be used for shorter journeys around Dumfries rather than for travel to more distant locations.
"The reliability of the vehicles in terms of mileage achievable on a charge has greatly improved since these vehicles were produced, as has the availability of public charging points."
Transport Scotland claimed that increased use of electric cars could lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, improved air quality, noise pollution and public health.
They said they could also lead to "significant" savings on fuel and other running costs.
Electric cars are exempt from vehicle tax but the local authority said it did not hold information about how much it cost to charge the vehicles.
£42,124.70 - Funding received from Transport Scotland for the council's four Nissan Leafs
£41,662 - The amount spent by the Scottish government on three new charging points in Annan, Dumfries and Castle Douglas
£129,483.36 - Total spend on diesel for the council's pool of conventional cars in 2014/15
145 - The number of conventional cars operated by the local authority which are in the "free" Band A tax bracket because they emit carbon dioxide emissions of less than 100g/km
18 - Council cars in the relatively low-polluting band B and C tax brackets, costing £20 and £30 a year respectively
A spokeswoman for Transport Scotland said: "The price premium for electric vehicles (EVs) is reducing as volume production increases and as more models come to market. Used appropriately, EVs can save fleets significant sums on fuel and other running costs, compared to conventional petrol/diesel equivalents.
"Increasing the sustainability of public sector fleets is on-going, for example the current 'Switched On Fleets' initiative offers free, evidence-based analysis to identify new opportunities for the cost effective deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) within Community Planning Partnerships."
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Abu Khaled al-Suri was among several people who died when a base of Ahrar al-Sham, part of the Islamic Front, was targeted on Sunday, activists said.
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a jihadist rebel group, is thought to have been responsible.
Suri was reportedly sent to Syria by al-Qaeda to end the infighting between ISIS and other rebel groups.
It is said to have left more than 2,000 people dead since early January.
Abu Khalid al-Suri was killed along with six comrades from Ahrar al-Sham in Sunday's attack, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Two rebels told the Reuters news agency that five men had entered the rival group's headquarters in Aleppo and opened fire before one blew himself up.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but a spokesman for the Islamic Front, Akram al-Halabi, said he believed ISIS was behind it.
"The first fingers of blame point to the State," he told the Associated Press. "Unfortunately this is going to make the infighting worse."
Suri, a Syrian-born militant whose real name was Muhammad Bahaiah, is believed to have been close to the late al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri.
He fought against US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Rebel sources said he was sent to Syria a few months ago on a mission to mediate in the conflict between ISIS and other rebel groups, including the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front.
An audio recording attributed to Suri was released last month in which he said ISIS had "sought to corrupt the jihad in Syria, as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan".
He called on the group to stop attacking other jihadists, adding: "Direct your car bombs at the infidels and do not busy yourself with fighting the mujahedeen and killing them."
Earlier this month, al-Qaeda's general command insisted that it had "no connection" with ISIS and was not responsible for its actions.
ISIS grew out of the former Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a jihadist militant umbrella group that included al-Qaeda in Iraq. It is believed to have helped create the al-Nusra Front in mid-2011.
In April 2013, ISI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the merger of his group and al-Nusra - effectively a takeover - and the creation of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
But the move was rejected by al-Nusra leader Abu Mohammed al-Julani and Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's overall leader, who recognised al-Nusra as its sole Syrian offshoot.
Since then, ISIS and al-Nusra have operated as separate entities, with the latter focusing on toppling President Bashar al-Assad and maintaining better relations with other rebels. ISIS has seemed to be more concerned by territorial gains and implementing its extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
Also on Sunday, several people were reported killed by a car bomb near a field hospital in northern Syria, close to the border with Turkey.
Activists said the blast happened in the rebel-held town of Atmeh, which hosts a camp for thousands of people displaced by Syria's civil war.
It was not immediately clear who had carried out that attack.
According to UN figures, 6.5 million Syrians have been displaced by the country's civil war, and 2.5 million are registered as refugees. Lebanon has taken the highest number of refugees, followed by Jordan and Turkey.
Alfonso, a 25-year-old student at Southampton, made the offer to Naomi Lucking in the university library.
She turned down his request for a coffee, but his inventive effort has led to other date offers after she tweeted his handiwork.
He called the reaction a "really great experience".
Ms Lucking's tweet, which was shared more than 30,000 times, said: "Some guy in the library gave me this and it was the most awkward experience of my life.
"10/10 for creativity though."
The message reads: "Sorry to disturb your studies, but I really need to ask... would you like to have a coffee with me someday?"
The note gave two possible replies: "Sure! Why not? Life is short," and "No thanks! I have a 7ft tall boyfriend."
Ms Lucking later tweeted: "I just laughed and said 'actually he's 6ft 3'. He looked so crushed."
Alfonso, who is from Mexico City but did not want to give his full name, said: "I wasn't supposed to talk to someone because it was a quiet room, so I thought about doing something creative.
"I really wanted to do it in an original way. She was using her phone and I thought she can pay attention to this and not to her phone.
"I had been studying there for awhile because this Masters is so hard, and she was really pretty, and I thought why not try it."
He said the reaction to his missive "struck" him down, with offers from around the world to meet for a coffee.
He added: "I came to this country to learn a lot of things, and I think I managed to teach something to people right here."
Ms Lucking told the BBC she was "completely bewildered" at the response to her tweet, saying she "had no idea it would get so much attention".
She added: "I thought the effort was great, definitely the most creative way anyone's ever asked me on a date.
"I don't think [I would reconsider his offer], mainly because I have a boyfriend, but judging by Twitter there are a good 30,000 people who would."
Robert Hardy was a star of stage and screen whose distinguished career spanned more than seven decades.
His many Shakespearean roles included Sir Toby Belch in the BBC's 1980 version of Twelfth Night.
He is most fondly remembered by television viewers as the senior veterinarian Siegfried Farnon on the long-running series All Creatures Great and Small.
Hardy played Winston Churchill, Britain's most revered politician, on numerous occasions. Here he is seen in 1989's Bomber Harris.
Younger viewers will know him best as Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge in four out of the eight Harry Potter films.
Here he is seen meeting The Queen at a reception for the British Film Industry at Windsor Castle in 2013.
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Well, that might not be strictly true. Players combine some welcome down time following the hectic festive schedule with some training to keep themselves ticking over.
But what about those who don't kick a ball in anger all year round? We asked them, and a player, for their views...
On the merits of the shutdown
"It's too early to say from a Ross County perspective. Commercially, probably for a football club to shut for three weeks isn't a good thing. I'm also aware that some of our players had very little time off in the summer. At this stage of the season, you wonder whether burnout becomes a factor.
"It will probably take until the end of the season to evaluate whether it's a worthwhile exercise or not."
Does the winter break affect your work as a chairman?
"At a football club, during the breaks where there's no football there's always more work to do, particularly in the summer as you prepare for a new season. Even at this stage of the season - because the season goes through to the middle of April - there's the split and you've got to prepare for the last five games and sell hospitality and that sort of thing. There's a lot of preparation behind the scenes and it's a time for recharging batteries for commercial and hospitality people.
"I'm talking to the manager every week of the year about how he improves the team; it doesn't really change dramatically during this period. I don't think the winter transfer window is one where there's a huge amount of activity.
"Planning more for the summer is more important. "
Is the winter shutdown long enough?
"I'm not quite sure because again it goes back to the question of summer football and whether you extend the season back into June, and how does that affect Scotland and school holidays and other things people have been doing for a good number of years in the summer.
"It goes back to the summer argument; I don't have a particular view either way. I think the experiment with the League Cup and taking it back into the middle of July - that's been good. It'll be interesting to see how people have viewed that at the end of the season and whether they want to take the season back even earlier. I have an open mind on it."
Are you happy for the shutdown to happen every season?
"I've got an open view as this has been a funny season. With World Cup qualifiers, we've had four Saturdays where we haven't played football. So, we've had more midweek games. We find it difficult to get people [fans] in for a midweek game compared to Saturdays. I would like to hear the argument both ways. But I do think that our players who play 48, 49 or 50 weeks of the year are probably playing too much.
"We need to look at how we get the best out of players so that they can perform for, say, 40 weeks a year. That's more important. How that's divvied up? I've got an open mind and I'd like to hear the debate, from experience and also a supporter's point of view.
"Supporters play a bit part in this as well. Ultimately, without people coming to the football we don't have football. Supporters have a big say in whether they want summer football or the winter break. In Scotland, football has traditionally been played during the Christmas and New Year period. In Spain and other countries they don't do it."
"I kind of enjoy the winter break just after a busy and an expensive time for everybody. It gives the fans' pockets a break at an expensive time of year. Scottish football is very expensive - you're talking £20-25 for a ticket, £10 travel depending on where we are going and then all the other stuff that goes with it - so if you've got games Wednesday-Saturday it helps the supporters in that sense.
"On this occasion it might just actually suit Hearts to do that. It means that [new head coach] Ian Cathro and [assistant] Austin McPhee can spend some time with the players getting their ideas over. It's maybe harder putting them into practice in a game situation but it gives them time to work with the players and get to know them a bit better, and maybe get their type of player in as well to fit the system they want us to play."
Thoughts of other Hearts fans?
"It's 50-50. Some diehard fans will want the football every week. Others are a wee bit similar to myself, they feel the break comes at a good time. The slight issue is when we have it driven by the weather, there's no guarantees in Scotland that the weather will be bad in January and good in February. It's hard for anyone to call that one.
"These days I'm more inclined to go towards summer football which was something I was always dead against until recent times, but I think it would help make our football better. Players playing in better conditions."
Is there a fly in the ointment?
"My concern about it is - the Premiership teams are coming back to join the Scottish Cup. It's their first game back. A few years back I seem to remember a few top-flight clubs were falling at the first hurdle in the Scottish Cup because we were coming back and playing teams from what's now the Championship who were all fully match fit."
"I'm 100% a fan [of the shutdown]. At this time of year, the chance for us to have a little bit of time to unwind and recharge, I think from a players' point of view there'd be few complaining, to be honest."
Should the winter break be longer?
"I suppose time will tell. If you turn up on that first game back and there's a blizzard and games are called off, I'm sure there'll be some grumblings but to me three weeks seems sensible at this point. We got a week off away and I think that was probably about right.
"Now we have a couple of weeks to get back into training and ready for games. Hopefully you'll get a set of recharged players ready to go and have a good second half of the season."
If clubs are on a good run of form, some say the break ruins their momentum…
"I can understand it from that point of view. We'd had a couple of good results away from home up at Inverness and then a last-minute draw against Hamilton with 10 men, which felt like a victory, so maybe you want to kick on, but I think when you look at the bigger picture most people would look on [the break] favourably. The positives outweigh the negatives and I hope it's here to stay.
"You might think the fans will say they miss the football but maybe that's part of the point. Hopefully it'll recharge their enthusiasm for it."
The first game back is in the Scottish Cup - that means some clubs are facing opposition who've not had a break…
"That argument can work both ways. We'll be going into the Rangers game [in the Scottish Cup] with a fully fit squad, which is very rare at this time of year. So I think you'd certainly be grateful for that."
"Mentally and physically, I think it's good for the players to get a little break. It's been a tough season so far, a lot of tough games and they sometimes need that little break, then get them back working again, and get the freshness.
"I do think the break is maybe not long enough - maybe another week or two would help us a little bit more. But I think it'll help us in the second half of the season."
Why weren't Dundee able to get away during the break?
"Our budget doesn't let us go away for a break abroad, so we've had to find one or two games here, and it's not easy trying to get teams at this stage in the season. Most of the other teams are playing - Championship, League One, League Two - so we've had to look at our training schedule and tried to fit a couple of games in.
"We've managed to fit one in; we hoped we'd have another but we've not managed.
"I would have liked to have taken the players away into a different environment, different training facilities. We're always finding it a little bit difficult - especially this time in the season with the weather - to find decent training facilities.
"We've had to go indoors this week on a six-a-side pitch which is not ideal in terms of our preparation. I would have liked to have taken the players away but the budget just doesn't let me do that."
Could it disrupt momentum?
"We won two out of our three games over that [festive] period so we would have liked to have continued to play. But the players have been nice and fresh this week, it was nice for them to get out of this environment, spend time with their families, go away if they wanted to, and then recharge the batteries a little bit, because it's going to be a tough second part of the season for us."
Should the winter shutdown return?
"I would want it next year - but maybe just a bit longer and not be thrown into a Scottish Cup game when you come back. We play St Mirren, who've been playing every week, so they'll be up to speed.
"I'd like it to stay - maybe add on an extra week and have that whole month off."
The Welsh Labour leader said if politicians tried to ignore the referendum vote it would only "worsen this current political crisis".
But Mr Jones said: "We will not support anything that damages Wales."
It follows Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's claim that MSPs could challenge Brexit in Scotland.
He said: "Clearly Wales and Scotland voted differently on Thursday, and if there is one thing that could worsen this current political crisis it would be for politicians to ignore the democratic decision taken last week.
"However, there is a vast and complex process ahead, and I made clear my intention to ensure that Welsh Government will be involved at every step of the way to protect Welsh interests."
Earlier Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies said the UK's deal to leave the EU may depend on approval from the UK's parliaments and assemblies.
Mr Davies, who campaigned for Vote Leave, said Brexit could also depend on people's verdict at a general election.
"Ultimately it will be for the deal to be put before the legislatures and parliaments and assemblies of the UK and it could be that there is a general election in 2020 that would determine it by a vote of the whole country," he told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme.
Labour AM Baroness Morgan, on the same programme, warned against pressing ahead too quickly on leaving the EU because "we've got a long way before this plays out".
"We've got two years before we get to the end of that negotiation," she told the programme.
"I think the European Union will look like a very different place within two years.
"I think there's issues like the free movement of people which will now be put on the table within the European Union."
While a majority in both Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU, majorities in Wales and England preferred to leave.
The suspect, Amor Ftouhi, 50, shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest" in Arabic) before knifing the officer in the back and neck, said officials.
Lieutenant Jeff Neville is in a stable condition in hospital after Wednesday morning's attack at Bishop International Airport in Flint.
Lt Neville helped take the suspect, a Canadian, into custody at the scene.
Security camera footage showed Mr Ftouhi loitering at the airport with baggage before pulling out a 12in (30cm) blade and carrying out the attack in a non-secured, public area.
Lt Neville was standing at the top of the escalators when he was approached from behind and knifed at shortly after 09:00 local time (13:00 GMT).
FBI agent in charge David Gelios told media the attacker exclaimed "Allah" and "you have killed people in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are all going to die".
Lt Neville wrestled Mr Ftouhi to the ground, according to police.
The FBI said the suspect appeared to be a "lone wolf" attacker.
Authorities said Mr Ftouhi was "co-operative" during questioning and had expressed "hatred for the United States".
The accused is charged with an act of violence at an international airport that caused serious injury, and could face 20 years in jail.
Mr Ftouhi entered the US at Lake Champlain, New York, from Canada on 16 June, said the FBI.
Canadian media reported that police were carrying out a search of his home in Montreal and had made two arrests in connection with the knife attack.
Local television footage showed Canadian gendarmes leading away three women, their faces concealed by blankets, from the four-storey building where Mr Ftouhi reportedly lives.
Following the attack, the Flint airport was evacuated and additional officers were stationed at city hall, officials say.
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said in a statement: "My thoughts and prayers are with all of our law enforcement officers who work to service and protect us each and every day.
"I want the public to know that several agencies are involved and working to ensure the situation is under control."
They are taking extra precautions just to be safe, she added.
Police asked mass transit officials to be on notice for any further potential incidents.
The mayor's chief of staff, Steven Branch, told local media there was extra police presence at the city's water treatment plant.
President Donald Trump has been briefed on the incident by his Homeland Security advisor, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters.
Officials say the airport will remain closed until further notice.
About 800,000 passengers used the airport last year.
"Armagh have the potential to beat us - if we are not right at it they are more than capable of putting us out of the cup," said Hamilton.
"We must go there in the right frame of mind to compete and put in the effort.
"Hopefully over the 90 minutes, the extra quality we have will tell."
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"We will give them the respect they deserve because if you don't show that and work hard, then these games are banana skins," added the Lurgan Blues boss.
Premiership leaders Crusaders also face Championship opposition in the form of PSNI, who they saw off 4-2 in the County Antrim Shield semi-finals in November.
"The Irish Cup is a competition I enjoy and we have done well in. We've reached the semi-final stages on several occasions and been to three finals in recent years," said Crues manager Stephen Baxter.
"We won't be treating them lightly and it's important we continue to focus. PSNI did particularly well when we played them at our place in the Shield."
Ballymena United travel to Tillysburn Park to take on Harland and Wolff Welders for the third time in four seasons in the competition.
"Harland and Wolff are a tough proposition on their own ground. We played them earlier in the season at home in the County Antrim Shield (United won 3-0) and it was not an easy affair," warned Ballymena boss David Jeffrey.
"Cup days can be full of surprises and I just hope that we are not one of those surprises. We need to be at our very best if we are going to progress."
Coleraine go into their home tie against near neighbours Tobermore United on a run of six consecutive wins and, like all the top-flight managers, Bannsiders boss Oran Kearney is warning against complacency.
"It's a local derby and there are maybe a few guys in the Tobermore side who have allegiances with Coleraine or maybe played here in the past," said Kearney.
"It'll be a big day out for them and it's very important that we hit the same levels that we have in recent weeks.
"It's a competition that hasn't gone well for us in the last few years but one I would like to make progress in."
Elsewhere, Linfield go to the Riverside Stadium to play Institute, Dungannon Swifts entertain Intermediate League outfit Dollingstown and Championship leaders Warrenpoint Town host Crewe United.
Portadown manager Niall Currie takes his side to Holm Park to face one of his former clubs, Loughgall.
Retailers must now charge shoppers at least five pence for each new single-use carrier bag.
The proceeds of the tax will be forwarded to the Department of the Environment.
The department hopes to see an 80% reduction in the use of carrier bags as a result of the levy.
The tax also applies to bags made from paper, plant-based material, or natural starch.
The regulations also allow for a range of exemptions on the grounds of hygiene and food safety, the protection of goods and consumers, and confidentiality in respect of bags for medicines.
Environment minister Alex Attwood said he believed "the vast majority of people" would be happy with the introduction of the new levy and realised that plastic bags and single use bags were a "threat to our environment".
"If we have a wonderful, clean and green country in the north of Ireland, let's protect it," he added.
"I think most people will see the benefit of this and most people will embrace this new proposal."
Mr Attwood said the money raised from the levy would be deployed across Northern Ireland "in a fair way".
The British Retail Consortium's Aodhan Connolly said that, while his organisation did believe the tax would have an impact "our line would be that there are bigger environmental fish out there to fry".
"Our biggest concern is that maybe there's going to be some confusion or even some conflict at the tills," he said.
"Although there's been a lot of communication about this there seem to be a few consumers out there not quite ready for it yet.
"What we're really talking about here is a culture change and for that to happen it's going to take quite a while to embed, all we're asking for is a bit of patience."
Wales was the first UK nation to introduce a plastic bag tax - doing so in 2011.
Scotland is currently considering such a move. There is no bag tax in England.
Dyer murdered up to 400 infants over a 20-year period and was found guilty of "baby farming" murders in 1896, Thames Valley Police museum said.
Paper packaging containing the body of baby Helena Fry was fished out of the Thames in Reading in 1896, which helped secure Dyer's conviction.
It has been rediscovered by a relative of the arresting officer in the case.
A box containing the brown paper packaging, string, white edging tape, and an evidence tag, was discovered in a loft by the great-great-grandson of DC James Beattie Anderson.
It has now been donated to the museum in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.
Following the discovery of the baby's body, DC Anderson analysed the paper and discovered a faintly written name and address.
It led police to Dyer's home in Kensington Road, Reading.
Museum curator PC Colin Boyes said: "It is likely that detectives would be responsible for bringing evidence to court themselves in the Victorian ages.
"And so the packaging - which was evidence to convict Dyer of Helena Fry's murder - had likely been kept and stored in the loft since 1896."
Dyer moved to Reading from south Wales in 1895.
She advertised to adopt or nurse a baby in return for a fee, but killed many of the infants within days.
Dyer initially drugged her victims with opium-based products, which would leave them in a vegetative state until they died.
After surgeons became suspicious, she strangled the infants with white tape. She then wrapped their bodies in paper packages and bags and dumped them in rivers.
The body of Helena Fry was found wrapped in brown packaging by bargeman working on the Thames in Reading on 30 March 1896.
Six more bodies were discovered the following month. Further evidence pointed to at least 12 murders, but she is believed to have killed hundreds more.
Dyer was sentenced to death and went to the gallows at Newgate prison on 10 June 1896, aged 57.
Source: Thames Valley Police Museum
South Yorkshire Police were called to Spring Close View, in Gleadless, at about 16:20 GMT on Monday.
The 33-year-old victim is said to be in a critical condition.
The force said the dog's owner, 36, had been arrested for offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and released on bail.
The dog was seized by officers and is being held in police kennels.
A force representative said it had been "visually confirmed as a Pit Bull Terrier-type dog".
The breed was banned in 1991 but owners are allowed to keep their dogs if they are deemed not to be dangerous.
One neighbour said: "I just heard a bit of commotion and I heard someone run past and say 'I'll get the ambulance'.
"The next thing I saw the ambulance and they were wheeling him out.
"He looked in a bad way. There was blood all over his face."
Another neighbour said: "All I heard was a load of noise on the landing. I looked up and he's said 'The dog's got his neck'.
"So I've run up and had a look in the house, I've never seen anything like it in my life."
Emergency services were sent to Aldersmead Road, West Heath, at about 20:10 GMT on Sunday.
A 27-year-old man and a man in his 30s were later arrested on suspicion of causing an explosion likely to endanger life, police said.
Emergency gas engineers were sent to the scene, but the cause of the blast is still being investigated.
One line of inquiry is that the blast could be linked to the production of illegal drugs, police said.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said the man in his 30s was treated for burns to his arm, head and back.
The younger man was treated for burns to his back, neck, hands and arms.
A spokesman for the service said: "Both patients were given pain relief on scene before being transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham."
The pair remain in hospital where their injuries are described as not life threatening.
"They will be spoken to by detectives when they have recovered," a police spokesman said.
West Midlands Fire Service said search and rescue dogs had been brought in to go through the remains of the property.
Ch Insp Sean Russell, from West Midlands Police, said: "We want to make it clear that there is no ongoing threat to people living in the local community.
"This was an isolated explosion and work is continuing to identify what caused it. One line of inquiry is that it may have been linked to the production of illegal drugs.
"I would like to thank everyone for their support and patience during the emergency response last night."
Pauline Worrall, who lives opposite the scene, told the BBC bits of window and wood hit her house "like missiles".
"It was like a bomb had gone off. I know it sounds daft but I thought I was under attack. It was like a war zone," she said.
Aldersmead Road will remain closed while investigations continue.
Orient suffered a 2-0 defeat at Sutton on Saturday in their first outing since relegation from League Two last term, but they bounced back in style on Tuesday night.
Skipper Charlie Lee poked in Jobi McAnuff's corner during a first half which saw Orient hit the woodwork three times, before David Mooney converted from close range in the 47th minute.
Oladapo Afolayan fired in following a smart one-two with Tom Tonks in the 76th minute for Solihull, whose opening game with Chester was called off due to safety concerns at their stadium
But George Elokobi's header restored Orient's two-goal advantage shortly afterwards.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Leyton Orient 3, Solihull Moors 1.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 3, Solihull Moors 1.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Josh Koroma replaces James Dayton.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Romuald Boco replaces Jobi McAnuff.
Jordan Cullinane-Liburd (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Shepherd Murombedzi (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Leyton Orient 3, Solihull Moors 1. George Elokobi (Leyton Orient).
Goal! Leyton Orient 2, Solihull Moors 1. Oladapo Afolayan (Solihull Moors).
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Tom Tonks replaces Kalern Thomas.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Craig Clay replaces Charlie Lee.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Tristan Dunkley replaces.
Jack Edwards (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Charlie Lee (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Leyton Orient 2, Solihull Moors 0. David Mooney (Leyton Orient).
Second Half begins Leyton Orient 1, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half ends, Leyton Orient 1, Solihull Moors 0.
Shepherd Murombedzi (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
George Carline (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Leyton Orient 1, Solihull Moors 0. Charlie Lee (Leyton Orient).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Mr Kerry, 71, was injured in a biking accident in the French Alps last week and was flown to Boston for treatment.
Surgeon Dennis Burke said the operation went well and Mr Kerry should make a full recovery.
"I do not anticipate this will interfere with his duties as secretary of state," he added.
Dr Burke said Mr Kerry was conscious throughout the four-hour operation, which took place under local anaesthetic.
"The procedure was uncomplicated, the fracture was fully repaired, and we plan to get him up walking on Wednesday," he said.
Mr Kerry had been attending talks in Switzerland over the future of Iran's nuclear programme prior to the accident.
It happened some 40km (25 miles) south-east of the Swiss border in Scionzier, France.
The diplomat, who is a keen cyclist, is believed to have hit a kerb before falling off his bike and fracturing his right femur.
Shortly before undergoing surgery Mr Kerry phoned in to address a high-level conference in Paris, about the ongoing Islamic State crisis.
He had planned to attend in person but was forced to cancel. He also pulled out of a visit to the Spanish capital Madrid.
White House spokesman John Earnest said Mr Kerry would "approach his recuperation and rehabilitation with uncommon zeal" and would work to shorten his recovery time.
He said he remained "confident" the secretary of state would "play a leading role" in the Iran nuclear negotiations as the 30 June deadline for a deal looms.
Tests carried out on the panels at the Chalcots Estate showed the cladding fitted to five tower blocks was identical to that at Grenfell.
The council said it would carry out regular fire safety patrols and safety checks to reassure residents.
The cladding will be removed "as quickly as possible", it said.
It comes as it emerged around 600 high rises across England had used similar cladding to Grenfell Tower.
Camden Council agreed a contract with Rydon Construction - the same firm that oversaw the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower - to refurbish the Chatlcots Estate in May 2006 at a cost of £66m, with completion due in 2010.
It is unclear when the cladding was fitted but a spokesman for the council said it was present on the Taplow Tower in 2012 when a fire broke out on the 16th floor.
Council leader Georgia Gould said: "The panels that were fitted were not to the standard that we had commissioned. In light of this, we will be informing the contractor that we will be taking urgent legal advice.
"Whilst we are clear that our cladding design and insulation significantly differs to that at Grenfell Tower, the external cladding panels did not satisfy our independent laboratory testing or the high standards we set for contractors."
The council pointed out the tower blocks on the Chalcots Estate, containing 711 homes, were fitted with fire resistant insulation and there was fire resistant sealant between floors.
Both measures are designed to stop a high-intensity flat fire from spreading to neighbouring flats.
None of the five towers in the Chalcots are believed to have a sprinkler system.
Eloisa, whose grandmother lives in one of the tower blocks, told the BBC Radio 4's PM programme residents were "pretty scared"
She said: "There is only one fire exit and only one stairwell, which is a problem that was in Grenfell. So if the same thing happens here we're pretty much screwed.
"My grandma is in a wheelchair as well, so if anything happens we won't be able to get her out which is an even scarier prospect."
Another local resident, Ivanki, told the programme he and his family had moved out of their flat in one of the towers.
"If there is a fire here we don't know what to do," he said.
"We have been staying with [my wife's] mum because we don't know how long this is going to take. I won't stay here [until the cladding has been changed]. My child won't stay here."
Simon Morris told the BBC there was "obviously relief" that action was finally being taken over the cladding on the Chalcots Estate, but there was also anger over why it was allowed to be installed in the first place.
He said: "These panels should have been tested before they went up, there is anger that corridors weren't cleared Wednesday last week. Finally somebody turned up yesterday to start to put stickers on things.
"Yes its great we're now having round the clock security staff patrolling corridors in case of fire but at the end of the day, with the best will in the world, they are only security staff. They are not fire fighters. They have not been issued with any kit to tackle even the smallest fire.
"Camden are doing the right things now but I also fear that they should be doing a lot more and, as far as I'm concerned, they should have started this a lot sooner."
Councillors and fire brigade officials were heckled during a meeting to explain the decision at Swiss Cottage library.
One resident of a nearby tower block shouted: "You did not check the work, and where you did not check the work you left people in danger."
She added to supportive claps: "I want to see someone from the council swing for that."
Another woman, who said she lives on the 17th floor, revealed she is "frightened and petrified".
The authority said it had set up an information point on Chalcots Estate for residents who may have concerns.
Chief executive Mike Cooke said they are hoping to announce on Friday the company which will be removing the cladding.
"The instruction I am giving my staff is I want it done in weeks not months. We will work to get it done as quickly as possible," he added
A council spokesperson said questions would have to be asked both of the contractors and of its own building inspectors to establish how the cladding was fitted to the building.
At the weekend it emerged the aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding used at Grenfell Tower and now discovered on the Chalcots Estate should not be used on buildings above a height of 18m (59ft).
Grenfell Tower is 70m (220ft) in height while four of the five towers on the Chalcots Estate are 67m (219ft) high and 23 storeys.
Last week, several residents of the estate told BBC London they were concerned about the cladding on the side of their buildings.
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They blame the traders for causing traffic jam.
The BBC Africa Debate this month is considering whether street trading should be regulated or banned.
Morgan Joyce Varn, 24, was arrested after she invited a man to her home in order to rob him at gunpoint, says Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.
She has been charged with armed robbery, kidnapping, and malicious injury to personal property.
It is unclear whether she has had a procedure to tattoo her eyeballs, or if she was wearing special contact lenses.
One news website in Las Vegas posted the image to its Facebook account with the caption: "Here's a Mugshot to Haunt Your Nightmares."
"Exorcist needed ASAP," read one online comment.
Ms Varn and two others were arrested last Monday night in the community of Indian Land after an hours-long standoff with armed police.
Six-year-old Lucas Walker was paddling in the water when he was swept out to sea. His mother, 37-year-old Julie Walker, tried to save him.
The pair, from Aberdeen, were both taken to hospital but did not survive.
Lucas's 13-year-old brother, Samuel, was also pulled from the water, along with a man and a woman. All three tried to save Ms Walker and her son.
Police Scotland said Samuel was making a "steady recovery" in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. A 25-year-old woman and 28-year-old man have been discharged.
Four other people have died in separate incidents in the seas around Britain over the weekend, with strong winds and high tides being blamed.
Ch Supt Campbell Thomson said police were continuing to investigate a "very tragic incident", with officers searching the beach and nearby rocks.
"It is clear heroic attempts were made to save Julie and Lucas by both on and off-duty police officers, emergency service personnel and members of the public, facing treacherous sea conditions and high winds during their rescue bid," he said.
"Their brave efforts cannot be overstated.
"I'd like to pay special tribute to Lucas's brother Samuel, who very bravely entered the water in an attempt to rescue his mother and brother."
Ch Supt Thomson urged people to be extremely careful near any body of water as conditions could change rapidly, even during the summer months.
The emergency services were alerted to the incident at about 16:45 Saturday.
One witness described the scene as "absolute chaos" and said she had seen bodies floating in the water.
Another witness, Emma Anderson, told the BBC she had heard sirens and police "frantically" telling people to evacuate the area.
"The whole boulevard was covered in ambulances and police. We overheard there was a body in the water and we saw what seemed to be the body of a small child floating lifelessly in the sea," she said.
"This is something that will forever be in my mind. Not something I ever expected to see on a fun day out with my kids. Heartbreaking for all involved."
Aberdeen City Council Leader, Jenny Laing, said: "The tragic incident at Aberdeen beach has resulted in a mother and young son sadly losing their lives.
"My thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected at this time and those who remain in hospital following yesterday's events. Aberdeen City Council is providing support to the family during this difficult time."
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said some people had been pulled out of the water by police and others had been rescued by the RNLI inshore lifeboat.
A so-called "fire test" is intended to establish whether a design would withstand fire if installed perfectly.
The Grenfell cladding has been blamed for the fire's rapid spread.
The local government department stated they aimed to "publish results as soon as possible".
This test is the first full-scale test of the combination of insulation and cladding of the types used at Grenfell. The test involves setting a fire underneath a large-scale mock-up of the insulation system in a fire laboratory.
Previous tests have only sought to establish what types of materials have been installed on high-rises across England. This test is the first in a series that is intended to work out which combinations of materials can safely be installed together and which cannot.
The test result makes it more likely that the choice of materials in use at Grenfell Tower, rather than poor installation of the cladding, was to blame for the fire's spread across the face of the building. People familiar with the results stated that it also supports the conclusion that the cladding was the critical component that spread the fire.
This test, conducted by the Building Research Establishment near Watford, will be followed by five others, each of which will use a different combination of insulation and exterior aluminium panelling. This first test used a so-called PIR plastic foam, a type of combustible insulation, and aluminium panels with a combustible polyethylene plastic core.
This is the most flammable of the six combinations of insulation and exterior cladding that will be tested. While other buildings with this combination have been identified, it is not currently believed to be in widespread use.
Most buildings that have been found to have suspect cladding will not be installed with this combination of materials.
A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: "We've already issued practical advice so that landlords can make properties safe for residents, and our priority now is informing landlords of the latest results so that they can take any further actions that are necessary."
This test result, however, raises major questions about why this combination of materials was actually signed off by building control officers.
The fire test conducted by the BRE is a standard test which is designed to establish whether a specific combination of materials, installed in a specified fashion, will be safe during a fire.
If developers wish to use combustible material on the exterior of tall buildings, it is supposed to be on the basis of data from such a test.
Newsnight has, however, previously revealed how developers have installed combustible elements on tall buildings without having tested the components.
They can commission engineers to write reports arguing that the material is functionally similar to material that has already been tested.
Or, in one case, Newsnight found building inspectors willing to sign off material of the same combustibility as at Grenfell without even that level of evidence.
The publication of this test makes it impossible for this design and combination of materials to be used in future without it passing a further test.
Newsnight has also previously revealed concerns about the adequacy of the testing regime - not least because test data is usually confidential and therefore difficult for fire safety officials to scrutinise.
The test is also conducted on a test bed which has been installed slowly by cladding engineers over several days.
In reality, material may be installed hastily, and may be damaged in installation or use in ways that reduce their fire safety.
Newsnight has also revealed that the government has begun work on a review of building standards.
The decision reflects official alarm at the state of building safety in the wake of last month's Grenfell Tower fire, in which at least 80 people died.
As results of checks on tall buildings have come in, civil servants have expressed shock at how the official rulebooks have been interpreted.
They remain unclear whether the problem is the rules or their enforcement.
The three-year-old male bird, known as Blue YD, was tagged in July 2012 at a Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve near Forfar.
The bird has been seen in North Yorkshire and St Andrews since the tag stopped transmitting in May 2014.
It was spotted in Senegal by a sister charity looking for a different osprey.
A team from the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, which runs the Rutland Osprey Project, travelled to Lompoul sur Mer to locate a satellite-tagged female bird.
They spotted Blue YD on a 30km (19 miles) stretch of white sandy beach where about 100 ospreys spend their winters.
The Rutland team has been visiting West Africa since 2011 as part of its Osprey Flyways Project, which aims to educate African school children about osprey migration.
John Wright, field officer for the Rutland Osprey Project, said: "It was fantastic to see that Blue YD was alive and well.
"He'll no doubt be enjoying the final few weeks of warmth before he makes his way back to the UK for the breeding season at the end of March."
Jonathan Pinnick, assistant manager at the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes visitor centre, said: "It's wonderful to learn more about the life of a bird that we have followed since it was a fledgling and it shows the value of tagging in allowing us to track the life history of individual birds.
"Perhaps he will be spotted back in Angus this summer, hopefully breeding and helping the continued recovery of the osprey population in Scotland."
At least 85% of patients should start treatment within 62 days of a GP referral for suspected cancer.
But official figures show the target was missed for an entire year, with just 83.4% seen on time in 2014-15.
Cancer Research UK said the situation was getting worse and called for urgent action.
Early diagnosis and treatment is vital for improving the chances of recovering from cancer.
But more than 21,000 people were not seen within the 62-day target in the last financial year.
Sara Hiom, the director of early diagnosis at Cancer Research UK, said: "This is the worst result since records began, in 2009.
"Thousands of cancer patients are being failed.
"Patients want confidence that suspected cancer is taken seriously and prioritised by the NHS.
"These breaches have become a trend, and they are worsening.
"This is why urgent action must be taken to support the NHS to ensure it has the resources it needs to meet this challenge."
Breakdowns for individual cancers in the previous quarter show the proportion of patients treated on time:
Sean Duffy, NHS England's national clinical director for Cancer, said: "The NHS is helping more people survive cancer than ever before.
"Swift diagnosis is key, and our latest annual figures show that over 1.5 million people were urgently referred to a specialist by their GP - that's over 70% more than five years ago.
"But it's crucial we focus on maintaining waiting time standards for treatment as demand increases, and we are working hard to pinpoint any issues on the ground."
Andy Burnham, Labour's Shadow health secretary, said: "[Prime Minister] David Cameron promised to improve cancer care, but under his government the cancer treatment target has been missed again and again and again.
"He is trying to tell people the NHS is safe in his hands, but the reality is the health service is in deep trouble and going backwards fast."
Simon Roberts, executive vice-president of Walgreens Boots Alliance and president of Boots, will "pursue new opportunities", a statement said.
It comes after the Guardian reported that Boots claimed money from the NHS by giving face-to-face consultations for customers who did not need them.
The announcement was made as part of other senior management changes.
Stefano Pessina, executive vice-chairman and chief executive officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance, said: "I would like to warmly thank Simon for his outstanding contribution and for the key role he played at Boots during the past 13 years of his career.
"We wish him the very best for the future."
Mr Roberts said: "Over the past three years we have achieved good progress in modernising our business to be better prepared for the opportunities and challenges of today's world and the strategy and plans to build an even better Boots are well on track.
"I've therefore come to realise that now is the right time for me to step away and consider new opportunities for the future, and for a new leader to take the business forward in the next phase."
Alex Gourlay, executive vice-president of Walgreens Boots Alliance and president of Walgreens, will take over responsibility for UK operations.
Elizabeth Fagan, currently senior vice-president of Walgreens Boots Alliance and managing director of its international retail division, will become Boots' new managing director and senior vice-president and will report to Mr Gourlay.
The announcements were made as part of a restructuring of Walgreens Boots Alliance and Boots' UK operations.
The Ordnance Survey's flying unit is in the skies between February and November each year, surveying and capturing about 50,000 images covering Britain's urban, rural, moorland and mountain terrain.
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Bates hit 119 not out off 72 balls, surpassing the previous highest score of 91 by Dane van Niekerk for Loughborough against Surrey in 2016.
Vipers' 180-2 was also the highest team total in the tournament's history.
Lightning were 134 all out in reply, Bates adding to her earlier hundred by taking 3-15 with the ball.
She also took a brilliant catch to dismiss Beth Langston, but it was with the bat that she starred, reaching her century off 63 balls and hitting 15 fours and four sixes.
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The TV magician grew up in South Bank, close to the Redcar plant which still dominates the landscape.
His uncles worked at the site and he described growing up in the area as "really happy days".
The plant was mothballed in 2010, but new owners SSI relit the furnace on Sunday and the first slab is expected to be produced on Wednesday.
Daniels said: "I knew this was coming, but when I saw the news at the weekend I just thought 'yes!'
"I grew up right bang in the middle of the works really, or Dorman Long as it used to be called, and steel was just a huge part of everyone's life in those days.
"South Bank was the most polluted town in the country at the time, but we just got on with things really.
"As kids we used to play on the slag heaps at Clay Lane - I hope they're not bringing those back - and I remember them as really happy days.
"So I know what steel means to the area, and I'm absolutely thrilled to see it still going strong for future generations."
The 74-year-old husband of Debbie McGee, famous for his catchphrase "you'll like it - not a lot, but you'll like it", is returning to the area on Saturday, to appear at the Middlesbrough Theatre, where he performed his first gig almost 50 years ago.
He said: "It feels like a real homecoming."
Carmarthenshire council voted in January to drop the English stream at Ysgol Llangennech, near Llanelli.
A Labour councillor called the decision "segregation" - while a Welsh-medium education campaigner suggested parents could "cross the border".
Mr Jones said it is important "toxicity" in the debate is reduced.
At First Minister's Questions, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood claimed some Labour members had been working with UKIP to undermine the changes, which she said were in keeping with the Welsh Government's own policy on promoting the Welsh language.
Mr Jones replied: "There are some comments that have been made by politicians that I do not agree with.
"I've seen those comments and I think it's hugely important now that calm prevails, and the toxicity we last saw some years ago is now reduced."
It was for the Plaid Cymru-run administration of Carmarthenshire council to explain the decisions it had made in Llangennech, he said.
Mr Jones said the Welsh Government was committed to its "quest" of hitting a target of 1m Welsh speakers.
The British singer, 41, posted an Instagram video showing a man appearing to remove suitcases from the vehicle on Friday at 05:42 local time.
Mel B asked fans to contact her husband Stephen Belafonte via Instagram if they had any information about the incident.
She said police were investigating but the couple wanted the public's help.
"The police already have a good idea who you are, but in the meantime anybody who wants to make that 5000 dollars, DM my hubby right now," said the singer, who has been hosting The X Factor in Australia.
Mel B said the couple would wire the money across to anyone who helped them.
The singer, real name Melanie Brown, is reuniting with fellow former Spice Girls Geri Horner and Emma Bunton in a group known as GEM.
Many of the dead were farmers who were killed as they worked in their paddy fields.
Bangladesh is prone to electrical storms but this year they have been particularly severe.
Experts suggest a general rise in temperatures and deforestation may be factors.
Other victims included two students in the capital, Dhaka, who were struck as they played football, and a teenage boy who died when he went to collect mangoes.
About 90 people have been killed by lightning since March, compared to a total of 51 people in the whole of 2015, Voice of America (VoA) reported.
The head of Bangladesh's disaster management body Mohammad Riaz Ahmed told VoA he was "indeed concerned" by the rise in the number of deaths.
He said further thunderstorms were predicted for later this month.
Strong tropical storms regularly hit Bangladesh ahead of and during the monsoon season, which runs from June to September.
Planning committee members approved 60 flats to be built on former playing fields at Clouston Street.
They also backed plans by the North Kelvin Meadow group who transformed the previously derelict land.
If Scottish ministers do not call in the decision, the final say will rest with Glasgow City Council.
Councillors considered two applications - one for a residential development from New City Vision and one from the North Kelvin Meadow group for a community woodland and park.
After conducting a site visit and hearing from both applicants, committee members approved both applications.
BBC Scotland understands that Scottish ministers have made a direction in relation to the site and the council is required to send any relevant details and decisions to them for consideration.
Ministers will now decide whether to intervene by calling in the application.
If they do not, a final decision will rest with Glasgow City Council, which is the landowner.
A council spokesman said: "The approval of this planning application from New City Vision will deliver both much-needed family homes in the west end and improve the North Kelvinside pitches facility as well as a substantial receipt for the public purse in a time of unprecedented financial constraints for local government."
The decision to back the housing development, however, has angered some local people and politicians.
Glasgow Green MSP Patrick Harvie said he was "disgusted by the decision".
"Any local council should be proud to have a community like the people who created North Kelvin Meadow, but instead they are showing nothing but contempt," he said.
Jack Whitley was The Blues' goalkeeper during their first season in the top flight, playing for Chelsea between 1907 and 1914.
Before he died, he asked to be buried in Brompton Cemetery even though he no longer lived in London.
Chelsea Supporters' Trust is now crowdfunding to pay for a gravestone.
It is believed that Whitley's widow could not afford a marked grave.
Chelsea's official historian Rick Glanvill said to have a headstone for Whitley would "mean a huge amount".
"I'd been exploring connections between the club and the cemetery, as it's unique to have one next to a football ground.
"The club's first owner and first director are buried there but what was missing was a player, so the significance of finding Whitley was huge."
Mr Glanvill said he found out about Whitley when a neighbour - a keen Manchester United fan - bought him Albert Sewell's book Chelsea Champions! at a flea market for 50p.
With the help of Friends of Brompton Cemetery, he discovered where the grave was and although it was unmarked, the goalkeeper was the only person buried there and so the plot can be acquired and a headstone erected.
The supporters want to raise £5,500 from fans and have not asked the club for money.
"He'd served the club for 32 years as a trainer and player. As he specifically asked to be buried near the club, we feel that loyalty should be supported and we should return the loyalty," said Mr Glanvill.
He wants to track down a descendant of Whitley to invite to a special ceremony on the 110th anniversary of the goalkeeper's debut for Chelsea, 23 September.
A man aged 44 and a 16-year-old youth suffered serious injuries during the incident in the Castlemilk area on Tuesday.
Police said a 43-year-old woman was the latest to be detained.
Two men, aged 21 and 24, had previously been arrested on Thursday. All three were due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrat and UKIP candidates said they believed the problems stem from the lack of a strategic plan.
Lib Dem Steve Webb wanted more locally-based jobs and Labour's Hadleigh Roberts said councils should have more say in transport routes and fares.
Tory Luke Hall wanted to see an M4 link road built while UKIP's Russ Martin wanted a transport referendum.
Four of the five candidates for the constituency took part in the BBC Radio Bristol election debate.
They all agreed congestion was a problem and called for a "more joined up approach".
But, Mr Webb claimed planners do not spend money from developments to address big transport issues and road upgrades are done "piecemeal".
This, he said, meant the "big picture" of congestion was not addressed.
Labour's Hadleigh Roberts said councils should have a "greater say" over the routes public transport firms follow.
Mr Hall said he wanted a new M4 link road built and to "work with First Bus to make sure the routes we already do have are reliable and clean".
Mr Martin said the transport infrastructure in urban and rural areas needed to link together.
"We need local referenda in the affected areas so people have their say - because they are not having their say at the moment," he said.
Green Party candidate Iain Hamilton did not take part in the programme but said private companies running public transport services "should be kept on a tighter rein".
He added services, such as buses, should be run for the benefit of the public.
Candidates in the Thornbury and Yate constituency:
Steck, who was known as the "Swiss Machine", died in an accident while acclimatising for an attempt on the mountain without oxygen by a new route.
The 40-year-old had won multiple awards and was known for his rapid ascents.
His body has been recovered from the base of Mount Nupste, which shares a common ridge with Everest, after he was spotted by fellow climbers.
"He had an accident on the Nuptse wall and died. It seems he slipped," Ang Tsering Sherpa, head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, told news agency AFP.
Steck was preparing to climb Mount Everest using its West Ridge, a route which has been the cause of more deaths than successful ascents, followed by Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world.
It is believed he was alone on Sunday due to his climbing partner contracting severe frostbite.
On Wednesday, Steck wrote on his Facebook page that he had a "quick day from Basecamp up to 7,000m and back" as he believed "active acclimatisation" was the most effective way of getting used to high altitude.
The climber reached Mount Everest's summit without oxygen in 2012, and in 2015 climbed all 82 Alpine peaks over 4,000m (13,100ft) in 62 days.
Steck had returned to the world's tallest mountain four years on from an altercation with sherpas which caused him to abandon an attempt to climb Everest and Lhotse.
In a video about his Everest-Lhotse project ahead of his departure for the Himalayas, Steck said he felt super-ready and psyched. "My body is as strong as it was never before," he added.
Asked about his definition of success for the ambitious plans to traverse Everest and Lhotse via the Hornbein Couloir, Steck said: "If you have an accident or if you're going to die, that's definitely not successful, all the other things, it's a success already."
"Why do I have to attempt Everest and Lhotse? Yet again, the answer is simple: I get to stay longer in the mountains.
"And now I'll just go, and only worry about the events that lie ahead of me. Day by day, one by one. It is the here and now that counts. What comes next is uncertain in any case.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
Read more on Ueli Steck's website
Last year Steck and fellow climber David Goettler found the bodies of two American mountaineers in Tibet, 16 years after they were killed by a huge avalanche.
Veteran British mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington paid tribute to Steck, describing him as "one of the great climbers of all time". He said that Steck's reputation for speed climbing had not necessarily put him at greater risk.
"What kills most people is the objective dangers, going into an area where there is stone fall or the threat of avalanche," he told the BBC's Newshour programme.
"The longer you are exposed to that threat, statistically the more likelihood there is of you being hit by one of these things. Whereas if you are moving very fast you are exposed to that danger for a much shorter time.
"But the people who are climbing at the absolute limit, which he undoubtedly was, the death rate among the very best mountaineers is very high, particularly in the Himalayas."
British mountaineer Kenton Cool described Steck as "a true inspiration" who "showed us all what was possible in the mountains and beyond".
The British Mountaineering Council described him as a "legendary mountaineer and all-round great guy".
Ueli Steck set new standards in alpine climbing - setting a string of records for making breathtakingly quick solo ascents of classic routes.
He also played a big part in bringing the sport to a new audience through the epic films made of his exploits.
He was nicknamed the "Swiss Machine" for his ruthlessly methodical approach and his ability to keep going even after pushing himself to the limits of human endurance.
In 2015 he climbed one of the world's most famous walls, the North Face of the Eiger, in two hours 47 minutes - a time that would have been unthinkable to the early pioneers of the sport, who took days to complete it. In 2015, he improved on that feat with a time of two hours 22 minutes and 50 seconds.
The legislation came into effect in June 2015, but it is now the subject of a High Court challenge from Dublin-born sex worker and law graduate, Laura Lee.
The case was adjourned on Friday after a last-minute challenge on behalf of Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness.
The judge said there was no clear explanation for the late intervention.
The court heard Attorney General John Larkin had been instructed to launch the challenge on behalf of the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers (OFMDFM).
Lawyers for Ms Lee complained to the judge that the "grossly late" move was a "highly improper and unorthodox" attempt to stop the case advancing to a full hearing.
Northern Ireland was the first and only part of the UK to pass a law that made it a crime to pay for sexual services, shifting criminal responsibility from prostitutes to their clients.
The legislation was brought before Stormont by the Democratic Unionist Party peer, Lord Morrow, as part of his Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill.
Ms Lee, 38, has campaigned against it, claiming it would drive prostitution underground and put sex workers at greater risk of violence from clients.
Opponents of the law claim it makes it increasingly difficult for prostitutes to screen customers who may use fake names and disposable phones.
The judge adjourned the case until next month, but requested full reasons for the intervention, which was made on the eve of the hearing.
"I accept that this application made on behalf of the attorney general, who is acting for the first minister and deputy first minister, has not been accompanied with any clear or cogent explanation as to the course of events," he said.
Ms Lee's judicial review challenge is directed at the Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Justice Minister David Ford, who also opposed the criminalisation of those who pay for prostitution.
A barrister representing the DOJ confirmed it was not opposing Ms Lee's application for a judicial review of the new law, on the basis that an arguable case had been established.
However, Ms Lee's legal team criticised the attempt by another Stormont department to become involved in the case.
"My client is deeply concerned at the proposed, grossly late intervention on the part of the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister," her lawyer told the court.
"We say it's highly improper and unorthodox, effectively OFMDFM are seeking to resist the grant of leave against the Department of Justice."
The court heard the OFMDFM challenge raised a potential devolution issue and the judge allowed the department an opportunity to explain the late move.
The 18th Century vase, which dates back to the Qing dynasty, was bought by a bidder based in France for 740,000 euros (£647,000).
Auctioneers, Sheppard's, said they believed it was the highest ever price for an art object at an Irish auction.
It is not known how the vase ended up in the Republic of Ireland.
Irish broadcaster, RTÉ, reported that it would have been "given as a prestigious gift by the Chinese emperor to an important visitor".
The 23cm (9in) double gourd vase was auctioned in Durrow, County Laois, on Saturday.
The item is considered to be extremely rare and it sparked an international bidding war involving collectors from more than 40 countries.
On average, 10 million people tuned in to see 19-year-old Flora Shedden leave the show after her showstopper cocoa carousel failed to win over the judges.
The audience peaked at 11.2 million shortly before the end. On average, Bake Off drew 43% of the TV audience.
Tamal Ray, Ian Cumming and Nadiya Jamir Hussain will do battle for the Bake Off crown in the tent next Wednesday.
Last week, ratings for the BBC One baking show took a dip of 1.6 million, after it was scheduled opposite a special live edition of Coronation Street.
This week, its closest rival was ITV's All Star Mr & Mrs - which also ran from 20:00-21:00 BST - drawing an average of 3.1 million viewers.
Flora was eliminated despite impressing both judges with her chocolate souffle in the technical challenge.
Her signature dish, a passion fruit and chocolate tart with macarons, failed to impress on flavour, while her showstopping chocolate centrepiece was deemed "wonky" and "bitter".
"It doesn't taste as good as it looks," said Berry, of the elaborate biscuit and cake carousel.
The university student admitted there "were moments [on the show] when I did feel my age and that I was lacking a certain experience".
"I really never expected to get to the semi-finals, but then I didn't expect to get into the tent in the first place," she said.
Nadiya was made star baker for the third time, matching Ian's earlier successes. The pair will be joined by Tamal as they compete in next week's final episode.
Last year's final drew a record-breaking audience of 12.3 million, peaking at 13.3 million.
Yn ôl Lesley Tipping o Undeb yr ATL mae staff yn drysu pa ragenw i'w ddefnyddio ac y mae angen hyfforddiant.
Mae Stonewall Cymru yn dweud bod o leiaf hanner nifer o fyfyrwyr traws yn cael eu bwlio ac nad yw'r rhan fwyaf o staff wedi'u hyfforddi i ddelio â'r hyn sy'n digwydd.
Mae Jasper Williams, sy'n astudio ym Mhrifysgol Bangor, yn dweud bod staff wedi "cael trafferth" wedi iddo ddweud yn y chweched dosbarth ei fod yn berson trawsryweddol.
Mae Mr Williams yn swyddog gydag undeb NUS Cymru.
Dywedodd: "Doedd un athro [chweched dosbarth] ddim yn derbyn fod person ddim yn wrywaidd nac yn fenywaidd.
"Roedd yr athrawon eraill yn iawn ond dal yn cael trafferth."
"Mae'r wybodaeth sydd ar gael yn ddiffygiol iawn."
Dywedodd Andrew White o Stonewall Cymru bod y rhan fwyaf o ddarlithwyr yn gefnogol ond nad oeddynt yn sicr sut oedd gwneud hynny.
"Ry'n yn gwybod bod y rhan fwyaf o staff eisiau delio â bwlio trawsffobig - ond dyw'r rhan fwyaf ddim wedi cael hyfforddiant i wneud hyn," meddai
Dywedodd Ms Tipping hefyd fod y cyfrifoldeb yn aml ar staff colegau. "Does 'na ddim hyfforddiant gorfodol ar hyn o bryd," meddai, "ac ar hyn o bryd mae'r cyfan yn ddibynnol ar ewyllys y coleg i wneud hynny.
"Mae'n bosib i ddarlithwyr gael eu rhoi mewn safle o embaras wrth iddynt gyfarch rhywun gyda'r rhagenw anghywir.
"Ry'n yn awyddus i ddarlithwyr gael hyfforddiant ac i ddeall cyfreithlondeb y mater ac i sicrhau nad ydynt yn teimlo'n chwithig mewn unrhyw ffordd. Os nad ydym yn sicrhau bod hyfforddiant ar gael mi allai'r cyfan fynd i gyfraith."
Mae Stonewall Cymru yn dweud bod dau o bob pump o bobl traws wedi ceisio lladd eu hunain.
Mae Jasper Williams yn dweud hefyd fod adnoddau fel toiledau yn anodd i fyfyrwyr traws ac anneuaidd. Dywedodd: "Mae toiledau yn ymwneud yn benodol â bod yn fachgen neu'n ferch ac mae toiled arall ar gyfer pobl anabl - a dwi ddim yn hapus iawn i ddefnyddio hwnna.
"Ro'n i yn ffodus pan o'n yn yr ysgol gan bo fi'n byw yn ymyl adre ac felly roedd modd i fi fynd adre adeg egwyl."
Ategodd Mr White o Stonewall Cymru fod addysg yn y maes yn hanfodol: "Mae'n bwysig ein bod yn addysgu pobl fel nad yw pobl ifanc lesbiaidd, hoyw, deurywiol na thrawsrywiol yn cael eu bwlio ond yn hytrach yn cael eu cefnogi a'u hannog i lwyddo."
Mae BBC Cymru wedi gofyn i'r colegau am sylwadau.
Mae BBC Cymru wedi cysylltu â 14 coleg addysg bellach a sefydliadau yng Nghymru er mwyn canfod pa hyfforddiant amrywiaeth y maent yn ei gynnig i staff. Tri sydd wedi ymateb hyd yma ac mae'r tri wedi dweud eu bod wedi gweld cynnydd yn y myfyrwyr sy'n adnabod eu hunain fel myfyrwyr traws, anneuol neu rhyweddhylifol.
Relatives of some of those allegedly killed or tortured by his militias in the 1970s and 1980s want him charged with crimes against humanity.
Mr Duvalier had filed a last-minute appeal to avoid appearing in court.
The ex-leader, who returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years in French exile, had already missed two hearings.
He denies all charges, with his lawyers saying the case should be thrown out.
The courtroom was packed with relatives of his victims, lawyers in black robes, human rights observers and journalists.
A Haitian human rights lawyer, Mario Joseph, said: "Duvalier is trying to control the justice system like when he was a dictator."
Human rights groups say hundreds of political prisoners died from torture or were murdered under Mr Duvalier's rule from 1971 to 1986.
His unexpected homecoming two years ago prompted the Haitian authorities to open an investigation.
In January 2012, a court decided Mr Duvalier should stand trial for embezzling public funds but ruled that the statute of limitations had run out on charges of murder, arbitrary arrest, torture and disappearances.
However, Amnesty International and the Open Society Justice Initiative said the former leader "must not evade justice" for crimes against humanity. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has also said Mr Duvalier should face justice.
The court in Port-au-Prince is hearing an appeal by victims challenging the January 2012 ruling regarding the charges of human rights abuses.
Any future trial would be a symbolically crucial moment and a potential turning point for Haiti, says the BBC's Mark Doyle.
There is a widespread feeling in that the judiciary is biased in favour of the rich, he adds.
The appeal court already ordered Mr Duvalier twice to appear to answer the charges - once on 31 January and again on 7 February.
A judge ruled the ex-leader would be arrested if he did not turn up on Thursday.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are observing the case in the capital.
Jean-Claude Duvalier was just 19 when he inherited the title of president-for-life from his father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, who had ruled Haiti since 1957.
Like his father, he relied on a brutal militia known as the Tontons Macoutes to control the country.
In 1986 he was forced from power by a popular uprising and US diplomatic pressure, and went into exile in France.
The accident happened in Dalness Street, Shettleston, at about 15:15.
The boy, a pupil at St Paul's Primary School, was taken to hospital with serious injuries where he died a short time later.
Police said the white Ford Transit van had gone in to Dalness Street from Tollcross Road. It was turning into a car park on Dalness Street at the time.
The 62-year-old driver of the van was not injured.
Sgt Jackie Dunbar, of Police Scotland, said: "It was picking-up time at the school and there were a number of people in the area at the time of the incident.
"I would ask that anyone who saw what happened, and who has not already been spoken to by police, contact officers at the road policing complex via 101."
Dalness Street at Dalness Close was closed and local diversions put in place.
The boy has not yet been named.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), funded by the US Congress, is the first organisation to be labelled "undesirable" under a new Russian law.
Russia's Foreign Ministry warned that "we will never tolerate mentoring and open interference in our affairs by foreign structures".
US officials condemned Russia's move.
The US Department of State called the blacklisting "a further example of the Russian government's growing crackdown on independent voices and another intentional step to isolate the Russian people from the world".
Russia's Foreign Ministry hit back by saying the NED's name was "deceptive" because "it is only non-governmental on paper, while in reality it has, from the moment it was set up, received funding from the US budget, including funding via the channels of intelligence bodies".
The ministry said that analysis of NED projects "shows that they are aimed at destabilising the internal situation in countries which pursue independent policies in line with their own national interests, rather than following instructions from Washington".
According to Russian official data, the NED gave financial assistance worth about $5.2m (£3.3m) to various Russian organisations in 2013-2014.
Russians can now face fines or up to six years in prison if they work for a non-governmental organisation (NGO) branded "undesirable".
Critics say it is a Kremlin move aimed at stifling dissent.
NGOs linked to politics in Russia already face restrictions under a 2012 law requiring them to register as "foreign agents".
President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party accuses some foreign governments of using NGOs in Russia as cover to engineer political change.
In a televised speech at an anti-corruption event in Tehran, he said money once "given under the table now is being given on the table".
Mr Rouhani also called for the "elimination" of monopolies.
A series of high-profile corruption cases have come to light since his government took office in August 2013.
In May, the billionaire businessman Mahafarid Amir Khosravi was executed after being convicted of being behind a scandal involving embezzlement, bribery, forgery and money-laundering that cost 14 state-owned and private Iranian banks nearly $2.6bn (£1.7bn).
And in September, former Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi was reportedly imprisoned after being convicted of corruption.
Mr Rahimi was reported to be linked to another billionaire businessman, Babak Zanjani, who has been accused of skimming up to $2.7bn (£1.7bn) of revenue generated from selling Iranian oil on behalf of the government through his companies to bypass international sanctions.
In his speech, President Rouhani called on Iranians to "apply all our power in fighting corruption.
"The continuation, the deepening and the expansion of corruption is endangering... the Islamic Revolution."
Mr Rouhani also criticised monopolies - on anything from the production of rifles to advertising - which he said were the cause of corruption.
"Anything which does not have rivalry or whose management is monopolised is flawed," he said.
"This is wrong and the problem has to be uprooted," he added.
Analysts said this might be a veiled reference to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which has become a major military, political and economic force in Iran since being set up after the 1979 revolution to defend the country's Islamic system.
The IRGC is said to control around a third of Iran's economy through a series of subsidiaries and trusts, and is widely believed to engage in illicit and black-market activities.
The Australian, 27, was suspended by the Tigers at the end of last season and made this season's loan move to Salford permanent on Monday.
"Justin's found a new club and it's best for both parties," said Powell.
"There are certain things that you can accept in a rugby league club and certain things that you can't."
He added: "There is a lot of truth and honesty in rugby league and that's the most important thing for me."
Carney, who scored 63 tries in 62 appearances for the Tigers, accepted responsibility for the actions that led to him leaving the Jungle in an interview during pre-season, in which he also expressed his desire to make a fresh start.
"Justin has said he was wrong - and yeah, you're dead set right he was wrong, in every single way - so people take their punishment and move on. It's important he did that," said Powell, who also told BBC Sport that Salford were were the only club to express an interest in signing Carney.
"It was a rough thing to go through but it is done now and we move on. It was a difficult situation but I thought we dealt with it impeccably in my mind.
"I think it's really important now that everybody just moves on and we get on with the job of playing rugby league."
Castleford are due to host Salford in a Challenge Cup sixth-round tie on 7 May.
"We need to come out on top of that game," said Powell.
"The most important thing for me now is what we have got in front of us. We've got to move on from this."
Rescue dogs have been brought in for students to pet and play with as part of a series of stress busting activities.
Campus walks, adult colouring, and free exercise classes are also on offer.
Student welfare officer Naomi said the January exams could be "extremely stressful" for many students.
"Studies show that interactions with therapy animals can decrease stress in humans and are used in care homes, hospices, and many other establishments with great success and commendation," she said.
"Playing with an animal can increase levels of the stress-reducing hormone oxytocin and decrease production of the stress hormone cortisol."
Alpet Poundies Rescue teamed up with the students' union to bring the dogs to the campus on Wednesday, paid for using donations from Aberystwyth University alumni.
Director of student support services Caryl Davies said: "Students' mental wellbeing is all-important to us and our support services are available throughout the year.
"However, we know that exam season can be a peak time for stress in the academic calendar, so we've drawn together a special programme of activities to help ease the pressure."
The former Peterborough boss was appointed boss of the Keepmoat Stadium side, who are currently 20th in the table, on Friday.
"This club is ready to go, there is no question about that," the 43-year-old told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"There is a good blend of youth and experience. I've had plenty of time to look at them and there's a team there."
He continued: "It has been made clear that the aim is to get to the Championship. The reality of that means this season we need to get 21 wins from our remaining 35 games.
"It's an exciting challenge and one that we will meet head-on."
Ferguson, who is the son of former Manchester United boss Sir Alex, will take charge of the team for the first time in Saturday's home match against Bradford.
He has replaced fellow Scot Paul Dickov in the Keepmoat Stadium dugout after the former Oldham boss was sacked on 8 September after taking just six points from their opening six league games.
Interim boss Rob Jones won one of his six matches in charge to leave Doncaster above the League One drop zone on goal difference only.
Ferguson left Peterborough in February after four years with the London Road side and has signed a rolling contract with Rovers.
He said he had benefitted from taking some time out of the game.
"I wanted the break and I felt that I needed it in the right way," he added.
"I went straight from playing to management and then had maybe a month between leaving Peterborough and Preston and going back to Peterborough.
"There was an offer straight after I left Peterborough and in the summer, but the timing wasn't right."
Carmarthenshire developer Enzo's Homes is in the process of buying the Penllergaer civic centre site.
Money from the sale will go to build new schools and modernise council buildings.
Council leader Rob Stewart said the scheme, if approved, would provide much-needed housing in the area.
Enzo Sauro, of Enzo's Homes, said the firm was working on the finer details of the planning application.
He added the company would also gift three pieces of land to the Penllergare Trust, which manages the adjoining Penllergare Valley Woods.
The three-storey Penllergaer civic centre building first opened in 1982 for the former Lliw Valley Borough Council.
Staff at the building have been relocated.
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Edward Stevenson addressed at a rally in Twaddell Avenue in the city, where loyalists have staged a nightly demonstrations in a row over the Ardoyne parade.
The protests began in July 2013, when restrictions were placed on the return leg of the parade, along part of the Crumlin Road that separates nationalist and unionist communities.
Kevin Sharkey reports.
Margaret Vinci Heldt "peacefully" died from heart failure in Illinois on Friday, her family has confirmed.
The cone-shaped hairdo was popular among first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and actress Audrey Hepburn in the 1960s.
Heldt ran a salon in Chicago, where she was born, and first debuted the hairstyle for a magazine cover in 1960.
According to the Chicago History Museum, Heldt attended the Columbia College of Hairdressing before opening her own salon.
"She had a zest for life, the most positive attitude," her daughter Carlene Ziegler told Reuters. "She was the life of the party right up to her last days."
In pictures: Best of the beehives
The mannequin Heldt used to make the hairstyle can be seen at the Chicago History Museum.
According to the museum, Heldt wanted the hairstyle to fit under the fez hat, using the hat's shape as an inspiration.
Others who enjoyed the hairstyle including cartoon mother from TV programme The Simpsons, Marge Simpson, music group The Supremes, rock band the B-52s actress Brigitte Bardot and even Beyonce.
English singer Mari Wilson, a famous exponent of the hairstyle, told the BBC World Service that late British singer Amy Winehouse was her favourite beehive-wearer, though hers was a wig.
Wilson said she also loved the women of the 1960s who wore the hairstyle.
"There's something lovely about taking time over your appearance," she said. "It's like not leaving the house without your lipstick."
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The 31-year-old will break Michael Atherton's record of 54 Tests as captain during the first match against India, which begins on Wednesday.
In an interview with this month's Cricketer magazine, reported in The Times, he said: "Deep down I don't know how much longer I am going to carry on.
"It could be two months, it could be a year."
Cook became England captain in 2012 and has won 24 of his Tests in charge, claiming the Ashes on home soil twice and winning a series in India in 2012.
In 135 Tests, he has scored 10,688 runs - the most by an Englishman and 11th best overall - and is keen to remain as a batsman whenever he does step down as captain.
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"I do look forward to the day when hopefully I can play a Test match as just a batter, there's no doubt about that," said the Essex player.
"If that happens I am going to really enjoy standing at first slip and being the bloke who makes suggestions to whoever's in charge and not being the bloke who has to make the final decision.
"It makes me feel very satisfied that I've been able to do it for a long period of time and I've had a really good crack at it.
"There have been some tough moments and amazing moments and you can enjoy that success that little bit more because of what you go through as England captain."
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Former England captain Michael Vaughan believes Cook could step down after the series in India, or after the Ashes tour of Australia in 2017-18.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show, he said: "These next six or seven weeks are not crucial for Cook.
"He is breaking records and he has four or five years left as a batsman, if his mind wants to play that long.
"It depends on the character of the person, to be able to step away from the captaincy but stay in the side.
"He is the perfect sort of character to do that. He wouldn't want to step on the new captain's toes, he'd be a real good sounding board and be able to see when the new captain is under stress. He would be the perfect foil.
"I do get the sense that he will get to the stage, whether it's the end of India or the Ashes in a year's time, where he will say: 'I like the idea of standing at first slip and batting for a few more years.'"
Loraine Maurer of Evansville, Indiana, works two shifts per week, 44 years after joining the hamburger chain.
The nonagenarian great-grandmother first joined in 1973 after her husband retired due to disability.
"I told him we were too young to stay at home and so I went for a job," she recalled after enjoying a cake at a special party colleagues threw for her.
She never meant to stay as long as she did, Mrs Maurer told ABC News, adding that she never thought of becoming a manager because she prefers to interact with her customers.
"She is the only one here that knows how to make oats right," said one loyal customer who attended her party.
After her husband died in 1980, she began to travel more often with a friend, often visiting McDonald's wherever she went.
"I've been to Australia, Russia, Greece, Rome, and I'd always look when I could fly over the cities. I'd look for the arch."
One location even offered to serve her beer.
"That surprised me!" she said with a chuckle.
Even though she contemplates retirement every winter, she says she never plans to leave.
"I would miss it too much", says Mrs Maurer, who has four children, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
"I really and truly enjoy it," Mrs Maurer adds. "Life is what you make it. And so I'm trying."
Video showed the man, identified as Mulu Habtom Zerhom, 19, lying in a pool of blood as onlookers threw a set of chairs on him and kicked him.
It happened at the time of a deadly attack by an Israeli Arab, at the same place, in Beersheba. He was shot dead.
Israel has seen a wave of stabbings and shootings by Palestinians this month.
Eight Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in the attacks. More than 40 Palestinians, including several of the attackers, have also been killed in the growing unrest.
The upsurge in violence began last month when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over amid rumours Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex. Israel has repeatedly denied such claims.
Mr Mulu was shot by a security guard, apparently while it was thought the bus station was under attack by two assailants.
Mobile phone footage shows an angry crowd surrounding Mr Mulu as he is lying injured on the floor, under a stool held over him by a member of security.
A set of chairs is dumped on his head before he is kicked by at least two people.
Mr Mulu was taken to hospital, where he died late on Sunday.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said officers were working to arrest those who "aggressively beat" and kicked Mr Mulu "while he lay on the floor and posed no threat,", the Associated Press reported.
Mr Mulu worked at a plant nursery and was in Beersheba to renew his visa, his employer told Israel's Army Radio, AP said.
A man who said he took part in the beating told Army Radio he did not realise Mr Mulu was not an attacker, the Times of Israel newspaper reported.
"I saw people coming and crowding around him, I understood from them that this was the terrorist," said the man, identified as Dudu.
"If I had known that this wasn't the terrorist I would have protected him like I protect myself," he said. "In a moment of fear and pressure, you do things you're not conscious of whatsoever."
Commenting on what happened, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said: "It's terrible. It shows you what a terrible situation we are in."
The assault on Mr Mulu happened amid pandemonium after an Israeli Arab Bedouin from nearby Hula opened fire and stabbed people at the bus station, killing 19-year-old Sgt Omri Levy.
The attacker, identified as 21-year-old Mohannad al-Okbi, snatched Sgt Levy's gun and continued shooting, injuring 10 people, before he was shot dead.
It was the latest in a wave of attacks on Israelis across the country and in Jerusalem, putting Israel on heightened security alert.
Extra troops have been deployed on the streets and police in Jerusalem have erected a concrete barrier between the Palestinian district of Jabal Mukaber, where three attackers have come from, and the neighbouring Jewish settlement of East Talpiot, also known as Armon Hanatziv.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas separately this week to try to find ways to calm the spiralling tension.
There has been a spate of stabbings of Israelis and some shootings - several of them fatal - by Palestinians since early October, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli. The attackers have struck in Jerusalem and across Israel, and in the occupied West Bank. Israel has tightened security and its security forces have clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza.
After a period of relative quiet, violence between the two communities has spiralled since clashes erupted at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site in mid-September. It was fuelled by rumours among Palestinians that Israel was attempting to alter a long-standing religious arrangement governing the site. Israel repeatedly dismissed the rumours as incitement. Soon afterwards, two Israelis were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank and the stabbing attacks began. Both Israel and the Palestinian authorities have accused one another of doing nothing to protect each other's communities.
There have been two organised uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation, in the 1980s and early 2000s. With peace talks moribund, some observers have questioned whether we are now seeing a third. The stabbing attacks seem to be opportunistic and although they have been praised by militant groups, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.
What is driving the latest violence?
Bulk mail is collected by other postal firms from businesses and passed to Royal Mail for sorting and delivery.
Royal Mail set out the price changes in January 2014, before withdrawing them.
Rival firm Whistl, which had planned its own delivery network, claimed the price hikes were anti-competitive.
Ofcom said its specific allegations include that "changes to Royal Mail's wholesale prices for bulk mail delivery services contained a differential in pricing which meant that, in practice, higher access prices would be charged to... customers that competed with Royal Mail in delivery than to those access customers that did not".
At the time that the price increase was proposed, TNT Post - now Whistl - was proposing to launch a rival bulk letter sorting and delivery service for business customers.
Following the price hike, it complained to the regulator about anti-competitive practice on the part of Royal Mail and ultimately gave up on its rival venture.
Ofcom said the higher wholesale prices Royal Mail was proposing to charge would "act as a strong disincentive against entry into the delivery market, further increasing barriers to expansion for postal operators seeking to compete with Royal Mail in this market, and leading to a potential distortion of competition against the interests of consumers".
Royal Mail initiated two price rises for its wholesale bulk delivery customers, one in November 2013 and then another in January 2014. It suspended and then withdrew the January 2014 price increase three months later after Whistl complained to Ofcom.
Royal Mail said on Tuesday it had co-operated with the regulator's investigations and would now carefully consider Ofcom's provisional findings.
It promised to "submit a robust defence to Ofcom in due course".
The 500 year-old company added in a statement: "Royal Mail takes its compliance obligations very seriously and is disappointed by Ofcom's announcement. The company considers that the pricing changes proposed in 2014 were fully compliant with competition law.
"They were an important part of Royal Mail's commercial response to both changing market conditions and to Ofcom's statements in its March 2013 guidance document on end-to-end competition in the postal sector.
"Under the terms of our access contracts, these pricing proposals were suspended following the opening of Ofcom's investigation. Accordingly, the pricing proposals were never implemented and were withdrawn altogether in March 2015."
The Statement of Objections from the regulator into the behaviour of Royal Mail comes a fortnight after the regulator confirmed the scope of a review into the company's operations.
The review could result in a price cap being imposed on the postal operator, it said.
Ofcom's inquiry will examine the "efficient and financially sustainable provision" of the UK's universal postal service - in other words, Royal Mail's commitment to deliver to all of the UK for the same price.
The general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), Dave Ward, accused Ofcom of "overstepping the mark" and undermining its "primary objective".
He added: "It is depressing that Ofcom seems to have learnt very little from the demise of Whistl.
"Competition for competition sake, seems more ideological than it does practical for a 21st Century postal industry. It is a 20th Century approach for a 21st Century problem.
"Their focus on competition in a declining letters market so far has shown that it risks jobs and drives down terms and conditions; as well as, further risking quality of service to the 29 million UK addresses reliant on our six day a week postal service."
Neil McEvoy's counsel, Jonathan Gwyn Mendus Edwards, was suspended for four months in 2013.
Councillor and AM Mr McEvoy previously said "I call out any abuse that I see".
On Wednesday, he said Mr Edwards's past had "no bearing" on his case.
Mr McEvoy was suspended from being a Cardiff councillor for a month on Friday, after the Adjudication Panel for Wales tribunal found a comment he made amounted to "bullying behaviour" towards a council officer.
Mr McEvoy called the tribunal proceedings a "farce".
The South Wales Central AM was later suspended from Plaid Cymru's assembly group as a party inquiry into his conduct continued.
On his decision to instruct Mr Mendus Edwards, Mr McEvoy told BBC Wales: "Jonathan's work has been pro-bono, meaning I have not employed him.
"Mr Edwards's past is a matter for him and has no bearing on my case. He is a legal barrister, permitted to practice."
Mr Mendus Edwards said his client knew the facts shortly before his tribunal hearing.
Referring to his own disciplinary matter, he said: "The facts included a miscarriage of justice in that my own barrister failed to attend my trial.
"He was disciplined for causing me prejudice. No one should have to represent themselves, but they made me do it. It is difficult to fight cases given our complaints culture.
"I support my three daughters in everything they do. And my wife supports me."
Mr Mendus Edwards stood for Plaid Cymru in Gower in the 1983 general election.
Plaid Cymru did not want to comment.
Conservative Chris Grayling said costs were the reason for his overruling of a plan for Transport for London (TfL) to take over suburban rail services.
But in a 2013 letter he sent then London mayor Boris Johnson, Mr Grayling said he did not want a potential Labour mayor to have control of trains.
He is yet to comment on the letter.
In the letter to Mr Johnson, who was in favour of having TfL take over Southern, Southeastern and South West metro services, Mr Grayling said he had "no fears" if the Tories were in charge.
Conservative MP Bob Neill, who is chairman of the select committee, said the views expressed in the letter - which was leaked to the Evening Standard - meant Mr Grayling was "unfit for office" and "acted for party political reasons".
He also said the Transport Secretary had "compromised his position and should resign".
Mr Neill added it was dishonest when Mr Grayling told MPs his decision was for financial reasons.
Labour London Assembly Member Andrew Dismore said: "It's the greatest shame for passengers that the minister's political point scoring has seemingly taken precedence over their needs.
"The fact remains that where TfL have managed services we've seen some of the best performances.
"If allowing TfL to manage suburban rail franchises will mean paying passengers get better, more reliable services, then we need to move passed this pettiness and make it happen."
Labour's Sadiq Khan, who became London's mayor in May, said giving TfL control of trains was the only way to improve "shocking" passenger service.
Minister for London and Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell said: "This is obviously a letter that was written a long time ago.
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Kvitova, 26, said she was "fortunate to be alive" following a "burglary" incident on Tuesday when she struggled with an intruder.
Surgeons spent almost four hours repairing tendons and nerves on her left hand - her playing hand.
Her spokesman said that considering the damage, "the surgery went well".
"The injury is serious, but the surgeon says Petra is young and healthy and there is no reason why she can't resume tennis," publicist Karel Tejkal told the AFP news agency.
According to her manager Katie Spellman, Kvitova will wear a cast for six to eight weeks and cannot bear weight on the injured hand for at least three months.
That rules her out of the Australian Open next month, which is the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2017 tennis season.
It is understood she allowed someone posing as a utilities man access to her apartment in Prostejov, Czech Republic, and while defending herself in a struggle, suffered the injuries to her hand. The intruder is believed to have then run away and is being sought by police.
Earlier on Tuesday, Kvitova said she was "shaken", adding the injury was "severe" but that she would "fight this".
Tejkal added: "It was a random crime, nobody was going to attack or rob her as Petra Kvitova."
Kvitova is ranked 11 in the world and has won a career total of 19 titles, including Grand Slam victories at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014.
"Thank you for all your heart-warming messages.
"As you may have already heard, today I was attacked in my apartment by an individual with a knife. In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand.
"I am shaken, but fortunate to be alive. The injury is severe and I will need to see specialists, but if you know anything about me I am strong and I will fight this. Thank you all again for your love and support and now I would appreciate some privacy while I focus on my recovery."
Kvitova had announced earlier on Tuesday that a foot injury forced her to withdraw from January's Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia.
She had only returned from pre-season training in Lanzarote last week, despite her right foot requiring a protective boot for much of the time.
It meant her hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the season were already doubtful, with the Australian Open getting under way on 16 January.
Kvitova had finished the 2016 season strongly, picking up titles in Wuhan and Zuhai, as well as winning the Women's Tennis Association's annual sportsmanship award, for the fourth year in succession.
The office, leisure and hotel development - valued at more than £100m - is due for completion in the summer.
Construction firm Morgan Sindall said work was halted on 7 April to review and improve procedures for handling waste and housekeeping on the site.
The Health and Safety Executive confirmed concerns had been raised.
In February, work was stood down after a forklift truck collided with fencing on the site, prompting a review of operations.
A spokesman for Morgan Sindall said of the waste situation: "The day-to-day operation of busy city centre construction sites inevitably results in the generation of waste material.
"Our procedures relating to the safe storage and appropriate disposal of this material are reviewed regularly as a matter of course, as part of our ongoing commitment to prioritise safety on all of our sites.
"On Friday 7 April we took the decision to temporarily stand down the Marischal Square site in order to review and improve the arrangements in place for waste management and general site housekeeping."
The company added: "A member of the Health and Safety Executive coincidentally attended on the following day, as part of an unscheduled site inspection.
"We informed them of our decision to stand the site down the previous day, had identified and were addressing the storage and removal of site debris in question, and restated our intention to ensure our own high standards are upheld by everyone working on the site."
A spokesperson for HSE said: "We can confirm that concerns were raised to us.
"Contractors at the site below have agreed to improvements highlighted by the HSE when we visited the site in Aberdeen earlier this month."
Writing in Fortune magazine, the world's highest-earning female athlete urges black women to be "fearless" and to "fight for every penny".
She wrote: "Speak out for equal pay. Every time you do, you're making it a little easier for a woman behind you."
Campaigners in the UK have hailed her initiative, saying that there should be action on the pay gap.
Her comments were published to highlight black women's equal pay day.
Williams, who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, has previously complained about racism and sexism, both inside and outside tennis.
In her article, she said that black women in the US were affected much more by gender discrimination than white women.
Black women earn only 63 cents for every dollar a man earns and black women earn 17% less than white female counterparts, she wrote.
She also argued that black female university graduates were paid less, and that this discrimination was as strong in the high-paying high-tech industries of Silicon Valley as among workers in inner cities.
That, she said, meant that black women would need to work on average eight months longer every year than their male counterparts just to earn the same amount of money.
"Unfair pay has prevailed for far too long with no consequence," Williams said.
"The issue isn't just that black women hold lower-paying jobs. They earn less even in fields of technology, finance, entertainment, law, and medicine," added the tennis star.
Her article argued that the injustice of lower pay can be tackled by legal changes, "employer recognition", and courageous workers demanding more.
But a vital step, she said, was for the problem to be put in the spotlight.
"We need to push this issue to the front of conversations, so that employers across the US can truly understand that all male and female employees must be compensated equally," she argued.
"Not close. Not almost the same. Equally," she emphasised.
To some eyes, it might appear incongruous that one of the world's richest women - she reportedly earned $27m last year - should be raising a standard for equal pay for poorer black women.
But in her article, Williams addressed that head-on.
"I am in the rare position to be financially successful beyond my imagination," she acknowledged.
"I had talent, I worked like crazy and I was lucky enough to break through.
"But today isn't about me. It's about the other 24 million black women in America.
"If I never picked up a tennis racket, I would be one of them; that is never lost on me," she added.
The Fawcett Society, a long-established charity that campaigns for women's rights, welcomed the tennis star's stance.
"It's great that Serena Williams has used her position as the best tennis player of her generation to call for action on the pay gap for black women in the US," said Andrew Bazeley of the society.
"Fawcett research with the University of Manchester has found that in the UK women from almost all ethnic groups are paid less than white British men.
"Black African women have a gap of 20% for full-time work and progress has stagnated for them since the 1990s.
"Pakistani and Bangladeshi women see a 26% gap overall, putting them where white British women were in the 1990s," he added.
Frances O'Grady, head of the TUC trade union organisation in the UK, echoed those comments.
"It's time for government to require employers to publish pay data broken down by ethnicity," she said.
"Then we can see where the problems are and put pressure on bosses to close the pay gap."
The event, one of the largest in the of its kind in Europe, starts on 4 June.
Organisers said that in 2014 there had been safety issues on the A685 when people arrived too early with trailers.
Restrictions will be put in place to reduce roadside parking, but there will be spaces provided for traditional bowtop caravans and horse grazing.
Dr Robin Hooper, chief executive of Eden District Council, said: "People arriving too early with trailers are not respecting the fair and are disrupting the outlying communities around Appleby.
"So please, plan your journey well and use the stopping places provided."
2 March 2016 Last updated at 13:36 GMT
Point its app at a Coke can, for instance, and it may play you a tune from Spotify.
The software does this by recognising objects and then superimposing information or triggering an action.
The firm's founder Ambarish Mitra gave the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones a demo.
The man coerced children in Norway and the Philippines to engage in filmed sex acts.
He was convicted of sending cash to a family in the Philippines so they could arrange for the abuse to take place.
Some of the sex involved children under the age of 14 and was streamed live on the internet. NRK said he abused 62 children, 20 from the Philippines.
It said that he was found guilty of six counts of child sex abuse.
The man, who has not been named but is from Bergen, transferred his disability benefits to a family in the Philippines who then arranged for the children to be abused, TheLocal.no reported.
The other 42 children in the case were tricked by the man on various internet chat services when he pretended to be a young teenager in order to win the trust of his victims and then manipulate them into carrying out sex acts, Local.no said.
In November, Norwegian police carried out "Operation Darkroom", arresting more than 50 men who were suspected of taking part in a separate online paedophile network.
Those held by police came from all sections of society, NewsinEnglish.No reported.
Robinson, 21, played for the Trotters development squad while on loan from the Premier League outfit last season.
The Saints academy graduate played just once for the first team, as a substitute in a League Cup win against Sheffield Wednesday in September 2012.
He becomes the fourth addition to the Bolton squad, joining Neil Danns, Liam Trotter and Liam Feeney at the club.
Lawrence put the hosts ahead with a free-kick before Hope Akpan levelled.
Christophe Berra's close-range finish restored Town's lead and Lawrence made it 3-1 with a superb 30-yard strike.
Danny Graham pulled a goal back from the penalty spot after Akpan was brought down by Adam Webster, but Rovers could not find a late equaliser.
Defeat leaves Owen Coyle's Blackburn side one point and one place adrift of safety after 26 games, while the victory lifts Ipswich two places up to 14th in the table.
In a bright start by the hosts, Freddie Sears twice called Rovers goalkeeper Jason Steele into action, while at the other end Sam Gallagher was menacing, with Bartosz Bialkowski denying the forward in a one-on-one.
Lawrence then squeezed a free-kick under Steele for the opening goal, only for Akpan to respond before half-time, meeting a cut-back pass from Graham to level just before the break,
A Lawrence corner led to Berra's goal and the 23-year-old, on loan from Leicester City, added a tremendous third before Graham gave the visitors late hope in an entertaining game.
Following the match, Town boss Mick McCarthy also revealed that the Championship club had signed 24-year-old striker Kieffer Moore from National League side Forest Green on an 18-month deal.
Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy:
"Tom [Lawrence] is flying at the minute and he should rejoice in the fact that he is playing as well as he is in a struggling side.
"He has been carrying us with his performances and goals and he will have plenty of options in the summer. He should just enjoy his football at the minute and the rewards will come by playing like that.
"There has been some doom and gloom which comes with not winning games and not playing well. But I thought we put in a good performance and should have won more comfortably."
Blackburn Rovers boss Owen Coyle:
"I thought we were cutting out the individual errors, but the goals we gave away were cheap and avoidable, although Tom Lawrence's was a contender for goal of the season.
"We now have a run of home games to move ourselves up the league."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 3, Blackburn Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 3, Blackburn Rovers 2.
Attempt missed. Freddie Sears (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Grant Ward.
Attempt missed. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Paul Digby replaces Kevin Bru.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town).
Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers).
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Liam Feeney tries a through ball, but Danny Graham is caught offside.
Joshua Emmanuel (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers).
Foul by Freddie Sears (Ipswich Town).
Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town).
Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Ben Marshall tries a through ball, but Marvin Emnes is caught offside.
Goal! Ipswich Town 3, Blackburn Rovers 2. Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Adam Webster (Ipswich Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Blackburn Rovers. Hope Akpan draws a foul in the penalty area.
Offside, Ipswich Town. Bartosz Bialkowski tries a through ball, but Tom Lawrence is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Freddie Sears (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Charlie Mulgrew tries a through ball, but Marvin Emnes is caught offside.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town).
Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Grant Ward replaces Andre Dozzell.
Andre Dozzell (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andre Dozzell (Ipswich Town).
Liam Feeney (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Joshua Emmanuel (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt missed. Liam Feeney (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Darragh Lenihan.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Marvin Emnes replaces Elliott Bennett.
Foul by Joshua Emmanuel (Ipswich Town).
Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Ipswich Town 3, Blackburn Rovers 1. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers).
Diver and photographer Kevin McIlwee lost his camera in July when the clip securing it to him came off, causing his camera to fall to the seabed.
But while diving at St Brelade on Sunday, Josh Dearing found the device.
Mr Dearing was "amazed" to find the camera still worked despite being "covered in cuttlefish eggs".
Owner Mr McIlwee told the BBC it was a "massive relief" to be reunited with the equipment.
The camera was undamaged during its time under water.
"The saving grace was that the camera was in a vacuum sealed box," he said.
"Once sea water penetrates into equipment it will deteriorate in seconds.
"Everything is working as it was before."
Councils in Fife, the Lothians, and the Borders have joined together to bid for up to £2bn from a scheme aimed at stimulating investment that involves both the UK and Scottish governments.
The deal would grant councils the power to introduce a levy on visitors.
It is likely that the money would be ringfenced for culture and leisure use.
A final decision on the City Deal - similar to those signed in Glasgow and Aberdeen - is expected in March.
The 22-year-old, from Lenzie, near Glasgow, and Michaella McCollum, from Co Tyrone, were jailed in 2013 for attempting to smuggle cocaine to Spain.
The Foreign Office confirmed Reid's expulsion.
It is understood she may not be able to go home until later this week as the Peruvian prosecutor has three working days to contest the judge's ruling.
Reid has served about a third of her sentence of six years and eight months.
As a result, under Peruvian law she is eligible to be deported. She has also paid a fine of 10,000 Peruvian soles, just over £2,000.
A statement from the judge, Ana Zapata Huertas, said Reid had repented of the crime she had committed and declared her intention never to commit such a crime again.
A Foreign Office spokesman person said: "We can confirm that Melissa Reid has been granted expulsion from Peru. We remain in contact with Melissa, her family and local authorities."
McCollum, 23, was freed last month after serving two years and three months in prison.
However, it is anticipated she will have to remain in Peru for a considerable period as part of her parole conditions.
McCollum and Reid were caught with an estimated £1.5m of cocaine at Lima airport on 6 August 2013 while attempting to board a flight to Madrid, in Spain.
The pair were caught with 24lb (11kg) of cocaine in food packets hidden inside their luggage.
They had claimed they were forced to carry the drugs, but pleaded guilty to charges later that year.
They had faced the prospect of a maximum 15-year prison term but struck a behind-closed-doors plea bargain to secure a shorter sentence.
Following her release, McCollum told Irish state broadcaster RTE she had been "very naive, so young and very insecure".
"A lot of times I didn't know how to say no to somebody," she said.
"I kind of just followed along with it and I guess a part of me kind of wanted to be something I'm not.
"But, simply, I made a decision in my moment of madness."
Reid's father Billy has previously said the impact of his daughter's imprisonment on his family had been "horrendous".
He said: "It's horrendous to see your daughter in handcuffs and the living conditions that she has to put up with.
"Melissa has spent her own 20th and 21st birthdays in prison in Peru."
But service sector firms' prospects indicate a stalling or contracting economy in the longer term, research firm IHS Markit said.
This could be due to heightened uncertainty about the economic outlook and Brexit process, it said.
Firms also face a "relentless burden of inflationary cost pressures" after the Brexit vote-related fall in the pound.
"While the current picture remained one of an economy showing overall resilience in the face of concerns about the outlook, the subdued level of business optimism suggests it's likely that growth will at least remain modest and could easily weaken in coming months," said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit.
The IHS Markit/CIPS services Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 53.8 in July from June's four-month low of 53.4. A figure above 50 indicates expansion.
While manufacturing exporters have gained from the fall in the pound since last year's Brexit vote, Thursday's survey indicated consumer-facing businesses are being hit by a reduction in demand due to stretched household budgets.
The service sector in the UK, which accounts for about 80% of the economy, had subdued output growth as the amount of new work failed to match levels seen earlier in the year, IHS Markit said.
However, the lacklustre performance did not stop employers from taking on more staff, with job creation seeing its strongest growth for a year-and-a-half.
Justin Zatouroff, head of business services at KPMG UK, said: "Despite input price inflation and difficulties in finding staff with the right skills affecting the wider performance of the UK economy, the services sector continues to employ more people and see continued growth in revenue.
"However, the ongoing political and economic uncertainty continues to erode confidence in the future performance of the sector."
Potsford Farm at Letheringham has been set up to provide a service which allows patients or clients to work with animals and crops.
Nathan Nobbs, psychiatric nurse at the farm, said: "It leads to improved self-esteem, self-worth and confidence."
Suffolk County Council is aiming to oversee the establishment of 10 care farms by 2012.
Suffolk social services or the NHS refers patients to the farm and pays for their therapy.
Those who attend work with staff and volunteers for up to three days a week at the 200 acre (81 hectares) site near the River Deben.
Mr Nobbs, a former ward manager at St Clements Hospital in Ipswich, said: "Just being outside and surrounded by animals and this environment, people won't believe the impact that can have on people with mental health and learning difficulties," he said.
"The relationship these people can have with the animals is completely non-judgemental, it's peaceful and just so therapeutic."
The farm has Red Poll cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, horses and a livery yard.
The owners, Stephen and Marion Fletcher, bought the farm in the 1990s and ran it as a business.
Mr Fletcher said: "It was falling into disrepair, needed an injection of capital and hopefully it's set up for the next decade or so.
"The concept is that we will grow these things and package and sell them as a product from the farm."
Rachel Regan, 43, and Deborah McDonald, 40, have been charged over allegations of inappropriate behaviour at a school in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
Ch Supt Angela Williams said: "The two women were members of staff at the school and were suspended immediately."
Ms Regan, from Illingworth, and Ms McDonald, from Halifax, both in West Yorkshire, will appear at Calderdale Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling says BA can lease nine Qatar A320 and 321 planes and crew after advice from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
BA will use the staffed planes to minimise flight cancellations and passenger disruption from Saturday.
The 16-day strike was prompted by what Unite union calls BA's "poverty pay".
The long-running industrial action concerns around 2,000 of the airline's mixed-fleet staff who, if they joined since 2010, fly short and long-haul routes mainly from Heathrow airport and earn less than cabin crew on earlier agreements.
The airline has already cancelled a small number of flights from Heathrow and merged others, but the leasing deal with Qatar means BA will be able to get the vast majority of passengers to their destinations.
A spokeswoman for the carrier said: "We will operate 99.5% of our schedule. Our Oneworld partner, Qatar Airways, will be operating a small number of short-haul flights on our behalf."
"We have merged a very small number of Heathrow long-haul services and all customers affected have been notified over the past week."
The airline needed to apply for approval from Mr Grayling and the CAA had to make a recommendation to the minister because the Qatari aircraft and crew are coming in from outside the European Union.
A spokesperson for the UK Civil Aviation Authority said: "An application by British Airways to temporarily 'wet lease' [hiring plane and crew] nine Qatar-registered aircraft has today been approved by the UK Department for Transport."
Unite had requested the CAA recommend blocking the wet-lease deal, claiming it broke EU regulations and cited concerns over Qatar's human rights and labour standards record.
The union brought about the unprecedented strike action because of a pay dispute and it claimed the airlines had removed concessions and perks for staff if they had taken part in previous strike action.
Unite national officer Oliver Richardson said: "Vindictive threats from British Airways amount to corporate bullying from an airline more interested in punishing workers on poverty pay than addressing why cabin crew have been striking."
But one player recently went the extra mile - literally - to try to earn a contract with Cambridge United.
The trialist, whose name has not been revealed, was due to join the League Two side at their pre-season training camp in the Netherlands.
To give the player a helping hand, U's chief executive Jez George arranged to pick him up from Eindhoven Airport at 8:35 in the morning.
However, sleep deprived after driving through the night, and thinking he had "about eight or 10 hours to kill with this lad I don't know" because the rest of the squad weren't arriving until later, George made a mistake with predictable consequences.
"I put petrol in my diesel car," the 46-year-old said.
"After much hilarity in the petrol station afterwards, because I drove for about 1.5 miles chugging away, we got the breakdown services out and the guy managed to drain the tank.
"Our trialist learned how to push a car, then walked back and carried some diesel and we managed to get through it. The car's in good working order."
If the player fails to win a deal with Shaun Derry's side, maybe he could consider a career with a breakdown service.
He made 36 appearances last season, including as a substitute in the Championship play-off final.
Kelly, 21, has been with Reading since the age of eight.
"He took first-team football in his stride last season and certainly deserves this new contract," chief executive Nigel Howe said.
On Thursday, Florentin's St Etienne play the first leg of their last-32 tie at Manchester United's Old Trafford.
"It's not going to be easy for her but at the same time what a fantastic moment it'll be for her to see her sons playing out there," the defender said.
"Maybe the best result for her will be a draw."
"But we'll be going all out to get the best result for ourselves. Whoever wins she'll be happy in some respect."
Paul, 23, is the world's most expensive player, having joined United for $111m from Italian champions Juventus in August, and represents France, where he was born.
Florentin, born in the Guinean capital Conakry prior to his parents' move to France, has been with French side St Etienne since 2012 and first played for his West African nation in 2010.
He says that Thursday's match will be the first time the brothers, who grew up near the French capital Paris, have properly clashed on a football pitch.
"It's going to be a magical moment and I hope we can both enjoy it as much as we can," the 26-year-old said.
"We love sport and I have beaten him quite a bit at table tennis, but they're the only times I can think of that we've played against each other.
"We've never played against each other or even with each other before in the professional game. It is probably because of the age gap that we've never managed to be on the same side."
Normally a centre-back, Florentin has not been a regular starter for St Etienne this season but has recently settled back into the side at left-back.
Earlier this month, he told Europe's governing football body Uefa that it would be 'weird' facing his younger brother.
"It's incredible and rare so we are going to make the most of it," he told Uefa.com.
"It will be weird because I will be marking him in a European competition. If I have to mark him, I'll mark him with the same determination as any player."
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho agrees that the players' mother will find the clash hard.
"It is not difficult, it is impossible, for the lady to choose," the Portuguese said.
"I know from Paul that the mum wants a draw but, next week, one son will be happy and the other one will be sad.
"Paul is excited, Florentin for sure the same. So I think it is a good thing."
Saint-Etienne are fifth in Ligue 1 while United lie sixth in the Premier League, where they have gone 16 games without defeat.
A third Pogba brother, Florentin's twin Mathias, is also a footballer, playing for Sparta Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
International creditors will detail economic reforms needed if Greece is to receive further funding.
Mr Tsipras has already said he has new proposals of his own that would involve painful concessions.
A €300m (£216m) payment from cash-strapped Greece to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is due on Friday.
The draft deal has been put together by the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank following emergency talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.
Mr Tsipras is to hold talks later on Wednesday with European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says that while this deal may not quite be a take-it-or-leave-it offer, there appears to be little room for manoeuvre.
Patience is wearing thin after months of acrimonious negotiations, he says.
Details of the draft agreement have not been released, but a senior EU official quoted by Reuters said it covers "all key policy areas and reflects the discussions of recent weeks".
Mr Tsipras's far-left Syriza party won elections in January on a pledge to oppose deeply unpopular austerity measures imposed by Greece's creditors.
Breaking those promises would be a bitter pill for the Greek prime minister to swallow, our correspondent adds.
However, failure to reach a deal could trigger a Greek default and a potential exit from the eurozone.
On Tuesday, Mr Tsipras said he had submitted "a realistic plan for Greece to exit the crisis".
He said the plan included "concessions that will be difficult".
Syriza parliamentary spokesman Nikos Filis reiterated on Tuesday that the government would not sign an agreement that was incompatible with its anti-austerity programme.
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 deadlock with international creditors over the release of €7.2bn in remaining bailout funds.
Mr Lloyd Webber said it was "crazy" that funding for music education had already been "slashed" and faced "even further cuts".
The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) opposes government proposals for cuts to local authority music spending.
The government said it had committed £196m over three years to music.
The Department for Education says the money is channelled into 123 music hubs under the National Plan for Music Education.
It argues this means local authority spending on music will be less necessary.
A DfE consultation document suggests local authorities should consider cutting the amount they allocate to music from a central government grant.
The Education Services Grant (ESG) is paid per pupil to local authorities and academies to spend as they wish on pupil support and extra-curricular activities.
This can include anything from clothing and lodging grants to outdoor education, visual and performing arts and music education.
The document says £200m of savings are needed from the grant and suggests some of this could come from music.
"Our expectation is that music services should now be funded through music education hubs, which can cover one or more local authority areas, and from school budgets, not from the ESG," it says.
However, the ISM says national music education funding is also falling - from £82.5m in 2010-11 to £58m in 2014-15.
It urges teachers, heads, parents, pupils, governors, musicians and the music industry to respond to the consultation before it ends later this month.
It argues reduced local authority funding "would result in a cut of millions of pounds to music services" and would "undermine" successful delivery of the government's "visionary" National Plan for Music Education.
The ISM says English local authorities contributed over £14m to music in 2012-13.
"Even where this is not part of the ESG, the funding could be put at risk," it said.
"By tampering with the delicate ecology of music education, there could be unintended consequences such as undermining progression routes from school through to both university and conservatoire and an adverse impact on the creation of the next generation of musicians.
"With the music industry being worth over £3.5bn to the British economy, we simply cannot take this risk".
The campaign has the support of leading musicians.
Julian Lloyd Weber said: "Music should be the birthright of all children.
"There has been too much talking and not enough action.
"We really need to rise above this kind of 'will we get funding this year, will it come next year?'
"It should be taken as read that our children learn music."
Violinist Nicola Benedetti said: "It is is widely acknowledged that music education can improve numeracy, literacy and social interaction and it deeply confuses and saddens me that we are having to fight so hard to save it.
"This isn't an investment into the lives of musicians and artists but in that of our entire society. This fundamental misunderstanding could cost the soul of this nation dearly."
The Musicians Union said it was committed to supporting music education to ensure quality provision "is accessible to every child".
"This will not happen if funding for music education continues to be cut", said general secretary John Smith.
ISM chief executive Deborah Annetts, said: "It is vital that people respond to the government's consultation and get this damaging proposal removed".
A spokesman said the DfE would listen to the consultation responses before deciding how to proceed.
"We want every child in the country to have the opportunity to play and enjoy music. That is why music remains a statutory subject within the new national curriculum, and in fact there were more entries at GCSE in 2014 than the previous year.
"We have committed £171m over three years to 123 music hubs to ensure that every child aged five to 18 has the chance to learn a musical instrument and perform as part of ensembles and choirs.
"Thanks to these hubs, half a million children have been given the chance to learn a musical instrument for the first time and thousands of choirs, bands and orchestras have been started.
"We have also invested £84m so that exceptionally talented young musicians and dancers from low income families can benefit from specialist education and training."
The animals were part of Barry Christmas Story at St Mary's Church on Holton Road.
The Church in Wales apologised and said it acted swiftly after Thursday's bite.
A spokeswoman added: "As generations of Barry children have learnt from riding donkeys on the local beach they are among the more stubborn and unpredictable of God's creatures."
This comes after the church was criticised for using live donkeys in a Cardiff nativity scene, with animal welfare campaigners calling it "Victorian-style exploitation".
Speaking about the bite, the church spokeswoman said donkeys played "a crucial role in the nativity story and are a very popular addition to other church events throughout the year".
She added: "We would remind children to treat all donkeys with care and respect and ask families to keep a watchful eye on younger children in particular when in the company of these much loved animals."
Habibu Barrow died in hospital after being bitten by the dog last month at his aunt's house in a coastal resort near Banjul.
The attack happened before Mr Barrow was inaugurated and while he was still in Senegal for his safety.
The president, who recently returned to the Gambia, missed his son's funeral.
Reports say that Habibu - one of the president's five children - was mauled by the dog and sustained a head injury.
It is unclear why the dog attacked the young boy.
The animal, which had been certified rabies free, was put down on Tuesday, with a quick procedure.
The government official said the dog belonged to the aunt and had not attacked anyone before.
He said the attack had worried the family and they were comfortable with the action taken.
"We thought it's not safe for the community if the dog was on the streets," the official said.
Many homes in the upmarket area of Fajara, where Habibu was staying along with his mother and other siblings, have security dogs to ward off intruders.
Mr Barrow, who won elections in December, was living in neighbouring Senegal at the time after the previous Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh, refused to step down.
He returned to the Gambia last week after Mr Jammeh agreed to leave the country.
Adama Barrow: From estate agent to president
The 20-year-old full-back, who is on loan from Manchester United, has featured twice for the League One club.
Blades manager Chris Wilder said Riley has returned to United for a scan.
"It was a bit of a freak accident in training, something out of nothing. He stumbled and dislocated his shoulder," Wilder told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"It is desperately back luck for Joe and ourselves. It's not looking good for him in the short term.
"He has gone for a scan back at Manchester United. Those results will determine if he's back with us or if that's his season done."
The car was destroyed in the incident which happened in Bishop Street on Wednesday evening.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service are treating the fire as accidental.
Conor Morrow said it was a terrifying experience for himself and his grandfather Odhran.
Mr Morrow had switched on Odhran's oxygen tank to help him walk from the car to his home in Bishop Street, but it ignited inside the vehicle, burning his hand as he pushed his grandfather clear of the flames.
"When I turned it on, I sat it on top of where the seat is and I always turn it to number three which is the amount of oxygen he needs, litres per minute, and when I opened the valve there was like a click and the next thing I knew you could hear the air gushing out of it," he said.
"Fire started shooting out of it and I ran around the back of the car opened the passenger door and pushed my grandfather out of the car to get him away from the car.
"The car just went up, it was mad how quick it went up."
If the lab technique works in the field, it could offer a new way of stopping the biting insects from spreading malaria to humans, they say.
The scientists put a new "resistance" gene into the mosquito's own DNA, using a gene editing method called Crispr.
And when the GM mosquitoes mated - their offspring inherited the same resistance, PNAS journal reports.
In theory, if these mosquitoes bite people, they should not be able to pass on the parasite that causes malaria.
About 3.2bn people - almost half of the world's population - are at risk of malaria.
Bed nets, insecticides and repellents can help stop the insects biting and drugs can be given to anyone who catches the infection, but the disease still kills around 580,000 people a year.
Scientists have been searching for new ways to fight malaria.
The University of California team believe their GM mosquito could play a pivotal role - breeding resistant offspring to replace endemic, malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
They took a type of mosquito found in India - Anopheles stephensi - on which to experiment.
Dr Anthony James and his team showed that they could give the insect new DNA code to make it a poor host for the malaria parasite.
The DNA, which codes for antibodies that combat the parasite, was inherited by almost 100% of the mosquito offspring and across three generations.
The researchers say the findings offer hope that the same method could also work in other mosquito species.
Although it would not be a sole solution to the malaria problem, it would be a useful additional weapon, they say.
Prof David Conway, UK expert from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "It's not the finished product yet but it certainly looks promising. It does look like the genetic editing works."
Other scientists have been looking at genetically modifying mosquitoes to render them infertile, so that they die out. But some experts fear that eliminating mosquitoes entirely may have unforeseen and unwanted consequences. Replacing disease-carrying mosquitoes with harmless breeds is a potential alternative.
Scientists first heard the harsh call of the Sichuan bush warbler in 1987, but they only recently gathered enough data to formally describe it.
The new species, Locustella chengi, has been named after Prof Cheng Tso-hsin, a distinguished Chinese ornithologist.
The details have been published in the Avian Research journal.
"These birds are almost impossible to see when they are not singing," explained one of the scientists to describe the new species, Per Alstrom from the Swedish Species Information Centre, based at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
"If the species had not been singing when we first heard it back in 1987, we would never have seen it.
"They are incredibly difficult to see because they are so secretive, sneaking around in the dense vegetation, close to or on the ground. But when they are singing, you can hear them from quite a long distance.
He told BBC News: "By being patient or using tapes to attract them, you can see them - although they will stay in the dense habitat."
Harsh tones
The song of the new species is harsher than that of its closest relative, the russet bush warbler, and consists of a "drawn-out note followed by a shorter note that are repeated in series".
The team of researchers, from Sweden, China, Vietnam, the UK and US, carried out DNA analysis that showed the two birds were very closely related and were probably separated from a common ancestor about 850,000 years ago.
Prof Alstrom explained that the publication of the paper formally describing the Sichuan bush warbler came after a search lasting almost 30 years.
"I have been trying to find this bird ever since we first heard it back in 1987," he said. We suspected that it was something different, something new (to science).
"Last year, we had received information from colleagues that both these birds - the unknown species and the Russet Bush warbler - were present on the same mountain.
"We had not found both of them together previously, so we went there specifically to get more information on how they interacted together; whether they occurred in different habitats, etc, to see if they were actually ecologically and reproductively isolated in these areas."
Although the two species have slight differences in proportions, it is the the birds' songs that mark a clear distinction.
Prof Alstrom suggested that was probably the result of random processes that had resulted in the two species evolving different vocalisation patterns.
"It is probably a combination of chance factors, such as individuals undergoing vocal "mutation', and also sexual selection," he suggested.
"Songs are used to attract females and to deter other males from their territory, so there is probably a factor of strong sexual selection evolution involved in these differences."
Action on Sugar looked at 94 products on sale in the UK and found almost nine out of ten were more sugary than jelly sweets like Haribo.
The campaign group said children could eat fresh fruit and vegetables instead.
But the food industry said many fruit snacks did not contain extra added sugar - only the sugar that was naturally in the fruit.
Eating too much sugar can mean you put on weight; but it can also rot your teeth.
Katharine Jenner from Action on Sugar said: "Whole, unprocessed fruit is healthier than processed fruit snacks and fruit juice drinks, as it contains vitamins, minerals, water and fibre, and does not cause the devastating tooth decay we see in young children today."
A child would have to eat an entire pack of fresh strawberries to take in the same amount of sugar as in some processed fruit snacks.
Colin Michie, an expert in kids' health from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said that in some snacks, "the benefits of fruit have been sacrificed by covering them in yogurt and other sugary coatings".
But Barbara Gallani from the Food and Drink Federation which represents food producers, said: "Dried and pureed fruit and vegetables count as part of your 'five-a-day' under government guidance, alongside fresh, tinned and frozen."
She also pointed out that the sugar content of fruit snacks "is clearly listed on the pack".
Matthew Larsen was struck with a metal bar up to 20 times in the property at Ross House in Mount Vernon last Monday.
He remains critically ill at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
Ryan Taylor, 29, from Templemore Street in Belfast is also charged with threatening to kill two women. He has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm.
There was no application for bail at Belfast Magistrates' Court.
Mr Taylor will appear again by video link next month.
A woman appeared in court last week charged with the attempted murder of Mr Larsen.
Grainger, 39, won gold at London 2012 in the double sculls with Anna Watkins.
With new partner Vicky Thornley she failed to win a medal at last month's World Championships in France.
"At the moment I am not fast enough, I'm not good enough. But absolutely it's about going to win in Rio," Grainger told BBC Radio 5 live.
Grainger returned to the sport in September 2014 after a two-year sabbatical following her Olympic success in 2012.
The Scot will be 40 by the time the Games in Rio start but claims she remains motivated by the challenges ahead.
"I didn't win a medal at the World Championships so I'm not yet where I need to be," Grainger added.
"But it was always a two-year plan and project, and I'm at the half-way point now.
"You shouldn't be in at this level unless you are in it to win it. If I didn't still have the hunger and desire then I wouldn't do it."
In the first incident on Monday, masked gunmen killed at least five people in the town of Dalwah, a Shia Muslim area in eastern Saudi Arabia.
On Tuesday in a shootout believed to be linked to that attack, two suspected militants and two Saudi policemen were killed in Buraida, north of Riyadh.
Shias, who make up less than 15% of the Sunni-majority nation, are currently marking the festival of Ashura.
It commemorates the death of a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.
Monday's attack was in Dalwah in Ahsa district, one of the centres for Shia Muslims.
At least three attackers fired machineguns and pistols at a crowd that was leaving a building where ceremonies had been taking place, police said.
At least 15 people have been arrested in connection with the shooting.
One resident of Eastern Province, Nasima al-Sada, told Agence France-Presse: "It's very surprising because it's the first time. We are shocked."
Saudi Arabia's supreme council of Sunni clerics condemned the attack, saying: "The enemies of our religion and our homeland aim to attack our unity and stability."
There were few details of the second gun battle.
The Saudi Press Agency said that in addition to the dead, two security officers were wounded.
The interior ministry said the gun battle began when officers tried to arrest suspects believed to be involved in Monday's incident.
Shia Muslims have long complained of marginalisation by the Sunni royal family, with the Eastern Province, where most of the country's Shia live, seeing a spate of protests in the wake of the Arab Spring.
The Saudi government denies allegations of discrimination and blames Iran for stirring up discontent.
Kensington and Chelsea's own analysis shows it has built a fraction of the social housing the borough needs.
Developers can pay a fee if they can convince the council that affordable homes would make their plans unviable.
The council said it struggled to build affordable homes in a crowded area.
Kensington and Chelsea has been severely criticised for its failures over Grenfell Tower, including allegations that the regeneration of the tower was done on the cheap and that survivors of the blaze were not properly cared for.
At least 80 people died in the fire.
The disaster, in one of the richest areas in the country, has also thrown a spotlight on the council's attitude towards its poorest residents.
The council's policy is for half of homes in large housing schemes to be available for rent or sale at below market rates.
The official target is to build 200 affordable units - flats or houses - each year between 2011 and 2021.
But the council's own figures show that since 2011-12, just 336 units have been built; in 2012-13, just four were completed.
At the same time, Kensington and Chelsea struck deals with developers to pay it nearly £60m.
Since 2011, the council has agreed payments worth £59.7m, in what are known as Section 106 agreements.
The council is allowed to charge developers a fee if their scheme would ordinarily be liable to include social housing but its backers can convince officials that to do so would make the proposal unviable.
That headline figure includes £47.3m in 2016 alone.
The figures have been calculated for BBC News by EG, a property consultancy firm, whose work includes researching planning committee reports for Section 106 payments.
Senior analyst Graham Shone said payment to the council had undergone a "step change" on previous years.
"Maybe the council is a bit more receptive to those kinds of agreements going through as a way to encourage development across the borough," he said.
Developers Chelsfield plan to "reinvigorate, restore and celebrate" the block above Knightsbridge Tube station.
The design includes retail outlets at street level, new offices, 35 residential apartments, an underground car park and a rooftop garden and restaurant.
Given the size of the development, to comply with the council's own policy, the scheme should include affordable housing.
However, in their planning application, the architects say: "The size of units [flats] are larger than what would normally be associated with affordable housing based on the London Housing Design Guide."
They also argue the service charge on the flats "would far exceed what would be a sustainable level for affordable housing".
And while they had considered creating another lift to accommodate affordable housing, this would "compromise" the retail units on the ground floor.
A mix of private and affordable homes, they say, is therefore "not viable".
The council accepted the arguments, passed the scheme, and will receive £12.1m in lieu of affordable housing at the development.
The payments are meant to help the council provide affordable housing in other parts of the borough or to renovate existing stock.
A paper prepared for the council's cabinet last year shows that of the nearly £21m the council has received since 2009-10 for affordable homes, £9.2m remains unspent.
Developers can also pay fees to off-set other impacts of their schemes. And the same paper shows that of the total £57.3m that Kensington and Chelsea has received since 2009-10, £36.7m has still not been spent.
None of the developers' contributions has been used to improve air quality, libraries, sports facilities or healthcare, and very little has been spent on employment initiatives or children's playgrounds.
Robert Atkinson, head of the Labour group at Kensington and Chelsea, said he was shocked by the amount of money the council was receiving and how few affordable homes were being built.
"One of the beauties of living in London is you have a balanced population, and I do think we have a duty not to produce the prettiest ghost town in Western Europe.
"Our first loyalty should be to maintaining and strengthening our communities, and we have fallen down on that job terribly."
The need for affordable housing in Kensington and Chelsea is acute.
A Freedom of Information request submitted by the BBC last year showed the council had spent £28m providing temporary accommodation to homeless residents in 2015-16, a figure that has doubled in five years.
Almost three-quarters of those people are being housed outside the borough - the highest proportion in London.
The council said that "as the smallest London borough", with the second highest population density in England and Wales and 4,000 listed buildings, "the borough only has a limited capacity to deliver housing".
A spokesman said its policy of allowing developers to negotiate on affordable housing "stems from government policy".
"The council scrutinises any viability information provided by the applicants in detail and in some cases is able to secure higher proportions than those proposed by applicants," he added.
At the top of the North Wales UKIP list, and one of the new AMs elected, was Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who is currently a member of the European Parliament.
But a vacancy is set to appear after Mr Gill made it clear he wants to stand down from the European role - with suggestions he'll resign after the referendum.
And because of the rules that govern MEPs, his replacement could be one of the other UKIP members elected as AMs.
And if they do not want to head to Brussels, a by-election could be on the cards.
If an MEP resigns, a whole set of regulations kick in to find a replacement.
For the European elections, parties submit lists of names. UKIP got one Welsh MEP in May 2014 and so the number one on the list, Mr Gill, was elected.
Under the rules, the returning officer for the Wales region - currently the chief executive of Pembrokeshire council - would need to get in touch with the second person on the list and ask if they want to take up the position.
If that person cannot or does not want to do it, they can go to number three on the list and offer the position to them.
It is similar to what happens in the assembly if a sitting regional AM stands down - the next on the party list gets first refusal on whether they would like to take up the vacant post.
UKIP put forward four people for the 2014 European election when Nathan Gill was elected.
The first person that the returning officer could go to is James Cole, but he has left the party.
That would leave the choice to the third person on the list - Caroline Jones.
If she did not want the position, it could then be left to David Rowlands, 2014's UKIP number four.
Both were elected as AMs on 6 May. There appear to be no rules stopping an assembly member from being an MEP, but practicalities of travel may make it unrealistic and appear to be part of why Mr Gill has decided he does not want to do it.
It is unclear whether either Mr Rowlands or Ms Jones wants the role. If either took it up, and decided to leave the assembly, the process by which regional list AMs are replaced would then come into play.
Susan Boucher was next on the list for South Wales East after Mr Rowlands, while Martyn Ford followed Ms Jones in South Wales West.
A senior UKIP source said: "We've got a list of two people - one of those two is going to have to decide whether they would go to Brussels or stay."
"I imagine one of those two would take it."
If the process of trying to fill the vacancy by asking the remaining list candidates if they want the job fails, the UK government could call a by-election for the role.
Pembrokeshire council, which handled the European election in 2014, said UKIP only submitted four names for the poll, the maximum parties were allowed to submit.
But the senior UKIP source said that, although confident the party might win such a poll, it would not want that expense placed on the public purse.
The public vote, which is called a referendum, will happen on Thursday, 23 June 2016.
The European Union is a group of 28 countries in Europe whose governments work together.
It was set up to help make trading between European countries easier, as well as travel and immigration.
Find out more about the EU referendum in our guide here.
EU laws affect many areas of our lives as well - like health and safety rules, and even how many fish we're allowed to catch.
For the last 40 years that the UK's been a member of the EU, there's been a debate about our role within it.
Some feel that being part of this bigger club makes the UK richer and more important.
Others argue that the EU takes power away from the UK. They feel that people who aren't British shouldn't be making laws for this country.
Canadian Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the deceased person was an Alberta resident who had recently travelled to Beijing.
Calling the death an "isolated case", Ms Ambrose said the risk to the general population was low.
Ten people have died in Alberta this season from swine flu, or H1N1.
H5N1 infects the lower respiratory tract deep in the lung, where it can cause deadly pneumonia.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is difficult to transmit the virus from person to person but when people do become infected, the mortality rate is about 60%.
In the latest incident, the infected person first showed symptoms of the flu on an Air Canada flight from Beijing to Vancouver on 27 December, officials said.
The passenger continued on to Edmonton and on 1 January was admitted to hospital where they died two days later.
Dr Gregory Taylor, deputy chief public health officer for Canada told CBC News Network that the patient was relatively young, with no underlying health conditions.
People usually most susceptible to H5N1 are older with underlying health problems which make them weaker and less able to deal with the virus.
Ms Ambrose said Canadian officials were working with Chinese authorities on the case. But she stressed: "The risk of getting H5N1 is very low. This is not the regular seasonal flu. This is an isolated case."
Canadian authorities have followed up with all close contacts of the infected person and offered Tamiflu as a precaution. None of them have symptoms.
They said the infected person had not been to a poultry farm or had much contact with birds whilst they were in Beijing, so it is unclear how they caught the virus - which is usually contracted through very close contact between infected bird and humans.
According to the WHO, between 2003 and December 2013 there were 648 confirmed human cases of H5N1 infection in 15 countries, leading to 384 deaths.
Experts say that if the H5N1 virus were to mutate and become easily transmissible between humans, the consequences for public health could be very serious.
Timothy O'Leary, a WHO spokesperson, said the organization would not be changing its risk assessments on H5N1 in view on this development.
He said: "It usually takes two to eight days for symptoms of H5N1 to show up. So if anyone else were infected then we'd probably know about it by now.
"There is reason to be concerned but this appears to be an isolated case. It was imported from outside of northern America. We would be surprised if there were any cases related to this one from China. It's hard for people to get it."
Prof Nick Phin, a flu expert fro Public Health England, said: "H5N1 has been circulating in poultry over the last decade and occasionally humans are infected.
"Infection of humans causes severe illness with a high death rate, but the virus does not transmit readily from person-to-person."
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Jason McCartney put the Fermanagh visitors ahead on 43 minutes, nipping in to chip over keeper Eugene Ferry.
Bannsiders midfielder Joe McNeill hit the crossbar from a free-kick before firing off-target from McDaid's pass.
Ferry kept out a Johnny Lafferty effort before McDaid latched onto Neil McCaffrey's long ball and chested past keeper Feargal Murphy to net.
Murphy almost gifted Coleraine an early opener when his clearance was charged down by McDaid with the ball bouncing back off a post.
Ferry pushed out Liam Martin's angled drive while Gary Browne headed over from a McNeill cross.
Mallards striker Anthony Elding headed down from Liam McMenamin's free-kick and McCartney found space the slip the ball over an advancing Ferry.
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It was a tall order for a 12-minute speech, which reflects the complicated, fraught-with-peril position in which the president currently finds himself.
He was elected to help disentangle the nation from a Middle East war, and now a majority of the American public seems to support a new military incursion into that same region.
He ran for office as the face of a more diverse, inclusive country, and yet some of the Republicans who hope to replace him have called for a religious test for Syrian refugees, racial profiling of Muslim Americans and closing down "any place where radicals are being inspired", in the words of Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
Mr Obama has claimed that the US is winning the war against al-Qaeda and compared its spin-off groups to a "JV team" - a term for the squad of lesser athletes in a high school sport programme. But a series of ideologically inspired attacks on US soil, along with the bloodshed in Paris last month, has Americans increasingly concerned.
For the first time Mr Obama acknowledged that the nation faces a pattern of violence inspired by "a perverted interpretation of Islam that calls for war against America and the West".
He drew a line connecting the shootings at Fort Hood, a Texas military base, the Boston Marathon bombings, an attack on an Army recruiting station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the recent bloodshed in San Bernardino and said it represents a "new phase" of terrorist threat to the US.
"As we've become better at preventing complex multifaceted attacks like 9/11," he said, "terrorists turn to less complicated acts of violence like the mass shootings that are all too common in our society."
That reference to the recent strings of US mass shootings - at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and a church in South Carolina, for instance - was not simply made in passing, as would be clear later in the president's speech.
After outlining the steps his administration was already taking to defeat the so-called Islamic State (IS), he spoke of what he sees as a real threat to US security - the nation's lax gun laws.
He said individuals on the federal "no-fly" list, which prevents suspected militants from boarding US aircraft, should be prohibited from purchasing guns.
"What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semiautomatic weapon?" he asked. "This is a matter of national security."
More than that, however, Mr Obama called for Congress to pass legislation making it harder for every American to obtain "powerful assault weapons, like the ones that were used in San Bernardino".
The president has often urged greater regulation of firearms, but now he is explicitly making the case in terms of safeguarding the nation against threats both at home and inspired abroad.
"The fact is that our intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, no matter how effective they are, cannot identify every would-be mass shooter," he said, "whether that individual was motivated by ISIL or some other hateful ideology".
Mr Obama's call comes the day after the New York Times issued a rare front-page editorial in which it proposed a ban on "military-style" semi-automatic rifles, prompting outcry from gun-rights groups.
One conservative commentator, Erick Erickson, tweeted a picture of the newspaper, riddled with bullet holes. The president's proposal will likely receive a similarly hostile reception.
"Millions of Americans have chosen to protect themselves and their families by purchasing a firearm," Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said in a statement released shortly before the president's speech. "This is their right; indeed protecting their families is their obligation."
Mr Obama also asked Congress to provide him with a direct authorisation for the use of force to fight IS and for more thorough screening of visitors who currently enter the US without a visa to see if they've been to war zones, but those requests will likely be overshadowed by the gun-control issue - and questions about Mr Obama's overall IS strategy.
Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that the president's speech comes in the middle of a heated battle among Republicans for their party's presidential nomination.
For the better part of a year, many candidates on the right have been warning that IS presents a pressing national security threat that is being underestimated by the current administration.
After the Paris attacks and, in particular, after the San Beranardino shootings, some of the Republicans who hope to replace Mr Obama in the White House are claiming vindication.
"We need to come to grips with the idea that we are in the midst of the next world war," New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, another presidential aspirant, said on Friday.
Mr Obama acknowledged the reality of the US electoral calendar toward the end of his Sunday night speech, after urging Americans not to "turn against one another" or frame the conflict as a war between the US and Islam.
"Even in this political season, even as we properly debate what steps I and future presidents must take to keep our country safe, let's make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional," he said.
"Let's not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear. That we have always met challenges, whether war or depression, natural disasters or terrorist attacks, by coming together around our common ideals as one nation and one people."
Donald Trump offered his brusque reply the speech shortly after its conclusion.
"Is that all there is?" tweeted current Republican front-runner. "We need a new president - FAST!"
Until the US presidential race concludes in just under 11 months, national unity is going to be hard to find.
United secured their Premier League status on the final day of the season.
"John Carver rang me and told me the club weren't going to offer me a new deal," Taylor told Sky Sports News.
"Then he asked me to pass the phone to Jonas, which was unbelievable."
Defender Taylor, 30, spent six years at St James' Park, while midfielder Gutierrez, 31, had been at the club since 2008.
Gutierrez, who has fought testicular cancer, scored in a 2-0 win over West Ham as Newcastle avoided relegation.
Taylor said he had some sympathy for Carver.
"I spoke to him and he seemed upset about telling two good pros, who have been there a long time, that it's come to an end," said the defender.
"I can't really blame John because he's under instructions on what to do."
The pair are currently in Belfast at a coaching course.
The property is one of two rare 17th Century townhouses in Denmark Street to be listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
An outbuilding connected to one of the properties features graffiti on the walls drawn by Johnny Rotten.
Last year, academics said the graffiti may be of greater significance than the discovery of early Beatles recordings.
Rotten, born John Lydon and lead singer of Sex Pistols, wrote obscenities and drew caricatures on the walls after taking a dislike to a recent redecoration while the band were based there in the mid-1970s.
Grade II* is the second highest category that buildings can be listed as - currently only 5.5% of listed buildings have the status.
The buildings have been upgraded from Grade II after Historic England recommended they be protected for their cultural importance and well-preserved architectural detail.
The properties are two of eight original buildings to survive on a street that was laid out between 1686 and 1691, Historic England said.
Both have retained many of their original features such as panelling, cornices and staircases.
Denmark Street is where Melody Maker magazine was founded in 1926, and in the 60s and 70s the area became central to the punk scene.
Posy Metz, the listings adviser who assessed the buildings, said: "Punk is a really important part of our cultural history and including it in the listing is a way of recognising that.
Tourism and heritage minister David Evennett said: "These 17th Century townhouses not only exhibit well-preserved architectural detail but helped nurture Soho's influence on the global music industry during the 60s and 70s.
"I'm delighted to be granting further protection to these buildings which acted as a home and studio to the Sex Pistols."
In remarks to top US executives on Thursday, Mr Obama went on to criticise Mr Xi on human rights and accused him of worrying China's neighbours by tapping into nationalistic sentiment.
China's foreign ministry has said it will study Mr Obama's comments more closely before responding.
Commenting to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, academic Tao Wenzhao, of China's Academy of Sciences, says Mr Obama "should have shown mutual respect and tried to understand China's position, its development path and government", rather than speaking out.
"The president of the US, even with some constraints, has great powers, yet you don't see China giving comments on that issue," he adds.
International relations analyst Jin Canrong agrees that Mr Obama was "careless" but insists the remarks will have little impact on ties.
In fact, he tells the paper, "such careless comments indicate that the two countries' relations are very stable, otherwise he would have been very careful with what he said".
Meanwhile, state media are full of praise for comments by Mr Xi calling for the modernisation of China's military hardware to be accelerated.
Addressing a two-day military conference in Beijing, Mr Xi - who is also chairman of the Central Military Commission - said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) needed to take heed of "changes in both international strategic structure and Chinese national security", according to the official news agency Xinhua.
China's relations with several of its neighbours are strained by territorial disputes, and the US has voiced concern about the country's military build-up. Beijing dismisses these as unfounded.
An editorial in the PLA Daily says the military will "follow through Chairman Xi's important instruction with determination", and would ensure its equipment "matches the country's international status and caters to the needs of national security".
Welcoming the move, military observer Wu Peixin tells China Daily that while China's army already has "very competitive equipment", its navy and air force still "have a long way to go in equipment development".
But he also warns that China must be careful in deciding what equipment it really needs and a strategic plan, without simply "copying" other countries' militaries.
Elsewhere, papers warn Japan to follow through on moves to ease bilateral tension after Premier Li Keqiang hosted a Japanese delegation in Beijing on Thursday, in what is seen a further sign of a thaw in relations.
Both countries reached a "four-point consensus" last month, aimed at resuming dialogue while acknowledging difference on territorial disputes.
In a front-page commentary in People's Daily, a member of the 21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship says that though ties have improved, the onus is still on Japan to deliver its promises.
"A great man will not go back on his words," the article reads. "The noble Japanese government is likely to be a great man and not a villain, so it will not treat the agreement as child's play."
"Japan, you have no other choice, you should not break your promise again."
And finally, commentators debate China's decision to stop harvesting organs from executed prisoners without consent by 1 January.
China has been criticised in the past for the practice, but has struggled to encourage voluntary donations as a result of the traditional Chinese belief that the body must remain intact after death.
In an editorial, the Global Times calls for a change in public attitudes to improve the supply of donated organs, while an article in the Beijing News suggests improvements to the legal and insurance systems could encourage donations.
But not all commentators are convinced by the authorities' move. While Liu Changqiu, of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, tells the Global Times that it represents major progress for human rights in China, human rights lawyer Mo Shaoping says completely ending reliance on death row inmates' organs is "too extreme".
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Eric Pickles told Central Bedfordshire Council he would not oppose a challenge to a decision to allow the extension to Random House in Barton-Le-Clay.
The council challenged an inspector's decision to grant planning permission.
The inspector was mistaken, the council claimed, and the High Court is expected to nullify his approval decision.
Syed Raza Shah was granted permission to increase the floor space of the house by about 45% in 2011.
But the council said the work done equated to more like a 200% increase and refused retrospective planning permission last August, telling Mr Shah to demolish the property.
Mr Shah's alterations amounted to a "new dwelling" and was "inappropriate development" in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Mr Shah said he had made "some minor adjustments" but had "kept within the parameters".
Mr Pickles said the inspector was "insufficiently clear in his reasoning" and alterations were "disproportionate additions" to the original building.
The development was also inappropriate in the green belt, he said.
The case will now be passed back for reconsideration by the Planning Inspectorate and a judge is expected to issue a Consent Order nullifying the planning inspector's decision.
Nigel Young, executive member for regeneration at Central Bedfordshire Council, said: "The planning inspector's decision totally disregarded local residents and was completely at odds with concerns to protect the environment and to defend the countryside from inappropriate development."
Mr Shah is expected to comment later.
And as regional devolution gathers pace like one of those shocking pink Midlands Metros, we know there will be plenty more, criss-crossing our West Midlands conurbation.
Principal tram stops are becoming familiar community meeting places.
So I am tracking opinions, trackside at Wolverhampton's St George's terminus.
I want to know how many people really do feel that this election is principally about Brexit and strong leadership; the reasons given by Theresa May for calling it in the first place.
Or is it more about public services and the anti-austerity agenda advocated by the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn?
None of what follows is remotely scientific of course.
But most people here at the tram stop give text book Theresa May answers: strong leadership into the Brexit negotiations; getting a grip of immigration; they seem still to trust the Conservatives on this despite their repeated failure to meet their stated target of reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.
I read the polls of course, so it shouldn't come as a surprise.
But this is a city which, with only rare exceptions, has been a predominantly Labour stronghold for the past quarter of a century.
One after another I meet "ordinary working people" who tell me "Theresa's doing a good job".
And they're not entirely sure what exactly Labour stand for any more.
There's precious little evidence of any so-called "Buyer's Remorse" among the people who voted Leave last June.
Our part of the country has long been more of a two-party affair than most other areas of the UK.
And there's little sign of any traction here at the tram stop for the Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron's anti-Brexit message, and I detected no enthusiasm for a second referendum in a city which voted by 63% to Leave the EU.
So far, most of the people I speak to happen to be white British.
So I decide to explore further afield in a city where black and minority ethnic groups account for over 30 per cent of the population.
That number has doubled over the past 25 years.
In the process of such rapid growth, these groupings have inevitably become more complex and variegated.
Airy generalisations about an en-bloc vote, usually for Labour, seem more redundant than ever.
Lord Ashcroft's polls last year suggest that Labour's support in BME communities has fallen from an average of around 80% 20 years ago to something under 70%.
The polls also suggest a corresponding rise in Conservative support.
Closer examination of Wolverhampton's minority ethnic groupings reveals that people of mixed race account for 5.1% of the total population, just behind those of African Caribbean heritage who constitute 6.9%.
By far the biggest single ethnic grouping is the Asian community, which stands at 18.8% of Wolverhampton's total, according to Census returns.
So I head next to the Sikh temple, or Gurdwara, in the Willenhall area of the city. Once again, these soundings are anecdotal. But they are fascinating nevertheless.
I am greeted there with peons of praise for the late-lamented Labour MP Ken Purchase, who had supported and encouraged them during his 18 years in Parliament until 2010.
I talk to a mother and her son who come from a family line of Labour voters and are determined to maintain the tradition.
More often, though, I hear the increasingly familiar mantra about leadership, Brexit and, yes, immigration.
I am even told by one woman who works at the city's New Cross Hospital that she will vote Conservative because most clinical outcomes for most patients have improved significantly over the past seven years.
I ask myself, what can be happening here?
Is Labour's vote fragmenting among our BME communities which have given the party such solid support for so long?
The Conservatives have long talked about making inroads into Asian communities: but with only limited success.
Could it be that Brexit really is the game-changer here as well?
For a more complete reflection of opinions around the city, I head next towards Chapel Ash, home to a large African Caribbean community.
In the local hairdressers' an 18-year-old law student is bursting with excitement about voting in her first general election.
Labour definitely have her support, she tells me, and it's not just because they are promising to scrap tuition fees.
She believes they are more in touch with young people and she is especially keen to see the extra £6 billion they are pledging for the NHS: that's a promise subsequently matched by the Conservatives.
Again and again I hear from more and more people here who are more concerned about their public services than they are about Brexit.
And there is a widespread suspicion that Mrs May has called the snap election principally for the sake of party advantage rather than to "strengthen her hand" in the European negotiations.
In stark contrast to the comments I had heard about the NHS from the health worker in the Sikh temple, one black woman who has worked as a hospital nurse for nearly 20 years tells me it grieves her to see the service under so much pressure.
So what am I to make of all this?
My soundings seem to chime with those published recently by researchers at the Runnymede Trust.
They indicate that Labour continues to enjoy most support among black and Muslim groups - around two-thirds.
But they also suggest Labour is slightly less popular among Asians, especially Sikhs and Hindus.
Mixed race voters are reported to be around 50% Labour-supporting, 25% Conservative, with the remaining 25% shared between the other parties.
My day in Wolverhampton proves absolutely nothing of course.
But I will remember it not just for what was said, but also for what was not.
I happen to have spent the bulk of my time in the Wolverhampton South West constituency once made famous, notorious even, by a certain John Enoch Powell.
And yet no one I spoke to so much as mentioned his name. Perhaps, at long last, our politics really has finally moved on from all that.
Zale Thompson, 32, was shot dead after wounding the two officers, one critically, in Queens on Thursday.
Commissioner William Bratton said Thompson was not on any watch lists but had browsed al-Qaeda web sites and watched beheadings.
A bystander shot in the incident is critical but stable in hospital.
Witnesses said the man deliberately targeted the foot-patrol officers, charging them and then swinging the axe two-handed,
One officer, Kenneth Healy, 25, was hit on the head and was listed as critical but stable in hospital. The other officer was hit on the arm.
The officers fired several rounds, killing the attacker and wounding a female bystander, police said.
Commissioner Bratton said the whole incident took just seven seconds and praised the "extraordinary bravery and skill" of the officers involved.
He said of the attacker: "We believe that he acted alone, that we would describe him as self-radicalised."
Mr Bratton said Thompson's father had said his son had "spent extensive amounts of time by himself in his bedroom and by all accounts, was a true proverbial loner".
Thompson had served in the US Navy.
In recent social media postings, he spoke of injustices in US society and abroad, but did not indicate any affiliation with a terrorist group.
Ilfracombe coastguard rescue team was called by a member of the public on Sunday afternoon who had spotted two boys on a cliff.
It is believed they had come out of a rubber dingy.
One boy was able to climb up the rock to safety, but the other needed to be winched by helicopter.
They were "a bit wet" but uninjured, according to a coastguard spokesman.
He said the two boys had been on holiday in the area at the time of the incident.
Eye-witness Andy Jenkins, who filmed the rescue, said the weather conditions were wet and windy.
He praised the actions of the rescue team.
"It was very interesting. The professionalism of the helicopter pilot and the winchman was unbelievable."
The body was discovered near to the plant in Haddington, East Lothian, at about 06:00 on Monday.
Officers described the death as "unexplained". Forensic officers were on scene and the area was cordoned off.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "The death is currently being treated as unexplained pending further inquiries."
The track will be linked to the city council's new ??28m velodrome and will be built on part of The Sanctuary nature reserve.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust said it was a "great pity" that the council had approved the plans.
But Labour councillor Sara Boulton said the new facility would only take up a "slice of the land".
Councillors voted on the cycle track planning proposal on Thursday night, and it was passed by six votes to five.
Ms Boulton, chair of Derby City Council's planning committee, said: "In actual fact it's only a slice of the land, it's 18% of the total area of The Sanctuary that will be made up of this close-circuit cycle track.
"We listened to Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and a [council] environmental officer, and it wasn't an easy decision."
Tim Birch, a Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Conservation manager, said: "It's a very sad day for Derby city in terms of the wildlife that will now be impacted.
"It's a great pity that a local nature reserve that was established by Derby City Council will now be destroyed by that council."
Local ecologist Nick Moyes said: "It's not the end of it, we'll have to go away and have a think about that one."
However, Peter Turner from Derby Mercury Cycling Club, who is also a member of the wildlife trust, said: "I see both sides of the issue.
"I think the actual effect of people cycling on the track has been over emphasised.
"Cycling is quiet, we're not noisy and I don't see that as being such a big issue for the birds as made out."
The recommendations came from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, during a conference on improving acute services under times of pressure.
A report to the conference highlighted growing demand, an ageing population and increasing complex conditions.
The Scottish government said the review backed work already taking place.
Health Secretary Alex Neil told the Sunday Politics Scotland programme the Scottish government was determined to eliminate the practice of "boarding" patients in the wrong wards. Mr Neil also set a target of moving the NHS to a full seven day operation, to better manage the flow of patients.
A £50m emergency care "action plan" introduced by the government earlier this year is running over three years to speed up admissions and create more options for community treatment.
Over the past five years there has been an increase of almost 7% in A&E attendances and these could increase 13.5% by 2020.
Recommendations from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh include:
Research has indicated that being treated in the wrong ward can lead to patients being more likely to die and the senior clinicians at the College said hospital bed and staff capacity must be aligned to meet demand.
Nigel Edwards, chairman of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh consensus panel, said: "Growing demand from an ageing population with increasingly complex care needs bring both challenges and opportunities for the NHS.
"It is clear that in seeking to respond to the urgent care needs of this population fundamental change is required.
"This will involve changing how the NHS configures and delivers acute medical services and, in this post-Mid Staffordshire era, encouraging the NHS to have the ambition to eliminate established practices which are known to have adverse effects on patients and their experiences."
A paper to the conference called for seven-day and extended hours working in hospital and across the system, with senior clinical decision-makers "available 24/7".
The Scottish government plan, announced in February, aims to improve the "flow" of patients through hospitals, ensuring clinical expertise is in place to support this at all times.
It is also designed to ensure senior doctors are always available at crucial points of assessment, treatment and transfer of patients.
Mr Neil told the BBC getting patients treated in the right ward at the right time was crucial.
He said: "I'm absolutely determined that this is one of the priorities - and has been a priority for the last year in particular - in improving the management of our bed capacity in hospitals.
"Let me say we've actually slightly increased the capacity in the last year and there are today 400 more beds in the National Health Service in Scotland than there were 12 months ago."
The health secretary also indicated he was "minded" to mirror legislation proposed for England and Wales, in the wake of Mid Staffordshire and other care scandals, which could see doctors and nurses found guilty of "wilful neglect" of patients facing jail.
Mr Neil said: "I think there's a lot of sense in extending the legislation that we already have for vulnerable adults to everybody in these extreme cases, so that if it did happen in Scotland, we would be able to do the necessary.
"But obviously we need to look at the implications but I am certainly minded to introduce that legislation in Scotland."
It follows the Crofting Commission having to make a public apology for its actions in a row with crofters at Bohuntin, Upper Coll and Mangersta.
The dispute concerned the running of common grazings, areas of land shared by crofters to raise livestock.
The row has also seen the commission ask its convener to resign, but Colin Kennedy has refused to stand down.
Mr Kennedy has said he has done nothing wrong and last month submitted an official complaint about the minister in charge of crofting, Fergus Ewing.
The government said the review it has commissioned would the governance arrangements relating to the commission's board and a review of the systems, procedures and support mechanisms "to underpin effective decision making".
Also under review are the systems, processes and procedures in relation to decision-making in the three common grazings cases, but the government said the decisions taken would not be examined.
Arrangements for handling conflicts of interest also form part of the review.
Mr Ewing said: "Crofting is a vital part of many rural communities in Scotland.
"That is why it is essential that it has an effective regulator to protect and enhance the crofting way of life.
"This review will help to promote effective governance within the Crofting Commission and it is an opportunity to take stock, learn from experiences and examine positives as well as opportunities for improvement."
Dave Artell, free to play after his three-game ban was overturned hours before the game, headed Wrexham ahead.
Michael Gash levelled from the spot after the break when Anthony Malbon was brought down by Martin Riley.
But, when Josh Gowling fouled Brett Ormerod, Ashton kept his nerve.
After his successful appeal against Saturday's red card at Mansfield, Artell was one of only two Wrexham players in the starting line-up who also started at Field Mill, player-boss Andy Morrell having made nine changes.
Having won 2-1 at the Racecourse Ground just nine days before, and finished the season with a five-match winning run, the Harriers went into the game as the team in form.
But there was always a danger of psychological scars from Saturday's failure to win the Blue Square Bet Premier title and the crowd trouble that marred their 4-0 win over Stockport.
Wrexham centre-half David Artell was not expected to play, after being sent off for a high challenge in Saturday's 1-0 defeat at champions Mansfield.
But, having been sent off by an English referee, in an English league game, the decision was overturned by the Football Association of Wales on Tuesday afternoon, just hours before the game.
And, with so many of Wrexham's first-choice selections back in action, apart from an early block by home keeper Chris Maxwell to deny Malbon, it was the Red Dragons, beaten in at this play-off semi-final stage in both the last two seasons, who carried the first-half threat.
Ormerod was denied three times by keeper Danny Lewis - the first of them a fine diving save from a fierce left-foot shot. There was also a big handball shout in the penalty area against James Vincent, and Mickey Demetriou came up with a great last-ditch block in a scramble.
But it was Demetriou who was at fault a minute before the break, being turned by the ageless Ormerod, who clipped a neat chip to the far post for Artell - a Wembley play-off winner with Crewe a year ago - to power home a header.
It could have been 2-0 for Wrexham straight after the break when Johnny Hunt fired just over from Ormerod's cross. But, instead, it was 1-1, Malbon going down under a challenge from Harriers old boy Martin Riley before Gash kept his cool from the spot, driving the ball low straight down the middle.
With the lively Martin Devaney on for the visitors, chances then came at either end as Kidderminster were rescued by a superbly-timed tackle from skipper Kyle Storer on Ormerod, before Maxwell went low to his left to deny Danny Jackman.
But, with five minutes left, the home side won the night.
Gowling was adjudged to have brought down Ormerod with a last-ditch challenge and Ashton sent Lewis the wrong way to steer home the winning penalty - and hand Steve Burr's Harriers a first defeat in 11 games.
Wrexham player-manager Andy Morrell told BBC Radio Wales:
"That's a great advert for our league - two teams going at it full tilt, head-to-head against each other.
"I thought it was a really good game and it was quite nice to come out on top.
"I don't know where we stand because we're used to being two or three down at this stage.
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"We're in uncharted territory so it's a better feeling than in the last two years."
Kidderminster Harriers boss Steve Burr told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"It's half-time. We've got 90 minutes to do it.
"I'm sure come Sunday our fans will be vocal again and get behind the team and that we can turn this defeat around.
"First half, we didn't come out the traps. We looked a bit leggy. We gave the ball away cheaply. Our passing wasn't as it has been and we looked off the pace a little.
"Second half we got hold of the ball and created a lot more. I was lot more pleased with our performance."
Full Time The match has reached full-time.
Kyle Storer takes a shot.
Foul by Michael Gash on David Artell, free kick awarded. Chris Maxwell takes the direct free kick.
Martin Devaney challenges Neil Ashton unfairly and gives away a free kick. Chris Maxwell restarts play with the free kick.
Jay Harris challenges Danny Jackman unfairly and gives away a free kick. Mickey Demetriou takes the free kick.
Assist by Brett Ormerod.
Goal! - Neil Ashton - Wrexham 2 - 1 K'minster Neil Ashton scores a placed penalty. Wrexham 2-1 Kidderminster.
Unfair challenge on Brett Ormerod by Josh Gowling results in a Penalty.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Kyle Storer by Brett Ormerod. Kyle Storer restarts play with the free kick.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Martin Devaney by Neil Ashton. Free kick taken by Martin Devaney.
Michael Gash takes a shot. Save by Chris Maxwell.
Anthony Malbon takes a shot. Save by Chris Maxwell.
Foul by Anthony Malbon on David Artell, free kick awarded. Chris Maxwell takes the direct free kick.
Chris Maxwell takes the free kick.
Booking Booking for Kyle Storer.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Kyle Storer on Jay Harris.
Shot from long distance by Kyle Storer misses to the right of the target.
Joe Clarke concedes a free kick for a foul on Keith Briggs. Direct free kick taken by Daniel Lewis.
Substitution Dele Adebola replaces Andrew Morrell.
Lee Vaughan takes a shot. Save by Chris Maxwell.
Corner from left by-line taken by Joe Clarke.
Corner taken by Danny Jackman, Chris Maxwell makes a save.
Direct free kick taken by Lee Vaughan.
Booking Booking for Martin Riley for unsporting behaviour.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Martin Riley on Anthony Malbon.
Corner taken by Johnny Hunt.
Chris Maxwell restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution Martin Devaney comes on in place of Marvin Johnson.
The referee blows for offside.
Neil Ashton concedes a free kick for a foul on Marvin Johnson. Danny Jackman takes the direct free kick.
Header on goal by Andrew Morrell from inside the box goes harmlessly over the target.
Anthony Malbon concedes a free kick for a foul on David Artell. Direct free kick taken by Chris Maxwell.
Kyle Storer challenges Joe Clarke unfairly and gives away a free kick. Shot on goal comes in from Dean Keates from the free kick, save by Daniel Lewis.
Anthony Malbon provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Michael Gash - Wrexham 1 - 1 K'minster Michael Gash scores a power penalty. Wrexham 1-1 Kidderminster.
Penalty awarded for a foul by Martin Riley on Anthony Malbon.
Jay Harris produces a right-footed shot from long distance which goes wide right of the goal.
The referee blows for offside. Daniel Lewis takes the indirect free kick.
Johnny Hunt takes a shot from inside the six-yard box clearing the crossbar.
Danny Jackman delivers the ball, Kyle Storer takes a shot. Save by Chris Maxwell.
Booking Caution for Johnny Hunt.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Lee Vaughan by Johnny Hunt.
The referee starts the second half.
Half Time The first half comes to an end.
Booking David Artell booked.
Brett Ormerod provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - David Artell - Wrexham 1 - 0 K'minster David Artell finds the net with a headed goal from close range. Wrexham 1-0 Kidderminster.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Mickey Demetriou on Andrew Morrell. Stephen Wright takes the free kick.
Stephen Wright gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Marvin Johnson. Mickey Demetriou restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution (Kidderminster) makes a substitution, with Keith Briggs coming on for James Vincent.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Lee Vaughan on Johnny Hunt. Joe Clarke crosses the ball from the free kick right-footed from left wing.
Neil Ashton challenges Marvin Johnson unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Lee Vaughan.
Neil Ashton gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Michael Gash. Kyle Storer takes the free kick.
Foul by Mickey Demetriou on Brett Ormerod, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Johnny Hunt.
Brett Ormerod takes a shot. Save made by Daniel Lewis.
Inswinging corner taken by Joe Clarke, Unfair challenge on Michael Gash by David Artell results in a free kick. Daniel Lewis takes the direct free kick.
Dean Keates concedes a free kick for a foul on James Vincent. Direct free kick taken by Cheyenne Dunkley.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Anthony Malbon on Neil Ashton. David Artell takes the free kick.
Chris Maxwell takes the free kick.
Booking The referee cautions James Vincent for unsporting behaviour.
Jay Harris fouled by James Vincent, the ref awards a free kick.
Unfair challenge on Andrew Morrell by Cheyenne Dunkley results in a free kick. Johnny Hunt takes the free kick.
Dean Keates takes a shot from just inside the penalty box which clears the crossbar.
Inswinging corner taken from the right by-line by Johnny Hunt, save by Daniel Lewis.
Brett Ormerod takes a shot. Save made by Daniel Lewis.
Anthony Malbon takes a shot. Save by Chris Maxwell.
Headed effort from inside the area by Brett Ormerod misses to the right of the target.
The referee penalises Dean Keates for handball. Daniel Lewis restarts play with the free kick.
Anthony Malbon takes a shot. Save by Chris Maxwell.
Johnny Hunt takes the inswinging corner, Header on goal by David Artell from inside the box goes harmlessly over the target.
Anthony Malbon is adjudged to have handled the ball. Direct free kick taken by Chris Maxwell.
Corner taken left-footed by Danny Jackman from the right by-line, Headed effort from deep inside the penalty area by Cheyenne Dunkley misses to the left of the goal.
The referee gets the game started.
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The application for 366 houses in Penrhosgarnedd - the biggest considered by Gwynedd Council - was refused using new planning rules designed to protect Welsh.
Developer Morbaine described the decision as "frustrating".
But the Welsh Language Society said housing developments should "put communities' interests first".
Planning officers had recommended the Pen y Ffridd development go ahead, on condition that Morbaine made 30% of the homes "affordable" and paid £1m for the development of local schools.
But Gwynedd Council's planning committee blocked the application on Tuesday using new Welsh Government rules introduced on 4 January.
Residents had organised a petition against building at the 35.36 acre (14.3 ha) site raising concerns about overdevelopment and lack of infrastructure.
Councillor Gareth Roberts, who was part of the campaign group, said: "As well as our concerns about the language, local schools are at breaking point and the roads are clogged up."
Bethan Ruth of the Welsh Language Society said the status of the Welsh language in the planning system has been strengthened adding: "Any housing developments should reflect local need, rather than the interests of developments," she added.
According to the 2011 census, 52.6% of residents in the Pen y Ffridd area speak Welsh, compared to 65.4% across Gwynedd.
A 245-home development is being constructed nearby and planners have said Bangor needs another 802 new homes.
Keith Nutter, planning director of Widnes-based Morbaine said he had not decided whether or not to appeal the decision.
He said: "We provided a report that said the development would have a positive impact on the language.
"A third of the development was designated as affordable homes, and the majority of affordable homes are sold to Welsh speakers."
He added that Morbaine had been prepared to install Welsh street signs and advertise the homes locally.
Tuesday's attacks at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro resulted in 31 deaths and 300 injured.
The country is observing three days of national mourning.
Belgium's friendly against Portugal next week has been moved from Brussels to the Portuguese city of Leiria.
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The 11-2 victor, ridden by Kevin Manning for trainer Jim Bolger, survived a stewards' inquiry.
Pleascach - the Irish word for explosive - won by half a length, with the Aidan O'Brien-trained Found finding trouble in running. Devonshire was third ahead of Jack Naylor.
Found's jockey Ryan Moore was seeking a Guineas quadruple after victories in the three previous 2015 Classics.
Bolger is now set to aim Pleascach at next month's Irish Derby.
Earlier, Al Kazeem (3-1) won the Tattersalls Gold Cup for the second time to clock up a 10th career victor.
James Doyle guided home the seven-year-old, who has been expertly trained by Roger Charlton after returning to racing when a stud career was halted by fertility issues.
Following Wednesday's killing of 13 people including ex-MP Waja Karim Dad, violence escalated and officials say more bodies were recovered overnight.
Police say many of those killed were kidnapped first and that some victims appear to have been tortured.
The attacks unfolded as Karachi's main MQM political party announced it will rejoin Pakistan's coalition government.
The party had left the PPP-led coalition after accusing its majority partner of not doing enough to stop the violence.
Police say that 315 people were killed in such attacks in Karachi in July 2011.
The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan in Karachi says that the bodies are appearing all over the city stuffed in jute bags.
Our correspondent says that while initially politically motivated, the killings are now increasingly indiscriminate. Women, children and teenage footballers are amongst those gunned down.
Police say that the bodies bear the marks of extreme torture: some have even had their eyes gouged out. They said that it appears as if almost all the victims were kidnapped before being tortured only to be shot dead and deposited on the city streets.
Police surgeon Hamid Parihar told the BBC that he "had been collecting bodies since midnight and they are still coming in".
Analysts say that the latest spate of violence appears to have taken place between criminal gangs in the city's deprived Lyari neighbourhood. The area has a reputation of armed gangs dealing in drugs and extortion rackets.
This is where former parliamentarian Waja Karim Dad was gunned down.
Our correspondent reports that a sense of fear prevails throughout the city and that public transport has been suspended.
Killings in Karachi have continued despite efforts to reconcile its warring political factions.
Security officials say this is because the killers are being protected by senior politicians.
They say the violence is being used to stoke recently ignited ethnic passions both for political gains and as a means by criminal gangs to fight turf wars behind the facade of political activism.
Grace Roseman was found lifeless in the bedside cot at her home in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, on 9 April 2015.
Recording a verdict of accidental death, coroner Penelope Schofield said she had died as a result of lifting her head and becoming trapped on a bar.
Bednest apologised for the "distress" and said it has modified the cots.
In a statement, the firm said: "We take on board all the coroner's comments following the inquest and apologise for the distress caused to the Rosemans.
"We will implement all the coroner's advice."
The company said it will "increase communications" with customers about the need for modifications to cots sold before November 2015 and offer users "the option to have their Bednest cribs returned to us for us to make the modifications".
How safe are Bednests?
The statement said: "Since the Bednest crib was first launched for sale, the safety of children has been at the heart of our company's ethos.
"We have worked with experts and independent test laboratories to ensure compliance with safety standards.
"We were devastated by the news of the death of baby Grace."
Ms Schofield said she was not convinced Bednest had accepted there was a risk.
Last year the coroner issued a safety warning about the three-sided cot and expressed concerns about a lack of instructions.
Ms Schofield said there was no evidence to support suggestions from Bednest that Grace's toddler sister Pearl, who was two-and-a-half years old at the time, was in any way linked to her death.
She told Grace's parents Esther and Gideon Roseman: "It must have been particularly harrowing for you to face accusations from Bednest that Pearl was involved in her death.
"But it was particularly unpalatable because there was no evidence on which to base that proposition."
She said Grace had managed to get her head over a half-lowered side of the crib, but was unable to lift her head off again and died of positional asphyxia.
The coroner told the inquest 6,000 Bednest cribs had been manufactured and 45% of customers had apparently been reached by the company and offered modification kits.
Ms Schofield said she was concerned that Bednest did not "fully appreciate" the ongoing risks of the existing unmodified cots that are still being used.
She said: "What has struck me is their lack of compassion over this issue.
"I am disappointed that no-one from the company was here to listen to the evidence by the experts."
Mrs Roseman told the inquest she had not received instructions with the second-hand cot, nor straps to attach it to an adult bed.
Speaking after the hearing, Mr Roseman said: "There are still thousands of these cots still out there that could be used in the same way that Esther and I used the cot."
Mrs Roseman said: "I had to fight, it took me to anger, it wasn't about Grace any more, it was about protecting Pearl."
She added that the coroner's verdict was a "huge relief".
Family solicitor Jill Greenfield said Mr and Mrs Roseman "finally feel that justice has been done in Grace's name".
Ms Greenfield said: "They desperately hope that no other parents will ever have to go through a similar tragedy.
At a preliminary hearing last year, coroner Penelope Schofield issued a Regulation 28 Report to Prevent Future Deaths concerning the cot.
The Bednest crib was co-branded by the National Childbirth Trust (NCT).
In a statement, the NCT said: "That the charity is involved with this tragedy is a matter of profound and lasting regret.
"Since learning of this tragedy we have taken and will continue to take extensive action in the interests of safety.
"In particular we will continue to do all we possibly can to alert parents to the clear risk posed by the Bednest if used without the manufacturer's modification."
The All Blacks ran in nine tries with TJ Perenara, in for Aaron Smith after he was dropped for meeting a woman in a toilet cubicle, scoring twice.
New Zealand's victory completes a clean sweep in the Rugby Championship.
The world champions will set a new Test record for successive wins if they beat Australia in Auckland on 22 October.
New Zealand's current run began in the wake of a 27-19 loss to the Wallabies in Sydney in August 2015.
But few will bet on their trans-Tasman rivals denying them a piece of history given the All Blacks' imperious form when they meet in the third and final Bledisloe Cup match of the season in a fortnight.
The visitors led by a slender 12-9 at the interval, with fly-half Beauden Barrett struggling to find his kicking range and his team-mates having been uncharacteristically wasteful after creating openings.
But Steven Hansen's men roared clear in the second half with Barrett and winger Israel Dagg joining Perenara in crossing twice.
Australia beat Argentina 33-21 at Twickenham to condemn the Pumas to bottom spot in the final standings.
Wallabies centre Samu Kerevi scored twice to help his side to victory in the first Rugby Championship match to be staged in the northern hemisphere.
Number eight Leroy Houston, who is back at former club Bath from Queensland Reds until the end of October as injury cover, made his Test debut for Australia off the bench at the age of 29.
"Our people too have a right to joy and celebration. For five years, they had taken both away from us," he told thousands of ecstatic supporters gathered to celebrate a historic victory for the left.
The magnitude of the challenges Mr Tsipras and his Syriza party face are daunting, however, and sustaining this enthusiasm inside Greece may prove even more difficult than convincing Europe to end austerity and forgive part of the nation's debt.
Exit poll analysis showed that Syriza not only triumphed among unemployed and working Greeks, but even penetrated the core of conservative voters, with one-in-three housewives and pensioners turning to the party.
Syriza officials insist Alexis Tsipras is no Harry Potter-like magician and that the Greek people are realistic about what he can achieve.
And indeed, people in Athens say they do not expect Syriza to fulfil all their promises completely and immediately, as long as they carry out the policies that are most relevant to them.
The unemployed may not care too much about a hated property tax known as "Enfia", which Syriza has pledged to abolish, but they are expecting to find a job or, in the very least, have their benefits increased.
Talk to the propertied classes in Athens's leafy, rich, northern suburbs who voted for Syriza, and they will tell you that the promise of the abolition of the tax was one of the main reasons they voted for the left for the first time in their lives.
And all Greeks are expecting Syriza to deliver on their promise and demand debt-cancellation and growth policies from the EU.
Fulfilling those promises will take nothing short of Harry Potter-like powers, some analysts warn.
Mr Tsipras, the youngest political leader in modern Greek history, was instrumental in transforming Syriza from an also-ran to a potential ruling party.
His background is starkly different to that of his predecessors, all of them members of political dynasties.
Alexis Tsipras was not schooled at the usual private schools that most politicians in Greece with a pedigree prefer, but graduated from a state school in Ampelokipoi, a middle-class area in central Athens.
It was at school that he met Peristera "Betty" Baziana, who was to become his wife. They were both active in the Communist Party of Greece's youth wing and shared the same world view.
Although they went to university in different cities, their relationship flourished. They chose a civil wedding instead of a traditional religious ceremony.
The couple now live in the middle-class Athens neighbourhood of Kypseli, and have two sons - Pavlos, 7, and 5-year-old Orpheas Ernesto (after Ernesto "Che" Guevara). Ms Baziana has rarely appeared in public and the couple have a very low-key social life, avoiding the paparazzi.
Mr Tsipras cut his professional teeth while working as a civil engineer and was one of the "700-euro generation", a term coined in 2007 to describe young people who struggled to advance beyond the average Greek salary.
In 2008, his political career took a significant step forward when he took on the leadership of Syriza, founded in 2004 as a coalition of groups and parties ranging from Maoists to Greens.
He was elected to parliament the following year and by 2011 had transformed the party from a marginal alliance into a major political force.
Known for his rhetorical skills, his dislike of neckties and his youthful looks, Mr Tsipras's colleagues see him as quite unlike any of Greece's traditional political grandees.
"He is just different. He is just like you and me," a member of Mr Tsipras's entourage at Syriza's headquarters told the BBC.
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"The economic crisis and the collapse of traditional parties certainly helped Syriza grow its influence, but it was Alexis Tsipras who catapulted the party," says Christoforos Vernardakis, professor of political science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and founder of the public opinion survey company VPRC.
"This happened because Tsipras is young and knows no fear. He took a defensive left and turned it into a credible choice for government."
Some of his first actions as Greek leader appear designed to show he aims to maintain a careful balance.
He was Greece's first prime minister to take a civil rather than a religious oath, and yet his first visit after he was elected was to the head of the Church of Greece.
Although he told the German government he was not looking for a fight, his first act after being sworn in was to pay his respects to a monument honouring the communists executed by Nazi occupation forces in 1944.
He has also shown an unemotional pragmatism that may alienate ideological purists in his party but will prove valuable in his dealings with creditors.
Lacking an absolute majority in parliament, he chose to form a coalition with a right-wing populist party, the Independent Greeks.
Some Syriza voters and party members are already disillusioned by the choice. But others see it as proof of the coming of age of both Syriza and Mr Tsipras.
His choice of finance minister is also telling.
Economics professor Yanis Varoufakis has been arguing for years in his classes and opinion pieces about the non-viability of austerity and the unsustainability of Greece's debt burden.
But he believes he can win the argument by reasoning with creditors.
In an interview shortly before the election, he told the BBC that far from being destructive, Syriza's political proposals offered a reasonable way out of austerity and a chance to replace existing bailout laws with new ones.
"The first priority is renegotiating with creditors," he said.
"Syriza needs to speak the language of truth about the continuing triple bankruptcy of the country - public debt, banks, private sector - something no Greek government has done so far."
Then, he pointed out, the party had to put forward proposals that would be reasonable to the average German.
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The Eagles lifted the trophy for the third year in succession with a 91-83 triumph in Birmingham on Sunday, their 25th British Basketball League honour.
Last season the Eagles failed to add to their BBL Cup victory, coming second in the league and Trophy.
"It's a platform, it can spiral two ways," Flournoy told BBC Newcastle.
"We'll enjoy this, because the players have worked hard this first half of the season, but then put it to rest because it comes back to the grind.
"We can't be complacent because we won something, we can go south or use it as an opportunity to go up."
Eagles' victory was inspired by point guard Rahmon Fletcher, who picked up his third MVP award in as many years with a top-scoring 29 points.
"I'm so happy, it's not a cliche, this feels the best so far," he said.
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"If you're too tight, you think too much and can't fall into what you normally do.
"We're relaxed, it's not arrogance, it's the type of people we are and it goes on the court, we're super loose."
Avoiding the same fate as 2016 is a motivation for the Eagles, coming as it did on the back of a four-trophy 'clean sweep' the previous year.
"We got work to do," Flournoy added. "The moment we start saying we were dominant, that will get us in trouble in the BBL.
"There were lots of things we did well, lots we didn't, but we had the momentum, our shots dropped and defensively we disrupted their rhythm."
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards recognise building projects with innovation, conservation and community benefits.
The shortlist of 24 entries includes Wrexham's new super-prison HMP Berwyn.
The project of the year title will be presented to the overall winner. It was was awarded to the £12m restoration of Cardigan Castle, Ceredigion, in 2016.
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However, businesses should make the most of new international opportunities, Prince Andrew said.
He added that he is "as much in the dark as anyone else" about Brexit.
It's highly unusual for members of the Royal Family to comment publicly on contentious political issues and Prince Andrew is the first senior member of his family to address Brexit.
He told the BBC's Sharanjit Leyl that firms were cautious about Brexit, but that the UK "should be engaging with as many different markets as we possibly can and looking at the best of things rather than necessarily the worst of things".
The prince added: "You can either look at it as a glass half-empty - which is: 'Oh my God, why have we done this?'
"Or you could look at it as a glass half-full, which is: 'Ok, that's where we are. There are opportunities that we've got to make.'
"So... you may lose one thing but you may gain something else.
"The world is your oyster."
There are business opportunities in the 52 Commonwealth nations, as well as China and the US, the duke said.
"We've been concentrating on 27 countries, if you take that as an internal market.
"There's an external market that's a lot bigger, and many businesses hadn't looked over that garden fence to some extent.
"And in my experience recently, businesses that look over the garden fence have gone: "Hmm, [the] grass is not quite as dark and unforgiving as you might expect.
"And actually, getting over the fence, there might be some fresh grass out there."
The Queen's son was in Singapore to attend a Commonwealth science conference.
He was also hosting Pitch@Palace, a programme he started to support entrepreneurs from the UK and around the world.
Prince Andrew was a trade envoy for the UK from 2001 until mid-2011, when he stepped down.
His remit was to promote UK business interests abroad.
Following the general election last week, business leaders said they wanted a new direction for Brexit negotiations, with a renewed focus, and more specifics.
Manufacturers called on the UK government to adopt a more pro-business stance, or face political instability that may force more firms to alter their plans "away from the UK".
In his Mansion House speech on Thursday, which was cancelled following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, Chancellor Philip Hammond had been expected to reassure businesses that the government was ready to step in with extra financial support, as the Brexit deal is negotiated, if needed.
And at a joint news conference this week, French President Emmanuel Macron said the possibility of the UK remaining in the European Union is an option until Brexit negotiations have concluded.
Hundreds of record highs are expected to fall on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day across eastern parts of the US and Canada, with temperatures forecast as high as 77F (25C) in Georgia, 75F further north in Washington, and 15C (59F) in Toronto.
While the East enjoys spring-like warmth, forecasters predict heavy snow across the West while tornadoes have been reported as a storm system crosses parts of the South.
In a reversal of a traditional Christmas, forecasters expect temperatures in New York to be several degrees higher than in Los Angeles.
70F (21C)
Forecasted temperature for Christmas Eve in New York
75F (24C) Forecast for Washington on Christmas Eve
69F Previous daily record (1933)
59F (15C) Forecast for Portland, Maine on Christmas Eve
53F Previous daily record (1957)
Bruce Bombara, a construction worker who was wearing a t-shirt outside Penn Station in Manhattan, told the BBC that he was freezing this time last year. "I think it's great that there's no snow - I love it. It lingers too long. I'll take the rain over snow any day."
"Oh God this time last year I remember it was cold and dry," said Lillian White as she waited for a cab. "No, I don't miss the snow. I don't miss the inconvenience of it - especially from last year. I do miss the snowflakes though."
But for Montana Cole, a student originally from Chicago who was wearing a sweatshirt and shorts, the unseasonable weather in New York felt all wrong.
"I think snow is a lot better than this rain. I grew up with seeing snow at this time of the year. Right now it doesn't really feel like Christmas."
And it's not just the holiday week that's been warmer than usual - it's been an unseasonably warm month across North America.
More than 2,500 record daily highs and 30 monthly records have already been tied or broken across the US after a wave of extremely warm temperatures earlier in December.
In Washington, the iconic spring cherry blossoms have begun blooming again, while in Buffalo, in upstate New York, the first measurable snowfall arrived very late on 18 December. New York City is close to tying its record for the number of consecutive days above freezing - 274 days.
Several cities have set daily record highs in the middle of the night, instead of the middle of the afternoon, according to the Weather Channel.
In places like Chicago and Minneapolis, the average December temperatures are double-digits higher than normal - and that's not counting the upcoming record-breaking days.
In Boston, temperatures are expected to be between 15 to 25 degrees above the normal high, with Christmas Eve's 1996 record high of 61F (16C) at risk.
Canada's capital Ottawa is expected to reach 59F (15C) as well, and warm temperatures will potentially delay the city's Rideau Canal from opening for ice skating.
Montreal will also see warm temperatures of up to 61F (16C) on Christmas Eve, but like many parts of eastern Canada, will see cooler, but still unseasonable temperatures on Christmas Day.
Despite the famous song that has Americans dreaming of a white Christmas, snow on 25 December is actually quite rare in much of the US.
A recent historical study by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration found that the only locations where snow cover was "extremely probable" were parts of western mountain regions, the downwind side of the Great Lakes and northern New England.
But it is almost never this warm, especially in the more northern parts of the US.
Weather forecasters point to El Nino, a weather pattern that warms the Pacific Ocean near the equator, pushing warm air further east and north.
Two bodies were recovered from the ruins of the Rigopiano hotel, in the central Abruzzo region, where rescuers battled the elements to reach the site.
Searchers said they had not given up hope of finding survivors despite finding no signs of life.
The avalanche struck on Wednesday after multiple earthquakes in the region.
Two people who were outside the hotel at the time of the avalanche survived.
The earthquakes, four of which were stronger than magnitude 5, terrified residents of rural areas already struggling with heavy snowfall.
Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni called for national unity, saying Italy was caught in an "unprecedented vice of frost and earthquakes".
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the rest of the EU stood ready to help because "an earthquake in Italy is an earthquake in Europe".
Teams had to ski and shovel their way towards the site of the avalanche, only reaching the hotel at 04:30 (03:30 GMT) on Thursday.
Snow blocking an approach road held up a vast column of emergency vehicles.
"The upper part of the hotel it's not there anymore - it's full of snow inside the different rooms," said Dr Gianluca Fachetti, who was with the rescue teams.
"But there are several floors and we think most part of the people are on the first floor not the second or third, and it's very difficult but anyway we hope there could be someone still alive."
"There is always hope, if there were no hope the rescuers wouldn't give everything they've got," Fabrizio Curcio, head of Italy's civil protection department, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
His teams, he said, would "continue to do everything possible during the night".
Paying tribute to the dedication of the rescuers, Prime Minister Gentiloni added: "I want to say that we are all holding our breath after what happened last night with the avalanche."
It appears the guests had gathered on the ground floor of the four-star spa hotel, close to the Gran Sasso mountain, to await evacuation following the earthquakes.
Twenty-two guests and seven staff members were registered as being at the hotel, among them children, but rescuers say the actual number could be 35.
The avalanche struck some time between 16:30 and 17:40, based on messages and calls sent by people at the hotel.
It partially brought down the roof and, according to some reports, shifted the building 10m (11 yards) off its foundations.
A guest who was outside the building at the time raised the alarm with his phone.
Giampiero Parete, whose wife and two children are missing, said he had gone to get something from his car: "I was covered by the snow but I managed to get out. The car was not submerged and I waited for the rescuers to arrive."
Mr Parete, who was taken to hospital with a fellow survivor, continued to make phone calls but it reportedly took until 20:00 before his pleas were acted on by the authorities.
A list of 23 names given by La Stampa newspaper suggests that most are Italians but they include a Swiss national and a Romanian.
Three are children aged six, seven and nine, and the oldest person on the list is a man of 60.
Seven of the missing are from the neighbouring region of Marche.
A couple from Marche who are not recorded in La Stampa's list, Marco Vagnarelli and Paola Tomassini, were last heard from at 16:30 on Wednesday, when Marco contacted his brother Fulvio on WhatsApp, Ansa reports. The avalanche had still not started at that point.
Marco had told his brother that their departure from the area was being delayed by the bad weather.
By Jonathan Amos, BBC science correspondent
The Apennines region saw three magnitude-6 tremors between August and October. A succession of quakes like this is often how the geology works.
The big picture is reasonably well understood. Wider tectonic forces in the Earth's crust have led to the Apennines being pulled apart at a rate of roughly 3mm per year - about a 10th of the speed at which your fingernails grow.
But this stress is then spread across a multitude of different faults that cut through the mountains. And this network is fiendishly complicated.
It does now look as though August's event broke two neighbouring faults, starting on one known as the Laga and then jumping across to one called the Vettore.
Then came October with a swathe of quakes that broke the rest of the Vetorre. But the stress, according to the seismologists, wasn't just sent north, it was loaded south as well - south of August's event.
And it's in this zone that we have now seen a series of quakes in recent days. About a dozen magnitude fours and fives.
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The relegation-threatened home side took a 25th-minute lead through Gavin Massey, but Gary Liddle levelled nine minutes later.
Jamie Proctor scored the winner on 68 minutes, but was then sent off 15 minutes from time.
The O's went in front when teenage goalkeeper Sam Sargeant, making his home league debut, sent a long clearance down the centre of the field and the ball sliced off the foot of a Carlisle defender into the path of Massey, who lashed the ball into the net from 20 yards.
The visitors restored parity when Jamie Devitt's free-kick thumped against the angle of the upright and the crossbar and the ball fell into the path of the unmarked Liddle, who had the simplest of tasks to steer the rebound into an empty net.
The Cumbrians, who had dictated matters after the break, went ahead when Nicky Adams delivered a superb cross from the left onto the head of substitute George Waring, whose shot was palmed away by Sargeant, but Proctor latched onto the loose ball to head it into the net.
Proctor's afternoon turned sour, though, when he was red-carded on 75 minutes following two bookings in three minutes for reckless tackles.
Despite being a man down, the visitors had little trouble in protecting their lead with the three points improving their automatic promotion hopes.
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Match ends, Leyton Orient 1, Carlisle United 2.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 1, Carlisle United 2.
Attempt missed. Nigel Atangana (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient).
George Waring (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Macaulay Gillesphey.
Substitution, Carlisle United. James Bailey replaces Nicky Adams.
Attempt missed. Jamie Devitt (Carlisle United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Waring (Carlisle United).
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Teddy Mezague replaces Callum Kennedy because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Sammy Moore (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Victor Adeboyejo (Leyton Orient).
Michael Raynes (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Carlisle United. Conceded by Callum Kennedy.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Victor Adeboyejo replaces Sam Dalby.
Michael Jones (Carlisle United) is shown the yellow card.
(Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Michael Jones (Carlisle United).
Sammy Moore (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Second yellow card to Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United) for a bad foul.
Foul by Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United).
Attempt missed. Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United).
Sam Dalby (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United).
Substitution, Carlisle United. Michael Jones replaces John O'Sullivan.
Goal! Leyton Orient 1, Carlisle United 2. Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United) header from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. George Waring (Carlisle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Carlisle United. George Waring replaces Jabo Ibehre.
Sammy Moore (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John O'Sullivan (Carlisle United).
Foul by Sammy Moore (Leyton Orient).
Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Hand ball by Jamie Proctor (Carlisle United).
Attempt blocked. Jabo Ibehre (Carlisle United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Sammy Moore replaces Rowan Liburd.
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The Centre for Retail Research predicted 12.6 million people would hit the high streets on what has been dubbed "Panic Saturday", with just six days left until Christmas.
Experts said retailers had been left desperate to shift stock following disappointing Black Friday sales.
Discounts were expected to average 45%, financial advisory firm Deloitte said.
With six days remaining before Christmas Day on Friday, shoppers had been expected to embark on a £6bn spending spree - up 23% compared with the the same period last year, when Christmas Day fell on the Thursday, researchers said.
Jason Gordon, consumer business partner at Deloitte, said: "Compared to 2014, there is already a noticeable increase in both the volume and value of discounts in the run-up to Christmas this year.
"Whilst this is good news for consumers looking to grab a bargain, it is a clear sign that retailers are being faced with what is now an annual uphill battle."
Gary Turnbull, general manager for Intu Braehead in Glasgow, said the shopping centre had been "extremely busy".
He added: "There's still another five shopping days left and I reckon it's only going to get even busier the closer we get to the big day."
The industry did not reap the rewards of Black Friday - a US shopping tradition imported across the Atlantic, where retailers offer discounts the day after American Thanksgiving in November to kickstart the Christmas shopping season.
Experts said this year's UK Black Friday failed to boost sales and many retailers did not make the discounts shoppers had been hoping for.
Meanwhile, it appears so-called "Mad Friday" did not produce a surge in alcohol-related arrests but emergency crews across the UK were certainly kept busy.
Charities and health campaigners had warned revellers to drink responsibly on Friday night, one of the busiest days of the year for UK pubs and clubs.
Chris Wood, from the West Midlands Ambulance Service, spent the night treating people who had over-indulged in Birmingham.
"Last night we saw 20% more workload than last year," he told the BBC.
"Certainly a great deal were drink-related - we saw about 50 patients in Birmingham city centre who were all alcohol-related."
Ch Insp Chris Matthews spoke to the BBC while patrolling Leeds city centre.
"Not overly busy from last Friday, and that's possibly because people are working into Monday Tuesday, Wednesday next week," he said.
"It's a really lively night, a really good-natured night in Leeds. So far we've had maybe 10% more calls in Leeds than we would have done."
Kevin Brown, deputy director of operations at the London Ambulance Service, told BBC Radio 5 live late on Friday night: "We will expect about 5,300 emergency calls each day, here in London.
"What we've seen in the last three hours is over 1,000 999 calls and we've identified in excess of a 100 of those relate to alcohol."
Greater Manchester Police tweeted: "As of 9.30pm, incidents recorded are up 12% on last Friday. Calls are also getting louder, judging by the raised volume in the room #madfriday".
Shaun Murray, 27, shouted anti-Muslim abuse at the driver in a parking row shortly before a Justin Bieber concert at the Principality Stadium on 30 June.
He pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon and causing religiously-aggravated fear.
Murray, from Jesmond, Newcastle, was jailed for 10 months at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.
The court heard Murray, who had travelled to Wales for the concert, shouted anti-Muslim abuse at a taxi driver who asked him to move his car as it was parked in a taxi rank.
Ian Kolvin, prosecuting, said other taxi drivers tried to calm Murray down during the incident on the corner of Saunders Road, Penarth Road and St Mary Street, but he threatened the driver with the weapon.
He was detained by other taxi drivers and bar staff before the police arrived and arrested him.
"He continued to be abusive, using the f-word and demonstrated racist hostility," Mr Kolvin said.
"He shouted: 'They are dirty Muslims, they are baby killers, they carry nail bombs'."
Sentencing Murray, Judge Jeremy Jenkins said: "You became almost immediately violent and abusive.
"Anyone behaving in the way you did, using words that you did is by their very nature a racist. The words you used in public were deeply offensive."
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The collision, involving a low loader vehicle, happened on Mullaghduff Road as the policeman was investigating the theft of an ATM near Newry.
Police said the lorry was driven at speed directly at the officer and he was pinned between it and a police vehicle. The lorry left the scene.
Police are treating the incident as attempted murder.
Colletta Smith reports.
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Rovers accepted a £25,000 fine, of which £20,000 will be suspended, for breaching three operational rules.
The Red Devils were fined £10,000 for two breaches, with £7,500 suspended, but a £3,000 fine has been added from a previous suspended breach after crowd problems in a match at Huddersfield.
Salford won a dramatic game 19-18.
In the final game of The Qualifiers both teams were playing for a place in Super League in 2017, dubbed the Million Pound Game.
Fans invaded the pitch after Salford's Gareth O'Brien kicked a golden-point drop-goal to secure the win in extra time.
Both clubs were also ordered to pay the costs of the investigation, which came to £2,048.86 each.
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The man died after his motorcycle was in collision with a lorry on the Larne Road shortly after midday.
Police have appealed for information about the crash.
The Larne Road in Ballycarry was closed, but has now reopened.
A five-year Serious Fraud Office (SFO) inquiry will see charges brought against both Barclays PLC, the holding company of Barclays Bank (an important distinction as I'll try and explain later) as well as four executives, including former chief executive John Varley, and Roger Jenkins, who was head of investment banking and wealth management for Barclays in the Middle East.
The charges relate to an injection of cash that Barclays received from Middle East investors in 2008.
Taxpayer bailouts of freewheeling high-paying banks stoked public anger and contributed to the loss of trust in business that can be seen in every line of both main parties' manifestos going into the recent election. Which begs a question. Why, over the past decade, has the SFO been at its most dogged in the pursuit of a bank that DIDN'T require a taxpayer bailout?
In fact, it was Barclays' very efforts to SPARE the taxpayer that gave rise to this investigation.
In October 2008, around the time that Lloyds and RBS were being propped up with taxpayer money, Barclays raised £7.3bn from investors in the Middle East, including Qatar Holdings - a state owned investment fund.
There are two features of this deal that prompted investigation.
First was a payment to Qatar Holdings - which was initially not disclosed - for "advisory" services. Barclays later admitted that £332m was paid to this company over five years. The charge is essentially that this advisory agreement sweetened the deal for Barclays' new benefactors for non-existent advice.
Second was a loan of £2bn extended by Barclays to the Qataris at around the time of the investment. An adviser to a separate investor has claimed in court that Barclays was lending to Qatar Holdings to fund its investment in Barclays shares. The allegation essentially was that the bank was lending to itself: a very big no-no with banking regulators and today the SFO charged that this amounted to unlawful financial assistance.
Roger Jenkins has said he will vigorously defend himself against the charges. Barclays has said it is considering its position and is waiting for further details of the charges.
The BBC understands that Barclays PLC (the holding company for the operating company Barclays Bank) is considering pleading guilty to the charges. Not because they accept they acted wrongly, but if pleading guilty means that it can continue its operations unimpaired, while accepting a fine in the low hundreds of millions of pounds, then it might enable it to move on from an episode that has provided another unwelcome distraction to an entirely new management team.
That decision is thought to depend on whether the SFO brings similar charges against the operating company (Barclays Bank PLC rather than Barclays PLC). So far it has not, but Barclays acknowledged this morning that this remains a possibility.
Companies often go to extraordinary lengths to avoid criminal proceedings as they can lead to them being barred from bidding from contracts in certain countries - including the US.
Jet engine maker Rolls Royce agreed to pay £671m to settle corruption cases spanning nearly 30 years. A criminal conviction could have barred it from winning civil and military aviation contracts in the US.
In that case, the judge took the interests of thousands of employees into account while also pointing to the high level of co-operation it received from Rolls Royce and the installation of a new leadership team.
By charging the holding company rather than the bank, it would appear the SFO has considered the damage a conviction against the UK's last full service retail and investment bank would cause.
Barclays might feel slightly hard done by, if a similar option was not offered to them.
In Barclays' defence, insiders point to the fact that unlike decades of internal corruption at Rolls Royce, these were transactions done at a time of unprecedented stress in the financial markets and in an effort to avoid a partial nationalisation.
The old guard are similarly all gone and as for co-operation, Barclays said it was advised that certain documents it withheld from the SFO enjoyed legal privilege and questioned whether it was fair to penalise a company for exercising its rights. The boss of the SFO, David Green, saw it differently, saying Barclays had led it a "merry dance".
The net practical result, however, may be much the same. Although the Barclays holding company gets a rap sheet, the operating company doesn't - so can continue to do business in the US.
Meanwhile the SFO tries to claims a big corporate scalp and may pocket enough money to offset its investigation expenses and then some. Finally - and for many, the most important and most overdue element of this episode - is that the individuals at the top will face a court of law.
It's worth remembering that taxpayers didn't bail out Barclays and small shareholders didn't suffer the massive losses that those of RBS and Lloyds did. One former Barclays insider said that if there was a crime then it was "victimless" and you could argue that Barclays - and its executives - did taxpayers and its own shareholders a massive favour.
A decade after the financial crisis, while the mounties at the SFO may one day finally get their man - some will wonder if it was the right one.
The mother and daughter are being remembered in the 1,200-seat theatre at Hollywood's Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
On the programme are a tribute song by James Blunt and a performance by the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.
Singin' in the Rain's Reynolds, 84, and Star Wars actress Fisher, 60, died within a day of each other in December.
Reynolds starred in a string of classic Hollywood films in the 1950s and 1960s, while her daughter was best-known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films.
"There were no finer people that I have ever known than my mother and sister," Todd Fisher, who organised the service, said on stage.
The brother of Carrie and son of Debbie described the moments before his mother died: "She literally asked permission and said she wanted to be with Carrie.
"She closed her eyes and went to sleep. It was a very peaceful exit that only my mother could orchestrate. It was a beautiful exit."
Carrie Fisher died aged 60 on 27 December, days after suffering a cardiac arrest. Her mother died a day later after a suspected stroke.
Earlier Mr Fisher said the public was invited to the memorial "because that's how my mother would want it".
He added that she was "very connected to her fans and felt they were a part of her".
James Blunt was friends with Carrie Fisher and recorded part of his debut album in her bathroom. His tribute song will be accompanied by a montage of photographs of the pair.
Todd Fisher called it a "beautiful song to Carrie", adding that "it might rip your heart out".
Dancers from the Debbie Reynolds Studio performed a tribute to Singin' In The Rain at the event, which is being live streamed on debbiereynolds.com.
The public ceremony follows a private memorial service, which took place in January and was attended by stars including Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow and Meg Ryan.
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The Springboks mounted a dramatic second-half comeback to win 32-26 at Ellis Park and level the series at 1-1.
"We put ourselves in a great position to win the game and the series, but we'll look back on a lot of mistakes in the second half," said Best.
"We gave South Africa momentum and they showed the quality side they are."
Ireland's bid to become the first of the four home nations to win a series in South Africa looked to be on course as a Devin Toner try and 14 points from the boot of fly-half Paddy Jackson helped the tourists to a 19-3 half-time lead.
Four tries from the hosts in the second half, to one from Jamie Heaslip for the Irish, ensured that the series would be decided in Port Elizabeth next Saturday.
"We were very physical for the first 50 or 60 minutes and did everything we had talked about doing," continued the Ireland hooker.
"Even when we were conceding tries, we went up and scored again and that showed a lot of mental resolve from our boys.
"We are disappointed with the result but will take a few positives. It's 1-1 in the series and we'll back ourselves to go to Port Elizabeth and try to get the win. It will be another really tough Test match."
Triumphant South Africa skipper Adriaan Strauss said he was "proud of every single player in that team" after his side recorded just their third victory in their past eight encounters against Ireland.
The win was the first under new Springbok coach Allister Coetzee and maintained his nation's hopes of safeguarding an enviable record of not having lost a Test series at home in the past 19 years.
"The boys really stood up and were counted and showed their character," said Strauss.
"There were a lot of opportunities we didn't take and we need to have a more ruthless mindset to get points on the board.
"We still have a lot to work on and we need to take a hard look at ourselves and come back stronger next weekend."
