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Earlier, Indian Wells tournament CEO Raymond Moore said the women's WTA Tour "ride on the coat-tails of the men".
After claiming victory at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, 11-time major winner Djokovic said the men's tennis tour "should fight for more".
But the Serb described Moore's comments as "not politically correct".
Tom Fordyce: Equal pay is a myth - and a minefield
Djokovic, 28, said women "fought for what they deserve and they got it", but claimed prize money should be "fairly distributed" based on "who attracts more attention, spectators and who sells more tickets".
There has been equal prize money in all four majors - the Australian Open, US Open, French Open and Wimbledon - since 2007, and combined Masters events such as Indian Wells and Miami pay the same to men and women.
But female players are paid significantly less at women-only events when compared with similar sized men's events.
World number one Serena Williams said Moore's statement was "offensive", calling it "mistaken and very, very, very inaccurate".
"There's only one way to interpret that. Get on your knees, which is offensive enough, and thank a man," added 21-time major winner Williams, 34. "We shouldn't have to drop to our knees at any point."
Moore, a 69-year-old former player from South Africa, said: "If I was a lady player, I would go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they have carried this sport. They really have."
He later apologised for the "erroneous" remarks.
Billie Jean King, who co-founded the WTA Tour and won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, tweeted: "Disappointed in Raymond Moore comments. He is wrong on so many levels. Every player, especially the top players, contribute to our success."
WTA CEO Steve Simon, said Moore's comments were "extremely disappointing and alarming".
The Serb admitted it was a "very delicate situation" and was "completely for women power". He said:
A debate about the relative strengths of the men's and women's game should not be off limits, but the language Ray Moore used was deeply offensive - and it is hard to see how he can command the confidence of the players who will return to Indian Wells next year.
Novak Djokovic's comments are shared by very many in the men's game.
He is suggesting prize money at combined events should be distributed on the basis of ticket sales and TV viewing figures.
That may lead in future to women being paid more, but could also fatally undermine the principle that men and women should be treated equally for competing on the same stage - irrespective of the number of sets they are asked to play.
973 million
viewers for men's 2015 ATP tour
395 million
for women's 2015 WTA events and finals
$21.65m won by Novak Djokovic in 2015
$10.58m won by Serena Williams in 2015
1973 US Open became first Grand Slam to offer equal prize money
2007 Wimbledon joined other Grand Slams in offering equal prize money | World number one Novak Djokovic says male tennis players should earn more money than their female counterparts because more people watch them play. | 35,859,791 | 719 | 30 | false |
DawaFFM, Islamische Audios and An-Nussrah all adhere to ultra-conservative Salafist doctrine.
Police mounted raids against the groups on Wednesday, but no arrests were made.
German officials have said videos produced by DawaFFM partly inspired the man who shot dead two US airmen at Frankfurt airport in 2011.
An-Nussrah was judged to be part of the Millatu Ibrahim organisation, which had been banned in June last year.
"Salafism, as represented by the groups banned today, is incompatible with our peaceful, democratic system," Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said in a statement.
"DawaFFM, Islamische Audios and An-Nussrah aim to change our society in an aggressive way so that democracy is replaced by a Salafist system and the state of law replaced by sharia," he went on.
Searches were carried out early on Wednesday morning at the addresses of 20 people in the states of Hesse and North-Rhine Westphalia, the interior ministry said.
Computer equipment and propaganda material in German and Arabic were seized, as well as more than 10,000 euros (£8,600; $13,000) in cash.
German officials also accuse the groups of encouraging violence against those who do not agree with their views.
"These bans will also serve to protect the vast number of peaceful Muslims. They must not be troubled by conflicts deliberately fomented by extremists," Mr Friedrich said.
There are believed to be about 4,000 active Salafists in Germany, out of a broader Muslim population of well over 4m.
Also on Wednesday, German media reported that police in North Rhine-Westphalia had prevented an attempt by radical Islamists to kill the leader of the far-right Pro-NRW party, Markus Beisicht.
Four people have been arrested, at least one of whom was armed, according to local media. | Authorities in Germany have banned three Islamist groups, accusing them of being "anti-democratic" and seeking to impose sharia law. | 21,774,997 | 428 | 33 | false |
The man, a foreigner, was arrested in Nong Jok on the outskirts of Bangkok, a police spokesman said.
Bomb-making materials were found at the apartment along with 10 passports, said the spokesman, Prawut Thavornsiri.
The bomb tore through the crowded Erawan Shrine on 17 August injuring more than 100, mostly tourists.
Police said bomb-making material found at the apartment, including ballbearings and piping, was of the "similar or same type" used in that attack.
Mr Prawut said they believe the 28-year-old man they arrested "is a culprit in the same network".
But national police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang downplayed any suggestion that the suspect was connected to terrorism.
"He is a foreigner, but it's unlikely that he is an international terrorist, it's a personal feud," Mr Somyot told a televised news conference.
"He got angry on behalf of his friends and family members," he added, without elaborating.
Photos handed out by the police show a man with short dark hair and a beard and wearing a yellow shirt and trousers sitting handcuffed at the house.
But he may not be the prime suspect who was seen on security camera leaving a backpack at the busy shrine shortly before deadly the blast earlier this month.
A photofit image was released showing the suspect with dark hair and glasses.
It is also not clear from which country the passports came - although many unconfirmed reports suggest they are from Turkey.
Certain errors contained in the documents suggest they are fake, reports the BBC's Jonathan Head, in Bangkok.
Police said at the time of the attack that they suspected it had been planned a month or more in advance and involved at least 10 people.
A reward of one million Thai baht ($28,000; £17,950) has been offered for information but it is not known whether this played a part in Saturday's arrest.
The shrine is a popular destination for Chinese and Thai tourists. | Police in Bangkok say they have arrested a man in connection with a bomb that killed 20 people in the Thai capital nearly two weeks ago. | 34,095,603 | 465 | 30 | false |
EU tourists booking a break will be told whether the deal constitutes a "package holiday".
Operators ensure that anyone on a package deal is flown home if an airline goes bust, or is given a refund or replacement if hotels go under.
UK travel organisation Abta argued that the rules should have gone further.
It said that the extra protection failed to cover all trips that "look and feel like a package holiday" to consumers.
The new rules were given approval by the European Parliament and must be adopted by member states in the next two years.
European officials decided to review rules made in 1990 owing to the changing way that holidaymakers buy holidays, with many more now booked online.
Protection for package holiday deals has been in place for some time, with an operator responsible for all aspects of the holiday, should things go wrong. For example, a refund or replacement of a hire car would be the responsibility of the tour operator if the provider went bust.
New Flight Plus arrangements were added in the UK a few years ago, giving greater protection to those who book a flight and then a hotel through the same website than to those who book everything independently.
Now the new EU rules ensure that it is clear to holidaymakers whether their deal is a full package holiday, and which consumer protections that includes.
A new "linked travel arrangement" system relates to those who book a flight online and are then invited to click through for other services such as a hotel, which they then book in the next 24 hours.
The new rules will make it clear which operator is liable at each stage of the holiday and customers will be guaranteed the right to compensation if services provided are not up to standard.
Business trips arranged by an organiser through a general agreement are excluded from new rules, as these agreements usually offer separate protection for travellers.
He told MPs on the Welsh Affairs Committee the draft Wales Bill "enshrines permanently" the existence of the assembly.
Mr Crabb said it would be "ridiculous" for AMs to oppose the bill in a favour of a "row with the UK government".
First Minister Carwyn Jones will give evidence to the committee in November.
More powers over energy, transport and the running of the assembly have been offered in the draft Wales Bill which was published last Tuesday.
It also proposes a "reserved powers" model, which lists the policy areas still controlled by the UK government - such as defence and foreign affairs - with everything else assumed to be devolved.
Mr Jones has claimed that the reserved powers model could actually weaken devolution, calling for more cross-party talks on the plans.
Mr Crabb told the Welsh Affairs committee on Monday he wanted to create greater clarity about the share of powers between Wales and Westminster.
"The devolution arrangements have been found wanting - spectacularly so, I would say, given how vague, unclear, and how silent the existing devolution legislation is on so many aspects of policy that the two administrations need to work out who's responsible for," he said.
The Welsh secretary also warned AMs that there would be no further legislation about powers for Wales during this Parliament after the draft bill.
"I think if they were to walk away from this, that would be a massive, massive own goal," he said.
"If they were to say 'sorry we don't want that now' after having spent so long asking for everyone of those powers - then to turn round and say we don't want it after all, we'd rather have the row with UK government because it suits the political culture of Wales much better - I just think that's ridiculous."
The Welsh Affairs Committee will meet at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on 9 November to take evidence from assembly party leaders, other AMs and constitutional experts.
The 26-year-old from Powys missed out on a medal at the Olympic Games, finishing seventh in the -78kg category.
The 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist admits it was a hard few months following Rio.
"It's obviously something you can't really prepare for," Powell said.
"For the first six weeks after I had no interest in doing any judo whatsoever.
"I needed that time to mentally recover from it and get my head back on track and now I feel really motivated and feel ready to go again.
"I think the break is just what I needed to collect my thoughts and decide what I wanted to do with the next four years."
Powell, who won bronze at the European Championships earlier this year, beat Emma Read to win 78kg gold at the Senior British Championships and is now looking ahead to 2017.
"I was nice to get into a competitive environment," Powell told BBC Wales Sport.
"It's really nice to be back on the map. I've just been back training for three weeks. I felt a bit rusty and I wasn't as sharp as normal.
"Next year I'm looking to do really well at Europeans and Worlds and my first competition back is Paris Grand Slam at the beginning of February. This was a warm-up event really."
Powell became the first Welsh woman to compete in judo at the Olympics after collecting more ranking points than British rival Gemma Gibbons, who won silver in London 2012.
"It was a really unique situation for Rio really because me and Gemma were going head to head in every competition so it was constant pressure and I had to compete at every competition to stay on track and stay ahead," Powell added.
"In this cycle hopefully there won't be the same pressure from the British side of things so I can pick and choose my events more."
Johnson shot a three-under-par 67 to lead fellow American Kevin Chappell by one on seven under after round two.
Victory will secure Johnson a $10m bonus, while the fate of England's Casey, who like McIlroy shot 70 to stay two under, is also in his own hands.
World number one Jason Day withdrew from the event with a back injury.
The Australian, who would also have won the overall title with a win at East Lake, pulled out of the BMW Championship eight holes into his final round two weeks ago and lasted just eight holes into his second round in Atlanta.
The top five players in the play-off standings coming into the 30-man season finale - Johnson, Day, Patrick Reed, Adam Scott and Casey - all knew they would claim the bonus with victory.
Casey kept in the hunt with a birdie on the last. He had dropped a shot on the the par-four 17th after failing to get up and down from a greenside bunker.
Scott carded a one-over 71 to drop to level par, while Reed shot 70 to stay three over.
Chappell, who is chasing a first PGA Tour title, needs to win the tournament and for Johnson to finish outside of the top 10 to claim the bonus.
Northern Ireland's McIlroy is in a similar position of needing players in the top five to fade but he remained buoyant at halfway.
He was three over par for his round after eight holes but birdied the 10th, 12th and 17th to move into a tie for fifth.
McIlroy said: "I just didn't feel comfortable with my swing and let that feed in to how I played, especially the first few holes. I made some really sloppy swings and poor shots.
"If I can shoot a couple of scores in the mid 60s at the weekend, you never know."
Johnson, who had a share of the lead after round one, moved clear of the field after mixing five birdies with two bogeys in his 67.
"I played really, solid golf and just didn't get a lot out of it," he said. "I had some close looks that I didn't make.
"Still, three under is a great score around here. I'm never going to be upset with that."
Scotland's Russell Knox says he is in for an "interesting weekend" after a four-under-par 66 lifted him to one under, six behind Johnson.
"The round has put me back in there," he added. "This course is very difficult and a couple more of those and you just never know."
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Shia militia sources in Iraq have confirmed that Gen Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force is personally taking part in leading the operation.
Tikrit, 150km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, has been occupied by IS for more than eight months and an offensive to recapture it was declared by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday.
The Iraqi army and security forces along with Shia militia groups who call themselves Popular Mobilisation units are pushing into Tikrit from several directions.
As sources on the ground have told BBC Persian, a number of IRGC officers were involved at a command level before the operation was officially launched.
Iranian authorities are yet to comment officially but Iran's Fars news agency, considered to be very close to the Revolutionary Guards, has extensively reported on the role of Gen Soleimani in the operation.
It has even published photographs that show the general among Iraqi commanders and officials, saying they were taken around Tikrit.
One of the groups in the Popular Mobilisation units is Saraya al-Khorasani (Khorasani Brigades), who say they are under the command of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
A Brigades commander told BBC Persian that Iranian forces under Gen Soleimani were training and morally preparing Iraqi Shia fighters for the operation long before it began.
Although Iran was left out by the US and its allies when they formed a coalition against IS last year, its direct involvement in fighting IS militants in Iraq was revealed long before the coalition was formed.
Since last summer, a number of Shia militia groups have emerged in Iraq that openly pledge their allegiance to Iran and declare themselves as followers of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iranian officials have always pointed out that their country is helping both Shia and Kurdish forces in the fight against IS but it was in a battle in late August 2014 that Iran's direct military involvement was made clear.
Back then, Iranian forces were playing an openly active role in helping Kurdish and Shia forces take back the town of Amerli from IS in a joint operation.
It was during the battle of Amerli that BBC Persian accessed the weapons and ammunitions sent from Iran for the militia forces.
Gen Soleimani's has been the recognisable face of Iran's influence and involvement in Iraq since the fight against IS began.
Now, if the operation to liberate Tikrit leads to success then it will mark a victory for Iran and its man in the field who may add to his titles, the conqueror of the home town of his old enemy, former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
When it handed over its last overseas territory, Macau, to Chinese administration in 1999, it brought to an end a long and sometimes turbulent era as a colonial power.
The roots of that era stretch back to the 15th century when Portuguese explorers such as Vasco da Gama put to sea in search of a passage to India. By the 16th century these sailors had helped build a huge empire embracing Brazil as well as swathes of Africa and Asia. There are still some 200 million Portuguese speakers around the world today.
For almost half of the 20th century Portugal was a dictatorship in which for decades Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was the key figure.
This period was brought to an end in 1974 in a bloodless coup, picturesquely known as the Revolution of the Carnations, which ushered in a new democracy.
Population 10.7 million
Area 92,345 sq km (35,655 sq miles)
Major language Portuguese
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 77 years (men), 83 years (women)
Currency euro
President: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
A veteran of the centre-right Social Democratic Party, Mr Rebelo de Sousa went on to have a high-profile career in journalism and broadcasting before being elected to the largely-ceremonial post of president in March 2016. He stood as an independent, campaigning to heal the divisions caused by Portugal's 2011-2014 debt crisis and austerity measures, and beat the left-wing candidate Antonio Sampaio da Novoa in the first round.
Prime minister: Antonio Costa
Socialist Party leader Antonio Costa formed a centre-left government in November 2015 after a month of political drama, amid expectations of an end to four years of fiscal austerity.
He joined forces with two far-left parties to oust the centre-right coalition of incumbent Pedro Passos Coelho that topped the poll in inconclusive October parliamentary elections.
Born in 1961, Mr Costa is a veteran Socialist Party politician, serving as a government minister twice before being elected mayor of the capital Lisbon in 2007, resigning to become the Socialists' candidate for premier in 2015.
Portugal's commercial TVs have a lion's share of the viewing audience, and provide tough competition for the public broadcaster.
Public TV is operated by RTP. The main private networks are TVI and SIC. Multichannel TV is available via cable, satellite, digital terrestrial and internet protocol TV (IPTV). Cable is the dominant platform.
The switchover to digital TV was completed in 2012.
The public radio, RDP, competes with national commercial networks, Roman Catholic station Radio Renascenca and some 300 local and regional outlets.
Some key dates in Portugal's history:
1908 - King Carlos and eldest son assassinated in Lisbon. Second son Manuel becomes king.
1910 - King Manuel II abdicates amid revolution; Portugal proclaimed a republic.
1911 - New constitution separates church from state. Manuel Jose de Arriaga elected first president of republic.
1916-18 - Portugal fights First World War on Allied side.
1926 - Military coup. General Antonio de Fragoso Carmona becomes president.
1928 - Carmona appoints Antonio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance.
1932 - Salazar becomes prime minister, a post he will retain for 36 years, establishing authoritarian "Estado Novo" (New State) political system.
1936 - Salazar backs General Franco's nationalists in Spanish Civil War.
1939-45 - Portugal maintains official neutrality during Second World War, but allows UK to use air bases in Azores.
1949 - Portugal becomes founding member of Nato.
1955 - Portugal joins United Nations.
1968 - Antonio Salazar dismissed from premiership after stroke; dies in 1970.
1974 - A near-bloodless military coup sparks a mass movement of civil unrest, paving the way for democracy. The 25 April coup becomes known as the Carnation Revolution.
1974-75 - Independence for Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Cape Verde Islands, Sao Tome and Principe, and Angola.
1982 - Military Council of the Revolution abolished, civilian government formally restored.
1986 - Portugal becomes member of EEC (later EU). Mario Soares elected president.
Tina and Mike Trowhill have campaigned for the inquiry for over a year, after discovering their son's ashes were scattered without their knowledge.
Justice Secretary Michael Gove told Hull North MP Diana Johnson that Hull City Council had been asked to commission the inquiry.
Ms Johnson said it was a "victory" for parents.
The council said it would consider Mr Gove's request for a local inquiry, but said a national inquiry should be launched instead.
An inquiry in Shropshire last June concluded that a national inspector should be created for crematoriums after parents were unable to receive their babies' ashes.
In March, Scottish MPs agreed new regulations on burials and cremations.
Hull City Council said: "We are very sensitive to the need to ensure that parents across the country do not have to deal with the upset and uncertainty of not knowing what has happened to their baby's ashes.
"No decision has yet been made to hold a local enquiry but we will consider the Minister's request taking into account all the work undertaken locally with the hospital and funeral directors, the previous enquiries in Scotland and Shropshire and the recent national call for evidence, towards which we have contributed substantially.
"Our position has always been that this is a national issue and that the best way to ensure that parents, at a time of great distress, have confidence in a consistent and caring process across all hospitals, funeral directors and crematoria in dealing with the ashes of their babies is for the government to develop and issue clear guidelines within a national Code of Practice, based on the findings of a national inquiry."
MP Diana Johnson, who supported the Hull campaign, said: "This is a victory for Tina Trowhill and other parents in Hull and from around the country.
"Only full independent scrutiny will give families confidence that the terrible errors of the past will not be repeated in the future."
She said it was "regrettable" that the independent inquiry had only been announced after a year of campaigning.
"I want the council to get on now and do the right thing and find out for the 100-odd families who have come forward to find out what happened to their babies' ashes," she said.
The Trust says women would be more affected than men, while those from poor backgrounds would be hit hardest.
It says the freeze would compromise government pledges on social mobility.
In July, Chancellor George Osborne announced a consultation on freezing the threshold for five years, rather than linking it with average earnings.
This would affect those who took loans from 2012, when annual tuition fees were raised to a maximum of £9,000 in England.
From next April these so-called "repayment plan 2" graduates whose earnings exceed £21,000 will start to repay the loans.
But the government says updated forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility show fewer are likely to start paying than was expected when the policy was introduced, increasing the burden of higher education on the taxpayer.
The Sutton Trust report, by higher education consultant John Thompson, says freezing the loan repayment threshold - alongside other changes such as replacing maintenance grants for poorer students with loans - will significantly increase the cost of going to university.
It says this risks undermining pledges by successive governments to improve social mobility, as well as raising uncertainty in students' minds over the terms of their borrowing.
The study calculates that the overall extra repayment for a typical borrower taking out a loan of £36,000 over three years would rise by £2,800 over 30 years - up from £30,650 to £33,400.
The study also notes that women would be affected more adversely than men by any future freeze.
It calculates that if the £21,000 threshold was not frozen, the average male who borrowed £36,000 over three years would pay back £34,900 over 30 years; the average female would pay £26,400.
However, if the five-year repayment threshold freeze came into force, a typical male borrower would pay £37,100 (£2,200 more) over 30 years, while the typical female borrower would repay £29,700 (£3,300 more).
The research says this is because women tend to have lower earnings and are more likely to be paying back money across the full 30-year borrowing period, after which loans are written off.
The Trust says the freezing of the threshold, alongside the changes to maintenance grants, will have a major impact on students from lower income groups, who could see their average debt rise to more than £50,000.
It says loan terms for current borrowers should not be altered and that new borrowers should be given definite terms that will apply to the full repayment period.
"The danger is that this will have an adverse effect on the willingness of young people to take out the student loans," it says.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust said: "The fact that this measure will adversely affect low earners and graduates from low income homes, who are already being penalised by the budget shift from grants to loans, is a serious cause for concern."
The University and College Union said the findings strengthened the case for a proper review of university funding and particularly how the loans system would affect different groups of graduates.
A spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said: "We want our world-class higher education system to remain financially sustainable and welcome responses to our current consultation on the threshold for student loan repayments.
"Our reforms to student finance will mean that students from low-income backgrounds receive a substantial increase in the cash-in-hand to help with living costs whilst at university."
In the July Budget, Mr Osborne also announced the scrapping of the university maintenance grants for lower income students and said the government would link the £9,000 student fee cap to inflation for those institutions that could show they offered high-quality teaching.
Natalie McGuinness was attacked at a house on Mailcoach Road on Wednesday morning and later died in hospital.
Police were confronted by a man with a knife when they arrived at the scene at about 10:30 local time on Wednesday. They shot him with a stun gun.
The accused, 33-year-old Oisin Conroy of Mailcoach Road, Sligo, was remanded in custody at Sligo District Court.
Mahad Abdi Abshir, 28, from Camden, died from head injuries after he was found in Castlehaven Road.
Police were alerted by a London ambulance crew at 05:40 BST on 2 May. He was taken to hospital where he died two days later.
Police said a man was arrested in Leicester and will be taken to a north London police station.
In a statement Mr Abshir's family said he would be dearly missed.
"Mahad was a loyal, kind-hearted, forgiving man and was very much loved by his wife and family."
SA Brain also revealed the first images of how its Cardiff brewery site might look when redeveloped.
The planned site will cover more than three million square feet and feature offices, hotels and apartments alongside a waterfront leisure zone.
The brewery's building and chimney will be kept in recognition of its heritage.
They will form a backdrop to the waterfront scheme, where water taxis and small private yachts will be able to moor.
Chief executive Scott Waddington said: "We recognise the brewery site has huge potential for redevelopment and at the same time we needed to re-invest in our brewing plant, office and training facilities.
"This presented the opportunity for us to relocate and enable the Central Quay development to take place."
He added: "While moving from our Crawshay Street home in the centre of Cardiff will be sad, I am excited by the potential the scheme creates for both our business and employees.
"We are also aware of numerous other brands that want a presence in Cardiff and believe Central Quay's waterfront location will drive huge investment from some of the national and international operators who want to be in Cardiff."
The project is a joint venture with Rightacres Property.
Rightacres chief executive Paul McCarthy said: "The timing for bringing forward the Brain's site ties in perfectly with the Metro system delivery programme.
"Public transport is pivotal to the success of any business district and to have a Metro terminal at Central Quay, adjacent to the central train station would be good for all concerned."
Rightacres will continue developing the masterplan over the next few months in consultation with Cardiff planners and other stakeholders in the 15-acre site to the south of the station.
Mr McCarthy said: "We would hope to submit detailed planning for our first buildings towards the middle of next year with a view to getting under way with construction towards the end of 2017."
Cardiff council leader Phil Bale said: "The city council has been involved in trying to unlock this opportunity for a number of years and we are delighted that Brains and Rightacres have come to an agreement which will help deliver on our aspirations to extend the city centre south of the train station."
Mr Waddington added: "We are looking at a number of different opportunities for the new brewery facility and hope to announce our final decision early in the new year."
Conservatives Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow, and Thurrock's Jackie Doyle-Price have written to government ministers outlining their concerns.
Chief Superintendant Sean O'Callaghan, of Essex Police, said action had been taken where appropriate.
Harlow and Thurrock councils said they had been doing all they could to deal with illegal sites.
Harlow has seen 68 unauthorised sites set up in the last year - a problem "echoed in Thurrock", the MPs said in their letter to the Home, Communities and Justice secretaries.
They claimed Essex Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh had failed to uphold the law and deal with the issue effectively.
The MPs also criticised the force's crime commissioner (PCC) Nick Alston for "his failure to represent the views of residents in Essex".
Mr Halfon told BBC Essex his constituents had been complaining about anti-social behaviour and the rubbish left behind by travellers.
"The police commissioner, instead of being a poodle for the police's bureaucracy, should be a bulldog for residents of Harlow and Essex," Mr Halfon told BBC Essex.
He called for a zero-tolerance policy on anti-social behaviour, adding that authorities should use "all laws available" to move illegal travellers on.
PCC Nick Alston said he had been involved in several public meetings about the issue, and held regular discussions with the chief constable.
He added it was crucial the situation was dealt with "proportionately and fairly".
Ch Supt O'Callaghan told BBC Essex the sites were assessed on an individual basis and visited regularly by officers.
Harlow Council said it was doing all it could "within the constraints of current legislation".
A Thurrock Council spokesman said action had been taken to remove travellers who were in breach of planning law.
The 28-year-old from Bristol rose to a career-best 46 in the world rankings as a result of his nine-under-par finish.
"It's hard to believe because I was on a drip for 13 hours," Wood said.
"The heat got to me and there was no chance of me playing the way I felt, so to finish fourth is a massive result."
Wood, who ended the event in Sun City four shots behind runner-up Henrik Stenson and 10 strokes adrift of winner Marc Leishman, says even making the first tee on the opening day was an achievement.
"I was wheeled through the hotel in a wheelchair and tucked into bed by two doctors and I was in a bad way - so, whatever the result was this week, I was glad to be playing," Wood added.
"I've enjoyed my whole week here and it gives me a good step going into 2016 - especially in Ryder Cup year."
Peers voted by 286 to 219 to delay the cuts, pending an assessment of the impact on claimants.
In January the Lords voted to remove the cuts from the Welfare Reform Bill altogether, but they were later reinstated by MPs in a Commons vote.
Ministers may try to overturn the fresh defeat at a later date.
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: "The vote in the House of Lords is a routine part of the legislative process and next steps will be announced in due course."
This stage in a bill's journey is known as "parliamentary ping pong", when legislation is batted between the two Houses until agreement is reached on its contents.
The government wants to cut Employment Support Allowance by £30 a week to encourage some new claimants to return to work.
In a bid to stave off another defeat over the plans, Work and Pensions Minister Lord Freud offered several concessions and warned peers against supporting the "wrecking amendment" which he said "undermines conventional parliamentary process".
But crossbench peer Lord Low - who put forward the successful amendment - said the cut in support to disability benefit claimants was "drastic" - and the concessions were "just not enough".
He said the government had not been able to provide evidence for its argument that the cuts "incentivised" people back to work and insisted his "moderate" amendment would give ministers time to justify the policy.
The decision by peers to inflict defeat on the government sets up another showdown between the Commons and the Lords, coming not long after last year's clash over tax credits, which led to moves by ministers to limit the powers of the Lords.
"It just makes me so angry. [The scammers] keep changing their names and Facebook just let them do it," says Maggie Hughes, who says at one stage she was a member of between 25 and 30 online raffle groups on the social media site.
Anyone can set up a raffle group on Facebook and then begin inviting contacts to join, although Facebook says it shuts down illegal raffle pages - those not licensed by the Gambling Commission - as soon as they are reported.
The page owners then choose a prize, and sell tickets - using PayPal or a bank transfer.
From then on, it works just like a normal raffle. A number is drawn at random and the winner earns a prize.
At least that is how it should work.
Maggie became suspicious of one woman online when she says she won some prizes.
"I played her tombola [raffle] and I have not received any prizes from her at all," she says.
Maggie is disabled and her husband has dementia. She says the £40 to £50 she estimates she has lost is a lot of money to her.
"It's very hard, it just upsets me. It makes me angry that this girl is getting away with it."
The woman Maggie says she dealt with, Lauren Brattle, appears to have a number of online aliases.
Her raffles were among the many mentioned on a Facebook page that raises awareness of possible scams.
Ms Brattle says the allegations against her are false and she has not done anything wrong.
The page is moderated by Liz Hodgson, who deals with problem raffles run all over the country.
"[The problem] is huge," she says. "It's so big at the moment. Everybody's creating their own groups.
"There are daily posts in the 10s, of people having issues with admins on these raffle groups.
"They're not drawing them correctly, the [players] aren't receiving their prizes."
Tracie Morgans, a member of Liz's online page, said she knew of one woman who "walked away with £400 worth of people's money" without giving out prizes.
"She was boasting that she was taking her kids on holiday," she adds, having been scammed twice in the past herself.
"There are so many nasty, selfish, greedy, money-hungry idiots," says Karen Evans, also a member of Liz's page. "I didn't realise how rotten the world was."
Karen says she has also been cheated out of money on a raffle group.
"I played a page and I paid for the raffle and all of a sudden the page wasn't there any more. I tried to inbox the girl and she blocked me."
The Gambling Commission, which regulates all gambling activities in the UK, says complaints about social media raffles have been greatly on the rise in recent years.
The prizes on offer, it adds, have included a shotgun, a monkey and a pregnant spaniel.
In order to be legal, online raffles must be licensed by the Gambling Commission.
Facebook says it shuts down raffle pages as soon as they are reported and found to be illegal, and the Gambling Commission says almost all of the raffle groups reported to them are now no longer active.
For some users, the possibility of being scammed is not the only issue associated with the raffle pages.
It is also the fact they allow people to freely gamble online.
Liz says she "would absolutely say people are becoming addicted".
"Quite a lot of the posts on the scammers group are where people have placed their last £50 or £60 on one raffle.
"And they've got children and they're spending their children's money."
Some raffle groups say they are raising money for charity.
The BBC understands Ms Brattle - the woman Maggie says scammed her - had previously claimed her raffles made money for the Sick Person's Trust, but the charity says it has not received any money from her.
She denies this.
The police told us they are investigating a complaint.
"It's absolutely disgusting that this charity hasn't received a penny," explains Maggie.
But the wider question surrounding raffle groups is - with so many popping up daily - how to stop them.
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Sue Hayman takes the environment, food and rural affairs brief, while Christina Rees becomes shadow Welsh secretary.
The new shadow chief secretary to the Treasury is Peter Dowd.
The business brief became vacant when Clive Lewis resigned on Wednesday to oppose his party in the Brexit vote.
Other shadow cabinet members remain in place.
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The four newly-promoted MPs are all part of the party's 2015 intake.
Ms Long-Bailey, MP for Salford and Eccles, was previously shadow chief secretary to the Treasury and was described by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as a "brilliant" member of the "next generation of our socialist leadership team" last week.
Ms Hayman, MP for Workington in West Cumbria, was a shadow environment minister before her promotion, while Ms Rees, MP for Neath, was a shadow justice minister. Mr Dowd is MP for Bootle.
Ms Rees and Ms Hayman both nominated Owen Smith in his unsuccessful challenge to Mr Corbyn's leadership in 2016.
There are now 14 women in Mr Corbyn's 29-member shadow cabinet.
The Labour Party said that more junior shadow ministerial roles would be filled "in due course".
What is striking about this announcement is not who has been appointed, and to which job - it is the leadership's approach to the frontbenchers among the 52 Labour rebels who defied Jeremy Corbyn in last night's vote on Brexit. Most of them tonight are still in a job, despite abandoning the collective responsibility of the party's official position and ignoring their leader. I understand it's unlikely there will be any sackings. This in itself is extraordinary, not least because among the rebels were three whips, the very people responsible for party discipline. It illustrates what you might call Jeremy Corbyn's human resources challenge. When you discount those who won't serve under him, and those who have but no longer do, his options are limited.
Mr Lewis announced his resignation from the party's front bench as MPs began voting for the final time on the Brexit bill on Wednesday.
In a letter to Mr Corbyn, he wrote that he was leaving the shadow cabinet "with a very heavy heart", but Labour had not won "the protections the people of this country need" during the Commons debates on Brexit.
Asked on the BBC about Mr Lewis's departure, Mr Corbyn said: "It's not a disaster.
"The majority of Labour MPs voted to trigger Article 50. Fifty-odd voted against it, mainly on the basis of their strong message from their own constituents."
Labour's chief whip Nick Brown will handle any disciplinary action to be taken against the 52 Labour MPs who rebelled against the party line and voted against the Brexit bill on Wednesday.
Swedish firm Minesto wants to harness power under the sea off the coast of Holyhead.
It will set up its UK offices there and hopes to become a manufacturing centre, creating more jobs there.
The so-called Deep Green technology works on the principle that underwater "kites" can reach speeds 10 times faster than the current.
This works in the same way a kite flies faster than the wind, and the firm says 10 times higher speed gives 1,000 times more power.
Off the coast, the Deep Green device will operate at least 15m below the surface and can still create enough power to make it worthwhile, even though the current is of a low velocity.
Minesto has secured £9.5m of EU funding and will create 30 jobs. The rest of the money will be privately raised.
Development rights were granted a year ago.
It will be two years before the first seven tonne device will be installed.
The Welsh government said it has been working with Minesto "over a number of years" on feasibility studies for the development.
ANALYSIS by Sarah Dickins, BBC Wales economics correspondent
It's another example of a company wanting to generate energy and money from our seas. But this is a different technology and doesn't involve building a lagoon.
There are some similarities to the planned £850m Swansea tidal lagoon project in that this is not just about generating energy but also creating jobs in manufacturing and project development, as the technologies will be made here.
It could lead to a new industry in its own right.
This project once again produces the dilemma: does it make economic sense in the long term to pay much more for our electricity as a new technology develops with the promise of jobs and investment, or is that too much of a risk?
This latest project hopes to be paid £250 per megawatt hour for its electricity initially while the new industry develops. The company says it expects to in time be cheaper than nuclear, which is less than £100 per Mwh, without the risk or waste.
The tidal lagoon project for Swansea Bay hopes to get £168 per Mwh.
Both the proposals for tidal kites on Anglesey and the tidal lagoons are about more than energy generation. Both promise to develop new design and manufacturing in Wales which could be exported.
There has been criticism in the past that Wales missed out on the development of onshore wind projects and now turbines and blades are largely imported into the UK.
This could make the proposals more valuable to the Welsh economy than purely the money generated by the power of the tides.
Minesto's plans are to set up headquarters in Holyhead this year, where design, marketing and sales will take place followed by manufacturing in 2016.
It hopes that by 2019 it will be employing 120 people in a wide range of jobs from engineering, sales, and research and development as a new industry forms around Holyhead.
Anglesey is being developed under the banner Energy Island, with plans for the Wylfa Newydd nuclear investment and a range of renewable projects at its centre.
The island's council says the programme could contribute nearly £12 billion to the wider economy of north Wales over the next 15 years and describes it as a "once in a generation" opportunity to boost the economy.
First Minister Carwyn Jones, said: "This investment will not only help create greener and more efficient sources of energy, but will also create jobs and vital opportunities for growth in north Wales."
Anders Jansson, chief executive of Minesto, said: "Establishing Minesto UK Headquarters in north Wales is a strategic decision that can make Wales a global leader within marine energy."
A public exhibition is being held on Thursday 21 May at Holyhead Town Hall from 10:00-20:00 BST.
The latest proposal comes eight months after a £70m tidal energy project off Anglesey was suspended.
But last month there was new hope of reviving the scheme off The Skerries. to the north-west of the the island.
Compared to the third quarter, growth was up 0.6%, beating market expectations of 0.4%.
Household consumption, construction and public spending were the main factors driving the better-than-expected growth.
The strong data comes despite the global commodity slump hitting the country's vital mining and oil sectors.
Australia's benchmark ASX/200 was up 1.5% on the positive news.
"Given Australia is going through the biggest mining pullback in our lifetimes, this is a pretty good outcome," said David de Garis, a senior economist at National Australia Bank.
Analysts also said the stronger-than-expected figure meant further cuts in interest rates were unlikely in the near future.
The Australian central bank has held rates steady since May last year and earlier this week decided to keep its main interest rate at 2% for a tenth consecutive month saying it saw "reasonable prospects" for growth.
However The Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens said the bank would be keeping an eye on the country's low inflation rate.
"Continued low inflation would provide scope for easier policy, should that be appropriate to lend support to demand," he said.
Australians must be feeling pretty smug these days. Despite a collapse in global commodity prices, it has managed to escape recession yet again.
So what are Australians getting right? Well - it may just come down to that "lucky country" cliché we hear about "Down Under" all the time.
There's no denying that as mines have closed, jobs have been lost and that's putting pressure on the government to find new avenues of growth - but don't forget Australia is already a highly diversified economy.
Services like tourism, finance, business, technology and education are major components of Australia's economy and they've benefited from a weaker Australian dollar. The agriculture sector is also seeing renewed interest - check out the reports I did on Australia's agricultural sector here.
Mining has also seen a boost from the lower Australian dollar, because it has meant that Australia's products are cheaper at a time when demand has dropped.
Investments in mining software have helped the industry to remain competitive even in a downturn, and maintain Australia's global share of resource exports.
Payne missed the 21-10 defeat by England at Twickenham but could return to action if coach Joe Schmidt partners him with Robbie Henshaw in midfield.
Schmidt may however opt to retain Stuart McCloskey, who impressed on his debut, despite his side's loss.
Ireland have added uncapped Munster flanker Jack O'Donoghue to their squad.
The 22-year-old will boost Schmidt's back-row options for the forthcoming fixtures against the Italians in Dublin, and against Scotland a week later, with Sean O'Brien sidelined for the rest of the tournament with hamstring trouble.
Ireland, champions for the past two years, are still seeking their first victory in this year's competition.
O'Donoghue adds depth to Ireland's loose forward stocks, with Jordi Murphy and Tommy O'Donnell also in the 35-man training squad, but Ulster's Chris Henry is omitted again.
CJ Stander, Josh van der Flier, Jamie Heaslip and Rhys Ruddock were the four back-row forwards selected for the match squad in Ireland's 21-10 defeat to England at Twickenham on 27 February.
That quartet will feature strongly across Ireland's final two fixtures, with Schmidt's men targeting two wins from their final two games following a draw with Wales and then losses to France and England.
Despite the pressing need for victories, boss Schmidt may yet decide to mix up selection with one eye on long-term development, hence O'Donoghue's addition to the squad.
Connacht prop Finlay Bealham is the only other uncapped member of Ireland's squad ahead of Saturday's clash with the Italians in Dublin.
Speaking at Monday's press conference, Andrew Trimble praised the attributes of his Ulster team-mates Payne and McCloskey.
"Obviously you have got two contrasting styles between Jared and Stu, so it's just what sort of rugby Joe wants to play," said Trimble.
Ireland: Forwards: Finlay Bealham (Connacht), Rory Best (Ulster), Sean Cronin (Leinster), Ultan Dillane (Connacht), David Foley (Munster), Cian Healy (Leinster), Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), Jack McGrath (Leinster), Jordi Murphy (Leinster), Tommy O'Donnell (Munster), Jack O'Donoghue (Munster), Mike Ross (Leinster), Rhys Ruddock (Leinster), Donnacha Ryan (Munster), CJ Stander (Munster), Richardt Strauss (Leinster), Devin Toner (Leinster), Josh van der Flier (Leinster), Nathan White (Connacht).
Backs: Keith Earls (Munster), Craig Gilroy (Ulster), Robbie Henshaw (Connacht), Paddy Jackson (Ulster), Rob Kearney (Leinster), Ian Madigan (Leinster), Kieran Marmion (Connacht), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Stuart McCloskey (Ulster), Fergus McFadden (Leinster), Conor Murray (Munster), Jared Payne (Ulster), Eoin Reddan (Leinster), Jonathan Sexton (Leinster), Andrew Trimble (Ulster), Simon Zebo (Munster).
And whether you love or loathe him, it's a fact that the Republican will set a range of records as soon as he occupies the Oval Office.
From his age to his bank balance, via his notable lack of pets - here are just some of "The Donald's" historic "firsts".
Donald Trump celebrated his 70th birthday on 14 June, which makes him the oldest man in US history to assume the presidency. The previous record-holder, Ronald Reagan, was 69 when he took office in 1981.
Perhaps keen to allay fears about his senior status, the business mogul had his doctor prepare a gushing letter pledging that he would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency".
The average age of all 44 previous incoming presidents is a sprightly 55.
The youngest ever incumbent - Theodore Roosevelt - got the job aged 42 years and 322 days, after President William McKinley's assassination in 1901.
Mr Trump is the first billionaire president. Exact estimates of his personal wealth vary, with Forbes putting it at $3.7bn (£3bn) and the man himself claiming in a statement that it's "in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS".
Many of America's past presidents have also been extremely wealthy, of course. Recent estimates say George Washington's estate would be worth half a billion in today's dollars.
Before his 1963 assassination, JFK reportedly lived off a $10m trust fund thanks to the vast wealth of his father - investor and alleged bootlegger Joseph P Kennedy, Sr.
Mr Trump will be following in the footsteps of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger by taking just a symbolic dollar as a salary.
When Mr Trump began unveiling his cabinet picks, the number with fat wallets quickly drew the scorn of Democrats.
"Donald Trump's administration: of, by and for the millionaires and billionaires," tweeted Vermont Senator and Democrat presidential contender Bernie Sanders.
For better or worse, this will be the wealthiest administration in modern American history.
According to the Washington Post, commerce secretary nominee Wilbur Ross is worth around $2.5bn on his own - roughly 10 times what George W Bush's first cabinet were worth in 2001, when the media branded them an assembly of millionaires.
Treasury appointee Steven Mnuchin quite literally bought a bank after 17 years at Goldman Sachs, and reports put his wealth at over $40m.
It has been estimated that the cabinet could be good for an eye-watering $35bn, all told. As Quartz pointed out, this is more than the annual gross domestic product of Bolivia.
Mr Trump's triumph is also significant because, until now, no-one has been elected president in more than 60 years without experience as a state governor or in Congress.
The last president with no political experience, Dwight Eisenhower, was Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two, before he was elected to office in 1953.
Before that, Herbert Hoover, who was president from 1929 to 1933, was previously an engineer and humanitarian.
But as Mr Trump tells it, his lack of links to the Washington establishment is an asset not a flaw - and more than made up for by his experience as a deal-maker.
Mr Trump has named his son-in-law, real estate developer Jared Kushner, as a senior adviser - prompting cries of nepotism from opponents.
Some claim the appointment makes the 36-year-old the most powerful presidential son-in-law in US history.
He isn't the first to fit that profile, however.
President Woodrow Wilson's Treasury Secretary, William Gibbs McAdoo, was also married to his daughter, Eleanor.
That said, their case pre-dates America's 1967 anti-nepotism statute, and Mr McAdoo was already a cabinet secretary when he wed.
Ivanka Trump, Mr Trump's elder daughter and wife of Mr Kushner, is also being spoken of as the most influential "First Daughter" ever.
So much fuss has been made of what Donald Trump owns that you might have missed one glaring absence - a pet.
It looks likely that he'll be the first US President in over a century not to have an animal pal in the White House, after plans to have him adopt a goldendoodle dog reportedly fell through.
According to the Presidential Pet Museum, almost every commander-in-chief has had a pet, and some had a virtual menagerie.
John F Kennedy stands out for owning a veritable Noah's Ark - everything from a rabbit named Zsa Zsa to a canary called Robin - but the crown belongs to Calvin and Grace Coolidge (White House occupants from 1923-1929), who the museum says "quite literally had a zoo".
Their animal companions included at least a dozen dogs, a donkey named Ebenezer, and various creatures presented as gifts by foreign dignitaries - among them lion cubs, a wallaby, a pygmy hippo named Billy, and a black bear.
Donald Trump won the presidency on a pro-job platform, and has blamed free-trade policies for the collapse of the US manufacturing industry.
This is a rare stance for a US president, probably last seen in his fellow Republican Herbert Hoover in the 1930s.
In September 2015, Mr Trump told the Economist China is "killing us", and that millions of Americans are "tired of being ripped off".
He said that as president, he would consider a 12% import tax to make the Chinese "stop playing games".
During his election campaign, Mr Trump also threatened to rip up Nafta, the free trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico, which has been in place for 23 years.
He also vowed that the US would quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, a 12-nation agreement, on his first day in the White House.
Former model Melania Trump is as trailblazing as her husband.
She will be the first presidential spouse from Slovenia, and the first non-native English speaker.
She is only the second FLOTUS born outside the US, though - the first being Louisa Adams, wife of the sixth US President, John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), who was born in London.
As Mr Trump has been married twice before, Melania will also be the first third wife to reside in the White House. The only other US president to have divorced was Ronald Reagan, who split from his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, long before leading the nation.
Melania speaks Slovenian, English, French, German, and Serbian, and may be the most competent linguist to hold the role of FLOTUS.
She is the first president's wife to have posed nude, for GQ magazine in 2000 among others.
Mr Trump is no stranger to men's magazines either. He appeared on the cover of Playboy in March 1990 with the tag-line: "Nice magazine, want to sell it?"
The Danish Girl, in which the actor plays one of the first people to have sex reassignment surgery, is one of 21 titles up for its Golden Lion award.
It was announced on Tuesday that Tom Hooper's biopic of Lili Elbe will also screen at the Toronto Film Festival.
The Venice Film Festival runs from 2 to 12 September.
Other titles in the main competition line-up include Heart of a Dog, the directorial feature debut of US musician Laurie Anderson; Beasts of No Nation, a drama about an African civil war starring Idris Elba; and Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman's first animated feature.
The event will kick off with a screening of mountaineering drama Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley, and features an out-of competition screening of Black Mass, a crime drama starring Johnny Depp as infamous mobster Whitey Bulger.