Anis clocked 54.25 seconds to finish 56th out of 59 swimmers in the heats.
The 25-year-old fled war-torn Syria in 2015, travelling by boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Turkey before continuing to Belgium.
"It's a wonderful feeling to compete in the Olympics," he said. "I don't want to wake up from this dream."
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Anis, who also came 40th out of 43 in the 100m butterfly with a time of 56.23 seconds, is one of 10 athletes competing as part of a Refugee Olympic Team, including fellow Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini.
Anis left Syria for Turkey after seeing his home town bombed before travelling on an inflatable dingy to Greece, and eventually reaching Belgium. He was inspired to compete internationally by his uncle, who was also a competitive swimmer.
"I want to shine the spotlight on the plight of refugees," he added.
"I want to show the best possible image of refugees or Syrian people, or anyone who has suffered injustice in the world, and tell them to not lose hope."
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One-year-old Layla Richards, from London, had incurable aggressive leukaemia only five months ago.
Doctors used "designer immune cells" to fight the cancer and say her improvement was "almost a miracle".
It is too soon to know if she has been cured, but her progress already marks a huge moment for the field.
Layla was three months old when she was diagnosed with the condition.
As often happens with very young babies, chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant failed to cure her.
Doctors had nothing left to offer and, the day before her first birthday, her family were advised to go through palliative care.
But Layla's dad Ashleigh refused to give up. He told the BBC: "I didn't want to go down that road, I'd rather that she tried something new and I took the gamble.
"And this is her today standing laughing and giggling, she was so weak before this treatment, it was horrible and I'm just thankful for this opportunity."
Medical staff, in conjunction with the biotech company Cellectis, rapidly gained permission to try a highly experimental therapy that had been trialled only in mice.
The treatment - designer immune cells - were the product of cutting-edge advances in gene editing.
Previous therapies have tried to add new genes to correct a defect whereas this one edited those already there.
Microscopic scissors - technically known as Talens - were used to precisely engineer the DNA inside a donor's immune cells.
The cells were designed to seek out and kill only leukaemia cells and be invisible to the strong drugs given to patients.
The designer cells were then injected into Layla and she also needed a second bone marrow transplant to restore her immune system.
Now, just months after her family was told she had incurable cancer, Layla is not only alive, but has no trace of leukaemia in her body.
Dr Paul Veys, from Great Ormond Street, said the transformation was one of the most remarkable things he'd seen in 20 years: "We're in a wonderful place compared to where we were five months ago, but that doesn't mean cure.
"The only way we will find out if this is a cure is by waiting that one or two years, but even having got this far from where we were is a major, major step."
He described the run of events as "almost like a miracle".
Layla's story is being presented at the American Society of Haematology, but this is only a single case that has not been tested in a clinical trial.
But the pace of progress in gene-editing technology is phenomenal.
Prof Waseem Qasim, from Great Ormond Street, added: "This is the first time human cells, engineered in this particular way, have been given back to a patient and that was a big step for us.
"The technology is moving very fast, the ability to target very specific regions of the genome have suddenly become much more efficient and we think that this technology will be the next phase of treatments.
"The technology itself has got enormous potential to correct other conditions where cells are engineered and given back to patients or to provide new properties to cells that allow them to be used in a way we can only imagine at the moment."
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The 23-year-old was a free agent after Notts County's liquidation and played for Yeovil in the 2017 Women's Super League Spring Series.
"It's been a tough few months with everything at Notts County but I'm excited to get started," she said.
"Hopefully I can bring some experience. I'm still a young player but I've played in this division before."
Adebowlae, 22, was convicted of killing Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London on 22 May last year.
He was convicted alongside fellow Islamic extremist Michael Adebolajo.
A full appeal hearing in front of three judges will take place at a later date, a spokesman for the judiciary said.
Carlos Rodriguez, who was sacked by the Honduran foreign ministry, apologised but also said he had been away on holiday at the time.
An investigation is under way into reports that two alleged prostitutes were at the party on 20 December.
Laptop computers and mobile phones were reportedly stolen from the premises.
"I assume responsibility as the former chief of mission," Mr Rodriguez said.
"I would like to apologise to the government of President (Porfirio) Lobo, to the Honduran people and at the same time to the people and government of Colombia," he told local media.
Mr Rodriguez said he had been on leave from 15 December and had just been informed the day after the party that an official had mislaid a computer.
A committee of inquiry has been set up in Honduras, while in Colombia the authorities are trying to identify the two presumed sex workers.
An embassy employee close to Mr Rodriguez has been accused of organising the party.
US secret service agents were involved in a similar scandal last year, ahead of an official visit by President Barack Obama to Colombia.
They were sent home and disciplined in April 2012 after being accused of taking prostitutes to their hotel rooms on the eve of the Summit of the Americas in the city of Cartagena.
Cheshire East Council Leader Michael Jones stepped down last year following pressure over three deals given to his personal physiotherapist's firm.
The council blamed the ending of the deal on "budget constraints" despite an academic report saying Core Fit Ltd's classes "worked well".
A Cheshire Police probe into Mr Jones' links to the firm's owner is under way.
Core Fit founder Amanda Morris branded the council's decision to stop funding the classes "disgusting".
About 3,600 children in 28 schools, and 200 adults aged over 50 have participated in classes run by Core Fit Ltd under its council contracts since 2014.
A report by the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University, commissioned by the council, found the programme had "an impact on both the physical [and] overall wellbeing of the children".
The report said adults who took part "reported greater mobility which enabled them to live more independently", and claimed potential savings to the NHS and social care teams would outweigh the cost of delivering the classes.
Cheshire East Council said: "Owing to budget constraints, the council is not in a position to continue to commission these services.
"However, the council understands that a number of schools in Cheshire East, and on a wider footprint, have purchased the service independently."
But Ms Morris said: "If the council's policies are that they're fundamentally looking at improving mental health, its disgusting that they're not putting money into this sort of thing."
"It doesn't make sense."
Mr Jones has previously denied wrongdoing after the council waived its own financial rules three times when granting contracts worth £156,000 to Core Fit.
He stepped down in December 2015 to avoid "infighting" after fellow Conservatives called for an external investigation.
The police investigation was launched 11 months ago.
Alexandra Elkins and Annabel Smith, who are studying at Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, now want to re-sit the exam with a new series of questions.
More than 4,000 people from across the country have signed a protest petition.
The Pearson group which provides the Edexcel exams said its papers "accurately reflect the curriculum".
Alexandra Elkins said: "I turned over the first paper and I looked at what was written and I thought, 'this can't be right, this isn't the right paper'."
Annabel Smith said: "I flicked through the rest of the paper after reading the first question thinking, 'okay maybe this is just one question and the rest of it will get onto the stuff that we know'," she said.
However, she added all the questions were "off-topic".
They say the paper was a repeat of a previous paper for AS Level students two years ago, covering topics which they were not taught.
Those who have signed the online petition have also labelled the paper as "ridiculous" and "unacceptable".
The 17-year-olds were predicted top grade A-Levels in biology in order to secure a place at university, and reach goals of becoming a dentist and a vet.
A Pearson spokesman said: "Our exam papers accurately reflect the curriculum that schools, teachers and learners have been working towards.
"In the case of the unit 4 Biology paper the specification is clear that some content may draw on AS material."
Queen Mary's College said it had contacted both the exams board and the exams standard body Ofqual to raise concerns.
The Briton, named in reports as former Hertfordshire accountant Simon Carley-Pocock, 58, was living in Alcoutim, on the Algarve, when he was killed.
Police issued a statement saying the arrested suspect was in possession of the victim's car and other items.
It added the man was arrested on suspicion of murder and robbery.
Police revealed the victim suffered wounds to the abdomen. It was reported that a spear was used in the attack
Mr Carley-Pocock, who was originally from Welwyn Garden City, is believed to have moved to Portugal more than 10 years ago.
The attack is thought to have happened over the weekend.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are in contact with local authorities following the death of a British national in the Algarve and are ready to provide consular assistance."
Alcoutim is in the eastern Algarve, close to the border to Spain.
Almost 93,000 children were taking part in supervised tooth brushing at home through the Designed to Smile programme, 5,500 more than in 2013.
Latest figures from 2012 show 41.4% of five year olds in Wales suffering from tooth decay, down from 47.6% in 2008.
Chief dental officer David Thomas welcomed the "encouraging progress".
The scheme offers tooth brushing and fluoride varnish programmes for children up to the age of six through their schools and nurseries, with treatment and advice for older children who need it.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said children and young people were "seeing the benefits" of the programme.
Caledonian MacBrayne said 5,055,827 passengers and 1,356,396 cars travelled on its vessels in 2016.
The figures mark the first full year of the road equivalent tariff (RET) on the network, which aimed to equate ticket prices with the cost of road journeys.
The busiest route was Ardrossan to Brodick on the Isle of Arran.
The route carried 828,262 people and 202,843 cars in 2016 - an annual rise of 8.7% and 6.84% respectively.
The Largs to Isle of Cumbrae route was the second busiest, carrying 738,549 passengers and went up by 7.49 % on the previous year.
In terms of cars, there was a 74% rise in vehicles travelling on the Tobermory to Kilchoan crossing.
CalMac said a larger vessel would operate in summer 2017 to cater for the growth in numbers.
The Rothesay route was second-busiest with 172,897 cars, up 19.12% on the previous year's figures.
Across the network, 428,801 more passengers and 186,695 more cars travelled on CalMac's ferry services in 2016.
The RET scheme, which began a phased introduction in 2008, led to sharp drops in fares across several routes.
However, it took until October 2015 before there was full network coverage of the scheme.
The figures come after CalMac announced losses of £5m in November last year.
CalMac said 2016 was the first year since 1997 that it had carried more than five million passengers.
Managing director Martin Dorchester said: "Last year was our busiest in terms of passengers for two decades.
"This is a great reflection of the professionalism of our staff in dealing with an increase of more than 400,000 passengers and almost 190,000 cars whilst still running a smooth operation to help all our travellers, whether islanders or visitors, business or pleasure, to get where they are going."
Transport Minister Humza Yousaf added: "Cheaper fares bring benefits to locals, visitors and local businesses, making ferry travel more attractive and accessible, as well as providing a boost to the tourist trade."
CalMac said evidence on a number of routes suggested the reduction in fares had led to islanders journeying more, with many taking their cars with them.
Are we about to see the end of the Friday filibuster, and backbench MPs droning bills to death, while their supporters seethe with impotent fury?
The publication this week of sweeping proposals to reform the system by which individual MPs can bring in legislation, and the warm response, not least from Labour's shadow leader of the Commons, Chris Bryant, suggests change is on the way.
Charles Walker, chair of the Commons Procedure Committee has long argued that the existing system, with its arcane rule, and chronic game-playing, brings the House into disrepute; people watching on TV as bills they support are "talked out" are infuriated and mystified.
More recently a couple of ministers have found themselves on the receiving end of some rough treatment in the Chamber when they have given unwelcome bills the coup de grace, by continuing to talk until time runs out.
Mr Walker's committee's recommendations, published this week, would create a route by which a bill with broad backbench support could be brought before the Commons, and proposes a series of rule changes which would block some, at least, of the game-playing - and they might just have enough support in the Commons to be enacted.
The Procedure Committee proposes:
All this looks rather tekky and in-house, but it could amount to a substantial opening-up of the process.
The key element is the creation of a mechanism to establish which backbench bills have substantial cross-party support, and give them a second reading debate.
There are, of course, no guarantees that they will pass that stage, and the government could always whip its MPs to oppose them. But there will be a debate and opponents will have to explain their position. The point about this change is that it would allow cross-party initiatives to develop a bill, consult, redraft and build support - as compared to the current practice where bills are hawked around the MPs whose names come out of the hat in the annual private members' bill ballot, by an assortment of pressure groups and parliamentary enthusiasts. (The next ballot is on 26 May). The downside for many MPs is that they may find themselves whipped to attend Friday sittings rather more often.
But once the Commons has a process which establishes that a particular backbench bill is worthy of a debate, and a vote, then it follows that speeches can be time limited, so that the debate comes to an orderly end at the end of the appointed time.
And then if Bills are to be killed, they have to be done so in a vote, in the light of day. So these recommendations could amount to a major opening-up of the Commons. And, incidentally, it would still be possible for opponents to "talk out" bills at the later report stage of debate, although it would be harder work to do so, because they would have to put down amendments and speak to them, which makes keeping a long speech within the rules of order a rather more difficult task.
Take a look at how the system works now. Any MP can bring in any bill they fancy, at any time, but the key is getting time to have the bill debated.
At the moment the system works like this: in an annual ballot (lottery, really) 20 MPs get the right to bring in a bill during a Friday sitting of the Commons. The first seven of them are guaranteed a second reading debate, because their bills will have the top spot on the agenda. MPs further down the list will only have a chance of being debated if there is time left over after the first bill on the agenda has been dealt with. And the snag is that, under the current rules, there is no time limit on speeches and no guarantee of a vote at the end of a debate.
This gives a powerful weapon to opponents of a private member's bill. If they talk for long enough, they can use up all the available debating time…and if, when the close of the debate is reached at 2.30pm, no vote had been held, the bill goes to the back of the queue for further debate, and is, essentially, never seen again.
This is known in the trade as "talking out." The long speeches have to be in order - which as in Radio 4's Just a Minute, means that the speakers have to avoid hesitation, deviation and repetition (alright, you can get away with minor hesitation). You have to be an adept parliamentarian to carry it off without incurring the wrath of the Chair, or at least a very clever one. (I once sat through an interminable speech by the then Labour MP Andrew Dismore, who would re-read whole sections of his oration when he spotted that the occupant of the Chair had changed, and that the new Deputy Speaker who'd just taken over would not have heard some of his previous pages.)
The way to break through this process (it's not properly a filibuster unless the Chair rules it out of order) is to have 100 MPs support a motion to bring the issue to a vote - a closure motion. And it's a rare private member's bill that attracts that many Hon Members to foresake the delights of their constituency Fridays.
It can happen, and did, when Rob Marris topped the 2015 private members' bill ballot, and brought in his Assisted Dying Bill - and saw it decisively voted down, rather than blocked by procedural means.
The question now is whether the government will allow the recommendations to be debated. Mr Walker is still scarred by the end of parliament shenanigans last March, by which his committee's recommendations on electing the Speaker were used to attempt a last-gasp coup aimed at John Bercow; and indeed the way other modernising recommendations on reform of report stage proceedings have never made it to the wicket.
But if the government does not schedule a debate - and the Commons agenda is not exactly groaning with crucial business at the moment - there are ways in which pressure might be exerted. How about the Backbench Business Committee? The rules don't allow it to schedule debates on the Commons' Standing Orders, but it could hold a debate on a motion calling on the government to make time.
Police were called to Auchinlee care home in Campbeltown on Tuesday.
A police spokeswoman said the man had been reported to the procurator fiscal over "alleged sexual offences".
The Care Inspectorate, which regulates the care home sector, said it was working with the police and monitoring the situation closely.
A spokesman for the inspectorate said: "We have been notified of an allegation of a serious incident at this service and are working closely with colleagues at Police Scotland and other partners.
"We are being kept fully informed and are monitoring this care home closely.
"The safety and well-being of anyone who accesses care is always our first priority."
The spokesman added: "Anyone with a concern about a care service can contact our helpline on 0345 600 9527.
"We take all issues raised with us very seriously and we use that intelligence to help us plan and support our inspections."
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: "We can confirm that on Tuesday 26 January police received a report of a 76-year-old woman having been allegedly sexually assaulted in Campbeltown.
"An 82-year-old man is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal in connection with the alleged sexual offences."
They presented a series of demands to Deputy PM Bulent Arinc, who on Tuesday apologised to injured protesters.
The crackdown on protests over the redevelopment of a park in Istanbul last week triggered nationwide unrest.
Thousands of striking workers have joined demonstrations to demand Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan resign.
Banging drums and carrying banners, trade unionists marched on Istanbul's Taksim Square, which has been the focal point of the unrest.
There was a similar march by workers including doctors, teachers and bank staff in the capital Ankara, where once again police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters.
In the coastal city of Izmir, police arrested 25 people for posting "misinformation" on Twitter.
Relatives said those detained - young men and women, mostly in their early 20s - had posted as few as two tweets informing protesters of the location of police activity and roadblocks in the city. They feared they would be charged with criminal incitement.
The prime minister has called the micro-blogging site a "menace" used to spread "lies".
The deputy prime minister is standing in for Mr Erdogan, who is on an overseas trip.
On Wednesday, Mr Arinc was handed a list of demands by a group calling itself the Taksim Solidarity Platform (TSP).
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In addition to the dismissal of several police chiefs, the activists said they wanted a ban on the use of tear gas, the release of detained protesters, the sacking of Istanbul's governor, and the scrapping of the plans for the redevelopment of Gezi Park, which is part of Taksim Square.
"The steps the government takes will shape the events," the TSP said after the meeting with Mr Arinc.
On Tuesday, the deputy prime minister apologised to demonstrators who had been injured.
He said the original protests had been "just and legitimate" and that the "excessive use of force" by police had been wrong.
But he said there was no need to apologise for the policing of the later protests, which he said had been taken over by "terrorist elements".
Mr Arinc's conciliatory remarks contrasted with the tougher line taken by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dismissed the protests as undemocratic.
Meanwhile Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has reproached the US for its criticism of how the protests have been handled.
He told US Secretary of State John Kerry that Turkey was not a "second class democracy", diplomatic sources said.
The original protests began in Gezi Park on 28 May but soon mushroomed, engulfing several cities and becoming more political.
At least two people have been killed in the unrest and thousands have been injured - including hundreds of police officers.
Demonstrators accuse Mr Erdogan's government of becoming increasingly authoritarian and trying to impose conservative Islamic values on a secular state.
Turkey's Minister for the EU, Egemen Bagis, told the BBC that those who wanted political change should seek it through Turkey's democratic process.
"If people think that this government ought to step down then they should address this question through the ballot box. This is a democracy where public opinion does matter," he said.
Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AK) has governed Turkey since 2002, winning a series of election victories.
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The Serb won 6-1 6-1 in 61 minutes to seal his 15th consecutive win at the O2 Arena, a run stretching back to 2011.
Roger Federer beat Tomas Berdych 6-4 6-2 in 69 minutes, in the opening day's other round-robin match in London.
Britain's Jamie Murray won on his debut as he and doubles partner John Peers beat Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini.
All the players wore black ribbons on their shirts as a mark of respect to the victims of Friday's deadly attacks in Paris.
"All my heart goes out to the families of the lost ones, it's really devastating to see those images and that footage," said Djokovic.
The world number one needed just 65 minutes to see off eighth seed Nishikori, and ended the afternoon with a trophy in his hands as he was confirmed as the 2015 world number one.
Djokovic, 28, won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open, and went within one match of the calendar Grand Slam, losing to Stan Wawrinka in the French Open final.
"Undoubtedly it has been the best season and the best year of my life - I became a father and I got married. Those are the kind of trophies and milestones that mean the most to me.
"I've been experiencing the peak time right now of my abilities. I was very consistent with my results, 2011 and 2015 definitely stand out.
"My team plays a big part in this - I have a great team of experts and most of all they are my friends and people I can rely on."
Nishikori, 25, did not serve well enough to give Djokovic any trouble and was broken five times as the Serb extended his latest winning streak to 23 matches.
Djokovic might be the dominant force right now but Federer holds a record six end-of-season titles and remains the fans' favourite.
A large number of travelling Swiss swelled the capacity evening crowd as their man found his form to rack up his 49th win in 60 matches and 14 trips to the season finale.
Federer started surprisingly poorly, double-faulting twice as he dropped serve to love in game three, only for Berdych to return the favour in the next game, almost tripping over when a drop shot caught him out.
The Czech, 30, was struggling to find any rhythm and eventually paid for a first-serve percentage of just 41% as three errors handed over the key break at 4-4.
Federer took complete control with seven games in a row for a 4-0 lead in the second set and wrapped up victory after 69 minutes.
The Swiss will take on world number one Djokovic in the second round of Stan Smith Group matches on Tuesday.
Jamie Murray and Australian Peers won a dramatic opening match against Italians Bolelli and Fognini 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 11-9.
That gives them an early lead in the round-robin stage, with Bob and Mike Bryan to face Rohan Bopanna and Florian Mergea later on Sunday.
Murray and Peers are seeded fourth for the tournament and could end the year as the world number one pairing, but have already agreed to go their separate ways in 2016.
"I didn't really think about it that much," said the 29-year-old Scot, who will play with Brazil's Bruno Soares next year.
"From my point of view, we just try to do the best we can, finish on a high and try to make a great year even better."
Murray also has Great Britain's Davis Cup final against Belgium to look forward to later this month.
"It's an exciting time for me," he said. "It's lots to look forward to, obviously starting with today.
"It's a huge event for us which we're really excited to be a part of. We worked hard all year to qualify for this tournament.
"We want to make the most of our time here. When that's done, then I'll think about Davis Cup."
The fund - financed equally by private investors and the government - will be made available to help boost the growth of firms in the "life sciences" sector.
Cheshire's Alderley Park research hub, where drugs giant AstraZeneca cut 1,600 jobs in 2013, will host the fund.
Many firms with fewer than 250 staff will be eligible to apply for funding.
Since AstraZeneca's decision, Alderley Park has been designated a medicine research "catapult centre".
This has brought businesses, scientists and clinicians together to develop new medicines.
About 450 jobs have been created by 28 firms there.
The chief executive of Alderley Park's owners Manchester Science Partnerships, Rowena Burns, said: "Our goal is to work with our businesses to support their next stage in growth, by reducing their risks and accelerating successful innovation.
"This new fund is just part of our commitment to the region's wonderful life science entrepreneurs."
The funding will be available to life sciences firms with fewer than 250 employees and and turnover of less than €50m (£37m).
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Marcia Shakespeare said it was a "bittersweet" honour after a "rollercoaster of emotions" in the years since daughter Letisha Shakespeare, 17, and best friend Charlene Ellis, 18, became the innocent victims of a drive-by shooting in Birmingham in the early hours of 2 January 2003.
Following the killings she has campaigned to rid the city of guns and says her reward is the young people who have turned around their lives.
It has unveiled two versions of the wall-mounted battery packs and said it hoped to start shipping and installing the devices by the summer.
BBC News looks into the announcement and its implications.
The same technology used to power Tesla cars, a lithium ion battery, will also be used in the large battery packs it is about to start making.
It is likely that many of the first people to buy a battery pack will be people who already own a Tesla car and are looking for a cheaper way to charge their vehicle.
In many places, charging the car's battery using solar power will be much cheaper than doing it using electricity from the grid.
Aside from this, the battery packs could prove useful to people keen to cut their electricity bill by generating some of the power they use from the sun. Others may use them to store energy bought when it is cheap so they can avoid paying for higher-priced power.
Tesla also has plans to sell the batteries to utility companies as a way for them to store the power they generate at times of low demand.
Not exactly. Those in the cars are optimised to charge more quickly than the domestic versions.
Lithium-ion technology is very well established and is used in the majority of gadgets that have rechargeable batteries. Other electric cars use them to store power too.
Before now one of the bottlenecks holding back wider adoption of lithium-ion batteries has been a lack of factories making them. Tesla hopes to address this with the building of what it calls a gigafactory which, when completed in 2020, will be the world's biggest.
The building of the factory, says Tesla, should help drive down the cost of the technology.
Yes. Cost. The price quoted by Tesla does not include installation of the unit. To this needs to be added the cost of installing solar panels to gather energy.
It might take years for the combination of solar panels and battery to pay for itself.
Tesla claims that its batteries could be useful during disasters when power is knocked out for days. However, well-established generator technologies that are powered by petrol or diesel will probably remain cheaper than lithium-ion batteries for some time.
Despite this, Tesla is working to remove one big obstacle which is getting commercial partners aligned to be able to deliver and install the technology in homes.
No. Many other companies and nations are keen to find ways to power energy generated from renewable sources. Sometimes this is because the supply of the power from wind, water and the sun can fluctuate - a reliable store will help smooth out the peaks and troughs.
In addition, some sources of renewable energy, such as solar power, are absent when people need power the most - at night. Again, storing power would help solve this problem.
Home storage of power is also getting more interest because in many nations, established electricity generators are slashing the rates they pay customers who provide them with power from the solar panels mounted on the roof of their home.
In the UK, there are several small-scale trials involving a few hundred homes that are based around systems that store power generated from the sun.
Tesla thinks so. However, there can be many reasons why people in such places do not have power. It is not clear that a relatively expensive system such as Tesla's will work well in such locations.
In addition, there are many NGOs and green innovation firms looking at bringing much cheaper, and more robust, power generation systems to developing nations.
What is clear is that although many of these places have an abundant supply of solar power they lack the infrastructure and local expertise that are likely to make the Tesla initiative a success in the US.
Holyrood's finance committee quizzed Mr Mackay about the budget, which will see the first use of new tax powers.
The government's plans, which Mr Mackay said would provide "stability and certainty", came in for criticism from opposition members.
There will be a separate vote on the government's tax proposals before the final budget vote in February.
Scotland's parties have failed to reach a consensus over tax, with previous Holyrood votes ending in stalemate.
Members also heard from Robert Chote, chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), who described economic forecasting as like "a spot the ball competition where the judges change their minds repeatedly about where the ball is, occasionally years after the competition".
Holyrood is currently scrutinising Mr Mackay's tax and spending proposals, ahead of a series of votes in February.
The questions at Wednesday's session focused mainly on taxation, with the finance secretary due to return to the committee to discuss his spending proposals.
Among the questions to Mr Mackay in the second meeting will be some sent in by members of the public via social media.
Each of the parliament's other subject committees have taken evidence from relevant ministers. They are now considering draft reports to the finance committee, which will submit its own final report by the end of January.
The first full-chamber debate on the draft budget proposals will be held in the week beginning 30 January, with the budget bill then progressing through the three stages of parliamentary approval through February.
A separate vote on the tax plans will take place prior to the final budget vote, which is expected to be in the week beginning 20 February.
With the SNP a minority government, Mr Mackay will need support from at least one other party in order to see his proposals passed.
Mr Mackay's budget plans would see a distinction drawn between the higher rates of income tax in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
While the UK Treasury aims to up the threshold for the 40p tax rate to £45,000 and eventually £50,000, the SNP has pledged to raise it by no more than the rate of inflation - to £43,430 in 2017/18.
This would leave some Scots paying more tax than those earning the same amount south of the border, which the Conservatives say would make Scotland "the highest taxed part of the UK".
Green co-convener Patrick Harvie questioned whether the plans were progressive enough, saying the difference between Scottish and UK policy would only benefit higher earners.
Mr Mackay said the income tax rate is set year by year, with the SNP elected on the tax proposals currently on the table, but said the policy remains under review.
Mr Harvie said it would be "a huge missed opportunity" if the government were to "dig in their heels and insist on a no-change tax policy now that they have the power, and the political support, for real change".
Mr Mackay also clashed with Tory finance spokesman Murdo Fraser over the funding Holyrood receives from Westminster.
The finance secretary accepted there was a real-terms increase in funds for the coming year, but insisted there was an overall decrease over the period the Conservatives have been in government in London.
Mr Fraser pointed to figures on in the budget document on the total budget, from 2010/11 (£34.2bn) to the coming year (£37.9bn), asking Mr Mackay: "Have you got your sums wrong?"
Citing a different set of figures focused on discretionary spending, Mr Mackay insisted real-terms spending would fall by 9.2% over the long term.
The finance secretary was also pressed by Labour's James Kelly on the settlement for local government in the budget. He said councils would have less money for services because the government was not making the best use of its tax powers.
Mr Mackay insisted the settlement for councils was "fair", adding: "If it was such a bad deal for local government then I'm sure Cosla would have rejected it."
Perhaps the sharpest and most prolonged exchange came when Patrick Harvie of the Greens intervened.
Mr Mackay knows that there is very, very little chance of either Labour or the Conservatives striking a deal with him to enable the budget to proceed.
Which leaves the Greens and the Liberal Democrats. The Lib Dems don't have a presence on the committee so it was up to Mr Harvie.
Intriguingly, the Green co-convener pursued the topic of tax very vigorously indeed. Mr Mackay has indicated that he is less than minded to give ground on his tax package which he regards as carefully calibrated, balancing concerns and interests.
From first principles, Mr Harvie seems unwilling to concede that. He wants to rebalance the tax proposals to make the relatively wealthy pay more. In short, he wants elements of his own manifesto project to be adopted.
Mr Harvie knows that there will be a separate vote on tax at Holyrood - before the stage three final vote on the budget. That is why he is pushing so hard now for concessions on tax and not just spending.
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The budget calculations include the end of the council tax freeze, with councils able to raise rates by up to 3%, and extra increases to bands E, F, G and H, which were agreed earlier in the parliamentary term.
However, the government has abandoned proposals to use council tax funds for national education targets - a plan which had proved controversial with opposition parties, with all backing a Tory amendment saying it would undermine local accountability.
The parties also failed to come to any consensus over tax in a vote the week before the draft budget was published, with a series of votes ending in stalemate after opposition members united against an amendment put forward by Mr Mackay.
While the Conservatives oppose the SNP's tax plans as going too far, Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems say they are not radical enough.
Other proposals in the draft budget include:
The committee appealed for members of the public to submit budget questions for the next meeting with Mr Mackay via social media, using the Twitter hashtag #askthecabsec.
They said a selection of the queries submitted would be put directly to the finance secretary, with the Scottish government invited to provide written responses to them all.
A committee will look at the government's welfare changes and unemployment policies to see if they "disproportionately affect" the rights of disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
The review, part of a regular cycle of examinations, will be the first undertaken since 2009.
The findings will be published next June.
As part of the examination of government policies, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has requested further information on more than 30 issues.
The committee will examine whether measures have targeted certain groups such as disabled people, ethnic minorities or those on low incomes.
A UN spokeswoman said the CESCR would review the UK and six other countries.
"It is not an investigation or inquiry launched in response to a particular situation or at the request of a third party," she added.
The review is being carried out because the UK signed up to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Areas under examination will include:
Earlier this month members of the Just Fair coalition, which campaigns for "social justice in the UK", met CESCR representatives.
Just Fair members said they were concerned government policies had "led to violations of the right to food, housing, adequate healthcare for migrants and people with mental health problems and the economic and social rights of disabled people".
Just Fair chairman Jamie Burton said the UN review was "timely and welcome".
"We and many others are concerned about the adverse impact austerity policies have had on the least well off and already marginalised in society, including those in work," he said.
"In the one of the richest countries in the world people do not have enough food to eat or decent housing to live in.
"Worst of all, the measures have hit children, single mothers and people with disabilities the hardest. As the tax credits scandal shows, the public is turning against these policies precisely because they are so unfair."
The government is aiming to cut annual welfare spending by £12bn, in line with a Conservative manifesto pledge.
A government spokesman said: "This is not an investigation but a routine request for information that occurs every few years as part of the periodic reporting process to the UN.
"We are committed to protecting the most vulnerable in society. The UK government continues to support millions of people on benefits with an £80bn working-age welfare safety net in place."
The UN review is separate from an ongoing investigation by the UN's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which is looking at whether the government's disability benefit reforms breached the rights of disabled people.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) launched its investigation following allegations made in a German television documentary.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko confirmed a Wada commission had now visited the country at his request.
He said: "They took around 3,000 samples to be checked in laboratories."
Mutko told the sports agency R-Sport: "I wrote a letter to Wada, in which I said very precisely that we were open to receiving any commission and ready to show everything.
"A commission from Wada has already been to visit us, which included three people who were led by the director of science.
"We will continue to work along this route and we are completely open."
Programmes aired by the German broadcaster ARD in December contained a number of allegations including one claim that as many as 99% of Russian athletes were doping.
There were also allegations of cover-ups from within Russian athletics, while the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) came in for criticism.
It was claimed that a list of 150 suspicious blood samples, including one from a top British athlete, were not properly investigated by the sport's world governing body.
The allegations were denounced as "lies" by Russia's Athletics Federation, while the IAAF launched its own inquiry.
Earlier this month, Wada announced its former chief Dick Pound would head up an investigatory commission looking into the German documentary's claims but said it would not start work until 1 January.
Failure to do so will result in disciplinary measures and could ultimately lead to them being barred from working.
The rules apply in England and Wales when girls under 18 say they have been cut or staff recognise the signs.
FGM has been illegal in the UK since 1985.
The practice, also known as female circumcision, refers to any procedure that alters or injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
In its most severe form, the genitals are cut and stitched closed until the victim is ready to have a baby and then sewn back up again. Proponents believe this keeps women and girls "hygienic, chaste and faithful".
Studies are under way to work out how many are affected - but the figure is thought to be around 137,000 in England and Wales.
The government is committed to ending the "abusive and illegal practice" within a generation.
The new rules say cases should be reported promptly - ideally by the end of the next working day after they are discovered.
Guidance has been drawn up by the NHS, the Department of Health and medical Royal Colleges to help staff understand the new rules.
Public Health Minister Jane Ellison said: "Healthcare professionals are at the forefront of the fight to end FGM and this new duty is the next step in that fight.
"The tools we are providing will empower NHS staff and support them in strengthening their safeguarding response for our girls who are at risk, and better protect and care for those living with FGM."
Hilary Garratt, the director of nursing at NHS England, said: "NHS England is committed to helping to eradicate FGM, while ensuring that women and children who have been victims receive the treatment and support they need.
"This new guidance will support health professionals to recognise FGM and ensure they report it."
Mandatory reporting is not currently a legal requirement in Scotland but some politicians have been pushing ministers to follow the UK government's lead. In March, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced £220,000 of funding for "community engagement projects, awareness-raising and training and support services".
In June the Northern Ireland Assembly introduced protection orders which prevent travel for young girls thought to be at risk of being taken abroad for FGM procedures.
Female genital mutilation
Source: World Health Organization
The wicketkeeper will, however, remain available for selection for the three-match series and the three subsequent Twenty20 internationals.
Dhoni, 35, had been India's limited-overs captain since September 2007.
Under his leadership, India won the 2007 World Twenty20, 2011 World Cup and 2013 Champions Trophy.
Test captain Virat Kohli - ranked second in the world's ODI batting rankings - is the leading candidate to replace Dhoni.
"The Indian team has touched new heights and his achievements will remain etched forever in the annals of Indian cricket," said Rahul Johri, chief executive of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Dhoni led his country in 199 ODIs and 72 Twenty20 internationals, also taking charge of 60 Tests between 2008 and 2014, to hold the overall record for the most international matches as captain with 331.
In terms of victories, he is the most successful captain in all three formats in Indian cricket history.
He was put in charge of the India squad for the inaugural World T20 in South Africa in 2007, leading his side to a five-wicket victory over Pakistan in the final.
It was this success which is credited with starting his country's obsession with the shortest format of the game.
Already established as a powerful middle to lower-order batsman, Dhoni developed a reputation as an adept finisher in run chases, as epitomised by his man-of-the-match performance in the 2011 World Cup final.
The captain struck 91 off 79 balls, including a six to win the game, as he guided India to a six-wicket win against Sri Lanka in front of a raucous home crowd in Mumbai.
There was further success in a dramatic five-run victory over England in the 2013 Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston, before finishing runners-up to Sri Lanka in the 2014 World T20 in Bangladesh.
She told BBC One's Breakfast she had been asked to pose for a lot more than when she was home secretary.
"I do do quite a few of them but I can't manage to do all of them. I'm afraid time doesn't allow me."
David Cameron was a keen selfie participant but was criticised for joining Barack Obama for a snap at Nelson Mandela's memorial service.
Mrs May, who succeeded Mr Cameron in July, will make her debut leader's address to the Conservative conference on Wednesday.
Ahead of this, Mrs May - who has rarely spoken about her life outside politics - took part in the traditional pre-speech round of broadcast interviews where she was pressed on political and personal subjects ranging from Brexit to baking.
Asked what the biggest difference she had noticed since about becoming prime minister she said she seemed "to be asked to do a lot more selfies these days".
"There have been quite a few selfies here at the party conference, as you can imagine."
On ITV's Good Morning Britain, Mrs May was asked about her recipe for scones - details of which she shared in a newspaper interview on Sunday - and her collection of shoes.
Mrs May, who says she likes to relax by cooking and hill walking, told the Sunday Times over the weekend that she had used both butter and margarine to make scones in the past - a technique which got a rise among some home bakers on social media.
She told ITV she didn't make scones so often since being diagnosed with diabetes but said using hard butter was best: "You have to rub it in with the flour. It's often easier if it's hard, you can get a good rub in. If it's too soft it starts to become a bit claggy."
Mrs May, who famously wore a pair of leopard print kitten heels when addressing a Conservative conference in opposition, said she was often amused by the amount of press coverage her choice of footwear attracted.
"It is interesting people focus on my shoes. I don't think they focus on Philip Hammond's or Boris Johnson's in quite the same way. Do I regret the fact that people look at my shoes? Hey, it gives me an excuse to go and buy new shoes."
And interviewed on LBC Radio, Mrs May was asked about former colleague Ken Clarke's description of her as a "bloody difficult woman".
"I stand by doing what I believe to be the right thing," she replied. "If standing up for what you believe to be right is being 'bloody difficult', then so be it."
Questioned about her political ambitions on Radio 4's Today, Mrs May says she could not remember declaring as a teenager that she wanted to be prime minister - as some old friends have said - but added that she decided from an early age to be an MP to "make a difference" to people's lives.
McGrath, 60, of Grantchester Street, Cambridge, pleaded guilty at Huntingdon Magistrates' Court, in Cambridgeshire.
He had been charged with following the woman, sending electronic messages and approaching her in the street.
McGrath was sentenced to 10 weeks in jail suspended for 18 months.
He was also given a five-year restraining order and ordered to pay £200 in costs.
McGrath originally denied a stalking charge but admitted harassment when the charge was changed.
The offences happened in Cambridge over a 14-month period between June 2015 and August last year.
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Prosecutors said McGrath sent letters to the woman's husband.
The court heard his victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had a physical relationship with McGrath between November 2010 and May 2015.
"Both the defendant and the complainant were married to other people and their relationship had managed to be kept secret from their respective spouses," Anthony Abell, prosecuting, told magistrates.
By August 2014 the victim had begun to "find Mr McGrath difficult and unpleasant company" and wanted to end the affair, he said.
Mr Abell said: "She made it clear to him that she wanted it to end towards the end of May."
At this time she asked McGrath to delete intimate photos of them together, which he had on his phone and other devices, the court heard.
Mr Abell said McGrath "seems to have found it very difficult to deal with" and became "unstable and tempestuous".
He said the pair met a few times afterwards, but in July the victim "made it clear to him the relationship was over".
In a statement read on his behalf by his solicitor Nick Barnes, McGrath said: "This has been a dark time and thankfully it's now over.
"I wish to thank the judge and to apologise to my wife and family and to thank them for their incredible support during this time. I now want to move on with my life. Thank you."
The TV star has appeared in programmes including BBC panel show They Think It's All Over and comedy documentary Three Men In A Boat.
Mark Barnes said the attack on some versions of the Echo let him do almost anything he wanted to it.
Mr Barnes managed to enter the device's software innards via connections found on its base.
He said taking over the device was "trivial" once an attacker had access to an Echo.
Amazon's Echo uses artificial intelligence (AI) to respond to voice commands from users to carry out many different functions, including answering queries, playing songs and ordering goods from a retailer.
The hack started by peeling off the rubber base of the Echo to expose a grid of electrical contacts, wrote the researcher from MWR Info Security in a blog.
Connecting to one of the contacts let Mr Barnes watch the Echo's boot-up procedure and work out how it was configured. Armed with this knowledge Mr Barnes wrote software that, once loaded on a small memory card and connected to one contact pad, gave him control over the device.
Using this he examined how it handled audio and then created attack code which forwarded everything it heard to a remote server.
That deep access meant he had complete control over the code the device ran and what it did with customer data, he said.
Amazon did not comment directly on Mr Barnes' findings but said in a statement: "Customer trust is very important to us.
"To help ensure the latest safeguards are in place, as a general rule, we recommend customers purchase Amazon devices from Amazon or a trusted retailer and that they keep their software up-to-date."
The security researcher acknowledged that the requirement to get physical access to the device to carry out the attack was a "major limitation".
However, he added, it was possible that Echo owners would take their devices with them on holidays or business trips - situations that could expose them to attack. Second-hand devices may also be compromised in some way.
The attack was carried out on the versions of the Echo that were released in 2015 and 2016. More recent versions of the Echo are not susceptible to the same attack.
Mr Barnes recommended that hardware makers start assessing novel gadgets on their ability to resist physical attacks "as early as possible".
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The projects include improved links to Birmingham's Curzon Street station, earmarked as the terminal for the HS2 high-speed rail line.
The government said almost £100m would be invested in the area in 2015-16, helping to create up to 25,000 jobs.
It is part of a £6bn fund to boost local economies across the UK.
Birmingham City Council Leader Sir Albert Bore said the government funding would help "kick start a range of major projects" to improve transport in and around the city.
In Birmingham, the investment includes backing for the extension of the Midlands Metro tram network to Edgbaston, Curzon Street and Digbeth enterprise zone.
Wolverhampton railway station will also be redeveloped, with links to Birmingham improved.
Government money has been earmarked for a new construction training centre in Dudley, as well as facilities at Birmingham's South and City College, to help equip local people for jobs connected with the building of HS2.
A new engineering centre is also planned at the college to help train small and medium-sized businesses supplying car manufacturers in the area.
Life sciences at the University of Birmingham will receive funding, with a four-hectare science park planned, while the university railway station will be upgraded.
Rail and road links are also being redeveloped at MG Rover's former site at Longbridge, now the focus of a £1bn town centre development, the first phase of which opened in August 2013
Andy Street, chair of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull local enterprise partnership, said the money was a "vote of confidence in the economic renaissance of Greater Birmingham". | Almost £500m of government funding has been awarded to improve transport and create jobs in Birmingham and the Black Country over the next three years. | 28,190,157 | 354 | 30 | false |
One in five babies has symptoms that could lead to conditions such as ADHD, according to research published in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
The review of previous studies looked at nearly 17,000 children.
A child-health expert said it would be wrong for parents to be "overly alarmed" by the results.
Crying in babies is normal, but some cry "excessively" after the age of three months for reasons other than colic.
An international group of researchers looked at this as well as problems eating and sleeping.
By comparing data from 22 studies from 1987 to 2006, they found a link between these issues and problems later in life.
There was an increased risk of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), anxiety and depression as well as aggressive behaviour.
The research showed that a baby with more than one risk factor was even more likely to develop behavioural problems.
Professor Dieter Wolke, from the University of Warwick, told the BBC: "It is about a 100% increase in risk, a doubling of risk of behavioural problems with excessive crying, sleeping and eating problems."
Jane Valente, a consultant paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: "It would be wrong for people to get overly alarmed. I don't think on the basis of this report people should be going to their GPs.
"If a baby is not behaving like other babies it is probably worth discussing with a midwife or health visitor."
The study cannot tell if issues as a baby cause behavioural problems later in life: they could be an early symptom of those later problems.
Professor Wolke said while there were treatments for problem crying, feeding and sleeping in babies, there was no research assessing their impact later in life.
He added: "If you could prevent behavioural problems with an early intervention, in a public health-sense it could be very important."
Professor Mitch Blair, officer for health promotion at The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "It is an important study."
He said parents were very good at knowing when something was wrong with their children and that the study "really reinforces the need for attention at an early stage to prevent issues later in childhood".
It is believed to be the first of its kind, incorporating an artificial nesting bank made of clay pipes and breeze blocks and a hide.
Cameras inside the 150 nesting tunnels will transmit images into the hide.
Tim Sexton from the nature reserve said sand martins had already started to arrive from sub-Saharan Africa.
"They are the first of the summer migrants to return - it really signals the start of summer and the end of winter," said Mr Sexton.
"We've designed the bank to maximise breeding efficiency, if you like.
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"It will be fantastic for the public to watch the sand martins as they fly over the ponds, collecting insects for their young, then back into the nesting tunnels."
The £56,000 project was paid for with a Heritage Lottery grant.
Mr Sexton added there were sand martin hides and artificial banks across the UK, but there was nowhere that combined the two.
"We will be able to access the back of the nest chambers as you would nest boxes in your garden and ring the chicks," he said.
"In the natural world you wouldn't have that opportunity."
Mr Sexton said although sand martins were not in danger in the UK, increased extreme weather like this winter's, could flood out their nests.
Valencia, 31, played 43 games in all competitions for United this season and captained the side in their Europa League final victory against Ajax.
The Ecuador international joined the Old Trafford club from Wigan in 2009.
"I am absolutely delighted to have signed a new contract," he said.
"Manchester United has been my life since 2009. I would like to thank the manager for the confidence he has given me this season and I am sure that we will be challenging on all fronts next season."
United only triggered a one-year extension to Valencia's contract in January, at the time committing him to the club until 2018.
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Britain's ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, hand-delivered a six page letter from Mrs May to EU Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels to formally begin divorce proceedings.
She addressed MPs in the Commons shortly afterwards.
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But many prominent LGBT video-makers said their videos had been targeted.
YouTube said it had fixed an error and made more than 12 million "unintentionally filtered" videos available again.
The platform was criticised in March after several video-makers noticed a drop in advertising revenue and realised their content was being blocked in restricted mode.
The wide-reaching filters appeared to block videos referring to sexuality and gender identity, even if the content was not explicit.
"YouTube's restricted mode has blocked a poem I wrote for a gay friend," tweeted musician Bry O'Reilly.
Author Tyler Oakley added: "One of my recent videos 'Eight Black LGBTQ+ Trailblazers Who Inspire Me' is blocked because of this, I'm perplexed."
YouTube said it had identified that its systems "were not working as intended".
"We want to clarify that restricted mode should not filter out content belonging to individuals or groups based on certain attributes like gender, gender identity, political viewpoints, race, religion or sexual orientation," it said in a blog post.
The company also said it would let people report videos they believed had been unfairly restricted and said it would offer more transparency about the types of content that would be filtered.
It said it would continue to restrict:
"Though Restricted Mode will never be perfect, we hope to build on our progress so far to continue making our systems more accurate and the overall Restricted Mode experience better over time," it said.
One reviewer said McGowan was "riveting" and "revolting" in the role of the shamed DJ and sex offender.
Jonathan Maitland's play at north London's Park Theatre is the first drama to tackle the Savile scandal and has faced questions over its timing.
Maitland told the BBC the critical verdict had been "extraordinary".
Speaking after the opening night, the investigative TV reporter and playwright said he had "never had any doubt" about the timing of the play.
"I'm a journalist and I'm not afraid of difficult subject matter," he said.
"If the play is decent and enough people think it's good, then the timing becomes irrelevant. The victims think it's not too soon, it's too late."
Several of Savile's victims have seen the play, with one telling Sky News about feeling "quite unwell" watching McGowan's performance.
Maitland said he understood the play might be traumatic for Savile's victims. "It's difficult because I really don't want to cause anybody distress, but they are adults and if they make the decision to go and see it, I respect that.
"They know it might be traumatic, but there's undoubtedly a catharsis that they get out of it."
Sources close to the production say there is interest in transferring the play to the West End. A percentage of the profits are going to the National Association for People Abused in Childhood.
Since his death in 2011, it has emerged Savile was one of the UK's most prolific sexual predators.
Set in 1991, Maitland's play is presented as a This Is Your Life-style show and draws on transcripts of interviews, witness statements and official reports. It features the parallel storyline of a woman who was raped by Savile as a child in hospital.
The Mail's Quentin Letts admitted he had doubts about whether Savile was "fruitful material" for a theatre production.
"Having seen the show I unhesitatingly say this dramatisation is entirely justified — indeed, it is necessary," he wrote in a four-star review.
"Here is drama taking a topical subject and asserting its right to comment pungently on an all-too-recent scandal. That is an entirely legitimate function for theatre."
In a three-star review for Whatsonstage.com, Matt Trueman said: "McGowan lets you see Savile anew, as a set of traits and tics, not an eccentric or a ogre, and it's that enacted impersonation that justifies Maitland turning journalism into drama.
"Is there a tendency to read everything he does as covering up for his paedophilia? Yes, and Brendan O'Hea's production is weaker when it strays into fiction, where Lucy's subplot can feel too generic, but this is an illuminating evening nonetheless."
The Independent's Paul Taylor said in his four-star review that the casting of McGowan as Savile was a "smart move".
"It arouses expectations of a likeable comic impression and so heightens the chilling glimpses we get of the intimidating thug under the clown persona that so calculatedly harnessed 'the power of odd'.
"The menacing assertiveness and the name-dropping megalomania in McGowan's portrayal make is easier to understand how Savile got away with it."
The play itself did not impress The Telegraph's Ben Lawrence who awarded two stars. "The problem is that the play is all exposition, a detailed explanation of events (as far as we know them) that is completely lacking in drama," he wrote.
"Initially it looked as if McGowan would stay close to the surface, but slowly he teases out a riveting, revolting performance that is by far the best thing of the evening."
Marianka Swain, writing for The Arts Desk, said the play offered responsible reconstruction, but minimal drama.
"As Savile, McGowan performs a skin-crawling conjuring trick," she observed. "We become sickeningly complicit as the skilled entertainer charms and disarms, until his underlying brutality and foul-mouthed misogyny are revealed, notably in a riveting verbatim police interview."
While TheatreCat's Libby Purves was struck by a scene in which Savile victim Lucy (Leah Whitaker) confronts Savile in his home.
"What happens next sends the whole audience into shock. And, I think, justifies what Maitland has done. Because for all the millions of words since, for all the smashing of his tombstone and the humiliation of his grand apologists, we'll get no other closure."
An Audience With Jimmy Savile is at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, until 11 July.
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service is to vacate Inverness Castle and set up a new justice centre.
The Scottish government has been working with Highland Council and others to plan future uses of the site.
Most respondents to a survey carried out by the organisations want to see it turned into a free-to-enter attraction, but not a hotel.
Business Minister Fergus Ewing said there was a desire to give the castle a "wow factor".
He said ideas put forward have included using it for musical recitals and major art exhibitions, and also making it into a museum about Scottish clans and tartans.
Sittings of the High Court, sheriff courts and other hearings have been held at the landmark 19th Century property for many years.
More recently there has been a campaign to have the site transformed into a visitor attraction.
The courts service said in December last year that it plans to move its business from the castle to a new centre within three years.
NHS Blood and Transplant says 120,000 fewer people joined the blood donor register in 2014-15 than in 2004-05.
It believes one of the main reasons is the increasing pressure on people's free time - citing longer commutes and the distractions of social media.
The blood unit is calling for 204,000 new volunteers to start donating.
Blood services in Scotland also say they have fewer volunteers coming forward and are concerned.
"We simply can't ignore the fact that there has been a stark reduction in the number of new donors coming forward - a trend seen across the world," said Jon Latham, assistant director for donor services and marketing at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), which provides blood supplies for England and north Wales.
Only about 3-4% of the current eligible population in this area are regular donors.
He said that although the unit had enough stock for this year, this campaign was about "future-proofing for the next few years".
"We need these [new donors] to make sure it doesn't become critical," he told the BBC News website.
Bethany, 37, needed an emergency blood transfusion after a ruptured ectopic pregnancy caused internal bleeding.
She was about seven weeks' pregnant when she felt a popping inside her followed by intense abdominal pain.
She was taken to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, drifting in and out of consciousness, and quickly transferred to the operating theatre for a three-hour operation.
"It was really terrifying," said Bethany, who was living in Brentford at the time.
"From being in the A&E assessment to going into theatre was probably about 10 minutes.
"My husband said it was traumatic to watch, he was completely helpless. They said afterwards I'd lost a lot of blood."
Bethany had been a blood donor herself beforehand, giving about four or five units.
Because she has had a transfusion, she can no longer donate, but she persuaded her husband to overcome his fear of needles and become a donor in her place.
"We know that people's lives have got busier over the last decade", said Mr Latham.
"People are working longer hours, commuting further, spending more time online and have less time of their own, despite more options of how to use it," he said.
The increasing popularity of exotic travel, tattoos and acupuncture, all of which might mean a donation needs to be delayed, could also explain the fall in donors, he added.
The other reasons given for the dip are:
"While we can meet the needs of patients now, it's important we strengthen the donor base for the future," Mr Latham said.
As about half of the NHSBT's current donors are over the age of 45, the unit is particularly calling for younger people to donate to ensure future stocks.
Black, Asian and minority ethnic people make up 14% of the eligible donor population in England and north Wales, but only 5% of them have given blood in the past 12 months.
Conditions such as sickle cell disease and thalassaemia are more prevalent among these people, and those affected require regular blood transfusions, ideally from donors with similar ethnic backgrounds.
The unit is also particularly interested in O-negative blood donors, as this type of blood can be given to anyone, regardless of their own blood group.
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The figure, from a survey of its members, represents a rise of about three million journeys on the Friday before Christmas last year.
Hundreds of rail services are also set to be disrupted by engineering work between Christmas and New Year; Thousands of people will also take to the sky on flights to visit family and friends.
However you choose to travel, you might encounter traffic or delays. So which is the best way to get to family and friends and when are the worst times to make the journey?
Chris Rea might have sung fondly of driving home for Christmas but for most families it is a necessary evil.
Highways England is promising to lift almost 400 miles of roadworks by 06:00 GMT on 23 December, which it says will leave 98% of the motorway and major road network clear. However 43 sets of roadworks will remain in place for safety reasons.
According to the AA, which surveyed its members, about 6.7 million journeys of 20 miles or more are expected be made on Christmas Day.
But the survey reveals the busiest day of the festive period is expected to be 18 December, when schools break up for the holidays.
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Spokesman Gavin Hill-Smith said: "It will be a combination of parents picking the children up from school and heading away, people going Christmas shopping and, of course, the normal commuting traffic.
"It's also advisable to try to avoid driving near town and city centres or out of town shopping centres on the Saturday as that is shaping up to be a very busy day."
The AA survey revealed 45% of its members were planning to travel at least 20 miles on the Friday before Christmas, with another 41% on the Saturday, 19 December. Things then quieten down towards 25 December.
14 million
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400 miles of roadworks lifted by 23 December, but 43 sets stay in place
17.5 miles of work will not be lifted on the M3 near Farnborough
50mph speed limits will be in force on the M1 near Luton and Leicester and on the M25 near Aveley
5 miles of work on the M6 near Lancaster will also not be lifted
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Travellers are being warned to expect delays and cancellations on the UK's railways between Christmas Eve and 3 January.
There are 221 warnings of disruption as 20,000 Network Rail workers carry out 500 separate pieces of engineering across 7,500 sites. The disruption includes the complete closure of the West Coast Main Line between Stafford and Crewe on 27 and 28 December.
Network Rail has warned passengers to plan ahead.
The largest number of warnings are for Sunday, 3 January - just as many people prepare to return to work. The National Rail Enquiries website gives 43 individual alerts. However, Network Rail says the majority of its work will be carried out during 25 and 26 December, when fewer trains run anyway.
A spokesman said: "Some of these improvement works... will ultimately deliver more trains, more frequent services, and quicker journeys.
"We are grateful to [passengers] for their understanding while we work to keep disruption to a minimum.
2.2 million
people are expected to use trains between Christmas and New Year
500 separate pieces of rail engineering work between Christmas and 3 January
20,000 workers will be on the railways when services are stopped or quieter than usual
95% of journeys will be unaffected, Network Rail has said
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About five million people flew abroad for Christmas from UK airports last year.
Heathrow Airport said 106,000 passengers will arrive at and depart from its terminals on Christmas Day. But it expects Saturday to be the busiest day as 219,000 people take to the skies from the UK's biggest airport.
Almost two thirds of passengers travel to see family and friends, nearly double the percentage for the rest of the year. The most popular destinations according to flights booked are New York, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Doha, Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris and Delhi.
5,250,617
people went abroad in the week before Christmas last year
1,543,218 going to/from Heathrow from 19 to 25 December
20,775 Heathrow passengers will be flying 1pm to 3pm Christmas Day
Town centres are likely to be at their busiest on 19 December, which retailers have dubbed "Panic Saturday" because of people heading to the shops, including those who may fear new online orders will not arrive in time.
Jane Bagnall, of discounts website Voucher Codes, said there was a very specific time they expected shops to be at their busiest.
"Peak times on Panic Saturday will be 2.05pm," she said. "Drivers will struggle with traffic. There will be people heading out to the shops after lunch, grudgingly in some cases because it might be the night after their Christmas party."
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on 23 December as shoppers pick up fresh food or presents, then 5.45pm after people finish work.
2.05pm on 19 December
11.30am on 24 December
8.32am peak online shopping
No trains to / from Cleethorpes on some days from Sunday 27 December to Sunday 10 January. The line between Barnetby and Cleethorpes will be closed for work and on some days the line closure will be extended to Doncaster. Buses replace trains between Market Rasen and Cleethorpes. And on Sundays 27 December, 8 January and on Monday 28 December, buses replace trains between Doncaster and Cleethorpes.
Weekdays and Saturdays, buses replace trains between Cleethorpes and Scunthorpe as well as Barton-on-Humber.
Engineering work is taking place between Leeds and Huddersfield and between Burnley and Blackburn with some lines closed.
On 27 December trains between York/Leeds and Blackpool North and also between Manchester Victoria and Blackburn (via Todmorden) will be replaced by buses between Burnley Manchester Road and Blackburn.
From 22:30 on Saturday 2 January until approximately 07:30 on Sunday, buses will replace trains between York and Huddersfield. The 07:29 Manchester Airport to Newcastle service will start from Leeds. Passengers should use alternative services between Manchester Airport and Leeds.
From 28 December to 1 January engineering work is taking place over some parts of the First TransPennine Express network
From Monday to Thursday the 21:55 Newcastle to Manchester Airport, 22:30 York to Manchester Piccadilly will arrive at Manchester Piccadilly/Manchester Airport later than the normal timetable, the 23:15 Manchester Airport to York service will not call at Huddersfield, a connecting bus will run to/from Huddersfield and Dewsbury.
07:09 Glasgow Central to Manchester Airport will start from Carlisle.;08:12, 10:08, 12:12, 14:16, 16:12, 18:13, 20:14 Edinburgh to Manchester Airport will leave earlier and not call at Haymarket.;Most trains from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh will not call at Haymarket and will be retimed to arrive at Edinburgh up to 15 minutes later than normal.
All lines between Stafford and Crewe will be closed on 27 and 28 December.
CrossCountry will run an amended service to and from Manchester Piccadilly, with journey times extended by 30 minutes.
London Midland will use replacement buses.
Virgin Trains will divert services and cut them to two per hour each way.
Changes on the Norwich to London line will be in place on 27 and 28 December and 1, 2 and 3 January.
Abellio Greater Anglia services will travel as far as Ingatestone and passengers will have to use a replacement bus to Newbury Park tube station on the Central Line taking passengers into London.
On New Year's Day The Cardiff Central to/from Portsmouth Harbour service will be retimed with some trains not calling at Severn Tunnel Junction.
Most trains between Cardiff Central and Bristol Temple Meads/Taunton and beyond will start/terminate at Newport, passengers should use rail connections to/from Cardiff Central.
And on 2 January trains that usually run between Coryton and Radyr will run between Coryton and Heath Low Level only. Passengers travelling between Heath Low Level and Cardiff / Radyr are advised to use alternative services to / from Heath High Level.
Long distance services through Reading will be diverted into London Waterloo on 27 and 28 December. There will be replacement buses from Maidenhead to High Wycombe.
A train service will operate between Reading and Slough, but will not call at Burnham or Taplow.
No trains between London Liverpool Street and Ingatestone/Southend Victoria/Southminster on Sunday 27 and Monday 28 December.
No Southeastern services at London Cannon Street, London Charing Cross, London Waterloo East or London Bridge stations from 27 December to 1 January. Trains will be diverted to either London Victoria or London Blackfriars.
No services into London Paddington on 27 and 28 December.
Affecting TfL Rail, engineering work is taking place between Seven Kings and Shenfield with various line closures.
From Boxing Day to Monday 28 December no trains will run and from Tuesday 29 December to New Year's Eve an amended service will run.
On New Year's Day, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 an amended service will run between London Liverpool Street and Seven Kings with buses between Seven Kings and Shenfield.
London Overground will run Saturday services on 28, 29, 30 and 31 December, subject to engineering work.
Buses replace trains between Exeter St Davids and Honiton / Exmouth from Friday 1 to Sunday 3 January.
The prime minister has ensured his anti-corruption summit this week has already started generating headlines following his apparently unguarded remarks to the Queen that the leaders of some "fantastically corrupt" countries - Nigeria and Afghanistan - will be attending.
Leaving aside the inevitable questions about his diplomatic skills, this is perhaps a good moment to take a look at a subject that has become close to his heart since he took office.
Indeed, if it had not been for the inconvenient fact that details of his late father's business affairs appeared in the cache of documents leaked from the law firm Mossack Fonseca, David Cameron could have taken some satisfaction at the revelations in the so-called Panama Papers last month.
After all, it was a good 10 months ago that he got to his feet in Singapore to argue that the more secretive parts of the world's financial system needed to be reformed. He told his audience about his own fears that ill-gotten gains were being stashed away in London without proper scrutiny.
"With £122bn of property in England and Wales owned by offshore companies, we know that some high-value properties - particularly in London - are being bought by people overseas through anonymous shell companies, some of them with plundered or laundered cash," he admitted.
Thursday's summit is the first of its kind for years. Guests will include US Secretary of State John Kerry and the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari.
On Thursday, 12 May, David Cameron will host an international anti-corruption summit - the first of its kind. Political leaders, businesses, sporting organisations and charities will meet at Lancaster House. The government says the summit aims to agree a package of practical steps to:
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It has been in the pipeline for a while, which is why Dame Margaret Hodge was one of the opposition MPs who praised the prime minister's "leadership" on the issue in a special Commons debate last week. But she, like many transparency campaigners, is worried whether anything concrete will come out of this gathering.
The prime minister was converted to the cause of tackling corruption by the man he calls his global "guru", Prof Paul Collier from Oxford University.
Prof Collier has long insisted that a lack of transparency holds back developing countries by stunting their tax base and repelling new business. He's used the rather colourful analogy of anonymous shell companies - set up in tax havens - being like "getaway cars" for the world's criminal and corrupt.
Next month, Britain itself will bring in a new public register of beneficial ownership - meaning that anybody will soon be able to see who really owns each company in the UK. David Cameron argues only about three other countries in the world have bothered to do this and he is proud of the achievement.
The big problem for the prime minister is that the British overseas territories are not going as far as he would like in their transparency. Crucially, their registers will not be public ones - rather, they will be private and only available to law enforcement agencies in the UK.
The Panama Papers scandal has thrown the issue into sharp relief because more than half of the offshore companies featured in the released documents were, in fact, registered in UK overseas territories like the British Virgin Islands. Transparency International calls it the "Achilles heel" in the prime minister's crusade.
Last month, the Premier of the Cayman Islands, Alden McLaughlin, argued that any register in his jurisdiction "certainly will not be available publicly or available directly by any UK or non-Cayman Islands agency".
Jeremy Corbyn has questioned whether the prime minister can declare his anti-corruption plans a success if the Cayman Islands are "celebrating" in this way.
Already, the heat is being turned up on Mr Cameron from other quarters too. A group of 300 economists this week demanded that the "veil of secrecy" surrounding tax havens should be lifted.
A collection of Nigerian civil society groups has also sent a pointed letter to Number 10. It read: "It is ironic that the countries that pride themselves on their own lack of corruption are the very ones providing most of the corruption services to our corrupt officials."
Sarah Chayes, author of a book on global corruption called Thieves of State, still insists Mr Cameron has shown courage for holding the conference at all.
"There was no way he could have convened a summit about the issue of corruption in London without the particular role of the London property market, the City, and British overseas territories in servicing this type of corruption being highlighted. That way, you were guaranteed to put yourself under the spotlight," she told me.
But compliments about his courage could turn into accusations of hypocrisy if David Cameron is not able to persuade the overseas territories to do more on transparency.
Many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) believe that when David Cameron leaves office he will make this issue a major theme of his post-premiership years. A lot could ride, then, on whether this summit can deliver the change the prime minister himself wants to see.
Snowboarder Gillings-Brier, 30, and cyclist Kennaugh, 25, were named Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year at a ceremony on Thursday.
Kennaugh, from Douglas, won silver in the men's points race at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Gillings-Brier, from Ronague, was awarded for her performance at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
In other categories, Manx TT rider Connor Cummins won the Isle of Man Ambassador Award, while Team GB cyclist Jake Kelly was named Under-21 Sportsman of the Year.
Youth Olympic silver medallist Charlotte Atkinson took the female Under-21 award.
Swimming dominated in the Coach of the Year and Disability Sportsperson of the Year categories, with Lee Holland and Ben Grainger respectively picking up those awards.
The Isle of Man's Commonwealth Games Women's Gymnastics Team won in the Team of the Year category and Leonie Cooil was announced as the Administrator of the Year for 2014.
The new category introduced this year was Veteran Sportsperson and this was won by TT sidecar rider Dave Molyneux.
Ian Harrop was given the 2014 Lifetime Achievement award in recognition for his work with the Isle of Man Commonwealth Games Association, while disability athlete Zoe Lambie was presented with a Special Achievement award recognising her accomplishment finishing the 2014 Parish Walk in a time of 22 hours and 32 seconds.
Gary Corkhill, the executive chairman of Isle of Man Sport, said: "We've had many great success stories during 2014 and they have been recognised here tonight.
"The evening is a fantastic showcase for our sports stars, so many of whom are now competing at the highest level."
Citing the need to prevent "irreparable harm" to the institution of Congress and avoid a leadership struggle, Speaker of the House John Boehner announced on Friday he was resigning at the end of October.
This was far from the first time Mr Boehner has faced challenges to his authority as the top Republican in the House of Representatives. Over his five years as speaker he's faced withering criticism from the right wing of his party as he balances the necessity of passing essential legislation to keep the US government operating with calls to be more forceful in advancing conservative priorities.
But this time, it seems, was different. Although Mr Boehner asserted that he would once again defeat those who wanted to remove him from office, he wasn't going to wage the pitched political battle that would require.
This time around, Mr Boehner faced a different kind of adversary. Where before the challenges to his authority came from within the halls of Congress, now calls were reverberating across the nation, inspired and egged on by Republican presidential candidates who were campaigning against the Republican leadership in Congress with the kind of vehemence that was traditionally the province of Democrats.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump has shot to the front of the Republican field with his pox-on-both-houses condemnation of business as usual in Washington. Texas Senator Ted Cruz, long a thorn in the side of Republican congressional leadership, regularly garners his biggest cheers when he bashes Mr Boehner and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell by name.
"We win elections, and then the people we elect don't do what they say," he told a grass-roots conservative audience in Atlanta in July. "Our team is playing for the other side."
As it so happened, the news of Boehner's impending resignation broke as many Republican hopefuls were gathering at a Washington, DC, hotel for a conference of evangelical conservative activists called the Values Voter Summit.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio was the man who broke the news to a packed ballroom, and the crowd celebrated the announcement with a standing ovation.
"I'm not here today to bash anyone," the senator said. "But the time has come to turn the page and allow a new generation of leadership in this country."
Other candidates taking the stage that day were less circumspect. Mr Cruz, during his speech, pointed to the audience and said Mr Boehner's resignation was evidence that grass-roots conservatives like them "terrify Washington".
He followed it up by warning that if Mr Boehner negotiated an agreement with Democrats over the budget that funds Planned Parenthood and Obamacare on his way to a cushy private-sector job, "that is not the behaviour one would expect of a Republican speaker of the House".
Mr Trump said that while some people may like Mr Boehner on a "personal basis", he ended up just like all the other politicians who get elected promising change.
"They're full of vim and vigour," he said. "Then they come down to these magnificent vaulted ceilings that you see all over Washington. And what happens? They become different people."
Notably missing from the parade of presidential contenders at the Washington gathering were former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Ohio Governor John Kasich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, none of whom is much loved by the type of conservative true believers in attendance.
Perhaps not surprisingly, then, the three candidates who are perceived to be vying for support from the party's establishment praised the speaker.
"Ohio and America are stronger today because of John Boehner," Mr Kasich said. "He leaves a legacy of unparalleled integrity and steady, mature leadership during difficult times that will be a model for future speakers and anyone interested in public service."
Mr Bush tweeted that Mr Boehner "dedicated his life to public service" and praised his part in bringing Pope Francis to the Capitol on Thursday.
Such kind words were a marked contrast from the views expressed by the Values Voter Summit attendees as they filed out of the event hall for lunch. Candidates like Mr Bush should be concerned that the anti-establishment tide that felled Mr Boehner may signal trouble ahead for their presidential aspirations.
"I been working for three or four years trying to get that man," Carl Jernigan of Shoal Creek, Alabama, said of Mr Boehner. "He's a big part of the leadership which has failed us over and over again, giving Obama everything he wants."
He added that he has more disdain for Republicans like the speaker than he does Democrats.
"Boehner is just the first step," he said. "We've got to clean up the whole mess."
Larry Farnes of Missoula, Montana, noted Mr Boehner's propensity for tears and said Republicans need "a leader who rallies the troops and rallies Congress".
"It's time for change," he concluded.
The initial front-runner to replace Mr Boehner as speaker is his second in command, Kevin McCarthy of California. Given that he's part of the same Republican leadership team, however, he's already being targeted by some of the same grass-roots conservatives who celebrated Mr Boehner's impending departure.
"McCarthy is a non-starter for conservatives, and the bad blood will continue," writes Erick Erickson of the conservative RedState blog.
Daniel Webster, a junior congressman from Florida, has already announced his candidacy for the speakership, indicating that the protracted House leadership fight that Mr Boehner had hoped to avoid may happen anyway.
Outside the hotel where the Values Voter Summit was being held, Dean James stood on a corner, hold two large placards condemning Planned Parenthood and illustrated with photographs of dismembered foetuses.
For him, the current abortion fight in Congress is the central political issue facing the US, but he was far from heartened upon hearing the news that Mr Boehner was heading for the exit.
"Have they done anything?" he asked. "Until they act, I haven't seen anything. It's just business as usual in Washington."
Washington business may be about to change, however.
"Talking to my conscience, I made a few mistakes," he sings on the song No Pressure. "I did it to myself, I'm the only one to blame."
Elsewhere, he asks for understanding from the public, saying: "Don't forget I'm human. Don't forget I'm real."
The album follows a period where the star frequently fell foul of the law.
In the most serious incident, the 21-year-old pled guilty to careless driving and resisting arrest after being stopped by police in Miami.
His other scrapes included egging his neighbours' house, urinating into a mop bucket in a restaurant, fighting with Orlando Bloom, and abandoning a monkey in Germany.
The former teen star previously posted a mea culpa on YouTube, admitting his behaviour had been "arrogant" and "conceited".
But his new album continues the apology - with the first four tracks titles almost reading as a dialogue between the singer and his fans: Mark My Words. I'll Show You. What Do You Mean? Sorry.
Bieber has undergone a brand overhaul in the past year, putting his teenpop past behind him and co-writing two global hit singles with achingly cool dance producers Skrillex and Diplo.
Their collaboration continues on Purpose which, at its best, is a crisp, minimal, house record about a young man coming to terms with adulthood.
On I'll Show You, he addresses the hysteria surrounding his every move, singing: "My life is a movie and everyone's watching - so let's get to the good part and past all the nonsense."
"Life's not easy," he continues, "and I'm not made out of steel... I gotta learn things the hard way."
Certainly, his career rehabilitation has not gone entirely smoothly. Two weeks ago, he stormed off stage in Norway after screaming fans interfered with his attempts to mop up some spilled water.
"I'm trying to wipe the floor! Give me a second, yo!" he insisted, before giving up in irritation. "Never mind, I'm done. I'm not doing the show."
On Purpose's title track, he admits "sometimes I'm weak" - while expressing how his faith helped him at his lowest ebb. "I let you in with all that I am," he sings. "You've given me purpose."
Elsewhere, the album veers into more traditional pop territory, with Ed Sheeran contributing Love Yourself - an arch and funny kiss-off to a no-good girlfriend.
"My mama don't like you - and she likes everyone," smirks Bieber over a staccato guitar line. "If you like the way you look that much, you should go and love yourself."
Throughout, the star's phrasing and harmonies are perfectly judged - but when Skrillex and Diplo take a break from the controls, the album has a tendency to slip into sludgy, formulaic R&B.
New single The Feeling - featuring rising star Halsey - is an exception, with a soaring, self-aware chorus: "Am I in love with you, or am I in love with the feeling?"
Overall, the record, which is released globally on Friday 13 November, looks set to cement Bieber's comeback after a period where his star was on the wane.
Hayley Pointon was shot at a house in Hinckley, Leicestershire as she visited her on-off boyfriend Nigel Barwell, a drug dealer, in February 2013.
The court previously heard the 30-year-old from Coventry was shot "by mistake" by two masked gunmen.
Aaron Power and Aaron Newman, both from Coventry, are on trial at Leicester Crown Court, where they deny murder.
Giving evidence at Leicester Crown Court, Mr Power said he thought the intention was to steal cash and drugs from Mr Barwell's house.
Mr Power, 25, said co-accused Mr Newman and another man were the gunmen, while he waited with a getaway car nearby.
Prosecuting barrister James House QC suggested Mr Power was lying and blaming his friends: "You were paid to target Nigel Barwell weren't you?
"So now I'm a hitman?" said Mr Power. "You are wrong."
Mr Newman, 24, told the jury that although he joined Mr Power and Mr Walker on a recce of the house a day earlier, he was at home on the night of the shooting.
"I was waiting in my flat but Power came back without anything and said something went wrong.
"He didn't give me any details."
Mr Power's barrister Joel Bannathan QC asked him: "Why has he [Mr Power] named you in the case if you were not there?"
"Clearly to get himself off with it," said Mr Newman.
Craig Adamson, 23, Dylan Whitty, 30, and Jamie Simpson, 26, all also from Coventry, and Matthew Dicey, 40, from Rugby, are on trial accused of assisting an offender, which they deny.
The trial continues.
The Italian team have failed to win a race so far in a season they started with expectations of challenging Mercedes for the world championship.
"We failed the targets. I don't think there's a doubt in my mind," Marchionne said on a visit to the Italian GP.
"It's no use putting sweeteners on the stuff. The car isn't there and I don't think we developed it."
Marchionne has conducted a major internal organisation of Ferrari in recent months, and the team parted company with their highly regarded technical director James Allison in July.
"I feel quite comfortable that this team are capable of turning the fate of the 'scuderia' around. Unfortunately we don't have a lot of season left," Marchionne said
"Let them finish the season, I think we'll do the best we can for the rest of '16 and the fight starts in 2017 with the first race."
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They arrested 11 people on Wednesday morning and carried out 42 searches at homes and businesses.
A large amount of computer equipment and false identity documents, including marriage certificates, were seized.
Police said non-EU nationals were being charged up to 20,000 euros (£14,000) to arrange an Irish sham marriage.
The investigation is known as Operation Vantage and it was set up in August by the Garda (Irish Police) National Immigration Bureau.
"Recent trends indicate a large number of new notifications of intention to marry from males from the Indian sub-continent (for example Pakistan, India, Bangladesh) to females from EU countries, particularly Portugal and Eastern European countries," a Garda spokesman said.
"This operation has identified a number of criminal networks based in Ireland and the UK who are engaged in the facilitation of these marriages through the provision of false information and documentation to marriage registrars, thus exploiting the asylum and immigration system.
"These criminal elements are gleaning huge profits by organising residency status for non-EU nationals through these marriages of convenience," the statement added.
Wednesday's searches were carried out in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Longford, Louth, Cork, Limerick and Mayo.
A stun gun and quantities of cash, amounting about 30,000 euros (£21,000) in total, were also seized along with the IT equipment and fake papers.
Operation Vantage coincided with the introduction of new legislation in the Republic of Ireland in August that gave marriage registrars powers to intervene if they suspect couples are getting married "solely for the purpose of securing an immigration advantage".
Under the new law to date, there have been 55 formal objections to marriages and 22 people have been arrested and charged with various fraud offences.
A further 30 planned marriages between EU and non-EU nationals have not taken place after the couples failed to attend the ceremonies after police inquiries.
The spokesman said Operation Vantage has also uncovered two non-EU national sex offenders and a number of other people "subject to deportation orders" who were trying to get married in the Republic of Ireland.
The sex offenders have since been arrested.
Former Wolves trainee Little, 28, had been with the Ashton Gate club since signing on a free transfer from Peterborough in June 2014.
Wilbraham, 37, also arrived in 2014 and has scored 30 league goals since then.
The club captain's new offer also includes some "additional non-playing responsibilities".
Meanwhile, 20-year-old midfielder Joe Morrell has joined six other young players in being offered extensions by head coach Lee Johnson.
But the on-loan quartet of Wales duo Adam Matthews and David Cotterill, goalkeeper Fabian Giefer and Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham - who was the Robins' top scorer this term - have all returned to their parent clubs.
Johnson's side finished 17th in the Championship in 2016-17, three points above the relegation zone.
They will outline measures to help the industry at a summit being attended by business leaders and ministers.
It follows the closure of the SSI steel plant in Redcar, with the loss of 1,700 jobs.
The government accepts the industry faces tough times but warned there was no magic bullet to solve its problems.
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community union, said ministers should have stepped in to save the industrial assets at Redcar.
"The summit must not be a talking shop," he said.
"There is a case for urgent, short-term action to help create a level-playing field for UK steel producers."
The Unite union has also called for the government to put steel at the heart of an industrial strategy.
"The steel industry is at crisis point," said Tony Burke, the union's assistant general secretary.
"Unless the government pursues an industrial strategy with a 'steel heart' then sound-bites like 'Northern Powerhouse' and 'March of the Makers' will be nothing more than empty rhetoric for communities who rely on skilled jobs in steel and manufacturing."
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Workers say the closure will devastate Redcar, and have warned about the impact of the steel crisis on other areas.
Dale Carling, who worked at the Redcar plant for more than 30 years and who was the last to operate the coking oven on Thursday morning, told the BBC's Today Programme: "I've just laid a pair of boots and a helmet at the gates. This is where I belong.
"I'm a steelworker and I hope the government don't let my brothers and sisters down in Port Talbot and Scunthorpe. Save our steel - we need steel - it's the backbone of Britain.
But the industry is facing some issues that the government cannot solve including the high pound and cheap imports.
"The pound - euro exchange rate means European steel is very competitive and hampers UK exports," says Peter Brennan of Platts.
"Anti-dumping cases are cutting off markets and the slowdown in Chinese consumption means the excess is flooding into international markets, weakening prices," he added.
In the 1970s, the UK steel industry employed more than 200,000 workers. Today that is closer to 30,000.
The jobs are often in areas of high unemployment, like the North East of England and South Wales.
So while there is unlikely to be any new money on the table at the summit, the Business Secretary Sajid Javid, who will chair the event, will be under pressure to deliver.
Efforts are expected to focus on areas like procurement and infrastructure projects where the government can exert some influence.
In a statement ahead of the summit, Mr Javid said: "This is a hugely difficult time for the steel industry across the world - one of the toughest times ever.
"It is a worldwide problem, and while it will not be solved overnight, we will work closely in partnership with the industry to help find some answers".
"There is no magic bullet and we can't change the price of steel, but we can forensically work through all of the challenges we know the industry is facing to see what solutions there might be".
Whatever comes of the summit, it will be too late for the workers at Redcar.
On Thursday, final shifts at the plant were emptying the coke ovens before they were irretrievably shut down.
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David Horsley gave his narrative verdict at the end of an inquest into the death of Gladys Richards, of Lee-on-the-Solent.
She died in August 1998 at Gosport War Memorial Hospital (GWMH) after being sent there to recover.
He added there were a number of contributing factors including her age.
Mrs Richards was taken to GWMH following a hip operation after a fall.
She had a second fall and had to be transferred to another hospital for treatment before returning to the GWMH.
She then suffered a haematoma and was given diamorphine administered through a syringe driver, and died four days later on 21 August 1998, the hearing was told.
Inquests into 10 other deaths at the hospital in 2009 found that drugs were a contributory factor in some cases.
Hampshire Constabulary investigated the deaths of 92 elderly patients at GWMH but no prosecutions have ever been brought.
Mrs Richards' daughters, Gillian Mackenzie and Lesley O'Brien, have campaigned for several years for a full inquest to be held into their mother's death.
Mrs Mackenzie, 79, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, questioned during the inquest whether the medical staff operated a policy of euthanasia and accused the staff of "condemning" her mother to death through the palliative medication prescribed.
Mr Horsley, coroner for Portsmouth and South East Hampshire, ruled the cause of death was bronchopneumonia.
He said other factors which contributed to her death included falls at Glen Heathers Nursing Home, where she lived, and at GWMH, the operations she had undergone at Royal Hospital Haslar, her frailty and end stage dementia.
Mrs O'Brien, a qualified nurse, said the verdict was "extremely disappointing".
"I felt some of the evidence given lent him to only be able to give that verdict," she said.
The seven-day inquest heard that Dr Jane Barton, who was found guilty by the General Medical Council (GMC) of multiple instances of professional misconduct in 2010 but was not struck off, had prescribed levels of diamorphine for the nursing staff to administer in case Mrs Richards' condition deteriorated.
She also wrote on Mrs Richards' patient notes that she was happy for the nursing staff to certify death.
Dr Barton, who has since retired, told the hearing she "proactively prescribed" the medication because "the probability was her condition would deteriorate rather than improve".
She said higher levels of the prescription were only to be used if Mrs Richards' condition deteriorated.
She added she believed Mrs Richards was dying when she returned to the GWMH for the second time and therefore required higher levels of painkillers.
The GMC found a catalogue of failings in Dr Barton's treatment of 12 other patients at the hospital who later died, including issuing drugs which were "excessive, inappropriate and potentially hazardous".
Bright, a former army major who is still commonly addressed in football circles by his military rank, was previously national team coach on three separate occasions
He coached the Zebras for two matches in 1997 and again for a single game in 1999.
In 2000 he took over from the German Joachen Figge but left the post a year later.
The 61-year-old won three league titles in Botswana with unfancied Mogoditshane Fighters from 1999 to 2001 and worked in neighbouring South Africa, including 18 months in the top flight with Cape Town club Santos from 2007 to 2009.
Bright was unveiled at a news conference on Monday less than a week before the team host South Africa in their opening African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier in Francistown on Saturday.
Butler did not have his contract renewed last month and Botswana appointed his assistant Oris Radipotsane as interim coach for the Cosafa Cup last week, where the Zebras lost to both Zambia and South Africa.
Bright will have his own assistant, Sthandwa Mogwadi with Thabo Motang as the goalkeeper coach.
"Major Bright will be on a three year contract," said a statement from the Botswana Football Association.
"Bright brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience in the local game and in the international game.
"Coach Bright has won League titles and cups in in the Botswana League and has a vast knowledge of local players," the statement said.
The execution of Abdul Kader Mullah came despite dire warnings of civil strife, and in defiance of international calls to stay the execution.
Mullah, a senior leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, was convicted on five counts of murder and genocide by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), a domestic court set up three years ago.
The hanging marks a watershed in the country's short but often bloody history. This is the first time a senior politician has been tried in a civil court and hanged for offences committed in 1971.
The ICT has so far convicted 10 people, eight of whom have been given the death sentence.
The government has clearly taken a calculated risk in carrying out the sentence at a time when the country is already in the grip of nearly a month-long opposition strike.
A few weeks earlier, Jamaat leaders said they would ''set the country ablaze'' if Mullah was executed.
During the past few days, thousands of mobile phone users have received messages from an unidentified number, warning it would lead to civil war.
The government of Sheikh Hasina had also come under pressure not to carry out the death sentence from the UK, US, the EU and the UN's human rights body. They worry that the hanging could derail delicate negotiations over upcoming general elections scheduled for 5 January.
The government's determination to see through Mullah's trial to the bitter end has also generated great debate in Bangladesh.
Jamaat-e-Islami is aligned to the country's largest opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Jamaat has claimed its leaders were being targeted for trial as part of the governing Awami League's efforts to destroy the opposition.
Jamaat supporters unleashed widespread violence in February when their charismatic leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was sentenced to death. Nearly 100 people died in nearly a week of clashes.
However, initial reaction to Mullah's execution has been fairly muted. There have been reports of scattered violence and small-scale protests in some parts of the country, but this was part of a wave of agitation that was already in progress.
For nearly a month, the entire country has been under a rail and road blockade by the BNP and its allies. It has cut off routes between Dhaka and much of the country, including the vital port city of Chittagong.
The BNP has rejected the 5 January date set for general elections, and called for action to bring down Ms Hasina's interim government.
The BNP and its allies want a neutral caretaker government to oversee the polls, arguing that Ms Hasina cannot be trusted to deliver free and fair elections.
Opinion polls, including one commissioned by the Awami League, show overwhelming public support for elections under a neutral government. But at the same time, there is great deal of public disquiet over the opposition's agitation programme, which has left at least 50 people dead since 26 November.
Most of the dead are ordinary citizens travelling on buses, trains or other public transport, attacked by suspected opposition activists with petrol bombs.
The deepening crisis has generated a speculation about the possibility of a state of emergency being declared.
During a similar crisis in 2007, the military stepped in and installed a caretaker government to carry out political reforms. They failed in that task, but managed to steer the country back to constitutional rule through largely free and fair elections.
The Awami League came to power in 2009 through a landslide victory.
There are fears that, if Mullah's hanging does trigger violent protests on top of the blockades and strikes, then the government would find reason to call in the army. This would end hopes of elections for some time.
However, it is possible the government has calculated differently. They are aware of the damage a well-organised and well-funded Jamaat can do. The government is also confident it can tackle the violence with security measures.
And it is possible the BNP may even rein in its smaller coalition partner, and warn Jamaat not to rock the boat. The BNP senses it can win the next elections, if a level playing field is ensured.
The government accuses the BNP of carrying out its agitation as an effort to foil the war crimes trials. The BNP denies this and does not comment on the trials.
The US and countries in the European Union have called for a compromise so that an "inclusive election" can take place, and senior leaders from the two parties have agreed to talk.
Soon, they will have to address the critical question of an interim government that both could live with.
The government appears adamant to go ahead with elections on the scheduled date, but the negotiations suggest they may consider rescheduling the polls.
But the entire negotiating process, fragile as it is, could go completely off the rails if the protests over Mullah's hanging reach the intensity of February's unrest.
A total of 325 employees lost their jobs when Tullis Russell Papermakers, based at Markinch in Fife, called in administrators last month.
A further 149 positions were said to be at risk.
More than 360 people attended a recruitment fair for Tullis workers on Wednesday.
The fair was organised by Pace, which comprises bodies including the Scottish government, Fife Council and the UK Department of Work and Pensions.
Joint administrators Blair Nimmo and Tony Friar of KPMG said that although interest had been expressed in the business, there remained a "number of challenges" to overcome.
The administrators said they had re-established contact with parties including other paper manufacturers and paper merchants across the world who had earlier declined the opportunity to buy the business.
They said they had also marketed it for sale to the wider investor community.
A deadline has now been set for bids after they received a number of "notes of interest from parties worldwide, both for the business and assets as a going concern and for individual assets or brand names".
KPMG said an information memorandum had now been issued to a small number of parties who have signed a Confidentiality Agreement.
Mr Nimmo said: "We have been contacted by a number of parties that have expressed an interest in the business, which reflects the company's long history, strong reputation for high quality products and the high regard in which it was held by its customers and within the industry.
"Nevertheless, there remain a number of challenges to overcome should a purchaser wish to acquire the business and assets and recommence paper manufacturing.
"We have set an initial closing date for indicative offers for the business and assets for 12pm on Monday 18 May, after which we will be better able to assess the level of interest. In the meantime, we would like to thank the company's staff for their ongoing assistance."
The blaze at Wythenshawe Hall in Manchester on 15 March caused extensive roof and upper floor damage.
Since the fire, an emergency tarpaulin has been used during to protect the building during structural and archaeological work.
Jeremy Taylor, 26, is due to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 1 July, charged with arson.
A team of archaeologists has continued sifting through debris to preserve as much original material as possible.
Manchester City Council Leader Sue Murphy said: "A huge amount of work has already gone into helping protect Wythenshawe Hall, most visibly the scaffold cocoon that is helping to stabilise the damaged areas of the property and will support the new temporary roofing.
"It will be a long road to recovery for the building, but working with our partners and the friends' group, we will see Wythenshawe Hall back to its best."
Inspectors from Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) found that half of all complaints to Ross Hall Hospital this year were about financial matters.
HIS said costs should be clearer and patients should be made aware they could complain to outside bodies.
Hospital operator, BMI Healthcare, said it was "implementing an action plan" to address concerns about complaints.
Inspectors carried out an unannounced inspection to Ross Hall on 10 July 2012.
Overall, the private hospital scored well, achieving five "very good" ratings for quality of staffing, five "very good" ratings for quality of environment and four "good" ratings for quality of information.
One "weak" rating, however, was recorded for quality of care and support at the hospital.
In their report, inspectors noted: "The hospital complaints policy describes how Ross Hall Hospital should ensure that complaints are investigated and resolved.
"However, we found that the policy does not make clear that people who use the service are able to raise their concerns with Healthcare Improvement Scotland independently."
Inspectors said that on reviewing the hospital's complaints log they found that 53 complaints were made between January and July 2012 - 26 of which related to financial matters.
"This included confusion about charges and a lack of communication about additional charges," inspectors said.
"Within these 26 complaints, we found that seven complaints had not been resolved within the expected 20 working days from the date the complaint was received.
"We noted one particular example where a person who used the service had paid for their treatment but had further additional payments debited from their bank account one year after the treatment had taken place and been paid for."
Inspectors said that this complaint had "remained unresolved for over a year".
They added: "The records we reviewed showed that staff at the hospital have not followed their own complaints policy."
It concluded: "We are concerned that Ross Hall Hospital does not currently audit its own complaints process.
"This would allow the provider to identify common themes of patient dissatisfaction and effectively monitor its own performance.
"We have concluded that the service needs to have a structured and planned approach to managing complaints."
A spokesman for BMI Healthcare said: "We are pleased that the HIS report found that all but one of the areas inspected were good or very good.
"We have a robust complaints policy in place and aim to resolve any patient issues quickly.
"However, we note the concerns raised by HIS about the management of a small number of complaints and confirm that we are currently implementing an action plan to ensure that all complaints are dealt with to the same high standards commonly applied."
The spokesman said that the most recent patient satisfaction results from the hospital showed "that 99.6% judged their overall quality of care as very good or excellent".
PM Tony Abbott said the government was proposing a range of civil penalties and fees linked to foreign investment.
Property prices are a hot button issue in Australia, especially in Sydney, and there are claims foreign investment is artificially boosting house prices.
But Mr Abbott conceded there was not enough data on this issue.
He also ruled out reviewing Australia's negative gearing rules, which some property analysts say also fuel property prices.
Negative gearing is when an investment generates a negative cashflow and allows the investor to claim tax deductions.
The proposals follow announcements earlier this year by the government that it was tightening the rules for foreign investment in agricultural land.
Under the new proposals, a foreign investor who wants to buy Australian property worth up to A$1m ($785,000, £508,000) would have to pay a A$5,000 application fee to the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB).
Investments over A$1m will incur a A$10,000 fee for every extra million dollars in the purchase price.
An application to buy a business worth A$1bn or more would incur a A$100,000 fee.
Foreign investors found to be in breach of the rules would be fined up to 25% of the value of the investment and could be forced to sell the property.
A register will be established to record how many foreign residential and agricultural property owners are in Australia and who they are.
The government said Australia's foreign investment policy for residential real estate had been designed to increase Australia's housing stock but a lack of compliance and enforcement of the rules in recent years had threatened the integrity of the policy.
"We do want Australians to be operating on a level playing field," Mr Abbott said of the property market.
"This government is determined to ensure that the aspirational people of our country get the fairest possible go," he said.
Fears about foreign investment in property, particularly Chinese investment, have prompted the Australian government's proposed changes to its foreign investment regime.
There are perceptions in the community that young Australians are being priced out of the market by offshore speculative investors.
This is probably the biggest foreign investment debate in Australia apart from Chinese investment in farm land. But many "foreign buyers" are actually Australians of Chinese or Indian descent.
The government says the new rules will "even up the playing field" but that avoids the fact that most young home buyers are being outbid by cashed-up Australian baby boomers.
Short-term speculation may cool but big investors can afford the fees. Smaller players looking for long-term investment for their children or residency and citizenship will see it as a price worth paying to improve the outlook for future generations.
"The only foreigners that will be in the system will be those playing by the rules."
Applications by foreign investors to buy Australian property or businesses are currently free.
The fees outlined by the government are much higher than those recommended in a report by a parliamentary economics committee.
Submissions on the proposals are being accepted by the Treasury until 20 March, and the government will make a final decision some time after that.
From 1 March, the FIRB screening threshold for purchases will be reduced from the current level of A$252m to A$15m, with a foreign ownership register of agricultural land also due to be established.
The European Union must become more "flexible" and responsibility for areas such as industrial strategy should return to member states, he suggested.
He also told the BBC he backed holding a referendum if further powers were transferred to Brussels in the future.
But he said an in-out referendum now would have "big costs" for the country.
He was speaking ahead of a long-awaited speech in which David Cameron was due to set out his view of the UK's future relationship with the 27-member union. However, the speech was postponed due to the Algerian hostage crisis.
He is expected to call for a renegotiation of the UK's existing relationship and to guarantee a referendum on its outcome after the next election.
Asked about the circumstances in which he would back a referendum, Mr Miliband said his party would not hand over any more powers to Brussels without first consulting the public.
If Labour were re-elected, he said he would not repeal the coalition government's so-called "referendum lock" - a law passed in 2010 which means a public vote would be triggered if substantial further powers were delegated to the EU.
He said "urgent changes" were needed in the EU and Labour would seek to repatriate certain powers - including funding for industry and infrastructure that are part of the EU's regional policy - to ensure the EU "worked better for Britain".
"Regional policy, the way a national government can have an industrial policy, I think there are areas where Britain needs powers back," he told the BBC's Radio 4's Today programme.
But he said Labour would not seek to limit co-operation in other areas, for instance by opting out of the European Arrest warrant.
He did not say during the interview whether he would rule out a referendum in the future to approve any return of powers to the UK from the EU.
A group of Conservative MPs called on Wednesday for powers over employment and social legislation to be returned to the UK and safeguards in other areas such as financial regulation but others want to go further and leave the EU altogether.
The fact that the UK would not be joining the single currency in the foreseeable future, including under a Labour government, was evidence that Europe was becoming more "flexible", Mr Miliband argued.
But he insisted the desire for greater flexibility was not the same as having a "looser" relationship and he said uncertainty over the UK's continued membership of the EU would deter foreign investors and reduce the UK's influence, he added.
"The debate here is between essentially those who say 'reform Europe to change it to work in our interests and I fear the prime minister's strategy which is leading us towards exit which will cause real damage to our economy."
He said the prime minister had voted against an in-out referendum in a parliamentary vote in 2011 but had been "dragged" towards a scenario in which such a scenario could happen by a "neuralgic" Conservative Party.
"Committing now to a in-out referendum has big costs for Britain," he added. "Putting up a big flag 'saying exit, Britain is about to get out - is that a good negotiating strategy? I have to say I think it is a hopeless negotiating strategy.
"The idea that people are more likely to accede to your demands if you say 'you are actually going to walk away and Britain can be sort of written off', I don't believe that is going to help us."
The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson said Labour's support for the government's "referendum lock" was significant as it committed the party to holding some form of referendum over Europe if, as expected, the eurozone crisis leads to a big change in the EU.
He said it was also noticeable Mr Miliband was not willing to rule out a referendum in other circumstances or even to include a commitment to that effect in his party's next election manifesto if the "pressure really builds". | Babies who cry excessively and have problems feeding and sleeping have a greater risk of serious behavioural problems later in life, say scientists.
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The owner had written negative comments about Garadget's kit on both Amazon and the start-up's own site after having problems with its app.
People have expressed concern about the US firm's actions.
The block has been reversed and founder Denis Grisak agreed his first reaction was not the "slickest PR move".
But he noted that Tesla's Elon Musk had once cancelled a customer's order after criticising the automaker online.
Garadget's kit is designed to let owners open their mechanised garage doors remotely to let visitors in, and to offer a way to check the doors have not been left open by mistake after leaving home.
The product raised nearly $63,000 (£50,000) on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo last year and has since gone on sale elsewhere.
But on 1 April, a buyer named Robert Martin complained on Amazon that the product was "junk", and referred to it with a swear word on the firm's own community board.
The next day, Mr Grisak replied: "The abusive language here and in your negative Amazon review, submitted minutes after experiencing a technical difficulty, only demonstrates your poor impulse control. I'm happy to provide the technical support to customers on my Saturday night but I'm not going to tolerate any tantrums."
He added that he had denied a server connection to Mr Martin as a consequence and suggested Mr Martin ask Amazon for a refund.
When another user accused Mr Grisak of breaking the law by "bricking" the kit, he denied this saying he had not changed its hardware or firmware.
However, other board members also complained. One compared Mr Grisak to a "petulant child" while another claimed "sales are going to tank if people think you have a kill switch to be fired any time they say something you don't like".
Mr Grisak has said he has no intention of repeating his action.
But one tech industry consultant was also critical.
"The bottom line is that it's already a hard sell to get people to embrace the so-called internet-of-things," said Ben Wood from CCS Insight.
"In particular, there's a huge amount of trust involved in having something that can open your doors.
"When incidents like this happen, it makes it even harder to get these kind of products into people's homes. This was a very ill-advised move."
Shenley Academy in Birmingham said it was closed to all Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 pupils after travellers ignored an eviction notice issued on Saturday.
The group which officers said included 20 caravans, a horse and dogs, has since left the site.
West Midlands Police said it had helped evict the group after the city council served an immediate eviction demand.
The academy remained open to pupils in Years 11, 12 and 13 who were told to avoid using the main entrance and were escorted on to the site by police and staff.
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School principal Lucy Monk said of the partial closure: "I recognise that this situation is detrimental to the education of our students, and it is certainly not a decision which has been taken lightly."
Mrs Monk said in a statement later, the travellers had left the site and all students could return to school on Tuesday.
They left behind a horse, which was tied to the school fence.
The school is looking after it at the moment but it will go to the RSPCA if it is not reclaimed.
Margaret, from the group of travellers, told the BBC more traveller sites were needed.
"If there were more sites this wouldn't happen, she said. "There's going to be an awful lot more of this up until summer until the kids break up from school."
"There's no uproar about these children [from travelling community] not going to school or not having a home for themselves to live in," she added.
However, local police sergeant Dave Cotter said the travellers' behaviour was "totally unacceptable" and had caused huge disruption.
"The group ignored a notice to leave, which gave them 24 hours to move on, and in the end we were left with no option but to force them to leave the school grounds," he said.
Meanwhile, the travellers are believed to have moved on to a site in Kings Norton.
A resident told the BBC they had been evicted from the same place two weeks ago.
She automatically took a colouring book and crayons as she showed them to their table.
Mr Lusted, 26, stands 3ft 7in tall. His now fiancee Miss Roberts, 20, is 5ft 7in.
"I said, 'thank you very much' to the waitress, and as soon as she heard my voice she knew I wasn't a child," Mr Lusted said.
"She hid the colouring book behind her back and didn't disturb us again."
Thankfully the couple from Colwyn Bay, Conwy, both saw the funny side.
Mr Lusted was born with Diastrophic Dyslasia - a rare genetic condition that causes dwarfism - despite his parents both being of average height.
He has led an eventful life. He left school at 16 and is now a TV presenter and motivational speaker.
He has twice represented Great Britain in the World Dwarf Games and has been the UK champion at Class One badminton for nine years. He carried the Olympic torch when it travelled through Wales in 2012.
But his life has been far from easy. His condition has meant that he spent a lot of his early life in and out of hospital.
He said: "I have had constant treatment on my neck and to straighten my limbs.
"Dad had to use a spanner every day to twist the nuts on my frame to straighten my legs and sometimes you could hear the bones creaking.
"The toughest time of my life was when I was 14 to 15.
"I had a tough year because I was being bullied that year. I don't know why or if it is because of how I was.
"I remember I had a knife thrown at me. I was pinned up against the wall with my little legs dangling there and it really affected me."
He added: "I have often thought from an early age who would want to marry me, a dwarf from Wales."
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But he has found happiness with Miss Roberts and recently asked her to marry him.
Miss Roberts said: "All little girls dream about having their tall, dark and handsome prince charming.
"Never in my life did I think I'd date someone like James.
"Some people took a little longer to get used to the idea because he is a dwarf and I'm not."
The couple now face pressure from family members to have genetic tests if they have children to see if they would also be affected by James's condition.
Miss Roberts said: "A few of my family members would prefer me to be tested to see if I would have a dwarf child, but even if there was a chance of having a dwarf kid, it wouldn't change my mind."
Mr Lusted said: "When we're married, we'd love to have children and having a dwarf wouldn't bother us at all."
He added: "Even if we didn't have a dwarf, I don't think we'd think twice about adopting one. Their life is just as precious as our and we want to give them an opportunity too."
Perez, 23, joined the Magpies in 2014 from Benitez's former club Tenerife and scored six top-flight goals last term.
"This year we have received two offers (for Perez)," Benitez told BBC Newcastle. "We don't want to sell him.
"He has been working very hard during the summer, he is doing well. Directly, one coach was calling me, asking for him, with a good price to be fair."
Newcastle added Senegal midfielder Mohamed Diame and Republic of Ireland defender Ciaran Clark to their squad on Wednesday, after meeting release causes for both.
And Benitez says he would still like to add to his squad, with the Magpies' Championship campaign starting away to Fulham on Friday, 5 August.
"We are still looking for two or three players, if it is possible," he added. "We know that we need something, to give a little bit more balance."
The former Liverpool and Chelsea boss also spoke about speculation linking France midfielder Moussa Sissoko with a move away from Newcastle.
"We will try to do the best for us," said Benitez. "If he has to go because we have the right offer, fine.
"If he stays with us, fantastic. We are doing what we have to do to protect Newcastle United and to help Moussa Sissoko, the professional.
"If he goes because we have the right offer, it has to be good for the club too. Sometimes it is worse to keep players if they are not happy."
Briton Froome, 32, finished fourth on Thursday's tough stage 18 and has a 23-second lead over France's Romain Bardet with three stages remaining.
But the fight shown by his rivals means a third Froome victory in a row is not certain, Hayles told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He hasn't won it yet. He should, but this has been a tough battle," he said.
"The way these guys fought up the side of this mountain, they absolutely turned themselves inside out," added the former Olympic track cyclist.
Team Sky's Froome also believes overall victory is not yet certain despite having completed "the toughest part of the Tour".
Following a flat route on Friday's stage 19, the riders face the final individual time trial on Saturday in the penultimate stage in Marseille.
"It's nice to get through the Alps feeling good and looking forward to the time trial now in Marseille," added Froome.
"Rigoberto Uran is my biggest threat in Marseille. From the general classification group, he is the next strongest in time trials. He's only 29 seconds behind so he will be the guy to look out for."
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Froome is targeting his first stage victory on the 2017 Tour in Marseille, but says he will "have no regrets" if he rides into Paris wearing the yellow jersey without winning a stage.
"I'll do my best to try to win the stage and ride for the jersey. I've already seen the time trial course. It's a very fast 22km course. I'll do my maximum for sure," he said.
The Briton could become only the seventh man to win the Tour without securing a stage victory, but Hayles disagrees with claims this would be Froome's easiest yellow jersey.
"I've seen a couple of comments saying this is a dull win - this is anything but," said Hayles.
"Everybody tried to put pressure on Chris Froome but ultimately they failed. It didn't happen.
"He has had to try so hard, the margins are so tight - it's not over yet, he hasn't won it yet."
The pipeline was discovered on the bed of the river Chu, which forms the border between the two countries.
They suspect thousands of litres of pure spirit have passed through it.
It is unclear how officials made the discovery, but a search is now on for the smugglers behind the pipeline.
Local media has reported that the pipeline was found just a few kilometres from a border checkpoint.
Correspondents say that Kazakhstan is one of the biggest grain producers in Central Asia and spirits are far cheaper there than in neighbouring countries.
Kazakhstan is also a recent member of a customs union - along with Russia and Belarus - which has made it far more expensive for neighbouring countries to import alcohol without paying hefty duties.
Border guards recently discovered a similar pipeline used to smuggle oil products, including petrol and diesel.
It was set up because Kazakhstan is also a big oil producer - and oil products are much cheaper there than in its neighbours.
Lots of schools have now broken up for the summer holidays - so that means a few weeks of fun!
We want to know what you've got planned for the holidays - will you be seeing a film at the cinema or trying to read as many funny story books as you can?
Perhaps you're going on a holiday or plan to build a den in your garden with your friends or family?
This chat is now closed, here is a selection of your comments.
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I am going to Aldeburgh for 7 weeks
Sasha
I'm going to loads of camps then to Los Angeles! I'm so excited!!!!!
Eliza, London
I am going to London zoo and also going to the London tower to see the crown jewels.
Thomas
I'm going to Deerpark Forest in Cornwall. It is very fun! I went there last summer. There's even a duck race.
Nikita
Over the summer I am going to travel all over the country competing in canoe slalom!
Isobel, Staffordshire
I'm going to see Despicable Me 3 on Sunday with my mates.
Joseph, 14, Northamptonshire
In the summer holidays I am going to Tenerife. I am going with all my family. I am most looking forward to going on the beach because then I can play cricket.
Harry, 7, Wokingham
Ann-Marie James, 33, was stabbed in the chest at a flat in Wolverhampton by Melvin James, West Midlands Police said.
The 36-year-old is then understood to have turned the knife on himself and died at the scene.
Their mother, 59, has undergone surgery for abdomen wounds and remains critical. Two officers were also injured attempting to arrest James.
Police used stun grenades when they stormed a first-floor flat in Leasowes Drive, Merry Hill on Wednesday.
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One officer received a "stab wound to the arm" and another sustained a leg injury after being chased by the suspect, the force said.
A post-mortem examination showed both Ms James and her attacker died of stab wounds.
Det Insp Warren Hines, who is leading the investigation, said: "The family are absolutely devastated at the loss of Ann-Marie and Melvin, two people who were really dear to them.
"They have asked that their privacy is respected so they are able to grieve at this difficult time."
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has started an investigation.
Geoff, who is now 92 and lives in Portrush, served as a wireless operator on a number of different aircraft, including the very first Vulcan Bomber.
He was also a crew member of the plane which was loaded with an atomic bomb during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"We were sitting close to the runway loaded with an atomic bomb ready to go," he said.
"One always has at the back of one's mind that you would never have to go, but in those four minutes there is no telling what you were thinking," he said.
"It horrifies me to think that I might have been involved should it have occurred over here."
Geoff was also part of the team which saw the Vulcan Bomber go through the sound barrier.
"The day after we delivered the first Vulcan into service 60 years ago, we did intensive flying trials.
"It meant when we broke the sound barrier we had to do it way off the Scilly Isles so we didn't break any glass," he said.
"An inexperienced pilot could lose control, but in experienced hands you don't go beyond that."
The 22-year-old can go straight into the Baggies squad for Tuesday's Premier League game at home to Swansea City.
A product of Spurs' academy, he made his first-team debut in 2014 after loan spells at Peterborough and Swindon.
Pritchard, who spent last season on loan at Brentford, where he scored 12 goals in 47 games, has played just once for Spurs this season.
The England Under-21 international signed a new four-year deal with Tottenham last summer.
"It's been a hectic few hours - I was close to going elsewhere," he said. "But when this came about I didn't hesitate to come here."
"West Bromwich Albion indicated that they had no intention of changing their stance on selling Saido Berahino in advance of deadline day, and were true to their word, despite endless hyping of the possibility from outside.
"However much money Newcastle did offer, it wasn't enough to tempt chairman Jeremy Peace to sell, and that in turn made it much less likely Albion would expand their squad.
"The one deadline day signing day they did make was talented young midfielder Alex Pritchard, on loan from Tottenham Hotspur."
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Attention has fallen on Seddique Mateen, who runs a Facebook page where he describes himself as the "Provincial Government of Afghanistan", and refers to some sections of the Taliban as "our brothers".
Seddique Mateen has also appeared on his own online Afghan nationalist TV programme. Last year, he declared himself a candidate for the presidency of Afghanistan - a year after the election took place.
His video posts are something of a laughing stock in Afghanistan, where he's viewed as somewhat odd and incoherent, BBC analysts say.
Mr Mateen's video message addressed to the people of Afghanistan mourns the death of his son, saying "I do not know what caused him [to carry out the attack] last night... I was not informed that he had a grudge. I am deeply saddened about what he has done".
"The issue of homosexuality and punishment for that is up to God alone, this is not in the hands of human beings," he adds.
Changing the subject somewhat, he finishes the message by saying he supports the Afghan armed forces in their recent border clash with Pakistani troops, saying "Death to Pakistan, which supports killing and terrorism".
The video was one of several posted on his Provincial Government of Afghanistan Facebook page, where it provoked a stream of abuse from other Facebook users.
BBC analysis of Mr Mateen's online presence shows him to be a proud Afghan nationalist, whose "Durand Jirga" TV programme calls for the Afghan people to rise up and unite.
Despite being of Pashtun descent, he always addresses the Afghan people in the Dari language rather than Pashto, presumably to reach a larger audience. However, his speeches can come across as incoherent and erratic.
In May 2015, a year after the Afghan presidential election, he took to YouTube to declare himself a presidential candidate. "Given the fact that the territorial integrity of Afghanistan is in danger... I declare myself as presidential candidate and founder of the National Salvation Movement of Afghanistan," he said.
However, his videos aren't taken seriously in Afghanistan, and his claim in a recent programme to be the "revolutionary president" of the country reinforces the impression that he is something of an outsider.
Although once describing himself during a TV phone-in as a friend of Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, he appears to have changed his stance now that Mr Ghani is in power.
A video last Friday accused Mr Ghani of implementing "Britain's plan" for bringing Islamic State to Afghanistan. Just two days later he posted a video to Facebook urging a "hero" to emerge from the Afghan people to "give him a slap, the lunatic... He's a traitor. He's a traitor!"
He's highly critical of the government of Pakistan, and has strong views on the Durand Line - the British-imposed border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has never been recognised by people living in the region whose tribal areas it divides.
"The problems of the Afghan people will not be resolved until the Durand issue is addressed. This problem will never go away. We need to unite to defend our homeland," he says in one video. His view is not popular among Pashtuns, and is seen as another example of his off-piste political views.
Controversially, he praises the Taliban for their stance on the Durand Line, referring to them as "our brothers".
He divides the Taliban group into two groups: "real" Taliban, who are against the Durand Line, and those he considers to be stooges of Pakistan, who kill Afghans.
"The Afghan brothers should not allow the mercenaries of ISI [Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency], who come to Afghanistan under the name of the Taliban and kill our Afghan sisters and brothers," he says.
"See the real Taliban and the Afghans who live in North and South Waziristan, they are the freedom fighters who want to liberate their land... The Pakistani government attacks them and kills their families and relatives," he continues.
In another clip, which he delivers in military fatigues and rounds off with a salute to camera, he shows little love for either Pakistan or Iran: "If we unite together we can go as far as Islamabad. We can solve all of Afghanistan's problems. If we unite, if Iran says anything we can sort it out."
It's likely that Mr Mateen's calls will fall on deaf ears.
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Samples taken from the 26-year-old Chester man were analysed by Randox Testing Services (RTS) in Manchester.
Two employees at RTS were previously arrested over claims data may have been manipulated.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was too little evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.
RTS is used by police forces across the UK to analyse toxicology samples used in prosecutions.
According to police, 484 cases handled by the firm since November 2015 may have been affected.
A spokesman said: "We are working with the Home Office, police and the Office of the Forensic Science Regulator to assess the impact of the testing failure at Randox Testing Services.
"This includes establishing which cases have been affected by this issue and working with other agencies to decide what action should be taken in relation to those cases.‎"
The two arrested employees, aged 47 and 31, were quizzed on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and have been bailed, police said.
The company, based in Northern Ireland, said the investigation centres on the "manipulation of quality control data, which supports test results".
The allegations relate to drug tests analysed at the Manchester office.
Mr Lightman, not usually given to scaremongering, is warning about the shortage of that most vital ingredient in a school - the teachers.
Schools cannot recruit the teachers they need - and for some posts, such as a head of maths, he says they are as "rare as hen's teeth".
And as one unintended consequence, schools are having to spend their already stretched budgets on recruitment agencies and "finders' fees".
The National Association of Head Teachers says a survey of members shows some schools are having to pay £10,000 to fill a single vacancy.
It suggests 59% of schools advertising for staff had "struggled" to find someone - and a further 20% had failed completely.
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned this is having a "significant impact" on schools.
The watchdog's own figures say 50% of heads in affluent areas could not recruit enough good staff and that rose to 77% in the "most challenging areas".
And this meant 61% of heads in these poorer areas had to rely on "temporary" arrangements to cover for maths or science.
But why is there such a recruitment problem?
John Howson, visiting professor at Oxford Brookes and fellow at Oxford University, has been monitoring the teachers' job market for more than 30 years.
He says this is the worst recruitment problem since 2001-02, when some pupils had to be sent home because of a lack of staff.
Like any storm, it's caused by a combination of factors all coming together.
The economy is picking up, so more companies are recruiting and that means more options for graduates.
Teaching is often seen as a safe haven in a recession. And when the economy improves, it becomes harder for schools to recruit and retain people
A study in the US this year suggested this pattern - and how teachers recruited in a recession were often better qualified and likely to get better results.
For the past three years, recruitment targets for initial teacher training have been missed. And Prof Howson says that with teachers facing further public-sector pay constraints, it is going to become even more difficult to attract new recruits.
And rather than more teachers in the training pipeline, fewer people entered initial teacher training in 2014 than in 2010.
Another complication is that a teaching shortage is not evenly spread.
There are particular subject areas that for many years have had difficulty - such as maths and science. And Prof Howson's analysis suggests that English teachers could also be in the "crisis" zone.
There are geographical pockets too. Prof Howson says Essex and Hertfordshire seem to have particular shortages.
There can be local deterrents in other parts of the country - whether it is over-expensive housing, poor transport links or an unattractive town. And tough schools can be a tough sell for staff who have a choice of jobs.
Prof Howson also warns of unintended consequences from teacher training initiatives.
The move to train more teachers in schools rather than university has created a supply of staff for those individual schools where trainees are learning their craft. These are often good schools and will hope to recruit from the ranks of their own trainee teachers.
There are also schools that benefit from the Teach First scheme to bring high-flying energetic young graduates into the teaching workforce.
But, says Prof Howson, such projects can leave other schools out in the cold, competing for what's left of a shrinking pool of teachers.
Ofsted says that 91% of head teachers in more challenging schools told them there was insufficient teacher training provision in their local area.
There have been warnings that the shortage is being exacerbated by so many teachers quitting the profession. Excessive workload, inadequate pay and complaints about endless political meddling have been among the reasons cited.
The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has studied these trends. It found that in 2014 about 10% of the teaching workforce left the profession - about 49,000 people.
But this was not unusual for the past decade, when the "departure rate" has been about 9-10%.
Instead, the most substantial issue, according to the NFER, is that teaching numbers are failing to respond to the soaring numbers of pupils.
Cities such as London face a huge spike in the school-age population, creating a flurry of temporary classrooms and school expansions, with some primary schools having to almost double in size.
This all means schools will need more teachers than ever before.
So what's going to happen next?
Prof Howson says the problem is going to be even worse next year.
But Mr Lightman says he doesn't think any pupils will be sent home. Instead there will be a less public, but nonetheless corrosive impact.
There will be bigger classes and more lessons taught by people who are not qualified in that subject.
"The true situation will be masked. Even if you don't have a maths teacher, you put someone in front of the class. The vacancy is filled, but not with the right person," says the heads' leader.
So what should happen?
In the short term, it will mean more supply teachers. And there's a cost for relying on temporary staff. A survey from the National Union of Teachers suggested schools in England spent £733m last year on supply agencies.
It will also mean schools looking overseas for the staff they can't find in the UK.
Mr Lightman suggests it needs a strong offer to get more young graduates into teaching, such as paying off their tuition fee loans.
A former government insider said one of the difficulties for Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is that the current system, with much of the training delegated to individual schools rather than university education departments, makes it hard to push for a rapid increase in numbers.
It's now a very diffuse system, with lots of individual training projects, which makes it much harder to "turn on the tap" for new recruits, compared with when teacher training was based on large numbers going through universities.
The study from the NFER also highlights the pool of tens of thousands of qualified teachers leaving the classroom each year.
They are not going for extra money - as the research shows most who leave education take lower-paid jobs elsewhere. And large numbers disappear into non-teaching jobs within education.
But how do you persuade them to stay in the classroom?
The Department for Education says it recognises the challenges for schools but the overall teacher vacancy rate is 0.3% and has remained under 1% for the past 15 years.
It also points out the number of teachers is at an all-time high, with 13,100 more full-time equivalent teachers than in 2010.
In response to the question of getting enough good teachers into areas such as coastal towns, the government has announced a National Teaching Service.
This will recruit a pool of 1,500 high-achieving teachers over five years who would be deployed to schools in areas with weak results.
There is a television campaign to boost recruitment and a range of bursaries worth up to £30,000 to entice students, particularly in shortage subjects.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "With the economy improving, we have redoubled our efforts to attract top graduates to the profession, and we have over 1,000 more graduates training in secondary subjects - and record levels of trainees holding a first-class degree.
"The vast majority of teachers stay in their roles for more than five years, and more than half of those who qualified in 1996 were still in the profession 18 years later.
"The latest figures also show the number of former teachers coming back to the classroom has continued to rise year after year."
In her letter to the Education Select Committee, Nicky Morgan writes: "High-quality teachers are the single most important factor in determining how well pupils do in school."
But the big challenge is to make sure there are enough of them.
The victims, including 11 children, drowned when their boat capsized after setting off from Balikesir province.
About 400 people have died crossing into Europe in 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
Most were travelling to Greece on their way to northern Europe. Recent fighting in Syria has sent thousands of people fleeing towards the Turkish border.
The sea route from Turkey to Greece was the most popular way for migrants trying to enter Europe in 2015.
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In the latest incident, Turkish media quoted official as saying that 40 migrants set out for Lesbos from the Altinoluk area early on Monday. They say their boat capsized two miles (3.2km) into the crossing.
Hurriyet newspaper says the vessel was using a new route, because security forces have stepped up moves to deter migrants from taking their chances.
The paper also denied earlier media reports that another migrant boat had capsized further south off Izmir province.
News of the deaths came as Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Turkey to discuss ways of reducing the number of migrants travelling to Europe.
After talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Mrs Merkel said they had agreed to seek help from Nato - both countries are members - in handling the migrant crisis.
She said they would use the next meeting of the alliance to consider "to what extent Nato can be helpful with the surveillance situation at sea'' and support the EU border agency Frontex.
The IOM says more than 68,000 migrants arrived on Greek shores in the first five weeks of 2016, despite often stormy conditions. This is a huge rise from last year, when the figure for the whole of January was less than 1,500.
Nearly half of those who have arrived in Greece this year are from Syria, the IOM says.
But thousands of Syrians seeking to flee a government offensive in Aleppo, backed by Russian air strikes, are being prevented from leaving their homeland.
Turkey has so far closed the border to most of the 30,000 migrants gathering at the Kilis border crossing, despite appeals by EU leaders to let them cross.
After her talks in Ankara, Mrs Merkel said: "In the past days we have been not only shocked but horrified by the human suffering of tens of thousands of people through bomb attacks predominantly carried out by the Russian side."
Mr Davutoglu said his country would accept the migrants "when necessary", and that it would reveal plans next week to slow the flow of arrivals.
Calls from EU leaders for Turkey to open its borders to Syrian refugees have been criticised by both pro-government and opposition commentators in Turkey.
The opposition daily Cumhuriyet says: "While the EU is increasing security measures and closing borders to immigrants, it is asking Turkey to let them in."
The pro-government Yeni Safak says the calls from EU leaders are redolent of "hypocrisy". The paper describes the treatment of immigrants in Europe as "inhumane".
A columnist for the centre-right paper Hurriyet, Fatih Cekirge, also expresses indignation. He says world powers have different agendas with regard to Syria, but they are all sending the same message: "Don't come to Europe as a refugee, but die far from us."
The Indian Twittersphere exploded after Sindhu beat Marin 21-19, 21-16 to take the India Open Super Series tournament in Delhi on Sunday night.
The hashtags #SindhuVsMarin and #Sindhu were trending on Sunday and Monday.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan were among those who congratulated her.
Spain's Marin beat Sindhu to the gold medal in the Olympic badminton singles final in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
The celebration over Sindhu's victory is also significant as it shows the growing popularity of badminton in a country that famously worships cricket alone.
But Sindhu, and Saina Nehwal before her, have been instrumental in bringing badminton to the forefront of public consciousness.
Nehwal won a bronze medal at the London Olympics.
Most tweets on Sunday and Monday talked about Sindhu getting "revenge" for her Olympic defeat to Marin, while others praised her fierce game.
The player later took to Instagram to thank her fans and sponsors for her support. She also told the Times of India newspaper that she was happy with her performance as there were no "easy" points.
Ashley Keast, 26, was jailed for 32 months in March after he admitted breaking in to a property in Rotherham.
On Wednesday, he was jailed for a further four years after being found guilty of making threats to kill.
Keast, of Norfolk Court, Rotherham, was convicted after a trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
The court heard Keast had arranged for a threatening letter to be sent to the victim of the burglary after he was jailed.
He was also found guilty by a jury of witness intimidation and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Keast was arrested in connection with the burglary after he took a selfie on a stolen SIM card and sent it to his victim's colleagues.
PC Adam Broughton said: "Following the original conviction for burglary, the victim in this case felt that justice had been done. Unfortunately, this was not the end of the ordeal.
"The safety and wellbeing of any victim of crime is our main priority and this sentence reflects the seriousness of threats, intimidation and attempts by anyone to pervert the course of justice."
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The device, called the xPatch and produced by a US company, measures the size and angle of hits to the head.
"We don't want to meet our players in 20 years' time to find them suffering from dementia and reflect we suspected something was going on but didn't really know," said Edward Griffiths.
"We want to know - we want answers."
The Saracens chief executive added: "We feel obliged to ask these questions, however uncomfortable they may be."
Concussion is an issue of concern in rugby, with many retired players and medical experts warning that repeated impacts during a player's career may cause profound health issues later in life.
Former England players Shontayne Hape and Michael Lipman are among those who have been forced to retire because of the effects of concussion, with Hape complaining of "depression, constant migraines and memory loss".
The International Rugby Board introduced an enhanced Head Injury Assessment (HIA) protocol in June in an effort to improve player safety, and it has been in use in the Premiership this season.
Saracens players will wear the patches, made by Seattle-based X2 Biosystems, in matches and training sessions. The patches can then be removed and the data uploaded to a computer, where it will be logged.
Griffiths added: "We aspire to be a club that genuinely looks after its players, and nothing is more important than their medium and long term welfare.
"The findings will be reported in due course."
Helen Tye, 46, was given two sentences - of six months and a year - suspended for two years, at Winchester Crown Court.
She was convicted of two counts of fraud by abuse of position after a trial, but was cleared of a third count by the jury.
Ms Tye was suspended from the force's secretarial team when she was charged.
At the time, police said the offences related to a voluntary role she held with an organisation in the Godalming area.
The force has not yet commented on her sentence.
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The Coasters beat Boston 3-0 to secure promotion to the fifth tier and have scored 105 goals in the process, breaking Chester's record.
The club have reached the play-offs in the previous two seasons but missed out on promotion.
"It's a really emotional day," Challinor told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"I don't think things will sort of sink in, but we'll enjoy next week and enjoying walking out at our home ground as champions.
"It has been a tough season with things going on away from football.
"To get over the line and to achieve what we have is a very, very special day.
"It will be a special day as it is not often you get the chance to play with a freedom and not a great deal on the game - to walk out in front of our own fans will be fantastic."
It follows the release of an audio recording in which Mr Temer appears to encourage the payment of hush money to a jailed politician.
The charges have been delivered to a Supreme Court judge who must now decide if the case can be sent to the lower house of parliament.
The lower house would have to vote on whether President Temer can be tried.
After taking two in two balls to end Hampshire's first innings, Rushworth had Michael Carberry caught behind with his opening delivery in their second.
Durham had declared 304 ahead on 190-4, with spinner Mason Crane taking 4-72.
And Crane was there at the end to see Hampshire to 179-9, surviving 5.2 overs with Lewis McManus (53 not out).
The result did neither side any favours with the home side 18 points adrift at the foot of the Division One table, and although Durham moved up one place to third with their first draw of the season, they are 38 points behind leaders Yorkshire, who also have a game in hand.
Resuming on 61-1, the north-east county's initial task was to put enough runs on the board quickly to allow their bowlers time to win the match.
Mark Stoneman (88) and Scott Borthwick (39) added 71 before both fell to the promising Crane and Paul Collingwood weighed in with an unbeaten 29 off 22 balls before he decided it was time to call a halt.
Following the shock of losing Carberry, Hampshire slumped to 39-5, with James Vince and Will Smith also departing for ducks.
Joe Gatting made 32 before he was leg-before to off-spinner Ryan Pringle (5-63), but Gareth Berg (36) and McManus put on 53 for the seventh wicket.
Hampshire were 142-7 with 24 overs remaining when a rain shower took nine overs out of the game and although Pringle had Jackson Bird lbw at the resumption for his first five-wicket haul in county cricket, Durham could not separate Hampshire's youthful last-wicket pair.
Three additional overs were bowled as Durham had completed the scheduled number before 18:00 BST, and after Collingwood dropped Crane at slip, 20-year-old McManus hit the final ball for four to reach his maiden fifty and secure a dramatic draw.
Durham captain Paul Collingwood:
"We played some really good cricket this week and I was disappointed not to get that last wicket.
"We've lost about 30 overs in the match, which is pretty crucial.
"We can take a lot out of this match, we've done really well, but it's a shame not to have won the game."
Hampshire wicket-keeper Lewis McManus:
"It got a bit tight at the end. We lost a few wickets which put the game back into their hands slightly but I had faith in Mason and myself at the end.
"We have a big four games coming up and if we do the basics well then we are pretty confident."
Mr Strauss-Kahn stood alongside 13 co-defendants, most of whom were also acquitted of "aggravated pimping".
He has always denied knowing that some of the women who took part in orgies he attended were prostitutes.
Lurid details of the former French presidential hopeful's sex life emerged at hearings in Lille in February.
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Has trial changed French attitudes to sex?
Although using prostitutes is not illegal in France, assisting in supplying them is illegal and regarded as procuring. Mr Strauss-Kahn had been accused of playing a pivotal role in facilitating the orgies.
The verdict brings to a close four years of legal proceedings against Mr Strauss-Kahn, including charges of attempted rape which were later dropped in 2012.
Mr Strauss-Kahn gave little reaction while the verdict was being read out, but he was overheard saying to his daughter afterwards: "All that for this? What a waste".
His lawyer, Henri Leclerc, told journalists: "Everyone can see there was no legal basis in the case and all the noise that has surrounded this story has given us all something to think about."
The chief judge said Mr Strauss-Kahn behaved as a client and had not paid the sex workers he met. He only benefitted from others paying them to be present for group parties, the judge added.
Among the others acquitted was Belgian brothel owner Dominique Alderweireld, also known as Dodo la Saumure, who was accused of supplying prostitutes for the parties.
Passing through the brutalist architecture of Lille's courthouse this morning came the colourful parade of characters whose private behaviour has been pored over by the world's media. Having been subject to moral judgements for months now, they came to hear the legal ones.
In the courtroom, DSK sat, largely immobile, in a dark suit and tie, hands folded in his lap as the defendants walked one by one to the stand to hear their verdict.
When his time came, he stood stiffly at the stand, looking straight ahead as the charges were read aloud.
The man who had one day hoped to be president of France showed almost no response when his acquittal came.
Entering the courthouse before the verdict, Dodo said the trial "was meant to topple DSK". If it was, it didn't work. And today Dominique Strauss-Khan walked free.
The former public relations chief of Hotel Carlton in Lille, where some of the sex parties took place, was the only defendant found guilty.
Rene Kojfer was given a year's suspended sentence for his involvement in recruiting prostitutes and was fined €2,500 (£1,800).
Dominique Strauss-Khan would have faced a 10-year jail term if found guilty.
During the three weeks of hearings in February, sex workers described Mr Strauss-Kahn's rough behaviour at some of the parties. But he argued that he was not on trial for "deviant practices".
He told the court he participated in the parties because he needed "recreational sessions" amid one of the world's worst financial crises.
Friday's verdict was not a surprise as the state prosecutor Frederic Fevre had recommended Mr Strauss Kahn's acquittal, saying there was not enough evidence to back up the pimping charge. However, Mr Fevre had asked for his co-defendants to be convicted.
Five of the six plaintiffs - including four prostitutes - had also dropped their accusations against the 66-year-old because of a lack of evidence.
While Mr Strauss-Kahn has admitted to being present at the orgies, he has always maintained that he did not know that some of the women involved were being paid.
French media reaction
Several French commentators are unsurprised by the verdict and question whether the case should have come to trial at all.
"This shipwreck of an investigation had already been heralded by the prosecutor Frederic Fevre who... recommended several acquittals... noting that judges work 'with the penal code and not with the moral code'" - Pascale Robert-Diard's "Chroniques judiciaires" blog in Le Monde
"The unbridled libido of the key player may be a physiological peculiarity, but it falls more within the sphere of a medical publication than in works issued by Dalloz [French publisher specialising in legal reference books]" - Le Figaro
Chris Bakken, the project director for Hinkley Point C in Somerset, will take up a new role at US energy company Entergy in April.
EDF Energy said he had decided to return to his home country to pursue "new professional opportunities" and spend more time with his family.
He has been in charge of the £18bn Hinkley Point C project since 2011.
A final investment decision for the nuclear project was postponed by EDF Energy last month.
Hinkley is due to start generating power in 2025, and is expected to provide 7% of the UK's electricity once it is running.
Kerry Cabbin, the founder of Tough Cookies Education, which delivers workshops on sex and relationships to teenagers, says the digital age has created a culture where sexual bullying is considered a guide to whether boys like them and more targeted education is needed in the classrooms.
Sexual harassment has become a major issue in schools in the UK.
This report by the Commons Women and Equalities Committee does not surprise me as it highlights many of the problems that young people face on a daily basis.
All too often sexual harassment and bullying is dismissed as banter.
The behaviour is considered to be flirtatious or a laugh by pupils. Far too often, young people do not realise that their actions constitute sexual harassment.
There's something about secondary school aged children - they are not being educated that this type of behaviour is not right.
The MPs' report revealed 29% of 16-18 year old girls had said they have experienced unwanted sexual touching at school.
In 2015, a BBC Freedom of Information request found more than 5,500 alleged sex crimes in UK schools were reported to police in the past three years.
In 2010, a YouGov poll found 71% of girls had heard the terms "slut" or "slag" used towards them at school.
Through the workshops we deliver we have found that many young women see sexual harassment as an indication of whether a person likes them or not.
It is used as a guide to figure out if a boy fancies them. In the 1970s a boy would ask them out to the cinema, now girls think a boy likes them if they slap their bottom.
Young women are no longer feeling empowered. When we spoke to the teenage girls in our workshops, not one of them had been educated before on giving sexual consent.
Often, if someone wants to touch them sexually or kiss them they don't feel confident enough to say no. There are not enough girls that feel strong enough to stand up and say this is not acceptable.
The digital era has also played a part in this culture. Young people use their mobile phones to communicate so when it comes to verbal interaction it all gets a bit muddled.
We have found that young people have become desensitised to sexual language. In this day and age there is no watershed. Young people are exposed to sexual words and they are willing to use them in everyday settings.
Girls have become less offended so can hear words such as "slag" or "slut" and they don't think it is an issue. Often girls will even use these words themselves.
The Commons Women and Equalities Committee made recommendations to the government which included:
Young people need to realise that sexual harassment shouldn't be accepted but I wouldn't like to see all of this behaviour criminalised.
Pupils are often learning this behaviour from TV. In my day we watched Byker Grove but now children are watching Geordie Shore and Ex on the Beach.
They show this type of sexual harassment so teenagers begin to think that it is acceptable. They think "oh well, if they're showing it on TV then it must be OK".
I believe the majority of this inappropriate behaviour is not intended to damage or hurt the person it is targeted towards. It's seen as banter and a bit of fun.
Sexual harassment in schools needs to be treated as seriously as bullying. Many schools have moved forward and brought in specialist anti-bullying policies and sexual harassment needs to come under this umbrella.
Young people need to be educated and given the confidence to say that this behaviour is not acceptable. I believe that young people would listen to this education and would adapt and change the culture.
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Holt had said Football League clubs were like "a starving peasant begging for scraps" from the top flight.
The Premier League responded: "We will be writing to Mr Holt to ask him if he wishes the Premier League to continue the support we currently provide for his and other clubs in the EFL."
Holt said other chairmen supported him.
On Tuesday, Holt accused the Premier League of "destroying" the game and tweeted: "Hang your heads in shame. @premierleague you're an absolute disgrace to English football."
He posted a series of messages on Twitter after the Daily Mail revealed reported figures of wages and agent fees paid by Manchester United.
A book published in Germany this week - The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football - includes what it says is a breakdown of the fee for Paul Pogba's move to United last summer, and alleges his agent Mino Raiola earned £41m from the deal.
Raiola has declined to comment and said the matter was in the hands of his lawyers.
In an interview with BBC Sport on Wednesday, Holt said lower-league clubs needed more financial help.
"Football is in crisis. The lower league is really struggling, and I'm not the only chairman who feels like this," he said.
He accused the Premier League of "losing all sense of scale" in what he called a "threatening, dark" response to his original comments.
"What they're saying is not only are they not bothered about it, anybody who complains about it, we'll take your money away and shut you down," he said.
"Other EFL clubs share my views, not all of them. I'm not trying to lead a rabble, I'm expressing an opinion but I'm not alone."
The Premier League says it intends to write to Holt and "to explain the many ways it has supported Accrington Stanley FC and all EFL clubs this season".
Holt said the club had an annual turnover of about £2.2m and any withdrawal of Premier League funding would threaten its future.
"They can do what they want," he added. "It would be a quarter of our revenue, and it would close Accrington down.
"I can't do anything about it. I don't like the agent's fee, I don't like the largesse of the Premier League and I won't like it in five years' time and I won't like it in 10 years' time. My opinion's the same, whatever they do."
The Premier League has provided £200m in "solidarity funding" to EFL clubs this season. Additional parachute payments to relegated clubs take its contribution to more than £400m.
It is understood the Premier League made a £430,000 payment to Accrington this season, in addition to a £340,000 grant towards its youth development programme
Accrington finished 13th in League Two this season with an average gate of 1,699 - the smallest in the Football League.
"I accept they do a bit for the community," said Holt. "I don't really have a problem with the Premier League, I have a problem with it being unsustainable."
Holt's views were supported by Darragh MacAnthony, chairman of League One side Peterborough United, who tweeted: "Andy is 100% correct in his comments & 99% of Football League owners would agree I'd think."
MacAnthony later told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: "Andy has gone to the extreme; I'm not disagreeing with what he's saying. He's a frustrated man. I wouldn't have said starving peasant, I would compare it to being like a family member.
"We're meant to all be part of one family, the Premier League and the Football League. It's a bit like the poor member of the family that every time they go for a handout they're made to feel guilty instead of being family where they help you out."
The Premier League has previously said it is the only top-flight league in world football which funds the fourth tier of its football pyramid.
Speaking to the States Assembly, Senator Andrew Green said there was enough space in the island to accommodate people fleeing the war.
He told the States they should be prepared to welcome some people who were in desperate need.
Chief Minister, Senator Ian Gorst had previously confirmed the island could take up to 30 refugees.
He said talks were being held with the UK.
He said: "I am convinced that we in Jersey need to play our part, even though it is only a small part.
"We are talking a small number of families, probably five or six families or between 20 and 30 refugees."
In Guernsey, the States have made no further progress in negotiations with the UK over taking refugees.
Former housing minister Terry Le Main said the island was heavily populated with a housing shortage.
Jersey has about 2,100 people per square mile, compared to 660 to each square mile in the United Kingdom.
"We have a social housing shortage, and there is also a severe shortage of affordable homes for first time buyers. It's a huge problem," Mr Le Main said.
Mr Green said there was spare capacity and a number of people had already offered to house them. He said: "These are genuine refugees, people fleeing for their lives. We will house them.
"I wouldn't want to frighten local people by telling them they will be disadvantaged by helping a few helpless, homeless people fleeing from war."
Mr Gorst said any refugees would come directly from the camps, in line with the plans of UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
At the last census in 2011 half of Jersey residents were born in Jersey with about a third being born elsewhere in the British Isles.
Net income rose by 32% to 762m francs (£498m) in the third quarter, below analyst forecasts for 804m francs.
UBS is in talks with authorities to settle allegations that it colluded in manipulating key rates in the $5.3tn-a-day foreign exchange market.
However, it has yet to reach a deal.
Both UK and US regulators are also said to be investigating other lenders, including JPMorgan and Barclays.
"We are actively addressing litigation and regulatory matters," UBS chief executive Sergio Ermotti said in the bank's quarterly report.
UBS also said it expected legal and regulatory charges to remain "elevated for the foreseeable future" because of the "current regulatory and political climate affecting financial institutions".
The Swiss bank had warned last month it could face "material monetary penalties" because of the currency-rigging investigation.
It has already paid about $3.6bn in penalties since 2012. Among other things, it has been accused of helping wealthy clients avoid taxes.
UBS shares traded in Zurich have lost nearly 9% of their value this year.
Prezymyslaw Kaluzny admitted stripping naked at the Toys R Us store before grabbing the young boy and hitting his 67-year-old grandmother on the head.
The 41-year-old pleaded guilty to a series of charges including public indecency, assault and abduction.
He was detained in a secure hospital ahead of a review hearing in December.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard the Polish national has a lengthy criminal history, including previous convictions for robbery, hostage taking and burglary.
Prosecutors said the store CCTV of the incident at the Kingsway toy shop was "extremely distressing and sensitive".
Kaluzny entered the store carrying a baseball bat on 5 April this year before stripping naked. He walked down an aisle shouting and struggling with customers, placing them in a state of fear and alarm.
He then grabbed a six-year-old boy by the arm and dragged him along the ground, before picking him up in a bid to take him from the store against his will.
When the boy's 67-year-old grandmother tried to intervene, Kaluzny hit her on the head with a cricket bat, leaving her injured.
Although he was eventually subdued by other customers and police, Kaluzny then managed to snap the metal bar and plastic casing of a pair of handcuffs while in a police car.
His defence solicitor Nicola Brown said he had written "what is a letter of apology, in essence", which is to be translated for the court.
Sheriff Lorna Drummond imposed an interim compulsion order, meaning Kaluzny will be detained in a secure hospital to undergo treatment for a mental disorder ahead of a review hearing in December.
The 29-year-old was discovered in a Mercedes Vito parked near Low Leam Farm in West Woodburn, Northumberland, on Monday afternoon.
He was tied at the wrists and ankles and apparently unable to recall anything after 12:30 GMT on New Year's Day.
Northumbria Police described it as a "highly unusual case".
The purple vehicle, which was not damaged and had not been in a collision, had been spotted travelling northbound on the A1 at 06:15 GMT on Monday morning.
It was then seen parked near the farm at about 07:30 GMT.
The force is appealing for witnesses.
Giroud was making his first league start of the season and looped in an 86th minute header from a Mesut Ozil cross for his goal.
Until that moment the Gunners had enjoyed nearly 80% possession, but had struggled to find a way past inspired Baggies keeper Ben Foster.
He pulled off a number of key stops, including a double save when he parried an Alex Iwobi shot and blocked the rebound at the feet of Alexis Sanchez.
The 33-year-old former England keeper also tipped over a fizzing shot from Sanchez before West Brom nearly snatched a goal, with Claudio Yacob skying his shot over the bar after Arsenal keeper Petr Cech dropped a corner.
But Giroud finally broke the deadlock to keep Arsenal nine points behind leaders Chelsea, who beat Bournemouth.
Relive Arsenal v West Brom
Follow reaction to Saturday's games
Arsenal had buckled in defeats by Everton and Manchester City in their previous two games and the focus was on how they would respond against one of the more resolute teams to beat in the top flight.
It seemed like they were still feeling the impact of those losses as they had just one shot on target in the first half, but they managed 10 after the break as they increased their intensity and urgency.
Sanchez was their main threat as the Chile forward tried to drag the Gunners single-handedly to three points but, like his team, he found himself being continually frustrated.
Sanchez seemed set to score when he evaded a number of defenders in a run across the six-yard box only to strike his shot against the post, before Arsenal's persistence was eventually rewarded through Giroud.
"It has been a big relief," said the France striker. "We pushed to the end, kept believing in our game.
"We were very strong altogether and showed a good strong mentality. It was very important to win. We have shown a big mental strength."
West Brom keeper Foster said the defeat was "tough to take" for the Baggies as they were again undone by a late goal, having been beaten in their last away game at Chelsea by a 76th minute strike.
Arsenal's goal came even later, when the visitors were in sight of securing a point to show for their disciplined and determined defending.
Foster, who signed a new deal with the club just before Christmas, can feel the most hard done by as he made 10 saves but still ended up on the losing side.
"It is disappointing to lose any game, but to keep Arsenal at bay for so long and then lose with a few minutes left it is horrible," said Foster.
"You know you're going to come here and, as a keeper, you're going to to be busy. The lads in front of me were brilliant. But fair play to Olivier Giroud - it was a great header and a great goal."
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "In the end we had to be patient against a well organised West Brom side.
"We knew we had to win today after two disappointing defeats."
Wenger on Giroud: "It has been an interesting period for the player and it is important to see how he copes. It was a good reaction from him."
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West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "It is hard to take. The players worked so hard. Arsenal are a good team and had lots of chances but to concede so late is disappointing.
"Olivier Giroud just outmuscled Gareth McAuley out of the way.
"Gareth said Giroud grabbed his shirt before the ball came over - I'm not sure if he did."
The festive fixture programme sees West Brom travel to Southampton on New Year's Eve for a 15:00 kick-off in their next game, while Arsenal play a day later when they host Crystal Palace at 16:00 GMT.
Match ends, Arsenal 1, West Bromwich Albion 0.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 1, West Bromwich Albion 0.
Attempt blocked. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.
Attempt saved. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Pérez.
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James McClean (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt saved. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Gareth McAuley.
Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alexis Sánchez with a headed pass.
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion).
Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Arsenal 1, West Bromwich Albion 0. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. James McClean tries a through ball, but Hal Robson-Kanu is caught offside.
Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Lucas Pérez with a cross.
Foul by Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal).
Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces Salomón Rondón.
Attempt missed. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Arsenal. Aaron Ramsey replaces Francis Coquelin.
Delay in match Jonny Evans (West Bromwich Albion) because of an injury.
Substitution, Arsenal. Lucas Pérez replaces Alex Iwobi.
Substitution, Arsenal. Nacho Monreal replaces Kieran Gibbs because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is too high following a corner.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Olivier Giroud.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Francis Coquelin.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Laurent Koscielny.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) because of an injury.
Foul by Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal).
Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. James McClean replaces Nacer Chadli.
Attempt saved. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
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At a time when image was king, they burst onto the scene in glasses and scruffy jackets, belting out acoustic tunes in a broad Scottish accent.
A BBC Scotland documentary is looking back on their remarkable 30-year career. `
This is the story of an enduring Scottish music phenomenon:
Proclaimer Craig Reid says the twins saw Dexy's Midnight Runners in 1980, when they were 18.
He says: "They came on stage and it was not something we were expecting. It was like being hit by a truck. It was breathtaking how good they were and how unusual they were."
The band's charismatic frontman Kevin Rowland became a good friend of the twins.
He says: "They were very political. They were very vocal. You couldn't win an argument with them, because there were two of them."
Kevin Rowland helped The Proclaimers make a demo which found its way to The Housemartins, another popular 80s band famous for being outside the pop orthodoxy.
The Housemartins invited The Proclaimers to tour with them in 1986.
Charlie Reid says: "The first gig was in the Hummingbird in Birmingham.
"It was probably the most scared we have ever been in our lives.
"We had never played to more than 50 people before. That was a big venue. There were probably a couple of thousand people there."
Housemartins singer Paul Heaton, who later formed the Beautiful South, says: "They were brilliant live and the next step was to make record that would convince the public."
Heaton put them in touch with record producer John Williams.
An appearance on Channel Four's hit TV music show The Tube was their breakthrough.
Presenter Paula Yates introduced the boys by saying: "Now it's time for something totally weird and unusual."
Craig and Charlie say she was not wrong.
According to Charlie: "We were always going to be fish out of water in everything we did."
He says: "The Tube was a massive show at the time.
"We went to the football the next day and we were standing on the terracing at Easter Road and people were coming up as we were buying a pie and a coffee and saying ' saw you last night pal'."
In 1987, all the big Scottish bands - Simple Minds, Big Country, Hipsway - were adopting a mid-Atlantic singing style that was definitely not their real accent.
Craig says The Proclaimers had encountered resistance to them singing in their own voices, especially by record companies in London.
He says: "I could not see the point of writing songs about stuff that we knew and had observed and then singing it in a mid-Atlantic accent."
Their first single was Throw the R Away, a song about having to change your accent to achieve success.
It contains the lyric: "I'm just going to have to learn to hesitate/To make sure my words/On your Saxon ears don't grate."
Craig says: "It didn't get much play."
But Charlie says they were not deterred.
"It was a determination to do it our own way and accept the consequences," he says.
The first album - This is the Story - was recorded in London. Producer John Williams says it was kept intimate.
"Charlie and Craig recorded most of their takes in the control room," he says.
But they knew that in order to get radio play for Letter From America it had to have a band behind it.
They chose legendary Scottish musician Gerry Rafferty, famous for Baker Street and Stealers Wheel's Stuck in the Middle with You, to remix it.
It was a big hit and introduced the world to Bathgate, Methil, Irvine and Linwood - all name-checked in the song as places devastated by the Tory government's industrial policy, which the twins compared to the infamous Highland Clearances.
Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre tells the BBC documentary: "Having two guys with acoustic guitars singing a song about the Highland Clearances was not something that was going to shock anybody because that's a familiar subject for folk music.
"Suddenly making it about steel plant closures, making it 'Methil no more', changed everything.
"There is an edge to it. It's immediately relevant and you understand what the song is all about at that point."
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who chose Letter From America in her Desert Island Discs, was about 17 when the song was released.
She says: "It came out at a time when I was getting really involved in politics so it wasn't just that my home town of Irvine was mentioned in it, which was quite a big thing, but it was also that it spoke about something about my country that was also motivating me to get involved in politics.
"That song for me is the anthem of my teenage years."
Craig says the song was written in 1984: "It was basically rage at what was going on.
"Both of us were disgusted by the callous way that unemployment was used to break organised labour, to break the spirit of people."
Their second album Sunshine on Leith was released in 1988, just a year after the first.
It featured their biggest hit I'm Gonna Be (500 miles).
It was an international hit at the time but its success has continued for almost 30 years, providing them with their only No 1 hit when it was re-recorded for Comic Relief with comedian Peter Kay in 2007.
Charlie says: "500 miles is the reason we are able to keep making records. In terms of what it has brought in over the years it pays for new records, it pays for tours, it underpins everything we do."
They have had numerous other hits but they are not on the same scale, he says.
"I don't know what it is. It is indestructible that record."
"We wouldn't get out alive if we played a gig without it."
Craig says he wrote the song in 45 minutes after a gig in Aberdeen.
"One of the quickest songs I've ever written," he says.
"It was just like it was writing itself."
500 miles was The Proclaimers only hit in the US and has appeared in numerous movies including Benny and Joon and Pitch Perfect but some US radio stations took against it.
The lyric of the song contains the Scottish word "haver".
They didn't know what it meant but they assumed it must be subversive.
It actually means to talk rubbish.
"I can't understand why you let someone else rule your land", goes the lyric of Cap in Hand.
The Proclaimers were never equivocal about their support for Scottish independence.
Craig says: "We are absolutely total believers that Scotland should be an independent country.
"I find it difficult when I meet people who have never given it a thought. I can't understand them."
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon says: "Their songs over the past 30 years have in many respects been the soundtrack to Scotland's political journey and I think that has made the politics much more accessible at times to younger generations and brought politics alive.
"Really in very simple terms, in beautifully lyrical terms, telling Scotland's story.
The song Sunshine on Leith was released as a single in 1988 but failed to make the top 40.
The song is a melancholic six-minute epic which the brothers refused to edit and it didn't make it on to radio playlists.
Craig says:" Sunshine on Leith is one of those songs that has got bigger down the years.
"When you play live shows that is probably the one that connects you to the audience, even more than 500 miles."
Stephen Greenhorn, the playwright who created the musical Sunshine on Leith, says: "The writing on it is so pared down it feels like a really intimate song about a specific feeling between two people and yet it's the best football song you'll ever hear.
"10,000 people on the terraces can sing it and everybody is going to be in tears."
Hibernian FC, the club Craig and Charlie have passionately supported for years, have adopted it as their song and the fans belt it out whenever the occasion allows.
Charlie says: "That's when you know you have got something.
"Your own people sing your own song. Nobody is forcing them to do it. They do it because they feel it. It's very moving and it links you more to the club."
The success of the album Sunshine on Leith was eventually followed-up with Hit the Highway in 1994, which included Let's Get Married.
The band then went quiet for seven years before returning with Persevere and then Born Innocent, which was produced by Scottish singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins
Journalist Craig Mclean says it was "two great Scottish institutions coming together".
Edwyn says they immediately had a "bond".
According to Charlie "it was probably the most enjoyable record that we have made over the years".
Edwyn Collins had a recording studio in London "stuffed full of vintage kit", according to Craig McLean.
Collins' partner Grace Maxwell says the "sheer power" of the sound coming from the boys "blew the capsule in the microphone".
"It has always been an ambition of mine," says Craig.
"When you hear Little Richard records the vocals are so high they are distorting the microphones.
"Half of Edwyn's gear was from the 1920s or 30s, I think. It was a lot of old gear so if we broke his kit we'll accept that responsibility."
Doctor Who actor David Tennant, who presents the BBC Scotland programme, chose The Proclaimers song Over and Done With as one of his Desert Island Discs.
He says he has bought all their albums and seen them live countless times.
Tennant even had "Life With You" played as he walked down the aisle at his wedding.
In recent years, there has been new material and a successful stage musical and film based on their back catalogue - Sunshine on Leith.
But touring is what The Proclaimers are about and they are as popular as ever.
At 55 years old, and after more than 30 years, they are no stopping just yet.
Craig says: We enjoy it as much, if not more, than we did."
Proclaimers: This is the story is on BBC Two Scotland on Wednesday 21 June at 21:00 and will be available on the BBC iplayer after broadcast
UK firms Carillion, Costain and Balfour Beatty are among the consortiums who will build tunnels, bridges and embankments on the first stretch of the new high speed rail line.
The contracts will support 16,000 jobs.
The final routes of the Manchester and Leeds branches of HS2 are due to be announced later.
It will include a decision over its path through Sheffield.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: "As well as providing desperately needed new seats and better connecting our major cities, HS2 will help rebalance our economy."
But critics say the £56bn project will damage the environment and is too expensive.
The first trains are not expected to run until 2026.
Mr Grayling told the BBC's Today programme that the high-speed rail network will be "on time, on budget" and the government has "a clear idea of what it will cost".
He disputed a report that emerged over the weekend detailing a study by quantity surveyor Michael Byng who estimated that the cost of HS2 could balloon to more than £100bn, making it the most expensive railway in the world. Mr Grayling described the figure as "nonsense".
Commenting on the decision to spend on infrastructure amid the 1% cap on public sector pay, Mr Grayling said: "That's a very different issue because we are talking about capital investment over the next 15 years. We are not talking about current spending that the chancellor will decide on come the Budget."
The contracts to design and build areas of the high speed rail line have been split into three groups: south, central and north.
Carillion, which last week issued a profit warning and announced the immediate departure of its chief executive, has won two "lots" within the central area. Its share price rose by 7.7% to 60.5p on Monday but it has fallen by more than 76% over the last 12 months.
This includes one of the most controversial and complex areas of the route that runs between the Chiltern tunnels and Brackley.
Carillion, which is part of a consortium with three other companies to design and build the two lots, announced on Monday that it had appointed accountancy firm EY to support a strategic review of the business.
The decision over its route through the North of England has been delayed for several years due to a series of disagreements, the most controversial of which has been which route it should take through Sheffield.
The government's preferred plan for the route through Yorkshire would mean bulldozing the newly built Shimmer estate in Mexborough.
The government says HS2 is "on time" but they're clearly not talking about the route for the second phase, which was first promised in around 2014.
I remember flying a drone over a farm in Cheshire four years ago, filming the proposed route at the time.
The farmer has been waiting ever since then to find out if he'll lose his business.
He got in touch with me last year saying, "obviously we know nothing more today than we did when you were with us nearly 30 months ago, as the decision for HS2 Phase 2b has been put off yet again".
Anyone affected by the line now gets a year or two to put their case together and present it to a special committee of MPs who'll go through thousands of fears and objections before recommending any changes to the final route or the way it's designed.
When you talk to people adversely affected by HS2 they all say the same thing. Their lives go into limbo, often for years, just waiting for answers.
Parliament granted powers to build the first phase of the line between London and Birmingham in February.
Preparatory work has begun and major construction work is due to start in 2018-19. It is due to open in December 2026.
A Bill to deliver Phase 2a from the West Midlands to Crewe will be published by Mr Grayling later on Monday. Services on this section are due to begin in 2027.
Phase 2b from Crewe to Manchester, and Birmingham to the East Midlands and Leeds, is due to open in 2033.
The companies who have won the contracts to design and build the first phase of HS2 are:
Area South
Area Central
Area North
Billy Midmore, 22, is accused of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to 37-year-old Carla Whitlock.
But proceedings at Southampton Crown Court were halted on Thursday because he refused to leave prison as "his laundry had not been done".
Jail staff had not been available to wash them, a court heard.
The trial was able to resume on Friday.
A spokesman for the court said: "He refused to leave prison because his laundry had not been done."
Miss Whitlock was blinded in one eye and suffered scarring to her face after she was attacked with a drain cleaner containing concentrated sulphuric acid in Southampton city centre on 18 September.
The court has heard she was targeted in revenge after a drug deal went wrong.
Midmore denies causing grievous bodily harm, while his brother, Geoffrey Midmore, 26, has previously pleaded guilty to the same charge.
There were once hundreds of coal mines in Germany's Ruhr valley. Zollverein's vast steel and brick coal processing facilities have been preserved as a reminder of that sooty, grimy past.
Tour guide Frank Switala is passionate about this place. His grandfather worked underground here for more than 40 years and, at its height, the mine employed some 8,000 people.
"It produced 12,000 tonnes of ready-to-sell coal every day," he explains.
But by the time Frank was ready to begin work, in the 1980s, the mine and many others in the area had closed down and jobs and opportunities were scarce.
The legacy of that decline has left Essen divided.
The south of the city has swapped industry for glass and steel office blocks and conference centres. The north remains poorer, unemployment is higher and rents are lower, making its traditional working class neighbourhoods a magnet for migrants and refugees.
The government-funded BFZ vocational training centre in Essen was set up in response to the closure of the mines.
Today refugees are among those who attend classes teaching everything from German language to catering and car mechanics.
Kassam, a 29-year-old from Syria, is learning German at the centre. He was among the hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in Germany last summer and he is grateful for the support he is receiving and conscious of the challenges.
"When I came to Germany, I just wanted to live in peace," he says.
"We need a long time to connect with German people, we have another culture. I'm an engineer. I hope to find a job here. Our problem is with German language - it's very difficult to learn this language."
Essen has a problem too. The city has received 16,000 refugees, double the number it was officially allocated by the German government, which had tried to distribute the new arrivals across the country. Last year, simply housing and health care for the refugees cost the city 130m euros.
Silke Lens is spokesperson for Essen's mayor, who is from Chancellor Merkel's right of centre CDU party.
She says only half the actual costs have been paid by the national government. And now, the authorities are limiting the number of refugees who can stay in the city.
"The government in Berlin has set up a new integration law. With this, we have a new residency restriction;" she tells me.
"If refugees come from other communities and they have no job, they have to move back to the city [they were originally] assigned."
There is a long-established Arab community in north Essen and Ahmed Mehdi from the Syrian German Association says they have helped around 500 of the newest arrivals.
He objects to the relocation law, arguing that it is cruel to force people, especially refugees, to live in particular places.
"They have backgrounds of trauma, especially from the conflict in Syria, they seek security and a safe place and the law's doing the total opposite...making them travel around the country again."
German compassion has been tested by the refugee crisis. The costs and public fears about integration and security, have left politicians with little choice but to take a harder line.
There is also a growing political factor. The far right, anti-immigrant, anti-Islam, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has been winning votes in regional elections across Germany.
Stefan Keuter leads the party in Essen. He rejects the idea that most of the people who have come to Germany are refugees, he simply calls them migrants.
The party taps into voters' fears about the refugees and the impact of Islam on Germany.
"Angela Merkel and parties like the CDU, didn't ask the population if they are willing to make these changes and they didn't ask people if they want to help or to change (what it's like) to live in Germany," Mr Keuter tells me.
Germans will not say what they really think because of their history, he argues.
"If you talk about these problems, people probably describe you as a Nazi - but this is not true.
"We have a very big problem with political correctness in Germany. There's a big difference between national pride and nationalism and I think it's very important that you have a cultural identity and that you feel hope in a country, this has nothing to do with nationalism."
Until now, Germany's history has made any dalliance with nationalism a toxic political idea. But that may be changing.
In a city like Essen, which has experienced industrial decline, the AfD hopes to win votes from the left and right. It has already persuaded one local politician to change parties.
The real test will come next year, with elections for Germany's parliament.
Fear of globalisation and immigration has galvanised voters in America and in European countries to switch political allegiance.
Will Germany, ever mindful of its past, be immune from the allure of the populists?
The leader told activists in Salford that members "want to see a different world and do things very differently".
He also condemned abuse among members, saying "it has no place in our party".
It comes as more than 40 female Labour MPs have written to Mr Corbyn saying he has failed to do enough to prevent "disgusting" threats against members.
Mr Corbyn said: "We are a social movement and we will only win the next general election because we are that movement of people all around the country who want to see a different world and do things very differently."
He added that "some people say that isn't how politics is done, and that it is solely what happens in parliament that is important", but he insisted "changes come because people want those changes to come and Parliament has to be influenced in the way those changes come about".
Meanwhile, leadership rival Owen Smith has promised key party roles to women.
The Pontypridd MP vowed to act on gender inequality - promising two of his four most senior cabinet roles would go to women if he became prime minister.
Mr Smith said his wife, Liz, had been a victim of online abuse and claimed there was now a level of abuse, anti-semitism and misogyny in Labour that was not there before Mr Corbyn became leader.
"My wife stood recently for a community councillor position in the village where we live in South Wales and was subject to a torrent of online abuse. It's a community council position."
He added: "I think it's just absolutely unacceptable."
A group of female MPs - including former shadow ministers Heidi Alexander, Paula Sherriff and Kerry McCarthy - have written to Mr Corbyn saying intimidation was being carried out "in your name".
"Rape threats, death threats, smashed cars and bricks through windows are disgusting and totally unacceptable in any situation," the letter said.
But Mr Corbyn said: "I don't do personal abuse, I don't respond to personal abuse, I condemn any abuse from others. It has no place in our party."
He added: "I know some people are angry at the actions of some MPs but where we have disagreement in the Labour Party we settle it through democratic means - not coups, not intimidation, and not abuse."
Simultaneous launch events were due to take place in cities across the country, including Hull, Newcastle, Cambridge, Bristol, Nottingham, Stoke, London and Cardiff.
On Friday, Unite trade union leader Len McCluskey suggested in an interview with the Guardian that the security services could be behind the abuse and intimidation of MPs on social media.
Mr McCluskey said MI5 could be using "dark practices" to "stir up trouble" for Mr Corbyn, arguing that spies had infiltrated trade unions in the past, and that the truth about it had been suppressed for 30 years under the rule on keeping classified documents out of the public domain.
Mr Smith distanced himself from the suggestion, saying at a campaign rally in Manchester: "I'm not sure that's entirely right."
Mr Corbyn is facing a challenge from former shadow work and pensions secretary Mr Smith, after Labour MPs overwhelmingly backed a motion of no-confidence in their leader.
The winner of the leadership contest will be announced on 24 September.
A mix of council and private properties in Denbigh are set to receive upgrades at Smithfield Road, Lon Llewelyn, Myddleton Avenue and Maes Glas Avenue.
Councillor Barbara Smith, lead member for housing, said the work normally costs Denbighshire council up to £10,000 but the grant had reduced its contribution to less than £3,000.
In a Daily Mail review of the new Robert Peston show on ITV, Letts described Marr as "Captain-Hop-Along, growling away on BBC One, throwing his arm about like a tipsy conductor".
Marr had a stroke in January 2013.
Letts tweeted his apology after an article from media commentator Roy Greenslade appeared in the Guardian.
Greenslade said in his article, called It isn't Funny or Smart for Quentin Letts to Poke Fun at Andrew Marr: "I don't want to come off all namby-pamby.
"I understand that no-one should be beyond criticism and that Letts was exercising his right to press freedom.
"But really Quentin, that was a graceless remark."
He then called for Letts to apologise.
Letts admitted his comments about "the admirable Marr" were "horrid". His tweet of apology was met with comments below it, calling him "utterly disgraceful" and "appalling".
The Daily Mail article appeared in both the print copy of the newspaper and its online version.
Marr's wife, journalist Jackie Ashley, tweeted about Letts' article, criticising the message it sent out to disabled people.
The Stroke Association said: "A stroke is not a joke. Stroke survivors deserve our respect and support, and Andrew Marr deserves an apology", before encouraging people make complaints to the Independent Press Standards Organisation.
In a statement to the BBC, the Independent Press Standards Organisation said: "we have received a total of 11 complaints about the article.
"All of the complaints are under Clause 12 (Discrimination), with one or two also citing Clause 1 (Accuracy) or Clause 4 (Intrusion into grief or shock).
"It is IPSO policy not to comment on the identity of individual complainants, so I am unable to confirm the names of anyone who has contacted us on this article."
Robert Peston's new ITV Sunday politics talk show had received lukewarm reviews following its debut this weekend.
Letts reviewed Peston's programme as "breathless and batty - and bound to be a hit".
In a voicemail obtained by the US TV network ABC, Bland said she could not understand why a traffic violation had led to her detention.
The 28-year-old African-American was arrested after a confrontation with the policeman who had pulled her car over.
She was found dead three days later.
In the message to a friend she said: "I'm still just at a loss for words, honestly, about this whole process. How did switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this?"
Her family have rejected the findings of a coroner's report, which says Ms Bland hanged herself in her cell at Waller County jail.
The voice message lasted for about 22 seconds and was made after an initial court appearance following her arrest on 10 July, ABC reports.
It was one of three calls made by Bland that day. The others were to her sister and a bail bondsman.
On Wednesday it emerged Bland had told a guard during the booking process that she had previously attempted suicide.
Sheriff Glenn Smith said the comments were made after she was asked a series of questions that are posed to every person who is detained at the jail.
Documents for Bland were inconsistent in citing when or if she had attempted suicide in the past. One questionnaire said she took pills in 2015 to try to kill herself after having a miscarriage. Another document said she attempted suicide in 2014. One form said she had not had suicidal thoughts in the past year and one said she did.
Her medical history was also inconsistent on intake forms, with some saying she was on medication for epilepsy and another saying she was not taking any medication.
Mr Smith said another guard had also spoken to Bland. She told him she was upset but not depressed and both jailers insisted she appeared fine at the time.
State senator Royce West said the kind of information on Bland's forms should have prompted guards to put her on suicide watch and check on her more often.
Full toxicology reports are pending, but Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis told CNN that an initial report from the medical examiner's office showed that Bland had marijuana in her system.
He also said he had been told it was the "opinion of the medical examiner" that she had what looked like "cutting scars on the arm".
State officials and the FBI are investigating her death.
A video of the arrest shows white police officer Brian Encinia giving Bland a warning. The situation quickly escalates, with Mr Encinia appearing to threaten Bland after she refuses to get out of her car.
He unsuccessfully tries to pull her out and tells her "I will light you up".
Cannon Lambert, the lawyer representing Bland's family, said relatives have "no evidence" that she previously attempted suicide and denied she was suffering from depression.
He also said the dashcam video of the arrest, which was released by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), showed that Bland's death "could have easily been avoided".
Officer Encinia, who has been on the force for just over a year, said he was kicked during the arrest. He has been put on administrative leave.
Bland's death is one of several cases under scrutiny in the US, in which a black person has died while in police custody.
The equalities committee said it was key to the success of the assembly's "ground-breaking" law on violence and domestic abuse.
Chairman John Griffiths said it should be taught "at an age before unhealthy attitudes towards sex and relationships have developed".
The Welsh Government said it would respond to the report "in due course".
"The Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Act is recognised internationally as a ground-breaking law," Mr Griffiths said.
"It has the potential to bring about real improvements in the protection and support for survivors.
"However, we question whether the Act in itself is enough to bring about the societal change that we believe is necessary to prevent abuse.
"We see healthy relationship education as crucial to address this issue and we believe that it should be taught in all schools and at an age before unhealthy attitudes towards sex and relationships have developed."
Charities supporting victims of domestic violence and abuse should also have enough funding to cope with any increase in demand as a result of the law, the committee said.
It also called for a good practice guide developed for schools by Welsh Women's Aid to be made more widely available.
Des Mannion, head of the children's charity NSPCC Cymru, said: "Healthy relationship education is a vital part of equipping children with the skills they need to stay safe and speak out, and we have long called for lessons to be made compulsory.
"The current situation in schools remains patchy and we welcome the committee's call to address that issue and ensure a Wales-wide approach."
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "We thank the committee for its report and will respond to it in due course.
"Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) is already part of the curriculum in Wales.
"We expect young people in Wales to receive age appropriate sex and relationships education.
"Healthy, responsible relationships and appropriate sexual behaviour is an important part of the Personal and Social Education framework for seven to 19-year-olds in Wales."
Bangor University midwifery students were pulled out of the Bodelwyddan hospital in 2015 over concerns about some clinicians' behaviour.
First year students will now return to the unit, following the reintroduction of third and second year placements.
Betsi Cadwaladr health board said there would be "dedicated support" for staff and students.
In a joint statement, the health board and university said the success of the placements would be "constantly evaluated" and the decision would be reviewed in January.
All midwifery students were temporarily withdrawn from Glan Clwyd by the university two years ago, citing an "unsuitable practice learning environment due to the unprofessional behaviours and attitudes of some clinicians".
It followed a review by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) which raised serious concerns about the education and supervision of trainees.
The statement said the health board and university had decided "the phased approach for student reintroduction should now be completed" following a re-evaluation last month.
"This will be accompanied by a further programme of dedicated support for both students and service staff, together with ongoing evaluation of the placement learning environment," it said.
Third year students were reintroduced to the unit following a review in February 2016 while second students returned in February this year.
The Royal College of Midwives said it had no major concerns about the service.
But with Microsoft having had to play catch up to the rise of smartphones and tablets, some critics have called for Mr Ballmer to resign and let somebody else take the company forward.
A lacklustre reaction to its latest operating system Windows 8, which was much-hyped but failed to impress, has also turned the spotlight on the chief.
Former Microsoft executive Joachim Kempin believes Mr Ballmer, who has been in the top job since 2000, should either leave the group altogether or at least move to a different role.
He told the BBC that Mr Ballmer's assertion that Microsoft is now a device and service company is "baloney", and that Microsoft is and always has been a software company.
Mr Kempin worked for Microsoft from 1983 to 2002, and by the end of that time was in charge of selling Windows and Office to PC manufacturers.
"When I look at the situation today it is obvious Microsoft is abandoning these people [PC makers]," he says. "Microsoft are going into surface tablets. These tablets are OK products, but nothing really distinguishes them either."
By making this move, the company has alienated some of its manufacturing partners, he says, pointing to the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Samsung now producing Android tablets, not Windows tablets.
He says the company has also missed a trick with its Office software suite, by not putting it on Android devices and a smaller version on iPhones and Android phones. Instead Mr Kempin says they are protecting the Windows franchise, which is "totally wrong".
And the buck stops with the chief executive, he says. "Mr Ballmer is a great COO (chief operating officer) but he doesn't have that vision. A CEO needs to look at the total market."
He added that Mr Ballmer's style of management was very "prescriptive" and that the company had lost much of its entrepreneurial spirit.
Microsoft pointed to its strong financial performance since Mr Ballmer became chief executive.
Revenues have nearly tripled from $25.3bn (£16.6bn) in 2001 to $74.3bn in 2012, and operating income has risen from $11.7bn to $25.3bn.
It also said that over the past decade, Mr Ballmer had returned more than $180bn to shareholders via dividends and stock buybacks, more than than any US company besides Exxon, and the $63bn cash it has on its balance sheet is second only to Apple in the US.
However, Microsoft's share price has been pretty stagnant over the past decade, generally trading between $20 and $30. By comparison, Apple's has soared from around $9 to about $700 in September 2012, though it has since fallen back to about $400.
It should be pointed out that Mr Kempin only worked under Mr Ballmer's leadership for a year or two, more than a decade ago, and that he left the company under somewhat of a cloud after deals he signed with PC makers were used as ammunition by the US government's anti-competition investigators.
He has now written a book called Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft's "Secret Power Broker", which details his 20 years at Microsoft.
He may well have an axe to grind as well as a book to sell, but he is not the first person to call for Mr Ballmer to be replaced.
In May 2011 David Einhorn, president of the hedge fund Greenlight Capital - an institutional investor in Microsoft - said Mr Ballmer should step down as chief executive after IBM and Apple had surpassed Microsoft in terms of market value.
It was time to "give someone else a chance", Mr Einhorn said, though Greenlight has since increased its holding in Microsoft to a $289bn stake suggesting it still has faith in the stock, whatever Mr Einhorn's feelings on Mr Ballmer.
And at Microsoft's last shareholder meeting in the autumn, Mr Ballmer received approval from over 96% of investors.
While Microsoft's revenues rose in the most recent quarter, 75% of its overall revenues comes from elements that are not pinned to the operating system.
However, there is no getting away from the fact that Windows 8, which launched at the end of October, has not impressed the market. Revenues from Windows in the January-to-March quarter were flat when adjusted for upgrade offers.
Last week, research firm IDC said global PC sales fell 14% in the first three months of the year, adding that not only had Windows 8 not provided a positive boost to the PC market, but appeared to have slowed the market.
"Windows 8 was not able to overcome the sexiness of new tablets and new phones," Patrick Moorhead, technology analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, told the BBC.
"Microsoft took some gambles which didn't end up working out for them - [like] the pervasiveness of touch. All their advertising was about touch, touch, touch.
"Windows 8 was underwhelming as it was received by the market."
Microsoft's chief financial officer (CFO) Peter Klein, whom it has just been announced will leave the company at the end of June, has previously defended the transition to the new operating system.
"It's early days and an ambitious endeavour like this takes time," he said in January. "Together with our partners, we remain focused on fully delivering the promise of Windows 8."
Colin Gillis, technology analyst at BGC Partners, believes Mr Ballmer has had a lot of successes that aren't always credited to him.
"Kinect at the time was the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history, XBox was also fast selling," he says. "And that was a very competitive marketplace.
"He's built up a multi-billion-dollar enterprise business, but the flipside is the computing landscape has shifted and Microsoft has not shifted well with it - this is the rise of smartphones and tablets.
"A lot of it is down to the leadership. It's fair to critique him in that area. But if you're going to penalise him in the areas where he's late to market you also need to give him credit for areas where he was successful."
Mr Moorhead agrees, saying that financially Microsoft is doing well through acquisitions and growth in their enterprise businesses.
"I think the bad opinions of Microsoft are harsher than the reality. [But] Microsoft and Ballmer are going to be measured in the eye of the public by how well did they do in phones and how does their trajectory looks in tablets, which right now is nowhere."
In a recent interview, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was asked if he was happy with the performance of the firm under Mr Ballmer's rule.
He replied: "There are a lot of amazing things that Steve's leadership got done at the company over the last year - Windows 8 is key to the future, the surface computer, Bing, people are seeing as a better search product, the XBox.
"But is it enough? No. He and I are not satisfied, in terms of breakthrough things, that we're doing everything possible."
So should Mr Ballmer remain in charge? While Mr Kempin firmly believes he should hand over the reins, Mr Moorhead says there is no imminent need.
However, he adds: "I think if you see multiple quarters of PC declines I don't see that Ballmer would be able to stay in power."
But it would be hard to pick a replacement, he says, given that so many top people have left the company.
CFO Peter Klein's departure follows that of Steven Sinofsky, the head of Microsoft's Windows division.
Mr Sinofksy could have been in line had Windows 8 been a success, but he left the group just a week after the Windows 8 launch, amid talk of an internal "war" between himself and Mr Ballmer.
If and when the time comes though, Mr Moorhead believes the company could bring in somebody from the outside.
"I think that it would be a good thing for Microsoft in that it would bring some new ideas, a new type of fire."
Jordan Dunn, 16, is alleged to have attacked the women in separate incidents at a BMX track and in the grounds of a water treatment plant in the city in August and October.
Dunn, from Dundee, appeared in private at Dundee Sheriff Court charged with two counts of rape.
He made no plea or declaration. He was fully committed for trial, and was remanded in custody.
Dunn is charged with raping a woman at a BMX track north of a footpath along the Dighty Water, near Balunie Drive, between 3 and 10 August.
He is also charged with raping a second woman at the grounds of Clatto Water Treatment Works on Dalmahoy Drive on 14 October.
But, long before she set about that work as an elected politician, Mrs Cox had built a successful career in the charity sector fighting human suffering.
Eight years working for Oxfam - where she met her husband - enabled her to show inspiring leadership and political intelligence, despite her remarkably young age, her former colleagues recall.
Mrs Cox's charity work took her around the world to tackle issues such as poverty and maternal mortality - issues she previously helped put on the European Parliament, as a researcher for Glenys (now Baroness) Kinnock, who was then an MEP.
It was around this time, in 1997, when Ed Cairns, Oxfam's senior policy advisor, first met Mrs Cox - quickly coming to regard her as a "key contact" for the charity.
"She was about the greatest person I ever met at combining a humanitarian passion with political nous," he said.
"It is very rare to have someone with as much political intelligence as Jo had to actually show how you can achieve things in the real world."
Together, they worked to convince the EU to establish a new code of conduct in the arms trade, which was successfully adopted in 1998, he said.
In 2001, she started working for Oxfam and quickly became head of the charity's Brussels office, where Mr Cairns said she dealt with "one humanitarian crisis after another".
Talking to the Huffington Post last year, Mrs Cox herself said: "I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Darfur the next."
Oxfam's Max Lawson described her campaigning to end the conflict in Darfur as "particularly brilliant" and added: "She was as a ball of energy, always smiling, full of new ideas, of idealism, of passion."
Together with Amnesty International, Mrs Cox also pushed for a global arms trade treaty, which was eventually adopted in 2014 after a decades-long campaign.
At the 2005 World Summit, she had successfully argued for the international community to agree a "responsibility to protect" and intervene when governments fail to stop crimes against their citizens.
Mr Cairns said no matter how many setbacks the charity encountered, Mrs Cox would always stay positive.
He said: "She was always the first to get over the dejection of a setback, and in about half a second she would say 'right, we are going to do something else'.
"She was completely committed to achieving something tangible rather than just saying the right things."
Mrs Cox herself told the BBC: "I've been in some horrific situations - where women have been raped repeatedly in Darfur, I've been with child soldiers who have been given a Kalashnikov and kill members of their own family in Uganda.
"That's the thing that all of that experience gave me - if you ignore a problem, it gets worse."
In 2007, she moved to Oxfam's New York office and became head of humanitarian campaigning around the world until 2009.
Mr Cairns said she was instrumental in the publication of a "landmark book" called For a Safer Tomorrow, which analysed how the world's humanitarian policies were changing.
"She was remarkably young for such a senior position," Mr Cairns said.
"But she had a brilliant touch with everybody that she managed, she really encouraged people and was a great, motivating people manager.
"I remember she quite often used the word 'heroic' to describe people's efforts at work, which is ironic really because she has been the real hero in all this."
Mrs Cox left Oxfam in 2009 and became the director of ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife Sarah's Maternal Mortality Campaign, which campaigns for women's right in the developing world.
And even when she moved into politics, she continued to work as a strategy consultant for Save the Children and then the NSPCC.
The 19-year old academy product made his senior Brentford debut in the win over Nottingham Forest towards the end of last season.
Cole signed a new three-year deal with the Bees in April 2017.
"The gaffer [Mike Flynn] really sold Newport to me. He said he was going to be playing youth and there's obviously a few experienced pros," Cole said.
Manager Flynn said: "I'm really pleased to get Reece in. He comes in and offers good competition in midfield and I'm looking forward to see what he can do and looking forward to him fighting for a place in the starting line-up."
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The victory gave Hungary's Danuta Kozak a fifth Olympic gold medal and her third at Rio 2016.
Germany claimed silver, finishing 0.901 seconds adrift, with third-placed Belarus 2.426secs behind the winners.
GB's four of Rachel Cawthorn, Louisa Gurski, Rebii Simon and Jess Walker were 5.561secs behind Hungary.
"I'm disappointed but relieved we got into the final," said Walker. "We've enjoyed this journey.
"Rachel has been ill for a really big chunk of this winter so she's done amazingly."
Cawthorn: "We all gave it everything we had out there and we're all shaking trying to walk back now. All our muscles are empty."
Helen Reeves - Olympic bronze medallist and BBC canoeing pundit:
"We know Great Britain are good in the second 250 metres, but this demonstrates that you can't leave such a big gap.
"GB have to work out how they can do better between 100 metres and 200 metres to ensure they don't have as much water to make up in the second half of the race."
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The prime minister told the Nato summit in Lisbon, where the 28 leaders agreed a strategy to transfer military control to Afghanistan by 2014, that the UK deadline was "firm".
He said Afghan forces would begin taking charge of security next year.
Shadow foreign secretary Yvette Cooper said Labour "strongly supported the Afghan forces taking the lead in 2014".
Mr Cameron said the handover would be complete by the end of 2014, allowing British troops to leave combat roles by 2015.
"The commitment we have entered into to transfer the lead responsibility for security to the Afghan government by the end of 2014 will pave the way for British combat troops to be out of Afghanistan by 2015," he said.
"This is a firm deadline which we will meet."
He said the UK was the second-biggest contributor of troops and by 2015 they will have spent nine years in Helmand, the "toughest part of Afghanistan".
"We've already paid a very high price, we go on paying that price," he said.
"We know we have an important role in bringing the stability and security that is good for the whole of the world and good for Britain because we still face an Islamic terrorist threat that comes out of the Afghanistan-Pakistan region."
He said Britain would continue to have a relationship with Afghanistan after 2015, through aid and training of Afghan troops.
He added it was "only right" the government was clear with the British public, who deserved to know there was an end-point to the conflict.
His comments came after Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen endorsed a plan to hand over control of security by 2014, while retaining a long-term commitment to the country.
However, Mr Rasmussen said: "We will not transition until our Afghan partners are ready.
"If the enemies of Afghanistan have the idea that they can wait it out until we leave, they have the wrong idea. We will stay as long as it takes to finish our job."
The prime minister dismissed suggestions of a contradiction in strategies.
"I don't accept there is a difference because Nato is saying that between early 2011 and 2014 transition will take place and by 2014 what you will have is the Afghans in lead security control throughout Afghanistan," he said.
"When I set this deadline I set it beyond that mark."
Asked whether he would pull British troops out while US forces went on fighting, Mr Cameron said: "We are working extremely closely with our closest ally and we will go on doing that.
"But as I've said I couldn't be more clear about what 2015 is and what it means."
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said now Nato had set a deadline of 2014, there must be a "plan for progress to improve conditions on the ground".
"Nato must set out detailed plans to train and develop Afghan security forces as it is they who will have responsibility for the country when we leave," he said.
Ms Cooper, shadow foreign secretary, added: "We will be pressing the UK government to ensure British troops who remain in Afghanistan in a training role have the right security conditions to do their job."
There are about 9,500 UK servicemen and women in Afghanistan, with the majority deployed in the south.
The death of Guardsman Christopher Davies on Wednesday brought the total of UK servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 345.
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, calling for the end to the war.
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We are down to the last 16 names in the women's singles on the Wimbledon grass but which one of them will win it is about as clear as mud.
"There is no-one who I would say for sure will be in the final," said Kim Clijsters, a four-time Grand Slam winner.
"There is no real favourite and it makes it so exciting. We can puzzle about it now, but I love that there are going to be surprises."
Former world number one Tracy Austin, a regular as a player and a pundit at SW19 since her debut here in 1977, also expects an eventful second week.
"In my 40 years coming to Wimbledon I have never seen a women's tournament as wide open as this one," she said. "I have no idea who will win.
"There are 16 women left in the draw and I legitimately think that there are 10 who have an opportunity to win this title. It will come down to who can handle the pressure and the nerves and some of these players have never been on this stage before.
"It is a really interesting time, with Serena Williams away on maternity leave and Maria Sharapova missing the first few months of the year through suspension.
"With two of the biggest names absent, there has been a real opportunity for someone to step up and fill that void, but it has not happened yet.
"Venus Williams is the only former Wimbledon winner left, so there is a big chance of a new champion - that would a life-changer for them because this is the biggest tournament in the world, and winning it would be a dream come true."
So, who will get their hands on the Venus Rosewater Dish on Centre Court on Saturday?
Clijsters and Austin look at the chances of some of the contenders.
Kim Clijsters: "She is the bookmakers' favourite but that does not really mean anything. Johanna is a smart girl and she knows she should not take it all too seriously - she just has to focus on one match at a time.
"Her next opponent is Caroline Garcia, who did very well at the French Open. Garcia is a very tricky player, with good hands and great volleys so she will not be an easy opponent - but I think Konta will win.
"It is her consistency that might make the difference for Johanna when it comes to getting through next week - she is the most consistent player out of everyone left.
"She might find it difficult against someone like Jelena Ostapenko or Ana Konjuh - big hitters who can make it hard for a lot of players - but she has every potential to be the champion."
Tracy Austin: "Konta had never got past the second round here before this year but she looks in amazing form.
"She came into the tournament in good form on grass so has real momentum, as well as the home support, and she seems to be handling the pressure.
"Her section of the draw is the toughest, but she can only play one match at a time so she should not be worrying about that."
Tracy Austin: "I see Halep as a possible winner but she is playing Victoria Azarenka in round four - boy, that is a tough draw.
"Azarenka is a two-time major champ now ranked 683 in the world after taking a year out. If I am Halep, I am thinking 'wow - how come I got the dangerous sleeper?'"
Kim Clijsters: "Simona has got the game for grass - she showed that in 2014. With her height and the way she moves, she is always balanced and she reads the game well.
"Simona is very consistent, but I think her coach Darren Cahill is trying to work with her on being a little bit more aggressive at times because that is what you need if you want to win here."
Kim Clijsters: "Ostapenko was so fearless in Paris and at times she was making a lot of unforced errors, but mentally she wasn't letting it get to her which was incredible to watch.
"She's still in the draw, still fighting and still doing her thing with a lot of confidence. Do I think she's going to win it? I don't know. There are a few players who are a little more consistent."
Tracy Austin: "There is a lot of expectation around Jelena after she won the French Open, but she is doing a good job of dealing with it.
"She has a tough match next, though, against Elina Svitolina - nobody ever brings her up, but she has won four titles this year.
"Svitolina's game does not seem to translate to grass, but that has not stopped her making it this far."
Tracy Austin: "Who would have thought that playing her 20th Wimbledon, Venus would still be such a huge factor?
"She is getting through matches rather than playing well but because the draw is so wide open, she plays so well on this surface and feels so comfortable here as the five-time former champion, she could certainly make the transition in form and win next Saturday."
Tracy Austin: "Konjuh is only 19 so Venus has been coming to Wimbledon before she was even on this earth.
"It just underlines the tremendous amount of variety in the 16 players that are left, and there are so many stories there."
Kim Clijsters: "Ana is actually one of my favourites to win. I love how she plays, and her attitude - she is aggressive, with a positive mind-set and she will definitely cause Venus problems when they meet in the fourth round
"That match especially is what this situation is all about. The new generation against someone who has played through a lot of generations already. It will be great to see, and I hope I get to commentate on it."
Tracy Austin: "My outsider would be Coco. She has been working with Pat Cash, who is a terrific coach. As a former Wimbledon champion, I think he is really going to help her figure out what shots to play on this surface.
"She has got a huge serve, powerful groundstrokes and loves to come forward to finish off points - so she has got a chance."
Kim Clijsters, who won the 2009 US Open 18 months after the birth of daughter Jada: "This is only Azarenka's second tournament since coming back after giving birth, but once you step out on a practice court or a match court, your routine is there.
"Like me, she has played tennis for so many years before she had her kid and it is so easy to get back into that bubble and to know the game and how to read your opponent.
"That is something she did very well against Britain's Heather Watson in round three. Maybe Azarenka is not playing her best tennis, but she is still able to play the important moments well."
Tracy Austin: "'Aggy' has actually won the second most grass-court matches of anybody on the WTA Tour right now behind Venus Williams. Radwanska has 60, Venus has 89.
"She has not really played well this year until Wimbledon, but I watched her play a fantastic match in round three on Saturday, and her game really is tailor-made for grass."
Kim Clijsters: "Venus is the only former Wimbledon winner left but also in the last 16 are Svetlana Kuznetsova, Garbine Muguruza and Angelique Kerber, who have all won Grand Slams before.
"Svetlana knows what it is like to win a major tournament and that is something that is so important in the later rounds.
Tracy Austin: "Kuznetsova has got her consistency back but the question is, can she break through on this surface in her early 30s?
Tracy Austin: "Kerber had a tremendous 2016 but 2017 has been very disappointing for her so far, and she was close to going out in round three - Shelby Rogers had points to go a set and 5-2 up.
"But one win could turn it around for the world number one, and it could be that one she eventually got on Saturday. We know she has quality, it is just her confidence that is lacking.
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"Kerber is playing Garbine Muguruza, another former Wimbledon finalist, in round four but then you have also have Magdalena Rybarikova who is ranked 87 in the world, playing against Petra Martic, ranked 135.
"So you have two players outside the top 100 looking for a quarter-final spot at Wimbledon - that is incredible."
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The 29-year-old, who joined Stanley from Chester in June 2015, scored six goals and made 17 assists last season.
The former Stockport and Barrow midfielder is in his second spell for Accrington after initially playing 89 times from February 2009 to June 2011.
He has played more than 180 times for the club, with his extension including the option for a further year.
McConville scored a stunning curling shot in Accrington's FA Cup third-round win against Luton Town in January, which was voted the best goal of the round by a BBC Sport audience.
Murtagh, 35, has reached agreement on a two-year addition to his existing deal.
"I've been extremely proud to represent Middlesex for the last decade," said Lambeth-born Murtagh.
"To have seen the side develop and grow to the point where we became county champions has been one of the most rewarding things I've achieved."
Murtagh has played for both London clubs, having moved to Lord's from neighbours Surrey in 2007.
He has gone on to make 277 appearances for Middlesex in all forms of the game, scoring almost 3,000 runs and taking more than 700 wickets, 557 of them in first-class cricket.
"I am delighted that, in all probability, Tim will finish his career with Middlesex," said managing director of cricket Angus Fraser, who was part of the last Middlesex team to win the title, in 1993.
"No current player will ever come close to overtaking the number of wickets Fred Titmus took for the club (2,361) but Tim's achievements will quite rightly be recognised.
"Last season, he overtook Norman Cowans' first-class wicket tally for the club to enter the top 25.
"Norman, quite rightly, is a Middlesex legend and Tim, having helped the club win its first County Championship for 23 years, should now be looked on in a similar manner."
The tradition called Swan Upping started at 9am on Monday in Sunbury, Surrey.
The five-day count also passes through Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and London.
Last year, 2,014 swans were recorded, including 120 baby cygnets and 34 breeding pairs.
The Queen's Swan Marker, David Barber, who is in charge of the count, said "Our expectations are that numbers should be better than last year."
The history of the swan count dates back to the 12th Century and sees the mute swans on the river rounded up, marked, weighed, health-checked and then released.
Mr Barber said it also served as a "very important conservation and educational exercise", with many local schools taking part in the event.
The Queen keeps the right to own all unmarked mute swans in open water.
Killing or injuring them is punishable by a six-month prison term and, in some cases, a fine up to £5,000.
Johann Berg Gudmunsson is back in training as he steps up his recovery from knee ligament damage but he is not ready to play.
Tottenham striker Vincent Janssen will be assessed after withdrawing from the Dutch squad with a chest infection.
Harry Kane and Danny Rose remain out, while Erik Lamela is out for the season after hip surgery.
Steve Bower: "Spurs have never had as many points at this stage of a Premier League season but they know they have to keep on winning.
"It was an important psychological step for them to get over the line last time out against Southampton without Harry Kane. Dele Alli, who has 11 goals in his last 12 league games, looks ready to assume more responsibility.
"A glance at Burnley's hugely impressive home record will remind Spurs of the task ahead at Turf Moor.
"Sean Dyche's team will be delighted to be back in Lancashire, having played their last four games on the road, and Tottenham are only too aware that they are a different proposition at home."
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Burnley manager Sean Dyche: "It's been five of the last six away from home, which is a tough task for anyone, so we are certainly looking forward to getting back to the Turf.
"Now we are back at Turf Moor for five of our last nine - and although that doesn't guarantee anything, I think it's fair to say statistically it gives us more chance of getting more points on the board.
"Even if you look at Spurs, their away record is nowhere near their home record. It just goes to show that it's tough on the road in the Premier League."
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino on Harry Kane's injury: "He will be fit before the end of the season and we believe he can be available in the near future.
"I cannot provide a time it will take for him to be available again, but I don't think it will be too long."
Nobody has gone to Burnley and rolled Sean Dyche's team over and I think they will pick up another point here as they keep edging towards Premier League safety.
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It follows an onboard tweet from security expert Chris Roberts, who joked about being able to hack into a United Airlines plane's wi-fi network.
A terrorist could theoretically take over systems that fly a plane by compromising equipment at their seat.
United Airlines has now banned Mr Roberts from all its flights.
The FBI and the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said they had no information to support claims a plane's navigation system could be interfered via its onboard wi-fi kit, but added that they were evaluating the evidence.
In a private industry notification posted on its website and reported by Wired magazine, the FBI advised airlines to:
In his tweet, Mr Roberts suggested that he might be able to deploy the oxygen masks on the flight.
Chris Roberts's tweet:
"Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? "PASS OXYGEN ON" Anyone ? :)"
(EICAS refers to the engine indicating and crew alerting system)
On arrival at Syracuse airport, Mr Roberts - who is co-founder of security company One World Labs - was taken in for questioning by the FBI, and his laptop and other devices were seized.
A few days later, he was prevented from boarding a flight to California.
He had previously given a number of interviews, explaining the possible weak points in airline systems, telling CNN that he could connect to a computer under his seat to view data from the aircraft's engines, fuel and flight-management systems.
Security experts have warned for some years that airlines are a possible target for hackers.
Planes including the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus 350 and A380 have a single network that is used by both pilots to fly the plane and by passengers for their wi-fi connections.
"The risk is that a hacker sitting in the back of a plane, or even one on the ground, could use the wi-fi connection to hack into the avionics and then remotely fly the plane," explained security expert Bruce Schneier in a blog written after last week's incident.
Although there were currently no publicly known vulnerabilities that a hacker could exploit, such an attack remained "theoretically possible" because all networks were inherently insecure, he said.
"In the scheme of internet risks I worry about, it's not very high," he added.
Wi-fi is now common on many airlines, and most have relaxed the rules surrounding the use of gadgets during flights.
Facebook director Patrick Walker was visiting Norway following a row about the banning of an iconic Vietnam War image on the grounds of nudity.
He said changes were being made but news images may still fall foul of its policies on appropriate material.
Espen Egil Hansen, of Aftenposten, said Facebook still had "a long way to go".
Facebook had originally said the "Napalm girl" photo breached its rules on nudity, when it was posted and then removed by a Norwegian author in September.
It backed down after a high profile protest led by Aftenposten and backed by Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Mr Walker told the Association of Norwegian Editors in Oslo: "We have made a number of policy changes after The Terror of War photo.
"We have improved our escalation process to ensure that controversial stories and images get surfaced more quickly.
"In the weeks ahead, we are going to begin allowing more items that people find newsworthy, significant or important to the public interest, even if they might otherwise violate our standards."
But he added: "We do not think of ourselves as editors.
"We believe it is essential that Facebook stay out of the business of deciding what issues the world should read about - but we do retain the right to take things down when they violate our community standards."
Mr Hansen said: "Facebook is a media company... with an influence on the global conversation unlike any the world has seen before.
"When you decide what kind of content is 'newsworthy, significant and important 'and what is not - well, then you do what I do: serve as editor of a media company."
Mr Hansen called for Facebook to be more transparent about its policies and for the world's media companies to work harder to connect with their audiences.
He will arrive on either 22 or 29 May, depending on how far his Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise progress in the Indian Premier League.
The big-hitting Jamaican, 35, has made 13 centuries in Twenty20 cricket.
"Signing a world-class player of the quality of Chris Gayle is tremendously exciting for the club," said director of cricket Matthew Maynard.
"He will be a tremendous addition to our already extremely strong squad. He is an inspirational character and we are delighted to be bringing him to Somerset."
The left-hander is one of the most charismatic and entertaining players in world cricket, having played 103 Tests, 269 one-day internationals and 45 T20 matches for the West Indies since his debut in 1999.
He also has previous experience of county cricket with Worcestershire.
Gayle could make his Somerset debut in their home game against Sussex on 22 May, or against Essex at Chelmsford a week later.
He will then be available for home matches against Kent (31 May), Hampshire (5 June) and Surrey (12 June) before finishing his brief stint with the county in their away game against Glamorgan on 13 June.
Gayle is the third signing by Somerset for the T20 Blast, with Pakistan all-rounder Sohail Tanvir joining the club for the first half of the competition before being replaced by New Zealand's Corey Anderson.
He hit the first hundred in a T20 international against South Africa in 2007 and his total of 6,975 runs in the game's shortest format is a record.
Gayle is the only player to have a Test triple century, a 50-over double century and T20 hundred to his credit - and last month became the first man to score a double hundred in a World Cup game when he made 215 off 147 balls against Zimbabwe in Canberra.
"Many of the club's members and supporters will know that I came close to playing for the county in 2012 and I have always felt that, if I was able to, I wanted to honour that commitment to Somerset," Gayle said.
"I'm looking forward to coming to Taunton and scoring some runs."
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The girl, now 27, went to police in 2003 claiming she had been repeatedly raped when she was 13 years old, Sheffield Crown Court was told.
Eight men are on trial charged in connection with the sexual exploitation of three girls between 1999 and 2003.
The men, accused of rape and other offences, deny the charges.
Opening the case, Michelle Colborne QC, prosecuting, told the jury how the girl and her family withdrew the allegations due to threats.
The family ended up moving to Spain to get away from the men exploiting her, the prosecutor said.
She said the girl's clothes were lost by police and were not subjected to scientific analysis.
The prosecutor explained how, in April 2003, the girl had gone to police after one of the accused, Sageer Hussain, attacked her and she was examined by a doctor.
Ms Colborne said: "The family believed they were in real danger and withdrew the allegations at the time."
The prosecution said the family took two years to extricate her from the group of men and "wrote to their member of parliament and the home secretary."
Ms Colborne said the case was about "a number of women who were sexualised and, in some instances, subjected to acts of a degrading and violent nature at the hands of these men".
She said Mr Hussain "was instrumental in befriending young girls who were flattered that he and his friends spent time with them".
In relation to one girl, she said: "He used her for his own gratification and passed her on to his friends, older brothers and associates."
The case was adjourned until Wednesday.
Yn eu plith mae David Duckenfield, cyn-brif uwch-arolygydd fydd yn wynebu cyhuddiad o ddynladdiad 95 o bobl drwy esgeulustod difrifol.
Bu farw 96 o bobl o ganlyniad i'r trychineb, ond ni fydd modd dod ag achos yn enw un ohonynt - Tony Bland - oherwydd rhesymau cyfreithiol gan iddo ef farw pedair blynedd ar ôl y digwyddiad.
Fe ddigwyddodd y trychineb mewn gêm bêl-droed rhwng Lerpwl a Nottingham Forest yn Stadiwm Hillsborough yn Sheffield.
Y llynedd daeth cwest i farwolaethau'r cefnogwyr i'r casgliad eu bod wedi'u lladd yn anghyfreithlon.
Roedd dau Gymro ymysg y meirw, John McBrien o Dreffynnon a David Brown, oedd yn cael ei adnabod fel Steve Brown, o Holt, ger Wrecsam.
Ar ôl y cyhoeddiad gan Gwasaneth Erlyn y Goron, dywedodd Joan Hope, mam John McBrien, ei bod hi yn siomedig na fydd mwy o bobl yn cael eu herlyn.
Roedd wedi bod yn aros am gyfiawnder am 28 mlynedd, meddai, a bod hynny wedi cael effaith ofnadwy ar y teulu.
"Dwi'n meddwl am John bob diwrnod o fy mywyd.
"Rwyf wedi rhoi'r gorau i geisio cyfiawnder, bydd yn rhaid i mi dderbyn anghyfiawnder."
Ond dywedodd gweddw Steven Brown ei bod hi'n bles gyda'r penderfyniad i erlyn, gan ychwanegu ei fod wedi cymryd amser hir.
"Hwn oedd y penderfyniad roedd y teuluoedd eisiau oherwydd mae'r mater wedi ei basio o un lle i'r llall, i fod yn onest doeddwn ddim yn credu y byddwn yn cael penderfyniad o'r fath."
Cyn i Wasanaeth Erlyn y Goron allu gosod cyhuddiadau yn erbyn Mr Duckenfield, y plismon oedd yn gyfrifol am reoli trefniadau ar ddiwrnod y gêm, bydd yn rhaid gwneud cais i'r Uchel Lys i godi gwaharddiad llys.
Cafodd y gwaharddiad ei osod ar ôl erlyniad preifat yn erbyn y cyn-blismon yn 1999.
Yn ogystal â Mr Duckenfield fe fydd y cyn-Brif Gwnstabl, Sir Norman Bettison, yn wynebu pedwar cyhuddiad o gamymddygiad mewn swydd gyhoeddus, cyhuddiadau yn ymwneud â honiadau iddo ddweud celwyddau ynglŷn â chefnogwyr.
Bydd Graham Mackrell, cyn-ysgrifennydd Sheffield Wednesday, yn wynebu cyhuddiad o dorri rheolau Iechyd a Diogelwch.
Mae Peter Metcalf, cyfreithiwr oedd yn cynrychioli Heddlu De Sir Efrog, yn wynebu cyhuddiadau o wyrdroi cwrs cyfiawnder yn ymwneud â newid tystiolaeth llygad-dystion.
Mae Donald Denton, cyn-brif uwch-arolygydd, ac Alan Foster, cyn-brif dditectif wedi eu cyhuddo o wyrdroi cwrs cyfiawnder.
Fe fydd y diffynyddion, ac eithrio Mr Duckenfield, yn ymddangos ger Ynadon Warrington ar 9 Awst.
Cafodd teuluoedd y rhai a fu farw yn Hillsborough wybod am y camau diweddaraf mewn cyfarfod preifat gyda Gwasanaeth Erlyn y Goron fore Mercher.
The property tycoon hailed Mr Putin as a man "highly respected within his own country and beyond".
It comes after Mr Putin said Mr Trump was a "very colourful, talented person" during his annual news conference.
The two men, both known for their blunt manner of speaking, do not know each other personally.
After hearing President Putin's comments on Thursday, Mr Trump released a statement praising the Russian leader.
"It is always a great honour to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," he said.
"`I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
Mr Trump is currently widely regarded as the frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential ticket, a race where other candidates have made no secret of their wariness of Mr Putin.
"I suppose [Putin] sympathises with Trump without knowing him well in person but he is following him closely, what he does and says, just because he is not a kind of usual Western politician," Alexander Baunov, an analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Center, told the Associated Press news agency.
President Putin made his remarks during his televised annual news conference at which he used crude language to lash out at Turkey, a Nato member and key US ally in the conflict in Syria.
But he had warm words for Mr Trump, telling viewers: "He says that he wants to move to another, closer level of relations. Can we really not welcome that? Of course we welcome that."
In October, Mr Trump told US TV network CBS that he and Mr Putin would "probably get along... very well".
During one presidential debate, he said: "If Putin wants to go and knock the hell out of ISIS [the Islamic State group], I am all for it, 100%, and I can't understand how anybody would be against it."
One of Mr Trump's rivals for the Republican ticket, Jeb Bush, criticised his response to the Russian leader's remarks on Thursday.
"A true freedom-loving conservative wouldn't be flattered by praise from a despot like Putin," he wrote on Twitter.
The cordiality between two of the world's most visible politicians was mocked in some quarters of the US media.
"The two men share a love for spectacle and an appreciation of its ability to move low-information voters," Christian Whiton wrote on CNN, while the New York Times detected a "long-distance bromance".
The Mourne County, without an inter-county victory since April 2015, led 0-6 to 0-1 after just 12 minutes.
They only trailed once briefly in the second half and the win sets up a winner-takes-all clash with Armagh on Wednesday night for a semi-final place.
Ethan Rafferty and Anto Duffy goals helped Armagh beat Queen's 2-19 to 0-9.
Having beaten Queen's in their opening fixture, Down got off to a flying start as full-forward Barry O'Hagan scored points from play off both feet in the opening minute.
The impressive Davidson tagged on a free before Benny Heron's free put Derry on the scoresheet in the sixth minute.
O'Hagan and Davidson continued to lead the way for Down who romped into a five-point lead before Derry fought back.
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Ryan Bell, Niall Loughlin, a Heron free and another monster point from Bell helped the Oak Leafers hit four points in a row in a seven-minute spell to reduce the gap to 0-6 to 0-5 after 19 minutes.
Derry could not get level as Down kept their noses in front until half time, leading 0-9 to 0-8 at the interval.
Davidson hit 0-6 in the opening half, five from frees, while Emmett McGuckin's point from the wing reduced Derry's deficit to a single point at the break.
Derry levelled for the first time through sub Enda Lynn 20 seconds after the restart and led briefly through a Carlus McWilliams point after 40 minutes.
Once Joe Murphy brought Down level at 0-10 apiece, the home side never looked back.
Man-of-the-match Davidson, Johnny Flynn and sub Caolan Mooney kicked points for Eamon Burns' side.
Derry battled hard with subs Mark Lynch and James Kielt tagging on scores.
Although the sides were level three times in the second half, Down kept their noses in front for a confidence-boosting win.
Queen's took an early 0-2 to 0-1 lead over Armagh thanks to two Marty Clarke points but the Orchard county recovered to lead 0-8 to 0-4 at the interval.
After the break, Rafferty collected a high ball and finished into the net to give his side a 1-8 to 0-5 advantage and then Jamie Clarke went on to score a point on his introduction after missing last year's entire inter-county season.
Armagh remained in control and Duffy's late goal ensured a comfortable 16-point winning margin for the hosts.
Goalscorers Rafferty and Duffy both scored 1-2 apiece, with Oisin Mac Iomhair (0-4), Conor White (0-1), Stephen Sheridan (0-1) Rory Grugan (0-2), man-of-the-match Aidan Forker (0-2), Ben Crealey (0-1), Jemar Hall (0-2) and Niall Grimley (0-1) the other Armagh scorers.
Martin Clarke was top scorer for Quen's with four points, with Aaron Morgan, Barry McCann and Aaron McClements also getting their names on the scoresheet.
Down: M Cunningham; R McAleenan, G McGovern, D O'Hagan; D McKibbon, C McGovern, B McArdle; P Turley, J Flynn (0-1); S Millar, C Maginn, J Murphy (0-1); A Davidson (0-9, 7f), B O'Hagan (0-3), P Havern
Subs: A Carr for Turley (44), C Mooney for McKibbon (47), D Savage for Haveron (57), R Mallon for Millar (61), G Collins for D O'Hagan (65)
Derry: T Mallon; R Murphy, O Duffin, C McGrogan; N Forrester, C Nevin, P Hagan; P Kearney, A McLaughlin; G O'Neill, R Bell (0-3), C McWilliams (0-1); N Loughlin (0-1), E McGuckin (0-1), B Heron (0-4, 4f)
Subs: J Kielt (0-1, f) for Kearney (HT), E Lynn (0-1) for O'Neill (HT), M Warnock for Hagan (47), C Mullan for Duffin (47), M Lynch (0-2, 1f) for McLaughlin (52), C McAtamney for McGuckin (62)
Referee: Sean Laverty (Antrim)
2017 Dr McKenna Cup - Results and fixtures
Round 2: Sunday, 15 January
Section A
Down 0-15 0-14 Derry
Armagh 2-19 0-09 QUB
Section B
Antrim 0-09 2-20 Monaghan
Fermanagh 2-13 0-13 St Mary's
Section C
Donegal 1-06 2-14 Cavan
Tyrone 2-17 1-07 UUJ
Round 3: Wednesday, 18 January
Section A
Derry v QUB (Owenbeg)
Armagh v Down (Athletic Grounds)
Section B
Fermanagh v Antrim (Brewster Park)
Monaghan v St Mary's (Inniskeen)
Section C
Cavan v Ulster University (Kingspan Breffni Park)
Tyrone v Donegal (Healy Park)
Semi-finals: Sunday, 22 January
Section C Winner V Best Runner Up
Section B Winner V Section A Winner
Final: Saturday, 28 January
Sally Holland said she was disappointed with Alun Davies' rejection of her call for a United Nations children's rights convention to be built into a bill on additional learning needs (ALN).
Mr Davies called the idea "slavish".
The Welsh Government said the bill had children's rights at its foundation.
Welsh ministers are duty bound under existing law to pay "due regard" to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in making decisions.
The convention states the best interests of a child must be a top priority in all decisions.
Prof Holland wants the duty extended to staff that will implement proposals in the bill, which shakes-up how children with ALN are treated in the education system.
At a meeting of children's committee in March, lifelong learning minister Mr Davies said it had been clear to him that once the duty was placed on ministers "we will not have to go through this process of slavishly placing the same duty into every piece of legislation subsequent to it".
In a letter to First Minister Carwyn Jones, Prof Holland said it was "most disappointing" to hear Mr Davies reject her proposal for the ALN bill, which is going through the assembly.
"The minister was factually inaccurate to suggest that placing a duty of due regard to the UNCRC on those exercising functions under the... bill would be repeating the same duty that is upon Welsh ministers", wrote Prof Holland.
"It is in my view that there would be nothing 'slavish' if every piece of Welsh legislation related to children and young people had such an overarching duty enshrined within it."
Prof Holland said implementing her proposal would send "a strong message to children and their families that Wales has this commitment to internationally agreed standards on what children need in order to live fulfilled lives".
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Our commitment to the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child remains absolute and the ALN bill is a demonstration of this commitment in practice."
He added that Mr Jones would respond to the points made by Prof Holland.
And it struck a chord - after decades of power shortages, Lebanon was to be plugged in again.
But the slogan didn't live up to its promises and instead of more lights on, Lebanon has recently plunged even deeper into darkness.
And that's just one of the many problems plaguing the country and shutting the system down, making "LebanOFF" more than just an amusing slogan.
The most recent service disruption has to do with rubbish collection.
The main landfill site that used to take rubbish from the capital has closed after exceeding its capacity, and no alternative was sought or found to avoid the disaster. It prompted a civil society group to adopt the motto "You Stink", addressed to politicians.
But none of these problem is new or surprising. They are the manifestation of a system in crisis.
Since the end of the 15-year civil war in 1990, little attention has been given to investment in infrastructure. The country was in ruins and so were basic services.
Other than in central Beirut, which was handed over to a private estate company, very few projects were implemented to improve the quality of services nationwide.
While consecutive governments didn't appear to care about long-term planning and projects, people relied on private and unofficial service providers.
A parallel system emerged and the state never stepped in to live up to its responsibilities and address basic problems in a sustainable way.
And it isn't only about incompetence on the level of the day-to-day running of the country. The chronic problems have deeper roots.
A few basic facts are enough to show the level of dysfunction within the country. Lebanon has been without a president for more than 450 days.
The 27th parliamentary session to elect a president in August was as ill-fated as the previous 26.
Lebanon is caught in deep political divisions mirroring the regional fault lines. The MPs who are deeply allied to one player or another in the region, have been unable to decide on a president, a mainly ceremonial role, reserved for a Christian in a sectarian power-sharing system.
As the presidential elections stall, so does the parliament's work. The MPs have extended their own terms twice, dismissing calls for elections and legitimate representation.
They have been unable to agree on whether to continue legislating before voting for a president.
The result is paralysis in parliament for over a year.
What remains is a lame government. Session after session, the cabinet meets to discuss whether its decisions should be adopted by consensus or simple majority in the absence of a president who has the right to preside over the cabinet sessions.
The circle of institutional paralysis is thus complete.
"This constitutional situation is practically the worst since the independence of Lebanon," says Mario Abou Zeid, a scholar from the Carnegie Center.
The paralysis has cost Lebanon, a heavily indebted country, a lot, including international aid and grants worth $1bn (£635m).
Recently the crisis has been spreading to other key positions in the country.
The mandate of the current commander-in-chief, another Christian position, was due to expire in September. After months of government squabbling over the appointment of a new commander, divisions couldn't be bridged.
The minister of defence decided unilaterally to extend the term of the current commander. In practice, it's a delay of the crisis, a one-year break before the same problem re-emerges.
As a senior journalist put it: "The extension is a sign of general failure. No-one won. It's the government that lost the most."
What he meant was that to resort to extending terms rather than appointing new leaders is one of the signs of the inability of the political class to overcome its differences and go on with managing state affairs even at a bare minimum.
Nevertheless, the extension infuriated a main political group, the Christian Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), who called for protests against the minister's decision.
The response of a minister from a rival party was dismissive.
"Neither our rivals nor ourselves are able at the moment to mobilise our bases. People are just fed up with all of us. They worry about the garbage on the streets, their salaries and other daily issues. They also know deep down that the main decisions are made outside the cabinet and even outside the country."
Resignation or evasion of responsibility? Whatever the case, many people seem to have developed a sort of apathy towards the rampant corruption and the incompetence of the political elite.
Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, the outside world looked at neighbouring Lebanon as a country at risk of catching fire from the war next door.
Despite being hit hard by several security breaches thought to be linked to the situation in Syria, and a direct confrontation with Syrian opposition groups in a border town last August, Lebanon remains relatively stable.
It's the political situation inside the country that seems at the moment to be the most alarming.
The New York to Paris flight landed at Shannon Airport after 07:30 local time.
It has been reported that the 172 passengers had an "urgent need" to use the toilet after the facilities on board became unusable.
The crew asked for engineers to be on standby to service the aircraft's toilets when it landed.
The flight resumed its journey to Paris shortly after 09:30.
A total of 115 documents have been released, including the al-Qaeda leader's will.
Other writings show Bin Laden's fear of being electronically tracked. Here are seven things we learned:
Bin Laden left a personal fortune of around $29m (£21m) after his death.
He urged his family to "obey my will" and to spend his inheritance on "jihad, for the sake of Allah".
He referred to the money as being in Sudan, but it is not clear whether it was cash or assets. Bin Laden lived in Sudan for five years in the 1990s as a guest of the Sudanese government.
He also ordered sums of money to be given to two men and various relatives. It is not known whether any of the money made its way to his heirs.
The fear of being tracked is a recurring theme in Bin Laden's writing.
In a letter to one of his wives, who lived in Iran, the world's most wanted man revealed his fear that a dentist could have inserted an electronic tracking device in her tooth during a cavity operation.
"The size of the chip is about the length of a grain of wheat and the width of a fine piece of vermicelli," he wrote under the name Abu Abdullah. The letter ended with an instruction to destroy it.
What was on Bin Laden's bookshelf?
Bin Laden's tape collection
The al-Qaeda job application form
Frustrated at the end
In another letter, Bin Laden fretted about moving money safely.
He instructed operatives to discard suitcases carrying cash for fear that they could contain tracking chips and said money should be transported by vehicle, but only on cloudy days, suggesting he feared they could be targeted by drones.
Further letters from al-Qaeda commanders detailed the toll being taken on the organisation by drone strikes and one letter admits four men were wrongly executed on suspicion of spying.
Do drone strikes work?
Several documents show a long-running disagreement with al-Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, which later became the so-called Islamic State (IS).
Bin Laden opposed the use of beheadings and other brutality by the then group al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
"We must not get overwhelmed by the war, its atmosphere, conditions, hatreds and revenge that might mislead us," he wrote.
Bin Laden also opposed AQI's aim of declaring a caliphate, which he believed did not have enough popular support and posed governance challenges that the group could not meet.
What is Islamic State?
The documents also show Bin Laden's battle to maintain control over the various al-Qaeda franchises.
One document reveals an attempt to get them to adopt a unified management structure, outlining a "chief of staff committee" made up of "officers and personnel qualified to work with a military commander leader" and listing its tasks.
A letter to al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen exhorts them to "extend and develop our operations in America" and move on from attempts to blow up US aircraft.
Meanwhile a letter from the head of the al-Qaeda franchise in north Africa informs Bin Laden that representatives from north African countries have been admitted on to the organisations's Shura Council as a way of keeping an eye on the local militants, who are described as numerous but young and "lacking jihadi experience".
The year 2011 was to be a big one for Bin Laden.
His organisation was planning a media blitz to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and proposed working with certain media outlets to arrange coverage. However, there was no discussion of any planned attack.
Bin Laden himself was also planning to move out of the compound he was hiding in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad.
"I say that the latest time we can stay with our present companion brothers is the tenth anniversary of the attack on New York and Washington, after a few months from now; or at the end of this year, 2011," he wrote.
However he was killed before the anniversary was reached.
Have we been told the truth about Bin Laden's death?
Who are al-Qaeda's remaining leaders?
A study course for new jihadists, entitled "Course of Islamic Study for Soldiers and Members", is included in the declassified documents.
Teaching reading and writing is the first module, followed by a long reading list based on the Koran.
A third section of lectures includes books by leading contemporary jihadists such as the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who led AQI, as well as a briefing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The al-Qaeda job application form
Whether al-Qaeda commanders should be allowed to have their wives with them in their bases appears to have been a vexed issue in the organisation.
One document from an al-Qaeda branch in Morocco entitled "The presence of Mujahidin spouses in the field" instructs any commanders who have their wives with them to send them back to their homes and families.
Drawing on a range of sources, it concludes that "jihad is not required from women" and says it is allowed to "have an elder woman but not a young one, in a safe area in the frontlines" to prevent fighters becoming distracted.
"We ask our brothers for their understanding and co-operation," it says.
The crucial role of women within IS
The blast hit a convoy carrying Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, the deputy chairman of Pakistan's upper house, as it left a religious school in Mastung.
More than 40 other people were injured in the blast.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group said it carried out the attack using a suicide bomber.
Mr Haideri was on his way back to Quetta after presenting graduation certificates to students at the religious school when the blast happened.
He told Reuters news agency he had sustained minor injuries.
"There are many casualties as there were many people in the convoy," he said.
The most severely injured were airlifted to hospital in the provincial capital, Quetta.
Mr Haideri represents the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) party, a Sunni Islamist party that is part of the ruling coalition.
Most of those injured or killed were party workers, Pakistani media reports said. A police official said Mr Haideri's driver was among the dead.
The statement from IS came via its self-styled news agency, Amaq.
The group also carried out an attack in Balochistan in November 2016 on a remote Sufi shrine, killing more than 50 people.
Three months later, more than 80 people died in a suicide attack on a Sufi shrine in Sindh province that IS said it carried out.
Balochistan is Pakistan's poorest and least developed province. Separatist militants have been fighting the government there for decades and many other attacks have been attributed to Sunni Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
The Welsh region announced in January the 34-year-old lock had signed from Ulster for the 2017-18 season.
But now the once-capped South Africa second row could be heading to the Aviva Premiership, with London Irish leading the interest.
It is thought the Blues believe they have enough locks, with Seb Davies impressing on Wales' summer tour.
Van der Merwe spent three seasons with Ulster, playing more than 70 games.
He played Super Rugby with South African sides the Lions and Sharks before joining Ulster. He was capped against New Zealand in 2013.
The Blues board are looking to trim their wage bill ahead of the current season.
The region's specialist second rows include Davies, James Down, George Earle and Damian Welch - who has signed from Exeter - while flankers Josh Turnbull and Macauley Cook can also pack down at lock.
Officially it is a Saudi-led military operation with coalition partners including the UAE, Egypt, Morocco, and other Sunni countries.
But most Saudis see it very much as their war, with the fighting right across their border, in Yemen. Over 70% of the sorties by jets pounding rebel targets in Yemen are Saudi.
Officially, the war is also limited in its scope and goals: restore the internationally recognised President Mansour Abdrabbuh Hadi to power and undo the territorial gains of Yemen's Zaidi Shia rebels, known as Houthis, who allied themselves with remnants of the former ruler, Ali Abdallah Saleh.
But almost every conversation with Saudis about the Yemen military operation leads to a wider discussion about the region, the kingdom's new role as the leader of a military coalition and in many cases, people's desire to see this translate into action elsewhere.
At a bowling alley in Riyadh one evening, I met a young couple enjoying an evening out. The man was in the military so he would only give his name as Hamed. His eyes lit up when I asked him whether he supported the war.
"We support the king's decision to go to war 100%, it's long overdue. Hopefully, we will move to help Syria next, and bring down President Assad who has been causing so much death and destruction for his people," he said.
Saudi Arabia has accused regional rival Iran of arming the Houthis - a charge both the Houthis and Iran have denied.
Saudis and Sunnis in general feel they have been taking a beating by Shia Iran across the Middle East as Tehran tries to solidify its influence from Baghdad to Beirut.
The victim narrative is an odd one considering the power of countries like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) in general and the fact that an overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world are Sunni.
So there is an interesting wave of patriotism on display in the kingdom these days and a sense of pride that Saudi Arabia, under new King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, is asserting itself in a way it has not in the past.
"Saudi Arabia is a reference and a leader for the Arab and Muslim world and we are proud of that," said Hamed.
Some Saudis do quietly express concern about the country entering into a war with no apparent end game. But no-one wants to be openly critical as they ponder the possibility it could all wrong and the kingdom could find itself in a long protracted war.
Already reports of civilian casualties in Yemen and warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe are on weighing on people's minds, anxious about a backlash against the kingdom.
So far there have been only a handful of Saudi casualties and the state is promising compensation for the families of the ''martyrs'' including 1m Saudi riyals ($266,000; ??178,800) as well as other benefits.
Every evening at seven o' clock, Saudis can tune into national television to watch the live transmission of a news conference detailing the progress of the military campaign.
It starts with a short music video of a patriotic song about the nation, as tanks, marching soldiers and jets in action are projected on the screen.
Gen Ahmad Assiri, the coalition spokesperson, conducts his briefing US-style, with slides and black-and-white footage of air strikes, and takes questions from the media. There is no pre-screening of the questioners or the questions. The briefing usually starts with an assurance that all is going according to plan.
After a briefing, I had a more candid exchange with Gen Assiri when I asked him whether he was proud of his country's leadership role in this war.
"It is always a very difficult decision to get a country in war or in a military operation; it is never an enjoyment for any country," he said. "We never had any ambition in Yemen but the situation had to be addressed to avoid Yemen becoming a failed state and ungoverned space."
But the war is also Saudi Arabia's way of pushing back against what it sees as Washington's cosying up to Tehran during the nuclear negotiations and a feeling that the US is stepping away from the region and leaving a void, a feeling shared by Sunni allies in the coalition.
"The majority of people feel that King Salman has taken the right decision, primarily because it is sending a message to Iran: 'We are not weak, we are not reluctant and our national security will exceed our border, south and north if needed'", said Abdel Aziz el Sager, chairman of the Jeddah-based Gulf Research Center.
If the Yemen operation is successful, this new, more muscular foreign policy will have a positive impact on other parts of the region where Iran also wields influence, like Lebanon, Iraq and Bahrain, Mr Sager added.
Everything is seen through the prism of the rivalry with Iran and it boils down to sheer power - the sectarian angle is a useful tool to whip up sentiments on all sides but it puts Saudi Arabia's Shia population, a large minority, in a difficult position.
"Whenever there is war in the Middle East it impacts badly on Shias in Saudi Arabia, because if any war happens in Iraq or Syria they interpret it as a sectarian war, and [a war] against Iran," said Nassima el Sada, a prominent Saudi human rights activist in the town of Qatif in the mostly Shia Eastern Province.
She complained that if Saudi Shias declared their support for the war, they were dismissed as deceitful, and if they dared criticise it they were branded traitors.
"We love our country, we are Arab and we belong in this land, and we have nothing to do with Iran but no one is listening to us, we keep facing this sectarian war against us in social media and in the national media," she added.
With Saudi Shias made to feel like a fifth column, with Sunni allies like Pakistan and Turkey reluctant to fully join the coalition, and with no end in sight for Operation Decisive Storm as the war has been dubbed, Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen will be a tough test of its ability to take on this more assertive role without dragging the region deeper into sectarian chaos.
The former British soldiers were jailed in India for firearms offences.
The men worked on an anti-piracy ship and were arrested in October 2013. They were jailed at a court hearing in January for five years.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said Mrs May would raise the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a visit next week.
Lisa Dunn, a sister of one of the men, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she is "sick to death" of being told the UK government cannot intervene in another country's judicial system.
An appeal has been lodged against their sentences, but a judge in Chennai (Madras) ruled the men will not be released on bail in the meantime.
The British men are:
There were 35 sailors on the American-owned Seaman Guard Ohio, which offered armed protection to vessels sailing through an area known as "pirates' alley" between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
Customs officials and police found 35 guns, including semi-automatic weapons, and almost 6,000 rounds of ammunition on board the ship, which did not have permission to be in Indian waters.
An Indian court ruled it was not properly licensed, but the men have consistently denied any wrongdoing.
Nick Dunn's sister, Lisa, said the families have had an email from the Foreign Office saying it "expects" to raise the case, but that this is "not good enough".
"Theresa May has the power the end this now, and that's what we want her to do.
"She cannot waste this opportunity face-to-face with Modi, she has six British men at her mercy, and can't just waste it talking about her trade deals. There were six British soldiers who served this country and they need help.
"It's an absolute travesty if she fails to raise it. The power is in her hands and we're begging her for help."
John Armstrong's sister, Joanne Tomlinson, said that while the men have had consular support from the Foreign Office, "we feel there is so much more they can do".
She added: "They have spent more than 18 months in prison now, and we feel there must be more diplomatic pressure that can be put on [India].
"Six of our veterans are imprisoned there. They should be speeding the legal process up."
Billy Irving's partner, Yvonne MacHugh, says he is "struggling now" after several months in jail.
"Every month there is hope, followed by disaster. Every time there's a court hearing, there is always something that blocks them," she said.
Each of the 35 sailors received a five-year jail term and was ordered to pay 3,000 rupees (£30).
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We recognise what a difficult time this is for those involved and we have taken significant action on this case.
"The prime minister has been clear that she intends to raise it with Prime Minister Modi during her visit next week.
"Alok Sharma, the Foreign Office minister for Asia, pressed for progress during his first official visit to India in July, and again last month.
"Earlier this year, the then-Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire travelled to India to meet the men personally, as well as meeting their families in Carlisle".
The spokeswoman added that the Foreign Office had been providing ongoing support for all six men and their families and it is "working to make sure the men's welfare is protected in prison".
The visitors were awarded a 69th-minute spot-kick when Johnny Hunt fouled Adam Mekki in the area, allowing Norwood to confidently despatch from 12 yards.
Rovers, who move up to fourth in the National League, were good value for their win, being rarely troubled.
Tranmere's players thought they should have been awarded a second penalty in injury time when Steven Jennings' shot struck the arm of Ben Heneghan.
Chester, who started the game playing three at the back, were disrupted by the early blow of losing captain Ian Sharps, playing against his first club, with a hamstring injury.
Steve Burr's side stay 15th, but are now only six points clear of trouble, going into successive home games against the two sides immediately above them, Bromley and Aldershot.
Chester manager Steve Burr told BBC Radio Merseyside:
"We were dealt a terrible blow after just 10 minutes when we lost Ian Sharps because I then had to rearrange the whole team.
"We stuck Sam Hughes at right-back because I thought playing 4-4-2 would be better, but I never want to see those situations happen.
"Ian was probably the worst player we could have lost because of having to rearrange. But I thought Sam did really well. He's only young and still learning the game."
Police Scotland said a 20-year-old woman had been reported to the procurator fiscal.
The force said it was been working closely with the Care Inspectorate.
The Care Inspectorate said it was currently in the process of inspecting the nursery.
There are certainly worries casting some gloom over the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington this week.
China's latest figures show the economy in the first quarter of the year expanding 6.7% from a year earlier. The slowdown continues. But the data do not give us any definitive answers to questions about how China is going to influence the rest of the world.
The big issue is how will China manage the economic transition it has embarked on: a shift from a pattern of economic growth based on the rapid expansion of industrial output, exports and investment to one more driven by spending by Chinese consumers and growing service industries.
China is also engaged in a shift to growth that is slower than the average 10% per year of the past three decades. That figure is almost universally reckoned to be no longer sustainable.
But if the result is anything like the 6.5% minimum that the authorities are targeting for the next five years, it will still be pretty impressive by international standards.
It is also worth noting the extraordinary role played by investment - by the state and by business. Last year, according to data compiled by the IMF, investment was 43% of national income or GDP. Very few countries can, or would, want to match that.
It is a problem because such high rates of investment are bound to involve many specific projects that are not viable, especially in an economy that is slowing down anyway. That in turn would mean losses for the businesses concerned and for the investors and lenders who provide the finance.
The share of investment in GDP has started to decline - it used to be even higher - but it has further to go. That process and the wider slowdown are already making a mark on the rest of the world and will continue to do so.
A batch of IMF reports this week issued ahead of the Spring Meetings, on the general economic outlook, financial stability and government finances around the world, all show the impact of the Chinese slowdown.
The IMF's World Economic Outlook painted a picture of persistently disappointing performance after the Western financial crisis, a world economy that has failed to gather sufficient momentum to produce a really strong recovery - and China was part of that story.
And its monumental transition remains a potential hazard for the rest of the world, and has already had some adverse effects.
China is very far from being the only factor behind that. But the report points to "concerns about the global impact of the unwinding of prior excesses in China's economy as it transitions to a more balanced growth path after a decade of strong credit and investment growth".
The IMF's Global Financial Stability Report also identifies China as a risk. The slowdown has undermined the financial health of many Chinese businesses, which in turn has increased the problems that banks face from non-performing loans - ones that aren't being repaid.
The IMF thought the situation was currently manageable but it could affect the rest of the world, especially emerging markets, if it were to deteriorate further.
The most direct danger emanating from China is the impact on commodity producers. China's past surge in investment meant high levels of demand for industrial metals and energy.
Already the prices of those items have declined sharply. In the case of oil especially it is not just about demand from China. There has been abundant supply of crude oil, but China's slowdown is also a factor.
The declines in the prices of these commodities have created new dangers to financial stability in countries that export them and they have also hit the finances of those nations' governments.
So what sort of growth rate can we expect from China in the coming years?
The official target is at least 6.5%. That prompted the London consultancy Capital Economics to pose this question in a recent note to its clients: "Is China attempting the impossible?"
Capital Economics said it was extremely rare for countries to manage that kind of performance and concluded: "If China is shooting for a target that no other equivalent economy has reached, we have good reason to be sceptical that it can succeed."
In practice, China's official figures are widely regarded as unreliable. Many independent economists will tell you China's true growth figures are significantly lower.
That does not necessarily mean China will drag the world into a new recession but it does underline the wariness with which the country's economic performance is viewed from outside.
Much of the scrutiny of China's international impact has focused on its demand for goods produced abroad. But there's another important question around integrating China financially.
Martin Wolf in the Financial Times referred to the potential for crises in countries as they open up their financial systems internationally. "The world might fail to cope with a Chinese one (a financial crisis) altogether."
It will matter for the rest of world just how well China keeps its balance on this tightrope of economic transition.
The former England international, who retired from football in 2004, has spent years battling alcoholism.
Gascoigne, 48, knew something was wrong during his playing days and spoke of his relief at finally being diagnosed.
"When it was explained, and when I heard other people's stories, I was like 'thank God'," he said.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, he added: "I didn't know what was going on. Why did I wake up at 5am and want a drink? It was not normal.
"People want to know if there is any medication they can take when they have an illness and it was a relief."
In a wide-ranging interview, Gascoigne also spoke openly about:
"I am happy in life, I am happy with the way things are going," said Gascoigne.
"I know it won't last forever because I know what the press can write. The lies written about me over the last two years have been horrendous and you have to be strong to get through that.
"I accept that is going to be for life for me. I admit I haven't dealt with it properly sometimes and hit the drink, it hasn't been month-long benders, it has been a few days and I have paid the consequences.
"I might drink tomorrow, I might not. Hopefully I don't. When I drink, the only thing I am doing is making things bad for myself."
"I am a nice guy, I would not treat anyone the way I have been treated," said Gascoigne, who starred for England as they reached the semi-finals of both the 1990 World Cup and the 1996 European Championship.
"I don't play football any more so I have to earn money other ways. I get good jobs and the press write lies and I lose that job because they think I am in rehab, or injecting myself with heroin or jumping off a pier, or falling out of a casino drunk - but I am just sitting in the back garden doing nothing.
"I have to ring the lawyer again and it takes two years and in that two years I have lost money again.
"I went from being on the pitch all the time to being in courtrooms. I should become a lawyer and defend myself.
"Everything is good at the moment but I know what is going to happen in time."
Former England defender Kenny Sansom recently revealed he had contemplated suicide after becoming homeless because of his alcoholism, admitting in a Sunday Mirror interview he fears he will never stop drinking.
Gascoigne said: "I have paid about £300K of my money. I am trying. I want to win this over. I went to rehab to help Kenny and he ran out after half a day, he is not wanting that.
"I can't help him, no-one in the world can help unless he puts his hand up and says he needs help."
Gascoigne was capped 57 times by England and made more than 400 appearances for clubs including Newcastle, Tottenham, Lazio and Rangers, before retiring after leaving Boston in 2004.
"I still haven't coped. I hardly try and watch games because I still wish I was playing.
"I cannot handle watching players getting lots of money and not putting 100% in. The fans paid for my house, my car, my holidays - but I've seen players score a goal, even for England, and just walk back.
"There are young kids there seeing that and thinking it means nothing to score goals. I don't like that."
On Sunday, England forward Raheem Sterling was booed by some fans during the goalless friendly draw with the Republic of Ireland.
The 20-year-old Liverpool player has been criticised for wanting to leave the Reds and rejecting a £100,000-a-week contract with them.
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England boss Roy Hodgson said he "trusts" Sterling, but suggested he also needs to work harder and develop a thicker skin.
"There are 11 players on the pitch and Raheem was picked out," said Gascoigne. "That means he is doing something right, because Roy knows he is a great player.
"I'd say to Sterling if you are getting kicked left, right and centre and getting booed it is because they are scared. They don't want you playing and don't want you on the ball because you are dangerous. Take it as a compliment.
"Take a little bit from your club manager, a little bit from England manager and a little bit from what is being said by other people as well. The time to worry is when they stop talking about you."
A spokesman for de Gruchy said the skeleton was believed to be one of only four left in the world and would be on display until 16 April.
It is launching the store's annual challenge to raise £10,000 for a local charity.
John Marquis, store manager, said Durrell had been selected by staff as the chosen charity for 2012.
He said the store planned to set up an area dedicated to selling merchandise, entry tickets and adoption packs to raise awareness of Durrell's work.
Dr Lee Durrell, Durrell's honorary director, said: "We won't compromise on our conservation projects, which put us under continued financial pressure.
"It is with the support of organisations like de Gruchy and the broader community that we continue to undertake our field-work and maintain our wildlife park and training centre in Trinity.
"Giving our charity prime position on the high street, using the dodo to represent the challenges we face daily, is a huge boost to Durrell. We can't thank de Gruchy enough for this opportunity."
Durrell said it was 350 years since the last recorded sighting of the dodo.
The $3.7bn (£2.8bn) Dakota Access pipeline has prompted huge protests, notably in North Dakota where Native Americans have halted its construction.
It will run 1,168 miles through Iowa, Illinois, and North and South Dakotas.
US District Judge James Boasberg said on Wednesday he will make a decision on the issue by 9 September.
Outside the court in the US capital, environmental activists made their feelings clear.
They believe the transporting of up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil a day will imperil local waterways.
The company behind the pipeline, Energy Transport Partners, has said the project will boost local economies and is much safer than transporting oil by rail or road. But protesters disagree.
Activists Desiree Fairooz and Lenny Bianchi were among the demonstrators outside the court, where a federal judge was set to consider the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's request for an injunction that would effectively block the pipeline's construction.
"We're concerned about the Native Americans and the threat to their water supply but we're also concerned about the fossil fuel issue," said Mr Bianchi, a Blue Mountain, Virginia native.
"We don't feel that we should be building pipelines, we feel that the money should instead be spent on alternative sources of energy."
Dozens of protesters convened outside the US District Court, with environmental activists and members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe uniting behind one message - water is life.
The crowd was studded with signs bearing the words "native lives matter", "water is life" and "be on the right side of history, no DAPL [Dakota Access pipeline]."
Valentine Little Shield, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe in South Dakota, took a bus to Washington to show her support for the Standing Rock Nation Tribe.
Ms Little Shield describes the contested pipeline as personal. Her grandchildren use the waters where the pipeline poses a threat to swim, fish and bathe their horses.
"I'm here because of my grandkids and what they're going to go through," she said. "They can't drink the oil, they can't take a bath in the oil."
Generations of native Americans, both young and old, took turns sharing personal accounts of why halting the pipeline was important to them as crowd broke into battle cries and pounded tribal drums.
"We're not here to protest, we're here to protect," said Lance Frazier, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in Eagle Butte, South Dakota .
But for many, the pipeline symbolises a deeper issue among Native Americans.
Denise Desiderio, the policy director for the National Congress of American Indians, called the unilateral support of tribes across the country a "historic" moment.
"We need to make sure our tribal voice is heard and when we raise our voice, we need to make sure it transcends this issue," she said, noting the important symbolism of land to the Native American community.
"We have had enough lands taken away, we can't let what we have left be destroyed."
Hundreds of people have been occupying one of the construction sites in North Dakota, where tensions have been running high between demonstrators, police and builders.
Defender Briggs gave the Lions the lead midway through the first half with a low strike, but was booked for his celebration.
That almost proved costly just before the hour when Briggs was shown a second yellow for a foul on Sido Jombati.
But the Championship side held on as Matt Bloomfield headed wide late on for League Two Wycombe.
Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth told BBC Three Counties Radio:
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"Hopefully we've gained a bit of respect form the Championship side tonight.
"I thought we deserved something from the game.
"We've got to build slowly at this club, but the signs are still there.
"We've got a big job to do, on and off the pitch last season wasn't good enough, this season is hopefully a turn around from that."
Mr Obama was answering a series of questions on the highs and lows of his time in office on Fox News.
He said, however, that intervening in Libya had been "the right thing to do".
The US and other countries carried out strikes designed to protect civilians during the 2011 uprising.
But after the former Libyan leader was killed, Libya plunged into chaos with militias taking over and two rival parliaments and governments forming.
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So-called Islamic State (IS) gained a foothold, and Libya became a major departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe.
A UN-backed national unity government arrived in the capital Tripoli earlier this month but is waiting to take charge.
The leader of the faction ruling western Libya has threatened to prosecute any of his ministers who co-operate with the UN-backed administration, contradicting an earlier announcement the ministers would stand down.
President Obama gave the brief but revealing answer speaking to Chris Wallace:
CW: Worst mistake?
Obama: Probably failing to plan for the day after, what I think was the right thing to do, in intervening in Libya.
It is not the first time President Obama has expressed regret over Libya. He told the Atlantic magazine last month the operation went as well as he had hoped, but Libya was now "a mess".
In that interview, he also criticised France and the UK, in particular saying British Prime Minister David Cameron became "distracted" after the intervention.
It was a rare rebuke for a close ally and one which BBC correspondents at the time said angered Downing Street.
President Obama told Fox that his biggest accomplishment in office was "saving the economy from the great depression".
He said the best day of his presidency was when he passed the healthcare reforms. The worst, he said, was responding to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school.
Mr Obama discussed his legacy in a BBC interview last year, saying his failure to pass tighter gun control laws was the biggest frustration of his presidency.
February 2011: Protests against Colonel Gaddafi's regime erupt in Libya
March 2011: UN Security Council authorises a no-fly zone over Libya and air strikes to protect civilians
October 2011: Gaddafi is captured and killed by rebel fighters
2012: Splits emerge as the transitional government struggle to rein in local militias
September 2012: The US ambassador and three other Americans are killed when Islamist militants storm the consulate in eastern Benghazi
June 2014: Disputed elections are held. Two governments are formed: one in the capital Tripoli, the other UN-backed administration in eastern Torbruk
January 2015: The UN announces a new interim government but it is yet to take charge
Air accident experts said the coverings - the fan cowl doors - broke off and punctured the right engine's fuel pipe, damaging the aircraft's systems.
A fire then broke out in the right engine of the Airbus A319 British Airways flight to Oslo.
The jet landed safely and its 75 passengers and crew were evacuated.
The aeroplane returned to Heathrow soon after taking off last Friday when black smoke was seen coming from an engine.
The findings were made in an interim report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), which is examining the cause of the emergency.
The fire in the right engine broke out as the flight prepared to land, but the left engine was unaffected, the AAIB report said.
"Subsequent investigation revealed that the fan cowl doors on both engines were left unlatched during maintenance and this was not identified prior to aircraft departure," the report added.
Keith Williams, BA chief executive, said: "We continue to co-operate fully with the investigation team and can confirm that appropriate initial action has already been taken in accordance with the AAIB's safety recommendation to Airbus."
Mr Williams added that he could not discuss any details while the inquiry continued.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the report contained "serious findings", adding that the aviation industry "must act immediately to take the appropriate safety action and ensure that all lessons are learnt from what has happened".
BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott said British Airways had confirmed that two different engineers would normally check whether a plane's engine covers had been shut before take-off.
"One checks, the other double-checks - that's clearly not happened in this case," he said.
Mr Westcott added that BA's mechanics were all staff of the airline, which would not say if anyone had been suspended.
The aircraft underwent normal overnight maintenance which included opening the cowl doors and checking the oil levels, the report said.
Nothing unusual was noted during the checks before the flight took off, but the cowl doors would have been "difficult to see unless crouched down so that the bottom of the engine is clearly visible".
As the plane took off the 50-year-old pilot reported feeling a "slight bump" and thought the aircraft had run over a light on the runway.
Air traffic controllers alerted the pilot about the flight leaving some debris on the runway, which later turned out to be the detached cowl doors.
When the crew realised the doors had broken off, causing a "significant fuel leak" and affecting the hydraulic system, the pilot decided to return to the airport.
The cowl doors also damaged the tyres, landing gears and the hydraulic brake pipe.
The right engine was "extensively damaged" in the fire, the report said.
Last July Airbus said there had been 32 reported fan cowl door detachment events, but none of the cases resulted in a fire.
"The source of ignition that led to the in-flight fire is still under investigation," the report said.
The AAIB has asked Airbus to inform operators about the 24 May emergency and recommended it "reiterates the importance of verifying that the fan cowl doors are latched prior to flight by visually checking the position of the latches".
The mother of two had to cope with big changes in her life after a back injury ended her participation in endurance mountain bike racing.
Injury or disability doesn't have to define who you are or what you can do
And, after an incredible few years that have seen her go from never having been in a canoe to winning a gold medal at the Rio Paralympics, she is ready to embrace new challenges and pass on what she has learnt to others.
"The last four years in elite sport couldn't have gone any better and it would be difficult to top the experience," says Dickins.
"It's been an amazing adventure but there are still so many other adventures in the world that I want to have."
It's that positive attitude that was severely tested when Dickins, a physiotherapist by trade, ruptured a disc in her back following a freak combination of circumstances and found herself struggling to cope with the consequences.
She started to volunteer as a physio at cycling meetings and, as a result, was taken on as a Games Maker at London 2012.
"The whole Games in London were incredible and the dedication and commitment of the cyclists at the velodrome where I was working was palpable," she reflects.
"It made me want to try a new sport just to see if I could do it."
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A chance conversation over a coffee with a fellow volunteer pointed her in the direction of Paracanoe - as a sport she could do despite her weak leg - and, within weeks, she had gone from a complete novice to being enrolled on the British Canoeing programme with her mind set on Rio.
"I was particularly inspired by Helen Glover's story," adds Dickins.
"She won gold in the rowing after only four years in the sport and seeing her achievement made me think that Rio might be a pathway open to me.
"Everything about becoming an elite athlete was hard, but I looked at it all as a challenge and probably the hardest thing was juggling being a working mum and training at the same time."
But Dickins is also quick to acknowledge the help of others in her journey through the sport.
"I have learnt the power of being in a strong team - you don't have to do it on your own," she says.
And, on 16 September 2016, Dickins put all that work and assistance together to clinch the gold medal by 0.03 seconds at Lagoa in Rio.
"Finding out that I had won my race was definitely the highlight in Rio, as initially I wasn't sure who had won," adds Dickins.
"I can remember standing on the podium and listening to the national anthem as the flag was raised, with everyone cheering, it was surreal."
Since that incredible day, Dickins has been busy sharing her experiences with others.
She has given some 64 talks in the last 12 months to volunteer groups, schools and clubs and even individuals at BBC Sport Personality of the Year.
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"One of my passions has been to give back, so I have done as many volunteer appearances as I could," says the Rio champion.
"I have met a huge variety of people and shared my experiences and I hope in some small way I have inspired the next generation."
It's something that hasn't gone unrecognised within the sport.
"Anne's own story of how she got involved in the sport is unique and it is fantastic to see her commitment to sharing her experiences with so many others," said British Canoeing performance director John Anderson.
So, having walked away from canoeing while she is at the top of her game, how does Dickins look back at that part of her life?
"Taking up a new sport and winning gold in Rio has completely changed my life," she admits.
"I have learnt so much about myself and feel a lot wiser because of it.
"I have learnt to accept that life isn't always fair but that's OK. That injury or disability doesn't have to define who you are or what you can do.
"I've learnt if what you are doing isn't working to try to think differently and find a new approach to make it happen."
The probe into Wiltshire Police stemmed from the aborted prosecution in 1994 of Myra Forde.
A retired senior police officer claimed she had threatened to expose the former prime minister in court as a client to whom she had supplied young boys.
The IPCC found the case was halted when witnesses refused to give evidence.
It was also deemed unclear whether the comment about Sir Edward had even been made.
The officer making the claims worked undercover to investigate Forde's brothel in the early 1990s.
He gave evidence to the Independent Police Complaints Commission alleging a solicitor had threatened that, if the case went ahead, Forde would make the allegations against Sir Edward.
The policeman was relatively junior at the time and did not record the incident in his notebook.
He told investigators that during his career the incident had worried him and, having seen a TV programme about Jimmy Savile in 2014, he decided to come forward.
However, the IPCC spoke to Forde's solicitor and barrister at the time who both disagreed with his story.
His Honour Judge Seed was the prosecuting barrister at the time. He told the IPCC the decision not to go ahead was solely based on "insufficient evidence".
The watchdog said Judge Seed was clear when interviewed that "the comment about Sir Edward would have played no part in that process."
"He said he had never met [Sir Edward Heath] and he would not have spared his blushes," the IPCC said.
Another police officer, Ch Insp Richard Kirven, told the IPCC inquiry he had heard rumours that if Forde was charged she would provide information to the press that would "result in embarrassment to certain persons," but he regarded her as "a bit of a fantasist".
Myra Forde refused to speak to the IPCC but told The Sun newspaper last year she had supplied male escorts to Sir Edward Heath.
The retired senior officer who sparked the IPCC inquiry claims in 1994 he passed on the allegation about Myra Forde and Sir Edward to his superior officer at the time.
But the IPCC concluded Wiltshire Police was unaware of it and could not have been expected to investigate.
The announcement of the IPCC investigation on 3 August last year was followed by a public appeal for "victims" of Sir Edward Heath, by a senior Wiltshire Police officer in front of his former home in Salisbury.
It was strongly criticised as "trawling" for victims.
In a statement today, the force said: "As a result of the appeal, a number of people individually came forward with information. This led to a wider police investigation being established and we are following a number of lines of inquiry."
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They said they were investigating HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) and "persons unknown for suspected aggravated money laundering".
The investigation could be extended to people suspected of committing or participating in money laundering.
HSBC said it was "co-operating with the Swiss authorities."
The raid comes more than a week after allegations first emerged that HSBC's Swiss private bank may have helped wealthy clients evade tax.
HSBC published a full-page advert in several weekend papers containing an apology over the claims.
The chief executive of HSBC's Swiss private bank, Franco Morra, said last week it had shut down accounts from clients who "did not meet our high standards".
Mr Morra added the revelations about "historical business practices" were a reminder that the old business model of Swiss private banking was no longer acceptable.
HM Revenue & Customs was given the leaked data in 2010 and has identified 1,100 people who had not paid their taxes.
Last week, HSBC admitted that it was "accountable for past control failures", but said it had now "fundamentally changed".
"We acknowledge that the compliance culture and standards of due diligence in HSBC's Swiss private bank, as well as the industry in general, were significantly lower than they are today," it added.
The bank faces criminal investigations in the US, France, Belgium and Argentina, but not in the UK, where HSBC is based.
HSBC said it was "co-operating with relevant authorities".
Geneva's attorney general, Olivier Jornot, told reporters the investigation could be extended to individuals suspected of money laundering or tax fraud.
"The goal of this investigation is precisely to verify if the information that has been made public are well-founded and if de facto reproaches can be made, whether it be towards the bank, or towards physical persons, like collaborators or clients," he said.
Offshore accounts are not illegal, but many people use them to hide cash from the tax authorities.
And while tax avoidance is perfectly legal, deliberately hiding money to evade tax is not.
The allegations have caused a political storm in the UK over who knew what and when.
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Andrew Burns was answering a question over whether the schools would be closed until the summer.
The council has confirmed construction defects have been discovered at all 17 schools built under the PPP1 project.
The problems, identified after a school wall collapsed, relate to missing ties used to support building walls.
Five secondaries, 10 primaries and two additional support needs schools were shut due to concerns over structural issues.
All of the schools, which are about 10 years old, were constructed under the same public private partnership contract.
About 7,600 pupils were initially affected and there are still no plans for how to get 3,200 children back in to classrooms.
Most will have to attend different schools until their own is declared safe.
The council said there were still no plans in place to accommodate pupils from five primary schools and S1 and S2 students at Firrhill and The Royal High School.
S1, S2 and S3 students at Gracemount and Craigroyston have also not yet been placed in temporary school accommodation.
The council pays £1.5m a month to Edinburgh Schools Partnership to maintain and look after 17 school buildings in the city as part of a £540m 30-year-contract.
The council is clawing back a "large percentage" of that money while it has no use of 14 schools that have been completely closed over the safety fears.
Three schools - The Royal High, Drummond and Firrhill - are being partially used, as they were refurbished during the PPP work and not completely rebuilt.
Speaking on BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland, Mr Burns said the buildings were not inspected by the council when their construction was completed.
Mr Burns said the private sector consortium that built them- Edinburgh Schools Partnership - self-certified that they met "all the relevant building standards".
The council leader said: "Under the regulations in place at the time, this is a really important point, under the regulations that were in place at the time Edinburgh Schools Partnership and its agents self-certified to the council, as they were entitled to do so, that the buildings complied with all the relevant building standards."
He added: "During the construction there was ongoing involvement from the council but the self certification process that was there at the time, quite rightly, quite legally, quite properly, Edinburgh Schools Partnership self-certified to the council that the buildings were compliant with all the relevant building standards.
"So the responsibility lies with the schools partnership."
About 7,600 pupils missed the first two days of the new term following the Easter break and thousands will not be back in classrooms at any school until next week.
The council announced on Wednesday that practical exams, such as oral language tests, due to take place at the five high schools affected by the closure had been postponed.
Mr Burns told BBC Scotland: "Early indications are that there is evidence of some fault at all the schools but it's too early to say how that will physically impact in terms of the length of closure for each of the individual 17 schools."
The Labour councillor added: "Some schools will be affected in a small way and other schools might be affected in the longer term."
Mr Burns said the money paid to the Edinburgh Schools Partnership was being "clawed back".
He said: "We will be making sure that that money is reclaimed. That will be absolutely the cost to Edinburgh Schools Partnership and will not cost the Edinburgh tax payer a penny."
The majority of the 2,000 pupils preparing for exams at the five high schools affected resumed lessons on Wednesday.
Senior pupils from three secondaries - Drummond High, Firrhill High and The Royal High School - were able to return to their usual building as they only had partial refurbishments as part of the PPP project.
Older Gracemount students were asked to report to Liberton High School.
On Thursday, S1-S3 pupils returned to Drummond High School and S4-S6 pupils from Craigmont High went to Tynecastle High School.
S3 pupils from Firrhill High and The Royal High School also returned to classes.
Alexia Walenkaki was playing on a rope swing in Mile End Park when a tree trunk holding the swing fell on her.
The Met Police is compiling a report for the Crown Prosecution Service a pre-inquest review at St Pancras Coroner's Court heard.
A spokesman for the council said such a charge was "not appropriate".
About an hour after Alexia's accident, on 17 July, she went into cardiac arrest and died in the Royal London hospital.
At the time, her mother Vida Kwotuah said she watched in horror as the tree trunk - which she described as rotten - knocking her daughter to the ground.
Det Insp Craig Bradley said more expert evidence was being gathered.
He said: "We are in the process of investigating the possibility of corporate manslaughter or gross negligence. We have liaised very closely with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)."
The inquest heard the tree trunk was decayed and an expert has compiled a report on its state.
Mr Bradley said he has contacted another expert about the level of decay in the trunk at the time of the accident, and whether it would have been visible in an inspection.
Mark Scoggins at Fisher Scoggin Waters, solicitors representing Tower Hamlets Council, said such a charge would require "gross failings" in senior management at a "very serious level".
He added: "The issue is literally down on the ground, it is difficult to see how senior managers up the chain could have knowledge of that."
An inquest with a jury will run for four days starting on 11 April. If a criminal prosecution is brought, the inquest will be adjourned.
The 24-year-old spent three months on loan at the League Two club last term.
Smith scored four goals in 16 appearances for Paul Cook's side, who failed to gain promotion via the play-offs in 2015-16.
"I really enjoyed my time here last season and am over the moon to be a Pompey player again," Smith told the club website.
Smith becomes Cook's fifth summer signing, following the arrivals of Matt Clarke, Danny Rose, Carl Baker and Drew Talbot.
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British-born Shia cleric Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar lectured near Orlando, Florida in April and was being widely quoted in the wake of Sunday's killing.
He was visiting Australia as a guest of Sydney's Imam Husain Islamic Centre.
Media reports on Wednesday said Sheikh Sekaleshfar left the country after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ordered a review of his visa.
Australia's immigration minister Peter Dutton said he had officially revoked Sheikh Sekaleshfar's visa and that it would be "very difficult, if not impossible for him to return" to the country.
But Mr Dutton defended his department against accusations that a visa for the sheik should never have been approved.
'It's difficult for the department to go through the Facebook or social media postings of millions of millions of people each year who seek visas,' Mr Dutton told Sky News.
Sheikh Sekaleshfar was born in Manchester, UK and currently lives in Iran.
In April he delivered a sermon entitled How to Deal with the Phenomenon of Homosexuality at the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Florida.
There is no evidence that Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at an Orlando nightclub, attended the lecture.
During lectures, clips of which were posted online, the cleric has said the death penalty is justified for homosexuals in societies operating under Islamic laws.
"Death is the sentence. There's nothing to be embarrassed about this. Death is the sentence," he said during a 2013 lecture at the University of Michigan.
He told Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper that his comments had been taken out of context and said he did not believe his words could have inspired Mateen's nightclub attack.
Sheikh Sekaleshfar said Mateen was a follower of the so-called Islamic State, which follows the Wahabi doctrine of Sunni Islam and had been "killing homosexuals in the most wrongful way for years now", whereas he was a Shia scholar.
"This barbaric act was beyond all definitions of humanity," he told the paper.
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The two strikers squared up near the end of Preston's 2-1 loss at Sheffield Wednesday as they chased an equaliser.
Both players are likely to receive three-match bans for violent conduct.
"I've been in the game for 30 years playing and managing and I've never been involved with anything like that," Grayson told BBC Lancashire.
"I spoke to them in the dressing room and they were apologetic, but that doesn't wash with me, something like that should never happen in the professional game."
With Wednesday temporarily down to nine men following Fernando Forestieri's sending off and Will Buckley off the field receiving treatment to a shoulder injury with all the substitutes used, North End had been in with a chance of levelling the game after Doyle had pulled a goal back.
But Beckford took exception to Doyle's decision to pass to Marnick Vermijl, who shot over the bar in the 90th minute.
"It's an absolute embarrassment," Grayson said. "I stick up for my players at every club I've been at, I don't like to criticise them in public, I will do in the dressing room. But I can't stick up for either of those players."
Grayson said the duo would be reprimanded by the club, on top of any suspension handed to them by the Football Association.
"You expect it in the playground between four or five-year-olds, not from two professionals who've been in the game a long time," added the Preston boss.
"They've let themselves down, but that's the least of it. They've let our supporters down who've travelled here, and ultimately cost us the potential of getting a point or maybe three points because 11 against 10 we were on top and we had them.
"For something like that to happen is embarrassing. It's a joke, it's a disgrace."
Preston captain Tom Clarke told BBC Radio Lancashire that the team will discuss the incident early next week.
"It's not like us, we're a close group and all stick together and we'll look at it again on Monday and try and air stuff out," he said.
"We'll iron stuff out as quickly as we can because we've got to move on."
In the 19th Century, schooners were a familiar sight along France's northern coast, their majestic sails fluttering in the wind. Nowadays, they have been replaced by boats which are far faster, more efficient - and less romantic.
But there is still a corner of the world where a new generation of carpenters is keeping old maritime traditions alive by crafting these vessels to original standards.
The mastery shown by carpenters working in the town of Belo-sur-mer on Madagascar's west coast is respected around the world - at least one of their beautifully crafted schooners has been sent to collectors in France in recent years.
And it is all thanks to one family, brought to the island by a king's ambition.
It was King Radama II of Madagascar who decided to bring the schooner to his East African island.
For more than a thousand years, Arab boats moved along the coast of Madagascar trading goods for slaves. They were joined in the 17th Century by European trading vessels. Until the 19th Century, the Malagasy fleet was composed of mainly smaller fishing boats and canoes.
But the Vezo Sakalava - coastal people from the western region - wanted to develop bigger trading boats to move cargo around the island, and King Radama was happy to grant their wish.
The king turned to the French government, asking them to send shipwrights to teach his people.
Soon, the Joachim family, who were creoles of mixed European and African descent, and fellow marine carpenters from France's neighbouring island of La Reunion were sailing to Madagascar.
But when the family arrived, they discovered that the king had been assassinated. His reign had lasted less than two years, from 1861 to 1863.
The Joachims soon found themselves forced to flee to the east coast and, over the course of several decades, the family circumnavigated and lived in parts of southern Madagascar, eventually settling in the western port of Morondava.
It was here, and in nearby Belo-sur-mer, that Enasse Joachim and his three sons began practicing their craft, building schooners for Madagascar.
Of Dutch origin, the ships can have two or three masts decorated with several sails, and reach up to 22m (72ft) in length. As the vessel does not have a keel, it is ideal for navigating shallow Malagasy lagoons and mooring on sandbanks and beaches.
By 1904 - some 40 years after they first stepped foot on Madagascar - some of the Joachim family had managed to establish shipbuilding schools. It was done with the approval of France's Governor Gallieni, since the French had colonised Madagascar almost a decade earlier, in 1895.
The Malagasy apprentices of the Joachims became master carpenters and shipbuilders in their own right and passed down their skills through several generations, turning Belo-sur-mer into a major shipyard for Schooners, or Botsy in Malagasy.
More than a century later, their legacy continues in Belo-sur-mer, carried on by families like the Justins, who have built two ships.
"My sons and I come from a long line of shipbuilders going back to my great-grandparents," says the patriarch, known simply as Mr Justin.
The name of one of their boats, Fagnanarantsoandraza, translates from poetic Malagasy to "let it be known that the fine have no need to stay here". It is a name worthy of the love put into building the boat, constructed with timber painstakingly collected from nearby forests.
The vessel, launched in 2012, is 18m in length and can carry loads of up to 50 tonnes, usually salt or agricultural products, to areas that are often inaccessible by road.
The ships are summoned home for regular maintenance, including the resealing of their hulls, before returning to sea.
Of the three Joachim sons, Albert's influence is perhaps most felt today. The Malagasy diminutive of Albert is Bebe, and the port in Morondava bears this name.
While descendants of Albert and Fernand Joachim are believed to live on in Morondava, less was known about their brother, Ludovic, until recently.
He had married a woman 54km (34 miles) away in the village Belo-sur-mer, where he died in 1902. A century later in 2002, a French woman living locally was determined to locate Ludovic's grave and managed to do so with the help of the mayor, and village elders.
Discovered 400m from the village where it was hidden by undergrowth, the modest grave was marked out with a mound of rocks and a fading wooden cross etched with his name.
Local authorities decided to restore the grave and mounted a miniature wooden schooner upon the tomb, to honour the Joachim family's unique contribution to the island's seafaring traditions.
Councillors voted in favour of the 3.1-mile (5km) road linking the A370, near Long Ashton, to the Cater Road roundabout in Hartcliffe.
Earlier this month the plan was approved by councillors in North Somerset, the other authority involved with the £43m scheme.
The new road is due to be completed by 2017.
Campaigners had claimed the road would cause air pollution and destroy greenbelt land between the A370 and the A38.
Supporters said it would combat congestion and improve the local economy.
The combined road and bus route will also includes new cycle and pedestrian paths.
Bristol City Council and North Somerset Council will contribute about £15m towards the cost of the road, with other funding coming from the Department for Transport.
The pontiff said religions had to be treated with respect, so that people's faiths were not insulted or ridiculed.
To illustrate his point, he told journalists that his assistant could expect a punch if he cursed his mother.
The remarks came as funerals were held for four people killed in the attack by militant Islamists.
Friends and family paid last respects to cartoonists Bernard Verlhac, known as Tignous, and Georges Wolinski, as well as columnist Elsa Cayat and policeman Franck Brinsolaro.
Eight magazine staff, a visitor to the magazine, a caretaker and two policemen died in the attack. A policewoman and four people at a kosher supermarket died in separate attacks.
Al-Qaeda said it had directed the Charlie Hebdo attack.
The magazine was targeted for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. It printed another cartoon of the Prophet on its front page after the attacks, angering some Muslims who say all depictions of the Prophet should be forbidden.
France has deployed thousands of troops and police to boost security in the wake of last week's attacks. There have been retaliatory attacks against Muslim sites around France.
Meanwhile the creator of the "Je suis Charlie" slogan, which became a symbol of support for Charlie Hebdo, has applied for a patent, saying that he wants to prevent the commercial exploitation of the design and keep its original message intact.
Speaking to journalists flying with him to the Philippines, Pope Francis said last week's attacks were an "aberration", and such horrific violence in God's name could not be justified.
He staunchly defended freedom of expression, but then he said there were limits, especially when people mocked religion.
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri [who organises the Pope's trips] speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched," he said, throwing a pretend punch at the doctor, who was standing beside him.
"You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit."
Earlier President Francois Hollande vowed to protect Muslims who, he said, were the main victims of fanaticism, along with people of other religions.
Speaking at the Arab World Institute, he said anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic acts should be condemned and punished.
In a separate development, the government announced that a Malian employee of the Jewish supermarket that was attacked would be given French citizenship.
Some 300,000 people signed an online petition calling for the move after the Muslim employee, Lassana Bathily, hid several customers from the gunman in a cold store.
Charlie Hebdo published a new edition on Wednesday, with an image on the cover showing the Prophet Muhammad weeping while holding a sign saying "I am Charlie", and below the headline "All is forgiven".
Mr Hollande declared Charlie Hebdo magazine "reborn" after the magazine sold out in hours.
But some Muslims were angered by the edition and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu condemned it on Thursday as an "open provocation".
In Pakistan on Thursday, lawmakers unanimously approved a resolution condemning the publication of the images, and several hundred demonstrators from a religious party called for cartoonists who drew pictures of the Prophet Muhammad to be hanged.
A private funeral service was held for cartoonist Tignous, 57, in the suburb of Montreuil, ahead of his burial in Pere Lachaise, Paris' best known resting place for writers, artists and composers.
A ceremony was held at Pere Lachaise for Wolinski, who was to be cremated.
Crowds in Montreuil applauded Tignous' coffin as it arrived for the ceremony at Montreuil town hall covered in drawings and messages from well-wishers.
In a tribute at the ceremony, Tignous' colleague Corinne Rey described him as the "king of jokes".
"Our magazine will live, it will be a different magazine," she said. "You were never afraid, my Titi and be assured, we won't be afraid either."
At Wolinski's funeral, his daughter Elsa said his ideals would live on.
"I'm beginning to realise that he is gone," she said. "But as I said before, they've killed a man and not his ideas. So here we are. We stand here and will continue to defend the principles of Charlie Hebdo."
Three days of terror
Ashraf Ghani said the 453 UK troops had "paid the ultimate sacrifice to enable us to live in freedom, in hope for peace, prosperity and dignity".
The Queen and many veterans will attend a service at St Paul's Cathedral later to commemorate the end of the war.
A simultaneous service will be held in Afghanistan for troops still there.
The Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prime Minister David Cameron are all expected to attend the St Paul's ceremony, which will be followed by a procession through London.
UK forces were part of a US-led coalition which invaded Afghanistan and toppled the ruling Taliban in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks in the US.
Anne Linley's son, Staff Sgt Brett Linley, was 29 when he was killed as he worked to clear improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan in 2010.
He defused more than 100 bombs and posthumously received the George Medal for "great bravery".
Mrs Linley said it would be a "great honour" to be at St Paul's along with members of the Royal Family and other soldiers' parents.
"I'm looking forward to it but dreading it at the same time because you don't know what kind of emotions it will bring forward," she said.
Speaking about her son, she said: "I miss him all day long... we carry him in our hearts and always will."
A new interim government was set up in December 2001 - but the Taliban kept fighting and has killed thousands of foreign and Afghan government troops over the years since the invasion.
The Taliban remains a powerful force in the country, and declared the "defeat" of the US and its allies when Nato formally ended its combat mission in December.
At the peak of the campaign the UK military, which faced regular Taliban attacks, had 9,500 troops and 137 bases in Helmand Province.
Former soldier Craig Gadd, now of Help for Heroes, lost his left leg after stepping on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.
He said: "Things happen. I feel very lucky that I only lost one leg. Some of my colleagues have injuries far worse than mine. I've done some amazing things since that day."
Pte James Prosser was killed in Afghanistan in 2009. His mother Sarah Adams told the Today programme that the country had not been left as safe as was intended.
"James believed in what he was doing, and I have to try to accept that, that he wanted to do that and believed he should be there. But as a mum, it's very difficult.
"It's just very hard to take that we didn't leave it as we were supposed to leave it. We did achieve a lot but we didn't make it the safest place and it's still ongoing. Afghan people are still losing their lives because of the Taliban."
L/Cpl James Ashworth was killed in 2012 and posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
His father Duane Ashworth said he believed the situation in Afghanistan had improved, adding: "I do believe that the country is in a better position than it was when we first arrived 13 years ago. It's now for the forces that are there to continue that training with the Afghan forces and police, to make sure what our lads did does continue."
The last British combat troops left in October last year, though some still remain in training, advisory and support roles.
As well as paying tribute to Britain's war dead, President Ghani spoke of the enduring legacy of the UK's commitment at the British-run officer training academy near Kabul.
BBC Afghanistan correspondent David Loyn said: "President Ghani's tribute contrasts strongly with complaints by his predecessor President Karzai, who said that the British presence had made things worse in Helmand and frequently clashed with British diplomats and soldiers about their role.
"The new government in Afghanistan sees things very differently."
The clowns, attending an annual convention in Mexico City, chanted: "We are clowns, not killers".
The craze, in which people dress up as clowns and scare people, spread quickly with the help of social media.
Scary clowns were first reported in the US in August and quickly spread to the UK, Australia and Brazil.
Last week, five teenagers dressed as clowns were detained in the Mexican city of Mexicali after frightening people with bats. Clown sightings were also reported in the city of Queretaro.
The hysteria over the past weeks has prompted police in several countries to increase patrols outside schools, and in some areas fancy dress shops were asked to remove clown masks from the shelves.
The craze also saw fast food giant McDonald's limiting the public appearances of its well-known clown mascot, Ronald McDonald.
But those who earn a living from the profession are fighting back, hoping to reverse the negativity that has cast a shadow on their trade.
Hoi Hoi, a professional clown at the Mexico city convention, told Reuters: "There is more good than evil. Clowns show we are good people and we do our work in the best possible way."
An Argentine clown who went by the name Fluorescent Plug said: "I don't see anything funny about it."
Others were concerned about the safety of professional clowns. Tomas Morales, president of the Brotherhood of Latino Clowns, said: "If [people] see in the news that we are evil, they can take a machete or a gun and kill a clown."
Latin American clowns were dogged by controversy in 2013, when they gathered at that year's convention to deny allegations that one of their colleagues was responsible for the killing of a former Mexican drug cartel leader.
The clowns argued at the time that their costumes were frequently stolen and then used to commit crimes.
The annual clown convention, known locally as the "Kings of Laughter" convention, brings together professional clowns from across the continent.
There are about 10,000 professional clowns registered in Mexico, according to the Latin-American Clown Association.
Petty's publisher contacted Smith's team after it noticed a likeness between the two songs.
A spokesman for Smith said the singer "acknowledged the similarity", but the likeness was "a complete coincidence".
It was "amicably" agreed Petty and his collaborator Jeff Lynne would be credited as co-writers of the track.
Smith's spokesman said: "Recently the publishers for the song I Won't Back Down, written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, contacted the publishers for Stay With Me, written by Sam Smith, James Napier and William Phillips, about similarities heard in the melodies of the choruses of the two compositions.
"Not previously familiar with the 1989 Petty/Lynne song, the writers of Stay With Me listened to I Won't Back Down and acknowledged the similarity.
"Although the likeness was a complete coincidence, all involved came to an immediate and amicable agreement."
Petty's I Won't Back Down peaked at number 12 in the US and number 28 in the UK in 1989, three years before Smith was born.
According to The Sun, an out-of-court settlement was made in October, but the details have only just emerged.
It is not clear whether Petty and Lynne will receive any royalties for the track.
A spokesman for Petty declined to comment to the BBC.
Stay With Me is nominated for three Grammys, including song of the year - which honours the writers of the track.
However, the Recording Academy said on Monday that Petty and Lynne would not be added to the nominations list for the song.
"Since Lynne and Petty did not do any new writing for this work, we are considering their original work to have been interpolated by Napier, Phillips and Smith for Stay With Me," it said.
It added that, should the song win, the pair would be given certificates to honour their participation in the work, in keeping with other writers whose music is sampled or interpolated in new compositions.
Celtic, Rangers and Chelsea had all shown interest in Alex Cooper, a midfielder showing the kind of promise in Ross County's youth ranks that led many to believe he might have a career to rival that of his father Neale, the former Aberdeen midfielder.
Raheem Sterling was one of his peers. Their subsequent trajectories highlight the fine margins that exist in the game.
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Long-term injury curtailed Cooper's progress and he departed Merseyside unfulfilled. He returned to Dingwall, moved on to Falkirk and most recently St Mirren before finding himself unattached in this close season.
At the age of 24, his career is in limbo. This week he will endeavour to further it at Broadwood Stadium, Clyde's home ground, which is staging the 10-day PFA Scotland showcase and exit trials, a chance for player to impress attending coaches, managers and agents.
Cooper stands out. He is creative and athletic. Amongst this squad of players, he seems a cut above. Mark Wilson, the former Celtic and Dundee United defender who is overseeing the trials as head coach, certainly thinks so.
"It's their chance to shine," Wilson said. "Alex Cooper's come in and been a leader right away. You can see his ability.
"Sometimes you look at these players and think, 'why are you here? You should be signed up somewhere'."
Cooper's career is far from finished and there is every chance he will be given an opportunity.
His story is a helpful reminder for youngsters pursuing their dream that it may not become a reality, even when presented with a chance at a club with the stature of Liverpool.
"There's been a lot of down times where I've been really frustrated and upset by things that are happening," said Cooper.
"I've put so much into it and kind of dedicated myself to it and I really want to try and make it work.
"I'm committed to try and stick to it as long as possible."
The trials culminate in a match next Saturday, 18 June, where the attendant coaches and managers can assess what's on offer.
There have been successes. Midfielder Iain Davidson earned a two-year contract at Raith Rovers last summer after being released by Dundee.
For Cooper, and the rest of this squad of players, this close season is no holiday. They have to impress or face a future potentially away from the game.
Sportsound will be following Alex Cooper's progress in PFA Scotland's exit trials over the next week, starting on BBC Radio Scotland on Saturday from 14:00 BST.
Post-War politics, built on a moderate consensus, is under strain.
The centre is holding but only just.
Austrians in large numbers voted for a far-right candidate in the face of much of Europe warning against allowing the first right-wing populist to become head of state since World War Two.
The strong showing of a candidate from the Austrian Freedom Party joins the anti-establishment success of Donald Trump in America.
In France, Marine Le Pen's National Front party has regularly topped some of the polls.
Although traditional parties appear embattled, the mainstream has proved resilient.
The London mayoral elections and the general election outside of Scotland were old-fashioned contests between Labour and Conservative.
In the last European elections, there were successes for anti-establishment parties - but power firmly remains with the centre-right European People's Party and the Socialists and Liberals.
In the Netherlands, the populist politician Geert Wilders topped the polls but stumbled in the general election.
In France, the National Front performed strongly in the recent regional elections but failed to make a breakthrough in the all-important second round of voting.
More often than not, the story in Europe is of the outsiders, the upstarts, the captains of the resentful rattling the gates but rarely being entrusted with power.
In Greece, there have been often violent protests against austerity, seen as imposed from Brussels - but when asked whether they wanted to leave the EU, fewer than 40% agreed.
In Hungary and Poland, however, there are now parties in power prepared to challenge the European consensus and politics as usual.
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And, in America, Donald Trump has tapped into the current mood of discontent.
He has defied all those who believed that the former Reality TV star would flame out and old politics would resume.
It hasn't, and politicians in Europe are watching America anxiously.
So what is driving this?
First, the politics of 2016 are still being defined by the financial crash of 2008.
Many middle-class Americans are working longer for less income than they earned decades before.
The numbers who call themselves middle-class are shrinking.
In the past six years, the US has created an impressive 14 million new jobs - but it is what those jobs are paying that gives politicians such as Mr Trump his opening.
In a time of economic insecurity, inequality has increased.
Inequality fosters mistrust of the elite.
In the US, there is a residual dislike of Wall Street and the bankers.
It has fuelled the success of the campaign of Bernie Sanders, an outsider candidate, who describes himself as a democratic socialist.
One of the marks of this new politics is a hostility to trade agreements that are seen as having stripped out jobs from America.
Even Hillary Clinton has had to appear lukewarm about signing future trade deals.
All the indications are of an electorate losing faith in public institutions.
Europe has been less successful at creating new jobs, and youth unemployment in many countries has remained stubbornly high.
It has stoked fears of Europe as a low-growth region.
Here, too, there is a protectionist streak running through the anti-establishment campaigns.
And the migrant crisis has fed the mood of insecurity.
There are really two narratives competing with each other.
One sees itself as outward-looking, internationalist, at ease with a globalised world.
It is more inclined to embrace migration as the mark of an open culture.
In place of one identity linked to a nation state, they speak of multiple identities.
It believes that globalisation cannot be slowed or reversed.
Three decades ago, there were no smart phones.
Now, there are more than billion, and technology is both connecting and shrinking how we live.
They tend to see institutions such as the EU protecting smaller countries and giving them influence.
Even though many manufacturing jobs have migrated to Asia, they argue that international trade benefits consumers and producers.
The other narrative is that globalisation has damaged the interests of working people, with jobs moving elsewhere.
Migration, for them, puts pressure on wages, increases demand for public services and dilutes the identity of long-standing communities.
They believe democracy has been undermined and that parliaments need to recover their authority.
The restlessness among voters on both sides of the Atlantic is rooted in the powerlessness of those in power.
Politicians seem unable to respond to demands of the voters.
In Europe, they struggle to deliver new jobs for young people.
Those in power often doubt the policy of austerity, in private, but have to enforce it.
Increasingly, it seems that decisions are decided by remote masters.
These same politicians are no longer trusted to deal with implications of automation and robotics on the world of work.
The populists at the gates of power, with their offer of "strong" leadership, promise to regain control of decisions made and that the certainties of the past can be reclaimed.
The challenge for mainstream parties is to convince voters they can deliver security in the face of global challenges; that migration can be managed; that institutions can protect voters from the harsh winds of globalisation; that identity will not be threatened.
In this debate, Donald Trump understands that social media gives him the opportunity to amplify the culture of complaint without the cross-examination of the mainstream media.
New challenges - from Russia and the so-called Islamic State (IS) group - are forcing the Pentagon to change its plans, and reopening old arguments about whether its allies are doing enough.
One of the headlines to come out of the new budget was a quadrupling of spending on US military preparations to defend allies in Europe.
When Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, says the alliance is facing its "most challenging security environment in a generation", he is thinking principally of the challenge posed by a "newly assertive Russia".
"The US is doing what they've always done - bail out Europeans unprepared to fund defence properly," says General Sir Richard Shirreff, Nato's number two soldier until two years ago, "but more than that, it's recognition that Europe is strategically vital for the US and that the withdrawal of the last of the US heavy brigades a couple of years ago went too far in the face of the very real threat posed by [Russian President Vladimir] Putin."
Yet the line item in the Pentagon's budget shows an increase from $789m to $3.4bn on measures to improve readiness in Europe.
It's a lot of money, but not compared to the budget overall or to what was lost when the US and other Nato countries cashed in their "peace dividend" at the end of the Cold War.
So the US now plans to have about 250 armoured vehicles pre-positioned in eastern Europe in case trouble flares in the Baltic republics or Poland.
But the number of tanks within that figure (50 or so) is around 1% of the number the US Army had positioned in Europe during the Cold War.
In 2013-14 the number of American tanks actually went down to zero.
The new deployments, and a programme of rolling Nato exercises, will bring some reassurance to Baltic leaders who fear that Russia might try to destabilise them.
America's reinvestment, it's only fair to say, also contrasts with many European allies who, so far at least, show little sign of living up to promises to raise their defence spending to 2% of GDP.
American annoyance that the Europeans are not doing enough to defend themselves led Robert Gates, then defence secretary, to warn in 2011: "There will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress, and in the American body politic writ large, to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defence."
Since pledging to boost spending in 2014, several east European Nato members have announced increases. Germany, long criticised by many of its allies, has also said it will add €9bn (£7bn; $10bn) to its military budget between 2016 and 2019.
Yet despite many changes of this kind the authoritative "Military Balance" annual published this month by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, reports, "while these additional funds will provide some relief to defence ministries across Europe, the significance of the announced increments should not be overstated".
So despite the 2011 Gates warning, and the summit pledges, Nato's reality remains much the same.
The Europeans don't want to spend (much) more and however much America may complain, it remains committed to its global security mission.
Russia and China, by comparison, may spend considerably less, but their budgets are rising (rapidly), they buy a lot more (manpower is cheaper for them), and their forces focus on their immediate periphery.
In the Middle East too, the Obama administration finds itself reversing its earlier drawdown in Iraq. It is spending more (for example, $1.8bn to buy 45,000 new guided bombs and missiles to replace those used recently, mostly in that part of the world) and calling on its friends to step up.
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter spoke last week of the "terrific opportunity" for US allies to do more in the fight against IS.
Yet the Americans find themselves being criticised by Turkey and France among others, for ceding the initiative to Russia and failing to act effectively enough over the past 18 months in Syria.
While Mr Carter has spoken of the battle to retake Mosul (which fell to IS in the summer of 2014) being under way, US intelligence officials suggest they do not expect the city to be recaptured this year.
The reality, then, of America's new defence budget is that the Obama years' pattern of long-term decline (of spending as a proportion of GDP) continues.
And even the one strategy that the Pentagon a few years back thought it had - drawing down in Europe and the Middle East in favour of a new emphasis on China and the Pacific - has been frustrated by world events.
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He said the Belfast Festival at Queen's, which has lost much of its funding, made an "enormous difference to the cultural landscape".
He described the move as "disappointing and worrying" and said he hoped the festival's future could be secured.
He is visiting Belfast to host a special charity premiere of his latest movie Cinderella.
More than 360 fans got to watch the film on Sunday afternoon before it opens in UK cinemas later this week.
The proceeds of the premiere will go to two organisations nominated by the actor - the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (Nicva) and Into Film, a charity for young people.
In an interview with BBC Northern Ireland, Sir Kenneth spoke about the cutbacks to the arts, and the funding crisis facing the Belfast Festival at Queen's.
"Queen's I think has always been varied and interesting, often dazzling in what it presents," he said.
"I think it's a disappointment and it's worrying and I hope that something can be done to secure the future of the festival."
The actor has been both a participant and a spectator at previous Belfast festivals.
"I know what that festival does and what these kind of festivals can do I think is remarkable not just for presenting interesting work but also in the sense of showing another part of the lifeblood of the city and the heartbeat of the city creatively."
The actor also said he "would love" to do more work in Northern Ireland.
"I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground," he said.
"But I'd love to come back and do something myself, it's about time, so I'm in conversation and I hope it's going to happen."
The firm's own internet services are now valued to be worth a fraction of its stake in the e-commerce giant Alibaba.
So, after the US tax authorities effectively blocked Yahoo's sales of shares in the Chinese business, chief executive Marissa Mayer opted for plan B: sell off Yahoo's core business.
Since February, dozens of US-based companies have been linked to a potential bid.
But the UK-based owner of the Daily Mail newspaper has now confirmed it is in discussions with unnamed parties to make an offer - an announcement that caught many by surprise.
In much of the world, Yahoo may be considered a marginal internet brand.
But in the US, it is still a force to be reckoned with.
In February, it was the States' third most visited online platform, attracting more than 204 million people, according to research firm Comscore.
To put that in context, Facebook had only 1% more users and Google's apps and websites only 17% more.
Yahoo's news and sports are read by about one in four people at least once a week in the country, according to a University of Oxford study.
And there are reports that its personal finance coverage is proving popular with millennials - those born in the 1980s and later - thanks to it mixing articles about how to deal with debt with more traditional earnings coverage.
Other properties, including its blogging platform Tumblr, photo-sharing service Flickr, web-based email accounts and Q&A site Yahoo Answers continue to have international appeal.
All of which means the firm can state that "more than one billion people" regularly use its products.
Investors are getting restless because Yahoo's share of users doesn't match its share of online advertising sales.
Last year, Yahoo accounted for only 1.5% of marketers' mobile online spend, according to a study by eMarketer.
By contrast, Google scooped up 35% and Facebook 19%.
Furthermore, Yahoo's position appears to be getting worse.
The firm has predicted that its overall revenues will drop by about 15% this year, according to documents seen by the news site Recode.
A large part of the problem is that while Yahoo can serve up huge numbers of ads, they are less targeted than those of its rivals.
"User data is key. Google and Facebook have a huge number of logged-in users, so they can track who it is using their services and use the information to let advertisers direct their ads," explained Joseph Evans from Enders Analysis.
"Yahoo might have a lot of users, but most of them are not logged into its services, so are effectively anonymous eyeballs.
"They are not totally anonymous - there is some behavioural data that Yahoo makes use of - but generally Google and Facebook are better at knowing who you are."
A chance to grow its US audience.
MailOnline and DailyMail.com were the only overseas publications to feature in the country's top 10 most visited news websites and apps last year, attracting more than 51 million readers.
But Yahoo - and its partner ABC News - still managed to attract more than double that figure.
"The US has been the main driver of digital growth for Daily Mail & General Trust, but whilst traffic has grown well they haven't quite monetised this traffic as successfully as they would have liked," said Ian Whittaker, a media analyst at the investment bank Liberum.
"The combined inventory of DMGT and Yahoo would make a compelling offer to media buyers as they could offer them a significant amount of verified impressions in a 'brand-safe' environment."
Another industry watcher added that the two firms' online activities appear to be a good match.
"Mail Online is fun and a bit salacious," commented Mathew Horsman from the Mediatique consultancy.
"It trends reasonably young and has a reputation for being a quick and dirty way of getting celebrity news, but its personal finance and property coverage are also among its strong suits.
"So, there are some interesting overlaps."
Far from it.
Many think a deal with Verizon would make more sense.
The mobile network has sought to diversify its interests, and bought AOL last year - which gave it ownership of the Huffington Post, Techcrunch, Engadget and other news sites.
Shortly afterwards, Verizon announced it would start combining personal knows about its mobile network subscribers - which is tied to their handsets - with the tracking data already gathered by AOL's sites. By doing so it said it could deliver more "personalised" ads.
"A Verizon-AOL-Yahoo tie-up would start to reach the sort of scale where they could become a 'third force' in advertising," said Mr Evans.
"Verizon already has one of the most sophisticated ad technology platforms and has built up a large number of user identities, so combining that with Yahoo's large number of users would allow it to offer a similar level of service to advertisers as Google and Facebook."
Other bidders might be attracted by Yahoo's intellectual property,
The New York Post recently reported that the firm owned about 6,000 patents, which it said could be worth $4bn (£2.8bn).
Recode added that Ms Mayer has been talking up the value of Index - a voice-controlled search tool developed by Yahoo that has yet to be launched.
Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon already have virtual assistants of their own, but might be interested in acquiring Index if it genuinely offers innovative tricks of its own.
He also called for the release of Bradley Manning, who is awaiting trial in the US accused of leaking classified documents to the Wikileaks site.
Mr Assange spoke from a balcony at the embassy and thanked Ecuador's president, who has granted him asylum.
He faces extradition to Sweden over sexual assault claims, which he denies.
The 41-year-old said the United States must also stop its "war on whistleblowers".
He added: "The United States must vow that it will not seek to prosecute our staff or our supporters.
"The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful.
Mr Assange also said the United States was facing a choice between re-affirming the "revolutionary values it was founded on" or "dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must whisper in the dark".
By Caroline HawleyBBC News
The show for today is over, but the stand-off at the Ecuadorean embassy and the diplomatic row over Julian Assange's fate are not.
Britain says it won't grant the Wikileaks' leader safe passage so he can go to Ecuador, but it has had to back away from a warning it made last week that it could find a legal basis to enter the embassy and arrest Mr Assange.
That deeply riled not only Ecuador, but other countries in South America. It also provoked doubts about its legality. Given the potential international ramifications, it's highly unlikely British police will storm into the ground-floor mission.
But neither is it likely that Britain or Sweden will give the guarantees that Ecuador and Mr Assange want - that he won't face onward extradition to the US.
So for now the stalemate continues. Police are posted at both the front and back of the Ecuadorean embassy to ensure Julian Assange doesn't escape - and Britain is faced with a costly security operation.
The US is carrying out an investigation into Wikileaks, which has published a mass of leaked diplomatic cables, embarrassing several governments and international businesses.
Alleged Wikileaks source Bradley Manning, 24, an intelligence analyst in the American army who served in Iraq, is alleged to have leaked US government cables to the whistle-blowing website. He is set to face a court martial.
In an interview for US television in 2010, Mr Assange denied any knowledge of Pte Manning.
Mr Assange began his speech by thanking his supporters, many of whom have been holding a vigil outside the building in Knightsbridge.
Speaking of the visit by police officers to the embassy on Wednesday, Mr Assange said: "Inside this embassy after dark, I could hear teams of police swarming up into the building through its internal fire escape. But I knew there would be witnesses and that is because of you.
"If the UK did not throw away the Vienna Conventions the other night it is because the world was watching and the world was watching because you were watching."
It is an established international convention that local police and security forces are not permitted to enter an embassy, unless they have the express permission of the ambassador.
The Foreign Office has said it remained committed to reaching a "negotiated solution" but following its obligations under the Extradition Act, it would arrest Mr Assange if he left the embassy.
In 2010, two female Wikileaks supporters accused Mr Assange, an Australian citizen, of committing sexual offences against them while he was in Stockholm to give a lecture.
Mr Assange claims the sex was consensual and the allegations are politically motivated.
In a statement issued after the Ecuadorean decision to grant Mr Assange political asylum, Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK was under a "binding obligation" to extradite him to Sweden.
Mr Assange entered the embassy after the UK's Supreme Court dismissed his bid to reopen his appeal against extradition and gave him a two-week grace period before extradition proceedings could start.
Ecuador's president Rafael Correa has suggested Mr Assange could co-operate with Sweden if assurances are given that there would be no extradition to a third country.
Mr Assange's balcony appearance occurred as foreign ministers from the Union of South American Nations were gathering in Ecuador's second city, Guayaquil, to discuss the diplomatic situation caused by the asylum decision.
Shortly before Mr Assange delivered his speech, his legal adviser Baltasar Garzon said the Australian had told lawyers to carry out "a legal action" protecting "the rights of Wikileaks [and] Julian himself".
Mr Garzon, a former judge, did not give specific details of the action but said it would also extend to "all those currently being investigated".
Barrister and former government lawyer, Carl Gardner, said Mr Assange's options were now severely limited.
"There's no legal action he can take now. All he can do is make these public calls for people to do things he would like them to do and play a waiting game with the British authorities.
"The British government is likely to think that time is on their side. It's Julian Assange who is stuck in this embassy. It's the Ecuadoreans who have the problem of him on their hands and perhaps one of them is likely to tire of the situation before Britain."
The hosts had the better of the first half, but Adam Reach, Joe Garner and Will Keane all failed to test Tigers keeper Allan McGregor when well-placed.
Gallagher gave Preston a deserved lead when he swept home from Daniel Johnson's free-kick after the break.
The Tigers, who have not won away from home since 3 November, struggled for any kind of rhythm and could easily have lost by more.
The defeat, coupled with Middlesbrough's win over Sheffield Wednesday, means Hull are now three points outside the top two having played a game more.
Preston, who are now seven points clear of the bottom three, should have taken an early lead when Reach fired over from inside the area before striker Garner wasted an equally presentable opportunity.
Keane then saw a low shot fly just wide of the post as the hosts completely dominated the first half.
The Tigers brought on former England international Tom Huddlestone at the break and the midfielder forced a save from Jordan Pickford almost immediately.
However, they found themselves behind in the 66th minute when Johnson rolled a free-kick across the area and the unmarked Gallagher slotted past McGregor.
Steve Bruce's side thought they had secured a point in the last second from a goalmouth scramble but the officials ruled the ball had not crossed the line.
Preston boss Simon Grayson:
"I've seen on the TV replays that it's not over the line. John Welsh has made a great clearance and we're fortunate because sometimes them decisions go against you.
"But it's the right decision, we've probably earned the luck today that we've not had over the last couple of weeks, like with the goalkeeper being sent off at Leeds a few weeks ago.
"It's the right decision, a clear decision and a decision we are grateful (for)."
Hull boss Steve Bruce:
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"We needed a break when you're not playing well, like we didn't. We found it very difficult today and, to be fair, away from home it is too often that we're not performing anywhere near the level we're capable of.
"It is three successive defeats and if you're going to win leagues or win titles then we've got to eradicate that quickly because it's not a great trait to have.
"Unfortunately, the linesman has got a horrible decision with an offside and a horrible decision which he has got to see that (the ball crossed the line), even though he is 50 yards away.
"The reaction of all the players tells you it is over the line. They've got away with it."
Match ends, Preston North End 1, Hull City 0.
Ahmed Elmohamady (Hull City) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half ends, Preston North End 1, Hull City 0.
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by John Welsh.
Attempt blocked. Abel Hernández (Hull City) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Attempt missed. Mohamed Diamé (Hull City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Will Keane.
Substitution, Preston North End. Jordan Hugill replaces Joe Garner.
Foul by Robert Snodgrass (Hull City).
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Curtis Davies (Hull City) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass with a cross.
Substitution, Preston North End. Calum Woods replaces Marnick Vermijl.
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Will Keane.
Attempt missed. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ahmed Elmohamady.
Attempt saved. Abel Hernández (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Robert Snodgrass (Hull City).
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Adam Reach (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Andrew Robertson (Hull City).
Joe Garner (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Preston North End. Josh Brownhill replaces Paul Gallagher because of an injury.
Offside, Hull City. Tom Huddlestone tries a through ball, but Abel Hernández is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Abel Hernández (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Attempt missed. Paul Gallagher (Preston North End) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is too high.
Foul by Harry Maguire (Hull City).
Joe Garner (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hull City. Mohamed Diamé replaces Shaun Maloney.
Jake Livermore (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jake Livermore (Hull City).
Adam Reach (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Abel Hernández (Hull City).
Bailey Wright (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jake Livermore (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Gallagher (Preston North End).
Goal! Preston North End 1, Hull City 0. Paul Gallagher (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Johnson with a cross following a set piece situation.
Tom Huddlestone (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tom Huddlestone (Hull City).
Joe Garner (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Adam Reach (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Daniel Johnson.
In Ottawa, swastikas were painted on Jewish synagogues and community centres.
In Etobicoke, a neighbourhood of Toronto, "It's the Jews" was scrawled on the wall of an elementary school.
Local police are investigating the incidents.
"To the Canadian Jewish community: I stand with you. Our government denounces recent acts of anti-Semitism in the strongest terms," Mr Trudeau tweeted.
Hundreds of hate attacks have been recorded in the US since the election, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Hate crimes were also being reported north of the border in Canada, although it is not clear if they have anything to do with the US election.
Two swastikas were spray painted on the front doors of the Machzikei Hadas synagogue in Ottawa. The graffiti was discovered Thursday morning. Security cameras had also been spraypainted over.
The incident came just days after an Ottawa Jewish prayer centre was also vandalised.
In Toronto, "It's the Jews" was scrawled on the wall of an elementary school Wednesday morning. Early in the week, the Toronto Police hate crimes unit said it was investigating after signs urging people to join the "alt-right" were posted around town.
The posters began "Hey, white person" and directed people to join white nationalist groups.
19 October 2015 Last updated at 14:42 BST
Sky TV pundit Neville and Man United assistant manager Giggs bought the old stock exchange building in Manchester city centre with a view to turning into a hotel.
But a group of homeless people were living in the abandoned site before it was sold and asked if they could stay for the winter.
Now Neville and Giggs have said they can remain in the building until work on the hotel starts in February.
Watch the video to see the reaction of some of the people living there.
The iconic Crucible Theatre will once again play host and BBC Sport will be there, bringing you comprehensive coverage on TV, radio and online.
As usual Hazel Irvine and the team will present all the championship action live from Sheffield but, this year, we are doing something a bit different.
We've called it Cue Sheffield - a festival of live BBC programmes and free events to celebrate the World Snooker Championship across the city of Sheffield. Here are five reasons why you will not want to miss it, snooker fan or not.
Nearly 30 years on, Steve Davis will attempt to re-pot the black ball he missed in the now-legendary 1985 final against Dennis Taylor during a special feature live on The One Show (Friday, 17 April).
There will also be something for children and the young at heart as a couple of CBBC favourites will be recorded from the city's Tudor Square.
Match of the Day Kickabout'sRadzi will present a host of interactive activities, including a football-snooker mash up called Snookball and one lucky audience member will challenge a special guest to the programme's popular Sav's Big Mouth Shoot-Out. (Sunday, 3 May) and the Blue Peterteam will be out in force so come along and join in or just cheer your mates on. (Saturday,2 May)
BBC Get Inspired will be laying on a range of free sporting activities in and around the Winter Garden from Friday, 1 May-Monday, 4 May.
Brave the climbing wall and experience a virtual cycle of the Tour de Yorkshire. The Get Inspired area will also include various sports taster activities for all ages. Complete an activity and earn your very own BBC Get Inspired medal. What's more, you may discover a sport you never knew you loved.
Fancy yourself as the next Guy Mowbray or always wanted a role in The Archers? The BBC Experience Dome, open on 1 and 2 May,gives you the chance to try your hand at sports commentary, presenting the news and even recording a radio drama. If you are lucky, you might even be able to spot some of the colourful characters from The Furchester Hotel.
For a perfect combination of music and snooker, you will not want to miss Jarvis Cocker's BBC 6 Music Sunday Service programme with his special guest presenter, Steve Davis (Sunday, 3 May).
BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce will present his weekday show in a special live bank holiday broadcast, with live music and a Popmaster head to head between Steve Davis and John Parrott. (Monday, 4 May)
BBC Radio Sheffield will also be visiting with comedian Bernie Clifton recording his weekly programme (Friday, 1 May) and Paulette Edwards will bring her daily show (Saturday, 2 May) to the Winter Garden.
Steve Lamacq and Jarvis Cocker will round off the whole festival with a live 6 Music event on Monday, 4 May, with special guests the Mystery Jets, to celebrate The Leadmill's anniversary (evening event - age restrictions will apply). Tickets coming soon…
The Winter Garden events are open to everyone and there is no charge to see the programmes.
Radio 5 live's comedy panel show hosted by comedian Josh Widdicombe, will be broadcast live from Sheffield's iconic venue The Leadmill, as part of its 35th anniversary celebrations. Special guests will include outspoken World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn, Pointless's self-confessed know-it-all, Richard Osman plus FT regulars Bob Mills and Eleanor Oldroyd. (Saturday, 18 April).
Not only that, but BBC Radio 4's long-running magazine programme, Woman's Hour, with Jane Garvey will be broadcast live from the Winter Garden. (Friday, 1 May).
Steve Davis, Barry Hearn and Shaun Murphy will join BBC Radio Sheffield's one-off panel show Snooker Heaven broadcast in front of a live audience at Sheffield Hallam University (Thursday, 16 April).
For information on free tickets to these programmes and more, visit the BBC Shows and Tours website.
Hazel Irvine and Jason Mohammad will be bringing you live coverage every day of the tournament from the Winter Garden. Comprehensive analysis of every ball potted will be provided by guests including Steve Davis, John Parrott, Stephen Hendry, Ken Doherty, Terry Griffiths, Dennis Taylor, Willie Thorne and John Virgo. A veritable who's who of snooker stars.
Mark Selby, the Jester from Leicester, is the defending champion. He came from 10-5 down to beat Ronnie 'The Rocket' O'Sullivan 18-14 in last year's final. He took home the holy grail of snooker titles and the £300,000 prize money. This year's competition looks to outdo the last with all the star names once again descending on south Yorkshire.
Stuart Bousie, who was riding a yellow Piaggio Vespa, died at the scene of the accident on the A914 near Kettlebridge at 10:50 on Sunday. No other vehicles were involved.
The road was closed for more than four hours while accident investigators worked at the scene.
The family of Mr Bousie, who was from the St Andrews area, said they were "saddened and shocked" by his death.
In a statement released through Police Scotland, the family said: "He was a much-loved son of Margaret, father to Emma and Laura and husband to Katherine and he will be greatly missed by his family and all who knew him.
"He was an avid member of the Lone Sharks Scooter Club and was coming home from a great weekend at his first scooter rally of the year when he tragically lost his life.
"We are grateful for all the kind messages and support we have received at this very difficult time and wish to be left in private to mourn our loss"
Police Scotland have appealed for witnesses to the accident to come forward.
Sgt Ewan Pearce, of Glenrothes road policing department, said: "This collision has tragically resulted in the death of a man.
"The scooter is a very distinctive yellow and I would urge anyone who saw it prior to the incident or was on the A914 near to Kettlebridge around this time and witnessed the collision to contact us immediately."
Police say there are now 429 potential victims, some as young as four at the time of the alleged offence, and 148 clubs are now involved.
Separate figures show the number of historical child abuse suspects across all walks of life stands at 3,469.
This is more than double the figure of 18 months earlier.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) set up Operation Hydrant to oversee investigations of "non-recent" child sex abuse within institutions or by people of public prominence.
The spotlight has fallen on abuse in football since a a number of former footballers came forward publicly to tell their stories and the number of suspects has almost doubled in a fortnight.
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819 referrals to Operation Hydrant from police forces and NSPCC helpline
148 football clubs impacted from Premier League to amateur
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98% of potential victims are male
The latest figures from the NPCC show there have been 819 referrals from police forces and a special helpline set up for victims of abuse in football.
Norfolk Police Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the NPCC lead on child abuse, said: "The numbers keep growing.
"We are dealing with some of the most complex investigations you can imagine.
"We are dealing with incredibly sensitive matters, sometimes in very high profile cases and of course all those factors create a huge challenge for the service."
The official overall Operation Hydrant statistics show there were 3,469 suspects of historical child abuse under investigation as of December 2016. This compares with 1,433 in May 2015.
Among the overall statistics for child sex abuse there are 366 people of public prominence - including 162 from TV, film or radio - under investigation.
There were 3,531 people classed as victims, of which 2,604 (74%) were male and 899 (25%) were female. A further 28 victims were of unknown sex.
In November 2016 there were 26 sports institutions under investigation. That figure has since increased to 74.
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The family was celebrating their son's sixth birthday and had spent hundreds of pounds on tickets, a friend said.
Mr Singh, from Coventry was in breach of health and safety rules when he refused to exchange his Kirpan for a replacement necklace, the park said.
Sikh elders advised that could be worn as an acceptable substitute, it added.
Kirpans have not been allowed to be worn in the park for "a number of years" because of health and safety risks, the park said, adding, it was "regrettable" the family did not take up their offer and were denied entry.
The dagger, or sword, is one of five Ks initiated, or baptised, Sikhs wear.
The others are Kesh (uncut hair), Kara (a steel bracelet), Kanga (a wooden comb) and Kaccha - also spelt, Kachh, Kachera - (cotton underwear).
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The family friend described what happened at the park near Tamworth, Staffordshire on 2 June in a blog under the name of The Secret Psychiatrist.
The friend said they were "ashamed" and "disgusted" by the incident that had spoiled a happy family day out.
The Sikh Press Association, which is liaising with the family and a Sikh legal advocacy team, said together they were calling for the park's rules to be changed.
"In this day and age where the Kirpan can be taken into Parliament, it is disappointing to see an amusement park ban this article of faith from their grounds," a spokesman said.
Although Sikhs can choose to substitute their Kirpans, the park's offer devalued what the five Ks meant, he added.
"Sikhs treat them like their own limb.
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In a statement the park said as well as consulting Sikhs, an independent health and safety report confirmed that wearing a sheathed dagger, or anything similar, "posed a viable compromise to safety" on a ride.
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The Greyhound pub in Tinsley Green, near Crawley, is hosting 15 teams of six players from as far afield as the US, Algeria and Germany.
The Good Friday competition has been held there since 1932 and follows in the tradition of the game dating back to the 16th Century.
It was once one of the few sports that could be played during Lent.
The tournament's organiser Julia McCarthy-Fox said: "People come back every year because they like being part of traditional things and it's at a pub, so what's not to like?
"There is no bar as to who can play and who can't, there is no benefit to being older, younger, male or female, it's completely mixed.
"There aren't many sports like that with an even playing field so people can play in a family team, work team or any combination.
"And it's a knockout competition so it doesn't matter if they are good or bad as they will sift themselves out as the tournament progresses," she said.
"If you are playing it well however, there is quite a high skill level. It's like snooker without a cue, it's a very similar skill to get the spin on the marble.
"Sometimes it can get a bit rowdy by the end of the day but all in good fun."
Father Joe Young approached Allardyce in 1991 to offer him the management job at League of Ireland side Limerick.
The football-mad cleric, who was the club's chairman at the time, said he is "absolutely delighted" to see his man move into the international game.
"He believed in the field of dreams," Fr Young said.
Allardyce is expected to be confirmed as the new England manager on Thursday, leaving Sunderland after nine months in charge at the Stadium of Light.
He replaces Roy Hodgson, who quit after England's humiliation at the hands of Iceland at Euro 2016.
Fr Young said Allardyce's appointment is a "very emotional moment in my priesthood".
"I'm so happy - I said Mass for him this morning and I'll say Mass for him tomorrow morning," he added.
"God bless him because he is wonderful."
Fr Young took on the chairmanship at Limerick when the club had "absolutely nothing - just a simple ground, not even with a wall around it".
And he settled on bringing the then-36-year-old Allardyce to the club as player-manager in the summer of 1991 by compiling a list of names and "putting a pen in the paper, [like picking] a horse for the Grand National".
Allardyce's time at Limerick was a resounding success as he led the club into the Republic of Ireland's top flight after winning the first division.
"I feel that he believed in what we were trying to do in Limerick - help young people come through and believe there was more to life than the welfare system," the 62-year-old priest said.
"Until you include the excluded, how can we dream any more? Sam believed in that.
"He was a purpose-driven manager and I never experienced so much joy in the fact that he believed that if you don't bring them through with discipline, forget about it."
Allardyce left Limerick to return to England in 1992 as the club did not have the money needed to keep him, according to Fr Young.
In spite of that, memories of the big man still warm the priest's heart.
"I loved him in the dugout, he was so focused," he said.
"I believed in big Sam - he was absolutely brilliant and a maestro."
Councillors agreed to go out to tender to look for a company to run the arena rather than the council running it.
The project team can now prepare the contract documents needed for operator procurement to begin in March 2014.
This will be followed by a competition to design the new venue, and building contractor procurement. The arena is due to open in June 2017.
The 12,000 capacity venue would be located in the heart of the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
The arena will be leased to a company that will pay a fixed annual rental, taking the risk on the level of income generated and sharing profits with the council above an agreed amount.
The operator would programme and maintain the venue with the council having to negotiate any input into the programme.
Bristol mayor George Ferguson said: "This is a vitally important decision for the arena, setting out the best way to make it a reality and ensuring it is run in the most cost effective and suitable manner for the city.
"I want to ensure an element of city control over the arena, but it would be unwise for us to take on the full running of the facility and the risks that brings.
"Instead, I'll be considering ways for it to be run by an experienced, professional operator to make the most of the arena and the opportunities it brings.
"Without revealing too much at this stage, we've had considerable informal interest following the business study, which is extremely encouraging in terms of getting the right operator and best value."
A full report will go to cabinet on 16 January outlining the funding arrangements for the arena before going to a full council decision as part of the council's budget on 18 February.
Neighbouring councils have already agreed to help solve a £27m funding shortfall in the £90m proposal.
Joe Ralls and Anthony Pilkington struck for Cardiff in their 2-2 draw at Fulham, the first goals scored by Cardiff players this season.
"We are still looking to do some business," Trollope told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"We are still on the look out and we are still trying to make things happen before the window shuts."
The addition of a striker is understood to be a priority for Cardiff, who won 2-1 in midweek against Blackburn but incredibly had to rely on two own goals.
The Bluebirds have added forwards Frederic Gounongbe, Kenneth Zohore and Lex Immers and Wales duo Emyr Huws and Jazz Richards to their squad since Trollope's appointment.
Former Wales coach Trollope believes the transfer market will be busy in the remaining days, especially with no emergency loan window in place this season.
"It will be a busy few weeks for most teams I would imagine, especially with the emergency loan window being out," he said.
"You hope to do it [sign players] and get it sorted next week, it would lead to an easier life, but the movement of other clubs can dictate who is coming in and out.
"So I would imagine there will be some late action."
Trollope would not elaborate on whether he has money to spend, but did admit players could still depart the Cardiff City Stadium, following the sale of defender Fabio Da Silva.
"If you are talking finances you need to talk to the chief executive or to the chairman, but from my point of view we are looking to add," he said.
"There are a few players we are still open to offers for and if the right offers come in that suit all parties then we will look at them on their merits and see if that happens."
The violence on the southern island has left three members of the security forces dead, officials say.
Mr Duterte earlier declared martial law for 60 days on Mindanao, where Muslim rebel groups are seeking autonomy.
Some of the groups, such as the Maute, have pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS).
After announcing martial law on Tuesday, President Duterte, a Mindanao native, warned that he would be harsh in dealing with terrorism.
"If it would take a year to do it, then we'll do it. If it's over within a month, then I would be happy," he said in a video posted online by the government.
Mr Duterte cut short his visit to Russia to deal with the violence.
During his talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he also said the Philippines needed more modern weapons to fight IS militants and other militant groups.
Martial law allows the use of the military to enforce order and the detention of people without charge for long periods.
The Philippine constitution says a president can only declare martial law for 60 days to stop an invasion or a rebellion.
Parliament can revoke the measure within 48 hours while the Supreme Court can review its legality.
This is only the second time martial law has been declared since the fall in 1986 of President Ferdinand Marcos.
The violence in Marawi, a city of about 200,000 people in Mindanao, erupted on Tuesday as the army searched for the leader of a militant group that had pledged allegiance to IS, the military said.
Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana identified the militants as members of the Maute group. They had occupied a hospital and a jail, and burnt down buildings including a church, he added.
Marawi is about 800km (500 miles) south of the capital Manila.
Mr Duterte had promised that finding a lasting peace on the island would be a top priority for his administration.
But the conflict is complex and deep-rooted, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports.
Solutions have eluded previous governments, and it is not clear that President Duterte's reliance on martial law will prove any more successful, our correspondent says.
Stories by Jonathan Buckley, Mark Haddon, Frances Leviston and Jeremy Page have also made the shortlist, which was announced on BBC Radio 4's Front Row earlier.
The award, which is in its 10th year, is open to writers resident in the UK.
The £15,000 prize is given in tandem with the Book Trust charity.
Mantel's controversial story was published in a collection of 10 short stories in September 2014.
Set four years after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979, Mantel's story imagines an IRA attempt on her life.
Lord Tebbit called it a "sick book from a sick mind" when it was announced it was to be broadcast as a Book at Bedtime on Radio 4.
But Mantel, a double Booker winner, dismissed such criticisms, saying her story had "the form of a debate".
"My title story... demonstrates how very easily history could have worked out in a different way," she told The Guardian .
"The story speaks for itself, and I stand behind it."
Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is nominated for his story Bunny, about a morbidly obese young man who makes an unlikely friend.
Poet Frances Leviston writes about mother-daughter tensions in her story Broderie Anglaise, while Jonathan Buckley, a novelist and former Rough Guides editor, tells of a psychic investigating a missing teenager in Briar Road.
In the fifth shortlisted story - Do It Now, Jump The Table - playwright and screenwriter Jeremy Page writes of a young man meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time.
None of the five writers have been shortlisted for the award before.
There were 438 entries this year, and award judge Ian Rankin said it was "really tough to whittle the list down".
"The quality was matched by variety of approach and subject matter, leaving me in no doubt as to the continuing robust good health of the form," he said.
The winner of the award will be announced at a ceremony on 6 October that will be broadcast live on Front Row.
Previous winners include Julian Gough, James Lasdun, Lionel Shriver and Clare Wigfall.
The Gloucester player left the British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand early because of a back injury.
Moriarty was injured in his only Lions appearance, the 13-7 win against New Zealand Provincial Barbarians.
"I don't have a time scale or date when I expect to be back to play," said the 23-year-old.
Wales face Australia, Georgia, New Zealand and South Africa in November.
"I am not sure when I will be back," said Moriarty, who will also be absent when Gloucester's season begins at home against Exeter on Friday, 1 September.
"I will take my time and hopefully the physios will be doing their best to get me back to full fitness soon."
Moriarty made the Lions tour after winning 17 caps for Wales, but was unable to press for a Test place because of the injury.
"I was disappointed to leave the tour early, but it was a great experience to be involved with that first game," he said.
"I just felt as if I could have offered the team a little more."
Moriarty says he underwent two scans to discover the nature of the injury and medical treatment failed to clear it up, forcing him to return home.
More than 500 graduating students are having their work showcased.
A special display of large-scale digital prints of work by all 102 fine art students is being staged at the nearby McLellan Galleries.
They are also being compiled into a book which is being sold to raise money for those who lost work in the fire.
The preview of the degree show on Thursday is a ticket-only event. The show opens to the public on Saturday.
It features work by graduating students across the School of Design and the Mackintosh School of Architecture.
The Architecture and Design show is taking place in the new Reid Building and the city's Glue Factory is hosting the Master of Fine Art show.
Fine art students - whose work was worst-affected by the fire - have each provided an image for a special exhibition of digital prints at the nearby McLellan Galleries.
Glasgow School of Art director, Professor Tom Inns, said: "It has been a particularly challenging time for our fine art students and this exhibition ensures that although they are unable to stage a degree show at this time, they are able to join with their fellow students across the campus in our annual showcase of creativity and innovation."
The show comes almost three weeks after 200 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze at the Mackintosh building on 23 May.
They managed to salvage 90% of the structure of the A-listed building and save up to 70% of its contents.
A fund launched to raise cash for the restoration of the Mackintosh building has attracted millions of pounds in pledges.
The greenbelt development, which includes tennis facilities, is being promoted by Judy Murray in the face of strong local opposition.
Planning officials have recommended the application at Park of Keir be refused.
But the former Manchester United manager said Ms Murray had set out an "amazing vision" to help young people.
Councillors will vote on the planned development, between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan, on Tuesday.
The proposed development includes tennis and golf facilities along with a visitor centre and museum, all set in a new country park.
The plans also include luxury homes, which would help pay for the scheme.
Ms Murray said she wanted to leave a legacy to the success of her two sons, tennis players Andy and Jamie Murray, who both made huge contributions to Great Britain's Davis Cup win on Sunday.
She told the BBC: "For us as a family, it is all about legacy of what Jamie and Andy have achieved throughout their careers, none more so so than what they achieved at the weekend.
"Two brothers from a small town that has no track record of tennis taking on the world and winning."
But planning officers have recommended the application be refused because it is planned for greenbelt land.
The planners also said there was not enough affordable housing proposed and added the residential element was contrary to Scottish planning policy, because residents would have to travel for basic amenities and services.
Campaigners against the Park of Keir plan have said the loss of greenbelt land to the development is too high a price to pay.
Stirling councillor Mark Ruskell, from the Scottish Greens, said: "This is a hugely important piece of greenbelt for both the communities of Bridge of Allan and Dunblane.
"For 30 years these communities have fought development on this site. We've had 20 times the level of objection to development at Park of Keir, as opposed to letters of support."
But Sir Alex has now written to Stirling Council's provost, saying he hopes the council "takes the right decision".
He said in the letter: "I was immensely proud to be there when Andy Murray won Wimbledon.
"Judy Murray has not only helped achieve that great victory, she has set out an amazing vision for facilities that will help young people be active and love tennis with all of the passion that she does."
Sir Alex added that with the planned golf centre, Stirling would have its own "golden triangle" of sports facilities that would help give young people a "lifelong love of sport".
Stirling Council said that those for and against the proposals would be able to express their views at the formal hearing on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman said the conclusions of its planning officials were "reached on balance following a thorough analysis by planning officers of all aspects of the case.
"This is an officer recommendation and in line with council policy it will be for elected members on the planning panel to determine this application."
The route, which links Barking, Canary Wharf and Tower Hill to Westminster, will open less than a week before his term is set to end.
Mr Johnson told drivers the "end was in sight" for construction work. He said the first route, at Vauxhall, led to a 73% increase in cycling in the area.
The Green Party warned funding for cycling would halve in the next term.
London taxi drivers lost a court appeal in January to disrupt the plan.
The increase in the number of cyclists using the superhighway at Vauxhall was compared to before the route opened in November, the mayor said.
In total, the new route will span about 12 miles on traffic-free segregated tracks or streets with low levels of traffic, said City Hall.
Links to Southwark, Elephant and Castle and Blackfriars and Whitechapel, Bow, Stepney and Stratford should open at around the same time, it said.
Mr Johnson said a "noisy minority fought hard to stop it [the route] happening" but opinion polls and consultations had shown "ordinary Londoners" wanted the route.
On the impact for motorists, Mr Johnson added: "I am immensely encouraged by the evidence from Vauxhall showing that now the scheme there is finished, the flow of traffic in the area is returning to normal."
Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly, said it was "fantastic" so many people felt safe cycling in Vauxhall since the route's introduction.
He added: "It is therefore incredibly concerning [that] London's cycling budget is set to fall by over half over the next Mayoral term, meaning there just won't be enough money to pay for more cycle superhighways."
The Green Party member said he had questioned the mayor about what would happen to the capital's cycling budget after 2017.
He said Mr Johnson told him between 2016 and 2017, Transport for London would spend £166m on cycling - which would drop to £68m between 2020 and 2021.
In November, The London Cycling Campaign welcomed the new route but acknowledged some cyclists had been "frustrated" with the pace of progress.
Federico Santander headed low into the bottom corner of the net for the opener in the 19th minute.
Andreas Cornelius added the second with a diving header from Peter Ankersen's cross five minutes before the interval.
Rasmus Falk fired into the bottom right-hand corner from 20 yards for a well-taken third in the 53rd minute.
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The outcome of the tie looks to be already decided going into next Tuesday's second leg in Denmark.
The Irish Premiership champions made a lively start and Declan Caddell headed over from Richard Clarke's cross.
The hosts created a number of further chances in the second half, with Gavin Whyte going close and substitute David Cushley posing a real threat in his first competitive appearance for Stephen Baxter's side.
The former Ballymena United forward forced Robin Olsen into a fingertip save with a half-volley, then fired over and also brought another fine stop from the visiting keeper with a late effort.
Santander could have scored another after the break but Sean O'Neill saved well.
Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter: "We were up against top European opposition littered with internationals of really high quality.
"Having said that, we competed in the game, created a number of chances against a really good team and asked their keeper to make a couple of smart saves.
"We were under a lot of pressure, as we knew we would be, but from our perspective we gained a lot in terms of fitness and our tactical approach to a lot of things."
Match ends, Crusaders FC 0, FC København 3.
Second Half ends, Crusaders FC 0, FC København 3.
Substitution, FC København. Youssef Toutouh replaces Kasper Kusk.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. Michael Gault replaces Matthew Snoddy.
Substitution, FC København. Bashkim Kadrii replaces Federico Santander.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. Andrew Mitchell replaces Declan Caddell.
Substitution, FC København. Jan Gregus replaces William Kvist.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. David Cushley replaces Richard Clarke.
Goal! Crusaders FC 0, FC København 3. Rasmus Falk Jensen (FC København) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Second Half begins Crusaders FC 0, FC København 2.
First Half ends, Crusaders FC 0, FC København 2.
Goal! Crusaders FC 0, FC København 2. Andreas Cornelius (FC København) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Declan Caddell (Crusaders FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andreas Cornelius (FC København) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Crusaders FC 0, FC København 1. Federico Santander (FC København) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
One of the main treatments has become useless against the new strain of the sexually transmitted infection.
Twelve cases have been confirmed in Leeds and a further four have been reported in Macclesfield, Oldham and Scunthorpe.
However, there are likely to be more undiagnosed cases.
The strain in this outbreak is able to shrug off the antibiotic azithromycin, which is normally used alongside another drug, ceftriaxone.
Peter Greenhouse, a consultant in sexual health based in Bristol, told the BBC News website: "This azithromycin highly resistant outbreak is the first one that has triggered a national alert.
"It doesn't sound like an awful lot of people, but the implication is there's a lot more of this strain out there and we need to stamp it out as quickly as possible.
"If this becomes the predominant strain in the UK we're in big trouble, so we have to be really meticulous in making sure each of these individuals has all their contacts traced and treated."
The outbreak started in March.
The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV says all cases have been in heterosexuals and some have reported sexual partners from across England.
Dr Jan Clarke, the organisation's president, told the BBC: "It was sufficiently serious to alert our whole national chain of clinics that there is the possibility that we've got a very resistant strain of gonorrhoea.
"We are really skating on thin ice as far as treating gonorrhoea is concerned at the moment."
The disease is caused by the bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
The infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.
Of those infected, about one in 10 heterosexual men and more than three-quarters of women, and men who have sex with men, have no easily recognisable symptoms.
But symptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods.
Untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.
Gonorrhoea is the second most common sexually transmitted infection in England and cases are soaring.
The number of infections increased by 19% from 29,419 in 2013 to 34,958 the following year.
Dr Mike Gent from Public Health England said in a statement: "We can confirm investigations are under way.
"Those affected are being treated with an alternative antibiotic, but the resistance to first-line treatment remains a concern.
"The bacteria that cause gonorrhoea are known to mutate and develop new resistance, so we cannot afford to be complacent."
He urged people to practise safe sex including the use of condoms.
The outbreak in Leeds adds to growing concern that gonorrhoea is becoming untreatable.
In 2011, Japan reported a case of complete resistance to cephalosporin-class antibiotics, which included the main treatment ceftriaxone.
The five men and teenager are the last to be prosecuted as part of an 18-month investigation into a drug network from London targeting users in the city.
Cuckooing is when a drug dealer takes over the property of a vulnerable person in exchange for free drugs.
The gang also sent teenagers to manage the day-to-day operation.
The network, which ran between October 2015 and April 2016, was uncovered as part of a Hampshire police operation investigating dealers from cities including London and Liverpool, cuckooing across Hampshire, Dorset, Oxford and Berkshire.
All six members of the gang were charged with conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine and pleaded guilty, except for the 16-year-old who was found guilty at trial. They were:
Southampton Crown Court heard Whitter and Morris recruited young teenagers to the network, including a boy who was just 14 when he started selling drugs on the streets of Southampton.
According to the HM Courts and Tribunal Service there have been 187 convictions of gang members linked to cuckooing in the south of England since 2015.
This is a crime which crosses all social boundaries. I met two people from very different backgrounds. Paul lives in a rundown flat in Southampton and buys crack every week using his benefit money. He's been cuckooed before and police fear he's at risk again.
Less than two miles away I met Holly. A previous high-flyer who was introduced to class A drugs by a boyfriend. She now allows her flat to be used for drug dealing and officers think she's fallen into prostitution.
Gangs have been targeting counties in the south because there's a ready supply of customers. A National Crime Agency report recently said more than half of the towns and cities targeted are "middle-class or affluent".
It also found that criminal rivals already present in our rural areas are easily subdued by the gangs from London and Liverpool who routinely use much greater levels of violence.
Forren, 29, arrives as cover for centre-back Shane Duffy who is set to miss the majority of the rest of the campaign with a broken metatarsal.
Capped 33 times by his country, he failed to make an appearance for Southampton after joining the club from Molde in Norway in January 2013.
He returned to Molde after Saints, who released him in January.
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The 28-year-old opening batsman joined up with Essex for eight T20 Blast matches and featured against Kent on Sunday, scoring seven runs.
"We wish him all the best and it would be appreciated if his privacy is respected," said an Essex statement.
His only previous spell in county cricket was at Nottinghamshire in 2011.
The all-rounder, 32, replaced Chris Gayle in 2010 and also led the team to the World T20 title in 2012.
"[The board is] looking to the future and I wish the new captain all the best," Sammy said in a video posted on his Facebook page.
West Indies play a two-match T20 series against India in Florida starting on 27 August.
"They've reviewed the captaincy of T20 and I won't be captain anymore, nor have my performances merited selection in the squad," he added.
"This is not me retiring from one-day or T20, it's just me thanking the fans and my players and the coaches I've worked with and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for letting me lead the side for the last six years."
Contacted by BBC Sport, the WICB said it could not confirm or deny Sammy's sacking.
In April, Sammy's side won their second World T20 by beating England in the final at Kolkata, with Carlos Brathwaite hitting the first four balls of the final over - bowled by Ben Stokes - for six.
Following the win, Sammy appeared to criticise the WICB, for which he was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council.
The announcement is seen as one of the last steps before a full peace deal is signed, which is expected within weeks.
Colombia's president and the Farc leader shook hands in celebration.
The longest-running insurgency in the Western Hemisphere has killed an estimated 220,000 people and displaced almost seven million.
The announcement in Havana caps formal peace talks that started three years ago in the Cuban capital.
The Farc in the 21st Century is a strange beast.
Gone is the bipolar vision of the Cold War, and gone too are most of the group's original intellectual architects, many killed in combat.
Today, somewhat anchorless, the rebels continue to go through motions of an armed insurgency but they know a new future is beckoning.
They remain primed for war - machine guns by their beds, handguns under their pillows, all night lookouts keeping watch for an enemy that no longer seems to be searching for them.
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But it does not mark the start of the ceasefire, which will only begin with the signing of a final accord.
Colombia's President, Juan Manuel Santos, has previously said he hopes to sign that accord by the end of July.
Thursday's announcement includes:
"Let this be the last day of the war," Farc leader Rodrigo Londono, known as Timochenko, said at the announcement.
Both sides agreed to let the courts rule whether a popular vote can be held in Colombia to endorse the deal, which was a promise made by Mr Santos.
The president said at the ceremony that this was a "historic day".
"We have reached the end of 50 years of death, attacks and pain. This is the end of the armed conflict with the Farc," he said.
The announcement of the Farc ceasefire dominated the headlines of the online editions of the main Colombian newspapers and other media outlets.
Centre-left newspaper El Espectador featured extensive coverage of the news of the agreement and a banner headline, which reads: "The guns went silent" along a striking image of two guerrilla fighters in action. It also covered the key points of the deal as well as the history of the conflict.
Conservative newspaper El Tiempo emphasised President Juan Manuel Santos's statement that the final agreement would be signed in Colombia, not Cuba.
Medellin-based newspaper El Colombiano featured a commentary by former President Alvaro Uribe, who remains sceptical about the prospects for peace, saying "the word peace is wounded."
One of the main national radio networks RCN ran a story citing Farc leader Timochenko saying: "We are going to do politics without arms."
Both sides still need to establish how the peace deal in its entirety will be implemented, verified and approved.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and leaders of Latin American countries also attended the ceremony.
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The agreement was welcomed elsewhere, with the EU's foreign representative Federica Mogherini calling it "a turning point in the Colombian peace process".
US Secretary of State John Kerry said that "although hard work remains to be done, the finish line is approaching and nearer now than it has ever been".
Talent agency WME-IMG confirmed its purchase of the mixed martial arts promotional company on Monday.
Founded in 1993, the UFC was bought for $2m (£1.55m) in 2001 by brothers Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta.
It calls itself the fastest-growing sports organisation in the world.
"No other sport compares to UFC," said Dana White, who will continue in his role as president of the UFC.
"Our goal has always been to put on the biggest and the best fights for our fans and to make this the biggest sport in the world. I'm looking forward to working with WME-IMG to continue to take this sport to the next level."
The UFC produces more than 40 live events each year and sells out some of the most prestigious arenas around the world.
Shows are broadcast in more than 156 countries and territories, to more than 1.1 billion households worldwide in 29 different languages.
The Fertittas will retain a passive minority interest in the organisation.
Gordon Brown had waited many years to take his bow at prime minister's questions.
Tony Blair had remarked on his successor's "clunking fist" and pundits wondered whether he would be able to land a knockout blow on David Cameron, who had impressed in his two years as opposition leader.
But some were already worried whether Mr Brown was quick enough on his feet to glide through the weekly Commons clash.
The encounter, taking place days after attempted suicide bombings in London and Glasgow, was dominated by security issues.
Mr Brown sought to strike a consensual note by saying all parties should "show unity in the face of terror" but the two leaders clashed over the need for identity cards and the banning of extremist groups.
The prime minister announced a number of security-related initiatives but was jeered by the opposition when, in response to one question, he said he had "only been in the job for five days".
Verdict: Tory MPs were jubilant after the session while Labour MPs, although less upbeat, said the match was a draw. Gordon Brown never did land that clunking blow during their three years of clashes before he resigned after losing the 2010 General Election.
David Cameron became the fifth Tory leader to take on Tony Blair at PMQs.
He began the exchanges with a question on schools, offering to support the "best bits" of Tony Blair's academies legislation, which he knew many Labour MPs were opposed to.
As Labour MPs tried to shout him down, he chided the party's chief whip Hilary Armstrong for "shouting like a child".
But what the session was really remembered for was his taunting of Mr Blair. To huge cheers from the Conservative benches, he gestured towards the prime minister and said: "He was the future once."
Verdict: Conservative-supporting papers loved his performance, saying he had wrong-footed Mr Blair but other papers were less sure, saying it was knockabout stuff and his inexperience might catch him out. Mr Cameron, who became PM after 2010 election, was said by commentators to have generally held his own against Blair and to have regularly outperformed Gordon Brown.
The new Tory leader was always regarded as a tough debater but how would he fare in the bearpit of PMQs?
Taking on Tony Blair, he accused the prime minister of running an incompetent and wasteful government and derided the PM's answers, saying at one point: "Two questions asked, neither answered: not a very good start I'm afraid."
Although the atmosphere was electric, the clash was largely nostalgic in flavour.
Mr Blair attacked Mr Howard's own record in government and his support for the poll tax but Mr Howard responded by saying he had a dossier on Mr Blair's policy inconsistencies which he did not need to "sex up" - a reference to the continuing row over the UK government's case for war in Iraq.
Verdict: This first performance was well received by Tory MPs, and by commentators, long frustrated over Iain Duncan Smith's efforts. Although Mr Howard continued to land some blows on Mr Blair - famously telling him "this grammar school boy will not take any lessons from that public school boy" - it did not help him get into power and he quit after the 2005 election.
After his surprise victory in the Tory leadership contest, Iain Duncan Smith's debut outing was eagerly awaited, although it took place in a sombre atmosphere, just weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
He opted to spread his six questions into two segments. The first three concerned the situation in Afghanistan, where he backed the UK-supported military action against the Taliban and urged Tony Blair to "see it through".
The second exchange, in which he attacked Labour's proposed NHS reforms, was far more heated.
Raising the case of a constituent who had died after spending nine hours on a hospital trolley, the Tory leader said all Labour's "promises of a better tomorrow" would sound "hollow" to their family and many others.
Mr Blair said such failings were "unacceptable" but hit out at the Tories for not supporting their investment in the NHS.
Verdict: This was seen as a low-key debut and things did not get much better for the Tory leader with commentators calling his performances wooden, and focusing on his tendency to develop a frog in his throat at key moments. He sought to flip the criticism, warning people not to underestimate the determination "of the quiet man" but he was toppled two years later, with his PM's questions performances said to be partly to blame.
A youthful William Hague faced an exceedingly tough task, taking on the leadership of a party which had just been battered at the polls and lost many of its big names.
At his first PMQs - now being held once a week - he seized on reports that a Labour MP had been threatened with expulsion from the party for campaigning against proposals for a Welsh Assembly.
He said this showed the "arrogant behaviour" of a government which could not tolerate "honest and open" debate.
New prime minister Tony Blair said the claims had been proved to be untrue and urged Mr Hague to withdraw them.
Verdict: Mr Hague's confident performance set the tone for his period as leader in which he regularly shone in Parliament. His humour and ability to think on his feet regularly boosted the morale of Conservative MPs. However, it was ultimately to no avail as the Conservatives were trounced at the 2001 election and he stepped down.
Tony Blair has spoken of the excruciating nerves he felt as prime minister ahead of the weekly session but when he was leader of the opposition, he often made it look like plain sailing.
Facing John Major for the first time, he attacked what he said were serious divisions at the top of the government over Europe, particularly over the single currency and whether a referendum would be needed before joining the euro.
A "divided government was a weak government", he told MPs.
Mr Major responded by saying that Labour would "slavishly follow" everything coming out of Brussels if it came to power.
Verdict: This set the tone for Tony Blair's confrontations with John Major in the final years of the Tory government. He regularly emerged on top, memorably accusing the prime minister on one occasion of being "weak, weak, weak". When he became PM in 1997 he changed the twice weekly 15 minute sessions into the single half hour clash it currently is. Mr Blair got a standing ovation from MPs when he finished his last PMQs in 2007.
John Smith faced his first PMQs soon after becoming opposition leader and in the wake of Labour's demoralising election defeat.
He called on the government to have an independent review before any further pit closures, suggesting Prime Minister John Major and Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine were at odds over the issue.
Ministers had nothing to "be afraid of" in doing so and if they declined to act, he called for the future of pits to be referred to a cross-party select committee.
In response, Mr Major said there would be a consultation on the future of "uneconomic" mines which had been earmarked for closure and said Labour's outrage was "bogus" as many mines had closed while it was in office.
Verdict: John Smith was well respected on all sides of the House of Commons for his intelligence and skills as an orator. His death in 1994 robbed Parliament of one of its best performers. His successor Tony Blair went on to win a landslide victory at the 1997 election.
John Major faced PM's questions on his second day as prime minister, having never done it before.
The session began in humorous fashion when, as Mr Major rose to answer his first question, Labour MP Dennis Skinner shouted "resign". Mr Kinnock then offered the new prime minister his "personal congratulations" on his election as leader.
The future of the poll tax dominated exchanges. Mr Kinnock said it would save a lot of "time and money" to just abolish it.
Mr Major steered a middle course, saying a thorough review of the controversial tax was the right action to take. But he also claimed that Labour's support for local rates would be more regressive.
Verdict: John Major's understated style was a striking contrast to both his predecessor and his opponent Neil Kinnock. Many Conservative MPs appreciated the more measured approach and this certainly helped him at the 1992 election. But it failed to halt the slide in his fortunes as he headed to defeat and resignation in 1997.
Seven men and two women were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
The Met said victims had their phone numbers masked in order to make it appear as though they were getting a legitimate call from their bank.
The fake numbers were then used to glean account details.
Money was then transferred into accounts under the suspects' control and withdrawn from ATMs across the UK, the Met said.
Police recovered a "significant amount of cash" through raids on 14 addresses in Ilford, Watford, Slough and Scotland.
Dongles, SIM cards, mobile phones and laptops were also seized.
The arrests followed a collaboration between the Met Police Service's Cyber Crime and Fraud Team and a number of other police forces including Police Scotland, West Yorkshire Police and Greater Manchester Police.
All the suspects arrested are currently in police custody.
Sinn Féin, of all parties, do not normally get bound up in selection dilemmas.
Looks like someone forgot to tell its members in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
First they met in December and ditched the sitting MLA Phil Flanagan in favour of former MP and Stormont minister Michelle Gildernew, MLA Sean Lynch and Fermanagh councillor John Feely.
So far, so unsurprising.
However, after concerns were reportedly raised over "procedural errors" the party decided to re-run the whole selection process.
This time the sitting MLA, Bronwyn McGahan, put her name forward as well after announcing that she was stepping down and not standing in the original contest
It made no difference - she was not selected anyway.
But the real story, this time, neither was Michelle Gildernew selected, something which seemed to come as much a shock to the party hierarchy as herself - never mind those of us who watch and pretend to understand these things.
Back in, however, was Phil Flanagan along with Sean Lynch and councillor Feely.
So not only was there not a woman on the ticket - which goes against Sinn Féin policy, but all three candidates came from Fermanagh which seemed to show a somewhat reckless disregard for the South Tyrone part of the constituency.
Even before the meeting there had been a strong rumour the party wanted to move the former MP to neighbouring Mid-Ulster to replace the departing Martin McGuinness.
She quickly scotched that rumour in a tweet telling those who had been speculating "Mid-Ulster has excellent candidates to replace @M_McGuinness_SF and my heart's in #FST."
She also said she had been "blown away" by all the messages of support adding "don't be worrying about me, could be a blessing in disguise".
What she was not doing was hiding her disappointment and metaphorically drawing the curtains over an episode which was rapidly becoming a major embarrassment for Sinn Féin.
Senior figures hastily made it clear the matter was not over which brings us neatly to 19 February when a third selection convention will be held.
And messily four candidates will now be selected which should help create a space for the party's best-known figure in the constituency.
At least that is the obvious conclusion, but it is probably unwise to count too many chickens just yet.
Either way the damage has probably already been done.
Sinn Féin divisions in Fermanagh and South Tyrone have already been exposed and one of the party's most recognisable names has been undermined.
It is not the Sinn Féin way and many will continue to ask why.
University of Leicester academics said it was likely only a few servants and medical staff within the royal household were aware of his scoliosis.
Dr Mary Ann Lund said it was only after his death he earned his reputation as "Crookback Richard" and was portrayed with a withered arm.
The research has been published in the Medical Humanities journal.
Shakespeare depicted Richard as physically and mentally grotesque, an image of the king which has stuck.
His name was blackened by the new Tudor dynasty, Dr Lund said.
However, she said it was "highly likely Richard took care to control his public image" during his reign.
"Tailoring probably kept the signs of his scoliosis hidden to spectators outside the royal household of attendants, servants and medical staff who dressed, bathed and tended to the monarch's body.
"The body of a mediaeval monarch was always under scrutiny, and Richard III's was no exception," she said.
Dr Lund said it was the stripping of Richard's corpse at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 that first made his physical shape noticeable to many hundreds of witnesses.
She added there was "no mention" of Richard's scoliosis from during his lifetime, "perhaps out of respect to a reigning monarch", and that one account described him as "slim and lean, with fine boned limbs".
• Richard III was the last Yorkist King of England, this means he was the last member of the House of York family to be made king
• Richard had one of the shortest reigns in British history - just over 2 years, and he was the last English king to die in battle
• He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, which led to the end of the War of the Roses. This was fighting between the houses of Lancaster and York that lasted 30 years
• Richard III has been painted as a villain. It is said he killed his two nephews so he could take the throne and William Shakespeare wrote a play about him but some historians say this was propaganda and might have been unfair
Carl Askew, 47, was given a 32-week sentence, suspended for two years, after his tanker crashed into a crane driven by Michael Coleman, 50.
Mr Coleman's partner Wendy Ann Randal told Cardiff Crown Court she did not "bear malice to the driver".
Askew, of Gloucester, admitted causing death by careless driving.
Judge David Wynn Morgan said "it would be a hard hearted court" if it did not take into account the wishes of the victim's partner.
The court heard that Mr Coleman, of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, had been driving his crane between Junction 32 and 33 on the M4 motorway on 2 November.
The vehicle was restricted to travelling at just 30mph (48km/h) and had been displaying the correct warning lights when the tanker collided with the rear of his vehicle at a speed of up to 56mph (90km/h).
The crane was forced off the road by the impact and overturned on an embankment.
Mr Coleman suffered traumatic head injuries and died at the scene.
Askew told police after the collision that he had sneezed at the moment of impact but could give no explanation as to why he had not seen the crane beforehand.
He said: "Before I could brake, the impact happened."
Mr Coleman's partner of 14 years told the court in a victim impact statement, which the judge described as "astonishing", that the couple had recently been on a holiday together which left her with "wonderful happy memories".
She said: "Since the accident, I feel lost without Mike, he was my everything.
"I know the driver didn't set out to kill Mike. It has left a massive desolation in myself and my children. I do get depressed, but I look at my family, remember and smile."
The court was told that Mr Coleman did not know at the time of his death that his daughter was pregnant and that he was to become a grandfather.
She asked in her statement for the court to consider not imposing an immediate custodial sentence.
In addition to the 32-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, he was disqualified from driving for five years and must carry out 250 hours of community work.
They include two former heads of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 - Sir Richard Dearlove and Sir John Scarlett.
Former UK ambassador David Manning and UK special representative to Iraq Sir Jeremy Greenstock have given evidence in both public and private.
The Chilcot inquiry is examining the UK's involvement in the 2003 military action in Iraq and its aftermath.
When it was first announced by then-prime minister Gordon Brown in June 2009 he initially said it would be held behind closed doors for security reasons.
But later, after widespread criticism, he said some sessions should be in public and it was up to the chairman, Sir John Chilcot.
Sir John said at the time he felt it was "essential to hold as much of the proceedings of the inquiry as possible in public" - and most of the hearings have been in public.
But the inquiry confirmed on Thursday that it had heard from 35 witnesses in private. Among those known about are Mr Manning, Sir Jeremy and the man who ran the British operations during the conflict, General Sir John Reith.
A full transcript of Gen Sir John's evidence was later published with five words blanked out, which the inquiry said was on "national security" grounds.
Its chairman, Sir John Chilcott, said of the 35 witnesses: "These hearings have given the inquiry valuable evidence which could have not be heard in public session without damaging national security or international relations.
"They have supplemented the inquiry's understanding as it takes forward its public work."
The Dingwall-based Scottish Premiership outfit uses web hosting firm 123-reg.
The company, which hosts 1.7m sites in the UK, has said an error made during maintenance "effectively deleted" what was on some of its servers.
David O'Connor, of Ross County, said the issue came amid the club's build up to Sunday's game against Celtic.
He said: "Online is a crucial part of our ticket sales, selling merchandise and the website is where fans go to to reserve seats on buses and find match information."
Mr O'Connor said the website went down on Saturday and efforts were being made to restore services.
He said supporters could contact the club by phone - 01349 860860 - or visit the stadium to buy tickets.
But he added: "Coming to the ground is not easy for the fan who works nine to five. Our fan base is always widely spread out across the Highlands and it means supporters having to travel quite a distance to get to Dingwall."
Earlier this week, 123-reg started a "recovery process", but advised customers with their own data backup to rebuild their own websites.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists study follows concerns about the safety of women and babies at units in Cumbria and North Lancashire.
The report urges the retention of four consultant-led units at Carlisle, Whitehaven, Barrow and Lancaster.
But it also acknowledges investment in staff and resources is required.
The report was commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Cumbria and North Lancashire and comes in the wake of criticism of some maternity services
Dr David Rogers, medical director of NHS Cumbria CCG, said: "We know how important maternity services are for the local population and the preferred option is consistent with our intentions.
"However, these services need to be high quality, safe and sustainable and there is much work that needs to be done with both trusts to overcome the significant challenges that they face."
Dr Jeremy Rushmer, medical director at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, added: "We have been very clear about our concerns relating to the sustainability of maternity services and these concerns are clearly reflected within this report.
"This, alongside concerns raised by the chief inspector of hospitals last year, instigated this independent review process.
"We will now discuss the recommendations with our board and staff to understand their views."
He is obliged to call a fresh election if there is no resolution by Monday evening, which will mark seven days since Martin McGuinness resigned.
Mr McGuinness, from Sinn Féin, quit as deputy first minister in protest at the DUP's handling of the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
RHI is set to run £490m over budget.
On Thursday night, Sinn Féin members met in Londonderry where they heard calls for Mr Brokenshire and the Northern Ireland Office to move immediately to a fresh election.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly told the meeting that the DUP's actions had undermined public confidence in the Stormont institutions.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr Brokenshire held talks with the political parties and Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan.
After the meetings, the secretary of state said "the clock is ticking down towards the start of next week" but admitted that a snap election was now "highly probable" as talks so far had failed to break the political deadlock.
Kenya's police chief Joseph Boinnet says the men are in "good health but traumatised", AFP news agency reports.
The officers were taken in an attack by the Islamist militants in north-eastern Garissa county in May 2013, close to the border with Somalia.
The Somalia-based group killed 148 people in an attack on Kenya's Garissa University College in April.
The officers were released on 25 June, but news of the operation was only made public on Thursday.
The two men were taken across the border to Somalia where they were repeatedly moved between different al-Shabab camps, AFP cites Mr Boinnet as saying.
He gave no details of how the men were freed, but thanked the "several security agencies which undertook this delicate rescue mission".
An al-Shabab spokesman quoted in pro-al-Shabab media said the officers were released because they had converted to Islam.
The al-Qaeda-linked group group has carried out numerous attacks in Kenya near the long porous border with Somalia.
It says it is at war with Kenya, and wants it to withdraw troops sent to Somalia in 2011 to help the weak government in Mogadishu fight the militants.
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It would be an example of coextinction, where one organism dies out because it depends on another doomed species.
Just a few millimetres long, the worms eat even tinier animals in the water or inside the crayfish gill chamber.
This symbiotic relationship stretches back at least 80 million years.
The new study maps out that shared history based on genetic analysis of 37 different species of spiny mountain crayfish and 33 varieties of their "temnocephalan" flatworm passengers.
Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, it was a collaboration between Australian and UK scientists.
They compiled a detailed evolutionary tree of both groups of animals and integrated it with the species' geographical distribution.
This revealed a lengthy tale of shared evolution with an apparent starting date of 80-100 million years ago, as determined by a "molecular clock" calculation based on the steady accumulation of mutations.
At that time, Australia was about halfway through its gradual northward march to its current position on the globe. As the continent inched closer to the equator and steadily warmed up, the habitat of these creatures started to fragment and shrink.
Today, spiny mountain crayfish - a genus called Euastacus - live in dwindling patches of eastern Australia. In the warmer, northern part of their range they are restricted to lofty forest streams.
Those northern crayfish lineages, as well as being closest to extinction, tend to be the most distinctive in their physiology and their DNA. The worms show a very similar pattern.
Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, first author of the paper, studies evolutionary patterns at the University of Cambridge.
She told BBC News: "Overall what we found was that in the north, where the crayfish live in cool streams on the top of hills and mountains where little patches of high-altitude rainforest are left, they're very isolated. So the worms that live on them are specialised and only live on that crayfish, and there's very little opportunity for them to switch hosts.
"In the south, there's a slightly different picture, where there's been more switching around."
Currently, three-quarters of the 37 Euastacus crayfish species are known to be endangered. The scientists found that if all those crayfish species were to die out, some 19 of the 33 temnocephalans would also disappear - starting with those in the north.
They warn that such a sweeping coextinction is a genuine threat, particularly as modern-day climate change steepens the warming of Australia that has shaped and shrivelled the creatures' shared habitat over the millennia.
Forestry and other environmental changes add to the risk.
"In Australia, freshwater crayfish are large, diverse and active 'managers', recycling all sorts of organic material and working the sediments," said the study's senior author, Prof David Blair of James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.
"The temnocephalan worms associated only with these crayfish are also diverse, reflecting a long, shared history and offering a unique window on ancient symbioses. We now risk extinction of many of these partnerships, which will lead to degradation of their previous habitats and leave science the poorer."
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Jamie's father had sent him the first few chapters of the racy novel he'd been secretly writing.
"I naively assumed it would be some story of swashbuckling pirates or a spy thriller. It was only when I started reading it that I discovered he'd been penning porn," says Jamie, 29.
Bodice-ripping sentences he stumbled over included "the job interviewer had just asked her to remove her jacket and silk blouse" and "her black brassiere was working overtime".
Following the initial shock, Jamie decided to read his dad's adult literature to some friends down the pub. They immediately collapsed with laughter and piled in with their comments and critiques.
The evening was so much fun that it inspired London-based Jamie to launch a podcast called My Dad Wrote A Porno. Every week he and his friends, James Cooper and Alice Levine, discuss and analyse a different chapter of his father's unintentionally funny book, which is called Belinda Blinked.
Since its launch in September 2015 the podcast has been a surprise hit, surpassing 50 million downloads worldwide, and regularly dominating Apple's iTunes podcast chart.
Listening to podcasts - digital audio files - that you stream or download to your mobile phone or computer has shot up in recent years.
The US continues to lead the way, with almost a quarter of Americans over the age of 12 - about 67 million people - now listening to at least one podcast every month, according to the Podcast Consumer 2017 report by Edison Research. The 24% figure compares with just 9% in 2008.
Separate figures show that 10% of UK adults are now downloading podcasts, up from 6.5% in autumn 2015.
While for many people making their podcast is a happy hobby, for an increasing number - such as Jamie Morton - it can be a very lucrative business.
So how can podcast makers make money? With most podcasts being given away for free, the answer is advertising revenues, but if you aren't an expert on the advertising industry, securing adverts may seem like an impossible challenge.
Help is at hand from the growing number of podcast platforms that connect podcasters with advertisers. Podcast platforms that offer this service, including Swedish start-up firm Acast and the UK's Audioboom.
My Dad Wrote A Porno uses Acast, and Jamie says: "Acast secures the [advertising] deals, and then we record specific sponsorship reads that we slot into the show."
What Jamie means by "reads" is that he or one of his fellow hosts will read out a message from the sponsor of the episode or series.
He adds that they then try to make the sponsor "relevant" to the show.
"It's a really great way of doing it because it makes them feel fully integrated into the podcast, and we're able to put our personal spin on them, and find editorially relevant ways of weaving sponsorship into the tone of our specific show."
While podcast expert Tom Webster, of research group Edison, agrees that the adverts work best when they "feel like part of the content", other commentators have questioned whether such an approach is being fair to the listeners.
These critics argue that there should always be a clear delineation between the content and the adverts, so that the listener knows exactly what is commercially paid for.
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In terms of how much money is now spent on podcast advertising, media firm ZenithOptimedia estimated last year that the 2016 figure for the US would be $35m (£27m). This is a tiny fraction of the $18bn spent on radio advertising in the US last year, but podcast advertising is growing steadily.
While Acast won't reveal exact figures for how much money its users make from advertising, it says that its "top podcasters can bring in tens of thousands of dollars a month from brands".
Acast's co-founder Karl Rosander adds that podcasters "can make a very good living if you have a popular show".
Meanwhile, Mr Webster says that to earn serious money, podcast creators need to be achieving more than 100,000 downloads a month.
In addition to a slice of the advertising revenues, podcasters can also choose to put out "premium content", such as special edition episodes that people have to pay for.
Podcasting can also lead to other revenue streams.
Swedish podcaster Kristoffer Triumf, founder of weekly entertainment industry podcast Varvet, has been able to earn additional money from hosting live talk shows and has even released a spin-off board game.
Back at My Dad Wrote A Porno the team has started taking its show on tour.
Jamie says: "Live shows have been a really exciting thing to do, and we're taking our show up to the Edinburgh Fringe later this year, and also embarking on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
"We sold out the Sydney Opera House in one day, and added an extra night due to the demand, which is incredibly exciting."
But while some podcasters sing the praises of the likes of Acast and Audioboom, others deliberately avoid them.
London-based Imriel Morgan and Efe Jerome run the Shout Out Network, a podcast network dedicated to representing diversity. Its five podcasts include Millennials of Colour, which covers issues from mental health to poverty, and are available via its own website or Apple's Podcast app.
Imriel says they prefer to work directly with advertisers so that they can have strict control over what adverts are connected to their podcasts, something she claims isn't possible via Acast or Audioboom.
"We have had a few meetings with Acast and Audioboom and have opted not to go with them," says Imriel.
"We think their method isn't suited to our audience. They monetise content and place ads next to your content - I don't want ads on the content that we haven't listened to before.
"For example, we are happy to advertise, say cars and health products, but [with those platforms] you don't know what that brand might be. We are completely against that. We have a lot of trust with our listeners."
For anyone wishing to start a podcast, Jamie Morton says it is crucial to find an original angle if you want it to be a success.
"It's such a saturated marketplace and because anyone can make a podcast there's a lot of competition," he says.
He adds that making money should definitely not be your prime concern.
"I think with anything creative, if you set out making something to earn money from it it's probably not going to work out that well."
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Greece has also expressed "displeasure" after the controls left thousands of migrants stranded in the country.
Thousands of migrants have been trapped in Greece after Macedonia barred entry to Afghans, days after Austria brought in new controls.
Latest figures show a huge rise in the numbers of migrants arriving in Europe.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says more than 100,000 asylum seekers have arrived so far this year, compared to fewer than 4,000 in the first two months of 2015.
Greece is the main arrival point for the migrants and refugees, having been smuggled across the sea from Turkey.
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"We are concerned about the developments along the Balkan route and the humanitarian crisis that might unfold in certain countries especially in Greece," a joint statement by EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and Dutch migration minister Klaas Dijkhoff said.
"We call on all countries and actors along the route to prepare the necessary contingency planning to be able to address humanitarian needs, including reception capacities.
"In parallel, the commission is co-ordinating a contingency planning effort, to offer support in case of a humanitarian crisis both outside and within the EU, as well as to further co-ordinate border management."
The head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) also warned on Tuesday that border closures in EU states would cause "further chaos and confusion".
Filippo Grandi, visiting the Greek island of Lesbos where many migrants arrive, said it would increase the burden on Greece "which is already shouldering a very big responsibility".
Greece expressed "displeasure" at the border restrictions, the office of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said, and also complained to the EU that it had not been invited to a conference on migration in Vienna on Wednesday which will be attended by Balkan states.
Austria has rejected the criticism.
On Tuesday, Greece began sending hundreds of Afghans back to Athens from its border with Macedonia.
Macedonia suspended all border crossings on Monday after Afghans staged a sit-down protest and occupied a railway line.
Macedonian police said Afghans had been stopped because Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia had "decided to reduce their numbers" and started sending them back to Macedonia.
"We can't allow Macedonia to become a buffer zone and refugee camp," a foreign ministry official was quoted as saying.
The move came two days after Austria controversially introduced a daily limit on asylum applications and on migrants travelling through the country.
Mr Avramopoulos has said the cap is "plainly incompatible" with Austria's obligations under EU and international law.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker also criticised the Austrian move, saying that "solo national approaches were not recommended".
EU leaders have announced they will hold a summit in early March with Turkey to attempt to seek fresh solutions to the crisis.
Turkey is home to nearly three million refugees, most of them from Syria.
Many of them pay smugglers thousands of dollars to make the crossing to Greece. They then head north, trying to reach Germany and Scandinavia.
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.
The 22-year-old was left out for five matches by the Norwegian after he was caught at almost four times the legal alcohol limit in February.
But McGregor has scored twice in two games on his return to the side.
"He has been very good is the last two or three months and he had a break for other circumstances," said Deila.
"But I think he is showing a lot of confidence on the pitch and he played very well, and scored again, which is important."
McGregor, who received a 12-month driving ban and a £500 fine, scored in the Scottish Cup win over Greenock Morton then in Saturday's 2-1 victory over Partick Thistle in the Scottish Premiership to take his tally to six for the season.
"Callum has worked really hard and he has been fantastic at training a long time," said Deila.
"He has always done extra things and he got his reward for that today and the other times he has played."
McGregor, who spent the 2013-14 season with Notts County, has played 25 times this term.
However, despite a previous call-up in August 2014, he was not one of the emerging players to be named in Scotland coach Gordon Strachan's squads for forthcoming friendlies against Czech Republic and Denmark.
"Youngsters have to build themselves over time," added Deila. "Before I came here, he was out on loan, he had was very good start when I came at first and he has come back into it again.
"Normally, that is what talent does. It is not normal to be at your best when you are 18 years old.
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Bernice William, 50, from Lutton, Lincolnshire, was found on 9 April and later indentified by her DNA.
The find came two days after her husband, Lawrence William, was found dead in a stable block at the family home, near Spalding.
Police believe Mr William, 49, may have taken his own life, but are treating his wife's death as suspicious.
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An inquest at Boston Coroners' Court was opened and adjourned while police investigations are completed.
Home Office post-mortems and toxicology tests have been ordered on both bodies.
Det Sgt Andy McWatt, of Lincolnshire Police, told the hearing the body of Mrs William - a teacher at a local school - was found after extensive searches by specialist teams at the house on Colley's Gate.
She was discovered two days after Mr William was found in a stable block at the property by the couple's eldest son, who was home from university at the time.
Her family believed she had been away staying with friends, but a missing person's appeal was launched after this was found not to be the case, police said.
A post-mortem proved inconclusive as to the cause of her death.
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Planners are considering whether to build 3,500 homes on the 'northern fringe' of the town and are looking at which new transport links are needed.
The Liberal Democrats and English Democrats standing in Central Suffolk are in favour of a bypass.
The Conservative candidate opposed the plan while other candidates called for more studies on the scheme.
Ipswich Borough Council is considering plans for the first phase of 815 homes, on land between north Ipswich and Westerfield.
Ipswich is already bypassed to the south, linking A14 from the west with the A12 and the Port of Felixstowe via the Orwell Bridge.
Six candidates are standing in the Central Suffolk & North Ipswich constituency which is being defended by Conservative health minister, Dan Poulter, who was elected in 2010 with a majority of 13,786.
Mr Poulter said: "I don't agree with a northern bypass because there is good evidence from elsewhere in the country that if we look at traffic flow issues over the Orwell Bridge and manage that better, we could improve flow.
"I will be looking at how we can perhaps get a tunnel under the Orwell to deliver the improvements we need to road infrastructure."
Jon Neal, Liberal Democrats, said: "We're in favour of a northern bypass but we need a vision for transport for the whole of Suffolk which doesn't just look at car use.
"Cycling infrastructure is very good on the Grange Farm development in Kesgrave but that's not the case everywhere."
Jack Abbott, Labour candidate, said: "We're facing huge development with housing that is desperately needed but we'd have to take on a huge amount of land [for a bypass] and the environmental cost would be huge.
"I'm in favour of it if it works but there are so many aspects to it, I can't give a yes or no answer."
Driving instructor Mark Cole, the UKIP candidate, said: "I spend all day in a car and my natural inclination is not to pave over swathes of northern Ipswich.
"But we've got a situation where traffic is almost at a standstill and we need look at all the various options - we can't just say yes or no because it's not that black and white."
Rhodri Griffiths, Green Party, said: "We are completely unequivocal in our opposition to a bypass.
"An awful lot more people in Ipswich could be cycling but we need to make it easier to do that and neither Labour, Conservative or the Lib Dems have done anything to address this really important issue."
Tony Holyoak, English Democrats, said: "The cost of a northern bypass is a drop in the ocean next to the amount of money being wasted on the HS2 rail link and that money would be better spent on our roads.
"East Anglia is poorly-served by roads and we would welcome it, subject to the correct route being chosen, to help bring growth to the region."
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The Reds looked like sweeping City aside in a dazzling opening half as goals from Raheem Sterling and Martin Skrtel put Brendan Rodgers's team in complete command.
City, who lost Yaya Toure to injury early on, mounted a superb recovery and David Silva pulled one back early in the second half before his cross was deflected in off Glen Johnson and Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet to draw them level five minutes later.
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A gripping spectacle was decided 12 minutes from time when City captain Vincent Kompany - an injury doubt before the game and clearly lacking some of his familiar authority - sliced a clearance straight to Philippe Coutinho, who shot low and unerringly past Joe Hart to put Liverpool in control of the title race.
It set up a nail-biting finish in which Liverpool's Jordan Henderson was shown a straight red card for a late challenge on Samir Nasri, one which means he will miss three of the last four games, and referee Mark Clattenburg missed Skrtel's clear handball in the closing seconds.
The final whistle sounded seconds later and a wall of noise surrounded Anfield as Reds players gathered in a huddle in front of the Kop, four wins away from their first title since 1990.
If Liverpool win those games they will be champions, but Chelsea also have to visit Liverpool and there is every chance they will still be harbouring Premier League title ambitions of their own.
City's impressive second-half showing demonstrated they must not be ruled out and they left Anfield nursing a sense of injustice, also believing Luis Suarez should have been sent off when Clattenburg declined to give him a second yellow card for diving.
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None of this will matter to the Reds, who were simply breathtaking in the opening 45 minutes as they made it 10 league wins in succession.
City had an injury doubt surrounding captain Kompany before kick-off after he limped out of training on Saturday. He underwent a lengthy warm-up on his own after being named on the team sheet and was fit to play.
Liverpool's lightning starts have become their trademark and they were at it again as Sterling gave them the lead after six minutes.
Suarez, who had already been booked for a late challenge on Martin Demichelis, played a perfect pass into Sterling, who showed commendable coolness to wait and wrong-foot Kompany and Hart before scoring in front of an ecstatic Kop.
And to make matters worse, Toure pulled up sharply with a muscle injury after attempting a long-range shot, struggling for a few minutes before accepting the inevitable and being replaced by Javi Garcia.
The hosts were overwhelming City with their pace, pressing and movement and should have extended their lead when Sterling set up Daniel Sturridge, only for the striker to glide a finish wide from eight yards.
"What a result for Liverpool. Drama like nowhere else. You would almost think that this was the day the title was decided but there will be more stories to tell before the end of the season. They had it won, gave it away and had to win it all over again."
The only complaint Rodgers could have had was that his team were not further ahead - but that situation was remedied as they scored a second after 26 minutes.
City's suspect marking at set-pieces allowed Gerrard a free header, which forced a magnificent one-handed save from Hart. It kept Liverpool at bay for a matter of seconds as Gerrard swung over the resulting corner and Skrtel rose at the near post to head in.
Finally, City showed signs of life as half-time approached and Mamadou Sakho was very fortunate to escape with a reckless lunge on Edin Dzeko in the area.
As Liverpool's pace relented briefly, the tiny figure of Sterling rose to head Kompany's header off the line before Mignolet did very well to plunge and turn away a snapshot from Fernandinho.
There was a very contentious moment early in the second half when Suarez went down theatrically with, at best, minimal contact from Demichelis. Referee Clattenburg gave no foul and City immediately questioned why Suarez had not been given a second yellow card for diving.
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City were a team transformed after the break, with the introduction of James Milner for Jesus Navas a contributing factor. He helped Silva pull one back when his run and cross gave the Spaniard a close-range finish.
And as the Merseysiders suddenly rocked, matters were level five minutes later when Silva's cross went in via a touch off Johnson and the legs of Mignolet.
Sensing the shift in momentum, City manager Manuel Pellegrini introduced Sergio Aguero for Dzeko and he almost set up a third for Silva, who just had to stretch too far to reach the pass and shot just wide.
Liverpool made City pay with 12 minutes left when Kompany's sliced clearance fell to Coutinho, who sent a low finish past the stretching Hart.
In a frantic finish, Henderson was sent off and Skrtel escaped with a handball - but nothing could dampen the celebrations that swept around Anfield.
Match ends, Liverpool 3, Manchester City 2.
Second Half ends, Liverpool 3, Manchester City 2.
Substitution, Liverpool. Lucas Leiva replaces Raheem Sterling.
Hand ball by Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City).
Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) is shown the red card.
Samir Nasri (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Henderson (Liverpool).
Foul by Samir Nasri (Manchester City).
Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Martin Skrtel.
Substitution, Liverpool. Victor Moses replaces Philippe Coutinho.
Offside, Liverpool. Raheem Sterling tries a through ball, but Luis Suarez is caught offside.
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool).
Offside, Manchester City. Vincent Kompany tries a through ball, but Samir Nasri is caught offside.
Offside, Liverpool. Joe Allen tries a through ball, but Luis Suarez is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Martín Demichelis (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Milner with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Steven Gerrard.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jon Flanagan.
Goal! Liverpool 3, Manchester City 2. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Liverpool. Luis Suarez tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.
Attempt missed. David Silva (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sergio Agüero with a through ball.
Offside, Liverpool. Jon Flanagan tries a through ball, but Jordan Henderson is caught offside.
Offside, Liverpool. Glen Johnson tries a through ball, but Luis Suarez is caught offside.
Substitution, Manchester City. Sergio Agüero replaces Edin Dzeko.
Attempt missed. Samir Nasri (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva.
Attempt saved. Edin Dzeko (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Liverpool. Joe Allen replaces Daniel Sturridge because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) because of an injury.
Own Goal by Glen Johnson, Liverpool. Liverpool 2, Manchester City 2.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Joe Hart.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jon Flanagan.
Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Martín Demichelis.
Goal! Liverpool 2, Manchester City 1. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Milner.
Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City).
Foul by Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool).
Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The 20-year-old made his debut for Shrewsbury in their League Two match against York on Saturday.
Grimmer made 14 appearances for Port Vale during a loan spell last season, scoring once.
"I spoke to the coach and he is under the impression that I will fit in nicely to the way he wants to play," said Grimmer.
"I know a few of the players from previous clubs and I played against Shrewsbury last season when I was on loan at Port Vale.
"They all said good things and give it plenty of compliments, so that really was a factor in making it an easy choice to come."
The outlandish projects included exploding seashells, a poisoned diving suit and poison pills hidden in face cream, according to a former bodyguard who wrote a book on the subject and a TV documentary.
The CIA and US-based Cuban exiles spent nearly half a century conspiring to do away with a leader whose country had the same effect on the US as "the full moon has on werewolves", according to former US Havana diplomat Wayne Smith.
The Cuban leader himself once remarked: "If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal."
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However most of the ideas were never put into practice, former bodyguard Fabian Escalante said.
Documents released during the administration of President Bill Clinton showed that the CIA at one point began researching Caribbean molluscs.
The plan was to pack a particularly spectacular one full of explosives to attract Castro, a keen diver, and to detonate it when he picked it up.
Another scuba-related idea was to create a diving suit infected with fungus that would cause a debilitating disease. Both plans were dropped.
Decades earlier in 1975, the US Senate Church Commission revealed details of at least eight plots on Castro's life, using devices which, the commission report said, "strain the imagination".
One plot using underworld figures twice progressed to the point of sending poison pills to Cuba and dispatching teams to "do the deed", it said.
At almost the exact moment that President Kennedy - who had authorised the failed Bay of Pigs invasion to overthrow Castro in 1961 - was assassinated, a CIA operative was apparently handing a poison pen equipped with a very fine needle to a Cuban agent.
The agent however was disappointed and asked for something "more sophisticated", the report said.
One of Castro's former lovers, Marita Lorenz, was also recruited. She was given poison pills to put in Castro's drink.
But Castro found out about the attempt and is said to have handed her his gun to use instead.
"You can't kill me. Nobody can kill me," he said, Ms Lorenz told the New York Daily News. "And he kind of smiled and chewed on his cigar. I felt deflated. He was so sure of me. He just grabbed me. We made love."
The most recent known attempt on Castro's life was in 2000, when a plan was hatched to put a large quantity of explosives under a podium he was due to speak on in Panama. The plot was foiled by Castro's security team.
Four men, including veteran Cuban exile and CIA agent Luis Posada, were jailed but later pardoned.
There were also plots to make Castro, also known as "The Beard", an object of ridicule rather than kill him.
One was to sprinkle thallium salt on Castro's shoes during an overseas trip in the hope that his famous beard would fall out. But it was foiled when Castro cancelled the visit.
Another involved spraying an aerosol of LSD close to him as he was about to make a TV broadcast in the hope that he would become hysterical on air.
Castro took myriad precautions to evade would-be assassins. But in 1979 as he flew to New York to address the UN he could not resist a bit of grandstanding.
Asked by journalists on the plane whether he wore a bulletproof vest, he pulled open his shirt and exposed his chest.
"I have a moral vest," he said.
Events will take place throughout Llandudno as an extension of the annual Craft of Comedy UK conference which will be happening at Venue Cymru.
The fringe kicks off on Saturday with a slightly reduced version of the West End show Showstopper! The Improvised Musical.
The authors of Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups will also be giving a talk.
Steve Doherty, the conference's artistic director, said: "With the development of the fringe, we're hoping that we can spread a little laughter outside the walls of Venue Cymru and bring north Wales to the comedy industry."
Ms Steenkamp, 29, had been about to appear in a celebrity TV reality show called Tropika Island of Treasure.
In publicity for the programme, she had said her personal claims to fame were that she was named by men's magazine FHM as one of the "100 sexiest women in the world two years running", appearing on the December 2011 cover of the magazine and graduating in law from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, where she had grown up.
She had moved to Johannesburg in 2007 after she was chosen to become the first face of Avon cosmetics in South Africa, her profile on the show's website says.
She went on to appear in many campaigns and commercials and had presented some TV shows.
"She was definitely destined for success," her publicist Sarit Tomlinson, from Capacity Relations, told the BBC.
"She was a gorgeous girl both inside and out, and also had a brain... she had an incredible entrepreneurial spirit."
Her family were "shocked and devastated", Ms Tomlinson said.
"She was an absolute angel - the sweetest, sweetest human being, kind human being, it's very, very sad."
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Ms Steenkamp was first spotted with Oscar Pistorius at the South African Sports Awards in November 2012, when the model said they were just friends, South Africa's Mail and Guardian reports.
The couple had been dating for a couple of months, Ms Tomlinson told Sky News.
"It's been a healthy fabulous relationship," she said.
The model was an active Twitter user, where she described herself as "SA Model, Cover Girl, Tropika Island of Treasure Celeb Contestant, Law Graduate, Child of God".
The day before the shooting, she had said how much she was looking forward to Valentine's Day.
"What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow??? #getexcited #ValentinesDay," she tweeted.
Earlier that day she had said she was enjoying a smoothie with her boyfriend: "It's a beautiful day! Make things happen. Starting my day off with a yummy healthy shake from my boo :) #healthyliving."
The reality TV show she took part in was filmed on a tropical island and pits seven celebrities and seven other players against one another to win 1m rand ($113,000, £72,600).
During each episode they play a game, the winner of which is able to kick off one of the other contestants.
"We are deeply saddened and extend our condolences to Reeva's family and friends," a statement on the show's website says.
For the show, she was asked to describe herself in three words. "Brainy, blonde, bombshell," she said.
She also had a passion for cars and cooking and at the weekends preferred to read a book and spend time with her friends and family, her Tropika Island of Treasure profile said.
Industrial action began on Tuesday but was ramped up nationally by members of the big trade unions.
Thousands of people stopped work on Wednesday and marched through Athens to demonstrate over the measures being demanded by international lenders.
There were isolated clashes, but the most of the protest were peaceful.
Elsewhere in the country ferry services stopped and buses and trains were limited. Flights were also hit for several hours by the strike.
MPs are set to vote on controversial reforms on Thursday that will cut pensions and end tax breaks.
The left-wing Syriza government needs to make further savings before eurozone finance ministers agree to hand over further loan cash as part of its latest bailout deal.
Despite pouring rain, crowds of protesters joined a rally late in the morning in Klafthmonos Square in the centre of Athens. Further rallies were held elsewhere in the capital, including one organised by the communist-affiliated PAME union.
A large number of professions were involved in the strike, including the biggest trade unions, the GSEE and ADEDY:
The new austerity measures will not come into force until 2019 and 2020 but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has to persuade eurozone finance ministers next Monday to provide the next loan instalment of €7.5bn (£6.4bn; $8.2bn).
Mr Tsipras - who came to power pledging to resist austerity measures - said on Wednesday that he was hopeful the finance ministers would respond favourably to Greece's predicament.
Athens needs to repay 7.5 billion euros ($8.2 billion) of debt maturing in July. Mr Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed during a call on Wednesday morning that a deal was "feasible" by Monday, a government official said.
Greece is facing its next big debt demand in July and has had three bailouts from the EU and IMF so far.
The country has fallen back into recession for the first time since 2012, according to figures that emerged on Tuesday.
Unemployment is running at nearly one in every four people with almost a 50% jobless rate among young people.
Adam Williams, who owns Llandudno Pier in Conwy county, had to adapt his 1,000 slot machines to ensure they can accept the new 12-sided coin, which was released on Tuesday.
He was helped by the Royal Mint in Llantrisant who sent him examples of the new coin to test his machines.
"I thought logistically and financially it would be a nightmare," he said.
Mr Williams also owns Fun Factory and Tir Prince Raceway attractions in Towyn, Conwy county.
"We're lucky as we are a sizeable company with in-house engineers," he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales.
"So we can deal with these kind of problems even though it will cost us tens of thousands of pounds to accept this new £1 coin.
"If I was a small business or single-site operator it could make you bankrupt."
The new £1 coin has a hidden security feature to make it difficult to counterfeit.
Mr Williams said he was glad the new coins were introduced before Easter.
"Thankfully we can get the machines adapted and tested before the start of the summer season," he added.
"They brought the coin in at the right time so we've had the winter quiet period to do this work.
"So although there is not a lot of income coming in to pay for the work, it does mean we can start the summer off fully operational."
29 January 2016 Last updated at 20:45 GMT
Bumper the Bunny was in his enclosure when it was blown onto the roof of a care home during Thursday night's storm.
Julian Fowler reports.
The situation has improved a little in the 10 years since the auditor last investigated, but he said there were still challenges to be faced.
Out of 300,000 school children in NI, 20,000 are missing at least six weeks of lessons each year.
The level of unauthorised absences is now proportionately twice as high as in England.
"Our attendance policy is living and vibrant. We talk about great initiatives for getting children into school.
At Holy Cross Boys' School, we have a breakfast club. When the children come in, they can join the i-pad club, the book club or the chess club.
These children come in their droves because they want to be part of what we have to offer.
We have had many challenges over the years. We are in a highly socially deprived area, at the minute we have 78% free school meals.
Despite all that, we do send 42% children to grammar school.
We have a rigorous, robust but very fair attendance policy.
We talk about an early intervention programme. If I have a problem with attendances, I will speak to the parents.
Sometimes, I've been at homes and I've been taking children out of bed and into school. I am known as the headmaster who gets the children out of bed and into school.
We would offer great rewards for getting children into school. We make it competitive and fun.
With children who have 100% attendance in a month, they are put into a draw for £5. That is some incentive to come in.
Kevin McArevey Principal, Holy Cross Boys' PS Commended for good practice in the Audit Office Report
Alarm bells should ring where a pupil misses around six weeks of schooling, but the auditor is concerned that schools are not being encouraged to report all cases.
Of the 20,000 pupils who are persistently absent, less than a fifth were referred to the authorities.
Non-attendance is said to not only waste money, it also affects a child's long-term prospects.
Persistent offenders are seven times more likely to be out of a job and not in education or training when they leave school.
Children in socially deprived areas and in traveller families are most likely to be affected.
Auditor General Kieran Donnelly said the cost to society, in terms of lost career opportunities, amounted to £22m a year.
The audit office published its last report on school absenteeism in 2004.
Ten years later it said there had been a marginal improvement.
The Department of Education has been praised for improving the way information is collected and commissioning research, but the report said there was not enough joined-up thinking among the education and library boards.
The other last-four tie sees Juventus - in their first semi-final since 2003 - face Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid, the defending champions.
The first legs will be played on 5 and 6 May, with the return matches a week later.
In the Europa League, holders Sevilla face Fiorentina, while Rafael Benitez's Napoli are up against Ukraine's Dnipro.
Bayern boss Guardiola won 14 trophies as a manager - including the Champions League in 2009 and 2011 - during four years at Barcelona.
He has reached the Champions League semi-finals in each of his six seasons as a manager, four with Barca and now two with Bayern.
The Catalan said: "Everyone understands how special this game is for me, for [midfielder] Thiago and my staff.
"Barcelona was our life. Barcelona is my home.
"Barcelona are the best team at the moment. I am not surprised. He (Luis Enrique) has a lot of quality. He is a great guy and I am happy I will be facing him."
Ancelotti will also be reunited with one of his former clubs, with the Italian having managed the Turin side from 1999 to 2001.
The draw leaves open the possibility of a Barcelona v Real Madrid European Cup final, something which has never happened before. The arch-rivals are also battling it out for the Spanish league title this season.
Real Madrid reached the last four by beating city rivals Atletico - in a repeat of last season's final - thanks to Javier Hernandez's late goal.
Bayern Munich thrashed Porto 6-1 at home to overturn a first-leg deficit and progress 7-4 on aggregate.
Things were more straightforward for Barcelona, who beat Paris St-Germain 5-1 overall, and Juventus, who beat Monaco 1-0 over two legs.
This season's final will be played at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on Saturday, 6 June.
The Europa League draw leaves the possibility of an all-Serie A final. There have been four all-Italian Uefa Cup finals, but none since the tournament was rebranded in 2009.
The first legs of the semi-finals will be played on Thursday, 7 May with the return matches a week later.
The final is in Warsaw's National Stadium on Wednesday, 27 May.
Ex-prisoners will no longer automatically qualify for emergency accommodation on release, under the new Housing Wales Act.
Shelter Cymru said it was "very concerned" more would now end up on the street.
The Welsh government said it was working on a "package of support".
Rebecca Taylor, of Shelter Cymru, said the housing charity was "very, very concerned".
"We will see a lot more vulnerable tenants, perhaps, having to put them up and perhaps risking their tenancy," she added.
Ex-prisoner John, 26, has previously struggled to find somewhere to live after leaving jail.
"I ended up sofa surfing and staying with my family for a few months. I ended up back out on the streets, just drinking a lot. I didn't know what to do to get a job, I didn't really know what to do.
"I ended up getting into trouble and going back to prison."
According to the new act, introduced in April, ex-offenders will still be eligible for support to prevent them becoming homeless.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "Our new legislation is focused on preventing homelessness and the change in priority status for prison-leavers reflects this.
"Under the Housing Act 2014, help to find suitable accommodation is now provided for people before they leave prison, rather than only taking action upon their release, which was often the case under the previous legislation."
The government said it was working with local authorities and other organisations to "provide a co-ordinated package of support for prison-leavers".
His status is such that the phrase to be "paxoed" has entered the media lexicon, meaning a journalistic "going over" to be avoided by hapless politicians.
However, many of Westminster's toughest and wiliest operators have succumbed.
The journalist has been no respecter of standing or affiliation, giving an equally rough ride to interviewees, whether they were Conservative or Labour, prime ministers, masters of the universe or junior officials.
Some hardened politicians reportedly refused to appear on the programme when he was presenting while others donned their tin hats and became regular sparring partners.
Perhaps more than any other, Michael Howard's appearance on Newsnight in 1997 has entered broadcasting and political folklore.
In the middle of a Tory leadership contest, Mr Howard was asked about his relationship with the former head of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, whom he had sacked in 1995 after a series of escapes by IRA prisoners.
The Newsnight host famously put the same question 12 times to the former home secretary without appearing to get a satisfactory answer.
He later played down what many immediately hailed as a moment of journalistic genius, suggesting that he could not think of anything else to ask him as the interview progressed.
The BBC had well-documented run-ins with the Labour government in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with much probing about the relationship between Tony Blair and George Bush.
In a 2003 edition, Jeremy Paxman took a different tack and appeared to take the prime minister genuinely by surprise when he asked him whether he and the US president had prayed together.
The same question has been posed several times since then but it was Paxman who asked it first.
Like Mr Blair, William Hague is regarded as one of the most talented media performers of his generation but that did not protect him when he was put on the spot in 2009 about Tory donor Lord Ashcroft's tax status.
As before, the Newsnight host deployed the tactic of asking the same question, or variations on the same question, on multiple occasions and the then shadow foreign secretary seemed taken aback by this.
Some politicians have literally had their careers made or broken by their appearances on Newsnight.
Junior Treasury minister and rising Conservative star Chloe Smith was dispatched to appear on the programme in 2012 to talk about a proposed delay to a rise in fuel duty.
What followed was painful to watch as the minister struggled to appear on top of her brief and give the appearance that she was privy to what was going on in the upper echelons of her department.
Chancellor George Osborne was criticised for not going on the programme himself and allowing Ms Smith to take the fire.
Although remaining magnanimous about the encounter, Ms Smith was moved to another job in a reshuffle that year and has since left the government.
The Newsnight host has not always had it his own way, of course, and some of his most memorable encounters have taken place when his subjects have fought back.
Media magnate Conrad Black famously chided Jeremy Paxman as a "gullible, priggish, English fool" when questioned about his (Black's) conviction for fraud and subsequent imprisonment.
And many felt the legendary interviewer finally met his match when he came up against Russell Brand last year.
His joust with the comedian and provocateur, in which Russell Brand mused on the point of voting and the need for a popular revolution, became an instant hit on social media.
The Newsnight host took his interviewee to task for not being "arsed" to vote but had to admit afterwards that he had also failed to do so on one recent occasion.
The seven electric-hybrid double decker vehicles will cover the Kirriemuir, Forfar and Brechin 20 and 21 routes to and from Dundee.
The Scottish government's Scottish Green Bus Fund has contributed £300,000 towards the cost of the vehicles, which include free wi-fi access.
Stagecoach introduced 18 electric hybrid buses in 2015, which run on the 73 route between Dundee and Arbroath.
Jon Oakey, Stagecoach East Scotland acting general manager said: "We're committed to improving public transport in Angus and Dundee so I'm delighted to be introducing our latest investment for the area.
"These new vehicles will complement our existing 18 electric-hybrid buses already in the area, helping reduce our environmental impact and hopefully encourage more customers to opt for our greener, smarter travel."
Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday.
Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users to its website.
Security analysts now believe the attack used the "internet of things" - web-connected home devices - to launch the assault.
Dyn is a DNS service - an internet "phone book" which directs users to the internet address where the website is stored. Such services are a crucial part of web infrastructure.
On Friday, it came under attack - a distributed denial of service (DDoS) - which relies on thousands of machines sending co-ordinated messages to overwhelm the service.
The "global event" involved "tens of millions" of internet addresses.
Security firm Flashpoint said it had confirmed that the attack used "botnets" infected with the "Mirai" malware.
Many of the devices involved come from Chinese manufacturers, with easy-to-guess usernames and passwords that cannot be changed by the user - a vulnerability which the malware exploits.