Venice is one of the world's oldest film festivals and is often used as a launch pad for films hoping to receive accolades in the upcoming awards season.
Birdman, last year's opening night film, went on to be named best picture at this year's Academy Awards, while Gravity had its premiere at the 2013 edition.
A full list of this year's Venice line-up is available on the official festival site.
Mr Reynolds, who played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process, died on Thursday at the age of 81.
"For him, peace was the only battle worth waging," Fr Brian D'Arcy told mourners.
"He knew that peace was not achieved only by talking to your friends, you must talk to your enemies and make peace with them."
Fr D'Arcy added: "He took personal and political risks, but all he was doing was giving peace a chance."
Mr Reynolds had worked with the then British Prime Minister Sir John Major to create 1993's Downing Street Declaration, which effectively set in train the Northern Ireland peace process, including the 1994 IRA ceasefire.
Sir John's attendance at the funeral was greeted with a round of applause in the church.
Fr D'Arcy told mourners it had been particularly important for the family that he was able to attend.
He said: "His (Sir John's) words were typical: 'Where else would I be on this day?"'
The Fianna Fáil politician, who was born in Rooskey, County Roscommon, served as taoiseach (prime minister) from February 1992 to December 1994.
His funeral was held at Sacred Heart Church, Donnybrook, Dublin.
Among the mourners were Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Irish President Michael D Higgins, as well as former Irish prime ministers Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, John Bruton and Liam Cosgrave, and former president Mary McAleese.
Former SDLP leader and Nobel peace prize winner John Hume, current SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, and Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers were also in attendance.
Mr Reynolds' grandchildren carried symbolic artefacts of his life to the altar, including his personal copy of the Downing Street Declaration and a can of puppy chow from the pet food company that he founded.
Pope Francis sent a message paying tribute to Mr Reynolds' role as a peacemaker, in a telegram from the Vatican's secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin to Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin.
"The Holy Father learned with sadness of the death of the former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, and he asks you kindly to convey his condolences to Mrs Reynolds and their children and family," he said.
"Recalling with gratitude the late Taoiseach's efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Ireland, His Holiness prays for the eternal repose of his soul."
Last week, prominent political figures from across the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland and Britain paid tribute to Mr Reynolds.
The Hungarian federation is charged with crowd disturbances, the setting off of fireworks and the throwing of objects during their draw with Iceland.
The Belgian association is charged with the setting off of fireworks and the throwing of objects during their win over Republic of Ireland, while Portugal are charged with a field invasion during the draw with Austria.
The Hungarian case will be heard on 21 June while a date is yet to be set for the other two hearings.
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On Monday, Croatia will find out whether they will be punished after crowd trouble marred the closing stages of 2-2 draw with the Czech Republic in Saint-Etienne on 17 June.
Referee Mark Clattenburg had to briefly halt the game when fireworks were thrown on the pitch, one of which exploded near a steward who was trying to remove it.
Earlier in the tournament, the Russian Football Union was fined 150,000 Euros (£119,000) and given a suspended disqualification after supporters caused trouble inside the stadium during their draw with England in Marseille.
Uefa threatened to disqualify England and Russia if there is any repeat of the violence that occurred in the centre of Marseille prior to kick-off.
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The five main party leaders, Arlene Foster, Michelle O'Neill, Naomi Long, Colum Eastwood and Mike Nesbitt all took part in the debate on UTV.
They clashed over the decision by the Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt to give his number two preference vote to the SDLP.
The leaders also disagreed on Brexit.
The Alliance leader Naomi Long labelled the Ulster Unionist party "the Lothario of Northern Ireland politics as it's hopped in and out of bed with almost every other political party".
Colum Eastwood later said: "We have waited a long time for cross community voting, it doesn't make me any less of a nationalist and it doesn't make Mike Nesbitt any less of a unionist."
The DUP leader Arlene Foster was accused of using the politics of fear after she warned voters about "Gerry Adams' Sinn Fein" returning with most seats.
"This election will be very close and there is a real chance Gerry Adams' Sinn Féin could have most seats.
"Then they could push ahead with their radical agenda and imagine what that would mean for Northern Ireland," she said.
Standing beside the DUP leader, Sinn Fein's northern leader, Michelle O'Neill, accused Arlene Foster's party of showing "arrogance and contempt" for the institutions.
"Sinn Féin didn't seek this election but it is needed because of DUP arrogance, contempt and serious allegations of corruption surrounding their RHI scandal," she added.
The Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said: "This election should be a referendum on how the two parties of the executive have handled the ongoing crisis over renewable heat and their leadership over the past ten years."
"With £85,000 a day still needlessly going up in smoke I don't think voters can afford another DUP/Sinn Fein executive."
The Alliance leader Naomi Long said it was time to transform "broken politics".
"It is time to take a stand against scandal, to say enough is enough to orange and green.
"No more corruption, no more cronyism, no more incompetence, just good government," she added.
The suspect told the owner of the shop on Archway Road, north London, his wife was pregnant and needed some water.
Police said the suspect took cash from the shopkeeper's pockets. He then left the shop, pursued by the victim.
The incident was caught on CCTV and police are trying to trace a man aged 30-35 and about 5ft 6ins tall.
Det Sgt Dave Bullock said the victim was "momentarily totally unaware of what has happened to him".
He added: "The suspect's distraction tactics seemed to have put him into a trance leaving him open to be robbed."
The incident took place on 11 September just before 22:00 BST.
The suspect is slim build with short black hair, wearing dark jeans, a grey polo shirt and a black bomber jacket.
Watch the full video and appeal on Crimewatch at 21:00 GMT.
When I Grow Up, a song from the Grammy-nominated musical Matilda, features Grace Lee in the title role, alongside Filan as Miss Honey.
Grace, who has had 10 procedures to treat her congenital heart disease, said she wanted to help other children.
Hospitals in Dublin and Belfast will benefit from the proceeds.
The single, which Filan said was about "dreams and what you want to be when you grow up", was recorded in one take at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin.
Grace, who performs with 200 other children, added: "It was amazing to be asked to play Matilda and help to raise money for charities who help Manx children."
The 10-year-old Alder Hey ambassador, who also has Chronic Lung Disease, added: "I want to use my singing to say thank you to all the people who have helped me."
Grace was chosen after performing the role with the Matilda West End cast thanks to ITV's Surprise Surprise programme.
A spokesman said she "epitomises everything that the song stands for - courage, resilience and, above all else, hope".
The single will raise funds for both the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and the Children's Medical Research Foundation at Crumlin in Dublin.
A spokesman for the former said they were "delighted" by the project.
Australian musician and comic Tim Minchin, the creator of Matilda the musical, has also given his backing.
The ex-Liverpool captain has spoken of his desire to return to Anfield as manager, but still has more than a year to run on his contract in the MLS.
"The best coaching environment in the world is the USA," said Arena.
The Galaxy coach reckons the variety of top-flight professional leagues in the US can help Gerrard develop as a coach.
Watch the full interview on Football Focus, Saturday 26 September, 12:10 BST on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.
American football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey all have established leagues.
"Stepping away from the Premier League, and away from football for 24 hours a day, will broaden his skills," added the 64-year-old.
"We have top-flight professional leagues in a variety of sports and on a daily basis it's interesting to watch how teams and coaches respond to the different pressures on them on a daily basis."
Gerrard, 35, has already decided who he would like as his Liverpool assistant should he ever get the job - saying in his new book that he would appoint former team-mates Jamie Carragher and Xabi Alonso.
However, for now, his focus is on winning trophies on the pitch - and Arena says his new signing has made a big impact Stateside.
"Gerrard is very special, the impressions he has made on people are remarkable," Arena, who managed the USA between 1998 and 2006, told BBC Sport.
"That doesn't always happen but Stevie has embraced everything here at LA Galaxy - he's spoken to the fans, academy players and even those in the front office. He's bought into everything.
"He's enjoyed being able to spend time with his family in public. People here are used to seeing people who have accomplished a lot so he gets away with not being noticed.
"I hope we can fulfil all his playing ambitions and he enhances himself professionally for his post-playing career. He has many years left in football and I think he'll make many more huge contributions."
William Marotta, from Topeka, answered a classified ad in 2009 from two women who wished to have a child.
The couple later separated and the birth mother received state assistance.
The state's department for children and families, however, had sought to recoup costs and force Mr Marotta to pay ongoing child support.
County District Judge Mary Mattivi ruled that the birth mother, Jennifer Schreiner, and her former partner, Angela Bauer, should be considered the child's legal parents.
Mr Marotta was paid $50 (£40) for each donation and the insemination occurred at the women's home with a syringe. He has had very limited contact with the child and never intended to provide financial support.
Ms Bauer is unable to work and is receiving disability payments.
The department for children and families filed a petition to have Mr Marotta declared the child's legal father in 2012, seeking to reclaim expenses related to the child's birth, plus ongoing child support payments.
A Kansas law says a man who provides donated sperm to a doctor for an insemination is not the child's parent, unless there is a written agreement to the contrary.
However, the department had argued that Mr Marotta was legally obliged to pay because a doctor had not been involved during the insemination.
A department spokesperson said the law pertaining to sperm donors was "clear and was ignored in this ruling". The department has not yet said if it plans to appeal.
The Pet Shop Boys are among those headlining the event at Preston Park, which was started with a parade through the city.
Other acts appearing at the ticketed event at the end of the route include Years & Years, Louisa Johnson and David Morales.
The event is marking 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.
The first Brighton and Hove gay Pride march was staged in 1973, but did not return to the city until 1991 amid political anger over Section 20's ban of the promotion of homosexuality.
The streets of Brighton are a rainbow of colours as the city celebrates Pride.
The festival began with a show-stopping display by the Princess of Wales' Parachute Regiment, which performed a freefall parachute jump to deliver the rainbow flag to Hove Lawns.
Huge crowds gathered on the seafront in glorious sunshine to watch the parade get under way.
At least 100 floats were taking part this year with some amazing psychedelic costumes on show to celebrate the Summer of Love theme.
I spotted Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne having a great time as she walked with Sussex Police towards the front of the parade.
And one of the biggest cheers from the crowd was for Brighton's famous 'oldest gay in the village' George Montague, now 94, as he sailed past on his scooter.
Assistant Chief Constable Laurence Taylor, of Sussex Police, said: "Months of preparation have taken place in the lead up to Pride and, as in previous years, public safety is our main priority."
Dovizioso, 30, started from pole after the race in Sepang had been delayed by rain, but dropped to third early on.
He overhauled fellow Italian Valentino Rossi for the lead with five laps left after Rossi ran wide and pushed home his advantage.
It was only his second MotoGP victory in 159 races.
"It's really nice to come to this moment," said Dovizioso. "In these conditions I struggled a lot in the race and had some problems, but I really wanted it."
Rossi finished second ahead of Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo to secure runners-up spot in the championship, while Spanish world champion Marc Marquez, who had been hampered by illness over the past few days, crashed out of fourth place during the race and eventually finished 11th.
Malaysian Grand Prix result
1. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 42 minutes 27.333 seconds
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 42:30.448
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 42:39.257
4. Hector Barbera (Spa) Ducati 42:47.249
5. Loris Baz (Fra) Ducati 42:48.686
6. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 42:50.265
7. Alvaro Bautista (Spa) Aprilia 42:53.162
8. Jack Miller (Aus) Honda 43:00.079
9. Pol Espargaro (Spa) Yamaha 43:01.037
10. Danilo Petrucci (Ita) Ducati 43:01.613
Championship standings
1. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 278
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 236
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 208
4. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 191
5. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 162
The 38-year-old arrived at Sixways in 2015 when he joined from Munster.
"There is no doubt that other players in the squad look up to him. I am sure he will do a superb job," said Worcester director of rugby Gary Gold.
Warriors' former captain South African GJ van Velze, and centre Ryan Mills have been named vice-captains.
Worcester begin the new season away to Newcastle on Friday, 1 September.
The substance was reported close to Agnew Park in Stranraer over the weekend.
Environmental health officers were made aware of the situation and cleaned the area.
Police urged the public to be aware of the issue if walking on the beach - especially if they have children or pets.
They said solid palm oil could look like a large white stone and advised anyone seeing it to report it to environmental health.
Palm oil is a common ingredient in food such as margarines, biscuits, bread, chocolate and ice cream, as well as shampoo, lipstick, candles and detergent.
The non-toxic waxy, white deposits can smell rotten and can make pets ill if eaten.
The TMZ website quoted his manager as saying he died on Wednesday morning in hospital in New York.
Murphy starred on comedian Dave Chappelle's show and also appeared in films including Jungle Fever, Night at the Museum and Lottery Ticket.
He also co-wrote and appeared in some of his brother's films.
In a statement to Hollywood Reporter, the Murphy family said their "hearts are heavy with the loss today of our son, brother, father, uncle and friend Charlie".
"Charlie filled our family with love and laughter and there won't be a day that goes by that his presence will not be missed. Thank you for the outpouring of condolences and prayers," the statement said.
Charlie Murphy arrived in Hollywood after working as a bodyguard for Eddie at the beginning of his career.
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"Even the chairman was getting withdrawal symptoms, he was on the phone to me asking if we'd signed anyone. There's one or two close."
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Standardised packs could also reduce the appeal of tobacco and increase calls to quit helplines, experts behind the Cochrane Review said.
UK law, which comes into full effect in May, states that all cigarette packs must feature health warnings and have a standard colour, shape and font.
But a smokers' group said the estimates were "wishful thinking".
The Cochrane Review team, led by researchers from London and Oxford, estimated that the number of people who smoked in the UK could go down by 0.5% by May 2018, although they said the current evidence was limited.
The findings were backed up by a report from the Australian government, which showed a similar drop in smoking prevalence - 0.55% - following the introduction of plain packaging there in 2012.
Currently, about 17% of the UK adult population are smokers.
The review looked at new evidence from 51 studies, involving 800,000 people, on the impact of standardised packaging on smokers' attitudes and behaviour.
It is also the first review to include research on smoking in Australia after packaging rules were changed.
They said the following changes could occur over the next year in the UK:
Prof Ann McNeill, lead review author from King's College London, said there was evidence that standardised packaging made people less likely to be motivated to smoke and reduced cravings for tobacco.
The health warnings, which have to cover 65% of the front and back of packs, were prominently in people's eye lines, she said.
But there was room for further changes to cigarette packs.
"It would appear that the impact of standardised packaging may be affected by the detail of the regulations such as whether they ban descriptors, such as 'smooth' or 'gold' and control the shape of the tobacco pack," she said.
However, there were no studies showing whether changing the packaging affected the number of young people taking up smoking.
Giles Roca, director general of the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association said: "This report destroys the rationale for the introduction of plain packaging by finding no evidence that it actually acts a deterrent to young people in taking up smoking - this was at the core of the government's and health campaigners' argument for its introduction."
Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, said the estimates were "wishful thinking, based on hope and anecdotal evidence, not facts".
"Since plain packaging was introduced in Australia, smoking rates have fallen, but only in line with historical trends," he said.
From May 2017, all packs of tobacco sold in the UK must meet these standards:
Australia was the first country in the world to require cigarettes to be sold in plain, standardised packaging, in December 2012.
The UK became the second country to pass similar legislation. Ireland and France have followed suit.
Several other countries, including Hungary, Slovenia and Norway, are now in the process of introducing plain packaging laws.
Uruguay introduced large health warnings on cigarette packs in 2005.
In a paper looking at female genital cosmetic surgery, it says women and girls should realise that female genitalia come in all shapes and sizes.
They should also be told of the risks of this type of surgery.
Labiaplasties on the NHS have risen fivefold in the past 10 years.
Labiaplasty is the most common type of female genital cosmetic surgery, in which the size of the labia minora is reduced.
It can be a treatment for women who have concerns with hygiene, difficulties during sexual intercourse or discomfort when exercising, but some women and girls want surgery because of concerns about the way their genitalia look.
In extreme cases this can be linked to body dysmorphic disorder, which causes significant anxieties about body image.
Statistics show that more than 2,000 labiaplasty operations were performed in 2010 on the NHS.
Many more are carried out by private clinics but there are no figures available on these procedures, although the RCOG says "the practice of labiaplasty is now widespread".
Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the RCOG's ethics committee, said there was concern over the recent figures.
"Some women are requesting it solely for cosmetic reasons and these decisions are not always being made on an informed understanding of the normal variations that exist, but influenced by images from popular culture and the pornography industry.
"We need to inform women that everyone is unique and that variation in appearance is normal in the vast majority of cases," she said.
The RCOG paper recommends that women should be offered counselling and psychological treatment for problems such as "body image distress".
The paper says: "Education, support and advice should be at the heart of clinical practice, with a sympathetic appreciation of female body insecurities."
Official stats show that the labiaplasty procedure is not restricted to adults. In the past five years, 266 of these procedures have been carried out on girls under 14.
While the reasons for the procedures are unknown, they are likely to have been performed for medical reasons or to correct congenital abnormalities.
In another paper, published by the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology (BritSPAG), clinicians are advised to inform girls under 18 that labiaplasty surgery before puberty is complete can lead to long-term problems.
Although no research has been carried out on these long-term risks, it is thought that damage to sexual function and sensitivity can occur after labiaplasty. Bleeding and wound infection can also occur in the short term.
The paper also recommends that girls showing signs of psychological problems should be referred to a paediatric clinical psychologist.
Consultant plastic surgeon Paul Banwell, from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, welcomed the recommendations published in both papers and said patients should always be given full, accurate information and be properly counselled before surgery.
But he said clinicians should also be sensitive to potential problems.
"An asymmetrical labia can lead to functional problems as well as aesthetic problems. Over 50% of my patients see me due to functional reasons. Only a small proportion are there for purely aesthetic reasons."
He also said he had seen the number of patients requesting labiaplasty increase dramatically in the past few years.
Tim Goodacre, head of professional standards at the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons and a consultant plastic surgeon, said he supported the recommendations as a means of improving patient care.
"We would like to see tougher central regulation of the cosmetic surgery industry to help clamp down on anyone performing these operations unnecessarily, and without due consideration for patient care."
But he said he found attempts to increase profits by encouraging more female genital procedures "abhorrent".
He added: "We urge stringent and robust restrictions on advertising such operations with a firm objective to limit any material other than that with information only. All advertising that could in any way be seen as persuasive should be banned."
In the film's futuristic world, Baymax is a robot with a soft synthetic skin who can detect medical conditions.
The University of the Highlands and Islands said a lecture next month will suggest a new era of smart healthcare devices could be imminent.
Advanced technology could also halt a "brain drain" from rural areas.
The lecture will be delivered in Elgin by Prof Maged N Kamel Boulos, an expert in digital health at UHI.
He will consider how the "internet of things" - a concept that promotes linking medical devices and even domestic appliances such as washing machines to the internet - could improve healthcare in remote and rural areas of Scotland.
Prof Kamel Boulos said: "In this age of 'internet-of-things', there is no reason why the populations of smaller and rural settlements should be left lagging.
"Smart technologies can help to reverse the 'brain drain' from the countryside and smaller towns by making them more connected and attractive to young professionals, with better services, akin to those found in larger metropolises.
"They can also help people better help each other and can play a major role in reducing the social isolation of older people."
Prof Kamel Boulos will deliver his lecture at the Alexander Graham Bell Centre, a new £6.5m facility for digital health and life science based at Moray College UHI, on 2 April.
It will also be made available by video conference.
The Highlands and Islands has previous form for exploring the use of smart technologies and robots in healthcare.
Early versions of a robot teddy bear now being put through its paces in a children's hospital in the US were tested in the Highlands.
An updated version of the bear has been fitted with pressure sensors on two of its paws and several touch sensors throughout its body parts.
The screen of the smart phone device in the robot's head shows animated eyes and the robot can use the phone's internal speaker, microphone and camera for sensing changes in a child's wellbeing.
The early prototype of Huggable was brought to Scotland by MIT Media Lab in a project supported by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
The UHI Millennium Institute - now the University of the Highlands and Islands - was also involved.
NHS Western Isles announced in 2013 that it was exploring the use of robots in the homes of people with dementia.
Baymax is based on real-life "soft robotics" that are being developed at the Carnegie Mellon University in the US.
Third quarter revenue rose 3% to £4.59bn, up 4.7%, which it said was its best result for more than seven years.
It has also announced a new corporate structure following the completion of its deal to buy mobile firm, EE.
That deal brings together the UK's largest fixed-line business and the largest mobile telecoms company.
Chief executive Gavin Patterson said: "BT Consumer had a stand-out quarter, increasing its overall line base for the first time in well over a decade and capturing 71% of new broadband customers."
He added that he was confident they would "deliver the anticipated cost and revenue synergies" from its acquisition of EE.
Russ Mould, a telecoms analyst at AJ Bell, said BT was in a "buoyant mood" following its takeover of EE, but the possibility of having to sell Openreach remained a "cloud on the horizon".
Openreach looks after the network of cables and wires, that provide phone and broadband services.
It is at the centre of a report due soon from the regulator Ofcom, which is reviewing the telecoms sector for the first time in a decade.
Critics of BT say it has not invested enough in Openreach, and want it to become a separate business.
Ofcom chief executive, Sharon White, has said one option was "the structural separation" of Openreach from BT.
In January a cross-party group of more than 100 MPs, led by the former Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps, supported a split.
Today BT has announced that Clive Selley is to be the new chief executive of Openreach.
The company said Openreach had connected a net 494,000 new customers, which is a 32% increase.
BT said that under its restructuring there would be six lines of business:
Mr Patterson said: "We will operate a multi-brand strategy with UK customers being able to choose a mix of BT, EE or Plusnet services, depending on which suit them best."
BT's shares were up 3.12% in afternoon trading.
Earlier, Ofcom's Ms White also weighed in on the proposed merger between telecoms giants O2 and Three, warning it could lead to higher mobile phone bills for customers.
The new company would control two in every five mobile connections and reduce the number of networks to three, she wrote in the Financial Times.
"Many of our concerns relate to competition between operators who own the networks on which mobile phones rely.
"Only these four companies can make your mobile signal faster, more reliable and widely available," she added.
Only EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three own their own networks. Other providers, such as Virgin rent space on the airwaves.
Consumer group Which? has also written to the European Commission to express concern about the planned merger of O2 and Three.
Hutchison, the owner of Three, agreed in March last year to purchase O2 from Telefonica for around £10bn.
In October, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) asked the European Commission to refer the acquisition for investigation.
Moscow was "weaponising misinformation" in a bid to expand its influence and destabilise Western governments and weaken Nato, he said.
Vladimir Putin had chosen to become a "strategic competitor" of the West.
Sir Michael said it was vital alliance members strengthened cyber defences.
His speech, at the University of St Andrews, came hours before Theresa May was due to use an informal summit in Malta to press EU Nato members to boost defence spending.
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Meanwhile, in a report, MPs have warned that a skills shortage and "chaotic" handling of personal data breaches are undermining confidence in the UK government's ability to protect its own infrastructure and economy from cyber attacks.
MPs question UK's cyber attack defences
Sir Michael said Nato needed to do more to tackle the "false reality" being propagated by the Kremlin.
"Nato must defend itself as effectively in the cyber sphere as it does in the air, on land, and at sea, so adversaries know there is a price to pay if they use cyber weapons," he added.
The defence secretary pointed to a "persistent pattern of behaviour" by Moscow, highlighting a series of cyber attacks that had been linked to Russia.
Suspected Russian attacks included France's TV5Monde broadcaster being taken off air in April 2015 - originally claimed by hackers linked to the self-styled Islamic State - and the targeting of Germany's lower house of parliament, he said.
Another cyber attack, on Bulgaria in October 2016, was described by the country's president as the "heaviest" and most "intense" to be conducted in south-eastern Europe.
Sir Michael also spoke of the suspected Russian hacking of the two main political parties in the US presidential elections.
Russia has denied any involvement in the hacking, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Moscow was not the source for the site's mass leak of emails from the Democratic Party.
Sir Michael said: "Today, we see a country that in weaponising misinformation has created what we might now see as the post-truth age.
"Russia is clearly testing Nato and the West. It is seeking to expand its sphere of influence, destabilise countries and weaken the alliance.
"It is undermining national security for many allies and the international rules-based system.
"Therefore it is in our interest and Europe's to keep Nato strong and to deter and dissuade Russia from this course."
Sir Michael backed US president Donald Trump's call for all Nato member states to honour the commitment to spend a minimum of 2% of GDP on defence.
John Mycroft, 55, of Brocklehurst Way, Macclesfield refused a fare to Patricia Powell and Yates in the town in April.
He was identified by a second taxi driver who agreed to take Mrs Powell.
He admitted refusing a passenger without reasonable cause under the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act and was ordered to pay £785.
Speaking after the conclusion of the case at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court, a Guide Dogs spokesman said successful legal pursuits were "very rare" because of the difficulty identifying offenders.
The prosecution was brought by Cheshire East Council.
A council spokesman said Mrs Powell had been trying to get a taxi home on 24 April after a shopping trip.
He said when she approached Mycroft's taxi accompanied by golden retriever Yates and shop security officer Yogendra Patel, who was helping with her bags, the taxi driver told her: "I'm not taking the dog, get in the next taxi."
Mrs Powell, who has been registered blind for 18 years, told the court he had left her feeling "frustrated and discriminated against".
She said it was the sixth time she had been refused a taxi because she had Yates with her.
"Luckily, in this case there was another taxi available to carry me but it worries me that this may have occurred at night when I was on my own and I could have been left in a dangerous situation," she said.
Mrs Powell complained to council after she returned home and the authority took statement from the second taxi driver and Mr Patel.
When questioned by the council, Mycroft said he had not wanted to miss out on a pre-booked job and was looking for a customer who was only making a short journey.
The council spokesman said that in court, Mycroft's defence counsel, Mr Stephen Rodgers, said the taxi driver "accepts he should have taken Mrs Powell and her dog and he regrets the decision he made".
Mycroft was fined £100 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £665 and a victim's surcharge of £20.
The Guide Dogs spokesman said he was "delighted that Cheshire East Council has taken action on this issue".
"We hope that this case will help remind other drivers and service providers of their duties."
That is the kind of experience described by workers trying to keep afloat in a job market of casual jobs, agency work and zero-hour contracts.
Simon - not his real name - is in his mid-40s, living near Glasgow, and does not claim any benefits. He wants to rely on his own efforts and hard work.
When the government's spending plans are presented in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, there could be help for such working families, described by Theresa May as "just getting by" or "just about managing".
Work has always been seen as the route out of poverty - but what happens if work is so unpredictable or so badly paid that it leaves people feeling like they are still going backwards?
The world described by Simon seems more like financial quicksand, where people seem to get in deeper difficulty the more they try to get away.
Working in jobs such as catering and hospitality, he has no job security or guarantee of hours, and his working days can vary each week and be cut at short notice.
If he gets a full week's work, then there is money for the bills. But the hours can suddenly be cut, so that he might have only 10 or 12 hours' earnings for the week.
"It's difficult to talk about. It sounds like you're telling a sad story," he says.
But the money he makes has to pay his rent on a one-bedroom flat, and that means he might have to do without everything else.
He says that some days he might have only dry cereal to eat.
When his daughter stays, he sleeps on the sofa so that she can have the bed.
But he says that in 12 years he has never been able to take her on holiday.
'We make our own time. We want a happy home, so we accept these things," he says.
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But what does this say about the changing world of work? And what does it do to the people caught up in this precarious cycle, where bills come round regularly, but pay day does not?
Work has always been more than work - it has been about dignity and status, a shared endeavour and a sense of making progress.
But that does not really apply when, as Simon describes, he can receive a text message at 10.30pm telling him not to bother coming in the next day. Or when he catches a train out to a job only to be turned back on arrival because he is no longer needed.
"You feel a lack of worth, for sure," he says.
But Simon does not blame the managers, who themselves have little control over a system designed to avoid paying for staff when work is quiet.
"I get how it happens - because they're dictated to by their businesses. The problem is that they're allowed to do it," he says.
"People have become an absolute commodity."
Being in work and in poverty at the same time has become increasingly common, says Graham Whitham, Oxfam's senior policy adviser.
"It is unacceptable that over half of all people living in poverty in the UK are in homes where at least one person is working.
"Insecure contracts, persistently low wages and soaring housing costs mean many workers face a monthly struggle to feed their families and pay bills."
The voluntary sector is also helping to bridge this pay gap.
The food bank in Greenford Methodist Church, in west London, has set up sessions at weekends to help people who are working.
Volunteer Brian Morris says it will help those who might have work one week and nothing the next.
Bernadette Abi-Karam, another helper at the food bank, says families on low incomes often end up in debt or arrears and while they are trying to "play catch up... it is often the food that suffers".
The food bank tries to be a homely setting, with tea and chat trying to smooth off the sharper edges of why people are really dropping in.
Mr Morris says they see people pacing around outside, trying to overcome the embarrassment of stepping inside.
He says that as well as providing basic rations of food, the food bank can help with the huge sense of loneliness that can come with financial pressures.
And once they come inside, first-time visitors sometimes "sob their heart out".
"A lot of people won't admit they're struggling," he says.
And the elderly are particularly resistant to admitting they need help.
Ms Abi-Karam says helping in the food bank has been "such an eye opener".
There were people who thought there was no need for a food bank in a borough such as Ealing, she says.
But helping there has taken away any idea that "they are a load of scroungers".
Many of those who need food are people with no savings or who have been stuck in debt and suddenly got into difficulty - losing their job or getting ill and being unable to work.
And there is a strong sense of parallel worlds that have become invisible to one another.
A suburban semi-detached house in Ealing can cost a million pounds.
But Mr Morris and Ms Abi-Karam talk about people coming to the food bank who spend their nights sleeping in cars.
"It's shame we have to do this - but it's the way that society has gone," says Mr Morris.
"Helping your neighbour has just disappeared.
"People's lives are so busy. They don't see what's going on under their noses."
The 22-year-old joins the National League promotion chasers after a loan spell at Morecambe, for whom he scored four goals in 13 league appearances.
Dunn has also had loan spells with Burton Albion and Cheltenham Town.
Rovers manager Micky Mellon told the club website: "He's got a lot of talent and hopefully he'll have a big role to play for us in the coming months."
Tranmere are third in the National League, five points behind leaders Lincoln City.
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Dead Girls Tell No Tales tells the behind-the-scenes story of Grace Archer's death in a fire.
The BBC said the drama, which airs later this year on Radio 4, would depict "life in and around The Archers' production office and studio" in 1955.
The cast will feature Ysanne Churchman, the original Grace Archer, who is now 90 years old.
Churchman said: "It was a great pleasure to be invited back to The Archers to record this momentous piece of radio drama and revisit the excitement of September 1955. Looking back on those days, it was another life."
The world's longest running radio soap opera, The Archers is set in the fictional Midlands village of Ambridge.
Twenty million people tuned in to the episode in which Grace Archer died in her husband Phil's arms after she tried to rescue a horse from a stable fire.
It has been the subject of much debate whether the plotline was timed to thwart the launch night of ITV - the BBC's commercial rival.
"This is a really special occasion for anyone who has ever been a listener to The Archers," said the programme's current editor Sean O'Connor.
"We're going to reminisce about the very beginnings of this extraordinary programme - but also unearth the mysteries that surrounded this landmark moment.
"I'm particularly thrilled to welcome back Ysanne Churchman who created an iconic character and was at the very heart of a genuinely game-changing moment in media history."
Dead Girls Tell No Tales, written by Joanna Toye, will feature other characters from the early years of the programme, including Dan and Doris Archer, Carol Grey and John Tregorran, plus Archers creator Godfrey Baseley.
It will be broadcast on 19 September, almost 60 years to the day after the pivotal episode was originally aired.
The 26-year-old made 133 appearances for the New York Stadium side, and helped them win promotion to the Championship in 2014.
He previously played under Rovers boss Tony Mowbray at Middlesbrough.
Smallwood is the second player to join Blackburn this summer after Cardiff midfielder Peter Whittingham.
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Swansea Crown Court heard Margaret Hanks would have been in view for at least seven seconds with no explanation why Stuart Heeps, 55, did not see her.
The 75-year-old was hit by the bus on Mill Pond Bridge, Pembroke, on 7 March.
Heeps, of Pembroke Dock, admitted causing death by careless driving and had his 14-month jail sentence suspended for two years.
He was also banned from driving for three years.
Serbs in northern Kosovo will enjoy greater rights through one of the deals, while Kosovo gains its own international dialling code in another.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, who mediated, called the agreements "landmark achievements".
Kosovo split from Serbia in 2008, a decade on since a conflict between Serb forces and Kosovan Albanian rebels.
A Nato bombing campaign against Belgrade effectively forced Serbia to cede the state, but it has not officially recognised Kosovo.
Both sides aspire to join the EU, which for Serbia depends on implementing a 2013 EU-brokered agreement on normalising ties with its southern neighbour.
Under the April 2013 Brussels Agreement, Serbia did not recognise Kosovo's independence but agreed to co-operate in ways that would allow it to operate more like a sovereign state.
Progress since then has been patchy. Elections played a part. For several months last year Kosovo did not have a government, and the Albanian nationalist opposition opposed any compromises with Serbia.
But finally talks have regained their momentum.
Both sides say they have got what they wanted from the latest deal.
Kosovo's foreign minister claimed it was a de facto recognition of independence.
Serbia's prime minister said it ensured representation for ethnic-Serbs in Kosovo. It should also mean Serbia can now move forward with its negotiations to join the EU.
"This is a big achievement for the whole of Serbia and it means there are no longer any obstacles, nothing stands on Serbia's way towards Europe," said Serb Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.
Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci was quoted as saying that Serbia had "in a way recognised Kosovo as an independent state".
Kosovo has a majority Albanian population, but under the agreement 10 areas with large Serb populations will be able to manage issues such as the local economy and education.
Mr Vucic said the Community of Serb Municipalities would have an assembly, president and a flag.
The deal will also put an end to the inconvenience for Kosovo's mobile phone users of using Monaco or Slovenia international codes. Serbian-majority areas in the north will still be able to use Serbian calling codes.
The two sides also agreed on how to share the symbolic Mitrovica Bridge that separates Albanian and Serb communities in the north.
The League One club are one of four organisations bidding to use the venue after the 2012 Games.
He told BBC London 94.9: "I don't see anything wrong with West Ham and Orient sharing fixtures there.
I had a Martin Luther King moment - I had a dream. I looked at the Olympic Stadium and said 'why not' [share with West Ham]?
"On the one hand, a Premier League giant with all their money and on the other a community club with dreams. I think the more the merrier."
The bids for use of the stadium were announced on Tuesday, with Orient facing competition from West Ham, Intelligent Transport Services in association with Formula One, and UCFB College of Football Business.
The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) is due to assess all the bids before any negotiations begin.
Hearn has called for the stadium to be utilised as much as possible.
"Personally, as an event person who does hundreds of events all over the world every year, I do know that venues have got to be used," he continued.
"They've got to create vibrancy and be energetic. You've got to create volume and traffic to make it sustainable and make sure it stays on the map.
"I think [Orient being tenants on their own] would be a waste.
"You've got this amazing stadium and it needs to be utilised. You need to have a plan.
"This is a big building that has a lot of public money locked into it, and you need to be able to use the facility.
"There's a long way to go before the decision is made. It has to create a legacy that benefits everyone, not a chosen few."
Last month West Ham indicated that they were opposed to sharing the stadium.
"I don't need to have a conversation with West Ham, because I'm applying for tenancy," Hearn continued.
"It's up to the Olympic people to decide which tenants they are going to accept.
"It doesn't matter if West Ham are for it or against it, because it's not their decision."
The £486m stadium will be reduced from its 80,000 capacity to 60,000 seats after the Games and will also retain a running track.
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But Hearn believes that despite an average league attendance of just under 4,300 at Brisbane Road in 2011-12, their bid to move to the east London venue is both feasible and realistic.
"A lot of people said, 'what are we doing moving?'"
"I had a Martin Luther King moment. I had a dream.
"We are a community club and we tick a lot of boxes. We are debt-free and have a sensible business plan.
"I looked at the Olympic Stadium and said 'why not?'.
"If our dream is shared by those people that are in charge of the Olympic facilities, who's to say what can be achieved?
"Is it about money legacy, or the real ethos of the Olympic Games, which is the community aspect?
"We think we could create an innovative and creative way forward and maybe do something quite remarkable."
"We must see a greater commitment from all parts of the Iraqi government," said US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter, speaking in Washington.
US trainers have only received 7,000 recruits in recent months, with a target of 24,000 by autumn.
"We simply haven't received enough recruits," said Mr Carter.
The top US military official also highlighted the need to empower Sunni tribesmen in the fight against the Islamic State.
"Our efforts need to reinforce inclusivity and multi-sectarianism," he said.
US officials are pressuring the Iraqi government to be more inclusive and representative of Iraq's three major ethnic groups - Sunnis, Shias and Kurds.
Mr Carter was speaking at a hearing held by the House Armed Services Committee.
For several months, the US has been providing training and advice to Iraqi forces as they try to push back Islamic State fighters who have gained territory in Iraq.
However, US troops are so far not engaging in active combat themselves.
Many Republicans in Congress say the US should not rely solely on the Iraqi forces.
"There is a sense that we are at a particularly perilous time and that US policy and strategy are inadequate," said the committee's chairman, Mac Thornberry, a Republican from Texas.
Separately, Mr Carter also cited similar problems with recruitment in the US's programme to train Syrian opposition forces.
"We have enough training sites and so forth. For now, we don't have enough trainees to fill them," he said.
Referee Nicola Rizzoli took no action over the challenge by PSV Eindoven's Hector Moreno on Shaw, 20, last month.
"We certainly reminded our referees to be very, very careful with this matter," Collina said.
"Nobody reacted because what was perceived, even by players on the field of play, was the ball was played."
Italian Collina, widely regarded as football's top official before retiring in 2005, added: "This is the thought of many: if the ball is played, it is not even a foul.
"We need to make people aware that if you want to protect the safety of the player, even challenges on the ball but risky in terms of endangering safety of an opponent can be punished, should be punished."
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Once play got back under way, Moreno went on to score as PSV came from behind to beat Manchester United 2-1 in the Champions League Group B encounter.
The Mexico defender later apologised after Shaw suffered a broken tibia and fibula which has left him a doubt for Euro 2016, which starts in June.
When Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey suffered a similar injury against Stoke in 2010, he was ruled out for nine months.
Collina added players also had a responsibility to "be careful" when making challenges.
"We would like to convince them that getting the football is not everything," he said.
"If a player hits the ball and then endangers the opponent, he is convinced that the job was done correctly."
Jim Rushton, from Telford, was issued with the penalty following the discovery of stowaways on his vehicle after he left Calais on 12 January.
He is appealing, saying he did all he could to secure his vehicle.
Telford MP Lucy Allan has backed his case, which is being considered by the Home Office.
Mr Rushton warned hauliers were having to begin journeys further away from Calais because of the risks of people trying to board lorries when drivers were sleeping or refuelling.
"We try to protect our vehicles and ourselves, but what chance do we have when there are four or five of them?" he said.
£2,000
Maximum on-the-spot fine a driver faces for each unauthorised person found in their vehicle
3,319 Fines served in 2014-15, up from 998 in 2012-13
7% Of all drivers fined in 2013-14 were British
1 in 3 Lorries entering the UK are believed to have lower than basic standards of security
Hauliers undergo training to help them secure their lorries, and have to go through checkpoints that can detect the heartbeat of anyone inside the back of their vehicles.
Mr Rushton said he had completed all the security checks before he re-entered the UK.
"We're basically just doing a job, and we're getting penalised for it through no fault of our own," he said.
Jack Semple, director of policy for the Road Haulage Association, said drivers were avoiding Calais due to the increasing dangers, causing traffic problems at other ports.
He called for the French and UK governments to "find a solution" to the "extremely difficult" conditions.
"It's a serious problem for drivers, migrants and the economy," he said.
"We support the Border Force's work, but it isn't perfect, and if someone has done all they can [to secure their vehicles] they should not be fined."
Ms Allan's office confirmed she has written to the home secretary to highlight the case.
A Home Office spokesman said the fines were to ensure drivers were "taking reasonable measures" to secure their vehicles.
While not discussing Mr Rushton's case, the spokesman said: "Drivers and haulage companies who can show they have taken appropriate steps as set out in the codes of practice will not receive a penalty."
The foreign ministry said the panel report "appears to be based on limited understanding of India".
Critics say Mr Modi's government is not doing enough to stop Hindu zealots targeting minorities.
Mr Modi has vowed to protect all religious groups.
The latest US Commission on International Religious Freedom report says that "since the [last year's] election, religious minority communities have been subject to derogatory comments by politicians linked to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and numerous violent attacks and forced conversions by Hindu nationalist groups, such as Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP)".
The report said Hindu groups had announced plans in December to forcibly "reconvert" at least 4,000 Christian families and 1,000 Muslim families to Hinduism in Uttar Pradesh as part of a so-called 'ghar wapsi' (homecoming) programme.
"Despite the country's status as a pluralistic, secular democracy, India has long struggled to protect minority religious communities or provide justice when crimes occur, which perpetuates a climate of impunity," the report added.
"The report appears to be based on limited understanding of India, its Constitution and its society," India's foreign ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India news agency.
"We take no cognisance of the report," he added.
During his visit to Delhi earlier this year, US President Barack Obama said that "India will succeed so long as it is not splintered on religious lines".
Christian groups in India have accused hard-line Hindu groups, emboldened by Mr Modi's landslide in last year's general election, of carrying out the attacks on churches, but police say there is little evidence for this.
Mr Modi has said his government would "not allow any group belonging to majority or minority to incite hatred against other communities" and the government "will act strongly against such violence".
2 Dec 2014: Hundreds of Christians protest in Delhi after St Sebastian's Church is badly damaged in a fire
4 Dec: Minister Niranjan Jyoti uses an abusive term to refer to non-Hindus at a rally in Delhi
8 Dec: More than 50 Muslim families reportedly converted to Hinduism against their will in the town of Agra
7 Jan 2015: BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj sparks outrage by urging Hindu women to have at least four children "in order to protect the Hindu religion".
14 Jan: Church vandalised in West Delhi's Vikaspuri area
2 Feb: Church vandalised five days before Delhi assembly elections in Vasant Kunj area
The two-week mission was given the go-ahead by the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The plan is to send a suitcase-sized lander to the moon in late 2017.
The lander, which is not yet completed, will be carried on a rocket made by Rocket Lab, a start-up firm which has not launched any commercial missions.
Science experiments and some commercial cargo will be carried on the one-way trip to the lunar surface.
Moon Express also plans to beam pictures back to the Earth.
What if you could mine the moon?
"The Moon Express 2017 mission approval is a landmark decision by the US government and a pathfinder for private sector commercial missions beyond Earth's orbit," said Moon Express co-founder Bob Richards.
His partner, Naveen Jain, says the company is keen to explore the possibilities of mining on the moon.
"In the immediate future we envision bringing precious resources, metals and moon rocks back to Earth," he said.
Mr Jain, was born in India, but moved to the US in 1979 where he worked in the technology industry and founded technology firms.
Co-founder Bob Richards is a Canadian-born space entrepreneur, and the firm's third founder is entrepreneur Barney Pell.
Moon Express is one of the teams competing for the Lunar X Prize, which was set up in 2007.
There is a $20m prize, funded by Google, for the first commercial group to land a probe on the moon.
So far only government missions have flown spacecraft beyond the Earth's orbit, with the Chinese completing the most recent visits to the moon.
In December 2013 China landed a rover on the moon as part of its Chang'e-3 mission - the first "soft" landing on the Moon since 1976.
Other private companies are expected to follow Moon Express and seek permission to fly to the Moon.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX plans to go even further, with a Mars mission in 2018.
Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members have protested against plans to stop extra payments to weekend and bank holiday staff.
On Tuesday, National Museum Wales said the union had backtracked on an agreement to ballot members over a proposed resolution.
The PCS said members had "no confidence" in the management.
National Museum Wales has said it is facing a 4.7% cut in its annual grant in aid from the Welsh Government and the weekend payments cost about £750,000 a year.
Planned strikes were suspended in September after negotiations via the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
But National Museum Wales said it emerged earlier this month that PCS would not ballot members on a suggested deal, as agreed in December.
The Museum said it would begin consulting with those affected on an individual basis on 4 April.
"Resolving this dispute is now a matter of urgency for Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum Wales), due to the pressures of a reduced budget," a spokesperson said.
However, PCS said members had voted "overwhelmingly" at workplace meetings to "express their dissatisfaction" with National Museum Wales' senior management and their "refusal to re-start negotiations".
PCS Wales secretary, Shavanah Taj, said: "This dispute has now dragged on for two years and morale is at rock bottom. We understand that the Museum's budget has been cut but don't accept that it should be the 'front-of-house' staff - the poorest-paid in the organisation - who should make the greatest sacrifice, by giving up their weekend pay."
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The Scot says she is just "starting out" despite a host of recent records.
She aims to win her first major medals at the European Indoor Championships from 3-5 March before switching her attention to her main target this year.
"A home World Championships is big. I saw what London 2012 did for a lot of the athletes," she told BBC Scotland.
"It made a lot of big names and this is 'round two' as it were.
"I was a bit young to be racing at London (2012 Olympic Games) so this is my first chance to do something on home soil. I would love to make my mark there."
The 23-year-old from Kinross-shire will begin the final year of her five-year veterinary studies a week after the Championships from 4-13 August, continuing to combine them with her running career.
She maintained her scintillating form on Saturday by taking a second off Dame Kelly Holmes' British indoor 1,000m mark, also setting a new European record with the second fastest run of all time.
That followed her European 3,000m indoor record and the British 5,000m indoor record, after beating Holmes' British outdoor 1500m mark last summer.
"If you had told me a few years ago that I would be running these times, I don't think I would have believed you," Muir said.
"So I am chuffed my running has come on so much. I just love the sport for what it is. It is just an added bonus that I am running these times and winning these races.