"Mirai scours the Web for IoT (Internet of Things) devices protected by little more than factory-default usernames and passwords," explained cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs, "and then enlists the devices in attacks that hurl junk traffic at an online target until it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors or users."
The owner of the device would generally have no way of knowing that it had been compromised to use in an attack, he wrote.
Mr Krebs is intimately familiar with this type of incident, after his website was targeted by a similar assault in September, in one of the biggest web attacks ever seen.
It has emerged that the BBC's website was also briefly caught up in Friday's attack. The BBC is not a customer of Dyn itself, but it does use third-party services that rely on the domain name system hosting facilities provided by Dyn.
I understand that these include Amazon Web Services - the retail giant's cloud computing division - and Fastly - a San Francisco-based firm that helps optimise page download times.
Both companies have acknowledged being disrupted by the DDoS assault. Only some BBC users, in certain locations, would have experienced problems and they did not last long.
But there are reports that other leading media providers also experienced similar disruption.
It serves as a reminder that despite the internet being a hugely robust communications system, there are still some pinch points that mean a targeted attack can cause widespread damage.
The incidents mark a change in tactics for online attackers.
DDoS attacks are typically aimed at a single website. Friday's attack on Dyn, which acts as a directory service for huge numbers of firms, affected several of the world's most popular websites at once.
The use of internet-connected home devices to send the attacking messages is also a relatively new phenomenon, but may become more common.
The Mirai software used in these attacks was released publicly in September - which means anyone with the skill could build their own attacking botnet.
On social media, many researchers and analysts expressed frustration with the security gap being exploited by attackers.
"Today we answered the question 'what would happen if we connected a vast number of cheap, crummy embedded devices to broadband networks?'" wrote Matthew Green, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute.
Jeff Jarmoc, head of security for global business service Salesforce, pointed out that internet infrastructure is supposed to be more robust.
"In a relatively short time we've taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters," he tweeted.
Hart, on loan from Manchester City, palmed Antonio Candreva's through ball into Mauro Icardi's shins and the ball ricocheted into the net.
It was captain Icardi's first goal since falling out with the club's ultras, who said he was dead to them.
Andrea Belotti capitalised on woeful defending to equalise before Icardi struck a drive into the top corner.
Victory ended a run of three league defeats in succession for Inter.
David Miranda lives with reporter Glenn Greenwald who has written articles about state surveillance based on leaked documents.
At the High Court, Mr Miranda claimed his detention under anti-terrorism laws was unlawful and breached human rights.
But judges said it was a "proportionate measure in the circumstances" and in the interests of national security.
In his judgement, Lord Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice Ouseley and Mr Justice Openshaw, said: "Its objective was not only legitimate, but very pressing."
Mr Miranda's lawyers said he had applied for permission to appeal against the decision.
The 28-year-old Brazilian was in transit from Germany to Brazil when he was stopped at the airport, detained, questioned and searched by police.
He was carrying computer files for Mr Greenwald at the time and had items, including his laptop, mobile phone, memory cards and DVDs, taken from him.
Mr Greenwald has written a series of stories about spying in the US and UK after receiving material from US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has been given temporary asylum in Russia.
Steven Kovats QC, representing the UK home secretary, previously told the High Court that the secret material seized from Mr Miranda could have ended up in the hands of al-Qaeda.
But Mr Miranda's lawyers argued the detention at Heathrow was illegal because it was carried out under the wrong law: Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
They said that in reality he was detained on the say-so of the security services so they could seize journalistic material.
Mr Miranda was carrying 58,000 highly classified Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) files, the judge said.
He added that Oliver Robbins, the UK's deputy national security adviser at the Cabinet Office, had stated that "release or compromise of such data would be likely to cause very great damage to security interests and possible loss of life".
Terror laws: What is Schedule 7?
In his ruling, Lord Justice Laws said: "The claimant was not a journalist; the stolen GCHQ intelligence material he was carrying was not 'journalistic material', or if it was, only in the weakest sense.
"But he was acting in support of Mr Greenwald's activities as a journalist. I accept that the Schedule 7 stop constituted an indirect interference with press freedom, though no such interference was asserted by the claimant at the time.
"In my judgement, however, it is shown by compelling evidence to have been justified."
Lord Justice Laws added that he had to balance press freedom against national security, and concluded: "On the facts of this case, the balance is plainly in favour of the latter."
Following the judgement, Mr Miranda said the ruling would hurt the UK more than him.
He said he did not know at the time what material he was carrying, but he knew it was for journalists.
"So if your government thinks that material for journalists is terrorism material now, I mean, there's no press freedom for your country," he said.
"We're going to appeal, we're going to appeal even though the courts say we cannot appeal we're going to try to appeal."
The High Court has refused Mr Miranda permission to take the case to the Court of Appeal but he can petition the court directly and ask them to hear the case.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the judgement "overwhelmingly supports the wholly proportionate action taken by the police in this case to protect national security".
"If the police believe any individual is in possession of highly-sensitive stolen information that would aid terrorism, then they should act. We are pleased that the court agrees," she said.
She added that the work of police and intelligence agencies was "made much harder as a result of intelligence leaks".
Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball described the ruling as "very important"
She told the BBC: "There was information that David Miranda was carrying stolen, highly classified documents that had been stolen by Edward Snowden.
"We were very concerned that if those documents reached the public domain people's safety would be put at risk."
However, Mr Greenwald again criticised the UK government, adding that he would not be deterred "by this kind of thuggish behaviour".
He said: "I wouldn't want to be a journalist inside of the UK given how notorious that country is, especially now, for its contempt towards press freedom.
"But the rest of the world, I think, looks at this decision and views the UK government with a lot lower esteem. But it's not going to have any effect on anyone's journalism outside the UK and certainly not ours."
Mr Greenwald said he had been very careful with the material and kept it secure.
"There's no evidence that any of this information has ever helped terrorists in any way," he said.
Civil liberties and freedom of expression groups condemned the High Court decision.
Rosie Brighouse, legal officer at campaign group Liberty, said: "If such a barefaced abuse of power is lawful then the law must change.
"Miranda's treatment showed Schedule 7 for what it is - a chillingly over-broad power, routinely misused."
The Newtown bypass, aimed at easing congestion in the town, is subject to a public inquiry.
Mervyn Jones owns the land the tree sits on and believes unless the road is built 15 metres away, the roots will be damaged and it will die.
A Welsh government spokesman said it is "aware of the issues" and is awaiting the outcome of the public inquiry.
Mr Jones told BBC Radio Wales: "We're not trying to stop the bypass, we just want to save the tree."
A campaign group on Facebook in support of saving the tree has 3,000 members.
The Welsh government spokesman said: "We are awaiting the outcome of a public inquiry. We will obviously give further consideration to the concerns raised."
Those who want to leave argue that migration from poorer parts of Europe like Romania and Slovakia drive down wages in the UK as people are willing to work for lower pay than those born here.
But those who want to remain say the free market and free flow of goods and people within the EU makes our economies more efficient and able to compete in the world.
The latest figures are already being used to back up both arguments, even in Wales which at the moment has the lowest proportion of migrants of all UK nations.
I have taken a snapshot of the issue in a docklands area of Newport.
MIGRATION AND WALES
Although Wales as a whole has a smaller proportion of migrants from the EU and beyond living here, there are communities - particularly in our urban centres.
One of them is Pill in Newport, a community of around 7,000 people.
Commercial Street has buildings going back to the 19th Century along with 1960s housing and some newly-built shop fronts and homes.
Close to the docks, Pill has welcomed people from other parts of the world for generations.
Finding figures to accurately tell us how many people are here from the EU and beyond is difficult.
If five years old now, the most reliable is the 2011 Census.
It shows Newport as a whole has the second highest proportion of non-UK born residents - 12,500 people or 8.5% of the local population.
A more detailed look shows around 3.5% of Pill's population came from EU countries.
But it suggests there are more than twice as many Bengali speakers, for example, than the 100 or so Polish speaking community.
As I walked along Commercial Street, I passed businesses from migrants from Poland, Slovakia, Romania as well as Pakistan, India and Kurdistan.
Talk to people on the streets in Newport and they say many of the new arrivals are from Romania, which joined the EU in 2007.
POSTCARDS FROM PILL
Shadie Khan came to Wales from Pakistan in 1963, following his father. He runs a grocery store in Commercial Road.
He says he arrived in Britain at the time the UK Government was encouraging people to migrate and join the workforce. Mr Kahn first started working in Port Talbot, then moved to Cardiff where his family ran a guesthouse in Newport Road before moving to Newport and opening his store in Pill 10 years ago.
He argues that it is unfair that people now want to migrate from Pakistan to work in Wales, like he did, can only come if they already have a job that will pay them more than ??19,000 a year.
His son Nakeeb runs the family's second store at the other end of the road.
He also thinks migrants need to be treated equally whether they are from the EU or countries like Pakistan with a long standing relationship with the UK.
"There should be a fair system - it's very tight for people from Asia, they're making it tighter but it's easier for people from Europe."
David Turza, 28, runs a Polish supermarket in Commercial Road.
He had always dreamed of living in the UK and says even as a child growing up in Poland he was attracted by the images of black cabs and double decker buses.
His dream came true in 2006 when at 18 he arrived in the UK, first in Yorkshire, then moving to the West Midlands and finally settling in south Wales.
Mr Turza started living in Merthyr Tydfil and last year moved to Newport where he is manager of the Polish grocery store, which also sells goods for the Slovak and Hungarian communities.
His wife works there too; all eight staff are Polish.
He said moving from Poland meant more money and it was a "better opportunity to have a better life."
He proudly added: "I've never had any [benefits] - I started working when I came over and I'm proud I work for myself."
Mr Turza would not be drawn on the EU referendum or whether he would vote.
Yale Brian has been landlord of the Alexandra Inn at the docks end of Commercial Road for 18 years.
The pub has been there for more than a hundred years and has seen the ethnic mix of the community evolve.
He says recent migration is different from previous decades and believes "there is too much of it".
Mr Brian said he believes immigrants are putting a strain on social housing in the area.
Although voting to leave the EU, his main motivation is not migration but the motives of politicians who want to stay in.
"They want to stay in the EU so that they have somewhere to work in the future so that they can jump on the gravy train," he said.
Those who want to leave the EU "have the country's interests at heart to leave".
About half the customers I spoke to in his pub said they wanted the UK to leave the EU and would vote that way but they did not want to be identified.
Customer Graham Jones, who will be voting to stay in, said migration was not an issue for him and said: "I believe the working man has rights and the moment we leave Europe it will only be a matter of a few years before the government will totally eradicate working men's rights."
A COMPLICATED DEBATE
I talked to one man who told me that he was an asylum seeker from the Middle East, who came to the UK hidden in a lorry but was given a licence to work by the Home Office and works full time in Newport.
He told me "there are too many asylum seekers. Most asylum seekers cannot work but I am allowed to because I have a licence".
"Most of the European people claim benefit," he claimed. "You can see them at the job centre. It's full of Romanians, Czech Republic, Slovakians, none is working and are claiming benefit".
"But asylum seekers, if you allow them to work, they are all working and they pay tax, because they come from hard work life, you know."
It is certainly a complicated debate. I also met up with two long established academics to hear their views - and what they think is best for the Welsh economy.
Dr Eurfyl ap Gwilym disagrees with arguments that migrants take Welsh jobs. He says the fact that there are more people working in Wales than ever before shows it cannot be true.
He argues that when there are, for instance, Spanish people working in Welsh hotels it was because Welsh people do not want to do those jobs.
Fellow economist Prof Patrick Minford, on the other, hand believes unskilled immigration has driven down wages.
He believes that migration from Europe should be limited to people with the skills needed. He says the fact people can come to Wales from the EU is putting pressure on hospitals and schools and that social cost is probably greater than the money they generate for the economy.
But in the end, it is not the views of economists or how much we try to make sense of statistics - it is people's perceptions that will decide which way they will vote.
Douglas Ross and Ross Thomson were both elected to Holyrood in 2016 but then won seats at Westminster in the snap general election.
Both are list MSPs, so will be replaced by fellow Conservatives.
Scotland is sending a total of 22 new MPs to Westminster following the election, alongside 37 re-elected incumbent members.
Meanwhile, Rachael Hamilton is being sworn in as a Conservative MSP for the second time in the current term, having quit her list seat to successfully contest the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire by-election on the same day as the general election.
In last Thursday's general election, the Conservatives won 13 seats north of the border, their best return since 1983.
Mr Ross won the Moray constituency from the SNP's depute leader and Westminster group leader Angus Robertson, while Mr Thomson took Aberdeen South from Callum McCaig.
Both men were formerly councillors, on Highland and Aberdeen City councils respectively, and have gone from local politics to Holyrood to Westminster in just over a year.
The Scottish Parliament's additional member system means the two list MSPs will be replaced by Conservative party colleagues.
To replace Mr Ross, Jamie Halcro-Johnston is next on the Highlands list, having failed to win a seat in Orkney and Shetland in the general election.
Tom Mason, who is currently depute provost of Aberdeen City Council, is expected to take Mr Thomson's place from the North East list.
Mr Mason is the final name on the list, with all of the other candidates having been elected either to Holyrood or Westminster - or, in one case, left the party. If a party runs out of regional list members, then the seat is left empty for the duration of the parliament.
Kite Power Solutions is behind the development on part of the West Freugh military range near Stranraer.
The research and development project received planning permission earlier this year.
The company has said it could eventually employ up to 500 people by 2025, if the project enters the manufacturing stage.
A planning application for the scheme was tabled in April.
The technology uses two kites tethered to spool drums and as they fly they turn the drums to produce electricity.
A full-sized kite will be 40 metres wide and able to generate two to three megawatts of electricity, comparable to a 100m conventional wind turbine.
Planning permission has been granted for the 500 kilowatt demonstration system at West Freugh which the company believes will be an important stepping stone in developing commercial systems within the next few years.
David Ainsworth, the firm's business development director, said: "This is the third evolution of our technology and the next step after the 500kW will be to develop a 3MW system at West Freugh, which is planned for 2019.
"We believe that we will be able to halve the cost of offshore wind.
"We can install offshore wind installations at a much lower price and can produce offshore wind without the need for government subsidies."
The firm has already tested the technology via a much smaller project in Essex and now plans to move its headquarters to Glasgow and double in size in preparation for the West Freugh scheme.
The new project will be the first of its scale in the UK and the second in the world after a research project in Italy.
WWF Scotland director Lang Banks welcomed the development.
He said: "When it comes to renewables, Scotland's ambitions clearly know no bounds.
"Kite power technology offers the prospect of an exciting new way to harness the power of the wind, particularly in places where it might be impractical to erect a wind turbine.
"Alongside energy reduction schemes and other renewables, this technology could contribute to helping us to end our addiction with climate-changing fossil fuels."
Peoples Liberation Army soldiers entered India on 11 August and left on 15 August, the Press Trust of India quoted defence sources as saying.
India's foreign ministry played down the report. Beijing is yet to comment.
The neighbours, who fought a brief war in 1962, dispute several Himalayan border areas.
Earlier in April, India asked China to withdraw troops it said had moved into disputed territory near the two countries' de facto border in the Ladakh region.
Both India and China claim Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin area of Ladakh in their entirety.
They have held numerous rounds of border talks, but all have been unsuccessful so far and tensions flare up from time to time.
The latest incident took place in the Chaglagam area. Reports said the Chinese troops left after a meeting with the Indian border personnel.
Indian authorities described the reports of the incursion as "non-events".
"We don't take up non-events in diplomatic practice. What has happened or not is up to sentinels of our borders to answer. They know the factual position on this and I think they have answered that," external affairs ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told reporters in Delhi.
"There has been a rebuttal by the army on this and we don't want to to go beyond that," he added.
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Referee Steven McLean pointed to the spot following a challenge by Dons skipper Ryan Jack, 24, on Craig.
Aberdeen, who are second in the Premiership, had led 1-0 through Simon Church's first-half goal.
"He's given the referee a decision to make and the referee's given it and I've tucked it away," said Craig, 29.
"It's a penalty," he added on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"When you see the reaction of Ryan Jack after the game - I spoke to him for about a minute about the game and that was a big moment in Aberdeen's season - if Jack feels that I've gone down easy or dived, he's chasing me off the park. He's not going to stand and talk to me and tell me, yeah he got a nick on the ball but he knew he caught me with the follow through as well.
"Our first-half performance probably deserved a point although the second half Aberdeen were very dominant and will be probably more frustrated that they didn't go on to win the game and add to the one-goal lead. That'll disappoint them more than the penalty I think."
The Dons, who were upset at the award of the spot-kick, missed the chance to close the gap on leaders Celtic to four points.
And boss Derek McInnes commented after the game: "Whether it's a penalty or not I still believe we should deal with things better in the build-up to it.
"I can't be certain from where I was and having seen it again I can't be certain it's a penalty either way.
"I thought there was contact [with the ball]. Ryan Jack said there's contact.
"It's a really disappointing way to end the game. Once we got ourselves in front we were in control of the game.
"We're licking our wounds a wee bit at the moment because I didn't see an equaliser coming."
Mansell was an out-and-out racer who wore his heart on his sleeve, while being prone to emotional outbursts.
Ditto, Hamilton.
But how do their achievements at the British Grand Prix compare?
For Mansell and Hamilton, all of their British GP wins came in seasons when they contested the world title. Hamilton, the current world champion, has won the world title in each of the years in which he triumphed at Silverstone - 2008, 2014 and 2015.
We wait to see if he keeps up that record this year.
'Our Nige' was successful at home in 1986, 1987, 1991 and 1992, but it took until the last of those years to finally win his first world title, aged 39 - 16 years older than Hamilton was in 2008.
Different eras and different circumstances - but there are similarities between their wins on home Tarmac.
One notable point of difference is that Mansell's first British GP win in 1986 came at Brands Hatch - the last F1 event held at the Kent circuit before Silverstone became the permanent home of the race.
The 1986 race was delayed for nearly an hour by a multi-car accident at the first corner. In 2014, Kimi Raikkonen's first-lap collision caused a similar delay for barrier repairs.
Mansell's had a huge slice of luck in 1986 because his driveshaft failed on the first start. The delay to the second start allowed him to switch to the spare Williams-Honda, which had been set up for team-mate Nelson Piquet.
In both 1986 and 1987, Mansell had to hunt down and pass Piquet to get the win, making up 29 seconds in 28 laps on the second occasion for one of the most memorable F1 races of all time.
Mansell and his Williams were dominant in 1991 and 1992. In his championship year, Mansell qualified 1.919 seconds faster than team-mate Riccardo Patrese in second, with Ayrton Senna - third on the grid - 2.741 seconds back.
Three of Hamilton's home wins came in rain-affected races, with the 2008 event subject to torrential downpours.
In contrast, all of Mansell's victories came in dry weather.
Hamilton was the class of the field in 2008, winning by a staggering 68 seconds while many other drivers struggled to keep their cars pointing in the right direction.
His first two wins also came after starting fourth (2008) and sixth (2014) on the grid, while Mansell's victories all originated from front-row grid slots.
In 2014, Hamilton had a stroke of luck as Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg was hit by a gearbox problem while leading, while the following year he had to overhaul both Williams cars after being jumped at the start.
It's arguable that, even allowing for Mansell's thrilling charge to victory in 1987, Hamilton has had to work harder for his British GP wins.
But there is one thing all eight wins have in common: They were rapturously received by ecstatic home crowds.
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"Your father is ruining the country," the man shouted as the aircraft prepared for departure from JFK airport in New York, a passenger told TMZ.com.
Witnesses said Ms Trump ignored the man and distracted her children with toys.
JetBlue airlines said in a statement that "the decision to remove a customer from a flight is not taken lightly".
"If the crew determines that a customer is causing conflict on the aircraft, the customer will be asked to deplane, especially if the crew feels the situation runs the risk of escalation during flight," it said.
Shortly before the Palm Beach, Florida-bound flight's departure, a New York university professor tweeted that mother-of-three Ms Trump and her husband Jared Kushner were aboard the plane "flying commercial".
"My husband chasing them down to harass them," Matthew Lasner tweeted.
According to TMZ.com, Mr Lasner's partner, Dan Goldstein, shouted: "Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private."
But Mr Lasner tweeted that "my husband expressed displeasure in a calm tone, JetBlue staff overheard, and they kicked us off the plane".
JetBlue's statement added that its "team worked to re-accommodate the party on the next available flight".
Palm Beach is home to Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, where he plans to spend the coming holiday season with his family.
The pair, both 20, have agreed short-term deals until the end of the season with the League Two club.
Ward had loan spells at Torquay and Kidderminster during his time with West Brom, who released him in January.
Hooper made two first-team appearances for Rochdale last season, the most recent in December 2015.
Both players were named on the Carlisle bench for Tuesday's home game against play-off rivals Luton Town.
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Gerard Quinn, 24, died after being assaulted in Milldale Crescent on Saturday night. It is understood he was at a house party.
His twin brother also received injuries to his head, but they are not believed to be serious.
Police were contacted at about 22:30 BST. Mr Quinn was taken to hospital by ambulance where he later died.
A post-mortem examination will take place on Monday and have appealed for witnesses.
Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey said: "At this time, it is my belief that there was some sort of altercation in the Milldale Crescent area and another man was also assaulted though his injuries are not life threatening."
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan said it was "awful news" that a man had been murdered in the city.
"This morning a family is coming to terms with the death of a son in the most horrific of circumstances," he said.
"The loss of a young man in any circumstances is absolutely tragic but to have had someone with their whole life in front of them murdered like this will be particularly devastating for his family and his community."
Sinn Féin councillor Christopher Jackson said there was "shock in the community on hearing this news".
"My thoughts and prayers are with this young man's family at this time and I would appeal to anyone with information to bring it forward to the PSNI," he said.
Crews fought the blaze through the night at Pirbright after the wildfire started on Wednesday afternoon.
Surrey fire service said the blaze covered four hectares when they were called at midday. Within four hours, it had spread across 30 hectares.
BBC reporter Mike Buxton said the heath was mostly Ministry of Defence land, but surrounding areas were also popular with dog walkers who raised the alarm.
The heath is home to species including the silver-studded blue butterfly, slow worms and lizards.
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said the fire was brought under control on Thursday morning.
James Adler, from Surrey Wildlife Trust, said: "Following a dry winter... it's this time of year where everything starts to catch fire unfortunately."
He said ground nesting birds and some reptiles are unlikely to survive.
Former captain Croft, 45, was elevated to the top role after the December departure of Toby Radford.
"We're just weighing up our options at the moment," Morris said.
"But we're very lucky that we've got a number of really good coaches with ECB qualifications."
Last season former England spinner Croft acted as Radford's assistant, while former Glamorgan seamer David Harrison also worked with the first team.
Ex-Glamorgan and England fast bowler Steve Watkin spent most of his time in charge of the second eleven.
"Dave Harrison's a level-four coach, Steve Watkin's a level-four coach, and (wicketkeeper-batsman) Mark Wallace is on his level-four programme already," Morris added.
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"We've got a lot of options, and we've got two very experienced batters in Jacques Rudolph and Colin Ingram who will have an important role to play.
"Although he (Rudolph) has a lot more playing time ahead of him, he's a top class player and he's very much captain of the club."
Glamorgan are also looking to recruit a second overseas player for the T20 Blast, though Morris admits it is a difficult task given clashes with international matches and other T20 tournaments.
Last season South African fast bowler Wayne Parnell played in eight of Glamorgan's 14 matches, and could be under consideration if he is available for enough games.
"It would obviously bolster our squad to have a second player, but not only is the IPL at the beginning of our T20 tournament, the Caribbean Premier League is in June and July," Morris said.
"South Africa, West Indies and Australia are playing a Tri-Nations tournament as well, so the pool that we can choose from is not a massive one."
Glamorgan have signed Netherlands fast bowler Timm van der Gugten and young Australian batsman Nick Selman, as well as converting all-rounder Craig Meschede's loan spell into a three-year contract.
Any further additions to the Championship squad are unlikely.
NTV broadcast footage said to show Mr Fogle passing through security at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.
Mr Fogle was ordered to leave Russia five days ago after being accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer as a spy.
The purported CIA agent was arrested while wearing a blond wig and was briefly detained.
Mr Fogle is said to have been a third secretary at the US embassy in Moscow.
He was declared "persona non grata" for what the Russian foreign ministry called "provocative actions in the spirit of the Cold War".
The US State Department confirmed that Mr Fogle worked at the embassy but would give no details about his job. The CIA has declined to comment.
Russian officials said Mr Fogle had been caught trying to recruit an FSB counter-terrorism agent in the Caucasus.
After his arrest he was widely shown on Russian TV wearing a blond wig.
The Kommersant newspaper said he had been investigating suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing attacks, who came from the Caucasus.
Following the decision to expel Mr Fogle, Russia then named the alleged US intelligence chief in Moscow in a move seen as breaching diplomatic protocol.
Russia said it had warned the CIA Moscow station chief in 2011 to stop the "provocative" recruitment of spies.
Oleksandr Muzychko, better known as Sashko Bily, died in a shoot-out with police in a cafe in Rivne in western Ukraine, the interior ministry said.
He was a leader of Right Sector, a far-right group which was prominent in the recent anti-government protests.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's parliament has voted to accept the resignation of Defence Minister Ihor Tenyukh.
Mr Tenyukh had been accused of indecision in the face of Russia's military takeover of Crimea.
The shooting of Muzychko happened just hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had held talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Deshchytsia - their first meeting since Russia's move into Crimea triggered a diplomatic crisis.
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Ukraine's Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Yevdokimov said Muzychko died after opening fire at police and Sokol special forces, who had raided a cafe to arrest him and fellow ultra-nationalists. The authorities described Muzychko as a criminal gang leader.
During the raid, Muzychko fired at police as he was trying to flee, wounding one of them. Police then returned fire and captured him and three others in his "criminal gang", Mr Yevdokimov said.
"He was still alive as they were arresting him - but then the paramedics, called to the scene, found that he had died," Mr Yevdokimov said. The three arrested gang members have been taken to Kiev for questioning.
A Right Sector organiser in Rivne has now threatened revenge for the killing of Muzychko, saying he had not been summoned by investigators.
"We will avenge ourselves on [Interior Minister] Arsen Avakov for the death of our brother. The shooting of Sashko Bily is a contract killing ordered by the minister," said Roman Koval of the Right Sector in Rivne region, quoted by the Ukrayinska Pravda website.
Earlier, a Ukrainian MP, Oles Doniy, gave a different version of events. He said two cars had forced Muzychko's car to stop, and he had then been dragged into one of the other cars. Later his body was found dumped, his hands tied behind his back and two bullet wounds in his heart, Doniy wrote overnight on his Facebook page.
Correspondents say Muzychko acquired notoriety in Ukraine after he was filmed brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle at a town hall session in western Ukraine, and then harassing a local prosecutor. After that, in February, the Ukrainian interior minister condemned his behaviour and promised to investigate.
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Moscow says the activities of Right Sector and other Ukrainian nationalist groups pose a threat to the large Russian-speaking minority in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin gave that as one of his reasons for intervening in Crimea.
However, some commentators say Russia has deliberately whipped up such fears, and that the influence of Right Sector in Ukrainian politics is exaggerated.
Earlier, Russian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Muzychko, accusing him of atrocities against Russian soldiers in Chechnya.
The Russian indictment says he tortured captive Russian soldiers in the 1990s, when Moscow was trying to crush Chechen separatist guerrillas. Muzychko denied the allegations. Reports say he led a group of Ukrainian nationalists who fought alongside the Chechen rebels.
In the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday, MPs appointed Gen Mykhaylo Koval as the new defence minister, after approving the resignation of his predecessor, Ihor Tenyukh.
Mr Tenyukh had offered to leave the post following growing criticism of his response to the Russian annexation of Crimea. Many deputies had described that response as indecisive.
Gen Koval has served in the country's Border Service, and was briefly detained by pro-Russian forces during their takeover of Crimea.
Mr Tenyukh said he had received requests to leave Crimea from about 6,500 soldiers and family members. That means about two-thirds of the 18,800 military personnel and relatives stationed there are staying on the peninsula, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Earlier, a senior Ukrainian armed forces officer, Oleksandr Rozmaznin, was quoted as saying nearly half of the Ukrainian military staff based in Crimea had opted to stay there and some of them were joining the Russian military.
Meanwhile, a toughly-worded statement from the G7 group of industrialised countries, condemned both the Crimean vote to secede and Russia's annexation of Crimea. The G7 called Russia's actions a "clear violation of international law". Russia has now been excluded from what was the G8.
Moscow initially reacted scornfully to the G7 snub, saying "the G8 is an informal club" which "can't purge anyone by definition".
But later President Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said "the Russian side continues to be ready to have such contacts at all levels, including the top level. We are interested in such contacts".
Also on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama addressed the crisis during a joint news conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, saying that Russia was "threatening some of its immediate neighbours, not out of strength, but out of weakness".
He expressed concern about the possibility Russia would encroach further on Ukrainian territory and about the large numbers of Russian troops massed on the border.
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Bemerton St John near Salisbury closed five years ago when the heating broke and there was no money to fix it.
Now the aim is to reopen it as a church and community building.
Rector of Bemerton, Simon Woodley, said £50,000 had been raised in the past fortnight but another £40,000-£50,000 was needed before the end of the month.
Rector Woodley said if the money cannot be found by the end of the month, it was likely the building would be "boarded up".
"Last week we had some really positive public meetings and people had some really good ideas," he continued.
"One of which was to launch a campaign to look for 40 individuals who might donate £1,000 each and really that would get us over this hurdle.
"I know times are tough and for lots of people don't have that kind of money.
"But in Wiltshire, generally there are also people who would love to see this church and community flourish, and there are loads of really generous people who would love to be able to help us."
Rector Woodley said that the proposed new facility - to be called St John's Place - had already received planning permission.
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Six Eurostar services from London were cancelled, as well as two from Paris and three from Brussels, after an unrelated power supply problem.
Rail services resumed on Sunday morning - but passengers have been warned there could be further delays on Monday.
About 12,000 passengers were affected when the tunnel was closed on Saturday.
The fire was located in the route's north tunnel, which remained closed during Sunday.
Train operator Eurostar said it planned to run a "full service" on Monday, but warned trains could be delayed by up to 30 minutes.
It said Eurotunnel - which manages and operates the Channel Tunnel - was carrying out engineering works overnight and would put more sections of the north tunnel back into service on Monday.
Meanwhile, Eurotunnel said the north tunnel was not anticipated to be back in full operation until Tuesday.
"We're optimistic, however, that we will regain use of part of this tunnel and will operate a more regular timetable than we have today," it said.
Eurostar passenger trains had started moving through the tunnel again at about 11:30 GMT, but at a reduced speed as only the south tunnel was open.
However, there were fresh problems when a power supply fault - unrelated to Saturday's lorry fire - meant the temporary closure again of the south tunnel.
Eurostar cancelled the 14:04, 15:31, 17:04, 18:04, 18:31 and the 20:04 (all times GMT) departures from London, as well as the 16:43 and 18:43 trains from Paris, and the 15:56, 17:56 and 18:56 services from Brussels.
On Sunday evening, Eurotunnel - which operates car and lorry services - tweeted there was still a one-hour queue to check-in and a three-hour wait to board shuttles for France.
The delay for Eurotunnel passengers heading from France to the UK was four-and-a-half hours, with some customers waiting up to two hours to check in at Calais, Eurotunnel added.
Eurotunnel's services started running again in the early hours of Sunday morning after "residue smoke" was cleared from a tunnel.
The company said it had expected to operate a reduced Le Shuttle timetable, with two departures every two hours from both the UK and France.
Kim Notman, who was at the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais, told the BBC: "I was loaded on to the train at 09:30 GMT with my car and have now been stuck on the train for the last three hours.
"The doors to the train have now been opened because people were getting so agitated."
Professor Urfan Khaliq, who was travelling from Paris to London, said: "We've been here around, I guess, nearly three hours now. They've offered free cashew nuts and water to anyone who wants it.
"People are just sitting here really rather stoically and trying to get on."
BBC News correspondent Andy Moore said an extra Eurostar train from London to Paris had been laid on, with 800 seats available, in an attempt to ease the queues.
Despite the company organising re-bookings, accommodation and refunds, it could be Monday before the backlog was cleared, he added.
Eurostar - which operates passenger services between Paris, London and Brussels - said 26 of its trains were cancelled on Saturday afternoon, affecting at least 12,000 passengers, following the fire.
The alarm was raised when two CO2 detectors were triggered at 11:25 GMT on Saturday at the French end of the north tunnel.
Eurotunnel said a load on a lorry on board one of its trains, en route from the UK to France, had been "smouldering".
Eurotunnel said passengers had been safely evacuated from trains in the tunnel, and the fire "was quickly brought under control" by French emergency services.
Firefighters examined the site and a Eurotunnel spokesman said it did not look like there was any significant damage.
At St Pancras station and in Paris there were long queues of passengers after services were cancelled. At Folkestone, lines of lorries built up near the Eurotunnel entrance.
Eurostar's customer care number is 03432 186 186, or +44 1777 777 878 for people outside the UK.
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Relatives said Simon Gorecki, 47, was "warm, bright and loving" and had "optimism, even where there was little to be found".
His body and that of Natasha Sadler, 40, were found at Dickens Avenue on 29 March.
Foster Christian, 53, also of Dickens Avenue, is due at Maidstone Crown Court on 5 April, charged with their murder.
Mr Gorecki's family said he was "infectiously fun to be with" and added: "He leaves behind so many who loved him, and of course his children who will miss him more than any of us can bear.
"As a family, our task is to now celebrate his life, and to support each other as we try to come to terms with the loss of his life."
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People living in Moneygall queued for up to six hours to get their hands on one of the special invitations.
The president's great, great, great-grandfather - Fulmouth Kearney - came from the County Offaly village, before emigrating to America in 1850.
On Monday afternoon, Mr Obama will retrace his Irish roots by visiting Moneygall, in the heart of the Irish countryside 86 miles south-west of Dublin.
An exclusion zone around the village will be put in place but a limited number of tickets were distributed last week for people to watch the presidential visit. Residents of the village got priority.
Willie Jones, 57, has lived in the village all of his life. "This golden ticket is precious," he said. "If we put it on the market, we could get anything from 500 to 1,000 euros.
"They are like gold dust. They're wanted in every part of the parish and outside it. People are coming from Wexford, Dublin and God knows where. But no money will buy it."
Moneygall has a population of 300 people, but during an hour-long tour of the main street I could only find one person willing to part with their cherished ticket.
Paul O'Reilly said: "Give me 500 euros and you can have it in a heartbeat."
So why was he willing to sell?
"It's just like the Queen visit - you are not going to see too much of it.
"You're just going to see a flash of him. That's it. You'll see more on the TV than you will around the village."
Security restrictions mean that even if people want to transfer their tickets, it is unlikely that they will be able to do so.
Photo identification, names and addresses will be checked by police along with every ticket.
The security operation is huge. Police officers are in every field around the village. Some have taken shelter under trees, leading to one local wag joking that "they must be special branch".
Moneygall has two pubs but has no bank, cash machine or petrol station.
Like the rest of Ireland, County Offaly has been hit hard by the collapse of the Celtic Tiger economy.
However, a number of new shops have opened in advance of the visit, selling Obama souvenirs including T-shirts which say: "What's the craic Barack?"
Another says: "O'Bama: Is Feidir Linn" - that is Irish for "yes, we can".
Notice the apostrophe. Obama has become O'Bama in Ireland.
A new coffee shop - Obama cafe - has been built in Moneygall. One of those involved, Mark Costello, said the presidential visit has been good for local businesses.
"We've used local electricians, painters. It's been a much-needed boost for people here.
"People are out chatting on the street all the time now. It harks back to the old days when I was a kid."
In Ollie Hayes' pub on Moneygall's main street, President Obama is likely to sip a pint of the black stuff on Monday afternoon.
Unlike most barmen, Ollie Hayes is unlikely to be very talkative. He lost his voice last week, blaming too many TV interviews.
Other residents of the village are happy to do the talking for him.
Pensioner Marie Shepherd said: "The atmosphere is electric. It's wonderful for Ireland. I'm delighted that I lived to see it."
One of Obama's distant relatives is still in the village. Henry Healy is the President's eighth cousin, and is due to meet him during the whistlestop visit.
He said: "I can barely sleep - rehearsing what I am going to say to him."
If he is stuck he can always ask: "What's the craic Barack?"
When the BBC probed courts data last year, some magistrates warned their courts were "on the cusp" of breakdown.
One year on, the average time taken to complete magistrate cases in England has risen 6% from 151 days to 159 days.
The Ministry of Justice said £1bn was being spent improving courts.
The BBC's findings come amid the closures of 47 of 186 English magistrate courts. And earlier this year, the Public Accounts Committee found the court system to be "bedevilled by long standing poor performance including delays and inefficiencies".
The ministry publishes quarterly statistics, which break down how long the various stages of the criminal justice system take.
In 2014-2015, four justice areas - Sussex, North Hampshire, Central, Oxfordshire and South West Staffordshire - took more than 200 days on average to deal with cases from the day an offence was committed.
This year, seven justice areas - Oxfordshire, Central and South West Staffordshire, Chorley, Bedfordshire, Wellingborough, North Essex and Gateshead - have taken 200 days or longer to finish cases.
The biggest rises were seen in the Isle of Wight, up 54% from 67 days to 104, Corby, up 47% from 136 days to 199.8 and St Helens, up 33% from 104 days to 138.
Meanwhile Kettering, Wigan and Leigh, North Hampshire and Sussex (Western) justice areas have all seen the speed of justice improve by more than 20% in the past year.
The MoJ figures show while there has a been a small increase in the average time courts take to deal with cases, the amount of time between a defendant being charged and being listed for court has risen by two days.
Essex defence lawyer Caroline Woodley said despite some improvements in her county's judicial system, issues in other service areas - such as prisons and the police service - were causing knock-on problems.
She said magistrate court appeals were often delayed because of a shortage of a judge or magistrates (appeals involve one judge and two magistrates) and claimed a decision to house female defendants from Essex at HMP Peterborough meant prison transport officers were unable to get them to court for a 10:00 start.
Ms Woodley said many defence lawyers were nervous about "virtual courts" because they would end up being managed by police, prison or private sector staff rather than court employees and could erode the connection between defendants and justices.
Lucy Hastings, director of the charity Victim Support, said: "Our research shows that waiting a long time to receive justice can be extremely stressful for victims and witnesses, preventing them from moving on with their lives.
"The court's failure to process criminal cases within a reasonable time frame, damages the public's confidence in the criminal justice system itself."
159 days
The average time to complete a magistrates' court case in 2015-16
8 days more than the previous year
460 court and tribunal buildings in England and Wales
86 have closed or are in the process of closing
Responding to the BBC's findings, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice said: "We want a justice system that works for everyone. That means creating a system that is just, efficient and simple."
The ministry confirmed tests have been carried out on the use of mobile courts, in which defendants can get into the back of a van and attend court by video rather than having to go to the building.
The trial involved a court van being deployed at HMP Thameside which linked into hearings at Thames Magistrates' and Snaresbrook Crown Court.
The ministry did not say if or when the mobile court scheme would be extended elsewhere in the country.
"We are investing £1bn to reform and digitise our courts," a spokeswoman said. "That will give users access to new technology and simpler processes designed to resolve disputes more quickly."
Rhodes' son, all-rounder George Rhodes, was the latest academy graduate to make his first-class debut in the win over Northamptonshire in the Championship.
Rhodes, who hit 31 and took a wicket in the 311-run victory, was one of nine players in the team aged under 25.
"I'm obviously pleased for him, he's contributed well," Steve Rhodes said.
"He's another product of our academy that doesn't seem as fazed on their debuts - they seem at home," he added.
"That's testament to many things including the work that (second XI coach) Kevin Shine's doing."
Rhodes is also thrilled that the progress of the club's young players has been rewarded with international recognition.
Five Worcestershire players - batsmen Zen Malik, Ollie Westbury and Josh Dell, fast bowler Josh Tongue and left-arm spinner Ben Twohig - have all been included in the England Under-19 squad for matches against Sri Lanka in July and August.
"It's great we've got five and a county like Yorkshire have only got one," Rhodes told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
"We started some sterling work with Damian D'Oliveira with our academy and it's been carried on by (academy coach) Elliot Wilson."
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was called at about 11:25 BST after a crane on the lorry hit the bridge in Village Way, North Dulwich.
LFB said no-one was injured and it managed to transfer all 89 passengers on to another train to continue their journeys.
Passenger Paul Coggins said he was trapped on the train for over an hour.
Richard Knighton, from LFB, said: "The lorry has smashed into the bridge and the 'grabber' on top has gone on to the track.
"The train driver has quickly seen it and jumped on the emergency brakes, which has narrowly escaped a potential disaster.
"The track has also been damaged so there was also the possibility of a derailing."
Network Rail said the lorry's crane attachment, which was extended at the time, hit the bridge parapet causing part of it to fall on to the railway.
The rail company said: "Power was cut off to the conductor rail and the train.
"An engineer is on site inspecting the bridge further and should any structural defect be found, then we will have to stop trains for repairs to be made."
A federal appeals court panel ruled that it could use so-called affirmative action as a way of promoting diversity.
Last year, the US Supreme Court sent the issue back to lower courts for further review.
In a 2-1 ruling, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the case of a white student denied a place at the Austin, Texas, university in 2008.
Abigail Fisher said the policy of considering her race violated her civil and constitutional rights.
But the judges found that barring the university from using race would negatively affect the diversity of the campus, which would be in contravention of case law that said promoting diversity was an important part of education.
"We are persuaded that to deny UT Austin its limited use of race in its search for holistic diversity would hobble the richness of the educational experience,'' the opinion stated.
University of Texas President Bill Powers called it "a great day" for higher education.
"Our state and our nation won't advance unless we're training leaders in all parts of our society," he said.
Edward Blum, one of the attorneys representing Ms Fisher, called the ruling "disappointing but not unexpected" and will consider whether to appeal.
"I remain committed to continuing this lawsuit even if it means we appeal to the Supreme Court once again," said Ms Fisher.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called the ruling a victory but said the "conversation" would have to continue.
The Texas university uses race and other factors when admitting about a quarter of the annual student intake.
Affirmative action, which is known in the UK as positive discrimination, was introduced in the US in the 1960s.
Conservatives argue that the policy gives preferential treatment to people from ethnic minorities, in an America which prizes pulling oneself up by the bootstraps.
The ex-South Africa left-hander said be was going to retire last March, but reversed his choice eight months later.
Prince, 37, scored his first century of 2015 with knock of 106 in the second game of the season against Kent.
"[My aim] is to try to get the team back into the Division One where we all feel we belong," he said.
"So it's a little bit of unfinished business obviously."
He passed 16,000 first-class runs last summer, including a career-best 257 not out against Northants in June, but the Red Rose were relegated to Division Two of the County Championship.
"It was a bit of a downer at the end of last season," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"There were other things to consider. My kids are starting to go to school back home and being here for quite a few months of the year means they miss school and we have to try to mix-and-match with home schooling.
"At the end the day you have to do what is best for the family."
Inspectors judged the Durand Academy "inadequate" in a draft report seen by the BBC.
Ofsted published the report in error on Wednesday before withdrawing it on Thursday. It said a final version will be published "in the coming days".
In a letter to parents, the academy's governing body said they had "no doubt" it had been "deliberately published".
The school said the release of the draft report was "part of yet further attacks on the school by the educational establishment".
The Department for Education (DfE) terminated funding for the school's trust in October.
It runs an infant and junior school in Stockwell, south London, and a boarding school for older pupils in Midhurst, West Sussex.
The report said senior staff did not ensure that "safeguarding [of pupils] was at the top of their priorities".
It said the school "could not account for the whereabouts of all pupils", adding its policies for child protection and safeguarding were "not translated into effective practice".
The inspectors cited one case in which a boarding school pupils's complaint of abuse by a member of staff was not referred to the local authority.
The report also said senior leaders at the Durand Academy had "an inflated view of the school's strengths and underestimate the seriousness of its weaknesses".
Other failings identified include:
Durand Academy has more than 1,000 pupils at its three sites and received £17m from the government to set up a school for weekly boarders in 2014.
The Ofsted report comes less than three months after the DfE announced it was terminating funding when it cited serious concerns about management and governance.
But the former head of the academy chain, Sir Greg Martin, said the withdrawal of the funding had "no legal basis".
Sir Greg stood down as executive head teacher in August 2015, six months after the Charities Commission announced it would be investigating the relationship between the Durand Academy Trust, its charitable arm, the Durand Education Trust and two other businesses - London Horizons Limited and GMG Resource Management.
A spokesman for Ofsted said the school's inspectorate was "urgently investigating" how the draft version of the report had been published.
They added: "We have contacted the school's representatives this morning to apologise for this error."
Durand Academy was previously rated as "good" when Ofsted last visited in 2014.
The drugs recovered in the Seaton Walk area on Thursday had an estimated street value of more than £13,000.
Police Scotland said a "low five-figure" sum of money was also found.
A woman aged 35 and a man aged 36 are expected to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Friday.
The 20 year-old defender, who can also play as a holding midfielder, joined the Cherries Academy when he was 12.
He signed a professional deal in 2015 but has not played for the first team.
McCarthy joins a Maidstone side who occupy the final relegation place in the National League and have conceded 56 goals in 30 league games.
They won promotion last season via the National League South play-offs.
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Tia Sharp left the New Addington house on Friday to go to the Whitgift shopping centre, Croydon, but has not been seen since.
David Sharp said his niece had "no reason to run away".
Scotland Yard said CCTV footage had been reviewed but no trace of Tia has been found.
The force also said it had received 55 reported sightings of the youngster, but none has been confirmed.
Speaking to his niece at a press conference, Mr Sharp made a direct plea to Tia.
"I just want you to come home," he said.
"Come home... you are not in any kind of trouble".
He explained Tia was just a "normal girl".
"She has never run away, she has got no reason to run away," he continued.
"She is a playful child, she is not adult in any way, but she's very clued up in travelling and local areas and people she knows".
Appeals for information have come from other members of Tia's family, and from celebrities such as former So Solid Crew member Lisa Maffia.
Her aunt Jasmine Hart tweeted on Saturday: "Hey guys I really need your help! My 12-year-old niece called Tia Sharp has been missing for over 24 hours."
Speaking at the press conference, Det Ch Insp Nick Scola said the last person to see Tia was her grandmother Christine Sharp's partner at her home.
He said Tia spent a lot of time at Ms Sharp's house.
He held up a CCTV image of Tia taken at a Co-op store in New Addington at about 16:15 BST the day before she went missing, when she wearing similar clothes to when she was last seen.
Tia is described as 4ft 5in tall, slim, and was wearing FCUK glasses.
In the picture, she is wearing a yellow bandeau top over a white bra with visible cross straps, light grey leopard print leggings and black and pink Nike high-top trainers.
Officers are keen to speak to anyone in The Lindens area of New Addington who have information and for any bus or tram drivers in the Croydon area who may recognise her to contact them.
"At this stage, it's a relatively simple timeline as we know," he said.
"She was at her grandmother's address, she slept late and then she left to get the bus.
"We've had one neighbour who's reported possibly seeing her walking to the bus stop but as yet that is uncorroborated."
He said Tia did not have her young person's travelcard with her but some bus and tram drivers let children travel without one.
Police believe Tia had a small amount of cash with her, but she did not have her mobile phone and police have no information as to when her phone was last used.
It said it plans to provide extra services to meet extra demand. Frequency is to be increased on many of its routes.
Lothian Buses is the UK's largest publicly-owned bus company and employs over 2,000 staff.
The company said it would increase the cost of its single fares by 10p - to £1.60 for adults, 80p for children.
It said £18.5m has been invested in a fleet of 85 low-emission and ultra-low emission buses since 2011.
General manager Jim McFarlane said: "We're very pleased that this latest timetable and fare review has allowed us to improve services while also maintaining prices for the vast majority of our regular and loyal passengers.
"The changes we have made are a direct response to feedback from our customers and we're in a position to introduce them thanks to continued strong business performance over many years."
He added: "As one of Edinburgh's largest employers we are delighted to have the opportunity to add to our team. We are also pleased that Lothian Buses will be able to benefit the city's environment with further investment in low emission vehicles."
Second-hand car sales by independent traders consistently top the list of gripes according to the Citizens Advice consumer helpline.
Consumer and industry groups are being invited to discuss the trend and report back by the spring next year.
Trade bodies say complaints are dealt with quickly by reputable dealers.
Used car buyers are being given purchasing tips and reminded of their rights as part of National Consumer Week, which starts on Monday.
The campaign is aimed at preventing the kind of situation that 22-year-old graduate Natasha Akintunde found herself in.
She bought a used Nissan Micra, with low mileage, for more than £1,000, only for the clutch to fail within weeks.
She said she found out later that the car had been an insurance write-off.
She was given a replacement, but said the brakes failed when her mother was driving it home from the seller.
"It has put me off driving for a while, because of the worry of what happened. I just want my money back, I don't really want to buy another used car," she said.
Buyers are being encouraged to go through a checklist before they buy a second-hand car. Tips include:
Consumer minister Jo Swinson said it was vital, with seven million used cars sold every year, that consumers were "better equipped to make good decisions" when buying cars.
"Rogue dealers are going to find there is action taken against them. They need to shape up, because they are not going to get away with it," she said.
More buying tips
Stuart James, director of the Retail Motor Industry Federation, agreed there were unscrupulous operators in any business, but said many car sellers were reputable and would deal quickly with genuine complaints.
He said many of the calls to Citizens Advice were from people seeking information about their rights, rather than actual complaints about traders.
There are many approved schemes that have independent arbitration if things go wrong with sales and repairs.
The Retail Motor Industry Federation has set up schemes such as the Trust My Garage programme that ensures members that carry the badge adhere to a code of practice.
There are certain rights that people can fall back on if they discover a problem soon after driving off the forecourt.
Any purchase must be as described by the seller, of satisfactory quality given its age and the price paid, and be roadworthy.
Andy Foster, director of operations and policy at the Trading Standards Institute, said this meant traders should generally offer a repair if something goes wrong within a few weeks, assuming the problem was not pointed out at the time the car was sold. A replacement or even a refund could be available.
If the problem occurred after a number of months, then the buyer might have to prove that the fault existed at the time of sale in order to get a repair.
However, buyers have fewer rights if they buy the car from a private individual, such as through an internet auction site.
Flame retardant triphenyl phosphate (TPP) sits inside a shell within the electrolyte fluid. The shell melts when the temperature reaches 150C (302F), releasing the chemical compound.
In tests, battery fires were extinguished in 0.4 seconds.
Lithium-ion batteries power many devices but are a known fire hazard.
The Stanford University research team's peer-reviewed paper has been published by the journal Science Advances.
Previous attempts to incorporate TPP inside batteries without the shell have hampered their performance.
If a lithium-ion battery cell charges too quickly or a tiny manufacturing error slips through the net it can result in a short circuit - which can lead to fire.
In February 2016, the US National Transportation Safety Board issued a warning about lithium batteries in aeroplane cargo, describing them as "a fire and explosion ignition source".
While Samsung has not yet released the results of its investigation into what caused some of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to catch fire last year, local reports have suggested it has found that the batteries were responsible.
However, the firm would not confirm that this was their conclusion.
"We understand the need for answers and appreciate your continued patience as well as that of our valued customers, partners and stakeholders," it said in a statement.
"We are working diligently to ensure that we have a comprehensive update and will provide more information in the coming weeks once we have the final report."
Battery technology has been slower to evolve than the many battery-powered devices that rely on it, said Ian Fogg, senior analyst at IHS,
"There is enormous pressure to improve battery tech. It's one of the areas that's holding back mobile devices and a range of other products," he told the BBC.
"Manufacturers have been balancing out consumer demand for longer-lived batteries, and more powerful devices with better graphics and larger more detailed displays, with the sophistication of battery tech.
"It's very difficult to push up the capacity of batteries and there is always a risk that a battery in any device could fail."
Public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks was £46.3bn between April and September, down £7.5bn, or 13.9%, from a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported.
In September, borrowing was £9.4bn, down £1.6bn from a year earlier.
In July, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast the figure for the whole year would be £69.5bn.
That would be down 22.9% from the estimate of £89.2bn from 2014-15.
There was good news for the chancellor, as August's borrowing figure was revised down by £500m and July's was lowered by £2.5bn, although the figures for April and May both increased by £800m.
Analysis: Andy Verity, economics correspondent
September's public sector finances look encouraging at first sight. The government's still spending far more than its income of course. To make up the difference, it's had to borrow £46.3bn in the first six months of the financial year (April to September). But that is £7.5bn less than last year and better than most analysts expected.
This must be because of spending cuts, right?
Wrong. Spending has gone up. Departments spent 0.8% more on goods and services than last year. And spending on social benefits increased, largely because of spending on state pensions (where the triple lock promises a rise of at least 2.5% in the basic state pension).
No, it was higher tax receipts that improved the position. Income tax, national insurance and VAT receipts grew faster than the economy - by at least 4%. And, notably, corporation tax receipts rose by 7.9%.
But while there has been a cut in the amount the government has to borrow to cover its spending, it's not deep enough to hit the target. The chancellor is aiming to get borrowing down to £69.5bn for the whole year, a 23% cut. So far this year, in spite of the improved tax receipts, it's only down by 14%.
The ONS warns it is hard to use the figures for the year so far to estimate whether the government is on track to meet the OBR forecast. There are still six months of data to come, and much depends on the spike in tax receipts that is usually seen in January.
Vicky Redwood at Capital Economics said: "If the current trend continues, borrowing in 2015-16 as a whole will come in at about £78bn, much lower than 2014-15's total.
"Admittedly, this would be above the OBR's forecast... but there is still plenty of the fiscal year to go. So there's no need for the chancellor to panic yet."
However, Samuel Tombs at Pantheon Macroeconomics said: "The fiscal consolidation is still not going to plan and we think the chancellor will have to announce more austerity in time if he is to achieve his goal of a budget surplus by 2019-20."
Bairns manager Peter Houston has added the 28-year-old alongside Alan Maybury, Tom Taiwo, Peter Grant and Alex Cooper.
Craig Sibbald has also signed an extension to his current contract which will see him tied to Falkirk until 2017.
"I rate Jamie highly and it was a case of convincing him of our goals and aspirations this season," said Houston.
"I was delighted when he chose to join us despite a lot of competition."
MacDonald was a free agent after being released following manager Gary Locke's Tynecastle departure and joins on a one-year deal.
Taiwo and player-coach Maybury were two of the players told they had no future at Easter Road after Edinburgh rivals Hibs were relegated to the Championship.
Former Ross County winger Cooper impressed on trial and has signed a two-year deal, while defender Grant is the son of the former Celtic player of the same name and was with Norwich.
"Tom will add a bit of dig and experience to our midfield," Houston told the Falkirk website.
"Alex is very fast and has a great left foot. He will bring us a range of options in our game-plan this coming season."
The club also confirmed that goalkeeper Gregor Amos has signed up for another year and he will continue his development in the Under-20 side.
"Lord Thomson of Fleet," it says. "He gave new direction to the British newspaper industry."
And then the sentence that gives pause: "A strange and adventurous man from nowhere, ennobled by the great virtues of courage, and integrity, and faithfulness."
Roy Thomson died in 1976 at the age of 82, and his was indeed a remarkable business story. The plaque made me remember it again.
He was born to a pretty poor family in Toronto in 1894, and was hindered by poor eyesight. Or maybe helped, increasing his doggedness. He dabbled in small businesses from his teens onwards, with little success.
He tried farming, and failed. He went back to Toronto and had several undistinguished jobs. Then he started selling radios in small towns deep in northern Ontario, the only territory left.
And there began a remarkable media story. Rural radio users in the 1930s had little to listen to. So Roy Thomson bought someone else's neglected radio licence, and his station CFCH began broadcasting in the town of North Bay in March 1931; the inaugural programme had music by the Battery Boys and a speech by the mayor.
Roy Thomson, odd job man, was on his way. In 1934 he bought a small local paper, the Timmins Daily Press, beginning what soon became a diverse media empire. By the end of the 1940s, Thomson owned 19 newspapers and was president of the Canadian daily paper publishers' association.
But the old country beckoned. In 1952, seeking his Scottish roots, Roy Thomson moved to Edinburgh. The next year he bought the Scotsman, giving him some status but a lot of criticism as he applied commercial instincts to a venerable paper.
Then came television. The government introduced what was called, in typical British look-down-the-nose way, "commercial" television. Roy Thomson with his Scotsman credentials led the consortium which won the franchise for Scottish TV, launched in 1957.
In a much-quoted (but maybe inaccurately quoted) phrase, he described television as a licence to print money. It was.
But print was at the heart of his increasing empire. As he put it: "I buy newspapers to make money, to buy more newspapers to make more money."
Like Beaverbrook before him and Conrad Black and Rupert Murdoch after him, Roy Thomson was a wild colonial boy who cut a swathe through traditional owned British newspapers.
He used the profits from STV to buy a raft of Kemsley newspapers from the Kemsley family in 1957, including the Sunday Times.
When the family owners of what used to be termed The Times of London panicked over tiny losses in 1966, Thomson was there to snap it up. His newspaper empire grew to embrace more than 200 papers in Britain, Canada and the USA, and a host of other publishing interests.
Every time he met another newspaperman, he would ask if their paper was for sale. It was brash, vulgar, persistent.
Not just publishing, either. With its Scottish perspective connection, the International Thomson Organisation (as it was by then called) joined a consortium that successfully struck oil in North Sea fields.
Much of the group's flair was due to a canny chief executive, Gordon Brunton, now Sir Gordon. He had been at the London School of Economics with Vladimir Raitz, the man who revolutionised post war British travel.
In 1950 Mr Raitz had organised what was effectively the first modern package holiday, flying fellow Russians to Corsica for a holiday in the sun for £32 all round, at a time when harsh official limits on taking sterling abroad severely restricted foreign travel from the UK.
Mr Raitz founded the pioneering Horizon Holidays and later helped Sir Gordon launch what became Thomson Holidays, one of the main travel companies of its time.
I saw Roy Thomson once, coming in through the revolving doors at the Sunday Times in London, where he moved around by public transport.
His pebble thick spectacle lenses glinted in the sun, and he was on his way upstairs to his office, probably to get out his ruler and measure the amount of advertising in his own newspapers and that of his rivals.
This overt preoccupation with the commerce of newspapers was scorned by superior journalistic types, but it was he, not they, who got a barony named after Fleet Street, where his newspapers never had offices.
But for all Roy Thomson's commercial instincts, he failed to transform the impossibly tangled way that newspapers were produced.
A year-long strike of production workers at the Times and the Sunday Times in 1979 changed little, and not long afterwards his son Kenneth (Lord Thomson in Britain, Ken in Canada) sold those two papers to Rupert Murdoch, who then took on the print unions in a decisive encounter that transformed Fleet Street.
Many other papers followed that sale. But though print has little or no part in it, Roy Thomson had created a continuing huge business empire.
At one time his late son Ken (also Lord Thomson, but only in Britain) was named by the magazine Forbes as the ninth richest man in the world.
Roy Thomson's grandson David inherited the leadership of the company in 2006 and continued the evolution of the business by buying the venerable news agency Reuters two years later. He's now chairman of the company named Thomson Reuters, the biggest business information provider in the world.
It is a remarkable family story, based on the man who was still a failing jack of all trades at the age of 36, still known only in Canada at the age of 54, who became a national known figure in Britain only in his 60s. Roy Thomson's autobiography is called "After I was 60".
That's what the plaque means by calling him a strange and adventurous man from nowhere. It is striking to see him so memorialised in St Paul's.
Hull, with an average of 12.4Mbps, is the UK's slowest city, according to comparison site uSwitch, which conducted the tests.
London and Edinburgh had average speeds of 22.4Mbps and 21Mbps respectively.
These speeds are likely to be low not because of lack of availability but because people have chosen not to take up faster services.
Government figures suggest superfast broadband - 24Mbps or higher - is now available to more than 90% of homes and businesses, with funding pledged to bring that total to 95% by 2017.
According to BT, its fibre services are available to 24 million home, but only 22% (5.5 million) have connected to them.
Hull is the only UK city not served by BT's Openreach, which controls the telecoms network. Hull's independent supplier, KCOM, disputed the findings.
"We're rolling out ultrafast fibre to the home across Hull and East Yorkshire, which means speeds of 250Mbps are available to consumers right now," said a KCOM spokesman.
The company says it is connecting "a new customer to fibre every 30 minutes".
But uSwitch's Ewan Taylor-Gibson said: "Actual speed tests taken by broadband users would suggest this hasn't reached enough homes yet to make an impact on the average."
Three in 10 tests logged speeds of less than 5Mbps with just one in 10 registering speeds of above 50Mbps, according to the data.
"We should be asking what more can be done to encourage the adoption of superfast broadband now it's so widely available," he said.
"The UK's towns and cities should be leading the charge when it comes to broadband speeds, yet just 22 cities have broadband users with average speeds of more than 24Mbps."
Co-founder of broadband news site Thinkbroadband Sebastien Lahtinen said: "Broadband speed tests are a great way to measure real world speeds experienced by users - but they also serve as a measure of take-up, not just availability."
"Whilst early adopters and digital natives are often craving for faster and faster services, not everyone wants to stream multiple HD streams live whilst playing online games.
Those who just use the Internet for the occasional catch-up TV programme, email and Facebook, broadband speed is not really a priority, especially when the fastest services can cost considerably more."
David Nish is to leave his post on 5 August, and will be replaced by Keith Skeoch, currently head of Standard Life Investments.
Mr Skeoch, who joined the firm in 1999 from financial services rival James Capel, has been on Standard Life's board since 2006.
The insurer holds £258bn under management, and employs 6,500 staff.
Over the last year it has bought Ignis Asset Management for £390m and sold its Canadian companies for £2.2bn to Toronto-based rival Manulife Financial, as it focuses on other businesses.
The firm said talks over succession planning among senior management had been ongoing over several months.
Mr Nish said it was "the right time to pass the baton".
Chairman Sir Gerry Grimstone said Mr Skeoch has "been an integral member of Standard Life's senior team over the last 11 years".
He added: "Under Keith's leadership the asset management part of our group has developed into a leading global player."
He reassured Arab leaders, after a two-day summit, that the US was committed to protecting them in a time of "extraordinary changes".
Speaking at Camp David near Washington, Mr Obama said a nuclear deal with Iran was not a threat to Gulf nations.
A joint statement pledged new co-operation in many areas.
These included counterterrorism, maritime security, cyber-security and ballistic missile defence.
The six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) is made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE.
"I was very explicit ... that the United States will stand by our GCC partners against external attack,'' Mr Obama pledged at the end of the talks.
The president said he hoped that working together would help achieve "the kind of peace and good neighbourliness with Iran" that the nations present sought.
President Obama didn't give the Arabs the formal defence treaty some of them wanted.
But he went as far as he felt he could to reassure them that the US had their back, including a pledge of deeper military co-operation to counter what he called Iran's destabilising activities.
Significantly for Mr Obama, the Gulf nations said a nuclear deal with Iran would be in their security interests, if it was comprehensive and verifiable.
Such public support might make it a bit easier for the president to sell an Iranian agreement to a sceptical Congress.
So everyone got something of what they needed out of the summit, but fundamental differences remain over how they view Iran, and those will continue to play out.
Calming Arab fears
The joint statement said that in the face of any aggression, the US would stand with the Arab nations "to determine urgently what action may be appropriate, using the means at our collective disposal, including the potential use of military force, for the defence of our GCC partners".
Gulf nations have grown distrustful of the White House since Mr Obama's initially sympathetic response to the Arab uprisings, and are frustrated with his reluctance to get more involved in the Syria conflict, says the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher.
They are deeply wary about any nuclear detente with Iran amidst an increasingly sectarian contest for regional dominance between Sunni Arabs and Shia Tehran, our correspondent says.
They fear the lifting of sanctions would empower Iran to increase its support for armed Shia groups in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, she adds.
In a reminder of the tensions, as the summit concluded, in the Gulf the Iranian navy fired warning shots at a Singapore-flagged tanker.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister told reporters Iran's actions were a clear violation of international law.
They are the second party to announce that they will not join the DUP and Sinn Féin in the Stormont executive.
Last week the UUP said they would do the same.
Earlier, the First and Deputy First Minister accused the SDLP of being "dishonest" during Stormont's programme for government negotiations.
It followed Mr Eastwood saying he was "very disappointed" over the talks.
Making his announcement on Thursday, Mr Eastwood said: "It is clear that the DUP and Sinn Féin are determined to put forward a framework that includes no action, nothing that they can be held accountable for or to."
Stormont has just become a much more open political battleground.
With the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists both choosing to go into opposition rather than government the assembly is a very different place.
Up to now, most rows have been within the family of the all-encompassing power-sharing government. Which is not to say that at times the disputes weren't bitter. Then again most in-fighting within families is.
But now there will be big parties openly heckling and challenging decisions from the outside.
That is a major change and some commentators will claim that it could lead to better politics and policy being more aggressively tested.
However, that all depends on getting the executive working again and the Alliance Party's decision to turn down the justice ministry is a problem.
The DUP and Sinn Fein need to find a mutually acceptable candidate to take up the politically sensitive post.
In Northern Ireland which politician takes responsibility for policing and prisons is important.
The fact that the first and deputy first ministers have had conversations with an independent MLA and the Green Party indicates they are looking at every option.
He said the SDLP would work with anyone who was happy to work with them but "this will be a positive and constructive opposition, not opposition for opposition's sake."
In a statement, UUP Leader, Mike Nesbitt, said he was "delighted" that the SDLP had chosen to go into opposition.
He said: "I am confident it will lead to new beginnings and possibilities for devolved government.
"We have been heartened by the extraordinary level of support which we received since we made our decision last Thursday and I am sure the SDLP will receive similar praise and encouragement."
Sinn Féin MLA, Conor Murphy, said the SDLP had "walked away" from its responsibility to the electorate and had been led by the UUP into opposition.
"By walking away from the executive, it is clear the SDLP has abandoned its responsibility to the electorate," he said.
"On the back of yet another poor election, the SDLP has now turned its back on the Good Friday Agreement.
"Their excuse that they did not understand the Programme for Government process is both dishonest and contradicted by their engagement in that process since December."
DUP leader, Arlene Foster, said the smaller parties were searching for "relevance" following the election on 5 May.
Claire Austin told the SNP leader that she had been forced to use a food bank and that working in the health service was "demoralising".
Shortly afterwards, Joanna Cherry told BBC Scotland the nurse was believed to be the wife of a Tory councillor.
She later tweeted an apology, after it emerged that Ms Austin is unmarried.
Ms Cherry, the SNP's justice and home affairs spokesperson at Westminster, was one of the party's representatives in the spin room for the BBC's debate on Sunday.
The QC initially told the BBC: "I'm advised that the nurse who spoke is in fact the wife of a Conservative councillor - so she's probably best placed to know she'd be considerably worse off south of the border."
In her later tweet to the nurse, she said: "Sorry I was wrong about Twitter rumours. Entirely right that your voice is heard."
Ms Austin has been heavily criticised on social media since appearing on the debate.
In her first contribution she said she was a nurse who could not manage on her salary and had to use food banks. In a second intervention she raised the issue of nurses' pay rises - which have been capped at 1% since 2008.
Ms Austin asked Ms Sturgeon:"How do you expect someone to live on that?"
She added: "You have no idea how demoralising it is to work in the NHS.
"Don't come in on your announced visits, come in the middle of any day, into the middle of any A&E department, come on in and see what we're up against."
In response, Ms Sturgeon said the policy was in place because of a "really difficult period with public spending".
"As we see inflation rising, that policy is no longer sustainable, I accept that," she added.
Her appearance sparked speculation on social media about her relationship to a Conservative councillor, and her personal circumstances. Some of these posts were retweeted by a number of senior SNP politicians, including MSPs and general election candidates, before later being deleted.
In addition to the online criticism, The Scottish Sun published photographs which it said showed Ms Austin drinking champagne and enjoying "swanky meals".
They have led some to ask why she needed to use a food bank.
In a series of tweets, Ms Austin said she earned a salary of £22,345 and suggested that the "high days and holidays" which she shared on social media were paid for by friends and family.
And in a post on Facebook, which has since been removed from public view, she said she was "truly saddened" by the comments made about her.
She added: "When I spoke tonight I spoke on behalf of ALL NHS staff, not just myself but ALL NHS staff, not just nurses but CSW's [clinical support workers], the backbone of many wards, HCA's [health care assistants], again invaluable, but the porters too."
Ms Austin said she was unmarried and explained that she was invited to take part in the debate after being part of a Question Time audience when her question about nurses' pay rises was not asked.
She went on: "I am sad, although in this climate not surprised, at the verbal attack and abuse I have suffered from other nurses tonight."
In an interview with BBC Scotland on Monday, Nicola Sturgeon criticised the social media reaction to Ms Austin and gave her backing to Ms Cherry.
"She made a mistake, an honest mistake and she apologised for that," the SNP leader said.
"In terms of the wider social media reaction, I don't think it's acceptable to make judgements about somebody's background.
"The nurse on the debate last night was absolutely entitled to raise the issue that she did.
"She raised an issue that is one of the biggest issues in this campaign - the level and value of real wages not just in the public sector but in the private sector."
Meanwhile opposition parties have accused the SNP of attempting to "smear" Ms Austin in wake of the debate.
Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said: "There was a public sector worker in Scotland who was challenging the first minister of Scotland and the first minister's team was running around behind the scenes trying to smear the person who was asking the question, as it it was illegitimate of her to ask it.
"Now the SNP has got form on this. We don't accept bullying in our culture and we should not accept it."
In a speech to launch her party's manifesto, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the nurse "shamed Nicola Sturgeon by exposing the reality of life under the SNP".
She added: "And what was the response of the SNP when confronted with that reality last night? The nationalists started a smear campaign.
"They tried their usual dirty tricks. But it won't work this time. Because more and more people are wise to the underhand ways of the SNP."
The Liberal Democrat's Alex Cole-Hamilton said Ms Austin had been set upon by the "online Nationalist army" and he demanded the first minister launch an immediate investigation into the "public mauling".
"Efforts to discredit the impartiality of a public sector worker went right to the top of the SNP, as shown by the comments made by Joanna Cherry, which were later retracted," he said.
''Freedom of speech, especially the right to criticise our political leaders, is something we must cherish. That is why the first minister must act now.''
The BBC had also faced criticism on social media about the selection of the audience.
In a statement, BBC Scotland said: "We select audiences for our debates which reflect widespread political views in accordance with BBC election guidelines."
It went on to add that audiences include both undecided voters and those who support political parties.
Northampton-born Henry George Gawthorn was one of the artists who created the five pre-war posters to promote East Anglia's seaside resorts.
The artworks, produced between 1923 and 1947, will be sold at Swann Galleries.
The colourful posters were commissioned by rail companies and displayed on station platforms and waiting rooms.
In recent years the artworks have become increasingly fashionable, auctioneers said.
In 2002, a poster produced by Henry George Gawthorn for the London and North Eastern Railway featuring St Andrews in Scotland, sold for more than £21,000, three times its top estimate.
But how big an advantage does this represent for the group?
Few are willing to speculate.
Most analysts see IS as a phenomenon of the Levant, having no roots in South Asia.
Recent claims by some sub-groups within the Taliban to having joined IS are seen by many as reflective of their loss of clout and funding due to a Pakistani military operation that ended their sanctuaries in the north-west of the country.
IS has taken nearly six months since its inception in this region to launch its first attack. And it chose a rather easy target.
In mid-October, six former militants associated with the Pakistani Taliban, the TTP, announced they were quitting the group and had vowed their allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The only figure known to the outside world among these six was Shahidullah Shahid, a long time spokesman of the TTP.
And the only tangible loss to the TTP - as confided by a top TTP leader to a credible source - was that of its commander for the Orakzai region, Saeed Khan.
Although largely unknown until he was named by Shahidullah Shahid, Mr Khan's significance is understandable.
Orakzai straddles a mountain range with passes providing access into several adjoining regions such as the Kohat valley to the south, Afghanistan's Nangarhar province to the north-west, and the strategically important Peshawar valley to the north-east.
The region spawned the first version of the Pakistani Taliban way back in the late 1990s, known mainly for their raids on music stores across large parts of the south of what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province).
Post-9/11, Orakzai became of pivotal significance for anti-Pakistan groups seeking to exert pressure on Peshawar, and on the road linking it with the Afghan capital Kabul, a major supply route for Western troops stationed there.
Saeed Khan held important positions in Orakzai under the founder chief of the TTP, Baitullah Mehsud, first as head of the Taliban's Orakzai justice system and later as its operational head.
Under his watch, the Taliban inflicted maximum damage on Western military supplies passing through Peshawar, and brought the city itself close to administrative collapse during 2009-10.
But the rugged and inhospitable terrain of Orakzai does not support the kind of mainstream militancy that was made possible by the availability of easier, friendlier and strategically more advantageous regions like Wana and Miranshah in Waziristan.
However, in the wake of the Pakistani military offensive in Miranshah that started last June, areas like Orakzai can serve as fairly long-term hideouts for smaller numbers of militants.
And this is what many believe was in evidence last Saturday. A group of snipers attacked an army convoy heading from the garrison in Kohat to the upper Orakzai area of Ghaljo, killing three soldiers.
The most spectacular aspect of the attack was IS's claim of responsibility.
Analysts say the fact that the regional head of the IS took six months to launch a rather unimpressive attack on his own remote home ground indicates problems of funding and logistics.
Many say the IS is too preoccupied with Iraq and Syria to commit any significant funds and other resources to what they call Khorasan - a historical region comprising Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia, Iran, Pakistan and India, of which Saeed Khan has been appointed head.
But some official circles in Pakistan admit that IS could emerge as a greater threat to the country than it presently is.
They point to continued defections among the ranks of the Pakistani Taliban, the latest coming as recently as Monday when the new TTP spokesman, Mohammad Khorasani, told reporters their head and deputy head for Bajaur tribal region had stepped down.
The duo - Maulana Abu Bakar and his deputy, Qari Zahid - have not publicly spoken, but many speculate that they may be planning to join IS.
The IS threat in South Asia may be growing, but few believe it can get any worse than its various predecessors - unless state structures in Afghanistan, Pakistan or India show signs of a collapse, like they did in Iraq and Syria.
Over 70 countries attended the talks in Brussels, hosted by the EU.
Closing the meeting, European Commissioner for International Development Neven Mimica called the sum "a remarkable, impressive amount".
"Now is not the time to reduce our ambition or our investment in the people of Afghanistan," he added.
The amount pledged is only slightly less than the $4bn a year that the international community promised at the last Afghanistan conference in Tokyo in 2012.
Ahead of the meeting, the overseas countries were expected to pledge around $3bn in aid a year.
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Afghanistan will be asked to do more to tackle corruption and to take back tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers.
The country faces a resurgent Taliban and remains reliant on foreign help, 15 years after the militants were ousted.
"We're buying four more years for Afghanistan," said EU special representative Franz-Michael Mellbin.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told the conference that Afghanistan was making progress on the economy, corruption and human rights but needed constructive international support to see the changes through.
"Afghans can make peace, we will make peace, we are committed to constructive politics, not destructive politics," he said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry urged the Taliban to make an "honourable" peace with Kabul.
He said the militant group should follow the example of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the notorious Afghan warlord designated a "global terrorist" by the US, who signed a peace deal with the Afghan government in September.
"This is a model for what might be possible," Mr Kerry added.
The EU is promising Afghanistan $1.5bn annually and has signed a deal for Kabul to take back Afghans who fail in their bid for asylum. Both sides deny the deal is a condition for new aid.
Afghans make up the second largest group of asylum seekers in Europe, after Syrians.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet in Brussels says recent Taliban advances on the battlefield will only harden the determination of many Afghans to seek a better life elsewhere.
"We are with you for the long run" was the world's promise to Afghanistan in 2001. Aid still hasn't stopped.
That's partly because the same worries are still there. President Ghani has a vision for Afghanistan major donors can believe in.
But they - and Afghans - still need convincing it can be achieved by him in the Afghanistan of today.
For all the advances since 2001, there's rampant corruption, political infighting, and a battle against the Taliban taking a huge number of Afghan lives.
The unexpectedly high pledges seem to underline a recognition of the price Afghans, their neighbours, and the world beyond would pay if the Taliban gained ground, and Afghanistan sank into greater poverty and despair.
A record number of Afghans are already fleeing to Europe. This money is also meant to help create conditions to convince Afghans to stay, including the tens of thousands who will now be sent back under another deal struck in Brussels this week.
Taliban attacks this week on the cities of Kunduz in the north and Lashkar Gah in the south have underlined how fragile the security and development gains of recent years remain, despite all the money spent.
The United States and other international donors have pumped about $130bn into the country since 2002.
Efforts to rebuild after years of war began after US-led forces ousted the Taliban from power following the 9/11 attacks.
The figure is comparable to the Marshall Plan, a US initiative to rebuild a devastated Europe after World War Two, although the results have been much more limited.
Most of the money spent in Afghanistan has come from the US (about $115bn) - and official figures show that more than half of that was spent on security.
Nato pulled out combat forces in 2014 and the Taliban are now resurgent in many areas, prompting fears that hard-won, costly gains are at risk.
Fifteen years after the Taliban were toppled, Afghanistan still cannot survive without significant international support.
Despite all the money that's been poured in, it remains one of the poorest countries on earth, with 80% of its budget financed by aid.
The optimism of the early post-Taliban years - when new schools and hospitals were being built and Afghan refugees were returning - has been replaced in some quarters by donor fatigue and more and more questions about where the money will end up.
Major contributors are now indicating they expect to see greater Afghan success in tackling problems such as corruption and the lucrative narcotics trade, as well as progress on asylum seekers.
A more prosperous Afghanistan could mean fewer refugees in Europe - but hopes the country could become self-reliant one day seem many years away.
It is so serious that one of the main cities in the north, Kunduz, nearly fell to the militants again this week, a year after they briefly captured it in what was a major security embarrassment.
Afghan forces battled the Taliban for a third day in Kunduz on Wednesday, amid reports that food is running short and scores have fled the city.
Meanwhile in Kabul, a suicide bomber targeted a minibus carrying government officials, wounding four people, a day after a US soldier was killed by a bomb in the east.
In the southern province of Helmand, the Taliban have captured the administrative headquarters of Khan Nishin district, and are massed outside the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
Government troops were reported to be resisting their advance there, and in parts of the central province of Uruzgan, where fighting has also broken out.
The five-year-old girl was abducted on 1 October 2012 and killed by Mark Bridger, 47, of Ceinws, Powys, in a sexually motivated attack.
Police said April's remains would now be formally released to the family, ahead of a funeral on 26 September.
Coroner Louise Hunt said she could not reach any conclusion which had not already been reached by the court case.
Bridger was jailed for life after being found guilty at Mold Crown Court in May following a month-long trial.
He will never be released from prison.
Despite one of the biggest search operations in police history, April's body has never been found.
During the 10 minute hearing, Ms Hunt told the court in Welshpool there would be no further action and a death certificate would be issued, allowing a funeral to take place.
She said she had had to seek permission from the chief coroner to hold an inquest in the absence of a body.
April's parents, Paul and Coral, from Machynlleth, Powys, attended the inquest in Welshpool, flanked by two police family liaison officers.
Ms Hunt told them: "I hope this will help you come to the end of the formal proceedings."
She added: "I would like to offer you my personal condolences for your terrible loss."
The hearing was adjourned, and Ms Hunt said the public part of the process was now finished. She will deal with paperwork privately in her office.
Ms Hunt held a short private meeting with Mr and Mrs Jones in a room within the court following the hearing.
Det Supt Andrew John from Dyfed-Powys Police, who led the investigation into April's disappearance, gave a brief outline of the case at the inquest.
He said: "April was reported missing on 1 October 2012 at about 7.20pm which resulted in the arrest of Mark Bridger at 3.20pm on 2 October 2012."
"Mark Bridger was subsequently charged with the abduction and murder of April and perverting the course of justice."
Det Supt John said that Bridger's trial between 29 April and 31 May at Mold Crown Court resulted in his conviction, and he was sentenced to a full life sentence.
He told the court: "April Jones was subjected to a violent death and on the balance of probabilities her death occurred at Mount Pleasant cottage in Ceinws on 1 October 2012."
The conclusion of the hearing will enable the family to finally lay what remains of their daughter to rest.
Dyfed-Powys Police did manage to recover tiny fragments of bone at Bridger's home and Mr and Mrs Jones will now hold a funeral for their daughter on Thursday 26 September.
Hundreds of people are expected to turn up to say their farewells to the little girl at the service at midday at St Peter's Church in Machynlleth.
Stan Vanuytrecht will have no heating, running water or pay at the Saalfelden hermitage in the Austrian Alps.
It has had a hermit for all of its 350 years and the local mayor said Mr Vanuytrecht "radiated calm".
His beard will help. His predecessor lacked both beard and cowl and lasted only one season, hinting at "arch-conservative Catholic" criticism.
Mr Vanuytrecht admitted he was surprised to be chosen.
"I thought I didn't have a chance," he said. "But when I read about the Saalfelden hermitage, I thought to myself: that's the place for me."
The views are great, the facilities not so.
He can't even expect to be left alone.
The hermitage season only runs from April to November - in winter it is not habitable - but many people hike up to enjoy the views and it has been known for some of them to seek counselling.
The white-bearded, pipe-wielding Mr Vanuytrecht feels he is well grounded in that, having had experience with the homeless, alcoholics, drug addicts, prisoners and psychiatric patients.
And poverty. After divorce from a partner who suffered mental illness, he "had to make do with very little. I was glad when I had money for food," the Saalfelden visitors' website reported him as saying.
It said the deacon and practising Catholic was now financially secure but cares not for luxury items.
The BBC's Bethany Bell visited the hermitage when the job was advertised and Saalfelden parish priest Alois Moser told her: "For us it is important that [the winning candidate] has a Christian background so that this monastic tradition is preserved."
Erich Rohrmoser, mayor of Saalfelden, said: "We opted for Stan Vanuytrecht because his personality appealed to us. He radiates calm and comes across as well-anchored."
Mr Vanuytrecht's predecessor, former priest and psychotherapist Thomas Fieglmueller, told the Salzburger Nachrichten daily: "Life in the hermit's cell is spartan but the nature is very beautiful.
"I met lots of nice people and had good conversations. But there was also criticism from apparently arch-conservative Catholics because I didn't have a cowl or a beard."
The occupant before him, a Benedictine monk, lasted 12 years.
As with anything so common, myths have developed over time about what causes it and how best to deal with it.
It's understandable why these misconceptions arise. Indeed, some would have been the accepted belief in healthcare circles before new evidence emerged to give us fresh insights.
So healthcare professionals have sometimes been guilty of perpetuating the myths; both with patients and in the media.
Why all of this matters is that they can cause fear among people with back pain that influences their behaviour.
We know that the best way to tackle back pain is to keep moving, but if fear stops people from doing that recoveries can be hindered, or even reversed.
Clinicians see the consequences of this fear every day. so the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has a new campaign aimed at busting these common myths.
We have moved on from the time when total bed rest was believed to be needed, but there remains a fear of twisting, bending and moving in general.
This fear is understandable - it can be very painful - but it is essential to stay on the go.
Gradually increase the amount of activity you do, and try to avoid long periods of inactivity.
If you don't normally lift weights, we're not suggesting you head out today and get under a 100kg squat.
However, back pain shouldn't cause you to stop doing exercise or the regular activities you enjoy.
Exercise is now accepted as the best way to treat back pain and this includes weight-training, where appropriate.
As with anything, gradually build up your tolerance and confidence but do not fear it.
This is a fascinating one, and counters the view that technology holds all the answers.
In some cases, a scan will be necessary.
But most often it won't and what's more, there's some evidence to show that seeing the results of a scan can actually make a person's condition worse.
Here's how.
Even people without back pain can see changes to their spine on a scan or X-ray - evidence of that is not, therefore, an indication that anything is wrong.
But if you do have back pain, and you see changes in a scan, you may become fearful of exercising and doing the other activities that I discussed earlier.
That means having a scan that didn't actually reveal anything useful caused you to stop doing the very things you need to do to get better.
This is one that was always the established view, but recent research has led to greater insight on what causes pain and how best to manage it.
That's why, as physios, we take a more holistic approach to help patients understand why they are in pain.
There may be physical reasons but there may also psychological or even social factors at play, and it's important to identify and address those.
The key again, as with all of these myths, is to overcome the fear factor to avoid a person's condition worsening.
Of course, I should point out that this advice is general in nature, will not apply to everyone and anyone who experiences back pain that lasts longer than six weeks is advised to see a physiotherapist or GP.
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The group, whose hits included I Owe You Nothing and When Will I Be Famous, announced they were reforming on Wednesday after a break of 24 years.
They said they would play London's O2 arena on 19 August 2017 - the anniversary of their last gig, at Wembley Stadium in 1989.
The show sold out "in seven seconds" on Friday morning, said promoters.
As a result, six further dates have been added, in Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Newcastle and Glasgow, along with a second night at the O2.
Twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss, who formed the band in 1986, said they were "overwhelmed" by the reaction.
"We're so exited to play these shows, we wish it was next week," they said in a statement. "Summer can't come soon enough."
The full tour schedule is:
Tickets for the new dates go on sale on Saturday 8 October, at 10:00 BST.
The speed at which Bros tickets sold out broke box office records, says promoter Live Nation. And there's no doubting that the flames they lit in teenage hearts three decades ago have never gone out.
Outside the press conference for the band's reunion this week, middle-aged Brosettes crowded around the doors in T-shirts sporting the legend: "If found, please return to Matt Goss".
Inside, TV host Emma Willis presented the band with the Bros scrapbook she had made, aged 12, in her bedroom. "There's a picture of your backing dancer," she told Matt and Luke, "And I've written underneath, 'Yuck, I hate her.'"
But shifting 20,000 tickets in seven seconds seems more like a victory for touts than fans. With cunning automated computer programmes, called bots, the touts can harvest tickets microseconds after the sale opens, then sell them for profit on the secondary market.
If you want proof, take a look at the four main secondary ticketing sites. At the time of writing, there are 2,768 seats available for the opening night of the Bros tour - more than 13% of the capacity of the O2 arena.
With prices reaching an eye-watering £4,000, you have to hope the fans saved up more than just Grolsch bottle tops.
Bros were fleetingly the most famous band in the world at the tail end of the 1980s. Their debut album, Push, topped the charts in 19 countries and sold more than seven million copies.
They were mobbed by fans, dubbed Brosettes, and inspired a curious fashion trend of wearing Grolsch bottle tops on their shoes.
Speaking to the BBC, the band said the idea for a reunion came about organically after they held an impromptu jam session in a music shop.
"There's a big difference between having to do something and wanting to do something," said Matt. "And that's the key element here: We wanted to be on stage together again."
The concert will be "outrageously enjoyable", they added, featuring special guests and an acoustic section to establish an "informal, relaxed connection with our audience".
Bassist Craig Logan, who quit the band after their first album, will not be part of the reunion, but Luke Goss said he would be "more than welcome" if he changed his mind.
"Craig chose to leave, he now has a successful career in the record business as an executive," said Luke at a press conference on Wednesday. "I'm very comfortable to say that Matt and I are Bros, literally."
Matt agreed: "As the lead singer of the band, my musical connection has always been with Luke. Bros is Matt and Luke."
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However, the UK, as a whole, has voted by a narrow margin to leave the EU.
Following the result, Prime Minster David Cameron said he would continue for three more months in post, then step down by October.
It is up to a new prime minister to start the formal and legal process of leaving the EU, he said.
EU Referendum results
In Northern Ireland, First Minister Arlene Foster said; "I think this a good result for the United Kingdom. Our nation state has made a clear definition as to where they want to go forward."
"They backed hope, they backed aspiration, they backed the future potential of the United Kingdom and I'm very pleased with the result."
But Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin, said the entire island of Ireland should now be able to vote on reunification.
He said there was "a democratic imperative" for a border poll. Mr Cameron had been "sleepwalking towards an exit" over the last year, he said.
He accused him of "kow-towing" to the right-wing agenda and the "little Englander mentality". But, he said, the people of Northern Ireland, both nationalist and unionist, had voted against that.
The deputy first minister said the impact in Northern Ireland would be "very profound".
In a statement, the Irish government said the result had "very significant implications for Ireland, as well as for Britain and for the European Union".
It will meet later on Friday morning and the Irish taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny will then speak.
Micheál Martin, leader of the Republic's main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, called on the Irish government to be centrally involved in the UK's divorce negotiations to minimise the repercussions and to make clear, that despite the historic close links and trade relationships between the two states, Ireland will not be following the British example.
Overall, 440,707 people in Northern Ireland voted to Remain in the EU and 349,442 to Leave. Out of 18 constituencies, 11 voted to stay in the European Union.
The turnout in Northern Ireland was 62.7% with 790,523 people voting in the referendum.
The EU referendum debate divided the parties in Northern Ireland and the result to leave means there are conflicting thoughts on what should happen next.
The DUP backed a Leave vote and the idea of holding a referendum was a long-term ambition of the party's Westminster leader Nigel Dodds. First Minister Arlene Foster will be delighted with the result.
The Remain camp included Sinn Féin, the UUP, the SDLP and the Alliance Party and they will highlight the fact that a majority of voters in Northern Ireland bucked the trend, rejecting the arguments for a Brexit.
Sinn Féin have called again for a border poll. The party believes the result means there is now a democratic deficit because the rest of the UK is at odds over the issue of Europe.
For Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers, there will be much personal satisfaction with the result. She was a key member of the Leave campaign and although she finds herself in tune with public opinion in the rest of the UK, she will be conscious that her stance is at odds with the majority of people in Northern Ireland.
Speaking after the result was announced, Edwin Poots, DUP, said he was "absolutely delighted".
"I believe that we will recover very quickly after the initial shock. The farming community has been in the doldrums... I would expect this will help them. I would expect it will help our manufacturers and our exporters at this time."
At one level nothing has changed. But in reality everything has changed.
Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK are, for now, still in the EU and its single market: companies still trade under the same system as they did on Thursday.
But that arrangement will now have to end which could have far reaching economic consequences.
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He said there was now £10bn that was going to the EU that can now be distributed throughout the UK.
However, Declan Kearney, Sinn Féin, called it "a pyrrhic victory".
"The reality is that the people of the north of Ireland overwhelmingly voted in favour of Remain - both republican and unionist, Catholic and Protestant and those of no faith background," he said.
"We now have a situation where English votes are going to drag the will of the people of the north of Ireland to remain within the EU, out of the EU. That is a huge democratic deficit.
The result of the referendum means significant changes for farming here. But not immediately.
The focus now will be on the negotiations for leaving the EU, expected to take at least two years, and what domestic arrangements are arrived at to support agriculture.
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In Northern Ireland, Foyle, West Tyrone, Belfast North, Belfast South, Belfast West, East Londonderry, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Newry and Armagh, Mid-Ulster, North Down and South Down voted in favour of Remain.
Lagan Valley, North Antrim, East Antrim, South Antrim, Strangford, Belfast East and Upper Bann voted to Leave.
It is clear this is not the outcome the Republic of Ireland wanted.
The Irish government, which remained neutral in the Scottish independence referendum, actively encouraged Irish citizens in the UK to vote to remain in the EU.
Read more from Shane here | Northern Ireland has voted to remain in the EU Referendum by a majority of 56% to 44%. | 36,614,443 | 1,207 | 25 | false |
Ms Sturgeon, the SNP leader and Scottish first minister, was speaking as she met the party's MPs in London.
Her visit came as the SNP starts its search for a successor to Mr Hosie, who will step down in the autumn.
Mr Hosie recently separated from his wife, Health Secretary Shona Robison.
It was subsequently reported that Mr Hosie had been involved in an affair with journalist Serena Cowdy, who was also said to have had an affair with SNP MP Angus MacNeil.
In a letter to Ms Sturgeon on Sunday, Mr Hosie apologised for "any hurt and upset" caused to friends, family and colleagues, and said he had found "intense scrutiny" of his private life "very difficult".
He also confirmed that he would not seek re-election as deputy leader - a job he won 18 months ago following a contest with Scottish government ministers Keith Brown and Angela Constance.
Nominations for his replacement are open until early August, and Mr Hosie will remain as the MP for Dundee East and as the party's deputy leader at Westminster.
Ms Sturgeon - a close friend of both Ms Robison and Mr Hosie - told the BBC: "Stewart has been a great deputy leader of the SNP, and I am sorry he will not be deputy leader after our conference in the autumn.
"But he has taken a decision that in the interests of his family and his health it is right that he steps down, and I support him in that decision. I think in all the circumstances he is making the right decision."
Asked if Mr Hosie should also stand down from his Westminster role, Ms Sturgeon said: "I don't think that's the case.
"I think we've moved on and moved on quite some distance from the sense that personal issues, issues relating to someone's private marriage and private life necessarily affect someone's ability to do their job. I think Stewart's done the right thing in difficult circumstances."
The first minister insisted Mr Hosie had taken the decision to stand down himself, saying: "Stuart absolutely made the decision. I spoke to him yesterday morning. At his instigation he telephoned me yesterday morning and told me that he had come to the conclusion that he wanted to resign as deputy leader."
Her visit to London also saw Ms Sturgeon campaign on the "progressive case" for EU membership alongside Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and Green MP Caroline Lucas.
UK Chancellor George Osborne warned on Monday morning that leaving the EU would tip the UK into a year-long recession, with up to 820,000 jobs lost within two years.
Ms Sturgeon, who supports EU membership, has criticised the so-called Project Fear tactics of the Remain campaign, and told the BBC she would rather focus on the "positive reasons to stay in the EU".
These included the single market of 500 million people and social, employment and health and safety protections such as maternity rights and paid holiday entitlement.
She added: "These I think are better guaranteed by being part of the European Union than they would be if a Westminster government had unfettered control over them".
Supporters of Brexit have argued that the Scottish Parliament would be handed a raft of new powers over areas such as fishing and agriculture if the UK left the EU.
And they have dismissed Mr Osborne's claims about the potential economic impact as "more propaganda" from the Remain side, which it claimed was "rattled".
Former Chancellor Lord Lawson accused the government of trying to "scare the pants" off voters, while Brexit-supporting economist Patrick Minford said the assessment ignored all the "upsides" from leaving, including the money saved from not being a member of the Common Agricultural Policy and not having to abide by EU regulation.
The first minister also met newly-elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday morning, where they discussed issues including the EU referendum, education initiatives and the importance of building economic connections between Scotland and London.
Ms Sturgeon said she looked forward to working with Mr Khan to develop a "stronger working relationship between London and Scotland". | Nicola Sturgeon has said that the SNP's deputy leader, Stewart Hosie, made the right decision to stand down in the wake of allegations about his affair with a journalist. | 36,357,454 | 923 | 41 | false |
The current commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, announced in September he would retire seven months before the end of his current contract.
He has overseen the policing of riots and the Olympic Games.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the new commissioner will have served in the police in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or USA.
Whoever holds the post is considered to be the most senior officer in Britain because of the national responsibilities of the Met, which includes counter-terrorism.
At a policing conference in London, the home secretary said: "I look forward to some very talented applications coming through for that very important role."
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said: "The Met do an incredible service with enormous dedication every single day to keep us safe.
"It is therefore absolutely essential that we find the best possible person to take the Met forward other the coming years."
According to the Met, crime has fallen by around 18% since Sir Bernard took the job in September 2011.
He led the police response after the riots in 2011 and the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.
However, he has also faced controversy including questions about the Met's handling of Operation Midland.
The 16-month investigation was launched after claims boys were abused more than 30 years ago, but it closed in March without a single arrest.
Sir Bernard took charge of the UK's biggest police force when his predecessor Sir Paul Stephenson quit amid criticism of the Met's role in the phone-hacking scandal. | The job advertisement to recruit the next Metropolitan Police commissioner has been published. | 37,999,732 | 321 | 15 | false |
Hendry said re-introducing reserve leagues in Scotland at the expense of the current Under-20s competition would help the national side.
Gordon Strachan's team missed out on qualification for the Euro 2016 finals.
"When we were qualifying for tournaments, we had squad players at the top of the tree," said Hendry.
"They were either playing against the best in the Premier League in England, or at Rangers and Celtic and playing in the Champions League.
"Some of the squad players who couldn't get a game - like Derek Whyte - were still playing for Celtic and Rangers week in, week out, as well as at a good level in European competitions.
"When you play against better players, you become better."
Scotland last featured in a major finals at the 1998 World Cup in France when Hendry was skipper, and he feels too many current Scottish players are content to play in the Championship in England.
"There's so much money in the English Championship that these players are multi-millionaires," he added. "That's great for them, but the money's so good they don't need to step up.
"They are quite content and quite happy. But the problem is they won't win anything, they won't play in the Premier League, and they won't play for their country.
"I think there is a comfort zone for some where they think: 'I am going to have a great life because of what I am getting paid, playing in the Championship.' But there's more to football than being that happy footballer."
Hendry said Blackburn centre-back Grant Hanley, who has won 20 Scotland caps since his debut in 2011 - when Rovers were still in the Premier League - would benefit from more regular exposure to a higher level of opposition.
"Grant Hanley has the attributes to become a top-class centre-half," Hendry added. "He still has to develop, but when you play against better players you try to combat them and become a better player. Players will get better at a higher level." | Scotland's failures are a result of players not competing at a high enough level in the English Championship, says former captain Colin Hendry. | 35,410,365 | 458 | 33 | false |
It's understood that staff at the shops on the Boucher Road and Buncrana Road were told on Tuesday that the stores will stop trading in January 2016.
The closure of the Buncrana Road store in Derry will see the loss of 60 jobs.
Kingfisher, the DIY chain's parent company, is to close about 60 B&Q stores in the UK and Ireland over the next two years.
A B&Q spokesperson said: "We can confirm we are speaking to staff at the B&Q Londonderry store regarding the closure of this store next year."
Sinn Féin MLA Maeve McLaughlin said staff were worried for their future.
"We need clarity, if this is about profit the company needs to step up and indicate how locations are identified and the issues we're dealing with."
The company plans to open new outlets under its Screwfix brand this year, they already have one store in the city based at the Springtown Road. | The BBC understands that B&Q stores in Belfast and Londonderry are set to close at the start of next year. | 32,148,879 | 205 | 27 | false |
Wales has "lost a father figure", his successor Carwyn Jones said.
Mr Morgan was elected as an MP in 1987 and became an AM when the assembly was created in 1999.
He took the helm of the assembly nine months later, replacing Alun Michael who had stood down. He is widely credited with having brought stability to the fledgling institution after a turbulent start.
Mr Morgan served as first minister for nine years, from 2000 to 2009, before Mr Jones took over as first minister and Welsh Labour leader.
The former AM for Cardiff West is survived by his wife, Julie, two daughters and a son.
Following the news, a Welsh Labour spokeswoman said the party will suspend general election campaigning on Thursday.
Mr Jones said: "Wales hasn't just lost a great politician, we've lost a real father figure."
He said Mr Morgan was "funny, clever, engaging on almost any topic".
"I owe him a great deal, just as we all do in Wales," Mr Jones said.
"He did so much to fight for, and then establish devolution in the hearts and minds of the public in our country."
Jeremy Corbyn, UK Labour leader, said: "We've lost a good friend, a great man and, above all, a giant of the Welsh labour movement."
"I saw Rhodri just last month, campaigning in Cardiff North with Carwyn Jones," he said.
"Rhodri was an incredibly effective first minister for Wales. He stood up for Wales, its people's future and its public services."
Tony Blair, who was Labour prime minister when Mr Morgan was installed, said he "was an outstanding servant of Wales, the United Kingdom and the Labour Party".
He added: "He was great company, a fund of marvellous stories and a shrewd and immensely capable politician", adding he led the assembly with "with enormous skill and dedication".
Ex-Labour Welsh Secretary Lord Hain said: "As first minister Rhodri was both the father of devolution and the father of the nation.
"He did more than anyone to bed down and ensure the new Welsh Assembly gained widespread legitimacy."
Calling him a "unique populist intellectual", Lord Hain added he was a "towering figure in every sense whom we will all miss".
Alun Michael, now Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, said he was "shocked by the sad news of Rhodri Morgan's death".
He said his commitment to Wales was "always absolute".
"He was the most popular politician of his generation and the absolute master of the one-liner," he added.
"While we had our disagreements, for instance over the Cardiff Bay Barrage, Rhodri was always a vigorous and colourful debater, but not personal."
Rhodri Morgan's time as first minister included two coalitions. In the first, with the Liberal Democrats between 2000 and 2003, Mike German served as deputy first minister.
Lord German called the former Welsh Labour leader a "strong opponent but a great friend".
"Wales has lost a great politician and stalwart tonight," he said.
Plaid Cymru's Ieuan Wyn Jones, who was deputy first minister to Mr Morgan under the One Wales coalition, said: "He was very easy to work with, and he was very likeable, extremely loyal and highly knowledgeable.
"It wasn't easy for him to deliver the coalition in sections of his party, but Rhodri stood firm and we agreed a very progressive programme of government."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns, himself a former AM who sparred with Mr Morgan in the Senedd chamber, said he was "a significant politician" and "great servant to Wales".
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said the former first minister "was much respected across the political spectrum and led Wales with distinction during a crucial period in Welsh history".
Expressing her deepest sympathy on behalf of the members of the assembly and its staff, the institution's presiding officer Elin Jones said: "As First Minister of Wales, Rhodri's contribution in helping build our nation and its young democracy was immeasurable.
"Rhodri's ability to communicate with, and to understand, the diverse communities of Wales ultimately won hearts and minds, and was critical in giving the people of Wales the confidence to strengthen and develop the National Assembly."
'He spoke like no other politician'
By Tomos Livingstone, BBC Wales political correspondent
Rhodri Morgan stabilised Welsh devolution after its rocky first year, and spent nine years as first minister in his own idiosyncratic style.
At a time when sound bites were the norm, he spoke like no other politician - his response to being asked whether he wanted to lead the yet-to-be-created assembly was "do one-legged ducks swim in a circle?"
In office he pursued a strategy of differentiating his administration from Tony Blair's New Labour government, using the new devolved powers to opt-out from Blairite reforms to health and education.
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Cancer Research UK is sharing the funds across 13 locations with the the biggest grants of about £40m going to Manchester and Cambridge.
The charity aims to draw together cutting-edge research and medical expertise - resulting in more timely, life-saving treatments for patients.
It will provide "vital infrastructure", Dr Iain Foulkes, executive director of strategy and research funding said.
He said it would also boost research to develop smarter, kinder treatments for children and be particularly important for hard to treat cancers like pancreatic, oesophageal, lung and brain tumours.
Departments of health in the UK and the charity are also investing £36m over five years into experimental medicine centres for adult patients and a network of centres for children.
The centres are partnerships between Cancer Research UK, universities, hospital trusts and other organisations, which collaborate to improve cancer research and clinical practice.
Five of the 13 locations chosen to receive grants are in London - at the Institute for Cancer Research (ICR), Kings Health Partners, the Barts Centre, University College London, and Imperial College London.
Two are in Scotland - the Edinburgh and Glasgow centres.
The others are in Birmingham, Newcastle, Oxford, Southampton, Cambridge and Manchester.
About a third would take a pay cut to achieve a better work-life balance, the charity Working Families said.
Employers are not doing enough to help dads take a more active role in childcare, it added.
MPs are due to open an inquiry into whether fathers are losing out in the workplace.
Of the 2,750 parents surveyed, a third of fathers said they regularly felt burnt out, and one in five were working extra hours, according to the Modern Families Index report.
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"For many fathers the workplace is unsupportive of their aspirations for a better work-life fit," said the charity.
It runs the risk of creating a "fatherhood penalty", where fathers are willing to follow a career that is below their skill set and reduce their earnings, it added.
It would be similar to the "motherhood penalty", which gender equality charity, the Fawcett Society, identified as being one of the core causes of the disparity in pay between men and women.
"To prevent a 'fatherhood penalty' emerging in the UK - and to help tackle the motherhood penalty - employers need to ensure that work is designed in a way that helps women and men find a good work-life fit," said Sarah Jackson, chief executive of Working Families.
Employers' organisation, the Institute of Directors (IoD), agreed with the charity, saying bosses should design jobs that let both men and women work flexibly.
Seamus Nevin, head of employment and skills policy at the IoD, said government should also reform shared parental leave, which is "far from perfect and offers fathers no individual personal entitlement to time off with their baby".
"The benefits, to individual families as well as companies and the overall economy, of sharing parental responsibilities equally between mothers and fathers are clear," Mr Nevin said.
"The number of stay-at-home fathers has almost doubled since the mid-1990s. However, it's still the case that women are far more likely to take the lion's share of parental responsibilities.
"The willingness of more men to take an active role in parenting is very positive, but unfortunately government legislation and employment practices have not always kept up with evolving trends and needs," Mr Nevin added.
Adrienne Burgess, chief executive of the Fatherhood Institute, told the BBC there were a lot of problems with the current parental leave system.
"The new system was bigged up as a shared parental leave and it's nothing of the sort."
She explained that, in reality, it is transferable maternal leave, which fathers have no automatic right to, and few met the conditions.
"Only a minority of couples have this available - well under 50% qualify. The mothers often have their pay topped up by their employer but if this is transferred to the father their employer is much less likely to top it up. Everything works against it."
On Monday, MPs on the Women and Equalities Committee are launching a new inquiry into fathers in the workplace.
Committee chair Maria Miller said that investing in policies to let men and women share childcare "will reap financial benefits as well as reducing the gender pay gap".
"Many fathers want to take a more active role in caring for their children," she added.
"Clearly more needs to be done. We are keen to hear views from individuals as well as organisations about the changes which they would like to see."
Sir Elton, who has two sons with David Furnish through a surrogate, posted on Instagram that everyone should boycott Dolce and Gabbana following the comments.
It wasn't long until the #BoycottDolceGabbana hashtag was trending on Twitter.
While most of us can't afford their clothes in the first place, the very people who can are getting pretty heated.
It was in an interview with Italian magazine Panorama that the fashion designers said they didn't agree with the idea of gay families.
Domenico Dolce said: "You are born to a mother and a father - or at least that's how it should be.
"I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Rented uterus, semen chosen from a catalogue."
Ricky Martin has six-year-old twins Matteo and Valentino born via a surrogate. The singer opened up about his sexuality after becoming a dad.
And it's not just the rich and famous making their voices heard. People with children born through IVF have been posting family pictures across social media.
Stefano Gabbana has now said "it was never our intention to judge other people's choice".
"We do believe in freedom and love," he added.
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Seven books were chosen from 210 nominations including writing from the journalist who died in Syria last year.
The prize is awarded annually to the book that comes closest to George Orwell's ambition "to make political writing into an art".
Prize director Jean Seaton said they were looking for "writing that was measured and calm not simply angry".
Colvin's book, On the Front Line, was published in April last year, two months after she died in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.
Originally from New York, Colvin was a distinguished foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times and had been based in London for many years.
Palestinian lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh, won The Orwell Prize for Books in 2008 with Palestinian Walks, was also shortlisted.
Other authors that made the list include former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, for his memoir, Leaving Alexandria, Indian novelist Pankaj Mishra's From the Ruins of the Empire and British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith's Injustice.
The panel included Baroness Joan Bakewell, author Nikita Lalwani and the assistant books editor of The Independent, Arifa Akbar.
"This year's judges started from Orwell's injunction, 'My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice'," said Seaton.
Six journalists were also shortlisted for for the Orwell Journalism Prize including two writers from The Independent, Christina Patterson and Kim Sengupta.
Both categories attract a £3,000 prize, which will be handed out at an awards ceremony in London on 15 May.
In only seven days, he has seen corruption charges plague his organisation, has won an election and has stepped down from his role.
It is a scenario that few would have predicted a week ago. So how did events unfold over the last seven days?
A 47-count indictment against nine Fifa officials and five corporate executives is unsealed before a court in Brooklyn.
The US justice department says the men were under investigation worldwide for allegedly accepting bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than $150m (£97m) over a 24-year period.
A series of arrests are carried out at the luxury Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, where Fifa officials are staying. Mr Blatter is not one of those detained. More arrests are expected, the journalist who broke the story tells the BBC.
The office of Switzerland's Attorney General confirms it has opened an investigation into suspected "criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 Football World Cups" in Russia and Qatar.
It says documents and electronic data have been seized from Fifa's headquarters in Zurich.
Fifa spokesman Walter De Gregorio says the election of Fifa's president will still take place two days later. "The stress factor is a bit higher today," he adds.
At a press conference, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch details the extent of alleged corruption by Fifa officials. She says: "They did this over and over, year after year, tournament after tournament."
When asked whether Mr Blatter was to be questioned, she says only that the investigation is ongoing. Mr Blatter faces growing calls to resign from leading sporting figures.
The Fifa president releases a statement saying he welcomes the investigations, that would "help to reinforce measures that Fifa has already taken to root out any wrongdoing in football".
Michel Platini, the head of the European football body Uefa, calls on Mr Blatter to resign - but he refuses.
Ignoring calls by the British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande to delay the next day's election, Mr Blatter says: "It must fall to me to uphold responsibility for the wellbeing of the organisation."
He condemns the "action of individuals" for bringing "shame and humiliation" on football. But, he says, he is not able to "monitor everyone all of the time".
Football sponsors start to express their concerns about the scandals surrounding Fifa.
Despite mounting pressure, Fifa's presidential election goes ahead.
Mr Blatter's only rival, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, withdraws from the race after winning 73 votes to Mr Blatter's 133 in the election's first round. The 79-year-old is re-elected.
Mr Blatter - who has vowed to make this the last of his five terms - says: "I am the president now, the president of everybody."
English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke again demands Mr Blatter stand down, and warns that the events of the last week "are not all over".
Football sponsors, including Coca-Cola, Adidas and McDonald's, all call for reform within Fifa.
Mr Blatter tells Swiss television: "Why would I step down? That would mean I recognise that I did wrong."
A day after his re-election, Mr Blatter downplays the US indictments, saying in an interview with the Swiss public broadcaster that there was a "hate campaign" against Fifa by European football nations.
Mr Blatter is also asked about another allegation made in the indictment. It states that a senior Fifa official authorised an alleged $10m (£6.5m) payment in exchange for votes in favour of South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup.
"Definitely, that's not me," he says.
South Africa denies the payment it made was a bribe, insisting it went to pay for football development for the African diaspora in the Caribbean.
In a BBC interview, Mr Blatter's daughter says her father is the victim of a conspiracy "behind the scenes" of world football.
The New York Times alleges that Mr Blatter's most senior aide at Fifa, Jerome Valcke, was the man who authorised the $10m payment. Fifa and Mr Valcke deny it was a bribe.
Fifa again insists the $10m payment was legitimate.
By mid-afternoon, news emerges of a previously unscheduled Fifa press conference in Zurich.
Shortly before 19:00 Swiss time (17:00 GMT), Mr Blatter announces he is to stand down.
He does not address the corruption allegations directly, but calls for "deep-rooted structural change" within Fifa and admits: "I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football."
Sponsors, including Visa, Budweiser and Coca-Cola, welcome the news and call for swift reform and greater transparency from Fifa.
The Rhondda Tunnel Society was given the cash to carry out an initial "tapping survey" on the 3km (1.8 miles) tunnel.
Experts will tap the inside of the tunnel, which runs from Blaencwm to Blaengwynfi in Neath Port Talbot, with long poles to determine its condition.
The society has welcomed the grant.
The tunnel was closed during cutbacks of the UK railway network in the 1960s.
There are calls for the Welsh Government to take it over to move the project forward.
But a feasibility and structural survey needs to take place first, which could cost up to £140,000.
Campaigners and MEP Jill Evans will travel to Brussels in a few weeks to try to secure European funding, and the society will meet with the Heritage Lottery Fund on 19 January.
Chairman Steve Mackey said: "We are very grateful for the grant. We feel things are moving forward particularly with regard to the ownership issue of the tunnel.
"The Welsh Government are starting to show interest and seem supportive. We are very pleased."
Lib Dem Lynne Featherstone told the Guardian she had "no doubt" allowing Julien Blanc to perform in the UK would lead to a rise in sexual harassment.
The self-styled "dating guru" holds seminars claiming to teach men how to attract women but his methods have been widely criticised as sexually abusive.
A Change.org petition seeking to deny him a visa has over 120,000 signatures.
Ms Featherstone, who recently became crime prevention minister, took the unusual step of announcing she was lobbying the home secretary to examine grounds for refusing Mr Blanc entry.
She said: "As the Home Office minister with responsibility for tackling violence against women and girls, I am extremely concerned by the sexist and utterly abhorrent statements Julien Blanc has made about women.
"If he was allowed to perform in the UK I have no doubt that cases of sexual harassment and intimidation would increase."
She added that although free speech is "hugely important", it is "not appropriate to talk about choking girls under any circumstances".
Twitter users have been using the hashtag #ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld to share pictures apparently showing Mr Blanc with his hand around the throats of women that he has himself shared.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has also publicly condemned Mr Blanc.
In a letter to the home secretary, Ms Cooper wrote: "Why should we let someone into this country to incite sexual assaults or violence against women?
"There is plenty of evidence of Mr Blanc's vile views and misogynist business, and no interest for Britain in him being able to promote them here in our communities," she continued.
A Home Office spokesman said the department would not comment on individual cases of exclusion.
The spokesman observed: "This home secretary has excluded more foreign nationals on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour than any before her."
Mr Blanc had to cut his Australian tour short last week because his visa was cancelled following protests there.
His UK tour is due to start in London in February 2015.
On its website, Mr Blanc's company Real Social Dynamics calls itself "the world's largest dating coaching company" and promises customers the chance to "witness dating coaches attract beautiful women in live demonstrations".
The petition to bar him from the UK was started by a woman - using the pseudonym Caroline Charles - who was angry at the material being taught at his seminars.
BBC Newsbeat has tried to contact Real Social Dynamics but is yet to receive a reply.
The home secretary has the power to block a visa application by a foreign national if it is thought their presence in the UK would not be "conducive to the public good".
Last year, Theresa May banned anti-Islamic activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from coming to the UK to join an English Defence League demonstration.
In 2009, then home secretary Jacqui Smith refused to admit Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders.
Caballero started City's 2-1 win over Sunderland, the first match of Guardiola's City reign.
"It leaves Hart with a lot to think about," Wright told Match of the Day. "Coming off the Euros and some high-profile mistakes, he has to suck it up.
"I don't think Caballero is a better keeper than Joe."
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The county's police force said feedback from both farmers and those caught hare coursing said it was the greatest deterrent.
Traditionally offences start to rise in the autumn after crops have been harvested and continue until spring.
Last season, 176 men were arrested or reported for summons.
During the busiest months of November and December an average of 15 calls a day were received with the South Holland area the hardest hit, the force said.
Lincolnshire Police said it would also focus on working with neighbouring forces as part of its clampdown.
The National Farmer's Union's Lincolnshire advisor for the Holland region, Gordon Corner, welcomed the move.
He said many farmers had been threatened with violence and threats when facing gangs of hare coursers.
Source: Lincolnshire Police
The Fresher's Don't was published in 1893 for Cambridge University students.
It is on display at an exhibition at St John's College, which was then an all-male establishment.
The guide includes advice on the opposite sex, including "not to get too familiar" with the landlady's daughter - and a reminder not to "speak to girls without introduction".
To mark the occasion, a new story is being released, called 'Winnie-the-Pooh and the Royal Birthday'.
In the story Piglet, Pooh, Christopher Robin, and Eeyore all decide to go on an adventure to Buckingham Palace.
Along the way they meet Prince George, and Pooh even manages to bump into the Queen, and hums her a special birthday tune.
Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926, and apparently the Queen was a big fan when she was a child.
Brian Croxton, 77, died in hospital after the incident outside the Brass Band Club in Royton, Oldham, on the night of 8 December.
The 23-year-old is also accused of failing to stop and failing to report a collision.
She was released on bail, police said.
Paying tribute to Mr Croxton, his family said he was president of the club for more than 10 years and "his life revolved" around it.
Sgt Lee Westhead, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "We made an arrest yesterday in the Royton area and have also seized a car for forensic examination.
"The investigation is still very much ongoing and my team is still keen to speak to people who were on Sandy Lane on the night of the collision, or anyone with any information."
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Arnold fired home in the first of four added minutes to secure a famous triumph against the Championship side.
The Imps were dominant throughout and a bigger margin of victory against a team 59 places higher in the league pyramid would not have flattered them.
They now host Brighton in round four.
After twice coming from behind at Portman Road to earn a replay in the first meeting, Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy promised his side had noted the lessons of that scare.
But if they had learned anything, his players were unable to put it into practice, managing just one decent attempt on the Lincoln goal in 90 uninspiring minutes.
Graham Taylor was in charge of Lincoln the last time they reached the fourth round, so it was fitting the National League leaders matched that achievement on the night the club paid tribute to their former manager.
Lincoln's run in the cup was just one highlight among many during Taylor's managerial reign between 1972 and 1977, which was followed by successful spells at Watford and Aston Villa before landing the England job in 1990.
A minute's applause was held before kick-off in memory of Taylor, who died on 12 January at the age of 72, and he was remembered again later in the match with more applause and a show of lights from fans in the stands.
But far and away the best tribute was saved until the end when Lincoln substitute Adam Marriott's pass sent Arnold sprinting clear of the Ipswich defence and he rounded the goalkeeper before knocking the ball into an empty net.
Former Ipswich defender Terry Butcher, who was at Sincil Bank for BBC Sport, did not hold back in his criticism of his old club.
"I can't remember ever being so embarrassed and humiliated as an Ipswich fan," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "Ipswich lost the wrong way, not enough fight, not enough passion.
"I am bitterly disappointed. Over the 180 minutes Lincoln have been by far the better team, it wasn't a fluke.
This was a mid-table Championship side totally - and I mean totally - outplayed over two games
"When you lose like that then Mick McCarthy will be concerned, but the club won't have any knee-jerk reactions."
The margin of defeat could certainly have been greater but for a brilliant first-half save by Ipswich goalkeeper Dean Gerken, who stuck out a hand to somehow claw away Luke Waterfall's close-range header on the stroke of half-time.
Danny Cowley's side put Ipswich's back line under pressure with a barrage of crosses, with burly striker Matt Rhead spurning one opening and midfielder Alex Woodyard heading a very presentable chance wide when unmarked.
Ipswich's best opening came with a low Josh Emmanuel shot just before the hour, but Imps goalkeeper Paul Farman was always behind it and made a good save.
Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy: "I should congratulate Lincoln. They deserved to win. From my point of view the way we lost the game was ridiculous. We had a chance to score ourselves and then seconds later they scored.
"On the back of the performance on Saturday it was surprising how we played tonight. They controlled the game but I'm not going to stand here and give my team stick.
"The fans want to see these upsets. It's great for TV but not for me unfortunately. The fans made their thoughts quite clear tonight. I'm not happy about producing that kind of football in front of the fans."
Lincoln City's manager Danny Cowley: "The way they've worked day in, day out, is incredible. You can have great days like this if you put so much work in like we have.
"I thought we competed really well and worked every minute so hard. We pressed from the front and actually thought we had great control in the game even against a Championship side like Ipswich.
"What a brilliant finish from Nathan. Not an easy finish when the whole of Sincil Bank is hoping he sticks it in. It's a great night and an amazing feeling for the club."
Match ends, Lincoln City 1, Ipswich Town 0.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 1, Ipswich Town 0.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jamie McCombe replaces Terry Hawkridge.
Attempt saved. Jack Muldoon (Lincoln City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Matt Rhead.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jack Muldoon replaces Nathan Arnold.
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Ipswich Town 0. Nathan Arnold (Lincoln City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adam Marriott with a through ball following a fast break.
Bradley Wood (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Bradley Wood (Lincoln City).
Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Nathan Arnold.
Attempt missed. Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Hand ball by Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Theo Robinson.
Attempt blocked. Nathan Arnold (Lincoln City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Matt Rhead.
Attempt missed. Matt Rhead (Lincoln City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nathan Arnold.
Attempt missed. Nathan Arnold (Lincoln City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Matt Rhead with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Andre Dozzell replaces Grant Ward.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Freddie Sears replaces Leon Best.
Terry Hawkridge (Lincoln City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Digby (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. Leon Best (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Terry Hawkridge (Lincoln City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Alan Power with a headed pass.
Offside, Ipswich Town. Cole Skuse tries a through ball, but Tom Lawrence is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Paul Farman (Lincoln City) because of an injury.
Offside, Ipswich Town. Joshua Emmanuel tries a through ball, but Leon Best is caught offside.
Foul by Nathan Arnold (Lincoln City).
Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matt Rhead (Lincoln City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. Nathan Arnold (Lincoln City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bradley Wood.
Terry Hawkridge (Lincoln City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joshua Emmanuel (Ipswich Town).
Foul by Theo Robinson (Lincoln City).
Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Matt Rhead (Lincoln City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paul Digby (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Grant Ward.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Luke Waterfall.
Rhondda Cynon Taff has been the worst area with 64 fires, while more than 20 were started in each of Caerphilly, Bridgend and Blaenau Gwent.
The majority have been over Easter.
In north Wales, police and fire investigators are hunting arsonists after a spate of fires near Blaenau Ffestiniog on two successive nights.
Having trailed 3-1 at one stage, Sweden stormed back to win the next three races on Thursday before clinching victory in the first race on Friday.
The Swedes will face New Zealand, who eliminated Great Britain, in the first-to-five final which begins on Saturday.
"We're absolutely stoked," said Sweden skipper Nathan Outteridge.
Friday's race against the Japanese crew was tight, hinging on a tactical mistake by their skipper Dean Barker, who was forced to a standstill by Outteridge when he tried to get past them in the middle of their head-to-head encounter.
"That was obviously the key moment," added Outteridge.
Holders Oracle Team USA await the winners of New Zealand and Sweden.
The first to seven points wins the America's Cup, or the Auld Mug as the trophy is known, with a possible 13 races to be sailed on 17-18 and 24-27 June.
The America's Cup, the oldest competition in international sport, was first raced in 1851 around the Isle of Wight and has only been won by four nations.
Mark Hughes, 33, of Buckley, Flintshire, accidentally let off a shotgun while getting a drink in July 2016, Mold Crown Court heard.
After the gun went off, Hughes was heard screaming and was seen outside his house with a bleeding foot.
He admitted possessing a shotgun and a stun gun, cannabis and cocaine.
The court heard Hughes had wanted to kill himself at the time of the shotgun shooting.
Judge Rhys Rowlands accepted Hughes had been looking after the gun for someone else.
Prosecuting, Anna Price said armed police had gone to the house after the Hughes was seen outside it.
She told the court he had previously been jailed for two years for wounding in 2005 and for four years in 2009 for arson.
Julian Nutter, defending, said Hughes was no longer suicidal and wanted to make something of his life.
Judge Rowlands accepted Hughes had been depressed at the time. He added Hughes was still at risk of losing his foot from what he called a "dreadful injury".
He sentenced Hughes to three years and four months in prison.
MS Dhoni's side, champions in 2007, face New Zealand in the opening Super 10 game in Nagpur at 14:00 GMT.
England start their campaign against West Indies in Mumbai on Wednesday.
The women's event starts on Tuesday, when India play Bangladesh in Bangalore. England take on Bangladesh at the same venue on Thursday.
On Thursday, defending men's champions Sri Lanka meet Afghanistan, who qualified as winners of Group B during the first week of the tournament.
Although history is against the hosts, the form book is in their favour.
The top-ranked team in the world, they have won 10 of their past 11 T20 internationals, a run which includes their Asia Cup triumph in Bangladesh this month.
In Virat Kohli, they possess arguably the most prolific batsman in T20 cricket - he averages 117 in 2016 and 52 over his career - and three batsmen in the top 16 of the International Cricket Council rankings.
With West Indian Sunil Narine injured, India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is officially the best bowler involved in the competition.
All but one member of India's 15-man squad - 22-year-old seamer Hardik Pandya - has experience of playing in the Indian Premier League, the world's most high-profile domestic T20 competition.
Virender Sehwag, a part of India's World Cup-winning side in 2011, is "99% certain" India will win the World T20, while India legend Rahul Dravid said: "This is a pretty formidable side and the all-around ability is what excites me."
"There's no reason why we shouldn't win it," England opener Jason Roy told BBC Test Match Special. "We've got a strong side."
Barely a year after they were knocked out of the 50-over World Cup in embarrassing fashion, an England side rejuvenated by coach Trevor Bayliss enter the next global tournament as a team feared by many.
"Their style of cricket has been so much better than what we saw at the World Cup and I love the positive way they bat," said former captain Michael Vaughan.
Although the optimism built up during five successive wins was dented by February's 2-0 series defeat in South Africa, England beat New Zealand by six wickets in their opening warm-up match and then a Mumbai XI by 14 runs on Monday.
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Roy, Alex Hales, Joe Root, captain Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler are capable of destructive hitting, while leg-spinner Adil Rashid is expected to prosper on India's slower pitches.
"The fielding is world class and the batting line-up is powerful right down to nine or 10. There are good things happening in this team," said Collingwood, England's victorious captain at the 2010 World T20 and now a member of the coaching staff.
To reach the semi-finals, England must negotiate a group containing defending champions Sri Lanka, 2012 winners West Indies, and South Africa, who have won nine of their past 11 T20s.
As batsman Hales says: "We wouldn't be here if we didn't think we could win it."
Like India in the men's event, Australia are overwhelming favourites in the women's competition, although captain Meg Lanning describes it as the "tightest Women's World Twenty20 we have ever had".
Group A: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ireland
Group B: England, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, West Indies
The top two sides from each group qualify for the semi-finals on 30 and 31 March
Australia have won the previous three World T20s, and England are the only other country to have lifted the trophy, the inaugural edition in 2009.
England ended Australia's 16-match winning run stretching across 2014 and 2015, while New Zealand completed a 2-1 series victory over the Southern Stars this month.
England women - led by Charlotte Edwards - beat New Zealand twice this week before wrapping up their warm-up schedule with a seven-wicket thrashing of South Africa.
The semi-finals and final will be played before the men's matches.
The prize money for the men's competition is $5.5m and $400,000 for the women's.
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The four-time champion was 0.479 seconds clear of Valtteri Bottas as Ferrari finally appeared to show the pace that had impressed pre-season.
Lewis Hamilton was third, 0.011secs behind his team-mate.
It was far from a definitive read on performance, however, as a crash for Williams driver Lance Stroll ended the session 10 minutes early.
The Canadian rookie lost control at Turn Nine, badly damaging the car and bringing out the red flag.
It meant Mercedes, who were comfortably quicker than Ferrari in Friday practice, did not have time to go out and do a final pre-qualifying simulation run.
Hamilton and Mercedes expressed surprise at their advantage over Ferrari on the first day of running of the new season, having been convinced by their rival's pace in testing that they faced a major challenge in 2017.
Instead, Hamilton was quickest by half a second and was a second clear of the Ferraris on average on his race simulation run.
Vettel had complained of a poor balance on Friday but the Ferrari looked hooked up throughout a much stronger performance on Saturday.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was fourth quickest, 0.608secs behind Vettel. The red flag meant the two Ferrari drivers were out of the cars being introduced to movie star Nicole Kidman as the session came to a close.
The premature ending means qualifying at 06:00 GMT is even more intriguing than it always is at the start of the season, because there has been so little chance to judge the relative pace of the cars.
Nico Hulkenberg was an impressive fifth in the Renault, ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, whose team have struggled with car behaviour throughout the weekend.
Ricciardo's team-mate Max Verstappen was down in 12th place, complaining of poor balance.
There was a new driver in the Sauber, after Pascal Wehrlein pulled out saying he felt he lacked the fitness to perform at his best in the race.
The German was replaced by Ferrari third driver Antonio Giovinazzi, who was 20th and last and just over a second slower than team-mate Marcus Ericsson.
The McLarens of Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne were 14th and 15th as they embark on what they have admitted will be a difficult season because of the poor performance of their Honda engine.
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Yorkshire's Jonny Bairstow, 26, will replace Buttler while England have further strengthened their batting line-up with James Taylor making his first Test appearance in three years.
Buttler, 25, has struggled with the bat in the three-match series, averaging 8.5 runs from four innings.
The final Test begins on Sunday with England 1-0 down in the series.
England fast bowler Mark Wood has been rested for the match to protect a chronic ankle problem.
Captain Alastair Cook will make a call later on whether to play a third spinner or an extra seamer but is not contemplating making any more than two changes.
Cook said Buttler was "desperately disappointed" but took the decision "on the chin".
Bairstow, who will keep wicket in what will be his 20th Test, will move down the batting order to seven with Taylor at five and Moeen Ali continuing as an opener.
Nottinghamshire's Taylor has only played twice for England, his last Test appearance coming against South Africa in 2012.
But he impressed in the one-day series against Australia and averages 47.20 in first class cricket.
Cook said: "Taylor is a far better player now. You don't average 47/8 in first class cricket without being a very good player. He's going to add a lot to our batting in the next few years."
The crises seem to be never-ending and there is growing popular discontent.
But how does the situation look in a historical context and what are the implications for the EU's future?
The difficulty lies not so much in the scale of any one of the current crises, but in the fact they have arrived on EU leaders' plates simultaneously.
Taken individually, the issues of possible Greek exit from the eurozone (Grexit), conflict with Russia in Ukraine, and uncontrolled migration from Africa and the Middle East would be formidable but manageable.
The EU dealt with the first Greek crisis in 2012, at a time when the country's economic collapse could have destabilised the whole eurozone, unlike today.
Nicolas Sarkozy and other EU leaders managed to negotiate a ceasefire after the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008.
Today, leaders are having to deal with the EU's crises all at the same time, while being aware that none of these issues is likely to be resolved any time soon.
Debate within the EU over how to manage the Greek crisis reflects a deeper trend.
Following the stresses of the financial and sovereign debt crises, eurozone monetary union is now evolving into political union.
While the former could disguise fundamental differences in national political approach, the latter cannot.
The French perspective is that eurozone countries should come together into a politically driven economic and monetary union that would be guided by the principle of solidarity, with the richer helping the poorer and final decisions taken by political consensus.
The German vision is a political, economic and monetary union based upon the principle of shared responsibility, with all countries legally bound to avoid budget deficits.
If they do run excessive deficits, then they would be obliged to undertake structural reforms and spending cuts in order to receive central financial support, as in the Greek case.
Overall, a majority of eurozone governments, from Slovakia and Finland to Spain and Portugal, appears to side with Germany.
Many have absorbed painful reforms and put euros into financial support packages that their voters expect to see returned.
But Italy is habitually sceptical of German economic leadership and is bolstering French President Francois Hollande's stance.
German leaders do not want a rupture with France.
Voters are not uniformly disenchanted with their leaders, but it is a growing trend.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble are very popular in Germany, as are, to a lesser extent, Matteo Renzi in Italy and Enda Kenny in Ireland.
These are leaders in both the euro creditor and debtor camps.
In contrast, Mr Hollande and Mariano Rajoy's Partido Popular in Spain, for example, have seen severe falls in support and the rise of credible populist competitors - the National Front and Podemos, respectively.
There is no clear pattern here from an economic perspective. Instead, it appears that the quality of individual political leadership offers a critical premium when the public is increasingly mobilised as well as sceptical of their leaders in light of the economic stresses brought about by the financial crisis.
This provides a mixed picture for Mr Cameron in his pre-referendum negotiations.
He and Chancellor George Osborne need strong EU counterparts who will be willing to face down attempts by domestic political rivals to paint any concessions to the UK as worsening their own country's interests.
While he appears to have such partners in Mrs Merkel and Mr Renzi, he may not in Mr Hollande or Mr Rajoy.
There will be further integration within the eurozone, but the EU is unlikely to coalesce into a hard core of countries at its centre and non-eurozone countries on the margins.
Differences among eurozone members (big and small, creditor and debtor, competitive globally and domestically insecure) will mean that political fissures will persist.
Mr Cameron's fear is that the eurozone begins to act as a united bloc against the UK but this is unlikely to materialise in any systematic way.
There will be space for a more flexible EU, where alliances can be built around particular issues, such as energy, trade or the single market.
This will be to the UK's benefit if the British people decide to remain within the EU.
Making progress on big policy issues is always difficult in an EU of 28 states with their own interests and concerns.
The loss of intra-EU trust caused by the euro crisis and the amount of leaders' time it continues to absorb will make common positions on these issues all the more difficult.
A recent Chatham House report argued that Europe must think much more strategically about Russia, maintain its deterrence and expand its efforts to support Ukraine.
But a divided Europe gives succour to Russia's leadership, which believes it can wait for European unity over sanctions to crack and its desire to support Ukraine financially to wane.
Europe's divisions are also frustrating for the US, which hopes for continued unity in confronting Russia and a swift resolution to the Greek saga avoiding Grexit, which could destabilise the Balkans.
The euro crisis has also highlighted differences between the economic approach of Germany based on fiscal contraction and structural reform, and the Keynesian policies of the Obama administration.
The Chinese, for their part, are as happy to work with a divided EU as with a more unified one.
They are focusing on the huge potential opportunities of their "One Belt One Road" vision, which will connect the Eurasian landmass via major new transport infrastructure - to the exclusion of the US.
They can also benefit from intra-European competition, as seen in the UK's rush to be the first EU member to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Germany's undercutting of the European Commission's efforts in 2013 to combat Chinese subsidies for its solar panel industry.
Robin Niblett is the director of the independent think tank Chatham House.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council's planning committee voted against the scheme, which also included a hotel and restaurant overlooking the water.
It was thrown out because of concerns over a 60,000sqft office block which is part of the project. Councillors said they would consider a revised plan.
The Humber Bridge Board said it was still "pursuing the plan".
The proposal would have allowed visitors to travel under the bridge at Hessle in a glass gondola before changing to the lift which would have raised them 510ft (155m) to the top of the north tower.
In a letter to the board earlier this month, Alan Menzies, the council's director of planning and economic regeneration, said officers would find it "difficult to justify new large scale office development in the open countryside, contrary to the town centre first approach advocated by national planning policy".
Mr Menzies had suggested: "If the large office building was to be withdrawn from the application then officers would then be in a position to support (in principle) the remaining elements of the scheme."
Planning officers subsequently recommended the plan be refused, which councillors agreed to do.
After the meeting, Rob Waltham, chairman of the Humber Bridge Board, said: "Whilst we are extremely disappointed with the decision today, we fully intend to pursue planning for the lift, hotel, visitor experience and office complex in order to create the visitor experience that will attract thousands of new visitors and jobs to the Humber area."
It is another badge of honour for the "Russian Frank Sinatra", the ever-loyal crooner, politician and businessman.
"I spit on their sanctions," he said with a proud grin on Russian television on Monday.
"I'm very pleased and grateful," he said in another interview.
His only regret was that he would be unable to visit his daughter and grandchildren. His daughter is married to an Australian citizen and lives in the UK.
But he remained defiant.
"My enemies accuse me of performing in Donbas and Crimea. I will go there again," he said, and announced his next dates in Donetsk and Luhansk later this month.
Like many other supporters of President Vladimir Putin, he has very publicly backed the pro-Russian rebels fighting the Ukrainian government.
It is not the first time the 77-year-old singer has been blacklisted by Western states.
Since 1994 he has been repeatedly denied a US visa, despite almost annual applications, although not on political but crime-related grounds.
The original rejection quoted his involvement "in unlawful activity". He was allegedly closely connected to a Russian gangland boss, Vyacheslav Ivankov (nicknamed "Yaponchik"), who died in Moscow in 2009 from multiple bullet wounds.
Mr Kobzon seems to have been around forever.
He had a meteoric rise to fame for a working-class Jewish boy from eastern Ukraine. He was born outside Donetsk and grew up in Dnipropetrovsk.
He started singing while serving in the Soviet army in the late 1950s.
In the 1960s he rose through the Soviet music scene's official hierarchy. A rich baritone, he was an ideal performer of Soviet patriotic songs in communist times.
Despite widespread anti-Semitism, his Jewish origins did not hold him back. The list of his official awards runs to a few pages.
He also cultivated powerful connections in the Soviet elite.
Despite being a loyal Soviet patriot, he effortlessly adapted to the new post-communist regime.
Since 1990 he has been a member of the Russian parliament, and more recently one of the leading figures in United Russia, the ruling party. He also skilfully converted political clout into business success and wealth.
In 2002 he was diagnosed with cancer. He has undergone much surgery and collapsed on stage in 2010.
His looks have appeared frozen since the 1980s, if not the 1970s - allegedly with the help of botox injections. He also sports a very obvious glossy black wig.
Since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis last year, Mr Kobzon has taken an aggressively anti-Kiev stance. In March 2014 he signed a letter supporting Russia's annexation of Crimea.
He has travelled repeatedly to the rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine and was even appointed Russia's "honorary consul" to the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic".
As a result, some Ukrainian cities stripped him of his honorary citizenship.
"I don't care," he said in response. "For me there's no Ukraine that is governed by a fascist regime. Therefore I don't want to be an honorary citizen of Ukrainian cities."
The blazes have destroyed homes and at least 13 people have been hospitalised, with five in a critical condition, according to local media.
Firefighters worked through the night to contain a major blaze which tore through 900 sq km (347 sq miles) of land north of Adelaide.
The SA Country Fire Service warned the fires could continue for several days.
One person was found dead on a property near Pinery, while a second was located in a car near the Hamley Bridge area, Premier Jay Weatherill told local media.
"This has been a devastating few hours for large parts of the state and unfortunately there is some time to go until we have the fire fronts under control.
"Our thoughts turn to those people affected and those volunteers working through the night to protect us," he said.
Extra fire crews were travelling from interstate to help battle the fires.
The new home strip for the country's national senior and junior teams is orange while green is the away colour, with white the alternative kit.
The new kit was used for the first time in the under-20 side's 2-0 win over Portugal at the Fifa World Cup in South Korea on Sunday.
Ponga Liwewe, secretary general of the Football Association of Zambia said the deal signed with Singapore-based kit suppliers Mafro is worth $200,000 over two years.
"The decision to engage Mafro as a kit supplier of our national team is based on Mafro's successful global partnership with various clubs and national sides," Liwewe said in a statement
Zambia has not had a kit supplier since 2014 when the contract with US sportswear behemoth Nike expired.
Mafro are no strangers to the Zambian football scene as they also supply kit for local Super Division side Power Dynamos.
Mafro has also signed a three-year deal to supply kit for Kenya's national teams.
The body of Daniel Smith, 23, was discovered by firefighters in a homeless camp under a railway bridge in Irwell Street, Salford, on 20 January.
Adam Acton, 24, and Luke Benson, 25, attacked Mr Smith after he accidentally "urinated on bedding within the camp", the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The pair were jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday.
Acton and Benson, both of no fixed address, attempted to dispose of the body of Mr Smith by setting fire to him.
Senior Crown Prosecutor Gail O'Brien said the men "carried out a brutal and sustained attack on Daniel" and showed "no remorse throughout the case".
"Their attack was utterly disproportionate to the disagreement they had had with him. They also attempted to cover their tracks by taking Daniel's belongings from him, destroyed them and hiding them from the police," she said.
Mr Smith was hit with a hammer, a bat and a broom handle, which was later found broken in two, police said.
Emergency services were called after flames and smoke were seen in the camp, where Mr Smith was found with serious injuries to his face and body.
Supt Emily Higham paid tribute to a witness "who had the courage to come forward" to talk about the men's "horrifying actions".
Benson was ordered to serve a minimum jail term of 20 years and 165 days, while Acton was given a minimum of 21 years and 166 days.
He also received 12 months to run concurrently after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice for removing and hiding Mr Smith's Sim card.
Acton's girlfriend Amanda Briggs, 28, and a 17-year-old male pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice for their role in removing, damaging and concealing items belonging to Mr Smith.
The message, sent from an account which has since been suspended said: "you deserve a seizure for your posts".
Shortly afterwards, Mr Eichenwald's wife tweeted from his account saying the images had caused a seizure.
The incident was reported to the police in the US.
Mr Eichenwald had previously written about how he had been "assaulted" via the internet.
He confirmed in a series of tweets that he is pursuing legal action against the person responsible for this latest incident.
"Last night, for the second time, a deplorable aware I have epilepsy tweeted a strobe at me... It worked," he said.
"This is not going to happen again. My wife is terrified. I am... disgusted. All I will be tweeting for the next few days are copies of documents from the litigation, police reports etc.
"Once we have the lawsuit filed, we will be subpoenaing Twitter for the identity of the individual who engaged in this cross-state assault," he added.
Simon Wigglesworth, deputy chief executive at Epilepsy Action, said: "We are appalled that someone would go to these lengths to bring on a seizure in another person."
"Seizures are not only very distressing for the person experiencing them, but can also cause injury and, in the worst cases, be fatal," he added.
Mr Wigglesworth explained that photosensitive epilepsy is a type of epilepsy in which seizures are triggered by flashing or flickering light.
He warned that if this incident had happened in the UK it might have been a breach of the law, perhaps of the Computer Misuse Act.
Stefano Seri, a professor of clinical neurophysiology and developmental neuropsychiatry at Aston University, explained how the material in the tweet must have been carefully constructed.
"Abrupt changes in light intensity, or luminance, can trigger seizures. The most sensitive range is about 15-25 flashes per second," said Prof Seri.
"The picture would need to occupy most of the visual field. It would take some very sick people to do this, but technically, it is possible.
"Modern LED screens are not as provocative as older ones. It takes a very carefully designed stimulus to induce a seizure," Prof Seri added.
Mr Eichenwald is a prominent critic of US president-elect Donald Trump and had clashed with a Fox News host in a TV interview the day before receiving the flashing tweet.
He has also used Twitter to directly address complaints to the incoming US president.
After his wife tweeted about the seizure, the responses received included messages from staunch supporters of Mr Trump, some of whom mocked the situation.
Professor Seri advised those with epilepsy to be cautious when viewing unknown material online.
"You should sit far enough from the stimulus so it doesn't fill your vision and watch in a sufficiently lit room so the impact of any flashes is lessened," the professor advised.
"In a well lit room your baseline is higher, so changes are less dramatic. Don't open attachments from people you don't know."
There have been instances in the past of accidental seizure triggers being broadcast.
In December 1997 more than 600 children in Japan were taken to hospital after feeling sick while watching cartoons on television.
Some suffered convulsions, while others complained of eye irritation.
They were reported to have fallen ill after seeing a cartoon monster flash its eyes.
In June 2007 a segment of animated footage promoting the 2012 Olympics was removed from the organisers' website after fears were raised that it could trigger epileptic seizures.
In July 2015 Twitter was criticised for uploading two video adverts that featured a looping, rapid succession of flashing colours.
Eventually the company removed them.
Mr Eichenwald said he would be taking a break from Twitter.
The assaults and abuse of staff occurred during continuing disruption caused by major engineering works.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has written to train companies demanding action.
Network Rail said it was looking to make improvements.
Passengers jumped over barriers on 4 March because of serious overcrowding and there were more problems on Monday because of a broken-down freight train.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "It is disgusting that staff charged with crowd control are being threatened, spat on and assaulted with hot coffee.
"We want measures put in place immediately to protect our members from this threatening and abusive behaviour."
One commuter, David from Highgate, told Vanessa Feltz on BBC London 94.9: "You have aggressive time-conscious passengers who are trying to go to work and there are not enough staff."
Rejecting the claim that somebody could be seriously injured in the disruption, Chris Denham, from Network Rail, said: "Although it's very busy and it has been very difficult, safety has been our absolutely priority."
Network Rail and the train companies have held a meeting on site at London Bridge, looking at what further improvements can be made.
Brentford had the majority of the first-half possession, but Lasse Vibe and Scott Hogan missed easy chances.
Danny Ward then made the Bees pay when he put Rotherham ahead after 32 minutes despite appearing to be offside.
Brentford rarely threatened in the second half and could not find a way through a Millers defence which had shipped 13 goals in four games.
The Millers had not won in the Championship since a 4-0 victory over MK Dons on 9 April, but Ward took his chance well against the run of play to give Alan Stubbs his first win as Rotherham manager.
It was a frustrating afternoon for Brentford, who have been inconsistent so far this season, falling to a second defeat to go with their two league wins.
Rotherham manager Alan Stubbs: "The mood was good anyway but it has lifted the mood for the fans and the club.
"We have had as difficult a start as anybody in terms of who we have played. I thought we got a really good result against a good football team.
"It's important to win every week but this league is one of the most difficult to do it in."
Brentford head coach Dean Smith: "I can't be displeased with our performance. I thought we played well and the better team lost on the day but that's football sometimes.
"We opened them up a number of times in the first half with really good play. They just had the more clear cut of the chances."
Match ends, Rotherham United 1, Brentford 0.
Second Half ends, Rotherham United 1, Brentford 0.
Attempt missed. Sam Saunders (Brentford) header from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Emmanuel Ledesma with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Lee Camp.
Attempt saved. Emmanuel Ledesma (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Maxime Colin.
Emmanuel Ledesma (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Kelly (Rotherham United).
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by John Egan.
Attempt blocked. Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Forde.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Joe Mattock replaces Isaiah Brown.
Foul by Maxime Colin (Brentford).
Richard Smallwood (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Richard Smallwood (Rotherham United).
Substitution, Brentford. Josh McEachran replaces Lasse Vibe.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Anthony Forde replaces Scott Allan.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Dominic Ball.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Lee Camp.
Attempt saved. Ryan Woods (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Emmanuel Ledesma.
Attempt missed. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ryan Woods.
Attempt missed. Scott Hogan (Brentford) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Emmanuel Ledesma with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Stephen Kelly.
Substitution, Brentford. Emmanuel Ledesma replaces Romaine Sawyers.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Lasse Vibe.
Maxime Colin (Brentford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Maxime Colin (Brentford).
Danny Ward (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ryan Woods (Brentford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jon Taylor (Rotherham United).
Offside, Brentford. Ryan Woods tries a through ball, but Scott Hogan is caught offside.
Richard Smallwood (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Woods (Brentford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Richard Smallwood (Rotherham United).
Attempt missed. Lasse Vibe (Brentford) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Sam Saunders with a cross.
John Egan (Brentford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Allan (Rotherham United).
Scott Hogan (Brentford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Will Vaulks (Rotherham United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Lee Camp (Rotherham United) because of an injury.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Stephen Kelly.
Bree, 19, has arrived on a four-and-a-half-year deal for what Barnsley call a "substantial fee", having made 61 appearances for the Tykes.
Iceland international Bjarnason, 28, has joined Villa on a three-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
Formerly of Belgian club Standard Liege and Italian side Sampdoria, he scored his country's first goal at Euro 2016.
"It's a very big club. I am now looking forward to getting out on to the pitch and helping the team," Bjarnason told Villa's club website.
Bree said: "(Manager) Steve Bruce was a big factor in my decision, when I met him I knew it was the right move for me."
The right-back was only 16 when he made his league debut for Barnsley against QPR in May 2014 and helped them win promotion from League One last season.
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In a post shared on Twitter, she said: "Of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story.
"The story and characters of Girl Online are all mine."
Another author, Siobhan Curham, who is thanked in the book's acknowledgements, has been responding to Twitter comments about the Girl Online revelations.
It has not been suggested by either the publisher, or Ms Curham herself, that she wrote the book - but Ms Curham has thanked followers for their concern.
One such exchange included a reference to "this writer's books" having Zoella's name on the cover.
Neither Penguin, nor Ms Curham, have responded to Newsbeat's request for a comment.
Many of Zoella's fans sent positive messages to the YouTube star after her announcement, saying that they still "loved" the book.
More than 78,000 copies of Girl Online were sold in its first week of publication.
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The record is the highest since Nielsen BookScan began collecting information on the book market in 1998, according to The Bookseller.
It is the first of a two-book deal Zoella has with Penguin.
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The researchers said they had used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to "undo" nicotine addiction in the brain.
The findings, presented at the Neuroscience 2013 conference, suggested the technique could help people cut down or quit completely.
Further trials are needed before it could be recommended as a therapy.
TMS stimulates neurons to alter brain function and is already used in some patients with depression.
The team at Ben Gurion University in Israel targeted magnetic fields at two regions of the brain associated with addiction to nicotine - the prefrontal cortex and the insula cortex.
The 115 regular smokers in the study were split into three groups and for 13 days they were given high-frequency TMS, low-frequency TMS or no treatment at all.
Those getting high-frequency TMS had lower levels of smoking and were more likely to have quit at the end of the six-month study.
The highest success came when participants were also shown pictures of a lit cigarette while having the magnetic therapy - a third had quit after six months.
The researchers argue the therapy may be changing the brain's hardwired response to smoking "cues".
Dr Abraham Zangen, from Ben Gurion University, said: "Our research shows us that we may actually be able to undo some of the changes to the brain caused by chronic smoking.
"We know that many smokers want to quit or smoke less and this could help put a dent in the number one cause of preventable deaths."
Dr Chris Chambers, who specialises in TMS at Cardiff University, told the BBC: "This is a neat, well-controlled study.
"Its main contribution is to add to growing evidence that brain stimulation, when applied to specific parts of the frontal lobe, can boost our ability to overcome addictions.
"This is exciting and has a myriad of applications in psychiatry."
However, he cautioned that the study had not yet been peer-reviewed and that "we need to develop a much clearer understanding of why and how such methods work".
A separate study, reported at the same conference, suggested that stimulating the brain with implanted electrodes may help combat heroin addiction.
Normally, rats given free access to the drug at the press of a lever will keep taking more and more of the drug as they become addicted.
However, those having deep brain stimulation took less of the drug and did not show the escalating drug-use pattern.
Commenting on both studies, Prof Barry Everitt, from the University of Cambridge, said: "Non-drug interventions would be an enormous step forward in drug abuse treatment, which currently relies on replacing one drug with another and has an extremely high rate of relapse."
Flames and smoke were seen coming out of the building, which houses three restaurants, in Albert Square at about 13:00 GMT.
Investigations were carried out to make sure the fire had not spread to the other restaurants' kitchens that share the same extraction duct.
A Greater Manchester Fire spokesman said the response had been scaled down.
Station Manager Gary Jarvis urged people to stay away from the area.
"It is a busy part of Manchester, as it's at the heart of the city, but because we have quite a bit of smoke issuing from the roof, we would encourage people to avoid the area if possible and to keep their windows closed."
He has already served a ban for not reporting alleged match-fixing in two games involving ex-club Siena in the 2010-11 season.
The former Juventus coach is among 104 people a prosecutor has requested to have charges pressed against them.
The 45-year-old, who has been accused of "sporting fraud", has always denied any wrongdoing.
The next step is for the judiciary to fix the date for a preliminary, closed-door hearing where a judge will decide whether to press charges, as the prosecutors have requested.
Conte has gone on to win three successive Serie A titles with Juventus before being appointed Italy coach last year.
The general inquiry followed alleged attempts to manipulate matches in Serie B, the Italian second division, and the third tier Lega Pro during the 2010-11 season, with some Coppa Italia matches also involved.
The Italian Football Federation has already conducted its own investigation and banned Conte for 10 months in 2012, later reduced to four months on appeal.
More than 50 players were banned for up to five years and a number of clubs, including Atalanta and Siena, have had points deducted by the FIGC over the case.
Emma has fronted three series of the programme since 2014, said she was "absolutely delighted to be back".
She will host the show on her own, as BBC co-presenter Marvin Humes will not return.
Last November ITV confirmed it would start to show The Voice.
Humes had co-hosted the singing competition with Willis since 2014 and said he would, "miss working with Emma and the team".
"I've loved every minute of working on The Voice for the past three series," he told the BBC.
"It's one of the best shows on TV and I'll definitely be tuning in to see the new series. I wish the new team the best of luck and look forward to working more with ITV in the near future."
ITV has yet to announce who the celebrity coaches will be on the new series, due to broadcast in 2017.
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In his first major interview since he avoided a possible 10-year prison sentence, Ecclestone, 83, said he always believed he would walk away a free man.
"I'm not scared of anything to be honest with you," he said.
"It never bothered me because I knew I was innocent."
Ecclestone went on trial in April, accused of paying German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky £26m to ensure that CVC, a private equity company he allegedly favoured, could buy F1, and he could remain in control of the sport.
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He continued: "I was never bothered about the jail sentence because I was sure it wouldn't happen. The system in law is pretty fair. Every now and again they get things wrong but normally, unless there's some political motive, it's all OK.
"I know most people say the prisons are full of innocent people but I wonder if that's true."
Ecclestone always denied wrongdoing, insisting the payment had instead been the result of blackmail - to stop Gribkowsky making unfounded allegations about Ecclestone's tax affairs.
Under German law, the billionaire was able to "buy" the termination of the trial, although he was declared neither innocent nor guilty.
When asked why he felt the need to pay a £60m settlement in order to walk free from Munich's district court, Ecclestone said: "Because there's a system in Germany which allows you to do that. It gets rid of things.
"It could have gone on. If they'd won, I'd have appealed. If I'd won they'd have appealed. It would have gone on until next year. I just had to pay to get rid of the case, that's all."
Speaking in his luxury motorhome at the Spa circuit before this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix, Ecclestone is now back running the sport on a full-time basis.
The end of the uncertainty over the sport's leadership could now pave the way for CVC to sell its 35% controlling stake in F1.
"CVC are the type of company that they are," said Ecclestone. "They buy businesses and eventually sell them and I suppose if someone comes along with the correct price they'll sell."
A priority for Ecclestone now will be handling the controversy surrounding the forthcoming Russian Grand Prix in Sochi on 12 October, with some senior politicians calling for the race to be cancelled because of the conflict in Ukraine.
Despite President Vladimir Putin's denials, Moscow has been blamed by the West for supplying anti-aircraft missiles to pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine that appear to have shot down Malaysian airlines passenger jet MH17, killing 298 passengers including 10 Britons.
But Ecclestone rejected any criticism of the race.
"We have a contract there and we will respect the contract and they will do the same, so there will be a race," he said.
"I don't know what a race in Sochi's got to do with anything. I mean, we don't get involved in politics or religion. I don't know what the problem is with people there.
"I asked somebody the other day 'have they decided who shot that plane down?' Nobody seems to know do they, so what's the link [with Russia]?
"In England for example, the guns and things that we've been sending to people that have been used, we're responsible? Doesn't sound right does it?
"If I'm in the business of producing knives and somebody buys a knife and stabs somebody, it's a bit difficult to say that because I produced the knife, I'm guilty."
This year, Ecclestone controversially introduced double-points to the last race of the season in Abu Dhabi, but now says he would have liked to have had double points for the last three races.
He added: "I think it's pretty obvious one of the two Mercedes drivers will win the Championship and Mercedes will win the constructors' championship, whereas if we'd had double points for the last three races, today you wouldn't like to say what would happen."
Officers were alerted by diners at Pizza Hut in the town's Central Retail Park after the girl, who was about two years old, was shaken and dragged along the ground by the woman on Friday 6 February.
Police said they were "extremely concerned" for the child's welfare.
Officers have appealed for witnesses.
The incident occurred at about 15:00 when the girl, who was attached to reins and pushing a toy pram, was at the restaurant with the woman and a man.
The girl appeared to be upset and was dragged towards the exit by the reins by the woman. The woman then picked up the girl and shook her, before setting her down and dragging her again by the reins out of the restaurant.
The group left in the direction of Grahams Road, and were last seen at a bus stop opposite Forth Valley Royal Hospital.
The woman is described as being white, in her thirties, of heavy build with red hair.
At the time of the incident, she was wearing a dark jacket and blue jeans.
Insp Billy Drummond of Forth Valley Division said: "I'd like to thank the numerous witnesses that have already come forward and urge anyone who recognises the woman in the CCTV images to contact police."
Police were called to Frenchman's Way at about 01:00 BST to reports of a man in the street with a handgun.
The man, named locally as James Wilson, was shot once in the chest and taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
Investigators said a "non-police weapon" had been recovered from the scene.
A witness said she heard Northumbria Police officers shout "put the gun down" before they fired.
The force has referred the incident to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
A spokesman for the IPCC said: "A 24-year-old man sustained an injury to his chest and is in a critical, but stable condition in the Royal Victoria Infirmary. A non-police weapon has been recovered from the scene.
"Following notification of the incident by Northumbria Police, IPCC investigators travelled to the North East to supervise post incident procedures for the police officers involved as well taking control of the scene of the shooting."
A man who did not give his name said his girlfriend heard police shout "put the gun down", and she heard a bang, which she thought was a firecracker at first.
The man said: "I came out and there were police with guns walking up and down in body armour, like they were securing the area.
"I thought they were looking for a gunman.
"Police were working on the man for about 10 minutes, giving him oxygen. Then they let the ambulance in and after about five minutes they took him to hospital."
A Northumbria Police spokesman said: "Armed officers attended and made contact with the man, during which the man was shot by police.
"A section of Frenchman's Way has been cordoned off while inquiries into the incident are carried out."
His reworking of Batman - the Dark Knight trilogy - has also earned him a popular fanbase. The British film-maker seems to be able to do no wrong in Hollywood so can his latest release Interstellar help him sustain that lofty status?
Interstellar is a three-hour space epic, set both in distant galaxies and on a devastated Earth.
It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and a Nolan regular, Sir Michael Caine, marking the sixth time the pair have worked together.
As Hollywood's most commercially successful director since Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, Nolan, whose production company Syncopy is still based in Britain, was handed a budget of £100m to make Interstellar - with almost no studio input into the final product.
As on past productions, the director co-wrote the original screenplay with his brother Jonathan, and produced it with his wife Emma Thomas.
Anne Hathaway, who also worked with Nolan on 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, says "this is treatment that very few directors receive these days. But Chris Nolan, to me, is the perfect marriage of blockbuster and independent film-making.
"There was a large amount of money behind us, but there was no waste. Every choice that was made was intelligently and carefully considered by Chris and Emma.
"There were no extra frills, we all had to share trailers, and nobody got luxury accommodation when we went to shoot on location in Iceland.
"Chris has his own way of doing things, there's no green screen, he builds sets instead; he prefers to shoot on IMAX film and doesn't care for digital; but every dollar he's given ends up on screen.
"In the end, we wrapped on Interstellar two weeks early and I believe he came in under budget. Who else does that?"
McConaughey, who won the best actor Oscar earlier this year for The Dallas Buyers Club, says Nolan's independent film-making background has stood him in good stead.
Before he was chosen to make Batman Begins in 2005, the director, who studied film in London in the 1990s, made indie cult hits such as 1998's Following and Memento in 2000.
His first film that was studio funded was 2002's Insomnia, a thriller starring Al Pacino and Robin Williams.
"He's earned his stripes and he knows how to deliver bang for his buck," says McConaughey. "It's a rare skill.
"I'd say Christopher has a healthy ego and an incredibly ambitious mind. His reach is always exceeding his grasp and he gets obsessed with every film he does, like it's the only one he'll ever do. It's wonderful to see."
Nolan's mass appeal seems more extraordinary given the difficult subjects he tackles - and in Interstellar, they involve complicated astrophysics.
When the earth is devastated by an agricultural crisis, the last spaceships are used to find new habitats for humankind, after a wormhole is discovered which allows different dimensions of time and space to be explored.
McConaughey's character Cooper must choose between his mission to save the planet and missing his two children growing up.
The director, who rarely gives interviews, has described Interstellar's main theme as "the relationship between a father and his children.
"It's all about being a father to me, and what it means to be one - I have four children. I just like to contrast it with the cosmic scale of the universe around us".
McConaughey says "the film manages to be deeply personal, despite its grandeur" but admits he still grapples with concepts like relativity, gravity, five dimensional time, wormholes and black holes - terms which pepper nearly all his lines.
"I am a complete beginner at this," he says.
"I wouldn't dare to describe myself as an intermediate, even after shooting the movie.
"But Chris's worlds are very original and it's not just abstract theories that he's coming up with, they are based on scientific fact. It's not condescending to audiences."
Jessica Chastain, who plays an astrophysics genius in the movie, admits her ignorance too of the concepts she speaks of, and calls Nolan "one of those people that if you have a conversation with him, you feel inadequate - he knows so much".
Reviewers have noted the complexity of Interstellar, and compared it - mainly favourably - to another hit set in space, Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar-winning Gravity, released a year ago.
McConaughey says, despite its complexities, working on Interstellar "has made me think that the backyard is bigger than I thought it was. Chris has made me more curious about the practicalities of heading out into space, and what's out there. I look up a lot more now".
Michael Caine has different opinions: "I'd do anything for Chris," he says. " I'll work with him on any project he wants me to, it's literally a family atmosphere on set. But I won't actually ever contemplate going into space for him. I prefer gardening."
Interstellar is released in the UK on 7 November.
But Spurs failed with a late move for Porto's Portugal international midfielder Joao Moutinho, 25.
The one question mark surrounds his size. Although tall at 6ft 2in, he has a slender build and some feel that might hinder him in the fast and physical Premier League. Lloris's talent is not in question, however, and like most people in France, I believe Spurs have just pulled off one of the coups of the summer.
Spurs agreed a £6m fee for Dempsey on Friday evening and quickly completed the signing of the American.
Lloris, 25, has signed a four-year deal after joining from Lyon for a fee that could reach £11.8m.
Fulham rejected a bid for Dempsey from Liverpool and the 29-year-old also turned down a move to Aston Villa on Friday morning.
Dempsey, who scored 50 goals for Fulham in 184 league appearances, cost the Cottagers a reported £1.5m when he joined them from American club New England Revolution in January 2007.
"To play under this head coach [Andre Villas-Boas] and play for this club is a dream come true. I want to make the most of it," Dempsey said.
"There are a lot of great players here, I'm looking forward to training and playing with them."
Lyon will receive a guaranteed £7.8m for Lloris and will also get 20% of any profit Tottenham make on his sale.
Lloris has 38 caps for France and spent five years with Lyon after joining from Nice in 2008.
He is set to compete with veteran Brad Friedel to be Tottenham's first-choice goalkeeper.
It is understood they were working beyond the deadline to secure a deal for Moutinho but gave up shortly after midnight.
Meanwhile, 19-year-old striker Harry Kane has joined Norwich City on a season-long loan deal.
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Ten others were wounded, one seriously, in the attack at a flag-raising ceremony at the Bouchoucha barracks.
The man had family and psychological issues and was "forbidden from carrying arms", said ministry spokesman Belhassen Oueslati.
He described the incident as an "isolated act, not a terrorist act".
There would be an investigation to try to determine the killer's motives, he added.
Mr Ouselati said the soldier attacked one man with a knife before taking the victim's gun and "shooting at his comrades".
Tunisian security forces have been on alert since Islamist gunmen attacked the Bardo Museum in March, killing 21 tourists.
The shooting at the barracks, which is close to the museum and the parliament building, prompted the evacuation of a nearby school.
Police reinforcements were sent to the area to comb nearby streets, while a helicopter hovered overhead.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said on national radio that there was no gunfire outside the barracks.
Officers are investigating claims a number of individuals have been linked to the financing of Kurdish militia.
The probe is reportedly being centred on the PKK, known as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is based in Turkey and Iraq.
Police said they have carried out a number of raids as part of the inquiry.
The investigation is examining allegations of fraud and immigration offences.
The PKK has led an armed struggle against the Turkish government on and off for the past 30 years and is considered a terrorist organisation by the UK.
A senior anti-terror officer has reassured the Scottish public that no-one was in danger at any time.
Det Ch Sup Gerry McLean, head of the Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "As part of a police investigation along with partner agencies, we executed a number of search warrants in relation to financial investigation and suspected fraud.
"Matters have now been reported to the procurator fiscal, and as such it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.
"I would like to reassure the public that there was no danger to them at any time."
The Herald newspaper reported on Saturday that a formal written briefing has been issued by Police Scotland to the Scottish Police Authority, outlining the investigation so far.
The letter states: "Elite organised crime and the counter terrorism units are leading a multi-agency investigation into individuals assessed to be fundraising for a proscribed terrorist organisation.
"Executive action in collaboration with several partnership agencies was conducted in the east of Scotland.
"Locations were searched under the Customs and Excise Management Act, Common Law Fraud and the Terrorism Act.
"Subsequent investigation identified additional immigration act offences, with a significant sum of money potentially eligible for Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation.
"This operation has provided investigative opportunities to allow continued collaboration with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, Trading Standards and Home Office Immigration Enforcement."
A report has now been sent to the procurator fiscal to assess whether to charge the individuals identified by the police.
The find made on Orkney's east mainland coast earlier this year has just now been announced.
Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (Orca) with support from Historic Environment Scotland rescued the relic.
Known as a Pictish cross slab, it is only the third stone of this type to be found on the islands.
Archaeologists believe it dates from the 8th Century and provides an insight into the early Christian period on Orkney.
It could be about 1,300 years old and from a time in Scotland's past that is largely a mystery to archaeologists and historians.
Ornately decorated Pictish stones are most commonly associated with parts of the Scottish Highlands and Aberdeenshire.
Famous examples include the Rhynie Man, a 1.8m (6ft) high stone found in the 1970s near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and the Knocknagael Boar Stone from a site on the outskirts of Inverness.
Archaeologists said the Orkney stone has an weathered but "exquisite design".
It has an intricately carved cross flanked by the dragon, or beast, and on the reverse side another Pictish beast design stared out from the stone face, with beak open grasping what could be the remains of a staff.
The discovery was made by Orkney-based archaeologist Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark following a storm.
Nick Card, senior projects manager at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute's Orca, said: "Carved Pictish cross slabs are rare across Scotland with only two having been discovered in Orkney.
"This is therefore a significant find and allows us to examine a piece of art from a period when Orkney society was beginning to embrace Christianity.
"Now that the piece is recorded and removed from site, we can concentrate on conserving the delicate stone carving and perhaps re-evaluate the site itself."
The excavation of the Pictish stone was undertaken with funding from the Historic Environment Scotland Archaeology Programme.
The stone is now scheduled for conservation and possible display at a future date.
Police were called to investigate the sudden death of Patrick Dowds, a man in his 60s, on the farm in Toulett, near Burt, in County Donegal on Wednesday.
It is understood he was attacked by the bull as he was inspecting fields.
His twin brother, George, who lived with him on the farm, was taken to Letterkenny General Hospital.
Charlie Doherty, a friend of the Dowds and a neighbouring farmer, said Patrick had gone out to feed the cattle as normal but had not returned home.
It was then that his brother George alerted some neighbours and they went to look for him.
"They seen the nuts used to feed the cattle and the bucket was still there, and not realising that the bull had killed Patrick they went into the field and the bull attacked George," said Charlie.
"The bull threw George into the air and had him on the ground.
"He rolled away from him and then the neighbours' shouting distracted the bull so George was able to get away to safety."
Mr Doherty said the whole community was in shock
"Patrick would be a very happy-go-lucky fella, he was always up for the craic and the banter," he said.
"It's really sad to hear it. It's just a real tragedy and I know the community will rally round and help the family but it's a real shock.
"Both of them lived together, they were single men living at the home farm.
"This is a real farming area and this just shows what a dangerous job it can be. Patrick went out like he went out every other day, thinking he'd come home."
The Donegal Chairman of the Irish Farmers Association, Michael Chance, who knows the family, said it was a tragic accident.
"The man went out yesterday to look at his cattle and, sadly, it appears the bull turned on him with tragic consequences," he said.
"Certain breeds of bulls are considered dangerous. This was a Charolais bull which would normally be considered one of the more docile breeds, but any bull can turn nasty.
"It's just very sad. He was a man who was very well liked by his neighbours and his life revolved around his farm."
The big transnational party groups in the EU have nominated their candidates to run the Commission. But later this year the EU governments will have their say - and could well come up with a different shortlist.
The mandate of Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso expires in November.
The biggest TV debate was on 15 May, hosted by the European Broadcasting Union. It was shown on 49 TV channels and in 24 languages. The debates are part of the political campaigning ahead of the 22-25 May European elections.
So who are the candidates?
Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg) - centre-right European People's Party (EPP)
From 1995 to 2013 Mr Juncker was Prime Minister of Luxembourg - a record tenure for a prime minister in the EU.
He is a veteran of EU politics - and of the eurozone crisis. He chaired the Eurogroup, the eurozone finance ministers who had to make tough decisions about struggling debt-laden countries, notably Greece, Cyprus, Ireland and Portugal.
He is an ardent believer in EU integration - many call him a "federalist". He played a big role in the launch of the euro.
He has defended EU subsidies for farmers, one of the EU's biggest budget areas, saying agriculture employs 30 million Europeans.
He also wants the EU to reach a free trade deal with the US, saying it will bring huge benefits to Europe.
Born in 1954, he grew up in a Europe still struggling to rebuild after World War II. He supports the EU's social justice agenda, wary of allowing the free market to dictate policy.
Commentators say he would be a strong contender for European Council President, if a different EPP candidate emerges for the top Commission job.
Martin Schulz (Germany) - centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D)
Like Mr Juncker, the outgoing president of the European Parliament is committed to deeper EU integration.
Martin Schulz was born near Aachen in 1955 - a region at the heart of the European project. In his youth he worked as a bookseller and then rose through the ranks of the German Social Democrats (SPD).
Injury dashed his hopes of becoming a professional footballer, but he was elected to the European Parliament in 1994.
In 2003 he famously clashed in the parliament with former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who compared him to a Nazi concentration camp guard. The row escalated into frosty relations between Germany and Italy.
Mr Schulz has championed human rights, reform of financial markets and greater efforts to promote growth in the EU, away from austerity.
In the 15 May TV debate he praised the euro for having delivered record low inflation in Europe. Many economists however consider very low inflation - as in the EU currently - to be a mixed blessing.
Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium) - liberals (ALDE)
Born in 1953, Guy Verhofstadt is a standard-bearer for federalists in the EU.
He served as Belgian prime minister in 1999-2008. Before that he held various posts in Flemish politics and used to hold more neo-liberal or "Thatcherite" views.
During the eurozone crisis he has urged the European Commission to take bolder action, exercise economic governance and steer the member states closer together. He advocates a European Monetary Fund and issuance of common "eurobonds" to bridge the gulf between the EU's debtors and lenders.
The EU needs more cohesion, he argues, because it faces fierce competition from the US, China, India and other powers in the global economy.
In the 15 May TV debate he deplored the fact that the EU had taken in far fewer Syrian refugees than Syria's Middle Eastern neighbours.
In 2004 his name was put forward as a possible Commission president, but the job was given to Mr Barroso. The UK was among the countries which blocked Mr Verhofstadt's bid.
Ska Keller (Germany) - Greens
A rising star in the Green movement, Ska Keller is by far the youngest candidate for the Commission presidency.
She took part in the two biggest TV debates - on 28 April and 15 May - but the Greens actually have two nominees for the presidency - the other is veteran French farmers' champion Jose Bove.
Aged 32, Ms Keller was born in former East Germany, near the Polish border.
She was elected an MEP in 2009 and has specialised in issues affecting migrants, youth unemployment and fair trade.
She got loud applause in the Brussels hall on 15 May when she criticised bankers' behaviour. In general she appeared to have strong support in the audience, and got cheers on several occasions.
She also condemned arms deals between some EU countries and Russia - despite the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea. France has not halted its sale of two new warships to Russia.
And she deplored the fact that the EU loses about 1tn euros (£811bn; $1.3tn) annually through tax evasion - about 8% of total EU GDP. Her statement was derived from official estimates.
Alexis Tsipras (Greece) - European Left
The leader of Greece's main opposition bloc - Syriza - heads a broad coalition of left-wing European parties in next month's elections.
A swing to the left in the elections could put him in a strong bargaining position vis-a-vis the S&D bloc - and that could boost the chances of Martin Schulz.
Syriza stormed to second place in the Greek elections in 2012, as many voters abandoned the traditional parties in anger at the economic meltdown and massive job losses.
Born in Athens in 1974, Mr Tsipras trained as a civil engineer and was a communist in the 1980s.
He opposed the bailout terms imposed on Greece by its international creditors. He wants public services nationalised and blames free market policies for the hardship suffered by millions of Greeks.
In the 15 May debate he denounced "catastrophic austerity policies". He said what had happened in Greece was "not a success story but a social tragedy that shouldn't be repeated anywhere in Europe".
The 91,000-sq ft Moneypenny development at Western Gateway includes a treehouse meeting room, its own village pub and a sun terrace.
Outside there are nature trails, a duck pond and orchards.
The telephone answering service plans to create 500 new jobs over the next few years and hopes to double its client base by 2018.
Co-founder and director Ed Reeves said: "What we believe is simple: the happier our staff, the happier our clients.
"We provided our architects with the same budget we'd been quoted to build a standard office and said 'right, show us how we can create something amazing'.
"It was a challenge, but we ripped up the rulebook and that's exactly what they did."
On Friday, Mr Duncan Smith said he was quitting as work and pensions secretary in protest at disability benefits cuts.
But Lady Altmann, who described her ex-boss as "exceptionally difficult" to work for, accused him of wanting "to do maximum damage to the party leadership" to help his campaign to leave the EU.
Sources close to Mr Duncan Smith insist his resignation was not about the EU.
Mr Duncan Smith is due to give his first interview since resigning on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show at 09:00 GMT. Stephen Crabb was appointed as Mr Duncan Smith's replacement on Saturday.
In his resignation letter, which many commentators have interpreted as an attack on Chancellor George Osborne, Mr Duncan Smith said the latest changes to benefits for the disabled were "not defensible in the way they were placed within a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers".
But Lady Altmann said she was "shocked" by the resignation saying her former boss had "championed the very package of reforms to disability benefits he now says is the reason he has resigned".
In a statement, Lady Altmann said: "This really seems to be about the European referendum campaign.
"He seems to want to do maximum damage to the party leadership in order to further his campaign to try to get Britain to leave the EU.
"As far as I could tell, he appeared to spend much of the last few months plotting over Europe and against the leadership of the party and it seemed to me he had been planning to find a reason to resign for a long time."
She also said she had found him "exceptionally difficult" to work for and said he had "often been obstructive to my efforts to resolve important pension policy issues".
But another of Mr Duncan Smith's junior ministers, employment minister Priti Patel, praised Mr Duncan Smith as a "great social reformer".
"Since coming to office in 2010, he has made a real difference to the life chances of people throughout the country by reforming the welfare system to ensure that work always pays," she said.
And Justice Secretary Michael Gove, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, called Mr Duncan Smith "an inspirational social reformer" who has been "guided throughout by a clear sense of noble moral purpose".
However, Mr Gove, who like Ms Patel and Mr Duncan Smith, is campaigning for the UK to leave the EU, wrote that a "united and resolute government" was needed.
He wrote that he also "hugely" admired Mr Osborne and said that "I can't - and won't - take issue with either of them in the areas they've championed and led".
In his Budget on Wednesday, Mr Osborne said the government would be spending an extra £1bn on the disability budget but changes to benefits announced a few days earlier had suggested the government would save £4.4bn on this by 2020-21.
They included changes to Personal Independence Payments (PIP), due to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in January 2017, that were expected to save £1.3bn a year, but sparked an outcry from opposition parties and some Tory MPs.
But on Friday, before Mr Duncan Smith resigned, a government source had said the planned changes would be "kicked into the long grass".
Replying to Mr Duncan Smith on Friday, David Cameron said he was "puzzled and disappointed" that Mr Duncan Smith had decided to go when they had agreed to have a rethink about the policies.
More than 6,600 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean in 2015 and the first half of this year.
But a report by UK academics warns that most bodies remain unidentified and their families are left not knowing if missing relatives are dead or alive.
This is an "invisible catastrophe", said report author Dr Simon Robins.
"This is devastating for their families back home," said Dr Robins, senior research fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York.
"They likened it to a form of torture where they are caught between hope and despair, not knowing whether they would ever see their loved one again, not knowing if they should give up hope and focus on the rest of their lives.
"More than anything these people want to know if their loved one is alive or dead. If they are dead, they want to bring their relative home and have them buried visibly in their community."
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Researchers from the Mediterranean Missing Project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, spent a year in Italy and Greece examining how information about dead migrants was gathered.
Dr Robins says that only a minority of the bodies are identified - and many more migrants will have been lost and never found at sea.
When bodies are identified it is usually by relatives coming to where bodies are kept before burial, he says.
This means families without any way of travelling to Europe might never get the chance to see if their loved ones are among the bodies which have washed up.
The report, from the University of York, City University London and the International Organisation for Migration, calls for a more systematic approach to gathering data about those who have drowned.
Interviews with families from Syria, Iraq and Tunisia with missing relatives:
Dr Robins said researchers saw personal objects - such as credit cards, watches and even a passport - that had washed ashore on beaches but had not been gathered to help identify those who might have been lost in the Mediterranean.
Local authorities have been "overwhelmed" by the tide of migration, says the report, and this has put pressure on attempts to identify the dead and inform their relatives.
"There is a policy vacuum around the problem, marked by minimal co-operation among different state agencies, a lack of effective investigation, and little effort to contact the families of the missing," says the report.
In Italy, there has been a special commissioner for missing persons created, which, Dr Robins says, has been very effective in investigating shipwrecks.
But Dr Robins says this work does not extend far enough and that in Greece there is even greater need for a more co-ordinated approach.
There have been efforts to gather DNA material from those who have drowned, but Dr Robins says this needs to be more systematic, so that families would be able to seek a match for a lost relative.
The wave of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean is still continuing, with 6,500 rescued on Monday between Libya and Italy.
The report also calls for a more thorough approach to interviewing survivors rescued from the Mediterranean, who might know the identities of those who have drowned.
The lack of centralised information means there is no straightforward point of contact for families looking for lost relatives.
Dr Robins says there needs to be a much greater effort to find these families, who have been "marginalised" by the lack of information.
These families are the hidden victims of the migration crisis, says the report.
Researchers interviewed 84 families from Syria, Iraq and Tunisia whose relatives disappeared trying to cross the Mediterranean and who are "living every day with uncertainty".
Without any confirmation of death, families face a traumatic wait, with some believing relatives are still alive and being kept in detention, unable to make contact.
Without any official information, they rely on scraps of news brought back from people who had travelled with their missing relative, or from people smugglers.
"There is a huge emptiness," said one of the families interviewed.
He enjoyed a 50% success record in the group stage, correctly guessing the outcome of 24 of the 48 games.
The only group he failed to get a single correct result in was Group D, which was surprisingly won by Costa Rica as England finished bottom.
Before the tournament, Lawro chose 11 out of the 16 teams that are through to the first knockout stage, including Argentina - his pick to win the World Cup on 13 July.
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Saturday, 28 June
Brazil 1-1 Chile (Brazil win 3-2 on pens)
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
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Colombia 2-0 Uruguay
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
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Sunday, 29 June
Netherlands 2-1 Mexico
Lawro's prediction: 1-0
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Costa Rica 1-1 Greece (Costa Rica win 5-3 on pens)
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
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Monday, 30 June
France 2-0 Nigeria
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
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Tuesday, 1 July
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (Belgium to win on penalties)
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A pitch invasion took place after Hibs beat Rangers 3-2 on 21 May.
The clubs are alleged to have breached disciplinary rule 311, which states "damage was sustained to Hampden... as a consequence of misbehaviour by supporters".
They have until 6 September to respond to the notices of complaint.
Principal hearing dates have been set for Hibs on 4 October and Rangers on 5 October.
The compliance officer looked at the cup final incidents after the publication of Sheriff Principal Edward Bowen's independent report into the day's events.
The SFA requested that report following the pitch invasion which occurred after the match. The report, published earlier this month, concluded that the Scottish government should consider making it a criminal offence to run on to a football pitch.
Fans entered the pitch at Hampden after Hibernian won their first Scottish Cup in 114 years.
Thousands of Hibs fans jumped the barriers at the final whistle and a number of Rangers fans also came on to the pitch.
The pitch invasion delayed the presentation of the trophy and there was no lap of honour by Hibs players.
Rangers players were not able to pick up their cup final medals.
McInnes, 45, is among those being considered as a replacement for David Moyes at Sunderland.
"It's been five fabulous years under Derek," Miller told BBC Scotland. "He has brought good times to the club.
"If you are a player or a manager doing well at Aberdeen, then you're going to attract attention."
Aberdeen have finished as Premiership runners-up to Celtic for three years running and lost out to the champions in both of this season's cup finals.
McInnes, formerly in charge of St Johnstone and Bristol City, arrived in March 2013 and is under contract until 2019.
"If Derek decides to go then you have to respect that decision," added Miller, a former Dons captain and manager.
"The lure of a move south is huge. Sunderland would be a challenge and English clubs don't come calling very often. If a club comes in, then he has to consider it.
"But I'm like other Aberdeen fans in that I hope he stays because he has done a fantastic job."
McInnes won the League Cup in 2014, the club's first trophy since 1995, and Aberdeen pushed Celtic all the way in Saturday's Scottish Cup final before losing out to a Tom Rogic goal in stoppage time.
Following the 2-1 defeat at Hampden, McInnes was full of praise for his team, while lamenting the financial gulf between the sides and the imminent loss of some key players.
Miller spent three years as manager at Pittodrie and can share a similar frustration, having finished second in every competition to Rangers in 1992-93.
"The club has worked hard to get debt free and they have to stay stable," said Miller on the topic of spending power.
"They are in position where they have a little room for manoeuvre and they have obviously supported Derek.
"But it's a big ask. There is a huge financial gap to Celtic and that isn't going to change.
"Aberdeen are in a good position going forward to keep themselves at the top end of the game in Scotland."
Many were surprised by McInnes' decision to omit top scorer Adam Rooney at Hampden but Miller, who won four Scottish Cups during his time as captain, was impressed by his old club's approach.
"I thought his tactics were perfect," he said. "He was very close to getting the perfect day for the fans.
"The players and supporters will be disappointed they did not lift the cup but they can be more than happy with their performance.
"It was an outstanding game of football, a great occasion. I think most commentators thought it was going to be a stroll in the park for Celtic but it certainly wasn't that.
"It was on a knife-edge right until the Rogic goal.
"Joe Lewis was magnificent in goal but they just couldn't last. They had put so much into it and the tank was getting empty towards the end."
Aberystwyth University is discussing proposals for five scholarships, and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David said it had made commitments for a similar scheme.
Cardiff University already offers financial help to asylum seekers.
Mohammed Al Hadj Ali, chairman of the Syrian Welsh Society, said it was "very difficult" for people fleeing war to continue their studies in Wales.
"Medical students do not have very many options when you are trying to get funding for a very expensive course, £25,000 per year for fees and living costs, it's not affordable for someone who can't even apply for a student loan," he told BBC Wales.
Aberystwyth University has held discussions with the British Council, the UK HE International Unit and Universities UK over the scholarships.
It will draw up detailed plans including financial implications over the coming academic year.
Cardiff University does not have a cap on how many refugees it will fund, subject to a budget of about £80,000 over four years.
Applicants must be able to prove they are an asylum seeker or the child of an asylum seeker.
Bangor University said it has a number of scholarships aimed at international students and can provide extra support in exceptional circumstances.
Glyndwr University in Wrexham said it had no plans to provide scholarships.
Swansea University said it was not offering any particular scholarships to refugees but that does not stop individuals from applying for any already on offer.
Cardiff Metropolitan University and the University of South Wales have been asked what their plans are.
All 22 Welsh councils have pledged to take in refugees fleeing civil war in Syria. About 78 Syrians have been resettled so far.
Mohammad Haji-Saleh arrived in Wales as a refugee last year and has been living in Cardiff for a year. He had to leave his medical studies in Syria.
"I have passed the first two years [in Syria], I have applied for many universities but it is difficult. I'm still trying to continue my studies," he said.
Dr Al Hadj Ali said finance was not the only barrier for students forced to abandon their studies when fleeing their country.
"Some of them are requested to provide documents which they could not get when they had to flee Syria," he said.
"And some universities do not accept you on a course if you have been on a similar course somewhere else.
"They had to flee a war zone, they did not have too many options, it's not like a student in Bangor applying for Cardiff because they have been fired from their course, so they should be treated in a different way."
He said students can apply to observe at universities and become engaged more quickly in academia in the UK that way.
A court in Cairo found Australia's Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed guilty of spreading false news.
The trio had denied the charges and are expected to appeal.
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday he would not "interfere" with the judiciary which he described as independent.
Earlier, Australian FM Julie Bishop told the BBC Canberra would work with the Egyptian government to try to secure Mr Greste's release "as soon as possible".
"We support Egypt's transition to democracy, but that also includes freedom of speech and press."
Ms Bishop also ruled out imposing sanctions on Egypt, saying it was "not helpful at this stage".
The father of Mr Greste told reporters in Brisbane that the family was "devastated" and "shocked" by the verdict.
"This is a very dark time, not only for our family but for journalism generally," Juris Greste said, describing the ruling as a "slap in the face" to "all fair-minded people around the world".
"Journalism is not a crime, or you should all be behind bars,'' he added.
But Mr Greste's parents were reluctant to criticise the Egyptian judicial system, reports the BBC's Jon Donnison in Sydney, aware that might hinder the ongoing diplomatic efforts to put pressure on the Egyptian government.
Hopes are now pinned on the possibility of a pardon from Egyptian President Sisi, our correspondent says.
BBC staff were joined by colleagues from other news organisations in a one-minute silent protest outside New Broadcasting House in London.
The protest took place at 09:41 BST (08:41 GMT) - exactly 24 hours after the sentencing in Cairo on Monday.
"The case is unjust," the BBC's News Director James Harding told the gathering.
He added that journalists around the world "have to stand together" for reporters being imprisoned for simply doing their job.
Mr Harding added that journalists would be sending a letter to the Egyptian president, calling him to intervene.
The jail terms handed out to the three journalists accused of supporting Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood led to an international outcry.
The White House said that jailing journalists because their reporting did not fit the government "narrative" was "a blow to democratic progress in Egypt".
BBC Director of News James Harding said the BBC, alongside other news organisations, would be submitting a letter to the Egyptian president asking him to address "this injustice".
The BBC's Bethany Bell in Cairo says that while the case has been condemned around the world, it has been presented differently by the Egyptian media.
Al-Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, was banned from operating inside Egypt after being accused of broadcasting reports sympathetic to former President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Jazeera has consistently denied the allegations.
Human rights group Amnesty said the trial was a "vindictive farce" and part of the "ongoing row" between Egypt and Qatar, which backs the Muslim Brotherhood.
Who are the al-Jazeera journalists on trial in Egypt?
Eleven defendants tried in absentia, including three foreign journalists, received 10-year sentences. Two of the journalists convicted in absentia are British.
In a statement, al-Jazeera English's managing director Al Anstey said the sentence "defies logic, sense, and any semblance of justice".
Needing a good result to close the worryingly large championship gap to Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton's victory and the German's seventh place meant a 19-point swing in the Mercedes driver's favour.
Criticised in some sections of the media for the way he had prepared - being the only driver to snub a high-profile event in London - Hamilton dominated the entire weekend, taking pole by more than half a second and driving away into a race of his own.
Keen to expand his ever-growing statistical achievements, he took his 67th pole position - only one short of Michael Schumacher's all-time record - and equalled legends Jim Clark and Alain Prost's tally of five British Grand Prix victories.
But the underlying message of the weekend might be even better for Hamilton than that.
The reduction in his points deficit may have come about because of a degree of fortune, but it reflects what appears to be a growing trend in performance towards Mercedes as one of the closest seasons in years reached its halfway point.
After the race, Hamilton was asked why he was so strong at Silverstone. "Because I own it," he replied, before breaking out into laughter.
He was joking, but you know what they say about words said in jest. Certainly at no point during the three days of track action at Silverstone did it look as if Hamilton was in any danger of losing this race.
Team-mate Valtteri Bottas was fastest in both Friday practice sessions, but in both cases there were extenuating circumstances and the underlying performance suggested Hamilton was on top.
On Saturday he proved it, with a spectacular qualifying lap, more than half a second clear of anyone else and three-quarters of a second quicker than the Finn. The fastest Ferrari - of Kimi Raikkonen - was 0.547secs adrift, despite an engine upgrade for this weekend.
And in the race, Hamilton was in a league of his own. He measured his pace in the first 15 laps or so but then he put the hammer down, pulling away from Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen at a second a lap.
That advantage was clearly there when he needed it, or chose to use it - and his fastest lap was 0.9secs quicker than Raikkonen's, both set in the closing stages of the race.
Bottas' pace in the race, with a strong driver from ninth on the grid to finish second, underlined Mercedes' superiority around the fast sweeps of this classic track.
It was almost certainly Mercedes' most dominant performance of the year, but it reflects a wider development over the last few races.
Hamilton had lost ground to Vettel over the preceding two races and came to his home race 20 points behind the German. But those results came against the run of play.
Had it not been for a loose head rest in Baku, Hamilton would have won three of the last four races. Who knows, had a gearbox problem not led to a grid penalty and a disrupted weekend in Austria a week before Silverstone, he might have taken pole and won there, too.
The turning point was Monaco at the end of May, where Mercedes had their second bad weekend in three. A lot of work went in after that to find set-ups that were more effective at creating an even balance, and therefore working the tyres in an optimum way.
Vettel reminded everyone after the race of the immense progress Ferrari had made after a winless 2016, but he admitted he sees signs for concern.
"This year we have been, for the majority of the year, a match," the four-time champion said. "It has been probably true that in the last couple of races, Mercedes have been stronger but the real game changer is qualifying.
"They are able to turn up the engine. They are gaining 0.6secs on the straights. Baku it was 0.7secs, Austria it was 0.5secs. We need to be fair with that. That is something we can't do. We are working on it but it doesn't happen overnight.
"If you have the cars in front for the first lap, the race looks different. The car has been fantastic. There is no reason to panic or to worry. But for sure we need to be aware. There are a couple of advantages we need to work on and then it could be a different picture."
Vettel pointed out that Ferrari were "10km/h faster through Copse [corner] than Mercedes" in qualifying but admitted: "That's one corner. There are a lot of other corners. I think we are on the right track. Our car is good, our car is strong, especially on Sunday. We need to make sure we step it up on Saturday and then Sundays look different."
Vettel is right to pin-point qualifying, as a dig into the raw numbers reveals. In the first four races of the season, Mercedes had an average one-lap performance advantage over Ferrari of 0.141 seconds. Now, that number is 0.296secs. And taking the four races since Monaco on their own, it is a whopping 0.530secs.
If that trend continues at a twisty Hungary in two weeks' time, Ferrari have a problem.
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Inevitably, attention was focused on Hamilton throughout the Silverstone weekend and not always in a good way.
His decision not to attend last Wednesday's F1 promotional event in London drew a lot of criticism in the newspapers, and there was the usual Hamilton-focused feeding frenzy of media speculation over any British GP weekend. The drip-drip of what Mercedes perceived as negativity began to get on senior figures' nerves and one story claiming Hamilton was interested in a move to Ferrari particularly annoyed the team.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said that questioning the way Hamilton chose to prepare for a race weekend was "an insult" given his record, and said he was always comfortable with his lead driver missing the London event, even though they had "flagged the risks".
As for Hamilton's future? Well, he was not exactly clear on his plans immediately after the race.
Initially, he said: "I'm still enjoying it and I still have a contract with the team for at least a year so I plan to see that out at the moment."
A couple of hours later, he said: "Contract and stuff… well, I can't really say what's going to happen six months from now but all I do know is I am loving racing and I really do feel I am driving better than I have ever driven.
"I know that right now I am at my best and I want to stay there.
"In life, you don't know what's going to happen. Right now, I love driving. You could say - its very unlikely, because I think I am always going to like driving and doing crazy stuff - but I'm just saying you don't know what frame of mind I will be in come Christmas time.
"But hopefully it's a really good one with a fourth title. And even in getting another championship, it would never be a case of: 'Oh no, it's time to hang up my gloves.' I will always want to win more, even when I do stop something inside me will say I still want to win more.
"But let's just focus at the moment on trying to get that fourth."
This is typical Hamilton - he often contradicts himself, sometimes even within the same answer. And if you can decode what that all means, you are a smarter person than this writer.
The facts are that Hamilton has a contract with Mercedes until the end of 2018, and that he and Mercedes have agreed to wait until the four-week summer break after the next race in Hungary to discuss the future - not that with 18 months remaining on his contract, there is any particular rush.
The impression from those around Hamilton is that he is unlikely to leave Mercedes in the foreseeable future. He is happy in the team, the relationship with Wolff is strong after some frank and open discussions over the winter, and why would he want to leave?
Yes, there is the whole Ferrari legend thing, but Hamilton is very focused on his personal career statistics.
He is two poles away from eclipsing Michael Schumacher's record of 68. He is inching towards the German's win record, too, even if at 91 - with Hamilton on 57 - beating it is a tall order.
The bottom line is that Hamilton wants performance, and the best place to get that at the moment remains Mercedes.
The irony of the focus on Hamilton - inevitable as it might have been - is that the key to the driver market this summer is actually Vettel.
He is the one out of contract at the end of the year - along with his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen and Bottas.
Vettel is highly likely to stay at Ferrari. And if he stays there, as one insider put it, "would Lewis go there, and would they fork out $80m?" The same point, of course, applies to the likelihood of Vettel going to Mercedes.
The only chance of that - or indeed of Fernando Alonso finding a place at one of the two top teams - is if Hamilton retires at the end of the year.
In all likelihood, nothing will probably change much in the driver market this year, at least in the top teams, especially with Red Bull insisting both their drivers are tied down for at least another season and will definitely stay.
It is the availability of Daniel Ricciardo at the end of 2018 and Max Verstappen either then or at the end of 2019 (depending on some get-out clauses that exist in the Dutchman's contract) that is making Wolff pause over re-signing Bottas.
"It is almost a no-brainer," Wolff said. "I would just like to put the puzzle together and it is not only about 2018. It is about looking forward in 2019 and '20. There are some opportunities. That's why after Budapest I am going to contemplate on a beach about what's right and wrong for the team."
The wildcard in the driver market is Robert Kubica, who had a second test for Renault last week as he seeks to mount a comeback more than six years after the rally accident that left him gravely injured and with only partial movement in his right arm.
Sources close to Kubica say he is "ready to return at his old level" and that the test went exceptionally well - including proving his ability to turn the car around even the tightest hairpins.
Renault now face a quandary. Do they wait until the Abu Dhabi test at the end of the season to verify his ability to drive a 2017 car - something about which Kubica himself is said to be in no doubt? Or do it in Hungary at the test immediately after the next race?
That decision has not yet been made, it seems. On it, rests a feel-good human interest story of immense proportions - and the potential return to F1 of one of the most talented drivers of his generation in the most remarkable of circumstances.
Survivors and relatives of the 323 crew who died gathered in Buenos Aires to mourn their loss.
President Cristina Fernandez reiterated Argentina's claim to the Falklands, which it calls Las Malvinas.
The Belgrano - a cruiser - was torpedoed by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror on 2 May 1982.
Its sinking remains one of the most controversial actions of the Falklands conflict.
"On days like these, we remember that there is a mission that is not over," Belgrano survivor Admiral Jorge Castro said at the ceremony.
"There are 323 voices calling to us that there is an open wound. Every day they they remind us that the Malvinas are, were and will be Argentine."
President Fernandez used the occasion to repeat her demand for negotiations on sovereignty over the Falklands.
She gave her backing to Argentina's ambassador in London, Alicia Castro, who on Monday asked UK Foreign Secretary William Hague to "give peace a chance" by opening dialogue.
The UK government says it will not discuss the issue without the agreement of the Falkland islanders.
Last month both nations marked the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands conflict, when Argentine forces invaded the British overseas territory.
A total of 255 British servicemen and about 650 Argentines died after the UK sent a task force to regain control.
The General Belgrano was sunk on the orders of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who said it had posed a danger to British ships.
However, the warship was outside the 200-mile maritime exclusion zone Britain had declared around the Falklands and was said to be sailing away from the islands when she was hit. Critics said the action was excessive and scuppered any chance of a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
Argentine and Chilean ships rescued 770 survivors from the sunken vessel.
Jorge Arreaza also said his country was a victim of "fake news" that exaggerated its economic difficulties.
The US accuses President Nicolás Maduro's government of violating human rights and subverting democracy.
President Trump's order bans trade in Venezuelan debt and blocks its state oil firm from selling bonds in the US.
Mr Arreaza said that the sanctions and "threats" amounted to "uncivilised politics".
President Maduro would not attend the UN General Assembly in New York next month, he said.
Announcing the new sanctions, the White House said the "Maduro dictatorship" was denying Venezuelans food and medicine.
It said the controversial new constituent assembly - which has voted to take powers from the opposition-led parliament - amounted to a "fundamental break in Venezuela's legitimate constitutional order".
Earlier this month, the US imposed sanctions on President Maduro and some of his closest aides.
Separately on Friday, National Security Adviser HR McMaster said that the US was not planning military action in Venezuela "in the near future".
President Trump had controversially raised that possibility two weeks ago.
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One in 150 people in Mid-Ulster were found to carry the gene, compared to one in 1,000 in Belfast and one in 2,000 in the rest of the UK.
More than three-quarters of carriers will never develop health issues, but it can cause long-term problems and be potentially life-threatening for those that do.
Scientists hope the work will help find those at risk of passing on the gene.
The gene - called AIP, but known as the "giant gene" - can result in too much growth hormone, which is produced and released by the pituitary gland, a pea-sized gland just below the brain.
The excessive production occurs as the result of a non-cancerous tumour in the gland.
The condition, called acromegaly or gigantism, can be successfully treated with brain surgery and medication.
A screening programme for the gene was undertaken in Magherafelt, Cookstown and Dungannon in 2013.
The genetic mutation has been found in more than 400 people, and at least 15 families in Northern Ireland have been identified as carriers.
Dr Steven Hunter, an endocrinologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, said only 20% of carriers will develop symptoms.
"It can present with tall stature and people growing excessively tall at a young age," he told the BBC.
"It can also cause problems with growth of the hands and feet in older people and it's associated with problems related to headache because of the growing tumour in the brain and affects eyesight as well.
"We've also seen people with other hormonal problems and infertility.
"It can be life-threatening, but in many cases it's disfiguring."
There are effective treatments and the emphasis was on early diagnosis, he said.
The gene caused Charles Byrne, born in 1761 near Cookstown and known as the "Irish giant", to grow more than 7ft 6in (2.3m) tall.
He became an object of curiosity after travelling to London to seek his fortune before his death in 1783.
Geneticists have identified that Mr Byrne and the living carriers of the gene shared a common ancestor who lived about 2,500 years ago.
Brendan Holland, from Dungannon, is 6ft 9in (2.1m) and a distant relative of Byrne.
"It may not please the romantic in some people, but those who are afflicted with this condition probably won't object to the end of this condition," he said.
"I've been lucky, I've actually been cured and had the best treatment available.
"My mother passed the gene to me and she never knew that and many people still to this day are passing the gene on without knowing it."
Belfast clinical genetics consultant Prof Patrick Morrison said most people have the wrong perception of giants, believing they are "very fit and athletic and would make great basketball players".
"It's a miserable life for a giant, actually," he said.
"If you're nearly 7ft (2.1m) in height your heart doesn't work so well, you can have heart failure. Your pituitary gland can cause vision problems, you're actually quite weak.
"Maybe by your mid to late 20s you've a lot of problems and a lot of these giants will die in their late 20s if not treated."
The research into the population screening in Mid Ulster was led by Marta Korbonits, professor of endocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine Queen Mary.
Prof Korbonits discovered the genetic link for the mutation of the Irish giant gene.
The scientists hope that their work will help to identify those at risk of passing on the gene to future generations and will lead to earlier diagnosis.
Officers were called to a house in Coilte Crescent in the Kilmore area of Drumnadrochit.
A 35-year-old man, from London, appeared from custody in private at Inverness Sheriff Court in connection with the incident.
Ali Akguc made no plea or declaration, was committed for further examination and remanded in custody.
However, the deal will come under the scrutiny of regulators.
Nearly 18 years ago, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rejected a merger between the two firms, citing antitrust concerns.
But the market for office supplies has changed significantly since then.
Just over a year ago, the FTC approved Office Depot's merger with Office Max - the other main US office supply chain - citing increased competition.
Sales at all three chains had been declining for some time, as customers used internet retailers such as Amazon, as well as other large supply stores like Walmart and Target, for their office supplies.
Last year, Staples announced it would close 12% of its 1,300 stores in the US.
"This is a transformational acquisition which enables Staples to provide more value to customers, and more effectively compete in a rapidly evolving competitive environment," said Ron Sargent, Staples' chairman and chief executive officer, in a statement.
"We expect to recognise at least $1bn of synergies as we aggressively reduce global expenses and optimise our retail footprint," he added.
Shares in Staples fell more than 10% on news of the purchase, as investors weighed whether or not the move would be approved by regulators.
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The Scottish FA bid for Glasgow to be one of the 13 cities that will stage games during the competition, which marks the 60th anniversary of the European confederation.
"It's fantastic news for Scotland and for Scottish football," said SFA chief executive Stewart Regan.
Hampden will stage three group stage games and one last 16 match.
Wembley Stadium in London was chosen to host the semi-finals and final.
Ireland's Dublin Arena was also selected to host games, but Wales' Millennium Stadium was not.
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Glasgow was the last of the host cities to be revealed at the announcement in Geneva.
"As we got to that final ball I thought 'this is between us or Cardiff' and when (Uefa president) Michel Platini lifted the first corner out of the envelope and I saw the 'G' I nearly leapt out of my seat," Regan told BBC Sport.
"You know what kind of party Glasgow can put on.
"If you look back at the Commonwealth Games, the people of Glasgow will make it a great party.
"In 2020 we have the opportunity for some of our kids at our performance schools to get right the way through the age groups to the national team at Hampden Park for a tournament that we qualify for.
"That is the vision and there is a lot of work to put in to getting us there."
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Stockholm, Skopje, Jerusalem, Sofia and Minsk were the other cities to miss out.
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Researchers have identified a compound which targets aggressive tumour cells found in breast, pancreas, colon and prostate cancers.
The discovery has now been licensed to biotech investors Tiziana Life Sciences.
It is hoped the compound can eventually be developed for clinical trials.
The research was conducted by Cardiff University's European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute (ECSCRI) and the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Scientists revealed details of the compound - called OH14 - on Thursday morning when the deal with Tiziana was made public on the London Stock Exchange.
Tiziana already has an established relationship working with Cardiff University.
Italian investor Gabriele Cerrone named the company after his partner who died three years ago from breast cancer.
Pro-Kurdish lawmakers say this is essentially a move to expel opposition members from parliament.
The measure is seen as targeting the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as well as the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).
Turkey has led an offensive against the insurgent PKK, accused of being a terrorist group.
A ceasefire ended weeks after elections in June 2015. The renewed conflict has claimed hundreds of lives on both sides, particularly in the south-east.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for pro-Kurdish MPs to face terrorism charges and this vote could be a first step towards making that happen.
The bill was backed by 376 MPs in the 550-seat legislature, which means it will become law directly without being put to a referendum, parliamentary Speaker Ismail Kahraman said.
The pro-Kurdish HDP party says the government is using trumped-up charges to push their party out of parliament and allow President Erdogan to change the constitution and boost his own powers.
The government rejects that claim, saying MPs should be accountable before the law. In a country with faith in its democracy and judicial independence, that would be the accepted view.
But in Turkey there are deep misgivings about both and Mr Erdogan is seen by critics as increasingly authoritarian - hence the concerns.
If several HDP MPs are arrested, there are fears it could spark worse violence in Kurdish areas, where people could feel deprived of a voice in parliament. And so this is a dangerous moment for Turkey and a test of how far Mr Erdogan is willing to go to secure his position.
Violent scuffles marred parliamentary debates this month, with frustrated lawmakers exchanging fisticuffs and kicks.
Friday's vote was not without incident as CHP lawmakers walked out in protest.
Mr Erdogan said the vote was "historic" during a televised speech in his hometown of Rize.
"My people do not want to see guilty lawmakers in this parliament," he said as lawmakers voted.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said she would raise concerns over the state of democracy in Turkey when she met Mr Erdogan next week.
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At that year's Beijing Olympics, Hoy became the first Briton in 100 years to claim three gold medals at one Games.
Hoy won two further gold medals at the London Olympics and is the most successful British Olympian of all time in terms of gold medals.
He was knighted in 2009.
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Jamia al-Hudaa Residential College in Nottingham lodged an appeal in 2016 after it was ordered to stop taking boarders due to poor Ofsted reports.
A new inspection in January found progress in areas such as promoting British values but continued issues with safeguarding and teaching.
Overall, Ofsted said the school did not meet all national minimum standards.
The school opened in 1996 and has 237 pupils, including 153 boarders.
After a series of Ofsted reports which highlighted concerns over cultural awareness, careers advice and facilities for boarders, the Department for Education placed restrictions on its intake.
But the Madni Trust, which runs the school, challenged this and is currently allowed to operate normally.
Following the recent inspection, Ofsted said progress continued to be "variable" with the attainment of year 11 pupils well below the national average.
The report added: "The level of the secular-based courses is too low to ensure that students achieve qualifications that enable them to prepare effectively for life after they leave the school."
It also said national standards were not met in aspects of safeguarding, bullying prevention, health and safety and leadership.
However, the standards were reached in teaching respect for English law, precluding partisan political views and ensuring basic standards in accommodation.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: "Independent schools that are not meeting the independent school standards must improve.
"Where there is evidence to suggest that children do not have access to a good quality education, or other standards are not met, we will take action to enforce improvement."
While the school has yet to comment to the BBC, it told the Nottingham Post it had been told to improve "minor things" and it would organise an "independent" inspection.
Mills might switch boats to the 49erFX class for the 2020 Olympics after winning Rio gold with the now retired Saskia Clark.
The 29-year-old did return to 470 action and won a World Cup series event with new partner Eilidh McIntyre.
They will compete in the World Championships and Mills said: "It's going to be hard."
She added: "It's supposed to be light winds out in Greece so that will be challenging.
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"In lighter wins it takes a while to get your feel back and I have been out for so long."
The British pair won the World Cup event in Santander after only sailing for a few days together but McIntyre was the training partner out in Rio before the Games with Mills and Clark.
"We were chuffed to get the win," Mills added.
"We were surprised with how we went."
"She has got good experience and brings a lot to a new team."
Mills has not ruled out also competing in the 49erFX global equivalent later this year if she can find a female partner.
"It was good fun to be back in the 470 boat," said Mills.
"I loved the racing and it's a bit different to the 49erFX I have been doing. There are pros and cons to both.
"I love the competition and that's what it's about for me."
The park, in the Toshima ward in central Tokyo, has been fenced off.
Authorities recorded up to 480 microsieverts per hour at one spot - nearly half the recommended annual limit of exposure for a person.
The incident comes days after a drone with traces of radiation landed on top of the prime minister's office.
The drone at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office was discovered on Wednesday morning, carrying a small bottle with the radioactive symbol.
Tests found it was carrying a small amount of radioactive caesium, reported Kyodo news agency.
Japan's NHK reported that local officials had received a call about suspected radioactivity at the Tokyo park on Wednesday.
Following two rounds of testing, officials found high levels of radiation on a section of the playground equipment.
Authorities believe that the radiation could be coming from something buried underneath the park.
Yukio Takano, the mayor of Toshima district, said the risks were minimal, but that the area was being cleaned to reassure local residents, AFP news agency report.
According to the International Commission on Radiological Protection recommendations, members of the public should not be exposed to more than 1000 microsieverts per year.
Japan has seen heightened concern over radiation since the 2011 failure of a nuclear plant in Fukushima following an earthquake and tsunami, which led to leaks of radioactive water,
All of Japan's nuclear reactors were taken offline following the incident. Recent attempts to restart some of them have been met with vocal opposition by local residents.
The Clwyd West MP has been appointed minister of state at the Department for Exiting the European Union.
He led the Welsh arm of the Vote Leave campaign for the EU referendum.
Following the appointment, Mr Jones tweeted saying he was "honoured".
Elsewhere, Guto Bebb and the former leader of the Welsh Conservatives Lord Bourne have retained their junior ministerial positions in the Wales Office.
He had never gone under the surgeon's knife during his entire 11-year professional career and had made his international debut for Ireland only a year before.
But he had been suffering repeated concussions.
For a while he had been able to manage the splitting headaches, memory loss, light sensitivity and trouble sleeping.
But he was tired and irritable, and got annoyed for no reason with his wife and young daughter.
It wasn't just the times he had been knocked out that had affected him. It was also the smaller "bangs" to the head that he didn't even realise were concussions.
He started to worry when, a few months after retiring in 2010, he was still getting headaches, having emotional difficulties and experiencing memory loss - a result, he believes, of two concussions in his final match for Leinster against Treviso.
"I started really worrying about my brain. After maybe three or four months it settled but the symptoms didn't all go away."
Now research from the US into the long-term effect of repeated concussions on athletes playing collision sports is shedding new light on a sports injury about which relatively little is known.
Rugby's governing bodies are keen to stress the differences between their sport and those played in America.
However the news that repeated head impact has led to a form of dementia in a small group of American football and ice hockey players prompted former Scottish international, John Beattie, to become the first rugby player to promise to donate his brain to neuroscience.
The research by scientists at Boston University revealed that a degenerative brain disease called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) had been found in the brains of 30 former NFL players. Prior to death, their symptoms had been the same found in boxers suffering from CTE's more widely known name, punch drunk syndrome.
It's a form of progressive dementia with symptoms including memory loss, depression, speech problems, mood changes and trouble walking.
Dr Bob Cantu, a professor of neurosurgery at Boston University and one of the drivers of the research, said he is certain athletes from sports outside American football have also developed CTE.
"We've studied brains of deceased NFL players and National Hockey League players," he said.
"In the brains of both, we've found CTE and I would be amazed if we did not find the same in rugby players, or at least some rugby players who played rugby for a long period of time and had taken quite a bit of head trauma over the course of their careers."
However, since no work has yet been done to examine rugby players' brains after death, there is no hard evidence for his claim.
British neuropathologist Dr Willie Stewart is one expert who urges caution.
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He said the brains of every American footballer who died would need to be studied to get an idea of the prevalence of CTE, and cited studies that show that only between 10-20% of boxers who have taken heavy head punishment develop symptoms.
"It would seem quite remarkable if repeatedly injuring the brain in some way at a low level didn't leave you with some sort of damage," he said.
"But if we followed the research from the US word for word, we would expect whole swathes of rugby players to be clogging up nursing homes, but they aren't."
Bodies including the International Rugby Board, Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) are taking the issue seriously and say they have already adopted new measures and are trying to educate medical staff and players at all levels of the game about concussion management.
According to the RFU, concussion is the fourth most common injury in the English professional game, with five instances per 1,000 hours of play. Among amateurs it's slightly less. But those figures assume that players are aware of all concussion symptoms and are reporting them.
The RFU's head of sport medicine, Dr Simon Kemp, said measures to identify and treat concussions are improving every year.
"The thesis is, if you manage the acute concussion well, your risks of a bad outcome in the long term are a lot less.
"Players are warriors, they don't want to leave the field and assessing someone's cognition, balance and symptoms in the middle of a game is difficult. You rely on the player being honest in reporting his symptoms."
Another former Leinster and Ireland player, Bernard Jackman, admits he often failed to report symptoms of concussion when he was playing.
He suffered more than 20 concussions in his final three seasons before retiring and sometimes had to watch the match back on video the day after because he couldn't remember the score.
"The more concussions I had the more chance there will be of suffering from a brain-related disease or disorder later on in my life, but what can I do now? It's done. I'm not suffering any symptoms at the moment. I put it at the back of my mind."
The town was once known as Little Belfast because of the two Protestant churches on its main street.
The entrance to the eco-village with its solar panels and wood-fired community hot-water system is on the same road.
When I first visited here, individual, multi-coloured, timber-framed, well-insulated houses were going up, just as the Irish economy was crashing down.
Gearoid Ó Foighil, a resident and chairman of the local community development committee, admits the timing could have been better.
"The collapse of the so-called Celtic Tiger has dried up a lot of funds for people available to build," he says.
"There's a constant stream of interest and there are a few builds in the pipeline but the building rate, while ongoing, has slowed down quite a lot."
The 68-acre eco-village has 130 sites; 86 have now been sold with 50 households now living there.
Five years ago the average site price was €80,000; now it is half that.
Guitarist Peter Manley, who is originally from Downpatrick, County Down, is one of the residents along with his Russian wife, Tatiana, and two daughters.
He used to work for an investment bank in London before moving to France and then to Cloughjordan.
"Here the car is a visitor, it doesn't dominate the landscape, so the children are free to roam and have the type of childhood I had," he says.
He admits there are also some disadvantages to living in the eco-village.
"We have quite a lot of meetings to attend because we're managing the estate ourselves. Things that you would normally out-source to a utility company or the council are done by ourselves. So, there is a lot of community involvement but at times that can be a bit much, I think."
Another resident, Una Johnston, believes there are far more plusses than minuses.
As a member of the community farm she says she gets access to quality fresh vegetables, fruit and meat.
She has also noticed another benefit.
"Heating costs are much lower too," she adds, with many residents saying they do not turn the heat on between March and the end of October.
There is a lot of international interest in the village.
While I was there, a bus of Taiwanese tourists with an interest in planning arrived unannounced to see for themselves.
Had they been aware of it they could even have stayed in the eco-village's own hostel, run by Pa Finucane.
"Our ethos here is education. We want to promote the idea of sustainability. We have developed a model of sustainability here that we hope people will come to and take away what we have demonstrated here," he says.
Roughly a third of the 68-acre site is residential property, a third community woods and a third for growing food or farming.
There are also businesses where the message of sustainability is very important.
Anthony Kelly runs a fabrication laboratory, a fab-lab, where he says businesses can manufacture just about anything.
"They don't have to travel long distances to make something; they can come here," he says, to do research and prototype their product and then "perhaps manufacture it abroad or wherever. Or, if it's a suitable product we can do some of the manufacturing for them here."
Joe Fitzmaurice is an award-winning baker.
His grain is grown 500 metres from his bakery, and his oven is fuelled by wood from within a kilometre.
"That would show to me that we can have local grains and a local fuel supply for a local economy," he says.
Five years on, children now play where once there was just open space.
But the residents know - mainly because of the property crash - their vision of the eco-village has yet to be fully realised, despite the undoubted progress they have made so far.
The Lancashire side, along with Leeds and Nottingham Forest, were placed under the embargo in December 2014.
It means Rovers will be able to sign players for a fee when the January transfer window opens.
"It's a building block and one little stage in trying to rebuild this club," said boss Paul Lambert.
He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "Everybody behind the scenes, the board, staff and especially the owners, deserve a lot of credit.
"We won't be able spend massive millions because we're out of the embargo.
"Because one thing is for sure, certainly we don't want to be in this position again."
In October, Blackburn managing director Derek Shaw said they could be "one sale away" from an FFP exit. In a statement, the club said the board of directors and owners had been working closely with the Football League.
To adhere to FFP this season, losses at a Championship club can be no more than £5m, with a maximum of £3m funded by shareholders.
He said tourism was worth £6.9bn to Wales, supporting about 206,000 jobs.
Mr Farron said the Liberal Democrats was the only UK party "completely united" on remaining in the EU.
But Prof Patrick Minford, a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, said the EU was "dysfunctional".
Now based at Cardiff Business School, said it was time for Wales and the UK to leave the union.
Mr Farron visited businesses in Brecon, Powys, with Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams on Thursday.
"The EU offers our small businesses and tourism sector huge opportunities, I can't understand why anyone would want to shut those opportunities down," he said.
"Of course we recognise that the EU is not perfect, neither is Westminster. But picking up your ball in a sulk and heading home is not the way to win."
But Prof Minford said: "We are regulated by Europe and our labour market, our industry and our economy is warped by the European protectionist cocoon."
The 36-year-old, from Inverkip in Inverclyde, was reported missing by her two carers on 28 October.
The last independent sighting of her was on 17 December 1999.
Specialist teams have been searching the house and garden where Ms Fleming lived with her carers Edward Cairney, 75, and Avril Jones, 56.
It is believed they are looking for any documentation, clothing or personal items which could help find her.
Officers were also continuing to make inquiries in the wider Inverclyde area.
Det Ch Insp Paul Livingstone, the senior investigating officer, said: "Today, Saturday 17 December, marks 17 years to the day that Margaret was seen at a family gathering.
"This is the only independent sighting we have of Margaret so far, and I would like to re-appeal to people in the local community of Inverkip and beyond for their help with our inquiries.
"A priority for the inquiry team is to establish Margaret's movements and lifestyle between 1999 and when she was reported missing on Friday 28 October by her carers."
He added: "We have had an encouraging response to our previous appeals and I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to come forward with information.
"If Margaret is reading this, I would ask her to get in touch with police. She is not is any trouble, we just want to ensure she is safe and well."
Ms Fleming, who is believed to have learning difficulties, is thought to have attended James Watt College in Greenock between 1996 and 1998.
Police officers had gone to Ms Fleming's house on 28 October about a social work issue. Her carers said she had left that day. They later reported her missing.
It is believed Ms Fleming lived with her father in Port Glasgow before he died in October 1995.
She then lived with her grandparents and mother but moved in with the carers in 1997.
She is thought to have been estranged from her mother since then.
He was arrested by Soviet forces in Hungary in 1945 and disappeared. He is thought to have died in a Soviet prison, but his fate remains a mystery.
Thousands of Jews escaped deportation to Auschwitz because Wallenberg gave them Swedish protective passes.
His story became legendary after 1945.
The former Soviet authorities said he must have died in a Moscow prison in 1947.
But his family were sceptical about that version of events, and spent decades trying to establish what actually happened to him.
Last November they called on the Swedish Tax Agency to officially declare him dead. The request was made via Sweden's SEB Bank, acting as a trustee.
"He shall be deemed to have died 31 July, 1952," the tax agency said.
Pia Gustafsson of the tax agency said that date was chosen because it fell "five years after he went missing, which was believed to be the end of July, 1947".
That procedure complied with a Swedish law used in cases where the circumstances of death were not clear, she told the BBC.
His family requested that he be declared dead officially, in order to "let Raoul rest in peace", Sweden's Aftonbladet daily reported.
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In August the World Jewish Congress quoted a report alleging that Wallenberg was executed in a Soviet prison in 1947. The claim was made in a diary by Ivan Serov, a former director of the Soviet KGB secret police.
The Israeli Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem honours Wallenberg as one of the "righteous among the nations" for having saved so many Jewish lives in the war.
Wallenberg's rescue efforts began in July 1944, after his arrival as a diplomat in Budapest. The Nazis had already deported nearly 440,000 Jews from Hungary, most of them to the Auschwitz death camp, where many were murdered on arrival.
Ms Gustafsson said two contradictory Russian statements had contributed to Sweden's decision to declare Wallenberg dead:
Wallenberg's mother Maj von Dardel and stepfather Fredrik von Dardel committed suicide in 1979, heartbroken over the Soviet authorities' failure to disclose details of Wallenberg's fate, the Wall Street Journal reported.
His body was recovered by Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team volunteers after the incident on the Pyg track at about 18:30 BST on Monday.
He was taken from the cliff on a stretcher to Llyn Glaslyn lake before being carried off the mountain.
The man is the second person in three days to have died on the Snowdonia mountain range in Gwynedd after a man fell to his death on nearby Tryfan.
In 2014, he was given red carpet treatment in recognition of the Pakistani military's long-demanded ground offensive to clear militant sanctuaries in North Waziristan, on the border with Afghanistan.
This time, the significance of his trip was slightly dented when an unnamed Pentagon official revealed the visit was requested by Gen Sharif, not Washington.
But observers have not missed the fact that more doors are being opened for him in Washington than for most other military chiefs from elsewhere in the world.
Apart from nearly the entire US military leadership, Gen Sharif has also held meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and the head of the CIA, John Brennan.
He is also likely to meet US Vice President Joe Biden and National Security Adviser Susan Rice later on Thursday.
Coming as it does on the heels of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit, such a reception for the army chief appears to support the view that it's the military and not the politicians who control Pakistan's defence and foreign affairs.
"Given the current reality of power management in Pakistan, it is only natural that the Americans would want to talk to the military when it comes to discussing their chief concerns in this region," says Hasan Askari Rizvi, a Lahore-based defence analyst.
"The Americans would like to talk about counter-terrorism, or Pakistan's role in Afghanistan, or issues related to the transfer of military hardware and security funds - these are all areas which are controlled by the military," he says.
Pakistan depends on the US for the bulk of its military hardware and security funds. But over the last few years it has also attracted flak from some quarters in Washington for its "double-dealing" in Afghanistan.
Some tough talking was expected during Gen Sharif's stay in Washington, but many feel the Paris attacks may have eclipsed the Afghanistan issue for now.
In the absence of any detailed briefing on talks by both Pakistani and American officials, it is difficult to know what concrete proposals have been discussed or decisions made. But there is wide agreement within informed circles on which issues may have been on the table.
The Americans want Pakistan to eliminate militant infrastructure, including the Afghanistan-focused Haqqani network, the India-focused Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT) and their various affiliates.
They have also been pushing Pakistan to use its leverage with the Taliban to open peace talks with Kabul.
The second round of an intra-Afghan dialogue facilitated by Pakistan with US and Chinese support was abandoned in July when Kabul blamed Pakistan for hiding the news of Taliban chief Mullah Omar's death.
Pakistan blamed Afghan intelligence for deliberately leaking this news to scuttle the talks.
Afghanistan, meanwhile, blames Pakistan for the surge in Taliban violence since the talks were abandoned.
Pakistan has been pushing for a power-sharing deal for the Taliban in Kabul, including the Haqqani network, and would like the Americans to "adopt" them as a lesser evil - because the Taliban have a localised agenda and if denied space, they could be gobbled up by the pan-Islamic militant group, Islamic State.
Lately, Pakistan has also been complaining about an increasingly belligerent India, which it says is putting pressure on its eastern border, thereby hampering its efforts to eliminate the "bad boys" in its tribal areas to the west.
In addition, Pakistan has accused India of using Afghan territory to foment trouble in the Pakistani regions of Balochistan and Karachi.
Analysts say Pakistan is likely to argue that in the given situation, any action against anti-India groups like LeT may turn them against Pakistan and worsen its problems with India.
There is also the issue of nuclear weapons, which fall in the exclusive domain of the military.
"The Americans will certainly have raised the issue of Pakistan's growing nuclear arsenal which at the current rate may become the third or even the second largest in the world by 2020," says Ayesha Siddiqa, another defence analyst based in Islamabad.
Americans have been concerned about Pakistan's short-range battlefield nuclear weapons falling into militant hands, as well as its long-range weapons that can hit targets as far away as the Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean where India's nuclear arsenal may have been stacked, she says.
In return, there have been suggestions by some American think-tanks that Pakistan could be offered membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), with legitimate access to nuclear research and technology.
But Pakistan may not be keen because it already has access to technology through China, and also because technology available through the NSG may be prohibitively expensive.
Analysts say the situation is tricky, and there is little the Pakistanis would be willing to offer in strategic terms, although they may offer some tactical support in Afghanistan.
So how is the US likely to respond to this security calculus?
There have been veiled warnings that the US may block some $300m in coalition support funds owed to Pakistan if the US Department of Defence fails to certify that Pakistanis are acting against the Haqqani network.
But analysts suspect Pakistan will stick to its guns, knowing that the Western powers have their hands full with IS at the moment and will continue to depend on Pakistan to deliver in Afghanistan.
Leicester City Council closed a lane on Welford Road last month to test the lane.
Motorists claimed it was causing traffic chaos and a petition against it has been signed by 1,200 people.
Cyclists said the trials will help to improve Leicester's air quality, which is one of the worst in Europe.
One lane on Welford Road, one of the busiest routes in and out of the city centre, was closed last month in a scheme called Connecting Leicester.
Mark Radymski, who set up the petition, said: "I'd love to see some new cycle provisions to get to places safely, however I don't think the situation is as bad as people make out.
"The petition is to remove the test. We're asking for it to be reviewed - is it in the correct place or not? I'm not the expert."
Elizabeth Barner, from Leicester Cycling Campaign Group, said the protest had strong support from Healthy Air Leicester and Leicestershire, the Green Party and national cycle groups.
"The scheme has improved Leicester," she said.
"People who are new to cycling say I will not cycle on the roads as they are now and what I'm beginning to hear is, 'Yes, I could go out and commute other than in my car'."
The council admitted there were congestion problems during rush hour but said it is an experiment needed as it tries to make the roads "fit for all".
Ross Monaghan had dropped his children off at St George's Primary, Penilee, shortly before the shooting happened in Muirdykes Road at about 09:05.
Police Scotland said he was in a stable condition in hospital.
Mr Monaghan was cleared of killing Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll after a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
A police spokesman said the man appeared to have been targeted and they were not ruling out a gangland-related attack.
He said there would be extra police presence in the area over next few days to provide reassurance to the public.
A passer-by told BBC Scotland that she heard a bang as she dropped her son off at nursery.
"I heard a big bang and I thought it was like an air rifle going off," she said.
"The kids were asking what had happened."
She added: "All the birds came flying up."
Ch Insp Simon Jeacocke said: "Obviously this is a very unusual incident and clearly it could have been a lot worse.
"This was a frightening incident for those involved and indeed some of the staff have been quite shaken up by this incident.
"There were parents, children in the vicinity at the time who could have been hurt, so I would really like to appeal to anyone who may have been in the area at the time who may seen anything at all to contact the police."
After the incident, police in Glasgow posted on social media: "We are aware of a firearms incident in Penilee this morning.
"We do not believe there is any ongoing threat to any other person."
Glasgow City Council had said it was aware of an incident outside St George's Primary School.
A spokeswoman said all staff and pupils were safe and the school remained open.
St George's Primary School tweeted: "All pupils and staff are safe at St George's primary. Police dealing with an incident which happened outside school grounds."
Gangland figure Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, 29, was shot dead in the Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, on 13 January 2010.
Mr Monaghan was tried for the killing, but was acquitted after it emerged there was no evidence which placed him at the Asda store at the time of the shooting.
He was also cleared of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of the two guns used in the shooting and torching the getaway car.
William Paterson was convicted of Mr Carroll's murder following a two-week trial in May 2015. He was told he must serve a minimum of 22 years in jail.
World number two Whiteside took a unanimous decision against Greece's Aikaterini Koutsogeorgopo in her 51kg class quarter-final.
Ryan earned a split decision against Sweden's Agnes Alexiusson in the 60kg.
Chantelle Cameron lost a unanimous decision in her 64kg quarter-final bout to Russia's Aleksandra Ordina.
Natasha Gale, the fourth member of the Great Britain squad competing in Bulgaria, will box for a guaranteed medal in the 75kg category on Sunday.
Several other British and Irish boxers are representing their nations in the competition but are not part of the GB squad.
England's Demi-Jade Resztan lost her quarter-final bout in the 45-48kg class to Russia's Ekaterina Pinigina, Rosie Eccles from Wales was defeated by Italy's Valentina Alberti in the 64kg event and Ireland's Shauna Browne lost to Russia's Daria Abramova.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla died from his injuries after a man opened fire in a bar last week. Witnesses said the attacker shouted racist abuse.
Hundreds attended 32-year-old Mr Kuchibhotla's cremation in Hyderabad, southern India, on Tuesday.
The FBI is investigating the crime as a hate crime, it has now confirmed.
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"As more facts come to light and it begins to look like this was an act of racially motivated hatred, we want to reiterate that the president condemns these or any other racially or religiously motivated attacks in the strongest terms," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters on Tuesday.
A third man who suffered bullet wounds in the shooting has called on President Donald Trump to raise the subject of hate crime in his speech to Congress on Tuesday night.
"I think it should be addressed because there's a lot of people in mourning," said Ian Grillot.
A man has been charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Nearly 200 people turned out for Mr Kuchibhotla's cremation in his native city of Hyderabad, India.
His body arrived in the southern city on Monday and his widow, Sunayana Dumala and brother, Sai Kiran, both returned home for the funeral.
Ms Dumala released a statement on Facebook on Tuesday, saying "the fight must go on towards eradicating hatred from the minds of people".
She also questioned the government's role in thwarting hate crimes and whether immigrants are still safe in the US.
"Is this the same country we dreamed of and is it still secure to raise our families and children here?" she wrote.
Today Srinivas Kutchibhotla made his final journey.
Surrounded by his family and grieving friends, he was cremated in his home city of Hyderabad, in India.
After the service his widow, Sunayana Dumala posted a statement thanking her family and friends for their support during this difficult time.
She paid tribute to her charming soul mate, a brilliant aviation engineer, who was so dedicated to his job he often worked late. Her husband's death has left her with many questions.
"On what basis do we decide whether a person is good or bad," she said, as she made a plea that the conversation around hate crimes doesn't die down in a few weeks.
The question in every immigrant's mind, she asked, is "do we belong here?"
Her words will resonate with many who've come to live in the US. Sunayana hopes that her husband's death isn't in vain, and that her words will promote tolerance of all races and backgrounds.
The suspected attacker, Adam Purinton, 51, was arraigned in court on Monday on charges of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.
After the attack at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, Mr Purinton, who is white, drove 70 miles (112km) to a restaurant in Clinton, Missouri, where he allegedly admitted what he had done to an employee.
A bartender there told a police dispatcher in a 911 call that a man had claimed to have "killed two Iranian people in Olathe".
Rowland Phillips' team had limited Canada to a 15-0 win at the pool stage, but could find no answer to their opponents' power and pace in Belfast.
Wing Elissa Alarie scored a first-half double as Canada dominated in an eight-tries-to-nil rout.
Ireland, who earlier lost to Australia, await Wales on Saturday with seventh place on the line.
Phillips named the starting XV who had performed admirably in the teams' first encounter.
But Canada felt they had something to prove after that performance and the defeat by New Zealand that consigned them to the fifth-place play-off semi-final.
They did so in style from Alarie's opening try wide out as she profited from a powerful scrum.
Fly-half Brianna Miller and lock Cindy Nelles went over before Alerie finished off again.
Flankers Jacey Grusnick and Karen Paquin burst clear in quick succession after the break.
And after Canada's pack forced a penalty try at a scrum, replacement Barbara Mervin ended the scoring as they kept Wales scoreless.
Wales head coach Rowland Phillips said: "It's a shame because we picked up a lot of momentum and confidence from the first Canada game but other than the lineout, we came off second best in all areas.
"We never got a foothold in the game. It is disappointing but we are clear where we want to take this team and we know we have a lot of work to do. We' just got to get on with it."
Canada: Julianne Zussman; Elissa Alarie, Brittany Waters, Amanda Thornborough, Frederique Rajotte; Emily Belchos, Brianna Miller; Carolyn McEwen, Laura Russell, Olivia DeMerchant, Cindy Nelles, Latoya Blackwood, Jacey Grusnick, Karen Paquin, Kelly Russell.
Replacements: Jane Kirby, Britanny Kassil, DaLeaka Menin, Kayla Mack, Barbara Mervin, Chelsea Guthrie, Andrea Burk, Alex Tessier.
Wales: Dyddgu Hywel (Scarlets); Elen Evans (RGC), Gemma Rowland (Dragons), Hannah Jones (Scarlets), Jess Kavanagh-Williams (Scarlets); Elinor Snowsill (Dragons), Sian Moore (Dragons); Caryl Thomas (Scarlets) Carys Phillips, (Ospreys, capt), Amy Evans (Ospreys), Rebecca Rowe (Dragons), Mel Clay (Ospreys), Alisha Butchers (Scarlets), Rachel Taylor (RGC), Sioned Harries (Scarlets)
Replacements: Morfudd Ifans (Scarlets), Cerys Hale (Dragons), Meg York (Dragons), Siwan Lillicrap (Ospreys), Shona Powell-Hughes (Ospreys), Keira Bevan (Ospreys), Robyn Wilkins (Ospreys), Jodie Evans (Scarlets).
Referee: Aimee Barrett-Theron
Assistant referees: Cwengile Jadezweni, Marie Lematte
TMO: Kevin Beggs
The union, Unison, said more than 130 members employed by Cordia - an arms-length body of Glasgow City Council - could take part in the action.
It wants additional payments for staff undertaking tasks which are dirty, unpleasant, involve regularly working outside or involve heavy lifting.
Cordia said it would make sure affected schools would be open.
A Cordia spokesman said: "We will make sure that affected schools are open and that any disruption is kept to a minimum. The majority of our janitors are not involved and will continue to work normally."
Unison said that Cordia was "refusing to pay a Working Context and Demands Payment to school janitors" and was "using spurious arguments to justify not making this payment".
The payment covers "dirty, unpleasant" tasks and those that "involve working outside on a regular basis or heavy lifting".
The annual payment ranges from £500 to £1,000.
Unison said its members had been boycotting disputed duties for six weeks and had decided to escalate their action as Cordia and the council had refused to reach a negotiated settlement.
Unison Glasgow branch officer Sam Macartney said: "Unison is very clear that school janitors meet the criteria to be awarded this payment.
"Our members have been left with no option other than to take this action as both Cordia and the council are wrong and just not listening to our members."
The appointment was announced by new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at a press conference on Tuesday.
Dr Finkel has previously outlined a vision for an "electric planet" and told reporters he wanted Australia to use "no oil, gas or coal".
He was previously Chancellor of Australia's Monash University and takes over from Professor Ian Chubb.
Speaking at the press conference, Dr Finkel acknowledged that Australia could not get rid of coal "overnight".
"My vision is for a country, a society, a world where we don't use any coal, oil, or natural gas because we have zero-emissions electricity in huge abundance," he said.
"But you can't get there overnight. What we need to do is optimise the technology so we can cost-effectively introduce alternatives.
"The best way to get rid of coal is to introduce alternatives that deliver value at a reasonable price rather than just arbitrarily turning it off."
Australia currently has no nuclear power industry and relies heavily on fossil fuels.
Dr Finkel's appointment comes amid a call by 61 prominent Australians, including the author Richard Flanagan and Wallabies rugby player David Pocock, for a global ban on new coalmines and coalmine expansions.
Previous Prime Minister Tony Abbott was a staunch supporter of coal power, saying "coal is good for humanity" and its use should go "up and up and up in the years and decades to come".
Australia has two massive new coal mines on the way. One, the $16bn Carmichael project in Queensland's Galilee Basin, was last week given final approval by Mr Turnbull's government.
Mr Turnbull on Tuesday dismissed the idea of a moratorium on coal arguing that it would make no difference to global emissions as importers would simply buy it elsewhere.
Vast numbers of dead fish have appeared across some 200km (125 miles) of coastline since early April.
A government investigation has so far found no links to a steel plant owned by Taiwanese firm Formosa Plastics.
But many of the demonstrators in Hanoi blamed the company, and carried placards saying "Formosa Out".
Other signs read "Formosa destroying the environment is a crime" and "Who poisoned the central region's waters?"
On Friday Environment Minister Tran Hong Ha said the die-off was "a very huge and serious environment disaster" and admitted that the government had been slow to react.
He said Formosa Plastics had been ordered to dig up an illegal waste pipe at its plant. The company has said there is no evidence that it linked to the die-off. Investigations into the cause are continuing.
Large protests are rare in Vietnam, but police agreed to clear roads to allow Sunday's demonstration to go ahead.
Much of protesters' anger in the past week has focused on a Formosa Plastics official, since dismissed, who said people in Vietnam had to choose between industry or its fishing industry, adding: "You can't have both."
"Here is Vietnam's territory and there shall never be any case in which a Formosa steel plant has the right to tell the Vietnamese people to choose," protester Cao Vinh Thinh told Reuters in Hanoi.
Many of those angry at the die-off have been writing online, using the hashtag #toichonca, or "I choose fish".
Fishermen along the affected coastline are banned from selling their stocks, but seafood industry officials said exports, that bring in $6.6bn (£4.5bn) a year, would not be affected.
When Wales played England it was at 6am and the pub we were in was chockablock. It was full of England and Wales fans. It was like being at home.
We have the Copa America going on in the US, too. Everybody watched USA played Argentina in a semi-final on Tuesday.
Right now, over here where I am in the west, it's just football, football, football and it's brilliant.
If it's not the Euros its the Copa America and it's a lot of fun. You go to training, watch football, watch more football, do more training.
We had an away game but we got home at around 11am and I went straight home and watched Wales beat Russia.
I watched it at home because we had been travelling from New York on the other side of America so we had to fly five and a half hours.
I was wondering whether to go to the George and Dragon pub, but by the time I got home I was so exhausted I just needed to sit on my sofa.
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It was phenomenal. It was interesting to me because I thought that their whole counter-attack would have been quite similar to how they would have liked to have played in the defeat by England.
I just don't think they were quite able to get that moving against England but I think what you were able to see against Russia is just how deadly they are when they can win the ball and breach with the likes of Aaron Ramsey and Gareth Bale.
With Joe Allen and Joe Ledley, we can break the play and feed it. I thought it was such a good performance from all aspects.
I think the performance against Russia, not just the win, was such a huge confidence boost. It will make teams a lot more wary now of the threat that Wales have.
They have to play with no fear. I know that's easier said than done because they won't want to lose and won't want to concede.
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The most important thing was that you know you're going to get a better draw if you win your group.
That was always on Wales' mind. I think if you look at the side of the draw they've been on compared to the side England are on, you know you've done a good job when you see the differences.
As much as I would love to have a time and a place to watch the Euros in the meantime, my next outing will definitely be the Wales game [against Northern Ireland on Saturday] for sure.
I haven't given my future in international football much thought since I've been back in America. I got back after the match against Norway and we played a game two days later.
We travelled last week. Right now, I'm focusing on Seattle. When I head back I will have a chat with [Wales manager] Jayne [Ludlow] and we can have a conversation and see where we think the future lies for me.
Jess Fishlock was speaking to BBC Wales Sport's Jay Freeman
The decision comes as talks continue this week between the doctors' union and the government about the disputed junior doctor contract in England.
The BMA said the move did not mean a deal had been reached.
A planned strike on Wednesday 10 February could still go ahead if the negotiations stall.
That stoppage is considered to be potentially the most disruptive as it is a complete walk-out, whereas next week's one - like the 24-hour strike held last Tuesday - still saw junior doctors provide emergency cover.
The decision to call off next week's strike is good news for patients. Last week more than one in 10 operations were cancelled because of the 24-hour walk-out.
But it would be dangerous to read too much into the decision. The two sides are really no closer to agreement than they were before that stoppage.
Payment for weekend working, career progression and the safeguards being proposed to stop hospitals over-working doctors still remain the key sticking points.
The reasoning behind cancelling next week's stoppage is pretty obvious. It allows the British Medical Association to say it is thinking about patients, while also ensuring the on-going talks can take place without stopping - as they did last week - during industrial action.
By holding the first strike the BMA ensured its mandate for action did not expire. So it can call off this action safe in the knowledge it still has its strongest bargaining chip - a full walk-out on 10 February - up its sleeve.
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Commenting on the decision to suspend industrial action, BMA junior doctor committee chair Dr Johann Malawana said: "The BMA's aim has always been to deliver a safe, fair junior doctor contract through negotiated agreement.
"Following junior doctors' clear message to the government during last week's action, our focus is now on building on early progress made in the current set of talks.
"On this basis, the BMA has today taken the decision to suspend the industrial action planned for 26 to 28 January, thereby giving trusts as much notice as possible so as to avoid disruption to patients.
"It is important to be clear, however, that differences still exist between the BMA and the government on key areas, including the protection of patient safety and doctor's working lives, and the recognition of unsocial hours.
"Significant, concrete progress will need to be made if future action, currently planned for 10 February, is to be averted."
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The decision by the BMA comes after a 24-hour walk-out by junior doctors last week. It led to over 3,000 operations being cancelled on the day - about one in 10 of those that were planned to take place.
But as soon as that finished talks restarted at the conciliation service Acas - discussion which are continuing this week.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "The strike that took place last week was unnecessary while talks are ongoing, so it's extremely welcome news that the BMA has suspended next week's action.
"In the end, the government and junior doctors want to do the same thing by improving patient care at weekends - and we look forward to further constructive discussions."
That may puzzle you given that Friday saw publication of government borrowing figures for October which were confirmation that there is no chance of public sector borrowing falling from just over £90bn last year to a target of just under £70bn in the fiscal year ending next April.
In fact, if public borrowing ends up around £80bn, or around £10bn adrift of the goal, that would not be a great shock, since with five months to go the deficit is less than £7bn below where it was at a comparable stage last year.
And there will also be a mildly embarrassing failure to hit one of the fiscal milestones Osborne loudly promised and swanked about in the last budget - namely debt as a share of GDP seems unlikely to hit its peak this year, which is what the Office for Budget Responsibility had expected.
So where on earth is the wriggle room for George Osborne to respond to the irresistible political and public pressure to soften the impact of his cherished tax-credit cuts, to exact a lesser cull of beat bobbies than had been expected and to strengthen our defences against terrorism?
Well he won't shout this but economic disappointment - the failure of the global economy to regain anything like the kind of momentum it had before the Crash of 2008 - delivers something of a cash windfall for him.
It is all to do with the collapse of inflation, the consequential deferral of the first rise in interest rates since the crash of 2008 and the expectation that as and when interest rates rise they will do so only very slowly and in miniscule increments.
This extension of our extraordinary era of almost free money has two benign effects for the Exchequer.
First it means the Treasury will have to shell out less to holders of index-linked gilts, or government debt whose interest payments are protected against the impact of inflation.
Second, the Treasury will receive more income for longer from the Bank of England, on the Bank's £375bn holding of government debt - which it bought in its quantitative-easing monetary rescue programme for the UK after the 2008 crash.
The point is that the Bank of England returns to the Treasury the net interest payments it receives on that £375bn of gilts or government debt - which is the interest payable on the government debt, minus the interest the Bank itself has to pay to finance this quantitative easing investment.
Now that interest rate paid by the Bank of England to borrow is Bank Rate, or the interest rate the Bank sets.
That means if Bank Rate were to go up by 0.25% at the turn of the year - which the Governor of the Bank of England had conditioned us to expect in the summer - that would see borrowing costs for the Bank of England increasing by 0.25% times £375bn, or £937.5m.
And as a consequence the Treasury's income from the Bank would fall by £937.5m per annum.
But no one, including Mark Carney, any longer expects Bank Rate to rise as early as that - because the economy is slowing down and there is no inflation in the system.
In fact many in the City now expect Bank Rate to say at 0.5% for at least another full year.
Anyway, at the risk of labouring this point, each 0.25% rise in Bank Rate cuts Treasury income from the Bank of England by £937.5m.
So the longer interest rates remain where they are, and the less that they rise as and when they rise, the more happy George Osborne will be, in a fiscal sense.
And if the Office for Budget Responsibility believes that as and when Bank Rate settles at a new high in the next five years, that high will be a full percentage point lower than previous expectations, well that would deliver £4bn a year of additional forecast income for Osborne.
In other words, a more sluggish recovery that cuts forecasts of income from taxes is offset to an extent by relatively more interest income round-tripped by the Bank of England to the Chancellor.
None of which is to argue that he is awash with cash.
But he is in less of straitjacket than common sense might suggest he ought to be - especially if he also (as I've mentioned before) changes his 2020 fiscal target from a £10bn surplus to circa a penny.
Pollution climbed to up to 35 times World Health Organisation safety levels on the third day of the city's "orange alert" - the second highest level.
Factories have been told to cut production and heavy duty trucks ordered off the roads.
It comes as President Xi Jinping attends the Paris climate conference.
Coal, used to power both Chinese factories and heat homes, is a major factor behind the smog, which has been exacerbated by humidity and a lack of wind.
A particularly cold November has meant a surge in coal burning, both in individuals' homes and by power plants. Most of China's power is coal-generated.
"The government is supposed to be tackling the pollution, so we need to see the effects. If in a few years the situation does not change, we will consider leaving," the Associated Press news agency quoted Yin Lina, a woman who had bought her young daughter to hospital, as saying.
A measure of pollution called PM2.5 - concentrations of airborne particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter - hit 900 micrograms per cubic meter in southern Beijing on Monday. The WHO recommends a maximum limit of 25 micrograms per cubic meter.
Earlier this year, China's environment ministry announced that only eight of the country's 74 biggest cities had passed the government's basic air quality standards in 2014, and that many of the worst cities were in the northeast.
Analysis of saliva will show whether a driver has taken cocaine or cannabis, the Home Office said.
If the test is positive, police will take a suspect to have a blood test, administered by a medical professional.
A Home Office spokesperson said the technology was "groundbreaking".
Policing minister Mike Penning approved the tests this week.
"The government is determined to drive the menace of drug-driving from our roads," a Home Office spokesperson said.
"Not only do those who get behind the wheel while under the influence of drugs put their own lives at risk, but also those of innocent motorists and their passengers."
Forces will be encouraged to use the devices "as quickly as possible", the spokesperson added.
Drug-driving is estimated to cause around 200 deaths per year, the Department for Transport said.
A new law, which comes into force in March 2015, makes it illegal to drive with certain drugs in the body over a specified limit.
Currently, police have to prove the driver was impaired due to drug use.
The test will be used alongside breathalyser equipment, which detects the presence of alcohol in a person's breath.
Studies on the influence of cocaine indicate drivers are impaired when they have taken the drug in high doses and during withdrawal periods.
It is thought by the government that cannabis impairs co-ordination, visual perception, tracking and vigilance.
The 14-year-old told detectives she was approached by the man, at the northern end of Sheep Walk in Ovingdean, Brighton, on Wednesday afternoon.
She described the man as white and in his 40s. The attack happened at about 14:00 GMT, police said.
Det Insp Lee Horner, of Sussex Police, said officers would be conducting house-to-house inquiries in the area.
He appealed for anyone who saw a man acting suspiciously or with any information to contact the force.
The full-back, 19, who recently helped the under-20 national side to an historic victory over England, makes his third start for the club.
Scarlets flanker James Davies returns from a foot injury to start
The 25-year-old returns after undergoing surgery on a broken bone in his foot sustained in the 20-12 win over Zebre in November.
Edinburgh's only other change from the side who lost to Ospreys last time out sees Damien Hoyland return to the wing.
Tom Brown completes the back three, with the rest of the back line remaining unchanged.
Hooker Neil Cochrane will captain the side, with Ben Toolis released by the Scotland national squad to partner Anton Bresler in the second row.
Jamie Ritchie and Hamish Watson start in the back-row either side of number eight Cornell Du Preez.
Victory for Edinburgh will see them move above Glasgow Warriors and into fifth place in the Pro12 table, although they will have played two matches more.
Edinburgh head coach Alan Solomons said: "With international call-ups and injury this will yet again be a test of the strength in depth of our squad.
"Our players are looking forward to meeting the challenge this presents."
The only other change from Scarlets' win at Ulster last Sunday sees Maselino Paulino come in at blind-side flanker.
"He's [Davies] been training really well and we're excited to have him back," said Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac.
"He's in a really good place, he'll either start or come off the bench but will be involved in the 23."
Prior to his setback, Davies' sparkling early-season form could have made him a contender for Wales' 2016 Six Nations squad.
"He's been top of the league last year in terms of turnovers at the breakdown," Pivac added.
"Prior to the injury he was leading our team stats in terms of metres carrying the ball and defensive tackles and his all-round game was excellent."
Meanwhile scrum-half Aled Davies has been released from Wales' Six Nations training squad and is set to feature at Murrayfield.
Utility back Gareth Owen and back-row Aaron Shingler will undergo return to play protocols and a late decision will be made regarding their availability.
Scarlets sit third in the Pro12 after Sunday's win at Ulster but have not won successive away league games since October.
Edinburgh have lost their last four games and have beaten the Scarlets just once in their last seven meetings - but the Scottish side have lost just once at home this season.
However, Scarlets coach Pivac admits more away wins are needed to secure a top-four place.
"On the road we're forging a good record," Pivac said.
"We're on track for the top four but we have to keep performing in the games we've targeted as must wins."
Edinburgh: Blair Kinghorn, Damien Hoyland, Michael Allen, Sam Beard, Tom Brown, Phil Burleigh, Sean Kennedy; Allan Dell, Neil Cochrane (captain), John Andress, Anton Bresler, Ben Toolis, Jamie Ritchie, Hamish Watson, Cornell Du Preez.
Replacements: George Turner, Grant Sheills, Simon Berghan, Alex Toolis, Magnus Bradbury, Nathan Fowles, Chris Dean, Dougie Fife.
Scarlets: Michael Collins; Gareth Owen, Regan King, Hadleigh Parkes (capt), DTH van der Merwe; Aled Thomas, Aled Davies; Phil John, Kirby Myhill, Peter Edwards, George Earle, David Bulbring, Maselino Paulino, James Davies, Morgan Allen.
Replacements: Ryan Elias, Dylan Evans, Rhodri Jones, Rory Pitman, Will Boyde, Rhodri Williams, Dan Jones, Steff Evans.
Referee: Dudley Phillips (Ireland)
Assistant Referees: Keith Allen, Graeme Ormiston (both Scotland)
Citing Commissioner: Iain Goodall (Scotland)
TMO: Neil Paterson (Scotland)
The number 12 shirt was worn by David Fairclough in his team's victory over French side St Etienne 40 years ago, on their way to a European Cup triumph.
Fairclough earned the nickname supersub for his knack of scoring when he came off the bench.
The shirt is up for sale in an auction of sporting memorabilia.
In March 1977, Liverpool were six minutes away from an exit in the second leg of the quarter-final tie at a packed Anfield when the Liverpool-born striker changed the match.
Fairclough controlled a long pass from Ray Kennedy on his chest, shrugged off a heavy challenge and with two touches slotted the ball home from just inside the penalty area to give his side the 3-1 win they needed for an aggregate victory.
It sent fans wild and prompted a TV commentator to scream: "Supersub strikes again."
Recalling the day, Fairclough, 60, said: "I have very vivid memories of that day.
"I arrived at the ground and you had the feeling something was going to happen - I was not in the starting 11 and never dreamt I would play such a part."
He does not see the shirt as an essential reminder of one of Liverpool FC's classic nights in European football.
"It had been in the Liverpool FC museum - now it's in a bread box at my house. I'm not a great one for memorabilia but it might mean something for someone else," he said.
Fairclough said he would give the money raised from the sale to his children.
He added: "Most of the lads swopped theirs at the game. There was only me and Joey Jones who kept ours."
The shirt, which is listed at £4,000 to £6,000, is part of an auction of sporting memorabilia at London-based Graham Budd Auctions.
10 December 2015 Last updated at 16:58 GMT
The film will see the return of aliens, droids and many other weird and wonderful creatures.
The man who created them, Neal Scanlon, showed Newsround his top three creatures.
The work will take place in four stages between January and March and aims to improve road safety.
Work on the first stage between West and East Heslerton will take place overnight between 20:00 GMT and 06:00 from 12 January to 1 February.
Highways Agency project manager Steven Wright said the work would involve five weekend closures.
"During the closures diversion routes will be clearly signed and drivers should allow extra time when travelling in the area," he said.
Brennan Dickenson and Sammie Szmodics scored as the U's ended a three-match winless run to remain within three points off the top seven, and move above the Stags.
Szmodics went close for Colchester early on, while at the other end Mansfield's Matt Green ballooned over a gilt-edged chance from close range.
The U's went ahead in the 20th minute through Dickenson, who raced onto Sean Murray's excellent cross-field pass and beat Stags right-back Hayden White before drilling a low shot in off the far post.
And Szmodics doubled Colchester's lead eight minutes later when he controlled Dickenson's pass in the area and planted a fine shot past goalkeeper Scott Shearer.
Mansfield left-back Malvind Benning dragged a low shot wide of the far post early in the second half and Green squandered an even better opportunity soon after when he scuffed wide, with only keeper Sam Walker to beat.
Benning's deflected effort was cleared from near his own line by Colchester's George Elokobi late on, as the Stags failed to score for a fourth successive game.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Colchester United 2, Mansfield Town 0.
Second Half ends, Colchester United 2, Mansfield Town 0.
Foul by Tom Lapslie (Colchester United).
Danny Rose (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Macauley Bonne (Colchester United).
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Colchester United. Kane Vincent-Young replaces Cameron James because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Danny Rose (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Colchester United. Macauley Bonne replaces Sammie Szmodics.
Attempt missed. Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United).
Hayden White (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Elokobi (Colchester United).
Danny Rose (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Matthew Briggs (Colchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt blocked. Benjamin Whiteman (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Sean Murray (Colchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Malvind Benning.
Foul by Hayden White (Mansfield Town).
Tom Lapslie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Cameron James.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by George Elokobi.
Substitution, Colchester United. Alex Wynter replaces Rekeil Pyke.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Shaquile Coulthirst replaces Alexander MacDonald.
Attempt saved. Matt Green (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ashley Hemmings (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sean Murray (Colchester United).
Joel Byrom (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joel Byrom (Mansfield Town).
Sammie Szmodics (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Green (Mansfield Town).
Tom Lapslie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Benjamin Whiteman (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Matthew Briggs (Colchester United).
Alexander MacDonald (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay in match Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) because of an injury.
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Well tiny transmitters have been put under the skin of the slippery slugs to see where they go.
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Hundreds of slugs have been tagged and their movements tracked to give the famers a better understanding of what they get up to at night.
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He was taken ill on Tuesday while visiting the country to support his daughter Tracey, who is the England netball coach, during the World Cup.
England Netball confirmed the 65-year-old died in hospital in Sydney on Friday evening local time.
Mr Neville was a former commercial director of Bury Football Club.
The League One side said he was in Sydney with his wife, Jill, who is also club secretary for Bury FC.
In a statement, the club confirmed Mr Neville's death "with deep regret and extremely heavy hearts", and said it would pay tribute at a future date.
"Where would this Club be without Neville? Rest in Peace big Nev," the club said, adding players would wear black armbands during their match with Doncaster on Saturday.
Mr Neville was involved in the fans' group Save Our Shakers, which was formed when the side faced bankruptcy in 2002.
His sons, Gary and Phil, both started their lengthy football careers with Manchester United in the early 1990s. Gary won 85 England caps, while Phil won 59.
Manchester United tweeted: "We are sad to learn that Neville Neville, father of Gary and Phil, has passed away. Our condolences go out to his family."
An emotional Tracey Neville led her England side out on court on Friday just hours after it emerged her father had been taken ill.
Local media reported Gary and Phil Neville were in the Sydney crowd to watch England win their first match 60-19 against Scotland on the opening day of the World Cup.
An England Netball spokesperson said: "Our immediate thoughts are with Tracey and the Neville family and we please ask that the privacy of the family is respected at this time.
"Tracey has chosen to remain with the England team for the remainder of the World Cup and has the full support from everyone at England Netball."
26 November 2015 Last updated at 07:30 GMT
People were left homeless and lots of children were unable to go to school.
A group of junior fire cadets in Cheshire raised money to build a school for one village that was hit, They went out to Nepal themselves to help complete it.
Here's their story.
Brendan Rodgers' team were utterly dominant in the opening half, scoring through Tom Rogic and a terrific double from Leigh Griffiths.
The wheels fell off suddenly early in the second half as Lucio Maranhao and Maor Melikson netted.
But Moussa Dembele headed in a fourth and Scott Brown rattled home a fifth.
The two sides meet again in Beersheba on Tuesday but that game will have to go some to match a brilliant and madcap European night at Celtic Park.
Craig Gordon's magnificent save from a Maharan Radi header preserved Celtic's lead at 4-2 and Hapoel had a penalty claim turned down shortly before Brown's goal.
For Celtic, it had been so easy for so long.
Griffiths was so involved in the first half it was difficult to keep a check on how many versions of himself were out on the pitch. Scott Sinclair's pace troubled Beer Sheva, Rogic had a field day and Brown led the side well.
Celtic were ahead when Griffiths dinked a beautiful ball over the visiting defence to Sinclair, who was promptly taken out by goalkeeper David Goresh. It would have been a penalty had it not been for Rogic following up to drive Celtic into the lead.
Soon after, Sinclair went down in the box but a big shout for a spot-kick was waved away. It hardly seemed to matter because in Celtic's performance there was always the promise of more goals. And they came.
Kolo Toure strode out of defence and found Sinclair, who put James Forrest away down the right. His cross was nutted home brilliantly by Griffiths.
The third was even better, a sumptuous Griffiths free-kick from wide to the right of the Hapoel penalty area. The striker curled into the top corner. Total class.
Hapoel had no shots on goal and, seemingly, no hope of turning it around, but they did.
From a counter-attack, Lucio struck from close range to make it 3-1. From another advance down the left two minutes later, Melikson drove home from a central position and suddenly it was 3-2.
Celtic were in shock, but gathered themselves to score a fourth. Griffiths was involved again, swinging in a corner for Dembele to head home.
Gordon's superb save from Radi was as impressive as it was critical.
And then Brown added the dramatic flourish, his first shot fluffed, his second rifled into the Hapoel net to send Celtic Park back into a blissful state.
To call it a classic does not quite cover it.
Match ends, Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2.
Second Half ends, Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2.
Loai Taha (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Moussa Dembele (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Loai Taha (Hapoel Be'er Sheva).
Attempt saved. Maor Bar Buzaglo (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tony Nwakaeme.
Foul by James Forrest (Celtic).
Ofir Davidzada (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
James Forrest (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Nir Bitton (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Maor Bar Buzaglo (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by David Goresh.
Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Moussa Dembele.
Kolo Touré (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Maor Melikson (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Vladimir Brown replaces Maharan Radi.
Foul by Saidy Janko (Celtic).
Maor Melikson (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by James Forrest.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Maor Bar Buzaglo replaces Ovidiu Hoban.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Tony Nwakaeme (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Maharan Radi (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Bitton with a cross.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Ovidiu Hoban (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Celtic 4, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Leigh Griffiths with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Shir Tzedek.
Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Saidy Janko.
Attempt missed. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Celtic. Moussa Dembele replaces Tomas Rogic.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Ben Sahar replaces Lucio Maranhão.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Ofir Davidzada.
Substitution, Celtic. Saidy Janko replaces Mikael Lustig.
Substitution, Celtic. Nir Bitton replaces Callum McGregor.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Reports say the ECB will inject up to €1 trillion by buying government bonds worth up to €50bn (£38bn) per month until the end of 2016.
Creating new money to buy government debt, or quantitative easing (QE), should reduce the cost of borrowing.
The ECB also said eurozone interest rates were being held at 0.05%.
The eurozone is flagging and the ECB is seeking ways to stimulate spending.
Lowering the cost of borrowing should encourage banks to lend and eurozone businesses and consumers to spend more.
It is a strategy that appears to have worked in the US, which undertook a huge programme of QE between 2008 and 2014.
The UK and Japan have also had sizeable bond-buying programmes.
What is a government bond?
Governments borrow money by selling bonds to investors. A bond is an IOU. In return for the investor's cash, the government promises to pay a fixed rate of interest over a specific period - say 4% every year for 10 years. At the end of the period, the investor is repaid the cash they originally paid, cancelling that particular bit of government debt.
Government bonds have traditionally been seen as ultra-safe long-term investments and are held by pension funds, insurance companies and banks, as well as private investors. They are a vital way for countries to raise funds.
Up until now, the ECB has resisted, although the bank's president, Mario Draghi, reassured markets in July 2012 by saying he would be prepared to do whatever it took to maintain financial stability in the eurozone, nicknamed his "big bazooka" speech.
Since then, the case for quantitative easing has been growing.
Earlier this month, figures showed the eurozone was suffering deflation, creating the danger that growth would stall as businesses and consumers shut their wallets, as they waited for prices to fall.
The ECB's bond-buying programme is likely to begin in March, although the final decision over whether to start the measures will be taken at a meeting of the bank's 25-member policy-making board on Thursday.
There remains a possibility that the German members of the board will object to the plan. They would prefer any government bonds purchased to be held by national governments, rather than centrally by the ECB. That would reduce the risk of a default by struggling peripheral countries, such as Greece and Italy, being shouldered by the richer members of the eurozone.
On Wednesday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) urged Mr Draghi to pursue uncapped quantitative easing.
Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday: "Let Mario go as far as he can. I don't think he should cap it. Don't say 500bn [euros]. Just say, 'As far as we can, as far as we need it.'"
However, some economists and analysts have expressed reservations about the idea.
Joerg Kraemer of Commerzbank told BBC World Service's World Business Report programme that there was "no real threat" to the eurozone economy from deflation.
He added: "A mild decline in prices is no problem for real GDP growth, and especially in the eurozone. The only reason why we have a negative inflation rate is the decline in oil price, but the decline in oil price is good for the economy."
UK economist Roger Bootle of Capital Economics told the programme: "I am not the greatest fan of quantitative easing - I don't think it's going to cure the European malaise. The point is, there is not much else in the locker."
The unanimous decision to close the Wakeman School in 2013 came a fortnight after it achieved its best ever GCSE results.
Head teacher Karen Moore said the school would appeal and was also considering academy status, which would remove it from local authority control.
The council said the decision was due to "unsustainable" pupil numbers.
In July, Shropshire Council also confirmed the closure of four primary schools.
The Conservative-controlled authority praised staff at the Wakeman and said the closure was due to the school's financial sustainability, rather than its standard of education.
In March, Ofsted reported that the Wakeman was a good school, with a good capacity for sustained improvement and a strong leadership.
The town centre school has only 240 pupils on its roll from September, out of a capacity of 675.
School campaigners said the falling rolls had been due to rumours over the past five years regarding its future.
Pupils from the arts college have been actively campaigning against its closure since February.
Before the cabinet meeting pupils performed street theatre outside Shire Hall, recreating a crime scene in protest against the plans.
The council said the impact on pupils would be minimised by phasing the closure over two years.
The singer became violently ill at the end of a tour of South America last week, requiring him to return to the UK for urgent treatment.
Nine concerts that were due to be staged in Las Vegas and California over the next two weeks have been cancelled.
Sir Elton is now resting at home.
A statement by his management said infections of the kind suffered by the star were "rare and potentially deadly". It gave no details.
"Thankfully, Elton's medical team identified this quickly and treated it successfully. He is expected to make a full and complete recovery," it added.
Sir Elton is due to resume his schedule of live performances in the UK on 3 June.
"I am so fortunate to have the most incredible and loyal fans and apologise for disappointing them. I am extremely grateful to the medical team for their excellence in looking after me so well," the star said.
His Million Dollar Piano tour is due to end its run in May 2018.
The career of Sir Elton spans five decades and has been littered with accolades, hit singles and world records.
The 70-year-old singer has sold more than 200 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time.
West Midlands Ambulance Service had been bracing itself for record numbers of call-outs after experiencing one of its busiest ever days during December.
However, the number of overnight calls received on New Year's Eve was 1,436 - far fewer than last year's figure of around 1,600.
The service said the public was heeding advice not to make non-emergency calls.
A sharp rise in calls throughout 2014 had led the service to expect an extremely busy New Year's Eve and it had warned it was "stretched to the limit".
However, chief executive Anthony Marsh said "months of planning" had meant the service was able to cope.
"I cannot remember a year like 2014. Demand just kept increasing with more pressure in the system that I can recall for a very long time," he said.
"Staff on the road and in our control rooms have been working flat out during December which saw the trust break records in terms of demand.
"I am immensely proud of the way that, as a trust, we have met this challenge."
Landscrona, the Russian champions' largest fans' group, said black players are "forced down Zenit's throat".
"I'm not surprised. Everybody knows Zenit supporters are no good and racist," Samba told BBC Radio 5 live.
"They are living in another century. It's a sad day for Russian football."
He added: "In this time we have different communities and countries that constitute teams. If they can't accept that then they are never going to progress."
Zenit were the only top-flight Russian team without a black player until the summer signings of Brazil striker Hulk and Belgian midfielder Axel Witsel.
The club was fined by the Russian Football Union after one of their fans offered a banana to Anzhi Makhachkala left-back Roberto Carlos before a match between the two sides in March 2011.
Black players in the Russian league have been the target of monkey chants and Samba also had a banana thrown at him by a Lokomotiv Moscow fan shortly after his move from Blackburn Rovers.
However, the Congo-Brazzaville international insists there is no prospect of black players staging a protest by boycotting matches following Landscrona's open letter.
"Boycotting, why? Because fans make statement they don't want black players. No. Black players should fight for the good ones - not the idiots," he said.
"It's really sad. It's slowing down the process of Russian football being a better league. I hope the Russian federation do the necessary to sanction it."
I know, based on my experience with Russian football and Zenit, there are serious issues about racism
Raymond Verheijen, a former coach of Zenit, believes there are "serious issues" with racism in Russian football and says action needs to be taken by the sport's governing body.
"If the fans are asking for an all-white team, I'm actually quite shocked to be honest," he said.
"I know, based on my experience with Russian football and Zenit, there are serious issues about racism, so I was already familiar with the problem.
"But if it's true that the fans have asked for this policy then I think its time that the club and the Federation also took some action against these kind of things."
Russia is preparing to host the 2018 World Cup after being picked by governing body Fifa to stage the tournament for the first time.
Samba, 28, believes Russia's continuing problems surrounding racism are "not helping" the country's preparations.
He added: "The fact that a lot of players are going to Russia should be promoted. But if we're not welcome then it would be very difficult to change the mentality ahead of the World Cup."
The show at Leeds College of Art features a selection of work by artist Felice House.
'Re/Western' includes seven large scale portraits taken from iconic Westerns.
A spokesperson for the college said the exhibition raises questions around "gender stereotypes and the access of women to power".
Felice House is an American artist who lives and works in Texas.
The exhibition runs until 24 March at the college's Blenheim Walk Gallery.
Saddlers striker Bradshaw, 23, scored his first senior hat-trick as his injury-time penalty sealed a dramatic 4-3 triumph at the City Ground.
"We thought it was a stonewaller for extra time," Bradshaw told BBC WM 95.6.
"Even when they equalised in the 93rd minute we still had it in us for one last attack - it was first class."
Bradshaw, who extended his contract at the Banks's Stadium until 2017 in June, scored twice as Walsall led 3-1 with nine minutes to go, before Forest substitute Michail Antonio's brace levelled the tie in the last minute.
Walsall won it in the fifth minute of added-on time when Bradshaw slotted home his spot-kick to send the visitors through.
"I missed my last penalty in pre-season against West Brom but I did some practice, I knew exactly where I was going to go and just made sure I hit it cleanly," Bradshaw added.
"It was a special moment for me and my family - my dad and a couple of my uncles were in the crowd."
The former Shrewsbury forward was the Saddlers' top scorer last season, with 20 goals, and he says beating Forest will give everyone at the club a huge lift as their League One campaign gets underway.
"We're creating a lot more chances this season and that's down to our more positive attitude," he added
"If can keep scoring goals like we are we won't be far off."
Olusanya scored his first ever goal from the penalty spot after he was fouled by Ben Davies.
Wimbledon will face Accrington Stanley in the play-off semi-finals, while Newport end the season without a win in 11 games.
Warren Feeney's side, who had already secured League Two safety, finished nine points above the relegation zone.
Adebayo Akinfenwa had Wimbledon's best chance of a first half which was delayed for 10 minutes after team-mate Connor Smith suffered a head injury.
Newport's Lenell John-Lewis was denied by James Shea while Akinfenwa struck the post before substitute Olusanya's winner.
Newport County manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "It looked like and end of season game.
"It's another sloppy goal we've given away but I think it's that little bit of belief in the final third that we're lacking and have been lacking for a while.
"I don't want to be in this position next year."
It is part of wider regeneration plans to promote the town and Loch Ryan as a marine leisure destination.
An outline business case last year estimated the scheme could create about 30 new jobs - but at a cost of £6m.
Consultants are set to be appointed this month to put together the full case to take the development forward.
The study is expected to take between six and nine months to complete.
It will examine the technical and financial viability of the scheme and take the proposals to the planning approval stage.
The marina is one of a series of projects which make up the Stranraer waterfront masterplan.
Another key element is the re-development of the East Pier which was left vacant after ferry operator Stena Line relocated to Cairnryan.
Last year the council entered into a partnership with an Irish property management group to examine new retail, leisure, hotel and housing opportunities for the site.
It is claimed that could lead to an investment of up to £50m.
In a progress report, the authority said it was currently carrying out ground investigation surveys which would help shape future plans.
The transport committee blamed "major failures" at the Department for Transport (DfT) and the civil service.
But its report was not unanimous, with several committee members choosing not to blame ministers.
In October, the government scrapped its decision to award the £5bn franchise to FirstGroup.
The reversal will cost taxpayers almost £50m, it has been estimated.
"This episode revealed substantial problems of governance, assurance, policy and resources inside the Department for Transport," said Louise Ellman, chairwoman of the committee.
"Embarking on an ambitious - perhaps unachievable - reform of franchising, in haste, on the UK's most complex piece of railway, was an irresponsible decision for which ministers were ultimately responsible.
"This was compounded by major failures by civil servants, some of whom misled ministers."
A DfT spokesman responded: "Independent experts concluded the collapse of the West Coast franchise programme was caused by a number of failures including inadequate planning and weak governance structure, but not systematic failings in the department.
"The examination of emails from key officials found no evidence that this was anything other than simple human error.
"We are putting in place measures that will prevent this embarrassing episode from happening again."
Also on Thursday, the DfT announced what it would be doing about the processes of awarding three other franchises, which were put on hold after the problems emerged with the West Coast Main Line franchise.
The competition for the Great Western franchise, which connects London to Bristol and Cardiff, has been scrapped.
The department is in talks with the existing operator FirstGroup about extending its franchise for two years. It will announce what it plans to do in the longer term later this year.
The other two competitions - Essex Thameside and the combined Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise - will resume their bidding processes, with revised invitations to tender being issued to the existing short-listed bidders in the summer.
The existing operators will have their contracts to run those franchises extended for no more than two years, in order to allow those processes to be completed.
The mistakes in the West Coast process came to light after rival bidder Virgin Trains launched a legal challenge against the decision. Virgin will continue running the service until November 2014, when a new long-term franchise will begin.
In December, the National Audit Office calculated a "significant cost to the taxpayer".
It said costs for staff, advisers, lawyers and the two reviews into the fiasco added up to £8.9m, on top of the estimated £40m it will take to reimburse firms for the cost of their bids.
But three members of the transport select committee - Karen Lumley, Karl McCartney, and Iain Stewart - said that they disagreed with the report, which was passed by a majority vote.
An independent report last year by Sam Laidlaw - chief executive of Centrica, the owner of British Gas - found there was a "damning failure" by the DfT that led to ministers - who had not been told about flaws in the bidding process - awarding the contract after being given inaccurate reports.
"We believe the evidence in the Laidlaw Report shows that ministers asked the right, penetrating questions during the process but were given inaccurate responses by officials," they said.
"We do not believe that it is was 'irresponsible' to run the new franchise process first on the WCML as the department has shown itself perfectly capable of managing other complex projects in this period," they added.
Three DfT civil servants, who were suspended after the scrapping of the bid, have returned to work, and one official has launched legal action against the department on the basis that her role in the process has been "inaccurately" portrayed.
In the report, Ms Ellman said: "Many of the problems with the franchise competition, detailed in the Laidlaw report, reflect very badly on civil servants at the DfT.
"However, ministers approved a complex - perhaps unworkable - franchising policy at the same time as overseeing major cuts to the department's resources. This was a recipe for failure which the DfT must learn from urgently."
She called on the DfT to explain why ministers and senior officials were "misled" about how subordinated loan facilities were calculated, if necessary after disciplinary proceedings against staff have concluded.
Ms Ellman's constituency on Merseyside is served by the rail line.
About 31 million passengers travel on the West Coast Main Line between London and Scotland every year.
The attacks took place between April and July last year at addresses in Portadown, County Armagh, and Banbridge and Gilford in County Down.
The officers' homes and vehicles were attacked and in some cases destroyed.
Those charged were among nine people detained by police on Tuesday as part of the investigation.
Two men were charged with a number of offences on Wednesday evening.
They face charges of arson with intent to endanger life, conspiracy to cause an explosion and drugs offences.
The men will appear at Lisburn Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
Earlier on Wednesday, four men and a woman appeared at Craigavon Magistrates' Court on arson and drugs-related offences.
The woman is 21 while the others are aged 17, 20, 36 and 51.
They faced a number of charges, including conspiracy to commit arson and conspiracy to cause an explosion.
Two of the nine arrested - women aged 27 and 42 - have been charged with drugs offences and are expected to appear at the same court next month.
The arrests took place in Larne, Lisburn, Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon.
Detectives also searched properties in counties Antrim, Armagh and Down on Tuesday morning.
She claims to have "the UK's most controversial boobs" and receives continuous online abuse.
In 2013 she appeared in The Sun boasting about her boob job courtesy of the tax payer - on the NHS.
She's also sold tickets to the birth of her daughter and said she'd have an abortion if it meant she could go in Big Brother.
Her agent, Rob Cooper, claims they usually charge "no less than a four figure sum" for access to her because they have a lot of overheads - including security.
Newsbeat filmed an unpaid interview with Josie as she prepared for a photo shoot.
We were asked not to film her new boyfriend because "there's money in exclusivity" for an interview with Andy - Josie's boyfriend.
Speaking to Newsbeat, Josie says: "Everybody just thinks I'm this fame hungry bitch but actually I'm a hard-working parent.
"I think people are slowly realising there is a game there to be played. It's a whole case of don't hate the player - hate the game."
"My career is a lot of things at the moment, I've got a couple of endorsements. I'm also constantly filming and doing TV interviews, press releases, radio interviews - so it's really exciting, who knows what tomorrow may bring."
When the subject of how much money Josie makes comes up, she quickly says "No comment" but admits to being "definitely" well paid.
Josie's team explained to Newsbeat discussions had taken place for her to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house but an agreement was never made.
"I'd make for fantastic viewing," Josie explains. "I'd well entertain the public if I was in. I think it would be £150,000 well spent."
Reality TV offers regularly come in for the mother-of-three but she says she won't consider leaving her children unless a guaranteed fee was agreed that could change their life.
Her agent smirked when asked if Josie had earned hundreds of thousands of pounds over the past two years but wouldn't deny it.
Josie says: "I don't really discuss finances and things because I find it a bit tacky but it is paying well and I am providing for the kids. They're spoilt rotten but that's beside the point."
Nearly 80,000 accounts follow Josie Cunningham on Twitter - something she regularly uses to criticise other people in the public eye.
She's also on the receiving end of abuse but says it doesn't bother her because she was regularly bullied in school.
"I never expected all this backlash and the reaction I did get," Josie admits.
"I thought to take this on the chin and use it to my advantage and we're still around so we must be doing something right.
"Up until the past couple months I'd say I definitely got more of a hard time. Now, there's a couple of people online I've noticed that have started to turn their opinion around. Things are looking up."
Josie says doctors had told her she had no natural breast tissue.
She had her boob job when she was 22, increasing her breast size from a 32A to a 36DD.
Doing Page 3 for The Sun was "a dream" and being a hate figure wasn't something Josie had in mind. She was hoping for the opposite.
She tells Newsbeat: "I wanted to be a role model to younger people, to anybody that didn't have a chest and was feeling like giving up on life and couldn't go on with this - maybe have difficulties going out or suffering with anxiety because of this."
Being so public about her views isn't something Josie regrets.
"All this hatred that comes with my name I'd say is worth it because I've got my name out there so much more from being hated.
"All of a sudden everybody knew my name so thanks for that - it's been great.
"It does feel amazing to be where I'm at now. I've had two years of hard work to get to this point and I'm just really excited to see what the future holds."
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Every single Bramley apple ever eaten can be traced back to a 200-year-old tree that is still growing in Southwell in Nottinghamshire.
It grew from a pip sown by a young girl called Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809.
The apples are now so popular that 83,000 tonnes of them - approximately 400 million apples - were grown in Britain in 2014.
The Bramley Apple Festival was organised with the help of Roger Merryweather, great-grandson of Henry Merryweather, the first person to grow the trees commercially.
"Here we are 200 years since the first pip was sown and it's still a very popular cooking apple," said Mr Merryweather.
"The tree is showing a little bit of wear and tear as you can expect, but it bore fruit this year.
"How many more years it has to go, who knows?"
Mr Merryweather said the Bramley became popular because of its strong growth, the qualities of the fruit, and also because it can be stored for a long time.
He believes the National Federation of Women's Institutes has also done a lot to promote the qualities of the Bramley in cooking.
The Conservative leader told the BBC the idea of SNP influence over a Labour PM was a "frightening prospect".
But Ms Sturgeon said the SNP "want to be constructive, to get better politics coming out of the Westminster system".
Labour's Ed Balls said the Tories and SNP wanted each other to do well. "They are in bed together," he told Sky News.
The possible role of the SNP in a post-election government has been one of the key issues in the campaign so far.
Labour has rejected the idea of a coalition or deal with the SNP - who are threatening to take a swathe of seats from them in Scotland, if opinion polls turn out to be accurate.
But the Conservatives have demanded that Labour also rule out any prospect of operating as a minority government and relying on SNP support on a vote-by-vote basis.
The SNP have said that they would seek to prevent a Conservative government and would seek to ensure any Labour government was "progressive".
SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie told the BBC's Sunday Politics the party would vote against "cuts that we didn't like", highlighting the SNP's opposition to the Trident nuclear weapons system.
In the absence of a five-year deal, he said: "There would be no deal so we would be perfectly at liberty to table amendments to Budgets and legislation, vote against or table amendments to estimates, perfectly sensible."
Earlier on the Andrew Marr Show, Mr Cameron said: "The SNP is a party that doesn't want to come to Westminster to contribute to a government; it wants to come to Westminster to break up our country.
"When you have a group of Nationalists that want to be involved with the government of a country which they don't want to belong to you have to ask yourself if you're a voter in England, or Wales, or Northern Ireland would these people care at all about what happens in my life and my constituency? The answer is 'no'."
Ms Sturgeon rejected the view the SNP would attempt to cause disruption at Westminster to further its goal of independence - while also ruling out any deal with the Conservatives.
She said: "There is an opportunity to build progressive alliances for progressive policies. It is a real rather than a pretend alternative to austerity."
Ms Sturgeon added: "We want to be constructive, to get better politics coming out of the Westminster system.
"As long as Scotland remains part of the Westminster system, it matters to people that we get good decisions out of that system, and I want the SNP to play a positive part in improving politics at Westminster for people right across the UK."
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond said his party had received "thousands of applications from people in England who want to join the SNP" following Ms Sturgeon's performance in the leaders' debates. He said audiences "seemed quite enamoured by the prospect of Nicola Sturgeon's politics having an influence in the House of Commons".
"You have really got to divide the attitudes of the Westminster political establishment from the people of England. The people of England don't think like Westminster politicians," he said.
For Labour, shadow chancellor Ed Balls told Sky the focus on the SNP was a sign of Mr Cameron's "faltering campaign".
"He has nothing to say about a better Britain for working families, so he's talking up the SNP as his last best hope of clinging to power."
Mr Balls said he could say "unambiguously" there would be no coalition between Labour and the SNP.
"Our principle is very clear - the SNP exist - unlike the Lib Dems or, to be fair, UKIP - as a political party to break up the United Kingdom. That's their raison d'etre... I can say to you unambiguously that we're not going to start getting involved in coalitions or deals with a political party that wants to break up the United Kingdom."
He questioned whether Mr Cameron would say the same, adding: "He would love to do a deal with the SNP... the reality is the SNP want the Tories in and the Tories want the SNP to do well. They're in bed together."
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, meanwhile, issued a direct challenge to Mr Cameron to publicly rule out a post-election alliance with UKIP, telling him not to treat voters as if they were "stupid" by maintaining the Tories were on course to a majority.
"I have ruled out an alliance with the SNP, I have ruled out an alliance with UKIP, why won't you do the same?" he said.
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The visitors led on seven minutes through Hayley Ladd's headed own goal, but Claire Emslie's low strike levelled the scores at half-time.
Man City had second-half shots from England's Lucy Bronze and Steph Houghton blocked on the line.
But winger Parris' low finish won the game on 89 minutes.
Nick Cushing's side - which saw six changes from Thursday's Champions League quarter-final first leg in Denmark - led when Bristol City keeper Caitlin Leach attempted to punch away Bronze's cross but her clearance ricocheted in off the host's unfortunate captain Ladd.
Man City keeper Marie Hourihan then saved brilliantly from Millie Turner's downward header from a set-piece, before Toni Duggan, Parris and Georgia Stanway missed chances to extend the visitors' lead at the other end.
On the stroke of half-time, Scotland forward Claire Emslie's low finish drew Bristol City level.
City's Carli Lloyd was denied by a good Leach save after the interval and the visitors then went close through Bronze, Houghton and Parris before the England winger snatched a late, hard-fought victory.
The draw for the semi-finals will take place live on BBC Radio 5 Live at 14:45 BST on Monday, 27 March.
South Wales Police is appealing for witnesses after the man was discovered at the crossing on Cwm Road on Sunday.
Emergency services were alerted at about 16:45 BST.
The man was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
Snap Map lets people search for places such as schools and see videos and pictures posted by children inside.
It also lets people locate their "friends" on a map that is accurate enough to determine where people live.
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, stressed to the BBC that location sharing was an opt-in feature.
Snap Map was launched on Wednesday and was promoted as a "new way to explore the world".
Video clips and photos that members have posted publicly can be discovered on the map, while members who have chosen to share their location can also be seen on the map by those they have added as "friends".
However, members can add people they have never met to their friends list too.
A message to parents posted by St Peter's Academy in Staffordshire warned that the location-sharing feature lets people "locate exactly where you are, which building you are in and exact whereabouts within the building".
One parent described the update as "dangerous" while another said she could not find the setting to disable it.
People have expressed concern online that the app could be used for stalking or working out exactly where somebody lives.
"If you zoom right in on this new Snapchat map thing it literally tells you where everyone lives? Like exact addresses - bit creepy no?" wrote one user called Leanne.
"This new Snapchat update is awful. An invitation for stalkers, kidnappers, burglars and relationship trust issues," suggested Jade.
Snap told the BBC that accurate location information was necessary to allow friends to use the service to meet, for example at a restaurant or crowded festival, and said points of interest on the map, such as schools, were provided by third-party mapping service Mapbox.
Concerned parents could find out more information on its Privacy Center website, a spokesman told the BBC.
"With Snap Map, location sharing is off by default for all users and is completely optional. Snapchatters can choose exactly who they want to share their location with, if at all, and can change that setting at any time," a Snap spokesman said.
"It's also not possible to share your location with someone who isn't already your friend on Snapchat, and the majority of interactions on Snapchat take place between close friends."
The brutal regime claimed the lives of more than a million people - and some estimates say up to 2.5 million perished.
Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside.
But this dramatic attempt at social engineering had a terrible cost, and whole families died from execution, starvation, disease and overwork.
The Khmer Rouge had its origins in the 1960s, as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - the name the Communists used for Cambodia.
Based in remote jungle and mountain areas in the north-east of the country, the group initially made little headway.
But after a right-wing military coup toppled head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970, the Khmer Rouge entered into a political coalition with him and began to attract increasing support.
In a civil war that continued for nearly five years, it gradually increased its control in the countryside.
Khmer Rouge forces finally took over the capital, Phnom Penh, and therefore the nation as a whole in 1975.
During his time in the remote north-east, Pol Pot had been influenced by the surrounding hill tribes, who were self-sufficient in their communal living, had no use for money and were "untainted" by Buddhism.
When he came to power, he and his henchmen quickly set about transforming Cambodia - now re-named Kampuchea - into what they hoped would be an agrarian utopia.
Declaring that the nation would start again at "Year Zero", Pol Pot isolated his people from the rest of the world and set about emptying the cities, abolishing money, private property and religion, and setting up rural collectives.
Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed. Often people were condemned for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language.
Tens of thousands of the educated middle-classes were tortured and executed in special centres.
The most notorious of these centres was the S21 jail in Phnom Penh, where more than 17,000 men, women and children were imprisoned during the regime's four years in power.
Hundreds of thousands of others died from disease, starvation or exhaustion as members of the Khmer Rouge - often just teenagers themselves - forced people to do back-breaking work.
The Khmer Rouge government was finally overthrown in 1979 by invading Vietnamese troops, after a series of violent border confrontations.
The higher echelons of the party retreated to remote areas of the country, where they remained active for a while but gradually became less and less powerful.
In the years that followed, as Cambodia began the process of reopening to the international community, the full horrors of the regime became apparent.
Survivors told their stories to shocked audiences, and in the 1980s the Hollywood movie The Killing Fields brought the plight of the Khmer Rouge victims to worldwide attention.
Pol Pot was denounced by his former comrades in a show trial in July 1997, and sentenced to house arrest in his jungle home.
But less than a year later he was dead - denying the millions of people who were affected by this brutal regime the chance to bring him to justice.
Mr Trump told the Washington Post he would not step aside, no matter what.
The White House had said Mr Trump was "disqualified" from running after he said the US should ban Muslims from entering the country.
His comments, in the wake of a deadly terror attack in California, drew global condemnation.
The latest world leader to reject his remarks was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Israel "respects all religions", hours after Mr Trump announced he will be visiting the country this month.
Mr Trump is the current frontrunner among the Republicans running for president, six weeks before the primary contests begin for each party to pick their nominee.
He also alluded to running as an independent in a tweet linking to a USA Today poll which found 68% of his supporters would vote for him if he left the Republican party.
Concerned that Mr Trump could run as an independent, Republican leaders persuaded the New York businessman to pledge to support the eventual nominee.
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However, Mr Trump has threatened to leave the Republican party before if he was not "treated fairly".
"My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose," he told the Post.
Party officials fear a third-party Trump campaign would spilt the Republican vote, and give Democrats a winning advantage.
Although Mr Trump has consistently led in national polls for several months, a majority of voters view him unfavourably.
Republican congressman David Jolly has joined a number of commentators who have urged him to withdraw from the race.
Mr Trump's comments about Muslims came after the deadly shootings in San Bernardino, California.
He called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
A Muslim couple, believed to have been radicalised, killed 14 people at a health centre and left scores injured.
Many leading Republicans have expressed their condemnation. Former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush called Mr Trump "unhinged" while Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said his comments were contrary to American values.
A petition calling for Mr Trump to be barred from entering the UK has gathered more than 250,000 names, so MPs will have to consider debating the issue.
"They don't know what they're getting into," Mr Trump wrote on Twitter about the petition.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he regards comments made by Mr Trump as "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong".
Mr Trump also claimed that parts of London were "so radicalised the police are afraid for their lives".
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson responded by saying the "ill-informed comments are complete and utter nonsense".
Manager Louis van Gaal will not pick the Spain international, 24, until the transfer window closes amid speculation linking him with Real Madrid.
United's two-time player of the season told goalkeeping coach Frans Hoek he was "not 100% focused", the club said.
Argentina international Sergio Romero started Saturday's win over Tottenham.
De Gea has again been left out of the United squad for Friday's Premier League game at Aston Villa (19:45 BST).
"I'm not doing everything alone," said Van Gaal. "I have two assistant coaches and a goalkeeping coach, Frans Hoek.
"Frans had a meeting with David De Gea. He fully agreed with our decision."
Van Gaal said he and his staff had watched De Gea in training and the former Atletico Madrid player was "not the same as before".
The Dutchman's observation about De Gea's state of mind came during an unexpected exchange after his news conference on Thursday.
Having chided a journalist for not being aware of his previous comments about De Gea, Van Gaal sought him out once he had finished answering questions and the pair spoke for a couple of minutes.
He told The Times' Tony Barrett: "Frans Hoek, he has a meeting with David de Gea and he asks him, 'Do you want to play?'."
When the reporter asked about De Gea's reply, Van Gaal said it was: "No."
The club later moved to clarify those comments, issuing a statement which read: "The manager wants to clarify that the direct answer from David was not 'no', David was not eager to play because of the situation and because he was not 100% focussed due to all the rumours surrounding him."
United are adamant they will not sell De Gea, whose contract expires at the end of the season, unless they receive a world-record fee from Real or get defender Sergio Ramos in exchange.
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Van Gaal had earlier said Barcelona forward Pedro fits the template of a quick, penetrative player he is still looking for.
"Pedro is a player like that," he said. "So write it."
The 28-year-old Spain international, who has been heavily linked with a move to Old Trafford, is said to have told Barca he wants to leave.
"You have to ask Pedro, not me," said Van Gaal. "I don't mention anything before he has signed. When he has signed I come to you and say: 'Hey, Pedro is here.' That is not the case and we shall wait and see."
Hammersmith and Fulham Council says certain conditions must be met ahead of any planning application.
The club has held two public exhibitions to showcase its design, which it hopes to begin next season.
The report is the first stage of the planning process.
Chelsea submitted preliminary documents to the local authority asking for guidance as to which areas it would need to address ahead of a full application.
In its response, sent to the club on Monday, the council indicates Chelsea is taking the correct steps in looking to deal with any environmental issues such a large scheme could pose.
Chelsea have played at Stamford Bridge since 1905, and the ground was last redeveloped in the 1990s.
However, its current capacity of about 42,000 is significantly smaller than the stadia of Premier League rivals Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City, whose grounds hold 76,000, 60,000 and 55,000 respectively.
Blues owner Roman Abramovich had initially considered seeking a permanent new home, with the club describing the option of expanding Stamford Bridge as "not feasible or viable" in 2012.
But the club decided to redevelop its current ground because of a lack of suitable sites available in London - having had a bid to build an "iconic" new stadium in Battersea Power Station rejected.
The club is reportedly close to sealing an agreement with Wembley to host its home matches during the redevelopment of Stamford Bridge, having previously explored the possibility of using Twickenham, the England rugby union stadium.
To go from the dismal lows of the World Cup only three months ago, to beating the finalists of that tournament with exhilarating, confident cricket is quite extraordinary.
England have beaten New Zealand at their own game: they have played in an attacking, enterprising way, abandoning the caution that characterised the ill-fated Peter Moores era and giving their young players free rein to show their skills.
If you're looking for the driving force behind England's transformation, you need look no further than their opponents.
New Zealand in the World Cup really caught everybody's imagination with the way they played the game - not just with bat and ball, but with their whole spirit: no fear, no recriminations, and no sledging.
Everything about it was a benchmark - and England saw at first hand exactly what they had to do bring their one-day cricket up to speed with the modern game.
England have looked a completely different side in this series, and not only have they enjoyed being liberated as far as their style of play is concerned, they've also thrived on the spirit in which this series has been played. It's been played in the proper way, very competitive but also respectful, and that has allowed England to flourish.
That is down to the players. It's not easy to suddenly change your game, but England have managed it - the challenge now for Eoin Morgan's men is to continue to play with the same spirit of adventure.
For the first time in a long time, there are suddenly good vibes around the one-day team. Young players like Alex Hales and Adil Rashid have come into the team and given the side a real lift.
Let's not kid ourselves: New Zealand's bowling attack in this series was inexperienced, they weren't the same side that performed so well in the World Cup, but for me the result is almost beside the point. It's the transformation in England's whole approach that gives me optimism for the future.
Joe Root and Jos Buttler both batted absolutely magnificently in this series. Root has become such a consistent performer for England in all formats, while Buttler is a composed cricketer who has a knack of always making the right decisions.
For me though, two players who aren't part of England's Test side have really stood out: captain Eoin Morgan and spinner Adil Rashid.
Morgan is batting better than ever. He had a poor World Cup where he looked horribly out of form, and many people thought that might even be the end. But he's come back and played brilliantly: he's such a clever batsman and when he plays with real audacity he has the ability to score runs all around the wicket.
A lot of credit has to go to England's cricket director Andrew Strauss: he gave Morgan a vote of confidence as ODI captain and that has given him a real boost.
Rashid came into this series with a lot of question marks hanging over him, but he has done enough to show he can bowl well under pressure.
He didn't have it easy in a series dominated by aggressive batting but I liked the way he was unafraid to toss the ball up and give it some air. He's a very capable lower-order batsman too, equally adept at deft shots and power hitting.
It's a terrible shame that England didn't bowl him on spin-friendly pitches in their recent Test series against the West Indies. People will talk about Rashid possibly coming in to the Test side for the Ashes but I can't see that happening: I think there will be a reluctance to play him as the sole spinner.
England's fielding has to improve. Their ground-fielding was OK, but the catching was generally below par, they dropped far too many chances.
Like New Zealand, England suffered from some very expensive bowling in the death overs at the end of the innings. A lot of that was down to good batting but I'd like to see more determination to bowl yorkers.
Batting-wise, the positive intent is great but it's got to be done sensibly. There's a fine line between being aggressive and being reckless.
That is the big question. A lot will depend on how the key men who haven't played in this ODI series - the likes of Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Alastair Cook - return to camp.
I think they will have a feel for what's happened here, and be very energised by how England have played.
It's important that Paul Farbrace continues to have an influence. He will be replaced as head coach by Trevor Bayliss for the Ashes, but he has done a brilliant job in his interim reign.
He has worked well with Bayliss in the past when they were in charge of Sri Lanka together, and I'm sure Bayliss will want to pick Farbrace's brains about how he has overseen this remarkable transformation.
The first match in Cardiff is very important. England can't afford lose that first Test. They will have to play at the top of their game to beat Australia, but I don't think anyone would write them off.
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Honore Kahi offered to take the baby as he was crying and preventing the mother from sitting in class.
He said his students were surprised, began to laugh and then took pictures.
He told the BBC that they then realised that "this is a good father, this is a real man... [and] a role model".
Some of those sharing the photograph on social media praised him as a hero.
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Mr Kahi, who teaches communications at Ivory Coast's Bouake University, said that women should not be discouraged by people's perceptions of what they should be able to do.
Girls are less likely than boys to start primary education in sub-Saharan Africa and are under-represented at higher education, the UN says.
"What prevails here is... male chauvinism," he said and then quoted an ancient philosopher in his interview with BBC Afrique.
"'It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.' In our environment we let ourselves be discouraged by others."
He said that when he took the baby and tied him on his back he stopped crying and fell asleep.
He knew how to do it by observing how women carry their children.
"In fact, men are able to do certain things, and usually it's the way society sees men that prevents them from doing these things."
Niall McCann, 35, of Cardiff, crashed on to Pen-Y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons in a speed flying accident last year.
He was rescued by Brecon Mountain Rescue Team and the coastguard and spent 38 days in hospital with a shattered spine.
Doctors feared he might not walk again but he has now rejoined the team he started training with before the crash.
A year on from the accident, the explorer and adventurer who has worked all over the world studying endangered animals, still has some paralysis in the back of his legs.
But he follows a rigorous physiotherapy regime, is back to hiking and cycling and is now fit enough to rejoin the team.
"I feel privileged to work side-by-side with the volunteers who saved my life; it is such an important charity," he said.
"I've had a fair amount of medical training. I was the de facto medic on expeditions to many hard-to-reach places all over the world.
"You have to be calm under pressure when there's no back-up coming. Now that I've experienced the other side of a rescue I feel like I'm better able to help others."
Brecon Mountain Rescue Team is an emergency service staffed by volunteers and funded by donations.
First-choice keeper Brown is expected to be out for three to six weeks with a fractured finger on his right hand.
Burgess, 22, has played in Sussex's past two One-Day Cup matches, taking five catches and scoring 28 runs.
"He's kept well and we want to give him a chance to move his career forward," Wright told BBC Sussex.
He confirmed Brown's injury will not require surgery, but has to be given time to heal.
"Michael has come in and took a couple of catches in the previous game that helped us win and he is taking his chance after performing well in pre-season," Wright said.
"It's not like there's too many people you can go to, so we'll give him a chance."
Sussex slipped to third in the One-Day Cup South Group after a 10-run defeat by Essex on Wednesday and face Gloucestershire at Eastbourne on Sunday before travelling to Hampshire next week.
"We're still in this competition even though we haven't been playing well," Wright admitted. "We haven't played anywhere near our best cricket and there's still lots of positives to take with two games left."
Greeted by screams and cheers, she talked about her own working-class background in Chicago in a speech at Mulberry School for Girls.
The visit is part of her global initiative to promote female education.
Accompanied by her two daughters, she also met Prince Harry at Kensington Palace and had tea at Downing Street.
Mrs Obama told pupils at the school in Tower Hamlets the world needed "more girls like you to lead our parliaments, our courtrooms and universities".
In a speech, she said: "With an education from this amazing school you all have everything, everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfil every last one of your dreams.
"And it is so important that you do that, not just for yourselves but for all of us. Because you all have a unique perspective, you have a unique voice to add to the conversation."
Ben Geoghegan, BBC News
This was a very personal - and at moments, emotional - speech, delivered directly to the girls at Mulberry School rather than for the ranks of cameras at the back of the room.
The school is in an area of high deprivation. Most of its students are from the Bangladeshi community and, for most, English is an "additional" language.
The First Lady compared her upbringing with theirs. As a black teenager on the south side of Chicago she remembered people telling her not to set her sights too high. She broke down the barriers to success.
She urged the schoolgirls in east London to do the same and to fulfil their dreams.
The "ambitious, confident and principled" students at the Mulberry School were inspired.
The question is whether Mrs Obama's message will be heard in those parts of the world where girls don't go to school at all.
In her address, Mrs Obama spoke of her own upbringing, saying in her youth there were few black women in positions of power.
But she said her parents realised education was the "ultimate key" to success and she could be successful if she worked hard at school.
She said: "Through it all my parents fully expected us to do both: to achieve our dreams and be there for our family.
Mrs Obama also met International Development Secretary Justine Greening and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. They announced the UK would be backing Mrs Obama's Let Girls Learn initiative to improve access to education in countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Earlier the first lady, accompanied by her daughters Sasha, 14, and Malia, 16, and mother, Marian Robinson, met Prince Harry for tea at Kensington Palace.
Their meeting came two years after the prince attended a mother's day tea for military mothers with Mrs Obama in the US.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said: "They discussed their shared interest in support for veterans and their families. Prince Harry was also interested to hear from the First Lady about the Let Girls Learn initiative."
They later spent about 45 minutes with Mr Cameron and wife Samantha in Downing Street, where they arrived in a seven-vehicle convoy.
Writing in the Financial Times, Mrs Obama said figures which suggested more than 62 million girls across the world did not go to school were a "heartbreaking injustice".
Forced marriages, early pregnancies, abuse and sexism were some of the obstacles to education faced by girls around the world, she said.
"That kind of life is unthinkable for the girls in our lives, so why would we accept this fate for any girl on this planet?" she wrote.
The US party will fly on to Italy after the London trip to meet US armed services families based in Europe, and to continue to promote Mrs Obama's work to encourage healthy eating among children.
Butcher finished calmly from inside the box at the end of a first half delayed by an injury to Spireites defender Liam O'Neil at the Pirelli Stadium.
The home side had the best of the chances, with forward Stuart Beavon denied by goalkeeper Tommy Lee.
Defeat leaves Chesterfield just a point above Fleetwood and the bottom four.
The train partly left the tracks as it was pulling away from a platform at low speed at 05:40 BST, Network Rail said.
Three people were checked over by London Ambulance Service but nobody was taken to hospital.
Trains are unable to access 13 of the station's 24 platforms as 10 were already closed owing to engineering works to enlarge its capacity.
Public transport in London was further disrupted when a passenger train crashed into buffers at King's Cross station and Holborn Tube station was evacuated because of a fire alert.
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Emergency services including police, paramedics and fire crews were called to Waterloo.
Insp Sean McGachie of British Transport Police (BTP) said "very few passengers had been on board" and officers were "working with industry partners to investigate the circumstances".
The passenger train was carrying 23 passengers and two staff members when it crashed into a "barrier train" which had been in place to separate engineering works from operational trains, according to Network Rail.
Chris Denham, a spokesman for Network Rail, told the BBC the partially derailed train had blocked three of the platforms so only very limited services could run.
"If you don't have to travel to Waterloo today, please don't," he said.
South West Trains said there would be a very limited service running to and from Waterloo until Thursday and have advised travellers not to use their entire network.
Many of the trains running have been cancelled or are stopping or starting short of the station, the rail operator said.
Passengers have been warned other stations in the area will also be "very busy".
Some stations including Waterloo, Vauxhall, Clapham Junction and Wimbledon all have queuing systems in place to manage the number of people on platforms.
The ongoing £800m engineering project at Waterloo will prepare the station for longer trains and provide space for 30% extra passengers during the busiest times of the day.
The station is usually one of the busiest in the UK, with an average of 270,000 journeys made to and from it each day.
In north London, a Great Northern train hit the buffers at King's Cross station at 06:20.
Natasha Coella, who had boarded the train at Stevenage, said passengers "went flying" as the train arrived at the station.
"No-one expected it and people just went from one end of the carriage to the other," she said.
A spokesperson for the rail company said it had happened at low speed and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch had been informed.
In a separate incident, Holborn Tube station was evacuated for a short period after reports that smoke had filled carriages on a Central line train.
BTP said the problem had been caused by a defective train.
The "very loud bangs" were heard across the capital at about 08:15.
Residents speculated on social media that the explosions could be fireworks, thunder, TNT - or even "artillery fire".
The Army later confirmed on Twitter that soldiers at the Dreghorn barracks were being given demolition training.
A spokesperson tweeted: "Sincere apologies to everyone in #Edinburgh for the bangs this morning. Soldiers in #Dreghorn barracks were doing demolitions training."
After one Twitter user pointed out that "Advance warning might be nice, given recent events", the Army in Scotland account responded: "Indeed. Many apologies."
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Foreign mining license holders will have to cut their stake down from 80% within 10 years, according to the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry.
The policy change was made on 21 February but not announced until Wednesday.
Indonesia is keen to increase domestic investment in mining projects.
"The aim is the state has to get more. For new investment it will be simple, but for existing investment there must be renegotiation," Mining Minister Jero Wacik said.
The details of how the policy would affect those existing investments is unclear.
However, some raised alarm at the changes.
"This policy will threaten Indonesia's mining investment climate," said Syahrir Abubakar, executive director of the Indonesian Mining Association, adding that he feared foreign companies would not invest in the Indonesian mining sector any more.
Resource-rich Indonesia has reserves of gold, tin, copper and coal.
Major foreign investors in Indonesia's mining projects include the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, which own a 75% stake in a Kalimantan coal project.
Freeport-McMoran operates the Grasberg gold and copper mines in Papua.
In a statement the company said it was confident that the Indonesian government would honour existing contracts, but that the company had begun voluntarily divesting some of its stake.
It said there was a "mutual commitment as part of Freeport Indonesia efforts for future investment".
Working as a doctor for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), I have seen many things in Syria during the past five years. But nothing like this.
We'd tried to reach the centre the previous day, but couldn't get the necessary security guarantees. The fighting had been too intense. Three people at the centre died during that time.
Now we'd got permission to go to the former old people's home, which had become a refuge for around 150 people, some disabled, some mentally ill and the rest just desperate people with nowhere else to go.
We, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the ICRC, were there to take them out of eastern Aleppo.
It was already going dark as we drove into the narrow streets of the Old City. I'd known the area before the war, a thriving, bustling place.
Now, it was a sea of rubble. I couldn't recognise streets, never mind buildings. A ghost town of smashed concrete. An end of the world place. Like a fury had swept through.
Gunfire rattled in the distance but here there was no noise, no people.
We had to walk the last bit that vehicles couldn't pass.
In the midst of the landscape, two crumbling buildings. One building for the men, one for the women.
We entered the yard. A group of patients sat huddled round an open fire. They had few clothes and were shivering. Many looked bemused. They were very near to each other, pushing their shoulders together, looking around, trying to reassure one another.
To one side, there were bodies, maybe around 10 of them.
I knew the man who ran the centre and we found him. We learnt that he'd lost his entire family three days earlier: among them, his wife, son and grandson. He'd brought his family here because he thought no-one would attack the centre.
Some of the bodies in the yard were members of his family.
As darkness closed in and temperatures dropped further, we had to move fast. We identified those who needed help most. As we worked, an old man died in front of us from the cold.
No medicines. No heating, No fuel to cook the food.
I checked a few nearby buildings to see if there were any other people. There weren't.
But there was another body. We could see it, but it was trapped under a collapsed building. We couldn't do anything about it.
The evacuation was not simple. Many, especially those with mental illness, didn't want to leave. They were confused, helpless. They didn't realise they were living in a war zone.
Some had been living there for four or five years. They knew nothing else. "We have no other relatives, we have nowhere else to go." Some said they'd prefer to stay.
And then some soldiers arrived. They brought six children with them. They'd been found among the rubble, lost, helpless. The oldest was a seven-year-old girl, the youngest a seven-month-old baby boy. They hadn't eaten for two days.
They'd all just become orphans, their parents killed by a bomb during the past few days. They had nothing, and no-one. What can you say? What can you do?
At the centre, 18 people wanted to stay behind. Because they had nowhere else to go.
I hope we can get back soon to bring them some help.
Another chapter in a god-awful war.
Those people paid the cost of this terrible war which they had nothing to do with and did not decide to be a part of. They were the most vulnerable of the vulnerable. And no side protected them.
This is not about who is right, or who is wrong. Who is winning, who is losing. This is about people: flesh and blood, human beings. Bleeding, dying, being made orphans, every day.
I feel so very sad, today. Please, there have to be some limits to this war.
The news channel showed a blue screen on Wednesday with a sign saying it would not be available until Monday.
India says maps used by the channel are incorrect, as they show the region of Kashmir as divided between Pakistan, India and China.
Kashmir is claimed by both India and Pakistan in its entirety but has effectively been divided since 1948.
Failure to agree on the status of the territory by diplomatic means has brought India and Pakistan to war on a number of occasions, and ignited an insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Maps approved by the Indian government still show the entirety of the former princely state as lying within Indian control - while other maps seek to show the de facto border between areas administered by India and Pakistan.
On Wednesday, al-Jazeera programmes in India were replaced by a sign saying the channel would not be available until 27 April, "as instructed by the ministry of information and broadcasting".
The channel's bureau chief in India, Anmol Saxena, was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying that the channel has "made representations to the ministry" and was hopeful of having the order revoked.
Indian officials reportedly issued the order for al-Jazeera to be taken off-air earlier this month, accusing the Qatar-based broadcaster of "cartographic aggression".
The country's authorities routinely criticise the international media, saying they have failed to reflect India's claims regarding Kashmir's borders.
In 2011, the Economist magazine was forced by the country's authorities to cover up a map to illustrate a cover story about the border between India and Pakistan.
The magazine responded by accusing India of censorship.
Mark Thomas Hillman, 26, was found with serious injuries to his upper body on a pavement in Lloyd Close, Everton, Liverpool, at 17:15 BST on Wednesday.
Mr Hillman, from Kirkdale, was pronounced dead in hospital a short time later.
Police were called after a member of the public heard several loud bangs. Officers are treating it as a "targeted attack".
The move followed calls for further consideration of the regulations after women carrying babies with fatal foetal abnormalities told their stories.
Foetal abnormality is not a reason for abortion under Northern Ireland law.
Health Minister Edwin Poots has said he would meet the Public Prosecution Service over potential prosecution of staff involved in an abortion.
In a statement on Wednesday, a Department of Health spokesperson said consultation on the draft guidelines, issued in March, had now closed.
"A number of submissions highlighted the issue of lethal foetal abnormality and incompatibility with life," the statement said.
"Full consideration is currently been given to all the consultation submissions and the minister intends to bring a final version to the executive for its consideration at an early stage, ideally within a number of weeks".
Meanwhile, a retired senior obstetrician has told the BBC that the draft abortion guidelines have caused a "mood of fear" among medical staff since their publication in March.
Prof Jim Dornan, who was involved in drawing up the previous guidelines, said high-profile foetal abnormality cases were emerging now because of the new measures included in the six-month old draft guidelines.
He said those measures included a warning that staff could face ten years in jail if they failed to report their suspicions of unlawful terminations to police.
Prof Dornan has welcomed the health minister's decision to meet the Public Prosecution Service, to clarify the legal implications for health care staff.
Last week, the BBC's Nolan Show highlighted the cases of two women who were refused terminations in Northern Ireland.
Sarah Ewart travelled to England for an abortion because her baby was diagnosed with anencephaly, a severe brain abnormality.
She said the baby had no skull formed and it was brain dead.
Another woman, Laura, who is 22 weeks pregnant with twins who are suffering from the same condition, appealed to Mr Poots to allow her to have an abortion in Northern Ireland.
Justice Minister David Ford has previously said he was committed to bringing a paper to the Northern Ireland Executive looking at issues around the termination of pregnancy.
The justice minister said the women's circumstances had highlighted whether adjustments were needed in the current legislation.
Although the athlete represents the peak of human athletic prowess, he still can only swim at a top speed of 5-6mph (8-10km/h) an hour, slower than the shark.
To even things up, the US swimmer wore a "monofin" for the open water race in South Africa, increasing his speed significantly but still not taking it anywhere close to the at least 25mph a Great White is capable of in short bursts.
And - spoiler alert - the athlete has revealed they were not in the water "at the exact same time" for safety reasons.
But humans have long pitted themselves against dangerous animals, often ones they know are much faster.
They have done this for money, to draw attention to a cause, to create a spectacle, and perhaps also out of an inflated sense of what humans are capable of.
Here are four other times man has raced beast.
Bryan Habana, one of the fastest players in international rugby, decided to take on the world's fastest land animal in 2007 as part of an event sponsored by a conservation group.
Habana is quick, but not Usain Bolt quick - running the 100m in 10.4 seconds at his best (compared with Bolt's 9.58 world record).
Still, the then 23-year-old, keen to raise awareness about the decline of the cheetah, fancied himself in with a chance.
But tempting the cheetah was a dangling leg of lamb, which it chased during the race as Habana, who was given a significant headstart, gave it all he had.
The end was close - but the cheetah just got over the line first. Habana asked for a re-run and was soundly beaten.
Filippo Magnini, a former world champ in the 100m freestyle, took on two dolphins in a pool near Rome in 2011.
Given the animals' clear advantage, the Italian only had to swim one length of the pool, while they had to swim two.
But that didn't make a difference and the man nicknamed 'Superpippo' was pipped at the post.
He said later that he fell "a bit in love" with Leah, one of the dolphins.
The black US track and field athlete won a string of victories at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in front of Adolf Hitler, who had been hoping for a games that would demonstrate the Aryan superiority he believed existed.
Owens later struggled financially back home in a country where racism remained rife and his sport was not professional.
To make money, he competed against racehorses in front of dazzled crowds.
He is said to have had the starting gun go off close to the horse, stunning it and allowing him to get away ahead (he also had a head start). Though this strategy worked most of the time, he didn't always win.
Later, more opportunities became available to Jesse Owens and, among other roles, he served as Ambassador of Sports under President Eisenhower.
NFL wide receiver Dennis Northcutt easily beat an ostrich named Thelma in 2009 for a TV show called Sport Science.
But in that initial race, a fence separated the pair, and it was obvious the animal wasn't giving it her best.
In a second race, this time inside the ostrich's enclosure, Dennis was soundly beaten, as the ostrich leapt away and he was left chasing it through the dust.
Paul Jefferies, 52, was found stabbed to death in his blood-splattered home in East Sussex in February.
Ben Bamford, 18, from South Street, Crowborough, went to Mr Jefferies' home to have sex with him and steal money to pay drug debts of about £400, Lewes Crown Court heard.
He is due to be sentenced on Wednesday.
Mr Jefferies' body was found in the kitchen of his house in Coggins Mill Lane, Mayfield, on 25 February, two days after he died.
He had suffered more than 40 injuries, including a slashed throat and partially severed thumb.
Bamford had denied murder, claiming he was protecting himself from Mr Jefferies after he had "come on to him".
During his defence, he said he "got on top of me" and carried on having sex with him after telling him to stop.
Bamford, who was then 17, said he tried to leave the house but found the door locked and a scuffle ensued.
He stabbed Mr Jefferies using three knives and candlesticks, inflicting more than 40 injuries, including a slash to his throat.
Bamford had met Mr Jefferies via Grindr about two years before the killing, when he was aged 15, and the pair resumed contact last December following a break.
Bamford was "desperate" for money to settle drugs debts and was being pressurised by a dealer, receiving texts from him on the day of Mr Jefferies murder.
He said had had hoped Mr Jefferies would give him money as he had done so in the past.
Sussex Police were called to the Grade II-listed cottage in Mayfield on 25 February following a call from an employer of Mr Jefferies who was concerned for his welfare.
They found his body covered with a towel in the kitchen.
He had significant head and neck injuries and there were signs of a struggle throughout the property but no forced entry.
Mr Jefferies had been killed two days before, and Bamford had locked the door of the cottage and fled in Mr Jefferies' car.
He headed to Eastbourne District General Hospital after meeting up with two friends where he was treated for a serious injury to his hand.
He told hospital staff he had self-harmed.
He was later transferred to the Queen Victoria Hospital, in East Grinstead, for surgery, where a friend took a photo of him lying in a hospital bed, smirking and flicking his middle finger up at the camera.
Bamford later told his mother: "I think I've killed somebody."
He handed himself him into Eastbourne police station on 27 February with his mother, stating that he been involved in a fight at an address in Mayfield.
Following the verdict Det Ch Insp Tanya Jones, who led the investigation, said: "This was a horrific attack by a teenage boy who preyed on his victim with the aim of exploiting him for money.
"The level of violence he inflicted on Paul Jefferies was extreme and then he fled the scene in his victim's car. He showed no remorse, smirking for a selfie photo just hours later."
Lisa Bahmani, from Hawick, was killed and two pensioners injured in the accident on the A68 St Boswells to Jedburgh Road on Wednesday.
Ms Bahmani was driving a Hyundai Getz which collided with a Suzuki Ignis.
The 71-year-old female driver of the Ignis is in a serious but stable condition at Borders General Hospital.
The 78-year-old man is being treated for a chest injury, however, it is not thought to be life-threatening.
Ms Bahmani's family issued a statement saying she was "a much-loved daughter, sister and friend".
It added: "She was a special loving girl who loved animals.
"Lisa will be sorely missed by all who knew her. We are grateful for all the messages of support."
The road near Lilliardsedge Caravan Park was closed for about 10 hours following the accident which happened at about 22:00.
Police Scotland have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Sgt Neil Inglis said: "Tragically this collision has resulted in the death of a young woman and the driver of the other vehicle remains in a very serious condition in hospital.
"We are continuing with our investigation to establish the full circumstances surrounding this collision and would urge any motorists who were on the A68 at around 8pm on Wednesday 13 April to contact us immediately if they witnessed the incident.
"In addition, anyone with any further information relevant to this inquiry should also get in touch."
Augustus Sol Invictus admits he "sacrificed" the animal as part of a pagan ritual, but it was not "sadistic" as some of his critics have alleged.
The Libertarian Party candidate is unlikely to win the seat.
Adrian Wyllie, the state party's chairman, has resigned to draw attention to Invictus' candidacy.
In 2013, Invictus walked from central Florida to the Mojave Desert and spent a week there fasting. When he returned to Florida, he killed the goat to give thanks.
"I did sacrifice a goat. I know that's probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans," he told the Associated Press news agency.
"I sacrificed an animal to the god of the wilderness ... Yes, I drank the goat's blood."
Mr Wyllie said Invictus holds extreme views and brutally dismembered the goat.
"He's a self-proclaimed fascist. He's promoting a second civil war," Mr Wyllie said. "This guy has no place in the Libertarian Party."
Mr Wyllie, who unsuccessfully ran as a Libertarian for the governor of Florida last year, fears the Invictus campaign will stunt the party's recent gains.
Invictus called Mr Wyllie's allegations a "smear campaign". He said although white supremacists support his candidacy, he is not a racist.
The 32-year-old lawyer changed his name to the Latin phrase that means "majestic unconquered sun". He declined to tell a reporter his old name.
Forward Ajose, 24, is Swindon's top scorer with 22 goals in 36 league games this season, having arrived following his release by Leeds in September.
Iraq midfielder Kasim, 24, has also been linked with a move to other clubs.
Asked if he was planning for life without Ajose and Kasim, Williams admitted: "Yes, I think that's a sensible way to think."
He added: "Nick has scored so many goals, I think any club would be interested in a man who can put the ball in the back of the net that many times.
"It's beyond me that Yaser is still playing League One football. I can't find the reason. I'm struggling to find (flaws) in his game.
"It's highly likely that Yaser will play either Premier League football or Championship football next season.
"All the boys are ambitious and they should want to play at the next step. To try too hard to try to persuade them to stay is probably the wrong way to do things.
"I don't like to try to stand in the way of a player's progression, once a player has got that in their mind that they're desperate to go and play elsewhere."
Swindon's survival in the third tier was secured on Saturday as they beat Chesterfield, and they now face Rochdale and Shrewsbury in their final two games of the season.
"We've got a chance to look at some players who we're maybe not 100% sure what level they're at, but we can allow them to show us," Williams told BBC Wiltshire.
"We will try to work on a few different things in training and see if there could be an interesting angle for us to experiment with next season.
"There are very few occasions in football when you have the luxury to try something."
Meanwhile, midfielder Jake Evans, 18, has signed a professional contract with the club.
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The 26-year-old follows in the footsteps of compatriot Marcus Willis in meeting the Swiss on Centre Court.
British qualifier Willis, ranked 772 in the world, lost 6-0 6-3 6-4 to Federer on Wednesday.
World number one Serena Williams is second on Centre Court as the defending champion faces fellow American Christina McHale.
In the men's draw, Novak Djokovic will be on Court One as the Serb continues his bid to defend his Wimbledon title against American Sam Querrey.
Evans has enjoyed a remarkable run in the past year, climbing more than 650 places up the world rankings since dropping to 772nd in May 2015.
Questions were raised about the Birmingham player's commitment to the sport when he did not turn up to a Futures event, while he has also struggled with a knee injury.
But he has rediscovered his fitness and form in the past 12 months, helping Great Britain win the Davis Cup and claiming three ATP Challenger titles.
He was rewarded with his first Wimbledon win against Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff, before setting up the meeting with Federer by beating 30th seed Alexandr Dolgopolov on Thursday.
"(Federer's) not a normal guy obviously, but he's another tennis player," said Evans.
"I just have to prepare myself and try and put that to the back of my head - that it's Roger I'm playing - go out and give it my best."
"Dan will go out there and try to make life as difficult as possible for Roger," said British former Wimbledon semi-finalist Tim Henman.
"He needs to serve well, use that good sliced backhand and try and dictate when he gets the chance. Obviously that's not easy against Federer."
Venus Williams makes a swift return to action as the former world number one plays Russian Daria Kasatkina on Court One.
Williams overcame Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari 7-5 4-6 6-3 in the second round on Thursday.
However, the five-times Wimbledon champion appeared to be disappointed at having to play on Court 18 - the smallest show court at the All England Club.
"I think if players have to play outside (on the outside courts), all players should have to play outside," said Williams.
"There shouldn't be exceptions or any inequality to it."
Rain on Wednesday resulted in a hefty backlog of matches, meaning the remaining second-round encounters will be completed on Friday.
Two of the game's entertainers, Nick Kyrgios and Dustin Brown, meet in a battle for a place in the third round.
The pair are close friends, having played together for the Singapore Slammers in last year's International Premier Tennis League.
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Also playing their second-round match are Stan Wawrinka and Juan Martin del Potro.
Former US Open champion Del Potro is making his return to Grand Slam action at Wimbledon after battling back from three wrist operations that almost led to him retiring from tennis.
"I was close to quitting at the end of last year but now is completely different," said the Argentine.
"I'm expecting to be better in the future, but for this year my biggest challenge is to finish healthy and make a good preparation for next year."
Setting interest rates is not the only thing the Bank of England focuses on anymore. But what does the newly expanded powers of the central bank mean for rates?
To answer that question (and pretty much everything about post-crisis monetary policy), the Bank of England organised a conference with a live webcast to discuss how to make its research suit its new policymaking tools.
It is one of the central banks that now has the task of ensuring financial stability in addition to targeting inflation.
In other words, the Bank sets what is called macroprudential policy, which aims to prevent another banking crisis. It also oversees individual banks, under what is called the Prudential Regulatory Authority.
So, the Bank of England has these new tools, but how to make them work well together? You might think it should have figured that out beforehand.
Well, governor Mark Carney said that the Bank is trying to get "theory to catch up with practice".
I can hear the jokes about economists being trotted out.
Here's a classic: An economist is someone who finds something works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory.
There's the former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's version: "The problem with QE is that it works in practice, but it doesn't work in theory."
Or, in the words of former US Congressman Dick Armey: "Economics: the science of telling you things that you have known your whole life, but in a language that you can't understand."
Now, for the important question - how does what the Bank of England is doing affect interest rates?
It is clear that inflation is not the only concern anymore.
Although it is unclear what the target is when it comes to financial stability (that's hardly reassuring), managing it is a goal.
The instruments are not interest rates, but macroprudential tools, such as countercyclical capital requirements (essentially an insurance policy against unemployment, or other bad economic conditions) or leverage ratios (the amount of debt a bank can have in relation to its holdings).
Still, it is all connected. For instance, if banks are lending too much or too little, then the cost of borrowing - the commercial interest rate - will be affected by the supply and demand for credit.
In other words, the interest rate we pay on our mortgages and business loans is not directly set by the Bank of England.
It is commercial banks and other financial institutions that base the cost of our loans on the rate of the Bank.
Even how much they lend can be affected by the Bank, since it can ask for more or less capital to be set aside by banks.
But, for the businesses frustrated by the low amount of bank lending since the crash, regulation does not seem to be the main issue.
One way to think about the new system is that the central bank sets the interest rate, which remains focused on the 2% inflation target.
The Bank also now directly influences more of the monetary transmission mechanism that transmits that base rate through the financial system. By regulating banks and the financial sector, the central bank has more sway over the operations of the lending system.
The Bank officials themselves asked where the boundaries of macroprudential policies end and those that govern monetary policy that targets interest rates start.
It is not very reassuring, but the answer was that no one knows.
One chart that seemed to sum up the day was presented by the Bank's chief economist, Andy Haldane.
He showed a word count of the minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee, the body that sets rates. It showed that the word "banks" rarely appeared in discussions before the collapse of Northern Rock that led to the first bank run in a century a few years ago. Now, it appears frequently.
What that means for how the MPC operates alongside other parts of the Bank with these new mandates will evidently require more research in the years to come.
But, one thing that struck me throughout the conference was that there was little discussion about how interest rates should be set to meet the inflation target. There will be changes in the future, but for now, we will still be mainly watching inflation.
They say senior intelligence officials will be interviewed about whether Mr Trump tried to end an inquiry into his sacked national security adviser.
Mr Trump's legal team said the latest leak to the media was "outrageous".
Mr Mueller is overseeing an FBI inquiry into Russia's alleged meddling the 2016 US election and any Trump links to it.
President Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia, describing the ongoing inquiry as a "witch hunt".
The latest development was first carried in the Washington Post. Later the New York Times and Wall St Journal reported the story, citing their own sources.
The Washington Post said the decision by Mr Mueller to investigate President Trump's own conduct is a major turning point in the investigation, which until recently focused on the Russian angle.
The latest media reports say the obstruction of justice investigation began just days after President Trump fired former FBI director James Comey on 9 May.
Mr Comey, who had been leading one of several Russia inquiries, testified to Congress last week that Mr Trump had pressured him to drop the inquiry into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Mr Flynn was sacked in February for failing to reveal the extent of his contacts with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to Washington.
Mr Comey testified under oath that Mr Trump had told him during a private meeting: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
The White House has said the president "has never asked Mr Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn".
Mr Comey said he was "sure" Mr Mueller was looking at whether Mr Trump had obstructed justice.
But Mr Comey also testified that to his knowledge the president had not tried to stop the Russia investigation.
The three names being mentioned in US media are Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, and Richard Ledgett, until recently Mr Rogers' deputy.
At a Senate panel last week, Mr Coats and Admiral Rogers declined to answer questions about conversations with the president, but said that they had never felt pressured to interfere in investigations.
The Washington Post says the three have agreed to be interviewed by investigators and the questioning could happen as early as this week.
The three were not involved in the Trump campaign but may be asked whether Mr Trump sought their help to end the Flynn inquiry.
A separate Washington Post report has said that Mr Coats told associates in March that the president had asked him to try to get the FBI to back off.
However, the Times points out that the latest questioning does not mean a criminal case is being built against the president, simply that information is being gathered by the FBI. It will be passed to prosecutors who will then have to decide.
Not personally. Yet.
But his legal team responded angrily.
Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Mr Trump's lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, said: "The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal."
Mr Trump has repeatedly railed against leaks from the FBI, saying this is the important story, not alleged collusion with Russia, which he has dismissed as "fake news".
The New York Times reports that Mr Trump has considered firing Mr Mueller in recent days but has been talked out of it by aides.
James Comey hinted at it. Washington insiders suspected it. Now US media are reporting it (through anonymous sources, of course).
Donald Trump himself is under direct investigation for obstruction of justice by the special counsel's office.
Take all those previous assertions by the president that he's not the target of law enforcement efforts, and throw them out the window.
Mr Trump will surely insist that the inquiry into whether his campaign had ties to Russia is still a hoax perpetrated by Democrats and a hostile media, and that the obstruction allegations are built on that empty foundation.
That may not matter. "It's not the crime; it's the cover-up," may be a hackneyed political saying, but that doesn't mean it lacks a kernel of truth.
There's still an open question as to what, exactly, could happen if Mr Mueller does find the president violated the law in acting to disrupt an ongoing investigation.
Could charges be filed? Would it fall on the House of Representatives to act?
It's all uncharted legal terrain.
If the latest media reports are correct, however, Mr Mueller may be charting a course for the darkness.
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The 46-year-old will arrive at Stamford Bridge after taking a week off to ease the disappointment of the defeat by Germany on penalties in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals in Bordeaux.
Conte's tactical approach and animated demeanour has made him one of the significant figures of the tournament in France - so what can Chelsea and the Premier League expect next season?
Conte joins a stellar coaching cast list that has been assembled in the Premier League for the start of the new campaign, with Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, Jose Mourinho at Manchester United and Jurgen Klopp embarking on his first full season at Liverpool.
And Conte will certainly add to the cult of personality, as well as coaching acumen, when he starts his competitive Chelsea reign at home to West Ham United on 13 August.
Conte is a ball of fire in his technical area, a blur of perpetual motion mirroring his team's style.
Not only does he provide flamboyant goal celebrations, like when he jumped on top of the dugout when Italy scored against Spain in their last-16 victory, he also delivers a highly watchable body language commentary on the game.
He was even caught on camera lashing the ball away when it landed at his feet after Italy had lost possession.
At one point during the loss to Germany, Conte marched along the length of his technical area in perfect time and tempo to Italy's play. He sets himself up exactly in line with his back four - a job he may find more difficult in Stamford Bridge's enclosed spaces.
Conte will be as involved in the game as his players. He gave an unsuspecting member of his support team a hefty shove during one exchange, planted a kiss on goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon before the penalty shootout and took his team to the dugout for a brief bonding session before they started that disappointing final phase.
There is a touch of vanity too, not just in what will become a familiar touchline strut, but also in his lavishly re-upholstered hairline.
In his final news conference there was only the slightest hint of the combustible personality the Premier League has been told to expect, but he did deliver a defiant admonishment to his critics in Italy as he prepared to take his leave for England.
"I have never felt supported by anyone," he told the Italian media - not that he appears to need much support or comfort.
It will be an interesting, perhaps bumpy, ride ahead.
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Conte has come a long way since being sacked as coach of Italian Serie B side Arezzo in October 2006.
He had already won five Serie A titles, the Champions League and the Uefa Cup as a combative midfield player with Juventus.
And he was able to rehabilitate his managerial career with Bari, Atalanta and Siena to such an extent he returned to Juve and won three successive Serie A titles.
Conte is admired and respected by figures at the very highest level, with former Italy defender Alessandro Costacurta saying: "The most important thing for me is the coach and for me he is the best coach in the world."
He added: "He is a great guy, very passionate, he knows every quality of the players and of the team.
"For me he is the best motivator we have - I played with him in a lot of games in the national team; he is very meticulous but has great heart."
And Italian Football Federation president Carlo Tavecchio, who Conte said was by his side throughout any criticism of his work, said: "Conte is a great man, a great coach who keeps his word.
"Unfortunately he is leaving, but this is an investment that has paid off in every sense."
Conte's dedication to fierce discipline and his determination to control every aspect of his players' lives may come as a culture shock at Chelsea - especially the late-night phone calls.
Fabio Riva, a Turin-based journalist with Tuttosport, told BBC Sport before Saturday's quarter-final: "We say that he is a hammer with the players. In Italy he produced a document to say what kind of food the players could eat and what they could not.
"He would sometimes call the players at 11pm at night to tell them that 'tomorrow we are training in the morning not in the evening' - so the players can't organise things. He wants them 100% committed and focused at all times.
"This will be very interesting because he has a particular approach to the work of the club. I am very curious to know if this maniacal approach will work. I am very curious to know if this will have a strong impact in the Premier League."
Former Italy international and Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli, who was captain when Conte was at Juventus, said: "He's the right guy in the right place. He's a perfect fit for the club. The players are on the back of a disappointing season so they will have to shut up and listen to the manager."
He added: "He is very passionate. Football is his life and therefore he wears his heart on his sleeve. He doesn't try to be someone else. After the game he is a very pleasant, quiet guy - but during the 90 minutes he wants to win."
Conte himself even said: "There are situations in which you are the hammer and in which you are the anvil. We have to understand that the role of the technical staff is of the anvil."
In other words - Conte is in charge.
Italy's players freely admit Conte is a demanding but inspirational taskmaster, with journalist Riva saying: "He wants hard work and he wants to be involved in the whole life of the players. This means on the pitch, with a lot of work on the tactics, but also out of the pitch with his psychological approach."
Former Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard is convinced the fans at Stamford Bridge will love their new leader.
"I'm looking at Conte and the way the Italians played and the passion he had," said Lampard.
"He was almost like a player, directing his team and animated on the line. I enjoyed watching that and I'm not Italian - but if I was an Italian fan I'd be going 'that man's leading our country' and I'd love to see a bit of that in the future for England."
And that is exactly what Chelsea fans will see next season.
Conte's expertise has been demonstrated by the manner in which he has taken a squad derided as the worst to leave Italy for a major tournament in 50 years to quarter-finalists, conquering Belgium and Spain along the way.
Italy have employed a three at the back system to ruthless effect. Will he employ it at Chelsea and base it around John Terry, who has signed a new one-year deal at the club, alongside Gary Cahill and Kurt Zouma?
In France he has used the Juventus trio, who he trusts implicitly, of Andrea Barzagli, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci in front of their great team-mate for club and country, Gianluigi Buffon.
The success of Conte's system is aided by the familiarity of that foursome.
Conte uses his wing-backs to control the flanks and has even used Southampton's Graziano Pelle as an old-fashioned centre-forward, holding up play to bring team-mates in as well as scoring against Belgium and Spain.
It is all created around the fearsome work ethic Conte demands and is fluid based around having, and not having, the ball.
He created what he called his "War Machine" behind closed doors at Montpellier's Roland Gasset training ground, with heavy security, staff accompanied by guard dogs to keep his plans under wraps.
Chelsea will not fail through lack of attention to detail.
Costacurta explained: "The team was not so organised before, at the end of the year they were not a unit, but after two or three training sessions the team improved.
"He has great determination and charisma. He always improves his knowledge about the team, about the players, he is always looking for something new, a tactical solution."
Vialli is also confident Conte will adapt to his change of circumstances, saying: "He needs to adapt to a different culture. What works in Italy may not work in England but he's a clever guy and he will change something to adapt to the English mentality if he needs to."
Conte will be in with the master of the art in Jose Mourinho at Manchester United but those who know him say he is not above using the media to make his point.
Riva, who observed Conte at close quarters for seven years, says: "The relationship with the media could be difficult because - and he was right of course - he wanted to concentrate totally on the work of the club so he sometimes thought they were a disturbance or a distraction.
"He also used the media to sometimes put pressure on the other team and take it off his own players. He might say the other team were favourites and then we know he would go into a room with his players and tell them they thought they could win because they were so strong.
"It is known as the mind games in England."
One man who knows about success is Italy's 1982 World Cup winner and iconic defender Giuseppe Bergomi.
He was at Italy's defeat by Germany as a TV pundit and he told BBC Sport in Bordeaux: "It's a great choice by Chelsea. He will bring his mentality to be well-organised and to fight - and you can be sure the team will play good football.
"If Chelsea can add a few of the players he wants then I am certain the team will play in a good way. The Premier League and England will enjoy him and his team."
And Bergomi believes Conte will fit straight into the elite group of coaches now working in the Premier League.
"It is very exciting for him to because he will be coming up against the greatest coaches in the world like Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp and all the great trainers in the Premier League. It will be very important for him," said Bergomi.
He added: "Mourinho and Guardiola have won championships in different leagues so that is another step for Antonio and Klopp. They still have to win different championships but they are both outstanding and are very close.
"Antonio will need to be given some time at Chelsea to organise the team and use his collaborators in the right way but I am sure if he has time he will do a great job."
The pools at La Valette were badly damaged by large granite boulders thrown up to 40ft (12m) by huge waves which battered the coast last February.
Deputy Mike O'Hara said it was unclear where the funds would come from and when the pools would reopen.
He said the cost of maintaining the pools would also be substantial.
The pools are used all year round by swimmers and were built after the loss of beachfront due to the extensive development of St Peter Port Harbour.
The ladies' and children's pools reopened last year but the men's and the horseshoe pools still remain closed.
Trains between Folkestone and Calais were suspended overnight after an "organised" group of 200 migrants broke through security fencing.
One Eurotunnel employee and two police officers were injured in the incident.
At 21:00 BST Eurotunnel said there were no delays from the UK, but some disruption to services from Calais.
Eurostar advised customers to check in as normal but to expect delays of up to 60 minutes.
There had been delays of up to three hours during Saturday morning while all services ran just one of the two tunnels.
The disruption affected both Eurotunnel, which runs freight and car services, and Eurostar, which runs passenger trains using St Pancras, Ebbsfleet and Ashford stations.
Eurotunnel said it was concerned there may be another attempt at a breach.
Staff were "being very careful because it was such a different tactic, a different approach last night", it added.
Trains were stopped from 23:30 BST on Friday after security staff were overwhelmed by the "number and aggression" of the group, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said.
People had gone to the end of new security fencing, installed during the summer months, and broken through older fences. Police were waiting at the tunnel to round up those who reached it, he added.
He said staff were shoved and stones thrown as security fences were breached.
"Services were suspended because of the very large, determined and organised group of migrants who burst through the fence and made their way to the terminal," he said.
French police and British authorities removed people from the area.
The situation in Calais is part of a wider migrant crisis across Europe, with huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean.
Extra security, including fencing, paid for by the UK, started to be put in place in the summer. It is aimed at making it harder for migrants to get onto the platforms and trains heading into the Channel Tunnel.
A man died on Wednesday near the tunnel entrance in Calais - the 13th migrant to die trying to reach the UK since late June and the fourth to have died in September.
Read more: Why is there a crisis in Calais?
Chauhan, the India international goalkeeper, made her debut for West Ham United in the opening game of the season against Coventry City on Sunday.
West Ham play in the Women's Premier League Southern Division - the third tier of women's football.
Chauhan's debut has created widespread interest in Indian newspapers and on social media.
Scores of people have begun congratulating her on Twitter, including the Indian football team and her former club FC Goa.
Meanwhile West Ham jokingly asked what percentage of the Indian population it needed to reach 20,000 followers before admitting it "lost count". It also won over Indians by tweeting in Hindi.
It had earlier announced Chauhan's selection on Twitter as a "proud moment for Indian football".
Chauhan's debut could have gone better as West Ham lost 5-0 to Coventry.
"I'm not happy about the result. I could have played better. But of course I have watched the West Ham men's team on television and it was like a dream come true when I donned their jersey with the same logo", she told the Times of India newspaper.
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Amir, 24, and Asif, 33, shared 31 England wickets in the 2010 Test series before they were caught spot-fixing at Lord's, leading to bans and jail terms.
While Amir prepares to return to Lord's on Thursday, Asif is playing in Norway and targeting a recall of his own.
"Amir can do again what he did before," Asif told Stumped. "English conditions are very useful for him. I miss them."
He added: "I would love to play in English conditions. I can swing it both ways. You get a hundred partnership, then suddenly the clouds come over, the ball starts moving and you can get a quick five or six wickets."
With 106 wickets from 23 Tests, Asif was ranked the second best bowler in the world before his five-year ban for bowling deliberate no-balls for cash.
That ban expired last year and he is currently playing club cricket among Norway's Asian ex-pat community to gain fitness for the Pakistani domestic season in September.
He hopes to be back in contention for Pakistan's tours of New Zealand and Australia from November.
"I have a couple of good friends here," he said. "In Pakistan at the moment, it's quite hot, but here it's good for cricket, lots of greenery and nice weather.
"The next season is very important for me. I want to come back and play a good standard, international standard, so I need to work hard and train hard.
"There are a few hurdles. I need to get fit, perform well and then my aim is to go with the team on the Australia and New Zealand tour."
The return of Amir, Asif and captain Salman Butt has divided cricket.
Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja and ex-England spinner Graeme Swann are among those who believe they should have been banned for life.
Asif argues that everyone deserves a second chance.
"Every human being has made a mistake," he said. "We made a mistake, we apologised and, after a mistake, everyone has the right to come back on track.
"It was a hard time, I went to jail and was banned and things got worse and worse. But, in the last year, things are getting better and better.
"I am very happy and I am back in cricket with the ball in my hand. I can't talk, my ball will talk."
Asif says he took inspiration from Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali during his six-month prison term in the UK as he focused on rebuilding his life and career.
Now he is helping young cricketers avoid making the same mistakes as him.
"I have helped a lot with the Pakistan Cricket Board, visiting schools and regional teams to educate them to do right," he said.
"I told them not to go wrong. Cricket is a gentleman's game, so play like a gentleman.
"I have told the ICC that whenever they need my help to educate young people or awareness against corruption, call me, I am available any time."
The stinky discovery was made when the team were exploring the wreck of the Kronan, a warship that sank 340 years ago.
They didn't know it was cheese until the journey to the surface caused some of the contents to leak, releasing a very strong smell.
But in matters as important as the potential discovery of 340-year-old cheese, you can't just trust your nose.
So the team have sent their discovery to a laboratory so that they can know for sure what they have found.
So-called skin betting websites let players gamble with virtual items as currency, but items won can often be sold and turned back in to real money.
The sites are not operated by Valve, but incorporate items from its games.
The gambling commission has sent Valve a cease and desist letter in an attempt to stamp out the sites.
Skins are collectable, virtual items in video games that change the appearance of a weapons - for example, turning a pistol into a golden gun.
Sometimes skins can be earned within a game, but they can also be bought with real money.
Some games also let players trade and sell skins, with rarer examples attracting high prices.
A number of websites let players gamble with their skins for the chance to win more valuable ones.
Since skins won on such a website could theoretically be sold and turned back into real-world money, critics say betting with skins is unlicensed gambling.
Many skin betting websites are connected to Valve game Counter Strike: Global Offensive, although similar operations exist for a number of other titles including EA's Fifa.
In July, Washington-based Valve said it would use "all available remedies" to end skin betting and ordered 23 unofficial websites to cease operations.
It has now asked 40 unofficial websites to end their betting operations connected to its games.
But the WSGC said Valve needed to "stop allowing the transfer of virtual weapons known as 'skins' for gambling activities".
It said Valve's Steam software platform facilitated the activity.
"All third-party gambling sites have Steam accounts and use the Steam platform to conduct their gambling transactions," the WSGC said in a statement.
It has been estimated that the global market in betting on video games is worth as much as £4bn.
In September, the UK gambling commission charged two men with offences under the Gambling Act, in what is believed to be the first prosecution involving betting on video games.
After a cagey start, Alfie Mawson's thumping volley and an incisive team goal finished by Martin Olsson gave the hosts a commanding 2-0 half-time lead.
Leicester offered more resistance in the second half - substitute Islam Slimani was denied by a fine save by Lukasz Fabianski - but fell to a fifth successive defeat, increasing the pressure on manager Claudio Ranieri.
The Foxes, who are just one point above the relegation zone, are the only side in the top four English divisions without a league goal in 2017.
They are also the first reigning champions to lose five consecutive top flight matches since Chelsea in March 1956 and now find themselves embroiled in a congested relegation battle in which the bottom six teams are separated by just five points.
Reaction from the Liberty Stadium
Winless in the Premier League in 2017 and without a goal in their previous five league outings, Leicester entered this fixture in apparent freefall.
Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel described their faltering title defence as "embarrassing" after last Sunday's 3-0 home defeat by Manchester United, while Wednesday's FA Cup replay win over Derby was preceded by a dreaded vote of confidence from the club's board for manager Ranieri.
The Italian cut a forlorn figure on the touchline at the Liberty Stadium, standing motionless as he watched his side surrender two goals in a potentially defining eight-minute spell at the end of the first half.
There was little Schmeichel could do to stop Mawson's brilliant swerving volley, but the goalkeeper was at fault for Swansea's second.
Attempting to launch a counter-attack, the Dane's throw landed at the feet of Swans midfielder Tom Carroll, who started a slick one-touch passing move which involved Fernando Llorente and Gylfi Sigurdsson and ended with Olsson, whose firm strike Schmeichel should have saved.
As impressive as the goal was from a Swansea perspective, it was indicative of Leicester's porous defence - a far cry from the solid backline which formed the foundation for their improbable title success last season.
Despite starting the day a place below their opponents, Swansea's resurgence under new head coach Paul Clement was in striking contrast to Leicester's decline.
The Swans had won three of their five league games since Clement's appointment on 2 January, lifting them off the foot of the table and out of the bottom three to earn the former Derby boss the Premier League manager of the month award.
That accolade is meant to carry something of a curse - with managers often losing their next game after receiving the award - but Clement avoided such a jinx as he oversaw a polished performance.
Swansea are far more organised defensively than they were under predecessor Bob Bradley, with the defence and midfield now structured and disciplined with and without the ball.
The home side's energetic pressing gave Leicester no time to settle, and their two brilliant goals gave them a firm foothold in the game they never looked like losing.
A fourth win from six league games under Clement means Swansea climb up to 15th place, four points clear of the bottom three and with renewed hope of avoiding relegation.
Match ends, Swansea City 2, Leicester City 0.
Second Half ends, Swansea City 2, Leicester City 0.
Attempt missed. Leroy Fer (Swansea City) left footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Islam Slimani (Leicester City).
Tom Carroll (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Swansea City. Luciano Narsingh replaces Wayne Routledge.
Hand ball by Robert Huth (Leicester City).
Foul by Islam Slimani (Leicester City).
Jack Cork (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Robert Huth (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Swansea City).
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Kyle Naughton.
Attempt missed. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Martin Olsson with a cross.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Robert Huth.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Daniel Amartey.
Leroy Fer (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Islam Slimani.
Foul by Kyle Naughton (Swansea City).
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Leroy Fer (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Demarai Gray.
Substitution, Swansea City. Jordan Ayew replaces Fernando Llorente.
Substitution, Leicester City. Daniel Amartey replaces Danny Simpson.
Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Islam Slimani (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a through ball.
Foul by Leroy Fer (Swansea City).
Ben Chilwell (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Danny Simpson.
Ben Chilwell (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fernando Llorente (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Chilwell (Leicester City).
Wayne Routledge (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Chilwell (Leicester City).
Attempt saved. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Leroy Fer.
Attempt missed. Fernando Llorente (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Naughton with a cross.
Second Half begins Swansea City 2, Leicester City 0.
Substitution, Leicester City. Ben Chilwell replaces Christian Fuchs.
Substitution, Leicester City. Islam Slimani replaces Marc Albrighton.
Temperatures dropped to -11.6C in Kinbrace in Sutherland where it was -12.4C at 09:00 on Tuesday.
Milder air has been forecast to arrive from the Atlantic, but bringing with it wet and windy weather.
The Met Office has issued yellow "be aware" warnings for rain falling on frozen surfaces on Thursday and heavy rain on Friday.
Thursday's warning covers large parts of southern, central and western Scotland and Friday's applies to central and southern Scotland.
BBC Scotland weather presenter Kawser Quamer said heavy rain on Friday and snow-melt could increase the risk of flooding in Dumfries and Galloway.
She said: "Last night saw the last widespread cold night for this particular wintry spell.
"There is still a frost in central and eastern areas tonight but in the west milder air seeps in from the Atlantic with some rain and strengthening southerly winds.
"This rain then spreads eastwards during the day on Thursday, with some widespread mist and hill fog - making for quite a dreich day."
She added: "But it's overnight into Friday when more significant wet and windy weather arrives from the Atlantic with much milder conditions, as daytime temperatures widely climb to double figures.
"Friday's rain could enhance flood concerns in Dumfries and Galloway."
BT Sport has the competition rights and, in addition to its TV channel, will show both games free-to-air in the UK on the video-sharing website.
Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool face defending champions Sevilla in the Europa League final on Wednesday, 18 May.
La Liga rivals Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid then meet in the Champions League final on Saturday, 28 May.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Real Madrid won 4-1 the last time the sides met in the final in 2014.
Liverpool have agreed to screen the Europa League final at the city's Echo Arena, with 9,000 seats available to fans unable to attend Basel's St Jakob-Park.
The winner of this year's Europa League final will earn a spot in the Champions League for next season.
In 2013, BT Sport announced a £897m three-year deal to show all 350 fixtures across both competitions each season from 2015.
As part of that deal, BT said it would show at least one match involving each participating British team for free every season.
Researchers, writing in Nature, found UK ash trees seemed to have more tolerance than Danish trees, which were devastated by the fungal pathogen.
The disease reached the UK's wider environment in October 2012.
However, the scientists warned that the species faced another serious threat - the emerald ash borer insect.
"We sequenced an ash genome for the first time and... compared it to other plant genomes and we found that a quarter of the genes were unique," explained co-author Richard Buggs from the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the Queen Mary University of London.
"This really underlined why we needed to do the project, because there is so much of the ash that seems to be unique to the [species]."
Dr Buggs, the head of plant health at Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, told BBC News that fellow members of the team from the University of York used the data to compare UK specimens with ones from Denmark, where the disease had been present for two decades and had decimated the country's population of ash trees.
"[They] found evidence that ash trees in the UK could harbour lower levels of susceptibility to ash dieback than trees in Denmark," he said.
After being first reported in Poland, a large number of trees in northern Europe have become infected with the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus.
Symptoms on infected trees include leaf loss, lesions in the wood and on the bark and ultimately the dieback of the crown of the tree. Young trees can succumb to the pathogen in just one growing season, while older trees take several years to die.
In October 2012, the fungal pathogen arrived in natural woodland on the East Anglian coast. It prompted widespread concern among scientists and politicians.
Following the arrival of ash dieback on these shores and the acceptance that the disease will not be eradicated, the government listed bio-security as one of its environmental priorities in order to prevent future accidental invasions of alien pathogens.
Dr Buggs observed: "If it turns out that there's more trees in the UK that have low susceptibility to ash dieback then that's really quite good news for us... because, ultimately, we would like to breed trees that are completely resistant to ash dieback."
"If we already have native trees with low susceptibility then it's quite promising."
Dr Buggs said he did not think that ash dieback posed a threat to UK ash trees on a scale similar to the devastating impact that Dutch elm disease had upon the UK's elm population as the genetic diversity among the nation's ash trees was greater than the one in the elm trees.
However, the team warned that the species faced another serious threat. The emerald ash borer, a small beetle, was first discovered in the Moscow area in 2007 and is a pathogen that is cause for serious concern among experts.
Since the turn of the century, the beetle has killed tens of millions of trees in North America and is expected to have cost the US economy $10 billion by 2020.
Research from the universities of Exeter and Warwick, also published in Nature, found that trees that had a higher degree of resistance to ash dieback had lower levels of a chemical compound that are known to deter insects.
"Our research highlights the danger of selecting trees for resilience to ash dieback at the expense of resistance to insects that threaten this iconic UK tree species," explained co-author Dr Christine Sambles from the University of Exeter.
Dr Buggs added: "I think that's why we need really tight bio-security going forward."
Following the arrival of ash dieback in the UK, the Environment Secretary at the time, Owen Paterson, listed bio-security as one of his department's priorities.
It was a position that was restated by his successor, Liz Truss.
Dr Buggs said that it was important that UK bio-security remained high on the agenda during Brexit negotiations and that the issue did not get trumped by trade deals.
"We do need to have increased plant bio-security measures in a post-Brexit Britain rather than decreased security," he warned.
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The ruling is a victory for the Asian-American rock band The Slants, which sued after the government rejected its registration to trademark its name.
Band members said they were reclaiming the term, which was viewed as derogatory to Asians.
Band leader Simon Tam said they were "humbled and thrilled" by the ruling.
"This journey has always been much bigger than our band - it's been about the rights of all marginalized communities to determine what's best for ourselves," he wrote on Facebook.
The US Patent and Trademark office had denied the application, pointing to a portion of the law that prohibits federal registration of a trademark if it disparages persons, beliefs, or institutions.
In a unanimous 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court said that clause was unconstitutional.
"It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the decision.
The US government had said its decision to refuse the band trademark registration was not a violation of free speech because the band could still use the name.
But federal registration is important because it makes trademarks more secure, said Ronald Coleman of the Archer law firm, one of the lawyers who argued the case for the band.
The decision has implications for a case that is already pending over the name of the US football team, the Washington Redskins.
The US Patent and Trademark office cancelled the team's trademark registrations in 2014, after five Native Americans said the name was offensive.
Paul Fucito, a spokesman for the trademark office, said it is reviewing the decision and expects to issue new guidance for employees.
The discovery of Homo floresiensis in 2003 caused a sensation because it seemed the creature could have been alive in the quite recent past.
But a new analysis indicates the little hominin probably went extinct at least 50,000 years ago - not the 12,000 years ago initially thought to be the case.
Researchers report their revised assessment in the journal Nature.
Prof Bert Roberts, from the University of Wollongong, Australia, says the new dating actually resolves what had always been a head-scratcher: how it was possible for floresiensis to survive for 30,000 to 40,000 years after modern humans are believed to have passed through Indonesia.
"Well, it now seems we weren't living alongside this little species for very long, if at all. And once again it smells of modern humans having a role in the downfall of yet another pieces," he told BBC News.
"Every time modern humans arrived somewhere new, it tended to be bad news for the endemic fauna. Things would go pear-shaped pretty quickly."
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This does not mean we necessarily killed the Hobbits; it may just have been that we made life miserable for them.
Modern humans could have outcompeted the little people for the best food resources and land, for example.
The Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores where the Hobbit fossils were unearthed continues to be investigated.
The intervening years have seen researchers dig down through new areas, to get a better picture of how the sediments are structured.
It now transpires that the first floresiensis specimens were lodged just below an unconformity - a missing, eroded layer of material.
The absence of this sediment made the context of the 2003 finds appear younger than they actually were.
Various dating technologies have subsequently been applied to the contents of the cave - charcoal, sediments, flowstones, volcanic ash and even the H. floresiensis bones themselves - to help build a new timeline.
This points to the skeletal remains of floresiensis being between about 100,000 and 60,000 years old.
"But then we have some stone tools that were 50,000 years old and these were very likely made by Hobbits," explained Prof Roberts.
"We say 'very likely', not because they were small stone tools able to fit in their hands, but because they were made from a volcanic rock called silicified tuff, which they seemed to prefer.
"When modern humans came through that region, we used stone tools made of chert, for example.
"So, 50,000 years ago is when the Hobbits disappear, as far as we can determine. But then we haven't excavated the whole cave yet."
One of the key implications of the new dating is that it fells one of the early counter-theories about the origin of the Hobbits - that they might not have been a separate species but merely a diseased form of modern human.
But if the Hobbits were living on Flores 100,000 years ago, this view is no longer tenable: no modern humans have been recorded in south-east Asia so far back in time.
Prof Chris Stringer, from the Natural History Museum in London, UK, is an expert on ancient humans.
He agrees that the new research helps straighten out the story of the Hobbits, and makes it much more likely that we were involved in their extinction somehow.
"The other fascinating and tricky thing to think about is the possibility of interbreeding. We know modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans (other archaic human species), so could they have got together with floresiensis? Are there people on Earth today who have a little bit of Hobbit DNA in them? You couldn't rule it out."
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Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said further research on the environmental impact was needed.
A decision had previously been promised by the end of this year.
Business groups reacted with dismay at the news, with one group describing it as "gutless", but opponents welcomed the extra focus on the environment.
"The case for aviation expansion is clear - but it's vitally important we get the decision right so that it will benefit generations to come," said Mr McLoughlin.
"We will undertake more work on environmental impacts, including air quality, noise and carbon."
An independent report on airport expansion by Sir Howard Davies in July backed a plan to build a third runway at Heathrow.
But he said that the new runway should come with severe restrictions to reduce the environmental and noise effects, and did not completely rule out another runway at Gatwick or doubling an existing runway at Heathrow.
This latest development means these two other options are still on the table and opponents argue the delay weakens Heathrow's position.
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Gatwick described the delay as a "defining moment" in the airport expansion debate.
"We are glad that the government recognises that more work on environmental impact needs to be done," said its chief executive Stewart Wingate.
"Air quality, for example, is a public health priority and obviously the legal safeguards around it cannot be wished away," he added.
And Heathrow Hub, the group behind the proposal for extending a runway at Heathrow, said the delay "seemed sensible".
But Heathrow Airport said it had "full confidence" its plans could meet "tough environmental conditions" and would now "move into the delivery phase".
Plenty of business and union leaders will be frustrated at yet another delay to the airports' decision.
But the government says it needs more time to pick a winner.
Ministers want another six months to drill down into the impact any new runway will have on air quality and the people who'll live under the flight path.
A cynic might point out it helps them out of a political hole. Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith said he would resign and force a by-election if they picked Heathrow. But he'll be tied up with the London mayoral election, which is to be held on 5 May 2016.
Still, ministers do need to get this decision legally watertight.
Campaigners around Heathrow have already told me they plan to take any expansion plans to court, and they think the impact of a bigger airport on local traffic pollution is their best chance of winning.
Business groups reacted with anger at the delay. They argue that a lack of space at airports is damaging the economy.
"Business leaders will be tearing their hair out at the news that, yet again, a decision on expanding the UK's airport capacity has been delayed," said Simon Walker from the Institute of Directors.
"Of course this is difficult choice, which is the reason the government set up the Airports Commission to make a recommendation balancing economic needs, environmental concerns and the impact on local residents," he continued.
"We have to ask now, what was the point of the Commission if the government still fails to act?"
Meanwhile the business lobby group, the CBI said the decision was "deeply disappointing" and the British Chambers of Commerce described it as "gutless".
But London Mayor Boris Johnson, a vociferous opponent of a third runway, said the Heathrow campaign was now officially grounded.
"The wheels are falling off the Heathrow fuselage and I think that, now the government has hit the pause button, they will begin to understand with ever greater clarity that, due to the environmental impacts, the legal obstacles and the cost to the public purse, this bird will never fly," he said.
Conservative MP and London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith, who threatened to resign if the government picked Heathrow, said: "We can't afford more dithering over aviation capacity.
"Gatwick stands ready to deliver it sooner, at a lower public expense and without the damaging impact of Heathrow expansion."
The delay means no decision will be made before next year's London mayoral election, to be held on 5 May.
Labour's mayoral candidate, MP Sadiq Khan, told the BBC the delay was "bad news for London's businesses".
"What we should be doing is agreeing to a new runway at Gatwick Airport. Say no to Heathrow... This dithering and delay will mean problems in relation to growth," he added.
Friends of the Earth was also among those who applauded the decision, saying it was "clear you can't build a new runway and tackle London's toxic air pollution at the same time".
Annual house price inflation fell to 3.3% in June from 4.6% the month before, it said. Just a year ago, prices were rising by 11.8%.
However, house prices in Wales and Scotland have actually fallen over the last year, according to Nationwide.
Between May and June prices across the UK fell by 0.2%, taking the average cost of UK property to £195,055.
Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, said: "House price growth continues to outpace earnings, but the gap is closing, helped by a pick-up in annual wage growth, which moved up to 2.7% in the three months to April from 1.9% at the start of the year.
"The slowdown in house price growth is not confined to, nor does it appear to be driven primarily by, developments in London."
Last month, a survey by property services group LSL suggested that prices in parts of central London had fallen by up to 22% since last autumn.
Some economists had not expected to see house price inflation falling so consistently.
"While we are slightly surprised by June's dip in house prices, it does not fundamentally change our view that house prices are likely to be firmer over the second half of the year," said Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight.
He still expects house prices to rise by 6% this year, and 5% next year.
Matthew Pointon of Capital Economics said the monthly price fall did not mean the market was cooling.
"On an underlying basis prices are still rising, and with active housing demand finally recovering, annual house price gains have bottomed out," he said.
Nationwide said the region with the fastest price growth is now Northern Ireland, where prices rose by 8% over the year.
Prices across London rose by 7.3%.
In Scotland prices fell by 1% from a year earlier, and in Wales they were down by 0.8%.
However there are large variations between prices in individual cities.
Among the property hotspots are Reading, where prices have risen 13%, Oxford, where prices are up 12%, and Edinburgh, where they are up by 11%.
Places with falling prices include Sunderland, at -4%, and Nottingham, Highlands and Islands - and West Yorkshire, which have all seen falls of 2%.
In the footage, an officer tells Bijan Ebrahimi he is a "pain in the ass" and she does not want to talk to him.
Mr Ebrahimi, 44, was killed in a vigilante attack in 2013 after he was falsely accused of being a paedophile.
PCs Kevin Duffy, 52, Leanne Winter, 38, Helen Harris, 40, and PCSO Andrew Passmore 55, deny a charge of misconduct in public office.
The trial at Bristol Crown Court has heard that they saw Mr Ebrahimi as "a nuisance".
The jury has heard that Mr Ebrahimi called the police on 11 July 2013 to report he had been attacked by his neighbour Lee James, 26, who suspected him of being a paedophile.
But it was Mr Ebrahimi who was arrested and James' threats were overlooked, the court heard.
CCTV footage released on Thursday, which has been shown to the jury, includes PC Harris at Broadbury Road Police Station telling Mr Ebrahimi: "Don't talk to me" and "I'm not talking. I can't even be bothered to waste my energy on you."
She added: "You're not my friend - I'm a police officer and you're a pain in the ass. Don't speak to me."
Mr Ebrahimi was released by police the following day, 12 July. Two days later James attacked Mr Ebrahimi outside his flat then set fire to his body.
He pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence. Accomplice Steven Morley was sentenced to four years in prison for assisting an offender.
The trial of the police officers and PCSO continues.
Among the most surprising was the seeming confusion on the part of the DUP as to when exactly Northern Ireland was established.
Part of the DUP manifesto covered plans for a public holiday and programme of events to mark Northern Ireland's centenary.
It reads: "Northern Ireland was established as a legal entity on May 5 2021."
No pictures of Belfast's own De Lorean cars were included in this Back to the Future moment for the DUP.
The most obvious way of telling an election is imminent - apart from the ever growing pile of leaflets shoved through your door - is, of course, posters of candidates.
Sean Burns, South Belfast Labour Alternative candidate, found his dress sense coming under question, as some social media users wondered whether he had put his t-shirt on back to front.
Comments included: "How are we going to elect you when you can't even get yerself dressed?"
Mr Burns issued his response on his Facebook page.
He later clarified that the style of the garment was responsible for the look, not any difficulty in getting himself dressed properly.
While election posters are synonymous with campaigns, have you ever wondered what happens to them when voting ends?
It seems some are put to practical uses.
Shane McKee found these 2011 East Antrim Ulster Unionist posters came in useful for an improvised chicken coop.
He even scored out the B at the start of (Roy) Beggs in a bid to encourage the hens.
Whether the chickens thought it was a cracking idea or not is not known.
Other posters found a way to impact people's lives, although perhaps not in the way originally envisaged.
The Ulster Unionist campaign stumbled in Carrickfergus when one of their billboard posters, featuring party leader Mike Nesbitt, literally stopped traffic on St Brides Street.
The picture appeared on the Facebook site Carrickfergus Online , along with comments such as:
"That's one way to get people out to vote."
"That's crashing a campaign."
"Well that's giving out all the wrong signs."
But it was not the end of the road for Mr Nesbitt, who proved you can't keep a good politician down when he "photobombed" BBC News NI's political correspondent Stephen Walker following UTV's leaders debate.
Of course Mr Nesbitt was, himself, a broadcaster for many years. It seems he couldn't resist the opportunity to walk into somebody else's camera shot.
SDLP youth member Cormac Kerr couldn't hide his admiration for his own party leader during the same event.
He shared a heart-felt video tribute to his party leader after the debate on Facebook stating "I know who gets my vote tonight."
Whether there were any careless whispers during the debate is not clear.
Other BBC journalists managed to get on the wrong side of different party leaders.
Mark Devenport provoked a tongue-in-cheek (we hope) threat from DUP leader Arlene Foster when he suggested she had a short fuse.
We can report that the threat was not carried out and the black eye Mark was sporting in following days was a result of bumping into a door.
Meanwhile, Alliance leader David Ford called out the BBC's Mark Simpson for selling his party short over the number of MLAs it had in the previous assembly.
But it wasn't just BBC journalists who got confused at times during the campaign.
Sinn Féin's Máirtín Ó Muilleoir momentarily forgot which part of Belfast he was standing in.
So that's another election campaign over and done with, with only the counting left to do.
The 22-year-old's loan spell will run up to and including 3 January.
London-born Nortey joined Wrexham from Welling United in the summer and has played six times for the Welsh club.
The versatile defender, who can also play in midfield, was a regular in the Welling side that finished bottom of the National League last season, making 32 appearances.
Meanwhile, Moors have allowed midfielder Darryl Knights to rejoin National League North side Kidderminster Harriers on a contract until the end of this season.
The driver's passenger, who is also in his 70s, was also hurt in the collision between their Corsa and a LandRover Discovery.
The crash happened just south of the Cromarty Bridge, near Dingwall, at about 19:00 on Tuesday.
The female driver of the other vehicle involved was uninjured.
The driver of the Corsa was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
The section of road was closed for a time to allow for the recovery of the vehicles and then again for three hours from midnight so police could investigate the cause of the collision.
This investigation was prompted by the deterioration in the 78-year-old man's condition. It was initially thought he had suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
The game, called Progression, has been made by the University of Manchester's school of nursing and midwifery.
It has been designed to help in the use of a chart which many midwives find difficult to complete.
The partograph records heart rate, blood pressure and temperature and is used to detect problems during labour.
The game's creators noted that midwives generally struggle to use the chart as a decision-making aid.
This prevents it being used properly to prevent death and illness during childbirth - a major problem in developing countries.
With this in mind, Progression involves charting a series of findings from a woman in labour.
As players move around the board they land on spaces which trigger a randomly selected card question, which they have to answer to keep moving.
A pilot scheme carried out with 165 midwives in east Africa has just concluded and indicated the game was well-received.
Prof Dame Tina Lavender, who led the project, said: "The crucial benefit of using this game is that it allows midwives to make mistakes without endangering lives.
"The game is designed to provide new knowledge, revise what they already know and discuss with other players the best ways to support women. The feedback from midwives working in these countries during the pilot was overwhelmingly positive."
Thomas Quinn, 30, ran away from Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, where he was receiving treatment for a hand injury.
Prison officers reported Mr Quinn, who was awaiting a court appearance for robbery offences, had escaped their custody at about 00:30 BST on Thursday.
Mr Quinn, of Hall Lane, Wythenshawe, has links to Greater Manchester, North Wales and Ireland.
He is described as white, 5ft 9ins, of slight to medium build with brown hair and a tribal tattoo on his right arm.
He was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt, grey tracksuit bottoms and navy Adidas trainers and had a bandage on his right hand.
Anyone with any information about his whereabouts is advised not to approach him, but to contact Merseyside Police or Crimestoppers.
The animal was in the St Patrick's Avenue area of the city.
Police have said specially trained firearms officers dealt with the incident and that attempts were made to safely and humanely manage the animal.
"Regrettably officers were required to shoot the stag as it had become very agitated and posed a risk to the public," a spokesman said.
David Wilson from the USPCA said the stag had been in a densely populated area of the city and that he was unsure whether the animal was wild or farmed.
Mr Wilson added that deer in built-up areas are not common as it is not their natural habitat and he said when they are out of their own environment, they can be unpredictable.
Local musician Allison McGrath photographed two deer on the outskirts of Newry on Sunday morning and reported them to the PSNI as she thought they could have caused an accident.
She told the BBC News NI the pair jumped off the road into a field of horses, panicking them.
She said she had never seen deer in the area before and is concerned for the safety of the other deer she photographed, assuming that the shot deer was one of those she saw.
Last November, an armed police response unit shot dead a wild stag in the grounds of a County Antrim school after several attempts to safely and humanely manage the animal failed.
The Police Ombudsman has been informed of the incident in Newry.
Prof Alex Kemp said there could be 99 commercially viable oil finds by 2045.
His report came as Sir Ian Wood claimed some oil forecasts were "misleading".
The Wood Review author called for "realism to take precedence over fantasy" ahead of the referendum.
In a paper on the long-term potential of North Sea oil and gas, Prof Kemp outlined 99 "viable" finds.
But he also argued there could be a further 58 discoveries which would be uneconomic by 2050 but could later become viable with higher oil prices and technological improvements.
He also highlighted 147 already discovered fields which were not yet at the detailed planning stage and 25 fields currently "being assessed" for development.
Prof Kemp, from the University of Aberdeen, said some existing producing fields such as Clair "can confidently be expected to remain viable beyond 2050".
He added: "Further, in our comprehensive database no fewer than 125 known existing discoveries remain undeveloped at 2050 because they are not commercially viable at the $90 (real) oil price.
"In aggregate they contain total potential recoverable reserves in the range 2.5-3 billion boe (barrels of oil equivalent).
"Some have extremely high costs per barrel and may never be commercially viable.
"But, even the most bearish commentators on the oil market would agree that by 2050 real oil prices are likely to be much higher, and thus more developments should be triggered by that time, even with the expected reduction in infrastructure availability."
SNP energy spokesman Fergus Ewing welcomed the paper.
He said: "Whilst the No campaign like to talk down Scotland's oil wealth - despite enjoying the riches that flow from it into the London Treasury - this expert opinion makes clear that Scotland's oil and gas story is far from over."
Meanwhile, Sir Ian Wood claimed Scots voters were being "misled and influenced by highly inaccurate forecasts, false promises and misleading information" over future oil estimates.
Sir Ian, who has forecast there are about 15 billion to 16.5 billion barrels of recoverable oil left in the North Sea, singled out a report by N-56 - a business organisation founded by Yes Scotland supporter Dan Macdonald - describing it as "an insult to the Scottish people" ahead of the referendum.
It estimated there could be another 21 billion barrels from unconventional shale reserves in the North Sea.
Sir Ian told a press conference in Aberdeen: "Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Reserves are hydrocarbons which are technically and economically proven. To be classed as reserves, we have to know what is there and be certain it can be extracted in an affordable way.
"This report is one of the worst of many examples of false or exaggerated claims, providing misleading information at a crucial point in the debate."
Martyn Tulloch of Tulloch Energy, who co-authored the N-56 report, said: "We noted with interest the comments from Sir Ian Wood and are surprised as they seem rather at odds with a wealth of experts in this field who have given their backing to this report.
"They also seem to be at odds with the views of the UK government itself, with a senior official within DECC (Department of Energy and Climate Change) stating offshore unconventional oil and gas are an 'enormous new play' for the North Sea."
Sir Ian also said the Scottish government's plans for balancing the books under independence were based on the "highly unlikely scenario" of recovering 24 billion barrels.
He has argued that the figure from Oil and Gas UK, used in the Scottish government's White Paper, is between 45% and 60% too high.
Sir Ian said: "This is three billion barrels ahead of the maximum 12-21 billion latest estimate from UK government and frankly looks to be significantly unachievable.
"By basing our economy and therefore the future of our children's quality of life, public services and jobs on unrealistic recovery of reserves let alone unproven reserves is a huge gamble and the stakes are too high."
The boss of BP said Sir Ian had correctly assessed the future potential of the North Sea.
Group chief executive Bob Dudley added: "As a major investor in Scotland - now and into the future - BP believes that the future prospects for the North Sea are best served by maintaining the existing capacity and integrity of the United Kingdom.''
Industry body Oil & Gas UK said it would "urge caution about predicted future potential from the North Sea".
A spokesman added: "For example, last week's N-56 report on offshore unconventional gas made considerable predictions based on largely unproven and untested methods.
"Prof Kemp's modelling identifies future recoverable reserves, but these will be more difficult and therefore even more expensive to produce.
"Given the technical, pricing and cost uncertainties, any long-term production and tax forecasts are inherently uncertain and should be treated as such given the broader commercial pressures on the oil and gas industry."
Labour and Plaid Cymru both pledge to raise it from 10 to 30 hours a week.
The Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW) said this would have no "substantial impacts on net income, poverty or work behaviour".
Labour said it would help working parents, employers and the economy. Plaid said children were its priority.
The report said an extra 20 hours free childcare for three to four-year-olds would not have "substantial impacts on net income, poverty or work behaviour for families with children".
It said this was because a "relatively small proportion" of families with children of this age use formal paid childcare and those that do "tend to pay moderate amounts".
Any savings on childcare costs would be partly offset by reductions in other benefits, the report found.
Lead author Dr Gillian Paull said: "If the aim is to encourage women to return to work, or to help more disadvantaged families with the costs of childcare, our analysis suggests that extending free childcare for three to four-year-olds from ten hours to 30 hours will not achieve this to any significant degree."
PPIW deputy director Dan Bristow said the findings raised "serious questions" about Welsh ministers' funding for additional free childcare.
"They show that it has no significant impact on the number of mothers entering paid employment and spending by the Welsh government simply displaces the UK government's spending on benefits," he said.
But Labour's Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister Lesley Griffiths responded: "We are very clear that people who are working hard to provide for their families deserve a helping hand.
"Wherever I go in Wales, hard-working parents of young children tell me childcare costs and availability are a major problem for them."
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas said: "The main aim of childcare is to provide additional support to children, not the economy.
"We know that there is already an attainment gap of up to nine months for children from deprived backgrounds compared to their better-off peers. This was not investigated in the PPIW report."
The PPIW was established in 2014 to give Welsh ministers fresh ideas on how to improve Wales' public services.
Martin Construction will convert the iconic Sinclair building on the Abercorn Road into 52 apartments,
There will also be 36 new flats behind the building and seven terraced houses at Wapping Lane are to be converted into 14 apartments.
The developer said residents were consulted at several public meetings.
Catherine Pollack , who lives opposite the building on George Street, said the plans won't meet the needs of the community.
"I'm not saying that housing is not something that we should be considering, it's the type of housing and the fact that we would like people to stay there long term and create a community with the people of the Abercorn Road and the Fountain.
"That is an area of high need, for jobs, training and businesses to be developed in that area."
Donna McCloskey, from the Triax neighbourhood management team, said residents have not been fully consulted.
"The actual development of the factory is not a concern but it's the lack of consultation. For anyone who knows the area, it's overrun by traffic at the minute from the city centre and residents can't get parked as it is.
"There are many properties in the Fountain area that could be used instead so it's not for a demand for housing."
A spokesperson for Martin Construction said the redevelopment was not only extremely important to built heritage but would also bring much needed employment and help address the housing crisis in the city.
"We adhere to a very strict letting procedure which we apply to all of our residential rental properties and this will be the same with the apartments at the Abercorn Factory development. Like most of our other larger apartment buildings, we will also have a '24 hour' on site manager."
The developer said the plans had been amended to address concerns.
The study
published on the BMJ website
showed the amount of soap and hand gel being used tripled during the campaign.
At the same time, levels of MRSA and C. difficile infections in hospitals fell.
The government has since dropped the campaign, but said its ambition was to "wipe out" such infections.
Hospital superbugs were once a real fear for many patients. In response the
Clean Your Hands campaign
, funded by the Department of Health, was introduced in all hospitals by June 2005.
Alcohol gels were put by bedsides, posters reminded staff to wash their hands and there were regular checks to ensure hands were kept clean.
By 2008, the total amount of soap and alcohol gel being purchased by hospitals trebled, going from 22ml per patient per day to 60ml per patient per day.
Rates of MRSA more than halved in the same time period and C. diff infections fell by more than 40%.
One of the report's authors, Dr Sheldon Stone from the Royal Free University College London Medical School, estimated that around 10,000 lives were saved because of the campaign.
He told the BBC: "It's been a real British success story, we've gone from being the dirty man of Europe to being world leaders.
"What we need to do is keep up the momentum and stay at the forefront of world hand hygiene."
A spokesman from the Department of Health said: "The Clean Your Hands campaign was successful in its aim to highlight the importance of good hand hygiene practice across the NHS. We know this has been successful.
"The challenge now is to ensure the NHS embeds the good practice highlighted in the campaign to achieve our ambition to wipe out avoidable healthcare-associated infection.
"We know real progress has been made in this area as MRSA bloodstream infections have dropped by 41% and C. difficile by 30% across the NHS in England since 2009/10."
The 25-year-old was a free agent following his release by Lyon, his first professional club, in June.
Ghezzal received offers from several clubs across Europe but opted to continue his career in France.
"I have the ambition to continue to play at the highest level so I chose Monaco," Ghezzal told the club's official website.
"I believe in the Monaco project, that they are the French champions and also reached the semi-finals of the Champions League is fantastic.
"After several years in Lyon, I needed a new challenge. Everything is readily available here to have a successful season."
Ghezzal, who started his youth career at Lyon and signed a professional contract in 2010, went on to score 14 goals and provided 20 assists for the club in 119 appearances.
Born in France, he represented his country of birth at youth level before switching allegiance to Algeria.
He made his debut under former manager Christian Gourcuff in a friendly against Qatar in March 2015 and has scored once in 11 appearances for the Desert Foxes.
Ghezzal played all three matches as Algeria exited the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations at the group stage.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said they would be salvaging the Louisa to help find out what caused it to sink off Mingulay.
The bodies of two crew members have been found. The skipper is still missing and presumed dead.
One man survived the sinking of the 15m (49ft) crabber on 9 April as it lay at anchor in calm seas.
Investigators want to know why water flooded into the boat and whether automatic alarms that should sound when a leak is detected were activated.
They also want to discover why the Louisa's liferaft failed to release and then did not inflate.
A spokesman for the MAIB said: "We have made a decision to raise the wreck and will do so when there is a suitable weather window."
The boat lies at the comparatively shallow depth of 10m (33ft), with its mast visible at low water.
The MAIB spokesman added: "The aim of our investigation is to establish why the fishing vessel Louisa sank and why lives were lost. A full and detailed report will be published at the end of our investigation.
"If we identify any safety issues during the investigation that require immediate action, the Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents will issue a safety bulletin or make recommendations as appropriate."
The bodies of Chris Morrison, 27, from Harris, and Martin Johnstone, 29, from Halkirk, Caithness, were found following the sinking.
Skipper Paul Alliston, 42, from Lewis, remains missing despite a massive search. Only Lachlann Armstrong, 27, from Stornoway, survived after swimming ashore.
Martin McLeman has told parents that Wimborne's Queen Elizabeth's School will have a budget shortfall of £286,000 in the next academic year.
It comes as a report reveals schools across England are facing their first real-terms cuts in more than 20 years.
The Department for Education (DfE) admitted the system for distributing funds was "unfair and outdated".
Mr McLeman, who is asking parents to help raise money for the school, said: "Dorset is one of the worst-funded authorities in the whole country.
"Our costs have gone up 12.5%, our income is stable. We have to fund National Insurance increases, pension increases, salary increases and even the apprenticeship levy is going to cost our school £20,000 next year and we just do not have the money for that."
A statement from the DfE said: "The government has protected the core schools budget in real terms since 2010, with school funding at its highest level on record at more than £40bn in 2016-17.
"But the system for distributing that funding across the country is unfair, opaque and outdated.
"We are going to end the historic postcode lottery in school funding and under the proposed national schools funding formula, more than half of England's schools will receive a cash boost."
But, Mr McLeman said the proposed change to the formula would only increase the school's funding by 1.1%.
"It's completely inadequate to sustain the levels of teacher recruitment and teacher placement in schools - it's just a disaster," he said.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies report found spending per pupil will fall 6.5% by 2019-20 on 2015-16 levels.
Parents have until 22 March to take part in a government consultation about the national funding formula.
In a statement, RBS said it was setting aside another £500m to pay for PPI claims and £1.5bn for US litigation.
In addition, the taxpayer-backed bank will write down £498m from its private bank Coutts.
"I am determined to put the issues of the past behind us and make sure RBS is a stronger, safer bank," chief executive Ross McEwan said.
"We will now continue to move further and faster in 2016 to clean up the bank and improve our core businesses."
The bank is also speeding up a plan to make payments into its pension fund to help deal with the £4.2bn deficit. The fund has 220,000 members and has been closed to new ones since 2006.
RBS is 73% owned by the government as a result of a bailout during the financial crisis.
It has not made an annual profit for seven years and is due to report results on 26 February.
Shares in RBS fell more than 5% in early trading, but then recovered to close down 2% at 255.7p.
When you are about to sell the house, it's always worth a good clean up before potential customers arrive for a poke around.
That's what's happening at RBS and is what this morning's announcement is all about. George Osborne, the chancellor, is keen to off-load the government's 73% stake in the bank over the course of this Parliament.