"I am very much at the starting stage - I am not Mo Farah yet. It is nice to hear people say nice things about you, it is really good support. "
Muir will head to Belgrade for the European Indoor Championships in two weeks, with strong medal chances in the 1500m and 3,000m.
"I've never won a senior international medal yet, so I would love to get a medal, hopefully in the two events, and preferably as close to gold in both," she added. "It would be amazing if I could get on the podium.
"[My goal] is just to be the best athlete I can be. You can't control what other athletes do and how they perform. I just want to race as best I can every single time I go out there.
"As long as I come off the track feeling like I have delivered the best I can, then I will be happy. Hopefully that will mean being on the podium, and hopefully on top of the podium sometimes too."
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The 40-year-old was set to arrive at Old Trafford this month before their first game against Durham on 7 July.
Jayawardene said he was "very disappointed" he was unable to feature but gave no further details.
"We are reviewing and reassessing all options from a player perspective," said head coach Glen Chapple.
Jayawardene, who retired from international cricket in 2015, played for Somerset in last year's T20 Blast.
He is one of Sri Lanka's greatest batsmen, with 11,814 runs in 149 Tests and more than 12,650 in 448 ODIs.
A limit on the cost of gas and electricity for those on pre-payment meters already saves about four million people £80 a year.
This could be extended to about two million others on certain benefits.
The proposals come after a much wider cap in the Conservative manifesto was absent from the Queen's Speech.
The manifesto had suggested the energy market was not working for consumers and, in a widely-debated move, suggested a tariff cap to protect 17 million people paying standard rates. This would have saved them up to £100 a year.
However, after the election, new legislation required for the cap was missing from the government's plans for the next two years.
Instead, the government said ministers were "considering the best way" to protect those on the poorest-value tariffs.
Business Secretary Greg Clark wrote to Ofgem to challenge the regulator to use its existing powers to reduce bills.
The response from Ofgem lists a range of proposals covering billing and switching.
Dermot Nolan, chief executive of Ofgem, told the BBC: "We're focusing on plans that we will take forward with some urgency to offer extra protection for some customers."
That includes "a strong possibility that we'll extend the price cap currently in place for pre-payment meters to vulnerable customers as well".
Last year, a landmark investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority concluded that many households on standard variable tariffs were paying too much for their energy.
It calculated consumers were overpaying by up to £1.2bn a year.
This led to a cap - set regionally - on the cost of energy for those on pre-payments meters.
Five of the "big six" energy suppliers raised prices for other customers earlier this year, despite pressure not to do so. Ofgem said such rises were not justified.
Now the regulator has said it will hold a summit in July with consumer groups on how it could extend the pre-payment meter cap to other households.
Citizens Advice has already suggested that two million extra households which receive the Warm Homes Discount should get the same protection, including some pensioners and families with young children.
The charity has assisted householders such as Shabnam Ali, who is set to save hundreds of pounds a year after she was helped to switch from her standard variable tariff.
She said that she was left in a panic and unwell for two or three weeks after she received a bill showing that her energy costs had risen sharply.
"For two or three months the bill was OK, but suddenly it went higher," she said.
Other proposals outlined by Ofgem include:
Mr Clark, whose Business Secretary role also covers energy, said: "The government has made clear its commitment to extending price protection to more energy customers on poor value tariffs.
"I now want to see this [Ofgem response] translated into action with suppliers playing their part in supporting Ofgem to deliver a fairer deal to customers on poor value tariffs. I look forward to seeing rapid progress and will consider next steps when I have received Ofgem's proposed actions."
Lawrence Slade, chief executive of Energy UK, which represents the major suppliers, said: "Energy companies are committed to engaging with their customers to help them get the best deals, and switching levels continue to rise with over two million consumers having already switched this year.
"We are committed to working with the government and the regulator to deliver an energy market where competition continues to flourish and which produces fair outcomes for all consumers, including better targeted support for the most vulnerable."
Yet consumer group Which? questioned whether the Ofgem proposals went far enough to ensure the energy market worked well for all consumers.
"Millions of hard-pressed customers are overpaying for their energy and suffering due to a lack of competition in the energy market," said Alex Neill, from Which?.
Rebecca Long-Bailey, Labour's shadow business secretary, said: "Ofgem's watered down proposals go nowhere near the promise made by the prime minister to adopt Labour's principle of a price cap."
Daniel Curran, 64, pleaded not guilty to charges of indecent assault and committing an act of gross indecency with or towards a male child.
It relates to a date unknown between 8 August 1990 and 7 August 1995.
A defence lawyer told the court he planned to ask the court to dismiss two further similar charges, later this week, through a no bill application.
He said he also plans to ask the court to stop the prosecution on the two charges that Mr Curran denied on Monday.
This is on foot of an abuse of process application, as due to the length of time between the allegations and now, the former priest "doesn't have any recollection".
However, the lawyer agreed with the judge's comment that it would be a "difficult application to make" and that Mr Curran, from Bryansford Avenue in Newcastle, had been "fully advised" regarding the credit a court gives for pleading guilty at the first opportunity.
Releasing Mr Curran on continuing bail at Downpatrick Crown Court, the judge ordered him to come back to court on Wednesday, when he would deal with the no bill application and schedule the further abuse of process application.
The seven had a case of "misbehaviour" to answer, an official statement said.
Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas says he has nearly 500 hours of video evidence on tape, showing judges alleging asking for bribes and demanding sex.
Twenty-two lower court judges have also been suspended. Some of the judges have denied the allegations.
Mr Anas' documentary has shocked the nation, and has been shown to packed houses at cinemas in the capital, Accra.
The seven are the most senior judges to be suspended so far in what is the biggest corruption scandal to hit Ghana's judiciary.
Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood had established a "prima facie case of stated misbehaviour against them", the statement by Ghana's Judicial Council said.
An inquiry would now be held to determine whether or not they are guilty, it added.
They could be sacked if they are found guilty.
Analysis: Sammy Darko, BBC Africa, Accra
The public is keenly following the scandal and it has been the lead story in the local media for almost a month.
But people are no longer queuing at cinemas to see Mr Anas's film - Ghana in the eyes of God; Epic of Injustice - which is touring the country and had reached the second city, Kumasi, after showing to packed houses in the capital, Accra. This is because a court has, for now, blocked further screenings in the city, following a case brought by one of the implicated judges who says its screening will prejudice him.
The courts resumed sitting this week after a holiday break. But the suspension of judges has meant delays in judgements as their workload is being handed over to colleagues, who are already overburdened.
Ghana's anti-corruption blockbuster
Of the other five High Court judges implicated by the investigation - two have retired, another two are in court challenging it and one has been cleared as a case of mistaken identity
Last month, 22 lower court judges and magistrates were suspended pending the outcome of investigations ordered by the chief justice.
Lawyers for 14 of the accused judges have denied the allegations and the High Court has dismissed their attempt to get the investigation suspended. The other accused judges have yet to comment in public.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is something of an enigma, as he is never seen in public without a disguise. His fans call him a modern-day folk hero or the "James Bond of journalism" for his work in exposing alleged corruption and malpractice in Ghana and beyond.
In his 15 years of undercover journalism he has among other disguises, posed as a female investor in high heels, sunglasses and lipstick, and a janitor in a brothel. He has also secreted himself inside a fake rock placed at the side of the road with a peep hole for his eyes.
In his work he has exposed a human trafficking racket, corruption in the police and malpractice in a food processing plant.
He argues that "there is no point in doing journalism, if it does not lead progress in your society". Before becoming a journalist, Mr Anas worked as a lawyer for two years.
How the judicial scandal has led Ghanaians to invent new words
He last played in anger more than 30 years ago.
Maybe the only time you have seen him is as part of a Fifa Ultimate Team. A punchy 94 overall rating by the way.
So why the fuss over Johan Cruyff?
Before Cruyff, players used to just run straight into each other and hope for the best.
Well, not quite.
But when the Dutchman left Sweden's Jan Olsson staggering like a closing-time drunk in the 1974 World Cup, no-one had seen anything like it.
A dropped shoulder, a dummied pass, a flick off the instep, swivel and away.
It makes little sense written down. But watch the video and you'll recognise it instantly.
The 'Cruyff turn' is now a standard in every playground fancy-dan's box of tricks, and it all started with this man.
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Where do you play?
An easy question. But there were no easy answers when you were part of the Netherlands' 1974 World Cup squad.
The orange shirts would endlessly bomb forward, cover back, switch wings and swap positions, creating space and causing havoc.
Stick with your man? Good luck with that.
After winning everything going in the Netherlands with Ajax, Barcelona bought Cruyff for a then world record fee of £922,000.
Cheap at twice the price.
As a player, he won one La Liga title at the Nou Camp.
He returned as a manager to win another four. And a European Cup.
But his greatest legacy is not in the trophy cabinet. It is La Masia.
Before Cruyff took charge, Barcelona's academy concentrated on strength and fitness. He put the ball at the centre of everything and the small-but-beautiful generation of Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Xavi emerged.
As Pep Guardiola said: "Johan Cruyff painted the chapel. Barcelona coaches since merely restore or improve it."
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Last month, a Barcelona penalty sent ripples through soccer, social media and the world at large.
Instead of shooting at goal in the 6-1 win over Celta Viga, Messi cheekily rolled the ball sideways off the spot for team-mate Luis Suarez to smash home.
A true original? Nope, another riff on the Cruyff playbook.
Back in 1982, Cruyff and team-mate Jesper Olsen did the same for Ajax. But better.
After controlling Cruyff's pass off the spot, Olsen drew the keeper and rolled it back for the original penalty-taker to slot into an empty net.
Might Messi and Suarez have been paying tribute to Cruyff with their recreation?
Before David Beckham aped Michael Jordan with number 23, before Mario Balotelli used 45 (4+5) as a shortcut to number nine, Johan Cruyff was the first superstar to stray from the usual one to 11 shirt numbers.
The Dutchman took to wearing 14 for good luck after an Ajax win over rivals PSV Eindhoven. He was allowed to keep it on international duty when an alphabetical system would have seen him play in number one.
In the wake of his death, financial traders paid tribute by placing orders for 14 shares in his former club Ajax. It rose 4% in value on the back of their purchases.
And the shirt shenanigans didn't stop with Cruyff senior.
With the Cruyff name weighing heavily, Johan's son Jordi, now sports director at Israeli club Maccabi Tel-Aviv, used his first name instead on his shirt.
When he moved to Manchester United in 1996, he became one of the first players to be allowed to have something other than their surname across their shoulders in the Premier League.
China has been accused of unfair practices by firms overseas for dumping products at low prices in their home markets.
In April, China promised to reduce its steel output, following a crisis meeting attended by 30 nations.
The President met Premier Li Keqiang on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
In a statement from The White House, President Obama also urged China to establish a level playing field, so that all firms can compete fairly in the country.
Earlier this year, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China accused China of not doing enough to address the issue of overcapacity.
European Chamber President Joerg Wuttke said: "Although the Party's annual Central Economic Work Conference has listed addressing overcapacity as a priority every year from 2007 to 2015, fundamental changes have not yet taken place.
"Tackling overcapacity is now more urgent than ever: the cost of maintaining the status quo is far too high."
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The introduction of hawks and falcons is being considered as part of plans to reduce the number of so-called "gull-muggings".
Scarborough Borough Council has asked officers to formulate a plan for councillors to consider.
Other measures being introduced include removing eggs from gulls' nests and introducing no feeding signs on bins.
In September, a council report said 22 people in Scarborough, Whitby and Filey had been attacked by gulls during the previous six months.
"Gull-muggings" can involve birds swooping down to steal food from people or birds "directly" attacking individuals.
A council committee has asked officers to investigate using birds of prey and employing a specialist company for a period of six years to manage the programme.
Birds of prey would be "specifically trained not to kill gulls" but simply frighten them off, the council said.
In addition, the authority would increase the use of gull-proof netting on buildings and bridges and expand a campaign about not feeding gulls.
Last year, plans to fine people for feeding gulls were ruled out by the council as "counter-productive".
The £6bn project will link the M25, near North Ockendon, Essex, with the A2 near Shorne, Kent, passing through greenbelt land.
The transport secretary said it would create more than 6,000 jobs and boost the economy by more than £8bn.
Adam Holloway, Gravesham's Conservative MP, said it was a "crazy idea" and "a disaster for the people of Dartford".
Under the plans, the new road will cross the A13 at Orsett and connect land east of Tilbury to land east of Gravesend.
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A new road will then take traffic to the A2, near Thong, via the Western Southern Link.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the new Lower Thames Crossing would also "reduce the burden on the busy Dartford Crossing".
A public consultation about the crossing started in January last year, with Highways England recommending option "C" as the favoured route.
However, opponents raised objections to the fact it would cut through greenbelt land, and its proximity to homes and schools.
Chair of Shorne Parish Council Robin Theobald told the BBC earlier that it was "not a day for celebrations".
Anti-option C campaign group, A Bridge Too Far, argued it would have a "detrimental affect" on the local area and Bob Lane, from the Lower Thames Crossing Association said: "Highways England have hoodwinked the government with their biased consultation. There wasn't a single mention of Option A."
There were originally three main ideas for a new crossing location:
Bryan Sweetland, representing Gravesham on Kent County Council added it would take 10 years to build, by which time the old tunnels at Dartford would also need replacing.
Gravesham MP Mr Holloway, who also objected to the route, said: "It's a crazy idea. They [the Department for Transport] have no numbers on what portion of this traffic is national, and what is regional.
"It's also a disaster for the people of Dartford. We've had this once in a generation opportunity to fix the problem at Dartford, and it's been flopped."
However, according to the Department for Transport (DfT), the chosen option was picked by nearly 47,000 people who took part in a consultation.
A spokesman for the DfT said the C route had been "optimised" after the consultation, and moved slightly east to avoid people's homes.
The Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, which is building thousands of houses across north Kent, Eurotunnel, the Port of Dover, Kent Invicta Chamber and Dartford council leader Jeremy Kite (Con) all voiced their support for the decision.
Christian Brodie, of the South East Local Enterprise Partnership said: "This will strengthen the resilience of our UK and European connections - imperative as we now move towards Brexit."
Mr Grayling also promised £10m to help tackle traffic jams around the existing crossing.
Dartford's Conservative MP Gareth Johnson welcomed the decision, saying it was right "for Dartford but also for the whole country".
He added: "It would have been wrong to locate another crossing at Dartford and funnel more traffic in to the area and on to roads that can't cope as it is.
"I understand this decision may not be welcomed by residents in Gravesend but we will do what we can to ensure the impact on the environment is limited."
The Lower Thames Crossing is expected to carry 4.5 million lorries in its first year.
United are unbeaten in six games and boss McKinnon has urged his players to take confidence from that run.
The Tannadice outfit, who finished 14 points behind Championship winners Hibs, are looking to make an immediate return to the Scottish Premiership.
"Leading into these play-offs, we are the form side," McKinnon said.
United finished third in the second tier, with their final game of the regular season a 1-1 draw away to Morton on Saturday.
"We should have won the last six games, we have created enough chances to win the six games, which is a real positive for us," McKinnon added.
"We did the same on Saturday. We have hit the woodwork five or six times.
"So it's important to make sure we realise we are in good form. We haven't had the just rewards in these six games but we go into the games in the right frame of mind."
McKinnon's Raith Rovers side lost 2-1 on aggregate to Hibernian in the play-off quarter finals last season.
And he has warned his players they need to perform at their highest standard to progress to face Championship runners-up Falkirk in the semi-final.
"If we're at our best then we'll be difficult to beat," McKinnon said. "So that's the focus going into these games, just making sure we are at our best.
"We went down there on Saturday and played extremely well and we need to do the same again.
"They need to show discipline as well. It's not win or bust, it's about making sure you are in control of your game and in control of your emotions. We have had a chat about that and the players totally grasp that."
Muhammad Al Hussaini travelled from London to Belfast to give evidence on behalf of Mr McConnell.
The 78-year-old, from Shore Road in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, denied two charges relating to a sermon he gave in a Belfast church in 2014.
He was found not guilty at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Muhammad Al Hussaini said it is not the role of the judiciary to criminalise speech, "however distressing it might be", unless it provokes violence.
However, he added that it is now "time for reflection on the kind of language that would be appropriate for ministers of religion like myself - Muslim, Jewish and Christian ministers".
"Of course {the comments} were hurtful but one of the greatest things that came out of the experience of coming over to Belfast was developing a strong friendship with Fr Pat McCafferty, a Catholic priest whose faith had already been quite strongly critiqued by Pastor McConnell.
"He didn't go crying off to the police. He engaged with Christian grace and openness and honesty. They had very frank, robust disagreements but at the same time, he engaged in a manner that allowed a 20-year friendship. And in so doing, he maintained a moral high ground."
Mr Al Hussaini condemned censorship of discussion on "the really dangerous phenomenon of rising, religiously motivated violence, persecution and extremism".
He said: "When we see the heinous persecution of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East and other parts of the world, to constrain the theological discussion that we need to have as a country and as a world on these questions actually worsens community tensions.
"We need to create an environment where we can talk quite frankly about these questions and in so doing, we need to defend civil society's role in this and not allow a creeping judicial role in constraining debate and discussion."
Amelia Kallman and Norman Gosney opened the first cabaret nightclub of its kind in Shanghai in 2010.
And the story of their rise and fall is now a stage show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
"It's a cautionary tale" says Kallman. "And a love story".
She and her impresario husband and fellow performer Gosney, originally from Bristol, left New York where they had had success with a speakeasy and burlesque club to chase their fortunes in China in 2007.
"We saw China as the next big super-power and Shanghai was the next big city. We wanted to be the ice-breaker, to be the first to do this in Asia."
A former Japanese Buddhist temple built in 1931 became their three-floor venue and a chorus line of six women hired to perform a combination of burlesque, Moulin Rouge and vaudeville referencing the city's reputation as the Paris of the East in the 1920s and 1930s.
At first, the authorities were fully supportive of the endeavour, says Kallman.
"They wanted us to do it, to bring business to the district, to bring more foreigners."
There were certain hurdles to overcome first.
Shanghai already had clubs where you could find scantily-clad dancers, and officials needed assurance the dancers would comply with China's rules against public nudity.
"We were always very aware we had to respect the rules and culture.
"Everything was classy and sophisticated," adds Kallman.
Then there was the cleansing ceremony to ensure the spirits of the dead were not displeased with the former temple becoming an entertainment venue.
A plush renovation was also needed.
After two years, the club called Chinatown opened to much fanfare and officials endorsed it by bringing their friends, says Kallman.
Fridays and Saturdays were popular with foreigners and they adapted mid-week shows to particularly appeal to a Chinese audience with "half the show in Mandarin and more pratfalls," explains Gosney.
The club went on to have full houses, appeared in a programme with Piers Morgan and won an award for best new nightclub. But it was soon after that that things changed, says Kallman.
Shanghai's Cultural Department said it received a complaint.
"They sent five people one night to look at the show."
At the end of the performance, it was a section featuring Sid Vicious in homage to Malcolm McLaren who had recently died, that rankled with a female official, perhaps fearing a subversive subtext.
"The acts hadn't been previously translated and videotaped so in her eyes they were illegal because not approved by the Chinese government."
It is a requirement that has beset the top performers in the world when performing in China, including the Rolling Stones.
Kallman and Gosney found themselves having to submit translations of the lyrics of every number they were going to sing two weeks prior to show night. With new shows each week it was an arduous task.
Soon, there were arguments over the amount of midriff on show.
"We had an act with a wonderful guy in drag trying to emulate the girls. It was full of double entendres. At the end of it they [the officials] said they wanted to ban the midriff, and especially his midriff.
"It was so obviously comedic," says Gosney.
"Problems arose because we are foreigners used to saying what we think and we have art so we can express ourselves. Our freedom is ingrained in us.
"They saw that as a challenge, says Kallman.
Gosney claims bribes became commonplace, government-run banks would remove the business's credit and that charges were made up against them.
"It was the death of a thousand cuts. It became aggressive and scary," reflects Kallman.
Eventually, they say, they were tipped off that manufactured bribery charges were going to be brought against them.
"We found out they'd frozen our bank accounts. We took the money from the till and went to Bali. They raided our home, our office and the club," says Kallman.
She says they were warned they must not return to China. Back in the UK, she wrote a book about the experience, Diary of a Shanghai Showgirl - there has never been any comment on these claims.
Ultimately, Gosney thinks China has a long way to go in terms of creativity.
"If you are making toilet fittings you have to go to Shanghai but if you are doing something new they don't see how to make money out of it."
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The DG One facility in Dumfries was shut in October last year, a little over six years after it opened.
It emerged several weeks later that remedial works had yet to begin on the site.
The latest update was given to councillors in private due to the legal sensitivities involved.
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Divers from the Humber Sub Aqua Club will explore the wrecks of 30 boats in the River Humber area.
They are also asking for help from people in the UK and worldwide to map the other lost fishing boats.
Around 1,200 men and boys, mainly from Grimsby, died on the trawlers destroyed by mines or sunk by German U-boats.
Funding from the National Lottery enabled the project to initially research the histories of 25 trawlers in the North Sea.
But the work revealed the town's fishing community had lost 375 ships in the conflict, some in Iceland, Canada and South Africa.
Further lottery funding of £97,500 has now been given to expand the project.
Kevin Smith, diver and chairman of Shipwrecks of the River Humber Area, said most of the ships destroyed were out fishing while others had been requisitioned by the British Admiralty to join the war effort.
"They were mainly either blown up by the German mines that had been lain to disrupt food supplies and provoke a military response on British shores, or they were sunk by U-boat crews who boarded the boats, stole supplies and then blew them up."
The funding will enable the training of 30 new divers to explore the wrecks and ten archaeologists to research the stories of crews who perished on them.
Mr Smith has appealed for anyone with information about the boats and their crews to get in touch.
He has also asked for the help of divers overseas to locate the wrecks.
The four-year project will culminate in a permanent archive and exhibition.
It happened on the river between Magheramason in County Tyrone and Carrigans in County Donegal.
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, the PSNI and the Irish coastguard were among those involved in the rescue.
Six people were airlifted to Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital and were treated for mild hypothermia.
Another 12 were taken by ambulance and the rest were treated at the scene.
Two canoes were taking part in a "married versus singles" race when one of them capsized at about 14:00 BST on Saturday during a fundraising event for the YMCA.
It is understood there was a heavy swell in windy conditions and both canoes had begun to take in water.
William Lamrock from the YMCA said all 26 people ended up, some for about 20 minutes. All were wearing life jackets.
He said one of the boats was able to help the other after it overturned and everyone had reached the shore by the time emergency services arrived.
The second boat capsized close to the shore.
"We're very, very thankful that this didn't end up in a horrific incident," he said.
"Thankfully everyone knew what they were doing and thankfully the people with the canoes gave good leadership and we got ashore."
The rescue operation, which was declared a major incident, also involved the Coleraine Coastguard Rescue Team, Foyle Search and Rescue and the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.
John McPoland, from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, said: "All services sprung into action very quickly and thankfully everybody was taken from the water.
"What we've found today is that our capacity to respond to such an incident was severely tested for all emergency services and it's a tribute to all the services involved that they were able to pull together so quickly and ensure there was no tragedies involved in today's incident."
SDLP Foyle assembly member Mark H Durkan tweeted: "Just been at scene of major incident response at River Foyle, think everyone out of water ok. Well done emergency teams!"
In a further statement he said: "It has been a cold day and the water in the river would have been freezing.
"Coupled with the strong current and high tide it is extremely fortunate that we did not witness a tragedy here today.
"I must commend the swift and brave actions of Foyle Search and Rescue, the Irish Coastguard and all the emergency services whose efficiency and professionalism certainly saved lives."
They have been to America to learn how to perform the operation on patients who have a condition called scoliosis.
It has had encouraging results and patients may soon be able to have it in Scotland rather than travelling 3,000 miles to Philadelphia.
The Edinburgh team said they had the skills but needed clinical approval.
In the UK, about three in every 1,000 children need treatment for scoliosis, which is more common in females than males.
The Scottish National Spine Deformity Service (SNSDS), based at NHS Lothian, currently offers spinal fusion operations to patients whose curvature is not corrected by an external brace.
This involves using metal rods to produce a straightening of the spine.
The operation has been proven to correct the spine and prevent progression of the condition but it can limit flexibility and movement.
The new technique, Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering (AVBT), has been pioneered at the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia.
Enrique Garrido was one of the spinal surgeons from the Scottish National Spine Deformity Service who visited the hospital to see the procedure.
He told BBC Scotland: "This is, for the first time, a technique where we can control the spine, hopefully, and produce a gradual correction of the spine without a functionally limiting procedure, which is what a fusion operation is.
"It will be less invasive in terms of preserving some spine movement so producing a patient that is less aware of their of their limitations because of a stiffness in their spine."
Instead of metal rods, the US team puts in a flexible band and pegs to straighten the back.
Mr Garrido said: "This is the first time we have seen self-correction of the spine.
"So you inhibit growth on the one side of the spine so it will catch up and straighten out, sometimes to the extent it will over-correct and goes the other way."
He said the Edinburgh doctors already had the skills but health experts needed to decide whether it was the right procedure.
The absence of long-term results might make it difficult for the advisory body NICE (National Institute of Health and Care Excellence) to make a decision.
Jenny Gillanders is 14 and was diagnosed with scoliosis in September 2016.
Her spine was bent to 58 degrees.
Her family launched a crowd-funding page to help with the costs of sending her to the US for the new treatment.
On the website, Jenny said: "I am very sporty, I especially enjoy athletics. I have represented the East of Scotland and have won medals at national levels. I cannot run at the moment as my breathing is affected. I wear a painful back brace 20 hours a day to slow my spine curve. I now need a spinal operation to fix my back."
Before she left for the US, Jenny told BBC Scotland: "I'm excited because my back is getting fixed. I've had this problem for a long time and it's finally come.
"If it was a choice I would much rather be in Scotland so that my family could be around me and my friends but people have been very supportive."
Her mother, Lesley Gillanders, said: "It does frustrate you that it's not available here because we know that the surgeons are very capable in Edinburgh."
Chris Adams, consultant spinal surgeon at the SNSDS, said: "The main advantage is still a theoretical one and it is about maintaining movement, which is incredibly attractive to the people we are trying to look after, which tend to be young, teenage, the majority of them girls.
"They tend to be active, doing dance and other things. "
He said: "What we want is to rapidly get to the stage where we could offer it.
"Patients under our care are already deciding to have this done but at some distance from their home and their extended families.
"We have the skill set here and we are about to get a fantastic new hospital in February next year and we want to get this established as quickly as possible."
Maguire fired a stunning six-under-par round to lie seven shots off the lead in a tie for 22nd place on three under.
The Cavan woman carded seven birdies and a solitary bogey to make up ground after her disappointing opening 74.
Northern Ireland's Meadow is joint 38th on one over to improve dramatically on her first-round 77 on Wednesday.
Meadow, from Jordanstown in County Antrim, posted six birdies and a bogey to equal the fifth best round of the day, while Maguire's score was the joint second best of the second round.
Inbee Park of South Korea leads on 10 under after a second successive 66, with Stacy Lewis of the United States moving into second spot courtesy of a fabulous 63.
Great Britain golfer Charley Hull currently shares the bronze medal position with Canada's Brooke Henderson on eight under after a 66.
Maguire, the world's top amateur, recorded birdies at the first and ninth holes, and followed that up by picking up shots at five holes on her inward nine, her card marred only by a dropped shot at the 15th.
Meadow, 24, finished third in the US Women's Open in her first season as a professional in 2014 but has struggled over the last 18 months.
The death of her father from cancer last year was a devastating blow for the Ulsterwoman and she has dropped to 473rd in the world rankings.
Meadow was a late inclusion in the Olympic field after the Dutch pair Anne Van Dam and Christel Boeljon were withdrawn from the 60-strong field for not meeting their country's qualifying criteria of being in the world's top 100.
Maguire, 21, finished top amateur at the recent British Open when she shared 25th place.
Konta was beaten by German Julia Goerges in the first round of the French Open but has risen to a best-ever ranking of 18.
The 25-year-old will play either fellow Briton Freya Christie or China's Zheng Saisai in the next round.
"I am very happy to come through. She started off very well so I had to dig deep," Konta told BBC Sport.
"It was my first match on grass so I am glad to get another opportunity to play this week."
Konta is seeded second for the grass-court event, behind the Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova.
There was also some British success earlier in the day as Tara Moore booked her place in the main draw with a 6-2 6-2 qualifying win over Shuko Aoyama.
British stars Heather Watson, Laura Robson and Naomi Broady are also all in the first-round draw, as is former world number one Caroline Wozniacki.
You can listen to BBC radio commentary of the event, which runs until 12 June, by clicking this link.
Meanwhile, British number two Aljaz Bedene beat American qualifier Ernesto Escobedo in the first round of the Ricoh Open in s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 7-6 (7-5) 6-2.
It was the 26-year-old's first match since being knocked out of the French Open by eventual champion Novak Djokovic and the world number 58 will play second seed Bernard Tomic in the next round.
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The visitors went ahead through a Forrester half-volley, before Miller made it 2-0 with a powerful finish.
The hosts attempted a comeback when Mark O'Hara punished poor marking from a corner to head home on 44 minutes.
Having been in command, Rangers then spent the second half defending shakily at Dens Park.
Rangers drew at home with Hamilton Academical on the opening day of the season, and despite picking up three points at Dundee on Saturday, manager Mark Warburton was faced again with the best and worst of his side - swift and clever attacking play, but defending that lacked authority.
Forrester, booked in the second half and not punished for two further late challenges, was an elusive figure, carrying his attacking threat into menacing areas with casual, drifting runs that Dundee struggled to contain.
But the midfielder was fortunate not to receive a second yellow card after a couple of hefty and untidy challenges. He was quickly replaced by striker Michael O'Halloran.
As well as creative play, he was also capable of aggressive determination, and that quality was evident with the opening goal of the game.
Barrie McKay lifted the ball to Forrester inside the penalty area and he used his strength to lash a half-volley past Dundee goalkeeper Scott Bain.
Rangers began to perform with composure and momentum and some of the passes were almost instinctive. McKay and Lee Wallace linked up well to set up Miller who powered home.
Jordan Rossiter's understated authority in the holding role was the basis of much of Rangers' play, which brought an additional element to their game.
Some familiar failings remain, though, and Dundee took full advantage. When Danny Williams slung a corner into the area, O'Hara rose to nod past Rangers goalkeeper Wes Foderingham.
Dundee, who have lost forwards Kane Hemmings and Greg Stewart following moves south, had been unable to disrupt Rangers' control of the first half and Rory Loy was isolated up front for the home side.
O'Hara's goal from a set piece provided an opportunity to alter the flow of the game. With the defender's rangy runs from midfield providing impetus, Dundee sought an equaliser and Michael Duffy steered one effort wide and substitute Yordi Teijsse hit a shot straight at Foderingham.
Rangers should have been further ahead if Miller had been more decisive with two clear opportunities.
Rangers manager Mark Warburton said: "There was resilience, but we shouldn't have to show resilience. I thought we were very, very good in the first half. We controlled the game and our movement was good. We created chance after chance and Lee Wallace was excellent on the left-hand side.
"We should have been more clinical, and then in the second half we shouldn't have to show resilience. First half, it should have been game over. It could have been four or five with the chances we had."
Dundee manager Paul Hartley said: "I felt O'Hara was absolutely outstanding today. He showed what he can do at 20 years of age. His running power was superb. That was the pleasing thing for me, he gets his goal but his marking was excellent and he dominated the game second half.
"As soon as I spoke to him I wanted him playing central midfield pushing forward. I wasn't interested in him playing right-back or in defence. We just changed his position a little bit and it just showed you. At 20 he can only get better. He has great energy, a great engine and he scores goals."
Match ends, Dundee 1, Rangers 2.
Second Half ends, Dundee 1, Rangers 2.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Scott Bain.
Attempt saved. Barrie McKay (Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Cameron Kerr.
Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lee Wallace (Rangers).
Mark O'Hara (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mark O'Hara (Dundee).
Joey Barton (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Williams (Dundee).
Joey Barton (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Mark O'Hara (Dundee) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Niko Kranjcar.
Foul by Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee).
Joey Barton (Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Danny Wilson.
Foul by Lee Wallace (Rangers).
Nick Ross (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Yordi Teijsse (Dundee) header from very close range is too high.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Lee Wallace.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Danny Williams.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Darren O'Dea.
Attempt missed. Barrie McKay (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Yordi Teijsse (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Rangers. Michael O'Halloran replaces Harry Forrester.
Substitution, Dundee. Faissal El Bakhtaoui replaces Rory Loy.
Substitution, Dundee. Yordi Teijsse replaces Michael Duffy.
Foul by Harry Forrester (Rangers).
Michael Duffy (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rangers. Niko Kranjcar replaces Andy Halliday.
Substitution, Rangers. Joseph Dodoo replaces Kenny Miller.
Substitution, Dundee. Nick Ross replaces James Vincent.
Barrie McKay (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cameron Kerr (Dundee).
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Cameron Kerr.
Attempt missed. Michael Duffy (Dundee) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Harry Forrester (Rangers).
Cameron Kerr (Dundee) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Darren O'Dea (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The girls were taken from their school in Borno state by suspected Islamist militants more than two weeks ago.
Borno state's police chief told the BBC that the authorities needed to confirm exactly who was missing as the school records had been burned in the attack.
He said it was now thought that 223 girls were still missing.
The Islamist group Boko Haram has not made any response to the accusation that its fighters abducted the girls from the school in Chibok town in the middle of the night on 14 April 2014.
The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has staged a wave of attacks in northern Nigeria in recent years, with an estimated 1,500 killed in the violence and subsequent security crackdown this year alone.
Abduction sparks social media campaign 'My family is crying and grieving'
Tanko Lawan, Borno state's police commissioner, said the headmistress of the school in Chibok had been working to produce a list of those believed to have been taking their final year exams.
Her task had been hampered as students from surrounding areas had also come to the school to take the exams as it was believed the town was relatively safe from attack.
He said current figures showed that 53 of the girls were believed to have escaped.
But he added that it was difficult to know for sure, as some parents may not have informed the authorities if their daughters had returned home.
"That's why we're appealing to parents to come with their photographs so that we know actually [that] these are the numbers we are dealing with," he told the BBC Hausa service.
Since the kidnapping, the number of missing girls has been disputed and parents have criticised the government's search and rescue efforts.
Earlier this week, a community leader in Chibok said that 230 girls were missing - a significantly higher figure than officials had been quoting - and 43 had escaped.
This week protests have been held across Nigeria, calling on the government to do more to help secure their release.
It is thought that the militants initially took the girls to the Sambisa forest; there have been subsequent reports they have been taken over the borders into Chad and Cameroon and possibly forced to "marry" the insurgents.
Swathes of north-eastern Nigeria are, in effect, off limits to the army, allowing the militants to move the girls with impunity, says the BBC's Will Ross in Abuja.
A security source told Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper that four army battalions have been deployed to the area and an offensive on the forest was planned.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for international military assistance to be offered to Nigeria in the hunt for the girls.
"We could provide military help to the Nigerians to track down the whereabouts of the girls before they're dispersed throughout Africa - like air support, for example, if that was thought necessary," he told the UK's Guardian newspaper.
Last week, an advisor to Nigeria's president said the government would welcome international assistance.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau first threatened to treat captured women and girls as slaves in a video released in May 2013.
It fuelled concern at the time that the group was adhering to the ancient Islamic belief that women captured during war are slaves, with whom their "masters" can have sex, correspondents say.
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Sebastian Brendel and Jan Vandrey finished in three minutes 43.912 seconds to retain their title.
Brazilian pair Erlon de Souza Silva and Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos led early on but were overtaken with 250 metres to go and beaten by less than a second.
Dmytro Ianchuk and Taras Mishchick of Ukraine won the bronze.
Germany are fourth in the overall medal table with 15 golds, two ahead of Russia.
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Experts say most cases of divorce in India are filed on the grounds of abuse, or what's legally termed as "cruelty". But what amounts to abuse has long been open to debate, especially when determining whether psychological trauma has been afflicted on a person during marriage.
The Supreme Court has said there cannot be any "strait-jacket formula or fixed parameters for determining mental cruelty in matrimonial matters".
Because of its wide legal definition, Indian courts have had to rule on a host of bizarre interpretations of what constitutes non-physical abuse. Atish Patel shares a few of the more unlikely examples.
Last week, the Bombay high court overturned a family court ruling from 2011 that granted divorce to a sailor who claimed his wife's regular partying, among other things, was a form of abuse.
The court observed that the 42-year-old man, who married his wife in 1999, was also in the "habit of enjoying parties", and therefore could not conclude that the woman had subjected the man to cruelty, either physically or mentally.
"He is not entitled for a decree of divorce on the ground of cruelty," the court said.
While overturning the lower court's ruling, Bombay high court Justice ML Tahaliyani noted: "Socialising to some extent in the present society is permissible."
A sexless marriage is a common trigger for divorce globally. But last year, a man in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) wanted to divorce his wife because of too much sex.
In his petition, the man described his wife as having an "excessive and insatiable appetite for sex" ever since their marriage in April 2012, according to a report by the Press Trust of India news agency.
He alleged that she would force him to have sex, even at times when he was sick, and threatened to sleep with other men when he refused.
He said his wife's "cruel behaviour" and her "adamant, aggressive, stubborn and autocratic" nature had made it difficult for him to live with her.
Last year a family court in Mumbai ruled in the husband's favour and granted a divorce after his wife failed to appear before the court, with the husband's evidence remaining unchallenged, the news report said.
In another case, a man sought a divorce from his wife on the grounds of cruelty in part because of her dress sense.
The man, in his 30s and married since 2009, was reportedly anguished by his wife's decision to often wear shirts and trousers to her workplace instead of traditional Indian clothing.
A family court passed a divorce order three years ago, but in March last year, the Bombay high court overturned it.
"The door of cruelty cannot be opened so wide, otherwise divorce will have to be granted in every case of incompatibility of temperament," the court ruled.
Arranged marriages remain common in India but the reason one man gave for wanting to end his union was far from usual - he complained of being traumatised by his wife's acne problem.
In his divorce petition, he argued that the pimples and boils on his wife's face prevented him from consummating their marriage during their honeymoon in 1998.
Ruling in favour of the husband in 2002, a family court in Mumbai said the "repulsive condition of the wife is undoubtedly tragic for the wife but this is traumatic for the spouse".
The court added: "The woman played a fraud on him by not disclosing the fact that she had a [skin] disease."
The ruling came despite the wife's doctor telling the court her skin condition was treatable and would not negatively affect their sex life.
Although skin diseases like acne are not legally recognised as grounds for divorce, under India's Hindu Marriage Act - which applies to 80% of the country's population who consider themselves Hindu - leprosy or a "venereal disease in a communicable form", including HIV-Aids or hepatitis B, can be grounds to end a marriage.
Going back even further, in 1985 the Allahabad high court in an appeal hearing upheld a lower court's decision that the refusal by a woman to make tea for her husband's friends had left him humiliated and along with other factors, including her decision to terminate a pregnancy without his knowledge, amounted to mental abuse and acceptable grounds for divorce.
Cartoons by BBC Hindi's Kirtish Bhatt
But two Singaporeans allegedly thought they had found a new way of queue jumping, and saving some money, by buying plane tickets so they could pick up the iPhone 7 at Changi Airport.
They were arrested on 16 September for breaking airport laws.
Police said they had "no intention" of leaving Singapore so should not have been in the departure hall.
The two have been charged under the Protected Areas and Protected Places Act. They face a fine of up to 1,000 Singapore dollars ($735; £565) and a jail term of up to two years if convicted.
Police have warned others not to misuse their boarding passes for shopping trips.
There is no official Apple store in Singapore, so customers have to buy devices through resellers or online.
The first batch of iPhone 7s sold out in the city-state within days of launch earlier this month, with customers who had pre-ordered complaining about delays.
Martin has left in a shake-up that has also seen head of football recruitment Tony Spearing and head of scouting Lee Darnbrough also depart Carrow Road.
The changes come a week after Stuart Webber was named sporting director.
"Ricky's worked here for 16 years, was instrumental in building the academy and the number of young players that have broken through," said Irvine.
He told BBC Radio Norfolk: "Changes happen. From a personal point of view I'm really disappointed to see him go. I've spoken to him, and wished him good luck and have no doubt he'll pop up somewhere else.
"He was instrumental in me coming here so I've got a lot to thank him for."
Kelly Maclean, 32, had last been seen in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Her children Lee, aged 12, Dean,11, and five-year-old Kelsey had also not been seen since.
Officers said they were concerned for Ms Maclean's welfare and had urged anyone with information on her whereabouts to contact them.
Army bomb disposal experts removed the device from Barnardos in Malpas after police cordoned off the area around it.
The discovery was made in a black bag of children's gifts on Thursday afternoon.
Shop manager Sue Humphreys said it had been in the shop for "several weeks", adding "we didn't panic" after finding it.
She said the pin was still intact and after doing research online, staff realised it was a grenade.
Gwent Police said it was "deemed as low risk and has been safely removed".
The money is part of a government aid package of up to £80m pledged to help 2,200 workers who lost their jobs when the Thai owners went into liquidation.
It will be used to help employees find jobs, support related companies and set up an emergency fund for staff.
Task force chairwoman Amanda Skelton said it was important "recovery work" started quickly.
Ms Skelton, who is also chief executive of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, said: "The task force is committed to getting this money through to communities as soon as possible so it can start to make a difference."
A £16.5m fund is to be set up to help local companies employ former SSI workers or their family members.
There will also be a £2.4m fund to help ease the financial burdens facing SSI workers and their families, such as mortgage or rent payments.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid said the support would "make a difference" and the government was "determined to work hard to boost growth and jobs in the Tees Valley".
Watson, 23, was back in action for the first time since claiming her third WTA title at the Monterrey Open on Sunday.
The world number 53 won the first set on a tie-break before her Kazakh opponent levelled the match, but Watson hit back to win 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 6-1.
"When it was important, I was able to bring out my best tennis," Watson said.
Watson, who was granted a wildcard after reaching the fourth round last year, plays Romanian 32nd seed Monica Niculescu in round two.
Labour's Sadiq Khan gave a speech focused on housing, saying he had a "positive plan for tackling the housing crisis".
Conservative Zac Goldsmith vowed to set up a £1m fund for fighting violence against women and girls.
Voters go to the polls on 5 May in the capital to choose a new mayor and London Assembly Members.
UKIP candidate Peter Whittle attended the unveiling of a new poster criticising "open door" immigration.
The Lib Dems' Caroline Pidgeon highlighted her proposal for half-price fares on journeys before 07:30.
Meanwhile, the Green candidate Sian Berry drew attention to endorsements by campaigners for clean air, cycling and affordable housing.
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Speaking in Bermondsey in central London, Mr Khan warned that if his Conservative opponent wins the election there will be "no change" on housing in London.
He said the Housing and Planning Bill currently before Parliament "is a disaster for affordable housing in London, and Zac Goldsmith has defended it at every step of the way".
Mr Goldsmith pledged £1m of funding for local community groups helping to tackle violence against women and girls, which he said would come from the "town centres and communities fund" outlined in his manifesto.
He also repeated his promise that he will be a champion for commuters and that Mr Khan's plan for a fare freeze would be "dangerous" for TfL.
He has been criticised over an article he wrote for the Mail on Sunday which was printed below a picture of the bus which was bombed in the 7/7 attacks. He later said the image was "inappropriate" and he had not been consulted on its use.
Separately, a Labour candidate for the London Assembly, Murad Qureshi, was forced to apologise for retweeting a comment from a journalist which stated "you can get away with deeply offending anyone in this country as long as they're not Jewish".
He said: "The views it contained were wrong and do not reflect my own."
The Scots, who beat England for the first time in this year's Six Nations, meet their rivals in Manchester.
Tries from Zander Fagerson and Darcy Graham, plus a penalty and conversion from Adam Hastings, secured a 15-10 Pool B victory over 14-man Australia.
"This is really special result," said Scotland coach John Dalziel.
"I'm really pleased for the boys as they've put in so much work and it's great to get it under the belt at this stage of the tournament.
"We've now got a huge four-day turnaround and a lot of work to do before the England game. But we'll have two or three guys who are fresh and others who were replacements tonight."
England beat Italy in their opening game and the winners of Saturday's match at Manchester City's Academy Stadium at 18:00 BST could secure their place in the semi-finals.
Scotland flanker Lewis Wynn was carried off after only five minutes following an accidental collision but opened the scoring with a penalty from Hastings, son of Scotland legend Gavin.
But after a last-ditch tackle from Edinburgh full-back Blair Kinghorn prevented a try, Australia's Isack Rodda crossed for a converted score to put Australia 7-3 up at half-time.
Wallabies centre Campbell Magney was sent off for a second yellow card four minutes into the second half.
They profited when a driving maul was finished off by Fagerson, the Glasgow tight-head who made his Scotland senior debut in the Six Nations.
Hastings missed the conversion, but made no mistake when Graham's darting run outpaced the Australia defence for the clinching try.
"Sometimes when you have the man advantage, you start to think the job is done, but we showed a lot of character in that position," said Dalziel.
"Australia threw a lot at us in the last 10 minutes, but the character was there and I felt comfortable with our defence."
On Tuesday the site said it was to test new tools that allowed people to share any special circumstances they felt meant they could not use their real name.
The tool is intended to help people who may have suffered domestic abuse, or in cases where their sexuality could put them in danger.
However, Facebook stood firm on insisting people use "real names" in all but the most unusual situations.
"We require people to use the name their friends and family know them by," the company said.
"When people use the names they are known by, their actions and words carry more weight because they are more accountable for what they say.
"We're firmly committed to this policy, and it is not changing.
"However, after hearing feedback from our community, we recognise that it's also important that this policy works for everyone, especially for communities who are marginalised or face discrimination."
The company is also adding a new tool for reporting fake names, requiring anyone who is reporting another user to provide more context for their complaint.