Ross McEwan is clear today that he wants to put "legacy issues" behind the bank. That's shorthand for the collapse of the bank in 2008.
The largest of those are the legal actions in the US connected to the failure of mortgage products.
RBS's share price, at around 260p, is still a long way from 502p, considered to be the "in price" the government paid for its stake. The share price has sunk by almost a third in the past year.
Clean up, yes, but investors will need to see an improved performance from the bank before that share price starts rising again.
On a conference call Mr McEwan refused to answer questions about what the measures meant for the sale of the government's stake in the bank.
But he said that he thought the bank's provisions for mis-selling PPI were now over.
"Based on what we know today, hopefully this is the final provision. Hopefully it is the end... this is it," he said. The bank's total costs for the scandal are now £4.3bn.
The PPI policies were supposed to protect people against loss of income or sickness, but were often inappropriate. Across the industry, more than £20bn has been paid to more than 10 million consumers.
Analysts warned that this had negative implications for Lloyds, the bank that has paid out the most for the scandal so far.
But Citigroup warned that this was not the end of the matter for RBS.
"We still see significant additional litigation charges in 2016, on top of the charges that have been announced today," the bank said in a research note.
In addition, it expects earnings to be hit by the introduction of the UK bank tax, as well as continued low interest rates, because this affects its ability to profit from assets.
Alex Potter from Mirabaud Securities said: "I think what's worrying the market is the fact that there is still no provision for a deal with the US's Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has so far imposed the biggest fines."
The bank is not allowed to put money aside until it is in substantive discussions with the regulator.
"I think this means no further stake sale this year [by the UK government] unless they suddenly announce a deal in the US," Mr Potter added.
It is not yet known where in Ireland the winning ticket was sold, or whether it was won by an individual, family or syndicate.
The winning numbers were one, five, seven, 17 and 23.
The lucky stars were three and eight. The Irish ticket was the sole winner of the draw.
The massive jackpot has been rolling over since 30 December.
A spokesperson for Ireland's National Lottery said: "Following last night's EuroMillions Irish jackpot win of €88,587,275, the National Lottery can confirm that the ticket holders have been in touch to make arrangements to collect their prize money."
Team captains Steven Gerrard and Nemanja Vidic will release 96 red balloons as a tribute to the victims.
Crowd mosaics will also be displayed on three sides of the ground, reading The Truth, Justice and 96.
It will be the first home game for Liverpool since the Hillsborough Independent Panel report was published.
The report cleared fans of any wrongdoing and found police tried to blame fans for the disaster, on 15 April 1989.
Mosaic creator Andy Knott said The Truth would be shown on the Kop, Justice on the Lower Centenary Stand and 96 on the Anfield Road end.
"Whenever it [creating the mosaics] is to do with Hillsborough it is always special, even more so now that the truth is out and the families can get on and realise that they were right for 20 odd years.
"They can get on and try and find the justice that the victims deserve."
He said the mosaics - which are created by fans in the stands holding up coloured cards - can take up to five hours to prepare.
He said: "You get a sense of pride, especially when you see the pictures after and anybody who helps just feels proud.
"It just makes everybody know that we are supporting the families and the survivors."
Both clubs have stressed the importance of all players respecting the occasion.
Mr Saakashvili moved to Ukraine in 2013 and served as governor of Odessa under President Petro Poroshenko. Both have championed pro-Western market reforms.
But the two men have since fallen out.
Last year Mr Saakashvili said corrupt oligarchs close to Mr Poroshenko were blocking the reforms.
Speaking to the BBC's Newshour programme from New York, Mr Saakashvili, who heads an opposition party in Ukraine, said Mr Poroshenko was trying to remove his most serious opponent.
However, according to opinion polls, Mr Saakashvili's Movement of New Forces (Rukh) has less than 2% support among Ukrainians.
Accused of corruption in his native Georgia, he lost his Georgian citizenship in 2015 after becoming a Ukrainian national. Mr Saakashvili rejects the Georgian corruption charges as politically motivated.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, he put false information on his citizenship registration form in 2015.
He told the BBC that he would strive to "get rid of the old corrupt elite" in Ukraine. But he denied any ambition to become Ukrainian president.
Mr Saakashvili said corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs were annoyed by his campaign to clean up the economy, which has been stagnating for years.
"I'll do my best to return to Ukraine," he said, calling President Poroshenko "extremely unpopular".
The former Georgian president has close ties with some US politicians, but said he would not seek asylum in the US, despite the risk now of being stateless.
Last year, he resigned as the Odessa governor, expressing fury at rampant corruption, and launched his political party in Ukraine.
In a statement (in Ukrainian) on Wednesday evening, Ukraine's migration service said that "according to the Constitution of Ukraine, the president takes decisions on who is stripped of Ukrainian citizenship based on the conclusions of the citizenship commission".
It did not provide the exact reason, but stated that this could be done if a Ukrainian national acquired citizenship of another country or submitted false documents.
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A win for Dee would have handed the title to Celtic, but their visitors put that prospect to bed in the first half.
A Considine double and goals from Adam Rooney and Kenny McLean had Derek McInnes' men 4-0 up at the break.
Ryan Jack hit the fifth before Niall McGinn tapped home and Considine completed his hat-trick.
Celtic will clinch the title on Sunday if they beat Hearts at Tynecastle (12:30 BST kick-off)
Aberdeen are 11 points clear of Rangers in third, while Dundee are eighth.
The Dons are in a very strong position to finish second behind Celtic, with their showing here throwing the gauntlet down to Rangers before their meeting next weekend.
Their performance was even more dominant than the scoreline suggests.
Aberdeen bossed it from the first whistle and Considine nodded over the bar with a great early chance.
He made up for that miss soon after, powering home a header from Jonny Hayes' perfect delivery.
Rooney drew a good stop from Dee keeper Scott Bain, but the striker did not have to wait long to add his name to the scoresheet, headed in Shay Logan's exquisite cross.
McLean slammed in number three with his right foot before Considine cashed in on sloppy defending to nod his second.
There was no let-up after the break as Jack slotted the fifth in off the post, McGinn tapped home and Considine slid in to seal his hat-trick.
What a horrible evening this was for Paul Hartley's side.
Not many teams would have contained Aberdeen in this form, but Hartley will be furious at some of his side's defending.
They have been depleted by injury but that does not account for such a display.
The absence of injured striker Marcus Haber seemed to have a major impact as his replacement Faissal el Bakhtaoui was unable to hold the ball up and bring team-mates into the game.
Weekend results will determine how damaging this has been for Dundee, whose next game away to Ross County takes on added significance as they look to avoid being dragged into the relegation scrap.
Every player in red did themselves proud, but Considine and McLean deserve special mention.
McLean stood out all night and it was significant that he was removed after an hour, with some key games coming up for the Pittodrie outfit.
Considine, of course, takes the majority of the headlines thanks to his first hat-trick as a professional.
Individually and collectively, the Dons were sensational.
It seems this Aberdeen team is going from strength to strength, which promises much for the remainder of the season.
Match ends, Dundee 0, Aberdeen 7.
Second Half ends, Dundee 0, Aberdeen 7.
Foul by Anthony O'Connor (Aberdeen).
Mark O'Hara (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Christie (Aberdeen).
Kevin Gomis (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Dundee 0, Aberdeen 7. Andrew Considine (Aberdeen) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Christie following a set piece situation.
Ryan Jack (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Vincent (Dundee).
Cameron Kerr (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cameron Kerr (Dundee).
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Ash Taylor.
Attempt missed. Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Andrew Considine.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Ryan Jack.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Frank Ross replaces Niall McGinn.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Andrew Considine.
Goal! Dundee 0, Aberdeen 6. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Christie.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Scott Wright replaces Jonny Hayes.
Attempt missed. Ryan Christie (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Henrik Ojamaa (Dundee) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Kevin Holt (Dundee) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Ryan Jack.
Attempt missed. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Kevin Gomis (Dundee).
Ryan Christie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Henrik Ojamaa (Dundee).
Anthony O'Connor (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Ryan Christie replaces Kenny McLean.
Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Cameron Kerr (Dundee).
Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Andrew Considine.
Attempt blocked. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
James Vincent (Dundee) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kenny McLean (Aberdeen).
Foul by Niall McGinn (Aberdeen).
Cameron Kerr (Dundee) wins a free kick on the left wing.
The 20-year-old, who has represented both England and Scotland at under-19 level, spent the first half of last season on loan at MK Dons.
Gallagher's arrival at the Championship club comes after attacking midfielder Elliott Bennett was ruled out for up to six weeks with a hamstring injury.
Gallagher is available for the league game against Wigan on Saturday.
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The Northern Ireland Under-19 captain, who signed a three-year contract in October, is set to undergo surgery.
"This is yet another blow for the club and for Ben personally," chairman Phil Wallace told the club website.
"I've never seen an injury crisis like this and I can't believe it's got worse."
Stevenage are 19th in the table, having failed to win any of their last five matches, but boss Teddy Sheringham has been cleared to seek reinforcements for his squad.
"Combined with various loan deals expiring, it does leave the squad particularly thin," added Wallace.
"However with the transfer window now open we're working day and night to get the right players in so we can climb the table."
Angus Council will drop the £20 allowance by 2017.
However, the Child Poverty Action Group believed such a move could contravene a 1980's law stating help should be given to those in financial hardship.
The council's actions were revealed as part of a BBC Scotland investigation into school clothing grants.
The probe found that the majority of Scotland's 32 local authorities had failed to increase the level of payments over the past decade.
At £20 per child, Angus Council offered the smallest subsidy, while at £110 West Lothian offered the largest.
John Dickie, director of charity Child Poverty Action Group, said his organisation would be "hugely concerned" by any move to remove the school clothing grant.
He added: "Every local authority in Scotland has, up until now, at least been providing some level of support.
"Our understanding is that there's a legislative requirement to ensure the provision is in place".
The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 states: "When it is brought to the notice of an education authority that a pupil attending a school under their management is unable by reason of the inadequacy or unsuitability of his clothing to take full advantage of the education provided, the education authority shall make such provision for the pupil for the purpose of ensuring that he is sufficiently and suitably clad."
Up until 2013-14, Angus Council's clothing grant had been £50, but it was cut first to £35 and then to £20.
In 2005-06 the provision cost £160,000, by 2014-15 that figure had fallen to £102,000.
A council spokeswoman said the local authority understood that "people may be disappointed" in the reduction of school clothing grant.
However, she added: "Unfortunately in these tough economic times we have to make some cuts to ensure we can afford to run critical frontline services.
"As such Angus Council took the budget decision in 2014 to phase out the school clothing grant over three years."
She went on to explain that schools had the authority to make "individual arrangements" to ensure the authority "complied with its responsibilities".
The spokeswoman said: "We are committed to making school uniforms as affordable as we can, for example three of our secondary schools use a Scottish company to produce an eco-blazer which is made from 16, recycled plastic bottles.
"This new approach is not only environmentally friendly, it has reduced the costs of school blazers. Since its introduction this year, there has been a very positive response with a lot of interest and support from parents and carers."
At the beginning of the year, the council passed a £19m three-year savings plan.
The fire at Universal Recycling in Kilnhurst, South Yorkhsire, burned for two days from Monday.
South Yorkshire Fire Service said the blaze was accidental and caused by machinery.
Environment Agency officials have previously had to intervene at the site following complaints from neighbours about dust and noise.
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During the fire, up to 500 tonnes of burning plastic, metals and other materials sent a plume of thick black smoke hundreds of metres in the air, visible for miles.
After the fire service announced the fire was accidental, Mark Readman tweeted: "The stockpiling of such quantities of combustable noxious fume emitting material in a residential area was not accidental."
The Environment Agency said that following its previous intervention, the company had "taken steps to make improvements including updating equipment and improving their operating procedures".
It said it would now consider whether further action needed to be taken and would "review the site's fire prevention plan".
The blast in Tripoli destroyed the embassy's ground-floor reception area and perimeter wall, as well as damaging neighbouring homes and shops.
French President Francois Hollande called on Libya to act swiftly over this "unacceptable" attack.
It is the first major attack on a foreign embassy in the Libyan capital.
Tuesday's explosion happened shortly after 07:00 (05:00 GMT) in a smart residential area of Tripoli.
One of the embassy's guards was severely injured while the other suffered lighter injuries. Several residents were also slightly hurt.
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One young girl suffered a spinal cord injury and was being transferred to neighbouring Tunisia for treatment, her father told the BBC.
The blast took place in a small side street and left a scene of devastation, the BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli reports.
As well as extensive damage to the embassy building and perimeter wall, two nearby homes were badly damaged and others affected, while the windows of a shop were blown out and two parked cars were burnt out.
Many neighbours who gathered in the street to survey the damage were shaken and upset by what had happened, our correspondent says.
They told her that there was a lack of proper policing for such a potentially high-profile target.
By Rana JawadBBC News, Tripoli
It was an unfamiliar scene in the Libyan capital's upscale residential neighbourhood - and left many breathless and confused, unsure of how to react.
First came the tears of a young 15-year-old, shocked by the impact of the blast just metres from his now partially wrecked home.
His uncle stood on a pile of concrete rubble in their courtyard. "You can't even fix the water, look!" he shouted at military personnel who were telling people to stay back as the street flooded from a pipe that had burst as a result of the explosion.
Another man sat silently amidst the debris on the floor of the house next door, framed by what was left standing of the blasted concrete.
Many questions are reverberating across Tripoli. People know what has happened, but they don't understand why, or who did it.
These are the answers they will be demanding of their officials, who are still reeling from the complex network of armed groups that have emerged since the war, as they try to rebuild the nation's security apparatus.
Unless they get lucky, these officials are unlikely to be able to deliver the answers anytime soon.
"It was a big mistake to site the French embassy in our neighbourhood," a local resident said.
President Hollande said the attack had targeted "all countries in the international community engaged in the fight against terrorism".
"France expects the Libyan authorities to shed the fullest light on this unacceptable act, so that the perpetrators are identified and brought to justice," he said.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius - who has arrived in Libya to see for himself the damage - said French officials would work closely with the Libyan authorities to find out who was responsible for what he called an "odious act".
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Aziz condemned the bombing as a "terrorist act", but did not speculate on who might be behind it.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
French embassies across northern Africa have been on high alert since France sent in troops to help fight an Islamist insurgency in Mali in January.
France, under Nicolas Sarkozy, was at the forefront of Nato-led air strikes in 2011 that helped rebel forces topple long-time Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi was attacked by armed men in September 2012, leading to the killing of ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American officials.
Emily Cherry, of the NSPCC, said YouTubers had a "responsibility" to make sure relationships with young fans were appropriate.
Claims of inappropriate behaviour have been made against a small number of internet personalities.
Google-owned YouTube told the BBC that educating fans and creators was key.
Ms Cherry warned that online stars have huge power and influence on young people and the way they think about the real world.
"One child told me that checking their social media accounts and what their favourite YouTube stars are up to was as important to them as eating," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
In 2014, Ania Magliano-Wright published a video in which she alleged a YouTube video-maker known as VeeOneEye - real name Jason - had sex with her when she was 15.
She said she had offered Jason a place to stay after a fan and creator meet-up in London.
"He bought a big bottle of alcohol," she said.
"I wasn't really aware of how much alcohol it would take for me to lose control over myself.
"I didn't want to seem uncool or boring and I wanted to seem normal… it didn't ring as many alarm bells as it should have."
Ania says she did go to the police with her allegations but decided not to press charges.
Jason declined to be interviewed by the BBC but said: "I like the topic for your piece and it is something that does need to be talked about."
He also published an online apology to Ania blaming his strict religious upbringing for his actions.
In the video, which was uploaded in 2014, Jason says: "I thought it'd be fun to get some drinks because we didn't have much in common and it was awkward.
"At that moment, that was the only way I knew how to socialise - by drinking.
"She never approached me as a fan. To me we were just two YouTubers who wanted to hang out.
"It seems she thought my intentions were to become friends and then have sex. It wasn't.
"Most people make mistakes when they're growing up with sex and alcohol."
"This was me making mistakes and growing up, but at the wrong age.
"I want to say sorry to Ania and anyone else that I've hurt and anybody that's affected by this. I'm sorry."
In total, 14 separate allegations were made against vlogger Alex Day, but he was never charged. At the height of his fame, Alex had more than one million subscribers to his channel.
Alex told the BBC he had not realised that making videos in his bedroom could put him in a position of power.
"Something I never considered was that, in meeting someone offline, they'd got to know me a long time before I got to know them," he said.
"It wasn't an equal situation because they had an idea of me that I wasn't considering - and that was totally my fault.
"These people didn't feel like fans. I never felt like I was taking advantage of people at the time - but if people say I did then I did."
Alex denied any sexual contact with underage girls but said he had "manipulative relationships with women".
He also told the BBC he was surprised more allegations had not surfaced against other content creators.
"There are certain people in the YouTube community that are highly regarded and I'm like 'how did he get away with it?'"
He went on to say those he had in mind may not have done "monstrous things", but sometimes people would "hook up" at various conventions.
Hannah Witton, who has made videos about sexual health and body positivity, said the YouTube community was "hyper aware" of allegations.
She admitted on some occasions people had known about allegations of inappropriate behaviour for a long time before they were made public.
"We strive to support people affected by it and educate ourselves as well," she told the BBC.
"There has been a shift in the last few years, since these allegations started, to educate ourselves on appropriate boundaries. You have to judge where the line is between different people."
She said YouTubers had responded to allegations by "cutting people off" from the community when they were implicated.
YouTube said content creators were responsible for their own "content and conduct" on the platform.
"As a company we have very clear community guides which set out the rules of the road on YouTube," said the website's spokeswoman Thea O'Hear.
"It's really important that creators are aware of the responsibilities that come with having a big audience and a global fan base.
Ms O'Hear said educating fans and creators was "best delivered" through a mixture of YouTube's company values, support, and physical literature.
"We also try to provide practical support and guidance to creators to help them create the right kind of content and have the right kind of interaction with their fans.
"It's also around parents being involved, and schools, and everybody having a really good understanding of what it is to be a young person in the 21st Century.
"We at YouTube are also growing with the community. Often we create tools in response to community feedback.
"YouTube would terminate the channel of someone who has broken our guidelines."
If you have been affected by any issues in this article or need advice on staying safe online, on protecting your children, or as an Internet personality, the NSPCC has a helpline you can call on 0808 800 500 2.
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Some 210 days after suicide bombers began a harrowing night of terror at the Stade de France stadium in Paris, an attack that eventually cost the lives of 130 people, the European Championship will get under way at the same venue on Friday, when the hosts take on Romania.
It is sure to be an emotionally charged evening of celebration, togetherness, defiance, and remembrance. But also of trepidation.
The hope here is that the competition can help France demonstrate its way of life is resilient after November's attacks, and the Charlie Hebdo killings the previous January.
There is also hope the host nation can emulate the multi-racial World Cup winning team of 1998, and be a unifying force for good - and that the first major tournament to be held since Fifa's great corruption scandal erupted just over a year ago can finally put the focus back on the sport itself, helping football to recover from 12 months of disgrace.
But rarely before has a major international sports event such as this taken place amid such heightened security concerns.
November's attacks, and the subsequent atrocities in Brussels, in March, meant there were already fears jihadists were plotting to target Euro 2016, with reports that the so-called Islamic State (IS) cell responsible intended to carry out another assault on the tournament.
Last month, it was reported that data found on a laptop used by Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam suggested jihadists wanted to use suicide bombs, assault rifles and even drones carrying chemical weapons to attack England and Russia fans in Marseille this weekend.
The anxiety has only intensified this week.
The US and British governments have both warned fans they could be at risk. And, according to Ukraine's security service, a French citizen arrested armed to the teeth with an arsenal of weapons had been planning attacks to coincide with the tournament.
Crowd trouble during the French cup final at the Stade de France last month, worries over the safety of a giant fan zone next to the Eiffel Tower, and recent transport strikes have also done little to breed confidence.
Little wonder, perhaps, that Germany defender Jerome Boateng - who played in the November friendly against France - has told his family to stay away from the matches for fear of a repeat.
According to Richard Walton, the former head of counter-terrorism at New Scotland Yard, the threat to Euro 2016 is "more acute than for any other international sporting event in history".
Organisers Uefa, and the French authorities, insist they have done everything possible to keep the 2.5 million spectators expected at the 51 matches safe.
Some 90,000 police and military personnel are on duty, and security measures have been intensified at the 10 stadiums, the host-city fan parks, and at transport hubs.
A national state of emergency has also been extended to cover the duration of the competition.
Even in tranquil Chantilly, where the England team is based, the unprecedented security operation is obvious.
Armed troops are on constant patrol outside the squad's luxury hotel.
And reports of dramatically realistic terror training drills in various host cities are a regular feature on French TV news bulletins.
England defender Chris Smalling spoke for many players this week when he said the squad had not even discussed the risk of a terror attack.
The head of Europol, meanwhile, has said he is concerned by the possibility of an attack, but also that he has been impressed by the French security effort.
Sport is no stranger to the threat of terrorism, of course.
One need only recall the 1972 Munich Games, when Palestinian militants took the Israeli national team hostage.
Or the 2011 cricket World Cup, which had to drop Pakistan as co-host after an attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore.
But sport is also resilient.
Terror warnings were a feature of the build-up to the London 2012 Games, and yet the event passed off peacefully.
There were fears ahead of the 2014 Winter Games, after bomb attacks in Volgograd. Yet Sochi's security was a success.
Paris has just hosted the French Open tennis tournament. Six Nations rugby games and Champions League fixtures have all taken place in the capital over recent months without incident. It is bidding to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and regarded as one of the favourites.
"We want the Euros to be a celebration," Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, tells me in her office at City Hall on the banks of the Seine.
"After the attacks such an event is so important to mobilise the entire French population towards a more optimistic mood. It's also a way for us to say to the entire world that we are here and we will be welcoming you to Paris. We don't want to give up our way of life - that is the best answer to give to terrorists - and sport is a unifying factor."
Hidalgo has played an important role as the city tries to move on from November's trauma, and insists the authorities can deliver a successful and safe event.
"We have been preparing for months and months. The French parliament, the army and Interpol have worked together. We get inspiration from what London did in 2012. My message is come and enjoy this moment of fraternity."
France's 10 Euro 2016 stadiums
Euro 2016 - Uefa website
Historically, it was hooliganism rather than terrorism that most concerned the organisers of international football tournaments.
But the world has changed, and sport has had to change with it.
Even now, it is unsettling to see armed soldiers on the streets of Paris, additional bag checks at fan parks, and double security perimeters around stadiums.
But it is also a sign of the times.
What once would have seemed excessive and out of place in a sporting context, now feels reassuring.
Many of those who come here will feel an inevitable sense of nervousness about the risk they are taking.
But they will also feel pride that they are part of something that shows that life carries on.
Euro 2016 is being staged in a country at war.
Some believe this is the wrong place and the wrong time to be hosting such an event.
Others, that the threat France faces is the very reason why Euro 2016 simply must take place, here and now.
The officer has not been named, but the defence ministry in Seoul said he was a senior colonel in the Reconnaissance General Bureau and left last year.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a source as saying the colonel was seen as elite by other defectors.
More than 28,000 people have fled North Korea since the end of the Korean War, but high level defections are rare.
Last week, 13 North Koreans who had been working in one of the North's restaurants abroad defected as a group.
Yonhap said a number of senior political figures had defected while working overseas recently.
It quoted government officials as saying this was a sign the leadership of Kim Jong-un was cracking.
Defence Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun said the South could not release further information on the colonel.
One unnamed official told Yonhap the man was the highest-level military official ever to have defected.
"He is believed to have stated details about the bureau's operations against South Korea to the authorities here," said the official.
The Reconnaissance General Bureau handles intelligence gathering and spying operations, as well as cyber warfare, said Yonhap.
The BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul said such a figure would likely have valuable information about the workings of Kim Jong-un's government.
For most North Koreans it is almost almost impossible. The borders are heavily guarded and few people have to resources to fund an escape.
Those who do make it out usually cross the river borders into China. They either lay low to avoid being sent back by China to face severe punishment, or try to reach a third country.
There are many cases of diplomats, athletes, musicians and others defecting and claiming asylum while representing North Korea in other countries. Some border guards have simply walked away from their posts.
Relatives they leave behind are almost certain to face persecution or jail.
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Numbers are not widely available but dozens of senior level officials are thought to have defected in the past few years.
The most high-profile defection to date was Hwang Jang-yop, a politician who was considered the architect of North Korea's policy of "juche", or self-reliance.
He claimed asylum at the South Korean embassy in Beijing while on a work visit in 1977. He died in 2010.
About 29,000 people have defected in total since the 1950s, though numbers have fallen in recent years.
Any North Korean who makes it to the South enters into a rehabilitation programme and is given an aid package to help them start a new life.
Despite this, many find it hard to adjust.
High-level defectors are questioned closely for valuable information, and to ensure they are not acting as double agents.
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ConvaTec, which employs 498 people at its Deeside manufacturing plant, will shed 93 jobs due to "restructuring".
Alyn and Deeside AM Carl Sargeant said he was "massively disappointed" by the news.
The company said it was "offering voluntary redundancy packages to qualified employees".
The company, which began consulting with employees on Monday, said the facility would be turned into a "centre of excellence" for advanced wound care, and other production will be moved elsewhere.
The firm's manufacturing site in Rhymney, Caerphilly county, is not affected by the changes.
Mr Sargeant said he has written to the Welsh Government, who gave the firm a £100,000 grant in May 2015, to ask what support they can offer.
"I'm obviously massively disappointed to hear about such a large number of redundancies in the constituency," he said.
"My thoughts are with those affected by this announcement. I wrote to ConvaTec on Monday to tell them how disappointing it is.
"I told them that while I welcomed the investment they have planned for Deeside and the creation of 10 new highly-skilled jobs, nevertheless this only slightly mitigates against the 93 redundancies."
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"We are proud of our heritage in Wales, as the home of our global research and development headquarters and excellence in advanced wound care production."
The firm cut 100 jobs in January 2010.
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It will collate all the available data on each of the 350,000 new tumours detected in the country each year.
The aim is to use the register to help usher in an era of "personalised medicine" that will see treatments matched to the exact type of cancer a patient has.
Experts said it was "great news".
The old definitions of cancer - breast, prostate, lung - are crumbling.
Cancer starts with a mutation that turns a normal cell into one that divides uncontrollably and becomes a tumour. However, huge numbers of mutations can result in cancer and different mutations need different treatments.
Research into the genetics of breast cancer means it is now thought of as at least 10 completely separate diseases, each with a different life expectancy and needing a different treatment.
The national register will use data from patients at every acute NHS trust as well 11 million historical records.
It will eventually track how each sub-type of cancer responds to treatment, which will inform treatment for future patients.
Jem Rashbass, national director of disease registration at Public Health England, said: "Cancer-registry modernisation in England is about to deliver the most comprehensive, detailed and rich clinical dataset on cancer patients anywhere in the world."
He told the BBC: "This will fundamentally change the way we diagnose and treat cancer.
"In five years we'll be sequencing cancers and using therapies targeted to it."
The service will also exchange information with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which have their own registers.
The Department of Health has already committed £100m to sequence the entire genetic code of 100,000 patients with cancer and rare diseases in order to accelerate progress in personalised medicine.
Emma Greenwood, Cancer Research UK's head of policy development, said: "It's great news that this national database has been set up.
"It means we have all the UK's cancer information in one place, making us well equipped to provide the highest quality care for every cancer patient.
"It'll be easier and quicker to further cancer research, and will speed up work to deliver personalised cancer medicine to patients in the future."
But did you know his first game managing in the Premier League was against the Red Devils in 2004?
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The government would be in a "strong" legal position if the two-year Article 50 talks ended with no deal, the Lords EU Financial Affairs Committee said.
But it warned failure to reach any kind of financial terms would undermine PM Theresa May's aim of securing continued favourable access to EU markets.
It has been reported the EU may demand a "divorce bill" of up to £52bn.
Mrs May has warned the EU against punishing the UK for voting to leave in last year's referendum but several EU leaders have said the UK cannot enjoy better arrangements outside the EU than it currently has.
The question of what, if anything, the UK remains financially liable for after Brexit is likely to be one of the flashpoints in negotiations when they begin in earnest.
Potential sticking points are likely to include:
The cross-party committee said talk of billions in pounds in liabilities was "hugely speculative" and there was a case that there may be no upfront cost to leaving.
"Although there are competing interpretations, we conclude that if agreement is not reached, all EU law - including provisions concerning ongoing financial contributions and machinery for adjudication - will cease to apply, and the UK would be subject to no enforceable obligation to make any financial contribution at all," it said.
"This would be undesirable for the remaining member states, who would have to decide how to plug the hole in the budget created by the UK's exit without any kind of transition.
"It would also damage the prospects of reaching friendly agreement on other issues.
"Nonetheless, the ultimate possibility of the UK walking away from negotiations without incurring financial commitments provides an important context."
The peers, led by the LibDem peer Baroness Falkner of Margravine, said some member states could take legal action against the UK for any outstanding liabilities but it was "questionable" whether any international court could have jurisdiction.
"Even though we consider that the UK will not be legally obliged to pay into the EU budget after Brexit, the issue will be a prominent factor in withdrawal negotiations.
"The government will have to set the financial and political costs of making such payments against potential gains from other elements of the negotiations."
During their inquiry, the committee was told the UK had signed up to "concrete" commitments under the terms of the Multi-Annual Financial Framework, which sets a ceiling for EU spending up to 2020.
Professor Takis Tridimas, from Kings College London, said he believed these were legally binding under existing EU treaties.
But he said they could be amended in "unforeseeable circumstances", if all member states agreed, and that the Brexit vote would constitute such a circumstance.
The attempt was made to pull the 62-tonne tank over 100m (328ft) at Tidworth Garrison, Wiltshire.
The team pulled the Challenger 2 tank at approximately the same speed as the Mk1 tank moved over the Somme battlefield 100 years ago.
Judges will decide in March if a Guinness World Record record was set.
Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Nick Cowey said: "We got going fine but really had to work hard for the last 50 metres.
"As we were pulling down and legs were starting to tire, people had to dig in and started cheering each other on, the crowd were fantastic and we got there."
The idea was thought up by Warrant Officer Class Two Harley Upham to commemorate 100 years since the Army put in the order for the first Tanks which were known as land ships.
The RTR was formed by the British Army in 1916, making it the oldest tank unit in the world.
Source: British Army
The Great Britain Tourism Survey indicates that the figure rose to about 12.9 million in the year to the end of September 2015.
It also suggests that expenditure on domestic tourism visits - visitors from Britain staying for at least one night - rose by 14% to more than £3.2bn.
The report said this meant Scotland was outperforming Britain as a whole.
Domestic overnight visits - from people in England, Scotland and Wales - accounted for more than 80% of all tourism visits to Scotland.
There were 15.5 million overseas and domestic visitors to Scotland in the year to September 2015, a rise of 7%, and for the first time total expenditure was more than £5bn, an 8% increase.
Tourism minister Fergus Ewing said: "This is an excellent set of figures that shows Scottish tourism goes from strength to strength.
"Scotland's tourism offer is unrivalled and, despite last summer's washout weather, over a million more visitors came to Scotland, spending eight per cent more compared to the year before.
"That's solid proof that people are prepared to come here to enjoy our natural assets, tourism attractions and quality experiences, and to spend in our hotels, shops and restaurants."
He added: "We must keep the momentum going. In 2016, the Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, the industry has a further opportunity to showcase the best of what Scotland has to offer."
Mike Cantlay, chairman of VisitScotland said: "Scottish tourism continues to thrive and grow despite a backdrop of difficult economic trading conditions hitting the travel industry throughout the world.
"Many thought 2014 would be the big year for Scottish tourism, but I'm thrilled to see a continuing strong performance in 2015.
"The tourism industry has worked hard to improve everything from quality to value for money and this is reflected in these fantastic results - what a wonderful reflection on all their hard work."
Leanne Meecham, 26, was stabbed at her house in Westcliff-on-Sea, in Essex, in February. She died in hospital.
Her stepfather and former partner Simon Meecham, 43, was found guilty by a jury at Chelmsford Crown Court on Wednesday.
Sentencing Meecham, Judge Charles Gratwicke told him: "You are a jealous and aggressive man."
Prosecutors said Meecham, who had previously been married to Miss Meecham's mother Jane, was "motivated by jealousy and anger" at his stepdaughter's new relationship.
The judge told Meecham: "You could not bear to see Leanne with anyone else.
"As a result of your wickedness an innocent and loving young woman was cut down in the prime of her life."
During the trial, Meecham, from Rosewood Lane, Shoeburyness, told the jury he injured Miss Meecham by mistake, not realising he was holding a knife.
But Essex Police described the stabbing on 13 February as "a determined, focused and wholly unprovoked attack" on a "defenceless" victim.
Miss Meecham died in hospital in London a week later.
A post-mortem examination found she suffered brain damage, caused by a lack of oxygen, after she was stabbed in the windpipe.
A domestic homicide review and an internal police investigation into the case, supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, are taking place.
Police had been called to disturbances at Miss Meecham's house on Park Street on numerous occasions.
In January, he was arrested and pleaded guilty to common assault, leading to he and Miss Meecham splitting up.
Det Ch Insp Mark Hall, of Essex Police, said: "This tragic case illustrates the dangers faced by those who suffer violence and abuse within their homes."
In a statement, the Meecham family said: "Despite the conviction of her killer, his term of imprisonment will never be sufficient punishment for taking Leanne from us."
The petrol-heads from Dorset, Staffordshire and Wigan roared through every county of England, Scotland and Wales with a coast in seven days.
Despite a dramatic flip over and painful potholes, the trio completed their Lawn Way Round challenge.
Tony Dwight, Darren Whitehead and Paul Tindall said raising £2,000 for Crohn's and Colitis UK made it all worthwhile.
Mr Dwight from Wigan, Mr Whitehead from Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, and Mr Tindall from Wimborne in Dorset, described their adventures after passing the finishing line on Friday.
"Sore backsides" came courtesy of 14-hour drives of more than 300 miles a day on the vintage 1970s-built mowers.
Mr Dwight, a 43-year-old lorry driver, joked: "I don't know what we were thinking."
Landscape gardener Mr Tindall's machine suffered a dramatic failure when his rear axle broke on a dual carriageway at 45mph.
Mr Dwight said: "He went across two lanes of traffic and flipped over but thankfully it was dual carriageway and the road was quiet."
The trio were stopped by police near Newcastle on Tyne, but only so the traffic officer could make a donation.
They started from base camp in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, and motored around Wales, before heading into Lancashire and on to Carlisle in Cumbria.
They criss-crossed Scotland before turning south for Newcastle.
They then took in the east coast of England down into Yorkshire and passed through Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Hampshire.
A 340-mile final leg took in Devon, Cornwall, and Gloucestershire before arriving back at their starting point.
The men, who all race lawnmowers for a hobby, had already completed a previous lawnmower challenge after travelling the length of Britain in aid of Help For Heroes in 2011.
Mr Whitehead, who is chairman of the North West Lawn Mower Racing Association, said they were now looking for their next challenge, probably abroad.
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Smith, who has muscular dystrophy, was named in the final squad for the tournament alongside Northern Thunder team-mate Edward Common.
While Common, 22, has seven caps, Smith is yet to make his international debut.
"It's time for the next step," he told BBC Look North.
"I've played for five or six years, and three years at the highest level [with Northern Thunder].
"I remember sitting in class at school and we were discussing about thing we wanted to do when we were older, and people were saying 'be an astronaut'.
"I said I wanted to play powerchair football for England and it's happening."
Northern Thunder, run by the Percy Hedley Foundation, are one of two clubs along with West Bromwich Albion to have two players included in the squad.
Common, also from Northumberland, was part of England's World Cup squad in 2010 when they were beaten 3-0 by USA, an experience he is keen to avenge.
"This time we want to go one better," he said. "Hopefully we can go one better."
For a Canadian mum, that moment was taking time out of her own wedding to breastfeed her nine-month-old daughter.
Christina Torino-Benton, 30, said her daughter Gemma began crying during the ceremony after a hot, stressful morning without a nap.
The Montreal native said she quickly took her daughter and began breastfeeding her as the priest continued to talk - a moment the bride's photographer Lana Nimmons was able to capture on camera.
"It didn't cross my mind not to nurse her while it was happening," Mrs Torino-Benton told the BBC. "It was the only thing to do, really."
Mrs Torino-Benton decided to share the moment with her daughter on a breastfeeding group's Facebook page, where the photo has generated more than 7.9k likes.
The photo was captioned, "Talk about feeding anytime & anywhere. That moment when you're getting married and your baby gets hungry ;) feeling SO proud of myself! Fighting that good fight!"
The image prompted dozens of mums to share their own photos of breastfeeding in bridal gowns, and a line of pictures went down the Facebook page among the stream of comments.
"Ten minutes before I walked down the aisle!" one Facebook user wrote, posting an image of her breastfeeding. "We were on the way to him weaning so this was the last time we nursed and it's been just over a week now. I will always treasure this picture."
The bride said she welcomed the outpouring of support, but was surprised by some of the "hurtful" comments left in response to the photo.
Some people, she said, dismissed her for breastfeeding at church.
"To those people, I say, there is nothing more natural than feeding your infant with what God gave me", she told the BBC.
Reporting by Courtney Subramanian
Rebels said the attack - which reportedly left four people dead and many injured - was carried out by government forces using chlorine gas.
The UN special envoy for Syria said a chlorine attack, if confirmed, would amount to a "war crime".
Footage obtained by the BBC shows people with breathing difficulties receiving treatment at a hospital.
Men, women and children are shown being fitted with oxygen masks by medical staff.
The gas is thought to have been chlorine dropped in a barrel bomb, said the Syrian Civil Defence - volunteer emergency response workers who operate in opposition-held areas.
UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura confirmed the global body's experts were investigating reports of a gas, believed to be chlorine, being dropped on Aleppo.
"There is a lot of evidence that it actually did take place," he told reporters. "If it did take place, it is a war crime and as such it would require everyone... to address it immediately."
A man receiving treatment in hospital said he had been in the Zebdieh area of the city, where he lives, when two missiles landed near him and a group of friends.
"And a few minutes later, the smell of gas started spreading... and I felt my eyes burning and difficulties in breathing," he said. "The smell was very strong - beyond any description."
A medic at the hospital said they had received a lot of casualties, who were "all ages" including children and elderly people.
"When we examined these casualties, we realised it was due to chlorine," he added.
Chlorine is a common industrial chemical, but its use in weapons is banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention.
In 2013, the BBC found strong evidence suggesting residents of Saraqeb had been subject to a chemical attack by government helicopters, something denied by the Syrian authorities.
Fighting has escalated in Aleppo in recent days, with rebels severing the government's main route to the west of the city.
The offensive sought to break a siege by pro-government forces, who encircled the east in July with the support of Russian aircraft.
Russia has announced a daily halt to hostilities between 10:00 (07:00 GMT) and 13:00 from Thursday, to allow in aid.
But UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Stephen O'Brien said while that would be taken seriously, a break of up to 48 hours was needed to get enough aid in on lorries.
"We have supplies ready to roll - food rations, hospital supplies, ambulances, fuel for generators, water supplies and more.
"We will continue to use all available routes and mechanisms to do this, including cross-line and cross-border operations from Turkey."
A witness in Aleppo told the BBC there had not been any ceasefire on Thursday, contrary to what the Russians had said.
Earlier some of the last doctors in the rebel-held east of the city appealed to US President Barack Obama to come to the aid of the 250,000 civilians there.
They said that in the past month there had been 42 attacks on medical facilities in Syria, 15 of them on hospitals where they work.
On Monday, the UN said countless civilians had been killed or injured in Aleppo in recent weeks and hospitals and clinics had continued to be targeted.
Moreover, attacks on civilian infrastructure had left more than two million people without electricity or access to the public water network for several days, it added.
Elsewhere, Russian planes attacked targets in the northern city of Raqqa, a stronghold of so-called Islamic State.
Russia 'cuts IS capital's water supply'
The city's water supply had been cut off as a result, the group's media arm, Amaq, said. The report was confirmed by an anti-IS group.
Norfolk Police were called to the Thickthorn roundabout on the A11 near Norwich on Monday after reports the 30-tonne truck was missing.
Two police cars were written-off and a third damaged in the £50,000 wrecking spree that followed.
A 39-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and dangerous driving has been bailed.
He was also accused of taking a vehicle without consent, failing to stop for police and driving under the influence of drugs.
Six squad cars and a helicopter were involved as the truck was pursued along the A11 and A134 for two hours until officers managed to stop it at Brandon, Suffolk, at 14:30 GMT.
The truck was taken from a site in Spixworth.
Norfolk Police, who appealed for witnesses to get in touch, said no officers were injured in the pursuit.
Plaid has previously voted against British overseas action, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Ms Wood said that the party was not yet convinced about British involvement but would "listen very carefully" to David Cameron's proposals.
MPs voted against RAF strikes in Syria two years ago.
The prime minister will not revisit the issue unless he is confident he has enough support.
Speaking to Sunday Politics Wales, Ms Wood said: "I think there would need to be a number of tests met before we were convinced that we were not about to make the same mistakes as we made back in 2003.
"It is very difficult to discuss hypotheticals; clearly the sanction of the UN would be something important to us, but that is not the only thing.
"We would need to see some sort of plan to make sure there was an endpoint. I would like to be satisfied that there was some sort of definition as to what success would look like; what a peace plan would look like."
The backing of Plaid's three MPs would be a significant symbolic gesture, but could also be significant to any vote because of the small Conservative majority in the Commons.
Some Labour MPs are demanding a free vote on Syria, but Ms Wood said Plaid's position would be determined by her as party leader.
"It will be a decision for the leader; it's a big question which merits the leadership's sanction," she said.
"But the way I like to work in general is to try and reach consensus and work with my team and we tend to come together in consensus on matters of seriousness like this."
Ms Wood was echoing comments made by the Scottish First Minister last week.
Nicola Sturgeon, of the SNP, said she was "prepared to listen" to the arguments for British airstrikes.
The SNP unanimously opposed UK military involvement in Syria at its party conference in October.
They are 22-year-old Western Australia batsman Cameron Bancroft and 30-year-old Tasmania fast bowler Andrew Fekete.
The much-changed side will be led by new Test captain Steve Smith, who replaces ex-skipper Michael Clarke.
Batsman Clarke, 34, was one of five players to retire after this summer's 3-2 Ashes defeat by England, while David Warner is injured.
Bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood have both been rested after figuring extensively in Test series against West Indies and England.
In addition to Clarke, wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, pace bowler Ryan Harris and batsman Chris Rogers have ended their international careers, while all-rounder Shane Watson has quit Test cricket.
All-rounder Glenn Maxwell, off-spinner Steven O'Keefe and batsmen Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja have been recalled, while leg-break bowler Fawad Ahmed drops out from the squad that toured England.
Australia's first Test against Bangladesh begins on 9 October.
"The retirements of five players from the squad that went on the Ashes tour, as well as issues of injury, form and conditions have brought about a major change in the profile of the touring party from the one that toured the British Isles," said national selector Rodney Marsh.
"But with that change comes a fantastic opportunity for all the players going to Bangladesh."
Left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc is included despite a bone spur in his ankle, which moves around and occasionally causes chronic pain.
"We have got some pretty important cricket coming including the T20 World Cup and we would like to see Starc lead the attack for that," Marsh added.
"But if he can't, he can't. At the moment the plan is for him to keep going."
Australia squad: Steven Smith (capt), Adam Voges (vice-capt), Cameron Bancroft, Joe Burns, James Faulkner*, Andrew Fekete, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Nevill (wk), Stephen O'Keefe, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc.
* Faulkner replaced the injured Pat Cummins on 24 September
We asked for your questions on the strike and the BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus has answered some of the most popular ones.
Russia was warned ahead of the attack and reports suggest that several Syrian aircraft were indeed destroyed on the ground.
The focus of the US cruise missile attacks was on aircraft, runways and infrastructure. It was not intended to cause massive loss of life among the Syrian military, though at this stage we have no reliable estimate of casualties. The Russians have said none of their personnel at the base were killed.
Cruise missiles are a stand-off weapon launched from warships, submarines or aircraft. In this case, the missiles were launched from two US destroyers.
They are highly accurate, though like all weapons systems they can of course go wrong. They carry a reasonably small warhead, the equivalent of a single bomb.
The US clearly believes that a sarin-like agent was used in the attack earlier this week, that it was delivered by Syrian aeroplanes and that those military aircraft were based at the location that was hit by the US cruise missiles.
While Syria, backed by its ally Russia, insist that they were not involved, it has a track record of using chemical munitions.
In 2013, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime mounted a chemical attack using the nerve agent sarin on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus. The then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the attack as a war crime. Following that attack, much of Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons was removed.
But there have been numerous claims of the use of chlorine gas, some of which have been substantiated by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - the international body responsible for implementing the ban on such weapons.
Legality is a difficult question. The US is not at war with the Syrian regime - though it disputes its legitimacy. The US contention may be that the Syrian regime has committed a war crime and that the US has a legitimate reason to act to protect Syrian civilians from this kind of atrocity.
Many might say that Syrian civilians are being killed every day by conventional weapons and that this does not draw a US response. Certainly, though, in the West chemical weapons produce a particular horror and they are banned by international convention. Syria belatedly agreed to this convention when it was forced to give up its chemical weapons after the 2013 sarin attack.
It is the use of a much more deadly nerve agent (and not the industrial chemical chlorine) that makes this attack cross a red line. But what if chlorine is used again in the future? Will the US act then?
I do not think this is linked to President Trump's domestic approval ratings, which some polls place as low as 35%.
He has decided to act resolutely to enforce a prohibition on the use of chemical weapons, which President Obama failed to do in 2013. In doing so he has marked his distance from his predecessor, demonstrating that there is a new man in the White House.
Russia has responded swiftly by condemning the attack and has insisted that it was actually being planned before the chemical incident earlier this week. It has also suspended an agreement with the US under which military officers from both sides consulted to avoid incidents in Syrian airspace between their aircraft.
Russia's backing for the Assad regime goes back to the 1960s, when the current president's father led Syria. It is Moscow's only major ally in the region.
There is a small Russian naval facility there which is being modernised, as well as the air base from which Russia mounts its own air operations.
Syria gives Russia a foothold in the region which remains of strategic importance to Moscow.
The scope and method of the strikes suggests that this was a limited punitive attack, not a move from the US to intervene in Syria's civil war. It strongly bears the hallmarks of President Trump's key military advisers, who are seen as being tough but also realistic about what military force alone can achieve.
It is hard to see what response the Syrians may take. There could be worries that their Iranian allies may pursue some kind of reprisal. Iranian-backed militias operate in Iraq where US forces are engaged in combat against so-called Islamic State.
This is not going to significantly alter the balance of power in Syria, where President Assad is well entrenched in a significant part of the country.
Further US strikes are unlikely unless sarin is used again.
But it will shape the future US-Russia relationship. For Moscow, President Trump has been very much an unknown quantity.
President Vladimir Putin had hoped that he might find a willing partner in the new US president. In the event, the Trump administration looks in some ways much more like previous US administrations - highly sceptical about Moscow and what it is trying to achieve in the world.
Notwithstanding this, there are many problems where progress can only be made if the US and Russia work together. Syria may be one of them.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to meet his Russian counterpart soon. The Russians will now have a better idea of who they are dealing with.
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Reuters, which provides material to media, financial and other institutions, agreed to pay damages to Finsbury Park Mosque in north London.
It admitted publishing a profile based on outdated reports on its global database - which caused banks to refuse to accept the mosque as a customer.
The firm expressed its "regret" at the High Court earlier.
Finsbury Park mosque was run by Abu Hamza, who was later convicted of terrorism offences in the United States, until 2005.
The company which took over had its account with HSBC closed in June 2014, after the Reuters report was published.
In a letter, HSBC said: "The provision of banking services… now falls outside of our risk appetite".
Following the allegations made by Reuters, numerous other banks refused to accept the mosque as a customer.
Sara Monsoori, representing the company which now runs the mosque, told the High Court the Reuters' subscription-only service publishes profiles which also go to subscribers including regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies.
The mosque's management company was unaware of the profile report until it was drawn to its attention by the BBC a year after its bank account was closed on 20 June 2015.
She said the mosque was the subject of profile reports which placed it in the "terrorism" category.
"This was wrong," Ms Monsoori told deputy High Court judge Richard Parkes QC.
"The profile referred to press reports and allegations from many years ago, long before the mosque was reorganised and the claimant company was established."
Reuters admitted its report "made the false allegation that there were grounds to suspect that the claimant had continued connections to terrorism".
It said those allegations had now been withdrawn.
Reuters agreed to pay damages and the mosque company's legal costs.
Finsbury Park Mosque said in a statement: "It is unacceptable that any organisation is able to designate people as terrorists on the basis of poor research and for those people to be labelled without any recourse to truth or justice."
The series will recreate the arrest, trial and controversial acquittal of Simpson following the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
The TV series will be based on Jeffrey Toobin's 1997 book The Run of His Life: The People v OJ Simpson.
Simpson is currently serving a 33-year jail term for kidnap and armed robbery.
The 65-year-old was convicted in 2008 for his part in an armed raid on the Las Vegas hotel room of two sports memorabilia dealers.
According to Fox, Simpson's murder trial - often described as The Trial of the Century - "marked the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle and the birth of reality television".
The series, it pledged, would boast "the non-stop plot of a courtroom thriller" and present "the story of the trial as it has never been told".
The series will be written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, whose previous collaborations include acclaimed film biopics of the director Ed Wood, the comedian Andy Kaufman and the adult magazine publisher Larry Flynt.
Fox is a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire, which courted controversy in 2006 with plans to publish Simpson's book If I Did It and broadcast an interview with its author.
The plans were subsequently scrapped by Mr Murdoch, who apologised to the victims' families for what he described it as "an ill-considered project".
Fox has also announced plans for another 'event' series based on James Clavell's 1975 novel Shogun, previously adapted for television in 1980 with Richard Chamberlain in the lead role.
The new version, said the network, would be both "a classic for the ages" and "a star-crossed love story" that would explore feudal Japan through the story of a British sailor who becomes a samurai.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it initially declined to charge him following the show at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on 30 November.
That decision was later overturned after a request to review evidence.
Mr Gascoigne, 49, has been issued with a summons to appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court on 17 June.
Under the Victims Right to Review, a legal decision could be challenged by a victim or complainant, a CPS spokesperson said.
This was implemented to charge Mr Gascoigne for a "joke" he made during the Evening with Gazza show, the spokesperson added.
The Express & Star reported that the complaint centred on a remark the ex-England international is said to have made about a black security guard who was in a darkened part of the stage, about whom Mr Gascoigne allegedly said he could not tell "if he was smiling or not".
The former Newcastle, Tottenham Hotspur, Rangers, Middlesbrough and Everton midfielder, who retired from football in 2004, has openly spoken about his struggles with mental health and battles with alcoholism.
"Well, I suppose Jeremy will need a Chief of Staff, won't he?" joked John McTernan, a former adviser to Tony Blair, on his way into seeing his old boss set out his diagnosis of Labour's problems.
Hours earlier, Mr McTernan had described Labour MPs who offered left winger Jeremy Corbyn their support just to ensure he made the shortlist of Labour candidates, rather than because they supported him, as "morons".
Other occasions, when talking to Labour MPs, resemble a wake: lots of animated talk about the past, just don't mention the future.
Sometimes as a political correspondent, the most telling remarks, the best quotes, are muttered in private conversations you have with politicians. It is what we call being off the record - we offer the politician anonymity, in exchange for complete candour from them.
But who needs off the record with lines like this: Tony Blair was asked about Jeremy Corbyn's outlook: "People say, my heart says I really should be with that politics. Well get a transplant, because that's just daft."
"We are in danger of becoming the political equivalent of Millwall Football Club. Their chant? `No one likes us, we don't care.' So said shadow cabinet minister Mary Creagh in the New Statesman.
The message has even crossed the Atlantic: "My party is suffering a relapse," the Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has told an audience in Washington.
So what is going on?
This is about so, so much more than a single YouGov poll - suggesting Jeremy Corbyn might win the Labour leadership - which may turn out to be drivel. It is, instead, about something much, much deeper.
The other day on Radio 4's Today Programme, I described what was happening to Labour as "the cries of pain of a party still deeply wounded after its heavy election defeat".
One or two Labour activists accused me of indulging in a spot of journalistic hyperbole. And let's be honest, that kind of accusation levelled at a reporter is often a fair cop.
It was nothing more than a difference of opinion, some listeners told me. Well, it was definitely a difference of opinion.
But here are ten reasons why it might be a symptom of much more than that:
1) Labour's defeat was, to many, unexpected.
2) The scale of Labour's defeat was, to many, more unexpected still.
Net result: gloomy activists wonder what the future holds.
3) Those on the right of the party say the reason is obvious: Labour was too left wing.
Net result: They argue the party has to move to the right, and point passionately and in no uncertain terms to Tony Blair as proof of it.
4) Those on the left of the party say the reason is obvious: Labour was too right wing.
Net result: They argue the party has to move to the left, and point passionately and in no uncertain terms to the SNP's success as proof of it.
5) So who's the enemy for Labour? It depends who you ask.
6) A chunk of the Labour movement, its left, has, for years, felt sidelined, belittled, scorned and ignored. Suddenly, in Jeremy Corbyn, they have a standard bearer with a platform, offering a clear, socialist platform.
Net result: He can give straight answers to straight questions, his supporters are upbeat and in the spotlight, his three rivals do rather more caveating, triangulating and not answering questions so clearly. Or even, whisper their critics, are being boring and saying nothing.
7) Two of the Labour leadership candidates, Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham, served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury when Labour was in government, at a time when Labour faces questions about its economic credibility because of its time in government. One, Andy Burnham, was also Health Secretary - meaning questions about the deaths at Stafford Hospital would keep coming too.
Net result: Some Labour activists fret these are hostages to fortune.
8) Supporters of Ed Miliband said one of his greatest achievements was keeping the party united.
Net result: this internal combustion has been a long time coming
9) Conservatives are gleeful - and quickly nicking as many Labour policies they think are worth nicking as they can
Net result: when Tories are cranking up the minimum wage and talking about 'one nation,' where is the turf for Labour, mutter some.
10) Throw one to nine into the pot, shake, stir, throw in an added dose of 1 and 2 and you arrive at... the current situation.
Several others are being treated with bullet wounds in hospital in the region's main city, Bamenda.
Lawyers are opposed to the employment of court workers who do not understand the application of British common law.
Areas controlled by Britain and France joined to form Cameroon after the colonial powers withdrew in the 1960s.
The country has 10 semi-autonomous administrative regions - eight are Francophone and use the French civil law.
English-speakers have long complained that they face discrimination.
They often complain that they are excluded from top civil service jobs and that government documents are often only published in French, even though English is also an official language.
Bamenda is the founding place of Cameroon's largest opposition political party, the Social Democratic Front.
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The BBC's Frederic Takang in Bamenda says there is tension in the north-western city and businesses and schools have been closed.
At least one person was shot dead on the first day of the protests, 10 others were admitted to hospital with four in critical condition, he says.
Teachers and local residents joined the protests which started on Monday.
Educators in the English-speaking regions have been opposed to the employment of teachers who only speak French in technical schools.
Cameroon was colonised by Germany and then split into British and French areas after World War One.
Following a referendum, British-run Southern Cameroons joined the French-speaking Republic of Cameroon in 1961, while Northern Cameroons voted to join English-speaking Nigeria.
He criticised the film in parliament, saying it should not be shown in India. A Delhi court has already blocked the film, made for the BBC and NDTV.
Film-maker Leslee Udwin said the jail and home ministry had given her permission to conduct the interview.
She spoke to one of four men sentenced to death over the 2012 rape and murder.
The killing of the 23-year-old student on a bus in Delhi caused shock and revulsion around the world.
Udwin interviewed one of the rapists for India's Daughter, a BBC Storyville documentary which was due to be broadcast on 8 March, International Women's Day. It is now being shown in the UK on Wednesday night.
Rapist Mukesh Singh, who along with the three others is facing the death penalty, expressed no remorse in the interview, and blamed the victim for fighting back.
Rajnath Singh told parliament that his government would "not allow any venture that seeks to benefit from this [the Delhi rape] for commercial gain".
He said the film-makers were asked not to release or screen it until it was approved by the Indian authorities.
Police in Delhi said they had gained an injunction against the film because the rapist's remarks were "creating an atmosphere of fear and tension".
In addition, media organisations were apparently barred from publishing quotes from the film, or broadcasting any clips.
The BBC's South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt in Delhi says the issue is not just what the convict says, but also whether he should have been given a platform to express his views.
The film-makers have said any attempt to stop the film's broadcast would be a violation of the right to freedom of expression. They plan to challenge the ban in court.
Businesswoman Anu Agha, a member of the upper house, told parliament that "banning the documentary is not the answer".
"What the rapist said is the view of many men in India. Let us not pretend all is well," she said.
Javed Akhtar, a writer who is also a member of the upper house, said it was "good that this film was made [and that] it will reveal how many men think like [the] rapist".
Along with three of the other attackers, Mukesh Singh is appealing against his death sentence.
While prosecutors say the men took turns to drive the bus, and all took part in the rape, he says he stayed at the wheel throughout. His brother Ram Singh was also convicted but died in prison before the trial.
A teenager found guilty of rape and murder in the case was sentenced to three years in a juvenile reform facility.
Udwin told an NDTV studio discussion on Tuesday that the film "tries to show the disease is not the rapists, the disease is in society".
A BBC spokesperson said: "This harrowing documentary, made with the full support and co-operation of the victim's parents, provides a revealing insight into a horrific crime that sent shock waves around the world and led to protests across India demanding changes in attitudes towards women.
"The film handles the issue responsibly and we are confident the programme fully complies with our editorial guidelines.
"Assassin Films, the production company that made India's Daughter, has assured the BBC that it fully complied with the filming permissions granted by Tihar Jail."
India's Daughter will be broadcast on Storyville on BBC Four on Wednesday 4 March at 22:00 GMT.
It follows concerns that the BCG vaccine would not be available until later this year or early next year.
Health Minister, Leo Varadkar, said problems meant the vaccine, produced in Denmark, was not available.
He blamed production difficulties, delivery delays and sealing problems.
Carysfort Healthcare said it has been offered 40,000 doses of the BCG vaccine from the Canadian medical supply company, Intervax.
The delivery can be made in the next two to three weeks, but the offer will expire on 25 August due to shortages of the vaccine in other countries.
The Danish company is the only licensed supplier of the vaccine in the EU. However, according to Carysfort's managing director, Fintan Smith, the BCG offered is prequalified and approved by the World Health Organisation.
Mr Smith has been in contact with the Health Products Regulatory Authority in connection with the offer and whether it will allow the medicine to be used as an emergency as it is not licensed in the Republic of Ireland.
Sinn Féin TD Gerry Adams had raised the vaccine's lack of availability after a Louth councillor from his party, Jennifer Green, who is due to give birth in three weeks, had been told her baby would not be given the vaccine as recommended by the Health Service Executive (HSE).
Mr Adams said the difficulties had been known by the Irish Department of Health since last year.
He said that, as a result of failing to find an alternative supplier, at least 50,000 babies, and potentially many more, would not receive their BCG when appropriate.
The Department of Health said other countries were experiencing similar delays in acquiring supplies of the vaccine from the Danish company.
The statement added that production was suspended in 2014 pending an extensive investigation regarding a possible problem with the capping of the vials.
It said the investigation had ended and product produced during 2014 was being released.
The statement also said the HSE would arrange appointments for children to attend clinics when the vaccine supply was restored.
The HSE said it had "no control over when BCG vaccine will be delivered by the vaccine manufacturer" and that "these supply issues will continue until at least quarter one, 2016."
It found that children of the same ability went on to achieve very different levels of exam results.
Academics tracked 5,000 people in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It comes as a report on social mobility is about be published.
The study, from Oxford University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, examined the academic achievements of cohorts of people born between the late 1940s and 1970.
Their academic results as young adults were compared with cognitive ability tests taken when they were aged between 10 and 13.
It showed that children from wealthier and better educated families had been much more successful in exam results than poorer children of a similar intelligence level.
It meant that many poor, bright young people leaving school in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s failed to reach their full potential.
Among the youngest of this survey, leaving school in the mid-1980s, fewer than one in five went to university. Among the oldest group, who would have left school in the early 1970s, only about one in 20 reached degree level.
Last week figures from the OECD think tank indicated the 55-65 age group in England had stronger literacy and numeracy skills than 16-24-year-olds, even though the younger group had much better qualifications.
The OECD has warned about the diminishing job prospects for those without skills.
And this study shows the long roots of the academic gap between rich and poor and the lack of social mobility in education.
What surprised the Oxford University researchers was that a parallel study in Sweden, across the same decades, also showed a strong link between economic background and academic achievement.
The lead author of the study, Erzsebet Bukodi, said there were expectations that Sweden would have had more equal outcomes, but the results showed that poorer children were also disadvantaged there.
Co-author, Prof John Goldthorpe, said the results showed that Sweden was not "significantly ahead" in terms of a meritocratic system and he said it raised questions about whether educational policies could be used to promote social mobility.
Dr Bukodi also highlighted how the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were decades of great social change, with a perception of increased social mobility, but the studies in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland and Sweden showed a sustained picture of a social gap in exam results.
Across three decades there had been no diminishing of this link between social background and achievement, said Dr Bukodi.
Despite the lack of a level playing field, it still remained possible for bright children from poorer backgrounds to out-perform those who were from wealthier backgrounds, but with less intelligence.
But it was an uphill struggle.
The study suggests that among the cleverest children born in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1970, in the top fifth of the ability range, 80% of the richest children achieved two A-levels or their equivalent, compared with only 40% for the poorest.
It meant that for poor children with high levels of intelligence, a majority left school in the 1980s without two A-levels.
"We see that in both the British and Swedish educational systems, even the very brightest children are hampered if they come from a disadvantaged background," said Dr Bukodi.
"It is possible of course that clever individuals choose other ways of getting on in the world than through education, but the fact remains that many children in British and Swedish schools do not appear to fulfil their academic potential."
Writing for the BBC News website's Scrubbing Up column, Nigel Edwards from the Nuffield Trust says the Better Care Fund, due to start in 2015, could even lead to more hospital admissions.
He says cutting the length of hospital stays would be more effective.
The government says pilots in 14 areas are already working well.
Mr Edwards says there is a proportion - perhaps around 15% of hospital admissions - who could be cared for in the community if GP and nursing services were improved.
Then, he says, there are a number of patients who may be admitted to hospital for a day or two and, while they could be cared for at home, the diagnostic and expert resources needed may well be the same.
He says the real issue is about those patients who remain in hospital for longer.
Writing in Scrubbing Up Mr Edwards says: "Most beds are occupied by relatively small numbers of patients who stay a long time.
"In fact, in medical wards 10% of the patients that stay in hospital for more than a week use over 71% of the beds.
"More can be done quickly by reducing patients' length of stay.
"A large proportion of patients could be more effectively cared for elsewhere. This will require better social care, community services and new types of care."
The Foundation Trust Network, which represents NHS trusts which look after their own finances, said the fund was a "step in the right direction" but warned it carries "significant risk that needs to be managed".
Sir Merrick Cockell, chairman of the Local Government Association, said local areas piloting the fund were already going "above and beyond" what had been expected.
He added: "Most areas are now confident they will be able to provide services seven days a week, identify a lead professional for those in greatest need and use patients' NHS numbers to share information."
Sir Merrick said: "Increasing demand means that councils need an extra £400m each year just to maintain services at current levels.
"However, the BCF was never intended to solve the issues related to distressed health economies.
"The Better Care Fund is not a quick-fix that will solve the problems of the health and social care system overnight and it is short-sighted to expect the BCF to payback results in its first year.
"It is the opportunity to transform and improve the lives of those using health and care services over the medium and long term at a lower cost."
Health Minister Norman Lamb said: "The Better Care Fund isn't just about cutting hospital admissions - it's about reducing the time people spend in hospital, having services closer to home and preventing people from getting ill in the first place.
"It's a new joined-up approach which will transform patient care."
He added: "No-one said it's going to be easy, which is why we are working closely with local areas to get their plans for integration right.
"But when we do, patients will get better care in the community and the NHS will be able to focus its attention on those who need it most. "
Two men were shot in the legs during attacks on Sandys Street and Armagh Road in the city on 17 September.
The man was arrested after police searched a house at Churchill Park in Portadown on Wednesday.
He has also been charged with kidnapping, possession of a firearm and a number of drugs offences.
Three guns and a quantity of suspected drugs were seized during Wednesday's search.
A 34-year-old man who was also arrested remains in custody.
Last month, a 26-year-old man was charged with two counts of attempted murder, kidnapping and possession of a firearm with intent over the two shootings in Newry.
In the first incident, a man called at a house in Sandys Street and, after an argument, shot the occupant in the leg.
A short time later, another man was taken from a house at Ardfield Avenue, Warrenpoint, by four masked men and driven to the Armagh Road in Newry, where he was also shot in the leg.
The paintings and drawings belonged to Cornelius Gurlitt, whose father was an art dealer in Hitler's Germany.
The son died nearly three years ago and left the works to the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern but a relative contested the will.
Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall feature in the collection.
Some of the pieces are believed to have been stolen from Jewish owners.
Gurtlitt's cousin, Uta Werner, launched the court challenge and staked a claim to the collection.
But the German court rejected her argument, finding insufficient evidence that Gurlitt had not been of sound mind when making the decision.
It is thought the collection will go on public display next year.
The Bern museum welcomed the ruling and said it will not keep all the works, just those that "most probably were not looted".
It said it would be working closely with the German government and experts at the German Lost Art Foundation to research the back story of each work and begin restitution cases where applicable.
Gurlitt was known to be a reclusive man, who hid hundreds of works in his homes in the German city of Munich and Austrian city of Salzburg.
His father Hildebrand, as an art dealer for the Nazis, sold works stolen from Jews or confiscated as "degenerate" works.
More than 1,400 works were discovered in 2012 after Gurlitt's apartment was searched in a tax inquiry. Some have already been reunited with their owners and a few have been sold at auction.
Six months before he died, Gurlitt told Der Spiegel magazine, "I haven't loved anything more than my pictures in my life."
The Crucible hosts snooker's annual world championships as well as being one of the UK's leading theatres.
The worlds of snooker and theatre will meet with the world premiere of The Nap, written by Richard Bean, who is best known for One Man, Two Guvnors.
O'Connell has made his name in films including Unbroken, '71 and Starred Up.
Those performances helped him win the rising star prize at the Bafta film awards earlier this year.
In The Nap, he will take the role of Sheffield-born snooker player Dylan Spokes who, according to The Crucible, has to contend with "his ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff and the snooker corruption squad".
The play is described as a "comedy thriller" and will be staged next March, just before the snooker world championships, which take place every April.
The Nap will be directed by actor and The Crucible associate director Richard Wilson. Next week, Wilson will reprise his role as Victor Meldrew in TV sitcom One Foot in the Grave at a one-off fundraising event for the theatre.
The venue's new season also includes new musical Flowers for Mrs Harris, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Paul Gallico; revivals of A Raisin in the Sun and Waiting for Godot; and the regional premiere of Contractions by Mike Bartlett, who wrote BBC One's recent drama Doctor Foster.
Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans said: "This is, without doubt, our boldest season to date. We're announcing seven original productions: three new plays, a new British musical, a regional premiere and two major revivals of 20th Century classics."
Oxfam and Action Against Hunger say fewer than 10 wholesalers remain in the capital, Bangui, with many considering leaving the country.
As a result, they warn staple food supplies could dry up and prices rise.
With 90% of the population estimated by the UN to eat one meal a day, there are fears the situation could worsen.
'I'll be last Muslim in CAR'
Violence between the Christian majority and Muslims has torn the country apart since a coup last year. Tens of thousands of Muslims have already fled the country to neighbouring Cameroon and Chad.
Meat is already scarce because cattle herders have fled into the bush and, when available, it is twice as expensive as it was, says the BBC's West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy.
Many of the Muslims chased out by Christian militias were the backbone of the local economy, he adds.
Some 96% of farmers are without access to seeds, the UN says, just under a month before the main planting season.
The violence is preventing food from getting into the country with hundreds of food lorries stuck at the border with Cameroon because many drivers fear being attacked by armed groups.
The consequences of failing to protect those who remain, Oxfam says, could be disastrous for everyone.
Source: Index Mundi
Earlier, Human Rights Watch (HRW) told the BBC the religious violence could force CAR's entire Muslim population to flee.
HRW emergency director Peter Bouckaert said this could affect the economy, as Muslims control the livestock market and other businesses.
The CAR, one of Africa's poorest nations, has been in chaos for more than a year since Muslim Seleka rebels seized power.
Coup leader Michel Djotodia, who became the CAR's first Muslim leader, resigned as interim president last month as part of a regional peace process.
However, violence, largely perpetrated by either Christian anti-Balaka militias or Seleka members, has continued despite interventions by thousands of peacekeepers from the African Union and the former colonial power, France.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda says she has opened a preliminary investigation into possible war crimes in the CAR.
Mrs Bensouda said she had received reports of "extreme brutality by various groups".
The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says all communities are affected by the violence, but lately there have been collective reprisals against Muslims.
According to MSF, about 30,000 refugees are already in Chad and another 10,000 have reached Cameroon.
The EU-US Privacy Shield agreement was supposed to safeguard EU citizens' personal information when stored in the US.
The agreement was designed to replace the Safe Harbour pact, which the EU Court of Justice ruled invalid in 2015.
But the EDPS Giovanni Buttarelli warned Privacy Shield was "not robust enough".
"I appreciate the efforts made to develop a solution to replace Safe Harbour but the Privacy Shield as it stands is not robust enough to withstand future legal scrutiny," he wrote in a statement.
Mr Buttarelli's statement does not mean the agreement will be scrapped, but his concerns echo those expressed by European privacy regulators in April.
The Privacy Shield agreement, negotiated by the US and the European Commission, was intended to be ratified in June.
Safe Harbour referred to an agreement struck between the European Union and United States, designed to provide a "streamlined and cost-effective" way for US firms to get data from Europe without breaking EU rules. It was introduced in 2000.
The EU forbids personal data from being transferred to and processed in parts of the world that do not provide "adequate" privacy protections.
Safe Harbour allowed US companies to self-certify that they had taken the necessary steps to protect data, to avoid having to seek permission for each new type of transfer.
In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed details about a surveillance scheme operated by the NSA called Prism.
It was alleged the agency had gained access to data about Europeans and other foreign citizens stored by the US tech giants.
Privacy campaigner Max Schrems asked the Irish Data Protection Commission to audit what material Facebook might be passing on. The watchdog declined saying the transfers were covered by Safe Harbour.
When Mr Schrems contested the decision, the matter was referred to the European Court of Justice, which ruled Safe Harbour inadequate.
In February 2016, the EU and US agreed a new pact to make it easy for organisations to transfer data across the Atlantic.
Key points of the agreement are:
However, the agreement has been criticised by European privacy watchdogs.
In April, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party said it was still concerned about the possibility of "massive and indiscriminate" bulk collection of EU citizens' data by the US authorities.
Mr Buttarelli has echoed those concerns.
"Significant improvements are needed... to respect the essence of key data protection principles," he wrote.
In a statement, the EDPS said the Privacy Shield agreement needed to provide "adequate protection against indiscriminate surveillance" and "obligations on oversight, transparency, redress and data protection rights".
Born to an Italian-Welsh father and Welsh mother in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Spinetti was a regular performer in London's West End as well as with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He appeared in more than 30 films, including three Beatles movies.
Sir Paul spoke about Spinetti's "wit and exuberant personality".
The former Beatle struck up a friendship with the Welshman during filming for the first Beatles film, A Hard Day's Night.
"Victor was a fine man, a great pal and a fantastic actor and someone I am proud to have known for many years," said Sir Paul.
"His irreverent wit and exuberant personality will remain in my memory forever.
"I will miss his loyal friendship, as will all the others who were lucky enough to know and love the wonderful Mr Spinetti."
Spinetti died at a hospice in Monmouth on Monday morning, said his agent Barry Burnett.
"He had cancer for a year, but he was very cheerful to the end," said Mr Burnett.
"I spoke to him on Friday and he was talking about his plans and everything."
News of his death prompted a stream of tributes from fans and members of the entertainment world on Twitter.
Barbara Windsor, a lifelong friend and co-star in Oh! What a Lovely War, had visited Spinetti last Thursday.
"We were very close. He was another of my great friends from that era. He was such a great man," she said.
"We just chatted and chatted and talked about old things. But he said, 'let's not talk about all that, let's talk about the future'."
Actor Rob Brydon tweeted: "So sad Victor Spinetti has died. The funniest story teller I've ever met and a lovely warm man. Proud to have been his friend. 'Eh, Vic...'"
Britt Ekland, actor, wrote: "Just heard my wonderful friend, co writer and director Victor Spinetti died. Am devastated to have lost a true acting genius."
Welsh actor Sian Phillips told BBC Wales she was shocked and saddened, adding: "He was such a force of joy and vitality. When one saw him across a crowded room, one couldn't wait to get together with him and have a chat and a catch-up."
Spinetti was born in the living quarters above the chip shop his family owned in Cwm, Ebbw Vale. He attended Monmouth School and initially had ambitions to be a teacher.
But after turning to acting he studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.
His early stage career saw him make a number of memorable performances with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, whose production of Oh, What a Lovely War! transferred to the West End and Broadway.
It was his Tony-winning performance in Oh, What a Lovely War! that prompted the Beatles to ask him to appear in A Hard Day's Night (1964), the first of the group's five films.
Spinetti's collaboration with the Beatles saw him appear in their next two productions, Help! (1965) and the hour-long television film Magical Mystery Tour (1967).
He also worked with John Lennon to turn the Beatle's book, In His Own Write, in to a play which he then directed at the National Theatre.
As well as the Beatles movies, Spinetti's film career included Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew and a version of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, both alongside Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Spinetti's television roles included voicing the arch villain character Texas Pete in the S4C animated series SuperTed.
He was also a noted raconteur whose creative output included poetry, an autobiography and his one-man show, A Very Private Diary.
A
BBC documentary
on his life and work saw contributions from Barbara Windsor and Rob Brydon praising a "great Welsh eccentric" and is due to be broadcast at 22:45 BST by BBC Wales on BBC One on 20 June.
Everyone loves a vignette that tells a story. And so I offer you this.
Last night on ABC's World News Tonight, the broadcaster's evening news show, with the supercool David Muir, there was the most brilliant encapsulation of the US attitude towards the whole issue of climate.
The second story was the latest shocking weather to strike the United States. There is rarely a night when extreme weather isn't on the bulletin. America gets seriously wild, raucous and disruptive weather - last night it was storms in Oklahoma, Minnesota and Kansas.
Then, two or three stories later, there was a report on the climate change conference in Paris. As if the two are totally disconnected, two completely different subjects. What link could there possibly be? What dots could possibly be joined?
Here's an observation that will probably infuriate many - Americans are obsessed by weather, and not much interested in climate.
Throughout last summer there were extensive reports on the forest fires that ravaged parts of California, about farmers' protests in the state's Central Valley, as the growers of America's fruit basket were ordered to cut drastically the amount of water they used to irrigate the land.
There was discussion of the tankers that might be deployed to bring water to the parched landscape of California and the cost of building a water pipeline - but not that much discussion about why the snows had failed to arrive - yet again - in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
This is changing, as Barack Obama seeks to make the environment and climate change a central plank of his final year in office.
In the summer, he went to Alaska to announce his clean energy plan - a proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from US power stations by a third in the next 15 years.
And to counter the idea that America only hurts itself by taking unilateral action, he managed to wrest similar commitments from the Chinese.
So if you focus exclusively on Paris you would think that the matter is settled. The US will change direction on CO2 emissions, and stop being "the bad boy" in world public opinion when it comes to climate change.
But the argument is anything but settled. As I write this, Republicans in the House are debating proposals to strike down Obama's proposals. The Senate has already voted to reject them.
The president can, with a wave of his veto, brush all that aside (I think I am going to ask Father Christmas for an all-powerful veto this year - what fun it would be to have one of those). But it tells you something about the climate of climate (if you see what I mean).
Among the Republicans leading the field for the party's presidential nomination, climate change scepticism is widespread.
"I consider it to be not a big problem at all," Donald Trump tweeted after a recent cold snap. "Man we could use a big fat dose of global warming".
Similar sentiments have been expressed by the retired neurosurgeon, Dr Ben Carson, who has said he believes there is no overwhelming science to prove the things going on in the natural world are man-made.
And then there is the guerrilla wing of politics - litigation.
There is a slew of legal actions being launched by coal-producing states in alliance with coal firms to entangle Mr Obama's emissions plans in so much legal knotweed that the polar icecap might have become a heated swimming pool by the time all the cases are settled.
So when you next watch the news and hear the words "storm brewing", it might be about Mr Obama's proposals themselves and not the latest weather system.
Turnover at the group was up by 8%, from £764m to £827m.
A note in the accounts said the "encouraging" growth in turnover was driven by the full year impact of new facilities.
Dunbia has plants across Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland as well as Northern Ireland.
During the year staff numbers increased from 3,256 to 3,605.
The Dungannon group, which is among Northern Ireland's largest food businesses, is owned by brothers Jim and Jack Dobson.
They have recently begun a process that could lead to the sale of the business after receiving "several serious expressions of interest from would-be investors over the past two years".
The company said it remains business as usual while options are explored.
A note in the accounts said "the strategy for the coming period will continue to be that of product development and volume growth".
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Police were alerted to the incident at about 08:30 but it was thought to have happened about an hour before that.
The driver was not thought to be seriously injured.
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Costa joined the Blues for £32m in 2014, and was understood to be close to a return to former club Atletico Madrid after a difficult 2015-16 campaign.
The Spain international has since scored 14 Premier League goals, as Chelsea have taken a six-point lead courtesy of 13 successive victories.
"Did I want to go? Yes, yes, I was about to leave. But not because of Chelsea," said the 28-year-old.
"There was one thing I wanted to change for family reasons but it wasn't to be, and I continue to be happy here."
Costa scored 20 goals in his first season in England, as Chelsea won the Premier League title under Jose Mourinho.
But he had netted only four more by the time Mourinho was sacked in December 2015, finishing the season with 12 before being heavily linked with a move.
Brazil-born Costa says he has also made a conscious effort to curb his aggressive nature on the pitch.
"I knew I had to improve that aspect because here in the Premier League there is no mercy," he said.
"A lot of the time it seemed [referees] were against me. If they're not going to change, I had to change."
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Stephen Carson, 28, was shot in front of his family in a house at Walmer Street in the Ormeau Road area at about 22:45 GMT on Thursday.
Police said he was having a meal with his partner and nine-year-old son when "at least three men carrying a hammer and a shotgun burst into the house".
After a confrontation, Mr Carson ran into a downstairs bathroom.
He was shot through the door of the bathroom.
Following the attack, Mr Carson was taken to hospital, where he died from a fatal head wound.
The officer leading the investigation, Det Supt Kevin Geddes, said the murder was "brutal and cold-blooded".
"Our main line of enquiry, but not our only line of enquiry, is that Stephen was shot as part of a criminal feud," he said.
"We do not believe at this stage there was any paramilitary involvement nor do we believe this was sectarian."
He said Mr Carson was known to police but had been trying to get his life together.
Detectives are also investigating a possible link to the murder of pizza delivery driver Kieran McManus in west Belfast almost three years ago.
In April 2013, Mr McManus was shot a number of times at close range in a car park outside the pizza shop where he worked on Kennedy Way.
Police have appealed for information about the shooting.
Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness condemned those responsible for the murder and said it was "terrible news".
Iraqi-born Mullah Krekar was detained one year ago as part of a Europe-wide anti-terror raid.
Italian prosecutors accused Krekar of plotting attacks - which he denied - and asked for his extradition.
Norwegian prosecutors said Italy had sent a letter saying the request would be withdrawn.
In a statement, the Director of Public Prosecutors (DPP) said a letter from Italian prosecutors had made clear that the basis for the extradition was repealed by an Italian court in early March.
The DPP said no explanation was given for why the ruling was revoked, or why it took so long for Italy to tell the Norwegian authorities about it.
Mullah Krekar - born Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad - is the founder of the defunct Islamic group Ansar al-Islam, but distanced himself from the organisation in recent years.
Italy had accused him of being behind the European-wide network Rawti Shax, which seeks to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
He came to Norway as a refugee in 1991 from Iraq.
Norwegian authorities have been trying to deport him since 2003, after deeming him a threat to national security.
However, under Norwegian law, he cannot be deported to Iraq because he could face the death penalty there.
He has been jailed several times, including in 2012 for making death threats against officials and others, and again in February 2015 after praising the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.
Speaking at a BBC event, the Met Police commissioner said it was time to "reformulate" the policy, so police showed empathy towards victims but kept an open mind as they tested claims.
The policy is expected to be considered in a review of the Met's procedures.
The NSPCC said it was "deeply disturbed" by the proposed change.
The review, which will be led by an ex-judge, follows criticism of the Met's handling of high-profile investigations into claims of historical sex abuse.
It will scrutinise the force's handling of investigations including Operation Midland - which is looking at claims that boys were abused by powerful men from politics, the military and law enforcement agencies in the 1970s and 80s.
In 2014, Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary said "the presumption that a victim should always be believed should be institutionalised".
However, Sir Bernard told BBC Radio 4's Today programme police had become "hung up" on the word belief and it had "confused officers".
He said: "My point would be of course we've got to be empathetic. We want people to believe we're going to listen to them, we want to be open minded, what they tell us and then what the suspects tell us, and then we've got to test all that evidence.
"I think there is a grave danger at the moment with the advice that is around that perhaps there is a tendency to think that we will always believe any complaint that is made and that's not wise for any good investigator, nor as it would be for any journalist."
Much of the criticism of Operation Midland has revolved around comments made by one senior detective.
At the beginning of the investigation, the officer described allegations made by a man known as Nick as "credible and true".
Sir Bernard said the officer had "misspoken" after becoming "confused" by the need to follow guidance about complainants being believed.
Asked whether the Met risked dissuading victims from coming forward, Sir Bernard said police had been criticised for carrying out a "witch hunt" after previously being accused of not properly investigating abuse claims.
"We are now being accused of being witch hunters and doing it in a very inappropriate way and I'm prepared to look at that and that's why I've set up this review.
"If we get this wrong, not just police, but society, lawyers, etcetera, people won't come forward, and surely what we we all want to happen, particularly a child today, wants to feel confident that someone is not going to hang them out to dry," Sir Bernard said.
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"The police should immediately institutionalise the presumption that the victim is to be believed".
Those were the words of Sir Tom Winsor, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, speaking in November 2014 - the month, coincidentally, that Scotland Yard launched Operation Midland.
Sir Tom was commenting after an inspection found that one in four sexual offences - and one in five of all crimes - reported to police in England and Wales weren't being recorded.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe's suggestion that police now adopt a more "open-minded" approach to victims' allegations is perhaps more of a change of gear than a handbrake turn.
He's not saying allegations shouldn't be taken seriously, logged properly and investigated thoroughly.
It's more about the need for detectives to remain objective throughout the process, and not to give the impression, least of all to suspects, that they're siding with victims.
The review into the Met's procedures comes as the former head of the Army Lord Bramall, 92 - who last month found out he would not face any further action in connection with Operation Midland - called for a review into the case.
The peer strongly denied claims, and said detectives had taken 10 months before speaking to witnesses who cast doubt on the allegations.
There has also been scrutiny of the Met Police's handling of an investigation into a rape allegation against the late Lord Brittan, a former home secretary.
He died in January 2015 without being told that the case against him had been dropped.
Sir Bernard has come under mounting pressure to apologise to Lord Bramall.
Critics have also questioned whether his contract with the Met - which is up in September this year - should be renewed.
Sir Bernard insisted he had not set up the inquiry to "divert attention" away from himself.
However, he defended his decision not to apologise to Lord Bramall.
Sir Bernard told the Today programme: "I can't really apologise for investigating a serious allegation and that's what we've done.
"I have expressed regret and it's a genuine regret, if he, Lord Bramall, or his family has been damaged in this process, this investigation."
The commissioner said if the inquiry found the force could have "done it better" he would "acknowledge" the criticism.
Sir Peter Fahy, a former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, told BBC Newsnight he felt some of the criticism Sir Bernard was receiving was unfair and that he was a "remarkable police leader".
However, he said that in the same position he would apologise to Lord Brittan's wife for the delay in informing him his case had been dropped.
"There is clearly a particular issue about a delay... that is a clear mistake, an error. It is not how the procedure should work," he said.
"But I certainly think that no chief constable would apologise for investigating anybody."
The NSPCC said it was "deeply disturbed" by the suggested change of police approach to sexual abuse victims.
"At a time when people have at long last found the confidence and courage to report these crimes it would be a tragedy to bring this progress to a juddering halt.
"Telling those who have been sexually abused they will no longer be automatically believed seems to be a panic measure which could have an adverse effect on a crime the government has classified as a 'national threat.'"
Dr Don Hull, a consultant haematologist at Craigavon Area Hospital, said people living with cancer in Northern Ireland should be given the same treatment as patients in England.
There are 38 cancer drugs available to patients elsewhere in the UK that are not readily available to terminally-ill people in Northern Ireland.
Dr Hull has called for "equal access".
He said: "I think local patients deserve equal access to the funding that is being made available to cancer patients in England.
"I would urge the new minister to take counsel and discuss widely with me colleagues in my profession."
In February, the then-Health Minister Jim Wells proposed the reintroduction of prescription charges to pay for a new specialist drugs fund.
A consultation by the Department of Health (DoH) on how to implement the fund including the possibility of introducing prescription charges to pay for it closed earlier this month.
Cancer charities have said they are awaiting the outcome.
Dr Hull also said that while the number of cancer patients are increasing, so too are advancements in the drugs that can help cure or sustain patients' lives.
He added that while the drugs are not a magic bullet, in some cases they can target the tumour so effectively that all cancer cells are killed.
"I know patients who could avail of these drugs and these drugs are known to be effective," he said.
"They are expensive, but some cancer patients in England and Scotland are accessing them.
"There are many advancements in cancer drugs and there is also a better understanding than ever before of the illness, so we are actually refining our cancer treatments to target particular mutations and abnormalities of the cancer cells that isn't present in normal cells.
"It is good that we can be more specific in our treatment."
Dr Hull was speaking to the BBC against a backdrop of new entertainment stations that have recently been installed in the Macmillan cancer unit at Craigavon Area Hospital.
The Southern Health Trust has spent £200,000 on the bedside entertainment scheme, which provides touch screen systems providing access to TV, radio and internet for patients to use during treatments like chemotherapy or blood transfusions.
Staff can also log onto these terminals to access patient records.
For patients like Audrey Fenton, the new screens help pass the time as she receives her chemotherapy three times a week, with each session lasting six hours.
It is gruelling for the former nurse, who refers to chemotherapy as her friend.
"Oh it's definitely a friend because it is part and parcel of getting me well again. I lean on it to help get me through this time," she said.
Audrey is 57 and was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma eight months ago.
She said: "The first thing that goes through your mind on receiving the diagnosis is how long have I got. No matter what your faith is, your lifestyle - no-one wants to leave their loved ones."
Audrey has no issue with her cancer drugs, but recognises that it is the expertise of her doctors and the advancement of medicine that is keeping her alive.
"There has been a moderate response to the treatment. At the moment the prognosis might be five to seven years, but if the treatment keeps working maybe longer," she said.
"I feel the best I have felt in a long time. I'm staying positive."
Audrey is indeed an extremely positive woman. Her hair perfectly set and her nails painted, Audrey said thinking positive is her mantra.
She added: "I feel I am living with cancer, I am not dying from cancer. I am living with it and the chemotherapy is all part of it. I will take what they give me to get me well."
With a hearty laugh, Audrey told me that of course she is very scared.
"You couldn't possibly be told you've got a cancer that can't be cured and not be scared," she said.
"I try to look on this time as me time. I have had a busy life and now it's time for me to take time out to get well.
"The chemotherapy is the starting point really of the recovery and I feel you just have to embrace it. The scarier time will be when maybe they tell me it is finished because then you are left on your own, but they will only do that when the results are good enough. "
The "comfort women" were forced to work in Japanese military brothels.
PM Shinzo Abe has instructed his foreign minister to sort out the issue during a visit to Seoul next week, Japanese media has reported.
The issue has dogged relations with South Korea for decades.
South Korea has previously maintained that Japanese apologies do not go far enough and has been critical of what it sees as Japan's reluctance to atone for its brutal wartime past.
But relations between the two countries have improved recently after they agreed to accelerate talks.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida was reported on Friday to have arranged a surprise visit to South Korea in the hope of finding an early resolution.
He was speaking after Japanese media reports said that Mr Abe had instructed him to hold ministerial talks in Seoul as early as Monday to resolve the question.
Any fund will follow a similar one set up 1995 which ended after a decade. At that time it was made clear that the money was raised from donations, not from the Japanese government.
One proposal reported by the Nikkei Asian Review would involve Japan providing 10 years' worth of aid - more than 100 million yen ($830,000; £550,000).
It reports that South Korea is pushing for an apology from Mr Abe that includes recognition of Japan's responsibility.
The website says that some in the Japanese government support a plan which would entail Mr Abe sending letters to "comfort women" which will allude to Japanese "responsibility" and referring to an "apology".
It has also been suggested that Japan's ambassador in Seoul may meet former "comfort women".
In return, Japan seeks a guarantee that any conclusion reached will be the final word on the issue.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalisation of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Up to 200,000 women are estimated to have been sexually enslaved by Japan during WW2, many of them Korean.
Other women came from China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.
Japan has apologised in the past for the "pain and suffering" of the women, but South Korea wants a stronger apology and compensation for victims.
Robert Cerqua, 31, stabbed Christopher once in the stomach at the family home while their parents were upstairs.
He fled the house in Hythe, Hampshire, without his shoes and carried on drinking with his girlfriend to see in the new year at a party.
Cerqua, who denied murder at Winchester Crown Court, must serve a minimum of 13 years.
During sentencing earlier, the court heard plasterer Robert had served previous prison sentences for offences of battery and affray relating to domestic incidents involving his former partners.
He also had previous convictions for motoring offences and criminal damage.
The jury returned a majority 10 to 2 guilty verdict on Monday.
During the trial, Robert claimed self-defence after his brother had been threatening him with a knife, but the prosecution said the stabbing had happened in a fit of temper after alcohol had been consumed.
It was explained to the jury DNA found on the knife matched both the defendant and his brother because, as identical twins, they shared the same DNA profile.
Sentencing Robert, Judge Mr Justice Teare said: "You grew up with your brother and from time to time worked with him in the building trade. When you were both sober, it seems you got on well.
"But when each of you had too much alcohol, there was a risk an argument might break out leading to violence. That had happened before and it happened on New Year's Eve."
Denise Cerqua, the twins' mother, was in the house at the time and dialled 999.
At first she asked for the police because her sons were fighting but then said: "Can you get an ambulance as well? He's been stabbed."
Robert fled the house and continued drinking at a party where he saw in the new year.
He turned off his mobile phone but was traced by police and arrested in the early hours of New Year's Day.
He later told police that he had a "fiery relationship" with his brother and drink could make him "nasty" and "short-tempered".
Dries Mertens and Romelu Lukaku struck twice each, with Thomas Meunier, Eden Hazard and Yannick Carrasco on target and Ragnar Klavan scoring an own goal.
Of concern to Chelsea, however, will be the sight of their playmaker Hazard leaving the field in the 74th minute with what appeared to be a knee injury.
Henri Anier, who made it 3-1, scored Estonia's goal.
The striker became the first player to score against the Red Devils in this qualifying campaign.
Roberto Martinez's team have won all four of their group games, scoring 21 goals.
Match ends, Belgium 8, Estonia 1.
Second Half ends, Belgium 8, Estonia 1.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Mihkel Aksalu.
Attempt saved. Kevin Mirallas (Belgium) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Goal! Belgium 8, Estonia 1. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.
Substitution, Belgium. Timmy Simons replaces Axel Witsel.
Hand ball by Gert Kams (Estonia).
Corner, Estonia. Conceded by Thomas Meunier.
Attempt blocked. Konstantin Vassiljev (Estonia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Karol Mets.
Attempt blocked. Konstantin Vassiljev (Estonia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Estonia. Henrik Ojamaa replaces Henri Anier.
Foul by Laurent Ciman (Belgium).
Henri Anier (Estonia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Estonia. Pavel Marin replaces Siim Luts.
Goal! Belgium 7, Estonia 1. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Yannick Carrasco (Belgium) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.
Attempt missed. Gert Kams (Estonia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Konstantin Vassiljev.
Substitution, Belgium. Youri Tielemans replaces Dries Mertens.
Substitution, Belgium. Kevin Mirallas replaces Eden Hazard because of an injury.
Goal! Belgium 6, Estonia 1. Dries Mertens (Belgium) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dries Mertens.
Foul by Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium).
Aleksander Dmitrijev (Estonia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Own Goal by Ragnar Klavan, Estonia. Belgium 5, Estonia 1.
Substitution, Estonia. Gert Kams replaces Sergei Mosnikov.
Goal! Belgium 4, Estonia 1. Yannick Carrasco (Belgium) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Hand ball by Yannick Carrasco (Belgium).
Attempt saved. Konstantin Vassiljev (Estonia) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Sergei Mosnikov.
Attempt blocked. Laurent Ciman (Belgium) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Taijo Teniste.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ragnar Klavan (Estonia) because of an injury.
Foul by Thomas Meunier (Belgium).
Ragnar Klavan (Estonia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jan Vertonghen (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Henri Anier (Estonia).
Second Half begins Belgium 3, Estonia 1.
First Half ends, Belgium 3, Estonia 1.
Attempt missed. Dries Mertens (Belgium) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Meunier.
Attempt missed. Axel Witsel (Belgium) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross following a corner.
Police said staff at Uddingston's Thorniewood Road branch were left "extremely shaken" after being threatened during the raid at 14:40 on Friday.
They said the man fled with a four-figure sum.
He escaped in a waiting silver Vauxhall Vectra, which was later found burnt-out 5.6km (3.5 miles) away.
Officers discovered the car in Commonhead Road, near Easterhouse.
Det Cons Iain Hughes from Wishaw CID said: "No-one was injured during this incident, but the bank staff are extremely shaken by the robbery.
"The man responsible is described as white, around 5ft 10ins in height and of slim build with short fair hair."
Mr Hughes said officers were following a positive line of inquiry but have appealed for anyone with information about the robbery to come forward.
The 74-year-old, nicknamed "the Butcher of Bosnia", faces two counts of genocide and nine of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In the public gallery at the UN tribunal sat some wives and mothers of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys slaughtered in Srebrenica.
It is the tribunal's last big trial.
A verdict is expected in 2017, as the closing arguments are expected to last more than a week.
Mr Mladic is a top suspect in the massacre of more than 8,000 men and boys from the Srebrenica enclave. It happened over a few days in the summer of 1995 - part of an alleged plan to exterminate the Bosniaks and create an ethnically pure Serb state.
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Today Mr Mladic is physically frail but still watched intently as the prosecution played a video clip in court, the BBC's Anna Holligan reports. It showed him as the commander, in military fatigues, warning Bosniak representatives: "You can either survive or disappear".
He is also accused over the Serbs' 44-month siege of Sarajevo, in which an estimated 10,000 people died.
Mr Mladic was arrested in Serbia in May 2011, and his trial began soon after at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He had been on the run for 16 years.
The Bosnian Serb political leader during the 1990s war, Radovan Karadzic, was sentenced to 40 years in March.
The ICTY was set up in 1993 and has concluded proceedings for 154 accused, 83 of whom have been sentenced. The only current trial is that of Mr Mladic, and the court's work is scheduled to be wound up.
Before 1993 the only previous international war crimes courts were those established to convict Nazi and Japanese war criminals after World War Two, the ICTY website says.
Forest, who won the European Cup in 1979 and 1980, will be given two new team awards at a one-off event in Nottingham later this year.
John Robertson - described by then manager Brian Clough as the "Picasso" of football - will also be inducted.
Notts County will also be honoured as the world's oldest football club.
Forest's achievements under Brian Clough and Peter Taylor were recently played out on the silver screen with the release of the film I Believe in Miracles.
Robertson proved to be a key figure in both finals, setting up the winning goal for Trevor Francis in 1979 and scoring the only goal in Forest's 1-0 win over Hamburg a year later.
Other household names such as former Manchester United players Rio Ferdinand and Denis Irwin, ex-Liverpool stars Mark Lawrenson and Billy Liddell, goalkeepers David Seaman and Neville Southall and current Scotland manager Gordon Strachan, will join their Nottingham counterparts in the hall of fame at the museum in Manchester.
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They were selected by a panel which features museum president and United club director Sir Bobby Charlton, vice-president Sir Alex Ferguson and Gordon Taylor.
Other inductees for the "Female Players" and "Football For All" categories - chosen by the Football Association - are Everton left-back Rachel Unitt, former goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis and Martin Sinclair, England Cerebral Palsy player and brother of Aston Villa player Scott Sinclair.
They will all be inducted at a ceremony in October.
Museum director Dr Kevin Moore said: "Our expectations have been surpassed this year as our inductees have continued to amaze us not just with their talent, but their commitment to the game."
Ministers say it will improve the transport network and boost the economy, but there has been controversy about the exact route of the line and its effect on those living near it. Here are the key points that we know so far.
The initial plan is for a new railway line between London and the West Midlands carrying 400m-long (1,300ft) trains with as many as 1,100 seats per train.
They would operate at speeds of up to 250mph - faster than any current operating speed in Europe - and would run as often as 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.
The Department for Transport says there will be almost 15,000 seats an hour on trains between London and the cities of Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds - treble the current capacity.
In November 2016, the government confirmed the route for the second phase - from Crewe to Manchester and the West Midlands to Leeds.
A new HS2 station will be built next to Manchester Piccadilly, with a spur to take HS2 to another new station at Manchester Airport.
The decision on how to run the line to Sheffield has been delayed. The government's preferred option is for the main HS2 route to run east of Sheffield but for a spur to take passengers to Sheffield city centre.
The first phase of the £56bn railway is due to open in December 2026, with trains to travel at high speed between London and Birmingham before continuing on the existing West Coast Main Line.
But earlier this year, the Public Accounts Committee cast doubts on this deadline. calling it "overly ambitious".
The onward legs to Manchester and Leeds could start being built in the middle of the next decade, with the line open by 2032-33.
In June 2013 the government revised the cost of the project upwards, due to an increase in the amount of tunnelling required on the route. This took the estimated budget from £32.7bn to £42.6bn at present values - with the cost of phase one increasing from £16bn to £22bn.
The scheme's chairman, Sir David Higgins, said building work on the northern section should be accelerated to reach as far as Crewe by 2027, instead of aiming for Birmingham by 2026.
In a report for the government, called HS2 Plus, he said the second phase of HS2 could then be completed by 2030 instead of 2033.
Sir David also called for a more comprehensive development of HS2's London hub, Euston station.
The Department for Transport says the project will cut Birmingham-London journey times from 1hr 21min to 49min.
Once the second phase is complete, Manchester-London journeys would take 1hr 8min (down from 2hr 8min), and Birmingham-Leeds 57min (down from 2hr). This would effectively reduce journey times between London and Edinburgh and Glasgow by an hour to 3hr 30min.
The government believes its creation will free up capacity on overcrowded commuter routes. It also estimates the new line could transfer 4.5 million journeys a year from the air and nine million from the roads, reducing the number of lorries on busy routes.
There has been no announcement on ticket prices. The government says its proposals "assume a fares structure in line with that of the existing railway" and that HS2 could generate sufficient demand and revenue without needing to charge premium fares. It estimates total fare revenues of up to £34bn over a 60-year period.
The government argues that Britain's rail network is reaching capacity, while infrastructure owner Network Rail says the southern section of the West Coast Main Line - currently the quickest rail route between London and Birmingham - will be "effectively full" by 2024.
Ministers claim the London-West Midlands section alone will create around 40,000 jobs.
Groups such as the Campaign for High Speed Rail say there will be added knock-on benefits, while some MPs believe it could be a catalyst for economic growth and help rebalance the economy between the North and South.
HS2 will pass through around 70 parliamentary constituencies, and local groups opposed to the scheme are lobbying their MPs to vote against the plans.
There is political pressure on some Conservative MPs in particular, who will see the route pass through their constituencies, and some have indicated that they may vote against the government's bill when it reaches Parliament.
Pressure group Stop HS2 argues that England's north and Midlands will actually lose out to London, rather than benefit, and that projections for its success do not take into account competition from conventional rail.
Stop HS2 believes that once the high-speed railway is operating, existing intercity services to London will be reduced by up to two trains an hour.
HS2 Action Alliance claim more than 70% of the 30,000 jobs created around HS2 stations in phase one will be in London rather than the West Midlands.
Others object on the grounds that it will cut through picturesque countryside, impacting areas of natural beauty and the ecosystems they support.
Manpower's quarterly employment outlook survey, which tracks confidence in the jobs market, shows a general improvement since the last count.
But the poll of 2,100 UK employers found that the same number of Scottish companies intended to contract their workforce as expand it.
The Scottish government said the survey did not reflect "official figures".
It added that Scotland was "leading the way in the jobs market".
According to Manpower, all other parts of the UK reported more hiring than shedding of staff.
The firm claims the fall in the oil price has hit the Scottish jobs market.
However, the survey also highlighted confidence in the call centre sector, particularly in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Amanda White, operations manager at Manpower UK, said she expected current trends to continue.
She added: "With skills shortages in the oil and gas industry well-known, it's important that employers track the skills required, in order to ensure growth for the long-term.
"Among the gloom, there are some bright spots, such as the thriving customer service industry in Scotland, with Glasgow and Edinburgh both seeing demand for candidates with call centre experience.
"The big Scottish cities are increasingly becoming known for their friendly and experienced call centre staff and skilled candidates in this field can feel positive about the jobs market this quarter."
A Scottish government spokesman challenged the findings.
He said: "Last year saw the fastest annual rate of growth since before the financial crisis, translating into real opportunities for business and added security for workers and families."
The survey suggested skill shortages are at their worst in the north of England and in the health sector.
The strongest figures for companies hiring over those expecting to shed workers are in London, South-West England and the East Midlands.
Manpower also used the survey results to voice support for the UK retaining its membership of the European Union.
The company said a withdrawal from the EU would threaten jobs and harm the economy by creating uncertainty and making it harder to recruit workers from overseas.
The UK government has promised an in-out referendum on EU membership by the end of 2017.
Fifty-nine people died and 13,000 were evacuated from their homes after floodwater inundated the island on 31 January.
Parts of the reclaimed island in the Thames estuary lie below sea level, meaning the town must be ever-vigilant against the threat from the sea.
Sixty years on, a large sea wall protects the island but memories of the floods live on.
From street names including Dyke Crescent and Deepwater Road to the King Canute Pub, reminders of Canvey's historical relationship with the sea can be found around every corner.
One of the most memorable photographs of the floods shows the junction of North Avenue and Thameside Crescent deluged, with houses acting as a riverbank.
Joyce Spencer, 82, lived on North Avenue and now lives on Thameside Crescent.
"I remember January 31 very clearly," she said.
"We had been visiting family off the island and as we returned we noticed how high the water was along the embankment.
"We decided we couldn't go home so chose to stay off the island.
"There was a blackboard where anyone who got off was supposed to write their name so that everybody knew they were safe.
"There were children in our family whose names weren't on the board so we were frantically searching for them.
"Luckily we soon found out they had been evacuated by the Army. There were others who weren't so lucky."
Geoff Barsby, then seven, also lived in North Avenue.
"As a child you see it as an adventure," he said.
"You don't feel fear because you don't think of the people on rooftops dying of exposure.
"One memory I have is looking out of the window and imagining being able to fish off my own doorstep.
"The next day it became clear just how terrible it was. In those days Canvey was a small community and everybody knew somebody who died.
"I remember our rabbit and our chickens were killed but we were lucky as, unlike most, we lived in a house with a second floor.
"The real tragedy was the people who perished on rooftops. It wasn't the water that got them, it was the terrible cold."
Despite the tragedy, there were moments of hope and even humour.
One popular story in the town is that of baby Linda whose pram was washed away by the tide.
Her parents were both killed but she was later found, safe and well, floating in her pram and was raised by grandparents.
Dave Blackwell, who was six when the floods came, remembered a story his uncle told him.
"He and a friend were paddling a canoe up New Street," he said.
"They saw a larger lady who called for help. Before they knew it she had jumped on board, gone right through the bottom and sunk them. They all needed rescuing after that."
But he, as much as anybody, is aware of the human cost.
Mr Blackwell, son of the late firefighter Henry Blackwell, said: "We had a bell in the house which would ring every time there was a fire.
"I remember being woken by a commotion. The next morning we looked out of the window and thought it had snowed but it was the sun shining on the floodwater.
"My father and his colleagues had to find whatever boats they could to rescue people. There were a lot of people they couldn't get to and couldn't save.
"We were evacuated to London for six weeks while he stayed behind. When we returned I just remember all the mud and mess.
"It wasn't until he was in his 80s that he was able to tell us some of what happened but even then there were things he had seen that he didn't want us to know about.
"I think the worst thing for him was retrieving bodies from houses. They were the bodies of people he knew, that was the hard part."
Today the question that matters most to islanders is "could it happen again?".
Despite the threat of rising seas, most feel safe as a result of a £6m scheme to protect the area.
Mr Barsby said: "Before the floods the town was protected by a grass mound which hadn't changed much since it was built by the Dutch in 1622.
"If we still had those same defences, Canvey would be flooding all the time. But we now have a modern wall and proper warning systems.
"You can never say you're completely safe, but it would take something pretty massive to breach those defences."
Essex Conservative county councillor Ray Howard, another former North Avenue resident who was 10 when the floods hit, has spent 40 years in local politics and served on various flood defence committees.
He said his life in politics was inspired by the tragedy.
"The terrible thing was going back to school and seeing which of your classmates hadn't made it," he said.
"That will always be on my mind and is why I do what I do.
"I don't believe the same thing could happen. I have every confidence.
"We now have some of the best sea defences in the country and I'm determined to keep fighting for all the funding Canvey needs.
"The experts say our defences are secure until 2070 and that gives me great confidence."
The AlphaBay and Hansa sites had been associated with the trade in illicit items such as drugs, weapons, malware and stolen data.
According to Europol, there were more than 250,000 listings for illegal drugs and toxic chemicals on AlphaBay.
Hansa was seized and covertly monitored for a month before being deactivated.
The agency said it believed the bust would lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe.
"The capability of drug traffickers and other serious criminals around the world has taken a serious hit today," said Europol's executive director Rob Wainwright.
It was a "landmark" operation, according to US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) acting director Andrew McCabe.
AlphaBay has been offline since early July, fuelling suspicions among users that a law enforcement crackdown had taken place.
"We know of several Americans who were killed by drugs on AlphaBay," said US Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
"One victim was just 18 years old when in February she overdosed on a powerful synthetic opioid which she had bought on AlphaBay."
He also said a 13-year-old boy died after overdosing on a synthetic opioid bought by a high school classmate via the site.
Mr Sessions cautioned criminals from thinking that they could evade prosecution by using the dark web: "You cannot hide," he said, "We will find you."
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that illegal drugs listed for sale on AlphaBay included heroin and fentanyl.
It added in a court filing that $450m (£347m) was spent via the marketplace between May 2015 and February 2017.
Investigations were led by the FBI, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Dutch National Police.
Police in other countries, including the UK, France and Lithuania, also contributed.
The Dutch National Police took over the Hansa marketplace on 20 June after two men in Germany were arrested and servers in Germany, The Netherlands and Lithuania were seized.
This allowed for "the covert monitoring of criminal activities on the platform" until it was eventually shut down a month later.
Ever since AlphaBay went offline earlier in July, users of the site had discussed potential alternative dark web marketplaces on online forums.
Hansa was frequently mentioned, meaning that the authorities were likely able to uncover new criminal activity on Hansa as users migrated to it from AlphaBay.
"We recorded an eight times increase in the number of human users on Hansa immediately following the takedown of AlphaBay," said Mr Wainwright.
The significance of today's announcement will only truly be known over the coming year or more as authorities follow up the "many new leads" they said had been found as a result of infiltrating and shutting down these two enormous networks.
While the sites' closure is a massive boost, the DoJ and Europol both readily acknowledge that new services will simply pop up to replace them. After all, the closure of previous dark web marketplace Silk Road in 2013 was eventually followed with AlphaBay - bigger, more lucrative and, by the looks of it, more dangerous.
What authorities really want to do is start putting significant numbers of people behind bars.
This huge coordinated action has only resulted in a handful of arrests - and one key suspect apparently took his own life seven days after being brought into custody.
It's clear such big services require a large, intricate network of criminals - and that's what authorities are targeting.
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An alleged administrator of AlphaBay, 26-year-old Canadian Alexandre Cazes, was arrested in Thailand on 5 July following a joint operation between US, Canadian and Thai authorities.
Police also seized millions of dollars in assets, three properties and four Lamborghini cars.
But Cazes was later found dead in a Bangkok jail cell.
The DoJ said that he apparently took his own life.
A previous dark web marketplace, Silk Road, was shut down by the FBI in 2013 and a successor - Silk Road 2.0 - was deactivated the following year.
However, in its press release today the DoJ said that AlphaBay had more than 350,000 listings for illicit items of various kinds - Silk Road only had 14,000 when it was seized in 2013.
Two weeks ago five young people died and a further five were sent to hospital after taking the drug ecstasy at an electronic music event.
The judge said city authorities should train up inspectors and security guards to police the clubs.
He said little had been done to control the consumption of drugs in clubs.
Judge Roberto Gallardo said there was "a landscape of impunity and lack of state control with respect to nocturnal activities".
He said that the city government of Buenos Aires should establish a plan of action for its inspectors and police forces to enforce laws prohibiting the consumption in public of drugs.
The judge said he wanted to see a timetable of inspections and a plan of action "for the short-, medium- and long term" .
Until this was done, he said, "all dancing to recorded or live music was banned until the order was carried out."
The head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodriguez Larretta, said he disagreed with the judge's decision:
"There are thousands of people who enjoy themselves in a healthy way every night and we are going to defend them.
"We are asking the judiciary to revoke the ban so we can lift this suspension today."
"We are concerned with addiction, but this doesn't mean we literally have to close down the whole of the city's nightlife."
A nightclub owners association, the Chamber of Dance Venues in Buenos Aires, said they would defy the ban which they described as "unconstitutional".
The agreement protects small savers but depositors with more than 100,000 euros ($130,000; £85,000), many of whom are Russian, face big losses.
Laiki Bank - the country's second largest - will be wound up.
Finance minister Michael Sarris said Cyprus had avoided a "disastrous exit from the eurozone".
In a televised address on Monday evening, President Nicos Anastasiades - who negotiated the deal with the "troika" of the EU, the European Central Bank and the IMF in Brussels - said the agreement was "painful" but the best option under the circumstances.
"I understand your anger," he said.
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To qualify for the bailout, Cyprus has to raise 5.8bn euros.
Mr Anastasiades said the agreed measures would be put into practice over the next few days and he called for all Cypriots to work together.
He said the central bank would impose some limited "capital controls" to prevent an outflow of money when banks reopened.
Laiki Bank and the Bank of Cyprus - the country's two biggest - will remain closed until Thursday, but all others will reopen on Tuesday after being closed for more than a week, Cyprus's central bank said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany - which pushed for terms of the deal - said the cost of the bailout had been fairly distributed.
"We do not want taxpayers to save banks, banks must save themselves," she said.
"This is what will happen in the case of Cyprus."
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem - who chairs the Eurogroup of finance ministers - said the rescue represented a new template for dealing with bank crises in the eurozone, with uninsured depositors bearing some of the cost.
As global markets fell following his remarks, Mr Dijsselbloem issued a clarification, saying Cyprus was a "specific case with exceptional challenges".
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said losses imposed on big depositors - many of them Russian - amounted to "stealing".
"What is going on around Cyprus is that they are continuing to plunder loot there," Mr Medvedev said.
"It is necessary to understand where this story will lead, and what its consequences will be for the international financial system and our interests," he added.
Suspicion has been growing in Russia that Europe is using the crisis to target Russian money in Cyprus, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says.
By Stephanie FlandersEconomics editor
Nonetheless, President Vladimir Putin has told Russian officials to restructure a 2.5bn-euro loan extended to Cyprus in 2011 in order to support the restructuring effort.
The European Central Bank had set a deadline of Monday for the deal, which came a week after the Cypriot parliament rejected a proposed bank levy on small and large deposits.
The levy would have taken 6.75% from small savers and 9.9% from larger investors and caused widespread anger among ordinary savers.
On Friday the new bank restructuring plan was passed by Cypriot MPs. No further vote is needed as there is no levy on deposits under 100,000 euros, which are insured under EU deposit guarantee rules.
However, the Memorandum of Understanding between Cyprus and the EU - the formal agreement that triggers eurozone bailouts - will probably require the Cypriot parliament's approval, according to the Open Europe think tank.
A "no" vote at that stage could still put Cyprus's eurozone membership at risk.
Cypriot government spokesman Christos Stylianides said the deal had prevented a "disorderly" exit from the euro.
"The important thing is that we have reached an agreement that allows us to kick-start the economy and lay the groundwork for a new beginning," he said in a statement.
IMF head Christine Lagarde said the bailout deal agreed was "a comprehensive and credible plan" to help restore trust in the banking system.
There will be relief in Cyprus that small depositors have been protected, but the deal comes at a heavy price, BBC correspondents say.
The economy is expected to shrink sharply as offshore banking - Cyprus's main industry - is effectively shut down.
The chairman of the Cypriot parliament's finance committee, Nicholas Papadopolous, said the agreement made "no economic sense".
"We are heading for a deep recession, high unemployment. They wanted to send a message that the Cypriot economy ought to be destroyed, and they've succeeded in a large part - they've destroyed our banking sector," he told the BBC.
Under the agreement, Laiki will be split into "good" and "bad" banks, with its good assets eventually merged into Bank of Cyprus.
The percentages to be raised from uninsured deposits of more than 100,000 euros in Laiki bank and in Bank of Cyprus have not yet been announced.
Mr Stylianides said the figure could be "around 30%" for uninsured Bank of Cyprus deposits. Other estimates have put the figure at about 40%.
Correspondents say Germany has pushed hard for a levy on investors who have benefited from high interest rates in recent years, rejecting a Cypriot plan to use money from pension funds.
A Cypriot attempt to secure Russian help was unsuccessful.
A protest and meeting have previously been held in Crickhowell, Powys, against a proposal to turn The Corn Exchange pub into a convenience store.
On Saturday afternoon, shop owners are covering their windows with cardboard.
Baker Steve Askew said they wanted to show what their high street could look like if shops closed.
He added: "We believe up to eight family-run independent shops could be affected if a supermarket chain came to town."
The town has only one national chain - Boots chemist - while all other businesses are family run and independent.
Punch Taverns wants to turn the Corn Exchange pub into a convenience store.
The final decision on the application will be taken by Brecon Beacons National Park Authority.
The photographs, scarves and videos tell the remarkable story of Leicester City's rise from relegation candidates to champions of England.
Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said: "The organisers set about in 45 days to put together this amazing exhibition."
The free-to-enter show runs until September.
Tracing the journey month by month, it explores how people around the world reacted to the unlikely success of the team, who were 5,000-1 outsiders to win the Premier League Trophy at the season's outset.
Archivist John Hutchinson said he used photos and social media posts from during the season to retell the story.
"We enjoyed collecting the memorabilia and we have more than 50 items from the season from signed shirts to Captain Morgan's rum (named after Leicester City captain Wes Morgan) to Claudio Ranieri's bell through to clapper boards.
"You can relive the whole fairytale season again … after 132 years we have been waiting a long time for this so come in and enjoy it," Leicester City club ambassador Alan Birchenhall said.
He said there was also an area for people to add to the exhibits over the summer with their drawings, photos and stories.
"I have never known a season like this. What has happened has been truly historic and this exhibition really captures that magnificent achievement."
The group has started to move inland from its stronghold in the coastal town of Sirte, Jean-Yves Le Drian told France's RTL radio.
Libya's rival governments are due to sign a UN-backed agreement on Wednesday to form a unity government.
Libya has descended into chaos since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
"They are in Sirte, their territory extends 250 kilometres [155 miles] along the coast, but they are starting to penetrate the interior and to be tempted by access to oil wells and reserves," Mr Le Drian told RTL radio, AFP news agency reports.
Libya has 48 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves, the largest in Africa and ninth biggest in the world.
Analysis, Rana Jawad, BBC North Africa correspondent
The French defence minister's comments are likely to be a reference to reported attempts by IS militants to expand from Sirte into the town of Ajdabiyah in the east.
There have been increasing reports of the presence of extremist groups in the town, in recent weeks.
What is less clear is if they are affiliates of al-Qaeda or IS.
It is a strategy that, if successful, could cut off oil supplies from that part of the country, where key oil terminals are stationed.
There was at least one failed attack by IS militants at the gates of Es Sidr oil terminal in October, and other smaller oil fields in central Libya have also been attacked this year.
Libya's rival power bases (as of August 2015)
Those five are Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale and Jerome Champagne.
The election, prompted by Sepp Blatter's decision to stand down amid a growing corruption scandal at Fifa, will be held in Zurich.
Blatter has been in charge since 1998.
Sheikh Salman, head of the Asian Football Confederation, and Infantino, the Uefa general secretary, are seen as the frontrunners.
Uefa president Michel Platini was the early favourite to succeed Blatter but was banned from football for eight years by Fifa's ethics committee.
The Frenchman has taken his case to Fifa's appeals committee and is expected to go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if that fails.
Age: 45
Nationality: Italian/Swiss
Current position: Uefa general secretary (since 2009)
Previous positions: Joined Uefa in 2000 as a lawyer and secretary general of the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) at the University of Neuchâtel
Age: 62
Nationality: South African
Current position: Mining tycoon
Previous positions: Anti-apartheid campaigner (jailed for 13 years on Robben Island), former government minister, member of Fifa anti-discrimination task force, South Africa Apprentice presenter
Age: 40
Nationality: Jordanian
Current position: President of Jordan Football Association and founder and president of the West Asian Football Federation.
Previous positions: Former Fifa vice-president
Age: 57
Nationality: French
Current position: Consultant in international football
Previous position: A former diplomat, he worked for Fifa for 11 years as an executive and an advisor to president Sepp Blatter, before leaving in 2010
Age: 50
Nationality: Bahraini
Current position: Asian Football Confederation president and Fifa vice-president
Previous position: Former head of Bahrain FA
Kyrgios, 21, joins compatriot Bernard Tomic in withdrawing from the Games.
AOC chef de mission Kitty Chiller had said the pair were "on watch" because of their behaviour.
The world number 19 said he had pulled out with "a heavy heart" as the "AOC has chosen to publicly and privately disparage me".
In a statement on his official website, he added: "AOC's unfair and unjust treatment of me over the last four weeks, as well as the organisation's crystal clear position on whether they want me to be a part of the Australian Olympic team, has solidified my final decision."
Kyrgios received a code violation for shouting at a ball boy and was fined for an audible obscenity during his third-round defeat by Richard Gasquet at the French Open.
He was given a suspended 28-day ban and fined by the Association of Tennis Professionals last year for making lewd remarks about Stan Wawrinka's girlfriend during a match.
Tennis Australia president Steve Healy said: "We understand Nick's decision and totally support him and his right to make it. But we are very disappointed that he has been put in this position."
In a statement on the AOC's official website, Chiller said: "At this point, Nick Kyrgios, or any other tennis athlete, has not been nominated for selection on the Australian Olympic team.
"In regard to selection every athlete in contention is treated equally and fairly."
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Sophie Taylor, 22, died in the crash in Adamsdown on 22 August. A 21-year-old passenger is still in hospital.
Michael Wheeler, 22, of Tremorfa, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving on Monday.
Lewis Hall, 18, of Tremorfa, admitted perverting the course of justice at Cardiff Crown Court.
Another driver, Melissa Pesticcio, 23, of Llanrumney, is also accused of causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving, but is yet to enter a plea.
Miss Taylor, of Llandaff, was killed when her black BMW lost control and crashed into the house.
The case was adjourned until a later date.
The organisation's review committee says he can no longer have the role because of his position as a deputy prime minister of Russia.
The exclusion is due to a clampdown on government interference in football.
Mutko, who is also president of Russia's football federation, says he will not appeal against the decision.
After being promoted from sports minister to deputy prime minister last year, Mutko retains responsibility for sport - despite being directly implicated in the McLaren report which alleged a state-back Russian doping programme.
"I wanted to get re-elected, but Fifa has changed its criteria," he said. "A new criterion has been introduced: political neutrality. They want the organisation to be politically neutral, so that officials and representatives of the government don't get elected, and that's their right."
It means four men are in line for the four European places on the Council which will be decided on at next month's Uefa Congress - Hungary's Sandor Csanyi, a current Uefa executive committee member, Geir Thorsteinsson, the president of Iceland's soccer federation; former AC Milan player Dejan Savicevic who is Montenegro's federation president; and Costakis Koutsokoumnis, the Cyprus federation president.
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Wales started brightly but trailed at half-time as Andriy Yarmolenko seized on slack defending to score with Ukraine's only shot on target.
Despite continuing to dominate possession in the second half, Wales offered precious little in attack.
This was their last chance to impress boss Chris Coleman before he names his squad for the summer finals in France.
The majority of the 23-man party will have already been decided, though Coleman may have been disappointed by the failure of fringe players such as Tom Lawrence and Simon Church to make the most of their opportunities.
Wales are preparing for their first tournament appearance in 58 years, having been drawn alongside England, Russia and Slovakia in Group B.
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Coleman made six changes from Thursday's 1-1 draw against Northern Ireland as he sought to give his players a final audition for this summer's tournament.
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Lawrence is among those uncertain of their places for France, and the Leicester forward - currently on loan at Cardiff - had the game's first chance as his shot was tipped over by Andriy Pyatov.
Wales controlled the early exchanges with Joe Allen influential in midfield, but they faltered in attack as Lawrence and Church - on loan at Aberdeen from MK Dons - toiled to no avail.
The visitors were left to rue their inability to genuinely trouble the Ukrainian defence when the home side scored with their first shot of the game.
Wales tried springing an offside trap from Ruslan Rotan's lofted free-kick, but their miscalculation left Yarmolenko free to score with a shot on the turn, despite a touch from Welsh keeper Wayne Hennessey.
Following their draw in Cardiff, Northern Ireland will have kept an interest in Welsh fortunes in Kiev having been drawn in the same Euro 2016 group as Ukraine.
There was little to concern Michael O'Neill's side at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium, though Yarmolenko's goal was a reminder of the Dynamo Kiev forward's significant threat.
It also hinted at what appears to be a Welsh weakness from defensive set-pieces.
Coleman's side were sloppy in conceding from a corner against Northern Ireland and they were similarly found wanting for Yarmolenko's goal.
Wales were at least their usual tidy selves in possession, though their efforts on target only came late in the game as Jazz Richards and Ben Davies both forced Pyatov into saves.
Wales manager Chris Coleman:
"It's never easy to go to Ukraine, even at full-strength it would be a tough game.
"We've come to a tough place to play but we were the team that dictated.
"Apart from the goal, Wayne Hennessey had little to do and we were always the team dictating the tempo of the game.
"We know it's a good test for us because when we play Russia and Slovakia in the Euros it will be very similar."
Wales visit Sweden for their final friendly on 5 June, by which time Coleman will have decided on his squad for Euro 2016.
They will travel from Stockholm to their French training in base in Dinard, before moving on to Bordeaux for their opening fixture of the competition against Slovakia on 11 June.
By then, Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale and Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey should be available again having missed Wales' last three friendlies because of injury.
On the evidence of Wales' displays against Northern Ireland and Ukraine, their returns cannot come soon enough.
England was hurt midway through the second half of Wildcats' 32-44 defeat by St Helens on 3 July.
The 31-year-old, who has played in 19 games this season, will miss the final game of the regular season, as well as the entirety of the Super 8s phase.
Wakefield are sixth in the Super League table and are already assured of a top-eight finish.
The rate for Wales between February and April remained at 4.8%, compared to 5% for the UK as a whole, according to the Office for National Statistics.
In the last three months, the jobless figure has fallen by 5,000 but employment has also fallen by 2,000.
However compared with a year ago Wales has 22,000 fewer people unemployed and 42,000 more people in jobs.
UK unemployment fell to 1.67 million in the same quarter, down 20,000.
While this is clearly good news for Wales it also needs to be remembered that many months ago while many parts of the UK had more people working than 12 months previously, Wales had considerably fewer people working than a year earlier.
Economic inactivity - people who are not working and not available for work - is a continuing problem for the Welsh economy.
The number of people in that position in Wales has fallen by 10,000 since 12 months ago but still stands at 24.3% of 16-64 year olds. For the UK as a whole, economic inactivity stands at 21.8%.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "An expanding Welsh economy is creating a strong jobs' market.
"Today's statistics again point to a confident Wales, which is exporting and trading its way to greater success.
"There is more work to do, and there is also some suggestion that investments are being paused until the EU referendum result is known.
"But I am confident Wales will continue to pull ahead and continue to create highly skilled jobs with wages to match."
First Minister Carwyn Jones said Wales was continuing to outperform Scotland, England and Northern Ireland with its growing rate of employment.
"Already in 2016 many companies such as Aston Martin, MotoNovo, TVR, Essentra, EE and BT have all chosen Wales as the place to locate or expand their new businesses, creating employment and training opportunities for thousands of Welsh workers," he said.
The academic, known as Stelarc and nicknamed by the tabloid press as the nutty professor, strapped himself to the $80,000 robot and allowed it to propel him in different trajectories.
The aim he said was to show the interaction between human and machine.
The Curtin University professor is also famed for growing an ear on his arm.
Cyprus-born Stelios Arcadiou has said that the ear, made of human cartilage, is an augmentation of the body's form.
He first dreamed up the idea in 1996, but it took another 10 years to find a medical team willing to put into action.
Stelarc said he was a bit sore after his latest "jarring" gyration experience.
He said that the development of robotic technology meant that humans and robots could soon become more intimate and interactive.
"The human is responsible for programming the robot, but it's that connection between the body and machine that generates an artistic system," he told ABC News.
The professor said there were some safety risks associated with being flung about by a robot, which is why engineering programmers were on hand during his performance in a warehouse south of Perth to "hit the kill button" if anything went wrong.
"The body is propelled in different trajectories. Sometimes my body is totally upside down, sometimes it's rotating on its axes and sometimes it's spun around," he said.
The arm-lifting performance was done ahead of the DeMonstrable exhibition at the University of Western Australia, which opens in Perth on Friday.
The local authority faced a £70.7m hole in its budget for 2015-18 and had to cut its cloth accordingly, Mrs Justice Patterson ruled on Monday.
In February, the council announced free nursery places for three-year-olds would be withdrawn from this September.
The court decision comes a year after parents won an initial legal battle.
Under the new system, children aged three will now be offered free part-time nursery care but will not get full-time education until they are four.
The High Court in London heard that the decision would affect more than 3,300 children and their families.
But Mrs Justice Patterson said the council had "dealt adequately with the issue of realistic alternatives".
The decision was a defeat for mothers Angharad Morris and Donna Thomas who mounted the judicial review challenge.
The UK athlete and campaigner wanted to meet the Russian Minster of Defence to discuss the creation of a new marine reserve around the Ross Sea.
Sergey Shoygu is also the president of the Russian Geographical Society.
Despite international tensions, Mr Pugh believes that their conversation could help the world to reach an agreement on the proposed protected zone.
The Ross Sea covers that slice of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand, and from which teams associated with Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen all mounted polar forays.
The sea is one of the last regions in Earth's oceans still regarded as near-pristine and unaffected by human activities. But there is deadlock over giving it a special designation.
Speaking of his Russian encounter, Mr Pugh told the BBC: "This is the first time that Antarctica has been discussed at this level.
"Until now, it hasn't got this far. They indicated that there is an appetite for dialogue and for peace.
"When you take off your clothes, there are no barriers. You can talk person to person."
However, Mr Pugh, who is the UN Environment Programme Patron of the Oceans, warned that it would be a lengthy process, particularly given the international disagreements over Ukraine.
"The relationship between the US and Russia and the United Kingdom and Russia is very strained. This is the most serious crisis that these parties have faced since the Cold War. There are no bilaterals happening at this stage."
As part of a series of Antarctic swims, this month Mr Pugh swam further south than anyone has swum before. Breaking his own record, he said that the Bay of Whales in the Ross Sea was "the most terrifying place" that he had ever swum. The average sea temperature was -1C , with an air temperature of -37C.
The Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA) has been discussed for the last four years and it has failed four times. The last proposal was vetoed by Russia and China.
It would be the size of the UK, Germany and France put together, and needs 24 countries and the EU all to agree.
Mr Pugh said: "If you look at the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, this was concluded at the height of cold war. All of the parties set aside land, the continent, as a place of peace and science.
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In fact, little about the small, orange-painted building in Srebrenica, Bosnia, suggests that it houses a production facility - let alone one that is making a significant impact on a traumatised town.
The first clue lies on the other side of a utilitarian glass-and-metal door - the hum of machinery. Climb the stairs and the hum becomes a roar - and rows of sewing machines come into view, operated almost exclusively by women.
They are making underwear for the Alma Ras boutiques in the smart shopping malls of Sarajevo, as well as contract work for the international lingerie behemoth, Calzedonia.
Since it started in 1998, the company has become one of Bosnia's depressingly rare business success stories. It now has five production facilities and shops around the country.
But as well as offering much needed employment in an economy which, after 20 years, still suffers from the aftermath of the civil war, Alma Ras has even greater ambitions - to help heal the wounds of that conflict.
"Politics and ethnic groups are forbidden here - that's the only strategy which will relax the tension," says Rasim Memagic, the 36-year-old chief executive of Alma Ras.
When people apply to work at Alma Ras they aren't asked whether they are Serb, Bosniak or Croat. The company has a recruitment policy which aims to ignore ethnicity.
This is crucial in a country which has yet to recover from the ethnic conflict of the 1990s. Today, Bosnia is split into two "ethnic entities", Republika Srpksa (RS), which has a large ethnic-Serb majority, and the Federation, which is home to most of the country's Bosniaks and Croats.
The town of Srebrenica, inside the RS zone, is something of a special case. It remains infamous for the 1995 massacre in which Serb forces murdered around 8,000 Bosniak men and boys.
Following the conflict it became part of RS, but now there is a more or less even mix of Bosniaks and Serbs among its 40,000 people.
But tensions remain - which is why Alma Ras insists on its neutral recruitment policy.
"We have never had any problems with ethnic issues because we only look at quality, efficiency and relations between management and the employees," says Mr Memagic.
Alma Ras has been operating in Srebrenica since 2006 - and the decision to open here was not based entirely on business reasoning. Mr Memagic says the company's founder had fond memories of Srebrenica from before the conflict - and was determined to do something to help the town recover.
"We started with just 10 people - it was an unbelievable challenge," says Mr Memagic.
So far the gamble is paying off. The factory has long since moved out of its original, rented location into its current, tangerine-tinted facility. Alma Ras has steadily increased the workforce over the years - and now has 55 employees.
The numbers may be small - but it is still a boon for Srebrenica. People here say that jobs are a crucial part of the reconciliation process - "if we can work together, we can live together," is a common refrain.
This is easier said than done - and not just in Srebrenica. Bosnia as a whole has struggled economically since the Dayton Peace Agreement brought an end to the conflict in 1995.
60%
of Bosnians under 25 are out of work
107th out of 189 countries on the World Bank's ease of doing business index
1.1% economic growth in 2014
Before the war the economy of Bosnia Herzegovina was industrially diversified. Heavy industry, energy distribution, mining and metallurgy, as well as textiles, leather and machinery counted for about half of the province's output and employment.
Now the country has the highest youth unemployment rate in Europe - six out of 10 people aged 24 and under cannot find work. Average earnings for those in work are little more than €400 ($445; £290) per month.
The IMF says growth is likely to rise this year. But on the ground there is little optimism that matters will improve. Bosnia may have two ethnic entities, three presidents and fourteen prime ministers - but it lacks leadership and, says Rasim Memagic, and it lacks policies to encourage businesses to invest.
People of all ethnicities did unite last year over a shared frustration at the economic situation, and anger towards the country's politicians, sparking riots and demonstrations across the country.
As a result Brussels is increasing its efforts here, revitalising its assistance in helping establish the rule of law and making it easier to set up an enterprise.
But business is still battling an entrenched system of political patronage, a legacy of the Dayton Agreement.
The head of the Council of Europe's office in Bosnia, Mary Ann Hennessey, says that is stifling the country's prospects.
"People need a healthy economy free from corruption, a healthy labour market - based on people's skills and competencies rather than patronage, cronyism and other forms of corruption," she says.
In more concrete terms the country also lacks infrastructure. It needs high-speed roads and railways. The national airline recently folded.
Economic stagnation will only perpetuate ethnic divisions, believes Nihad Kadic a social entrepreneur.
"If the economy is poor, nationalism is rich," he says.
Nihad, a Bosniak, founded the eSrebrenica web portal alongside his colleague Mladen Kojic, a Serb, to promote social integration and spread positive stories and images of Bosnia, instead of only the stark horrors of the past. They'd like to turn their social project into a start-up.
He says there is still more to be done, and that what international institutions have done so far - such as holding workshops to promote peace, or encourage a dialogue between Bosniaks and Serbs - is not enough.
"We know how to talk," he says. "But they don't support us in good projects.
"They must support young people who want work - not with NGOs [non-governmental organizations], but with start-ups. Not a workshop - the only thing you get from that is one lunch."
Louise Burns tweeted: "Asked to cover up with this ridiculous shroud while breastfeeding so not to cause offence at Claridge's."
A spokeswoman said it asks "mothers are discreet towards other guests."
The 2010 Equality Act makes it unlawful for a business to discriminate against a breastfeeding woman.
Ms Burns tweeted a picture of her without the napkin and with one adding: "SO much more obvious with it than without! Such a shame I can never go back..."
A Claridge's spokeswoman said: "We are saddened to see what is being discussed and we feel we need to clarify that breastfeeding is of course embraced at Claridge's.
"All we ask is that mothers are discreet towards other guests."
For that matter, you could say the same about being a criminal in New York.
And why? Well, I'm going to give you two statistics that unless you have really good jaw muscles should cause your mouth to spring open.
Since the horrific and brutal murder of two police officers in Brooklyn before Christmas, the number of parking tickets and summonses issued for minor offences has fallen by a staggering (and yes, jaw dropping) 94%; the number of arrests is down by an equally astonishing 66%
Now this could be explained by the fact that criminals woke up one morning in mid-December, rubbed their eyes and decided that from now on they were going straight, pursuing a life of simple virtue.
While New York drivers, instead of choosing between the Lincoln or Holland Tunnel, decided they would take the long road to Damascus, and never speed, never drink/drive, never park illegally again. Yep. That could be one explanation.
But seriously, let's consider a more likely scenario.
Put crudely it is this - since those two officers were cut down in cold blood, the police who are at war with the mayor, Bill de Blasio, are de facto on a go-slow. The headline in the New York Post is this: "It's not a slowdown - it's a virtual work stoppage"
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association has told officers to put their own safety first and not to make arrests "unless absolutely necessary".
The average NYPD cop is apparently incandescent that Mayor de Blasio, in their view, gave succour to opponents of the police by expressing concern following the death by chokehold of Eric Garner.
The police, you will have probably seen on the TV, have not lost an opportunity to turn their back - literally - on the mayor. It happened first when he went to Woodhull hospital on 20 December where the fatally wounded bodies of patrolmen Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu had been taken after the shooting.
If that was a spontaneous outpouring of anger, it looked a lot more rehearsed by the time the funerals came round and the same thing happened again.
So what was it that De Blasio said to provoke such fury? After the grand jury rulings in both the case of Eric Garner and Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown, he said he would have to warn his mixed race son about the "dangers" posed by cops.
The police muttered that there was a causal relationship between those comments and the two police officers being murdered.
Wow. That is a big accusation. I guess the acid test for a comment like that is would De Blasio repeat it today given the anger it has provoked. Almost certainly not. It was politically dumb and insensitive to the police. But can he really, honestly be blamed for the deaths of those two patrolmen?
Perhaps though something else is going on here.
The powerful police unions have been simmering with rage ever since Bill de Blasio was elected.
He came to office on a platform of reforming the police; of changing the way they work; of renewing the way they interact with the public.
The police, because they are the ones who are putting themselves in harm's way every day, risking their lives, and in the case of those two Brooklyn patrolmen losing them, believe they know much better than a liberal politician how to keep New York safe.
But Bill de Blasio believes he has something that gives him legitimacy to pursue these reforms - it's called a mandate.
It may not exactly honour the uniform they wear but really who cares if New York cops turn their back on the mayor? And it may not be the most sophisticated of political protests, nor the appropriate place at a funeral, but it has made a point.
But if they're turning their backs on the fight against crime, then that is something else.
Hamilton is expecting Mercedes to be in a better position than McLaren when Formula 1 introduces new engines in 2014.
One of the main reasons is that, as the official factory team, the engineers at Mercedes' Formula 1 chassis base in Brackley, Northamptonshire, are working hand-in-hand with the people designing the new 1.6-litre V6 turbo-charged engine at Brixworth a few miles up the road.
That means the Mercedes chassis designers and aerodynamicists can custom-build the engine for the purposes they believe will best suit their car. McLaren, by contrast, are now mere customers of Mercedes and have to take what they are given.
That's not to say that McLaren cannot be competitive in 2014 - think back to 2009, when the Brawn team rose out of the ashes of Honda, secured a late deal for Mercedes engines and went on to win the first race and the championship.
[The new engines will be] still loud and sweeter-sounding
But it does mean that Mercedes have a potential advantage - just as do Ferrari and Renault's de facto works team, Red Bull.
This could be very important at a time of huge change in F1 - these new regulations, which also include significant modifications to the cars, are the biggest change for decades.
The new turbo engines replace the current 2.4-litre normally aspirated V8s, and energy recovery systems will play a much bigger role in their total performance than they do now.
Just how big a change that will create becomes apparent when you start to dig into the detail of the changes to the engines.
The introduction of the rules has been controversial - none less than F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has campaigned against the new engines.
One of his major stated objections was that the turbos would not sound as good - a concern several circuits have also expressed. Meanwhile, there is still uncertainty about the cost of the engines, a particular issue for the smaller teams.
Costs for customers remain unknown, and therefore an issue, but Ecclestone's anxiety about the spectacle can be allayed immediately.
A recording Mercedes have played to the media of one of the new turbo engines doing a lap of Monza was different from the current sound, but still just like an F1 car - strident, muscular and obviously loud.
It is impossible to accurately gauge the exact volume level of a car out on the circuit, as the engines will not run until next winter, but Mercedes engine boss Andy Cowell says the new V6s will inevitably be a little quieter than the V8s, because of the turbos, but "still loud and sweeter-sounding".
Engine: 1.6-litre, V6s, with single turbo. Engines can rev to 15,000rpm, five power units per season per driver (each engine does 4,000km). 15% fewer moving parts
Turbo: Size unlimited, maximum revs 125,000rpm
Energy recovery (Ers) system: Weight must be between 20-25kg. Max energy storage per lap: 4MJ (2MJ kinetic from rear axle; 2MJ heat from exhaust). Equates to 161bhp for 33.3 seconds a lap
Fuel limit: No more than 100kg (about 140 litres) of fuel in a race; max fuel-flow rate of 100kg per hour. This is a 30% increase in fuel efficiency
Thermal efficiency: 40% (target)
Far from reducing the spectacle of F1, in fact, the new engines should increase it in at least one important way. They will have a much broader power curve, with vastly increased torque compared to the current V8s, especially on the exit of corners.
That means the cars will have more power than grip, so they should slide more than they do now. Although that will be within the natural limits set by aerodynamics, which dictate that, for best performance, cars should not veer too far from the straight ahead.
That torque comes from the combination of the turbo-charging, and the way the much more powerful energy recovery systems will be integrated into the engines.
The recovered energy can either be stored in a battery cell as now, or used to prepare the turbo-charger for the driver demanding acceleration.
This means that the turbo can be spun up to the required speed while the car is cornering, so it is available to the driver as soon as he needs it, thus vastly reducing the amount of turbo 'lag', a traditional bugbear of such engines.
So the drivers will have virtually instant power - and much more of it than they do at the moment - as they are leaving the corners.
Meanwhile, instead of the current Kers boost of 70bhp for seven seconds a lap, a driver in 2014 will have an Ers boost of 161bhp for 33.3 secs a lap.
That's because the current Kers (Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems) can, as the name suggests, scavenge only kinetic energy from the rear axle during braking, and output only 400 kilojoules per lap. The new Ers - Energy Recovery Systems - can salvage two megajoules from the rear axle and the same amount in heat from the exhaust and use all of it each lap.
As a driver is not "traction-limited" - ie can use his accelerator without worrying about spinning the wheels - for an average of about 50 seconds a lap, that means he will be able to use Ers for 70% of the lap.
So it will be impossible to be competitive without Ers - and the effectiveness of the energy recovery systems will be critical to performance.
A number of restrictions have been built into the rules to keep costs under control, including a maximum limit of 125,000rpm for the turbo itself.
But the size of the single turbo is free, as is the Ers system, within the power and energy storage restrictions detailed above, as well as a series of others, including weight and location in the car.
And at the heart of the rules is energy efficiency - engines will be allowed to use no more than 100kg of fuel in a race and the engines will have a fuel-flow rate restriction of 100kg per hour.
Discussions are still ongoing as to how best to represent fuel usage to the viewing public.
F1 engineers will thus be chasing as much power as they can get from a given amount of fuel - which should translate to the public in road-car technology as a car doing more miles per gallon.
The new rules, Cowell says, have been designed "to put the motor back in motorsport". In other words, the engines will make a difference to performance.
"Improving efficiency in energy conversion," Cowell adds, "will be a first-order factor of performance. The package extracting the most performance from the fuel energy will perform best."
This, he says, is "a technology directly aligned with what road cars are doing" and the result will be a "thinking drivers' formula to get the most out of the cars and the available fuel energy".
Just what a remarkable thing F1 engineers are doing for 2014 becomes clear when the engineers mention that they have a "difficult stretch target" for the engines of 40% thermal efficiency (how much energy is produced from the fuel). Compare that with the 35% figure which would be good for a road-car diesel engine and the 30% of a current F1 engine.
The idea of the rules was to align F1 much more closely with the direction the motor industry is taking, and for those who doubt that F1 development has an effect on road cars, Mercedes have an eye-opening counter-argument.
The new SLS AMG Coupe Electric Drive is a version of Mercedes' current supercar powered only by four electric motors. It is also the most powerful car the company's performance arm AMG has ever produced.
It has 750bhp, an astonishing 1000Nm (newtonmetres) of torque (almost double that of a Ferrari 458), does 0-60mph in 3.9 seconds and has a range of 250km. A total re-charge should take between one and four hours, depending on the facilities.
That has only been possible, Mercedes say, because of the demands of F1 Kers systems pushing the limits of power density of battery cells. That lowered cooling requirements, which means more cells can be used in a given space.
The hope is that the new F1 engine formula will affect road-car development in similar ways.
As far as F1 is concerned, the Mercedes engineers and their counterparts at Ferrari and Renault are talking about building engines that produce about the same power as they do now, but with much more usable torque, providing a potentially better spectacle and using 30% less fuel.
It's not hard to see why Cowell and his team are so transparently excited about it.
The woman, who is in her 20s, was attacked after two men offered her a lift in a car as she walked along High Street in the town.
She got into the vehicle in Holburn Avenue car park shortly before 02:00 BST on Saturday.
Police said the assault took place when the car drove towards Groomsport and stopped in a "dark area".
They have appealed to anyone with information about the attack to contact detectives.
The driver was described as thin, with a skinhead haircut and scruffy, ginger beard.
The second man was described as being of large build, approximately 5'4" tall, with a round face and brown, messy hair.
They were travelling in a silver car, possibly a Volkswagen Golf, in which the internal panel of the passengers' door was missing.
State Home Minister Bhupendra Singh had earlier blamed some "anti-social elements" for the deaths.
But on Thursday he said an inquiry had established that police had opened fire on the protesters.
The farmers in Mandsaur were demanding loan waivers and better prices for their produce.
Mr Singh said he "amended" his previous statement on the deaths after getting the "right information".
"Initially, the details provided to me were that police firing did not cause the death of farmers. However, I later amended my statement as soon as I received the right information," he said.
Meanwhile, a curfew remained in force in Mandsaur as farmers refused to end their protest. Other parts of the state have also witnessed similar protests.
Experts say traders are not offering good prices to farmers because of oversupply caused by a bumper harvest.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the government would write off the loans of farmers who have defaulted on payments.
Mr Chouhan has also promised to set up a commission to decide a fair minimum price for crops.
But opposition parties say the government needs do more to calm the protesting farmers.
Rahul Gandhi, vice-president of the main opposition Congress party, is visiting Mandsaur on Thursday to meet the families of the victims.
He has said that Mr Chouhan's government "was at war with farmers".
But Mr Singh said Mr Gandhi doesn't need to visit the city.
"Why does Rahul Gandhi want to come here? The government has accepted all the demands of the farmers," he said.
The order formalises a decision by Betsi Cadwaladr health board last week not to contest a judicial review of its proposed changes to services at Ysbyty Glan Glwyd in Bodelwyddan.
Mrs Justice Davies said the board had "lost or eroded the trust" of some employees and people in the community.
The board had to "regain that trust".
The process brings to a close the legal procedure started when campaigners sought a judicial review over the board's plans.
Last week, Betsi's interim chief executive Simon Dean said they had advised the court the board no longer wanted to contest the judicial review, and would now be consulting on the future of services.
The hospital had originally planned to end consultant-led services in April but the bid for judicial review put the plan on hold.
The complainants were awarded their legal costs at the end of the hearing.
Its forecast came as it reported "solid" trading in the final three months of 2016, with an 8.3% rise in passenger numbers to 17.4 million.
But stripping out the effects of the fall in the pound, its revenue per seat was down by 1.2% to £51.64 per seat.
Investors reacted badly to the mixed report, pushing the carrier's shares down 8.8%.
Easyjet's chief executive, Caroline McCall, said "Easyjet has delivered a solid first quarter [the final three months of 2016] with revenue, cost and passenger numbers in line with expectation. This is despite tough pricing and operating environment."
The pound has fallen by about 17% against the dollar since the Brexit vote in June last year. In November, Easyjet had estimated the weaker pound would cost it £90m in 2017.
Easyjet is in the process of establishing a separate presence on the European mainland, in readiness for when the UK leaves the EU.
That could mean the UK losing Europe's internal "open sky" arrangement.
Since 1994, any EU airline has been free to fly between any two points in Europe, something that enabled companies such as Easyjet and arch-rival Ryanair to grow to their present size.
Current EU flying rights might have to be renegotiated and the new company would ensure Easyjet could operate within the EU, rather than having to fly in and out of the UK on every route.
It said setting up a new European entity would cost it £10m
Easyjet, which is one of the biggest 100 in the UK, is planning to keep its London listing and Luton headquarters.
It has bases across 11 UK airports and flies more than 800 routes on its network across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
The Scottish Ambulance Service was called to Glasgow Airport just before 13:00 on Monday.
It was confirmed that a passenger was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. Details of their condition have not been released.
The flight was Aer Lingus 3833 operated by Stobart Air - formerly Aer Arann.
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The Exiles are two points clear of the relegation places with two games to go and could secure their survival if they win at Carlisle United on Saturday.
The club will hope to avoid relegation from the EFL after a four-season stint.
"For us financially as a club, it would have a big impact," Foxall told BBC Wales Today.
He continued: "As a revenue the club turnover is about £2m a year.
"In impact terms as we sit today we are looking at losing around 20% of that, about £400,000, direct money from the Premier League which comes from being in the Football League."
Having been nine points adrift of safety when Mike Flynn was appointed caretaker manager in March after Graham Westley parted company with the club, the Exiles will remarkably clinch survival if they win at Carlisle and rivals Hartlepool United lose against Cheltenham Town.
Newport were promoted from the Conference, and back into the EFL after a 25-year absence, when they beat Wrexham in the play-off final at Wembley in May 2013.
Foxall says he wants the club to avoid a return to non-league football after less than five years back in the EFL but has planned for the event of relegation.
"To lose that status again, in a relatively short space of time would be pretty devastating for the fans, but also for the city of Newport," Foxall added.
"As a board we are looking at ways we can plug that gap in the event we do have a negative output.
"Given the job Michael has done, we are hopeful that is not the case."
A year later, Lima's gay movement is renaming the anniversary as Peru's Stonewall, in reference to the riots in New York in 1969 which gave rise to the global gay rights movement.
But much remains to be done for LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual] people in Peru.
For more than seven years, Crissthian Olivera has been trying to get justice for what he says was discrimination because of his sexual orientation.
It was August 2004, and he and his then partner were sitting at a cafe inside a supermarket in the Peruvian capital.
"We were looking at each other in a romantic way," he recalls.
"We weren't kissing or hugging.
"But a member of staff came over and told us that we had to change our behaviour."
The staff told them they had to sit facing each other, and refrain from showing affection there because there were children and families around.
"From being customers at the establishment," he says, "we were suddenly treated almost like criminals, basically because of our sexual orientation.
"They don't speak like this to heterosexual couples."
Mr Olivera sued the supermarket for discrimination. But his case was dismissed by the courts.
"His case is common," says Giovanny Romero, the president of MHOL, the Homosexual Movement of Lima.
"In Peru, democracy is neither democratic nor inclusive. There are people like us who live in the margins of the margins of society.
"We are liberal only in economic terms. But as far as human rights, we still live in the Middle Ages."
Carlos Chipoco, a lawyer at the Commission for Justice and Human Rights in the Peruvian Congress, says gay people need to speak up more to protect their rights.
"Every day, we receive complaints about violations of human rights," he says, "but nothing from the gay community.
"They should try to push for constitutional actions that protect their rights.
"But it's not just about having laws. Many of our laws are not respected.
"What we need are movements that demand that judges apply sanctions to those who don't respect our laws."
Giovanny Romero rejects such criticism. MHOL, he says, has brought a legal action against a clinic that forbade one of its members from donating blood.
He adds that the movement, as well as other organisations, has long pushed for recognition of LGBT rights in the courts and through better legislation.
The need for more protection of this minority group is hard to ignore.
According to an investigation by MHOL, one person is killed each week in Peru because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.
Yet, confronted with such homophobia - which Carlos Chipoco himself recognises is widespread - the Peruvian Congress has yet to debate proposed legislation that would severely sanction all hate crimes.
"It would be the first step of a country that begins to value our lives," says Mr Romero.
"It's about protecting the right of people to live, and sanction in an exemplary way all hate crimes."
Mr Chipoco agrees that the law is needed, but he says that consensus is hard to reach among politicians.
"There are many who are very conservative and have a religious belief that homosexuality is a sin," he says.
"But we will probably present the draft legislation again, and let's hope it can advance."
Mr Olivera believes achieving better rights in Peru will be difficult.
He recounts the story of Jefry Pena, a transsexual woman who in 2007 was brutally beaten by a group of men, after the police refused to help her when she was being chased by her attackers.
Such hate crimes are not particular to Peru, but the country lags behind some others in the region on LGBT rights.
Argentina recognises gay marriage and adoptions; Colombia has progressive public awareness campaigns; and "Brazil Without Homophobia" has been a government initiative there for years.
Nevertheless, Mr Olivera remains optimistic, and wants his case to be heard at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.
"We need to change our society and culture," he says, "and to erase all those prejudices about homosexuality.
"Our rights will not magically fall from the sky. That's why we need to keep on fighting."
Simon Franey, 38, from Northfield, died at the scene in Alwold Road, Weoley Castle, shortly before 16:30 BST on Thursday.
Police traced and seized a Vauxhall Zafira in the early hours of Friday.
"A 54-year-old woman from Selly Oak was spoken to by police," a force spokesman said.
Sgt Alan Wood said the circumstances around the crash were being investigated and appealed for witnesses to contact West Midlands Police on 101 or Crimestoppers.
Harry Styles will be making his acting debut in the movie, which tells the story of a very important event which took place in World War II.
Harry has said: "It's a very emotional story."
Christopher Nolan, who directed the new film, told BBC News: "What drew me to this story is it is a survival story first and foremost."
But what is this story and why was this event in history so important?
The Dunkirk story took place during World War II.
World War II was a huge war between 1939 and 1945 involving many countries around the world, who were fighting each other for power.
There were many important battles and military missions during the war.
Dunkirk was one of these important military missions, which happened in May 1940.
During the war, some countries joined together to fight with each other.
British, French and Belgian soldiers were on the same side. They were known as the Allied troops.
They were fighting against the Germans.
In 1940, the Germans invaded France. They also invaded Belgium and Holland.
They beat the British, French and Belgian soldiers back to the port of Dunkirk, which is on the north coast of France.
The Allied troops found themselves trapped at the beaches there, surrounded by the Germans.
So the British prime minister at the time, Winston Churchill, ordered a fleet of 900 boats to travel from Britain to Dunkirk to rescue the soldiers and bring them back to England to safety.
More than a quarter of a million people were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk during the mission.
World War II carried on for another five years after the mission on the Dunkirk beaches took place.
The story of the Dunkirk rescue is still told today as many people risked their lives to save so many others.
Mark Rylance, who is an actor in the film, says: "It was a miraculous retreat."
It was important because even though the British Army and Allies had to flee France, it meant that they lived to fight another day and they eventually went on to win the war.
Dunkirk is a 12A film released on Friday 21 July in the UK
More than 700 members of the armed forces drawn from all three services took part in the practice before dawn.
They will line the route of the funeral procession from Westminster to St Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday.
Lady Thatcher's coffin is to be carried in a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, which was involved in the rehearsal.
The government has announced that the chimes of Big Ben will fall silent during the funeral as a mark of respect.
Maj Andrew Chatburn, the man in charge of choreographing the parade, said the rehearsal had gone "very well" and it was "vitally important" to stage a trial of Wednesday's event.
"Timings are most important," he said.
Maj Chatburn, ceremonial staff officer for the Household Division, who was also behind the royal wedding procession two years ago and last year's Diamond Jubilee parade, added: "Bearing in mind these are sailors, soldiers and airmen who have come in to do this specific task from their routine duties, so it's new to them.
"They need to see the ground as well so they can get a feel for how it's going to go and they can perform their duties with confidence on the day."
The procession band played the funeral marches of Chopin, Beethoven and Mendelssohn as it made its way along the deserted streets for the rehearsal.
The Chelsea Pensioners from Royal Hospital Chelsea did not take part due to the early start, but they will line the west steps of St Paul's for the real event.
It has emerged that the last portrait of Lady Thatcher shows her relaxing on a deckchair in the garden of London's Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement and nursing home for ex-British soldiers. She was a strong supporter of the Chelsea Pensioners.
The BBC's Ben Ando watched the rehearsal and said it was for the benefit of the service personnel taking part.
Scotland Yard's preparations are ongoing, he added, and the force says the security operation on the day will be in line with the perceived threat level.
Lady Thatcher, who died at the age of 87 on 8 April, has been accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
On Wednesday, the former prime minister's coffin will initially travel by hearse from the Palace of Westminster to the Church of St Clement Danes - the Central Church of the RAF - on the Strand.
It will then be transferred to the gun carriage and taken in procession to St Paul's Cathedral.
St Paul's Cathedral has published a full funeral order of service.
Respect MP George Galloway has said he will try to block plans designed to allow MPs to attend Lady Thatcher's funeral.
Ministers want to cancel Prime Minister's Questions and delay the start of parliamentary business - an approach backed by Labour.
But Mr Galloway has said he will object on Monday evening when the motion is being read.
Under Commons rules, if one MP shouts "object", the proposal would then have to be withdrawn, or MPs would have to hold a debate followed by a vote.
Speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics Show, he said it was "absurd" to cancel PMQs, especially after the cost of recalling Parliament during the Easter break to pay tribute to Lady Thatcher.
He said Lady Thatcher had "laid waste to industrial Britain" and "there are millions of people in this country who hate the very word Thatcher".
These people were not being reflected in media coverage, and were instead being subjected to "a tidal wave of guff", he added.
On Sunday, a song at the centre of an online campaign by opponents of Baroness Thatcher, reached number two after selling 52,605 copies.
The 51-second song, Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead from the Wizard of Oz film, was not played on BBC Radio 1's Official Chart Show.
Instead, presenter Jameela Jamil linked to a Newsbeat reporter who explained why the song was in the chart.
The news report - which included a brief snippet of the song - also included two views from members of the public on the controversy, with one saying it was "quite funny", while the other said it was "disgraceful".
Last month, judges ruled in Jon Platt's favour after he refused to pay a £120 truancy penalty.
Mr Platt says hundreds of parents have contacted him since the case, believing they too were fined unlawfully.
The Local Government Association said the fines were issued in accordance with Department for Education guidance.
Isle of Wight Council fined Mr Platt £60 for taking his daughter on holiday to Florida without her school's permission in April 2015.
After he missed the payment deadline, the council doubled the fine to £120, which he also would not pay.
The council then prosecuted him for failing to ensure that his daughter attended school regularly, contrary to section 444(1) of the Education Act 1996.
But magistrates ruled he had no case to answer as, overall, his daughter had attended school regularly, with an attendance record of over 90% for the year - the threshold for persistent truancy defined by the Department for Education..
The council asked the High Court to clarify whether a seven-day absence amounted to a child failing to attend regularly.
At the High Court, Lord Justice Lloyd Jones and Mrs Justice Thirlwall dismissed the council's challenge, ruling that the magistrates had not "erred in law" when reaching their decision.
They decided the magistrates were entitled to take into account the "wider picture" of the child's attendance record outside of the dates she was absent during the holiday.
Now Mr Platt plans to help other parents pursue refunds.
He told BBC Radio 4's consumer programme, You & Yours, that he had set up a company to start group litigation.
"If local authorities across the country don't do the right thing, don't go through the history of these truancy penalty notices they have been issuing over the last few years and refund the money to parents where they issued it only in respect of a short unauthorised absence, then we will start a group litigation," he said.
"We will take tens of thousands of cases through the courts and local authorities will have to explain to a judge why they thought it was in their power to fine parents who had done nothing wrong."
The Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, said the fines were issued in accordance with Department for Education guidelines.
"The recent High Court ruling has created significant confusion amongst councils and parents and we are calling on the government to urgently provide clarity around the rules so that both parents and councils know where they stand," it said in a statement.
According to local authority data, almost 64,000 fines were imposed for unauthorised absences between September 2013 and August 2014.
Many parents say they are forced to consider term-time holidays as they are much cheaper.
But the Department for Education says there is clear evidence "that every extra day of school missed can affect a pupil's chance of gaining good GCSEs, which has a lasting effect on their life chances".
A spokesman said: "We are confident our policy to reduce school absence is clear and correct.
"We are examining the written judgment in detail to decide the way forward, but we are clear that children's attendance at school is non-negotiable and we will take the necessary steps to secure it."
Mr Platt, whose core business is in claims management, says his new company, School Fines Refunds Ltd is unlikely to make him any money, adding that its purpose is purely to seek refunds rather than compensation.
Spain's number one, 34, dropped a simple deflected shot straight to striker Bakary Sare, who turned the ball home after four minutes.
Porto, who are yet to replace sacked manager Julen Lopetegui, are five points off leaders Sporting Lisbon.
Casillas has kept nine clean sheets in 18 league games, conceding 11 goals, since his summer move from Real Madrid.
The rate is the slowest for a year and a large fall on the 2.6% increase in gross domestic product (GDP) in the final quarter of last year.
An unusually cold and disruptive winter, coupled with tumbling exports, contributed to the decline, the US Commerce Department said.
But it said economic activity already appeared to be bouncing back.
Business investment fell by 2.1%, with spending on equipment plunging by 5.5% at an annual rate compared with a year earlier.
Residential construction, which was inevitably hit by the unusually cold winter fell by 5.7% although it was also hit by higher house prices and a shortage of available homes for sale.
By Andrew WalkerBBC World Service Economics correspondent
This is a standstill number. If we follow the British practice of giving the figures as a quarterly growth rate to one decimal place we get 0.0%.
Yes, we knew that bad winter weather would be, as it were, a headwind that would slow the US economy down. But this was a much sharper loss of momentum than expected.
It does give some support to the views of the Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen that the economy is not back to normal health and will need the stimulus from Fed policies for some time yet.
Still, consumer spending was quite strong in the new figures and the chances are that the slowdown in growth will be relatively short-lived.
The US trade trade deficit deficit widened, thanks to a sharp fall in exports which shaved growth by 0.8 percentage points in the first quarter. Businesses also slowed their restocking, with a slowdown in inventory rebuilding reducing growth by nearly 0.6 percentage points.
But consumer spending - which drives 70% of growth in the US economy - grew by 3%, although the increase was dominated by a 4.4% rise in spending on services, reflecting higher utility bills during the bitterly cold winter.
A cutback in spending by state and local governments also helped offset a rebound in federal activity after the 16-day partial government shutdown last year.
But most economists expect a strong rebound in growth in the April-June quarter. The consensus view is the economy will expand by 3% in the second quarter.
Analysts said stronger growth will endure through the rest of the year as the economy derives help from improved job growth, rising consumer spending and a rebound in business investment.
"Everything else is showing us that the economy is picking up," said Gus Faucher, from PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh.
"This weakness is not carrying through to the second quarter."
In fact, many analysts believe 2014 will be the year the recovery from recession finally achieves the robust growth needed to accelerate hiring and reduce still-high unemployment.
If the economy rebounds as strongly as they suggest, it will have experienced the fastest annual expansion in the economy in nine years.
The last time growth was as strong was in 2005, when GDP grew 3.4%, two years before the nation fell into the worst recession since the 1930s.
Unemployment is expected to fall to 6.2% by the end of this year from 6.7% in March.
Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors, said he expected job growth to average above 200,000 a month for the rest of the year - starting with the April jobs report, which will be released Friday.
"Those are the types of job gains which will generate incomes and consumer confidence going forward," he added.
The growth figures come a few hours before a policy statement from the US Federal Reserve, the country's central bank.
But few expect the disappointing news to have any impact on the scaling back of the Fed's economic stimulus, which has seen it cut bond purchases by $10bn per month.
"We rule out that the Fed will modify its policy outlook on the back of today's GDP report and the gradual tapering is set to continue in the coming months," said Annalisa Piazza, from Newedge Strategy in London.
Joseph Murphy, 54, was stabbed at a house in Hectorage Road, Tonbridge.
Patrick Murphy, 29, of Hectorage Road, is also accused of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
His 34-year-old brother was taken to hospital after the incident on Tuesday evening. Patrick Murphy has been remanded in custody to appear at Maidstone Crown Court on 12 June.
I've always known that al-Shabab was an army as well as a radical group capable of the most extreme acts of terror - but here was the evidence of its military side before my eyes.
A series of scrape holes stretched across a broad front, littered with the recent detritus of fighting men - bullet casings, empty soda bottles and the odd scrap of uniform.
I was on the front line between al-Shabab and forces from the African Union's Mission in Somalia (Amisom), accompanying the Bravo combat team of the Sierra Leone army.
I crossed from African-Union held Kismayo, which until a year ago was an al-Shabab stronghold, 10km (six miles) north to the village of Gobweyn, which is where the militants now launch their attacks from.
The day had begun with Bravo team's Lieutenant Joseph Adekule briefing a room of 50 fighting men - commandos, snipers, drivers, radio operators and medics.
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They all listened intently, staring hard at an old, flattened cardboard box that served as an operational map.
Objectives were clearly marked and coloured arrows showed the planned movement.
The cardboard map may have been unusual, but when the men climbed into their South African-made Mamba armoured cars to start the operation, they were well drilled and efficient.
Once in the vehicles, they prayed. Whether Christian or Muslim, they all recited the Lord's Prayer in English followed, in Arabic, by some verses from the Koran.
Their first objective was an abandoned old hotel about 5km (three miles) north of Kismayo.
When we got close, Lt Adekule deployed three men to search the blackened and crumbling building. I stood next to the lieutenant, taking cover next to a vicious thorn bush, as he directed operations.
"They used to use this location," Lt Adekule said, in a voice that combined staccato military with lyrical West African tones.
African Union troops regularly engage with al-Shabab militants in southern Somalia.
"We pushed them back, but at night they sometimes try to come here again and shoot at our positions back at the old airport."
From inside the abandoned hotel, I heard his men shouting: "Room clear, room clear."
We continued up the road on foot, the tall young lieutenant barking orders into his walkie-talkie as he jogged up the road.
The second objective on the way to the village of Gobweyn was what Lt Adekule called "the old air force base". There were hardly any buildings left standing.
This was where I saw the network of trenches and foxholes. Lt Adekule identified them as the militants' dugout positions.
"We've pushed them back and we try to dominate the area by patrols. But we don't have enough men to occupy everywhere, so they sometimes manage to come back to shoot at us from these dugouts," he said.
As we drove towards Gobweyn, one of the men in the lead Mamba armoured vehicle said he saw people running away with AK-47 rifles in their hands. A corporal travelling alongside me said something similar.
"Look - over there," he shouted, prodding and pointing. "They're running away over there."
I didn't see the men, but their presence appeared to be confirmed by what we found later when we reached the village. and found it eerily silent and inactive - not at all like a normal African settlement.
We also spotted several overturned, bright yellow plastic jerry cans next to a puddle of water. Somalis don't abandon their water carriers - one of their most precious possessions in a drought-hit land - unless they have a very good reason.
I do not know if these water gatherers fled because they saw the gunmen or the Amisom troops, but it added to the air of tension.
Most people in the village declined to talk and moved slowly away from the soldiers and the BBC team, perhaps due to the flak jackets and helmets we were wearing, but one man seemed happy to speak.
I asked him if what Amisom had told me - that Gobweyn was full of al-Shabab militants - was true?
"Al-Shabab are everywhere," he said. "They're in Kismayo, they're in Mogadishu, and look what happened in Nairobi - they're there too."
It wasn't clear if this was meant to be a statement of fact, or a boast, or a way of saying something without getting himself into trouble.
But a shiver ran down my spine when someone else privately whispered to us: "Al-Shabab were here. And they will be back. So we cannot say a word."
Your days are spent under artificial lights in an office, while the last of autumn's blooms are hidden beneath piles of decaying leaves.
NDD, or nature deficit disorder, has become a buzzword of late.
Although it's not a recognised medical condition, concerns about its effects on wellbeing are attracting widespread attention.
"I guess it's a symptom of current lifestyle," says Dr Ross Cameron of the department of landscape at Sheffield University.
"We're so clued into modern technology and things that we're less observant about the world around us and we're more likely to learn about wildlife ironically from a David Attenborough programme than maybe from a walk in the woods."
Richard Louv coined the phrase Nature Deficit Disorder in his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods.
He argues that all of us, especially children, are spending more time indoors, which makes us feel alienated from nature and perhaps more vulnerable to negative moods or reduced attention span.
Dr Cameron gave his views on the subject in a lecture at the Royal Horticultural Society this month.
"[The phrase NDD] has been used as a bit of a coverall to describe the thing of where we used to have natural processes, natural experiences in our life, and that seems to be becoming less common," he told the BBC.
Source: Royal Horticultural Society
There's "another throwaway term, which is 'nature knowledge deficit', where we don't understand as much about the natural environment as we used to, he explains.
And if we don't experience natural places or "tinker around in the garden", this can be bad for our mental health.
"As biological beings we are physiologically adapted to be in certain environments - to run, to play, to hunt, to be active basically," says Dr Cameron.
"The reality is we tend to have the lifestyle of a brick at the minute. We tend to sit for most of the day - we tend to be very sedentary."
His job is to think about how green spaces can be integrated into landscapes. So, could this be part of the solution?
"I've not sure I've got a cure," he laughs. "Landscape is obviously a very open-ended and undefined term.
"But basically any interaction with nature/green space seems to have some potential. I would argue that as you increase the scale and quality of it, the benefits also increase."
But he says even small and simple connections with nature can "give people a buzz", be it a robin at the front door or sitting in the garden watching a butterfly.
"We're quite interested to understand what those little positive effects have - those little things you notice in nature," he explains.
"You don't necessarily need to go to the Rockies or go to see blue whales off the Azores or anything like that.
"It's trying to see how much of these everyday things people notice, recognise and get a positive emotional response from."
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The future of the Teesside steel plant, which paused production on 18 September due to a global drop in the price of steel, remains unclear.
The plant employs about 2,000 people and unions and MPs had called on the company to make sure they were paid.
SSI said this month's pay roll is being processed.
The payment was made possible through a tax relief given to SSI by the government.
Business Minister Anna Soubry said: "I am very pleased that action we have taken has allowed the company to ensure workers got paid today.
"I made it clear that workers getting paid was a priority and government officials have worked very hard to help the company so they could achieve this.
"It will be some relief for workers and their families at this difficult and uncertain time."
A task force has been set up to support the workforce and liaise with SSI.
Amanda Skelton, chief executive of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and chairman of the task force said: "The aim of the group is to ensure that following any announcements about the future of SSI, the impact on the workers, local businesses and the wider community is reduced as far as possible by delivering a programme of tailored support."
The Scot, who had not dropped a game on her way through to Sunday's final, lost out 19-21, 21-19, 21-18.
Gilmour, runner up at the European Championships in Denmark in April, had beaten Kawakami in their one previous meeting last year.
However, the 23-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist was edged out in a tight contest.
The Englishman, 45, led Fiji's rugby sevens side to gold with a 43-7 win over Great Britain in the final at the Rio Olympics last August.
He tweeted a picture of himself on the coin with the message: "Fiji's new 50c coin - what a journey I've had."
Ryan was also given three acres of land in Fiji after helping the Pacific nation win their first Olympic medal.
In addition he was awarded the Companion of the Order of Fiji, the highest honour in the country.
Ryan coached England's sevens side from 2007 to 2013 and joined the Welsh Rugby Union as a consultant in January.
The five-member group are performing before a crowd of 40,000 at Beijing's Workers' Stadium.
They had been due to visit Shanghai last year but their tour was cancelled after a territorial row flared.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said she hoped the concert - SMAP's first overseas performance - would boost bilateral friendship.
It is the first visit to China by a top Japanese band for almost a decade, the Mainichi newspaper reported.
SMAP - a boy band that launched its debut single just over 20 years ago - is one of Japan's best-known groups.
Its members, who are now in their late 30s, host a weekly cookery and music show.
They have also appeared in numerous television dramas, building fan bases in both South Korea and China.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao issued an invitation to the band in May, after previous plans were shelved.
Concerts scheduled to take place in Shanghai in September 2010 were cancelled by the Chinese organisers after Japanese coast guards arrested a Chinese trawler captain following a collision off islands that both countries claim.
SMAP had also been due to perform at the Shanghai Expo earlier that year but the concert was cancelled because of fears of over-crowding.
But this time the group have made it to China, and on Thursday they were welcomed by senior politician Tang Jiaxuan.
Band member Takuya Kimura said SMAP hoped the concert would celebrate friendship between the two sides.
And Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Beijing held "a supportive and positive attitude" towards this kind of cultural exchange.
"We hope this will help improve national sentiment between China and Japan," she said.
The theme of the concert - which is also intended to thank China for its assistance in the wake of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami - is "Do Your Best Japan, Thank You China, Asia is One".
SMAP are said to be planning to sing at least one song in Chinese.
According to one posting on Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo, the concert had attracted fans from across China.
"I am watching the concert right now. The atmosphere is lively, the fans are almost hysterical," the blogger wrote.
Ties between China and Japan remain strained by territorial rows and unresolved historical issues.
The dispute last year over the uninhabited Senkaku islands (called Diaoyu by China) led to small anti-Japanese demonstrations in several Chinese cities.
This was an everyday commute that passengers had probably done many times. The tram was busy.
Unfortunately we now know what happened 10 minutes later on a tight bend heading into Sandilands tram station.
Seven people died and 51 were injured in the worst tram disaster in the UK since 1917.
Commentators have told me that excluding terrorist attacks and fire, it is the worst disaster on London transport since the Moorgate Tube crash in 1975.
As yet, we are still waiting to find out why and what happened. There are many questions.
At the moment there seem to be two investigations running in parallel.
The British Transport Police are running the criminal investigation. It has confirmed they are looking at reports the driver blacked out or fell asleep.
He has has been arrested and released on bail.
They are also looking at previous reports of speeding on that corner. Tram drivers have told me the corner is known as "triangle corner" and it is well-known.
It has a 12mph speed limit but in the tunnel before the bend, it is 50mph meaning the drivers only have a short period to reduce speed.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is looking at the technical side of the crash. It has already said the tram was going too fast on the bend - the crucial question is why?
It will publish a preliminary report this week, which could make "urgent safety recommendations" for tram operation in London.
Unions have said the bend may have to be re-designed and until we know the facts behind the crash, people should not be looking to apportion blame.
Trams do have safety features like the "dead man's handle" which stops the tram if the driver is incapacitated/.
But they do not have safety features like speed limiters or a mechanism to stop them if they go through red lights.
Unlike many London Underground lines the speed is not controlled centrally but by the driver.
Now Brian Cooke, a former Transport for London board member, thinks safety restrictions on more isolated parts of the track should be considered.
He also wants speed cameras above fast sections of track that cut out the power if trams break the speed limit.
What was very striking in Croydon is how it has left this community bewildered and reeling.
I spoke to countless people who could not comprehend what had happened on their tram, which has a very particular place in the part of south London.
Introduced 16 years ago, partly because the borough does not have any Tube stations, the trams are very popular and are used by about 27m passengers a year.
Many of those who died came from New Addington, a large tightly-knit and somewhat remote housing estate, that for many years had to rely on a patchy bus service.
The arrival of the tram in 2000 improved things.
But the community there has now been devastated.
I have spoken to people who said they warned the authorities about the tight corner and drivers going too fast on it.
The full RAIB report could take a long time - I've been told it may take at least nine months - so it could be some time before the grieving families and these communities get the answers they so desperately want.
For one thing, Lewis Hamilton came into the weekend one short of the legendary German's all-time record of Formula 1 pole positions. He was expected to match it, and he duly did.
More than that, though, Spa-Francorchamps is a track synonymous with Schumacher perhaps more than any other.
He made his debut here in 1991, went on to win six times and this year's race was the 25th anniversary of his first grand prix victory.
It was announced before the weekend that Schumacher's 18-year-old son Mick would be doing a demonstration run before the race in one of his father's old cars.
It was not the exact car in which Schumacher won that race brilliantly on a typically damp Spa day - no running 1992 Benettons were available. Instead, Mick was driving a car from 1994, the year his father won his first world title.
The idea had come from Sabine Kehm, Michael's long-time manager, who has looked after all the family's public relations since the skiing accident in 2013 in which he suffered severe head injuries and since when he has not been seen in public.
Mick, who is trying to follow in his father's footsteps and is racing in the European Formula Three series, said he "didn't hesitate for a second and didn't have any doubts" about doing the run.
"When I heard the car would drive here, I was straight away on for it and just wanted to do it," he told BBC Sport. "I am happy I have done it now.
"It was just great. It was a pleasure for me to drive and it was emotional and fun and amazing. There is a lot of history with it and I'm really happy I was able to drive it."
Born in 1999, Mick is too young to have many memories of his father's major successes - he was only seven when Michael retired for the first time at the end of 2006.
But, unsurprisingly, he is proud of his father's career.
"I learned a lot about it," he said. "I always look back and it is just nice to see what he has reached and all his tricks and stuff."
It was well planned. Mick did a test in the car at Spa on 9 August to ensure he felt comfortable in what he would be doing. That went well and the test went ahead. He was wearing a special custom-made helmet, half in his own colours, half in the ones Michael used when he raced at Benetton.
"I guess it's just good to have both sides on," he said. "We still have a big piece of history with it and to be able to put it on my helmet is another step."
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The demo drive was about celebrating his career, not focusing on what has happened since, about which his son is obviously more than aware. It was made very clear before his interviews that Mick would not answer questions on his father's health.
It was a poignant moment to see that famous blue, green and white car again lapping this track where Schumacher actually won in 1994 before being disqualified for a technical infringement - one of many controversies in that contentious, dramatic and tragic season.
There is no further update on Schumacher's condition. All that has been said since he came out of a medically induced coma six months after the accident and was transferred to his home in Switzerland is that he cannot walk.
That was part of a statement made to a German court by a lawyer employed by the Schumacher family in a court case against the German magazine Bunte. The lawyer later added to CNN that Schumacher "cannot even stand with the help of his special therapists" and that he could make no further comment.
The wall of silence surrounding Schumacher's condition is not going to change any time soon. The family's position is that Michael always kept his private life guarded, so they feel it is what he would want now, too.
Mick has doubtless had his own private battles with the situation, ones he has no inclination for now to share with the wider world. Perhaps one day that time will come.
If he makes it to F1 one day, he will doubtless face the questions one way or another. But by then he will be older and perhaps better able to contemplate the potential consequences and ramifications of the answers he might give.
Will a Schumacher be back in F1, he was asked? A smile. "Hopefully," he said.
There is a long road to travel before then. For now, he can revel in this emotional day and a new connection with the legacy of a father he hopes one day to emulate somehow.
The epicentre was near the northern coastal town of Muisne, but the effects were felt hundreds of kilometres away, including in the capital, Quito, and second city, Guayaquil.
People in Ecuador have been contacting BBC News with their stories.
'It lasted for minutes and was very scary' - Juan Jose, Guayaquil, Ecuador
I am safe with my family now but the earthquake was an awful experience. It lasted for minutes and was very scary.
The streets started to move like waves. The roof fell in on a mall here and a bridge collapsed.
My daughter is still afraid. The worst affected towns are Pedernales, Manta, Muisne, Portoviejo and Guayaquil.
My uncle lives in Portoviejo and says the damage there is very bad.
The electricity service is still very unstable here and the phone lines are very bad.
We are scared about another quake happening.
We've had lots of small tremors over the last few months, so I thought it was just another one of those to start with, which is why I was slow to react.
When I heard people yelling, children crying and dogs barking, I realised it wasn't. My mirror started shaking, then I heard a bottle fall downstairs from my apartment.
I grabbed my dog and hid under the table. The worst part was realising it wasn't going away and that I might be found here if the worst happened.
So I grabbed my dog and ran out into the street. We could see the electricity lines shaking - in other parts of the city they've collapsed, apparently.
I've gone back to my apartment now. I've seen images of dead people on the news, crushed by falling objects, that I'd rather not have seen.
They are saying this is the worst quake since 1979 to strike the country.
I never felt something like that in my life, never! Because in Ecuador this is not common. It was so strong. I was feeling very, very scared.
Suddenly everything was dark; the light was off; like a movie. I only was thinking 'God, please stop that, because maybe I die today.'
Just after 7pm we felt a long earthquake while driving. I didn't understand it at first.
Then I saw other cars were shaking too and people starting to go out of their cars and buildings.
The power went off in the area we were in. We were happy we were in the car and felt safe there.
Just now, there was an after-quake and we were on the 9th floor. It was very scary and lasted for 30 seconds. They say it was 6.2 near the coast.
We are trying to sleep because it's 02:30 here, but I am very scared and sad.
I can tell you, that was an extremely scary experience. I live in Guayaquil and we got hit pretty hard.
Cities around us have been affected so badly. My first ever experience of an earthquake and I'm just relieved that my wife and family are all OK. RIP to all those who passed. What an absolute tragedy.
The claim was made by John Prescott, who served as deputy prime minister during Mr Blair's tenure in Number 10.
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Mr Prescott alleged that Mr Blair told him about the phone tapping in 2005.
But Mr Blair's spokesperson said the story was "wrong" as the former PM had not authorised the bugging of any MP.
Mr Paisley Sr, a former first minister of Northern Ireland, died in 2014.
He was the founder of the Democratic Unionist Party and served as MP for North Antrim for 40 years.
Following the weekend report, his son, Ian Paisley Jr, said he would raise the bugging allegation in parliament.
UK security services are not allowed to intercept MPs' communications, under a ruling known as the Wilson Doctrine.
It was introduced in 1966 by the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
The ruling also meant that in the event that an MP was tapped, the prime minister was required to tell parliament.
Writing in his Sunday Mirror column, Mr Prescott said: "In 2005, when I was deputy PM, I was told by Tony Blair an MP had been tapped in the past without parliament being told.
"I asked him who it was and he told me the MP was the Rev Ian Paisley.
"Downing Street had been told by the interception of communications commissioner, who wanted to name Paisley.
"Tony asked me to discuss the Wilson Doctrine with the speaker of the House of Commons.
"I never told him (the speaker) that an MP had been tapped, or that it was Paisley."
Mr Prescott declined to be interviewed by the BBC.
But in a statement to the corporation on Monday, Mr Blair's spokesman said: "This story is wrong.
"No authorisation for the phone tapping of a member of parliament was given during Mr Blair's time as prime minister.
"It may be a confused account of the discussion of the Wilson Doctrine in Cabinet - something which was public at the time - which dated back to the 1960s."
Miserable residents of Eglwyswrw, near Cardigan, have had to endure the wet weather since 26 October.
The village was five days short of beating the British record which is 89 days set in Scotland in 1923.
But the Met Office confirmed no rain fell in the last 24 hours and farmer John Davies joked villagers were singing "Bring Me Sunshine".
"There's mixed emotions," he said.
"Once the Met Office and media homed in on us possibly breaking the record... I thought we've had it all this time let's suffer a bit more and get the title.
"It was relentless until the new year and then not so much.
"This is weather we have now we're not really used to but it's not meant to last."
A Met Office spokeswoman said: "We have just had the reading through and there was no recorded rainfall at Whitechurch recording station yesterday so it was 85 days up until and including 18 January." | The Alma Ras factory looks nothing special from the outside.
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The body was spotted by a member of the public who raised the alarm just before 18:30.
Police have been searching for 73-year-old Thomas Davidson who was last seen on Tuesday night. His family have been made aware of the discovery.
A Police Scotland spokesman said formal identification was yet to take place however the death was not being treated as suspicious.
Insp Stuart Aitchison said: "Sadly a body has been recovered from the River North Esk this evening (Friday).
"A formal identification is yet to take place, however, we have been in contact with the family of Thomas Davidson and made them aware of this development.
"Our inquiries are at an early stage however we will continue to offer the family support as and when they need it."
Ines Coronel grew marijuana in the northern state of Sonora to smuggle into the United States, officials say.
The father of Mr Guzman's third wife was reportedly detained with guns, ammunition and drugs.
Joaquin Guzman is the leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel and there is a $5m (£3.2m) US reward for his capture.
Mr Coronel, 45, was detained in Agua Prieta, near the border with the US state of Arizona, along with four other men including his son, Interior Deputy Secretary Eduardo Sanchez told journalists.
The US Treasury Department issued financial sanctions against Mr Coronel in January, when the investigations that led to his arrest are said to have been started.
At the time, officials described him as a key figure in the Sinaloa cartel.
Guzman has been on the run since escaping a Mexican maximum security prison in 2001.
The city of Chicago named him its first public enemy number one since Al Capone.
He has been indicted on federal trafficking charges and US officials want him extradited if he is ever captured.
Forbes magazine has estimated Guzman's fortune at about $1bn.
Steve Barker, from Chorley, Lancashire, went to the doctors over Christmas for a different matter and mentioned a "tiny" lump on his chest.
After doctors referred him for a scan, he found out the lump was the tip of a 2.8lbs (1.3kg) bone tumour.
Surgeons at Blackpool Victoria Hospital who removed the tumour said it was the biggest they had even seen.
Mr Barker, 57, said: "It was a shock really, I quite rapidly tried to get my head around it.
"I was amazed that behind the lump, inside my chest, was this large tumour pressing against my lungs, my heart, my back."
Mr Manoj Purohit, who led the operation, said the tumour was as "big as a football" and the largest tumour he had ever come across.
"The tumour was so large that it had pushed the heart from the front centre of his chest to the back left and also had started compressing the lungs making it difficult for Mr Barker to breathe.
"If it had been left unnoticed much longer it would have kept on growing and would have proved fatal."
The operation required removing the breast bone and five of Mr Barker's ribs. They were then replaced using prosthetics.
Mr Barker recovered quickly leaving hospital just seven days after the three-hour operation.
Mr Barker added: "I was just glad to get the thing out of my body to be honest. The recovery has taken a while, but I feel far better now than I did when I was in hospital.
"The message is you mustn't feel embarrassed about going to speak to your doctor - ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it will be absolutely nothing.
"But the sooner they find the thing, the better it will be for you and the doctors."
Rodriguez opened the scoring with a close-range header from Kieran Trippier's cross after three minutes.
Having missed a penalty, awarded for Garath McCleary's foul on Ben Mee, Rodriguez then headed his second from another Trippier cross.
On-loan Wolves man Adlene Guedioura went closest for the hosts but fired straight at Burnley keeper Lee Camp.
Rodriguez, given his first professional contract by Forest boss Steve Cotterill when he was in charge at Burnley, has now managed 16 goals in all competitions, while Forest - 23rd in the table - have not scored at the City Ground since 19 November.
Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cotterill told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"It's difficult times at the moment, very difficult times. It's very difficult when you have to have a makeshift back four, and to get off to that sort of start makes it an uphill battle.
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"Jay Rodriguez is a young boy who I know very, very well, and he is very, very good in the box.
"Now we've got a couple of loan signings we can bring in. One's a good young player and Danny Higginbotham will come in with good experience and good leadership skills. So the team's going to change around again.
"We needed this two months ago but we didn't have the money. That's what's made it a prolonged and painful time."
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It condemned "institutional abuse" at Glan Clwyd Hospital's Tawel Fan ward.
Relatives said patients were treated like "animals" in a zoo before the ward was shut down in December 2013.
Commissioner Sarah Rochira said the revelations had been "horrific" and the treatment "inhumane" and "degrading".
Several members of staff on the ward are facing disciplinary procedures but North Wales Police decided not to pursue criminal charges after investigating allegations of mistreatment.
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, Ms Rochira said criminal law should be strengthened so those who treat older people in a "truly appalling way" can be held to account.
She said Tawel Fan was "one of many many examples where care has been truly unacceptable yet isn't considered criminal".
The commissioner called on health boards to make public declarations about the quality of the care provided by their local health services.
"I would suggest right now that boards need to be putting out reassuring statements to the public that they do know how good their care is and people don't need to be worried in relation to their own care," Ms Rochira said.
Vale of Clwyd Labour AM Ann Jones said the chief executive of Betsi Cadwaladr health board - Prof Trevor Purt - should be sacked.
She said public confidence in the board had hit "rock bottom", but she was confident Welsh government ministers "understand that a change of leadership at the board may be the way forward".
Prof Purt has already apologised on behalf of the board, saying he was "extremely sorry that we let our vulnerable patients and their families down so badly".
A meeting on Monday involving the Welsh government, Health Inspectorate Wales and the auditor general for Wales will consider if any action against the board is needed.
Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 11:00 BST on 7 June.
The youths, who are local to the town, were questioned on Tuesday on suspicion of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
The Aberdeen Angus cow was discovered on Sunday in a field in New Gardens on Green Lane.
North Yorkshire Police has just released details of the arrest and have released the boys on bail.
The force wants to hear from people who saw anyone carrying rope in Helredale Road, the Calla Beck area or at the park at Eastside community centre on Saturday.
The journalist was the first to be found guilty under Operation Elveden, the police probe into alleged payments to public officials for information.
The officer and his friend also won appeals against their convictions.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said no decision on possible retrials had been made.
The reporter, who cannot be named, was given a six-month suspended sentence at the Old Bailey in November 2014.
The officer and his friend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been convicted in 2014 of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.
A 42-month jail sentence was given to the officer and a 30-week sentence was handed to his friend.
Scotland Yard later defended the decision to go ahead with the case.
"The Metropolitan Police Service believes it was right that the evidence we gathered, having been tested and reviewed by the CPS as meeting the required threshold, was then put to a jury," a statement said.
The Lord Chief Justice ruled at the Court of Appeal that the trial judge, Charles Wide, had "misdirected" the jury on a key aspect of the ancient common law offence of misconduct in a public office in relation to the "level of seriousness" required.
The judgement said the jury should have considered whether the supply of information by the prison officer "has the effect of harming the public interest".
It also revealed some of the juror notes sent to the judge during their deliberations, including one that told of the "horrible atmosphere" in which they were working.
"The discussions within the jury room have become aggressive and the atmosphere is horrible" the note said.
"One juror even got out a magazine and proceeded to read this whilst others were stating their points.
"Please be aware all of the above is only the activity of two jurors however I strongly feel it is affecting the ability of us all to voice our opinions without fear of reprisal from them."
The next morning the judge told lawyers about the note but said he did not propose showing it to them.
He directed the jury encouraging them to have "discussions" rather than "arguments" and reminded them "the collective collaborative nature of your decision making is important."
Immediately after the jury resumed considering their verdicts the judge received a note from another juror which said: "I am being that, I am wasting oxygen!"
According to the judgment, both notes should have been disclosed at the time as they "showed that one juror was very concerned as to the way in which the deliberations were being conducted".
The CPS said it would consider the contents of the judgement "very carefully".
It has until 31 March to make a decision on a retrial.
In a separate case, the Lord Chief Justice also gave ex-News of the World reporter Ryan Sabey, the second journalist to be convicted following an Operation Elveden trial, leave to appeal against his conviction.
Sabey, 34, of Bethnal Green, east London, was found guilty of aiding and abetting lance corporal Paul Brunt to commit misconduct in a public office in February this year.
The court heard Brunt, 32, of Kentish Town, north London, was paid more than £16,000 to provide information and pictures about Prince Harry to the Sun and the News of the World over 18 months from 2006.
European champions Toulon want to leave their domestic league to play in the English Premiership.
The four Welsh regions currently play in the two European club competitions but Davies said: "Europe's best teams, Welsh teams included I hope, can play on a higher level on a weekly basis.
"Perhaps in the long term there will be a European competition."
He added: "That would allow us to compete better with the southern hemisphere.
"In the short term, it would be great to see Wales also being able to play against clubs from England.
"People have been talking about that sort of competition for a while - but it's not likely to happen in the next few years."
The Welsh regions face clubs from the English Premiership in the Anglo-Welsh Cup, while Scottish, Irish and Italian sides provide weekly opposition in the Pro12.
Toulon president Mourad Boudjellal emailed English Premiership bosses proposing the move from the Top 14, which a spokesman said they would consider.
Boudjellal has made public his frustrations with the Top 14, related to the salary cap and bonus payments.
Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny was a Champions Cup winner with Toulon last season and is expected to extend his stay with the French club.
Halfpenny's current deal runs out in the summer and Cardiff Blues and Scarlets were keen to take him back to Wales.
The 27-year-old is sidelined after suffering a serious knee injury in a World Cup warm-up game for Wales in September.
Toulon head coach Bernard Laporte expects him to remain in France beyond the end of the season.
"To be fair to Leigh, perhaps he feels he owes Toulon something," Davies added. "He's been injured and missed a year and I think he feels duty-bound in some ways.
"On the one hand it's sad for Wales and Welsh rugby in the short term but all credit to him as an individual."
Under the deal, federal police agents will receive a 12% salary increase from July, and another 3.8% rise in January.
The agreement follows police strikes earlier this year in which an estimated 250,000 agents took part.
Preparations for the World Cup - which starts on 12 June - have been beset by anti-government protests and stoppages.
Brazil's federal police, which conducts criminal investigations and combats drug trafficking and terrorism, is also in charge of security at the country's borders and airports.
The trade union representing federal officers, Fenapef, welcomed the offer and said it had suspended its planned strike action "before, during and after the Cup and before the [general] election" on 5 October 2014.
Fenapef President Jones Borges Leal said the government had also agreed to set up a working group to discuss officers' career progression, another key demand.
The salary increase will also apply to typists and forensic teams, union officials said.
Last month state police forces went on strike over pay in at least 14 Brazilian states, and there have also been stoppages by teachers and civil servants.
The government has boosted security in all of the 12 host venues, with up to 20,000 security personnel deployed to Rio de Janeiro to guarantee safety during the World Cup final on 13 July.
The government is keen to prevent a repeat of the mass protests held during the Confederations Cup last year, many of which descended into violence.
More than a million people took to the streets at the time protesting against corruption and what they considered to be excessive spending on the preparations for the World Cup.
They also arrested the female politician from his party in whose house they were found.
She has now been charged with sedition, which can carry seven years in prison.
It is the latest sign of the tense dispute between Thaksin supporters and Thailand's military government, says BBC East Asia editor Jill McGivering.
The bowls at the centre of the row are small, red and plastic - and typically used for water.
Written on them is "The situation may be hot but you can be cooled by this water", along with Mr Thaksin's signature.
The move comes several days after another woman posted a picture of herself on Facebook smiling as she held up a similar bowl. She too has been charged with sedition.
Our East Asia editor says this shows the ruling military junta's determination to stifle shows of support for Mr Thaksin and his sister Yingluck, who have both served as prime minister and both face corruption charges that they deny.
Mr Thaksin has been living in self-imposed exile for 10 years, while Ms Yingluck is facing a decade in jail over a negligence charge linked to farming subsidies distributed while she was in office.
Thailand's struggle to overcome its deep and bitter political divide has been reflected in some of the social media responses to this latest incident.
Some said it sounded like a late April Fool's joke. One wrote that the bowls should be given away with bags of rotten rice as a reminder of Mr Thaksin's alleged corruption.
Others described the police response as absolutely ridiculous, urging them to concentrate on more serious issues than free plastic bowls.
The results, published in the Lancet, showed lifelong smokers died a decade earlier than those who never started.
But those who stopped by 30 lost, on average, a month of life and if they stopped by 40 they died a year younger.
Health experts said this was not a licence for the young to smoke.
Angela started smoking when she was 11. "Before I knew it, I was addicted," she said.
She used to hide her habit by taking the dog out for a walk. At one point she was smoking 10 cigarettes a day and more if she was going out.
After several attempts to quit she was successful: "I had a bit of a health scare and that really gave me the motivation to finally kick the habit."
She is now 29 and says it is "brilliant" news that quitting before the age of 30 could make a big difference to her health.
"It's amazing, I can feel it already actually."
The study followed the first generation of women to start smoking during the 1950s and 60s. As women started smoking on a large scale much later than men, the impact of a lifetime of cigarettes has only just been analysed for women.
"What we've shown is that if women smoke like men, they die like men," said lead researcher Prof Sir Richard Peto, from Oxford University.
He told the BBC: "More than half of women who smoke and keep on smoking will get killed by tobacco.
"Stopping works, amazingly well actually. Smoking kills, stopping works and the earlier you stop the better."
Professor Peto added the crucial risk factor was "time" spent smoking, rather than amount.
"If you smoke 10 cigarettes a day for 40 years it's a lot more dangerous than smoking 20 cigarettes a day for 20 years," he said.
"Even if you smoke a few cigarettes a day then you're twice as likely to die at middle age."
He added it was hard to measure the risk of "social smoking" a few times a week.
The records from 1.2 million women showed that even those who smoked fewer than 10 cigarettes a day were more likely to die sooner.
Sir Richard said that it was exactly the same picture as for men.
The British Lung Foundation said the prospects for long-term health were much better if people stopped smoking before they were 30, but cautioned that this was not a licence to smoke "as much as you want in your 20s".
Its chief executive, Dr Penny Woods, said: "Stopping smoking can also be difficult to do - an estimated 70% of current smokers say they want to quit, so you shouldn't start and just assume you'll be able to quit smoking whenever you want to.
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"The best thing for your health is to avoid smoking at all."
Prof Robert West, from the health behaviour research unit at University College London, said it was important to remember that smoking had more effects on the body than leading to an early death, such as ageing the skin.
"Around your mid-20s your lung function peaks and then declines. For most people that's fine - by the time you're into your 60s and 70s it's still good enough. But if you've smoked, and then stopped there is irreversible damage, which combined with age-related decline can significantly affect their quality of life.
"Obviously there is an issue around smoking if they want to get pregnant because it affects fertility and then there are the dangers of smoking during and after pregnancy."
The chartered health psychologist, Dr Lisa McNally, who specialises in NHS stop smoking services, also emphasised other factors.
Speaking to BBC News, she said: "There's the danger isn't there that people could almost take permission to continue to smoke to 30 or even to 40, but actually in my experience younger women quit smoking for other reasons other than life expectancy.
"They're more concerned about the cosmetic effects."
The Department of Health has announced that more than 268,000 people registered to take part in its "Stoptober" campaign - the UK's first ever mass event to stop smoking.
Health minister Anna Soubry said the £5.7m campaign had "exceeded expectations", adding that smokers were "five times more likely to give up for good after 28 days".
Waseem Al-Muflehi, 15, and Yahya Mohammed, 14, both from Birmingham, disappeared in the water at Barmouth beach, in Gwynedd, last Sunday.
Yahye's body was recovered from the sea at Sunny Sands in the Llanaber area on Friday morning.
The other body was found shortly after 14:10 BST on Saturday.
North Wales Police and other emergency services, including the Barmouth inshore lifeboat, were called to a section of the coastline between Sunny Sands and Cae Daniel, near Llanaber, where they recovered the body of a male from the sea.
He has yet to be formally identified however police have notified Waseem's family.
Earlier, the body washed up on Friday was identified as being that of Yahya.
Insp Andy McGregor, of North Wales Police, said: "Yesterday evening Yahye was identified by family members and our thoughts are very much with them at this time.
"They are being supported by specialist family liaison officers and we hope you can respect the family's privacy at this very difficult time."
His death is not being treated as suspicious.
The boys were part of a group of about 500 people from the Somali and Yemeni communities in Birmingham who were visiting the area on Sunday, 7 August.
Emergency services were called to the beach after one of the boys was seen to "disappear under the water".
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In a bruising affair played out on a badly damaged pitch, there was scant attacking precision on display.
Rory Clegg's quartet of penalties trumped two from Isa Nacewa.
Glasgow's dogged scrapping at the breakdown was pivotal, while Leinster maddeningly squandered much of their field position.
Visiting captain Nacewa knocked over a fourth-minute penalty to nudge the visitors ahead when Glasgow went off their feet at the breakdown.
Leinster rampaged downfield from the restart, hooker James Tracy shimmying his way into space through the Warriors' midfield. His backhand offload found Nacewa, but a fine cover tackle from James Eddie halted the move in the phases that followed.
Rory Hughes, the Glasgow winger, was withdrawn after a thunderous upright collision, Glenn Bryce his replacement.
Clegg, returning from an eventful spell in the Top 14, struck two penalties of his own as Glasgow edged in front with 20 minutes gone, amid roars of "Come on, George!" rasping down from the home coaches bench bound for referee Clancy.
Leinster's bruisers were puncturing the hosts' midfield with concerning ease but the visitors butchered what can only be described as rugby's equivalent of an open goal.
Fly-half Cathal Marsh, inside the Glasgow 22, had no fewer than four men to hit with Bryce scrambling desperately to cover, but floated a huge miss-pass behind Nacewa and into touch.
Relief for the Warriors, exasperation for Leinster, who made do with three more points from the captain's boot rather than the five, or seven, they ought to have had.
Sila Puafisi, for a neck roll, then Simone Favaro, at the breakdown, were penalised for the hosts as the clock ticked red. Nacewa teed up for another shot at the posts from straight in front, but his strike flew wide, and the sides remained level at the break.
Captain Peter Murchie was the third Warriors back withdrawn during the first half - after Rory Hughes and Sam Johnson had departed earlier - prompting quite the reshuffle in the home ranks as the sides changed ends.
Scrum-half Ali Price replaced the skipper, with Nick Grigg moving to centre, Grayson Hart to the wing and Bryce shifting back to full-back.
Glasgow nonetheless began the second period with more accuracy and dynamism. Clegg slotted his third penalty from inside Leinster's 22, then arrowed a fourth between the uprights when a Glasgow jumper was pulled down at the line-out.
With six minutes remaining, Grigg scythed down replacement scrum-half Isaac Boss around the neck, allowing for a late march towards the home line.
Again, though, the defending champions' breakdown nuisance saw them force a penalty - with a squad by that stage so stretched, and every point crucial in the race for a play-off berth, on such victories are seasons defined.
Glasgow Warriors: Murchie, Jones, Bennett, Johnson, Hughes, Clegg, Hart, Reid, Brown, Puafisi, Peterson, Nakarawa, Eddie, Favaro, Ashe.
Replacements: Price for Murchie (41), Yanuyanutawa for Reid (62), Fagerson for Puafisi (55), Holmes for Eddie (46), Malcolm for Favaro (62), Cummings for Ashe (58). Not Used: Grant, G. Bryce.
Leinster: Kirchner, Nacewa, Ringrose, Te'o, D. Kearney, Marsh, L. McGrath, Dooley, Tracy, Furlong, M. Kearney, Triggs, D. Ryan, Leavy, Murphy.
Replacements: Reid for Ringrose (76), Carbery for Marsh (76), Boss for L. McGrath (73), Loughman for Dooley (73), Bent for Furlong (73), Timmins for M. Kearney (64), Molony for Triggs (54). Not Used: B. Byrne.
Ref: George Clancy (IRFU).
Workers building a sports stadium had earlier unearthed the bomb in the town of Goettingen.
It was not immediately clear why the bomb, reportedly weighing 500kg (1,100lb), had detonated.
Unexploded WWII bombs dropped by Allied planes are frequently found in Germany, though it is unusual for them to explode unexpectedly.
A special commission is investigating the causes of the explosion, while prosecutors are considering whether the team leader should face charges of manslaughter through culpable negligence, the BBC's Oana Lungescu reports from Berlin.
The blast happened an hour before the defusing operation was due to start.
Officials said the three men who died were experienced sappers, or combat engineers, who over 20 years had defused up to 700 bombs.
More than 7,000 people were immediately evacuated when the 500kg bomb was found. Several schools, a kindergarten and local companies remain closed.
Last week, another device was successfully defused close to the site.
In Berlin, four bombs have been found in the past two months, including one near the capital's main airport.
The World Cup winners lost 4-2 to Argentina in a friendly on Wednesday.
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"Scotland have not lost for six games and are a strong team with a fighting spirit," said the forward.
"They close down spaces quickly and so we will need patience and to be much better than against Argentina."
The Borussia Dortmund star is back in the national side after missing the World Cup through injury and played the full game as Germany crashed to an emphatic defeat in Dusseldorf - their first match since becoming world champions.
Scotland go into the match having won four and drawn two of their last six internationals.
"We need to be more effective in front of goal," Reus added.
"Scotland are strong, they have a leader in Darren Fletcher, they are very quick in attack. What is needed from us is patience and we are fully aware of that."
Joachim Low's side were woeful in defence against Argentina but Jerome Boateng is back in time for Sunday's clash, assistant boss Andreas Kopke revealed.
"These last two days will show what changes or if any there will be in defence," Kopke told Reuters.
"Jerome will return and some things will change but who will be on the left or on the right is something I cannot say just now."
Spain international Costa has been linked with a return to former club Atletico Madrid.
The 27-year-old has scored 36 goals in 77 games since joining Chelsea in 2014.
"Diego stays with us. He is working very hard. He is very happy to work with his team-mates and with me," said former Italy boss Conte.
"He is a fantastic player, a player with a fundamental importance, and there is no problem.
"He is an important player, one of the best in the world, and I am sure when he goes into our ideas he will score a lot of goals for us."
Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British resident at the facility, claims MI5 and MI6 made "knowingly false statements" to his US captors.
The Saudi national's lawyers have filed legal papers with both the home and foreign secretaries.
The detainee is into his 11th year of detention at Guantanamo, even though he has been cleared for release.
The lawsuit includes details of allegations against him that have only recently been declassified.
His lawyers say these allegations are defamatory and they will take the unusual step of publicising them as part of the action.
Shaker Aamer is a Saudi national who arrived in the UK in 1996. He was granted indefinite leave to remain with his wife and four children.
Soon after the 9/11 attacks, he was detained in Afghanistan where it is alleged he was involved in fighting at Tora Bora, an al-Qaeda stronghold targeted by the Americans as they hunted Osama Bin Laden. Mr Aamer denies this and says he was engaged in charity work.
In defamation legal papers seen by the BBC, the detainee's lawyers say: "Mr Aamer emphatically denies that he is a member of al-Qaeda. The British Security Services will be able to produce not one shred of reliable evidence to the contrary."
His lawyers claim that the US interrogators were supplied with "knowingly false information" by the UK security services, including the allegation that Mr Aamer was paid directly by Bin Laden and that he also recruited people to fight for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The legal action is being brought by the legal charity Reprieve and names both Foreign Secretary William Hague and Home Secretary Theresa May, whose departments supervise MI6 and MI5 respectively, and it will be launched at a press conference later on Friday.
Reprieve's founder Clive Stafford Smith said but there was no evidence Mr Aamer was an extremist.
"I'm utterly convinced that Shaker was not involved in extremism. But don't take my word for it, lets have a trial - that's the British way of doing things, and it's the American way too. But if you presume people guilty we may as well lock everyone up," he said.
Ill-treatment claims
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said it was "inappropriate to comment, given legal proceedings".
But she said the Foreign Office continued to make clear to the US that it wanted Mr Aamer released and returned to the UK as a matter of urgency, and in the meantime was monitoring his welfare via contact with American officials.
The High Court in London has heard claims that while Mr Aamer was detained at the US's Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, he was "subjected to cold water treatment, hog tying [and] sleep deprivation".
Mr Aamer also alleges that his head was beaten against a wall and he was threatened with death in the presence of a member of the UK Security Service, MI5.
The Metropolitan Police are currently investigating allegations that UK officials colluded in his alleged mistreatment.
In February 2002 Mr Aamer was flown to Guantanamo Bay. His lawyers say that he was then subjected to beatings, extreme changes in temperature and more than three years of solitary confinement. The US Department of Defense denies that it holds anyone in such conditions in the naval facility.
Mr Aamer claims that he made a number of confessions under duress during 500 interrogations and that those formed the basis of the US case against him.
Though the US has never publicly released their allegations against Mr Aamer, the controversial campaigning website Wikileaks published a confidential Pentagon case file against Mr Aamer in which he was described as a member of a "UK-based al-Qaeda cell" and a close associate of Bin Laden who had "shown a willingness to become a martyr for his cause".
The 22-year-old finished on nine under to claim a cheque for £977,000 to add to his £6.5m bonus for winning the end-of-season play-off championship.
Spieth has earned more than £14m this season and is the new world number one.
He beat New Zealand's Danny Lee, England's Justin Rose and Swede Henrik Stenson by four shots at East Lake.
Englishman Paul Casey was among those a shot further back on four under.
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy finished on one over after a final-round 74, while Australia's Jason Day ended tied 10th on two under.
"This is one I cannot wait to celebrate," Spieth said. "This is incredible."
The US Masters and US Open champion took a one-shot lead over Stenson into Sunday's final round and had doubled his advantage by the turn, despite dropping shots on the fifth and sixth holes.
His formidable putting saw him hole out from 20 feet on the eighth, 18 feet on the par-five ninth, and from 45 feet on the 11th.
Stenson, who held a three-shot lead after 36 holes, bogeyed the 12th to ease the pressure on Spieth, with the Swede carding a final-round 72, which included a double-bogey six on 17.
Spieth added: "This is an event we approached like a major championship. I didn't have a great play-off, but I put a lot into this week. Mentally, I stayed in it. And boy, that putter sure paid off."
The 24-year-old, who can also play on the wing, has had spells with West Bromwich Albion, Crawley and Torquay.
Hurst spent part of last season on loan at Guiseley and was on the books at National League North side AFC Telford earlier in the 2016-17 campaign.
Dover have not disclosed the length of Hurst's deal at Crabble but he can make his debut against York on Saturday.
Tiaan Loots and Ross Davies scored the North Walians' tries, with Jacob Botica kicking five points.
Lewis Williams crossed for Pontypridd while teenager Ben Jones landed two penalties in a tense final.
Earlier Penallta won the Plate final on a try-count and Shane Williams' Amman United took the Bowl.
The two sets of Cup final supporters created a noisy atmosphere with Pontypridd fans enjoying their 12th final while the North Wales newcomers were tasting the experience for the first time.
South African centre Loots' try from Botica's inside pass helped put RGC ten points up in the second quarter.
But Ponty pulled back to 10-8 at the interval as wing Lewis Williams made the most of an opportunist quick throw-in, with opposite number Rhys Williams in the sin-bin.
Jones nudged them ahead with his second penalty on 45 minutes, after veteran player-coach Phil John was harshly yellow-carded for a ruck offence.
But fellow prop Davies was awarded RGC's second try by the TMO eight minutes later, in a pile of bodies on the line.
That proved enough for the team coached by former Wales wing Mark Jones to hold on through a tense scoreless final quarter, and take their first top-flight club honours.
Botica, son of former All-Black Frano, was named man of the match.
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The second-tier Plate trophy went to Penallta on a 2-1 try-count after a 16-16 draw with battling Ystalyfera, who had flanker Jesse Patton sent off after 20 minutes.
Maxfield George's 79th-minute corner try for the Pitmen was decisive after Joe Scrivens' two early penalties and a Corey Tucker try.
Steffan Castle kicked 11 points for their Swansea Valley opponents, who were also awarded a penalty try.
Former Wales wing Shane Williams scored the opening try and had a hand in three others as Amman United beat Caerphilly 43-31 in the third-tier Bowl, with scrum-half Joel Foster kicking 23 points.
The Needham family said the man spoke to police after footage of a man who resembled a computer-generated image of how Ben might look now was released.
Ben's sister Leighanna Needham told the BBC the man in the video had "uncanny similarities" to her family.
The result of the DNA test is expected on Wednesday.
Ben, who will turn 24 on Tuesday and is from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, vanished when he was 21 months old while on holiday on the Greek island of Kos.
His mother Kerry has always maintained her son is alive and was probably abducted.
She said last week that the discovery of a blonde girl called Maria at a Greek Roma camp had given her family "fresh hope and maximum publicity".
Leighanna said they were informed by Greek police about a video handed to them showing a man with a group of Roma people in Limassol, Cyprus.
"From what we can see, he has similarities to what we think Ben would look like and the age progression photograph we had done," she said.
A statement from Kerry posted on the Help Find Ben Needham Facebook page said: "I have just heard from Greece that the young man in the video has handed himself in to Greek authorities.
"He claims he is Romanian and was working in Limassol.
"The gypsies who were in his company are his girlfriend's family, as she is Roma. He has willingly given DNA, so we are waiting on a result."
The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has sent 776,000 barrels from Ras Lanuf to Italy, Libyan port officials said.
Forces loyal to Gen Khalifa Haftar took Ras Lanuf and two other terminals from a rival militia group allied to the UN-backed government in Tripoli.
Gen Haftar, who is allied to a rival government in the east, gave control of the ports to the NOC.
This is the first shipment of oil from Ras Lanuf since 2014, and the money generated by a resumption of lucrative oil exports is much needed in the conflict-hit country.
Port officials say a second tanker is being prepared to take oil to Spain.
The ports of Ras Lanuf, al-Sidra and Zuitina - known as the oil crescent - lie between Tripoli and Tobruk, where the country's two rival governments are based.
Oil exports were an important part of Libya's economy before the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Since then, the country has been divided between the rival governments and hundreds of militia forces.
General Khalifa Haftar is one of the most powerful military figures in Libya; he refuses to recognise the authority of the UN-backed Government of National Accord in the capital.
His forces took the terminals on 11-12 September in what the Tobruk parliament called a "liberation" from occupying forces.
The US, UK and several European countries issued a statement condemning the seizure of the oil terminals, calling on Gen Haftar to withdraw his forces.
Verizon Communications agreed to buy Yahoo for $4.8bn (??4bn), but disclosure of a huge data breach put a question mark over the deal.
In the quarter to 30 September, Yahoo's profits rose to $163m, from $76.3m last year, on revenue up 6.5% to $1.3bn.
Chief executive Marissa Mayer said the figures underlined Yahoo's value.
"We remain very confident, not only in the value of our business, but also in the value Yahoo products bring to our users' lives," she said in a statement.
Revenues from mobile operations during the quarter reached $396m, up from $271m the previous year.
"We launched several new products and showed solid financial performance across the board," Ms Mayer said.
The results, the first financial update since Yahoo and Verizon announced their deal, beat most analysts' forecasts.
Yahoo's shares rose 1.3% in after-market trading on Wall Street, which analysts said reflected confidence that the data breach had not sparked a mass exodus of users of the firm's email system.
Yahoo disclosed last month that a hack affected about 500 million user accounts. Verizon said subsequently that the news could have a "material impact" on its plan to buy the company.
Ms Mayer said on Tuesday: "We're working hard to retain [users'] trust and are heartened by their continued loyalty as seen in our user engagement trends."
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Gaby Scanlon, of Heysham, Lancashire, had to have her stomach removed after drinking the Nitro-Jagermeister shot.
Oscar's Wine Bar in Lancaster admitted at Preston Crown Court to failing to ensure the cocktail was safe to consume after the incident in October 2012.
Charges were also dropped against barman Matthew Harding, from Lancaster.
The firm's director Andrew Dunn, of Old Earswick, York, pleaded not guilty to his part in the company's failings.
The court heard prosecutors would offer no evidence against him if he made a £20,000 payment towards court costs before the wine bar's sentencing on 17 September.
The company, registered in Swinton, South Yorkshire admitted one count of failing in the duty of an employer to ensure the safety of persons not in its employment.
A not guilty plea was accepted from bar employee Mr Harding, of George Street, Lancaster.
It had been alleged he presented the Nitro-Jagermeister at the customer's table when it was still producing cold nitrogen gases and was unsafe to drink.
Miss Scanlon, now aged 20, was celebrating her birthday with friends at Oscar's when she drank the shot.
She said her stomach began to expand and a CT scan at Lancaster Royal Infirmary found a large perforation.
The student spent three weeks in hospital as doctors removed her stomach and connected her oesophagus directly to her small bowel.
Welcoming the guilty plea, a statement from her solicitor Patricia Noone said the family hoped the case would serve as a warning to all bars and restaurants to take "take responsibility for what they are serving to members of the public".
It added: "She now suffers episodes of agonising pain and has been hospitalised several times. She has to avoid certain foods and can no longer enjoy eating."
The statement continued that Miss Scanlon cannot work full-time, adding: "She has had to watch all her friends go off to university while she struggles to get her life back on track."
A car and motorbike collided on the road just north of Clatter, Powys, at about 07:20 BST on Thursday.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said a man was taken to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire by air ambulance.
The road was closed between the B4568 and Ffordd Dol-Llin in Carno for a short period after the crash.
Its image hasn't been helped by the fact that one of its alumni is Mark Clarke. He stands accused of bullying a young activist, Elliott Johnson, who took his life in September.
More recently the YBF was described as a "cult" by Elliott Johnson's father Ray, who said it was "indoctrinating" those who attended.
Mr Clarke denies the allegations made against him, but what do we know about the YBF and how it operates?
Founded in 2003, YBF organises events for young people with conservative views to meet up and discuss politics.
About 100 people attend its annual conference. Over the course of a weekend, young delegates will meet and hear talks from some of the most influential figures in the Conservative movement.
Past speakers have included current and former cabinet ministers including Robert Halfon, Michael Gove, Eric Pickles and Grant Shapps.
Members from UKIP, Young America's Foundation and libertarian pressure group The Freedom Association have also made appearances.
However, terms and conditions apply.
Firstly, attendance at all of the talks is compulsory. Secondly, everything said falls under the Chatham House Rule.
This allows people to use the information they hear but not to reveal who said it. Tickets to the event, which include accommodation, drinks receptions and banquet dinners, are heavily subsidised and cost £45 for students.
However, point three of the terms and conditions states that anyone in breach of rules one or two is liable to pay the full conference price of £500.
I've been told the rule has never been enforced but it's there to stop people taking advantage of the generosity of those footing the lion's share of the bill.
A solicitor called Donal Blaney. Although he's listed as one of Britain's most influential right-wingers, most people have probably never heard of him.
The 41-year-old rarely gives interviews to the media. "I think people think that I am sat on a desert island stroking a white cat and plotting the revolution," he says when we eventually meet up in London.
He's quick to add that the Bond villain image couldn't be further from the truth.
He is, he says, a very private person. For that reason he has done very little to correct the myths about him and his organisation.
For example, he's often credited with coining the phrase "conservative madrasa" to describe the YBF. In fact, he says he never said it - it was a political ally who used it once in a conversation years ago.
Outside of the YBF he is the chairman of Conservative Way Forward, set up by Margaret Thatcher in 1991. David Cameron has described it as "the largest and most effective pressure group within the Conservative movement today".
YBF is very much Donal Blaney's personal project. He says it's funded almost entirely from his own pocket to the tune of about £50,000 per year. It has been rumoured that the organisation was funded by the CIA, something Mr Blaney laughs at.
"That was a joke I played on the Guardian in 2003. They asked whether we were funded from abroad and I thought I'd have some fun with them by saying, 'Yes, we've had some funding from Northern Virginia.' They said, 'Do you mean the CIA?' And I said 'I'm not answering that question,' and put the phone down. I had received $100 from a friend of mine who lived and worked in Northern Virginia."
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Donal Blaney makes a point of distinguishing his own political views from those of the YBF, which he says is a broad-church for anyone from "Heathites" to "Thatcherites".
However, Euroscepticism, free market libertarianism, and reverence for the record of Margaret Thatcher are the sort of political attitudes regarded as "sound" in YBF.
"The Young Britons' Foundation identifies, trains, mentors and helps to place young conservatives in public life," says Mr Blaney.
"Some might become members of Parliament, some might become councillors, some might become journalists and some might go and earn a packet of money in the City."
The way it tries to train or mentor them is through a series of workshops held at their conferences. The topics include public speaking, debating, appearing in the media, door-to-door campaigning and how to raise funds.
Mr Blaney says YBF events are meant to be "fun, lively and irreverent gatherings of like-minded people".
However, there are those who believe it's not all as innocent as it sounds.
It's because of the death of Elliott Johnson, a 21-year-old member of the youth wing of the Conservative Party.
He took his life in September and left a note saying he had been bullied by older Tory activists including Mark Clarke, a former director of outreach of YBF.
After failing to win a seat when he stood as the Conservative candidate at the 2010 general election, Mr Clarke was the subject of a number of complaints from his local party. As a result he was thrown off the Conservative Party's candidates' list for future elections. He then became more involved with the YBF.
Elliott Johnson also attended YBF events. It was at the group's annual conference last year that Mark Clarke used his speech to criticise and humiliate a young, female Conservative activist.
We were told that Mr Clarke then persuaded Elliott Johnson to continue the personal attack on his blog.
Since Elliott's death many others have come forward to say that they too have been bullied or harassed by Mark Clarke and others involved in the Conservative Party's youth wing. Many of those alleged aggressors are also seen as "graduates" of YBF training, as are many of the alleged victims.
"I can't say for sure but the one thing that links all these people is the Young Britons' Foundation," says Aaron Ellis, a young Tory activist - who concedes he has never attended a YBF event himself.
"Their definition of conservatism was very restrictive and tied up with that was an obsession with the political dark arts."
He explained that he believed that some people who had attended YBF training sessions had been taught how to manipulate the media and brief against their opponents without being found out.
Donal Blaney completely rejects the notion that his organisation has encouraged anyone to bully or intimidate others and told me that the suggestion YBF has done so is "grossly offensive". He stresses that young people attending YBF are explicitly told that personal attacks on opponents are "off limits".
The Conservative Party has launched an investigation into numerous bullying allegations and the death of Elliott Johnson.
It's being carried out by the law firm Clifford Chance. Meanwhile YBF has distanced itself from Mark Clarke.
All references to him, including details of an award he was given in December 2014, were deleted from the organisation's website.
Donal Blaney insists this is not an attempt to erase the past or pretend he was never friends with Mark Clarke.
"I take the view that Mark Clarke's behaviour speaks for itself. I wish I had had nothing to do with him," he said.
In recent days YBF has gone even further and the only thing you can now find on its website is a statement explaining why it has postponed this year's annual conference that was due to take place this weekend.
Lawro's opponents for this week's Premier League fixtures are comedians Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson, who are behind the Athletico Mince podcast.
Mortimer is a Middlesbrough fan, while Dawson supports Sunderland and they decided on their joint prediction for Sunday's Wear-Tees derby by each of them independently choosing how many goals their team would score.
You can make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the new BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
On the opening weekend of the season, Lawro got four correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 70 points.
He beat Stockport indie band Blossoms, who got three correct results, with no perfect scores, for a total of 30 points.
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The colourful ceremony, lasting almost three hours, celebrated Brazil's arts and was held in a wet Maracana.
Among the highlights were Tokyo's impressive showcase and a vibrant carnival parade.
"These were a marvellous Olympics, in a marvellous city," said International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach.
"Over the last 16 days a united Brazil inspired the world, in difficult times for all of us, with its irresistible joy for life."
Bach officially closed the Games of the 31st Olympiad after 16 days of competition, featuring 11,303 athletes from 206 nations and a refugee team.
One of the biggest cheers of the night came when Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared dressed as computer game character Super Mario, rising out of a huge green pipe in the stadium.
The ceremony, watched by billions around the world, featured the parade of athletes and a dramatic extinguishing of the Olympic flame.
Women's hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh carried the flag for Great Britain, who finished the Games with 67 medals - their highest tally at an overseas Olympics.
Super-heavyweight boxer Joe Joyce had earlier won Britain's final medal of Rio 2016 - a silver - as they finished second in the medal table to the United States, ahead of China.
The ceremony featured the symbolic handover of the Olympic flag. Rio mayor Eduardo Paes returned it to IOC president Bach, before it was passed to Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike.
That was followed by an impressive 12-minute showcase of Tokyo, which included Prime Minister Abe's star turn.
IOC president Thomas Bach: "Brazil we love you, thank you for your warm hospitality. Over the last 16 days a united Brazil inspired the world, in difficult times for all of us, with its irresistible joy of life. You gave many reasons to be proud. These Games demonstrated that diversity is an enrichment for everyone. These Games were a celebration of diversity.
"These were a marvellous Olympic Games in a marvellous city. They are leaving a unique legacy for many generations to come. History will talk about a Rio before and a much better Rio after these Games."
Rio 2016 organising committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman: "The Games in Rio is a great challenge, but a challenge with success. I am proud of my country, my city and my people. Rio has delivered history."
From swimmer Adam Peaty's gold on day three to Mo Farah's long-distance 'double double' on the final Saturday, this was Britain's most successful Games in 108 years.
In the velodrome, Team GB won more than double the amount of medals of their nearest challengers.
Jason Kenny and Laura Trott will marry in September as the owners of 10 gold medals, while Sir Bradley Wiggins became the most decorated British Olympian with his eighth medal.
Then there was Farah, who won his fourth Olympic gold and became only the second man to retain the 5,000m and 10,000m titles.
Dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin won her third gold medal, while Justin Rose won his first as golf returned to the Olympics.
There were also historic golds in gymnastics, women's hockey and diving, while 58-year-old show jumper Nick Skelton became the country's oldest medallist for a century.
Gymnast Max Whitlock won two golds, while boxer Nicola Adams, taekwondo's Jade Jones, triathlete Alistair Brownlee and tennis player Andy Murray were among those who became multiple gold medallists.
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt said goodbye to the Olympics by winning an unprecedented 'triple triple'.
The 30-year-old Jamaican won his seventh, eighth and ninth gold medals by claiming the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles for the third Games in succession.
US swimmer Michael Phelps, meanwhile, took his medal tally to 28 from five Olympics by winning six in Rio - five of which were golds.
The 31-year-old's efforts helped the US top the medal table with 121, their most successful 'away' Games.
South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk, 24, delivered one of the greatest performances of the Games as he broke Michael Johnson's 17-year-old 400m record.
In doing so he became one of the faces of Rio 2016 - as did US gymnast Simone Biles, the 19-year-old winning four gold medals.
US swimming looks in good health if Phelps retires, with the emergence of Katie Ledecky. Another 19-year-old, she won four golds and a silver in the pool.
The Rio Games brought first medals for Fiji, Jordan and Kosovo - and all three opened their accounts with gold, Fiji in the first Olympic rugby sevens competition.
Competitors from Bahrain, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Vietnam and Tajikistan, too, won their first Olympic titles.
Twenty-seven world records were set in Rio within the seven Olympic sports that recognise them - archery, athletics, modern pentathlon, track cycling, shooting, swimming and weightlifting.
Brazil's Olympics took off when Rio native Rafaela Silva, 24, won judo gold on day three.
And they finished on a high as the men's volleyball team beat Italy for gold on the closing day of the Games.
The hosts finished 13th in the medal table with 19 medals, seven of which were gold.
None got a bigger reception than when Neymar scored the winning penalty in the shootout as Brazil beat Germany to win their first men's Olympic football gold medal.
It came in front of 78,000 fans in the Maracana, two years after Germany thrashed hosts Brazil 7-1 in the 2014 World Cup semi-finals.
The build-up to the Games was dominated by a Russian doping scandal, fears over the Zika virus and issues with the city's security, infrastructure and venues.
The Games were not affected by any major incidents, but they did not pass without some hitches:
But perhaps the biggest embarrassment was felt by US swimmer Ryan Lochte.
The gold medallist apologised to the people of Brazil after "over-exaggerating" claims he and three team-mates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio.
The IOC announced in June that a group of 10 refugee athletes would compete in an Olympic Games for the first time.
The team of swimmers, judokas and runners competed under the flag of the IOC.
"We are equal now," said marathon runner Yonas Kinde, who is originally from Ethiopia. "We compete like human beings, like the others."
Elsewhere, USA's Abbey D'Agostino and New Zealand's Nikki Hamblin were given fair play awards after stopping to help each other during their 5,000m semi-final.
And there were several proposals as the love bug bit the Rio Olympics.
One of the hottest tickets in town seemed to be for Dan Walker's BBC Four's Olympic coverage from Copacabana beach.
Highlights included a Brazilian hen party popping in, which ended with a wedding invitation for the BBC presenter, and the Copacabinmen.
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Muhaydin Mire has admitted four counts of attempted wounding at Leytonstone station in December last year.
Appearing at the Old Bailey via videolink, he pleaded not guilty to one charge of attempted murder after a man was kicked and cut across the throat.
Prosecutors claim the 30-year-old from Sansom Road, Leytonstone, was carrying out an act of terrorism.
The Recorder of London Judge Nicholas Hilliard adjourned the case until Tuesday 31 May.
The Gym in Norwich distributed a series of text messages between two people having an argument, instead of details about an open week.
One member said the person responsible "needs to think about his actions and words."
The firm admitted the email contained "disturbing content" and it was caused by "image files" being corrupted.
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A fight outside a nightclub appears to have been the source of the argument contained in the text images shown in the email, which descend into an exchange of swear words and insults.
Member Ciaran Heffernan said he was shocked and "embarrassed" on receiving the email.
He said he was surprised staff had not spotted the mistake before sending it, and that it took them an hour to realise their mistake.
"Whoever wrote the said texts in the picture clearly needs to think about his actions and words that he uses," he added.
A spokeswoman for The Gym Group said the email was "handled through a third party so it did not relate to the actions of a Gym Group employee."
She declined to reveal the name of the third party and said the company did not have anything to add to its apology, which appears on its Facebook page.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said the incident, near Abergavenny, is likely to have a "serious effect" on some rivers in south east Wales.
A "significant discharge" from the lagoon, which contained up to 450,000 litres (99,000 gallons) of slurry, went into a tributary of the River Honddu.
NRW officers are also assessing the impact on the River Monnow and River Wye.
Caroline Drayton, a team leader for NRW, said on Tuesday: "Protecting nature in Wales is our biggest priority and we have been carrying out pollution-prevention works to minimise the impact of this incident since this morning."
NRW is working closely with the Environment Agency in England to monitor the situation.
The "tri-council partnership" of Weymouth & Portland Borough Council, North Dorset and West Dorset district councils hopes to save £6m by 2020.
West Dorset District Council leader Robert Gould said there were "no plans for large-scale job reductions".
The government funding is to facilitate the cost of the merger.
This includes developing an IT system compatible across the councils.
But Ken Attwooll, assistant branch secretary of the union Unison, said it had been given "little information and detail".
According to Mr Gould, most savings will come from removing senior management roles.
"All our services will be under review, but it is about working more efficiently and having a single chief executive and management team which will make significant ongoing savings."
The councils are also looking to move from older offices, which they will sell to raise additional capital.
"North Dorset have a very old headquarters in Blandford, which is inefficient and wasteful and an asset that can be used for the regeneration and redevelopment of the local economy," Mr Gould said.
"They will move some of their staff into our headquarters in Dorchester, a modern efficient building.
"Weymouth and Portland have agreed to dispose of their North Quay offices, a prime site on the edge of the harbour which can bring great economic benefits."
In a statement about the merger Unison South West said it recognised the "opportunities it may create" and that "such arrangements may help to secure the long-term viability of the councils".
It said: "Staff have already been hit by significant reductions in the workforce, increased workloads, job evaluation, service reviews, relocations, a lack of pay awards.
"Therefore, managing any future changes without causing further detrimental impacts on the remaining core staff will be critical."
Speaking to a civil rights group, he said: "I signed a bill that made the problem worse and I want to admit it."
It put 100,000 more police officers on the streets but locked up "minor actors for way too long", Mr Clinton said.
President Barack Obama launched a renewed effort to reform the criminal justice system this week.
He visited a federal prison in Oklahoma on Thursday, becoming the first sitting president to do so.
Speaking at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, Mr Obama said the criminal justice system needs to distinguish between young people who make mistakes and those who are truly dangerous.
Some of the young prisoners he met at the prison had made mistakes not that different from those he made in his youth, Mr Obama said.
On Wednesday, Mr Clinton told the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) convention in Philadelphia that he had faced a "roaring decade of rising crime".
He signed a bill into action in 1994 that included a "three strikes" rule that meant anyone convicted of a serious violent crime who had two or more prior convictions, including drug crimes, was given a life sentence.
He said the "good news" was that the tough raft of measures in the bill had helped secure "the biggest drop in crime history".
"The bad news is we had a lot of people who were essentially locked up who were minor actors for way too long," he added.
US prisoners find new struggles after being released
Earlier this week, President Obama commuted the prison sentences of 46 drug offenders saying their sentences "didn't fit their crimes".
"Mass incarceration makes our entire country worse off, and we need to do something about it," Mr Obama told the NAACP on Tuesday.
He has urged Congress to pass a sentencing reform bill by the year's end.
Mr Clinton's comments come as his wife former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, makes criminal justice reform part of her presidential campaign agenda.
In April, Mrs Clinton echoed President Obama's comments, saying she would push for an end to the "era of mass incarceration".
The last significant changes to the US criminal justice system came in 2013 when US Attorney General Eric Holder dropped mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders.
More than two million people are in jail in the US. A tenth of them are held in federal prisons.
208,000 people in federal prisons
48% of them for drug offences
37% of them are black
34% of them are Hispanic
$80bn the cost of incarceration in the US in 2010
With Australia 2-1 up going into the final day, Kyrgios won 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 6-4 to give the hosts an unassailable lead in Brisbane.
USA's John Isner beat Sam Groth 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 in the concluding dead rubber to leave the final scoreline 3-2.
Australia, captained by Lleyton Hewitt, will play Belgium in the semi-finals after they beat Italy 3-2 on Sunday.
Italy won Saturday's doubles rubber in Charleroi to take the contest into a final day but David Goffin saw off Paolo Lorenzi in straight sets to hand Belgium victory.
Alessandro Giannessi beat Joris de Loore in the dead rubber, reduced to the best of three sets.
Five-time winners Spain were easily beaten by Serbia - who were buoyed by the return of world number two Novak Djokovic - in two days.
Nenad Zimonjic and Viktor Troicki beat Pablo Carreno Busta and Marc Lopez 4-6 7-6 (6-4) 6-0 4-6 6-2 in the doubles to set up a semi-final with France.
Great Britain, knocked out on Saturday after France took an unassailable 3-0 lead, shared the spoils in Sunday's two dead rubbers to leave the final score 4-1.
Kyrgios and Jordan Thompson had put Australia 2-0 up with respective singles wins over Isner and Jack Sock before the US hit back with victory in the doubles.
World number 16 Kyrgios lifted Hewitt up as Australia celebrated their victory.
"I knew that I hit a bit of a flat patch at the start of the third set but Lleyton told me to compete for every point and it's easy to get up out here," said Kyrgios.
Hewitt added: "I couldn't be prouder of my boys. They've put so much effort into this campaign and they deserve this."
The American, 35, won 6-4 6-3 in one hour and 19 minutes against the 19-year-old in Melbourne on Tuesday.
World number two Williams, who is targeting a 23rd career Grand Slam title, said she "has nothing to lose".
"Every match I'm playing for fun. I get to travel the world and do what I do best - play tennis," she added.
Williams will face Lucie Safarova in the second round after the 29-year-old Czech beat Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer 3-6 7-6 (9-7) 6-1.
Fifth seed Karolina Pliskova, who beat Williams in last year's US Open semi-final, is through after a 6-2 6-0 victory over Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo.
"Even when you're not playing your best, somehow you have to win," said the 24-year-old.
"I know I can be dangerous deep in the tournament, quarters and semis, and when there are big players I can beat them."
Last week, the UK government announced new onshore wind farms will be excluded from a subsidy scheme from 1 April 2016, a year earlier than expected.
Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said the decision would disproportionately affect Scotland.
The move was part of a manifesto commitment by the Conservative party.
UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd said it will give local communities the final say over any new wind farms.
The ministers are due to meet at a renewables conference in London, where both will be speaking.
Mr Ewing is expected to seek clarity about whether wind projects already in development will still receive funding.
He said Ms Rudd and Scottish Secretary David Mundell had given apparently contradictory statements on which projects would still go ahead.
He said: "The UK Tory government's decision to scrap investment in onshore wind is completely wrong-headed, and makes no economic or environmental sense - but it is absolutely essential that developers know whether projects already in the pipeline are going to receive financial support or not.
"Amber Rudd and David Mundell's different positions show that there is either confusion between UK cabinet members about the UK government position on the crucial issue of grace periods, or there is a welcome change in policy towards that set out by the Scottish government.
"I hope it is the latter and I will be raising this issue with Amber Rudd at our meeting - investment and jobs hinge on the UK government ensuring continued support to projects already in the pipeline."
Energy firms had been facing an end to subsidies in 2017.
The funding for the subsidy comes from the Renewables Obligation, which is funded by levies added to household fuel bills.
While subsidies will end from 1 April 2016, there will be a grace period for projects which already have planning permission.
About 3,000 wind turbines across the UK are awaiting planning consent.
Scottish Renewables have said the move was "neither fair nor reasonable" and could cost Scotland up to £3bn in business investment.
The FTSE 100 rose 45.41 points to 6,873.52 with Tullow Oil leading the way, up 5.1% as the price of Brent crude rose above $60 a barrel.
Rising commodity prices also helped mining shares, with BHP Billiton up 5% and Glencore 3.7% higher.
Anglo American shares rose 3.3% despite it reporting a 25% drop in underlying annual operating profit to $4.9bn.
The mining company also took a $3.9bn asset write-down as a result of lower commodity prices last year.
Sentiment on the market was also lifted by news of stronger-than-expected growth in Germany during the last three months of 2014.
The German economy - the largest in the eurozone - grew by 0.7% in the fourth quarter, while the eurozone as a whole expanded by 0.3%.
That lifted Germany's main stock index - the Dax - to touch a record high earlier in the session.
Shares in Rolls-Royce reversed early falls to close up more than 4%. The engineering group cut its profit forecast for 2015. Rolls is now forecasting profits of £1.4bn-£1.55bn this year, down from underlying profits of £1.62bn in 2014.
The ratings agency Fitch said it already factored in the company's headwinds. It said the company was "well placed to withstand potential declines in demand resulting from deteriorating market conditions, due to its business diversification, growing proportion of long-term service contracts, and cost-cutting measures".
BT Group fell 2.4% after rival Virgin Media announced plans to invest £3bn in improving its fibre optic broadband network, increasing the network's reach from 13 million to 17 million homes.
On the currency markets, the pound was flat against the dollar at $1.5388 while against the euro it slipped 0.03% to €1.3486.
Jenkins has already admitted Swansea need "at least two strikers" following the departures of Eder,Alberto Paloschi and Bafetimbi Gomis.
Tottenham forward Nacer Chadli and Leonardo Ulloa of Leicester have also been linked to the Liberty Stadium.
"We fully expect to make one or two additions in the next few days," said Jenkins.
"It was always going to be the case after the Euros that a lot of the transfer business would be done later than normal.
"It was always going to be a process of getting players out first so that we were in a position to take advantage of the transfer window and bring new players in.
"We also had to bring the numbers down in the squad to give the young players at the club the chance to progress and be involved in the first team.
"Coupled with one or two more experienced additions, we will be close to assembling a squad that will be ready for another competitive season in the Premier League."
There has been plenty of transfer speculation in the wake of American investment and rivals' interest in some of the Swans' star players.
The Premier League side have rejected a £10m bid from Everton for central defender Ashley Williams after the Wales and Swans captain was reported to be close to agreeing a move to Goodison Park.
"With the increased media coverage, especially the flood of speculation and stories on the internet, it is vital to try and keep the majority of our business behind closed doors wherever possible,'' said Jenkins.
"The more of our work that remains confidential, then the better chance we have of protecting our on-going negotiations and getting transfers over the finishing line.
"The more leaks we have and stories in the media, then the more chance there is of alerting other clubs and the transfer falling through.''
Jenkins also moved to reassure Swans fans after what he called a "frustrating summer" and hopes there will be more positive news to come after midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson and winger Nathan Dyer signed new four-year contracts with the club.
"This pre-season has been difficult with the majority of European players returning late from the Euros and the timescale involved in the change of club ownership,'' he said.
"But I can assure you that every person connected to this football club has been working non-stop to get the squad right in all areas to start the season."
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Kellie Marie Gillard, 25, was taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea, after police were called to a house in Taibach at 4:25 BST on 24 April last year.
Following an investigation the man, 20, was charged with manslaughter.
He is due to appear at Swansea Magistrates' Court on 1 March.
The authority came into being on Saturday, at the same time as Hungary assumed the six-month EU presidency.
The new media law can also require journalists to reveal their sources on matters of national security.
It has been criticised by rights groups and questioned by the UK and Germany.
The Tilos radio station said it was being investigated by the National Media and Communications Authority, the NMHH, for playing the song, Warning, it's On, by Ice-T at 1730 local time.
The NMHH said the song should only have been broadcast after 2100.
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said the new law "endangers editorial independence and media pluralism".
It said the new law leaves key terms undefined, including the "protection of public order", which - if violated - requires journalists to reveal their sources.
All five members of the media authority, the NMHH, are members of or are linked to the Fidesz party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Mr Orban has defended the new law, saying it does not contain any measures not already in force in other EU member states.
Under the new law, broadcasters and newspapers can be fined up to 200m forints (??615,000; $955,000) for violating "public interest, public morals or order".
Britain and Germany have both urged Hungary to clear up concerns about the law.
"Freedom of the press is at the heart of a free society," said a spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office.
"We hope that the Hungarian Government will soon resolve this issue satisfactorily and that it will not impact adversely on the successful delivery of the Hungarian EU Presidency."
And deputy German foreign minister Werner Hoyer told the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper: "We must rigorously ensure that fundamental rights are protected in the European Union beyond any doubt. Press freedom is one of those rights. If it is questioned, that must be resolved."
Police said the northbound Suzuki bike struck a stone dyke on Boig Road, near Nith Bridge, at about 06:15.
Both men were thrown from the bike and a 23-year-old died at the scene. The other man, whose identity is not yet known, was taken to Ayr Hospital.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the crash to get in touch.
Con Yvonne Cambridge, of Irvine Road Policing Unit, said: "We are currently trying to establish the identity of the injured man and also the circumstances of the crash.
"It is important that we speak to anyone who witnessed this incident or anyone who may have seen the two men travelling on the motor cycle prior to it crashing."
For the energy sector, the crisis this time is the falling oil price. At $58 a barrel for Brent crude, it is almost half the peak figure last year.
That has meant that energy companies have had to cut their cloth, reducing levels of investment and writing down the value of assets.
BG Group has been particularly hard hit. Profit warnings following problems in Egypt and Brazil, the departure of Chris Finlayson, its former chief executive, after only 16 months, and a sinking share price have made it a takeover target.
There were rumours that Exxon Mobil was preparing an offer at Christmas.
And senior figures close to Shell told me this morning that there were people in the company who had been working on a plan to buy BG Group for so long, many of them had retired. Shell has long seen the point of buying BG Group.
In the worldwide hunt for energy, Shell has now made a £47bn bet that buying access to new reserves is quicker and easier than finding them itself.
Its exploration project in Alaska, for example, has yet to discover any recoverable reserves, whereas this deal immediately increases Shell's oil and gas reserves by 25%.
And don't forget, BG Group is one of the biggest suppliers of natural gas to China, one of the world's fastest growing markets, which Shell will find very attractive.
Shell's takeover of BG Group could be the first of a number of mega-deals in the oil and gas industry as predators and prey circle one another.
Marc Kimsey, senior trader at Accendo Markets, got it right when he said this morning: "The deal between Royal Dutch Shell and BG Group will prompt sector consolidation.
"The decline in oil price over the past year has battered some stocks which are clearly now looking attractive.
"In the last year BG shares fell 30%, shares in Tullow Oil have fallen 65%, Premier Oil down 55% and Petrofac down 20%.
"By comparison, sector behemoths BP and Royal Dutch Shell have only shed 10% over the same period, leaving them in the position of predator rather than prey."
With significant downstream businesses - that's the bit that consumers see, such as the sale of petrol and refined oil products - a lower oil price means profits can still be healthy for Shell and BP as the profit margins for downstream businesses improve.
Yes, the Shell offer does come with a rich premium - 50% above BG Group's 90-day average share price - but those close to Shell point out that before its travails, BG Group's share price was above £13.
The market judges that there is certainly value there.
There are also some significant tests. Last year, BG Group made a loss and it is a company with serious challenges.
It overspent on US shale gas exploration, gas production has struggled amidst political unrest in Egypt and costs are rising in key markets Brazil and Australia.
Shell is also taking on more debt to finance the deal, which might put pressure on dividends.
Shell already pays out 8% of all publicly quoted company dividends to our pension and savings schemes. With BG Group, Shell would pay out more than 10% of the total.
So its dividends policy is important for millions of us.
Jason Gammel, of Jefferies Research, said: "The imperative now becomes for management to convince the market of the financial implications - near-term earnings dilution, a significantly more levered balance sheet and a higher priority for debt reduction versus dividends on cash utilisation."
Although a small part of the overall business for both Shell and BG Group, the North Sea is of course important for the UK.
Shell employs 2,400 people supporting its North Sea oil operations and has already announced some job losses.
BG Group employs 1,500 in Aberdeen and at its headquarters in Reading.
In a major deal like this one, businesses talk about "synergies". That's another word for cost savings and efficiencies.
And although the Shell chief executive said the company remained committed to the North Sea, concern over the number of jobs the new, amalgamated company will need will be an important one to resolve.
The return of Wales centre Jonathan Davies to the Scarlets will boost their hopes of being Wales' top region for a second successive season.
The capture of Wales fly-half Rhys Patchell from Cardiff Blues is a further feather in the cap for Wayne Pivac's side, with Patchell hoping to press his claim for a place in the national set-up, having been assured he will play at 10 for his new region.
The Ospreys also brought home an international with lock Bradley Davies signing from Wasps and, along with other key additions, they will be hoping to contend for a fifth Pro12 title.
The versatile Kieron Fonotia has arrived from Crusaders and he should provide a boost behind a pack that includes Wales lock Alun Wyn Jones, hooker Scott Baldwin and flanker Dan Lydiate.
Two players with considerable Pro12 experience have also arrived at the Liberty Stadium from the Scarlets and Dragons, with Wales prop Rhodri Jones and Hugh Gustafson adding power to the squad.
However, Wales prop Aaron Jarvis departed for Clermont despite the switch putting his international future in doubt.
Cardiff Blues have also been busy, adding New Zealander Willis Halaholo and they also have high hopes for Matthew Morgan's return to Wales as he looks to add to his five Wales caps.
The Dragons are hoping a trio of signings from Blues gives them a boost, with Sam Hobbs,Craig Mitchell and Tom Davies all now playing their rugby at Rodney Parade.
Further recruitment has seen the Dragons sign Northampton back Pat Howard, centre Sam Beard swap directions with the departed Jason Tovey and fly-half Nick Macleod adding his experience to the region.
However, much will depend on how the Dragons cope with the Welsh regions' most high-profile departure, with Wales and British and Irish Lions number eight Taulupe Faletau joining Bath.
In: Rhys Gill (Saracens), Kirby Myhill (Scarlets), George Earle (Scarlets), Nick Williams (Ulster) Steven Shingler (Scarlets), Willis Halaholo (Hurricanes), Matthew Morgan (Bristol), Rhun Williams (RGC 1404)
Out: Sam Hobbs (Dragons), Craig Mitchell (Dragons), Joe Jones (Perpignan), Chris Dicomidis (Pontypridd), Miles Normandale (Rotherham), Lou Reed (Sale) Manoa Vosawai (RC Vannes), Rhys Patchell (Scarlets), Gareth Davies (Merthyr) Richard Smith (Scarlets), Tom Isaacs (Hong Kong Football Club), Gavin Evans (Neath) Tom Williams (Scarlets), Harry Davies (Bath), Elis Wyn-Benham (Merthyr), Tom Davies (Dragons)
In: Werner Kruger (Bulls), Rynier Bernado (Ospreys), Tadhg Beirne (Leinster), Jonathan Evans (Bath), Rhys Patchell (Cardiff Blues), Jonathan Davies (ASM Clermont Auvergne), Richard Smith (Cardiff Blues), Johnny McNicholl (Crusaders)
Out: Ben Leung (Cardiff), Rhodri Jones (Ospreys), Kirby Myhill (Cardiff Blues), Torin Myhill (Carmarthen Quins), Phil John (Retired), Maselino Paulino (Lyon OU), George Earle (Cardiff Blues), Jack Jones (Llanelli), Jack Payne (Released), Connor Lloyd (Carmarthen Quins), Kieran Hardy (Jersey Reds), Rhodri Williams (Bristol), Josh Lewis (Ebbw Vale), Steven Shingler (Cardiff Blues), Regan King (Jersey Reds), Michael Collins (Otago), Harry Robinson (Retired), Michael Tagicakibau (Benetton Rugby Treviso), Jordan Williams (Bristol)
In: Tom Davies (Cardiff Blues), Sam Hobbs (Cardiff Blues), Darran Harris (Rotherham), Craig Mitchell (Cardiff Blues), Ashley Sweet (Ebbw Vale), Nick MacLeod (Sale), Sam Beard (Edinburgh), Patrick Howard (Northampton)
Out: Hugh Gustafson (Ospreys), Andrew Coombs (Retired), Taulupe Faletau (Bath), Jason Tovey (Edinburgh), Matthew Pewtner (Retired)
In: Rhodri Jones (Scarlets), Hugh Gustafson (Dragons), Bradley Davies (Wasps), Kieron Fonatia (Crusaders) Rob McCusker (London Irish)
Out: Matthew Dwyer (Merthyr), Marc Thomas (Jersey Reds), Aaron Jarvis (Clermont Auvergne), Jordan Colllier (Neath), Ifereimi Boladau (London Scottish), Rynier Bernado (Scarlets), Rhodri Hughes (Released), Lloyd Evans (Released), Gareth Delve (Released), Aled Jenkins (Released), Kristian Phillips (London Welsh), Richard Fussell (Backs Skills Coach)
Greg Boswell, from Fife, was on a climb in the Rockies when the bear lunged and lifted him off the ground.
His Welsh climbing partner Nick Bullock said Mr Boswell had tried to prise apart the bear's jaws which were clamped round his leg.
Mr Bullock wrote on his blog: "It bit straight though his brand new boot as if it were a carpet slipper."
The pair managed to get away from the bear and eventually made it back down to Banff where Mr Boswell's injuries were treated at the local hospital.
He posted on Facebook that he was "shook up and sore" after the attack.
"I got attacked by a Grizzly bear last night and lived to tell the tale, and to make the 3 hour descent and 2 hour drive to the hospital. All stitched up now and on the mend," he said.
The climbers had been attempting a route on the 3,261m Mount Wilson in the Icefields Parkway and were "bushwhacking through thick forest" when Mr Bullock, from Llanberis, Gwynedd, north Wales, said he saw his partner sprint past with a bear in "hot pursuit".
"The bear bounded, pulling and pushing the snow with powerful legs. The snow lapped its belly and didn't appear to slow it.
"Greg ran out of sight and the carnivorous freight train passed me, snorting and growling and bounding, dusting me with spindrift - it looked at me for a second, and for a second I thought this is it, this is really it, but in that second the bear had spotted Greg had fallen."
Mr Bullock said he ran uphill as fast as he could but could hear Mr Boswell "screaming and shouting" and kicking out at the bear.
"It lunged once more and crunched into his shin, placing a paw on his other leg before lifting him off the ground.
"I'm not sure at this point what other people would do, but Boswell is Boswell and the bear just didn't appreciate this, he grabbed the bear's mouth and prised apart the jaws, pushing, and screaming… "'Nick, Nick, help, its got me…'."
Mr Bullock said he returned to help his friend, who had managed to escape the bear and was running towards him.
They then spent several hours wandering around the woods in darkness trying to find their descent route before finally making it back to safety.
Mr Boswell is a professional climber who now lives in Peebles. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented climbers of his generation. | Glasgow Warriors leapfrogged rivals Edinburgh and climbed into the Pro12's top six with a hard-fought victory over profligate Leinster.
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Three people have been killed and six injured trying to defuse a World War II bomb in central Germany.
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Marco Reus says Germany must be "much better" than they were against Argentina if they are to avoid a shock against Scotland in their Euro 2016 Group D qualifier on Sunday.
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New Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says striker Diego Costa will stay at the club next season and is of "fundamental importance" to his plans.
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A man detained at Guantanamo Bay has launched a defamation suit against the UK security and intelligence services.
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America's Jordan Spieth hit a final-round 69 to win the Tour Championship in Atlanta, earning £7.5m by also securing victory in the FedEx Cup.
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National League promotion challengers Dover Athletic have signed versatile full-back James Hurst.
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RGC 1404 battled to a 15-11 victory over Pontypridd in the National Cup final to lift the trophy for the first time at the Principality Stadium.
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A DNA test has been carried out on a man in Cyprus in an attempt to establish if he could be Ben Needham, who disappeared as a toddler in 1991.
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A Libyan company has exported the first barrels from oil terminals seized by a military force earlier this month.
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Yahoo's profits more than doubled in the last three months, a boost for the beleaguered firm whose plan to sell its core business was thrown into doubt.
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Iran and the P5+1 have finally agreed on a nuclear deal, after years of talks.
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A wine bar where an 18-year-old girl was seriously injured drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen has admitted health and safety failings.
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A man has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a crash on the main A470 trunk road through mid Wales.
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The Young Britons' Foundation has been portrayed as a "Tory madrasa" used to teach young Conservatives the "dark arts" of politics.
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BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of different guests.
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The Rio Olympics ended with a spectacular carnival-inspired closing ceremony, and the official handover to 2020 hosts Tokyo.
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A man has admitted trying to stab four people in an unprovoked attack at a London Tube station.
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A failed slurry lagoon has caused "major pollution" in Monmouthshire.
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The leader of a council merging with others in Dorset, and awarded £1.5m by the government, has said he does not foresee big job losses.
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Former US President Bill Clinton has admitted his "three strikes" crime bill introduced in the 1990s contributed to the problem of overpopulated prisons.
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Nick Kyrgios secured Australia's Davis Cup quarter-final victory over the United States by beating Sam Querrey.
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Six-time Australian Open champion Serena Williams progressed to the second round with a straight-set win over Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic.
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A man has been charged with manslaughter - more than 10 months after a woman died in Port Talbot.
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Here's Ikenna's round-up of African news this week in 90 seconds.
Ofsted's latest report said the region had the largest proportion of schools requiring work, compared to other areas in England.
It also found the region had the lowest number of schools rated as outstanding or good.
Nick Hudson, from Ofsted, said the profile of schools in the region was lower compared to others in England.
The findings were based on inspections of 21,050 educational institutions, including nurseries, primary and secondary schools, special schools and pupil referral units, across England from 1 October to 31 December.
It follows a report in December which found secondary schools in Yorkshire and Humber were among the worst in the country.
Out of 2,145 schools inspected, 453 required improvement and 62 were deemed inadequate.
The report states 65 of Bradford's 201 schools need improving, along with 42 of the 141 schools inspected in Doncaster.
In East Yorkshire, 41 out of 148 schools need improvement as well as 17 of the 58 schools in North East Lincolnshire.
Councillor Ralph Berry, executive member for children's services at City of Bradford Council, said urgent action was being taken to drive up school standards.
The report has prompted criticism from former Ofsted inspector Marvyn Moore, from Sheffield, who said the inspection process was deeply flawed.
He said: "The outcome of inspections depended on the registered inspector who was leading the inspection and whether they wanted a quick job... whether they wanted a thorough job or were thoroughly disenchanted with the school."
Mr Hudson said parents relied on inspections to make decisions on which schools to send children.
He added: "Ninety per cent of feedback after inspections say head teachers are satisfied with the inspection process."
Using a travel website, they unknowingly transferred money to a bogus property owner.
The victim contacted a host by email through the website and agreed a price for a room in Amsterdam, but the host requested payment outside of the website's normal channels.
When the customer did not get a receipt they suspected there was a problem.
The website later confirmed that payment had not been properly conducted through its business channels.
It has now been established that both the accommodation and the host were bogus.
A spokesperson for the Trading Standards Agency said: "This highlights how scammers are targeting unsuspecting people by using increasingly sophisticated and manipulative tactics.
"This was the first time the consumer had used the website and had innocently conveyed this to the host.
"This facilitated the scam. The consumer had no reason to suspect they were being duped when they were sent false payment details."
Bill Malloy, TSS, said: "Ingenuity knows no bounds when it comes to fleecing consumers of their money.
"With the internet, scammers and victims don't meet face to face. The scammer can be anywhere in the world. Do not be rushed into sending off money to someone you do not know, especially by bank transfer.
"As a safeguard, try and use a credit card or debit card to make payment."
21 November 2015 Last updated at 12:38 GMT
In the year to October 2015, 135 transgender hate offences were recorded, compared with 108 last year.
The Met believes the rise is partly explained by more people reporting such crimes, and is urging any victims of transphobia to come forward.
Charlie Craggs spoke to the BBC about her experience.
British International Helicopters (BIH) is to end its service from Penzance, which has run since 1964, in November.
The company blamed the decision on uncertainty created by legal challenges to its sale of land to supermarket giant Sainsbury's.
St Ives' Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George has called the announcement "appalling" and a "disaster".
BIH has to move from its 15-acre site at the end of October because of the Sainsbury's deal.
It planned to use the proceeds from the sale to buy new aircraft and bid for new business.
But the company, which has not operated services this week, said the decision to close the route was "finally triggered by legal action taken by Tesco and two private individuals".
By Neil GallacherBBC South West Business Correspondent
No surprise that this has rattled an island community that already feels itself to be stuck out on a limb.
The helicopters take about a third of the passengers that go to and fro each year.
Aeroplanes owned by the Steamship Group also operate, but BIH's helicopters carry more passengers.
And the islands' ferry route doesn't operate in the winter.
But there's some reassurance: the Steamship Group says it has plenty of spare capacity for now, especially in the winter when its aeroplanes are less busy.
And it's extending the life of the current Scillonian ferry "until at least 2018".
Two crunch questions remain for now.
- What'll happen to prices under a Steamship air and sea monopoly?
- And, in a few years, what replaces the Scillonian and its current ancient port facility in Penzance?
It's a lot of uncertainty for a small community to shoulder.
It said potential delays caused by the challenges "created too many uncertainties for the passenger service to continue".
BIH said the closure would affect employees and that a formal redundancy consultation process had begun with staff.
The independent Cornwall councillor for Porthleven and Helston South, Andrew Wallis, said BIH's decision was a "kick in the teeth" for the communities of the islands and west Cornwall.
He said: "To me, this is two supermarkets squabbling over a piece of land and the communities of Penzance and the Isles of Scilly are the ones to miss out."
Mr George said he had called for an emergency meeting over the link.
Conservative-Independent led Cornwall Council said it was "extremely disappointed" by the decision to end the service, which has offered as many as 40 flights a day and is thought to be used by up to 130,000 people a year.
It said: "We are keen to continue to talk to BIH about the future of the helicopter service and to see what support can be provided."
The Isles of Scilly Council said it was "deeply saddened" at the move.
The unitary authority said it was pleased services would operate until the end of October because it "ensures there will be no disruption to the holiday season".
It added that its immediate priority was to "ensure the stability of our transport infrastructure" and that "steps are already under way" to do so.
The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of about 150 islands and rocks some 28 miles (45km) south-west of Cornwall with a population of about 2,200.
The Scillonian ferry service to the islands from Penzance remains, as do Skybus aeroplane services from Bristol, Exeter, Land's End, Newquay and Southampton.
Both are operated by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group.
Group chairman Andrew May said the company would work with the Scillonian community in an attempt to compensate for BIH's pulling out.
Sainsbury's said it was still committed to bringing a store to Penzance.
BIH said anyone with a flight booked after 1 November would be given a full refund.
A helicopter on the route suffered a fatal crash in July 1983.
Twenty people were killed when the aircraft, en route from Penzance, crashed in thick fog off St Mary's. Four passengers, including two children, and two crew members survived.
They are hoping for a springboard for the 2016 national parliamentary vote.
The "democratic coalition" was formed last weekend to unite six parties and groups under the banner of RPR-Parnas, the party of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
The coalition includes the party of anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, but he cannot run for office.
He is serving a suspended prison sentence in an embezzlement case that he argues was fabricated.
"Our aim is to provide political representation for the huge number of citizens who share our ideals," Navalny explained at his Moscow headquarters on Wednesday. "Those who believe that Russia can develop like a normal, European state."
The Duma has been stripped of any real opposition under President Vladimir Putin.
The entry threshold was raised and opposition parties' chances dramatically reduced by their near-total exclusion from state television. They have also long been riven by deep rivalries and divisions, which the new alliance vows to overcome.
It plans to field candidates in three diverse regions - Novosibirsk, Kostroma and Kaluga - in order to test techniques and policies ahead of the 2016 Duma ballot.
Sociological surveys also indicate significant potential support there. The aim is to hone in on regional problems, whilst highlighting the link to broader policies.
"We need to explain that Russia's foreign policy is creating the crisis that's affecting people," explains Konstantin Merzlikin of RPR-Parnas, referring to the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine that brought Western sanctions and an economic slump.
They plan to select candidates for the three ballots through "primaries" within the regions themselves to maximise support.
"Of course there will be attempts to impede us at the highest level," Alexei Navalny warned. The alliance may yet be blocked from participating in the election.
Navalny is back in court on Thursday to learn whether his current suspended sentence will be converted into time in jail.
"If so, nothing will change, someone else will be here instead of me," he insisted, arguing that it only proved that the authorities feared the competition.
"This is precisely because so many Russians are not represented politically, and are not happy with what's happening. They understand that Russia should move in a different direction. We are for those people," Navalny said.
The Belfast game will be used as preparation for a 2018 World Cup qualifier away against Azerbaijan eight days later.
"The players will need a game at that time as some of their seasons will have finished as early as the end of April," said NI manager MIchael O'Neill.
"We'll use it sensibly and get as many of the squad on the pitch as possible."
Northern Ireland beat Azerbaijan 4-0 in their last qualifier in November and sit second in Group C.
O'Neill revealed that preparations for the trip to Azerbaijan will include two training camps in Britain before the game against the All Whites, followed by an overseas training camp.
He added: "I wanted a home game following our first two camps and it will come at a good time for us. It's not too close to the Azerbaijan game and it will help to keep the players sharp."
It is also a warm-up game for New Zealand as they prepare for the Confederations Cup in Russia, where they will face the hosts, Portugal and Mexico in the group stage.
New Zealand captain Winston Reid, who plays at centre-back for West Ham, is one of their best known players along with Chris Wood, the striker currently topping the scoring charts for Leeds United.
Kevin Garratt was held in August 2014 and accused of stealing state secrets. His wife, Julia Garratt, was freed on bail in February the following year.
The couple had been living on the North Korea border before their arrest, where they said they were helping refugees.
His release follows Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent first official visit to China.
The Garratts' eldest son called the espionage allegations at the time "absurd".
A statement from the family said Mr Garratt was deported on Thursday following a ruling in the case.
"The Garratt family thanks everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and also thanks the many individuals who worked to secure Kevin's release," the statement said.
The Canadian prime minister said he was "delighted" by Mr Garratt's homecoming.
"We remain deeply impressed by the grace and resilience of the Garratt family," Mr Trudeau added.
Foreign Minister Stephane Dion told reporters on Friday that Canada did not make concessions to China to secure Mr Garratt's return.
In an August press conference, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang assured the Canadian PM that Mr Garratt would be treated humanely.
Mr Li will meet Mr Trudeau next week when he makes an official visit to Canada.
The Vancouver couple had lived since 1984 in Dandong, China, where they ran a popular coffee shop and carried out Christian aid work.
The Chinese government had denied accusations the couple's arrest was retaliation for the detention of a Chinese man in Canada who had been wanted in the US for allegedly stealing fighter jet documents.
The 22-year-old has only made eight starts in 17 appearances for Posh this season, scoring once.
Angol, who found the net 11 times in 38 matches for the League One side last term, has moved to Sincil Bank after forward Dayle Southwell returned to Wycombe at the end of his loan.
He is cup-tied for Lincoln's FA Cup quarter-final trip to Arsenal.
It anticipates that PPI customers would still have at least until 2018 to claim compensation.
So far more than £20bn has been paid out for PPI mis-selling to more than 10m consumers.
The policies were supposed to protect people against loss of income or sickness, but were often inappropriate.
The regulator will now launch a consultation, on whether there should be a deadline on compensation claims.
It said there should be a window of at least two years after the deadline is set.
This would not be before the Spring of 2016 - meaning that consumers would have until the Spring of 2018 to make a claim through their bank or the Financial Ombudsman.
Shares in Lloyds, the bank most exposed to PPI, jumped by nearly 3% in early trading.
It has set aside £13.5bn to cover claims.
The banking industry welcomed the announcement, saying it provided further clarity for consumers.
A very small sigh of relief this morning from Britain's biggest banks following the decision of the Financial Conduct Authority to consult on a final deadline for Payment Protection Insurance claims.
Banks such as Lloyds have long argued privately that there should be a cut-off point. They are convinced that many of the claims are bogus and are driven by claims management firms rather than by irritated customers.
Of course, many say that the banks are rightly reaping the effects of their appalling past behaviour.
The FCA move today is all about the "normalisation" of relations between regulators and the City.
As George Osborne signalled in his Mansion House speech earlier this year, the government is keen to see a new "settlement" with the financial services sector.
The former, combative head of the FCA, Martin Wheatley, was removed by the Treasury.
And the PPI deadline means another thorny legacy issue looks close to being dealt with.
The number of complaints about PPI is falling, but still runs in to hundreds of thousands every month.
In the first half of 2015 more than 883,000 customers complained about mis-selling, a fall of 16.6% on the same period in 2014.
The FCA said a deadline would "bring the PPI issue to an orderly conclusion, reducing uncertainty for firms about long-term PPI liabilities and helping rebuild public trust in the retail financial sector."
The watchdog said too many people were taking too long to bring their claims, and that a deadline - along with an advertising campaign promoting any potential deadlines - would spur any outstanding claims to be brought.
Some people will have an even shorter time in which to complain.
Three years ago, the regulator ordered banks to write to as many as 12m customers, advising them they may have a valid complaint.
Those who received such letters were given a deadline of three years in which to submit their claims, meaning some may have already lost their right to complain.
The consumer group Which? warned that any deadline could encourage banks to hold up compensation payments.
"A time limit must not reward those that have dragged their heels over paying out compensation," said Richard Lloyd, Which? executive director.
She made her view known in a statement issued after all 32 local authority areas north of the border voted for Remain in the EU referendum.
The Scottish vote contrasted with the overall UK vote to leave the EU, by a margin of 52% to 48%.
Ms Sturgeon said Scotland "has spoken - and spoken decisively".
Both London and Scotland voted strongly to stay in the EU but the Remain vote was undermined by poor results for them in the north of England.
Voters in Wales and the English regions backed Brexit in large numbers.
Ahead of the final outcome, Ms Sturgeon said: "Scotland has delivered a strong, unequivocal vote to remain in the EU, and I welcome that endorsement of our European status.
"And while the overall result remains to be declared, the vote here makes clear that the people of Scotland see their future as part of the European Union.
"Scotland has contributed significantly to the Remain vote across the UK. That reflects the positive campaign the SNP fought, which highlighted the gains and benefits of our EU membership, and people across Scotland have responded to that positive message.
"We await the final UK-wide result, but Scotland has spoken - and spoken decisively."
The Edinburgh firm will work with the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), after both were awarded the EU Horizon 2020 grant.
They aim to improve Aquamarine's Oyster wave energy converter.
The company has already built and run two full-scale Oysters at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.
The new Brussels-backed programme, called Innowave, will enable three PhD researchers to explore ways to optimise the energy capture and economic performance of Oyster.
As part of the three-year programme, the researchers will split their time between Aquamarine and NUIM's Centre for Ocean Energy Research in County Kildare.
One project will look at all aspects of the Oyster design from an economic perspective.
The other two will look at the development and implementation of control systems applicable to shore-based and offshore power take-off systems.
Aquamarine Power chief executive Paddy O'Kane said: "Aquamarine Power's aim is to become the world's leading supplier of utility-scale wave farm power stations.
"With the survivability and performance potential of our Oyster wave technology now largely proven following four years of continuous deployment at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, we are significantly advanced towards that goal.
"This collaboration with NUIM will now help us focus on driving down costs and further improving performance."
Lindsay Roberts, senior policy manager for industry body Scottish Renewables, said: "Scotland leads the world in the development of wave energy devices, and it's fantastic to see that the European Union's commitment to the technology remains strong.
"Aquamarine Power's Oyster has generated some great results from its testing to date, and further work on power take-off will help ensure that it remains on course for commercialisation."
In March, Aquamarine claimed "exceptional results" following lengthy sea trials of its Oyster 800 wave machine.
It said operational data verified that the Oyster generated power as predicted in wave tank and numerical tests.
The tests, conducted last year, included operating during major storms with waves of up to 8m.
In July, Wave Energy Scotland said it would provide £2m in funding to Aquamarine Power, Bosch Rexroth and Carnegie Wave Energy to further develop a reliable Power Take Off (PTO) system, known as WavePOD.
The previously undetected, or "zero-day", vulnerability had been reported over the weekend.
Then, on 10 April, cybersecurity firm Proofpoint announced it had discovered an email campaign targeting the bug that aimed to distributed Dridex malware.
Dridex is designed to infect a victim's computer and snoop on banking logins.
In 2015, it was cited as the means by which cyber-attackers stole more than £20m from British bank accounts.
The flaw discovered in many versions of Microsoft Word for Windows could allow malicious software, including Dridex, to be installed, according to cybersecurity researchers.
Microsoft did not confirm whether Mac versions of Word were also affected.
A scam email campaign was found to be distributing Microsoft Word RTF [Rich Text Format] documents to recipients that contained Dridex.
"During our testing (for example on Office 2010) the vulnerable system was fully exploited," wrote Proofpoint researchers in a blog.
"We plan to address this through an update on Tuesday April 11, and customers who have updates enabled will be protected automatically," said a Microsoft spokesman.
"Meanwhile we encourage customers to practise safe computing habits online, including exercising caution before opening unknown files and not downloading content from untrusted sources to avoid this type of issue."
Proofpoint also urged Microsoft Word users to install the security updates quickly.
"Because of the widespread effectiveness and rapid weaponisation of this exploit, it is critical that users and organisations apply the patch as soon as it becomes available," the firm said.
A last-gasp try from Alex Toolis secured a bonus point in a 29-0 victory, with Edinburgh making amends for a dire first half.
With three matches remaining, a difficult trip to Leinster is next.
"It's a massive game and we need to play a lot better than we did tonight," Solomons told BBC Scotland.
Edinburgh, presently fifth in the league but having played more games than those around them, go to Munster on the penultimate weekend, with the season finishing at home to Cardiff Blues.
"It's a very tough run-in," said Solomons. "But we are going to give it everything.
"The players showed a lot of character and commitment to hang in and get that bonus point."
Five points against Zebre looked unlikely at the interval, with the hosts ahead thanks to a solitary kick from debutant Jason Tovey.
"We didn't play well in those first 40 minutes," said Solomons.
"We had opportunities for tries and we blew them. At half-time we said 'we've got 40 minutes to save our season'.
"We hardly fired a shot in the first half and we needed to get into it, which we did.
"I will say, in fairness to the players, that it was a five-day turnaround from our last game. There was a lot of sand on the pitch at the Dragons and that took a lot out of the boys' legs."
Damien Hoyland touched down twice in quick succession and replacement scrum-half Sam Hidalgo-Clyne added a try before Toolis crashed over in the corner to keep hopes of reaching the Champions Cup next season alive.
Tovey, on loan from the Dragons until the end of the season, converted three of the four scores and turned in an impressive all-round display.
On the Welsh fly-half, Solomons said: "He showed his experience and did exceptionally well."
He also singled out Magnus Bradbury for praise after the 20-year-old replaced injured captain Mike Coman after just six minutes of play.
"All of our substitutes added impetus," said the South African coach.
Solomons would not be drawn on whether Tovey could earn a longer stay with Edinburgh, simply saying: "We will keep an open mind. Our focus is on the competition at the moment."
The blank sculptures of Wullie sitting on his bucket will form a Bucket Trail across Dundee and Tayside for 10 weeks during the summer.
The trail is set to raise money for the new operating suite at Tayside's Children Hospital.
Artists have until Friday to submit ideas for how to paint the statues.
Artists who have already committed to the project include John Lowrie Morrison - known as Jolomo - who said he was delighted to be involved and could not wait to see how the paintings turned out.
The Oor Wullie sculpture has been inspired by the cartoon character's 80th anniversary. The organiser, ARCHIE Foundation, hopes the Tayside Appeal will make a difference to the lives of local sick children.
The art project also allows celebrities to contribute, with Lorraine Kelly commissioning an artist to paint one of the statues in Dundee United colours.
As the summer comes to a close in September, the sculptures will be auctioned off with all proceeds going towards The ARCHIE Foundation's appeal for £2m towards the new twin operating surgical suite at Tayside's Children Hospital.
Protesters are calling for a referendum to repeal the laws in the mainly Catholic country.
Across Twitter #repealthe8th hashtag was popular among supporters, referring to the 8th amendment of the Irish constitution that forbids abortion.
Abortion is only legal in Ireland if the mother's life it at risk.
Marching in the rain, protesters in Dublin chanted, "My body, my choice".
Sal Roche, a 42-year-old dance teacher participating in the march, told Reuters news agency: "It's a woman's right to choose and it is ridiculous to say that anybody else, the state or the Church, has the right to tell that woman what happens to her body."
The Irish diaspora organised support for the movement across world cities including Berlin, Melbourne, and London.
Irish comedian Graham Linehan tweeted in support of the demonstrations.
Abortion has been a contentious issue in Ireland with people protesting on both sides of the debate. A total ban on the practice was removed in 2013.
Opponents say the 8th constitutional amendment protects a mother's and an unborn child's equal right to life.
Next month Prime Minister Enda Kenny will hold a citizens' assembly to discuss whether a vote should take place to change the abortion laws.
The station is searching for seven composers to create 10-minute works; while a writer in residence will contribute several new pieces.
The season will also include a new play based on a recently-discovered Joe Orton story, and a radio revival of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party.
Both playwrights were championed by the station early in their careers.
The Visa Affair will be based on an unpublished story by Orton, which was uncovered by his sister and passed on to playwright Jake Arnott.
The tale, based on the torturous process of applying for a US visa endured by Orton, will be woven into "a new kind of multidisciplinary drama, in which Arnott also draws on letters, archive, newspaper reports and personal testimony" to investigate the world Orton lived in.
"What excites me about this project is the opportunity to dramatise a hidden work: Orton's own encounter with the kind of absurd bureaucracy that he brilliantly depicts in his plays," said Arnott.
"We helped Orton to be heard for the first time," added Radio 3 controller Alan Davey."And now we're going back and giving life to something [forgotten]."
The 70th anniversary marks the birth of the BBC's Third Programme, launched on 29 September 1946.
Writing in the Radio Times at the time, director general Sir William Haley explained: "The Third Programme will have no fixed points. It will devote to the great works the time they require. It will seek every evening to do something that is culturally satisfying and significant."
The network was incorporated into the fledgling Radio 3 in 1967 and has become a national institution - championing The Proms and BBC Young Musician competitions, but also commissioning new drama and thought-provoking documentaries.
Other events planned for the anniversary include:
The station also announced it would be extending its New Generation Artists Scheme - which helps up-and-coming musicians reach the next stage of their career - to support budding young conductors.
And some of Radio 3's most popular programmes will be broadcasting from a "pop-up glass studio" on London's South Bank, allowing passers-by the opportunity to watch presenters like Sean Rafferty and Clemency Burton-Hill in action.
Davey said the initiative was "driven by one concern - to draw from the spirit of the Third Programme in a contemporary way - to ensure our audiences can connect with remarkable music and culture."
The 41-year-old had been accused of a single count of stalking between January 2013 and August 2014.
Mr Nash, who also played for Stoke City and Preston North End, was found not guilty at Chester Crown Court after the prosecution offered no evidence.
It had been alleged that he accessed her emails and social media accounts and entered her house without consent.
Simon Parry, prosecuting, told the court the allegations were set amidst the "acrimonious break-up" of the marriage between Mr Nash and his ex-partner Jill.
Mr Nash smiled and nodded from the dock as his trial was aborted.
Mr Parry said the prosecution had just been provided with a "certain amount of material" by the defence which the prosecution "ought to be aware of".
Judge Nicholas Woodward directed a "not guilty" verdict be recorded and awarded legal costs to Mr Nash.
Lisa Judge, defending, told the court: "He has strenuously denied these allegations throughout."
Imps defender Bradley Wood was shown a straight red card for blocking Jeff Hughes' goal-bound shot in the area, and striker James Norwood slotted the subsequent penalty to put Rovers ahead.
George Maris' header then drew Lincoln level soon after, only for Jake Kirby's hooked shot to restore Tranmere's lead.
Robbie McDaid headed a second equaliser before Mekki's deflected strike won it.
Tranmere are now fifth in the table, two points behind Braintree in fourth, while Lincoln remain in 10th.
Burhan Wani was killed by Indian security forces a year ago and separatist militants had announced massive public protests. Thousands of extra troops were deployed to prevent rallies from taking place.
Burhan Wani's village is in Tral, which is surrounded by thickly forested mountains. On the first anniversary of his death, it was in virtual lock-down.
Heavily armed soldiers sealed all roads leading to the village, with armoured cars strategically placed across the road in some places, others barricaded with concertina wire.
"Our orders are to let no-one in sir, not even the media," Pankaj Jha, an officer of the Central Reserve Police Force, told me apologetically.
Behind him soldiers fanned out into the woods, to make sure no one was slipping in.
A group of women, wearing black burkhas, approached, holding a small child by the hand but the soldiers waved them back.
"We live in the neighbouring village," one of them told me. "We don't want to go to Burhan Wani's village."
Then, after a pause, she added quietly: "And what if we did? He was like our brother and he died a martyr, fighting for us."
After a brief discussion, the soldiers decided to let them through. As they walk past us, they discreetly flash a victory sign.
Last year, Burhan Wani's funeral was attended by thousands of people, many of them civilians, a testimony to his massive public support.
"He was charismatic and he appealed to the young," one Kashmiri policeman says.
"I should know. I am from his village. I'd rather be there than here blocking the roads."
This is why the authorities were determined to clamp down this time.
Soldiers surrounded Burhan Wani's family home and ordered all residents of the village to stay indoors.
It was the same situation across much of south Kashmir, now the epicentre of militant violence.
We drove away from Tral towards Pulwama, a town located almost an hour away.
Well before we got there, we were flagged down by troops wearing full body protection.
It was soon clear why.
Within minutes, scores of protesters appeared from surrounding villages, pelting the soldiers with large stones.
"Go India go back," they chanted. "Long live Pakistan," they taunted, spreading their arms defiantly.
Many of them were teenagers.
The soldiers looked on warily before responding first with threats and then charged them. The protesters retreated hastily before regrouping and letting loose a fresh volley of stones.
Then the troops fired teargas shells.
"This is what has been happening on almost a daily basis," one soldier said, wearily.
Ever since Burhan Wani's death there has been a massive spike in violence. What is deeply worrying India though, is the growing and active role played by civilians.
Militant funerals are routinely attended by hundreds of people. Soldiers carrying out counter-insurgency operations now also have to deal with civilians who attack them with stones, in an attempt to help militants escape.
It's a trend that could mark a turning point in the nearly seven-decade long Kashmir conflict.
Public transport company Translink NI Railways said the majority of the prosecutions were against drivers.
It said cases had been brought against motorists for ignoring warning signals or driving through level crossings as trains approached.
The convictions cost offenders more than £14,000, it said.
In total, 74 people were prosecuted.
One of the incidents reported by Translink staff was a group of youths playing football on the tracks near Ballymoney station in County Antrim.
Other incidents included pedestrians trespassing, hanging from barriers and running across tracks shortly before trains, travelling at speeds of up to 70mph, passed.
Richard Knox of Translink said the company was working "more closely than ever" with police to identify "risk-takers" on railway lines.
"We now have CCTV at the majority of our crossings and we will continue to prosecute offenders who take risks and put themselves, our employees and passengers at risk," he added.
The ECB's touring party to Dubai includes 17 centrally-contracted players and seven academy players.
Wicketkeeper Taylor, 27, took a break from cricket last year to deal with anxiety and panic attacks.
"Sarah is doing really well and is back in training," said Robinson.
"Her return is a gradual one which is regularly reviewed as she works herself back to, hopefully, full fitness.
"There are no timescales in place for her but her goal is still to give herself the best chance of being able to play in the World Cup."
Next month's training camp in the UAE forms a key part of England's preparations ahead of the Women's World Cup in England this summer (24 June-23 July)
England will play three 50-over matches against Ireland on 24, 26 and 28 April in Abu Dhabi.
Captain Heather Knight said: "This is an exciting step in the build-up to the World Cup.
"We've begun to show who we are as a side over the past year and we'll continue to work hard and continue to progress."
England squad: Heather Knight (Berkshire, captain), Anya Shrubsole (Somerset, vice-captain) , Tammy Beaumont (Kent), Katherine Brunt (Yorkshire), Kate Cross (Lancashire), Georgia Elwiss (Sussex), Tash Farrant (Kent), Jenny Gunn (Warwickshire), Alexandra Hartley (Lancashire), Danielle Hazell (Yorkshire), Amy Jones (Warwickshire), Beth Langston (Yorkshire), Laura Marsh (Kent), Natalie Sciver (Surrey), Fran Wilson (Middlesex), Lauren Winfield (Yorkshire), Danielle Wyatt (Sussex), Georgia Adams (Sussex), Hollie Armitage (Yorkshire), Alice Davidson-Richards (Kent), Sophie Ecclestone (Lancashire), Evelyn Jones (Lancashire), Emma Lamb (Lancashire), Linsey Smith (Berkshire).
However former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was barred from standing by a government-controlled vetting body, as was his close ally Hamid Baghaie.
A final list of candidates for the 19 May poll will be announced on 27 April.
More than 1,600 candidates sought to stand, but only about six are selected by the Guardian Council.
The nominations of Mr Rouhani and Mr Raisi will lead to a showdown between bitterly divided political camps.
Iran nuclear deal: Key details
Mr Rouhani was elected by a landslide in 2013, on a platform of ending the country's diplomatic isolation and creating a freer society.
Two years later his government and six other countries reached a landmark deal, in which Iran agreed to curb its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Mr Raisi is a seyed, meaning he traces his genealogy back to the Prophet Muhammad. He has a reputation for his uncompromising stance on key issues and is rumoured to be supported by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Mr Ahmadinejad, a hardliner who served two terms as president between 2005 and 2013, caused widespread shock when he registered as a candidate last week in defiance of Mr Khamenei's advice.
Last year the Supreme Leader warned Mr Ahmadinejad that such a move was "not in his interest and that of the country".
Mr Khamenei appoints about half of the Guardian Council.
Mr Rouhani and Mr Raisi are expected to focus their campaigns on the state of the economy as well as the nuclear deal, which has been hailed by the president as his most significant success over the four years he has been in office.
Other candidates given the go-ahead to compete in the vote are Mostafa Mirsalim, Tehran mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Mostafa Hashemitaba and Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri.
As the results began to come in from across the continent, he considered whether the increase in the number of Eurosceptic MEPs would change the way the European Parliament would work in the future.
"Whether that makes a big difference in European politics remains to be seen, but it's going to make a very big difference in domestic politics, particularly in the member states predominately in the north of Europe."
By European politics he meant Brussels, the parliament, and there's good reason to assume he is right on that score.
Despite the huge gains for anti-EU parties and those that wish to reduce the power of the EU, it's unlikely that the parliament will adopt a fundamentally different approach.
The main centre-right and left groupings still hold the majority of seats between them. Add in the Liberals and the Greens, and the parliament is overwhelmingly pro-EU.
The leading candidate for the EPP, the centre-right bloc which won this election, has said he wants to form a grand coalition with the centre-left S&D. That's to be expected.
The parliament is less confrontational than national elected bodies. The groups have to - and do - work together to pass complex legislation. There will be many moments in the coming five years when these four groups compromise with one another.
Then there's the fact that the anti-EU, anti-euro, anti-immigration parties who won last night are a disparate group.
Greece's left-wing Syriza will not find much common ground with France's right-wing National Front (FN). There is no anti-EU blocking minority to slow down business in the parliament. In the hugely important committees yes, perhaps, but not the plenary.
In that sense, if the main groups in the parliament choose to ignore those who didn't vote for them last night, they can.
National politicians however, can't afford to ignore them. That's where this election is likely to really shake things up.
In two of the three big national players in the EU, France and Britain, domestic politics is being shaped by the right wing, and especially the anti-immigration voices. Brussels has had to deal with an awkward UK for years on subjects like this. Not so with France, which has always spiritually been at the heart of the project.
But even before the votes had been cast, France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy - who many assume fancies a return to office - questioned some of the fundamentals of the union, saying the passport-free Schengen zone should be suspended, and that the EU should be stripped of some powers.
In Germany, the EU's biggest player, Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn't face anything like the same political pressure from anti-EU parties. Still, even in Berlin, they will be digesting the news that a sizeable part of the electorate voted for a new anti-euro party.
In smaller countries there are similar forces that will require the mainstream to take a good look at what voters are saying about their country's place in the EU. In each there are different forces at play, but in Denmark, Spain, Greece and elsewhere large parts of the electorate are asking for a rethink on their relationship with Brussels.
This will have an impact not just on domestic politics, but on the national leaders when they meet in Brussels at the European Council - where their job is to shape the direction of the EU.
Will that change the direction? Too early to say, but last night Nigel Farage concluded that "up until now European integration always seemed to be inevitable."
"I think that inevitability ended tonight."
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The president of the IAAF, athletics' governing body, told a select committee in December 2015 he was "not aware" of specific allegations of corruption around the Russian doping scandal.
But the email from Lord Coe to the IAAF's ethics commission in August 2014 states: "I have now been made aware of the allegations."
In 2015, Lord Coe told Parliament: "I was certainly not aware of the specific allegations that had been made around the corruption of anti-doping processes in Russia."
Lord Coe denies there is any discrepancy between his evidence and what the emails say he knew.
MPs had wanted the IAAF [International Association of Athletics Federations] president to return to the committee after former athlete David Bedford's testimony to the Culture, Media and Sport select committee inquiry into doping in sport appeared to contradict Lord Coe's.
The president has so far declined to return to the committee, but agreed to two requests from MPs to release missing correspondence between him and Michael Beloff, chair of the IAAF ethics commission.
The emails, published on Tuesday by the committee, cast fresh light on the issue of what Lord Coe knew - and when - about the burgeoning Russian corruption and doping scandal which has blighted world athletics.
Committee chairman Damian Collins told the BBC: "Whatever excuse he gives, it is clear that Lord Coe decided not to share with the committee information that was relevant to our inquiry on doping in sport.
"The committee asked him about his knowledge of doping in Russian athletics and of corruption within the sport. In his answers, he gave the impression that he was unaware of specific allegations.
"Thanks to evidence that was presented by the BBC Panorama programme last year, and by David Bedford to the committee this January, we can see that he was aware, at least in general terms, of the allegations that had been brought forward by the Russian athlete Liliya Shobukhova."
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP, shadow minister for sport, said: "These are very troubling allegations. The release of these emails by the select committee casts serious doubts over the evidence previously given by Lord Coe to the inquiry.
"World Athletics is going through one of the most serious doping scandals in its history and requires the strongest possible leadership. Lord Coe must immediately come back to the select committee and clarify his evidence in light of this new information.
"He must be honest about which allegations he knew of and when he found out about them. The IAAF and BOA [British Olympic Association] need transparency and honesty throughout their organisations now more than ever, and that has to start at the very top."
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Last June the BBC's Panorama programme and the Daily Mail alleged Lord Coe - then an IAAF vice-president - had been alerted to the scandal months before it was revealed by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt in December 2014.
The programme revealed Lord Coe had been sent an email by Bedford, the former world 10,000m record holder, containing several attachments detailing allegations from Russian marathon champion Shobukhova that she had paid almost half a million euros to cover up positive doping tests after being blackmailed by senior IAAF officials.
Collins told Panorama it appeared Lord Coe had "deliberately misled" them.
Lord Coe told the programme he hadn't opened the attachments and had simply forwarded the email on to the IAAF's Ethics Committee, and that since he did not open the attachments, he had not been aware of the detail of the corruption allegations and therefore had not misled Parliament.
His spokeswoman told the BBC his failure to open the attachments had been nothing more than a "lack of curiosity".
In his evidence to the select committee in December, Bedford said he was "surprised and disappointed" that Lord Coe, who became president of the IAAF in August 2015, said he had not opened the attachments.
However, fresh questions have emerged for Lord Coe following his disclosure to the committee of the full email chain between him and Mr Beloff.
The email, from Lord Coe to Mr Beloff, is dated August 2014 and reads: "I have in the last couple of days received copied documentation of serious allegations being made by and on behalf of the Russian female athlete Shobukhova from David Bedford.
"I have spoken to David today on the phone and he advises me that he has shared this information with you. Should I forward this documentation to you?
"The purpose of this note is of course to advise you that I have now been made aware of the allegations... but would be grateful for your advice."
In a detailed four-page letter to the select committee, which accompanies the disclosure of the emails, Lord Coe says there is "no discrepancy".
He said he was not asked specifically by MPs about when he first heard of the corruption of doping cases.
He said he was on holiday abroad when he received a call from Mr Bedford asking if he was aware of the Shobukhova allegations, and on answering "no", Mr Bedford agreed to send them without going into the detail of what the allegations were.
Lord Coe says he then dictated the 14 August email to an assistant.
The letter to the committee reads: "David had thought the allegations were serious enough to send information about them first to the ethics commission and then to me, and I knew I therefore had a duty to inform the ethics commission that I was aware of allegations having being made, and I wanted to ensure that Michael [Beloff] had all the information David [Bedford] had sent to me."
Mr Beloff responded on 16 August 2014 that he already had the information.
Lord Coe wrote: "Having received these responses from Michael [Beloff] I was satisfied that I had done what I was required to do under the code of ethics.
"I have made clear I did not read David Bedford's emailed documents but asked my office to forward them to the person and the commission with exclusive authority to investigate.
"I trust this clarifies the matter to the satisfaction of the committee, and as such there are no grounds for suggesting that I misled the committee in any way."
Questions remain as to why Lord Coe, if he was unaware of the detail of the allegations, would state to Beloff he had "now been made aware of the serious allegations being made by, and on behalf of the Russian female athlete Shobukhova".
Collins told the BBC: "It was not possible to know this, without some knowledge of the attachments contained in the email, as all David Bedford's email to Lord Coe said was that the documents he was sending to him related to 'an issue that is being investigated by the IAAF ethics commission'.
"However, if it is true that Lord Coe was somehow unaware of the details of the complaint that had been made by Shobukhova, it is regrettable that neither he nor his team could find the time to read the 1,700 word summary of the allegations that was sent to him by David Bedford.
"This episode adds further weight to the concern that senior figures within athletics could have done more to make themselves fully aware of serious allegations of corruption and doping within their sport, and then acted on that information to make sure that it was being properly investigated."
Lord Coe, as a member of the House of Lords, cannot be compelled to give evidence to a select committee, unlike members of the public, but it is likely that the committee will take a dim view of Lord Coe's refusal to return when writing up their final report on doping in sport, which is expected to be published within weeks.
The BBC Panorama programme also revealed claims Lord Coe had been helped to the presidency of the IAAF by Papa Massata Diack, at a time when Diack was under investigation for serious corruption.
Diack, who is the son of the disgraced former president of the IAAF Lamine Diack, is now banned for life from athletics, is wanted by Interpol and remains in hiding in Senegal. Lord Coe denied anything inappropriate occurred during his election campaign.
Geologists say the Daan River, which floods regularly and violently, will wipe the gorge off the map in 50 years.
Massive earthquakes shake this region every 300-400 years, but these results explain why so little evidence remains of previous tremors, making predictions and mapping of fault lines difficult.
The find also allows researchers to witness gorge erosion in fast-forward.
The study is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
"The really cool thing about this place is that it's happening so fast, we can watch it," said Dr Kristen Cook, a geologist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam.
"We can see processes that you can't reconstruct."
At the time of the 1999 Jiji earthquake, a 10m high rock table was pushed upward, creating a 1km-long dam across the Daan River valley in Taiwan's western foothills.
"The amount of uplift was huge," Dr Cook told the BBC. "Imagine one side of your house going up by 10m - it's a big change."
And yet nowhere in the valley is there any evidence for previous upheaval of this kind.
"If you were trying to look in the topography for where this sort of thing might happen, you wouldn't see anything," explained Dr Cook.
Now that she and her colleagues have observed the ferocity of the river's attack on the rocks, Dr Cook is not surprised. "The river can really efficiently remove all of the evidence," she said.
Beginning in 2004, the river overcame the natural dam and material dragged along the river bed cut a brand new gorge which was 1,200m long and 20m deep by 2008.
The formation is known in Chinese as the Grand Canyon of the Daan River, and Dr Cook said it shows similarity to its mighty US namesake in Arizona.
"That's one of the exciting things - we expect the process to be the same, but sped up."
Dr Cook visited the valley some 51 times while she was working at National Taiwan University from 2009 to 2013, recording detailed GPS measurements every month or two as well as time-lapse photography. Twice each year, she also measured the shape of the whole canyon at 2cm resolution using a laser scanner.
"That takes about a day - you have to set up the scanner in a bunch of different places," Dr Cook said. "You end up with something like 100 million data points."
All these measurements reveal some of the fastest erosion geologists have ever seen: the gorge is being eaten away from its upstream end at a rate of 17m per year.
The breakneck pace is a result of both the relative softness of the rocks, and the regular flooding brought by typhoons.
Furthermore, Dr Cook and her colleagues have identified an entirely new mechanism of canyon erosion, which they call "downstream sweep". It arises because the wide river floodplain suddenly funnels into the gorge, producing sharp bends in the current that grind away the rocks at the canyon's upstream end.
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Cellebrite was in the headlines earlier this year when it was rumoured to have helped the FBI to crack an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.
Now the company has told the BBC that it can get through the defences of just about any modern smartphone. But the firm refuses to say whether it supplies its technology to the police forces of repressive regimes.
Last week Cellebrite was showing off its technology to British customers. I was invited to a hotel in the Midlands, where police officers from across the UK had come to see equipment and software that first extracts data from suspects' phones, then analyses how they interact with others.
I was given a demo using a Samsung phone supplied by the company. It was running quite an old version of Android - 4.2 - but I was allowed to take it away for half an hour, put a password on it, and use it to take photos and send a text message.
When we returned, Yuval Ben-Moshe from Cellebrite took the phone and simply plugged it in via the charging socket to what looked like a chunky tablet computer. He explained that this was the kind of mobile unit the firm supplied to police forces for data extraction in the field.
He pressed a couple of buttons on the screen and then announced that the phone's lock code had been disabled.
"We can pretty much pull up any of the data that resides on the phone," he said.
He then downloaded the photos I'd taken and the message I'd sent on to a USB stick - the evidence of my activities could now be in the hands of the police.
It was impressive, not to say slightly concerning, that the security on the phone had been so easily bypassed - although this was not a particularly advanced phone, nor had I used services such as WhatsApp, which provide added levels of security.
But Mr Ben-Moshe claimed that his firm could access data on "the largest number of devices that are out there in the industry".
Even Apple's new iPhone 7?
"We can definitely extract data from an iPhone 7 as well - the question is what data."
He said that Cellebrite had the biggest research and development team in the sector, constantly working to catch up with the new technology.
He was cagey about how much data could be extracted from services such as WhatsApp - "It's not a black/white yes/no answer" - but indicated that criminals might be fooling themselves if they thought any form of mobile communication was totally secure.
Back in the spring, there were reports that Cellebrite had helped the FBI get into the iPhone 5C left behind by the San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook.
Unsurprisingly, Mr Ben-Moshe had nothing to say on this matter: "We cannot comment on any of our customers."
And on the matter of how fussy Cellebrite was about the customers for equipment that is used by law enforcement agencies around the world, he was also tight-lipped.
When I asked whether the company worked with oppressive governments he said: "I don't know the answer to that and I'm in no position to comment on that." And when I pressed him, he would say only that Cellebrite operated under international law and under the law of every jurisdiction where it worked.
Mobile phone companies are making great advances in providing secure devices - and law enforcement agencies in the UK and the US are complaining that this is helping criminals and terrorists evade detection.
But last month another Israeli firm NSO Group, which also works for law enforcement and intelligence agencies, was reported to be behind a hack that allowed any iPhone to be easily "jailbroken" and have malware installed.
It seems the technology battle between the phone makers and those trying to penetrate their devices - for good reasons or bad - is a more even fight than we may have imagined.
Lincolnshire county councillor Ian Fleetwood is under investigation for giving taxpayers' cash to the Hawthorne Action Group.
The organisation opposes plans to close Hawthorne Road as part of the Lincoln Eastern Bypass project.
Mr Fleetwood said he took advice before giving the money to two parish councils which passed it on to the group.
The complaint was made by rival campaigners Lincolnshire Bypass Action Group which supports the council's plans for a bypass.
It said Mr Fleetwood breached the code of conduct by giving the money from his Big Society Fund to Reepham and Cherry Willingham parish councils' "fighting fund".
Under council rules, the money should not be used to fund groups opposed to council policy.
Hawthorne Action Group is not opposed to a bypass but believes Hawthorne Road should remain open.
Mr Fleetwood declined to comment other than to say he took advice before giving the money.
Richard Wills, monitoring officer at Lincolnshire County Council, said complaints were investigated and, if the investigator considers there is evidence of a breach, a panel is convened.
"The council does not comment on individual cases but can confirm that a hearing panel is being convened to consider a case that resulted from a complaint by members of the public," he said.
Xin Xin delivered the two male cubs on Sunday afternoon at the Giant Panda Pavilion in Coloane, said officials.
She and the larger cub were in good health, but the smaller cub was underweight and was taken into intensive care.
Xin Xin and her mate Kai Kai were a gift from the mainland and arrived in Macau last year.
They mated naturally, a government spokeswoman told BBC News, but Xin Xin was also artificially inseminated with sperm from Kai Kai.
The larger cub, weighing 138g (0.3 lb), was born at 15:45 local time (08:45 GMT). The smaller cub, weighing just 53.8g, was born at 16:27 local time.
The panda pavilion has been closed since 14 June to prepare for the delivery.
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The 26-year-old has now won all six of her professional fights to date courtesy of the victory in Ebbw Vale.
She stopped Hungarian Vlajk in the ninth round to take the vacant title in her home town.
Brace beat the 37-year-old by TKO in the penultimate round, her third knockout win of her professional career.
Police have carried out searches at 22 addresses and made 12 arrests.
Searches have taken place in Belfast, Greenisland, Bangor, Newtownards and Ballywalter.
Two men aged 23 and 30 were detained during the search of a house in Donegall Pass, south Belfast, on Friday.
Det Insp Andy Dunlop, from the Organised Crime Branch, said: "Five people have been remanded in custody, two were released on bail pending a report to the PPS and three others are due to appear in court tomorrow (Saturday)."
The PSNI is working with the National Crime Agency and Italian Carabinieri as part of the operation.
Clodagh Hartley is accused of paying Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) official Jonathan Hall around £17,000 for tip-offs over three years.
One involved a tip that allowed the paper to run a story on Alistair Darling's Budget in 2010 before he delivered it, prosecutors claimed.
Miss Hartley denies all charges.
Prosecutor Zoe Johnson QC said: "As you would expect, the details of the Budget are a closely-guarded secret.
"You would expect the details would be announced to Parliament and not broadcast in advance in the newspapers and certainly not for money, for personal gain."
She said a financial trail revealed Mr Hall was paid £750 for the story at the request of Miss Hartley.
Prosecutors said Mr Hall gave Miss Hartley, the Sun's Whitehall editor, information that led to the double-page story that was printed before Mr Darling stood to deliver the Budget.
Prosecutors also said Mr Hall was paid £500 for another story about celebrities being paid to publicise a government website.
The court was told more than £4,000 was paid to Mr Hall by News International between April 2008 and May 2010.
More than £13,000 was also transferred to his girlfriend Marta Bukarewicz's account between June 2010 and July 2011 after Miss Hartley suggested it would "cover his tracks", the court heard.
Ms Bukarewicz kept £845 for her role and transferred the rest to Mr Hall, the court was told.
The jury was told Mr Hall accepts he supplied Miss Hartley with stories for which he was paid.
The prosecutor also told jurors: "This is not a trial involving whistle-blowing in a noble cause.
"It is a case in which Mr Hall, the HMRC press officer, was motivated by greed and Miss Hartley, the journalist, was motivated by acquiring the next big scoop or exclusive.
"Many of you will have sympathy for journalists who expose mismanagement and inefficiency in government departments but that is not what this case is about."
Ms Bukarewicz and Miss Hartley both deny conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.
About 70 mourners gathered at Mexborough Cemetery in Doncaster for the funeral of 92-year-old Royal Navy veteran Douglas Barratt on Wednesday, but were locked out for 40 minutes.
The digger, used for graves, then forced open the doors of the chapel.
A Doncaster Council spokesman said they were "very sorry" for what happened.
Mr Barratt's family said he died on 15 December, with members of the British Legion coming from "all over" to attend his service but were left stood in the cold and "chilled to the bone".
Arrangements had been made for someone to come an hour before the funeral to open the building and put the heating on, but no-one arrived.
Mr Barratt's son-in-law said the door was "pushed and shoved" by several people but it wouldn't open.
Stuart Venables, from Mexborough, said: "Eventually the decision was made to bring in a small JCB which was used for digging the grave to try and ease the door open.
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Mr Venables said attendees thought it was "very disrespectful", but added they also thought it would be a "funeral to be remembered for years".
Dave Wilkinson, from the council, said: "We are very sorry for what has happened and will be making contact with the family to apologise in person.
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Clement became the Swans' third boss of the season after replacing Bob Bradley, who had been in charge after Francesco Guidolin was sacked in October.
The club were bottom when Clement arrived but are now safe after Hull City lost at Crystal Palace on Sunday.
The former Derby County boss has won 26 points from his 19 games in charge.
If the Premier League table was only calculated from when Clement took over, the Swans would be seventh.
Clement won manager of the month in January after winning three of his first five games in charge, but his side went six games without a win through March and April as they slipped back into a relegation battle.
Wins against Stoke, Everton and Sunderland as well as a well-earned 1-1 draw against Manchester United at Old Trafford helped turn their season around and helped them to safety.
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Spurs, who needed to avoid defeat to secure third in Group E, went behind when Alan Dzagoev scored from Zoran Tosic's headed flick-on.
But Dele Alli, who had already missed two good chances, half-volleyed in Christian Eriksen's cross to level, before Harry Kane finished a stylish move to put Spurs in front.
CSKA keeper Igor Akinfeev gifted Spurs a third when he inadvertently guided Alli's header into his own net after making an initial save.
It means Tottenham will enter the Europa League for the sixth consecutive season after their first appearance in the Champions League for five years ended in disappointment.
But there were positive signs for Spurs as they created numerous chances in a performance inspired by Eriksen's creativity and range of passing.
Who can Tottenham face now?
Despite Spurs' hopes of progressing in the Champions League being extinguished by a defeat at Monaco two weeks ago, boss Mauricio Pochettino opted for a strong side. He made just one change from the 5-0 win over Swansea in the Premier League on Saturday, bringing in Harry Winks for Mousa Dembele.
And the Argentine was rewarded not only with a Europa League berth, but also a first win for Tottenham at Wembley in their last seven outings - including domestic competitions.
Spurs' decision to play this season's Champions League home games at Wembley - and their upcoming Europa League games - meant they were left playing a game with very little at stake in the grand surroundings of the national stadium.
Tottenham have the option to use Wembley for all of their home games next season and, despite losing their first two group games there, a club-record attendance of 85,512 against Bayer Leverkusen last month and this win over CSKA Moscow might make that prospect more appealing.
There was further good news for Spurs as defender Toby Alderweireld came off the bench after missing the last 10 games through injury, suggesting he could be fit for Sunday's league game against Manchester United.
Spurs finished as one of the four best third-placed teams in the Champions League groups, meaning they will be seeded for the last 32 of the Europa League when the draw is made on Monday.
The full line-up for the draw will be determined by Thursday's final Europa League group games - but Spurs will face an unseeded side and cannot be matched with a team from England, should Manchester United and Southampton progress.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: "First of all, thank you to our supporters. We were all disappointed after Monaco.
"It was good, we started to show how we play against Chelsea and Swansea and today confirmed we've increased our level."
Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli speaking to BT Sport: "It's frustrating when you don't put away an early chance. I started getting frustrated but it was important I put a chance away.
"We have a belief in the squad. We felt we were dominating and knew the chances would come."
Tottenham striker Harry Kane speaking to BT Sport: "We've learned to be better at home. You have to win your home games - you can't rely on away results.
"We've finished the campaign well, there's a bit of pride to send the fans home happy."
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 3, CSKA Moscow 1.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 3, CSKA Moscow 1.
Attempt missed. Bibras Natcho (CSKA Moscow) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Georgi Milanov.
Georges-Kévin Nkoudou (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow).
Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Aleksei Berezutski.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Georgi Milanov (CSKA Moscow) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Josh Onomah replaces Harry Kane.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Vasili Berezutski (CSKA Moscow) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Georges-Kévin Nkoudou with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Vasili Berezutski.
Substitution, CSKA Moscow. Carlos Strandberg replaces Lacina Traoré.
Own Goal by Igor Akinfeev, CSKA Moscow. Tottenham Hotspur 3, CSKA Moscow 1.
Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Harry Kane with a cross.
Attempt saved. Lacina Traoré (CSKA Moscow) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bibras Natcho.
Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Danny Rose.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Igor Akinfeev.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.
Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Vasili Berezutski (CSKA Moscow).
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Georgy Schennikov (CSKA Moscow).
Corner, CSKA Moscow. Conceded by Kyle Walker.
Attempt missed. Fedor Chalov (CSKA Moscow) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Astemir Gordyushenko.
Substitution, CSKA Moscow. Astemir Gordyushenko replaces Zoran Tosic.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Danny Rose.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Toby Alderweireld replaces Victor Wanyama.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Kirill Nababkin.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georges-Kévin Nkoudou with a cross.
Attempt missed. Georges-Kévin Nkoudou (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Vasili Berezutski (CSKA Moscow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vasili Berezutski (CSKA Moscow).
Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.
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The Scotland midfielder collected the ball in his own half before unleashing a shot from around 65 yards which flew over Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who was caught off his line, and into the net.
Here BBC Sport looks at the best of the reaction to Adam's sensational strike, and recalls other memorable goals scored by players from inside their own half.
Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam: "I never knew I had that much power, to beat a quality goalkeeper like that is something special. One that I will always remember. It was one of them that sat up nicely and I saw the goalie off his line. I was lucky enough that it went in. Once in a lifetime this can happen to you, it's great on an individual level - a great way to get my 50th goal in English football - but the team lost and that is the disappointing thing."
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho: "It was a fantastic goal, every player in the world would like to score a goal like that. Diego Maradona to Lionel Messi to all these brilliant players. Not all of them did score that goal in their careers. Charlie Adam has condition for a 50-metre shot, so normally he would anticipate the moment we lost the ball but it's a great goal."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "It was an outstanding goal from Charlie - fantastic. He has got that ability and has obviously shown it to everyone today. He'd always attempt those of kinds of things because he has confidence in his ability. He has the belief and always cleanly strikes the ball."
Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer: "It is an unbelievable strike. It's great vision to see Thibaut Courtois off his line, and the connection is perfect.
"He knows it's good, I'm pretty sure, as soon as he's connected with it. It's just great, great ability.
"It's the best long-range goal I've seen in the Premier League because it's the furthest, and because it's against one of Europe's best goalkeepers."
Adam's goal against Chelsea was not the first time he has scored from his half. Only a handful of spectators might have witnessed it, but Adam scored a similar one in a reserve team game for Blackpool against Accrington's second string shortly after he joined the Seasiders in 2009.
David Beckham
David Beckham announced himself to the football world when he scored from the halfway line for Manchester United against Wimbledon in August 1996. In United's opening match of the season at Selhurst Park, the midfielder spotted goalkeeper Neil Sullivan off his line to score a famous goal in United's 3-0 victory.
Xabi Alonso
Liverpool's Xabi Alonso finished off a memorable comeback against Luton in a classic FA Cup third-round tie in January 2006 when he hit the ball 70 yards into the unguarded net to make it 5-3 for the Reds. The goal won Liverpool fan Adrian Hayward £25,000 after he bet £200 on Alonso scoring from inside his own half at some point in the 2005-06 season on the basis of a dream he had.
Xabi Alonso - eight months later
Goalkeeper Steve Harper was left grasping at thin air as Alonso repeated the feat of scoring from his own half in September 2006, this time in Liverpool's 2-0 win over Newcastle in the Premier League. The midfielder assessed the options around him on the counter attack before he launched an arrow of a shot over Harper and into the corner of the net in front of the Kop.
Paul Robinson
The only league goal of ex-England goalkeeper Paul Robinson's professional career - he once scored with a header in the League Cup for Leeds - came with an 80-yard effort for Tottenham in a 3-1 win over Watford at White Hart Lane in March 2007. Robinson lined up a free-kick from five yards outside his own penalty area, but his hoof floated over the defence, bounced over opposite number Ben Foster in the Watford goal, and drifted into the corner.
Maynor Figueroa
A quickly-taken free-kick from Wigan's Maynor Figueroa just inside his own half caught Stoke goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen completely off guard in their 2-2 draw at the Britannia Stadium in December 2009. Sorensen was powerless to stop the ball sailing over his head and into the net and the strike duly won the BBC Match Of The Day's goal of the season award.
Asmir Begovic
Stoke City goalkeeper Asmir Begovic earned himself a place in the Guinness World Records book for the longest goal scored in football at 91.9m (301ft 6in), just 13 seconds into the Potters' 1-1 draw with Southampton in November 2013. The Bosnia international's clearance caught the wind and bounced over opposite number Artur Boruc into the Saints net. | Charlie Adam's wonder goal from his own half in Stoke's 2-1 defeat by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge is likely to live longer in the memory than the result of the match itself. | 32,185,639 | 1,124 | 41 | false |
The party accused Labour of a "massive climb-down" on a 2011 promise of annual health checks by GPs for the over-50s.
Tory AM Darren Millar said the Add To Your Life self-assessment scheme should be scrapped as a "complete folly".
The Welsh Government said "lessons learnt" from the programme would form part of a review of health advice.
The survey, accessible via computer, phone and tablet, was launched in April 2014 to give people an overall picture of their health and well-being, and to suggest better lifestyle choices.
The Tories said answers to their written questions showed that 12,939 people had completed the survey in the following 23 months, out of a population of 1,177,000 over-50s in Wales,
"The paltry take-up figures will only add to existing public anger over Labour's broken manifesto promise to deliver annual GP health checks to all of Wales' over-50s," said Mr Millar, who tabled the questions when he was shadow health minister.
He claimed many older people lacked the digital skills to use the service, while the Welsh Conservatives' current health spokesperson, Angela Burns, highlighted poor phone and internet connections in rural areas..
"People aged over 50 are vulnerable to a number of health concerns from cancer and high blood pressure to diabetes and arthritis," she said.
"It's plain as day that the scheme has been an abject failure and future funding for its continuation should instead be diverted to GP recruitment and retention initiatives."
A Welsh Government spokesperson defended the scheme as an "innovative approach", saying start-up costs were relatively high but running costs only £70,000 in 2015-16.
On the numbers using the service, the spokesperson said other people were being helped by charity and voluntary organisations using it as the basis for group discussions on health and lifestyle.
"Evidence suggests that providing tailored health information to the public is more effective than other approaches," the spokesperson added.
"Public Health Wales is reviewing its approach to providing information for the public with a view to better supporting people to take more control of their own health and wellbeing.
"The lessons learnt from Add to Your Life are forming a key part of that review." | More than £1m has been wasted on an online health check scheme used by just 1% of those it was aimed at, the Welsh Conservatives have claimed. | 37,642,981 | 477 | 34 | false |
American qualifier Todd Harrity upset 29-year-old Clyne, the highest ranked Scottish player at world number 34, 3-2 in just over an hour.
And Lobban, having lost to Hong Kong's Max Lee at the Qatar Classic two weeks ago, was beaten by him again.
The 23-year-old lost in straight games, going down 11-7, 11-8, 11-5.
Lobban tweeted: "Nowhere near good enough to beat someone like Max Lee today. Far from ideal losing so early in the tournament. #overbeforeitsevenstarted."
The country's Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) said it would determine the police's involvement in the man's death.
Letsekang Thokoene, who was not a farm worker, was allegedly shot by rubber bullets on Monday.
South Africa has been hit by a series of wildcat strikes since last year.
The strikers, who pick and pack fruit, have been demanding their daily wage be more than doubled to about $17 (£11).
Community activists in De Doorns, where Mr Thokoene owned a small shop, told the BBC he got caught in the crossfire as police and protesters clashed.
Western Cape police said Mr Thokoene was taken to hospital where he later died.
The police refused to give further details about what happened.
The IPID said it would investigate all the circumstances that led to Mr Thokoene's death.
The Western Cape region is home to South Africa's multi-billion dollar wine industry where labour relations have been fraught with racial tension, more than 18 years after white minority rule ended.
Most of the area's 3,000 farm workers, who are black or mixed race, are not employed on a permanent basis - despite working on the farms for many years, the BBC's Pumza Fihlani reports from Johannesburg.
They work seasonally to pick and pack fruit and say with rising costs they can no longer survive on their current wages.
But farmers, who are mainly white, are adamant they will go out of business if the minimum wage is raised, our reporter says.
The farms were hit by a strike last year, when two workers were killed in clashes with police and $11m-worth of damage was caused when some vineyards were set alight.
The strike resumed last week, despite intervention from unions, the government, farmers and other workers' representatives.
The governing African National Congress has called for workers to end violent protests, saying they were being used as a cover by criminals for their own purposes.
John Vanderwolfe said the computer "actually started to shake" after he mistakenly opened the email sent to Tiverton Town Council in Devon.
The email claimed to be from a parcel delivery firm and infected all the council's computers.
Mr Vanderwolfe said it was the worst thing to happen in his 12 years there.
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"Unfortunately I pressed the button and immediately I could tell there was something wrong because the actual machine started to shake," Mr Vanderwolfe said.
"Within a few minutes it had encrypted all our data which means of course that we can't get hold of it.
"It's what's called a ransom email which tells you that if you pay a large sum of money they will de-encrypt it for you but there's no guarantee of that."
Most of the lost documents are letters - finance and planning documents were saved because they are on another system.
But the lost letters could take months to rescan and upload. The council is now looking into computer security measures.
"In hindsight you can see there are perhaps signs of danger but you get so many emails," he said.
"These things happen and I didn't do it on purpose. You keep thinking, 'if only I had not pressed that button'.
"I am now afraid to open anything."
Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed they were aware of the Ransomware attack and have given Tiverton Town Council advice on internet security.
Police said they will be informing other local councils within the area of the threat "to ensure online security is up to scratch".
Wayne Ingold, 57, was not the intended victim of the attack, which happened outside his home in Witham, Essex, in August 2014.
Aarron Isaac, 19, of Elverson Road, Lewisham, and a 16-year-old boy from London - who cannot be named because of his age - had denied any involvement.
But a jury at Chelmsford Crown Court convicted them after a week-long trial.
Both defendants were told by Judge David Turner they would face a significant custodial sentence.
During the trial, Mr Ingold gave evidence and said he had been checking the post box in the communal entrance of his block of flats when he saw figures moving.
When he opened the door, the teenagers had a glass bottle full of liquid which they threw over him before running off.
"It [the acid] hit my hands, my face, my neck. I went into my flat and looked in the mirror. My face had turned yellow. It looked like melted wax," Mr Ingold told the court.
Prosecutor Martin Mulgrew said Mr Ingold had been in the "wrong place at the wrong time" and was a victim of mistaken identity.
Isaac and the younger boy, who is from Mitcham, were both convicted of of throwing a corrosive fluid with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Det Sgt Becky Young, of Essex Police, said "This was a sickening and unprovoked attack by two very dangerous young men on an innocent man who was simply going about his business.
"This attack left the victim with life-changing injuries.
"He will not only be dealing with the physical scars but also the mental scars for a long time to come."
Police are trying to trace Abbey Lewis, from Saltcoats, who was last seen at about 23:15 on Sunday in the town's Dockhead Street.
She was heading in the direction of Saltcoats railway station.
She is described as being 5ft tall, of slim build with collar-length, dyed blonde hair, and was wearing glasses.
She was also wearing a black padded jacket, blue jeans and white Adidas trainers. She had a black backpack and was carrying a grey holdall.
Sgt Ryan Paterson, from Police Scotland, said: "Inquiries carried out so far have shown that there is a possibility that she is heading to the Birmingham area to meet someone she has met online and we are liaising with our colleagues at British Transport Police to check trains, and linking in with other police forces to gather any additional information that could help us trace Abbey.
"I would urge anyone who has seen Abbey, or who has any information on her whereabouts, to contact Irvine Police Office through 101."
The 21-year-old admitted offering money to another player to underperform at an ITF Futures F1 tournament in his home country in November 2015.
The fellow player reported the approach to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), which carried out an investigation.
Chetty is currently ranked 1,857th in the world, with a career high of 1,370.
The TIU said the identity of the player who was approached will remain confidential.
"The findings of a resultant TIU investigation were referred to independent anti-corruption hearing officer, Ian Mill QC, who considered the case and imposed the lifetime ban from all professional tennis," said a TIU statement.
"The lifetime ban from all professional tennis applies with immediate effect and means the player is not allowed to compete in, or attend, any tournament or event organised or sanctioned by the governing bodies of the sport."
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The museum at the former Caphouse colliery near Wakefield saw 138,291 people visit in 2015-16, an increase of 16% on the previous year, it said.
David Hinchliffe, from the museums trustees, said it was important "to keep the spirit of mining and mining communities alive".
Visitors to the free museum can descend 460ft (140m) on an underground tour.
Former miners guide the visitors and explain the realities of coal mining through the centuries.
The increase in visitors was due to a bigger range of attractions and the success of A Light in the Darkness exhibition, on the development of miners' safety lamps, said the museum.
Caphouse, at Overton, closed in 1985.
The closure of Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire in December 2015 brought to an end to centuries of deep coal mining in Britain.
In the early 1900s more than one million people were employed as miners.
The 28-year-old central defender, who has signed a three-year deal, has left Bournemouth for a reported £3m fee.
Elphick captained the Cherries to promotion from the Championship in 2015, having also led them up from League One two years earlier.
He made just 14 appearances during Bournemouth's first season in the top flight because of an ankle injury.
He cut short his honeymoon to report to the Midlands, undergo a medical and complete his transfer negotiations.
Di Matteo is looking to Elphick to help lead Villa back to the Premier League at the first attempt following their drop to the Championship.
The former Brighton apprentice has so far spent all of his career on the south coast.
He made his debut for the Seagulls in 2005, scoring nine goals in 182 appearances before joining the Cherries in 2012, since when he has scored a further six times in 145 appearances.
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Flying Officer Marium Mukhtiar was on a routine training mission on Tuesday when her plane met with an "in-flight emergency" over Mianwali district in Punjab province, the air force said.
She and her co-pilot ejected. She later died from her injuries in hospital.
Her body was taken to Karachi where the ceremony was held later that day.
Flying Officer Mukhtiar, who was 24, spoke to BBC News last year of her journey into a traditionally male-dominated world.
She was among about 20 female fighter pilots in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), which only began inducting women in combat roles in 2006.
It was not immediately clear why her aircraft crashed. The male pilot was not badly injured and is recovering in hospital.
Pakistani Air Force officials were present as well as family members for the funeral prayers, local media said.
"She was indeed a role model for women and pride of Pakistan," said Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Shareef.
"Very sad to hear about the crash that killed Pakistan's female fighter pilot Mariam #Pakistan," said Sherry Rehman, vice president, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Twitter.
Pakistan's military has suffered a series of air disasters in recent months.
In September a trainer jet crashed near Mastung in Balochistan province. The pilot ejected to safety.
A military helicopter crash in May killed seven people, including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines. Another military helicopter crashed near Mansehra district in August, killing 12 people.
The NBA will be the first professional US sports league to visit the Communist-run island since the two countries announced a thaw in their relations in December.
Retired players Steve Nash and Dikembe Mutombo will be among those teaching.
Basketball is very popular in Cuba and the country has produced top players.
Its men's national team won the bronze medal at 1972 Summer Olympics and its women's team won the 2013 International Basketball Federation Americas Championship.
For more than five decades, all professional sport was banned in Cuba, with athletes drilled to perform for the love of their country, not cash.
The restrictions have recently been loosened, but chances for Cuban athletes to test their skills against foreign professional players remain rare.
The NBA said it would hold a four-day development camp from 23 April. It said it had chosen former players who spoke Spanish to go on the trip.
They are eight-time NBA All-Stars Steve Nash and Dikembe Mutombo and former Women's National Basketball Association player Ticha Penicheiro.
Quin Snyder, head coach of the Utah Jazz, and James Borrego, who coaches the Orlando Magic, will also travel to Cuba.
Two players and a coach from Cuba will also be invited to take part in the camp run by the programme Basketball without Borders.
Mutombo said the visit would be "a fantastic opportunity to teach the values of our game and learn from one another".
The president of the Cuban Basketball Federation, Ruperto Herrera, also welcomed the move, calling it "magnificent".
Cuba and the US announced on 17 December that they would move towards normalising bilateral relations, which have been frozen for more than five decades.
Since 2013, Cuba has allowed some of its athletes to play in professional leagues overseas under the proviso that Cuba can recall them for competitions.
US professional sports leagues and teams are keen to encourage Cuban talent for a time when existing restrictions on recruiting players may be lifted completely.
Two more cycle routes have also been proposed linking Bloomsbury to the West End and Farringdon to King's Cross.
Other proposals include banning rush-hour traffic from Regent's Park in support of cyclists.
Mayor Boris Johnson said the plans would ensure London's "cycling revolution" continues.
Further details have also been released on existing plans for two cycle-superhighways approved in February last year - one running 18 miles from Barking to Acton and the other between Kings Cross and Elephant and Castle.
The new cycle track on the Westway would take up one of six existing traffic lanes on the flyover between Westbourne Bridge and Wood Lane, White City.
It would be separated from traffic by a concrete barrier topped with a glass panel, which the Mayor said would also reduce traffic noise and pollution for residents on the north side of the flyover.
Once the links are complete, cyclists would be able to ride from Swiss Cottage and Camden Town to Canary Wharf, Barking or Elephant & Castle entirely on separated cycle tracks or low-traffic streets, according to the Mayor's office.
The mayor's vision for cycling in London has met with opposition from some quarters.
In January the London Taxi Drivers Association launched a judicial review opposing the mayor's plans for a £47m Westbourne Grove to Tower Hill cycle route.
Responding to the proposed Westway cycle route, the association tweeted: "Awaiting the judgement on our Judicial Review on CSH [Cycle Super Highway]. We will challenge this scheme in every way possible incl(uding) through the court."
The consultation by Transport for London will close on 20 March.
Victims reported hundreds of alleged offences of physical, emotional or sexually abuse.
The police investigation began in 2006 but the apparent discovery in 2008 of part of a child's skull at a care home made headlines around the world.
It was later found to be coconut shell, but hundreds of victims had by then come forward.
Jersey care abuse inquiry: Children 'still at risk'
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'Do not ignore this report'
Following allegations dating from the 1960s, Operation Rectangle was launched with 192 people coming forward with 553 allegations of offences, including 315 at Haut de la Garenne.
Allegations were also made about the Sacré Coeur Orphanage, the Blanche Pierre group home and the successor to Haut de la Garenne, Heathfields.
The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry (IJCI), launched in 2014, has now published its final report.
The inquiry heard from more than 600 witnesses over the last three years and its report concludes aspects of Jersey's services for children are still not fully fit for purpose.
Neil McMurray, who has been campaigning for victims of child abuse for more than a decade, said his message to the States is "do not ignore this report".
Lawyer Alan Collins, who represented the Jersey Care Leavers Association at the inquiry, said many of the victims have mixed emotions about the report as it deals with sensitive and painful matters.
He said: "They will want to ensure many of the recommendations are taken up by the States of Jersey to ensure children in the future do not have to endure what they had to endure."
There are more than 600 recommendations contained in the report, which include:
Timeline leading to the inquiry
This is taken from a more detailed timeline examining the lead-up to the inquiry and political issues surrounding it.
Convictions of historical abuse as a result of Operation Rectangle include:
Skull or coconut ?
Operation Rectangle was not all plain sailing. Under the gaze of intense media interest, the first head of the investigation, Lenny Harper, claimed a piece of a child's skull had been found.
This was later revealed to be a piece of coconut after testing by experts in the UK.
Speaking after that revelation, the then deputy chief officer of the States of Jersey Police, David Warcup, said there was no evidence any children had been murdered at the former home.
Mr Warcup expressed "much regret" at the "misleading" information previously released.
During the Jersey Care inquiry, when called to give evidence, Lenny Harper would only do so over video as he said he had been warned Jersey law officers had prepared a "nasty surprise" for him if he came to the island.
Political opposition
The inquiry has heard evidence from more than 200 people in 146 public hearings, with two million pages of hard evidence submitted and 600 total witnesses including evidence read to the inquiry by lawyers.
This is despite the fact that the inquiry nearly did not happen.
Some politicians suggested the scale of the abuse was "exaggerated" by the media. That led the then chief minister, Senator Terry Le Sueur, to suggest an inquiry was a waste of time.
A proposition by Senator Francis Le Gresley, overruling the chief minister, was successful in the States and that led to the inquiry going ahead.
Since the abuse first came to light the States says a number of changes have been made to the care system.
These include appointing an independent chairman for the child protection committee and providing millions in funding to support child care reforms.
There was also a new multi-agency system set up to manage sexual, violent and dangerous offenders.
The Brig-y-Don children's home was reopened under criteria set out in earlier reports into childcare and a board of visitors was developed to provide independent contact and support for children in care.
Racing meet Saracens in the final in Lyon on Saturday, with both clubs bidding to win Europe's premier club competition for the first time.
"One of our big strengths this year is how united we are," said O'Gara.
"Our values now are a lot better than they were 12 months ago, and people are putting it in for each other."
The Parisians have a multinational squad, including All Black great Dan Carter, but last won the French title in 1990.
They struggled after the arrival of professionalism but, under the ownership of real estate magnate Jacky Lorenzetti, they have re-established themselves among the leading clubs in France.
"We've installed a different culture and identity, because there's no [recent] history of winning anything at this club apart from a [second division] Pro D2," the Irishman, speaking to BBC 5 live, added.
"Now I feel there is a grip on the club which means the club can do something. Previously it wasn't possible because of the standards, but we have something very good building."
Bolstered by the deep pockets of Lorenzetti, Racing have spent heavily in the past few years.
Carter, the most expensive player in the world, and Welsh duo Mike Phillips and Luke Charteris are part of a squad packed with internationals. Some might be nearing the end of their careers - but O'Gara insists the new arrivals are motivated by success on the pitch.
"People coming from all different corners of the world doesn't mean they are money-grabbing people," the former Munster, Ireland and Lions fly-half said.
"I could tell you how motivated these guys are, and what playing for this club means to them, and you would be shocked.
"Twenty-four months ago I would agree with the perception that it's easy to pick up a cheque in France and it's easy to make a great living, but once you're a winner I think it doesn't leave you, and we have plenty of winners in our group."
No one embodies this winning mentality more than Carter, who is one victory away from lifting the Champions Cup, a matter of months after guiding New Zealand to back-to-back Rugby World Cups.
"He's fascinating," O'Gara said. "Extremely humble and extremely respectful. He always finds a way of getting the job done, and he doesn't do stress.
"He's very polite - a breath of fresh air - and you can learn an awful lot just from watching him."
Carter's fly-half head-to-head with Saracens' Owen Farrell could be decisive on the weekend, with O'Gara describing the Englishman as "the most improved player in Britain and Ireland over the last six months".
"He's a big threat now," O'Gara said. "Saracens play for each other, and that's the most important thing. You look at [wing] Chris Ashton - it's incredible to think he is surplus to requirements at Test level."
Despite his relative inexperience as a coach, O'Gara has the responsibility of being second-in-command to joint head coaches Laurent Travers and Laurent Labit at Racing.
The 39-year-old recently extended his stay in Paris until 2019, a clear sign of how much he and his family are enjoying the experiences of the French capital.
"It's only until you leave your own home and comfort zone you realise what is out there," O'Gara admitted.
And while O'Gara is widely tipped to eventually return to coach in Ireland, he says he is focused on Racing for the foreseeable future.
"I'm not thinking about anything bar here. I have my hands full but I love it."
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The Department for Work and Pensions annual estimate shows the proportion affected - almost one in six - was unchanged from 2011-12 to 2013-14.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said UK poverty levels were the "lowest since the mid-1980s" and showed government reforms were working.
But charities said proposed welfare changes would leave families worse off.
A child is defined as being in poverty when living in a household with an income below 60% of the UK's average.
Average household income in 2013-14 - before housing costs - remained unchanged from 2012-13, at £453 a week - making the poverty line £272 a week.
Mr Duncan Smith told the Commons that government reforms of the welfare system were focused on "making work pay" and getting people into employment.
He said he remained "committed" to dealing with the "root causes" of poverty, saying employment was up by more than two million since 2010.
Shadow chancellor Chris Leslie accused the government of failing to make progress in cutting child poverty and raising incomes.
The figures represented a "depressing slow-down in the progress we should be making as a country", he said.
Javed Khan, chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, said every child living in poverty was a child that was being "let down".
He said: "Government plans to cut struggling families' incomes further by changing tax credits is deeply concerning... this government must ensure that change to the benefits system makes work pay for those on low incomes."
Matthew Reed, chief executive of the Children's Society, said there has been a "steady rise" over the last five years in the numbers of children living in poverty in households where parents work.
He said 200,000 more children have been pushed deeper into poverty over the past year.
Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said the figures made "grim reading", adding: "The government is not going to meet the child poverty targets."
It comes as the government has said it wants to change the way child poverty is measured - as it believes the current measurement is inadequate.
David Cameron's official spokeswoman said the prime minister "remains committed to doing more work to eliminate child poverty and that is precisely why the government wants to look at having an approach that is focused more on tackling the root causes of poverty than treating the symptoms."
The "experts" are scratching their heads. Today was the day, we were told, when we'd see a sharp rise in poverty as official figures included the full impact of welfare cuts for the first time.
But, instead, the numbers have remained broadly flat and the government is able to claim that "the proportion of individuals with low income is now at the lowest level since the mid-1980s".
The Child Poverty Action Group said the figures still made grim reading. "Make no mistake, we are facing a child poverty crisis in the years ahead," it said. But one cannot help but think their statement would have been rather different if the expected rise had come to pass.
So what is going on? Is it time to ask if welfare reform is working?
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Jonathan Cribb, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the child poverty figures appeared to have remained stable despite cuts to working age benefits because of the rise in employment.
"That seems to have off-set the impact of cuts to working age benefits which will have suppressed incomes," he said.
The DWP figures have mostly been estimated from a survey of 20,000 households in UK.
The data for 2013-14 includes figures suggesting the number of children living in relative poverty before housing costs were taken into account was 100,000 lower than the previous year. However, the DWP said it was "not trumpeting" the finding as the polling was subject to a margin of error.
The figures also showed that 9.6 million people - about 15% - were on relative low incomes in 2013-14.
The figure represented a fall of 100,000 on the previous year - and is down from 11.2 million in 1998-99 when comparable records began.
The number of pensioners living in poverty increased by 100,000, the DWP said.
Janet Morrison, chief executive of Independent Age - the older people's charity - said pensioner poverty remains a "significant and widespread problem".
For many the reality was not "foreign holidays, but finding the cheapest food and managing to keep the heating on in winter", she said.
A Crocodile Shark carcass was discovered on a beach at Hope Cove near Plymouth and was reported to the National Marine Aquarium.
Experts think the animal, normally found in tropical waters, may have died from the shock of UK's colder seas.
It is commonly found in Brazil and Australia growing to about 1m (3.3ft).
Steven Greenfields spotted the shark washed up on the beach while walking with his family.
Mr Greenfields said: "We regularly visit this beach and have never seen anything like this before. My whole family was stunned as the animal had really unusual features but was unmistakably a shark.
Because it was so unusual we consulted our local aquarium to confirm what species it was."
James Wright, curator at the National Marine Aquarium, said: "This species has never been recorded in the UK before, as it is normally found in deep waters during the day in tropical climates, such as Brazil and Australia, then coming shallower at night to feed.
"With the Crocodile Shark accustomed to much warmer waters, travelling so far and reaching colder waters would have caused a shock to its system and account for the cause of death.
"We would urge the public to share any other unusual sightings with us or The Shark Trust, so we can monitor any trends."
Paul Cox, managing director of the Shark Trust, said: "Any information that we can get is useful so it's great that this one has been reported and identified."
Great Charles Street northbound went down to one lane between Suffolk Street Queensway/Severn Street and Newhall Street in the early hours.
The city council urged drivers to leave extra time for journeys and to use public transport where possible.
The 10-year Paradise Circus scheme will see new offices, shops, restaurants and a hotel built.
Great Charles Street southbound will have single lane traffic between Newhall Street and Suffolk Street Queensway/Brunel Street from 2 August.
The restrictions will remain in place until next year.
Some overnight closures of the A38 tunnels and other restrictions may be needed, the council said.
The incident happened on a footpath at the rear of Inverkip Drive, Dykehead, between 08:45 and 09:00 on Wednesday.
The girl kicked the man and managed to run off. She was uninjured but left badly shaken by the incident.
Police said the man ran off in the direction of Dyfrig Street. He was white, aged between 18 and 23, about 5ft 7in and slim.
He was wearing a black jacket and black trousers - possibly jogging trousers - and a black beanie hat.
Police have been carrying out door-to-door inquiries and reviewing CCTV footage.
Det Insp Kenny Dalrymple said: "It's imperative we locate this man and I am appealing to people in the local community to consider if they heard or saw something.
"At that time of the morning, people may have been getting ready to go out, perhaps to buy newspapers, take children to school or make their way to work, so you may have noticed something unusual or you may have seen the suspect running off.
"If you have any information, please do contact us and pass it on.
"I'm aware that this matter will be of concern to local people and I would like to reassure everyone that additional police officers will be on patrol in the area and anyone with any concerns can speak to these officers."
West Berkshire Council voted on Tuesday to close Wash Common Library in Newbury, saving it £580,000 a year.
At seven other sites the council is to cut the number of full-time librarians by more than 40%. It wants volunteers to help keep services afloat.
The council said it faced "squeezed" budgets.
It had planned to close eight out of nine of the borough's libraries, but has decided only Wash Common will be shut.
Newbury Library will retain a full service but staffing levels will in time be reduced though review and restructuring.
The council's mobile bus service will also be cut from two vehicles to one.
Councillor Dominic Boeck said: "The grim reality we face in terms of squeezed budgets is that we can no longer afford to run the service as we've done in the past."
But resident Tim Sims said: "Berkshire's a rich county with hundreds of hi-tech businesses... and yet it can't afford to keep up a few libraries which serve young and old alike."
Last year campaigners marched with mock gravestones to Newbury MP Richard Benyon's office to protest against the planned closures.
Singapore Airlines was the launch customer for the two-deck jet in 2007.
The airline has decided not to renew the A380 plane when the ten-year contract expires next year.
The news comes after Airbus more than halved its delivery target for the A380, raising fears it could slip back to making a loss from the aircraft.
A Singapore Airlines spokesperson said: "Our first five A380s are on 10-year leases, with options to extend. The first expires in October 2017, and we have decided not to extend it.
"For the other four, decisions will be made later."
But they added the airline had orders for five separate A380s with Airbus, which will start being delivered in the second half of 2017.
The A380 only began breaking even for Airbus last year.
In July, Airbus said it would still avoid losing money on the jet in 2017 with as few as 20 deliveries, but gave no further guidance.
Analysts say that big aircraft like the A380 and Boeing's 747 series have fallen out of favour.
Smaller jets can be more profitable as they are easier to fill and are cheaper to operate, analysts say.
Under the proposals, the amount of money paid to home owners and businesses producing electricity from roof-top solar and small wind turbines will be limited from January 2016.
Subsidy schemes could be closed to new entrants from the start of next year.
Ministers want to ensure that consumers who pay for the schemes through their bills get the best deal possible.
They admitted in July that spending on renewable energy schemes was set to be higher than expected.
Having already announced plans to limit cash paid to on-shore wind generation and large-scale solar farms, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is now proposing significant cutbacks for small-sized green energy producers.
Solar and wind energy installations of less than 5MW are supported by feed-in tariffs - schemes that pay producers a subsidy for the electricity they generate, plus a bonus for any electricity exported back to the national grid.
Under the new proposals, the amount to be paid from next year will fall to 1.63p per kilowatt hour from a current level of 12.92p for a new residential solar system.
The consultation says that government spending on feed-in tariffs should be limited to between £75m and £100m from 2016 to 2018/19.
But DECC warns that if that limit is breached then "the only alternative would be to end generation tariffs for new applicants as soon as legislatively possible," which is expected to be January next year.
The Solar Trade Association (STA) says the proposals are not good news and the idea that the scheme might end for new entrants could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"We regret that proposals to suddenly cut tariffs combined with the threat of closure of the scheme next January will spark a massive market rush," said Mike Landy from the STA.
"This is the antithesis of a sensible policy for achieving better public value for money while safeguarding the British solar industry."
In their risk assessment published with the proposals, the government acknowledges that there is a chance that the changes may result in "significantly reduced rates of deployment" but they expect the industry to prove resilient, and point to the fact that the UK has already exceeded installation levels for small-scale solar and wind that were expected by 2020.
This rapid uptake of the technologies over the past few years means there has been considerable overspend on tariffs, according to the government, and that has to be curtailed.
"Our support has driven down the cost of renewable energy significantly," said a DECC spokesman.
"As costs continue to fall and we move towards sustainable electricity investment, it becomes easier for parts of the renewables industry to survive without subsidies. The consultation launched today is the next part of the action we promised to take to ensure bill payers get the best deal possible".
Environmental groups were not impressed.
Greenpeace pointed out that the government's maximum additional spend on green technologies by 2018 would be approximately half of what it spends subsidising the coal industry.
Other groups called the changes "absurd".
"Of course the feed-in tariff should fall as solar becomes cheaper, but the government clearly plans to remove support entirely," said Alasdair Cameron from Friends of the Earth.
"This is politically motivated, and will take away power from people and hand it back to big energy firms."
The consultation period on the proposed changes will run until 23 October.
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The visitors deservedly went ahead as they capitalised on a defensive mix-up for Sone Aluko to nod home his first goal for Fulham from four yards.
The advantage was doubled when Tom Cairney cut through the home defence to tee up Matt Smith, who swept home.
New signing Callum Robinson headed in Jermaine Beckford's cross to halve the deficit, but Fulham held on.
Simon Grayson's Preston, who finished 11th in the Championship last season, improved as the game progressed and thought they had a late equaliser but Beckford was flagged offside after heading in from six yards.
The Lilywhites haven't won at home since February, and after only managing three shots on target against Fulham, they did little to suggest an upturn in fortunes.
The Cottagers sold their top goalscorer for the past two seasons Ross McCormack to Aston Villa, but they have now won both their opening league games including a fine win over Newcastle on the opening weekend.
Fulham announced the capture of Rayo Vallecano's Jozabed Sanchez Ruiz on Friday, who becomes Slavisa Jokanovic's ninth signing of the summer.
Preston manager Simon Grayson:
"When you go 2-0 down it's difficult to come back from but we certainly made Fulham work for the win.
"We gave away two disappointing goals. In the second half we started better but gave another bad goal away when three of our lads should have made challenges.
"It was disappointing in the end, there were positives from the game but we have to be better all round really."
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic:
"The season is very long and at the moment we are lucky to find good results.
"Matt Smith works very hard and I am sure he will help us in the future but I need more people in this position. The league has so many games, and we don't have a big enough squad to be ready for what is in front of us.
"I have talked about signings, Fulham need them. I want to be successful and so I need more options in my squad."
Match ends, Preston North End 1, Fulham 2.
Second Half ends, Preston North End 1, Fulham 2.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Tom Clarke.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Clarke (Preston North End).
Offside, Fulham. Tomas Kalas tries a through ball, but Cauley Woodrow is caught offside.
Substitution, Fulham. Tim Ream replaces Scott Malone.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Chris Humphrey.
Attempt missed. Alan Browne (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Paul Gallagher with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Offside, Preston North End. Tom Clarke tries a through ball, but Jermaine Beckford is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Bailey Wright (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Gallagher with a cross.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Scott Malone.
Attempt missed. Joe Garner (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Callum Robinson with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Foul by Kevin McDonald (Fulham).
Jermaine Beckford (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Alan Browne (Preston North End) header from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Humphrey.
Substitution, Preston North End. Chris Humphrey replaces Liam Grimshaw.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Fulham. Lasse Vigen Christensen replaces Floyd Ayité.
Foul by Scott Parker (Fulham).
Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tom Cairney (Fulham).
Paul Gallagher (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Anders Lindegaard.
Attempt saved. Scott Parker (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Offside, Fulham. Kevin McDonald tries a through ball, but Floyd Ayité is caught offside.
Substitution, Fulham. Cauley Woodrow replaces Matt Smith.
Tomas Kalas (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Garner (Preston North End).
Foul by Matt Smith (Fulham).
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Preston North End 1, Fulham 2. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jermaine Beckford with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match David Button (Fulham) because of an injury.
Substitution, Preston North End. Callum Robinson replaces Ben Pringle.
Substitution, Preston North End. Jermaine Beckford replaces Eoin Doyle.
Goal! Preston North End 0, Fulham 2. Matt Smith (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a fast break.
Attempt saved. Matt Smith (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
The 25-year-old Brazil international joined Chelsea in 2012, for £25 million.
Since then, he's appeared 203 times for the club, and scored 38 times.
In four and a half years at Stamford Bridge, he's won the Premier League, Europa League, and League Cup.
It's reported he will earn £400,000 a week playing for the Chinese Super League Club.
He was accompanied by Omani companions Mohammed Zadjali and Amer Al-Wahaibi.
The trio arrived on Wednesday in Doha, Qatar, after a 49-day trek on foot and by camel across 1,200 kilometres of Arabian desert known as the Rub' Al-Khali, meaning "The Empty Quarter".
They are the first people to complete this coast-to-coast journey, from Salalah in Oman to Doha, in 85 years.
They were following the route of an earlier British explorer, Bertram Thomas.
Mr Evans, 54, told the BBC the worst part was negotiating 250m-high dunes "like Alpine peaks" where their camels sank to their knees in the sand.
In a week that has seen the tragic death of another British explorer, Lt Col Henry Worsley, 55, after crossing Antarctica, this desert journey is a welcome piece of good news.
More than 1,000 well-wishers saw the team off in Salalah when they set out in December, carrying all the food they would need for the seven-week crossing.
Some accompanied the men for the first few kilometres and Evans said they were overwhelmed by hospitality from local tribes people in Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
"Twenty-eight goats, seven camels and three sheep have been slaughtered in our honour," he said.
Snakes and scorpions were frequently sighted and in southern Oman there was plentiful wildlife, which was all protected by law.
But once they crossed into Saudi Arabia, said Evans, there was almost no wildlife to speak of.
Just before halfway through, they reached towering sand dunes that left all three travellers dripping in sweat while the camels bellowed in protest, their knees sinking into the sand, and sometimes refusing to budge.
Throughout their journey their thoughts turned often to Bertram Thomas, who took 60 days to cross the sands with his Bedu guide. When he reached Doha in 1931 telegrams of congratulation poured in, including from King George V.
"Sometimes we went to wells that had been visited by both Bertram Thomas and [legendary British explorer] Sir Wilfred Thesiger," Mr Evans said.
The latter, who undertook a similar crossing in the late 1940s but did not reach as far as Doha, wrote in his book Arabian Sands of the extraordinary beauty and solitude of the desert.
He also complained that the discovery of oil had ruined the region.
He once told me that since it was now possible to drive across the desert in a 4x4 vehicle, "walking across it would be completely pointless".
That is clearly not a view shared by the trio who completed their crossing today.
"I have just sat in a chair for the first time in 49 days," Mr Evans added.
"We're about to have a big meal now… What a great adventure that was."
"Light Through Tall Windows" was recorded in the Mackintosh library by the GSA choir on Sunday.
It will be released next year to help pay for the restoration of the the Grade A-listed building whose upper floors were gutted by fire in 2014.
It will also fund a planned expansion of the art school's Garnethill campus.
"Light Through Tall Windows" is a collaborative work between two GSA alumni.
The lyrics were penned by writer and broadcaster Muriel Gray while the music was composed by Jamie Sansbury, founder and musical director of the GSA Choir.
Describing the work, Mr Sansbury said: "This piece is an attempt to set down, in a more tangible way, the joy the Mackintosh building instils in students and staff at the school, the enduring enlightenment it represents, and the impact that has upon them for the rest of their lives.
"The work is dedicated to the staff, students and alumni of the GSA.
"When we completed the piece we knew that we wanted the choir to premiere the work, and we hoped that it would be an important creative response to the fire, but it was only much later that the possibility of recording in the library itself - the very heart of the building - came about."
The work is now on pre-order with a release scheduled for early 2017.
All proceeds of sale will go directly to the Mackintosh Campus Appeal.
The art nouveau Mackintosh building was badly damaged by fire on 23 May 2014.
An investigation by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service concluded the blaze was caused by flammable gases from a canister of expanding foam.
The report said the gases ignited as they came into contact with the hot surface of a projector.
A blue Dacia Sandero mounted a kerb on the A4106 Tythegston road, just before the A48 roundabout, and struck the 19-year-olds at about 16:00 BST on Friday.
The critically injured man has been flown by air ambulance to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
A 49-year-old driver of the Dacia is helping officers from South Wales Police with their enquires.
The second injured man, understood to be less seriously hurt, is being treated at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.
The 23-year-old suffered a significant tear in his quad and is likely to miss the autumn internationals having become the latest player to get hurt during England's training camp in Brighton.
Wasps' Sam Jones broke his leg while Bath's Anthony broke his jaw.
"He was loaded pretty heavily on Monday, far heavier than we would have loaded him with his training," he said.
Nowell had missed the start of the season after having surgery on a thumb injury, and had only made one replacement appearance.
But Baxter was particularly critical of the England medical team for failing to realise the extent of his star player's injury.
"We were told there was no significant injury and England didn't feel it was a big issue, just an overload issue, but when we get him back here and we scan him we find a significant tear of his quad," the former lock added.
"It's not a one or two centimetre tear, we're talking a nine or 10 centimetre tear.
"For that not to get picked up is a bit annoying and now we've realised that he's going to be out for a significant period of time."
Premiership rugby have criticised the timing and intensity of the training camp, which also led to Ollie Devoto and Henry Slade missing training time when they returned to Sandy Park.
Baxter says Premiership clubs must get together with England to ensure this situation does not happen again.
"Injuries will happen, but the amount of injuries that came out of this two-day camp are so significant that if questions weren't asked, it wouldn't just be remiss of us as Premiership coaches, it would be very remiss of England not to ask how all those injuries happened.
"I don't really care if England think they have an unlimited supply of players, that's fine, but there isn't an unlimited supply of players.
"You don't have to have many training camps where you pick up five or six significant injuries before you get through your whole playing group."
Mr Jones announced the Welsh Government had appointed officials to represent Wales in EU negotiations.
He reiterated his support for the UK remaining in the single market - but said he was not making the same demands on Europe's system of freedom of movement.
Opposition parties have accused him of being slow to respond to Brexit.
"We've got to sell Wales to the world... like never before," Mr Jones said, speaking at Cardiff's Cathays Park.
"We need to reassert our confidence and we need to do it now."
Mr Jones revealed he is visiting the US next week as part of his drive to drum up business, while Economy Secretary Ken Skates is heading to Japan in October.
Mr Jones said the Welsh Government had "appointed a team of senior government officials to represent Wales in the forthcoming EU negotiations and to fight for Wales' best interests on an international stage".
Asked for further detail, a Welsh Government spokesman said the "European Transition Team", had been set up as part of the office of the first minister to support him in co-ordinating the Welsh Government's negotiating strategy.
Calling for the UK to stay in the single market, Mr Jones told the press conference: "I don't advocate that things should stay as they are for the free movement of people.
"What I advocate is that things should stay as they are regarding the free movement of goods and services."
But he said it was "right to say the only model at the moment that exists involves accepting both".
Mr Jones also set out Welsh Labour's law-making priorities at the press conference, called to mark 100 days since he was reinstated as first minister.
He said an assembly bill on what will replace stamp duty in Wales - Land Transaction Tax - would be introduced next month, followed "swiftly" by a new public health bill, a law on landfill disposal tax, a trade union bill and legislation to abolish the Right to Buy.
A law to amend the Welsh Language measure will be introduced in the new assembly term and a development bank for businesses in Wales would be operational by the second quarter of 2017, he said.
News earlier in August of a committee to advise on Brexit was dismissed by Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies as a "last-minute scramble for ideas".
A spokesperson for the Welsh Conservatives said: "Catch-up Carwyn's approach to governance has to date been defined by a distinct lack of proactivity and a drought of ideas - and this announcement is more evidence of that."
Analysis by BBC Wales political editor Nick Servini
It has become clear that Carwyn Jones will define his approach to Brexit negotiations around the need for the UK to remain in the single market.
The problem is that the free movement of goods and services may be entirely connected to the free movement of people, which could be unacceptable to many of those who voted to leave.
He is banking on access to the single market still being possible at the same time as the UK regains more control of its borders. That could be a big ask.
His tone was markedly different to the Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns, who will represent Wales at the cabinet, where the big early decisions on Britain's negotiating position will be made.
Mr Cairns talked about opportunities and entrepreneurs thriving on change, while Mr Jones spoke of investments being put on hold and potential problems for attracting investment.
There have been reports that Tevez, 33, who joined Shanghai from Boca Juniors in December, wanted to leave the club.
The ex-Manchester City striker has asked Shanghai to allow him to return home for treatment on a calf injury.
Tevez, who signed a two-year contract, has scored twice in 11 games.
He is one of the world's highest paid players, earning £634,615 a week, according to the Sun.
"According to the request from Carlos Tevez to our club, after discussion, we now approve his request," Shanghai were reported as saying in the South China Morning Post.
"He's permitted to go back to Argentina and receive treatment at the Clinica Jorge Bombicino and he must rejoin the team on 30 August and participate in training."
During the 2010-11 season, Tevez fled to Argentina for three months following a disagreement with Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini.
He lost almost £10m in wages, fines and lost bonuses during the dispute.
Robin Garton, 69, from Devizes, Wiltshire, has not been seen since 25 September.
He disappeared while on a hillwalking trip in the north west Highlands.
Extensive searches have been made of Glen Coe since then involving helicopters, mountain rescue teams and search dogs.
Police divers have made searches of the River Coe.
Mr Garton, a former art dealer and the founder of a climate change charity, is described as 6ft 2in tall, of slim to medium build, with fair, thinning hair. He occasionally wears glasses.
Winnall's 10th of the season from Conor Hourihane's cross gave the Tykes the lead, while fellow striker Tom Bradshaw was denied by goalkeeper Jason Steele.
Rovers, who had Darragh Lenihan sent off late on for chopping down Sam Morsy, pressed for an equaliser.
However, Watkins' injury-time strike ensured the points for the hosts.
With three wins from their past four games before Boxing Day's match, Barnsley had resurrected their early-season form and this victory kept them in touch with the top six going into 2017.
Their rediscovered confidence was reflected in their start, as Bradshaw had chances to score before Winnall nodded in the opener.
The goal sparked the visitors into a response, with Adam Davies in the Reds' goal worked hard by efforts from Marvin Emnes, Wes Brown and Sam Gallagher.
Blackburn's desperation for points was evident in their efforts towards the end of the game, first in further chances for Corry Evans, Gallagher and Emnes again, and then in the frustration of Lenihan's dismissal.
Watkins' goal was the final act for Barnsley, condemning Rovers to a fourth defeat in succession.
Barnsley head coach Paul Heckingbottom:
"Avoiding relegation wasn't our focus. That limits you to wanting to finish fourth from bottom.
"Our focus is to be as good as we can be so we won't limit ourselves in that respect, we'll just try and pick up as many points as possible.
"The players have got every right to be buzzing, they've been terrific and long may it continue.
"You are where you deserve to be, so as we're ninth we deserve to be ninth. We won't get carried away and will keep trying to get better."
Blackburn head coach Owen Coyle:
"There's a sense of frustration for me at the end when there's a stonewall penalty as far as I was concerned. Then of course a couple of minutes later we're down to 10 men.
"There were little things we could have done better in the game, we created chances to get back into it.
"We certainly know we're capable of turning things around quickly and moving up the table to where we want to be."
Match ends, Barnsley 2, Blackburn Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 2, Blackburn Rovers 0.
Attempt saved. Liam Feeney (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sam Gallagher.
Hand ball by Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers).
Goal! Barnsley 2, Blackburn Rovers 0. Marley Watkins (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Bree following a fast break.
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Barnsley).
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Adam Davies.
Attempt saved. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hope Akpan with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marvin Emnes.
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the red card.
Sam Morsy (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Substitution, Barnsley. Jacob Brown replaces Tom Bradshaw.
Attempt missed. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Marley Watkins.
Sam Morsy (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Barnsley).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Tom Bradshaw (Barnsley) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Conor Hourihane.
Hand ball by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marley Watkins (Barnsley).
Attempt saved. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Feeney with a cross.
Substitution, Barnsley. Adam Armstrong replaces Sam Winnall.
Substitution, Barnsley. Marley Watkins replaces Ryan Kent.
Attempt saved. Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Kent.
Foul by Sam Winnall (Barnsley).
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Liam Feeney replaces Craig Conway.
Attempt missed. Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) hits the right post with a left footed shot from more than 35 yards.
Attempt saved. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Sam Winnall (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers).
Foul by Sam Morsy (Barnsley).
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The survey of more than 2,000 UK adults for the British Council found 40% were embarrassed by their language skills.
But nearly two-thirds (65%) thought it was important to learn a few local words or phrases before going abroad.
The poll comes as exam regulator Ofqual notes a decline this summer in A-level and GCSE entries for languages.
While other traditional subjects have seen a rise in entries this year, Ofqual said languages were continuing to fall in popularity.
The Russell Group of research intensive universities said this further fall in the number of students studying foreign languages was concerning.
"Languages are vitally important to the UK if it is to be fully engaged with the world," said the group's director general Dr Wendy Piatt.
The British Council poll found a quarter (25%) of the 2,098 UK adults surveyed said the thought of having to speak a language on holiday made them feel nervous.
Over a third (36%) said they relied on the assumption that everyone would speak English in the country they are visiting.
Just under a fifth (19%) said they would choose a holiday destination where they knew they would not have to communicate in another language.
Only 16% of those surveyed said that they could speak a foreign language to a high level.
But almost half (48%) said they enjoyed trying out their language skills while on holiday.
Mark Herbert, head of schools programmes at the British Council, said: "While it's good to see that Brits are generally willing to have a go at speaking the local language when on holiday, too many of us still rely too heavily on English while abroad.
"The reality is that speaking a foreign language doesn't just help you to get the most out of your holiday - it is a rewarding way to connect with another culture and, with employers now crying out for more language skills, it can boost your job prospects too.
"Ultimately having more of us being able to speak at least a little of a foreign language is good for the UK's long-term competitiveness in the increasingly globalised world."
The Association for Language Learning said learning a language was not just important for education and skills, but also for the economy, security and community relations.
President of the association, René Koglbauer, said: "At times of fear of 'otherness', it is crucial to emphasise the importance of language learning and its unique contribution to broadening the minds of our youngsters, their awareness of cultural differences and their critical appraisal of misconceptions."
Andy Dowie's own goal gave the visitors the lead before Dumbarton hit back through Christian Nade.
Two goals in the last 20 minutes from Declan McDaid and Robbie Crawford kept Ian McCall's men three points ahead of Ayrshire rivals Kilmarnock.
Killie were 4-2 winners over Clyde to gain their first points of the group.
Rory McKenzie gave Killie an early lead before Darren Ramsay and Kevin Nicoll edged Clyde in front.
That is how it stayed until 53 minutes when summer signing Dominic Thomas scored, with the former Motherwell man adding his second soon after.
After McKenzie scored again to make it 4-2, Jordan Stewart was sent off for the visitors following a late challenge to curtail any hope of a Clyde comeback.
In Group F, Greenock Morton scored twice in the final five minutes before beating Queen's Park 4-2 in a penalty shootout.
The Spiders had taken the lead through Bryan Wharton with 20 minutes to go, and when Thomas Orr scored with nine minutes left it looked to have earned the League One side a shock win.
Bob McHugh turned in Scott Tiffoney's cut-back to set up a frantic finale, and Darren Barr's volley two minutes into time-added-on took the game to penalties.
Morton won the bonus point to stay top of the group on five points with Tiffoney, Andy Murdoch, Ricki Lamie and Gary Harkins all scoring from the spot for the hosts, with Adam Cummins and Bryan Wharton netting for the visitors.
Elsewhere in Group F, Berwick Rangers also needed a late goal in the 90 minutes, but lost 4-2 on penalties to Edinburgh City.
Ashley Grimes had twice given Edinburgh the lead but goals from Aaron Murrell and Pat Scullion pegged them back.
The capital side won the shootout after Chris MacDonald and Andrew Irvine missed for Berwick.
It follows a police operation which removed a protest camp set up on a test drilling site since April 2014.
About 30 protesters were evicted on Tuesday, after being served with a court order compelling them to leave the area in November.
Up to 400 campaigners chanted and made speeches during a protest at the site which has been cleared by bailiffs.
They claim they were "denied their right to peacefully protest" after police closed off Duttons Lane during the eviction.
Nine people were charged with a number of offences after the eviction, including aggravated trespass and obstructing a police officer.
Cheshire Police warned on Twitter the event could lead to disruption on the roads around Upton and Chester.
Patrols were deployed for reassurance, the force added.
A Frack Free Dee Coaliton spokesperson said: "The events of Tuesday have merely strengthened the resolve of our communities to continue in our opposition to extreme energy technologies being utilised here or anywhere.
"The protests will continue daily, outside of the police blockade whilst it remains in situ and then outside of the site once it is removed.
"Upton Community Protection camp may be gone but the community is not."
An IGas spokesman earlier told the BBC the company respected "the right to peaceful protest, [but] these protesters [at the camp] were trespassing as determined by the High Court".
Planning permission for IGas to run tests at the site runs out on 28 May.
David Lee, 56, of Carrickaness Road, Dungannon, showed "complete disregard" for rules protecting the food chain.
He was convicted of fraud and several other charges, ordered to pay £6,000 compensation and fined £3,600.
Lee turned up late at night at Patrick McGorrey's farm at Clonoe in August 2015 with more cattle than agreed.
The animals were not the specification ordered, thus affecting their resale value.
A number were also sick, leaving the family with a £2,000 vet's bill.
The McGorreys said they believed their elderly father had been "taken advantage of".
The judge at Dungannon Magistrates' Court said Lee had demonstrated contempt for the rules on which food safety in Northern Ireland are based.
Lee plans to appeal the fraud conviction, effectively postponing the compensation payment.
The judge said the Northern Ireland farming community depended on the "integrity" of the animal movement system.
He said it not only underpinned human health but provided assurances in the event of an animal disease outbreak.
The judge said he found it "alarming" that someone like Lee with his "contemptuous attitude to the rules" could be so heavily involved in the cattle trade.
The court was been told that he had sold 3,000 cattle in a ten-month period.
His record keeping was described as "shambolic".
Lee was given a three-month prison sentence suspended for two years on the fraud charge.
He got further suspended sentences for failing to notify the Department of Agriculture on the animals' movements and failing to keep a herd register.
Spanish giants Real have made a world record £86m bid for the forward.
Bale, 24, was due back at training on Tuesday after a break in Marbella.
It is a dream move for him but I think in the end this could have happened in a different way
"He is involved in a big transfer to Real Madrid and, if it happens, we wish him all the best, but the fact that he hasn't turned up is not the correct behaviour," said Villas-Boas.
"I gave the player the weekend off. Monday was a day off for the squad. It is up to the club now to decide if it's a fineable offence. I've given my opinion on it, it's up to them to decide whether they act on it or not."
Under rules laid down by the Professional Footballers' Association, a player can only be fined two weeks' wages, which in Bale's case would amount to around £160,000.
Bale has not featured for Spurs or Wales this season due to a foot injury.
He has been left out Tottenham's squad for Thursday's Europa League second leg against Dinamo Tbilisi but has been called up by Wales for this month's World Cup qualifiers against Macedonia and Serbia.
Bale has been linked with Real all summer and Villas-Boas says the record-breaking transfer "could happen very, very soon".
The former Chelsea boss added: "It is a dream move for him but I think in the end this could have happened in a different way.
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"At the moment, the two clubs are speaking. I suppose it could go to the last day or it could happen in next two days. But you wouldn't expect the biggest transfer in world football to happen easily."
Tottenham are reluctant to sell until they have signed a replacement.
They have been linked with Roma's £30m-rated Argentina forward Erik Lamela, but they missed out on Brazil midfielder Willian, who joined Premier League rivals Chelsea.
"I have told you that we will continue re-strengthening the squad, so we are looking at different positions to make us stronger," said Villas-Boas.
"In the next couple of days, we will have further news and I think we will see further additions at Tottenham."
Villas-Boas is also annoyed with England manager Roy Hodgson for not consulting him before selecting Andros Townsend for international duty.
Tottenham have spent £59m this summer.
In July, they broke their transfer record to sign Brazil midfielder Paulinho for a fee of just under £17m from Corinthians.
In August, they spent £26m on Valencia's Spain striker Roberto Soldado (pictured).
Spurs have also bought 25-year-old French midfielder Etienne Capoue, 25, for £9m from Ligue 1 club Toulouse and Belgium international winger Nacer Chadli from Dutch club FC Twente for £7m.
"I would like to give you a little bit more information but the fact (is) that I wasn't contacted in any way or form by Roy Hodgson regarding the player call-up," said Villas-Boas.
"I would have preferred to give my opinion on the fact that he gets called up so soon."
Hodgson handed call-ups to Steven Caulker and Tom Huddlestone for last year's friendly in Sweden, but they have not played since, while Jake Livermore has been discarded by England after just one cap.
Villas-Boas worries that Townsend may end up in a similar position.
"If there is continuity to the future of Andros in the national team, it's a great step for him," said Villas-Boas.
"If there is no continuity in the future, if his performances change in some way or if the player doesn't get involved in Tottenham and, in the end, he gets dried out, then it's a big surprise for me, because I think a player who gets called up for the national team after two games should have respect and continuity towards the future.
"So I assume from this moment that there will be that belief. I can recall, last season, we had Jake Livermore, Tom Huddlestone, Steven Caulker, called up for England.
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The tank at Watery Lane Industrial Estate, Willenhall, contained an estimated 35,000 litres of the corrosive mixture, which was diluted.
About 40 people were evacuated from the premises involved and most sent home. It is not yet known how much of the tank's contents has leaked.
The Environment Agency is investigating a spill that has entered Waddens Brook, a tributary of the River Tame.
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A Severn Trent Water spokeswoman said investigations were being carried out as to whether acid had entered the sewers, but confirmed the general water supply was not affected.
The fire service has said its immediate priority was to manage the flow of acid and how it was dispersing to stop it entering the drains and water system.
It said it believed the premises specialised in galvanising and the immediate site had been cordoned off.
No-one is believed to have been hurt and the cause of the collapse was yet to be determined, the service said.
Staff from nearby factories were earlier asked to stay indoors and close windows.
Lime has been used to neutralise the acid and this "has to be done in a slow and controlled way", the fire service said earlier.
In the 55-minute video posted online, Zawahiri pledged renewed loyalty to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
Correspondents say his stated allegiance is an apparent snub to Islamic State (IS) militants.
IS is challenging al-Qaeda to lead worldwide Islamist militancy.
Announcing the formation of "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent" using a mixture of his native Arabic and Urdu widely spoken in Pakistan, Zawahiri appeared eager to regain some of the limelight, correspondents say.
"[Al-Qaeda] is an entity that was formed to promulgate the call of the reviving imam, Sheikh Osama Bin Laden. May Allah have mercy upon him," Zawahiri said.
He urged the "umma", or Muslim nation, to "wage jihad against its enemies, to liberate its land, to restore its sovereignty and to revive its caliphate".
Zawahiri said "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent" would be good news for Muslims in Myanmar (Burma), Bangladesh and in the Indian states of Assam, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir, where they would be rescued from injustice and oppression.
It was always going to be a challenge for Osama Bin Laden's successor to match his iconic status and maintain al-Qaeda as the most powerful jihadist group in the world.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the nominal leader of al-Qaeda, is a 63-year-old former Egyptian eye surgeon said to be long on words and short on charm.
For over a decade he has dodged drone strikes and hit squads by hiding out in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
But apart from issuing occasionally long-winded treatises and videos, his critics say he has allowed al-Qaeda to wither while Islamic State (IS) has grown into everything al-Qaeda tried - and failed - to be.
While al-Qaeda's remaining leaders hide away in farms and flats in Pakistan, IS has seized and held actual territory.
It has a de facto capital, Raqqa, a disciplined command structure, an estimated $2bn (£1.2bn) war chest.
It has the world's attention and despite its sadistic atrocities, it is enjoying a surge in recruitment that Zawahiri could only dream about.
India's intelligence and security services are studying the announcement by Zawahiri very closely and have also asked their state units to remain vigilant on any possible threat.
A spokesperson for India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) told the Associated Press news agency that the statement was "a matter of serious concern".
"But there is nothing to worry about. We have a strong government at the federal level," the spokesperson said.
Counter-terrorism experts say al-Qaeda's ageing leadership is vying with IS to recruit followers after the success of militants in the Middle East in attracting young followers worldwide by conquering large amounts of territory across Iraq and Syria.
IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi describes himself as a "caliph" - or head of state - and has called for the support of all Muslims around the world.
The two groups fell out in 2013 over the IS expansion into Syria, where Baghdadi's followers have carried out mass murder, decapitations and crucifixions.
On Wednesday it emerged that Pakistani militants linked to IS have been distributing pamphlets in the north-western city of Peshawar calling on people to support their idea of creating an Islamic caliphate.
Graffiti and car stickers supporting IS have also started appearing in the city and its outskirts, reports the BBC Shahzeb Jillani in Pakistan.
The material, published in the Pashto and Dari languages, urges people to support IS in its fight for a grand Islamic rule.
Patients are at risk of "unsafe care" if additional pressure is piled on already heavily burdened general practices, according to RCGP Scotland.
Planners should be obliged to ensure safe healthcare provision when considering new developments, it said.
The Scottish government wants to see 50,000 affordable homes by 2021.
It said it was considering recommendations from an independent planning review report relating to infrastructure.
Plans to build 1,000 new council houses were announced by North Lanarkshire Council in August.
And earlier this month Springfield Properties revealed plans to build 1,700 new homes at 13 sites across Scotland.
However the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) claims major developments could have a "direct impact" on GP surgeries in the areas concerned.
Chairman Dr Miles Mack said: "Any attempts to tackle Scotland's insufficient housing supply must consider the impact upon local general practices, many of which are struggling to survive while serving the size of communities they are already responsible for.
"Many GPs simply do not have the capacity to deal with larger lists of patients.
"What appears to be good news for housing could have disastrous implications for the healthcare service."
He said that each new home was likely to house at least two people. The average size of a household in Scotland is 2.19, according to the 2011 census.
Dr Mack added: "What consideration has been given to the capacity of the existing local GP practices?
"Clearly, these people will mostly already be accommodated elsewhere but at a time when practices are restricting their lists across the country it is absolutely crucial that serious thought be given to the services for patients once they arrive in their new area.
"The planning system must take responsibility for the impact of decisions on GP services. Until they do, patients face uncertainty with the possibility of their practices simply buckling under added pressures."
Earlier this week the Scottish government came under fire after it emerged that Scotland will face a shortfall of 830 GPs in 2020.
It emerged in June that one in five GP surgeries in Scotland has a vacancy.
The Scottish government's planning minister, Kevin Stewart, said he was working on recommendations from an independent planning review report, which relates to the planning and funding of infrastructure.
He added: "Planning authorities can draw from a range of sources to support infrastructure, including the use of planning conditions and legal agreements."
At least 4,000 people are besieged in the town by Syrian government forces.
Speaking in Geneva, UN emergency relief co-ordinator Stephen O'Brien said the Syrian government had ignored "countless" requests for aid to be allowed in.
Residents of the town last received a delivery of aid in November 2012.
UN officials were able to make a needs assessment earlier this month, and found a severe lack of food and medicine and near complete destruction of the water supply, leading to shortages of safe drinking water.
The town's electricity supply was cut off more than three years ago.
"We will continue to press the Syrian authorities relentlessly for us to have that safe unimpeded access to Daraya," Mr O'Brien said.
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The UN says Syria's shaky cessation of hostilities has allowed significant aid to 12 of 18 other besieged areas, the most recent being this week to the northern town of Rastan, whose 120,000 people had received no aid for over a year.
Almost half a million people live under siege in Syria, the UN estimates. Last week, relief agencies evacuated 500 wounded people from four besieged Syrian towns, in what has been described as the largest such operation so far in the five-year conflict.
Half were brought out from towns blockaded by pro-government forces, and half from towns blocked off by rebels.
Meanwhile, peace talks that restarted in Geneva earlier this month are in difficulty. It is not clear whether a partial truce that has so far lasted eight weeks will hold.
Opposition representatives walked out of the talks last week, blaming government violations of the ceasefire.
Scott Wiseman, Joe Anyon and Jamie Ness will also leave the Iron.
The club have taken up the options on the contracts of Noel Burdett, Jack Dyche and Levi Sutton.
New terms are currently being offered to Stephen Dawson, Neal Bishop and Kyle Wootton, while the club say negotiations are continuing with Luke Daniels and Craig Davies.
Officials said the voter turnout was 66% - unusually high for the city.
The ruling Congress party - which is seeking a fourth consecutive term - and the main opposition BJP are the main rivals for the 70-seat assembly.
But the new Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party has emerged as a critical player.
Led by a former civil servant Arvind Kejriwal, the party was born out of a strong anti-corruption movement that swept India two years ago.
Though both the Congress party and BJP have dismissed talk about the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) being a serious contender, a number of pre-election polls suggest that the new party could upset their calculations.
More than 10 million voters were eligible to cast their ballots at 11,753 polling stations in Wednesday's polls. Over 800 candidates are contesting seats.
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Delhi, which has traditionally seen low turnouts in local elections, seems to be in a rush to vote this time.
Polling stations saw huge crowds as soon as voting began.
There is a heavy police presence and numerous checkpoints on major roads.
Voters appear baffled by a new rule which bars them from carrying their mobile phones inside the polling booths.
Many of them are stranded outside the booths wondering what to do with their phones.
Some people who say they have voted for decades are complaining that their names are missing from the list.
Tens of thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers were deployed to help conduct a peaceful election.
Long lines of voters outside many polling booths forced the Election Commission to extend voting hours to 19:15 India time (13:45GMT) - the official closing time was 17:00.
"It has been a good turnout all over Delhi," the Press Trust of India quoted Delhi's Chief Electoral officer Vijay Dev as saying.
In the last assembly polls held in 2008, turnout was 57.58%.
Officials said the polling had been "peaceful and there were no reports of any untoward incident".
The AAP and the Congress party have fielded candidates in all 70 constituencies, while the BJP fielded candidates in 66 seats.
The Congress campaign has been led by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit, 75, who is seeking a record fourth consecutive term in office promising "inclusive development".
The BJP's campaign has been led by the chief ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan, a doctor who has promised to cut electricity costs and bring down rising vegetable prices if voted to power.
Mr Kejriwal's AAP, which drew big election crowds, has promised to set up a citizens' ombudsman, also known as the Jan Lokpal, cut electricity prices and supply free water, among other things.
Both the Congress Party and BJP see Delhi as critical to its ambitions of winning next year's national elections.
Both the parties put up their top leaders, including the BJP's prime-ministerial candidate for next year's general elections Narendra Modi and Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, to campaign in the Indian capital.
But a robust performance by the AAP could upset calculations and even lead to a hung assembly, experts say.
The Times of India has called this a "historic" poll and the "most interesting" election Delhi has ever seen.
Delhi's polls conclude key assembly elections in five Indian states - Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram - held between 11 November and 4 December. Votes will be counted on 8 December.
A total of 110 million voters were eligible to cast their votes in the five states.
Correspondents say the results will give a sense of how the electorate may vote in the general elections due in 2014.
At a heavily guarded courtroom in Amsterdam, the eight men and a woman were sentenced to up to six years.
Six men were convicted as members of a network aiming to recruit young people to fight with Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in Syria.
Two of those are believed to be in Syria and were tried in absentia.
Three were described as followers, including the woman, who was jailed for seven days for a retweet which constituted incitement.
The nine were arrested last year in a large police investigation into jihadist activities in the Schilderswijk suburb of The Hague.
"The criminal organisation aimed to incite and recruit 'brothers' to travel to fight in Syria and financed them to that end," presiding Judge Rene Elkerbout said.
Prosecutors said the group had formed "a criminal and terror organisation".
The nine had all denied any wrongdoing, saying that religious freedom and freedom of speech had allowed them to proclaim a pro-jihadist message.
The BBC's Anna Holligan, who was in court, says the trial has raised fundamental questions in the Netherlands about the limits of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and activism.
The defendants' full names were not given in court. Azzedine C, 33, was sentenced to six years in jail, as were two men tried in absentia - Hatim R, 26, and Anis Z, 24, who are believed to be fighting in Syria.
Hicham El O, 30, who was described as a returned fighter from Syria and active in the group, was sentenced to five years in prison.
Rudolph H, 25, and Oussama C, 19, were both jailed for three years.
Jordi J, 22, was sentenced to 155 days and Moussa L, 41, was jailed for 43 days. Imane B, 26 - the only woman in the group was given seven days in jail for sending an inciting message.
With one last chance to make a pitch to the American public that he should be trusted with the presidency, the Republican nominee had to make efforts to expand his base of support.
He had to find a way to distance himself from the allegation that he has a history of sexual harassment.
He had to position himself as the change candidate - just days after a Fox poll showed that Hillary Clinton, whose party has held the presidency for eight years, was beating him on the question of who would "change the country for the better".
Instead, after roughly half an hour of something resembling an actual policy debate about the Supreme Court, gun rights, abortion and even immigration, the old Donald Trump - the one who constantly interrupted his opponent, sparred with the moderator and lashed out at enemies real and perceived - emerged.
He called Mrs Clinton a liar and a "nasty woman".
He said the women accusing him of sexual harassment bordering on assault were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges.
He said the media were "poisoning the minds" of the public. And, most notably, he refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election if he loses.
Mrs Clinton had her own moments where she was put on the defensive - on her emails, on the Clinton Foundation and on embarrassing details revealed in the Wikileaks hack.
The difference, however, is that Mrs Clinton largely kept her poise and successfully changed the topic back to subjects where she was more comfortable. It was, in fact, a master class in parry-and-strike debate strategy.
The key takeaway from this debate, however - the headline that Americans will wake up to read in the morning - will certainly be Mr Trump's refusal to back way from his "rigged" election claims.
That was what Mr Trump wanted to say, but it isn't something the American people - or American democracy - needed to hear.
Mrs Clinton's skill at deflecting attacks and baiting Mr Trump into unhelpful answers first was on display when moderator Chris Wallace brought up a line from one of her Wall Street speeches - revealed in the Wikileaks hack - that she endorsed a hemispheric free-trade and open-immigration zone.
After saying she was only talking about an open energy market - an assertion that seems somewhat questionable - she tried to turn the question into a discussion of whether Mr Trump would denounce the Russian government, which US officials have said is behind the cyber-attack.
Mr Trump actually called Mrs Clinton out on her attempted "great pivot" - but then he went on to get bogged down on the Russian issue.
He said he'd never met Mr Putin (although he boasted during a primary debate that he had talked with him in a television green room), and said that Mrs Clinton was a liar and the real Russian "puppet".
Oh, and this all came up when the debate topic was supposed to be immigration.
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Mrs Clinton's next chance to pull a rhetorical switch-a-roo came during the economic portion of the debate. After a discussion of their tax proposals - and a predictable exchange of allegations over who's cutting and who's raising them too much - Mr Trump went after Mrs Clinton on her past support of trade deals.
When she waffled a bit, he tried to tag her with a line he used in an earlier debate with some success.
Why didn't Mrs Clinton enact her economic reforms over her 30 years in the public sphere? Mr Trump asked.
"You were very much involved in every aspect of this country," he said. "And you do have experience. I say the one thing you have over me is experience, but it's bad experience, because what you've done has turned out badly."
The problem with reusing attack lines is that sometimes your opponent prepares a defence - and Mrs Clinton had a scathing response ready to fly.
She said that while she was defending children's rights in the 1970s, Mr Trump was defending himself against charges he engaged in housing discrimination against African-Americans.
When Mrs Clinton was speaking out for women's rights as first lady in the 1990s, Mr Trump was taunting a beauty contest winner about her weight. And when she was in the White House situation room watching the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, Mr Trump was hosting a television reality show.
"I'm happy to compare my 30 years of experience, what I've done for this country, trying to help in every way I could, especially kids and families get ahead and stay ahead, with your 30 years," she said.
"I'll let the American people make that decision."
It was a scripted set-piece, yes, but it drew blood.
Quick on the heels of the exchange about experience came the question Mr Trump had to expect - but didn't appear ready for. What did he think of all the women who had come forward since the last debate to allege that, when it came to sexual harassment, Mr Trump's actions matched his candid words in that recently revealed recording?
The Republican nominee's response was that the women were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges and that the allegations have been "largely debunked" - which, when you think about it, isn't exactly a blanket denial.
In the last debate, Mrs Clinton appeared to hold back a bit in her condemnation of Mr Trump on the topic.
This time - perhaps inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama's well-received speech condemning Mr Trump last week - was much sharper.
"Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger," she said.
"He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like. So we now know what Donald thinks and what he says and how he acts toward women. That's who Donald is."
Mr Trump's response, that no one respects women more than he does, was met by laughter in the debate hall and the nearby media hall.
Mrs Clinton brushed off his efforts to turn the topic to her private email server.
He may have lost this election even without the live-mic revelation two weeks ago, but it's becoming increasingly clear his campaign has been irreparably wounded by it.