Facebook said it received hundreds of thousands of reports of fake names every week.
"In the past, people were able to simply report a 'fake name' but now they will be required to go through several new steps that provide us more specifics about the report," the company said.
"This additional context will help our review teams better understand why someone is reporting a name, giving them more information about a specific situation."
The social network had faced intense pressure from rights groups over its hard-line stance on real names.
Founder Mark Zuckerberg was heavily criticised after he suggested that people that use two names, or have an alias, showed a "lack of integrity".
Last year, prominent drag queens in San Francisco had their Facebook accounts deleted as they were deemed to be violating the real name policy.
After considerable uproar, including a planned protest outside Facebook's headquarters, the company acknowledged that it had been a mistake to delete the accounts, but said it faced a challenge in verifying people on the network.
It argued that insisting on real names played a role in preventing bad actors on the site and had made people more accountable for what they posted.
"The stories of mass impersonation, trolling, domestic abuse, and higher rates of bullying and intolerance are oftentimes the result of people hiding behind fake names, and it's both terrifying and sad," the site said.
"Our ability to successfully protect against them with this policy has borne out the reality that this policy, on balance, and when applied carefully, is a very powerful force for good."
A group of civil liberties organisations and rights groups formed the Nameless Coalition which has been leaning on Facebook to change its policies.
The new tools announced on Tuesday fall short of the group's complete suggestions, but representatives from Facebook met members of the Nameless Coalition at a public event in San Francisco.
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The body of Leonne, 16, was discovered off Lordens Hill, in Dinnington, South Yorkshire, on 16 January.
The funeral of the "loved and sadly missed" teenager was held at St Leonards church in Dinnington.
The service was relayed by speakers to people gathered outside. Leonne's family said they were grateful for people's support.
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In a statement, the family said: "She is loved and sadly missed by all her family.
"Leonne was a twin and was close to all of her brothers and sisters."
A pink coffin carved with her name and covered in hearts was carried into the church after arriving on a horse-drawn hearse.
Les Clarke, Salvation Army officer, said in the service: " She won't be forgotten but live on in our hearts and in our memories.
"Leonne was very strong in her own way. Standing up for what she thought was right".
She had "a big smile for people wandering past", he said.
The Reverend Hilary Jowett, vicar of St Leonard's Church, said local residents were "horrified and shocked" at Leonne's death.
"But I think we've now accepted this has happened, horrible and awful though it is, and we are grieving for a teenager who should be living her life", she said.
A post-mortem examination revealed Ms Weeks had died from multiple stab wounds.
Shea Peter Heeley, 18, of Doe Quarry Lane, Dinnington, is to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on 17 February on suspicion of murder.
He brought a taste of his country with him - quite literally. The 40-year-old runs an authentic Greek grill house, serving souvlaki and bifteki to fellow Greeks in the area.
"You feel homesick, that's for sure," Andreas admits, reminiscing about his time as a soldier based in the Greek islands, a stark contrast to his sterile German surroundings.
"But it's better to have peace of mind, to be able to provide for my wife and kid."
Locally, some home comforts are provided for - there's a Greek coffee shop, a Greek taverna complete with an Olympiacos FC flag draped across the window, and a Greek grocery where Hellenic watermelons are on offer in the searing July heat.
Yet despite these familiar amenities, being among the 330,000 Greek migrants in Germany during the debt crisis has been challenging.
Germany's governing politicians have barely disguised their contempt for Alexis Tsipras and his anti-austerity Syriza party, while the country's most popular tabloid, Bild, has run a string of headlines in the past few years deriding Greeks for being lazy and greedy.
Recent academic research has found that anti-Greek sentiment is on the rise.
"You hear people say 'we've had enough', 'we pay for you' and things like that," says Niki, who came to Offenbach from Thessaloniki in 2010 and works in Frankfurt airport. "It's not comfortable."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Niki socialises almost exclusively with her compatriots, often playing tavli, or Greek backgammon, with two German-born Greeks in Offenbach's Greek pub.
"I want this to end," she says, referring to the ongoing negotiations between Greece and its creditors. "I want to go back."
"It's going to be tough for me in Greece, but I prefer to be there with my people in my country, instead of staying here and listening to all this..."
She breaks off, wary of issuing an expletive. "You can put a beep here."
Despite acknowledging the efficiency of Frankfurt's infrastructure, and the relative stability of its economy, Niki has few kind words for her German neighbours.
"We might be poor but we still live - they do not know how to live," she says.
"I'm not going to take [any lessons] from German lifestyle to Greece. We're totally different."
A little further down Offenbach's Frankfurter Strasse, I come across Valerios, a 25-year-old who came here from Drama, a remote mountainous region in northern Greece, two years ago, and is now doing a vocational course while working in a hotel.
While he and his friend Pavlos, a builder who has been in Germany for four years, tuck into a kebab, Valerios says he, too, is acutely aware of how his country is perceived by some Germans.
"They say we are so lazy, that we don't like to work," he says, "and this comes from the media."
Just a few miles away, the sleek skyscraper that houses the European Central Bank looms large.
In the next few days it will seal the fate of Greece's banks, which are already teetering on the brink, by deciding whether to continue supplying emergency funding to the country's lenders.
But few of the Greeks in Offenbach have much confidence in the ECB or in the eurozone's leaders.
Most would have voted 'no' in Sunday's referendum.
"Let's go back to drachmas - it will be better," says Valerios, who wants to return to Greece when he finishes his studies.
Pavlos agrees: "By now, it's better to leave the eurozone."
Andreas, however, would prefer Greece to stay in the euro. If it doesn't, he worries that the country could become "the Cuba of Europe" over the next few years.
"In my heart I was going to say 'no' [to a deal with creditors] because I'm Greek and we're proud of being able to stand on our feet," he says.
"But if they just cut some slack to the Greeks - I would definitely say 'yes'."
Regardless, Andreas has no plans to leave Offenbach.
"Your child is getting supported - they have really good education systems here," he says, hugging his toddler. "It's not like in Greece."
"I really want my son to graduate from university here - I want him to do what I couldn't do."
Simon Brentford and Darren Strafford jumped off the 900ft cliffs at Nebbifield in Foula, Shetland, with parachutes.
Base stands for 'building, antenna, span, earth' - the four fixed structures base jumpers can jump from.
Mr Brentford, of Leeds, told BBC Scotland: "I discovered it had never been jumped. The weather had to be spot on, with no wind."
He added: "It's a pretty special and unique experience. All you can see in front of you is the sea. It's that sense of exploration. That's very exciting."
Enillodd y nofel Wobr Goffa Daniel Owen i Fflur yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol y Bala yn 2009.
Hon yw ffilm fawr gyntaf y cyfarwyddwr nodedig, Euros Lyn. Mae Euros yn adnabyddus am ei waith ar gyfresi teledu poblogaidd fel Happy Valley, Broadchurch a Doctor Who.
Mae'r stori yn dilyn hanes efeilliad Nan ac Ana (Catrin Stewart sy'n portreadu'r ddwy yn y ffilm) sy'n ymchwilio i farwolaeth eu mam Elena sy'n awdures enwog. Ydy hi wedi lladd ei hun ynteu oedd yr amgylchiadau yn fwy sinistr?
Yn ystod shifft nos mae'r ddwy efaill yn dechrau ar eu hymchwiliad yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru...
Dyma i chi rai o'r lluniau dynnodd y ffotograffydd Iestyn Hughes yn ystod y ffilmio:
Ayeeshia Jane Smith died aged 21 months of a tear to her heart caused by a forceful stamp, prosecutors allege.
It was "feasible" some of the bruising was caused on the potty "if she'd fallen back with enough force", a forensic scientist told a jury at Birmingham Crown Court.
Kathryn Smith, 23, and her partner Matthew Rigby, 22, deny murder.
They have also pleaded not guilty to allowing or causing a child's death and child cruelty.
Smith, of Sandfield Road, Nottingham and Rigby, of Sloan Drive, Nottingham, are accused of murdering Ayeeshia at the flat they shared in Burton-upon-Trent, on 1 May, 2014.
In all, 16 injuries were found on the toddler's body including a historic bleed on the brain, the court heard.
Jurors have already been told the child was known to social services.
Ms Smith and Mr Rigby were "uncooperative" and "hostile" to police at Queen's Hospital in Burton-on-Trent, officers told the court.
The child's mother balled her fists at one officer, while her partner allegedly shouted the police just "wanted an excuse to arrest" her, the court heard.
Det Con Sonia Milligan said: "Parents present all sorts of different emotions, but I have never experienced such hostility as was presented that evening at hospital."
She added: "[Ms Smith's] initial account of how the injuries were sustained was to do with (falling off) the potty."
The couple were also upset at being told they would not be allowed to go home, as the home in Britannia Drive would need to be searched.
Smith's own mother had earlier told officers her daughter was "concerned" because there was cannabis at the home.
A quantity of the drug was later found inside a Tommee Tippee baby mug in a bedroom.
The trial continues.
Former Wales right-back Eardley joined Hibs on a short-term deal in August, having been released by Birmingham at the end of last season.
But the 28-year-old played in just two games for Neil Lennon's side, and his contract was not renewed.
Northampton are 16th in League One, eight points above the relegation zone.
They remain without a manager following the sacking of Rob Page on Monday.
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Emergency services found 55-year-old David McKenna unresponsive at a ground floor flat in Finch Close, Barnet.
He was pronounced dead at 06:51 BST. Next of kin have been informed.
No one else was injured.
A post-mortem is taking place at Northwick Park Hospital.
Det Ch Insp Andy Chalmers of the Homicide and Major Crime Command said he would like to speak to those who spotted anyone acting suspiciously in the vicinity of Finch Close on Sunday night or Monday morning.
"Thankfully, due to the actions of the London Fire Brigade, the blaze did not spread to other homes. Had it done so, we could be investigating more deaths.
"We retain an open mind as to the possible motive for the murder."
No arrests have yet been made.
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The 20-year-old, who spent 13 years at Watford's academy, has signed a two-year deal and will link up with the club's development squad.
Byers represented Scotland from Under-16 to Under-18 level and made one substitute appearance for Watford in the 2014-15 Championship season.
"It is a great opportunity for me, one which I am relishing. I can't wait to get started," said Essex-born Byers.
"I have come to a point in my career where I needed a change. I was at Watford for 13 years, now I am looking for that next step.
"Swansea's style of play was a big factor for me signing. Creativity is a big part of my game, I like to create chances but also do the hard work and battle in midfield to win the ball.
"There will be a lot of hard work for me from this point, I want to prove myself to people here and I am looking forward to getting started."
The sale of about 300 branches was a condition of the £45.5bn bailout of RBS in 2008 during the financial crisis.
RBS struggled to find a buyer, and the UK Treasury has been working on what it called "alternative remedies".
Under the new deal, which the EU has accepted "in principle", RBS would spend £835m to help boost competition.
As a condition for the state support the bank was obliged to reduce its presence in some segments of the market.
However, instead of selling Williams & Glyn, RBS has proposed providing support for challenger banks and funds to boost competition in the sector.
"It will see RBS fund and deliver a package of measures to improve the UK business banking market and is designed to boost competition, helping small and medium-sized enterprises benefit from greater choice and offers on banking services," the Treasury said in a statement.
Under the plan a £425m "capability and innovation fund" will be set up to support other banks who lend to small and medium-sized enterprises.
RBS will provide £275m worth of "dowries" to challenger banks to help them lure SME customers away from Williams & Glyn.
An additional £75m will be made available to cover customers' costs of switching.
In total the bank will provide £800m for the scheme, with an additional £35m in running costs.
"[It] looks like a small price to pay to make this longstanding issue go away once and for all," said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"RBS is putting the past to bed, and this new agreement represents another milestone in the bank's long journey back to good health."
The deal will be submitted for final approval by European commissioners later this year.
The Phantom 3 quadcopters also gain the ability to hold their position without using a GPS location signal, making them more suitable for indoor use.
And the app that controls the camera-equipped machines has been updated to allow live video streams to YouTube.
However one expert suggested more should be done to protect the public from such remote-controlled aircraft.
China-based DJI is the bestselling brand of drones in what is a fast-growing sector, with hobbyists, farmers, film-makers and land surveyors among its customers.
The firm found itself at the centre of a security scare earlier this year when one of its previous models crashed into the lawn of the White House.
DJI has unveiled two versions of its latest aircraft, which offer different video recording capabilities.
The Phantom 3 Professional, which costs $1,259 (£842), can shoot in 4K at 30 frames per second.
The ultra high definition format is four times the resolution of 1080p HD, which offers video-makers greater leeway to crop and pan across their footage after it has been shot.
The Phantom 3 Advanced, which costs $999 (£668), films at 1080p at 60 frames per second. This is lower resolution but better suited for slow-mo effects.
The lenses used by both aircraft are better suited for low-light conditions than earlier models. In addition, the new software allows owners to tag the best footage as it is recorded, making it easier to put together a fast edit.
DJI said that footage could be streamed to YouTube in 720p quality when the drone is up to one mile (1.6km) away from its controllers with almost no lag - a facility it suggested could make it a useful tool for journalists covering disasters and protests, and for mining and construction industry managers wanting to direct surveying efforts remotely.
DJI is also promoting the drone's ability to carry out indoor flights.
"The platform has a downward-facing camera that creates a 3D map of the ground underneath it in real-time, and identifies key vectors in that map and notices if there's any movement of those vectors," DJI spokesman Michael Perry told the BBC.
"So it automatically adjusts itself to hold a position.
"In addition, it's got two ultrasonic sensors that provide very accurate information about how far it is off the ground, which allows it to hover a lot more accurately, fly closer to the ground without having the platform bump up and down, and more importantly it lets you take off and land easily and securely with the touch of a button."
DJI competes against Parrot, Walkera and Xinte among others, which all allow users to fit their aircraft with standalone cameras.
Rising sales of such devices have led to safety concerns.
In April 2014 an athlete said she suffered head injuries when a drone that had been filming her race in Australia fell to the ground.
And in December, a US newspaper photographer said the tip of her nose was "chipped off" after an accident involving drones flown inside a restaurant.
Following the accident at the White House in January, DJI updated the firmware used by its Phantom 2 drones to prevent them from flying over much of Washington DC.
The firm highlighted that it also continued to expand a wider list of no-fly zones, which is built into its latest models.
However, it suggested government watchdogs needed to offer clearer guidance.
"We feel fundamentally that this industry will not reach its full potential until there is a clear and coherent regulatory framework put in place," said Mr Perry.
"I think the UK has taken some pretty significant strides - it has established a clear criteria for pilot qualifications, which are needed [alongside an approved request application] to be allowed to fly over a crowd or in a downtown area.
"But there is a patchwork of regulations around the globe, which only agree on one thing: flying near airports is dangerous."
Mr Perry noted that DJI drones sold in the UK were packaged with a pamphlet written by the Civil Aviation Authority, that sets out the restrictions under which they can be used.
But one expert said the industry at large had a responsibility to do more.
"Recommendations are already being fed into the European Union to come up with a unified approach that will allow novel technologies and also protect people," said Dr Mirko Kovac, from Imperial College London's Aerial Robotics Lab.
"But the more hobbyists and other people that use drones, the harder it is to control.
"And what we need are more technological developments to ensure safety, particularly through the design of the aircraft as well as the sensors they use... to make the drones themselves inherently safe."
Adjusted pre-tax profit in 2016 was £133.2m, as against £107.5m in the previous year.
Trinity Mirror took control of Local World in October 2015 in a deal worth £220m, making it the UK's largest regional news publisher.
The acquisition more than offset losses incurred by the group's failed national daily, the New Day.
The group said the print market remained "challenging".
Print advertising revenues fell by 17.9% for the year to 1 January, while total revenues from its papers dropped 10.7%.
Sales of the Daily Mirror title were down 10.8% compared with a 5.1% fall for the UK tabloid market as a whole.
However, Simon Fox, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, told the BBC the group had been seeing "real growth in digital advertising" and was "becoming more digitally focused".
Digital now accounted for 25% of advertising revenue, compared with 7% in 2012.
"We're on the way," he said. "The results are strong, but there's still lots to do, because the market is changing incredibly quickly."
Shares in Trinity Mirror rose 0.6% in morning trading in London to 120p, but have fallen more than a fifth over the past 12 months.
The jobs figures, from the US Labor Department, were better than many had been expecting and marked a rebound from two weak months.
It had been thought the figures would be affected by recent harsh weather, which had hit much of the country.
But the unemployment rate, based on different statistics, went up slightly from January's 6.6% to 6.7%.
February's jobs figure, known as non-farm payrolls and based on a survey of employers, compares with the 129,000 new jobs created in January.
Analysts had been expecting a rise of about 150,000 last month.
"It is stronger than expected on several fronts," said Camilla Sutton, from Scotia Capital.
"That these numbers came even while weather was bad shows the underlying strength of the US economy."
A large chunk of the gains came from financial and other services, which were responsible for an extra 79,000 jobs.
Construction companies, many of which had been affected by the bad weather, added 15,000 jobs.
But the information sector lost 16,000 jobs, most of them in film and sound recording.
Average hourly earnings in the private sector rose by 3.7%, or about nine cents, to $24.31, the figures show. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.2%.
The unemployment rate is calculated from a different survey, of households, and rose slightly from its lowest level since October 2008. It leaves the total number of unemployed relatively unchanged at 10.5 million.
However, the same survey shows the number of long-term unemployed (defined as those jobless for 27 weeks or more) increased by 203,000 in February to 3.8 million.
Cold and snowy weather, which has disrupted much of the country, was one of the reasons 601,000 people with jobs stayed at home last month, according to the survey.
The US Federal Reserve has said the severe winter was to blame for recent weaknesses in jobs numbers, retail sales and housebuilding.
Analysts see the latest figures as further evidence the apparent slowdown was only a blip.
"This bodes well for the economy since there were massive headwinds against it and there had been some data before this indicating that it wouldn't be so strong," said Adam Sarhan, chief executive of Sarhan Capital.
The stronger-than-expected figures are likely to mean the Federal Reserve will continue to withdraw extra support from the economy - a process known as tapering.
The central bank had been spending $85bn a month buying bonds, but has now reduced that to $65bn and plans to cut the programme by $10bn each month.
"Fed tapering will likely continue full steam ahead," said Craig Dismuke, from Vining Sparks.
Separate figures released on Friday showed the US trade deficit widened slightly in January, partly because of rising oil imports.
The deficit grew to $39.1bn (£23.4bn), an increase of 0.3% on December's figure.
Organiser Glasgow 2014 said the first phase of the sale, which began on Wednesday at 10:00, had been busy with thousands of people securing tickets.
It said customer feedback had been positive and there were no queues.
Problems last week saw sales halted with only half of the 100,000 tickets on offer sold.
A spokesman for Glasgow 2014 said: "The ticketing website and hotline have both continued to be busy. We're pleased, however, to report that throughout the day queues have been minimal as thousands of customers have successfully secured tickets."
He added: "We have another big day tomorrow, with available tickets for athletics and racquet sports going on sale from 10:00."
Problems with last week's sale saw thousands of people facing hours of waiting as the official website struggled to cope. Others were unsure if transactions had completed.
A number of customers were also charged for an engaged tone when they tried to buy tickets over the phone.
After suspending sales and reviewing the problems with ticketing firm, Ticketmaster, Glasgow 2014 announced last week that tickets would be released over three days this week to try to prevent a recurrence of the website problems.
Team sports and ceremonies went on sale first on Wednesday, with athletics tickets being released on Thursday and all remaining tickets on Friday.
The ticket phoneline will be free and buyers will also receive free postage.
Houston is Scottish Championship manager of the month after the Bairns won two and drew one of their three league games last month.
They have subsequently moved two points ahead of Hibernian into second place, having played a game more, and are 12 points behind leaders Rangers.
Ferguson takes the League Two award after Clyde won three out of four.
Those 12 points helped the Bully Wee in their push for promotion and they are currently just inside the play-off zone.
Manager Michael O'Neill was hoisted in the air by his overjoyed team after their 3-1 victory over Greece, securing their place at the Euro 2016 finals.
Leading politicians and sporting stars from Northern Ireland tweeted messages of congratulations on the achievement.
The Republic of Ireland team is also celebrating after beating Germany 1-0.
Martin O'Neill's team is now guaranteed at least a play-off place in the Euro 2016 finals, but will qualify automatically if they defeat Poland on Sunday.
Hundreds of fans gathered outside pubs near Belfast's Shaftsbury Square to celebrate Northern Ireland's victory.
Peter Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said it was a "tremendous result and achievement".
"Huge congratulations to Michael O'Neill and team. Great night for Northern Ireland."
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness tweeted it was an "incredible night for Irish football".
The Sinn Féin MLA congratulated the managers of both the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland teams on their victories.
Golfer Rory McIlroy attended the Windsor Park match with Belfast's world champion boxer Carl Frampton.
McIlroy tweeted: "Great night for the island of Ireland, north and south. Hopefully see both teams in France next year."
It is the first time Northern Ireland has qualified for the finals of a major football tournament since the 1986 World Cup.
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Mr Christie drew outrage after he was photographed relaxing on a beach that he closed because of a budget impasse.
As the governor filled in for a sports talk show host, a listener called in to object to his actions, labelling him a bully, which sparked a slanging match.
The Republican governor called the listener a "communist" and a "bum".
He appeared in place of WFAN's Mike Francesca on Monday in what the New York radio station described as an audition to replace the sports talk show host.
Listen to the full exchange
Mr Christie has faced mounting criticism since the 4 July holiday weekend, when he told reporters he did not "get any sun" before photos emerged of him sitting on Island Beach State Park.
The partial government shutdown arose because New Jersey legislators had not passed a health insurance bill that Mr Christie said had to be approved alongside the state's budget.
The shutdown included the closure of Island State Beach Park, one of New Jersey's few free public beaches, and all other state parks.
"Governor, next time you want to sit on a beach that is closed to the entire world except you, you put your fat ass in a car and go to one that's open to all your constituents," said the caller, who identified himself as Mike from Montclair, New Jersey. "Not just you and yours."
"You know, Mike, I love getting calls from communists in Montclair," the governor said.
The caller then responded: "You're a bully, governor, and I don't like bullies", adding that the beach trip was "bad optics".
"I'd love to come look at your optics every day, buddy," the governor said, calling him a "bum".
Another listener called in to criticise Mr Christie for supporting President Donald Trump, to which the governor responded by saying: "I'm enormously relieved we don't have a criminal in the White House like Hillary Clinton."
Mr Christie has faced dismal approval ratings in recent months.
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Paul Brain dived into Hooe Lake in Plymouth, Devon, after the car came off the road on Thursday afternoon.
An elderly man and woman were pulled from the car by emergency services but were later pronounced dead.
Mr Brain said he was at his partner's house near the estuary when he saw a wave and heard a passerby "screaming".
He said he undressed and swam out to the car with a hammer he was given by a local security company.
"I couldn't get deep enough to get to the front of the car", he said.
"I couldn't open any doors and I tried to smash the windows. I didn't realise how deep it was."
Mr Brain said he struggled for 10 minutes until a policeman managed to pull the male driver out through the front window of the car, which had turned onto its roof.
The woman was only released from the car after fire crews arrived.
Mr Brain said both passengers were unconscious when they came out and he "didn't give them much hope".
"She'd been in there [the water] nearly half an hour," he said.
Police officers tried to resuscitate the man before he and the woman were taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.
Mr Brain said he initially worried he had not done enough but said the photograph of him had helped him realise "that's all I could have done".
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The road in Charlemont Rise, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, was named after Cersei Lannister and her brother Jaime, who are in a relationship.
It has now been renamed Precinct Road.
Developers in the suburb had given streets names like Snow, Stannis and Greyjoy, in honour of the series.
One road was named Lannaster Road, a reference to the sibling couple.
"I even changed the spelling to make it not as obvious," said project manager of the new development, Gary Smith.
But he said residents "objected to that fact that it had a reference to Âincest... it's a fictional series."
City of Greater Geelong administrator Laurinda Gardner said road names should not "be detrimental to the preservation of longstanding community values".
Mr Smith says he took inspiration from the programme after struggling to think of original street names for the suburb.
He said: "You've got to think outside the box; we were getting so many names rejected. That's why we went for Game of Thrones."
Colm Cavanagh has recovered from a knee injury that he sustained in a recent club match and remains at midfield with Conall McCann.
David Mulgrew also starts after being a late inclusion for the Donegal game.
Down make one change from their semi-final win over Monaghan with Joe Murphy replacing Peter Turley at wing-forward.
Twelve different players got on the scoresheet in Tyrone's hugely impressive nine-point victory at the semi-final stage.
Cathal McCarron wore the number six jersey against Donegal but lined out at corner-back and he is named in the full-back line with Padraig Hampsey selected at centre half-back.
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Harte accepts it will be a challenge for his side to play any better, but insists there is still room for improvement.
"We did a lot of things very well but we made mistakes as well," said Harte.
"We were opened up for a number of goal chances in that game.
"It was a very good performance but I wouldn't say that it was a complete performance because we can be better at some aspects of our play.
"That is the six million dollar challenge for us now to get to that standard at least plus more the next day.
"I would rather be dealing with that than wondering could we play well. You can't have it every way.
"You can't do things and then worry about doing them.
"I now know that we can play that well so if we can repeat that then we will be in a good place."
Harte is attempting to win his sixth Ulster SFC title in charge of Tyrone, and a first back-to-back since 2009-2010.
Down have not won the Anglo Celt Cup since 1994 and last appeared in the final in 2012, losing to Donegal.
They have caused Tyrone plenty of trouble during Harte's 15-year reign, however, taking them to Ulster Championship replays in 2003, 2008 and 2014, winning once after extra-time in 2008.
Those experiences have made Harte wary of a side still regarded as rank outsiders despite impressive victories over Armagh and Monaghan.
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"It has always been a battle between us and them and because they are a people who have a strong tradition of playing quality football the evidence is there.
"Form points to the fact, that in theory, we should win this game but form doesn't win games for you.
"It is how you prepare number one and how you deliver on that preparation and that's our challenge.
"If we can deliver on the best of our own preparation to the best of our ability then I'm confident that we can win this game."
Tyrone: N Morgan; A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron; T McCann, P Hampsey, P Harte; C Cavanagh, C McCann; D Mulgrew, N Sludden, K McGeary; M Bradley, S Cavanagh, M Donnelly. Subs: M O'Neill, L Brennan, R Brennan, M Cassidy, R Donnelly, D McClure, D McCurry, Justin McMahon, C McShane, C Meyler, R O'Neill.
Down: M Cunningham; N McParland, G McGovern, D O'Hagan; D O'Hanlon, C McGovern, C Mooney; K McKernan, N Donnelly; J Murphy, C Maginn, S Millar; J Johnston, C Harrison, R Johnston.
The Englishman, 38, was one of six men competing for five spots at Oakmont, Pennsylvania and emerged successful after the second play-off hole.
"Mission accomplished," he wrote on Instagram. "Can't wait to get to Oakmont next week for the US Open."
Donald has played in 10 of the last 11 US Opens, withdrawing from the other.
He added. "I've had to qualify the last two years for the US Open, haven't liked it, but somehow making it this way feels pretty damn rewarding."
Americans Patrick Rodgers, Jason Allred, Richard Schembechler II and Scottie Scheffler were the others to qualify from the play-off.
The plan was announced just after the Mexican president cancelled a visit to Washington, amid a row sparked by the question of who will pay for the wall.
Mr Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to create a wall on the US southern border with Mexico.
Making Mexico pay for it was one of his key election campaign pledges.
But President Enrique Pena Nieto has always insisted that will not happen and on Thursday he pulled out of next week's White House meeting.
Hours later, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters that the president had discussed the funding proposal with lawmakers, and that they are considering making it part of a tax reform package the US Congress is planning.
He said that a 20% tax could generate approximately $10bn (£8bn) in tax revenue per year.
"Right now our country's policy is to tax exports and let imports flow freely in, which is ridiculous", Mr Spicer said aboard Air Force One, adding that the tax will "easily pay for the wall".
The two countries exchange about $1.6bn (£1.27bn) per day in cross-border trade.
The plan is still being finalised, he explained, saying that the tax could ultimately be as low as 5%.
Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, later said that the border tax is only one of several options being considered.
The rift between the neighbours and trade partners has deepened just days into Mr Trump's presidency.
After Mr Pena Nieto pulled out of the summit, Mr Trump said the meeting would have been "fruitless" if Mexico didn't treat the US "with respect" and pay for the wall.
Earlier Mr Pena Nieto said he "lamented" the plans for the barrier.
In a televised address, the Mexican leader told the nation: "I've said time and again: Mexico won't pay for any wall."
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham warned that US consumers may wind up bearing the cost of the proposed tax.
"Any tariff we can levy they can levy. Huge barrier to econ growth", he wrote online.
"Build that wall" was one of Mr Trump's campaign rally slogans, referring to the construction of a barrier along the 2,000-mile (3,200km) boundary.
As he signed the directive at the Department of Homeland Security, he spoke of a "crisis" on the southern US border.
His executive orders also called for hiring 10,000 immigration officials to help boost border patrol efforts.
"A nation without borders is not a nation," Mr Trump said. "Beginning today the United States gets back control of its borders."
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Dal Babu, ex-president of the National Black Police Association, said the Independent Police Complaints Commission had "flipped" too far and did not look into racism claims fairly.
He spoke days after a misconduct case of three officers accused of racism against a black firefighter collapsed.
The IPCC has rejected Mr Babu's claims.
Mr Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent who retired three years ago, told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme the IPCC had been "incredibly unfair against white officers".
He said racism was rife in the police when he joined in the 1980s, but he was now worried the IPCC had "flipped and is more likely to believe black complainants than white police officers".
Mr Babu said he had a "long history of fighting for equality in the police service" and wanted officers to be held to account, but said it must be done fairly.
His comments come amid criticism of the IPCC for its handling of a complaint by firefighter Edric Kennedy-Macfoy, who accused police officers of racism after an incident in Harrow, north London, in 2011.
It was a month after widespread riots, and Mr Kennedy-Macfoy, who was off duty, said he had offered to help police who were dealing with a disturbance involving about 200 people.
What happened next is disputed, but Mr Kennedy-Macfoy was tasered and arrested, then charged with obstructing police and resisting arrest.
After being cleared by magistrates in 2012, he began a civil case against the Metropolitan Police - and this was settled last year when the force apologised and paid him compensation.
An internal Met Police investigation had concluded that no officer should be disciplined over the incident, but in 2013 the IPCC rejected this and started its own inquiry.
Three officers faced a misconduct hearing last week, but the case the collapsed when the IPCC offered no evidence.
Mr Kennedy-Macfoy's lawyer Shamik Dutta said it was "peculiar for anyone to speculate that the IPCC was 'more likely to believe' Edric because he is black".
"One would expect a police complaint made by any firefighter in Edric's position to have been treated extremely seriously," he said.
He added that Mr Kennedy-Macfoy still works with the police in his role as a crew manger for the London Fire Brigade and the Met had invited him to help train their officers.
by Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
It's no surprise the police officers involved in the case, and their representatives, are angry at the IPCC's handling of it: after all, their careers hung in the balance for almost five years.
Edric Kennedy-Macfoy feels let down by the watchdog as well, even though the Met apologised and paid him compensation.
What's of particular significance, though, are the comments of Dal Babu.
When he retired, he was one of Britain's most senior Asian police officers.
He's fought against prejudice all his life, championing the recruitment and promotion of ethnic minorities in the service.
So his accusation that the IPCC is too ready to believe complaints of racism must be taken seriously.
No one doubts the IPCC has a difficult job - but it seems they have some way to go to restore confidence in the way they handle such complaints.
Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said the relationship between officers and the IPCC was "broken", and he called for a review by MPs.
"This has been going on for too long now, we've had too many promises made and too many fudged investigations where my colleagues... are being treated as if they are just common criminals," he said.
The IPCC admitted "procedural shortfalls" in its investigation of Mr Kennedy-Macfoy's complaint, and apologised both to him and the officers involved.
IPCC deputy chair Sarah Green told the BBC there would be a review to find out "what went wrong and why", but she said she "wouldn't want to get things out of proportion" based on one case.
She rejected claims that the IPCC is prejudiced against white officers when a black person complains.
"That is not our starting point. We always start from looking at everything to determine, as far as we are able, what we think happened," she said.
The county council aims to build 31,400 homes and create thousands of jobs over the next 20 years in a bid to attract more businesses and people to the area.
But inspector Harold Stephens said the plan was "unsound" and assumptions about job growth were "very ambitious".
A Durham County Council spokesman said the report was "beyond disappointing".
The County Durham Plan hopes to create 30,000 jobs by 2030 as well as building the homes and creating 500 hectares of space for businesses, warehouses and offices.
In the report, the independent inspector Mr Stephens said: "The objective assessment of housing needs is too high because the council's vision for a successful local economy incorporates unrealistic assumptions about jobs growth and associated in-migration.
"The reliance on high employment growth and associated high levels of in-migration that is built into the preferred economic scenario represents an unacceptable risk which I cannot support on the basis of the evidence before me."
The report was carried out following a public inquiry last year.
Councillor Neil Foster said the council "remained confident" that the proposals were "robust".
"To learn at this stage of the inspector's reservations and recommendations is beyond disappointing," he said. "We have been clear for many years that to turn around the county's economic prosperity an ambitious and forward-thinking partnership approach is required.
"We have only just been given the report but we are extremely concerned that by not having this carefully thought through and managed approach our communities will be left vulnerable to speculative and unplanned development."
Mr Stephens concluded it was not in the "best interests" of planning or plan-making to recommend an "unsound plan" for adoption.
Benon Kizza and Philip Pariyo claimed asylum and were housed near St Peter's Rugby Club in Roath.
The club's chairman told Wales Online they had signed the pair after "a bit of bureaucracy".
Uganda's rugby manager said transfer regulations had not been followed.
Kasasa Yayiro, Uganda's rugby manager, told the BBC he had been unaware of where the two men were playing before speaking to the BBC.
He said the players were part of the government-organised Commonwealth Games team when they disappeared.
"I don't know what reason they gave. Officially the players never told us," he said.
He added they had breached a code of conduct by staying in the UK and official regulations which allowed the transfer of players had not been followed.
Kizza and Pariyo hit the headlines after they went missing during the Games in Scotland last summer and were reported to have been working in the Glasgow area when they failed to return to Uganda.
They later claimed asylum and went to live in Cardiff in a hostel near the rugby ground.
Their talent for the game was unveiled after a Communities First group approached the club and asked if some of the asylum seekers could use the field.
Club chairman Joe Sweeney said Philip Pariyo told club coach, the former Wales international Mark Ring, he could play a bit and asked to join in. When the club realised the extent of the players' prowess, St Peter's made the move to sign them.
Mr Sweeney told Radio 5Live: "We inquired a little bit into his background and why he was here and it transpired he was a Ugandan sevens' player."
Mr Sweeney said the player's asylum application on political grounds had been successful.
He described him as a "very talented player", adding: "You've got to bear in mind that he's a specialist sevens' player which requires a different skill set to the 15-a-side game, but with a coach like Mark Ring who's a specialist backs' coach he's under good tutelage.
"There's no doubt at all that he's going to be very good for us."
Pariyo played his first game for the club two weeks ago and scored two tries.
Mr Sweeney said the club and community had rallied around to help Pariyo settle down and had put an appeal out on Facebook to help find him somewhere to live.
"We've been offered so much property and furniture. It's been overwhelming. We've made him feel as at home as possible. He's obviously missing his family in Uganda but I think he's going to enjoy his life here as well."
World Rugby, which oversees international rugby, said it had no comment to make on the case.
"What you need to understand here in Japan is that the crisis in Europe is over," he told Japanese business leaders on a trip to the Far East.
Much of Europe is suffering from high unemployment and recession.
As recently as April, there were fears about the future of the euro due to confusion over bailing out Cyprus.
The tiny eurozone state secured a loan package worth 10bn euros (£8.4bn; $13bn) from its EU partners and the International Monetary Fund.
An early proposal to raise money through a levy on all Cypriot bank deposits caused concern in financial markets and was quickly withdrawn. Instead, the island agreed to raise 13bn euros through a tax on large deposits and through banking reform.
This came after bailouts of Greece - twice - as well as Ireland, Portugal, and a bailout of Spain's banks.
Unemployment in the eurozone is at another record high - with 19.38 million out work - and the bloc is in its longest recession since it was created in 1999, now in six consecutive quarters of shrinkage.
In a speech on the last day of his visit to Japan, the French president said that the debt crisis has served to bolster Europe.
"I believe that the crisis, far from weakening the eurozone, will strengthen it," he said. "Now, we have all the instruments of stability and solidarity. There was an improvement in the economic governance of the eurozone, we set up a banking union, we have rules on budgetary matters that allow us to be better coordinated and have a form of convergence."
He has pledged to boost jobs and growth at home, but domestic demand has been sapped by the eurozone crisis.
The French jobless rate this month climbed to the highest level in 15 years.
Recently, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund called on France to introduce more economic reforms or else risk lagging behind some of its European neighbours.
The idea is one of several being discussed by European governing body Uefa as it looks to maximise interest in its flagship club competition.
Change to the Champions League schedule would not happen for at least five years because of broadcasting cycles.
"We are in constant dialogue with all stakeholders and any decisions will be taken in agreement with them," said a Uefa spokesman.
"It is far too early to speculate about changes to the formats of our club competitions."
The Champions League, previously known as the European Cup, has been played as a midweek competition since 1968.
Its final was played in midweek until 2010 but now takes place on a Saturday.
Weekend games could be staged at times more suited to the television audience in the Far East but would require changes to domestic schedules.
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The former Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham striker, 32, had been a free agent since leaving Crystal Palace in the summer.
He represented Togo at at the African Cup of Nations earlier this month, but they failed to qualify for the knockout stages, finishing bottom of Group C.
Istanbul Basaksehir are currently second in the Super Lig table.
"He was one of the players on our transfer short list," said director Mustafa Erogut.
"He returned with a positive report and we then contacted Adebayor. The player is impressed by the club's project and the president's vision so it is clear to us that the club and the player will contribute to each other."
Jodi Magi said on Facebook that she had left the country after spending "53 hours in custody".
Ms Magi was detained in July for what appeared to be a social media posting.
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday Ms Magi was detained ahead of her planned deportation.
The Australian government provided consular assistance to Ms Magi and her husband, and her plight was covered widely by local media.
Ms Magi had told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) she was arrested after sharing a photo on Facebook of what she thought was an illegally parked car.
In the photo, she blacked out the number plate of the car, which was parked across two disabled parking spaces in front of her Abu Dhabi apartment.
Ms Magi said on Wednesday on her Facebook page that she had been shackled and forced to sleep on a concrete floor during her incarceration.
She said she knew she would never have been released so quickly if she had not been an Australian, had not received consular and other support, and if her story had not been covered by the media.
Cybercrime laws enacted in the UAE in 2012 to crack down on dissent have been condemned by human rights groups.
Ms Bishop told local media Australian travellers needed to adhere to the laws of the countries they visited.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs' travel advice for the UAE warns that locals laws that appear harsh by Australian standards nevertheless apply to Australian travellers or residents.
Ms Magi told the ABC she had no idea what she had done was wrong.
Irene Laird, 64, who now lives in Caernarfon, was convicted after a trial before a district judge in the town.
She was fined and given a 60-day suspended jail sentence for offences including racially-aggravated common assault on Gwladys Jones last December.
The incidents, in the Caernarfon area, were unrelated to Laird's business. She told the court: "I am not a racist".
Laird was also found guilty of common assault on Mrs Jones and racially-aggravated threatening behaviour on a second occasion in February.
District Judge Gwyn Jones said Laird was wrong in thinking Mrs Jones was someone she had encountered previously.
He said Laird met the complainant in a public park and used strong racist and offensive language that amounted to "gratuitous degradation" of the victim.
The defendant was ordered to pay a £500 fine and £1,000 compensation, while a five-year restraining order was imposed.
FEP Heatcare Ltd broke rules on phone messages by playing householders a recorded message promoting its products and services without their consent.
The fine was imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
A lawyer advising FEP said the firm would lodge an appeal, arguing that the fine seemed "grossly disproportionate".
ICO officers had traced the calls to FEP Heatcare even though the messages did not identify the caller.
Ken Macdonald, ICO assistant commissioner for Scotland, said: "This company was already on our hit list.
"FEP Heatcare thought they could avoid detection by hiding their identity, but we tracked them down and have taken action."
The company came to the attention of ICO in February last year when it appeared on a list compiled by the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) of the top 20 most complained about nuisance call companies.
Despite a warning, it broke the rules again - this time by playing a recorded message.
These types of calls should only be made to people who have given the organisation their permission to receive them.
ICO found that FEP instigated 2,692,217 unwanted automated calls between April and July 2015.
Mr Macdonald said: "We know people hate nuisance calls and what this company did made people angry enough to complain.
"The kind of calls FEP Heatcare was making - recorded and about energy services - generated the most complaints to the ICO in February this year.
"Combined with automated calls about PPI, they made up 66% of our recorded complaints."
One complainer to the ICO, who is disabled, said: "I don't very often get calls on my landline, so it means I have to get up and walk to the phone, which causes me inconvenience and pain - frustrating when it's a nuisance advertising call that I didn't want anyway."
As well as imposing a fine, ICO has issued a notice to the firm demanding it does not make any further nuisance automated marketing calls.
Court action could follow if it fails to comply, it said.
A lawyer advising FEP said the company was "surprised and disappointed" at the level of fine imposed by ICO.
Peter Watson of legal firm PBW Law said: "This fine seems grossly disproportionate in light of the representations made to the Information Commissioner.
"FEP Heatcare Limited co-operated fully with the ICO investigation and had already stopped using automated marketing calls prior to the ICO contacting the company on 25 August 2015 regarding their marketing.
"We will now prepare an appeal to be lodged in due course."
Last September, a Glasgow-based firm was handed a record fine for nuisance calls after making more than six million automated calls in a solar panel marketing campaign.
Home Energy & Lifestyle Management Ltd was fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner.
The Pontypridd men had spent £230 (300 euros) on the accommodation before realising their error in France.
It was one of the many travel issues the Football Supporters' Federation (FSF) Cymru have been called on to help with.
Vince Alm, of FSF, said: "We were trying not to laugh."
He said the men turned up at the FSF fan embassy in Lens, ahead of Wales' 2-1 defeat to England on Friday.
"They were looking for the Lens Switzerland Hotel," he said.
"After further investigation we found they'd actually booked the hotel in Switzerland and not in Lens.
"They had to lose their 300-euros-a-night and go and find something in Lille."
He added: "The one was blaming the other and we were trying not to laugh because it is a lot of money."
Mr Alm said there had been a lot of "good stories" relating to travel mishaps during Euro 2016.
The FSF had to help 40 people who lost their coach to the UK in Lens.
"A lot of them stopped to have a drink, maybe, or got themselves lost. And we had to assist them to get back to Paris and back to the UK."
He said French police had also opened up a cell at a police station and allowed a fan to sleep inside with the door open because he had no money and nowhere to sleep.
And there have been several fans who have fallen asleep drunk on the street who have been taken to hospital.
The FSF have also alerted the authorities when fans have gone missing in France.
"But we managed to get them all home and that's our job - to assist fans," he added, saying they have not had any "serious incidents".
As Wales face Russia in Toulouse in their vital third group game on Monday night, fans face uncertainty as to if, where and when the team will next play at Euro 2016.
The team could still top Group B or crash out of the tournament.
If Wales qualify for the next round, the permutations mean they could play in Paris or Lens on Saturday, Lille on Sunday or Nice on Monday.
With regards to ongoing travel, Mr Alm gave this advice: "Make sure you have it [your arrangements] done by Tuesday because the prices go up.
"All these hotels are pre-booked in the different cities by the footballing authorities and just people taking a punt.
"So, as soon as you know, get your travel plans in."
Originally the social network rejected calls from users to delete the clips saying that it wanted to "preserve people's rights to describe, depict and comment on the world".
But after the BBC revealed that one of its own safety advisers - the head of the Family Online Safety Institute - had criticised its decision, the firm announced a U-turn, saying it would remove clips showing beheadings while it re-evaluated its rules.
That potentially opens a can of worms.
Since publishing the article, readers have contacted the BBC to complain about other videos, including:
In all cases they said the network had refused their requests to remove the material. A spokeswoman for Facebook confirmed its policy had only been amended in regard to decapitations.
But imposing stricter controls would open the firm up to other criticism.
Before his death, internet freedom campaigner Aaron Swartz warned of the dangers of privately owned parts of the net limiting what was posted onto their sites. He called this "corporate tyranny" and named Facebook as a specific concern.
The social network could not provide a date for when its review would be complete. The following range of opinions suggest it will struggle to please everyone.
More than a billion people express themselves and comment on the world in which we live through Facebook and most of the time this is entirely without problem.
On occasions, there are concerns about some of the content that is being shared and we have put in place a reporting system so that people can tell us about this.
The reported content is evaluated against our community standards and appropriate action is taken where our rules have been breached.
When drawing up and enforcing our approach to acceptable behaviour and content on Facebook, we aim to strike the right balance between enabling people to share information, news and content - and protecting the community as a whole.
This is a complex challenge as Facebook is a large, diverse community and we are continually presented with novel situations.
While we freely admit that we do not always get it right, the trouble-free daily experience of the vast majority of Facebook users demonstrates that our systems are working well in all but the most exceptional cases and that they are improving over time.
Facebook online safety
As we said last week, we are reviewing our rules related to content showing graphic violence.
In doing so we are clear that there are situations where it is important for people to be able to share content through Facebook even if this can at times be quite shocking.
For example, people caught up in violent incidents such as the recent Boston bombings or the ongoing conflict in Syria want to be able to report on their experiences and may use quite graphic content to do this.
This illustrates the kind of challenge that our highly experienced team deals with on a daily basis as we strive to offer a space for sharing that is mindful of everyone's expectations.
As a person who holds a strong sense of justice, I had no hesitation in setting up a petition for the removal of the sickening decapitation video I was shocked to find on my Facebook news feed.
What shocked me even more was the fact that I had to actually make a petition in any hope for the video to be removed.
No matter how many times my friends and I reported it, we all received the same message, stating that "it doesn't violate Facebook's community standard on graphic violence, which includes depicting harm to someone or something".
How does a video of an innocent woman being brutally murdered not "violate" this? I can only hope that there is a criminal investigation that will bring her justice.
As a loyal Facebook fan, I understand that Facebook is only allowing people to have freedom of speech. However, I think it is about time they drew a line between what is and isn't appropriate for the public.
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Facebook's audience starts from children aged 13 - what I feared the most was that my younger sister could easily have witnessed that disgusting video.
No-one should be exposed to such graphic horror. Sadly, that video isn't the only inappropriate content to have wandered onto Facebook recently. I have heard of others showing extreme violence and cruelty to both humans and animals.
It's time that new stricter regulations are made by Facebook in order to remove these vile videos for good so that it might return to being the safe social network it used to be.
Any intervention by Facebook to remove or block access to content beyond what a court might order - while respecting basic fundamental rights and the principle of proportionality - would in practice amount to privatised censorship, and nobody has an interest in going there.
A dominant, centralised actor such as Facebook would be incentivised to spend as little money as possible determining which content would be lawful or not, suitable or not, etc.
This would raise the question of what criteria would be used. Opening such a breach would ensure that any government could pressure Facebook to consider their own criteria, whether for political, religious or other reasons.
Under such conditions we can be sure that the fundamental right to freedom of speech or the right to a fair trial would not be respected.
As surely as we cannot trust giant centralised corporations to defend our fundamental freedoms, we cannot ask them to become the judges and enforcers of what information should be shared online.
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Protecting children on the net is a responsibility of their parents in the first place. It cannot be outsourced to Facebook.
It is a matter of educating them about the difference between between privacy, publicity and a circle of trust.
Since Facebook collects and stores so much information it should be able to determine when one of its members is a minor and is about to be exposed to content that has been reported as unsuitable, and display a warning message.
Users would then be free to choose to take that advice, or make a conscious choice to access the content.
Facebook, and most other social media sites, have explicit terms of service about what is and what is not acceptable to be hosted on their websites.
Family Online Safety Institute
Some go further and have created what are known as community standards.
These more clearly state the rules about what kinds of content will be removed.
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have robust reporting mechanisms so that ordinary users can flag inappropriate or abusive content for review.
What is challenging for these companies is how and where to draw the line.
This will help them determine when to invoke the "public interest" principle in keeping material - such as images from the Boston Marathon bombing - up on their site, even though they depict graphic violence.
This is new territory for us all as we navigate the rules, ethics and standards of user-generated content sites.
The controversy over Facebook's treatment of shocking videos of beheadings is the latest illustration of the enormous complexity at work when it comes to promoting the exercise of human rights online.
Billions of people rely on internet platforms to speak and access information in the networked public sphere, but the platforms are controlled by private companies, whose terms of service in large part determine the contours of free expression.
In one sense, platform operators are themselves speakers that have the right to determine their own policies. At the same time, these "digital sovereigns" - to borrow a phrase from Rebecca MacKinnon - effectively govern their users' exercise of free expression rights.
Platforms have a responsibility, particularly as they grow to Facebook-scale, to consider the human rights impact of their policies and to minimise restrictions on free expression.
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This is especially true with respect to government restrictions. It would be troubling indeed if government pressure precipitated the video's removal in this case.
A key step in carrying out this responsibility is ensuring that content policies are clearly communicated and fairly applied.
The horrific beheading video and Facebook's reported reaction demonstrate the challenges that arise when trying to develop and apply clear, consistent standards in the complex and multi-faceted realm of online communication.
Context matters a great deal. Different companies might draw the line in different places, and just because something is offensive or disturbing does not mean it necessarily violates a particular term. And it certainly does not make it illegal.
Because of this complexity, systems for assessing content require constant refinement to ensure that free expression is protected.
Advocates, too, must remain vigilant that the private players that provide so much public value online are meeting their responsibilities to users.
Is it complicated and prone to mistakes and close calls? Yes, but the alternative - mandated content policies and individual governments vying for control over the global internet - is untenable and fraught with risk for free expression.
The main concern, as an experienced psychologist, in working with the effects of actual and vicarious violence is a lack of awareness of violation of choice.
Material is posted on news feeds and "liked" indiscriminately without thought as to the rights of under-aged youngsters and others who may view it.
People, whether young or old, can be negatively affected by witnessing violence either on screen or in reality.
Effects include trauma responses such as replaying the images, feeling scared and vulnerable, ashamed, invaded or violated and confused, as well as angry and helpless, which is reinforced via the news feed as these things pop up uninvited.
Ethical codes are there for safety and to preserve the right to choose what is viewed when users are considered of age or able to understand the implications. Social media sites are mostly not obliged to adhere to such codes which creates a problem, particularly if they issue their own vague inadequate guidelines.
Social networks' news feeds allow material to arrive on people's pages that might never be sought by choice.
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Extensive "friendship lists" develop with people who may not be actual friends but through casual contact get "befriended", perhaps out of obligation or a need to fit in, be liked etc.
The material is often posted supposedly to prevent the spread of violent crime or other violations, but in fact it can inadvertently escalate it by sidestepping the consent of the people accessing the feeds.
This is reminiscent of the "ban smoking in public places" debate with the concern of whose rights we are protecting.
In that debate it was largely about public physical health. This debate concerns public mental health and wellbeing.
The Sky Blues were made to work for the three points by a Notts side who had their chances to take something from the contest.
Visiting goalkeeper Adam Collin saved well at his near post to deny Michael Doyle on six minutes.
But Notts came into the game and enjoyed a good spell with Terry Hawkridge hitting the post seven minutes later, before Shaun Brisley flicked a header narrowly wide on 28 minutes.
It was a costly miss as, moments later, as the Sky Blues went the front through Jones, who slotted home into the bottom corner.
Dominic Hyam headed just over on the stroke of half-time as City ended the half strongly.
Coventry continued to dominate after the break with Mark McNulty and Rod McDonald both going close.
Jones then wrapped up the win with two goals on the counter attack in the final 10 minutes.
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Match ends, Coventry City 3, Notts County 0.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 3, Notts County 0.
Goal! Coventry City 3, Notts County 0. Jodi Jones (Coventry City) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Maxime Biamou.
Foul by Peter Vincenti (Coventry City).
Matt Tootle (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Peter Vincenti (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jorge Grant (Notts County).
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Dominic Hyam.
Attempt blocked. Robert Milsom (Notts County) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Jorge Grant (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Chris Stokes (Coventry City).
Jorge Grant (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay in match Chris Stokes (Coventry City) because of an injury.
Foul by Jack Grimmer (Coventry City).
Lewis Alessandra (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Coventry City. Duckens Nazon replaces Marc McNulty.
Delay in match Marc McNulty (Coventry City) because of an injury.
Goal! Coventry City 2, Notts County 0. Jodi Jones (Coventry City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Maxime Biamou.
Elliott Hewitt (Notts County) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Michael Doyle.
Substitution, Coventry City. Maxime Biamou replaces Stuart Beavon.
Liam Kelly (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robert Milsom (Notts County).
Foul by Stuart Beavon (Coventry City).
Richard Duffy (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Peter Vincenti (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Shola Ameobi (Notts County).
Substitution, Notts County. Jorge Grant replaces Jon Stead.
Attempt missed. Rod McDonald (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Shaun Brisley.
Attempt blocked. Lewis Alessandra (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Notts County. Robert Milsom replaces Liam Walker.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Richard Duffy.
Attempt missed. Jodi Jones (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Jon Stead (Notts County) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Foul by Peter Vincenti (Coventry City).
Lewis Alessandra (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Richard Duffy.
Attempt blocked. Marc McNulty (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Chris Stokes (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
The researchers estimate that the climate effects of the release of this gas could cost $60 trillion (£39 trillion), roughly the size of the global economy in 2012.
The impacts are most likely to be felt in developing countries they say.
The research has been published in the journal Nature.
Scientists have had concerns about the impact of rising temperatures on permafrost for many years. Large amounts of methane are concentrated in the frozen Arctic tundra but are also found as semi-solid gas hydrates under the sea.
Previous work has shown that the diminishing ice cover in the East Siberian sea is allowing the waters to warm and the methane to leach out. Scientists have found plumes of the gas up to a kilometre in diameter rising from these waters.
In this study, the researchers have attempted to put an economic price on the climate damage that these emissions of methane could cause. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, even though it lasts less than a decade in the atmosphere.
Using an economic model very similar to the one used by Lord Stern in his 2006 review of the economics of climate change, the researchers examined the impact of the release of 50-gigatonnes of methane over a decade.
They worked out that this would increase climate impacts such as flooding, sea level rise, damage to agriculture and human health to the tune of $60 trillion.
"That's an economic time bomb that at this stage has not been recognised on the world stage," said Prof Gail Whiteman at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and one of the authors.
"We think it's incredibly important for world leaders to really discuss what are the implications of this methane release and what could we indeed do about it to hopefully prevent the whole burst from happening."
The researchers say their study is in marked contrast to other, more upbeat assessments of the economic benefits of warming in the Arctic region.
It is thought that up to 30% of the world's undiscovered gas and 13% of undiscovered oil lie in the waters. Transport companies are looking to send increasing numbers of ships through these fast melting seas. According to Lloyds of London, investment in the Arctic could reach $100bn within ten years.
But according to the new work, these benefits would be a fraction of the likely costs of a large scale methane emission. The authors say a release of methane on this scale could bring forward the date when global temperatures increase by 2C by between 15 and 35 years.
New research suggests that permafrost is also melting in Antarctica. Scientists have found that ground ice in the McMurdo Dry Valley Regions has accelerated consistently between 2001 and 2012, rising to about ten times the historical average. The researchers say that rising temperatures do not account for this increased melting but to an increase in sunlight caused by changes in weather patterns.
"We are looking at a big effect," said Prof Peter Wadhams from the University of Cambridge, "a possibly catastrophic effect on global climate that's a consequence of this extremely fast sea ice retreat that's been happening in recent years."
Some scientists have cautioned that not enough is known about the likelihood of such a rapid release of methane. Even though it has been detected for a number of years, it has as yet not been found in the atmosphere in large amounts.
Prof Wadhams says the evidence is growing.
"We are seeing increasing methane in the atmosphere. When you look at satellite imagery, for instance the Metop satellite, that's gone up significantly in the last three years and the place where the increase is happening most is over the Arctic," he said.
The authors say that the impacts of the extra methane would be felt most in developing countries which are more vulnerable to rising waters, flooding and the agricultural and health impacts of rising temperatures.
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The conductor stopped the Blackpool South train in Lancashire after hearing a "loud bang" as it set off at 08:20 GMT on Wednesday.
Police said a man ran towards him shouting abuse while saying: "You left early, I'm going to be late for work".
The man then punched the conductor in the face, police said.
British Transport Police said he tried pull the conductor out of the way to board the train before assaulting him.
The man was wearing a hat, a dark jacket and dark trousers and fled towards Waterloo Road.
PC Melanie Reid said: "The conductor opened the door and got off the train.
"As he did so he saw a man running towards him shouting abuse saying 'You left early, I'm going to be late for work'.
"The man then tried to get on the train but the conductor refused him travel due to his behaviour."
The conductor was left with bruising and swelling to his face.
The 36-year-old had been with the club for over 11 years, first as a defender and then manager since February 2014, when he replaced Michael Laudrup.
Saturday's 3-0 home defeat by Leicester City was his last game in charge, and left them 15th in the table.
"The decision has been made very reluctantly and with a heavy heart," chairman Huw Jenkins said.
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He added in a club statement: "To find ourselves in our current situation from where we were in the first week of September, and considering the drop of performance levels and run of results over the last three months, it has brought us to this unfortunate decision.
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"We hope to appoint a replacement as soon as possible."
Assistant manager Pep Clotet and coaches James Beattie and Kris O'Leary have also left the club.
Alan Curtis, the former Swansea player and long-time coach at the club, is expected to be in charge of the team for Saturday's Premier League match at Manchester City.
Monk had guided the Swans to a highest ever Premier League finish of eighth in his first full season.
They started this season in similar form, drawing at champions Chelsea on the opening day before beating Newcastle United and Manchester United at home in an unbeaten four-match start.
But Swansea's form then deteriorated as they lost four of their next six games.
An away victory over Aston Villa at the end of October interrupted the winless run, but the pressure intensified on Monk as his team picked up only one point in their next five games.
The 1-0 loss to Liverpool at Anfield was hailed by Monk as "an excellent" performance, but Saturday's comprehensive defeat by shock Premier League leaders Leicester resulted in his departure.
Jenkins said the club had to act given the team's loss of form since August, and in spite of Monk's impressive track record.
"Garry took on the job 22 months ago with the backing of everyone at the club," added Jenkins.
"And when you take into account the excellent campaign we had last season when we broke all club records in the Premier League, nobody foresaw the position we would be in at this moment in time.
"Bearing that in mind and the current uncertainty around the club, we felt the situation needed clarity to move forward.
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"It was not a decision we took lightly, especially given Garry's history and standing within the club.
"And it goes without saying that we wish Garry all the very best for the future and thank him for his tremendous service, not only as a player over the last decade, but also as our manager. He will always have a warm welcome at this football club."
Former boss Brendan Rodgers is the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Monk.
Rodgers left the Liberty Stadium for Liverpool in June 2012, and is currently out of a job having been replaced at Anfield by Jürgen Klopp in October.
Former Everton and Manchester United boss David Moyes is also in the running, although he has previously distanced himself from the job.
Jamie Walker fired Hearts ahead after Bjorn Johnsen's cross was not cleared.
But Ali Crawford's sublime free-kick drew Accies level, before Rakish Bingham scored twice after half-time; his second a thunderous shot.
Walker reduced the deficit with a penalty after Dan Seaborne clipped Don Cowie, then Paterson stabbed home.
At 3-1 up Hamilton were heading for sixth place but could only end the evening one point above bottom side Dundee.
Hearts stay fourth, now three points behind Rangers.
In their moment of greatest need, Hamilton could rely on a familiar source of hope. Crawford, a slight figure but an imposing talent, prompted, cajoled and helped to wrench this game back into the home side's command.
As they chased an equaliser in the first half, it was Crawford who delivered the decisive touch, sweeping a free-kick from 20 yards into the bottom corner of the net, just out of the reach of Hearts goalkeeper Jack Hamilton.
The game was frantic and untidy at times, particularly in the first half, but Crawford was seldom anything other than composed and sprightly in midfield. There can be a spikiness to him, and he shared some angry words with Hearts players in the second half, but most prominent was his talent.
He almost created a fourth goal, as well, when his cross to Gramoz Kurtaj saw the striker steer his header just wide.
The visitors lined-up in a 3-5-2 shape that mirrored the Hamilton formation. That allowed them to match up man-to-man, but it also demanded moments of accommodation.
Sloppiness was evident in both sides, but Hearts had more cause to curse their waywardness. They had an early warning, when John Souttar got in a tangle with Walker, but had the presence of mind to rush back to the goal-line and be in the right place at the right time to block Bingham's header.
It was a problem at the other end, too, with Johnsen slow to react after a Georgios Sarris back pass left him clean through on goal. Even so, once Hearts found their feet, they carried a threat.
They led from early on, thanks to Walker's excellent first-time half-volley, and the attacker - who was playing as a wing-back - confidently tucked away the second-half penalty awarded after Seaborne cleared from Cowie, but was adjudged to have fouled him.
As they chased the game, Hearts were able to count on the scoring prowess of Paterson, who surged up-field from centre-back to calmly finish from inside the area.
Hamilton have struggled for goals all season - they went into this game as the joint bottom scorers in the Premiership - but they built a two-goal lead in the second half thanks to some deft finishing by Bingham.
The striker reacted calmly after some crisp passing just seconds after the interval sent him through on goal, and he slotted the ball past the goalkeeper.
His second finish was more emphatic, as he rifled a shot on the angle across Hamilton and into the far corner after good play by Kurtaj.
There was no opportunity for a hat-trick, and he would have sighed with relief when Walker saw his chance of a treble thwarted by the post when he curled in a shot from 25 yards out.
Match ends, Hamilton Academical 3, Heart of Midlothian 3.
Second Half ends, Hamilton Academical 3, Heart of Midlothian 3.
Foul by Conor Sammon (Heart of Midlothian).
Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical).
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Don Cowie.
Attempt blocked. Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Lennard Sowah replaces Dougie Imrie.
Faycal Rherras (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Faycal Rherras (Heart of Midlothian).
Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Alim Ozturk (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Alim Ozturk (Heart of Midlothian).
Gramoz Kurtaj (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Alejandro D'Acol replaces Rakish Bingham.
Attempt blocked. Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Hamilton Academical 3, Heart of Midlothian 3. Callum Paterson (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Gramoz Kurtaj (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical).
Attempt saved. Callum Paterson (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Foul by Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian).
Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Arnaud Djoum (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical).
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Faycal Rherras replaces Tony Watt.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Arnaud Djoum replaces Prince Buaben.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Conor Sammon replaces Bjorn Johnsen.
Attempt missed. Gramoz Kurtaj (Hamilton Academical) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian).
Foul by Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical).
Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Hamilton Academical 3, Heart of Midlothian 2. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Danny Seaborne (Hamilton Academical) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Heart of Midlothian. Don Cowie draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Greg Docherty replaces Grant Gillespie.
He only graced the stage for 15 minutes, as the special guest of David Gilmour, singing the Pink Floyd classics Arnold Layne and Comfortably Numb.
Now, six months after his death, the star's own music will finally be heard at the iconic venue, as part of the BBC Proms.
Curated, conducted and directed by Andre de Ridder, the concert will span Bowie's entire career from Space Oddity to Blackstar - the "parting gift" he gave his fans in January.
"I just have to keep my wits together," laughs the Berlin-born musician as he oversees the final rehearsals at the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
As we arrive, de Ridder is putting the Stargaze orchestra through their paces on Fame, the angular funk track Bowie wrote with John Lennon in 1975.
"It sounds beautiful but it sounds a little classical," he decides, instructing the musicians to start again.
They dutifully leaf back through their score and break into the song's needling guitar riff - here transposed to flute and clarinet.
"Always stay on the groove," de Ridder reminds, before asking the brass to add "a little bit of growly stuff" to the bottom end.
Sitting quietly in the middle of the semi-circle is singer Laura Mvula, the mic stand clasped between her legs as she awaits her cue.
The song builds, she grabs the microphone and leans into the beat. "Is it any wonder, I reject you first?" growls the star, her head bobbing.
Over the next 15 minutes, the song slowly comes into focus, before the orchestra breaks for tea.
"For me, this is like a masterclass," says Mvula, who will perform three songs on Friday night. "I feel like I'm feasting on really important music.
"I would consider Mr Bowie alongside Prince and alongside Stevie Wonder. To me, it's a deeper reverence than fandom. The lasting effect of what he's done is eternal. It's beyond classic music. I'm very privileged even to be in the room."
As befits the Proms, the songs have shed their original form, with gospel choirs, double basses and kettle drums now drawing out undiscovered detail in Bowie's compositions.
"His songs stand the test of time but also the test of many different metamorphoses," says de Ridder.
"In the process of making the arrangements we found, for example, that a lot of the songs that have a very strong beat in the originals don't necessarily need that. Harmonically and melodically they have so much intricacy that maybe, in some of these arrangements, is brought out a little bit more.
"We really tried to bring in a great variety of composers and singers and interpreters from different genres and styles."
Chief among them is John Cale, the former Velvet Underground star and musical iconoclast, who not only collaborated with Bowie - he taught him to play the viola.
"He was always very inquisitive. A very creative person," making, he says, the sudden finality of his death all the more shocking.
"It still guts you when you think about it."
Cale is performing Valentine's Day, Sorrow and Space Oddity. In tribute to his friend, he is treating the work with zero reverence.
"Space Oddity - I push it in a different direction," he says. "I put in a trance beat. I've added a really great street gospel choir and we share the vocals.
"The people that are coming to this, they're not just coming for David Bowie, they're coming for David Bowie-plus. And they're not going to find it wanting."
The rehearsals at Maida Vale's Studio 3 (where Bowie once played an exclusive concert for Radio 2) run late into the night.
Artists including Neil Hannon, Conor O'Brien and French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky drop in to run through their performances, ahead of Friday's dress rehearsal at the Royal Albert Hall.
It's slightly shambolic, as the Stargaze musicians flick back and forth through the programme, to accommodate the schedules of their guest stars.
Amid one flurry of sheet music, de Ridder jokes: "This is the nightmare part we want to avoid tomorrow night - where we can't find the scores."
But the conductor generates a sense of calm that permeates the room, no matter how fraught he might be feeling.
"I'm a little bit scared about getting to the night and looking into people's faces in a sold-out Albert Hall," he confesses. "About what the reaction might be and how we might be overwhelmed ourselves.
"But as performers, this is always the challenge, to focus on what we've practised and let the emotions come through, to a certain extent."
The singers are much more sanguine.
"It'll be celebratory and exciting," says Cale.
"I think it will be special - not just for David's fans, but for music lovers," adds Mvula.
"It's going to be a really important night."
The David Bowie Prom will be broadcast live on BBC Four, Radio 3 and 6 Music at 22:15 on Friday, 29 July.
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The man had gone to his door to challenge the group when they hurled bricks through the windows of the house in New Edinburgh Road, Uddingston.
He suffered serious injuries and was taken to Monklands Hospital where his condition is described as stable.
The gang escaped following the attack which took place at 23:00 on Friday.
It is not known how many men were involved or in which direction they made off.
No-one else was injured in the incident, while police said two other cars were damaged.
Appealing for witnesses, Det Con Christopher Norton, of Wishaw CID, said the men were believed to have entered the area in a white Ford Transit van.
He said: "This was a brazen and targeted attack which has resulted in one man being taken to hospital.
"No-one else was injured, however, local residents were left shocked by the nature of this violent incident.
"Windows were damaged, a car was set ablaze and the victim was left seriously injured as a result of the attack. It is imperative that we trace the men responsible.
"We have been assessing available CCTV and speaking to local residents. We understand that the men may have entered the area in a white Ford Transit van.
"Local residents and passing motorists will have witnessed or heard this disturbance. I would ask anyone with information to contact detectives at Wishaw."
Secretary of State John Kerry said he was "deeply disturbed" at the move. He and the White House both called for Tohti's immediate release.
China's foreign ministry said it was opposed to foreign interference in China's judicial sovereignty.
Tohti was jailed on Tuesday after Chinese authorities accused him of promoting separatism.
Several of his students have been arrested on similar charges.
Ilham Tohti has spoken out on behalf of the Muslim Uighur minority group, who live in Xinjiang in China's far west. He has called for dialogue between Beijing and the Uighurs as a way of reducing tensions.
In a statement, Mr Kerry called Tohti's sentence "retribution" by Beijing for Tohti's promotion of human rights for Uighur citizens, and said his detention "silenced an important moderate Uighur voice".
The White House said civil society leaders like Tohti play a "vital role" in reducing ethnic tensions in China.
"We stress the importance of Chinese authorities differentiating between peaceful dissent and violent extremism," it said.
In a daily press briefing on Tuesday evening, China's foreign ministry spokesman Hua Chunying was asked by reporters to explain Tohti's sentence.
She said: "China's judicial authorities made their ruling in accordance with the law. I would like to remind you that China is a country governed by the rule of law, and China's judicial authorities handled the case according to the law."
"We firmly oppose interference in China's judicial sovereignty and independence by any country."
In one of the few Chinese reports on the case, Xinhua said Tohti had used the Uighur Online site and classes that he taught at Beijing's Minzu University to advocate for separatism as well as attracted students and citizens to join him.
Tohti was detained in January after he criticised Beijing's strong response to a suicide car attack near Tiananmen Square carried out by Uighurs from Xinjiang.
China has been grappling with a spate of violent public attacks this year, which authorities have attributed to Uighur extremists inspired or aided by overseas terror groups.
In response it has launched a crackdown, arresting and jailing scores of people for terrorism activities. Several have been sentenced to death.
But Uighur activists say that China's strong-armed tactics in Xinjiang - including cultural and religious repression - are fuelling tensions.
Two women managed to escaped the house in South Street, Braintree, shortly before 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.
But Alina Kordaszewska and her daughter Emilia were trapped inside and died at the scene.
Neighbour Claire Deloubes told of screams and vain efforts to break through a window to rescue those inside.
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The cause of the fire is being investigated by Essex Police and the fire service.
Notley High School, where Emilia had been a pupil, expressed its "unutterable sadness" at news of her death.
Her tutor described her as a "delightful, friendly and positive student" who had "settled in well during her first term" at the school.
The teenager's friends have set up a fundraising website page aimed at raising £5,000 for the family.
It read: "On Wednesday 21 December one of my dearest friends family home set alight.
"This itself is such a horrid thing to happen so close to Christmas, but unfortunately not everyone made it to safety.
"Her mother and little sister became trapped and didn't make it out of the house, this left an 18-year-old with her father to lose everything they love, family, possessions and a place that was safe for them."
Essex Police said they have officers with the family.
Mrs Kordaszewska's other daughter Milena, 18, is understood to have been one of the women who escaped the fire.
Rafa Bogonos, who worked with Mrs Kordaszewska a CommScope in the town, said it had "really hit our Polish community".
Ms Deloubes, of South Street, said: "We heard screaming so we came outside and a woman was distraught.
"People were trying to break the front window and they didn't manage to."
"Within minutes the house was ablaze and the fire service came, and we were asked to go back inside," she added.
"It was horrendous."
Braintree MP James Cleverly said he was contacted early on Thursday morning by police to be briefed on the deaths.
He said: "It is such sad and shocking news when members of a young family lose their lives in any circumstances and at any time.
"But obviously, under these circumstances, just before Christmas, it is absolutely tragic."
The detached Victorian-style home has been gutted.
The roof has burned through from the front gable to the rear and all of the windows are broken.
Beyond the police cordon, debris lies all around the house.
People are very quietly pausing outside to look.
The power was cut to the detached house at about 01:00 on Thursday so fire crews could tackle flames from inside the building.
The fire was put out shortly before 01:30.
Essex Police, which dispatched its helicopter to the area, has yet to confirm the relationship between the woman and the child who died or whether the cause of the fire was thought to be suspicious.
The increase adds £34.05 to a Band D property.
Local authorities can increase the basic rate of council tax by up to 3% for the first time since 2007, but higher-band properties will pay more regardless after MSPs approved changes.
This will see Band H properties in Moray pay £594.17 more.
According to Swedish national radio, the country's Defence Research Agency (FOI) led the project to build weapons including missiles and torpedoes.
While not confirming the report, Mr Reinfeldt said Sweden had signed an initial deal with the Saudis in 2005.
There were no rules preventing deals with non-democratic states, he added.
Sweden has been involved in arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the past, but the planned factory is seen as unprecedented.
Although the plant has not yet been built, Swedish radio says Project Simoom began under FOI's leadership in 2007, but was handed to a private company in 2009, when it was felt that the defence agency was "legally hindered" from continuing.
The company, named SSTI, was then said to have been given an export permit to buy equipment for missiles, bombs and other weaponry.
"Today, we have no project agreement with that country," FOI head Jan-Olof Lind said, adding that any talks that had taken place between Stockholm and Riyadh were classified.
Under Swedish law, all military exports have to be regulated by the independent Swedish Agency for Non-Proliferation and Export Controls (ISP).
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Mr Reinfeldt emphasised that he presumed that Sweden's export laws had been observed.
Sweden's opposition Greens Party has called for an investigation and for the defence minister to report on the issue to parliament.
Police said the incident happened on the Staffordstown Road, at its junction with Greenan Road, near Randalstown at about 16:40 GMT on Tuesday.
The two children were struck by a car that remained at the scene.
SDLP councillor Roisin Lynch said she understood the children were "brother and sister".
"This is a horrific experience for any family to go through. Local people are shocked.
"It it my understanding that they had just got off their school bus," she said.
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Hazel Reeves' work will stand in Manchester's St Peter's Square and depicts the suffragette leader making a speech while standing on a chair.
It was chosen from six possible designs by a committee after a public vote.
Helen Pankhurst, Emmeline's great granddaughter, said it was a "simple yet very powerful evocation of one of the most iconic women in history".
The statue will be unveiled on 8 March 2019 to mark International Women's Day.
Ms Reeves said it was "long overdue in this city with a rich history of women's activism".
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She said her design depicted Pankhurst "as the courageous, determined and dignified activist".
"In 2019, she will be back on Manchester's streets, continuing to inspire women to rise up and demand their rights," she said.
The privately-funded statue will be the city's second with a female subject, with the other being a sculpture of Queen Victoria in Piccadilly Gardens.
Andrew Simcock, who chaired the campaign fighting for the statue, said the lack of women had sparked people into action.
"As a radical city with a history of strong female figures, it is wrong that our public art does not reflect this part of Manchester's heritage," he said.
He added when they had been searching for a subject, the public had "voted overwhelmingly" for a statue of Pankhurst.
It will be the second statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in the UK, as a memorial to her and her daughter Christobel, who was also an activist, stands in London's Victoria Tower Gardens, close to the Palace of Westminster.
Ms Reeves has previously created a number of public statues, including depictions of railway engineer Sir Nigel Gresley at London's King's Cross Station and Sadako Sasaki, who survived the Hiroshima atomic blast before later dying of cancer.
Dywedodd arweinydd y blaid yng Nghymru, Mark Williams y gallai gadael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd "ddinistrio'r dyfodol i'n plant".
Bydd y blaid yn lansio'u maniffesto yng Nghymru yn Y Gelli Gandryll ddydd Gwener, wrth i'r ymgyrchu ailddechrau yn dilyn ymosodiad Manceinion.
Mae'n cynnwys addewid i wario rhagor ar iechyd ac addysg, a rhoi caniatâd i forlyn llanw Bae Abertawe.
Mae'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol wedi dweud y byddan nhw'n cynnal refferendwm arall ar ddiwedd y trafodaethau Brexit, fyddai'n cynnwys opsiwn i aros o fewn yr UE os nad yw etholwyr yn hoff o'r cytundeb.
Mae eu polisïau eraill yn cynnwys:
Dywedodd y blaid y byddai'r maniffesto, sydd yn dwyn yr enw 'Newid Dyfodol Cymru', yn cynnig "dyfodol gwell".
Fe wnaeth y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol ennill un sedd yng Nghymru yn etholiad cyffredinol 2015, ond collodd y blaid gynghorwyr yn yr etholiadau lleol diweddar.
Cyn lansio'r maniffesto, dywedodd Mark Williams: "Rydyn ni'n credu mewn Cymru gref, agored a goddefgar ble mae'r dechrau gorau posib mewn bywyd i'n plant, ble mae gan bawb barch at ei gilydd, a ble mae'r economi'n gweithio er budd pawb. Dyna yw sail ein cynllun.
"Bydd cytundeb Brexit sâl, gyda Phrydain yn gadael y Farchnad Sengl, yn drychinebus i ddyfodol ein plant, ein heconomi, a'n hysgolion a'n hysbytai.
"Etholiad ble gallwch lunio eich dyfodol eich hun yw hwn. Gall pleidlais dros Ddemocratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru newid dyfodol Cymru."
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Newport were reduced to 10 men in the first half when Sean Rigg was shown a red card for a challenge on Jake Jervis.
Connor Smith should have scored for Plymouth but he was denied by Joe Day.
Plymouth found it hard to break down Newport and Day saved from Jervis late in the game.
Newport County manager Graham Westley said: "It's not an easy place to come to. They've been going well and they've been winning games.
"We knew it was going to be a tough ask tom come here and win the game and win the tie and to go down to 10 men in the first half didn't make it easy.
"We had to box clever, develop our game plan and change the way that we were playing and I though the second half showing was outstanding."
Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 0, Newport County 0.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 0, Newport County 0.
Attempt saved. Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle) header from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Dan Butler.
Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jennison Myrie-Williams (Newport County).
Attempt saved. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Ben Tozer (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle).
Marlon Jackson (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Newport County. Marlon Jackson replaces Rhys Healey.
Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County).
Attempt missed. Rhys Healey (Newport County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Alex Fletcher replaces Craig Tanner.
Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt saved. Rhys Healey (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Dan Butler.
Attempt missed. Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Abdoulaye Méité.
Attempt blocked. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Scot Bennett (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Scot Bennett (Newport County).
Foul by Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle).
Jennison Myrie-Williams (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Tozer (Newport County).
Foul by Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle).
Dan Butler (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Scot Bennett.
Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jennison Myrie-Williams (Newport County).
Attempt saved. David Fox (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Dan Butler.
David Fox (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Jebb (Newport County).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Louis Rooney replaces David Goodwillie.
Attempt missed. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
They also
posed for pictures
with torchbearers Scott Moorhouse and Jay Kamiraz, whose Souls of Prophecy choir is a favourite of the prince.
England's World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks started the day's relay, carrying the flame at Wembley Stadium.
Decathlete Daley Thompson ran the last leg of the relay at Alexandra Palace.
Thompson,
who won decathlon gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles,
lit a cauldron on stage in the climax to Wednesday's 30-mile journey.
A total of 153 torchbearers carried the flame as it travelled 30 miles through the London boroughs of Harrow, Brent, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
It was in the last of the boroughs, at 1726 BST, that
Prince Charles and Camilla appeared on the side of the road
as Mr Kamiraz came to the end of his run and passed on the flame.
The royal couple then stood either side of the torchbearers while photographs were taken before Mr Moorhouse, an amputee who lost his left leg at the knee after an accident when he was six weeks old, began his stint with the flame.
The first torchbearer of the day was Jo Hyams, 29, who took the flame across the bridge and moat at Headstone Manor, a grade I-listed building, reputed to be the oldest surviving timber-framed construction in Middlesex.
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Ms Hyams, who lives in Harrow, was nominated for her charity work in the area.
Later as the flame neared Wembley Stadium, Timothy McKenzie, better known as singer songwriter Labrinth, ran with the flame.
Singer Beverley Knight was also a torchbearer in Brent.
Outside the stadium, Inderjit Bhalla - who won gold in badminton at the British Transplant Games - passed the flame to former badminton player Nathan Robertson, who won silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics with former mixed-doubles partner Gail Emms.
Robertson missed out on qualifying for London 2012 and has since
announced his retirement from the sport.
England's greatest goalkeeper, Banks, then ensured the torch was in safe hands as he carried it along Olympic Way outside the new stadium.
Now 75, he was part of England's famous team that won the World Cup in 1966 at the original stadium, and he also played in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, when England reached the quarter-finals.
He said his stint with the torch was "absolutely fantastic".
He added it was "a great honour to have been here and held the torch with a light on it that goes back so many, many, many years".
Banks also paid tribute to his former team-mates, the late Alan Ball and Bobby Moore.
The flame was carried to the lunch break by
100-year-old Diana Gould,
the oldest female torchbearer of London 2012. She still runs exercise classes at the retirement flats where she lives in north-west London.
Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, 23, was the first to carry the flame after lunch.
"It's something I'm finding hard to put into words - an overwhelming blur of an experience [that] I'm going to remember for ever," he said.
The actor, who plays Ron Weasley in the films, handed over to Harriet Cooper, who at 15 is considered an outstanding swimming prospect, having won gold at the 100m backstroke in the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival in Turkey.
Still on the swimming theme, among the other torchbearers was Tony Tancock, father of British Olympic hopeful Liam, who will be competing in the 100m backstroke.
Boxer James Degale, who won a
middleweight gold medal at the 2008 Olympics
in Beijing, soldier Jack Otter, who lost both legs and an arm in an explosion in Afghanistan, and Lloyd Scott, from Essex, who survived leukaemia, were among the other torchbearers.
Mr Otter in particular drew huge cheers from the crowd as he twice got up from his wheelchair to walk unaided during the first and last parts of his stint.
The relay finished at Alexandra Palace, where 68-year-old Frank Adams passed the flame to Thompson, who was the first decathlete to hold the World, Olympic, Commonwealth and European titles simultaneously.
Thompson, who trained at nearby Haringey Athletics Club, looked thrilled when he did the honours at "Ally Pally", formerly the BBC's headquarters and still a major events venue.
A total of 8,000 people will carry the flame during its 8,000 mile, 70-day journey to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London on 27 July.
The 24-year-old , who played in defence for Nigerian Premier League club Shooting Stars, was hit by a stray bullet when gunmen attacked a market in his hometown of Okaki in Rivers State.
The club's tweeted on its official account: "A Shooting STAR is gone! Izu Joseph is gone! Flamboyant defender is gone! RIP, brother. What a life! May God strengthen his family #Tragedy."
Joseph joined the club three years ago.
He was a key player as the team secured a return to the top flight from the second division in 2014.
The Nigerian Football Federation tweeted: "Our thoughts are with the Mgt. & Staff of @Official3SC on the shocking loss of their player, Izu Joseph. May his soul Rest In Peace! #RIPIzu".
First Minister Peter Robinson said the Treasury had indicated its willingness to intervene if Stormont does not stay within its budget.
He said "formal concern" was expressed in a letter to Stormont's finance minister from the Treasury.
Mr Robinson made the comments during an interview for the BBC.
The DUP leader said the chief secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands had written to Northern Ireland's Finance Minister Arlene Foster voicing concern about Stormont departments potentially breaching their spending controls.
Mr Robinson told the BBC that the letter gave "a very clear indication that they intended to take steps that preparatory work had already begun and that they would not allow us to breach those totals but would intervene".
He added: "That indicates that the lifetime of the assembly is limited, unless those who are stalling in the process, the SDLP and Sinn Féin, take their responsibilities seriously and deal with these issues.
"I can imagine as soon as there will be an intervention from the Treasury to tell us what we can spend and how much we can spend, we will have ministers who aren't prepared to play ball with that and the assembly collapses."
Mr Robinson held a private meeting with the prime minister on Thursday. He said the prime minister continued to be concerned that agreements reached last December had not been implemented.
The Northern Ireland parties had agreed a deal on Westminster's welfare reform measures in the Stormont House Agreement last December.
However, Sinn Féin withdrew its support in March.
Since the striking of the agreement, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Green Party have opposed plans to implement the changes.
They have argued that the measures will hit the most vulnerable members of society.
But supporters of the plan have warned that failure to change the benefits system will mean the executive cannot manage its budget, putting the future of the devolved government at risk.
Last month, Stormont's new budget bill passed its second stage, but the final stage is dependent on a deal on welfare reform.
Firefighters and paramedics were called to the pipe behind the Princess Royal Hospital on Lewes Road, Haywards Heath, at 21:51 GMT on Wednesday.
Two crews from Haywards Heath responded to a 999 call.
South East Coast Ambulance Service's hazardous area response team was also involved in the rescue.
A rope and a ladder system and a stretcher were used to remove the 44-year-old man from the culvert and haul him up the steep-sided bank to safety.
The man, who was conscious and breathing, was treated at the scene by paramedics and then taken to hospital.
Republican and Democratic leaders on the panel vowed to follow the intelligence "wherever it leads".
The investigation will look into Russia's cyber activity and intelligence practices.
Interviewees will include members of the current US administration and President-elect Donald Trump's team.
A statement, released by the committee late on Friday, said, "We believe that it is critical to have a full understanding of the scope of Russian intelligence activities impacting the United States."
The committee will examine whether there were any contacts between Russia and people associated with the US political campaigns.
It said subpoenas would be issued "if necessary to compel testimony".
The bulk of the work will be done behind closed doors, although the senators say they will hold open hearings when possible.
"The committee will follow the intelligence wherever it leads. We will conduct this inquiry expeditiously, and we will get it right," said the statement.
The senators said they would produce both classified and unclassified reports on their findings.
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President-elect Trump announced, on Twitter on Friday, that his team will also produce a "report on hacking" within 90 days.
It follows the released of an unproven dossier alleging that Russian security officials have compromising material on Mr Trump, which could make him vulnerable to blackmail.
The US president-elect said the claims were "fake news" and "phoney stuff".
The US released an unclassified intelligence report earlier this month, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the hacking of Democratic Party emails to damage Mr Trump's Democrat rival, Hillary Clinton, and influence the election.
It also said Russia used state-funded propaganda and paid social media users, or "trolls", to launch online attacks.
In December, US President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats from the country in response to the hacking allegations.
Russia says allegations that it ran a hacking campaign to influence the US presidential elections are "reminiscent of a witch-hunt".
Simon Danielli, 37, was fined £500 at Newtownards Magistrates Court.
The judge said he was satisfied that Mr Danielli had struck Michael Browne - whom the ex-player suspected of having an affair with his wife - in the face.
Further charges that he assaulted his estranged wife Olivia and damaged her phone were dismissed by the judge.
Defence suggestions that Mr Browne suffered a black eye in a fall were "fanciful", the judge said.
Mr Danielli, from the Coaches in Holywood, County Down, was convicted after an incident on 11 March 2015.
Ireland captain Rory Best gave character evidence, saying his former Ulster teammate was a man of "honesty and integrity" and had not shown aggression on or off the rugby field.
Olivia Danielli, from Marino Station Road in Holywood, is facing charges in the same court of causing criminal damage to her former husband's £38,000 Jaguar car in August 2015.
In court, the judge said it was clear the former couple were "at daggers, they're at loggerheads".
Several months ago, the judge asked the couple's defence teams to discuss binding-over orders, promising good behaviour as opposed to "washing their dirty linen in public."
In a four-day hearing, the court heard allegations of illicit extra-marital affairs, covert bugging devices placed in the marital home and a GPS tracking device being hidden in Mr Danielli's car.
The court also heard that his father-in-law, Shamus Jennings, pleaded with him to work at the marriage and then allegedly threatened to "destroy him" when it broke down irrevocably.
Mr Danielli retired from rugby with a back injury in 2012, after 32 appearances for Scotland and 78 for Ulster.
After the vote to leave the EU, many might have expected the Liberal Democrats to position themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives on Brexit.
The party campaigned heavily for Britain to remain a member of the EU - if this election is about Brexit, surely the Lib Dems will be able to pick up a number of votes from those who wanted to remain?
Also, the party would be hoping to win over voters disillusioned with the current turmoil in the Labour Party. Unfortunately for the Lib Dems, the hoped-for fight back has not materialised.
The party has faced major difficulties following Nick Clegg's decision to go into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010.
It was to have a disastrous effect on the party - it lost 49 of its 57 seats in the 2015 general election, with its vote share falling by 15 percentage points.
The fallout also affected the results of the 2016 Welsh Assembly election with the party losing four of its five seats, only retaining Kirsty Williams's seat of Brecon and Radnorshire. Since then, Mark Williams has become leader of the Welsh Lib Dems while Kirsty Williams has become education secretary in the Labour-run Welsh Government.
The Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has attempted to present the party as the only opposition to the Tories and hard Brexit.
There were early hopes for the Lib Dems that this would be successful.
The by-election victory in Richmond Park in December was fought on the issue of Brexit by Sarah Olney who managed to overturn a 23,015 Conservative majority. This significant result was a cause for optimism for the party - if Brexit is the main issue for voters this election then they would be hoping to maintain this level of success.
In Wales, as across the UK, a Lib Dem fight back has not materialised.
According to my colleague Prof Roger Scully, the party has not made a significant improvement in opinion polls since 2015. The narrative of the election thus far has centred on May vs Corbyn, meaning the Lib Dems are struggling to break through.
The most recent Welsh polling has suggested that the two main parties are squeezing votes from the smaller parties. As such, this has created a very tough presidential-style campaign which has made it tough for the Lib Dems to compete.
This might be because the electorate in Wales does not seem to have much faith in Mr Farron himself. Recent data found that he was less popular than every UK and Welsh party leader except for UKIP's Paul Nuttall and Neil Hamilton.
More worryingly for the party in Wales, results showed that Welsh leader Mark Williams was the least visible party leader by some distance compared to UK and Welsh party leaders. If Welsh Labour is successful in making this an election on Welsh issues, the Lib Dems might struggle for visibility in Wales.
If current polling data is correct, the party should hold on to its only seat in Wales, Ceredigion.
The seat has traditionally been a Liberal seat, stretching back to Sir Thomas Lloyd in 1865, with only brief periods of it changing hands - Thomas Edward Lloyd for the Conservatives in 1874 and Elystan Morgan for Labour in 1966.
However, despite Mark Williams having held Ceredigion since 2005, it was held by Plaid Cymru from 1992 to 2005. Plaid will be targeting this seat, with the difference in vote share between the two parties only being about 3,000.
Plaid's Elin Jones has also held the assembly seat of Ceredigion since 1999. If Plaid can run a very good campaign in Ceredigion, Mark Williams could be at risk.
Many Lib Dem supporters might have assumed that there would be a surge in support for the party from Remainers after the Brexit vote.
However, that surge has not happened and the party faces another difficult election. If the party cannot make a comeback now in a Brexit election and with the Labour Party supposedly in turmoil, it might have to face a long time before it reaches pre-2010 heights.
The incident happened shortly before 17:00 local time at a marina near the village of Termonbarry in County Roscommon.
It is understood the boy was in the water with friends when he got into difficulties.
RTÉ reports that his friends made desperate efforts to rescue him and nearby boats also came to help.
The boy's body was recovered from the water a short time later.
The gardaà (Irish police) are investigating.
The 30-year-old suffered the injury while playing for the Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League in April.
The T20 Blast starts in July, with Gloucestershire opening their campaign at home to Middlesex in Cheltenham.
Meanwhile, bowler David Payne has been sidelined for an unknown length of time after undergoing a hernia operation.
In his opening statement, Tony Hall said that, in the light of increased devolution to the nations of the UK, it was "time to make changes".