During the presidential "fitness" portion of the debate, Wallace had some pointed questions for Mrs Clinton, as well.
He asked her to defend the Clinton Foundation against allegations it was a pay-to-play organisation that granted insider access to the state department in exchange for big-money donations.
Mrs Clinton responded by defending the foundation's actions - noting its high ratings from non-profit watchdogs and its global health efforts.
Mr Trump called it a "criminal enterprise" - but then Mrs Clinton was able to push the conversation to Mr Trump's foundation, which has had its own share of controversies.
She noted that Mr Trump had used foundation money to purchase a six-foot portrait of himself. "Who does that?" she asked.
Mr Trump tried to defend himself, but Wallace wouldn't let him off the hook, asking him why he used charitable money to settle a fine levied on his Florida resort.
The Republican's response was only that the money had gone to charity.
An exchange on the Clinton Foundation could have been - perhaps should have been - a winning moment for Mr Trump. Instead, it was another opportunity for Mrs Clinton to knock him off his stride.
Mr Trump was already largely sunk at this point in the debate. Mrs Clinton had managed to dodge his most dangerous attacks and goaded him into the kind of badgering behaviour that had garnered him negative reviews after the first debate. He needed a clear victory and, at the absolute best, he had fought Mrs Clinton to a draw.
Then he was asked whether, despite his talk of rigged voting at his rallies this week, he'd follow his running mate's lead and pledge to accept the results of the election.
"I will look at it at the time," he said. "I'm not looking at anything now."
It was a comment that will launch a thousand headlines and dominate discussion in the days ahead.
It was also just the start of a full-spectrum tirade by Mr Trump against a media that "poisoned the minds of voters" and Mrs Clinton, who he said should have been prohibited from even running for the presidency.
Mrs Clinton's response was that the Republican's remarks were "horrifying".
She then deftly expanded her response to paint Mr Trump as a man who cries "rigged" whenever he faces a situation he doesn't like - whether it's the FBI decision not to prosecute her for her email server, his loss in the Iowa caucuses earlier this year, the lawsuit against his eponymous for-profit university or even his reality TV show's defeat at the Emmy Awards. ("Should have gotten it," Mr Trump piped in.)
"He's talking down our democracy," she concluded. "And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position."
Talking to Republican officeholders in the media spin room after the debate, their discomfort with Mr Trump's statement was palpable.
Some explained it away as a tongue-in-cheek joke. Others said it was simply Mr Trump not wanting to consider defeat before Election Day.
The reality, however, is Republican politicians owe their positions - past, current and future - to the people's vote, and they rely on the legitimacy granted by opponents who concede when defeated.
Mr Trump has called American democracy into question - and when he shakes that particular tree, it's impossible to determine who might get crushed by falling branches.
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Plans for the move from its site next to the tram station to a more prominent position in St Peter's Square have been approved by the city council.
The proposal arose from a competition to re-design the square and the proposed Metrolink extension.
English Heritage and the War Memorial Trust opposed the plans, fearing damage to the Grade II-listed memorial.
Other veterans' groups had supported the move.
Lt Col Richard Jordan, of 103 Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers), said: "I believe its new location will provide a fitting and peaceful place in which members of the public, service personnel and veterans can continue to pay their respects to the city's fallen soldiers, sailors and airmen."
The cenotaph will move from its current site between the St Peter's Square Metrolink platform and Mosley Street to a spot opposite the Cooper Street entrance to the town hall.
City council leader Sir Richard Leese said: "The cenotaph is a tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our city and our country and respect for what it represents is, and will remain, our paramount consideration.
"Now the planning committee has approved the proposals, we will continue to liaise closely with veteran's groups, church authorities and heritage bodies throughout the process."
Instead the Volkswagen Golf topped sales, according to the country's carmakers' association, although Volvo still had the largest share of the country's car market overall.
The Golf made up 5.9% of new cars bought in the country, while Volvo's V70, S90 and V90 took 5.7% together.
Volvo was last knocked off top spot in 1962 by a Volkswagen Beetle.
Despite Volvo's car business now being owned by a Chinese firm, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, it is still viewed as an iconic Swedish brand.
And it still sells the most cars in Sweden, with more than one in five cars (21.5%) on the country's roads, compared with Volkswagen's 15.7%.
However, Volvo's V70, the most popular car in Sweden for the past two decades, has ceased production in favour of the newer V90 model.
Sweden is Volvo's second-biggest market behind China.
The Swedish carmakers' association said 2016 saw record car sales with 372,000 new registrations, up by 8% on the 2015 figure, helped by a strong economy, while truck sales were up by more than 15%.
Doctor Adam Winstock, founder of the Global Drug Survey, the world's biggest drug poll, told Newsbeat cannabis can be as tough to give up as heroin.
"We haven't invested enough in helping people who use cannabis use more safely - or stop," he said.
But health officials say there are properly funded services out there.
Dr Winstock said in the last 20 years services have focused too heavily on treating heroin and crack cocaine addicts "because they're the people the government sees as causing crime and disruption".
"I don't think people with problems with cannabis have easy access to services," he explained.
Cannabis use is falling across the UK but the number of people getting help with addiction is rising.
Experts say this is because cannabis is getting stronger and users are more likely to admit they have a problem with it.
In 2005 the number of 18 to 24-year-olds in England coming forward for treatment was 3,328. In 2013/14 that figure had risen to 4,997 and now accounts for nearly half of all new cases.
Newsbeat gained exclusive access to Marijuana Anonymous (MA), a group which helps addicts.
We met one 25-year-old, "John", who explained how addiction took over his life.
"I would sit willing myself not to smoke even as I rolled a joint. My brain said no but my hands kept rolling and smoking.
"The drug wasn't making me happy, the weed was the cause and I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop.
"I have a hole inside me that I tried to fill. Weed fit the hole.
"It was the perfect match, it filled all the gaps and that's why I went back to it. Now I fill that with MA."
Dr Winstock told Newsbeat that 50% to 60% of dependent users have serious withdrawal symptoms when they come off the substance.
"Some people become violent, some young people can't sleep and get very irritable".
Many claim that cannabis is different to other drugs and isn't physically addictive like heroin or cocaine.
Dr Winstock told us that argument misses the point.
"I think people get confused with physical withdrawal symptoms and equating those to being addicted.
"Addiction for me is a loss of control and when you stop you feel uncomfortable.
"[It] could be you feel miserable, you can't sleep, you lose your appetite or it can be very physical as it is with heroin or alcohol".
He said the younger the user the more likely they are to have problems in the future.
"About 10% of people who use cannabis are dependent and two-thirds of those people, when they stop, will experience withdrawal symptoms.
"They last seven to 10 days for most people. You are more likely to run into those problems if you start using early."
23-year-old Lee got help from MA but before that he says his life was a blur of "joint after joint".
"Cannabis was my drug of no choice," he said.
"I found myself smoking even though I didn't want to be doing it. Physically it drained me, it made me very unhealthy. I was a broken man.
"I wasn't eating and I was just over five-and-a-half stone. Eating got in the way of my smoking.
"And I would go a week without having a bath or shower.
"I would smoke before work, during work, after work, I would lie to people just so I could be on my own smoking."
Cases like Lee's make up most of the workload for drug workers like Phoebe Crowder from the charity Addaction, who works with young addicts in east London.
She told Newsbeat: "I have some young people saying 'I want to stop, but I am going to hang out with my friends. I have to physically not see my friends because I know they are going to smoke cannabis'.
"For some young people they feel it is around them all the time and that can be one of the biggest hurdles for someone looking to quit".
There are lots of departments responsible for drug addiction services across the UK. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and England have separate systems.
Public Health England says waiting times are low for people looking for help with addiction,
A spokeswoman said: "Young people moving from young to adult services can be a really difficult transition; however services should be sensitive to the age and needs of the people they're working with and have the right arrangements in place to accommodate these."
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Lord Bew wrote to all the major parties about the issue after last year's election - but only the Conservatives and SNP replied, he said.
He argued that the public were also "not sympathetic" to state funding.
The committee has recommended parties get an extra £23m of state cash.
Its 2011 inquiry also recommended a £10,000 annual cap on individual donations from 2015 and the idea that union members should have to "opt in" to fees paid to Labour if donations were to be counted individually.
'Deeply rooted' perception
But during a Lords committee on trade union and political party funding, Lord Bew said: "The difficulty of the issues relates not just to the attitude of the parties."
In their letter back to him, the Conservatives pointed out that voters were also not sympathetic to state funding, he said.
While the public was in favour of electoral reform, there was also a "deeply rooted" perception that money was only given to political parties with the expectation of something like a peerage in return.
"All I can do is write to the parties, which I do periodically, and I have no reason to believe that there's any enthusiasm to address this," he said.
'Price worth paying?'
Sir Christopher Kelly, a former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said "it was wrong that any of the parties should be wholly reliant on significant sums from significant donors" whether from individuals, those donating through private companies or trade unions.
But Liberal Democrat treasurer Lord Wrigglesworth said: "I can't see a time when the political parties are going to be willing to go to the taxpayer and ask for money for their organisations."
Sir Christopher conceded that if members of a focus group were asked if more money should go to political parties, they would say "not on your Nelly".
But if they were pressed: "Do you think it's a price worth paying to... take big money out of politics?" They would say "of course", he said.
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A Fifa taskforce has recommended the 2022 World Cup take place in winter to avoid Qatar's hot summer temperatures.
It did not mention exact dates, saying only that "end-November/end-December" was the "most viable" period, but an early rumour to emerge from the Qatari conclave is that the governing body is considering 26 November to 23 December, four days shorter than the 32-day tournament in Brazil last year on account of it being staged in a single-city state.
But that is just two days short of Christmas, which even the otherwise supportive Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce admitted might cause officials, players and spectators a few difficulties at airports around the globe.
A finish that close to the Queen's Christmas Speech would also make it unlikely that fans of Premier League football will be able to gorge themselves in the customary manner over the holiday period: there were 30 games from Boxing Day to New Year's Day this season.
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said one of his priorities was to "keep the Christmas and new year programme intact", and this is clearly one of the areas now very much up for debate.
Could, for example, a World Cup final on 18 December, a Sunday and also Qatar's National Day, be a better option for all concerned than the last Friday before Christmas?
It would certainly placate the broadcasters who recently teamed up to hand the Premier League more than £5bn for three years' worth of domestic TV rights. BT and Sky televised 25 live games from 1 December to 1 January this season, and at a current going rate of £10m a game, that's a lot of unscripted drama to replace.
The Premier League TV rights for 2022 have not been sold yet, and anybody bidding for them will clearly be able to price 2022's break into their bid, but keeping that intermission as short as possible will be their main concern, particularly if they are without rights to the big show in Qatar.
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It should also be noted that the Football League might be quite excited about the prospect of the Premier League cancelling Christmas. Its 72 clubs could probably live without a similar number of players to the 14 they sent to Brazil, giving them a clear run at home throughout November and December.
The Scottish Premiership, with a similar number of absentees, might also be minded to take a leaf out of club rugby union's book and carry on regardless.
That is not to say those leagues will not be affected by Fifa's decision to do what Stoke City chairman Peter Coates described as "promising one thing", a normal World Cup, and "delivering another", a winter warmer.
England's preparations for the World Cup in Brazil started at a training camp in Portugal three weeks before their first game, and continued with a farewell friendly against Peru at Wembley on 30 May and then two more games in Miami over the following week.
Whoever is tasked with delivering the World Cup win for England in 2022 - something Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has listed as a key performance indicator for the national game - can forget having three weeks to prepare. They will be lucky to get a fortnight.
Scudamore and co will be keen to see if they can trim a few more days off that 28-day tournament estimate, too, although it was interesting to note the comments of the German Football League's managing director Andreas Rettig, who said Fifa must "consider the strain on top players".
"A shorter match schedule cannot mean that the same number of matches must be played in a briefer period of time," he added, which suggests he wants to re-open all manner of debates about the size of the tournament.
But if we take a two-week call-up period and four weeks for the competition itself as a starting point, we are talking about a cessation of hostilities across Europe's big leagues from the first week of November to Christmas.
"It's going to be hugely difficult," said Coates.
"But I think they'll try to get it done in one year, rather than spread it over three years. It's better to have one bad year, when everything is messed up, than three. It's about making the best of a bad lot.
"It will have to be a break. The biggest teams won't want to carry on - they'd be decimated."
The current Premier League season started on 16 August, 14 weeks after last season finished.
If Coates is right - and the early indications are he is - players can forget their schoolteacher-like holidays that year and make do with a fortnight between the end-of-season do and pre-season.
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Because it is not just a question of squeezing in six or seven weeks' worth of league fixtures.
The Football League is currently preparing for one of its two big weekends, the League Cup final, with the play-off finals being the other.
Continuing the league programme is one thing, but doing without Premier League clubs in its premier cup competition is unthinkable, which means shunting the whole thing at least a month forward. This season's first round started on 11 August.
The FA Cup will also be affected. Its preliminary round started on 15 August, with rounds one and two taking place in November and December.
OK, the Premier League is not involved at that point, but will the FA want to put its showcase club competition up against its international endeavours?
Whichever dates Fifa settles on, and the Premier League and other leading leagues respond to, one thing is certain: there is going to be an awful lot of summer football that year.
But there is also going to be a lot of winter football, as you simply cannot take six to seven weeks out of the calendar and hope to make it all up during the cricket season.
Take, for example, Uefa's two big club money-spinners, the Champions League and Europa League.
As Scudamore noted, Uefa was quick to welcome Fifa's November-December choice for Qatar, something he considered a bit cheeky given the winter breaks that are currently built into its two club competitions.
But with the qualifying rounds for those tournaments already starting on 1 July, can Uefa really expect clubs to be ready to play in early June? And if so, does this mean the transfer window is open earlier, too?
It is when you consider all of these permutations that you start to wonder whether the man who did the technical reports on the bidding nations for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, Chile's Harold Mayne-Nicholls, was underestimating things when he said a winter World Cup would have an impact on 50 leagues around the world.
Mayne-Nicholls, of course, completely discounted the prospect of Qatar ever winning the bid.
They did, though, and despite everything we have been through over the past four years since that remarkable decision was announced, it seems Qatar really will get the World Cup it has spent so much money to secure.
Some of that money may now have to be shared, though, as the issue of "compensation" is likely to become an even more contested area in the club versus country debate. However Fifa says it will not pay clubs as they have seven years to prepare.
Scudamore did not answer questions on compensation, but Coates was less squeamish about it.
"Absolutely," was the 77-year-old businessman's succinct reply when asked if Fifa owed the clubs some money for their trouble.
"There could be all sorts of contractual implications and effects on clubs and their incomes that year, so we're more than entitled to expect compensation. We've been misled," he said.
Compensation, however, can take many forms, as was seen when Fifa quietly gave the television networks that broadcast football in North America the rights to the 2026 World Cup without so much as a contest - a magnanimous gesture to companies who might have been peeved that they now have rights to a 2022 tournament that will have to battle with the business end of American football's NFL and college seasons.
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Another way of looking at that deal, though, is to say that where there is a will there is a way, and that was certainly the view of former England, Everton and Manchester United utility man Phil Neville.
As well as suggesting that a winter World Cup could actually help a team that traditionally arrives at summer tournaments utterly exhausted, the BBC pundit and Salford City co-owner also sounded a note of cosmopolitan optimism.
"The problem is that we are very traditional in this country," he said.
"We like to have our 10 weeks off in the summer and we like to have our games over Christmas. But I think the game has changed now and we've got to change our views a little bit.
"I remember when we went to America in 1994 and there was a little bit of nervousness going to that country because they weren't really into football, but they put on an amazing World Cup.
"I think Qatar with their wealth will put on a fantastic World Cup."
Perhaps Dyke and Neville are not so crazy, and England can win a World Cup in 2022. As ideas go it is hardly more outlandish than staging the tournament in a small, scorched country that has never qualified for the competition.
The attack on Charmaine Lewis came after she had been taken home by officers from a Cardiff police station.
Registered sex offender Christopher Veal broke down a door as soon as she arrived back - beating her savagely in front of her two children.
BBC Wales understands three complaints will be upheld by a police watchdog.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is due to publish its full findings on Wednesday.
Veal, who was already on licence from prison after being convicted of rape, was arrested and charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent on Ms Lewis.
She sustained serious injuries, including broken ribs and lost teeth, and was hospitalised following the attack.
Veal hanged himself in Bristol Prison in November 2011, before he could stand trial.
The complaints considered by the IPCC concern Ms Lewis's interactions with police officers over a period of days in late August 2011.
Police officers initially failed to uncover Veal as a sex offender because call-handlers spelt his name incorrectly when Ms Lewis reported an earlier assault, which left her with strangulation marks around her neck and a black eye.
Only later did his identity and background come to light, but this information was not conveyed to officers who were dealing with his victim.
On 29 August 2011, after reporting that she felt threatened by Veal, Ms Lewis was driven home from Fairwater police station by officers to her flat where, a few minutes later, Veal broke in and violently attacked her with a claw hammer.
An officer is facing a disciplinary charge of gross misconduct for his role in the case and the IPCC has issued recommendations for South Wales Police.
The force has also been criticised for failing to mandatorily refer the case to the IPCC.
It was finally referred for investigation in December 2012, after the victim, who had moved to north Wales, sought help from Labour MP for Clwyd South, Susan Elan Jones.
Ms Lewis said: "The front door came crashing in… as I went into the hall he was there with a claw hammer.
"He hit me in the head… stamped on my body and broke my ribs. I was covered in blood - I woke up in hospital.
"He was a very high risk. I trusted the police… they should have kept us in the police station or waited until they had arrested him.
"I want the police punished for what they've done."
Susan Elan Jones said: "Charmaine doesn't want anyone else to go through this sort of dreadful experience that she's been through.
"I think key to that is looking at the training police and other professionals have in dealing with domestic violence. It's very important that these lessons are learnt."
South Wales Police's deputy chief constable, Matt Jukes, said: "It is clear that we did not provide the victim in this case and her children with the care and protection that she needed at a critical time and we are sincerely sorry for that.
"Over recent years we have worked incredibly hard to improve our response to incidents of domestic abuse and whilst this has come too late to support the victim in this case, we have good evidence that it is providing a much improved response to victims of domestic abuse now, helping to keep them safe."
Kieran Gillespie, 26, stabbed Leon Barrett-Hazle while travelling through Handsworth, Birmingham, on 23 January.
Gillespie, from Wellesbourne Road, Handsworth, denied murder claiming he had acted in self-defence but Mr Barrett-Hazle was unarmed.
The judge at Birmingham Crown Court said Gillespie must serve at least 26 years in prison.
Gillespie boarded the number 11A bus and took a seat near the victim, the trial heard.
Following a short argument, Gillespie stabbed Mr Barrett-Hazle multiple times before walking off the bus.
While passengers were attending to Mr Barrett-Hazle, Gillespie returned to retrieve a baseball cap before walking away once more.
Mr Barrett-Hazle, 35, was stabbed fatally in his neck, a post mortem revealed.
The attack was captured on CCTV and Gillespie handed himself in two days later, West Midlands Police said.
Det Insp Warren Hines said: "This was a completely mindless killing of a man who had done nothing out of the ordinary.
"The ferocity of the attack coupled with Gillespie's nonchalant actions in the immediate aftermath were particularly troubling aspects of this case.
"My abiding hope is that Leon's family find some small comfort in today's conviction."
Georgina Davies, senior crown prosecutor, said Gillespie's attack had been "unprovoked and frenzied".
The family of Mr Barrett-Hazle, who was from Smethwick in the West Midlands, paid tribute to him, saying they had been left devastated by the loss of a "wonderful, warm, kind, generous of heart and much loved" family man.
Although they did not do as well in the last set of tests, Poland's 15-year-olds are still doing better in science, maths and reading than their Welsh counterparts.
So is there anything that Wales can learn from the Polish education system?
In the early 1990s, more than 60% of adults living in rural areas in Poland had only a primary school education.
When the first Pisa assessment was administered in 2000, Poland performed poorly. By 2012, it had scores above the average of all the countries taking part in maths, science and reading.
That improvement was attributed to a comprehensive series of education reforms, including standardised exams at the end of primary, lower and upper-secondary education, changes to the curriculum and investment in teachers' professional development.
Pupils spent more time studying core subjects and vocational study was delayed until the age of 16.
Speaking before the 2015 results were published, Janusz Wolosz, counsellor for education at the Polish embassy, highlighted how the collapse of communism led to a move away from a centralised system in Warsaw.
More responsibility and greater control over funding was instead given to local authorities "who know best what needs their pupils have".
While Poland is known for testing its students, Mr Wolosz said it was now "moving away" from those "which do not prove necessary", such as exams at the end of primary school education.
And he stressed that tests in higher education were "not just ticking boxes with the correct answers, but we also want to make students think strategically and we want to learn how they perceive the problems".
Asked whether the Polish model could be replicated in other countries, he added: "It's a very specific cocktail of factors, situations and circumstances... I cannot say 100% that it can be copied from country A to country B.
"If you want to improve quality of education you can always look for examples of best practice, and I hope that the Polish system can be seen as one, but I would be very cautious on having a full copy of the system introduced in other countries."
Others agree that copying the Polish system here would be a mistake.
Agnieszka Zablocka grew up in Poland but now lives in Wrexham with her young family,
"In my opinion, it's too much theory and not enough practice," she said.
"My sister-in-law just passed her final exam in Poland and she had 95% on English language but when she came to the UK, she wasn't able to speak to people comfortably. She wasn't able to understand them.
"My own daughter goes to primary school here and I am very happy with it.
She went on to say that last month "she showed me a report she prepared - on her own - about Guy Fawkes and I've been very surprised how well she can speak and how well she can write.
"She's only six and I have friends and family in Poland with children her age, and they are only just starting learning letters and numbers. They are not able to read or write."
Maciej Szukala, who went to school in Poland before moving to Wrexham at the age of 10, said there was good and bad in both systems.
"The Polish way of education is that you have to know everything. You have to be able to pass exams in maths, Polish and science and you have to know all three subjects in order to do any other subjects.
"It's a better system here in that we do A levels in what we actually want and if we want to specialise - say to be an accountant - that's what we can do.
"There is much less choice in Poland. If you're not going to achieve in those core subjects, you're going to fail so that puts a lot of pressure on students.
"They work too hard. My partner's brother is 15 and goes to school in Poland. He starts at 07:00, finishes at 15:00, comes home, eats and then until about 21:00, he still has to study.
"I do not find that to be a good system - he's overworked, even on a weekend he doesn't have any rest. But if you want to have good grades, you really have to work hard."
Mr Szukala, 22, a former Rhosnesni High School pupil, now runs a successful legal translation business.
Despite his criticisms of the Polish system, he said he did well at school precisely because of the work ethic he learned in Poland.
"I took the culture and work ethic of Polish schools to the UK and I used them to succeed," he said.
"I did four years of primary school in Poland and then started secondary school over here and I found it easy. I loved my school because I could come home and enjoy myself, go on my tablet or just have fun.
"It was totally soft compared to Poland - I didn't feel any pressure. I just felt school was a good time. Yes, you had to listen in the lessons but there wasn't that much to do."
Mr Szukala feels students in the UK can be "complacent" and that schools have a tendency to wrap them up in cotton wool.
"The problem is that we don't have discipline in in schools," he said.
"My school was a great school but I felt that we weren't pressured enough.
"The way that Polish education works very well is that there are a lot of exams. You have a couple of lessons on one subject and then an exam. If you don't pass, you get a zero grade. I think more tests like that are needed here.
"We're too soft. With Brexit and a lot of challenges across the economy, we need to be well-prepared.
"We are a great nation, we are very tolerant and accepting, but we have to up our game as far as education is concerned if we want to compete in the future."
Items worth hundreds of thousands of pounds were taken from the Light Touch Clinic in Church Street between 21:00 BST on Sunday and 07:30 on Monday.
Dr Natalie Blakely, who founded the clinic, said: "I am completely gutted. All of our machinery is gone.
"The machinery is specialist stuff and in the wrong hands is dangerous."
She said she discovered the burglary when she arrived at the clinic on Monday morning.
"The whole of the retail space was cleared out. TVs were ripped off the walls," she added.
Appealing on Facebook, filmed in the empty clinic, Dr Blakely appealed for anyone who found the stolen equipment to come forward.
Det Con Heather Francis, from Surrey Police, said: "This is a significant loss for a local business - both in terms of the valuable equipment and stock which was stolen and the potential impact on further earnings."
The pop star claims former radio DJ David Mueller groped her while posing for a photo at one of her concerts in 2013 - a charge which he denies.
"Just like her expertly crafted lyrics, Taylor Swift was precise, self-assured and direct," said Billboard magazine.
Speaking in court, Swift refused to back down or give ground to the DJ's lawyer.
Asked if she was critical of her bodyguard, Swift replied: "I'm critical of your client sticking his hand under my skirt and grabbing my ass".
She testified that her security team had seen Mueller "lift my skirt" but only a person on the floor "looking up my skirt" could have seen the entire act "and we didn't have anyone positioned there".
Swift also rejected the accusation that she had misidentified Mueller, saying: "I'm not going to allow you or your client to say I am to blame."
"He had a handful of my ass. It happened to me. I know it was him."
Fans and critics have praised her performance on the stand.
"Taylor Swift did not sugarcoat her testimony," said Variety Magazine's Jem Aswad, singling out the moment Mueller's lawyer, Gabriel McFarland, asked why the front of her skirt did not appear to be ruffled in the photograph.
"Because," Swift replied, "my ass is located in the back of my body."
Billboard's Gil Kaufmann applauded the star for refusing to let Mr McFarland sway her interpretation of the incident.
"It happened to me. I have a 3-D rendition of what happened in my brain," he quoted her as saying. "I could have picked him out of a line of 1,000. I know exactly who did this. It is not alleged. It is a fact.
"You can ask me a million questions about it and I'm never going to say anything different."
Buzzfeed's Claudia Rosenbaum, who was in the courtroom, said Swift was at times "aggravated" and "pissed off" at "being forced to relive the details of this incident".
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According to the reporter, the star bristled when she was asked why she hadn't called off the meet-and-greet following the alleged incident.
"Mueller's attorney said, 'You could have taken a break,' and Taylor Swift responded: 'And your client could have taken a normal photo with me.'"
Swift's testimony was "sharp, gutsy and satisfying," said Slate magazine's Christina Cauterucci.
"For young fans of Swift's, hearing a beloved artist speak candidly about the emotional damage of sexual assault and stand up to a courtroom of men trying to prove her wrong could be a formative moment for their developing ideas of gender, sex, and accountability."
Fox News reporter Michael Konopasek, meanwhile, noted that elements of Swift's testimony were "heartbreaking" but she "stayed strong throughout".
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Fans spoke out in support of the star following her hour-long appearance on the stand.
"Proud and inspired by Taylor Swift today," wrote Alex Goldschmidt. "This is what strength looks like."
"I hope Taylor Swift wins this trial/ There's no excuse for any sexual abuse. She is taking a stand for ALL WOMEN," added Marcus Kawa.
"Taylor Swift has probably watched every single Law And Order episode," concluded one fan account. "She knows what she's doing. She came for blood."
Coincidentally, Swift had been asked in court whether she watched any police shows. "Yes!" she exclaimed. "I named my cat after Olivia Benson on Law and Order."
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Following Swift to the witness stand on Thursday was radio station boss Robert Call, who fired Mueller two days after the alleged incident, acting on a complaint from Swift's radio publicist.
Call said Mueller had initially denied touching Swift, but when shown the photo in question, he responded: "Well, if it did happen, it was accidental."
Call said he fired the DJ because of his shifting accounts of the incident, and because the photo showed that Mueller's hand was "not where it was supposed to be".
Mueller, 55, testified on Tuesday that he may have made innocent contact with Swift but denied any inappropriate behaviour.
Asked if he grabbed her backside, the broadcaster replied, "No, I did not."
The trial continues.
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The project has seen the capacity of Allonby's wastewater treatment works doubled, United Utilities said.
A new underground storage tank has been created to capture more storm water and reduce sewer spills.
Ultraviolet equipment that kills bugs has raised the quality of the treated wastewater which is returned to the sea, the firm added.
Allonby, on the Solway coast, was rated "poor" in 2015 under European standards known as the revised Bathing Water Directive.
The one-time officer with the successor to the KGB fled to the UK where he became a fierce critic of the Kremlin and worked for security service MI6.
A public inquiry into the London death of the 43-year-old opens on Tuesday.
Mr Litvinenko's widow says the inquiry will give people "a chance to understand who killed my husband".
Marina Litvinenko says he blamed the Kremlin as he lay dying in hospital but Russia denies any involvement.
Her lawyer has described his murder as "an act of state-sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of London".
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said investigators followed a radioactive trail across London and it suggested Mr Litvinenko was poisoned not on the first attempt, but on the third.
The judge-led inquiry will be chaired by Sir Robert Owen, who was originally appointed as the coroner at Mr Litvinenko's inquest.
Sir Robert delayed the inquest and called for a public inquiry because the inquest could not consider sensitive evidence due to national security fears. The UK government resisted the move at first but later changed its stance last July, amid worsening relations with Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine.
The death of Mr Litvinenko, who took British citizenship after his arrival in the UK, had already led to a clouding of relations between London and Moscow, with expulsions of diplomats from the embassies of both countries.
He died three weeks after becoming violently ill in November 2006 following a meeting with two former Russian agents at the Millennium Hotel in central London.
UK police say radioactive polonium-210 was administered in a cup of tea, and identified two suspects in the case - Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun. But the two Russians have disputed their claims.
The issue of who was ultimately responsible for the death will be considered at the inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice.
Parts of the evidence will be heard in private, and Sir Robert says it is "inevitable" that some of his final report will stay secret for security reasons.
Mrs Litvinenko told the BBC she had accepted this and trusted Sir Robert to "make the right decision".
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera: Will inquiry find answers?
The police officer who oversaw the investigation, Peter Clarke, the former head of the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command, says Mr Litvinenko's death was "unprecedented".
"There was a very strong forensic trail left behind because of the way - it is suggested that Litvinenko had been attacked," he said. "But what was unusual of course was having radioactivity involved. This was unprecedented."
Speaking ahead of the inquest, Mrs Litvinenko recalled her husband's deathbed claim at University College Hospital in which he said Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for "everything that happened to him".
It is also understood that Mr Litvinenko was visited in hospital before he died by his MI6 handler or case officer.
Thick smoke could be seen rising from the area, where there is also a base for African Union (AU) peacekeepers.
Local journalists said one of the bombs was detonated by a suicide attacker near a checkpoint. Another blast hit the airport's perimeter wall.
Those killed were believed to include security guards at the checkpoint.
The militant Islamist group, al-Shabab, has said it was behind the blasts and its target was the AU force's headquarters.
The AU mission in Somalia condemned "these senseless attacks that aim to disrupt and cripple the lives of ordinary Somalis".
Al-Shabab has carried out frequent attacks in Somalia, including in Mogadishu, in an attempt to oust the UN-backed government.
The group, which is allied to al-Qaeda, has been pushed out of most of the main towns it once controlled, but analysts say it remains a potent threat.
It has been increasing its attacks ahead of planned elections in Somalia.
Hotels have been attacked by car bombs and then armed assault teams over the past few weeks.
The large airport area in Mogadishu is a secure "green zone" for UN operations, the AU peacekeeping force and foreign embassies.
The Somali government, with the help of AU forces, is fighting al-Shabab militants in several parts of the country.
The manager was reported to be open to allowing 29-year-old Fabregas to leave before the transfer deadline.
Fabregas, however, has posted on social media that the pair have a "good relationship" and that he is "fully committed" to the club.
"Contrary to what has been written, the manager has never told me that I can leave," Fabregas wrote.
"He said that he counts on me, as I count on him. I will continue to fight for this club until the very end and when called upon I will always give my very best.
"I'm fully committed to Chelsea FC and my only goal is to help them win more trophies."
The former Barcelona and Arsenal midfielder has made 97 appearances for Chelsea but was an unused substitute for their 3-0 Premier League win over Burnley on Saturday.
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City-dwellers tend to take electricity for granted, says Ashok Das, but for the roughly 200 million Indians living off-grid, access to power is a privilege, not a right.
Mr Das says that makes them a fertile ground for experimenting with smarter ways of using energy that could help the rural poor leapfrog traditional power networks to a greener, community-led approach.
"Changing consumer behaviour in a big city is a major problem," he says. "It will take decades to build smart cities, but I can get thousands of smart villages done in that time."
After a decade in the US semiconductor industry, Mr Das returned to India in 2005 where he transitioned into a green tech consultant.
But despite the huge sums directed into renewables, he saw very little focus on energy access for rural communities who could benefit most.
Visiting a family in a non-electrified village near his hometown in the northern state of Bihar in 2010 hardened his resolve to do something.
"I remember asking my niece, 'what can I bring you?' and she said, 'Uncle, I have everything, just bring me light,'" he says.
India's green energy sector has a tendency to "sell and run" - high-end equipment is installed, but a lack of maintenance support for remote villages means systems often fall into disrepair, he adds.
So Mr Das decided to create a smart grid technology that allows a village's entire electrical infrastructure to be monitored remotely.
In January, Chhotkei in Orissa became India's first smart village powered by the Smart NanoGrid technology developed by his company SunMoksha.
Power is provided by a 30KW solar plant and meters and sensors collect data on energy usage and system health.
This information is fed into SunMoksha's cloud-based monitoring system, which can be accessed by the company's staff anywhere.
This makes it possible to remotely manage supply and demand and schedule power-hungry activities like irrigation pumping for agriculture and new microenterprises that have sprung up, like a food packaging business and a store that sells cold drinks.
Wi-Fi hotspots let villagers access local intranet via a language-independent mobile app to view their consumption, pay bills and register complaints.
If users exceed their allowance, they can be shut off to avoid overloading the grid and faults can be spotted remotely before villagers trained in basic repairs are sent to fix them.
Set-up costs for the project were met by the Finnish power company Wartsila's corporate social responsibility programme, but on-going expenses are covered by usage-based subscriptions paid to a village committee that maintains the grid.
SunMoksha's local partner is the Odisha (Orissa) Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA).
Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to electrify every Indian village in 1,000 days, and in Orissa, OREDA is responsible for installing renewable power solutions in remote villages.
But deputy director Ashok Choudhury says most projects are simple solar home lighting systems.
"When you ask villagers what's their priority for getting electricity they always prioritise livelihood. Number two is entertainment and number three is illumination," he says.
"We always do the third priority first, so we don't make much headway because our programme can't support livelihoods."
Even with larger installations, the difficulty of monitoring and maintaining systems means they often break down.
But for a 15 to 20% mark-up on the cost of a solar plant and microgrid, Mr Choudhury says the Smart NanoGrid makes projects sustainable.
"You get a lot more control," he says. "It brings a real solution to a village; otherwise we install a system and don't know what happens to it when we leave."
Mr Choudhury is keen to incorporate the technology in all the agency's future microgrid developments.
Following a demonstration day at the village in April, secretary in the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) Upendra Tripathy agreed to support 10 pilot projects by providing 30% of the funds.
"I've seen plenty of microgrids, but the combination of technology in this village is a first," he says. "It's the integration and the remote monitoring. That's where they've done wonders."
Last month, SunMoksha won in the 'Smart Village' category at the 2016 Smart Cities India Awards and it is now in the process of submitting proposals for the first MNRE pilot - a smart village cluster in Orissa.
The railway board also wants them to look at using train stations as local power hubs for nearby houses and businesses, and several mining firms want to use the technology to provide power for settlements relocated due to mining activities.
Power management is the main focus, but the system is sensor-agnostic and Mr Das says it could also make villages truly smart by monitoring things like water consumption or environmental factors for agriculture.
The pilot village is so remote it currently relies on a satellite data connection, which is too expensive for general internet use.
But the communications network the system puts in place provides a backbone for future e-governance, telemedicine and tele-education applications, he says.
"The smart grid acts as a catalyst in the village and then all these other things become possible," says Mr Das. "The potential is huge."
17 March 2016 Last updated at 13:38 GMT
"I would have never had imagined that Erdogan and the AKP government would have come this far," said Sevgi Akarcesme.
Asked whether the European Union is doing enough in response to alleged abuses of democracy in Turkey, she said that while individual politicians were still committed to EU values, the institution was failing.
"European leaders are giving Erdogan opportunities on golden plates," she added.
A Turkish court put Zaman newspaper - a vocal critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - under state control earlier this month. No explanation was given for the court's decision.
Zaman is closely linked to the Hizmet movement of influential US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, which Turkey says is a "terrorist" group aiming to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
Mr Gulen was once an ally of Mr Erdogan but the two fell out. Many Hizmet supporters have been arrested.
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Sue Rogers has been appointed interim deputy director of education, a new role which is costing the council £864 per day plus daily expenses of £100.
Julian Wooster, director of children's services, said: "My view is children can't wait - hence why we have a very capable interim who has joined us."
He added that a permanent person should be in the post by Christmas.
In March, the council's children's services department was rated "inadequate" by Ofsted with its report, describing a "corporate failure" to keep children safe.
The new role has been created, according to Mr Wooster, so he can concentrate on urgent improvements needed in social services.
"It's a role most authorities have and the person carrying out the interim role has been doing that role in another local authority," he said.
"I don't generally believe that interims are sustainable and members have made it very clear to me they don't expect this person to be in role for that long."
He added that the £964 a day cost, also included agency fees and relocation expenses.
"We don't pay any annual leave and we don't pay any sick leave for this role or any pension," he said.
"It's also a short term contract and I'm very confident that we can recruit in September to enrol on a permanent basis."
The New York Post said the two plays, based on Hilary Mantel's award-winning books, were "beautiful but boring".
The paper said the six hours felt "even longer", adding: "It's amazing that a story jam-packed with lust, betrayal, greed and violence can be so... dull."
However Variety's Marilyn Stasio called it a "lucidly told, handsomely staged and emotionally charged production".
She did find the second play "problematic" though.
She wrote: "Just when you expect the drama to move into deeper and darker political territory, it shrivels up and becomes what a lot of American kids took away from high-school history class - the salacious story of a horny king who chopped off his wives' heads whenever he wanted a new bride."
Wolf Hall Parts One and Two - about the court of Henry VIII and his advisor Thomas Cromwell - are based on Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
The Royal Shakespeare Company's stage version, adapted by Mike Poulton, drew rave reviews when it opened at the Swan Theatre in Stratford upon Avon before transferring to London's West End.
A BBC television production, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, was also a critical success and is currently being aired in the US by PBS.
The Hollywood Reporter called the play "a mighty undertaking", directed by Jeremy Herrin, "with propulsive energy; designed with commanding stagecraft by Christopher Oram and a superb team on lighting, music and sound; and performed with authority and an abundance of sly humour by a first-rate troupe of 23."
Critic David Rooney added: "While it might fall short of the pantheon of all-time great stage events, Wolf Hall is nonetheless an impressive feat, a compelling drama played out across the canvas of a nation soaked in rain and mud and blood."
However the Wall Street Journal's Terry Teachout found "the acting is as devoid of sparkle as the script".
He admitted he had not read Mantel's "much-praised novels" but said: "I can, however, assure you that Mr Poulton's five and a half-hour stage version of Wolf Hall... is competent but dullish, a procession of short, choppy scenes in which nobody ever says anything more memorable than 'Bring up the bodies!'."
But he said the play was "not without merit", praising Paul Jesson as Cardinal Wolsey and director Herrin's "efficient and effective" production.
The Wrap's Robert Hofler said the play took "a good 90 minutes and one intermission to settle into what might be called a good drama".
He praised Ben Miles, who plays Thomas Cromwell for maintaining "an implacable facade regardless of what he's thinking" adding that he "rivets our attention for six hours" in "a masterclass in minimalist acting".
New York Times writer Ben Brantley found the play itself "riveting", calling it "the tastiest dish in town".
He said it was "strictly for fun. That may sound like a weak recommendation to those who wear their brows high. But being fun in period costume for nearly five-and-a-half hours of live theatre is no mean achievement."
Wolf Hall is due to run on Broadway for 15 weeks.
"My lawyers have said that I don't have to... I'm still considering it, to be honest," she told USA Today.
Ms Knox, 25, also went on US television to publicly protest her innocence as she released her autobiography.
Last month, an Italian court overturned her acquittal along with that of her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
Meredith Kercher, 21, was found stabbed to death in the flat she shared with Ms Knox - an exchange student- in Perugia in November 2007.
Prosecutors say she died in a brutal sex game that went wrong.
Another man - Rudy Guede from Ivory Coast - was convicted in a separate trial and sentenced to 16 years for the killing.
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The case has drawn intense media interest in Italy, the UK and the US, and put the Italian police and justice system under great scrutiny.
Ms Knox told USA Today on Tuesday that the thought of returning to Italy for the retrial was "scary".
"But it's also important for me to say: 'This is not just happening far away from and doesn't matter to me.'
"So, somehow, I feel it's important for me to convey that. And if my presence is what is necessary to convey that, then I'll go."
The Italian courts cannot compel her to return for the retrial but they could request her extradition - at which point it would be up to the US authorities to determine her fate, our correspondent says.
In a separate interview with ABC TV, Ms Knox said claims that she was a "she-devil" and "heartless manipulator" were all wrong.
She added that what happened to her "was surreal but it could've happened to anyone".
"It's one thing to be called certain things in the media and it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil," she said.
"For all intents and purposes I was a murderer, whether I was or not. I had to live with the idea that that would be my life."
In a reference to the Kercher family, Ms Knox said she wanted them to understand "that my need for justice for myself is not in contradiction with theirs".
She said she hoped "that eventually I can have their permission to pay respects at her grave".
The interview was timed to coincide with the release of Ms Knox's autobiography, Waiting to Be Heard, for which she was reportedly paid more than $4m (£2.5m), says the BBC's David Willis in Washington.
In the book, she maintains that on the night of Meredith Kercher's death she was at Raffaele Sollecito's flat smoking marijuana and watching a movie.
Defender Jamie Grimes fired in via a post to put fifth-placed Dover ahead in the sixth minute, but Jon Parkin lashed home his first Minstermen goal following Simon Lappin's corner to level before the break.
Striker Parkin, on loan from Newport, rattled an upright from a tight angle early in the second period, before Ricky Miller restored the hosts' lead from the penalty spot after he was brought down by Shaun Rooney.
York, who had won just one of their last 19 league matches, were not to be denied a point though and Rooney made amends for conceding the penalty by heading in Sean Newton's deep free-kick 13 minutes from time.
Newton and Parkin were playing their first games as contracted York players. The duo made their loan deals from Wrexham and Newport respectively permanent on Friday.
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Match ends, Dover Athletic 2, York City 2.
Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 2, York City 2.
Goal! Dover Athletic 2, York City 2. Shaun Rooney (York City).
Goal! Dover Athletic 2, York City 1. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, York City. Daniel Nti replaces Rhys Murphy.
Substitution, York City. Luke Woodland replaces Matt Fry.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Ricky Modeste replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. James Hurst replaces Sammy Moore.
Second Half begins Dover Athletic 1, York City 1.
First Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, York City 1.
Sammy Moore (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, York City 1. Jon Parkin (York City).
Shaun Rooney (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Simon Heslop (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, York City 0. Jamie Grimes (Dover Athletic).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
With the Liberal Democrats making significant gains in the Oxfordshire constituency and Labour relegated to third, what does the result mean for the UK's major parties?
Tory vote slashed in Cameron's former seat
The government's slim working majority remains in place as the new MP for Witney, Robert Courts, takes over David Cameron's place on the Conservative benches.
There was never any serious possibility that the Conservatives would lose this seat, which has returned a Tory MP since its creation.
However, the party's share of the vote has fallen dramatically since last year - from 60% to 45% of the vote.
One senior Conservative points out that the vote share echoes the early days of Mr Cameron's time here.
But the outcome of this first electoral test for Prime Minister Theresa May may cause some soul-searching over whether she is doing enough to take the voters with her.
The Liberal Democrats threw not just the kitchen sink at this by-election, but the dishwasher, tumble dryer and the plumbing too.
Party leader Tim Farron made five visits here, his last on polling day.
It appears to have paid off. The party knocked Labour into third place, taking 30% of the vote.
One party aide in Witney said "the Lib Dems are back".
The party claims this is a verdict on the government's approach to Brexit, suggesting it demonstrates voters' desire for Britain to stay in the single market.
Mr Farron will hope the so-called "soft" Tory vote is turning Lib Dem.
At his party's conference, Jeremy Corbyn put Labour on a general election footing.
The Witney result may not fill many supporters with confidence that they are getting the swing required to form a government.
The party has dropped from second to third place in the constituency, polling 15% of the vote.
The local candidate Duncan Enright points out that Labour's vote share has roughly held up since last year, while the Conservative vote has collapsed, claiming this is a "verdict on Prime Minister May".
Witney was not a traditionally strong area for UKIP, but this is a poor result for them nevertheless.
It follows the recent chaos in the party, which is once again in the throes of a leadership race.
The Greens (3.54% vote share) came fourth, narrowly beating UKIP (3.52%) into fifth place.
The party may have benefited from a little transatlantic political stardust with their candidate Larry Sanders - brother of the former US Democratic presidential contender Bernie.
SimSimi temporarily removed access in the Republic this week, with a message: "I do not talk in Ireland for a while".
But schools in Northern Ireland are alerting parents about the app and asking them to check children's phones.
And police in County Down have sent out an alert warning that messages can be both "abusive" and "explicit".
The app allows users to type in people's names.
They then get an anonymous, sometimes insulting and nasty message back.
St Paul's High School, Bessbrook, sent out a warning about the "potential dangers" linked to the app - the school said it had been tipped off by some responsible pupils.
It has asked parents to remove the app from their children's phones.
Principal Jarlath Burns said: "The school is concerned that the app is still available and is active in Northern Ireland, and would encourage the makers of the app to adopt the approach they have implemented in other parts of the island."
Mr Burns said the school has used its social media networks to warn parents and ask them to monitor their children's online behaviour.
"This critical pastoral message has been reinforced at school assemblies all week, and form teachers and pastoral leaders are continuing to deliver this advice in class time," he said.
Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch, also sent out a tweet urging pupils to remove the app from all devices for their own safety.
On its Facebook page, PSNI Down said it was unusual for police to highlight apps, but the SimSimi app gave them "cause for concern".
"It appears to be a computer generated chat room where you talk to a very abusive computer!
"We had only been using the app for two minutes before we got quite the surprise!" says the post.
"Please be aware of it and its explicit nature! The app is rated as 17+ but I am twice that age and was really shocked at some of the stuff that came back!
"We have reported it to the App Store and will include it in our Internet Safety talks but parents, carers and internet users should keep an eye out for it and avoid."
The app stems from South Korea.
It works by using both artificial intelligence and user-generated content - scanning conversations in its database and giving a response based on that. It was originally marketed as a "fun playful robot".
James O'Higgins-Norman, director of the National Anti-Bullying Research Centre at Dublin City University, said it was being downloaded "in huge numbers" across Ireland last week.
"We saw the potential for cyber bullying and we began to put out warnings through the media to parents and to schools," he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster on Friday.
Catherine Flanagan, a secondary school teacher in Dublin, said the app "took of" within a matter of a few days. She was alerted by a student who was worried about her 11-year-old sister.
"In primary school, students were getting messages when they put in their name and they couldn't understand where that had come from," she said.
"Some of the responses were very nasty. What started as a bit of fun had quite quickly become something where students were being insulted about being too fat or too ugly and very personal things, things they might only know about each other.
"It became something much more sinister and harder to deal with."
Her son, Jake, 15, said the app quickly became "a massive hit" in school.
"Almost everyone had it and, at the start, it was a bit of fun," he said.
"But then people were putting in mean comments about people, and there was no way of telling who had said it. For one friend, at the beginning it was all fine and inside jokes, but within a couple of days every time he looked up his name, something mean was being said. It hurt him a lot and he became very down."
The BBC asked the app developers in south Korea for a statement, but so far has had no reply.
The famous train will be taking a test run from Manchester to Carlisle this weekend.
The train broke records when it was first built and it has been restored by York's National Railway Museum.
Thousands of people are expected to turn out to watch the Flying Scotsman officially return to work later this month.
The story goes that upon viewing Rembrandt's Jewish Bride for the first time in 1885, Vincent Van Gogh said: "I should be happy to give 10 years of my life if I could go on sitting here in front of this picture for a fortnight, with only a crust of dry bread for food."
In a letter to his brother Theo, he wrote: "What an intimate, what an infinitely sympathetic painting."
The Jewish Bride, officially known as Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebecca, dates from about 1665 and is one of the key paintings on show as part of Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery.
Organised in collaboration with Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, the exhibition is the first to explore Rembrandt's final years from about 1652 to his death in 1669.
It will then move to the Rijksmuseum's newly opened Philips exhibition wing in February 2015.
"Every work in the exhibition - including many works rarely seen in public - is by the artist himself, to allow the most accurate understanding of his style and technique," says Betsy Wieseman, the show's curator at the National Gallery (NG).
The NG and the Rijksmuseum have been in talks about the exhibition for some 10 years.
"I think that it is safe to say that the more important the artist, the longer it takes to put together an exhibition about them," says Ms Wieseman.
The exhibition features some 40 paintings, 20 drawings and 30 prints that are on loan from around the world.
"The biggest challenge has been to convince public institutions and private collectors to lend their paintings for this exhibition, but we have been very fortunate and are indeed very grateful for their help in gathering this extraordinary selection of Rembrandt's late works," says Ms Wieseman.
What do these later works tell us about the artist? "Visitors will be able to appreciate Rembrandt as a very 'modern' artist - he eliminated unnecessary details, he explored bold, almost abstract techniques, and he was obsessed with finding ways to intensify the viewer's experience of his works," says Ms Wieseman.
There is as much excitement in Amsterdam as there is in London about the exhibition.
"Everyone knows Rembrandt is the master of light," says Gregor Webern, head of fine arts at the Rijksmuseum. "He starts with light but he continues with light at the end of his career."
Among the themes of this period are self-portraiture - "he again and again paints himself," says Mr Webern - experimentation and the observation of everyday life.
"He does not paint Venus falling down from heaven, he is looking to the models of the neighbourhood, " Mr Webern says.
There will be some differences between the two exhibitions. The Rijksmuseum will have three paintings from German collections that aren't travelling to London, including the Self-Portrait as Zeuxis Laughing (from Cologne), painted six years before Rembrandt's death.
Mr Webern puts this down to the fragility of the works, while Ms Wieseman mentions the NG's smaller exhibition space.
The National Gallery announced only last week it had secured the loan of The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis' (about 1661-2). It is the first time the painting has ever been to the UK.
Ms Wieseman says: "The raw savagery of the figures and the clandestine nature of their meeting are brilliantly expressed by means of Rembrandt's broad brushwork, and the odd and dazzling effects of the light cast by the lamp hidden by the figure in the immediate foreground."
The Conspiracy painting will hang alongside other key works such as:
Ms Wieseman says working on the exhibition has given her a much better understanding of how Rembrandt blurred the boundaries between drawing, painting and printmaking.
"I think it will be particularly fascinating to see the paintings, drawings and prints displayed together. I don't think Rembrandt saw them as three completely separate disciplines. Some of what he tried to achieve in printmaking must have been influenced by what he was able to do in painting: how could he achieve the same effects with an etching needle, monochrome paper and ink."
She hopes that people will come away with a better understanding of what Rembrandt was hoping to achieve in the final years of his career.
"You do have a sense of an artist who was very directed: whether consciously or unconsciously, he identified certain artistic or iconographic 'problems' that he wanted or needed to solve," she says.
"For example, rather than simply painting a picture of Bathsheba, Rembrandt wanted to understand and represent the emotions that she was feeling as she read the letter from her king, forcing her into committing adultery.
"And in looking at a painting or a print or a drawing, I would like visitors to think a little more deeply about how the image is created, and why Rembrandt made the artistic choices he did. I think if visitors can empathise with the emotional content of his works, and appreciate his incredible technique, Rembrandt would be very pleased.
"I think the emotional dimension of his work and his extraordinary technique and passion for his art is what still continues to touch people and astonish audiences."
Rembrandt: The Late Works is at the National Gallery 15 Oct 2014 - 18 Jan 2015 (admission charge). After London, the exhibition will travel to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (12 February - 17 May 2015).
The ITV soap opera, set in fictional Kings Oak in the Birmingham area, was famous for wobbly sets but had 18 million viewers at its height.
The Sutton Coldfield Ramada site was used for outdoor filming in the 1980s before the ITV soap was axed in 1988.
Memorabilia including popular character Benny Hawkins' hat were on show at the event.
Launched on 2 November 1964, four years after Coronation Street, the show initially ran five days a week and became famous for fluffed lines.
Tony Adams, who played womanising Adam Chance for 10 years from 1978, said it was recorded without stopping.
He said: "It was tortuous, terrifying… yes there was pressure, but it was enormous fun.
"Hardly anybody lifted a cup because they were stuck to saucers so they didn't rattle.
"It was one of the best shows I ever did... if you went into M&S, to Scotland, to Ireland, to Jersey, people recognised you."
Adams, 73, of Saltdean, Brighton, said one viewer upset at the way his character treated girlfriend Miranda Pollard got into the Birmingham studios.
He said: "He pulled a knife. Fortunately, there were two security guards. I didn't get hurt, but it was a bit of a shock."
Crossroads was revived in 2001, again starring Adams, but axed in 2003.
An anniversary cake featuring the motel sign has been baked for the Sutton Coldfield event.
But the original red motel sign was not on show because "it's so big" to transport, the Crossroads Appreciation Society said.
Proceeds from sales of props and photographs will go to the Crossroads Care charity network, which gives a break to carers.
Fan club member Chris Stacey, 55, of Newham, east London, said: "As a child growing up it was like an extended family... they featured Spaghetti Junction in the opening titles at one point."
But he said while it was "escapism", there were "bizarre" storylines including "when Amy Turtle, a famous Brummie, the cleaner… was thought to be a Russian spy".
Carlisle, who played for Burnley and QPR, tried to take his own life in December when he was hit by a lorry.
"People are delicate stepping around it - there's no shame invested in it for me," the 35-year-old said. "I attempted suicide because I was very unwell."
Carlisle was at the launch of a charter committed to tackling the stigma surrounding mental illness.
The Football Association, Rugby Football Union, Lawn Tennis Association and the England and Wales Cricket Board are among the sport governing bodies to have signed up to the Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation.
Carlisle suffered cuts, bruises, internal bleeding, a broken rib and shattered left knee when he was struck by a lorry on the A64 near York on 22 December.
Afterwards he said he had been left severely depressed by the end of his football career, financial problems and the loss of a TV punditry role.
He left hospital six weeks after being struck, following treatment as an in-patient at a psychiatric unit.
A former chairman of players' union the Professional Footballers' Association, he added: "I'm managing my illness on a daily basis and I can tell you today I'm very well."
The first footballer to appear on Question Time, Carlisle had previously spoken out about depression and suicide in professional sport and presented a BBC Three documentary on the subject.
On Monday, he pleaded guilty to failing to provide a sample to police on 20 December, at London's Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court, and will be sentenced on 14 May.
The 89-year-old has lived with type II diabetes for more than 20 years, and has had several spells in hospital in recent months.
A message on his website said: "I am in home hospice care at my residence in Las Vegas.
"Thanks to all for your well wishes and prayers."
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Known for such hits as The Thrill is Gone and Every Day I Have the Blues, he had been touring up until last year.
But he was forced to cancel the remainder of a tour last October when he fell ill during a show, and was later diagnosed with dehydration and exhaustion.
5 December 2015 Last updated at 15:26 GMT
Opinion polls suggest the National Front's popularity has risen since the Paris attacks. They are looking to win between two and four of the 13 regions, which would be seen as a springboard for the presidency in 2017.
Gabriel Gatehouse has been to south-eastern France to see how the National Front is making headway in one of the country's most diverse regions.
Watch his full report for BBC Newsnight here
Speaking at an EU summit in Latvia, he said he had not been greeted "by a wall of love" when he met EU leaders for the first time since his election win.
But he said he had a mandate and the "British people at his back" for the changes he wanted to achieve.
The prime minister will hold talks with Angela Merkel and EU Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker next week.
Mr Cameron will also meet French President Francois Hollande as he tries to win support for his position.
Other EU countries have said they will listen to what the UK has to say, the Finnish prime minister Alexander Stubb saying he backed the UK's proposals to cut red tape and was sure "some kind of compromise" could be reached.
But some member states have questioned the need for any change to EU treaties, something Mr Cameron has said he wants to see, and ruled out any watering down of the key principle of freedom of movement.
Speaking at a meeting of EU leaders, Mr Cameron said he believed it was in the interests of both the UK and its European partners for the UK to remain part of the European Union but under different terms.
The British people, he said, were not happy with the status quo and wanted change on issues such as welfare, immigration and an opt-out from further integration.
Mr Cameron said he had only begun to "scratch the surface" of the discussions but would travel to Berlin and Paris next week as well as hosting European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at his country residence, Chequers, on Monday.
He said the British people needed "the best possible choice" about the UK's future in Europe and did not rule out bringing forward his promised referendum, currently scheduled to take place by the end of 2017.
Mr Cameron said he expected "lots of ups and downs" in the process and reminding journalists that many of their pre-election forecasts were wrong, he urged them to "wait for the result".
"I do not expect to find agreed solutions straight away," he told them.
"These talks will require patience and tenacity. But by working together in the right spirit and sticking at it, I believe we can reform the EU and our relationship with it. And then the British people will have the final say. They will decide."
The changes he was seeking were "deliverable and doable", he insisted.
"I've set out a series of changes which I think address the main concerns that British people have, that I have, about Europe and the way it works. And I'm confident of getting those changes."
British officials said the process was at a very early stage, but the meetings with Mrs Merkel, regarded as Germany's most powerful leader and Mr Juncker, the most senior official in Brussels, will be seen as key to setting the tone for future discussions.
Mr Cameron is committed to holding an in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU by the end of 2017, but there is speculation it could be held next year to avoid a clash with elections in France and Germany.
Legislation paving the way for the UK referendum is expected to be published next Thursday, the day after the Queen opens Parliament.
Asked whether he would be prepared to recommend a UK exit if he did not get the outcome he wanted, Mr Cameron said he would "not rule anything out".
David Cameron is ready to start renegotiating the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum. Here is some further reading on what it all means:
The UK and the EU: Better off in or out?
What Britain wants from Europe
Q&A: The UK's planned EU referendum
Timeline: EU referendum debate
Why Germany is David Cameron's new best friend
BBC deputy political editor James Landale said Mr Cameron had used the summit, arranged to discuss the EU's relationship with Russia and its neighbours, to sound out other European leaders about what they might be willing to accept before the start of "intricate" negotiations in the coming months.
Other EU leaders, he added, were "scared witless" by the possibility of the UK leaving the EU and were willing to listen and consider a deal, but there were some things - such as changes to freedom of movement rules - which were "sacrosanct".
Mr Cameron has not revealed the full details of what he is seeking from any changes, but he is expected to demand an opt-out from one its core principles of forging an "ever-closer union" between member states.
He will also try to get more powers to block or opt out of new EU laws, and for restrictions on welfare benefits for migrants until they have lived in the UK for four years.
This week, a number of UK business leaders started to highlight the potential implications of the referendum, with the president of the CBI saying businesses should "speak out early" in favour of remaining in a reformed EU,
The Labour Party, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Lib Dems are in favour of staying in the EU. UKIP, which got almost four million votes but only one MP in the election, want to leave.
They have a couple more games of the season remaining and now an eight-point lead over Tottenham who are at Chelsea on Monday.
Third-place Arsenal scraped a 1-0 victory over struggling Norwich, but fourth-place Manchester City slipped up in the chase of the Gunners as they went down 4-2 at Southampton.
At the bottom, Newcastle moved out of the drop zone with a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace.
But who were the outstanding performers? Here are my selections...
They call them understudy goalkeepers for some reason and I have never understood why. Granted Darlow has come in for the injured Tim Krul and Rob Elliot, but with performances like this he is a goalkeeper who should be playing regular first-team football.
The 25-year-old produced a number of cracking saves against Crystal Palace in a game Newcastle just had to win to keep their hopes of Premier League survival alive. His first save from Yannick Bolasie at full stretch was superb, but it was his penalty save from former Magpie favourite-turned-villain Yohan Cabaye that changed the game.
Darlow held his nerve brilliantly which is more than I can say for Newcastle midfielder Moussa Sissoko who seemed to have had a rush of blood to the head when he appeared to try to parry the ball in the box. But that was before Darlow came to the rescue.
It looks like Leighton Baines is at it again. To think it's his first goal of the season seems remarkable bearing in mind the full-back used to score free-kicks for fun. His winner against Bournemouth was emphatic, in fact I don't think I've seen a defender appear so casual about a goal. His finish was almost nonchalant.
Now Everton have won at home, does that mean their fans will lay off manager Roberto Martinez and let him do his job at least until the end of the season?
What a tackle! It couldn't have been more than seconds into this vital game for Newcastle, with in-form Connor Wickham bearing down on the Magpies goal, when defender Jamaal Lascelles made the tackle of the game. Not only did it set the tone for an impressive performance by the 22-year-old but it was the catalyst for Newcastle's first clean sheet in four games.
Manager Rafa Benitez has only been playing the youngster because of injuries to the experienced Steven Taylor and club captain Fabricio Coloccini. However, the youngster has been so impressive in the games he has played under Benitez, the Spanish manager should have no qualms whatsoever about Lascelles holding the Newcastle fort in their remaining fixtures.
I don't think I've seen a team defend like it. They went a goal behind at Old Trafford, with no Jamie Vardy available to help them out up front yet they defended like champions and captain Wes Morgan was at the heart of it.
What I didn't expect was to see Morgan so intent on getting among the goals in order to put his team on level terms. He bulldozed his way past his marker Marcos Rojo to get his head on the ball to equalise before returning to his full-time job of defending the Leicester City goal. Should referee Michael Oliver have awarded Manchester United a penalty for the foul on Memphis Depay with minutes of this match to spare? Of course he should have, but Leicester earned a little luck.
Analysis: 'Now we find out if Tottenham can respond' - Shearer
My goodness has this lad grown into a super defender. The way he recovered and got back to snuff out Jesse Lingard's attempt on goal without conceding a free-kick was nothing short of sensational. Earlier in the season against Arsenal at the Emirates, Danny Simpson seemed to let the occasion get to him, and he and his team paid the price but not so against Manchester United. The full-back is playing the football of his life and Leicester are top of the league to prove it.
This lad has such a tremendous willingness to cover the ground especially when he wants to get on the end of something in the box, it's quite scary.
The way he left Gareth McAuley trailing in his wake for Mark Noble's toe-poke and West Ham's second goal characterised precisely what Kouyate is all about. He seldom misses games and has been a talisman for the Hammers for most of this season. He doesn't have the artistry and touch of Dimitri Payet, but players like that don't exist without the Kouyates of this world.
His first goal was brave and his second goal just brilliant.
Mark Noble has become a leader in the true West Ham mould. Quietly letting others like Dimitri Payet and Andy Carroll take a starring role, but always there as an impressive support act. Well, his performance against West Brom was award-winning like many of his roles this season for the Hammers. What is surprising is that he never gets mentioned whenever discussions around England are raised. And I'm not entirely sure why.
What a week it's been for Andre Ayew. A father for the first time, but judging by his display against Liverpool he didn't seem to be suffering from any sleep deprivation. He took both his goals exceptionally well and if the rumours are true and Swansea are thinking about offloading the Ghanaian at the end of the season, then they should seriously think again.
Frankly, the Swans have been in disarray all season and they should consider themselves fortunate that players like Ayew and Gylfi Sigurdsson have saved their skins.
I can't be hearing right. Are Watford's owners seriously considering dispensing with the services of manager Quique Sanchez Flores? Have they gone completely mad?
The manager has only been in the job for 10 months, got them to an FA Cup semi-final, secured their place in the best league in the world and they think he's underachieved!
Well, Troy Deeney's performance against relegated Aston Villa didn't provide any indication that the Hornets had lost any of their sting. While bigger teams like Norwich and Sunderland are fighting for their lives, Deeney and manager Flores have done a magnificent job and retained the club's status by keeping the owners in a league they clearly struggle to afford.
This is the second time in consecutive weeks that Kelechi Iheanacho has made my TOTW and justifiably so.
The 19-year-old is the real deal and would be playing regularly in any other side than this star-spangled Manchester City outfit who, on this occasion, lacked stardust.
This was a bad day for City and without Iheanacho they would have looked abject. What Martin Demichelis was even doing on the pitch was a mystery to me and what has happened to Raheem Sterling?
Seven goals in his last six appearances for Southampton rather suggests that Sadio Mane has got his mojo back.
I saw him tear Chelsea apart at Stamford Bridge, but then the player seemed to lose his way after speculation that Manchester United were interested in his services and his relationship with Saints manager Ronald Koeman became rather fraught.
Well, any talk of Mane joining United has gone away while the Senegalese striker looks on top of his game once again. His third goal against a poor Manchester City was superb. The way he caressed the ball around Joe Hart was just wonderful.
A hard Brexit is "economically much superior to soft" argues Prof Patrick Minford, lead author of a report from Economists for Free Trade.
He says eliminating tariffs, either within free trade deals or unilaterally, would deliver huge gains.
Campaigners against a hard Brexit said the plan amounts to "economic suicide".
The UK is part of the EU customs union, and so imposes tariffs - taxes on imports - on some goods coming into the country.
Countries in the customs union don't impose tariffs on each other's goods, and every country inside the union levies the same tariffs on imports from abroad.
So, for example, a 10% tariff is imposed on some cars imported from outside the customs union, while 7.5% is imposed on roasted coffee.
Other goods have no tariffs.
The UK has said it is leaving the EU's customs union because as a member it is unable to strike trade deals with other countries.
Prof Minford's full report, From Project Fear to Project Prosperity, is due to be published in the autumn.
He argues that the UK could unilaterally - before a reciprocal deal is in place - eliminate trade barriers for both the EU and the rest of the world and reap trade gains worth £80bn a year.
The report foresees a further £40bn a year boost from deregulating the economy, as well as other benefits resulting from Brexit-related policies.
Prof Minford says that when it comes to trade the "ideal solution" would still be free trade deals with major economic blocks including the EU.
But the threat that the UK could abolish all trade barriers unilaterally would act as "the club in the closet".
The EU would then be under pressure to offer Britain a free trade deal, otherwise its producers would be competing in a UK market "flooded with less expensive goods from elsewhere", his introduction says.
He argues UK businesses and consumers would benefit from lower priced imported goods and the effects of increased competition, which would force firms to raise their productivity.
However, Open Britain, a campaign group arguing for the UK to remain within the single market and the customs union, said the proposed strategy would be damaging to the UK economy.
"Unilaterally scrapping our tariffs without achieving similar reductions in the tariff rates of other countries would see Britain swamped with imports, leaving our manufacturers and farmers unable to compete," said Labour MP Alison McGovern, a supporter of the cross-party group Open Britain, which is campaigning against a hard Brexit.
"The levels of bankruptcy and unemployment, especially in industry and agriculture, would sky-rocket.
"This is a project of economic suicide, not prosperity. No responsible government would touch this report with a barge pole as a source of ideas for our future trade policy."
Economists for Free Trade is a group of 16 economists, including former government advisers and academics.
The group plans to release further chapters of the report in the run up to its full publication.
It is a counterintuitive idea, but actually the economics textbooks do provide some support for the idea of unilateral trade liberalisation.
This analysis suggests that removing trade barriers produces benefits for consumers and businesses buying components or raw materials that exceed the losses suffered in industries that face stiffer competition.
The downside is that it may take time, perhaps years, for the workers who lose their jobs to find new ones.
Professor Minford has expressed the view that the British economy is flexible enough to cope.
There is also the question of how the new jobs would compare with the old ones.
The mainstream view among economists is that while countries overall may gain from trade liberalisation, there are usually some specific groups that lose.
Prof Minford also directs criticism at Chancellor Philip Hammond's current approach to Brexit, which he says amounts to "throwing away our hard-won freedom from EU rules".
The chancellor is viewed as favouring a softer approach to Brexit, but recently co-authored an article in the Telegraph in which he proposed that the UK would leave both the single market and the customs union in March 2019, but that there would be a "time-limited" transition period to help businesses adjust.
A government spokesman said the UK would maintain a "deep and special" relationship with the bloc after departing the EU.
"The economy has grown continuously for four years and there are more people in work than ever before.
"As we leave the European Union, we will build on this success by maintaining a deep and special partnership with the EU while embracing the wider world as an independent, open, trading nation.'"
During the referendum campaign last year Prof Minford stoked controversy by suggesting that the effect of leaving the EU would be to "eliminate manufacturing, leaving mainly industries such as design, marketing and hi-tech".
However in a recent article in the Financial Times he suggested manufacturing would become more profitable post-Brexit.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to take his tally to 105 goals in the Champions League as the Spanish side became the first team since AC Milan in 1990 to retain the title.
It had been an even and enthralling opening half in Cardiff with Mario Mandzukic cancelling out Ronaldo's opener.
But there was only one team in it after the break, with the Spanish side taking control to ensure Juve's miserable run in Champions League finals continued - they have now lost their last five.
But who stood out as history was made in Cardiff?
Gianluigi Buffon (goalkeeper) - 6
A loser in the Champions League final of 2003, 2015 and now 2017. It remains the only major prize to elude him, but he could not be blamed for any of Real's goals - from the precision of Cristiano Ronaldo's opener, the deflection that sent Casemiro's shot past him or the two shots that beat him from point-blank range.
Did you know:Buffon - aged 39 years, 126 days, is the third oldest player to feature in a European Cup final after Dino Zoff and Edwin van der Sar.
Dani Alves (right wing-back) - 6
Put in some dangerous whipped crosses early on but was far less of a threat in the second half as Real took control.
Did you know:Dani Alves made his 100th Champions League appearance, becoming the 31st player to reach this milestone and just the second Brazilian after Roberto Carlos.
Giorgio Chiellini (centre-back) - 6
Out-muscled Cristiano Ronaldo early on but Real's relentless attacks after the break meant gaps appeared in Juve's acclaimed back-line.
Leonardo Bonucci (centre-back) - 7
Passed the ball with confidence in the early stages as Juve took the game to Real but was stretched to the limit when the Spanish side piled on the pressure. A brilliant clearance denied Gareth Bale a goal.
Andrea Barzagli (centre-back) - 7
Showed his class when he put in a perfectly-timed tackle on Isco, but could do little to stem the Real tide given the lack of protection from midfield.
Alex Sandro (left wing-back) - 8
Won his personal battle with Dani Carvajal down his flank and put in a steady supply of dangerous crosses - one of which led to Mario Mandzukic's goal.
Sami Khedira (centre midfield) - 5
His incisive one-touch passing helped Juve get on top early on, but he ran out of steam in the second half, when the Juve midfield was over-run.
Miralem Pjanic (centre midfield) - 5
Another Juve midfielder who started the game like a train but the speed of Real's interplay made him a passenger after the break.
Mario Mandzukic (attacking midfield) - 8
"One hell of a finish" is how Alan Shearer - accurately - described his goal on 5 live. Few overhead kicks can ever be hit so sweetly. When Juve were in the game, his clever runs helped created space for others.
Did you know:Mandzukic (Bayern Munich, Juventus) is the third player to score in a European Cup/CL final for two different teams after Velibor Vasovic (Partizan Belgrade, Ajax) & Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd, Real Madrid).
Paulo Dybala (attacking midfield) - 7
Impressive when he ran at defenders with the ball, but had fewer and fewer opportunities to do that as the game progressed.
Gonzalo Higuain (centre-forward) - 6
Looked determined to end his losing streak in major finals when involved in Juve's early chances, but those opportunities soon dried up. Worked hard, but got no reward.
Substitutes
Juan Cuadradro (replaced Barzagli, 66 mins) Harshly sent off when Ramos made the most of an innocuous off-the-ball push. 4
Claudio Marchisio (replaced Pjanic, 70 mins) Brought on to try to give Juve a foothold in midfield, but that was a big ask in the circumstances. 5
Mario Lemina (replaced Dyabala, 77 mins) The game was lost by the time he appeared off the bench. 5
Keylor Navas (goalkeeper) - 6
Made a brilliant early one-handed save from Pjanic. Criticised in some quarters for Mandzukic's goal, but beaten by the brilliance of the finish.
Dani Carvajal (right-back) - 7
His dual with Sandro was one of the highlights of the final. Had his hands full defensively but played a big part in his side's attacking play, setting up Ronaldo's opener.
Did you know:Carvajal has provided five assists in the CL this season, more than any other defender. (Next highest is Dani Alves, who currently has four).
Raphael Varane (centre-back) - 8
Looked rattled by Higuain in the early stages but had the Juve striker under almost complete control in the second half.
Sergio Ramos (centre-back) - 8
A typically eventful game - booked for a bout of wrestling in the first half, and got Cuadrado sent off late on with a spot of gamesmanship. In between, he showed what a good defender he is too.
Did you know:Sergio Ramos has been booked in all three of his Champions League final appearances.
Marcelo (left-back) - 8
Quiet at first, hugely influential by the end - summed up by the way he made his side's fourth goal with a brilliant run and cross.
Casemiro (defensive midfield) - 8
Helped his side gradually build a platform in midfield that allowed them to win the game. Got on the scoresheet too.
Luka Modric (centre midfield) - 9
Another stand-out performance. It was no coincidence that the more he saw of the ball, the more his side were on top.
Toni Kroos (centre midfield) - 8
Used the ball cleverly and helped set the tempo for Real's dominance.
Isco (attacking midfield) - 8
Seemed to be permanently on the move and sometimes his legs moved too fast for him. His movement was too much for Juve's midfield and defence.
Karim Benzema (centre-forward) - 7
Quiet by his standards, with only one blocked shot, but he worked hard and made space for others to exploit.
Cristiano Ronaldo (centre-forward) - 9 Man of the Match
Took centre-stage with two goals to help clinch his fourth Champions League triumph that took him above Lionel Messi as the top scorer in this season's tournament. Both were down to his movement and intelligence, and his innate finishing ability. His triumph caps another stellar season with another major club honour - his 20th, at the ground where he won his first with Manchester United in the 2004 FA Cup final.
Did you know:Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in three different Champions League finals (2017, 2014 and 2008), which is more than any other player. He also scored the winning penalty in last year's shoot-out win over Atletico Madrid.
Substitutes
Gareth Bale (replaced Benzema, 77 mins) - 6 Denied a goal on home territory by Bonucci's last-gasp clearance.
Marco Asensio (replaced Isco, 85 mins) - 7 A cool finish cemented his side's second-half dominance with a fourth goal.
Alvaro Morata (replaced Kroos, 90 mins) Not enough time to make an impact or earn a mark.
Close to 90,000 fans will be at Wembley for the 134th final of the world's oldest cup competition as two teams of elite, millionaire sportsmen battle it out for glory.
But what exactly was the scene at the original final way back in 1872?
An estimated crowd of 2,000 were there to see 22 amateurs play on a cricket pitch, with no nets, as Wanderers beat Royal Engineers 1-0 thanks to a goal from Morton Betts.
BBC Sport, with the help of Matthew Taylor, professor of history at De Montfort University, look at the first final 143 years ago...
Prior to the 1872 FA Cup, there were no regular competitive games being played in England. Football Association secretary Charles Alcock drew up plans for the first FA Cup which saw 15 teams enter the first round of November 1871.
Step forward Barnes, Civil Service, Hitchin, Crystal Palace (confusingly not the present-day Palace but their precursors who were dissolved in 1876), Maidenhead, Marlow, Queen's Park, Donington School, Upton Park, Clapham Rovers, Royal Engineers, Reigate Priory, Wanderers, Harrow Chequers and Hampstead Heathens, who were given a bye.
Teething problems and the logistical headaches of scheduling football matches across Britain in the era of steam meant that Scottish side Queen's Park advanced to the semi-finals without actually playing a game.
The semi-finals - both goalless draws - were played at the Kennington Oval. The Royal Engineers booked their place in the final with a 3-0 replay win over Crystal Palace, while Wanderers made it through when Queen's Park decided they could not afford another costly trip to London for the replay and withdrew.
The historian's view: "The general consensus is that the FA Cup was based on the knockout competitions between 'Houses' at major public schools such as Harrow. But Alcock may also have taken inspiration from existing competitions in the provinces, such as Sheffield's Youdon Cup, launched in 1867.
"Certainly football was equally, if not more, established and popular in Sheffield as it was in London at this time, and the elite ex-public schoolboys based in the capital knew and played against teams from Sheffield, Nottingham and elsewhere."
Alcock - the brains behind the whole idea - played in defence for Wanderers.
Formed in 1859 as Forest Football Club, the side mainly consisted of former Harrow public schoolboys and took the name 'Wanderers' because they played their matches at different grounds. But by 1869 the club was based at the Kennington Oval, where Alcock also happened to be the secretary of Surrey cricket club.
The Royal Engineers were founded in 1863 by Major Francis Marindin - an extraordinary man. Having served in the Crimean war, he would go on to play in the 1872 final, become president of the FA in 1874 and then referee eight further FA Cup finals.
The 1872 final was held at Kennington Oval, also the venue for the first international football match between England and Scotland in 1870.
The Oval would go on to host 20 of the next 21 FA Cup finals, with the 1873 final played at Lillie Bridge - close to Chelsea's modern home at Stamford Bridge.
The historian's view: "Many football clubs played on cricket grounds in the late 19th century. Football clubs often emerged from existing cricket clubs, as a way of the players keeping fit in the winter. Purpose-built football grounds did not emerge in significant numbers until the 1880s and 1890s."
While fans at this year's final will have to battle through the crowds at Wembley, it was a more sedate affair in 1872. Football had yet to catch on and around 2,000 are said to have been at the Oval.
Much has changed beyond recognition in football but the cost of attending remains an issue...
The historian's view: "Attendances for football matches were not large in the early 1870s, with one reason for the relatively low attendance the price of tickets, which at one shilling (five pence in today's money) was higher than for most matches at the time.
"The Oval crowd was said to be 'very fashionable', so presumably made up of the well-to-do and the upper middle-class, as well as those connected with the 'old boys' public school network that ran the Football Association at this time."
The Royal Engineers could lay claim to being the Barcelona of their day, with their revolutionary tactic of 'passing' the ball to a team-mate at odds with the usual approach of chasing the ball into space.
The only goal of the final came after 15 minutes when Betts, playing under the pseudonym "A H Chequer", derived from his membership of the Harrow Chequers club, collected the ball after a long dribble from Walpole Vidal and slammed home.
Goalkeeper was not yet a specialist position, with keepers regularly playing outfield.
The historian's view: "It was not unusual for teams to line up with six or seven forwards in the early 1870s. Most teams at this time still relied primarily on individual dribbling, with team-mates backing up the dribbler in an effort to move the ball towards the opponents' goal.
"Some authorities have claimed that the Royal Engineers were the first team to develop a passing game, and were doing so at around the time of the first FA Cup final."
It's fair to say that the footballers of Oscar Wilde's age were a different breed to today's sporting stars.
The Wanderers' band of ex-public schoolboys and the aristocratic elite produced some notable sportsmen. As well as the pioneering Alcock the team contained several men who played first-class cricket, a goalkeeper who was capped by England as a defender and a forward who was capped by England in goal.
Forward Edward Bowen was noted for walking the 90 miles between Cambridge and Oxford in 26 hours in between his football and playing cricket for Hampshire; full-back Edgar Lubbock went on to become the deputy governor of the Bank of England and wing-wizard Walpole Vidal - known as the "prince of dribblers" - would later become a vicar.
As you would expect, the Royal Engineers side had all seen military service from across the world, with experiences branching from India to the Crimea, Bermuda, Gibraltar and the Zulu war.
Forward Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour played football and rugby union for Scotland as well as cricket for Kent and would still find time to become a managing director of Guinness, while half-back Alfred Goodwyn would suffer the unfortunate fate of being the first international footballer to be killed in a riding accident in India two years after the final.
The historian's view: "Most of the players in the first final had learnt the game in elite public schools and at university. The Wanderers was open only to those who had attended leading public schools and Oxbridge. Three of the Cup final line-up had attended Eton and four had gone to Harrow."
The early rules were very different. In a nod to cricket, players had to appeal for a goal and changed ends after each goal, not at half-time. This once allowed Walpole Vidal to score three times without the opposition touching the ball.
The historian's view: "Modern fans would be surprised by some of the features of football in 1872. Rather than a crossbar, a tape was pitched between two posts eight feet above the ground.
"Throw-ins were not determined by the team whose player had kicked the ball off the pitch but by the first player to reach the ball. But these rules were not consistent across the country. Variations existed in different areas and it was not until 10 years later, in 1882, that a uniform set of rules was established by the FA."
The 2015 final will be refereed by Jon Moss, who can expect some grief from the stands. It was a different story for civil servant Alfred Stair, the referee chosen for the first three FA Cup finals. Stair was the head of the Inland Revenue - presumably seen as a trustworthy gentleman of his day - and also played football for Upton Park.
The historian's view: "In the earliest days of football, referees were literally peripheral figures. They stood outside the playing area and were only called upon to adjudicate if the umpires (who were appointed by each club and stood in either half of the pitch) could not reach agreement."
For winners Wanderers it was the start of a golden - if brief - era of success. They retained the trophy in 1873 by beating Oxford University 2-0 and added three more trophies before the end of the decade. Their haul of five FA Cups has only been bettered by Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester United and Arsenal.
But by 1881 Wanderers could not field a side as players left to play for some of the newer clubs springing up across the country and the team folded in 1887. A reformed side was founded in 2009 and the club currently play in the Surrey South Eastern Combination. In fact they are looking for a new manager to get the club back in the FA Cup by 2022.
The Engineers reached four finals and won the Cup in 1875. They continue to play on and are currently managed by Capt Simon Mayers, who has a 25-man squad to select from around 8,000 men based around the world.
The historian's view: "Football became increasingly popular over the next decade or so, as it became embedded in British working-class culture. Its popularity was helped by entrepreneurs who realised the opportunities that existed in enclosing playing fields and charging the public for entry.
"The next step from this, as teams began to act as representatives of their localities, was for ambitious club committees to 'poach' the best players and pay for them to play for their teams. Within less than a decade of the first FA Cup final, professional football had emerged in England, though it was not legalised by the FA until 1885."
Only 6.6% of Welsh sufferers are still alive five years after diagnosis, compared to 16% in England.
The UK Lung Cancer Coalition wants politicians and health professionals to raise the rate to 25% by 2025, which it said would prevent 600 deaths.
The Welsh Government said it is already working on some of the recommendations.
Lung cancer remains the biggest killer of cancer patients in Wales, with nearly 2,000 deaths per year, or almost 22% of all cancer deaths, more than deaths from breast and bowel cancer combined.
The UKLCC report, 25 by 25: A ten-year strategy to improve lung cancer survival rates, found in a survey of 148 health specialists dealing with lung cancer that 65% of them believed early diagnosis to be the most important factor in improving survival rates.
Across a UK sample of 102 patients, only 27% said they had visited their doctors because they had recognised the symptoms of lung cancer.
The report said there are wide variations and inequalities in lung cancer treatment around Wales.
Only 12% of patients are diagnosed at stage one (the least serious) of the disease, and more than 10% do not have access to a clinical nurse specialist.
However it acknowledged that "significant steps" had been taken to improve outcomes, and the Welsh Government had identified lung cancer as one of five national cancer priority areas and taken steps to improve survival outcomes.
Dr Ian Williamson, a consultant respiratory physician and assistant medical director of cancer services at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, said: "Despite concerted efforts by the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to tackle inequalities and improve outcomes, five-year survival rates in Wales still lag behind our European counterparts and compare very poorly with other major common cancer types."
Last year, figures from Public Health Wales showed the rate of the disease in Welsh women had risen by 35% over a decade.
The UKLCC is calling on the Welsh Government to carry out a number of measures, including:
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "Overall cancer survival rates in Wales continue to improve and one year survival for lung cancer has also risen. However, we are not complacent and are already taking forward many of the recommendations in this report.
"This includes improving lung cancer resection rates, supporting GPs to review cases of lung cancer in order to provide better care, and delivering a national awareness campaign on lung cancer symptoms."
She added the number of adults smoking had fallen to 19% in 2015 from 26% in 2004.
Doug Richard, 57, is accused of engaging in sexual activity after contacting her through a website.
He denies sexual activity with a child, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and a charge of paying a child for sexual services.
Mr Richard, of Islington, north London, is due back in court for a trial scheduled to start on January 25.
The US-born businessman, who is on unconditional bail, entered not guilty pleas during a short hearing at the Old Bailey.
The millionaire, who appeared on BBC's Dragons' Den in the first two series, has also advised David Cameron on support for small businesses.
The 32-year-old batsman played in all three formats for the Hove side last season as an overseas player.
Taylor, who has played 73 Twenty20 internationals for the Black Caps, scored 394 runs at an average of 56.28 for Sussex in T20 competition in 2016.
"Not only is Ross a world-class player but also a fantastic role model," Sussex head coach Mark Davis said.
Wellington-born Taylor has previously played in domestic T20 tournaments in Australia, India, New Zealand and West Indies.
He has featured in 80 Tests and 177 one-day internationals since making his ODI debut for New Zealand in March 2006.
However, it was a night of mixed fortunes for the Magpies as Aleksandar Mitrovic, Dwight Gayle and Rolando Aarons all came off injured.
Perez, who was also injured and had his head bandaged, curled in a brilliant opener in first-half stoppage time.
The Spaniard tapped in his second when Gayle pounced on Easah Suliman's back-pass and squared the ball.
Match ends, Newcastle United 2, Cheltenham Town 0.
Second Half ends, Newcastle United 2, Cheltenham Town 0.
Jamie Sterry (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt saved. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Jon Smith (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Koby Arthur (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Asa Hall (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Jack Colback (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt missed. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. James Rowe (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Daniel Wright.
Attempt saved. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Jack Colback (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Jon Smith replaces Easah Suliman.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Koby Arthur replaces James Dayton.
Attempt saved. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Daniel O'Shaughnessy.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
James Rowe (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a fast break.
Attempt missed. Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Vurnon Anita replaces Dwight Gayle because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Grant Hanley.
Attempt missed. Asa Hall (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Grant Hanley (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Danny Parslow. | Somerset County Council has defended its decision to pay nearly £1,000 a day for a temporary employee.
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"We'd just had our second child. I was at a place in life where I really felt like I could use some stability," says the 40-year-old Swede.
"You know, a nice fixed salary that would actually hit my account on a monthly basis, possibly a company car, and a pension would have been nice as well; some of the things that you never get if you run your own business."
This was back in 2010, and as the global financial crisis continued to engulf Sweden, Mr de Geer said it definitely didn't feel like the right time to launch a new business.
But it was in January of that year that his wife, a sunglasses importer, returned from a trade fair and complained that she'd lost out on business because she couldn't accept debit cards from her customers.
Mr de Geer says this was because, at the time, most sole traders and small firms couldn't afford the expensive mobile card processors available from banks.
"My wife said 'someone must have solved this for small businesses, so that it makes sense for us'," he remembers.
Except they hadn't, at least not in Europe. And Mr de Geer - who had previously set up and sold a number of media companies - was determined to do something about it.
The Stockholmer started to research the market, and discovered that there were some 20 million small businesses in Europe in need of an affordable solution.
Four months later, he joined forces with his friend Magnus Nilsson and founded iZettle.
The company's technology works by turning smartphones and tablets into credit and debit card processors, by linking them to a £35 card reader that connects via the headphone socket.
A customer simply puts his or her card into the trader's iZettle reader, enters their pin number, and the payment is made.
The product was quickly successful in Sweden, and is now used by thousands of traders in 12 countries, mostly across Europe, but also Mexico and Brazil.
Thee firm says it is continuing to grow so fast that 1,000 new customers sign up every day. And it has secured €140m ($157m; £120m) of investment.
Mr de Geer attributes part of the firm's early success in Sweden to a "tech savvy" population that loves to embrace new trends, gadgets and fashions.
"It's one of the reasons why Sweden is a common test bed for many international companies to test their products," he says.
"They know if it flies here it will probably fly in most other places as well."
Thanks in no small part to iZettle, Sweden is leading the race to become the world's first cashless society. In 2015 80% of all retail payments in the country were made by card, compared with around 52% in the UK and 45% in the US.
In addition to the sale of the card readers, iZettle makes its money by charging users a monthly fee, which is a percentage of the overall payments received. This ranges from 2.75% down to 1%, depending on how much money the trader makes.
iZettle says this remains significantly less than mainstream banks charge for their mobile card processing services.
Prof Niklas Arvidsson, from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, says there are a number of reasons for iZettle's success, including being at the right place at the right time.
"The timing was right. There was a need from a lot of merchants that wanted a solution like iZettle, that allowed them to take payments in situations where they had not been able to use card readers before."
Speaking about Mr de Geer, Prof Arvidsson adds: "He seems like a focused entrepreneur, and someone who has the ability to have an idea and bring it home."
As iZettle faces increasing competition from rivals, Mr de Geer is candid about the firm's challenges as he seeks to expand the business.
"We try things, we test them, we validate with data, and 99 out of 100 times we conclude that the change that we made to a service or a product was for the worse," he admits.
"Something that you thought would be so easy to do, or straightforward, it always turns out to be some sort of rollercoaster ride from hell, really. Most of the time it's fun, but there are days when you are really not that keen to go to work."
However the Swede says he can't imagine a life that didn't involve being 100% committed to his business.
"If you set up and start your own company, it's effectively a baby that you need to take care of," he says.
"Unless you take care of it and let it grow, nobody else is going to do it for you."
The son of a former banker, who later set up a fund management firm, before investing his savings in a farm, Mr de Geer accepts that his hardwired entrepreneurial spirit may, in part, be down to his father's influence.
But it was only after completing a masters at Stockholm School of Economics, that he says he became convinced that he wasn't cut out for a traditional graduate career.
Mr de Geer adds that working for a digital marketing agency owned by Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon in his 20s added further inspiration to become his own boss.
He says: "The joy of doing something on your own, and creating something, and being able to a certain extent to control how you work... I think that was really an eye-opener for me. I thought that was amazing."
But iZettle's chef executive says that these days most of his drive comes from being around his three children ("they see endless possibilities, no problems") and iZettle's growing global customer base of small business owners.
"There are so many struggling guys and girls out there who are working hard to make a living," he says.
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Matthew Bentham, from Hylton Castle in Sunderland, has not been seen since 23:00 GMT on Saturday.
The 26-year-old's family has been informed of the discovery while officers continue to search for him, Northumbria Police said.
Ch Insp Julian Bowran said police were "really concerned" for his welfare and were considering the possibility he may have gone into the River Wear.
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The firm had already reduced Galaxy Note 7 production volumes.
Owners are expected to be able to return the phones for a refund or an exchange for a different Samsung phone.
The firm had earlier said it would stop sales of the phone.
"We recently readjusted the production volume for thorough investigation and quality control, but putting consumer safety as top priority, we have reached a final decision to halt production of Galaxy Note 7s," the company said.
"For the benefit of consumers' safety, we stopped sales and exchanges of the Galaxy Note 7 and have consequently decided to stop production."
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Earlier, consumer tech analyst Caroline Milanesi of Creative Strategies told the BBC that Samsung should "call it a day" on production of the Galaxy Note 7 to limit long-term risk to the brand.
However, South Korea's finance minister had warned that the country's exports would be hurt if the phone model was scrapped.
In September, Samsung recalled around 2.5 million phones after complaints of exploding batteries.
It later insisted that all replaced devices were safe.
However, that was followed by reports that those phones were catching fire too.
A Kentucky man said he woke up to a bedroom full of smoke from a replaced Note 7, days after a domestic flight in the US was evacuated after a new device started emitting smoke in the cabin.
Even as late as Monday evening, a spokeswoman insisted the phones were safe to use.
But on Tuesday, the company said it would stop Galaxy Note 7 production.
Authorities in the US and South Korea are investigating why even the replacement Note 7 phones that Samsung equipped with a safer battery reportedly caught fire.
An official at the South Korean safety agency said the replacement phones might have a defect that was different from the problem with the original Galaxy Note 7s.
Samsung could suffer "a considerable loss of consumer faith," said Greg Roh at HMC Investment Securities.
"If it's once, it could be taken as a mistake. But for Samsung, the same thing happened twice with the same model," he said.
"The reason consumers prefer brands like Samsung and Apple is because of product reliability. So in this case, brand damage is inevitable and it will be costly for Samsung to turn that around again."
At least five fires were reported in replacement devices in the US.
Samsung said it had sold about 45,000 Note 7s through pre-orders in Europe.
The handset was never released for sale in the UK.
Analysts are suggesting the recall and now scrapping of the Note 7 could cost Samsung in the long run, particularly coming just as rivals including Google and Apple have announced new high-end smartphones.
Richard Windsor, from Edison Investment Research, said: "As a result of making a complete mess of the Galaxy Note 7 recall, Samsung is more likely to lose a large number of high-end users to other Android handsets rather than to Apple.
"The real issue is brand and reputation. As long as Samsung carried out the recall smoothly and kept users very happy, the issue would eventually blow over.
"Unfortunately, this is very far from the case, and the fact that Samsung appeared to still be shipping defective devices could trigger a large loss of faith in Samsung products."
Dwayne Humphrey, from Dromore, County Down, was left unfit for work following the injury in 2009.
He sued his previous employer, Aegis Defence Services Ltd, for £2m, but three court of appeal judges rejected his claim on Thursday.
They said the security company could not have been expected to do more to protect him from injury.
The London Court of Appeal heard that a group of workers were asked to carry a man on a stretcher in a simulated combat exercise.
But the court was told that within 10 metres of starting the stretcher carry, a "puffing, wheezing and panting" Iraqi interpreter dropped his corner, "wrenching" the 32-year-old's shoulder.
"Mr Humphrey picked up his end to complete the exercise and the interpreter was ordered to carry on alongside the stretcher, touching it, and even leaning on it to assist himself," his lawyer said.
Mr Humphrey claimed the Iraqi should never have been included in the exercise.
But Lord Justice Moore-Bick said the simulation had been a test to ensure interpreters were fit enough, meaning some were bound to fail.
The court heard Mr Humphrey was an ex-Marine and working in close protection services when he suffered the injury.
His job involved escorting contractors in the Project Matrix reconstruction programme in Iraq.
Mr Humphrey was earning £80,000 per year at the time, but was so badly injured that he will never be fit to return to his former job.
He sued the company last year but his case was rejected by a judge and fought on at the Court of Appeal.
Giving his verdict, Lord Justice Moore-Bick, sitting with Lord Justice Richards and Lord Justice Floyd, said it was important that interpreters were fit enough.
"They could come under fire or be subject to IED explosions, so would need to be able to withdraw quickly," he said.
"Given the importance of the use of Iraqi interpreters and of their integration into contractors' teams and the modest degree of risk involved, it seems to me impossible to say that Aegis were at fault."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.05% lower to 17,663.2 points, while the Nasdaq closed 0.4% lower, to 5,053.8 points.
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Denny Solomona crossed to put Tigers ahead, but James Donaldson went over to level the scores before half-time.
Jake Webster drove over for Castleford after a scrum deep in Rovers territory, before Josh Mantellato touched down to reduce the deficit to two points.
Webster scored again to extend the lead to six, but Mantellato's second try and successful conversion secured a point.
In wet and windy conditions, the visitors looked to have the game won until Mantellato's last-minute effort.
The Italy winger went over just inside the touchline, before he struck a difficult kick through the uprights to level the scores.
Rovers, who secured their Super League status by topping the Qualifiers table in 2015, matched the visitors throughout the game, but fell behind three times after they failed to deal with attacks down the left wing.
Tigers could have sealed the win when Solomona was held up by Ben Cockayne moments before Mantellato went over, but Daryl Powell's side were forced to settle for the draw.
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Hull KR head coach Chris Chester:
"Considering Josh Mantellato's only got one eye that's open he did a fantastic job at kicking that goal.
"I was pleased with the defensive side of the game but we were a long way off where we needed to be with the ball.
"I'm really proud of the resilience and toughness of the boys. From one to 17 the effort was first class."
Castleford head coach Daryl Powell:
"I have to give credit to Hull KR who have copped a load of stick in recent weeks.
"We were just a bit dumb; we had the game. It was pretty tight all the way through in real tough conditions.
"I thought we worked really hard but a couple of brain explosions from some players hurt us.
"We need to pick ourselves up and be a fair bit better than that. That was a disappointing effort today."
Hull KR: Sio; Cockayne, Minns, Thornley, Mantellato; Blair, Kelly; Tilse, Lawler, Allgood, Horne, Clarkson, Greenwood.
Replacements: Mulhern, Donaldson, Green, Boudebza.
Castleford Tigers: Dorn; Monaghan, Crooks, Shenton, Solomona; Roberts, Gale; Millington, McShane, Cook, Holmes, McMeeken, Jewitt.
Replacements: Boyle, Milner, Moors, Webster.
He said UKIP would then have a "legitimate voice" in Scotland.
During the speech, Mr Farage described First Minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond as a "fanatical EU federalist".
He challenged Mr Salmond - who said UKIP had been "humiliated" before in Scotland - to a debate on independence.
The MEP, who was in Edinburgh to back the party's candidate David Coburn at a rally, predicted that UKIP was on course to win one seat in the European Parliament in Scotland, adding that "if things go really well, possibly even two".
Addressing the first minister, Mr Farage said: "Mr Salmond is pretty scared of us. He's not not scared of the size of us at the moment, but he is very scared of the argument."
Mr Farage, whose party is not currently represented at any level in Scotland, told the rally that Scottish people think they have a referendum on independence "but they haven't".
He accused Mr Salmond of wanting Scotland "to be part of the European Union - and you cannot be an independent, self governing, democratic nation, and be member of a club whose laws are supreme over yours".
The UKIP leader argued that the whole of the UK should be independent, with devolved powers to each part.
About 200 protesters and supporters of Scottish independence turned up at the launch venue to protest against the UKIP leader where they booed and heckled UKIP supporters as they arrived.
The BBC's political correspondent in Scotland, Glenn Campbell, said a small group of UKIP supporters told him they had been unable to get into the rally because of the protesters.
UKIP won 0.91% of the vote across Scottish regions in the 2011 Holyrood election.
Rocking Horse Day Nursery in Warmley, near Bristol, had its eviction notice extended in October to allow for a search for a new site.
But owner Julia Davies said 20 jobs and 70 nursery places were now at risk after a planning wrangle over an alternative site.
South Gloucestershire Council said it had suggested other options and was supporting the nursery's search.
The family-run nursery has operated out of its Grange School site for 25 years but the council wants the land back.
It had wanted to build on land at the nearby Sir Bernard Lovell Sports Centre but says the council has refused the move due to concerns over parking.
Mrs Davies said she was "devastated" at the news and "extremely disappointed to be back to square one".
A spokesman for the council urged parents concerned about finding a new nursery place to contact them.
Nicky Morgan said many were concerned about what would happen to rural primary schools under the plan.
Other MPs wanted to have more details of the academy conversion process.
But Ms Morgan said she was confident the proposals, outlined in a White Paper, would go through - despite some opposition from within her own party.
Last week, some Conservative backbenchers raised doubts about the government's plan to force all schools in England to become academies.
MPs expressed concerns about the lack of choice and fears for the implications for rural schools.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live on Tuesday, Ms Morgan said colleagues had raised some important issues.
But she maintained repeatedly that there was "widespread support" for the academy plans.
"What I do know is that there is widespread support on Conservative benches - and elsewhere I might add - for schools becoming academies," she said.
"Now this is a White Paper, it's perfectly legitimate for Members of Parliament to ask questions, to clarify how our proposals are going to work for schools in their area, how it ties in with other reforms we're making, like changes to the national funding formula.
"Rightly we will, of course, continue discussions about specific elements of the White Paper, but yes, I'm absolutely confident there is very, very broad support for our policy of schools becoming academies."
Ms Morgan said education was "the great transformer" and said the White Paper was "about a lot more" than academy conversions and also focused on standards and finding good teachers.
"We all want to end up in the same place, which is great schools for our children."
If the plans become law, all state schools in England - both primary and secondary - would need to become an academy by 2020 or have plans in place to become so by 2022.
Taken aback by the strength of feeling from both Tory councillors and backbenchers, ministers are looking at where they can persuade or cajole, and where they might need to quietly give ground.
The two main hurdles are the outrage of councils that can point to solid evidence they're doing a good job, and the future of small rural schools.
What you might call the Hampshire problem and the Norfolk problem, although there are plenty of other examples.
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Academy status, introduced by a Labour government, was originally reserved for schools in urgent need of improvement, but since 2010, schools have been encouraged to convert and have been given extra funding for doing so.
Currently, 2,075 out of 3,381 secondary schools are academies, while 2,440 of 16,766 primary schools have academy status.
Several deaths in Northern Ireland have been linked to drugs in the past fortnight.
Dr Michael McKenna said GPs are under pressure.
"The difficulty with the services is they are so overwhelmed that they cannot cope with the deluge of stuff that's coming in," he said.
"The money is one part of the equation, but actually physically the number of bodies on the ground to provide these services is also an issue.
"It can't just fall to GPs, we are already under tremendous pressures."
Dr McKenna told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that the number of his patients who had died due to drug addiction in the last 10 years would be "into double figures".
More people in Northern Ireland die from drugs than those in road fatalities, according to the PSNI.
The latest figures released last month show there were 74 fatalities as a result of road crashes in 2015, but 88 opioid-related deaths in the same year.
Those drugs include heroin, morphine, methadone, as well as prescription drugs such as tramadol.
William Burns' son, Jamie, died last November after taking one pill on a night out.
"Anybody out there thinking drugs are good, if they had have been with me that night and saw my son on that trolley - blood on the floor, he had needles in his arms, he had tubes coming out of his mouth, he had his eyes taped and you could physically see the life draining away from him," said Mr Burns.
He said later a doctor "knelt down in front of the two of us and he just said 'look I'm sorry, I don't know how to tell you this, but he's gone'.
"You want the ground to open and just swallow you up."
Mr Burns is now involved in a campaign called #onepillwillkill to highlight the dangers of drugs.
"You could have taken 10 pills before it, over a period of weeks and been fine, and you could just take this one pill [which could kill you]," he said.
"I'm 110% sure that if my son had realised the consequences of taking one pill, he wouldn't have done it."
Surrey added 32 runs in four overs in the morning to declare on 266-7, with Ben Foakes ending unbeaten on 65.
Middlesex slumped to 82-5 chasing an unlikely 389 to win, as Zafar Ansari took 4-63 including Nick Compton (22).
But Bailey (110 not out) and James Franklin (70) shared a sixth-wicket partnership of 174 as Middlesex secured the draw on 278-6.
Middlesex are now 13 points clear of second-placed Somerset, who beat Durham inside three days on Saturday.
Surrey's maximum bonus points means they take a healthy 13 points from the game and are now 23 clear of the relegation places, although they have played a game more than Nottinghamshire and Hampshire.
Middlesex lost half their wickets with only 82 on the board and looked in real trouble.
Compton, playing his first Championship game since being omitted from England's Test team in June, spent nearly an hour and a half at the crease before being stumped by Foakes off Ansari.
Bailey hit 20 fours in his 199-ball unbeaten knock to complete his first century for Middlesex and ensure a 13-point lead at the top.
Ministers will let local authorities bring forward council tax rises, and money cut from a housing scheme will be spent on social care instead.
The government said it would create a "sustainable" system for everyone who needs social care.
But the Local Government Association said the measures "fall well short".
LGA chairman Lord Porter said an "urgent injection of genuinely new additional government funding" was needed.
He said the council tax change would help some areas in the short-term but not be "anywhere near enough" to relieve pressure on the sector, adding that it would "add an extra financial burden on already struggling households".
He said changes to the New Homes Bonus, which rewards councils for building new homes, were "not new money but a redistribution of funding already promised to councils".
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid unveiled the measures as he set out the local government finance settlement in the Commons.
He said the settlement, which governs how councils in England will be funded, "recognises the cost of delivering adult social care and makes more funding available sooner".
Mr Javid told MPs the two measures would mean £900m extra for local authorities over the next two years to fund social care services.
But the cash was described as "a drop in the ocean" by the Care and Support Alliance of charities, while the president of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives said: "Simply robbing Peter to pay Paul will not tackle a systemic funding problem."
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On Wednesday, it emerged the government would offer councils an increase in the extra council tax they can impose to cover social care costs.
This was confirmed by Mr Javid, who said local authorities would be permitted to increase council tax by up to 6% over two years, ringfenced for social care, with a maximum of 3% each year.
The 6% previously had to be spread over three years. A 1% increase would raise an estimated £200m, although the effect would vary across the country.
In total, about £19.7bn will be spent on social care in England this year.
Mr Javid added that more money was "not the only answer", saying some councils needed to work harder to reduce delays in discharging people from hospital beds caused by a lack of available social care.
Responding to Mr Javid, shadow communities and local government minister Gareth Thomas said the local government settlement would "leave people paying high taxes for worse public services".
He urged the government to reconsider a planned corporation tax cut in order to plug the social care funding gap.
Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the Commons Health Select Committee, welcomed the government measures but said they did not go far enough to address the increase in demand, urging ministers to start cross-party talks "urgently".
Former health minister and Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb, who has been calling for more investment in adult social care, described Mr Javid's statement as "feeble".
But the government says it is investing in social care through its Better Care Fund, as well as taking steps to more closely integrate health and social care provision.
Council tax accounts for only about half of local authority income - the rest coming from central grants, which are being cut, and business rates, which are volatile - so it is unclear by how much care budgets will rise.
The numbers of elderly people going without care, paying for it themselves or relying on family and friends currently outstrip those getting council help by four to one.
The head of the NHS in England has suggested free bus passes and pension benefits for older people may have to be reconsidered to address the problems facing social care.
Appearing before MPs on Thursday, Simon Stevens said a sweeping new "social contract" was needed setting out the "full range of services and needs that people have in retirement", predicated on the right for people to receive care in their homes.
"There is no point in saying to our parents 'yes you've got a free bus pass if you're not able to leave the house because you don't have the availability of a home help," he said.
A plant pest that causes potato blight spread to Ireland in 1845 triggering a famine that killed one million people.
DNA extracted from museum specimens shows the strain that changed history is different from modern day epidemics, and is probably now extinct.
Other strains continue to attack potato and tomato crops around the world.
The fungus-like infection causes annual losses of enough potatoes to feed hundreds of millions of people a year.
A team led by The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, traced the global spread of potato blight from the early 1800s to the present day.
Until now, it has been unclear how early strains of Phytophthora infestans are related to those present in the world today.
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Researchers in the UK, Germany and the US analysed dried leaves kept in collections in museums at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, UK, and Botanische Staatssammlung Munchen, Germany.
High-tech DNA sequencing techniques allowed them to decode ancient DNA from the pathogen in samples stored as early as 1845.
These were compared with modern-day genetic types from Europe, Africa and the Americas, giving an insight into the evolution of the pathogen.
"This strain was different from all the modern strains that we analysed - most likely it is new to science," Prof Sophien Kamoun of The Sainsbury Laboratory told BBC News.
"We can't be sure but most likely it's gone extinct."
The researchers believe the strain - HERB-1 - emerged in the early 1800s and continued to spread globally throughout the 19th Century.
Only in the 20th Century, after new potato varieties were introduced, was it replaced by another Phytophthora infestans strain, US-1, which is now dominant around the world.
The research, published in the new open-access scientific journal, eLife, suggests crop breeding methods may have an impact on the evolution of pathogens.
"Perhaps this strain became extinct when the first resistant potato varieties were bred at the beginning of the 20th Century," said Kentaro Yoshida from The Sainsbury Laboratory.
"What is certain is that these findings will greatly help us to understand the dynamics of emerging pathogens. This type of work paves the way for the discovery of many more treasures of knowledge hidden in herbaria."
Commenting on the study, Professor Sir David Baulcombe of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge said it shows how we can use herb specimens to track biodiversity.
"It might be a revival in the fortunes or relevance of dried plants," he said. "It illustrates very nicely the arms race over pathogens and their host."
Phytophthora infestans - which causes potato blight - emerged in the US in 1844, and spread to Europe the following year.
The summer of 1845 was mild but very wet, giving the perfect conditions for the blight to spread.
The failure of the crop in Ireland - which relied heavily on potatoes as a food source - led to the deaths of about a million people from starvation and disease between 1846 and 1851.
The crash happened on the Old Carrick Road in Newtownabbey at about 18:35 GMT on Saturday.
Ambulance crews took two of those injured in the crash to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital and two to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
Another person was taken to Antrim Area Hospital.
Police have sealed off the road and it is likely to remain closed overnight.
Diversions are in place on the Doagh Road and the Monkstown Road.
Penny Jackman, who represents Pennington ward on New Forest District Council, was sued by Mike Beggs following the incident in 2012.
Mrs Jackman has been ordered to pay £14,992 damages and to cover Mr Beggs' legal bill, expected to exceed £80,000.
The GoFundMe fundraising page has raised £275 in its first five days.
The incident, in 2012, was reported to have begun as an argument about UKIP election leaflets.
Mrs Jackman, who lives in Pennington, said last month a judge ruled she did not act in self defence.
"As yet [there is] no timescale of when I will actually have to pay the money, but sooner rather than later would be my guess," she wrote on her online appeal page.
"We live in a modest two- bedroom home, there would not be enough left over to buy another home and stay in the same area. My husband is a postman, we are not wealthy people."
Mrs Jackman is also a member of the New Forest National Park Authority and a councillor for Lymington & Pennington Town Council.
He was interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network days after his much anticipated meeting with Mr Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg.
The US president also said he was sure Mr Putin would have preferred Hillary Clinton was sitting in the White House.
Several investigations are under way into allegations Russia helped get Mr Trump elected.
Mr Trump has denied any knowledge of this and Russia has also repeatedly denied interfering.
On the meeting with Mr Putin, Mr Trump said "people said, oh, they shouldn't get along. Well, who are the people saying that? I think we get along very, very well.
"We are a tremendously powerful nuclear power, and so are they. It doesn't make sense not to have some kind of a relationship."
Mr Trump cited the recent ceasefire in south-western Syria as an example of how co-operation with Mr Putin worked.
Mr Trump also used the interview to pour cold water on the notion that Russia conspired to get him elected - quite the opposite, he maintained. Russia preferred Hillary Clinton, his Democrat rival, he said.
Why? "If Hillary had won, our military would be decimated," he said.
"Our energy would be much more expensive. That's what Putin doesn't like about me. And that's why I say why would he want me?"
The US president earlier defended his son Donald Jr over a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer in 2016 at the height of the presidential campaign.
Mr Trump's son met Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York in June 2016.
Mr Trump Jr had been told that she would offer Russian-linked information which would put Hillary Clinton in a bad light.
Critics accuse Mr Trump Jr of intent to collude with the Russians, and believe he may have broken federal laws. But others dispute this.
Donald Trump tweeted that his son was "open, transparent and innocent". He also told Reuters he was unaware of the meeting and only learned of it two days ago.
Mr Trump Jr himself told Fox News the meeting was "such a nothing", but he accepted he should have handled it differently.
He has released a series of emails in which he was told he would receive "very high level and sensitive information", to which in response he said "if it's what you say I love it".
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied any link to the Russian lawyer, and Ms Veselnitskaya herself has said she was never in possession of information that could have damaged Mrs Clinton.
Some groups walked more than 100 miles (170km) to reach the island off the Northumberland coast.
Each group carried a large wooden cross to the island, which was once home to St Cuthbert and where the world famous Lindisfarne Gospels were created.
Once on the island the wooden crosses are decorated as part of traditional Easter celebrations.
The Northern Cross pilgrimage started 40 years ago with a group walking from Penrith in Cumbria.
Co-ordinator Ellie Feline said: "It might often be thought pilgrimage is a historic activity, yet Christian pilgrimage is very much alive, demonstrated yearly by the five million people who go to Lourdes, or the 200,000 who walk the Camino di Santiago.
"Northern Cross is another example of this. A combination of walking holiday and retreat - on pilgrimage we are removed from many trappings of modern living, and just require whatever can be carried in a small bag.
"It's a chance to mirror life, to step back and look to see what is really important."
A monastery was founded on Lindisfarne in 635 by King Oswald but was attacked in 793 by the Vikings in their first major raid on the British Isles.
It delves into grassroots football, social media and fan ownership. It looks back at what was and looks forward at what might be.
It examines the rise, and prejudices, faced by women's football and the fantastic irony of, in a male-dominated landscape, Scotland's women's team being closer now to reaching a major championship than their male equivalents.
For a nation that produced so many world-class players down the years, Scotland is now down to just one - and it's a woman, the brilliant Kim Little.
Episode four begins with Paul Lambert in Dortmund and how apt that is, given the events in Barcelona on Tuesday night.
In 1997, Scot Lambert was a Borussia Dortmund player under Ottmar Hitzfeld. He won a Champions League medal after beating Manchester United, home and away, in the semi-final and then overcoming Juventus 3-1 in the final. His job that night was to neutralise Zinedine Zidane - and he was magnificent.
Listening to Lambert makes you wonder when a Scot will elevate himself to a similar position - the cutting edge of the European game, going toe-to-toe with one of the sport's greatest talents and beating him in the biggest final in club football.
The story moves on to Martin O'Neill's Celtic and their thrilling ride in the Uefa Cup of 2002-03. Times have changed so profoundly since then. It's like looking back into another world when a Scottish team travelled more in expectation than hope.
Celtic lost a European final, 3-2 in extra-time, to Jose Mourinho's Porto, a side that would win the Champions League the following year, and O'Neill remains a ball of angst about it.
On Tuesday, Celtic lost a Champions League group game 7-0 to Barca. In the new world of football, where Barcelona can construct arguably the greatest attack in the history of the game and pay them a combined salary of 700,000 euros per week, the new Celtic manager, Brendan Rodgers, had to rationalise it. He had no option.
There was no rationalisation in 2003. Celtic were good enough, and wealthy enough, to compete. Everything is different now.
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The chances are that the next time Scotland qualifies for a major championship it will be the women who take them there. And yet the women's game gets short shrift from the media and the public.
Scotland's Game has a section on what it was like for women footballers in war time. When the men were away, the girls were allowed to play. When the men came home, normal footballing service resumed.
Women were banned from playing matches at men's clubs. Incredibly, the ban remained in place until the early 1970s.
There has been advancement from those sexist days, but sexism remains a factor. That's why the appointment of Shelley Kerr as manager of Lowland League side, Stirling University, in 2013 created such headlines. Kerr speaks with authority; she's broken through, but she does not see a cavalry of women coaches on the horizon.
Ann Budge's arrival as owner at Hearts - and chief executive Leeann Dempster's progression from Motherwell to Hibernian - is something that would not have seemed possible 30 years ago.
Had you said at the conclusion of 'Only A Game', the documentary covering Scottish football's narrative up to 1986, that two women would be calling the shots at two of Scotland's biggest clubs there would have been hilarity and uproar.
And yet there they are. Budge continues to hold a mirror up to the Scottish game, asking people to make sense of some of the things that go on. Budge and Dempster are now on the board of the Scottish Professional Football League. Many bad things have happened in this 30-year journey, but that's some of the very best things.
The passage of time has seen the rise and fall of the fanzine culture, supporters now finding a voice in the digital world where once it was all pen and paper. Social media has changed the game, but has the game changed with it?
John Collins speaks about his time as Hibs manager and that glorious League Cup final day in 2007 when his winning side were serenaded by their supporters singing the Proclaimers' 'Sunshine on Leith'. That scene has lost none of its power to stir the blood. For Collins, there was added poignancy. He had lost his father only a few months before the final.
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Having learned a new philosophy in his two years as a player with Monaco in France, Collins proposed change at Hibs. New ways of training, new diets, new thoughts about sports science, a whole new picture. It caused problems and he left.
At the conclusion of Scotland's Game he's still talking about change and how people are scared of it. "People don't like being outside their comfort zone," he says.
Most people will accept that change needs to happen in Scottish football, but we talk and talk and nothing gets done. Blueprints, commissions, master plans. Summer football, winter breaks, fewer professional teams and bigger top leagues. We go round in circles.
There is a battle to be won for the future of Scotland's game, but one has to wonder who, precisely, is fighting it. Too many in power seem happiest when fighting each other rather than fighting together.
Never, at any point in its history, has Scottish football been more in need of true leaders.
The fourth episode of Scotland's Game airs on BBC One Scotland on Thursday 15 September at 21:00 BST and will be available to view via the iPlayer after broadcast.
An employment tribunal has heard details of infighting at the Wrexham-based British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
Former acting assistant chief constable of north Wales, Steve Curtis, allegedly swore at and threatened a colleague.
He is claiming unfair dismissal.
The tribunal in Chester was told Mr Curtis, of St Asaph, Denbighshire, resigned from his job as human resources director at the Rossett charity - which has 145,000 members - just as he was about to be dismissed in May 2016.
It heard claims he clashed with north of England regional director Alasdair Mitchell at a staff meeting in October 2014 and said: "I swear I will kill you."
The tribunal was also told Mr Mitchell resigned in December 2015.
Richard Ali, who was chief executive, and Gary Ashton, another former senior police officer and director at the BASC, were both subsequently suspended and remain so.
Mr Curtis said he was assessed as "outstanding" during his time at the association, adding that he could not remember threatening to kill Mr Mitchell.
"I was mortified when I later discovered what I had apparently said," he said.
But Mr Mitchell claimed he had been "a source of a number of difficulties from an operational and HR perspective".
Two separate inquiries were held, one of them by independent solicitors Hill Dickinson, which both exonerated Mr Curtis.
Mr Curtis said a refusal by the charity's council to accept the findings of the independent investigations convinced him he had no choice but to resign.
"I am still the victim of a continuing campaign to damage my reputation," he added.
The hearing is expected to last several days.
Aqib Mazhar, of Russell Road, was stabbed in the chest on the street where he lived on 1 June and died from a single stab wound in hospital.
His car was blocked in by three vehicles, trapping him as he came under attack, police said.
The four men, aged between 18 and 24, from Nottingham and Derby, all pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Over weeks animosity grew between Mr Mazhar and a group of men and it culminated that evening, the court heard.
At the sentencing at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday, Judge Stuart Rafferty told the offenders Mr Mazhar's death was "wholly needless".
Mohamud Alasow, 18, of Hamilton Road, Nottingham, was jailed for 10 years and six months.
Junaid Farrukh, 21, of Heathermead Close, Oakwood, Derby; and Mohammed Qasim, 24, of Staindale Drive, Aspley; were both sentenced to nine years and 11 months in prison.
Qamran Ahmed, 21, also of Staindale Drive, received a seven-year sentence.
The men were initially on trial for murder, but the charge was changed to manslaughter during the two-week trial last week.
Mobile phone footage thought to show one of the defendants as Mr Mazhar killer was reviewed and revealed a fifth person, who is on the run, carried out the fatal stabbing.
Judge Rafferty said: "This is not a murder case, none of you stabbed Aqib... the murderer is still at large.
"The tragedy of this case is that all four of you know perfectly well who stabbed Aqib, but you have done nothing to speak out to put Aqib's family at their ease."
Det Ch Insp Rob Severn, of Nottinghamshire Police, said the investigation and the hunt for the person who fatally stabbed Mr Mazhar was continuing.
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The 28-year-old dominated the K1 single final, with Spaniard Saul Craviotto Rivero taking silver and Canada's Mark de Jonge bronze.
"He blew the field away from the start, leaving everyone else trying to catch him. A fantastic performance. That core strength that drives the blades and the focus this man has is incredible and he hasn't been fazed by anything."
McKeever crossed the line in 36.246 seconds to win Britain's second ever Olympic canoe sprint gold medal after Tim Brabants triumphed in 2008.
McKeever adds Olympic gold to his 2010 World and European titles.
"I'm so happy," he said. "I feel relief. It sounds stupid but it's not elation, more relief, and I'm so happy to do it front of a home crowd.
"I was like a kid at Christmas this morning, waiting to open his presents. I get to open those presents soon."
After a barren week for Britain in the canoe sprint events, McKeever raised hopes of a medal when he set an Olympic record in the heats, as gold medal favourite Piotr Siemionowski crashed out.
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McKeever slipped to the third fastest time overall in the semi-finals, behind de Jong and Craviotto Rivero, although only 0.024 seconds separated the trio.
But on finals day, McKeever, who is training to become an accountant, fed off the energy from a cheering 30,000 capacity crowd.
A blistering start gave him an early lead and he was soon into a smooth paddling rhythm as he kept up the ruthless pace to hold off the chasing pack and take gold.
"A hard wind made the race a bit longer," he said. "I wanted to focus on the first three strokes. I wanted to nail them and hopefully the rest sorted itself out, which it did."
Dave Taylor gave Dragons the lead only for Kallum Watkins to respond.
Richie Myler's score helped edge Catalans 12-8 ahead at the break, with quick tries from Krisnan Inu and Tony Gigot putting the hosts in control.
While Liam Sutcliffe, Ryan Hall, Ash Handley and Watkins went in for Leeds, Taylor's second score ensured victory.
Leeds' defeat in France is their fourth in all competitions this season and came six days after their 34-8 World Club Challenge defeat by North Queensland Cowboys.
With seven key members of their squad out injured - including captain Danny McGuire and talismanic winger Tom Briscoe - and Mitch Garbutt banned for two matches, Rhinos got off to the worst possible start when Todd Carney's inside pass found Taylor, who powered over the line. Pat Richards converted to open an early 6-0 lead.
But an awful error from Tony Gigot, who lost the ball forward in the in-goal area, allowed Watkins to touch down and Jordan Lilley levelled from the tee.
Former Australian Kangaroos international prop Willie Mason came off the bench with the scores level to make his Catalans debut and Super League return after a brief stint in the competition with Hull KR in 2011.
Dragons, who were also without a win in their opening two games, regained the lead as new signing Jodie Broughton's clever inside kick was collected by fellow new boy Myler.
Lilley slotted a penalty before the break to reduce the arrears, but Leeds were caught cold within seconds of the restart as Inu powered through the Rhinos defence and Gigot then atoned for his earlier error as Brian McDermott's Rhinos switched off.
But last season's treble winners then created a try out of nothing as Watkins and Mitch Achurch showed their class for Sutcliffe to finish, before Hall stormed over to reduce the gap to four points.
And, as the rain lashed down in Perpignan, Taylor once again charged through three Leeds defenders to score and put Catalans in command.
Rhinos set up a tense finish, scoring two length-of-the-field tries through Handley and Watkins, but Catalans closed out the game to move up to eighth in the table.
Catalans Dragons: Gigot, Broughton, Inu, Duport, Richards, Carney, Myler, Taylor, Pelissier, Bousquet, Stewart, Horo, Baitieri.
Replacements: Mounis, Bosc, Elima, Mason.
Leeds Rhinos: Hardaker, Handley, Watkins, Moon, Hall, Sutcliffe, Lilley, Galloway, Burrow, Singleton, Ferres, Keinhorst, Delaney.
Replacements: Mullally, Cuthbertson, Achurch, Walters.
U Gambira, a key figure in the 2007 "Saffron Revolution" was due to complete a six month jail sentence this week.
But fresh charges had been brought against him in an apparent bid to keep him behind bars.
"I am very, very, very, happy now," Gambira told me by phone from outside Insein prison.
He said it wasn't clear to him why the charges had been dropped.
A spokesman for Myanmar's State Counsellor -and de facto leader - Aung San Suu Kyi said he had been released as part of a review of all those charged with politically related offences.
Gambira first came to prominence during the demonstrations of August 2007 - an uprising of monks against increased commodity prices that turned into a more general protest about military rule.
He was one of the key leaders of the All-Burma Monks Alliance, speaking at rallies and organising street protests in what became known as the Saffron Revolution.
When the Burmese military crushed the protests, Gambira went into hiding, but he was eventually caught, put on trial and sentenced to 68 years in prison. Conditions in jail were harsh and Gambira was kept in solitary confinement for long periods and beaten by guards.
With former President Thein Sein's political reforms came prisoner amnesties, and Gambira was released in one of the largest, in January 2012. It was clear that the experience had left him with serious mental health issues.
Now a free man, Gambira resigned from the monkhood and after a brief courtship married an Australian activist. He's spent most of the last four years in Thailand but returned to Myanmar to try get a passport that would allow him to travel to Australia.
Things quickly went wrong. Gambira was arrested in Mandalay and in January sentenced to six months in prison for immigration offences.
This week, with his wife counting down the days to his release, Gambira was moved to Yangon's Insein prison and charged with a series of fresh offences.
It was a crude way to keep him behind bars and human rights groups rallied to his cause.
For once, it appears someone was listening and on Thursday night Gambira's lawyer Robert San Aung told the BBC that court officials had informed him that all the new charges were being dropped.
On Friday that was confirmed and he walked free.
"I need medication," he told me. "I will stay in Myanmar just a few days then I will go to Thailand and then to Australia. I have to try and get a passport first."
Zaw Htay, one of Aung San Suu Kyi's spokesmen denied that she had intervened directly in Gambira's case but said: "This is a consequence of the review process of all those charged with political activities that was initiated according to the instructions of the State Counsellor [Suu Kyi]."
Sherpas have expressed concerns that vibrations caused by the helicopters could trigger avalanches.
Tourist flights are not allowed to places above Base Camp which is at an altitude of 5,364 metres (17,600ft).
But helicopter companies say they only overfly sights like the Khumbu Icefall and their flights are allowed.
There has been no expedition on Everest for the past two years because of a series of disasters.
Sixteen Sherpas died on their way to Camp One in an icefall in 2014. At least 18 climbers died at Base Camp after a major earthquake triggered a huge avalanche last year.
After the 2014 disaster, authorities moved the climbing route to the middle of the Khumbu Icefall.
It is a treacherous section that mountaineers must cross on their way up to the summit of Everest.
Sherpas are currently transporting expedition equipment to higher camps for the current climbing season.
"The sightseeing helicopters are hovering above the Khumbu Icefall and making things difficult for us," said Pasang Kaji Sherpa, a mountain guide with a military expedition team now on Everest.
"We worry that the vibrations caused by helicopters can crack ice blocks and snow packs on mountains overlooking the Khumbu Icefall.
"There is a deep-seated fear among Sherpa porters that they may be hit by avalanches this year as well and these helicopters are increasing fears," Pasang Kaji Sherpa added.
After the BBC started to investigate whether sightseeing helicopters were permitted to fly to places like the Khumbu Icefall, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) issued a circular to all airlines warning them not to conduct such flights.
"We have made it clear in the circular that sightseeing flights are simply not allowed in places higher than the base camp," said Rajan Pokhrel, Deputy Director General of CAAN.
"Only rescue flights during emergencies are allowed in those areas and sometimes we allow special projects like skydiving when recommended by other government authorities."
Mr Pokhrel said his office had also heard the Sherpas' concerns.
However, airline officials say there is no such danger.
"We fly 2,340 feet from above the ground and maintain at least 1km distance from the mountains so there is no way the vibration can cause avalanche," said Pabitra Karki, chairman of Airlines Operators Association Nepal (AOAN).
"We use the French-made Ecureil helicopters for sightseeing which are very light and we carry two to three passengers in each flight."
AOAN officials say there are around half a dozen sightseeing flights per week during the climbing season.
But other sources at Base Camp said such flights were becoming more frequent.
About 20 helicopters are operated by six companies in Nepal but only a handful of pilots are qualified to fly to high altitudes.
"For Sherpa climbers, especially those carrying equipment for expedition teams, helicopters flying overhead in higher areas is a mentally torturous experience," says Phurba Namgyal Sherpa, general secretary of Nepal National Mountain Guides Association.
"The fragile snow and ice conditions could be disturbed at any time by the rotors of helicopters and that could spell disaster for us.
"This is an issue we have been discussing for quite some time now but we are not sure where to lodge the complaint."
Scaling Mount Everest is the dream of many climbers who are prepared to pay a lot of money to reach the summit
Aviation experts say part of the problem is how such flights are policed by the authorities.
Officials from CAAN admitted they were not on the ground to monitor such flights but relied on other government agencies based there.
"Just because we are not there does not mean we don't get to know what happens up there," Mr Pokhrel cautioned.
In addition, the Department of Tourism has allowed helicopters to transport ropes and other gear up to Camp One to fix the route, after expedition operators complained that the earthquake had made the Khumbu Icefall more difficult to cross.
"We fear that such a concession may be misused for more sightseeing and other commercial purposes and increase the risk of avalanche in the region," said Phurba Namgyal Sherpa.
A Football Association panel ruled Mings deliberately landed with his studs on the head of the Manchester United striker in Saturday's 1-1 draw.
"Conduct like that is not part of my game - it would never cross my mind," said 23-year-old Mings.
Ibrahimovic subsequently elbowed Mings and accepted a three-match ban.
Deliberate elbowing and stamping are both red-card offences, which come with a three-match suspension, but the FA increased the punishment in Mings' case.
Bournemouth described that decision as "extraordinary".
"For people to deem that I could intentionally stamp on a fellow professional's head is upsetting," Mings wrote on Twitter.
"I am extremely disappointed at the FA's decision to ban me for what was an accidental collision.
"My foot did not change course and at no point did I try to move my foot towards his head. My only focus was to get back in and defend."
Mings will miss Bournemouth's next five league fixtures, with Eddie Howe's side without a win from their past eight games and 14th in the table, five points above the relegation zone.
"Although he is a beast in stature he is certainly a gentle giant on and off the pitch," Howe said at a news conference before Saturday's home match against West Ham.
"It's a real shame for him, but we have to take the decision and move on."
The new definition will increase the number of people counted as rape victims in FBI statistics, but it will not change federal or state laws.
Lawmakers use those statistics to allocate resources for prevention and victim assistance.
Many US states have already adopted a wider definition of rape.
Previously, the FBI defined the crime of rape as "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will".
The new definition removes the reference to females and says rape is "the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object" without the consent of the victim.
Also specified is "oral penetration by a sex organ of another person" without consent.
Vice-President Joe Biden, who raised the issue last July at a Cabinet meeting, called the change a victory for those "whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years".
"We can't solve it unless we know the full extent of it," Mr Biden said.
One in five women and one in 71 men have been raped at some point in the lives, according to a 2010 study by the Centers for Disease Control, which used a broader definition.
The US Congress approved $592m (£384m) this year to address violence against women.
Action was brought against Bideford Town Council by the National Secular Society (NSS) after atheist councillor Clive Bone complained.
Mr Justice Ouseley ruled the prayers were not lawful under section 111 of the Local Government Act 1972.
However, he said prayers could be said as long as councillors were not formally summoned to attend.
The judgement was being seen as a test case which could affect local councils across England and Wales.
Mr Justice Ouseley ruled the prayers as practised by Bideford Town Council had been unlawful because there was no statutory power permitting them to continue.
The NSS, which said prayers had no place in "a secular environment concerned with civic business", argued the "inappropriate" ritual breached articles 9 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protect an individual's right to freedom of conscience and not to face discrimination.
However, the case was not won on human rights grounds but on a point of statutory construction of local government legislation.
By Robert PigottBBC News religious affairs correspondent
By and large, judges have been unsympathetic to the Christian case when people have argued that they don't want to do things like advising homosexual couples.
The tide has been flowing pretty firmly against Christianity in public life and it's caused huge concerns for the churches. They say it's being driven out of public life.
There is a lot of concern that this is not just about pure religion but this is about some of the values that underpin the British way of life.
Of course, from the other side, people like the National Secular Society say the Church and Christianity should not have undue privileges in having their values and their way of doing things upheld.
So there's an argument on both sides but certainly it's been very noticeable in the last few years that the tide's been turning against Christian practices which we've just taken for granted for centuries.
Mr Justice Ouseley said: "A local authority has no power under section 111 of the Local Government Act 1972, or otherwise, to hold prayers as part of a formal local authority meeting, or to summon councillors to such a meeting at which prayers are on the agenda."
He told the court: "There is no specific power to say prayers or to have any period of quiet reflection as part of the business of the council."
Referring to Bideford, he said: "The council has on two occasions by a majority voted to retain public prayers at its full meetings.
"But that does not give it power to do what it has no power to do."
The judge acknowledged the case raised issues of general public importance and gave the council permission to appeal.
Speaking after Friday's outcome, Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, said the ruling was "surprising and disappointing".
He said: "Public authorities - be it Parliament or a parish council - should have the right to say prayers before meetings if they wish."
Anthony Inch, a Bideford town councillor and Torridge district councillor, said he hoped there would be an appeal leading to the ruling being overturned.
"I'm disgusted, surprised and saddened by the decision," he said.
Simon Calvert, of the Christian Institute, said: "We are pleased that the court has said the saying of prayers at meetings does not breach human rights laws.
"But it is bizarre that they should be declared unlawful because of the 1972 Local Government Act."
He added: "The judge's finding that the Local Government Act doesn't give local authorities power to include prayers as part of their formal meetings - we think that's extraordinary.
"I mean we're talking about a practice that goes back to the Elizabethan era.
"And the logic of the judge's ruling may be that it could also be unlawful for a council to start its meeting with the beginning of the national anthem. It may even throw local authorities' Diamond Jubilee celebrations up in the air."
Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society said: "This judgment is an important victory for everyone who wants a secular society, one that neither advantages nor disadvantages people because of their religion or lack of it."
He added: "Acts of worship in council meetings are key to the separation of religion from politics, so we're very pleased with the judgment, and the clear secular message it sends - particularly the statement made about the 1972 Act."
The Bishop of Exeter, the Right Reverend Michael Langrish, said he would encourage councils in his area to continue holding prayers before the start of their statutory business.
He added: "I think it's a great pity that a tiny minority are seeking to ban the majority, many of whom find prayers very, very helpful, from continuing with a process in which no-one actually has to participate."
The legal challenge was launched in 2010 after the NSS was contacted by Mr Bone, who was a Bideford town councillor at the time.
Mr Bone, who ended up leaving the council because of its "refusal to adjust" its prayers policy, said on Friday: "Quite frankly delighted. I'm not surprised, I expected to win.
"The law is the law and local authorities have to obey the law."
He added: "Local government is for everybody, it should be equally welcoming to everybody, whatever they believe.
"This has got nothing to do with intolerance towards religion.
"Religious freedom is an absolute right and so is freedom from religion an absolute right, in my view."
Based on interviews with 2,265 people, aged 16 to 25, it suggests half of unemployed young people often feel anxious about everyday situations and 46% avoid meeting new people.
Young people risk becoming "socially isolated" while unemployed, Martina Milburn from the trust said.
Employment Minister Esther McVey said youth unemployment had seen big falls.
The Prince's Trust Macquarie Youth Index suggests 13% of people in the UK aged between 16 and 25 often feel too anxious to leave their house.
But it said unemployed young people were more than twice as likely to feel that way.
It said almost half of unemployed young people "always" or "often" felt down or depressed, while 36% said anxiety had stopped them from looking after their health, and 38% said it prevented them eating properly.
Jack, 25, from Norwich, said he had battled depression, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, and low self-esteem.
"I hadn't been employed properly for years, I had no motivation to work, and couldn't see a way out of the lifestyle I was in," he said.
"I would wake up and wouldn't want to leave the house. I stopped speaking to my friends and I had absolutely no confidence speaking to people.
"If I did go to a job interview, I would be really nervous and didn't ever think I would get the job."
Jemma, 25, from Liverpool, suffered severely with depression - stemming from issues in her past - and after the birth of her first son felt she was completely lost.
"I remember just sitting at home and feeling so low. It's a hard thing to explain but it was one of the worst times of my life. I had a lovely little baby to love but I just couldn't shake the depression," she said.
"I won't lie there were times when I couldn't even face leaving the house and just getting out of bed was hard. I would never want to experience it again."
After getting in touch with The Prince's Trust, Jemma was invited onto the Enterprise programme, which aims to help disadvantaged young people into business.
She has since set up her own make-up artist business, adding: "I went from feeling worthless to running my own business and making others feel beautiful."
Martina Milburn CBE, chief executive of The Prince's Trust, said "thousands" of young people often feel like "prisoners in their own homes" because of anxiety.
"Without the right support, these young people become socially isolated - struggling with day-to-day life and slipping further and further from the jobs market," she said.
Shirley Cramer, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, said mental health issues like anxiety and depression can have a "devastating impact on young people's lives".
It could affect "relationships, self-confidence and job prospects" she added.
Employment Minister Esther McVey said the UK had seen "significant falls" in youth unemployment. adding that the government wanted to do more "as part of our long-term economic plan".
Stephen Lansdown, who co-founded financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown and owns Bristol City FC, relocated to Guernsey in 2010.
He told the BBC it "made sense" financially to move to an area with more favourable tax rates.
Mr Lansdown is number 974 on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world with an estimated fortune of £1bn.
He and fellow billionaire Peter Hargreaves started Hargreaves Lansdown in 1981 out of a house in Bristol.
Both Hargreaves Lansdown and Imperial Tobacco have their headquarters in Bristol and are in the FTSE 100.
The former Thornbury grammar school pupil said: "I paid all my taxes while I was in the UK and I paid an enormous amount of tax while I was there," he said.
"I don't live there any more, I don't have the benefits of the UK any more. I'm paying my tax here and I feel that's justified."
The term tax haven can apply to places with lower tax levels and jurisdictions where taxes can be avoided altogether.
Mr Lansdown said the company he set up pays "an enormous amount" of tax.
"It's not a Starbucks or an Amazon, which have been getting bad publicity [for tax avoidance]. It pays its way.
"We pay an enormous amount of national insurance, corporation tax and PAYE on the staff.
"And those people are living there and working there and are paying their dues and their VAT in the country, so an awful amount of money is still going back into the UK from my hard work over 30 years.
"I think I've made a fair contribution to the country. I don't feel morally obliged to do any more," he added.
Andrew Anderson launched the OnBeat headphones on crowdfunding site Kickstarter and hopes to have them on sale by early 2014.
The headphone band is fitted with a flexible solar cell with a charge capacity of 0.55 watts.
The energy generated is stored in two small lithium batteries.
Concealed within both earpads, the batteries charge the device they are plugged into as it is playing.
Mr Anderson hopes to raise £200,000 to get the headphones into production.
"We are still working on the design and prototype," he told the BBC.
"We need to improve the headphones - people want to know about noise cancellation."
He admitted that his father Frank had come up with the idea.
"It's really simple - you would think it had already been done," he said.
"You can buy solar chargers for phones but the thing is it's like you're carrying two phones around."
The idea of using renewable sources to charge devices is proving popular among developers.
A number of inventors have looked at harnessing the energy generated by walking. One project seeking crowdfunding via Kickstarter in the US is a shoe insole that can be used to charge batteries.
A walk of between 2.5 - 5 miles is required to charge an average iPhone battery, says the team at Solepower, which developed the prototype at Carnegie Mellon University.
"We developed a proof-of-concept prototype for lighting up shoes so students could easily see where they were walking at night," say its website.
"We quickly realised that the power generation concept was more universal than small lights.
"We're inventors at heart and our goal is to solve problems using cool technology. Plus, we'd reeeaaallly like our phones to stop dying." | South Korean tech giant Samsung has permanently ceased production of its high-end Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after reports of devices it had deemed safe catching fire.
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Horsforth School in Leeds faced criticism from parents and teaching unions over the cost of the proposed sports tour with some describing it as "disgraceful" and "appalling".
The school, an academy, said: "This was a proposed trip which required a minimum number of participants."
It said numbers for the seven-day trip had "fallen short of those required".
One parent, Linsi Tidswell, said it was divisive between parents who could afford it and the parents who could not.
She said: "To me the school is excellent but it should be promoting equal opportunities for all children."
On Facebook, another parent wrote: "Think it's really unfair to put this pressure on parents of either finding that sort of money or saying no to their child."
The trip, which was open to pupils in years 8, 9 and 10, was offered alongside more affordable events, the school said at the time.
It said three fixtures with local sports teams had been arranged for members of the football, netball and girls' football teams.
The academy said despite the cancellation it had received "interest" in the trip from several families.
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The YAK 52 aircraft crashed at 14:55 GMT in a field near Cooksmill Green on the A414 west of Chelmsford in Essex.
Firefighters called to the scene reported that "the plane was completely alight" when they arrived.
The plane had taken off from the nearby North Weald airfield. Both victims' next of kin have been informed, police said.
Rebecca Larsen told BBC News: "I witnessed the plane go up in flames. Cars pulled up on the left lane and everyone ran towards the burning plane."
Police closed a section of the A414 between Chelmsford and Ongar while emergency services attended.
Alison Hodgkins-Brown, at the scene for BBC Essex, said: "I can see the plane has come down in the middle of an oil seed rape field next to the A414.
"It's completely covered by tarpaulin and there are about eight police officers in attendance."
Sam Gildersleeve, from Ongar, was having lunch with friends when he saw the plane flying low.
"At this point we all looked at the sky and the plane attempted to do a somersault unsuccessfully, we heard a popping sound and noticed the plane did not re-emerge," he said.
"We then noticed smoke coming from the site in the field where the plane had crashed. Shortly after the emergency services appeared."
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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said existing home sales decreased by 10.5% in November, despite continued demand.
The pace of sales was the slowest since April 2014.
NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said "sparse inventory and affordability issues" continued, but new rules likely caused the sudden dip.
In October a new mortgage filing rule - Know Before You Owe - came into effect with the goal of making mortgage applications clearer. The new process gives borrowers three days to ask questions about the loan from the provider.
Yun said the longer timeframe likely caused some deals that would have closed in November to be pushed back to December.
Provided the timeframe does not get much longer, Yun said he expected a normal pace of home sales to resume.
The price of housing in the US also rose. The average price was $220,300 (£148,719) in November, 6.3% higher than the previous year.
The value of US housing is now increasing at twice the rate of the average US salary.
Sales of existing homes for the year are on pace to rise by 5%.
First time buyers continued to make up about a third of the market.
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A large amount of a substance which looked like slug pellets or rodenticide was found at the entrance to Overtoun Park in Rutherglen on 6 January.
The Scottish SPCA believes it was intentionally put there to harm an animal.
On the same day a white powder-like substance was found in a garden in Stevenston, Ayrshire.
The owner of the property believes it was put there to target dogs living there.
An undercover inspector with the charity's special investigations unit said: "Dogs are usually very curious and will try to eat the poison.
"I recently dealt with a report of a Jack Russell who congested a large amount of slug pellets and was extremely ill. There is a concern poison is being laid on purpose.
"The poisoning of domestic animals is a huge issue and we deal with a large number of complaints regarding poisonings and they are incredibly difficult to solve due to the nature of the crime."
Anyone with information should contact the Scottish SPCA animal helpline on 03000 999 999.
But he warns that the number of children doping to reach the elite level is Wada's "biggest concern".
Howman said sport's increasing profitability had led to young athletes becoming more "vulnerable".
Drug testing is limited in non-elite events, and Howman admits teenagers are "under the radar" of doping agencies.
He also said doping could become a criminal offence in five years.
Howman said Wada's estimation of the level of cheating varied between sports.
"We have some guestimates based on some research undertaken over the last years," he told BBC's Hardtalk.
"It's far more than we would wish it to be - over 10%. That is of concern because those being caught by the system is far lower than that. Not in all sports, in some sports.
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"The area of most concern for us is the level of young athletes who have not broken through into the elite who are trying to get that breakthrough and are susceptible to taking drugs because that's a shortcut.
"Not only are they susceptible to taking drugs, they are being encouraged to do so by any one of a number of people that surround them - coaches, trainers, even parents - because it's way to make a lot of money."
Nigerian weightlifter Chika Amalaha, 16, was stripped of her gold medal after failing a drugs test at last year's Commonwealth Games.
Former Wada president Dick Pound has previously said that four out of five cheats are not being caught.
And Howman said he was concerned there might still be riders doping at this year's Tour de France after former winner Lance Armstrong was stripped of seven titles following his admission he took performance-enhancing drugs.
Leader Chris Froome has been questioned about his performance during this year's race but the Team Sky rider has always denied doping.
Howman said the numbers of riders doping had fallen "majorly" since Armstrong won Tours from 1999 to 2005, adding: "I have great respect for the way in which the UCI [world cycling's governing body] are now running their anti-doping programme."
Regarding other sports, Howman said: "Significant ground has been made to make sure the clean athlete achieves a level playing field."
American sprinter Justin Gatlin is due to compete in next month's World Championships following two previous doping bans.
Asked whether he knew some of the world's top athletes were cheats, Howman said: "Not to the same level as the information we had on Lance Armstrong but certainly we have information that is being investigated about a number of athletes around the world."
Howman, who is to step down in 2016 after 12 years at Wada, admitted his organisation's effectiveness was limited by a lack of resources.
"When I started at Wada, Wayne Rooney was being paid $4m a year by Manchester United," Howman added. "He's now being paid something like $30m.
"We were getting $20m when he first started, we're now getting $30m. Sport is saying to us [your money] should be increased but they are not doing it in the same proportion.
"That probably is not a good way of addressing the issue."
Labour councillor Simon Carter, who has represented Bury Council's Tottington ward since 2012, faces 16 counts.
Mr Carter, 53, of Rakewood Avenue, Littleborough, appeared before Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.
An ex-member of the council's Standards Committee, he was bailed to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 10 July.
A Bury Council spokesman said: "We can confirm that a Bury councillor has been charged with making indecent images of children.
"As the matter is under police jurisdiction, it would be inappropriate to comment further."
Cafodd y gwasanaethau brys eu galw i faes parcio tafarn y Llong yn y pentref ychydig wedi hanner nos fore Sul.
Daeth swyddogion o hyd i Peter Robert Colwell, dyn 18 oed o Gapel Uchaf, Clynnog Fawr yn farw ar ôl iddo ddioddef anafiadau saethu.
Mae ei deulu yn cael cymorth gan swyddogion arbenigol.
Daeth swyddogion o hyd i ddryll yn y lleoliad ac fe gafodd pedwar dyn eu harestio mewn cysylltiad â'r digwyddiad.
Maen nhw wedi cael eu rhyddhau ar fechnïaeth yr heddlu tra bod ymholiadau'n parhau. Roedd y pedwar dyn a'r dyn a fu farw yn ffrindiau.
Dywedodd Ditectif Uwcharolygydd Iestyn Davies: "Er bod hwn yn ddigwyddiad trasig sy'n cael ei drin fel ymchwiliad llofruddiaeth, rydym yn cadw meddwl agored o ran amgylchiadau'r digwyddiad.
"Mae ein harbenigwyr yn ceisio sefydlu yn union beth a ddigwyddodd a sut cafodd y gwn haels ei saethu, ond mi hoffwn sicrhau'r gymuned leol mai digwyddiad anarferol iawn oedd hwn yn ymwneud â phobl leol a 'does yna ddim bygythiad ehangach i'r cyhoedd.
"Nid ydym yn chwilio am unrhyw un arall mewn cysylltiad â'r digwyddiad ac mae'r gwn wedi cael ei ddarganfod. Byddwn yn ymgynghori â Gwasanaeth Erlyn y Goron ymhen amser ynghylch unrhyw gyhuddiadau.
"Rydym yn cydymdeimlo'n arw â theulu a ffrindiau Peter Colwell ar yr amser anodd hwn."
Mae'r crwner wedi cael ei hysbysu ac fe gynhelir archwiliad post mortem ymhen amser.
Gofynnir i unrhyw un sydd â gwybodaeth ffonio'r Heddlu ar 101 neu Crimestoppers yn ddienw ar 0800 555 111 a dyfynnu'r cyfeirnod V016717.
Dywedodd gynghorydd Llanbedrog, Angela Russell wrth raglen Post Cyntaf BBC Radio Cymru ddydd Llun ei bod wedi bod yn benwythnos anodd i'r gymuned yn dilyn y digwyddiad.
"Maen nhw wedi cael braw," meddai.
"Maen nhw wedi dychryn - lle prydferth, tawel, a pheth fel hyn wedi digwydd yng nghanol y pentref. Dydyn nhw methu coelio'r peth."
Martin Fitzpatrick pled guilty to attempted murder after attacking Alyn Stocks, 40, in Glasgow's Shettleston area in July last year.
Fitzpatrick's cousin was a neighbour of the victim.
Mr Stocks and the woman had been arguing over claims that each of their dogs had caused trouble in their tenement.
Fitzpatrick, from Easterhouse, eventually got involved and stabbed Mr Stocks 10 times.
Sentencing was deferred for reports and Fitzpatrick was remanded in custody.
The images, which depict pubs run by the once-mighty London-based Charrington Brewery, were rescued from a skip by Robert Humphreys, where they had been dumped as the company moved offices a quarter of a century ago.
The brewery grew from humble beginnings in the 18th Century to own pubs across the country, many of which were thoroughly documented in regular surveys.
More than 3,000 photographs were rescued by Mr Humphreys, at the time an area manager for the brewery, and taken to the former Bass Museum, now the National Brewery Centre, in Burton-upon-Trent for safekeeping.
His actions preserved valuable information about pubs, landlords and drinking habits across the generations.
The National Brewery Heritage Trust (NBHT) has worked to share the archive with the public, and, after being scanned and cleaned digitally, the Charrington collection has been put online by Historypin as part of a nationwide project.
Mr Humphreys, who worked for Charrington for 20 years from 1973 and is now a member of the NBHT, said the pictures are "priceless" records of 20th Century life, and welcomed the efforts to open up the archive to the public.
"I think it's fair to say that this collection has some completely irreplaceable images," he said.
"Some are very high quality and were mounted on cards at the museum, which also had a lot of important information about the pubs, like old tenants, how much beer they sold and other things."
NBHT chairman Harry White said he "could not be more delighted" with the digitisation, the first major project undertaken by the trust.
"This stunning collection was within moments of being lost forever," he said.
Due to his long association with the brewery, Mr Humphreys says he is still contacted by family members of former workers looking to find out more about their relatives.
He hopes opening the collection up will help more people contribute their own stories and shed more light on the life of Charrington Brewery and its employees.
"I'm so pleased it's happened - it could just so easily have disappeared," he said.
Lise Schauer, from Historypin, started working on the digitisation project in June. She said she was "flabbergasted by the depth and quality" of the archive rescued from the Charrington skip.
"I couldn't believe it was just going to be thrown away," she said.
Pete Boswell, managing director of digital specialists Photo Legacy, spent four and a half months digitising the photographs in the collection.
He hopes to work on bringing more old images of pubs to life.
"They're very interesting, and they have an appeal to many different types of people," he said.
"I'll certainly be working with other collections that aren't held by the trust. We've had some very good conversations, and I'm confident that we will be seeing more soon."
The project is set to continue into next year, having secured funding from Amsterdam-based cultural heritage group Europeana Food and Drink, and Ms Schauer hopes visitors to the Historypin collection will add more historical photos to the site.
"We'd like to improve on what we've got - anything that makes the metadata richer would be great," she said.
"Pubs attract a lot of different types of people, they're a hub that a lot of people want to try and save."
Ms Schauer has high hopes the Charrington photos can lead to a bigger social history project detailing the history of thousands of British institutions.
"This whole project was about how we can get this archive sitting in a box in Burton and open it up to people," she said.
"Everyone has their own experience of a pub, and it's easier to unlock life stories by starting there."
Guernsey Police raided the Eagle Medical Practice at about 10:30 BST.
The surgery in Ollivier Street in St Anne's is run by Dr Rory Lyons. He has been suspended by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
Guernsey Police Chief Patrick Rice said: "It is likely medical records will be seized - no-one has been arrested."
Mr Rice said: "Concerns were raised with the Health and Social Services Department following the death of a patient who had been under the care of the Eagle Medical Practice.
"A preliminary internal investigation found three further deaths of concern were identified before it was referred to police."
Items, including documents, have been removed from the surgery, whose website says it has about 500 patients.
Officers left the scene at 15:45 after loading a vehicle with boxes. A private residence in Alderney has also been searched.
Dr Carol Tozer, chief officer of the Health and Social Services Department (HSSD), said: "Following our internal investigation a doctor was excluded from treating patients at the Mignot Memorial Hospital and the General Medical Council was informed.
"The GMC was also notified that this matter is now the subject of a police investigation.
"The GMC has confirmed that the doctor's practice is already under restrictions and he is being investigated."
She said senior staff had been sent to Alderney to provide information and advice to concerned patients.
Dr Tozer said the HSSD was "responsible for the health and well-being of the people of Alderney" and "while GP practices in Alderney are privately-run businesses, we act as the investigating authority for complaints involving our staff or incidents taking place in our facilities".
Mr Rice said the investigation would be "complex and take time to establish the full facts".
He said family liaison officers had been sent to Alderney and further information would be released when available and he urged islanders to "avoid partaking in any unhelpful speculation".
The closure of the last 22 shops around the UK on Sunday came after the retailer was placed into administration in March but failed to find a buyer.
Previous owners Dominic Chappell and Sir Philip Green have been criticised for mismanaging the chain and failing to protect the company pension scheme.
Administrators had already made 141 store closures over recent weeks.
These included its flagship store on Oxford Street in London's West End.
British Homes Stores, a name that was a fixture on most UK High Streets, has disappeared nearly a century after first opening in Brixton, south London.
Simon Prager, who worked for BHS for 16 years and helped to oversee the closure of Bristol's Cribbs Causeway branch, said: "I don't think even a year ago anyone would have thought it would come to this.
"I think there probably was anger at some point in the last three months. But I think everyone's well beyond that. And I think it is now just sadness that it's come to this."
By the BBC's Emma Ailes, at one of the last BHS stores
Scattered clothes rails, empty hangers and a few dwindling piles of stock are all that's left at BHS Walthamstow in north London. "Last days!" the large red and yellow signs on the door proclaim. "Everything 70% off".
A crowd has turned up for the closing day of this British High Street stalwart, scouring the shelves for one final bargain. The long queue for the till stretches across the gutted shop. The refrigerators in the food hall are on but empty. Even the fixtures and fittings are up for grabs.
One staff member, wearing a pink feathery party head-dress but also holding a tissue, pauses to hug a colleague.
"It's really sad talking to the customer services people who are out of a job and will be signing on," says local shopper Keisha Cook, who's here with her mum Carmen. "But I can't say I normally came here. It was too pricey. Honestly, for us, it's just another shop front changing."
Years of under-investment and failing to react effectively to intense competition led to the slow demise of BHS over the past two decades.
Its most recent owners have also been blamed following an investigation by a joint committee of MPs last month.
They described billionaire retailer Sir Philip Green, who owned BHS from 2000 to 2015, as the "unacceptable face of capitalism".
Sir Philip, who has promised to sort out a £600m pensions blackhole at BHS, could also be stripped of his knighthood.
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell called for an overhaul of the honours system and restated his call for former BHS boss Sir Philip to lose his title.
Meanwhile, if talks between Sir Philip and the pensions regulator fail, then the 11,000 BHS staff who have lost their jobs will get a smaller pension than expected.
By Simon Jack, business editor
In one way the story of BHS is not unique. It is an everyday tale of commerce - healthy businesses thrive, sickly ones perish, the High Street evolves - that's life.
In many others it is not. It is also the story of two controversial owners.
Sir Philip Green bought BHS for £200m in 2000 and in the early years it made profits. All of these profits were taken out, quite legally, in dividends in the years up to 2004.
BHS then limped along for another decade through a recession, being kept alive by loans from the rest of Sir Philip Green's empire until it was sold last year for just £1.
The troubled world of BHS
Staff in the Belfast city store gathered behind the shop's front window shortly after closing time, with drinks to toast their years of work at the store..
And Steve Britten, manager of the final store to close in Wales, in Swansea, said: "We had to open early because the queue was absolutely huge and our poor customers were getting wet.
"We've had a really difficult week but we've had an absolute ball of a time. We've dressed up every day and had party themes.
"The staff have had big smiles on their faces but I think tonight there's going to be a lot of emotion, when it hits us that it's all over for the last time."
The last 22 stores that closed were:
Services were cancelled or delayed on Monday morning after the problem occurred between Dingle Road and Cardiff Central.
Replacement buses were laid on while the line was closed and Cardiff Bus was accepting train tickets via reasonable routes.
Network Rail apologised to "anyone who was late as a result".
Andy Thomas, route managing director at Network Rail, said: "This morning a crucial set of points, which allow trains to cross from one track to another, failed between Dingle Road and Cardiff Central stations.
"Most trains that run on the Vale of Glamorgan line require the use of these points.
"Working with our partners Arriva Trains Wales, we have done all we can to keep passengers moving and get normal services up and running again as swiftly as possible.
"Our people got to the site quickly to fix the problem to minimise the impact on customers.
"We'd like to apologise to anyone who was late as a result of the delays and disruption this morning."
Some passengers had reported being stuck on trains for more than an hour, with some taking to social media about their delays.
Arriva advised passengers to retain tickets in case they were entitled to compensation.
The economy secretary said US president-elect Donald Trump was "late to the party" when it came to the importance of infrastructure.
He said he wanted to find solutions to congestion in north Wales as well as build the M4 relief road.
Meanwhile he revealed the government is negotiating with National Grid over a shared crossing over the Menai Strait.
National Grid is currently planning to build a tunnel under the Menai Strait to carry cables linking the proposed Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station with the mainland.
But the company said that, as things stand, the timelines of the projects do not "match".
Mr Skates told the BBC's Wales Report programme: "I wish to build as never before".
Mr Trump has promised to rebuild the US' infrastructure to become "second to none".
"Donald Trump is, I'm afraid, quite late to the party in talking about the importance of infrastructure," the Welsh economy secretary said.
"The Labour government said that at UK level back in 1997, 2001."
Mr Skates said he had been saying "for some time" that, if you want to really drive economic prosperity, you have to invest in infrastructure, have available skills and have the "right regional economic development vehicle".
He said he wanted to be a minister who "builds, not just the relief road, but also builds solutions for congestion in the North on the A55".
He also suggested a third crossing over the Menai Strait was a "priority project".
The Welsh Government is commissioning work to look at routes for a third Menai crossing.
"What we're doing at the moment is negotiating with National Grid over the potential to channel the cables for Wyfla Newydd through a shared crossing," Mr Skates told the programme.
He said said a shared crossing would "vastly reduce taxpayers' contribution".
Plans for a public inquiry for the M4 Relief Road have been delayed until early 2017.
A National Grid spokeswoman said: "We have been in discussions for some time with the Welsh Government to understand their plans for a third Menai Bridge.
"We agree, as things currently stand, that the timelines of the projects do not match. We will continue to work together to understand any changes to each other's plans.
"Until there is a final suitable design for the bridge and a firm programme to deliver it, we have to progress with our current proposals to provide a connection for Wylfa Newydd by 2024."
The Wales Report, BBC One Wales, 22:40 GMT, Wednesday November 16
Caterham missed the last two races because of financial problems, but will compete at the season-ending race thanks to a crowdfunding project.
Stevens was previously part of the Caterham Racing Academy and has twice tested for the Formula 1 team.
"I'm ready for the challenge of my F1 debut," said the 23-year-old.
"I look forward to working as part of the team in a race environment after all the work we've done together previously in the tests I've completed and back at [the team's factory in] Leafield in the simulator.
"Hopefully this will be something we will be able to carry through to the 2015 season together."
Caterham's head of engineering operations Gianluca Pisanello said: "Will has done a vast amount of time in our simulator, completing around 10,000km (6,200 miles).
"In addition, his 2014 test at Silverstone in our current car, where he completed over 500km (310 miles), was very successful and his race pace was very good."
Pisanello added the team had completed the deal last week but had to wait for confirmation of his super licence, which is required to take part in a grand prix weekend.
Swede Marcus Ericsson, who has driven alongside Kobayashi for most of the season, terminated his Caterham contract with immediate effect earlier this week.
Caterham was put into administration last month and the man now running the team, Finbarr O'Connell, said he had made the effort to get them to Abu Dhabi to "showcase" the team for potential buyers, who wanted to see that Caterham could still be a functioning race team.
"I am talking to three or four who have the financial wherewithal to do this and people sit on the fence," he said.
"They wonder: 'Is it a good idea?' The staff start to drift away. They just think: 'What are we buying? Is it a licence and the idea of a team, or is it a real team?' It is effectively showcasing it and proving it is a real team."
There is still a legal dispute between the team's founder Tony Fernandes and the organisation that agreed to buy it from the Malaysian businessman in the summer.
But O'Connell said that did not affect any potential buyer because his legal advice was that Fernandes was the legal owner of the shares of 1MRT, the company that owns the F1 entry, and had agreed to hand its ownership over to the administrator.
O'Connell said the sale would be of both the team's factory in Oxfordshire, which is owned by a separate company called Caterham Sports Ltd, and 1MRT.
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Jutanugarn, 20, didn't drop a shot and made six birdies to move within sight of the tournament record-winning score of 19-under par.
South Korea's Mirim Lee, who led after the first and second rounds, slipped to second after carding a 69.
Scot Catriona Matthew will start the final round six shots back in fourth.
Jutanugarn will become the first Thai to win a major tournament if she can protect her lead on Sunday.
She missed a chance at the ANA Inspiration earlier this season when bogeying her final three holes, but believes she has learned from that experience.
Jutanugarn, who displayed calmness and consistency during her third round, told BBC Sport: "I think I know how to play under pressure. I have to focus on what is under my control."
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Despite three birdies in her opening four holes, Matthew was unable to match the quality of her second-round 65 as she slipped off the pace.
However, she has not given up hope of closing the gap on the final day in her attempt to win a second British Open, seven years after her win at Lytham in 2009.
Matthew said: "It's possible. I will need to hole everything I look at.
"If Ariya plays as she can she will be tough to catch but I will just go out and try and make as many birdies as I can."
England's Charlie Hull suffered a triple-bogey on the opening hole and her challenge faded away with a three-over par 75.
But Ireland's Leona Maguire, who will be competing at the Rio Olympics next month, enjoyed an outstanding day. The 21-year-old went round in a four-under 68 to move to 10th place on seven-under par as the leading amateur.
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Konta, the first British woman to reach the last eight of the tournament, was beaten 6-4 6-2 by her Belarusian opponent in just over 90 minutes.
World number eight Azarenka, 26, is on course for back-to-back titles after beating Serena Williams in Indian Wells earlier this month.
World number 23 Konta, 24, failed to convert any of her five break points.
The Briton, making her debut in Miami, would have broken into the world top 20 had she reached the final.
Azarenka, who won the tournament in 2009 and 2011, made just 14 unforced errors in 119 points.
She will next face either second-seeded German Angelique Kerber or American world number 22 Madison Keys.
Konta had made more winners and fewer unforced errors after an hour's play in blustery conditions, against an agitated Azarenka.
However, the Belarusian saved her best tennis to fend off five break points, while Konta double-faulted twice to drop serve.
"I do believe the few chances that I was able to create, she did an incredible job," Konta told BBC Sport.
"I think maybe bar one, when I felt I could have maybe made a return - I think she really did win every single point.
"She definitely kept her claws in there and she took it way from me."
The British number one, who was ranked 151st in the world this time last year, was playing in the quarter-finals of a WTA Premier event for the first time.
"I'm happy with the level I was able to bring to the court," she added.
"Obviously I'm disappointed that I couldn't have done a little bit better but I'm taking the positives from it."
Wednesday's defeat brought an end to another impressive week for Konta.
She is in line to move up to 21st in the world rankings, and will next head to Stuttgart for the clay-court season.
"I maintain that I don't have a favourite but I really enjoy the changes that come when we go from surface to surface," said Konta.
Having really begun her charge up the rankings last June, Konta has plenty of opportunity to gather ranking points before the return to grass courts in the UK.
"Honestly I'm not looking at that," she said.
"I'm very happy with the level I was able to produce almost day in, day out here. I'll just try to just reapply that to the next practice I have, and also the next matches I have."
Such national hostility to a fellow countryman is highly unusual in EU politics. But Mr Tusk is still expected to get enough support to keep his post.
As European Council president, Mr Tusk looks set to play a major role in the UK's Brexit negotiations.
A top Tusk ally rejected the candidacy of Polish rival Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.
German MEP Manfred Weber heads the main conservative bloc in the EU, the European People's Party (EPP). He said the EPP would expel Mr Saryusz-Wolski if he did not give up his bid to thwart Mr Tusk.
The European Council brings together the heads of state and government of the 28 EU member states. Jointly they set the EU's strategic direction in key areas, such as reform of the eurozone, the Greek debt crisis, the migrant challenge and relations with Russia.
The Council president aims to achieve consensus - deploying all his diplomatic skills - on these tricky issues, where national tensions often dictate how leaders behave.
Mr Tusk took charge in late 2014 and his term ends on 31 May. If his fellow leaders back him on Thursday, he will have another 30-month term, lasting until 30 November 2019. That period coincides with the expected two-year Brexit talks on UK withdrawal from the EU.
Malta, currently chairing EU business, is likely to seek approval of Mr Tusk by consensus. Poland's hostility might push it to a vote - but then Mr Tusk is still likely to win by a qualified majority.
Mr Tusk was Polish prime minister in 2007-2014. As leader of centre-right Civic Platform, his chief rival then was the nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS), which is now in power.
PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski holds Mr Tusk politically responsible for the 2010 plane crash in Russia which killed his twin Lech Kaczynski, and all other 95 people on board.
The plane crashed in dense fog. Official investigations ruled pilot error was the principal cause.
In 2012, Jaroslaw Kaczynski told Mr Tusk in parliament: "In the political sense you bear 100% responsibility for the catastrophe in Smolensk."
Many Poles believe Mr Tusk's government did not do enough to explain the causes of the crash. Critics say Mr Tusk should not have allowed the Russians to conduct the first crash investigation.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski also said Mr Tusk "favours solutions that are extremely harmful to Poland".
The European Commission has clashed with the PiS government over Poland's refusal to take in refugees - a move that would ease the burden on Greece and Italy. The Commission is also investigating the party's changes to Poland's constitutional court and media, suspecting that they violate EU rule of law principles.
The 17-year-old forward plays for Wales' Under-19 side and recently signed a new Liverpool contract.
Real Madrid's Bale and Ramsey of Arsenal came through Wales' youth teams and are now key members of Chris Coleman's senior side.
"Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey are world class and I want to replicate what they do," Woodburn said.
"It's an aim for everyone, keep going and keep trying your best at the age you're at."
Woodburn recently signed a new long-term contract with Liverpool and Reds manager Jurgen Klopp described him as "an exciting talent."
Chester-born Woodburn plays for the Reds' Under-23 side and scored twice for the first team in pre-season friendlies.
"It's brilliant at the club and international [level]. It's just good to be playing football," Woodburn told BBC Wales Sport.
Woodburn scored twice as Wales beat Luxembourg 6-2 in a Uefa Under-19 Championship qualifier in Bangor on Tuesday.
But Geraint Williams' side failed to reach the elite stages due to an inferior goal difference in their games against Greece and England.
Wales have been invited to take part in next summer's Toulon Tournament in France for the first time in their history.
The tournament will be held from 29 May to 10 June and will feature 12 teams placed in three groups of four.
The body of Fay Daniels, 30, was discovered at a property in Victoria Street, Chesterton, on 24 April, Stafford Crown Court was told.
Phillip Barlow, 36, pleaded guilty to killing Ms Daniel's at his home. He had known her for several years.
He was sentenced to life with a minimum of 12 years and six months in jail.
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Ms Daniels was discovered in the back garden of Barlow's home after a neighbour alerted police, the court heard.
Barlow was found inside the property in blood-stained clothing and was charged with her murder the following day, police said.
A post-mortem examination found Ms Daniels' death was caused by multiple stab wounds to her face and neck.
A statement from her family said: "We have received justice but no amount of sentence was ever going to be enough as we are the ones facing the true life sentence, which is without Fay.
"We are heartbroken. She was loved by many and will be dearly missed."
Tony Williams, 86, who represented Peterston-super-Ely for 48 years, was found outside his Welsh St Donats home with his wife Faith, 87, on Sunday.
Their daughter, Dr Ruth Williams, said: "I think dad went out with weed killer and tumbled and mum went out to help."
South Wales Police said "the sudden deaths of an elderly man and woman" were not being treated as suspicious.
The force said the deaths were reported shortly after 21:30 BST on Sunday while the Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called at 21:45 and sent two ambulances and a paramedic response car.
Dr Williams said her parents - a former mayor and mayoress of the Vale of Glamorgan - were childhood sweethearts who were a couple for 72 years and married for 57 years.
She said they were a "terrific team and always proud ambassadors for the Vale of Glamorgan Council".
"Dad had many happy memories and anecdotes of his 48 years of continuous service to the community and had a detailed knowledge of every part of the Vale of Glamorgan," she said.
"Their home was frequently the 'nerve centre' of campaigns such as 'Stop the Super Quarry' in the 1970s. Mum supported Dad in every way, not least when she was Deputy Mayoress and then Mayoress during the opening of the Civic Offices in 1981.
"She organised and catered for functions in the Mayor's Parlour herself, and dignitaries from other organisations were keen to be invited once they tasted her food!"
Mr Williams, who was also once deputy leader of the Vale of Glamorgan council, was recognised in the New Year's Honours List in 2004, when he was awarded a MBE for services to local government and conservation in the county.
He was interested in planning and environmental matters and was a key founder of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast. He retired in 2007.
Councillor John Thomas, leader of the Vale council said he was "shocked and saddened" at the deaths.
"Tony was the elder statesman providing valuable support and advice to myself as a new and inexperienced councillor," he added.
"Both he and Faith will be sadly missed but fondly remembered."
The charges against Chaka Fattah, who represents Pennsylvania, include bribery, fraud and money laundering.
In one case, he is said to have used cash raised for an election campaign to pay off some of his son's student debt.
Mr Fattah, 58, who was first elected in 1994, is one of the most senior black lawmakers in Congress.
US prosecutors said four associates of Mr Fattah had also been charged.
They said the charges covered several schemes, including one in which he used federal grants and donations to his educational foundation to pay back part of a wealthy campaign supporter's $1 million (£640,000) loan.
He is also accused of disguising a lobbyist's bribe as payment for a car he never sold.
"The public does not expect their elected officials to misuse campaign funds, misappropriate government funds, accept bribes or commit bank fraud," US prosecutor Zane Memeger said.
"These types of criminal acts betray the public trust and undermine faith in government," Mr Memeger added.
Mr Fattah is yet to comment on the charges. His office said it would issue a statement later on Wednesday.
The 58-year-old remains free pending a yet-unscheduled court date.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said the charges against Mr Fattah were "deeply saddening" and that the congressman had a record of "distinguished service" in Congress.
She said he had "rightly" stepped down from his position as the top Democrat on the House subcommittee that oversees justice department spending.
Mr Fattah's son, Chaka Fattah Jr, was charged with fraud last year related to loans associated with a business he ran and is awaiting trial.
Wall Street fell sharply, with the Dow Jones closing down 468 points, or 2.8%, at 16,060.
European markets also fell, with the UK's FTSE 100 closing down 3% and France's Cac 40 and Germany's Dax about 2.4% lower.
Earlier, figures for August showed factory activity in China contracting at its fastest pace in three years.
The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) dropped to 49.7 from 50 in July. A figure below 50 indicates contraction.
It follows recent turmoil in the markets sparked by concerns over a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
"The importance of today's announcement is that the slowdown is hitting the larger state-backed firms who typically take longer to feel the pain," said Josh Mahony from online trading firm IG Index.
"There are precious few signs that China is beginning to recover, and while [the People's Bank of China's] action can provide a temporary reprieve, we are yet to see any evidence that it is doing any good to the economy," he added.
There were also big falls in the price of oil, which had risen by about 25% in the previous three trading sessions.
Brent crude fell $4.59 to $49.56 a barrel while US crude dropped $3.79 to $45.41.
Exxon Mobil was the biggest faller on the Dow Jones, closing down by 4.2%. Chevron fell 3.5%.
The S&P 500 fell 3.0% to close at 1,914, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was 2.9% lower at 4,636.
Global markets sustained heavy losses in August - for both the UK's FTSE 100 and the US's S&P 500, it was the worst month since May 2012.
As well as the poor China factory data, investors are unsure about the US central bank's next move. Many had pencilled in the a rate rise - the first move since the financial crisis - for September. However, given the recent stock turmoil, analysts seem less certain.
"The volatility is here to stay for a while, or at least till the Fed gives us an indication regarding a rate increase," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities in New York.
"Right now, they are being quite cagey."
Monkhouse slotted home early, with Omar Bogle's header from a Nathan Arnold free-kick doubling the lead.
The Mariners scored again through Monkhouse, before Padraig Amond added a fourth and Arnold completed the dominant victory.
Grimsby stayed in third place in the National League, with Altrincham 21st, one point from safety.
Grimsby Town manager Paul Hurst told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"It's nice to that one to bed; good victory, good for our goal difference, you never know if that could come in handy, all without playing particularly brilliant.
"In some ways I see that as a positive to still win 5-0 and not be totally happy.
"I thought we showed a lot of good intent on the ball, wanting to get on it, quicken our play.
"It was almost like there was an element of it being a little bit easy. I felt that they had some attacking players that could cause problems for us but we got the second goal and it was comfortable, don't get me wrong, but I just want us to be a little bit better on the ball and take care of it."
Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd won Eastbourne from the Conservatives after losing it at the 2015 General Election.
In Brighton Kemptown, Economic Secretary to the Treasury Simon Kirby lost to Labour's Lloyd Russell-Moyle.
After a recount in Hastings and Rye, Ms Rudd scraped to victory with a narrow 346-vote lead.
Ms Rudd won 25,668 votes, beating Labour's Peter Chowney, with 25,322.
Caroline Lucas held on to Brighton Pavilion for the Green Party, while Labour's Peter Kyle kept Hove with a 64.1% share of the vote.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Lucas said Theresa May's campaign was "arrogant and insulting".
"I am hoping progressives across Parliament will work together to challenge an extreme Brexit which is brutal, damaging and wrong," she added.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Kyle said: "Not only have we held on to the little red dot in the South of England there are now plenty more right across the region. And none of those dots makes me happier than Lloyd in Kemptown."
Conservative Simon Kirby lost Kemptown to Labour's Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who secured a 58.3 % share of the vote.
Mr Russell-Moyle said people had "decided it was time for a change and time for Labour".
In Eastbourne, Stephen Lloyd came first with 26,924 votes, while Caroline Ansell, the sitting Tory MP, came a close second with 25,315 votes.
The East Sussex constituency was a target seat for the Lib Dems and Brexit was a key focus of their campaign.
Mr Lloyd said he would respect the result and not campaign for a second referendum, which had been a key Liberal Democrat policy.
Meanwhile, in East Worthing and Shoreham, Tim Laughton held on for the Tories with 25,988 votes, but Labour saw a surge in support, with candidate Sophie Cook securing 20,882.
Before this election Sussex was a sea of Tory blue. That sea has not evaporated but the tide has receded a little.
Seats like Chichester and Wealden were never in doubt, while the Tories saw off the Lib Dems in a tight tussle in Lewes.
But then came the news that Amber Rudd was in trouble in Hastings. She eventually won the day, but Labour's Peter Chowney ran her very close.
For an incumbent home secretary, even with a relatively small majority, it's quite a shock.
Then the news that Hove would not turn blue. The Tory campaign manager there told me the ill-fated launch of the Conservative manifesto changed the tone of the campaign and put the Tories on the defensive.
Then followed Stephen Lloyd's return to office in Eastbourne for the Lib Dems.
As we headed into morning, Kemptown fell to Labour. Lloyd Russell-Moyle didn't just unseat Treasury Minister Simon Kirby, he got a majority of nearly 10,000. Kemptown is no longer a marginal.
Lewes was third on the list of Liberal Democrat targets, but Maria Caulfield kept the constituency for the Tories and increased her votes by 7,614.
Ms Caulfield, a registered nurse and Brighton councillor, won the seat with a small majority as a first-time MP in 2015 from Liberal Democrat Norman Baker.
She said it was a "huge honour" to win again and she would "work tirelessly" for the constituency.
Elsewhere in East Sussex, the Tories also held Bexhill & Battle and Wealden. And in West Sussex, they also kept their seats in Arundel & South Downs, Bognor & Littlehampton, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex, and Worthing West.
Harriet Braine, a 25-year-old archive assistant, won the £2,000 stage award, while self-confessed "comedy nerd" Carol Walsh won the writing prize.
Carolyn Goodyear, an actress who "fell into" writing, won the event's shorts award with her short film Ambition.
Katherine Ryan, Sara Pascoe and Sarah Millican are among the comedians to have been recognised in previous years.
Ryan beat Pascoe to be crowned winner in 2008, while Millican was a runner-up in 2005.
Other previous participants include Susan Calman and Diane Morgan, known to many as Philomena Cunk on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe.
More than 400 hopefuls bid for this year's stage award, which involved 24 heats ahead of Wednesday's final at Koko in north London.
Each of the six finalists was paired with a celebrity comedian mentor, with Ellie Taylor doing the honours for the eventual winner.
Braine, who comes from Kingston-upon-Thames, was also a finalist in this year's So You Think You're Funny competition.
Walsh, meanwhile, won her £2,000 prize for three sample scenes from a TV comedy script called Savages.
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Thomas Galloway torched the mattress after accusing his wife of cheating on him, Carlisle Crown Court heard.
The family managed to escape unhurt in the early hours of 17 April, but the Carlisle house was badly damaged.
Galloway, 22, of Thomas Street, admitted arson with intent to endanger life and was jailed for five years.
The hearing was told the defendant had been drinking before the attack and was suffering from depression.
Det Con Fiona Murray, of Cumbria Police, said: "Galloway knowingly put the lives of his wife and children in danger due to his actions.
"Thankfully no one was hurt, however this incident could have easily ended in tragedy.
"Justice has been served and I hope it gives the victims the opportunity to move on with their lives."
Mr Berlusconi is suspected of abusing his power by trying to have the Moroccan girl - known by her stage name Ruby - released from a police cell.
Some reports say the probe includes allegations of underage prostitution.
Lawyers for the 74-year-old prime minister dismissed the claims as "absurd and groundless".
They said the allegations had already been refuted by all witnesses and people directly involved.
Mr Berlusconi has previously admitted calling the police on her behalf, but says he did nothing wrong.
Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that prosecutors would investigate whether Mr Berlusconi had made the call in order to hide his use of underage prostitutes.
By Duncan KennedyBBC News, Rome
A new year, and a new start for Silvio Berlusconi? Think again.
"Rubygate" has come back to prominence, given new legs by the magistrates in Milan. The scandal is potentially more serious for the prime minister than previous ones he's been involved with, in that it concerns allegations of underage prostitution and abuse of power.
It compounds a bad week for the prime minister, given that, earlier, Italy's highest court partly removed his immunity from prosecution in three corruption trials.
Does the Italian public care? Well, the cumulative effect of these scandals has harmed Mr Berlusconi's personal poll ratings. But very few politicians want to bring him down and trigger a general election, especially when they know that he would probably win again - with or without personal scandal.
The dancer, now 18 years old, told newspapers she was paid 7,000 euros (£5,900; $9,400) after she attended a party held by Mr Berlusconi last year.
Ruby, whose real name is Karima El Mahroug, has denied having sex with him.
She was being questioned over theft allegations when Mr Berlusconi called the police on her behalf.
He apparently told them that she was a relative of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak.
The case came to light last November, and prosecutors at the time questioned Milan police over Mr Berlusconi's involvement.
In a statement on Friday, Milan prosecutors said they had issued a summons to Mr Berlusconi.
The prosecutors said they were investigating alleged crimes committed between February and May 2010, but gave few details of the allegations.
The investigation is the latest in a string of legal difficulties for Mr Berlusconi.
On Thursday, a law shielding him from three unrelated trials was significantly watered down by a ruling of Italy's Constitutional Court.
He could eventually face trials for bribery and fraud related to his business dealings.
Mr Berlusconi told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday that he found the Constitutional Court hearing "laughable".
The prime minister has argued he is the target of left-wing prosecutors.
The 22-year-old man, known by the pseudonym MalwareTech, had taken a week off work, but decided to investigate the ransomware after hearing about the global cyber-attack.
He managed to bring the spread to a halt when he found what appeared to be a "kill switch" in the rogue software's code.
"It was actually partly accidental," he told the BBC, after spending the night investigating. "I have not slept a wink."
Although his discovery did not repair the damage done by the ransomware, it did stop it spreading to new computers, and he has been hailed an "accidental hero".
"I would say that's correct," he told the BBC.
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"The attention has been slightly overwhelming. The boss gave me another week off to make up for this train-wreck of a vacation."
The researcher first noticed that the malware was trying to contact a specific web address every time it infected a new computer.
But the web address it was trying to contact - a long jumble of letters - had not been registered.
MalwareTech decided to register it, and bought it for $10.69 (£8). Owning it would let him see where computers were accessing it from, and give him an idea of how widespread the ransomware was.
By doing so, he unexpectedly triggered part of the ransomware's code that told it to stop spreading.
Analysis: How did it start?
What is the ransomware?
This type of code is known as a "kill switch", which some attackers use to halt the spread of their software if things get out of hand.
He tested his discovery and was delighted when he managed to trigger the ransomware on demand.
"Now you probably can't picture a grown man jumping around with the excitement of having just been 'ransomwared', but this was me," he said in a blog post.
MalwareTech now thinks the code was originally designed to thwart researchers trying to investigate the ransomware, but it backfired by letting them remotely disable it.
While the registration of the web address appears to have stopped one strain of the ransomware spreading from device-to-device, it does not repair computers that are already infected.
Security experts have also warned that new variants of the malware that ignore the "kill switch" will appear.
"This variant shouldn't be spreading any further, however there'll almost certainly be copycats," said security researcher Troy Hunt in a blog post.
MalwareTech warned: "We have stopped this one, but there will be another one coming and it will not be stoppable by us.
"There's a lot of money in this, there is no reason for them to stop. It's not much effort for them to change the code and start over."
The Loch Ness RNLI lifeboat went to the scene near Cherry Island when the alarm was raised at about 14:00 on Friday.
No-one was injured in the incident.
Thee vessel was pulled from the rocks and escorted to Fort Augustus about one mile away.
RNLI Loch Ness volunteer crew member Martin Douglas says: "This is something we train for regularly as there a quite a few areas on the loch where vessels can run aground.
"We were extremely fortunate to have crewmember Linda Izquierdo Ross on board the lifeboat as French is one of the many languages she can speak fluently.
"I'm sure this played a significant part in helping and reassuring the family"
Volunteers from the Inverness Coastguard team also responded and were on hand at Fort Augustus to help with mooring the cruiser and to carry out further checks.
Police were called to West Walk in the Sneinton area of Nottingham just after 06:00 GMT.
A 27-year-old man was found with a stab wound and died as a result of his injuries.
Nottinghamshire Police said inquiries are ongoing into the circumstances surrounding his death and asked anyone with information to contact them.
Modifications can make small changes to games or be huge collaborative efforts that add extra challenges, levels and foes or improve graphics.
The first game for which mods can be sold is fantasy role-playing title Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Valve said it would let modders of other games add their creations soon.
Valve has long run a workshop on its Steam game service that lets people share their extras and additions, but before now creators only got free downloads in return for their work. Steam is believed to have about 125 million active users.
The only situation in which players got cash for their creations was when they made something for a Valve game that was added to the title as an official new feature. Many other games operate similar systems that reward players.
Creators who use the store will be able to choose how much people pay for their mods, extras and add-ons. If they do not want to sell them they can be given away free. If they are sold, 25% of the payment will go to the creator, the rest is being split with Valve and the studio or developer who originally made the game.
The change might prove lucrative for people who produce a popular mod. In January this year Valve announced that it had paid out more than $57m (£37.6m) to 1,500 people who made extras for its games.
So far, 19 different paid mods for Skyrim are available on the Steam Workshop site that give players new weapons, locations and characters. Prices for these add-ons range from a few pence to a few pounds. In the Workshop there are currently more than 24,000 free mods for the game.
Valve said it had put in place security systems that can spot if people are trying to pass off someone else's creations as their own. In addition, mod makers can file "take down" notices via the Workshop to stop copycats and pirates stealing their work.
Many gamers took to Steam's discussion forums to express their opinions about the change. Many criticised Valve for taking a 75% cut and voiced their disquiet about paying modders for their work.
Game journalist John Bain, aka Total Biscuit, said Valve had opened a "gigantic can of worms" by making the change. He criticised Valve over the payment split, he also wondered how it would go about policing who made which mod and asked what help people would get if mods conflicted.
"There is absolutely a fear among the player base that a lot of mods they were used to enjoying will now be put behind a paywall," he said "I understand that fear but simultaneously the expectation that you should always have access to the latest versions of these mods for free is based on old logic."
Mr Bain said many modders may well have charged for their creations before now if it had been easy to do so.
Their 3-0 win over Paraguay, along with defeats for Argentina and Uruguay, means they cannot finish lower than fourth in South American qualifying.
Liverpool forward Philippe Coutinho, Barcelona striker Neymar and Real Madrid's Marcelo scored Brazil's goals.
Neymar also missed a penalty as his side moved nine points clear of second-placed Colombia.
It is Brazil's eighth straight win under coach Tite.
Paraguay, meanwhile, find themselves five points off the top four with only four games remaining.
Two-time World Cup winners Argentina face a battle to qualify for Russia with their 2-0 defeat to Bolivia leaving them fifth, a point behind Chile.
They will have to do so without forward Lionel Messi, who has been banned for four international matches for directing "insulting words" at an assistant referee during last Thursday's 1-0 win over Chile.
Uruguay, who were beaten 2-1 by Peru in Lima on Tuesday, are third.
The team that finishes fifth will face the winners of the Oceania group in a two-legged play-off.
"Less than a year ago, Brazil were struggling badly in World Cup qualification," South American football expert Tim Vickery told BBC Radio 5 live. "With a third of the campaign gone they were down in sixth in South America's table and in danger of missing out on Russia 2018.
"What a difference a coach makes. Out went the snarling Dunga and in came Tite - charismatic and intelligent - and he made an immediate impact.
"His side have put together eight consecutive wins, scoring 24 goals and conceding just two.
"The likes of Neymar and Philippe Coutinho are playing the kind of stylish brand of football that, historically, has made so many fall in love with that famous yellow shirt.
"They now just need to guard against an excess of euphoria - a lovely problem to have for a proud footballing nation, who just a few months ago were fretting about the prospect of missing out on a World Cup."
Police said the 23-year-old was accused of running on to the pitch during Sunday's fixture at Pittodrie and faced a breach of the peace charge.
He is expected to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court next month.
Aberdeen won the match 2-1 thanks to a late free-kick scored by James Maddison, in the team's first meeting since January 2012.
Snoop told fans during a visit to Manchester, ahead a concert at the city's Apollo, that he had asked his agent to negotiate him a role.
Snoop, who has followed the soap for 11 years, believed that Granada TV producers had responded with interest.
A spokeswoman for Granada said: "He's obviously a great character but hard to see how he'd fit into Weatherfield."
She said they had yet to receive an approach from the performer, whose real name is Calvin Broadus.
He said: "I had my agent reach out to them to see if they could try to get me on and they said they were interested so hopefully it might happen.
"It would be perfect for me to be on the show.
"I love the whole dynamic, the way it is put together, it is my world, it is something I could fall into."
The 38-year-old recorded a video message to mark the show's 50th birthday earlier this year.
While in Greater Manchester, the rapper also visited Salford's Ordsall Community Centre, where he played football with young volunteers.
The teenagers had given up their time to paint the centre in exchange for tickets to his Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube concert.
The council had proposed closing all 44 centres and replacing them with eight new facilities in a bid to save £8m.
Following a consultation, it has now said it will keep some "universal" services and fund child care at 11 of the centres until 2017.
But Jill Huish, who is campaigning to save the centres, said the changes did not go nearly far enough.
She said: "They have suggested taking millions of pounds away and now they are throwing a few crumbs back to appease us.
"There was a huge response to the consultation, and I'm sure that's because most people wanted to save the centres. I think it would be really sad if this is all they do as a result."
Following the consultation, which received 2,700 responses, the council said the new centres would now offer some "universal" services.
These include a bus service, preventative services and some open access sessions.
Melinda Tilley, cabinet member for children, education and families, said she was "truly sorry" to have to make the cuts.
She added: "What we are proposing is the safest possible system that protects vulnerable families."
A spokesman added that the council is discussing with communities new ways to fund services in the future.
On Tuesday it was revealed that David Cameron's mother Mary has signed a petition against the cuts.
Members of the Unite union employed in early intervention at the council will stage a 24-hour strike on 16 February in protest at the plans.
The prime minister previously wrote to the local authority expressing "disappointment" at planned cuts to museums, libraries and day centres for the elderly.
But council leader Mr Hudspeth said the cuts were the result of reductions in funding from central government.
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