The broadcasting boss is giving evidence to Holyrood's education and culture committee.
The BBC Charter, which outlines the public purposes of the corporation, expires at the end of 2016.
Lord Hall appeared before the committee alongside the head of BBC Scotland, Ken MacQuarrie, and finance director Anne Bulford.
He said the review of the delivery of news on TV, radio and online would report in the spring.
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Lord Hall said: "The BBC's principle has been neither to lead nor to lag in devolution. But now is the right time to say are we getting it right and do we need to change the balance?
"My own view is that this is the time now to make a change.
"So, we are looking at a review of news which will report in the spring - this is looking at the provision news across TV, radio and also online and of course in that there will be a debate about what has become known as the 'Scottish Six O'Clock news'.
"But I want to make sure that the discussion is about the totality of our services as well, and it looks to the future. When you look at people consuming news not just in the traditional and important ways in terms of our main services, but it is also in things like mobile, online and so on, and we want to make sure those are match fit as well."
He also told the committee that;
The committee also questioned the Scottish government's culture secretary Fiona Hyslop.
Ms Hyslop called for the creation of a federal BBC that would give full powers over commissioning and decision-making to BBC Scotland.
Broadcasting is reserved to Westminster but the BBC has acknowledged that Holyrood has a formal role in scrutinising the work of the corporation.
She told MSPs: "I want to be clear it is not about some desire to control the BBC and to dictate what kind of services are delivered, this is about ensuring the BBC's long term future in a way that benefits both the BBC and which benefits Scotland.
"It is a future that cannot be deemed to be meeting the needs of the UK's nations and regions unless it thinks about Scotland in a different way."
MSPs on the culture committee have already voiced concern about BBC investment in programmes from Scotland, including for the UK network.
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"In news, in portrayal [of Scotland], there is more to be done."
At the committee, the argument flowed back and forth. It was argued forcibly that programmes with a Scottish base contribute to jobs and development here.
However, Tony Hall acknowledged that it was now time to move to a new phase: with further power in Scotland allied to programmes which offered a more sustained and authentic portrait of Scotland.
Further, the Director General confirmed a review of news, due to report in the Spring - which might include such familiar concepts as a Scottish Six, a TV programme encompassing Scottish, UK and global news.
Ken MacQuarrie [head of BBC Scotland] was questioned about earlier ideas such as new Scottish TV and radio channels. Those, he said, had never formed part of a formal plan. They were notions around during the earliest stages of preparing for the Charter Review, itself due to be completed by the end of this year.
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In September, Lord Hall set out his vision of the BBC helping to "make Britain the greatest cultural force in the world" over the course of the next charter period, which will run for a decade.
He also outlined plans to provide new versions of BBC education, news and entertainment services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
But he warned that funding cuts would mean the loss or reduction of some BBC services.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has also previously called for BBC Scotland to be given more influence and a greater slice of the licence fee.
And she has called for a new BBC Scotland TV channel to be created alongside a second English-language radio station.
But opposition parties have accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of seeking to exert political control over the broadcaster.
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Bwriad cwmni Hydro Electric Development yw codi cynllun hydro-drydanol ar draws Afon Tywi yn Ystradffin ger cronfa ddŵr Llyn Brianne, ynghyd â phwerdy bychan, tyrbin a generadur gerllaw.
Yn ôl y cwmni, gallai'r cynllun gynhyrchu 1800kW o drydan o ynni glân.
Mae hi'n fenter ar y cyd rhwng un o gwmnïau hydro-drydanol mwyaf blaenllaw Ewrop, Grŵp Renfin ac arbenigwr ar gynlluniau hydro, Ewan Campbell-Lendrum.
Mewn llythyr at y cyngor, mae Ffederasiwn Pysgotwyr Sir Gâr wedi codi pryderon am effaith posib y cynllun ar eogiaid sy'n mudo.
Yn ôl y ffederasiwn, mae hi'n "anodd diffinio" faint o lif sydd ei angen ar gyfer pysgod sy'n ceisio symud i fyny ac i lawr yr afon.
Mae pryder hefyd ynglŷn â'r effaith posib ar niferoedd y pysgod, a'r angen am gynllun i fonitro niferoedd os yw'r cynllun yn cael ei ganiatáu.
Yn ôl y pysgotwyr, dylai'r datblygwyr hefyd ddarparu arian i wella pysgodfeydd yn yr ardal.
Maen nhw'n galw ar bysgotwyr yr ardal i wrthwynebu'r cais, gyda'r ymgynghoriad yn dod i ben ar 1 Chwefror.
Mewn datganiad, dywedodd cwmni Hydro Electric Development bod "lleoliad y cynllun wedi'i ddewis yn ofalus er mwyn sicrhau nad yw'n cael effaith andwyol ar yr amgylchedd".
Dywedodd un o ymgynghorwyr y cynllun, Adam Cropper: "Mae arbenigwyr ar fioleg ac ecoleg pysgodfeydd wedi cael eu comisiynu i gynnal arolygon, ac i wneud argymhellion ar sut i amddiffyn yr amgylchedd lleol.
"Mae'r astudiaethau gwyddonol yma wedi caniatáu i ni ddatblygu mesurau arbennig, er enghraifft pryd i ryddhau dŵr er mwyn cynorthwyo sewin ac eogiaid i fudo.
"Mae Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru wedi gosod rheolau ar reoli dŵr er mwyn sicrhau nad oes effaith niweidiol ar yr amgylchedd, ac mae'r manylion hynny i'w gweld yn ein trwydded echdynnu dŵr, sydd i'w gweld ar wefan Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru.
"Mae rhannau uchaf Afon Tywi yn parhau i fod yn ardal o bwysigrwydd ecolegol, ond gall wneud cyfraniad i fynd i'r afael â newid hinsawdd."
Bydd y cais cynllunio yn cael ei ystyried gan Gyngor Caerfyrddin wedi i'r ymgynghoriad ddod i ben.
Unseen and unnoticed by humans, researchers found that 3.5 trillion bugs and butterflies annually migrate across the region.
The researchers say their mass is equivalent to 20,000 flying reindeer.
The count was made using vertical radar and insect nets mounted on balloons.
Over a 10-year period, the scientists looked at insects flying night and day, between 150 and 1200m above the ground.
While their origins weren't recorded the researchers believe that many were travelling to and from the UK from across the English Channel and the North Sea.
Although the vast majority of the insects were tiny creatures like cereal crop aphids, flies and midges, there were also larger ones including hoverflies, ladybeetles, moths and butterflies.
One of the most surprising findings was that while the smaller insects took off regardless of wind direction, all the medium and larger creatures showed a really clear pattern of seasonal movements.
"The insects are basically measuring the wind direction and deciding whether or not to fly on that particular day or night," said Dr Jason Chapman, from the University of Exeter, the paper's co-author.
"It signifies that the insects have a compass mechanism in order to know which is north and south, but they also have the capability to then fly up high into the sky and assess the direction of the wind and relate it to the compass direction and make a decision on whether to fly or not - that's a quite complex set of things and many, many species are doing this."
The researchers found strong migrations northward in the Spring with subsequent movements south in the Autumn.
The scale of these movements essentially cancelled each other out over the period of the study.
What was also somewhat surprising were the distances covered and the speed of travel. The researchers found some insects were able to travel at 36-58 kilometres per hour, over distances of 200-300km.
The ability to study these creatures over long periods of time may be very helpful in determining the changes to the environment.
"Animal migration, especially in insects, is a very complex behaviour which takes millions of years to evolve and is very sensitive to climatic conditions," said Dr Ka S Lim, from Rothamsted Research, another author of the paper.
"Global climatic change could cause decline of many species, but equally other highly adaptable species thrive and become agricultural crop pests."
The researchers say that they have been able to estimate the mass of the creatures flying over the southern part of the UK at around 3,200 tonnes of biomass, which according to the authors is the equivalent of 20,000 flying reindeer.
"It's also nearly eight times the mass of the number of migratory songbirds that are coming out of the UK every year," said Dr Chapman,
"But yes, 20,000 reindeer is the correct figure, it's a calculation I did when I realised the date the paper was coming out!"
The study has been published in the journal Science.
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Some 171 countries inked the deal today, a record number for a new international treaty.
About 15 nations, mainly small island states, had already ratified the agreement.
But dozens of other countries were required to take this second step before the pact came into force.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: "Paris will shape the lives of all future generations in a profound way - it is their future that is at stake."
Speaking at the opening ceremony, he said the planet was experiencing record temperatures: "We are in a race against time. I urge all countries to join the agreement at the national level.
"Today we are signing a new covenant for the future."
As the world marked the 46th Earth Day, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres explained what now needed to happened.
"Most countries, though not all, need to take the signed document and go back home and go to ratification procedures that in most countries requires parliamentary discussion and decision."
Analysis
David Shukman, Science Editor, New York
Only a few years ago the very idea of a global treaty to limit climate change seemed almost impossible. The ghosts of the failed Copenhagen summit in 2009 haunted the negotiations.
Now, in a total transformation in morale, almost all of the world's governments are here in New York to support the new Paris Agreement. The sheer scale of the turnout is seen as a signal of political determination. The atmosphere is positive, up to a point. Tough challenges lie ahead.
One is the task of ratification, another the continuing arguments over cash, a third the basic fact that the deal was only made possible because each country's actions are entirely voluntary. And then there's the awkward truth that, amid the celebrations, all eyes are transfixed by events beyond the UN buildings.
Mention of the name Trump triggers nervous laughter. A Republican victory would presumably lead to America's withdrawal from the agreement. And that would risk undermining the entire process.
Hollywood actor and climate change campaigner Leonardo DiCaprio said: "After 21 years of debates and conferences it's time to declare no more talks, no more 10-year studies, no more allowing the fossil fuel companies to manipulate and dictate the science and the policies that affect our future. This is the body that can do what is needed."
France's president Francois Hollande said the agreement in Paris was an "emotional moment, rare in the lives of politicians and leaders".
He added: "We need to go further than the pledges made there."
Even though the US and China represent around 38% of global emissions, getting to the 55% figure will not be that easy.
The European Union, which represents just under 10% of global CO2, will take a considerable amount of time as each of the 28 members has to ratify it themselves.
That is unlikely to begin until the EU can agree how much of the carbon cutting each country will have to undertake.
Small island states were upset with this approach.
"That exercise is going to take too long, we should all join together and tell our friends in the EU they must move along more quickly than that," said the Marshall Islands Ambassador for climate change, Tony De Brum.
"We did not expect that kind of distance in the process of ratification and approval."
Indigenous rights campaigner Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim commented: "Climate change is adding poverty to poverty every day, forcing many to leave home for a better future.
"If you do not increase finance for adaptation soon, there will be no one to adapt."
President Obama is also keen to see the new agreement take effect before he leaves office next January. A little known clause in the treaty means it would take four years if a new leader, less committed to climate action, wanted to take the US out of the agreement.
Other countries are also aware of this and are watching the US election process very closely.
"We don't know who the next President will be and what stand the new administration will take," India's environment minister Prakash Javadekar told BBC News.
"What happens in the US will have a definite bearing on how the world takes all these ideas and commitments and pledges in effect. So people are eagerly awaiting what happens in the US."
China said it would "finalise domestic procedures" to ratify the Paris Agreement before the G20 summit in China in September.
There is obvious delight here in New York at the record turnout of countries and leaders to sign the agreement. But some attendees are cautioning that this is merely the first rung on a very difficult ladder.
If action to cut emissions isn't ramped up quickly, and the world warms by significantly more than 2C, there would be consequences.
"If you have seen Syrian refugees, get ready to see climate refugees - it will be worse," said Tosi Mpan-Mpanu from the DRC, the chairman of the Least Developed Countries group in the UN talks.
"If people have had decades of gaining assets and livelihoods which are completely depleted in a season's dry weather - what do they have left?
"It is an open door to Boko Haram, it is an open door to Daesh, because people will be just desperate," he told BBC News.
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Jamie Acourt, wanted on suspicion of conspiracy to supply cannabis, is among one Scottish and nine English suspects, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
It comes after the agency warned the UK may lose access to vital European intelligence after Brexit.
The Operation Captura list marks 10 years of tracking fugitives in Spain.
Since agency operations began, in conjunction with Crimestoppers, 76 out of 85 people have been apprehended.
In the latest list, fugitives are also wanted on suspicion of murder, child sexual exploitation, and drug trafficking.
Steve Reynolds, head of international operations for the NCA, said: "The fugitives we are hunting are wanted for serious crimes and must be returned to the UK to face justice.
"Many of them use Spain as a base to continue illegal activities which still have an impact on the UK, but it is not a safe haven."
He said that as Brexit negotiations take place, unless the UK renews its membership of Europol - the EU crime fighting agency - by the end of the year, such operations could be compromised.
"Europol is extremely important, the European Arrest Warrant is extremely important," he told the BBC.
"These are the things we are using everyday in our pursuit of organised crime. It would be a setback if we were to lose some of these facilities that we get from the European Union
"But, we would be interested in replicating those bilaterally if the Brexit negotiations resulted in us losing those links."
Lord Ashcroft, the founder and chair of Crimestoppers, said the suspects were evading justice.
"We know that with the help of Spanish authorities, along with the public in Spain and the UK, we can find these people," he said.
Crimestoppers and the NCA work with the British Embassy in Spain and police forces in both countries.
Simon Manley, British Ambassador to Spain, said: "Captura is one of the best examples of the fantastic collaboration between Spanish and British law enforcement.
"I would like to congratulate all those that have worked over the last 10 years to bring fugitives to justice."
The deadline for reaching an agreement is Tuesday.
The essence of an emerging deal is to keep Iran at least one year away from being able to produce enough nuclear fuel for a single weapon.
Representatives from the US, Germany, France, the UK, China and Russia are at the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The two sides have explored compromises in areas including the number of centrifuges used to enrich uranium that Iran could operate, and its nuclear enrichment work for medical research.
Restrictions on Iran's nuclear work would last at least a decade, and include rigorous inspections, in exchange for an end to crippling sanctions, says the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher in Lausanne.
Despite progress, disagreements remain on how long Iran would be subject to constraints, and on the speed of sanctions' relief, our correspondent says.
At their meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the other representatives will be aiming to agree on a political framework by Tuesday night that would set the stage for technical talks.
US officials said all parties have agreed to a "step by step approach" to reaching a deal, but sticking points remain.
At the scene: Lyse Doucet, BBC News, Lausanne
Negotiators are close, closer than ever before, in their 12-year stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme. But a deal is still not done, and no-one can say with 100% certainty if it will be.
With each day that slips by before an end-of-March deadline for a framework agreement, the political temperature rises against the serene backdrop of the snow-capped Swiss Alps. As foreign ministers and officials stream in and out of meetings in the gilded Beau Rivage, snippets and statements to the persistent press play into 11th-hour brinkmanship.
The last difficult details are as much about political power as they are about nuclear energy. Both Iran and world powers urge the other side to make tough decisions. All say they've come here, hoping to make a deal, to make history.
Beyond this rarefied world, sceptics wait in many capitals, ready to react if, in their view, a bad deal emerges. Reaching what counts as a "good deal" for all will go right down to the wire and, possibly, beyond.
The world powers, known as the P5+1 group - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany - want to ensure that Iran cannot develop nuclear weapons.
Iran denies it is aiming to build nuclear weapons and is hoping that a deal will lead to the lifting of international sanctions that are affecting its economy.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said there had been "some progress and some setbacks in the last hours".
"I can't rule out that there will be further crises in these negotiations," he told reporters in Lausanne.
Potential sticking points in the nuclear talks are thought to include how long the deal will last and how much of Iran's nuclear facilities will be open to inspection.
All parts of an emerging nuclear deal are interrelated. "Everything could still fall apart" before Tuesday's self-imposed deadline, a Western official told Reuters.
A senior US official said negotiators were working towards something that would be called an "understanding" rather than a formal agreement, which would form the basis of a comprehensive deal, including all technical details, to be tied up by 30 June.
US officials have said all parties, including Iran, had agreed "there needs to be a phased step by step reciprocal approach", so that Iran's scaling back is met with a phased lifting of sanctions.
Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again warned against a deal with Iran, describing it as worse than his country had feared.
On Sunday he told a cabinet meeting "this deal, as it appears to be emerging, bears out all our fears, and even more than that".
He gave no details, but noting advances by Iran-backed forces in Yemen and other Arab countries, he accused Iran of trying to "conquer the Middle East" while pursuing nuclearisation.
Steven Finn took season's-best figures of 4-53 as the Bears were all out for just 126 in less than two sessions.
But the hosts also struggled with the bat, making 161 all out, with Australian fast bowler Ryan Sidebottom taking 4-29 on his Championship debut.
Skipper James Franklin (55) helped the hosts into a 35-run first-innings lead before Warwickshire closed on 12-0.
Division One's bottom side Warwickshire chose to bat first, but were quickly in trouble, limping to lunch on 64-5 as Tom Helm took two wickets, including Jonathan Trott for 18.
Tim Murtagh (3-20) had captain Ian Bell (14) caught behind by John Simpson, who held four catches to take his career first-class dismissals past 400, before Finn ran through the middle order and tail.
England bowler Chris Woakes, playing his first match since picking up a side strain on England duty in the Champions Trophy, removed openers Sam Robson and Nick Gubbins in Middlesex's reply.
The defending champions slumped to 59-6 as the visitors looked on course for an unlikely first-innings lead, with Ryan Higgins also off the field after being struck on the helmet by a Chris Wright bouncer.
But Higgins (38) returned and put on a decisive stand of 93 for the seventh wicket with Franklin to take Middlesex into a narrow lead, before Sidebottom skittled out the tail to cap a dream debut.
The 69-year-old will play Gavin Sullivan, the estranged husband of Gillian Taylforth's character Kathy.
"I am delighted to be joining the wonderful cast... for what is going to be an exciting time ahead," said the actor, who appeared with ex-EastEnder Michelle Collins in BBC drama Sunburn.
"I can't wait to get started and seeing what's in store for my character."
Nicholas's EastEnders debut follows Taylforth's surprise return to Albert Square during EastEnders' 30th anniversary celebrations in February.
The actress's character, last seen in the soap in 2000, had been thought to be dead for more than a decade after a car crash in South Africa.
"We are all thrilled that Paul has agreed to join our cast to play Gavin," said Dominic Treadwell-Collins, the show's executive producer.
"It's brilliant to have him back on our screens, playing a major part in Kathy's explosive return to the Square, while also holding the key to many more of the Square's secrets."
Nicholas made his name on the West End stage in such shows as Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair and Cats before landing the role of Vince Palmer in Just Good Friends.
Created by John Sullivan, the sitcom - which ran from 1983 to 1986 - saw his character enjoy an on-off relationship with old flame Penny, played by Jan Francis.
Nicholas has since enjoyed success as a theatre producer and a recording artist and makes regular appearances in pantomime.
The actor is currently touring the UK in a stage version of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, which plays this week at the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon.
Research suggests synaesthesia is nearly three times as common in adults with autism spectrum disorder than in the general population.
The two conditions may share common features such as unusual wiring of the brain, say UK scientists.
The study helps understanding of how people with autism experience life, says the National Autistic Society.
Synaesthesia is a condition where one sense automatically triggers another. Some people experience tastes when they read or hear words, some perceive numbers as shapes, others see colours when they hear music.
People with synaesthesia might say: "The letter q is dark brown," or: "The word 'hello' tastes like coffee," for example.
Following anecdotal evidence of links between synaesthesia and Asperger's syndrome, researchers at the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University set out to test the idea.
More than 200 study participants - 164 adults diagnosed with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome, and 97 adults without autism - were asked to fill in questionnaires to measure synaesthesia and autism traits.
The study found one in five adults with autism spectrum conditions - a range of related developmental disorders, including autism and Asperger's syndrome - had synaesthesia compared with about 7% of people with no signs of the disorders.
Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, who led the research, told BBC News: "Synaesthesia involves a mixing of the senses and it's a very subjective private experience, so the only way we know it's happening is if you ask people to report on their experiences.
"And what this new study has done is ask people whether they experience synaesthesia, for example where a sound triggers the experience of colour or a taste triggers the experience of colour, and finding that these unusual experiences are actually much more common in autism than we previously knew."
The research, to be published in the journal Molecular Autism, suggests that while the two conditions might appear distinct, there could actually be some underlying similarities in brain connectivity.
Synaesthesia seems to involve unusual connections between brain areas not usually wired together, accounting for the jumbling up of the senses.
One theory about autism is that it involves over-connectivity of neurons, so that a person focuses on small details but finds it difficult to see the big picture.
Future research is needed to explore biological mechanisms behind both conditions, including carrying out detailed brain scans, says the Cambridge University team.
Carol Povey, director of the National Autistic Society's Centre for Autism, said the study could help improve our understanding of autism.
"People with the condition can find everyday life confusing or even frightening, so research like this, which helps us to understand more about how they experience the world, is valuable," she said.
"It can help us to develop more appropriate support and to make adjustments according to their needs, which is vital if people with autism are to reach their full potential.
"With the right support at the right time people with autism can live the life they choose."
Homeowner Clive Hunter told the Bath Chronicle, his wife Jane was sitting "right next to the window" when the car crashed through "inches away".
The BMW 320 hit the house on Southlands, at the bottom of Lansdown Lane, just after 23:40 BST on Thursday.
The male driver of the car escaped serious injury and no-one in the house was hurt, police said.
The crash comes just months after a tipper truck crashed further up Lansdown Lane, leaving four people dead, including a four-year-old girl.
It is not immediately obvious that it comes from Vote Leave, which is not mentioned until right at the end of the small print on the back.
The claim: "Over the past 43 years, the EU has taken control over more and more areas which don't have anything to do with trade - such as our borders, our public services and whether prisoners have the right to vote."
The EU is certainly doing more than it did when it started in 1973.
On the specific claims, though, citizens of EU member states are free to live and work in the UK, but the EU does not control our borders. The UK is not signed up to the Schengen Agreement, so everybody crossing UK borders has to show a passport.
Border staff can bar entry to anyone, but they will need an extremely good reason to exclude anyone who holds a passport issued by an EU member state. Criminal convictions are not a good enough reason. We've looked at the issue in more detail here.
The EU does not control how much we spend on, or what our priorities are, for public services such as the NHS, schools, community services or libraries. The UK government decides on those issues.
Most of the cases against the UK on whether prisoners have the right to vote have involved the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution. Leaving the EU would make no difference to the UK's status at the European Court of Human Rights.
The European Court of Justice, which is an EU institution, has also been involved, but at the moment prisoners in the UK are still not allowed to vote. The UK government may be sued in the future as a result of the ruling though.
Reality Check verdict: The EU does not control borders, public services and has not yet managed to control prisoner voting.
The claim: "Five more countries are being considered for membership: Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. If they are let in they will have the same rights as other member states."
They would not have the same rights straight away. Under current EU rules, EU member states may restrict the freedom of movement of the citizens of new members for seven years. For example, Romania and Bulgaria joined in 2007 but did not get the same rights as other members until 2014.
But all new members, once accepted, would have full rights in due course.
It is worth noting that none of these countries is likely to join in the foreseeable future though, and any current member can veto their joining. For example, Turkey has progressed the furthest along the road to membership of any of these five, and still has a long long way to go.
Reality Check verdict: Those five countries are indeed candidate countries and if they do join they will have equal rights after seven years of membership under the current rules.
The claim: "More than half of net migration comes from the EU. More than a quarter of a million people came to the UK from the EU in the 12 months to September 2015."
Net migration (that's the number who have come minus the number who have left) in the year to September was about 323,000, of which 172,000 were coming from or going to EU countries, so that is indeed more than half, although there is a pretty big margin of error on these figures.
Also, it's a bit misleading, because a net 191,000 people came from outside the EU. The reason that EU plus non-EU does not add up to the net migration figure is because a net 40,000 British people left the UK.
The next figure is not net migration, it's just people coming from EU countries, which was 257,000 in the year to September. The net figure is lower because about 85,000 people left the UK for EU countries in the same period.
Reality Check verdict: The claim is true, but the quarter of a million people is not the net figure - 85,000 people left.
The claim: "While we're in the EU, the UK can't make trade deals on our own. This means we currently have no trade deals with key allies such as Australia, New Zealand or the USA - or important growing economies like India, China or Brazil."
Reality Check verdict: The UK is indeed not allowed to negotiate its own comprehensive trade deals involving abolishing tariffs or reducing barriers to trade. This does not stop it signing trade deals such as the billions of pounds of trade deals signed between the UK and China.
The claim: "The EU costs us £350m a week. That's enough to build a new NHS hospital every week of the year. We get less than half of this money back and we have no control over the way it's spent - that's decided by politicians and officials in Brussels, rather than the people we elect here."
Reality check has already looked at the cost of EU membership
Of that weekly spend (it's actually £361m a week) £85m comes back to the UK as the rebate secured by Margaret Thatcher, so we certainly control how that is spent.
Then there is money that comes back to the UK to support public and private sector schemes, which leaves £161m, meaning we have got more of the original sum back.
Of that remaining money, we still have some control, because, for example, we get to elect our own delegates to the European Parliament.
Reality Check verdict: We get more than half of the gross contribution back and we have some control over all of it.
The claim: "You don't have to be a member of the EU to trade with it. Switzerland is not in the EU and it exports more per person to the EU than we do."
Swiss exports to the EU were worth €162bn (£130bn) in 2014 for a population of 8 million.
The UK's were worth £227bn for a population of 64 million. On a per capita basis, Switzerland's exports are considerably higher.
But Switzerland has a deal with the EU, which means it has to accept free movement of people and pay a contribution to the EU budget.
Reality Check verdict: The Swiss do trade more per person with the EU, but it has to accept freedom of movement and contribute to the EU Budget.
The claim: Only 6% of UK firms export to the EU, yet all have to abide by EU regulations on their business
Vote Leave has drawn on a report by Business for Britain, which looked at the number of VAT registered companies who submit what are called EC sales lists to the government.
It's mostly larger companies that export goods and services, whereas the majority of companies are small and aren't involved in international trade.
Reality Check verdict: Precise figures for the number of exporters to the EU aren't available, but this estimate looks to be in the right ballpark.
The claim: "EU law overrules UK law. This stops the British public from being able to vote out the politicians who make our laws. EU judges have already overruled British laws on issues like counter-terrorism powers, immigration, VAT and prisoner voting. Even the Government's proposed new deal can be overturned after the referendum: it is not legally binding."
New EU laws must be agreed by the EU Council, which is made up of the member states' government ministers and the European Parliament. So British people can vote out some of the politicians who make laws - the UK government and British MEPs - but not those from other countries.
Many of the times that UK judges have been overruled were in the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution, but the government has also been defeated in the European Court of Justice, which is part of the EU.
On the issue of whether the new deal could be rejected, Reality Check has looked at this question before. In principle, the agreement is subject to a legal challenge, but it's very unlikely to be thrown out because it's an agreement of all 28 member states.
Reality Check verdict: EU law does overrule UK law but we can vote out some of the politicians involved.
The claim: "There are risks in voting either way. Experts, politicians, and businesses are divided. People have to weigh up the risks and potential benefits of each course of action for themselves."
Reality Check verdict: This is a fair point. Nobody can be certain exactly what the future will be like, whether we stay in the EU or leave.
READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
6 November 2015 Last updated at 07:32 GMT
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For the previous 70 years, the Finance Ministry of the State of Bavaria had exercised Hitler's intellectual property rights. In doing so, it had prevented republication of Hitler's notorious anti-Semitic political treatise, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) in Germany.
Germany faced the choice of following the liberal approach favoured by the UK, US, Canada and Israel, trusting and leaving it to civil society to engage with Mein Kampf. Another option was, as Austria and other countries had done in the past, to issue an outright ban of Hitler's book.
In the event, Germany rejected both options, favouring a heavily paternalistic approach instead.
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The State of Bavaria gave half a million euros to the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), a semi-state-run research institute, in order to produce an annotated critical edition of Hitler's book.
At the same time, it stated that it would take anybody to court if they published editions that were not annotated. In a further twist, the Bavarian government cleverly tried to create the impression that it had withdrawn financial support for the annotated edition of Mein Kampf, thus leaving the IfZ to stand alone in the rain.
As January 2016 neared, and with it the IfZ's publication of Mein Kampf, the Munich institute as well as German government officials were becoming highly nervous of what was about to happen.
The institute said at the time how dangerous it would be if Mein Kampf turned into a bestseller in Germany.
Yet, at the same time, it assured the public that would never happen. Its director, Andreas Wirsching, declared that it would be irresponsible to hand over Mein Kampf "free of copyright and commentary", because in that case everybody could do whatever they wanted with Hitler's book.
The IfZ indeed had produced an edition that was unlikely to fly off the shelves.
Weighing in at 5.4 kg (12 pounds) and including 3,700 footnotes, it is a great piece of scholarship.
Even for experts it is extremely tedious to read.
And for several weeks it was next to impossible to buy copies of the book, as the Institute for Contemporary History had opted for a very low initial print-run. Subsequent printings took an oddly long time to arrive at book shops.
However, the paternalistic approach favoured by the Munich institute and by German authorities failed dismally in trying to prevent Mein Kampf from turning into a bestseller.
All they did was postpone the appearance of Hitler's book in the German bestseller lists.
If anything public interest in the book was fanned unnecessarily by keeping the aura of the forbidden alive.
By mid-April, Mein Kampf had managed to move to the pole position of Germany's influential Spiegel bestseller list, where it remained for several weeks.
Even now it stands in 14th place, though many bookshops do not have the book on display and others only order the book on request.
The German approach may have failed but, arguably, concerns about the likely dire consequences of Hitler's book turning into a bestseller were unfounded.
There are no signs that the overwhelming majority of people buying Mein Kampf are doing so for any other reason than curiosity and genuine interest.
There is no reason to believe that in a year's time or so, when the first excitement about the whole affair will have evaporated, Mein Kampf will be more popular in Germany than in Britain or America.
One may also raise the question, as I have in German daily Die Welt, whether Germany would not have been served better by following the liberal approach favoured by the Anglo-Saxon world, rather than a paternalistic approach that distrusts civil society.
Indeed one may also ask whether Mein Kampf becoming a bestseller, and thus Germans engaging with their past, is really such a bad thing, when politicians around the world are frequently compared to Hitler and at a time of resurgent political populism akin to the 1920s.
The fear expressed in Germany and elsewhere is, of course, that Hitler's book may prompt a new wave of anti-Semitism and a resurgence of the radical right.
That concern was fanned further by the announcement by radical right-wing East German publishing house Schelm that it would issue a version of Mein Kampf without annotation. The state of Bavaria has asked prosecutors to take the publisher to court.
Schelm's announcement should be seen as a publicity stunt, similar to the decision last week of Italian daily Il Giornale to hand out free copies of Hitler's book.
But these stunts only became possible because the Bavarian government decided to prevent republications of Mein Kampf for 70 years and they are unlikely to have a lasting effect.
Neo-Nazis and their sympathizers have been able easily to access Mein Kampf on the internet for years and thus are unlikely to be affected by the return of Mein Kampf in print.
In fact, there is no correlation between the approach different countries have taken in the past towards access to Mein Kampf and the respective strength of extremist movements in the countries involved.
It could be argued the danger lies elsewhere: that it is the paternalism shining through the German approach to the republication of Mein Kampf, rather than Hitler's book itself, that fans right-wing populism.
As German intellectual Nils Minkmar warned in Der Spiegel, cultural arrogance and a "haughtiness towards poorly educated classes" has been leading to "the alienation of the lower classes from liberal society", and thus to the resurgence of right-wing populism in the country that Hitler once ruled.
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Sinnott was the second longest serving manager in the non-league top-flight, behind Woking boss Garry Hill.
The 50-year-old helped the Robins earn promotion from the Conference North in 2014, and led them to the FA Cup second round earlier this season.
But the club has failed to win in seven league games and are 21st in the table, one point adrift of safety.
Assistant manager Neil Tolson has been named caretaker manager ahead of Saturday's game at Barrow.
"It has been a privilege to work with Lee, a man of integrity and honesty," chairman Grahame Rowley said in a statement on the club website.
"I am extremely sorry to see him go, his shoes will be hard to fill. Altrincham Football Club are proud to have had him as their manager."
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In many ways, Hamilton's win at the opening race of the year in Australia set the tone for the remainder of 2015, as he eased to victory ahead of his team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Nine more wins followed, the latest of those at the United States Grand Prix in October, where Hamilton cemented a second successive world title.
A Tour de Force on the circuit he may have been, but his antics off the track filled almost as many column inches throughout the year as his performances on it.
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There's been the hairstyles - from corn rows to bleached blonde - to the many fashion show appearances and partying with pop stars like Rihanna.
For years, the Briton was largely focused on one thing and one thing only - winning - but this season he has thrown himself into living life to the full.
"I like taking risks, I like trying new things," Hamilton said of the hectic lifestyle he has adopted.
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They told the New York Times the agency would "end its systematic collection of data about Americans' calling habits".
Phone records would instead remain with telecoms companies, only to be accessed by government when needed.
It follows widespread anger at home and abroad after leaks revealed the full extent of US surveillance operations.
The documents - leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden - revealed that the US collects massive amounts of electronic data from communications of private individuals around the world, and has spied on foreign leaders.
In a speech in January, President Obama said it was necessary for the US to continue collecting large amounts of data, but that civil liberties must be respected.
He said the current system, in which the NSA collects the details of the times, numbers and durations of phone calls, known as metadata, would come to an end.
According to the New York Times report, he told the US justice department and intelligence officials to come up with a plan by 28 March.
Under the new proposal, officials say surveillance "would require phone companies to swiftly provide records in a technologically compatible data format, including making available, on a continuing basis, data about any new calls placed or received after the order is received".
The phone companies would not be required to hold on to the data for longer than they normally would, the New York Times says.
The NSA currently holds information for five years, whereas telecoms companies are required by federal regulation to retain customer records for 18 months.
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The new proposal "would retain a judicial role in determining whether the standard of suspicion was met for a particular phone number before the NSA could obtain associated records", the newspaper adds.
The Obama administration plans to renew the current NSA programme for at least another 90 days until Congress passes the new legislation.
New legislation has also been developed separately by leaders of the House intelligence committee that would allow the NSA to issue subpoenas for specific phone records without prior judicial approval, the New York Times reports.
The New York Times report does not provide information on possible changes to the NSA's surveillance of phone records from other countries.
In January, President Obama offered assurances to non-Americans, saying people around the world "should know that the United States is not spying on ordinary people who don't threaten our national security".
It was revealed last year that the US had spied on friendly foreign leaders, including on the personal mobile of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
But President Obama has defended the use of data, saying it had protected against terrorist attacks at home and abroad, and insisted nothing he had seen indicated US intelligence operations had sought to break the law.
Edward Snowden, who was behind the leaked the information, is wanted in the US for espionage and is now living in exile in Russia.
Civil liberties groups see him as a hero for exposing what they see as official intrusions into private lives, but many Americans believe he has endangered American lives.
Ex-solicitor Margaret Hampshire and husband Alan admitted forging the will of Martin Blanche, who died in 2007.
Mrs Hampshire then transferred Mr Blanche's estate to her cousin, who she held power of attorney over.
Mr Hampshire stole the cash from the cousin which was then used to do up the cottages, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
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A series of other charges against the Essex couple, who admitted a total of six offences during their trial, were ordered to lie on file.
Nottinghamshire Police said Mr Blanche, who had lived alone, was thought to be unable to read or write and those who knew him believed it unlikely he would ever have written a will.
Mrs Hampshire, who committed the offences while she was a practicing judge, falsely declared Mr Blanche's will was a true document, the force added.
She then transferred his estate - which included two cottages in Rolleston, Nottinghamshire - to her cousin Josephine Burroughs, who was herself a relative of Mr Blanche.
Mrs Hampshire admitted fraud in dishonestly exceeding her position by transferring the property in Rolleston to her daughter. She also pleaded guilty to making a forged document to avoid inheritance tax.
The couple then knocked the two neighbouring cottages through and moved from Essex into the now extended single house this year.
Mr Hampshire also admitted stealing £23,176 from Ms Burroughs - who died in 2014 - in 2012, much of which police said was used on renovating the cottages.
The couple were arrested in September 2014 but denied the offences.
However, Mrs Hampshire pleaded guilty to fraud and two counts of forgery, while Mr Hampshire admitted one charge of forgery and two counts of theft on Wednesday.
The pair, of Church Road in Wickham Bishops, will be sentenced on December 20.
A Nottinghamshire Police spokesman said: "Their dishonesty unravelled after a complex police investigation undertaken by the fraud department, which included handwriting analysis by an expert, financial investigation and computer data analysis."
Billy McBurney was the founder of Belfast's Outlet Records company.
He produced music from both sides of the sectarian divide in the darkest days of the Troubles while selling records at his Smithfield Market shop.
He recorded acts as diverse as Stiff Little fingers, the Dubliners and Philomena Begley.
His biggest seller was the infamous rebel song the Men Behind The Wire in 1971.
Mr McBurney's son Martin said the song was put out by the Andersonstown Residents Association in Belfast as a protest song.
"My dad had obviously had the recording studio and recorded it and put it out and pressed it and distributed it," he said.
"It was number one in the Irish charts for several weeks, but RTE [the Irish state broadcaster] banned it and never played it.
"At the time it was a fairly massive song."
Mr McBurney said the record had to be pressed in London as his father could not get it done in Dublin.
He said the company who pressed it sent back a master copy - a silver plate - which had engraved on it "freedom to you all".
Among Outlet's other biggest sellers were Orange band recordings and Martin McBurney said his father had no problem recording music from whatever source.
"His philosophy was sort of in the Wolfe Tone tradition, you know, Protestants, dissenters and everyone, there was no issue in that, they were all Irish men at the back of it all."
Despite this, the Troubles came to Mr McBurney.
He was shot by loyalists and a shop and a warehouse in Smithfield were blown-up, it is believed by the IRA.
Mr McBurney was also interned by the security forces.
Author and photographer Bobbie Hanvey said that led to an ironic nickname for Mr McBurney.
"He was shot by the loyalists, he was blown up by the Provos and he was put into Long Kesh [prison] by the British. His nickname was Lucky," Mr Hanvey said.
"He was in during the internment thing and his accountants and all were going into the prison and getting his books right and he was telling them what people to record. I think he was a genius really."
Mr Hanvey said Mr McBurney opened his first studio in Belfast's Bank Street in 1966, but had no artists to record.
"He went down to Kelly's Cellars [bar] one night and Tom McHale was there, he was the all-Ireland tin whistle champion," he said.
"After they had a few drinks together, Billy brought him back to the studio and they recorded him and that was Billy's first LP on the Outlet label."
Mr McBurney also distributed US acts such as Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings and promoted concerts in his early years.
"Billy was one of Northern Ireland's best businessmen, most successful businessmen," Mr Hanvey said.
"He was a lovely human being and a great Irish man."
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The 24-year-old from Bridgend won discus gold at London 2012 and has become world champion twice in the shot put and discus since. Born without a fibula in his right leg, he is also a double European gold medallist and won silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Excited about Rio? It's scary that it's so near. It's come around so fast. I haven't really set myself any targets. I'm a world record holder and a world number one, so the expectation is always there. I've already won Paralympic gold and I don't want any other colour.
Memories of 2012? London was absolutely iconic. It catapulted the Paralympic Games forward by 20 years and put it on a pedestal. Other countries are riding the wave we created.
What about the public? They don't always take time to understand a person's disability. They see someone running 'only' 11 seconds for the 100m and dismiss it, not realising they may only have the use of half their body. Or someone might throw the discus 30m and people don't realise they are paralysed from the waist down.
So what needs to happen? People need to be open-minded. When they realise what someone has actually achieved and they understand their disability, they are blown away. But I think we'll only get noticed when we start running, jumping and throwing as well as able-bodied people.
What about you? I've always wanted to be viewed as an elite athlete and I'd like to see Paralympic athletes viewed the same as able-bodied athletes. My achievements are the same as [Olympic champion] Mo Farah's in terms of medals and titles, but hardly anyone knows who I am.
A 23-year-old wheelchair racer from Halifax, born with cerebral palsy. Won double Paralympic gold in London, is a triple world champion over 100m, a world record holder at 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m, and won three golds - 100m, 400m and 800m - at the last World Championships.
Excited about Rio? I'm a bit terrified; 2016 will be a lot different to 2012. There were no expectations on me in 2012. I was 20, competing at a home Games. People were just happy for you to be there competing. Now there will be more pressure on me, so much pressure.
Can it match London? Nothing can compare with London. It's never going to be like London again. We are not going to be able to create that hype again. The Games drew sports fans and non-sports fans. We have got to be realistic.
What about legacy? I didn't think about legacy. It was a word people were throwing around. I wasn't bothered. It started to mean something after the Games, when I went back to my training group at Leeds. Before, there were four or five people. Now there are 20 to 25, from the ages of eight to 60. It brought legacy alive for me.
So you broke down barriers? We are not just there to race and do a job, we are there to show people what's possible and give them the belief that they can do it too. At 15, when I started racing, it was so difficult to find a club and play sport. Now it's so much easier. That's all legacy.
Are you an inspiration? It feels a bit weird when people call me that. I just think I'm lucky. Some people hate their job. I just think it's a privilege to do what I do. I'm just a normal 23-year-old girl who has an amazing job. If that's inspirational, then OK, but I don't think it is.
A European table tennis champion who won a silver medal at London 2012 and is currently ranked the world number one. The 27 year old from Royal Tunbridge Wells was born with arthrogryposis, which affects all four of his limbs, and also had to battle cancer as a child.
Excited about Rio? I've been thinking about 2016 ever since the 2012 Games finished. Nothing compares to a Paralympic Games for me. The way the public got behind us in London was special, it was unique. I went to Beijing [Olympics in 2008] and it wasn't the same.
Have public attitudes changed? A lot of people think what I do is a hobby. They don't have a clue what you go through. That's quite sad and it's quite frustrating. I'm not saying they are bad for thinking that. Some of my family, the older generation, have said that to me.
What motivates you? I just want to be recognised as a world-class athlete, not just a person who has overcome a disability. I'm a good table tennis player and I want to be remembered as a good table tennis player, not just as a cripple.
Is that what you think? I'm not stupid. I know some people think that, that it's 'nice' that people like me go out there and compete. Some people don't understand what we go through, how hard we work.
Do Paralympians get enough credit? Some do, some don't. Some are really pushed in the media. Then the public gets behind them. But there are a lot of Paralympians that are forgotten about.
A wheelchair tennis player who has won all four doubles Grand Slams in 2014 and added a first Grand Slam singles title in 2015. Born in Halesowen, the 23-year-old, who won a bronze at London 2012, has osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease.
Excited about Rio? It's quite scary that it's quite close. But I've had a really good year. I've never had a year like it. This is the Games I can really excel at and can bring home two golds.
What impact did 2012 have? London completely changed people's views about Paralympic sport. We've got bigger crowds, more interest from the public, more sponsorship and more media coverage. It was about getting people to play more sport and increase awareness of disability sport. It definitely did that.
Did London inspire? I've met a lot of young children who watched me on television and started to play wheelchair tennis. I met a kid in America who had the same disability as me. He told me he had started playing tennis because of me.
What about you? I set out to inspire people. I want to be the best at what I do, but I also love my sport and I want others to love it, too. That's because I know it can change lives.
Any negatives? Some adults tell me they didn't know you could play tennis in a chair. Wheelchair tennis is not something a lot of people have heard of. If people don't know what it is and have never heard of me, it makes it hard to appeal to sponsors.
The 19-year-old partially-sighted swimmer from Chertsey has set numerous world records and become a world champion since London 2012. She is also a European gold medallist and won a silver and two bronzes at the last Paralympics, aged just 16.
Excited about Rio? I can't wait. It's been one of my dreams since I was very young. I can't wait to see what happens. I'd love to win gold, to come away as a Paralympic champion. I've become a World and European champion. It would be the cream on the top.
What did London mean to you? London was something that will stay with me forever. Nothing will ever match it. It was something very special. But I know Rio will put on a great show, both for the country and the whole world. I can't wait to see what they produce. I hope they pull it off.
And legacy? That's been huge. I remember people telling me how much more they had enjoyed the Paralympics than the Olympics. I remember children coming up to me and going: 'Wow.'
What about recognition? Lots of people are watching and taking an interest in us now. But people like Jordanne need a lot more recognition. Paralympic athletes achieve just as much as able-bodied athletes and the recognition needs to improve.
How will Britain get on in Rio? The amount of talent coming through is quite special to see. It's going to be something very big in Rio and I know Rio will put on a great show for the whole world. I can't wait to see it.
The two roundhouses are based on an archaeological site found near Llansadwrn, Anglesey, in the 1980s.
The buildings feature six-foot thick clay walls and conical thatched roofs.
They were constructed with the help of hundreds of volunteers and school children from Ely and Caerau.
The farmstead, which originally dates from the time of the Roman conquest, is the first building to be completed as part of a multi-million pound scheme to redevelop St Fagans.
David Anderson, director general of National Museum Wales, said: "The reconstruction of this exceptional lost building from Anglesey, using archaeological evidence, is a significant part of the redevelopment of St Fagans.
"With the opening of Bryn Eryr, our visitors now have a place to hear ancient stories, learn traditional skills and share experiences with their friends and families."
Sutton took control of the game with two goals inside the opening 10 minutes, first Coombes firing into the top corner from 25-yards with just five minutes on the clock before May doubled the lead three minutes later with a fierce 20-yard strike.
Jamie Collins made the points safe four minutes before half-time with a free-kick which floated over the wall and into the top corner with goalkeeper Alex Lynch rooted to the spot, and then supplied the cross for Coombes to head home his second in the 46th minute.
The hosts made it five in spectacular fashion as a corner was headed clear only for Nicky Bailey to rifle the ball home from 30-yards on the half-volley.
James Alabi took advantage of a mistake by goalkeeper Will Puddy to reduce the arrears in the 79th minute from a tight angle and three minutes later he struck again when he collected a pass from Tom Shaw, cut inside and fired home.
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Match ends, Sutton United 5, Chester FC 2.
Second Half ends, Sutton United 5, Chester FC 2.
Goal! Sutton United 5, Chester FC 2. James Alabi (Chester FC).
Goal! Sutton United 5, Chester FC 1. James Alabi (Chester FC).
Goal! Sutton United 5, Chester FC 0. Nicky Bailey (Sutton United).
Substitution, Sutton United. Daniel Spence replaces Dean Beckwith.
Substitution, Sutton United. Craig Dundas replaces Maxime Biamou.
Substitution, Sutton United. Jack Jebb replaces Jeffrey Monakana.
Substitution, Chester FC. Wade Joyce replaces Sam Hughes.
Goal! Sutton United 4, Chester FC 0. Adam Coombes (Sutton United).
Second Half begins Sutton United 3, Chester FC 0.
First Half ends, Sutton United 3, Chester FC 0.
Goal! Sutton United 3, Chester FC 0. Jamie Collins (Sutton United).
Goal! Sutton United 2, Chester FC 0. Adam May (Sutton United).
Goal! Sutton United 1, Chester FC 0. Adam Coombes (Sutton United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Officials want a defined limit on legal costs in cases where the claims are below £100,000, saying that some lawyers submit bills that charge more than patients receive in compensation.
But solicitors warn the move could deny patients access to justice.
Figures show the NHS was charged £259m in legal fees for claims in 2013-14.
The NHS did recoup £74m by challenging some claims made in 2013-14, but the Department of Health says taking these cases to court is costly and time-consuming and believes further savings could be made.
Officials say their proposals, which will be open to public consultation in the autumn, would ensure lawyer's fees are more proportionate and reflect the amount of compensation patients receive
They give as an example once case where a patient received £11,800 in damages but the legal fees, which the NHS had to recompense, totalled £175,000.
Health Minister, Ben Gummer, said: "Safe, compassionate care is my upmost priority and to achieve this, the NHS must make sure every penny counts.
"Unscrupulously, some lawyers have used patient claims to load grossly excessive costs onto the NHS and charge far more than the patient receives in compensation."
But a leading clinical negligence solicitor, Terry Donovan from the law firm Kingsley Napley, said costs are sometimes driven up by delays in the NHS admitting liability.
He added: "This sounds like another massive attack on access to justice for everybody.
"Fees are already tightly controlled, with the courts managing costs carefully as a result of recent reforms. Costs are already capped and limited.
"These so-called low value cases under £100,000 still involve cases where people have had serious injuries and lives have been destroyed.
"Costs can be very proportionate if the NHS will admit liability promptly when it's appropriate.
"But defendants drive up costs if they don't admit liability early on and the case ends up in court."
Meanwhile, the Medical Defence Union, which offers doctors guidance on medico-legal issues, supported the move.
Dr Matthew Lee, professional services director for the MDU, said: "Patients often need to meet part or all of these costs themselves but the system must provide access to justice where patients have been negligently harmed.
"Legal fees must, therefore, be affordable and proportionate.
"If it was decided to introduce a well-thought-out, fixed-cost structure for legal costs in clinical negligence claims that could only be a good thing and should result in legal fees becoming more affordable and proportionate to the compensation claimed by the patient."
The former prime minister said this would oppose "the new populism" and its "essentially close-minded approach to globalisation".
He emphasised that he would not return "to the front line of politics", as it was "clear that this is not possible".
Mr Blair also called criticism of his business interests "inaccurate".
The former Labour leader, who was prime minister from 1997 to 2007, has featured more prominently in political debate recently, including saying the option should be kept open of a second referendum on Brexit.
This has led to speculation - increased when he announced he was closing most of his commercial operations to focus on philanthropic work - of a comeback.
But, in a statement announcing the formation of The Tony Blair Institute, he said: "This is not about my returning to the front line of politics. I have made it abundantly clear that this is not possible.
"However, I care about my country and the world my children and grandchildren will grow up in, and want to play at least a small part in contributing to the debate about the future of both."
The not-for-profit institute would not be a think-tank, he said, but somewhere "to build a new policy agenda for the centre ground together with the networks which link people up, and allow a reasonable and evidence based discussion of the future which avoids the plague of social media-led exchanges of abuse".
Mr Blair said: "It is a platform for engagement to inform and support the practising politician. It is what I know I would want were I still in the frontline of politics."
The past six months had seen "political earthquakes in the UK with Brexit and the American election" and an "explosion in populist movements" around Europe.
He said: "This new populism may differ in some respects between left and right - the left anti-business, the right anti-immigrant - but in others what is remarkable is the convergence between them, especially around isolationism and protectionism, in what is an essentially closed-minded approach to globalisation and its benefits and to international engagement."
Mr Blair has faced criticism over his companies, but he said the money made had provided the "financial infrastructure" to fund his charitable and philanthropic projects.
He said: "We built up a successful business side, though attracted a large measure of criticism for it, much of it inaccurate. It was entirely necessary to build the business to help with the funding to grow the organisations."
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Steven Lawless fired the visitors ahead with a long-range effort against the run of play at Rugby Park.
Kris Doolan doubled the lead in the second half.
Kilmarnock had a strong claim for a penalty waved away when Kris Boyd was pulled back in the box before Thistle scored, but it wasn't to be their day.
The frenetic start provided evidence of the importance of this match for both sides.
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But, with the home side fighting to scramble out of the play-off spot, it was they who pushed on early looking for the breakthrough.
Miles Addison, Boyd and Greg Kiltie all spurned decent opportunities in the first 10 minutes.
However, as Thistle rode the storm, they started to look more assured in possession.
David Amoo could have put the Jags ahead on 15 minutes, but the midfielder's close-range header was directed straight at goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald.
The English midfielder took a bad head knock in the process and was replaced shortly after with Christie Elliot.
The possession pendulum started to swing back the home side's way and goalkeeper Ryan Scully scurried to tip a long-range Josh Magennis effort round the post,
Kilmarnock should have been awarded a penalty.
Boyd burst through on goal and defender Gary Miller grabbed his shirt, but instead of blowing for a penalty, referee Andrew Dallas shook his head and waved play on.
The home side were still feeling aggrieved when Thistle took the lead.
Kilmarnock failed to clear a corner and, when the ball fell to Lawless, the winger blasted the ball left-footed low past Jamie McDonald from 20 yards out.
There was an air of desperation about Kilmarnock in the second half, but as they pushed and pushed they were punished by Thistle's top striker, Kris Doolan, who doubled the visitors lead just after the hour.
He found himself one-on-one with MacDonald and held his nerve to slot the ball low past the on-rushing goalkeeper.
Killie manager Lee Clark sounded the bugle after that, but his charges just couldn't find a way through a well-organised Thistle defence.
Sean Welsh almost compounded Killie's misery with the last kick of the ball, but his thundering effort crashed off MacDonald's bar.
It is the organisation that has been chosen by the Electoral Commission to take the lead in making the case for Britain to leave the European Union. Although most of the big names at the head of the campaign are all Conservatives it has prominent Labour, Lib Dem and UKIP figures too, as well as business people.
Dozens of other organisations - including UKIP and leave.EU - have also been making their views known.
But only Vote Leave has been given £600,000 in public funds - to pay for a free mailshot to every household in the UK and to put on TV broadcasts - and only Vote Leave is allowed to spend up to £7m of money it has raised. Other anti-EU groups have been restricted to spending £700,000, and there are quite a lot of them (there are about 14 groups under the Grassroots Out banner alone).
Vote Leave has played a crucial role in shaping the referendum debate.
It has aimed to win over wavering voters in the centre ground by arguing that Britain can take back control of its own destiny and that leaving the EU will free up money to spend on the NHS and other public services.
Its opponents have accused it of failing to make a convincing economic case for Brexit and falling back on arguments over immigration. It has set out plans for a Australian-style migration points system to curb EU migration - an approach long endorsed by UKIP.
It is a Westminster-based group but it has a network of grassroots supporters and has a growing list of affiliated groups, including Veterans for Britain, Muslims for Britain, Aussies for Britain, Out and Proud (an LBGT group), and even Vapers for Britain, who are campaigning against EU regulation of e-cigarettes.
City millionaire and Conservative donor Peter Cruddas, Stuart Wheeler, a Conservative-turned-UKIP donor and businessman Patrick Barbour are among those to have put money into Vote Leave.
Other backers include former Conservative treasurer and Dixons boss Lord Kalms, Christopher Foyle, the chairman of Foyles bookshop, Joe Foster, the founder of Reebok, and John Caudwell, a philanthropist and co-founder of Phones4U, are among its other business backers.
The rival Leave.EU campaign has received a single £3.2m donation from stockbroker Peter Hargreaves while Grassroots Out, which is affiliated to Leave.EU, was given £1.95m by Better for the Country, a company with links to Leave.EU founder Arron Banks.
This is the group that has met every day during the campaign to plot strategy and decide on the messages to put out to the media.
Michael Gove - Conservative cabinet minister
As one of the cabinet's big hitters and a close friend of the prime minister, Gove was a crucial signing for Vote Leave. A longstanding opponent of Britain's membership of the EU, who kept his views to himself until the referendum date was announced, the justice secretary is the joint head of the Vote Leave campaign.
He has spoken of how his views on the EU were shaped by the collapse of his father's fishing business in the 1970s, for which his family blame the EU's Commons Fisheries Policy.
He represented Leave in the Sky EU referendum special and will appear on the BBC's Question Time special.
Gisela Stuart - Labour MP
One of a small group of Labour MPs opposed to Britain's membership of the EU, the German-born Stuart replaced former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson as co-chair Vote Leave, as the group sought to prove it had cross-party support.
A widely-respected figure in the Commons, she has been MP for Birmingham Edgbaston since 1997 and was one of the British MPs delegated to help draw up an EU constitution, an experience that helped convince her Britain should leave.
She has spent much of the campaign touring the UK with Boris Johnson in Vote Leave's battle bus.
Boris Johnson - London mayor and Conservative MP
Johnson's decision to join the Vote Leave cause was seen as a potential game changer by the group's leaders. He has ruled out a head-to-head TV debate with David Cameron, the man he one day hopes to replace as Conservative leader, but he has spent much of the campaign on the road pressing the flesh and denouncing Remain arguments in his trademark "unpolished" style.
During an ITV debate, he was accused by ministerial colleague Amber Rudd of putting personal ambition ahead of principle - leading to speculation he was being targeted by the Remain camp.
Matthew Elliot - chief executive
The bespectacled 38-year-old is seen as one of the most effective lobbyists at Westminster. Best known as the founder of the pressure group The Taxpayers Alliance, he also ran the successful 'No2AV' campaign in the referendum on reform of the voting system in 2011. He is assisted by Stephen Parkinson who left his job as one of Theresa May's special advisors to join the campaign.
Dominic Cummings - campaign director
Cummings cut his campaigning teeth in his native North-East, as part of the successful campaign against a regional assembly, in a 2004 referendum. His blunt, uncompromising style has put noses out of joint in the past, particularly during his spell as a special adviser to Michael Gove when he was education secretary, but he is seen by supporters as a clever, original thinker.
John Longworth - businessman
Although a number of high-profile business figures - including James Dyson and Sir Anthony Bamford - have backed Brexit, they have been outnumbered by those seeking a Remain vote. Mr Longworth, who left his job as British Chambers of Commerce chief executive over his EU views, has been deployed to counter their arguments and make the case for why UK firms will thrive outside the single market.
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who resigned from the cabinet in March, has been the most vociferous Conservative grandee backing Brexit - accusing the government of abusing its position and scaremongering.
Cabinet Ministers John Whittingdale, Theresa Villiers and Chris Grayling - and Priti Patel who attends cabinet - have also been in the frontline while ministers Penny Mordaunt and Andrea Leadsom have made high-profile interventions.
Former Conservative Chancellor Lord Lawson is on the board of Vote Leave, along with home shopping magnate and Labour donor John Mills. Former Labour foreign secretary and SDP founder Lord Owen is also playing a high profile role.
UKIP spokeswoman Suzanne Evans - currently suspended from the party after a row - and former Lib Dem MP Paul Keetch have also figured, along with UKIP MP Douglas Carswell.
The UKIP leader is the face of Euroscepticism in the UK and did as much as anybody to secure a referendum in the first place.
He is a leading member of the Grassroots Out group, which lost out to Vote Leave in the battle to become the official Leave campaign - but that does not mean he has taken a back seat.
The UKIP leader has been ferried around the country in his own battle bus and has taken on David Cameron in an ITV debate - although the two men did not appear on stage at the same time.
Although he has shared a platform with some Conservative Brexiteers, relations with Vote Leave have remained frosty and he has accused them of trying to airbrush him out of the picture. He has welcomed what he claimed was Vote Leave's endorsement of UKIP's immigration policy.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran said it was working to identify possible sources but early indications did not suggest the infection occurred at the school.
It is understood the child is a pupil at Ayr Grammar.
As a precaution the health board has written to parents who have children at the school to offer general advice.
The symptoms can include stomach cramps, diarrhoea, nausea and fever.
In a small number of cases, the infection causes serious illness and complications.
E. coli is most often acquired from animals and foodstuffs, but may also be passed from person to person.
Health officials said "careful hand-washing" was one of the most effective methods of avoiding infection.
If carbon emissions continue on their current path - and temperatures rise by 4 degrees - 16% of animals and plants will be lost, according to a review of evidence.
The study, published in Science, shows risks are highest in South America, Australia and New Zealand.
Previous estimates range from 0 to 54%.
Dr Mark Urban of the University of Connecticut, US, analysed data from 131 scientific studies on the risk of extinction from climate change.
He found that the rate of biodiversity loss is likely to speed up with each degree Celsius rise in temperature.
If future temperatures rise by 2 degrees compared with pre-industrial times, global extinction risk will rise from 2.8% today to 5.2%.
But under the scenario where global warming continues on its current path, 16% of species (one in six) face extinction.
"If the world does not come together and control greenhouse gas emissions and we allow the Earth to warm considerably we will face a potential loss of one in six species," said Dr Urban.
"Many species will be able to shift their ranges and keep up with climate change whereas others will not either because their habitat has disappeared or because they can't reach their habitat anymore."
Higher extinction risks are predicted for Australia, New Zealand and South America, where there are many species adapted to live in habitats not found elsewhere.
Commenting on the research, Prof John J Wiens of the University of Arizona, said the global extinction risk from climate change might be even higher than 16%, as the majority of studies analysed were from Europe and North America, where extinction risks are lower.
"In South America, the extinction risk was estimated to be 23%," he said.
"Unfortunately, this higher number might better reflect the number of species that might go extinct due to climate change globally, if we consider how the world's species are distributed."
Dr Mike Barrett, Director of Science and Policy at WWF-UK, said the findings echoed its Living Planet Report, which found that populations of vertebrate species have halved since 1970.
"This report looks forward and finds that many species are threatened with extinction if we fail to tackle climate change."
At that point, both nations will number 1.45 billion people. Subsequently India's population will continue to grow until the middle of the century, while China's slowly declines.
The UN also estimates that the current global population of 7.2 billion will reach 9.6 billion by 2050.
That is a faster rate of growth than previously estimated.
The population growth will be mainly in developing countries, particularly in Africa, the UN says.
The world's 49 least developed countries are projected to double in size from around 900 million people in 2013 to 1.8 billion in 2050, whereas the population of developed regions will remain largely unchanged.
The UN said the reason for the increase in its projection is largely new information on fertility levels in certain high birth rate countries.
Large developing countries, such as China, India and Brazil, have seen a rapid fall in the average number of children per woman, but in other nations, such as Nigeria, Niger, Ethiopia and Uganda, fertility levels remain high.
Nigeria's population is expected to exceed that of the US by the middle of the century, and could start to rival China's by 2100.
China's population is expected to start decreasing after 2030.
"Although population growth has slowed for the world as a whole, this report reminds us that some developing countries, especially in Africa, are still growing rapidly," commented Wu Hongbo, the UN's Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.
The United Nations publishes an assessment of past, current and future population trends every two years, in a recurrent series known as the World Population Prospects.
Researchers have used data for 233 countries and areas to produce Friday's report.
The Met Office has issued a yellow "be aware" warning for the south and central Scotland, Western Isles, Northern Isles and the Highlands .
It said south westerly winds with gusts of around 75mph were expected near exposed coasts and over hills.
Lewis-based meteorologist Dr Eddy Graham said the potential storm was of an intensity that used to be rare but has been occurring more frequently.
The yellow warning covers from midday to 23:45 on Friday.
In the warning, the Met Office said: "Please be aware of difficult driving conditions with the risk of travel disruption on roads and to ferries.
"Winds may be strong enough to bring down branches or even uproot some trees due to saturated ground.
"A period of heavy rain will also affect much of Scotland, especially western areas."
Dr Graham, who lectures at Lews Castle College UHI in Stornoway, said: "It looks like a very deep storm.
"Storms of this intensity used to be rare, but they seem to be occurring with much higher frequency over recent winters."
He added: "But it currently looks like its centre, and therefore region of most violent winds, will pass well to the north of Scotland, in direction of the Faroes and Iceland."
Glasgow inflicted the Tigers heaviest-ever European defeat with a 43-0 six-try thumping at Welford Road.
Warriors will play Munster or Saracens away from home in the last eight.
"I know how important a day this is for us a club, but also for Scottish rugby," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"This is a seminal weekend. It'd be great to build on this, in the next few weeks during the Six Nations, but also over the next few years.
"We've started something over the last couple of years. It started in Belfast and Dublin with the number of supporters that went over to watch us in Pro12 finals. This is how it starts.
"The noise they make, it's not like they're just any supporters. Scotstoun is a special atmosphere, today was so noisy. The Glaswegians love their city and love their sports teams and it's great they get behind our rugby team."
Townsend feels the occasion comes close to matching Glasgow's Pro12 title triumph in 2015, when his side thrashed Munster at Belfast's Kingspan Stadium.
"The Pro12 final, its hard to top that, but in many ways today reminded me of that day," he said. "The support, the way the players delivered in such a big occasion. We were just sitting back watching with pride at how well the played."
Glasgow will travel to Pro12 heavyweights Munster, or defending champions Saracens in the quarter-finals.
Warriors lost narrowly to Munster, who finished top of Pool 1, in a gruelling battle at Scotstoun last weekend.
"Munster are a team we know really well," Townsend said. "Last week was a really high-quality game. I watched all the other games in Europe last week, and I felt that one was the closest to Test quality.
"That shows you how good a team Munster are, but we played a big part and were disappointed not to win. Whoever we play, it's going to be tough, we're away from home, but we have won two big games away from home in Europe this season (against Racing 92 and Leicester)."
Glasgow fly-half Finn Russell says, in becoming the first Warriors side to reach the last eight, the squad have fulfilled their primary aim for the season.
"At the start of the year, qualifying for Europe was probably the club's main goal," he said. "After a narrow loss to Munster we knew how tough it was going to be. There's still a long way to go yet but today was a brilliant performance.
"Everything we planned for all week and the way we predicted the game was going to go happened. It's not often you get that. We scored early on and kept the foot down.
"The confidence we had, the forwards with the line-out drives and set-piece were outstanding. We're on the bus back up the road tonight - we'll hopefully get a couple of beers, but we're back in camp tomorrow!"
The bill known as the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), or more commonly "fast-track", makes it easier for presidents to negotiate trade deals.
Supporters see it as critical to the success of a 12-nation trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The 60-38 vote was the product of rare Republican-White House collaboration.
The bill now awaits Mr Obama's signature.
The authority means that Congress may only vote up or down on finalised trade agreements, not amend them.
The Obama administration and many business organisations say the legislation is necessary so that trade negotiators can win lower trade barriers for US-made goods on international markets.
This fast-track bill brings the president a step closer to concluding the TPP deal with 11 other nations to remove or reduce barriers to trade and foreign investment.
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
There are also trade talks between the US and the EU that could be expedited.
Both deals have been opposed by trade unions and many Democrats, forcing the White House to forge an alliance with congressional Republicans.
"We were really pleased to see President Obama pursue an idea we've long believed in," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a long-time White House foe, who once said his top priority was making Mr Obama "a one-term president".
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, a Republican, said the bill was "the most important bill that will pass the Senate this year".
The bills's passage - made all but inevitable after it cleared a more stringent procedural hurdle on Tuesday - incensed many Democrats.
Speaking before Wednesday's vote, Senator Sherrod Brown said the bill would lead to "corporate handouts, worker sell-outs" in the way that he said the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) and other deals have done over the past two decades.
Organised labour and environmental groups have been some of the most vocal critics of the trade agreements, saying that they harm the environment and endanger US jobs.
However, Mr Obama and Republican leaders say that the agreements make it easier for US goods to reach global markets.
Less than two weeks ago, House Democrats and their leader, Rep Nancy Pelosi, turned against the bill in a vote that appeared to - at least temporarily - derail the president's trade agenda.
Following that, Republican leaders reworked elements of the bill and passed with large Republican and modest Democrat support.
Julie Parkin, 39, was discovered with fatal injuries in a house in Kirkwall Close, Sunderland, on Tuesday.
Adam Parkin, 35, of Kirkwall Close, has been charged with her murder. He has also been charged with attempted murder and is due to appear at Newcastle Crown Court on Saturday.
Ms Parkin, who had two children, taught at West Boldon Primary School.
Staff have said they were "deeply shocked" at the loss of the "highly respected" teacher.
Police have appealed for information about a Black Mazda 6 registration NL59 MWJ and its whereabouts between 22:30 BST and midnight on Monday.
Chris Helson and Sarah Jackets hope to use a Smart:Scotland grant of £100,000 to create a commercial prototype.
They first developed Help Me Obi as an art project in 2008.
They believe it could help businesses promote their products, aid medical students and change the way museums are able to exhibit artefacts.
It could also be used to transform video conferencing creating "virtual boardrooms or gatherings".
Mr Helson said the grant, secured with help from Business Gateway Dumfries and Galloway, had opened up new opportunities for the artists based near Newton Stewart.
"If we hadn't gone to Business Gateway 18 months ago I don't think we'd have fully realised the scale of the opportunity, one where we could be operating a global business," he said.
"Our adviser helped us develop our business model, highlighted potential funding streams and routes to market and provided advice regarding intellectual property.
"He also connected us to Interface, Heriot Watt University, and Scottish Enterprise."
He said the funding was now in place to develop a prototype which they hoped could attract further investment.
Business Gateway adviser Angus Robertson said: "Chris and Sarah are video and image specialists, producing large scale installations in public spaces.
"They came to us for advice, and by working closely with us their enterprise is now one of the few technology start-up companies to be accepted onto Scottish Enterprise's high growth portfolio each year.
"The intensive support they will now receive will move Helson and Jackets Technology Ltd closer to becoming a global name."
Inspiration for the Help Me Obi project came from Scottish scientist, James Clerk Maxwell, and a zoetrope into which the physicist had inserted lenses to make an image float.
Initial experiments produced an abstract image that flickered heavily but in 2014, the duo had a breakthrough and were able to stabilise and control the light.
Since then interest in their device has grown, with appearances on the Gadget Show and a Saltire Foundation trip to Silicon Valley where Mr Helson met with representatives from Facebook, Google, Electronic Arts, and Pixar.
He said the trip underlined the commercial possibilities for the technology.
"People were very interested in what we were doing, as it has never been done before," he said.
"When you stand looking at the image floating in front of you it's as if it is alive, and you connect with it in a totally different way than you would if it were a 2D or 3D film or video.
"Because it is not immersive, like VR goggles are, you're looking in on the object and can see it from all angles as you move around a room."
The technology is being put on show on 5 October as part of Dumfries and Galloway business week.
The nine-year-old had failed to win in three races since last April but surged home by 10 lengths over two miles and seven furlongs on soft ground.
Unioniste, who also holds a National entry, stayed on well from last place to finish second, Carrigdhoun three-quarters of a length away in third.
This year's National is on 9 April.
Many Clouds, trained by Oliver Sherwood and ridden by Leighton Aspell, is clear favourite to become the first back-to-back National winner since the legendary Red Rum in 1973 and '74.
In the Scottish borders he kicked on at the seventh fence after shadowing Carrigdhoun in the early stages, Sausalito Sunrise challenging but unable to cope when Aspell asked for acceleration.
"Wow: I can't recall enjoying a round of jumping like the one put in by Many Clouds for a long time.
"The horse was foot perfect, demonstrating his full repertoire from the fast and economical jump to the big and extravagant; it was breathtaking stuff that no opponent could live with and bodes exceptionally well for the return to Aintree.
"It also gives a nice boost to Gold Cup hope Smad Place who comfortably swept aside Many Clouds when they met at Cheltenham in January."
Mark Gilmore was suspended in June 2014 in connection with an investigation into the awarding of vehicle contracts.
The Public Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
West Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner said his suspension was under review.
The Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland said: "The PPS has made a decision not to prosecute one individual in relation to the overall investigation - that is Mark Gilmore.
"There are a number of files relating to other individuals still under consideration."
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) had arrested a total of seven men on suspicion of offences including bribery, misconduct in public office and procuring misconduct in public office.
When he was suspended, Mr Gilmore said he had always acted with "honesty and integrity". He voluntarily attended a police station in Belfast for interview in August 2014.
Mr Gilmore, originally from Belfast, was appointed chief constable of West Yorkshire in April 2013.
He joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the predecessor of the PSNI, in 1983.
He has previously worked as the assistant chief constable at West Yorkshire and the deputy chief constable at Northumbria Police.
The 34-year-old has a decade of experience in England but in the last five years he has played abroad apart from a brief spell at Reading.
He told BBC Sport: "I left to play in China, Qatar and Turkey, but my family and heart was always in England.
"I've always said I would love to end my career in England and that plan is still on track."
Yakubu has scored 96 Premier League goals - more than any other Nigerian and just five less than the top-ranked African scorer Didier Drogba.
His career in England began 14 years ago and has played in the top flight for Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton and Blackburn.
He has now dropped down to League One, where Coventry are rooted to the foot of the table, but is determined to show he can still make an impact.
"My career in England started in 2003 and I have been very lucky to play for some top managers and teams," Yakubu added.
"Things are quite tough for Coventry City at the moment and I understand what is expected of me.
"I had the opportunity to train with the players here, I see great qualities and believe things can get better.
"I love scoring goals and helping my team-mates to score, together we can lift the club.
"I know this league very well because I have played in it with Leicester City and Reading in the past."
The Republican-controlled Congress is expected to reject it.
The leaders of the House and Senate budget committees jointly announced they would not invite Mr Obama's budget director to testify before them.
Despite the setbacks, the White House has said the budget sticks to a bipartisan agenda reached last autumn.
The budget is for the 2017 fiscal year and would not take effect until 1 October 2016.
The tax on oil would raise $319bn over 10 years. The US Treasury said that the tax would apply to both imported and domestically-produced oil, but would not be collected on US oil shipped overseas.
The plan would also temporarily exempt home-heating oil from the tax.
The White House said the tax "creates a clear incentive for private-sector innovation to reduce America's reliance on oil and invest in clean energy technologies that will power our future".
The tax would be paid by oil companies in order to boost spending on transportation infrastructure, including mass transit and high-speed rail, and autonomous vehicles.
President Obama's budget includes $11bn to fight so-called Islamic State, plus money for early childhood education, and research and development.
It includes $19bn in spending on cyber security that would allow for a overhaul of the federal government's internal computing systems.
Last year, systems at the Office of Personnel Management were hacked, exposing the personal information of government employees and job applicants.
The proposed budget envisions a deficit of $503bn in the 2017 fiscal year after a $616bn budget gap in the current fiscal year, which ends on 30 September.
It seeks to cut deficits by $2.9tn over 10 years, largely through smaller tax breaks for wealthy earners, new savings in Medicare healthcare, and assumptions that adoption of its policies would boost economic growth.
Over 10 years, deficits would average 2.5% of US economic output, compared with about 4% in the Congressional Budget Office's estimate, which is based on current laws.
"That [budget] document... will be President Obama's final vision of how he lays out the fiscal future for the country," said Joel Friedman, vice president for federal fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
"I don't think anyone expects it to be enacted this year. Republicans aren't going to embrace it, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be a useful document."
Congress can advance elements of the budget without endorsing the entire proposal.
The Category B listed Poosie Nansie's Inn in the East Ayrshire town of Mauchline was a favourite haunt of the ploughman-poet.
Scotland's national poet lived and worked in Mauchline between 1784 and 1788.
The house he shared with Jean Armour is now a museum in nearby Castle Street.
Twenty-five firefighters from Mauchline, Kilmarnock and Cumnock attended Poosie Nansie's shortly after noon on Sunday.
They were supported by a Heavy Rescue Vehicle from Easterhouse and a Major Incident Unit from Clydebank. No-one was injured.
Firefighters were "shoring" up the damaged end of the building to secure it, in order to prevent any further collapse. The area was cordoned off.
Mossgiel Farm in Mauchline was home to Burns when he was ploughman-poet and wrote many of his best loved works.
Two people died in the crash, involving a car and three lorries, on the M271 southbound into Southampton at about 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Hampshire Constabulary said two men from Southampton who were travelling in the car were killed.
The drivers of two of the lorries were taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Sgt Gabriel Snuggs of Hampshire Constabulary said the two men - one aged in his 30s and the other in his 40s - were work colleagues travelling in a Ford Mondeo.
He added: "Sadly this collision resulted in the death of two men and our thoughts are with their families.
"Our investigation into the exact cause of the crash is ongoing and as part of that we are appealing to the public for their help.
"The collision happened during the evening rush hour so we know there were a lot of other motorists around who may have seen something that can assist us with this investigation.
"We would also like to thank everyone for their patience as we carried out our investigation at the scene."
Police left the scene at 04:45 GMT but the southbound carriageway was closed until about 15:30 for repair work. It has since reopened.
The 26-year-old former Portugal Under-21 defender came through the youth ranks at Porto and joined Zagreb in 2013 following a spell at Romanian club Cluj.
He made more than 100 appearances for Zagreb and helped them win the Croatian league title in 2014 and 2015.
Pinto has faced both Arsenal and Bayern Munich in the 2015-16 Champions League.
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Plans put forward by Brussels would open up domestic networks to cross-border competition by December 2019, with mandatory tendering of contracts.
The RMT union says this would scupper Jeremy Corbyn's commitment to bring the railways back into public ownership.
But Mr Benn told the BBC it would still allow the state to award contracts.
The shadow foreign secretary and Remain supporter was questioned about the issue during a wide-ranging interview with Daily Politics host Andrew Neil, in which he was also challenged on immigration, employment rights and Jeremy Corbyn's views on the EU.
Under the so-called "fourth railway package", existing barriers to public and privately-owned train operators providing services across Europe will be lifted by 2020 with competitive tendering for contracts to "become the norm" by 2023.
It will be against the law to discriminate against new entrants into the market while any contracts directly awarded by individual states would have to meet strict performance targets.
The draft proposals, first put forward by the European Commission in 2013 as a way of increasing competition and efficiency, have been approved in principle by the Council of Ministers although they have yet to be signed off by the European Parliament.
At the moment, only a handful of countries, including the UK, have a fully liberalised train operating market.
At their conference last autumn, Labour members adopted nationalisation as official policy, calling for existing rail franchises to be nationalised when they come to an end and for a new "public operator" to reinvest profits by private rail operators into cutting fares.
The RMT rail union, which is campaigning for the UK to leave the EU, has said this policy will be rendered impossible by the new EU law.
But Mr Benn said he disagreed with the RMT's "interpretation" of the proposals. "I have looked carefully at this...The European Parliament has still to finish the process. It does allow for the direct awarding of contracts which we seek to do if we win the election in 2020.
He added: "It doesn't stop us doing what we want to do."
While some Labour politicians, including mayor of London Sadiq Khan and former deputy leader Harriet Harman, have shared a platform with David Cameron, Mr Corbyn's appearances on the campaign trail have been few and far between.
Mr Benn was pressed on whether Mr Corbyn's support for remaining in the EU was in complete conflict with much of what he had said on the subject during his political career, including his scathing criticism of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty.
He said: "The Jeremy of today is campaigning for us to remain in the EU because a lot of things have changed since the Maastricht Treaty passed.
"Jeremy, the Labour Party, the trade unions are clear we are campaigning for us to remain in the EU because of what membership has given us - jobs, investment, growth, protected workers' rights, security, influence in the world and helping us to secure peace".
Mr Benn acknowledged that rights to paid public holidays were guaranteed by UK law well before before the UK joined the then European Community in the 1970s and were actually more generous than that.
And he insisted it wasn't scaremongering to suggest that a future UK government could potentially water down some of these rights, saying Leave supporters had described social protections as "red tape" and should be judged by their own words.
"You can have a floor of basic rights across Europe which protects workers and prevents a race to the bottom and top that up by decisions you take as a sovereign member state," he said. "You get the best of both worlds."
The firm, formed through a merger of Dixons and Carphone Warehouse in 2014, said profit rose by 10% to £501m.
In the UK, Dixons said demand for electricals was "solid", particularly for computers and white goods.
That helped offset a "more challenging" mobile market, affected by Samsung's exploding Galaxy Note 7 smartphone.
Samsung was forced to recall and axe the handset after faulty batteries caused some to burn or explode.
Commenting on its results for the year to 29 April, Dixons Carphone said that in the UK and Ireland, "the mobile market was more challenging due to product safety and supply issues, limited product innovation and delays in product launches".
Nevertheless, like-for-like sales in the UK and Ireland rose by 4% in the UK and the company hopes to benefit from the release of Apple iPhone 8 later this year. Total sales for the region, which is Dixon Carphone's largest region, rose by 2% to £6.5bn.
Total sales for the entire group rose by 3% to £10.5bn. In the Nordics and Southern Europe, revenues increased by 5% and 4% respectively.
However, retail analyst Nick Bubb said it would be "perhaps churlish" to point out that about two thirds of the revenue growth and almost all of the rise in profits was due to currency movements.
Shares in Dixons Carphone rose 0.5% to 297.4p in morning trading in London, but have fallen 16% this year.
More than 500 doctors at hospitals across Wales answered a BMA survey, with nearly 60% saying they had raised a concern in the previous three months.
Of those, more than 60% reported experiencing bullying or harassment as a result.
The Welsh government said staff concerns should be addressed.
The survey was sent to 3,000 staff including consultants, junior doctors and specialists between March and May this year, with just over one in six responding.
Dr Phil Banfield, chair of the BMA's Welsh council, called the situation "hugely worrying".
"Doctors care passionately about their patients and a key part of that is having the confidence to be able to raise concerns on their behalf," he said.
"To make this a reality we need a culture of openness within the NHS, not one where raising concerns can leave doctors feeling harassed or marginalised."
Of those who raised concerns, nearly 40% reported no action being taken to the best of their knowledge.
Nearly a third said unfilled staff vacancies had caused the incident they had reported, while a quarter pointed to a higher than usual workload and just over half to systemic causes such as the drive to meet targets or inadequate facilities.
Dr Banfield added: "This survey further highlights the strain that NHS staff on the frontline are facing, with 84.8% reporting long-term unfilled staff vacancies in their workplace, and 69% agreeing that staff in their unit work longer hours than is best for patient care.
"It is imperative that these fundamental problems are addressed to create an environment where patient safety is paramount."
A Welsh government spokesman said: "We expect all NHS organisations to engage continuously with their staff and the public to ensure services are safe, sustainable and meet national clinical standards.
"All NHS Wales staff should be treated with dignity and respect, in line with established policy. All NHS organisations must take action to address any concerns raised by staff in a prompt and timely manner.
"We are pleased BMA Wales is working in partnership with other trade unions and NHS Employers on the development of core NHS values."
The collisions, involving two cars and a caravan, happened north of Felin Fach at about 12:05 BST on Saturday.
A Mid and West Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said a woman was trapped but she has been freed and taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea, via air ambulance.
Part of the road was closed but has since reopened.
One girl, who was aged 12 or 13 at the time, alleges she was abused and passed between 60 men who had sex with her, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Eleven men, on trial at the Old Bailey, variously deny 52 sexual offences between 2006 and 2012.
Prosecutor Oliver Saxby QC said the girls were conditioned into believing their "horrifying" ordeal was normal.
Both came from troubled backgrounds and wanted to feel grown up when they were taken in by the men.
Charges included the multiple rape of a child under 13, child prostitution and administering a substance to "stupefy" a girl in order to engage in sexual activity.
In all, 45 charges relate to one child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons and is known as "A", and four against a second girl, referred to as "B".
Mr Saxby said: "This case concerns child sexual exploitation on a massive scale.
"It features two young girls who were... sexually abused from the age of 12 or 13.
"Both girls were from unstable backgrounds, making perfect targets.
"Their lives were 'off the rails'. They were looking for excitement, for attention, for somewhere to hang out away from school and home.
"They were wanting to feel grown up and looked after. And they were easy prey for a group of men wanting casual sexual gratification that was easy, regular and readily available."
Mr Saxby said the girls were befriended and given gifts such as alcohol, DVDs, food, and occasionally drugs.
"They were children, they spoke in terms of these men being their boyfriends. And they were passed from man to man - sometimes on a daily basis.
"The scale of it is, you may agree, horrifying. A estimated that she had sex with about 60 men," said Mr Saxby.
The 11 on trial are accused of being among the men who abused the schoolgirls.
At the time they lived in Aylesbury where the alleged abuse occurred and some were friends.
The trial continues.
Vikram Singh, 45, of Cannock Road, Aylesbury, is charged with four counts of rape, four counts of sexual activity with a child, and one of administering a substance with intent.
Harmohan Nangpal, 41, of Langdale Drive, Hayes, is accused of one count of rape, and one count of sexual activity with a child.
Asif Hussain, 33, of Hodge Lea, Milton Keynes, face three counts of rape, three counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of arranging child prostitution.
Arshad Jani, 33, of Cousins Drive, Aylesbury, denies one count of rape, and a further count of sexual activity with a child.
Mohammed Imran, 38, of Springcliffe Street, Bradford, is accused of three counts of rape, three counts of sexual activity with a child, two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual activity with a child, two counts of conspiracy to rape and one count of child prostitution.
Akbari Khan, 36, of Mandeville Road, Aylesbury, denies two counts of rape, one count of of sexual activity with a child, and one each of administering a substance with intent, conspiracy to rape, and conspiracy to commit sexual activity with a child.
Taimoor Khan, 29, of Highbridge Road, Aylesbury, is charged with one count of rape, one count of sexual activity with a child, one count of conspiracy to rape, and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual activity with a child.
Jerome Joe, 35, of Pightle Crescent, Buckingham, is charged with one count of rape and a single count of sexual activity with a child.
Sajad Ali, 34, of Brockhurst Road, Chesham, is charged with rape, sexual activity with a child and administering a substance.
Sohail Qamar, 41, of St Anne's Road, Aylesbury, is accused of sexual activity with a child, two counts of rape, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Faisal Iqbal, 32, of Pixie Road, Aylesbury, is on trial accused of conspiracy to rape and conspiracy to commit sexual activity with a child.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has given the go-ahead for the construction work.
The 21-mile scheme will include a new bypass for Huntingdon, the widening of a section of the A1, and improvements to five junctions.
Highways England said work will start in late 2016 and motorists will be able to use the widened carriageway by 2020.
Chris Taylor, of Highways England, said: "The scheme will provide much-needed additional capacity to improve journey times and safety."
The junctions at Bar Hill, Swavesey, Girton, Histon and Milton will be improved, the A1 between Brampton and Alconbury will be widened and the A14 widened between Swavesey and Milton.
Source: Highways England
The government will invest up to £1.5bn in the scheme.
Up to £100m will be provided by local funding partners, including Greater Cambridgeshire/Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership and Cambridgeshire County Council.
Highways England said its current estimated costs for the work are between £1.1bn to £1.6bn.
Richard Bernard was found hurt outside his flat on Trocadero Court, in Derby, on 24 May and died shortly after.
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Mohammed Ibrahim, 18, of no fixed address, and Aaron White, 34, of Moss Street, in Derby, are due to appear at the same court in September.
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Powys council said it had recovered all of the £4m it had deposited.
It was one of eight councils, three universities and three former police authorities in Wales that had almost £75m tied up.
The remaining councils have recovered on average 97% of their money, with further reimbursements expected.
A BBC Wales request asked the seven other councils to state their recovery status.
The former police authorities have also had success in recovering their money.
Three Welsh universities, Glyndwr University in Wrexham, the University of Wales and Aberystwyth University, also had more than £8m invested, but it is unclear how much they have recovered to date as not all institutions responded to the BBC's request.
Placing money in Iceland seemed an attractive proposition in 2008, when at one point interest rates were as high as 18%.
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Other public sector bodies also had money in the banks, along with charities and individuals.
Judges ruled that a decision to first manage major disruption then later bring charges against offenders was well within the police's discretion.
They also found proportionate steps had been taken to protect the human rights of nationalist residents potentially exposed to the weekly demonstrations.
In April, a High Court judge said police had not understood their powers.
The verdict was related to weekly processions from east Belfast into the city centre during December 2012 and January 2013.
Demonstrations were staged in response to the decision to restrict the flying of the union flag at Belfast City Hall to designated days only. It had previously been flown all year round.
A man, identified only as DB, who lives in the nationalist Short Strand area, went to court claiming his home had been attacked by protesters and that the PSNI had failed to provide assurances that it would prevent any future parade past the area.
He also claimed his human rights to privacy and family life under European law had been breached.
In a previous ruling, the High Court judge ruled that the commander in charge of the operation around the protests wrongly believed he was hampered by law from stopping the parades and arresting participants.
Lawyers for the PSNI appealed against the findings, claiming they were flawed and unfair.
They argued that senior officers were fully aware they had the power to stop any illegal protests, with plans in place to block the earliest marches.
Those intentions only changed after intelligence revealed loyalist paramilitary involvement in associated violence that could pose a risk to life.
The police attitude was public safety first, criminal justice consequences later, the court heard.
Judges were also told of the level of resources deployed to deal with troublemakers and the decision to bring charges against passive demonstrators.
Ruling on the appeal on Tuesday, Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan, who heard the case with Lord Justice Girvan and Mr Justice Weir, said: "The issues facing those policing this major public disruption which extended far beyond Belfast to all parts of Northern Ireland demonstrated the enormous difficulties for those policing modern societies in circumstances of community conflict and heightened tension.
"We consider that the decision to manage disruption and pursue a subsequent criminal justice charging policy was well within the area of discretionary policing judgment which such situations require in light of the challenges posed by the circumstances."
Sir Declan said management of unnotified processions was not dealt with by the Parades Commission, but by police using public order powers.
He said the panel of judges did not believe there was "anything in the management of the issues arising from these parades by police" to suggest the Public Processions (NI) Act 1998 and the Police (NI) Act 2000 had been undermined.
Allowing the appeal, he added: "This was a difficult situation in which proportionate steps were taken to protect the Article 8 rights of the applicant and the other residents of the Short Strand."
Following the verdict, lawyers for DB indicated they would take their case to the Supreme Court in London.
Nursing assistant Kris Wade admitted murdering neighbour Christine James in a sexually motivated attack in 2016.
An internal report found Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board did not "robustly" pursue sexual assault complaints against him by patients.
The British Medical Association said a health board should not probe itself.
Dr David Bailey, the BMA's Welsh council deputy chairman, said: "We believe it is unacceptable for a health board to investigate serious concerns about itself.
"A desk top review which fails to speak to everyone involved in raising concerns is wholly insufficient and demonstrates a significant lack of transparency about the process.
"The review seems to absolve the health board from any responsibility for not acting sooner, this is simply unacceptable."
The review concluded it did not believe the killing could have been predicted.
Wade worked in the learning and disabilities directorate based at Rowan House, Cardiff, when three separate allegations were made, between July 2010 and December 2011, by former patients.
They were referred to South Wales Police but no criminal charges were brought.
When Wade was arrested for murder in March 2016, he was already suspended by ABMU while the health board held a disciplinary process over the sexual assault allegations.
He was later sacked.
The health board report concluded: "The review concludes there were a number of issues relating to health board processes and responses to the allegations that needed to be improved."
"It does not however consider that the issues identified could have otherwise predicted or prevented Mr Wade's future conduct and behaviour outside of his employment," it added.
"Despite police being informed of all sexual abuse allegations, the review concluded that the health board's internal reporting procedures had not been followed robustly enough.
"This did not relate to any deliberate attempt to conceal the allegations, but was more a reflection of a wider culture within certain healthcare settings to base actions on the believability of patients, rather than the use of safeguarding processes."
The report also looked at whether there were potential conflicts of interest between Wade and his father, who was the board's mental health and learning disabilities clinical service director, but has since retired.
It found Wade's father took no part in investigating any allegations against his son, nor was there any written evidence suggesting he "overtly influenced" the board's investigations.
The health board said South Wales Police confirmed Wade did not have a criminal record when he was first employed.
A spokeswoman added: "ABMU health board is finalising a new policy which will provide advice and guidance to managers when dealing with matters of HR when friends and family are involved.
"This will ensure transparency where relationships are identified within the same service.
"Other recent changes include the introduction in 2015 by ABMU of a serious incident investigation team to monitor serious incidents and work proactively with managers, and in some cases support an independent investigation."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We expect health boards to robustly investigate any serious allegations made against NHS staff, and to take appropriate action if necessary.
"In addition, there are clear national policies in place which set out the process for staff who wish to raise concerns.
"Health boards are expected to have robust and effective processes and governance arrangements in place to handle any concerns raised."
Welsh Conservatives leader Andrew RT Davies has also called for an independent inquiry.
"A laissez faire attitude to safeguarding and a culture of stubborn unwilling to take seriously the testimony of patients and staff members enabled Kris Wade to act out his urges with impunity for far too long," he said.
Bethan Jenkins, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West, echoed the call and said she wanted the assembly to be recalled for the issue to be debated.
The team-mates collided while attempting to take a catch during a T20 Blast game with Sussex on 14 June.
Both players are now "on the mend" although Henriques, 28, broke his jaw in three places and Burns, 24, required stitches after cuts near his left eye.
"I literally don't remember any of the collision," Burns told BBC London 94.9.
"The first thing I remember is waking up. The Sussex physio was holding my neck and the paramedic was over my face.
"I remember the ball going up and thinking 'I've probably got to put my foot down here to try and get there' and then I got there, and then I remember diving.
"Other than that, I remember the whole game and then waking up and seeing the paramedics."
The match was abandoned after ambulances took the players from the field and Burns thanked the "fantastic" emergency staff.
"The headaches have died down a bit now," Burns added. "I'm on the mend.
"The support from (director of cricket) Alec Stewart and the lads was a great response and, when I woke up, it was nice for me to see my old man.
"He (Henriques) is in good spirits. He came off slightly worse, with his jaw and his teeth, but he's on the mend and that's the important thing.
"I don't think we'll be forgetting each other for a while. I'm looking forward to having a beer with him when he's fully recovered."
It follows the revelation that more than 4,000 pupils from south Wales have been to the Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in North Somerset in the past three years.
Some critics have argued it amounts to publically funding a venue with views rejected by the scientific community.
But the zoo insisted it had "no hidden agenda" and has won awards for its out-of-classroom teaching.
Concerns about the school trips have been raised by humanist campaigners, while one of Britain's leading experts on evolution said the flood story views backed by the zoo were "nonsense".
The zoo has a room that hosts an exhibition dedicated to the Noah flood story, which it describes as exploring "the scientific and geological evidence in support of the biblical tale of Noah's Ark".
The institution's own website describes its Earth history stance as mixing both accepted theories of evolution with aspects of traditional biblical creation stories - especially a catastrophic flood event.
It labels it as a "Recolonisation Theory" - which the zoo accepted was a "counter-cultural" view to some, "but we encourage interested readers to explore these questions for themselves", it suggested.
Leading evolution theory expert Dr Simon Underdown said the claim being made had "no basis" in scientific evidence.
"If there was, it would be the biggest scientific discovery in 150 years," said the scientist, who is the current chairman of the Society for the Study of Human Biology and a research fellow at Oxford University.
"It would be the most exciting day in a biologist's life if you found that Darwin was wrong," he said.
He said there was no evidence of life being wiped out on earth, and then being repopulated as in the Noah's Ark story.
"It's absolute nonsense," he stated.
"When we look at genetics we can see that all organisms are related to one common ancestor."
A Freedom of Information request by BBC Wales found that between 2013 and the end of the school year in 2016, a total of 4,259 pupils from schools in Newport, Torfaen and Monmouthshire made the trip to Noah's Ark at Wraxall, west of Bristol.
The figure could be even higher, especially for south Wales schools, as most other councils said they did not hold data for individual school trips.
Newport council said "locations and appropriateness" of educational visits was a matter for individual schools and governors.
Over the three-year period, 2,170 pupils from 16 schools in the county made the trip. The vast majority of pupils were in Years 1 and 2 infant classes.
A spokesman for Newport council added: "We work closely with all our schools as they develop their work around the curriculum and have only received positive feedback on trips to this location.
"Head teachers have reported a rounded educational and enjoyable experience which is reflected in return visits."
One Newport primary school head teacher said they were entirely unaware of the Earth history views held at the zoo.
"It is the first I've heard of it," said the head.
"We've had nothing but positive reviews from the children and the staff, which is why we have made return visits."
Torfaen council, which saw 1,155 pupils from 13 schools and pupil referral units visit the zoo, also said educational trips were a matter for individual schools and teachers, with the consent of parents.
In Monmouthshire, 934 pupils from 12 schools have been to Noah's Ark since 2013.
A spokesman said the zoo was chosen for visits to "provide an opportunity for pupils to experience animals they rarely see in a relatively natural setting".
But they added: "Monmouthshire County Council has not taken a particular stance on the issue of creationism but acknowledges that people may have differing beliefs. It is satisfied that the zoo's operators make no attempt to indoctrinate those who visit."
However, the coordinator of Wales Humanists Kathy Riddick said she believed there were concerns. The humanist movement supports scientific study, decisions based on reason and concern for others, and rejects religious doctrine.
"The law is very clear that the education provided in state schools in Wales must be broad and balanced," she said.
"Giving credence to theories such as young earth creationism and intelligent design over the weight of scientific evidence and expertise supporting evolution as the only valid explanation for the nature and diversity of life clearly stands at odds with that.
"Regrettably, this is exactly what the Noah's Ark Zoo Farm does, so it is entirely inappropriate for public money to be spent on funding these visits by schools and their pupils."
It is not the first time campaigners have raised the issue over Welsh schools visiting the zoo.
In 2014, a petition was lodged with the National Assembly calling on the Welsh Government to review the suitability of the zoo for educational trips.
The then education minister Huw Lewis responded, stating: "I do not condone the teaching of Creationism and the curriculum should not be used as a vehicle or seen as a route for its promotion."
The assembly's petition committee agreed to write to the Welsh Local Government Association to ensure councils across Wales were aware of the concerns being raised by campaigners.
However, the zoo has strongly rejected the criticism in both the petition and in the latest comments aimed at the venue.
Jon Woodward, from the zoo, said the exhibition supporting evidence for a biblical flood event was not part of any school visit.
"It is not something that we actually do," he stressed.
He described the zoo as a family-owned Christian business - but said this was not part of its education work.
He said the Christian ethos at the zoo was kept "fairly low key and informal".
"In terms of education it is all national curriculum based - it's a very standard education programme," he insisted.
He said the Noah's Ark exhibition was located in a side room, and was only visited by members of the public on request.
He added the zoo would consider church faith school requests to view the exhibition, but otherwise it formed no part of educational visits.
"We are very open about what we do. It's not a hidden agenda," he said.
The zoo said it employed qualified education officers, and holds a triple quality award from Learning Outside the Classroom Council, which is the independent body that assesses educational school trip venues.
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Tickets to the event at Glasgow's Science Centre sold out in just 23 minutes. His talk was broadcast on screens across the building.
Tim Peake spent six months on the Principia mission and became the first UK astronaut to go on a spacewalk.
Glasgow Science Centre hosts Tim Peake event
Joint venture group Nugen said it had paid an undisclosed sum for the vast tract of land at Moorside.
The project will see three nuclear reactors constructed on the site, which was owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
The sale follows months of tests to ensure the area was suitable.
The three Westinghouse reactors planned for Moorside will have a combined output of 3.4 gigawatts. Nugen said they will be able to supply almost 7% of the UK's electricity requirements.
Each of the reactors will take about four years to build.
Nugen chief executive Tom Samson said: "This is great news for the North West and particularly for West Cumbria, the UK's nuclear heartland.
"We are delighted to be taking forward Moorside, a massive development which will supply some 7% of the UK's future electricity."
John Clarke, CEO of the NDA, said: "The completion of the land sale supports the initiative to have West Cumbria recognised as a centre of nuclear excellence, building on over six decades of nuclear expertise in the area, whilst delivering excellent value for money for the taxpayer and the national economy."
Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom added: "Backing the next generation of nuclear projects is a key part of our long-term plan to power the economy with clean, secure energy and keep bills as low as possible for hardworking families and businesses."
Copeland MP Jamie Reed said: "We have lobbied long and hard for new nuclear build to complement the array of world-class nuclear skills we already have here.
"It's taken 10 years to reach this point. This latest news is warmly welcomed and further proof that West Cumbria's best days are ahead of us."
It comes as campaigners have said they will seek a judicial review of NHS England's decision not to commission the treatment.
Prep is a daily pill that cut the risk of HIV infection by more than 90%.
Head of NHS England Simon Stevens says more evidence is needed about the cost versus benefits.
Speaking to the Health Committee he said: "Prep has great potential and all of us would like to see it more widely available in this country."
He said the legal issue about who should provide the treatment - NHS England or local authorities which are responsible for prevention-related services - would be resolved, but the other question was whether it was cost-effective to roll it out as a preventive treatment.
"This particular drug is not yet licensed for prophylactic treatment for HIV.
"Frankly, the prices that the manufacturer is seeking to charge probably also need to take a substantial haircut to represent value."
It's not publicly known how much the manufacturer of a Prep drug called Truvada is asking for, and drug companies often reach an agreement to offer the NHS a reduced price. The book cost for 30 tablets is £355.
As part of a trial, NHS England has promised £2m in funding to treat about 500 people with Prep over the next two years.
The number of people living with HIV in the UK continues to increase and the number living with undiagnosed HIV remains high.
In 2014, an estimated 103,700 people were living with HIV. An estimated 18,000 (17%) were unaware of their infection.
Condoms can prevent the spread of HIV but they are not 100% reliable and, of course, they must be used to work.
Martina Purdy quit her job as political correspondent for BBC News NI last October to enter the religious life.
Speaking publicly about her decision for the first time, she said she had chosen a "simple, hidden life" doing "little things".
"I help to bake the bread, I cook and I clean and I pray," she said.
Ms Purdy, who spent more than 20 years in journalism, spoke about her Catholic faith and her dramatic life change during a service at St Eugene's Cathedral in Londonderry on Monday night.
Her address was part of the Little Way Novena that is being held there this week.
Ms Purdy, who joined the Sisters of the Adoration, in west Belfast, revealed her path to the contemplative life.
Dressed in the brown garb of the religious order, she joked: "This is what happens when you go deeper into your faith. You end up wearing brown on the Falls Road.
"I feel a little bit like I'm in a makeover show in reverse.
"Those who know me know that I'm not one for silence, a bit of a chatterbox.
"So when I came to the congregation seeking to join them and they told me that they ate in silence and their work was in silence, I kind of thought they were joking.
"But only the Lord could call a chatterbox to a life of silence. But He does love irony".
Her decision shocked many people, not least her friends in the media and the scores of politicians she had grilled over the years.
She admitted she was shocked herself.
"When I phoned a number of the politicians to tell them myself, I have to say a few were uncharacteristically quiet. I was going: 'Hello, hello, are you there?'
"One thought I was joking. I called one of my relatives to tell them that I was quitting the BBC to become a nun and he said: "Are you drunk?" I said: 'No, I'm not drunk, I'm just happy'.
"Most people were surprisingly supportive, very loving in fact. Two friendly print journalists came to see me at the convent.
"They planned to stage an intervention but when they saw how happy I was, they just gave up and wished me well and went home."
Ms Purdy was educated at a convent school and raised as a Catholic but said she had no "calling" when she was younger. Instead, she was drawn towards news, with a real passion for politics.
"Did I want to be a nun? Absolutely not. I have to say poverty, chastity and obedience aren't exactly big sellers," she said.
"Who wants to be a living sacrifice? I wanted to be a journalist, was happy enough to get married and have children, if that happened."
Martina joined BBC Northern Ireland in 1999, having worked as a print journalist before that.
However, her journey deeper into faith began about eight years ago following a holiday to Peru when she thought about becoming an aid worker.
"I started to get a growing sense that I lived a pretty selfish existence. I thought my life was a little bit too easy," she said.
"Ok, you know hell is the multi-party talks, but there was always respite at the end of the day. I wanted to have a more meaningful life and do more for other people."
Ms Purdy was increasingly drawn to religion and described becoming "really joyful or quite tearful" after taking communion.
She said she began to feel "weighed down" or "choked" by her possessions.
"I started to have this overwhelming desire for God and started to lose the passion for the things I really liked, like shopping, champagne, going on trips, going out with friends," she said.
"I started to lose my passion for my job. I thought 'whoa what's going on?' .
"I really love politics but it just wasn't really satisfying me anymore."
Her feelings were cemented during a retreat and she realised she had been "asleep" in her faith until that point.
"I knew it was my choice. I could stay at the BBC, have a good life or I could go and give my life to God. I could be transformed. So I'm like: ' Yes, Lord, I'm in. I want to be transformed.'
"And hence I'm in the brown.
"If you told me at the end of that retreat that I'd be living on the Falls Road, two doors down from the Sinn Fein offices where I used to be a reporter, wearing brown I would have laughed."
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Three-time Olympic eventing medallist Fox-Pitt, 47, has been named in a 12-strong Team GB equestrian squad for this summer's Games.
He suffered a head trauma when he fell from his horse at the World Young Horse Championships in France in October.
"I felt maybe Rio was selfish but it gave me a kick into action," he said.
"I did think I'd been doing it for 32 years, did I need to carry on doing it?" he told BBC Sport.
But Fox-Pitt, who won Olympic team silver in Athens 2004 and London 2012 and team bronze in Beijing in 2008, said "an individual title would be marvellous".
"I think if I did win a medal my wife would make me give up.
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"I've been around a long time, I'm 47 and I'm hoping my wife thinks this will be my last Olympics. I'm not ruling myself out for Tokyo, if it happens brilliant.
"The Rio goal was a great drive personally, it gave me a good reason to get back", before adding of his ride: "I didn't want to let Chilli Morning down, I put everything into getting selected."
Fox-Pitt was competing at Le Lion-d'Angers when he fell from Reinstated, which was unharmed. "I've come off a lot of times in my life, and in being knocked out my memory has been very selective and I've been able to put it behind me."
He said the fall "affected my sight, my judgement and made me more dozy, in the beginning it was all a little bit of a dream".
"It's been an incredible journey, I've had incredible support."
Meanwhile world, European and Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin will ride with fellow 2012 gold medallist Carl Hester in the dressage.
London gold medallist Nick Skelton goes to his seventh Games in the jumping.
Another gold medallist in London, Ben Maher, joins Skelton in the jumping team along with Los Angeles 1984 silver medallist John Whitaker, who will be competing in his sixth Games.
Younger brother Michael Whitaker, who also won silver in 1984, is heading to his fifth Olympic Games.
Fox-Pitt is joined in the eventing team by three Olympic debutants in Kitty King, Izzy Taylor and Gemma Tattersall.
There are two Olympic debuts in the dressage as Spencer Wilton and 2015 European team silver medallist Fiona Bigwood earn selection.
Squad:
Eventing: William Fox-Pitt, Kitty King, Gemma Tattersall, Izzy Taylor, reserve: Pippa Funnell MBE
Dressage: Fiona Bigwood, Charlotte Dujardin OBE, Carl Hester MBE, Spencer Wilton, reserve: Lara Griffith
Jumping: Ben Maher MBE, Nick Skelton OBE, John Whitaker MBE, Michael Whitaker, reserve: Jessica Mendoza
Their substitution with more junior leaders is seen by some analysts as a rebuff to President Obama's talks with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
Saudi officials denied this, saying King Salman said he needed to stay home to oversee a ceasefire in Yemen.
The US said the king had spoken by phone to Mr Obama to voice "his regret at not being able to travel" to the US.
The talks in Camp David near Washington on Thursday are designed to reassure the Arab allies of US support on a number of issues including talks with Iran and instability in several Arab states.
They will now be largely attended by leaders at the ministerial level.
The official reason for the Saudi leader's absence is that the summit coincides with a humanitarian ceasefire in neighbouring Yemen, where a Saudi-led alliance is battling Shia Houthi rebels.
"I know there had been some speculation that this change in travel plans was an attempt to sent a message to the United States," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
"If so, that message was not received, because all the feedback that we've received from the Saudis has been positive."
The White House later said that President Obama had spoken by phone to King Salman on Monday and they had discussed preparations for the Camp David summit.
At Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told reporters the move was not related to any disagreement.
But diplomatic experts say it is a clear signal of Saudi displeasure with the US president and his negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme.
"I don't think they have a deep respect, a deep trust for Obama and his promises. There is a fundamental difference between his vision of post-nuclear-deal Iran and their vision," Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, a professor of political science at Emirates University told the Associated Press news agency.
"They think Iran is a destabilising force and will remain so, probably even more, if the sanctions are lifted."
The BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, said King Salman has never quite forgiven President Obama for cancelling the missile strikes on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the 11th hour in September of 2013, when King Salman was defence minister.
Separately, the tiny island kingdom of Bahrain, whose leadership has close ties to the Saudis, said that it would be sending its crown prince, Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, to the meeting.
A source familiar with the talks told the BBC that the Sultan of Oman and the President of the United Arab Emirates are both known to be very ill, and do not travel for non-medical purposes - and were not expected to attend.
The Kuwaiti emir, Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, will attend the summit and has already arrived in the Washington area.
Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, is expected to attend as well.
The move would pave the way to shut the facilities at Ae, Garlieston and Kirkbean.
The three schools currently have 37 pupils in total with combined capacity for nearly 200.
If the consultation is given the go-ahead they could be shut by July next year.
Dumfries and Galloway Council's education committee agreed last year that officers should engage with schools where the pupil roll has fallen below 50% of capacity.
It said the process would serve to "identify and rationalise" the use of its buildings.
A report earlier this year identified more than 20 schools operating at less than half of their capacity.
At Roland Garros, as at Wimbledon last year when she was runner-up, Muguruza has caught the attention of both fans and the media for her power and athleticism on the court, and her breezy demeanour off it.
Such a combination leaves the charismatic 22-year-old well placed not only for a successful playing career, but also as a potential favourite for sponsors.
"Her reach can be universal," says Fernando Soler, head of the tennis division at her agents IMG. "The goal is to turn Garbine into a global star and she is helping herself with her on court performance."
Indeed, work on creating her brand and commercial appeal has already been under way for two years, since her first tournament win, at the Hobart International in January 2014.
With Maria Sharapova facing the prospect of having her two-year ban for doping being upheld, and Serena Williams nearing, by tennis standards, the veteran stage, her representatives believe she can emulate those two both on and off the court.
After her 7-5 6-4 win over Williams in Paris, US legend Chris Evert told Eurosport viewers "a star is born right here", comparing her game to that of Jennifer Capriati for its "power, style of play, and tenacity".
And one US sports business magazine has named the WTA world number two the 14th most marketable athlete in the world over the next three years.
Muguruza is currently the face of Adidas by Stella McCartney, has a deal with racquet firm Babolat, and other partnerships with BBVA Bank and sunglasses line Maui Jim. Meanwhile, her team are in conversations with a range of firms on other potential sponsor deals.
"We are trying to build the right platform for Garbine," Soler says. "We are being very selective in terms of brands we partner with, and it is important that the brand is a good fit and Garbine has a passion for the brand.
"It is important to get the foundation right for an athlete at this very delicate stage in her career."
According to Simon Chadwick, professor of sports enterprise at Salford University, women's tennis has a vacancy for a "new leading brand", one that he says Muguruza, the number two seed at Wimbledon, could fill.
"The time is right for a new global face of women's tennis, and this could potentially be her. The fact she is of Spanish origin potentially opens up the Hispanic world, including Spanish-speaking communities in the US.
"And as well as being a strong player she also has a femininity, which is important to a certain type of sponsor."
Soler says that as well as being attractive to sponsors for her sporting prowess, she also has a "very likeable" personality, traits her team have been highlighting for two-and-a-half years now.
"People always think that the minute a player wins a big tournament that is when the work with the sponsors starts," he says.
"But in reality it starts years before that. We have been making sure that... since Garbine won her first tournament we have been educating sponsors on who she is and keeping them in the loop with her progress."
He says there is a delicate balancing act that needs to be achieved, between allowing the player enough time to focus on travelling, training and competing at the top level, and her commercial obligations.
"Quality over quantity is the formula here," he says. "We want to make sure we are using her time wisely when working with sponsors, which is why partnering with the right brands is optimal, so that both parties can get the best out of each other."
One of the commercial benefits of being a tennis player is the global reach of the sport and worldwide interest in its top stars.
This year Muguruza will play in about 20 tournaments across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.
She will receive extensive fan and media attention around those events, particularly during the four Grand Slams, appearing not only in the sports pages but also the fashion and lifestyle ones.
For example, during the French Open, fashion bible Vogue analysed her hair, dubbing it the "best bombshell hair" in women's tennis, praising her for the same "no-nonsense tack" she brings to both her flowing locks and the game.
While men's tennis in Spain has flourished in recent years, most notably with the success of Rafael Nadal, the country has lacked a serious female contender since the days of Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Conchita Martinez in the 1990s.
"Ultimately her strongest market will be in Spain and Europe, but she is also very popular in South America as her mother is from Venezuela," says Soler.
Her commercial potential should receive another boost later this year when she represents Spain at the Rio Olympics, spreading her reach further into South America.
The player is a keen user of social media and even has her own app - Garbinesapp.com - which she is very active on. Social media allows her to "remain authentic" to fans, says Soler.
The WTA player of the month for May, Muguruza aims to go one better at Wimbledon and win this year.
"That is the goal and the dream," says Soler.
Manchester City won 1-0 in Lyon, but went down 3-2 on aggregate.
Paris St Germain scored a 5-1 aggregate win over Barcelona to claim their place in the final.
The final will be followed two days later by the men's final at the Principality Stadium, with Real Madrid facing Atletico Madrid and Juventus playing Monaco in the semi finals.
Lithium-ion batteries should be physically separated from flammable hazardous material, the NTSB said.
It also wants to limit the quantity of such batteries, used to power many portable devices, allowed as cargo.
A US senator is now calling for authorities to be able to ban lithium-ion batteries from aircraft.
The NTSB said gadget batteries could be "a fire and explosion ignition source", "a source of fuel to an existing fire" and "subjected to overheating that can create an explosive condition."
The updated advice follows an investigation into a fire on an Asiana Airlines cargo plane in 2011.
Two crew members died when the plane, which was carrying lithium-ion batteries, then crashed into the Korea Strait.
NTSB chairman Christopher A Hart said the body's recommendations would "reduce the likelihood and severity of potential cargo fires" and "provide additional time for the crew to safely land a cargo aircraft in the event a fire is detected".
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also said this week there was "potential risk of a catastrophic aircraft loss" due to damage resulting from a lithium-ion battery fire.
Current procedures for dealing with cargo fires on planes were incapable of controlling a lithium-ion battery blaze, the FAA added.
The FAA arrived at these conclusions following testing of lithium-ion batteries and methods to extinguish fires caused by them.
US senator Bill Nelson now plans to introduce legislation that would allow the FAA to ban lithium-ion shipments.
"If FAA testing has found that fires or explosions caused by lithium-ion batteries can lead to a catastrophic loss of an airplane, then why on Earth would anyone want to prohibit safety regulators from banning large shipments of these batteries on passenger airliners," Mr Nelson told news site The Hill.
The Air Line Pilots Association has also suggested the FAA should have greater powers to restrict lithium-ion shipments.
Any new regulations would not apply to individual batteries contained in devices carried by air passengers.
The new factory will focus on painting and assembling twin-engine 737 aircraft manufactured in the US.
Chinese firms also agreed to buy 300 Boeing jets, in deals worth about $38bn (£25bn).
The announcements coincided with a visit to the US by China's President Xi Jinping, who toured Boeing's Washington state factory on Wednesday.
The plan to open a plant in China has received criticism from the head of Boeing's biggest union and Donald Trump, who is seeking nomination as the Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
Mr Trump said the plant would take jobs away from the US.
However Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg promised the new plant would not result in job cuts in the US.
The push into China is not the only development for Boeing in Asia. On Tuesday, the company finalised a $2.5bn (£1.7bn) deal with India for the sale of military helicopters.
India will purchase 22 Apache and 15 Chinooks helicopters to replace soviet-era equipment.
Mexico and Canada defended the deal on Wednesday in the first day of talks to revise the trade agreement.
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said President Trump wanted changes beyond just updating the pact.
Talks between the three countries are expected to last for months.
"He is not interested in a mere tweaking of a few provisions and a couple of updated chapters," Mr Lighthizer said in his opening remarks in Washington.
"We feel that Nafta has fundamentally failed many, many Americans and needs major improvement."
The Nafta talks came as President Trump suffered a setback with some of the biggest US companies over his handling of violent clashes in Virginia.
Two key White House business advisory councils were disbanded on Wednesday after several bosses quit over how Mr Trump reacted to the far-right rally last weekend.
Renegotiating Nafta was a major campaign theme for Mr Trump, who has described it as the "worst deal". He blames it for the loss of US manufacturing jobs, a position that struck a chord with many voters.
Mexico's Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo said he was not surprised or deterred by Mr Lighthizer's tough posture, which is in line with earlier US statements.
The US will be seeking changes such as stronger labour provisions and stricter rules of origin, which determine where companies can say a product is made. That measure is opposed by US automakers.
The US also wants to revamp the Nafta panels used to resolve disputes.
Canada maintains that those panels - which have rejected US complaints in the past for industries such as softwood lumber - are critical.
"It's fundamental because the commerce department [in the US] takes a lot of measures and countervailing duties which sometimes are unjust and not founded, like in softwood lumber," Raymond Bachand, one of the Nafta negotiators on the Canadian side, told the BBC.
"Through that mechanism - which is much faster than the WTO mechanism - we win and these decisions are reversed. So they're fundamental."
All three sides say there is an opportunity to "modernise" the agreement to reflect new technology and online business.
Chrystia Freeland, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, shared a photo of the talks on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon, saying it had been a "productive discussion ... on the mutually beneficial economic relationship between Canada and the US".
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Should the government be able to access your internet browsing history, bug your computer or smartphone, access and hold data on your medical history, trade union activities and much, much more?
If so, what protections and procedures should be in place to control the process? How far should judges ride shotgun as ministers authorise intrusive powers? Should there be a watchdog to protect the citizen?
These are some of the issues to be fought out next week, when the Commons holds two days of detailed debate on the Investigatory Powers Bill (here is my regular rundown of what is coming up in Parliament next week).
This is the latest bill aimed at giving the security services and the police up-to-date powers to monitor activity on the internet - it comes with a long back-story: first there was the Communications Data Bill (the original Bill dubbed the Snoopers Charter, by its opponents) which was dropped after being savaged by a committee of MPs and Peers; then there was DRIPA, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA), which only made it through Parliament after a clause was added to make it expire at the end of December. Now the IP Bill aims to renew and update those powers.
The key to understanding what is going on, as this legislation returns to the Commons for two days of detailed Report Stage debate, next week, is the Parliamentary timetable and the mathematics in both the Commons and the Lords.
The Bill has to be passed before the DRIPA expires in December - otherwise the legal authority for the existing powers will lapse (although there's always the option, in extremis, of passing an emergency mini-bill to continue the existing powers for a couple of months).
Then there's the maths - faced with some formidable backbench Tory critics, the government cannot rely on its narrow Commons majority, and needs at least the acquiescence of Labour to get the Bill through the House - and it has no majority at all in the Lords, so a roughing-up in the Commons may mean peers think they then have a licence to fillet the Bill of its most controversial provisions.
And there's plenty of scope for controversy. The ur-text on this are the speeches by Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham and Labour's frontbench superlawyer, Sir Keir Starmer, at the Second Reading debate in March (the bill has been "carried over" from the previous session), where they set out their key concerns.
Then, Labour abstained - arguing that a new framework for investigatory powers was needed, but this wasn't it.
They set out a shopping list of changes required to gain their support. And since then an intensive process of behind the scenes negotiation has been under way - both between Labour and the government and with dissident Tories and amongst the opposition parties (providing, whisper it quietly, a rare example of Labour-SNP cooperation).
This week, that process produced a couple of major government concessions.
First the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, has been commissioned to examine the operational case for the powers in the Bill (Labour being unconvinced by the evidence produced by the government, thus far).
He will report back before the Bill reaches its Committee Stage in the House of Lords, and the government will have a hard time resisting any recommendations he makes, and would probably face defeat in the Upper House, if it did.
Second, the government has agreed to accept Labour amendments making it clear that the powers in the Bill cannot be directed against legally-constituted trades unions.
In addition, Home Secretary Theresa May has put down a new "privacy clause" (NC5) giving the various authorities allowed to employ the investigatory powers a duty to "have regard to: (a) whether what is sought to be achieved by the warrant, authorisation or notice could reasonably be achieved by other less intrusive means, (b) the public interest in the integrity and security of telecommunication systems and postal services, and (c) any other aspects of the public interest in the protection of privacy".
This gives critics of the Bill some of the safeguards they want.
Another government amendment will add a requirement for "exceptional and compelling circumstances" to justify the retention and examination, of health records. There is also movement on providing special protection for MPs, lawyers and journalists.
Plenty of issues remain, however.
All the opposition parties remain concerned about the extent to which the Bill would require people's internet connection records (ICRs) to be kept for 12 months.
This would reveal which websites had been visited by who - although not the detail of what had been looked at within a particular site. There is still considerable dispute over the threshold of seriousness which should be crossed before this information could be accessed.
Then there's the question of how authorisation should be granted. In the Bill, the security services apply to the Secretary of State for a warrant and then a Judicial Commissioner reviews the minister's decision under 'judicial review principles' - effectively checking that a proper process has been followed, rather than considering the merits of the application.
Both Labour and former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, a long-standing critic of the government's approach on investigatory powers and an important player on the Tory benches, have amendments down to tighten up this "double-lock" scrutiny mechanism and remove reference to judicial review principles throughout the Bill.
Both want to give the Judicial Commissioner the same power as the Secretary of State to determine whether a warrant is required based on the evidence available.
And David Davis goes further, with a new clause (NC 22) to reverse the approval process, so that an application for a warrant is first made to a Judicial Commissioner, rather than the Secretary of State - although Labour look unlikely to support that.
This area could be one of the major flashpoints; the government will probably resist any further erosion of ministers' role, on the principle that ministers, not judges, should take such decisions - and be accountable to Parliament for them.
The SNP want even more controls - they're particularly concerned about equipment interference, one of the most intrusive powers in the bill, which would allow the direct bugging of computers, smartphones and other devices - and where it's applied to Parliamentarians, which includes those in the Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Assembly, they want both the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister to sign off on equipment interference warrants.
They are also calling for heavier supervision of the use of investigatory powers - with amendments to replace the proposed Investigatory Powers Commissioner with a bigger, all-singing, all-dancing Investigatory Powers Commission.
And across the opposition parties there is a move to ensure that the appointment of the Commissioner (or, if agreed, the members of the SNP's Commission) can be made, except on the recommendation of independent judicial appointments bodies in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, UKIP's Douglas Carswell has an amendment to require the appointment of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner to be agreed by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.
Lib Dem former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael has an amendment to address the problem that, because of the nature of the business, people who are wrongly subject to intrusive surveillance are unable to secure redress.
To deal with this he proposes giving the Investigatory Powers Commissioner the power to notify those who have been a subject to an interception warrant/equipment interference/covert human intelligence gathering etc, when the authorisation or warrant against them has fallen.
This would allow someone who is notified of their surveillance to take a case before the investigatory powers tribunal and would discourage the police or security services from mounting fishing expeditions based on very little evidence. A similar system is already in place in Germany, Belgium and California. This probably goes too far for Labour.
The political parties are not the only players. The Intelligence and Security Committee, the high-powered parliamentary watchdog, chaired by the former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, has weighed in with amendments designed to put privacy at the heart of the Bill.
They start with New Clause 4, which creates a criminal offence of "unlawful use of investigatory powers".
It's not a completely new offence, but the idea is to create a catch-all crime, taking in what the committee calls the "intrusive investigatory powers in the Bill," rather than relying on offences scattered across several pieces of legislation.
Another amendment (25) aims to limit the potentially broad scope of thematic warrants involving people who "share a common purpose" by ensuring that they also must be engaged in a particular activity.
Then there's New Clause 2, to allow the ISC to refer matters on behalf of Parliament, to the Commissioner and to provide a mechanism for the Committee to be informed of the outcome. And there's a proposal that the list of "Operational Purposes" for which the powers can be used is reviewed at least annually by the Prime Minister.
Other amendments have come from individual MPs: the Conservative Stephen McPartland's New Clause 6 is designed to limit access to Communications Data to the Intelligence Services and Law Enforcement Agencies only.
"There is no rationale for organisations such as Food Standards Agency and Gambling Commission to have the same incredibly intrusive powers as the Intelligence Services, Mr McPartland said.
Conservative ex-minister Sir Edward Leigh wants to require the Secretary of State to consult the Speaker before deciding to issue a warrant that applied to an MP's communications - and a further cross-party amendment extends that to the presiding officers of all UK legislatures.
And the SNP go further - proposing a new clause (NC23) to ensure applications for a targeted equipment interference warrant or targeted examination warrant against Parliamentarians are decided by a Judicial Commissioner, without the involvement of the Home Secretary - and it would also provide extra safeguards to the correspondence of Parliamentarians when a warrant for hacking is sought.
This is just a cross-section of some 400 amendments.
Of course, many will not be selected by the Speaker for debate, while others will be grouped together, but there will be plenty of issues on which the government, faced with a combination of most of the Opposition parties, plus an array of Tory dissidents, may be forced into concessions.
There's a delicate political dance here, because while ministers are not in a strong position, Labour (which would be the essential keystone of any government defeat) cannot afford to be painted into a corner where it looks soft on terrorism.
While almost the entire Opposition abstained at Second Reading, few are expected to do so when Third Reading is reached on Tuesday.
But it would take a monumental bust-up over some really crucial point for Labour to vote against - especially when they know that the Bill will certainly be highly vulnerable to further amendment, when it reaches the House of Lords.
The SNP, meanwhile, say the government has not responded to their concern.
Justice spokesperson Joanna Cherry MP said: "For the UK government to dismiss reasonable SNP amendments outright means they run the real risk of putting opposition parties in the position of having to vote against the Bill in its entirety.
"That is not a decision that we would take lightly - so I call on the Home Secretary to urgently reconsider adopting our proposals before next week's vote."
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said there were 68 vacancies at the high security facility - almost a third of the required staffing.
It issued West London Mental Health NHS Trust with a warning notice.
The trust said it was "acting swiftly" to improve recruitment but faced difficulties "like many NHS trusts".
The CQC inspection was carried out in November to check on progress on issues highlighted in a previous report.
Dr Paul Lelliott, CQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals, said the trust "must improve the quality of care that it provides to patients".
"Specifically, our inspection team found that there were 68 vacancies for qualified nurses ... this was affecting the care and treatment of patients."
The CQC's full report is due in January.
A spokesperson for West London Mental Health NHS Trust insisted improvements had been made since a report in June 2015.
"Like many other NHS trusts we face difficulties in recruiting suitably qualified, specialist registered mental health nurses and other clinical staff."
He said measures had been put in place to improve recruitment and retention of staff. These included relocation packages for nurses and career development for healthcare assistants wanting to become qualified nurses.
Broadmoor, which has housed infamous killers including Peter Sutcliffe and Graham Young, is currently undergoing a £242m overhaul in a bid to move away from its image as an outdated Victorian institute.
News services run by some of China's biggest online portals, including Sina, Sohu, NetEase and iFeng, were shut for publishing independent reports instead of official statements, the media said.
The sites had seriously violated reporting rules, officials said.
China has tightened controls on online communications in recent years.
Most Chinese news sites are prohibited from gathering or reporting on political or social issues themselves, and are instead meant to rely on reports published by official media, such as state news agency Xinhua.
However, many news organisations had hired investigative journalists to produce their own reports, to cover major social issues and attract more readers and revenue.
Now, several major online news columns, such as Sina's News Geek, Sohu's Click Today, and NetEase's Signpost, have all been closed, along with related social media accounts, newspapers Beijing Daily and the Beijing News reported.
They had "published large amounts of independently-gathered news reports, in serious violation of the rules", and could also face fines, the newspapers added.
News outlets in China operate under tight Communist Party control, with censorship and self-censorship common.
Thousands of cyber-police also watch the web and social media, and material deemed politically and socially sensitive is filtered.
In February, Chinese President Xi Jinping toured state media outlets, and said journalists must give absolute loyalty to the Communist Party.
Aberdeen City Council said a "full assessment" of buildings was being carried out, and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service would be consulted.
The bin areas are often the target of wilful fire-raising incidents.
A number of measures are being considered and no decisions have been made.
At least 79 people are believed to have died in the Grenfell Tower blaze.
Cladding is thought to have contributed to the rapid spread of the fire.
A council spokeswoman said: "We are carrying out a full assessment on each building and once we have an outcome from the assessments, we will liaise with Scottish Fire and Rescue colleagues, and any measures taken will be in consultation with them.
"Our focus remains in the safety of our residents and tenants."
Meanwhile, NHS Grampian said it was currently reviewing its buildings to determine if any further action was needed.
The University of Aberdeen, Robert Gordon University (RGU) and North East of Scotland College are also carrying out checks.
It would be the third such "de-escalation zone" put in place since July after talks between powers backing and opposing the Syrian government.
The others cover parts of south-western Syria and the outskirts of Damascus.
Syria's war has raged since 2011 but fighting has become more patchy amid a series of truce deals in recent months.
The conflict has left more 330,000 people dead and displaced millions more.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the latest ceasefire was agreed with the "moderate Syrian opposition" and covered an area encompassing more than 147,000 people.
He said Russia would set up two checkpoints and three observation posts along the truce lines on Friday.
Last week Russia, a key Syrian ally, deployed military police to monitor a "de-escalation zone" in Eastern Ghouta - an agricultural belt near the capital - and in the south-west.
However, it is unclear exactly where the ceasefire boundaries lie, and the extent of violations, though there has been an easing in the intensity of violence.
Plans for four such zones were announced by Russia, Turkey - which supports the rebels - and Syria's other main ally, Iran, at talks in Astana in May.
Rebel groups have not publicly signed up to the Astana agreement, which has the tacit support of the United States and the Syrian government.
The plan excludes militants of the so-called Islamic State (IS) and the jihadist group Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham.
Ricardo Quaresma scored the winning spot-kick after Jakub Blaszczykowski's effort was saved by Rui Patricio.
Robert Lewandowski had fired Poland ahead in the second minute with teenager Renato Sanches equalising via a deflected strike.
Portugal's semi-final opponents will be either Wales or Belgium.
Remarkably, Portugal have reached the last four without winning a game in normal time following three draws in a group in which they finished third and an extra-time win over Croatia in the last 16.
No side has ever got this far in a European Championship without winning a match inside 90 minutes.
Portugal have also only led a match for 22 minutes during the whole tournament, while Poland have not trailed for a single minute.
However, for a second dour and conservative knockout game running, Fernando Santos' side did what was required when it mattered.
Neither goalkeeper came close to saving the first three penalties from either side.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Sanches and Joao Moutinho all scored excellent penalties for Portugal, with Lewandowski, Arkadiusz Milik and Kamil Glik following suit for Poland.
However, after Nani had put Portugal 4-3 ahead, Patricio dived full length to his left to palm away Blaszczykowski's effort with one hand.
Lukasz Fabianski got his fingertips to Quaresma's decisive effort but could not prevent it finding the roof of the net.
For much of the game, the overriding image of Ronaldo was of him slapping his thigh and screaming towards the French sky in frustration.
Barring a few exceptional moments - his two goals against Hungary and assisting Quaresma's winner to see off Croatia - this has been a disappointing tournament for the finest European player of his generation.
He was barely recognisable from the figure who has terrorised defences across the continent for more than a decade as a series of scuffed and miscued strikes took him from 31 to 36 efforts for the tournament without an addition to his two group-stage goals.
Worst of all was a couple of air shots - one from a low Nani cross, the other following a chipped ball over the defence and into the box by substitute Joao Moutinho.
He should have had a first-half penalty, when he was clumsily shoved in the back in the box by Michal Pazdan, but his anguished appeals were waved away by referee Felix Brych.
However, he led from the front in the shootout, firing home the first penalty with aplomb and remains in the tournament, unlike Poland's own star man.
Having scored 13 goals in qualifying and 42 in 51 appearances for club Bayern Munich in 2015-16, Lewandowski had spent much of Poland's four games prior to Thursday being frustrated, through both fair and foul means from opponents - he is the most fouled man in the tournament.
It was only a matter of time, though, before a striker of his class made an impression on the tournament, although few would have imagined Portugal to be so accommodating so early in Marseille.
Southampton full-back Cedric Soares was at fault, allowing a cross-field ball to evade him and reach Kamil Grosicki, whose low cross was struck home first-time by his captain with just one minute and 40 seconds on the clock.
It is the second fastest goal in Euros history - beaten only by Dmitri Kirichenko's 65-second strike for Russia against Greece in 2004 - and ends a 645-minute goal-drought for Lewandowski in the finals of this competition.
Now brimming with confidence, the 27-year-old then beat Pepe to the ball in the box but saw his low shot saved by Patricio as Poland took the game to their opponents in the first 25 minutes.
Unfortunately, they were unable to build on this, offering precious little in attack and relying instead on a resolute defence that has conceded just twice in five games (two of which have gone to extra-time) to see give them through to the shoot-out.
It has been some year for Sanches.
The teenager only made his first-team debut for Benfica in November, but since then he has made his international bow, claimed a Primeira Liga winners' medal and agreed to join Bayern Munich for £27.5m.
He now has a full-debut international goal to his name, making him - at 18 years and 316 days - the youngest goalscorer in the knockout stages of a European Championship.
Picking up the ball wide right he played a superb one-two with Nani before finding the net with a well-struck shot from the edge of the box that took a deflection off Grzegorz Krychowiak.
However, barring an extra-time pitch-invader, this was to be the last real moment of excitement until the shootout.
Portugal goalscorer Sanches: "It is a wonderful moment for the team and for me for scoring. We have been working very hard and we have been doing our best. People criticise us but we don't care because we are in the semis."
Poland coach Adam Nawalka: "It's definitely a tough moment for us. The players put a lot of heart into this match and played bravely throughout this tournament. We haven't lost a match - we were knocked out on penalties. We have to look with optimism to the future and the European qualifiers. There will soon be time for detailed analysis but this defeat hurts."
Wales and Belgium face each other in Lille on Friday to decide Portugal's last-four opponent in Lyon on Wednesday, 6 July.
Match ends, Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5).
Penalty Shootout ends, Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5).
Goal! Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5). Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty saved! Jakub Blaszczykowski (Poland) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(4). Nani (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal! Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(3). Kamil Glik (Poland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Poland 1(2), Portugal 1(3). João Moutinho (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Poland 1(2), Portugal 1(2). Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Poland 1(1), Portugal 1(2). Renato Sanches (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal! Poland 1(1), Portugal 1(1). Robert Lewandowski (Poland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Poland 1, Portugal 1(1). Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Attempt missed. Lukasz Piszczek (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Bartosz Kapustka (Poland) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tomasz Jodlowiec.
Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danilo Pereira (Portugal).
Corner, Portugal. Conceded by Artur Jedrzejczyk.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Poland).
Corner, Poland. Conceded by Pepe.
Grzegorz Krychowiak (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by João Moutinho (Portugal).
Attempt missed. Jakub Blaszczykowski (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Tomasz Jodlowiec.
Attempt blocked. Bartosz Kapustka (Poland) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Arkadiusz Milik.
Second Half Extra Time begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Attempt saved. Nani (Portugal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cédric Soares.
Foul by Tomasz Jodlowiec (Poland).
João Moutinho (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jakub Blaszczykowski.
Grzegorz Krychowiak (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nani (Portugal).
Attempt missed. Nani (Portugal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Substitution, Poland. Tomasz Jodlowiec replaces Krzysztof Maczynski.
Attempt blocked. Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Renato Sanches.
Substitution, Portugal. Danilo Pereira replaces William Carvalho.
Attempt blocked. Renato Sanches (Portugal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
First Half Extra Time begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Second Half ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.
David Cameron was giving evidence to the liaison committee, which is made up of the chairs of select committees at Westminster. Neil Parish, who chairs the environment, food and rural affairs committee, put Mr Cameron on the spot.
Neil Parish: "Are you very keen on tidal power? We have the Bristol channel, which has the second highest rise and fall in the world. We could increase our amount of renewable energy without taking good quality land to put solar panels on it."
David Cameron: "Instinctively, I can see the strength of the argument for tidal power, because one of the problems with renewables is whether they can provide base-load power.
"Nuclear can. Wind cannot, because it is intermittent. But tidal, because the tide is always going in or out, can provide base-load power. The problem with tidal power, simply put, is that at the moment we have not seen any ideas come forward that can hit a strike price in terms of pounds per megawatt-hour that is very attractive. That is the challenge for tidal.
"Maybe they can come up with something. They are very long-term schemes with big investments up front, and they can last for many, many years, but right now my enthusiasm is reduced slightly by the fact that the cost would be quite high."
Neil Parish: "The tidal scheme in Swansea definitely has a very high capital cost, but if you put that over a great number of years you will find that the power is naturally limitless and the cost is inexpensive."
Mr Cameron: "Obviously we have to look at the figures as they come out. As I have said, tidal power has got the permanence to it. There are important economic benefits in terms of urban renewal and all the rest of it. I totally see all those arguments and have seen some exciting prospects, but as I said, you have to come back to the question of what the action I take will do to the security of supply and the cost of supply. In all the arguments about renewables, you always have to ask yourself what that will put on a household bill."
During the later days of the coalition government, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats squabbled over which of them was the driving forced behind support for it within government.
Then the election intervened and, returned to power, it dawned on the Conservatives just how expensive (much more than nuclear, I'm told) the project would be. It wouldn't be the first policy to be embraced enthusiastically by a party before an election only to be rejected afterwards.
The Lib Dems have accused their former coalition partners of "playing games" over the project. Peter Black AM told me: "A new, more affordable strike price has been submitted by the company. My view is that it's more realistic and should be agreed."
The project was raised during Welsh Questions in the Commons by the former Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan. She asked her successor-but-one Stephen Crabb: "When can we expect to hear what financial support will be forthcoming from the Government so that this exciting project can proceed without delay?"
Stephen Crabb said she was right. "The Swansea tidal lagoon proposition is very exciting and commands wide support across the business community in Wales, but we also need to recognise that the project is asking for a very significant level of public subsidy and intervention. It is absolutely right that the Treasury and the Department of Energy and Climate Change should conduct very robust due diligence in making sure that such projects will deliver value for the taxpayer."
The company itself is confident it can reach a deal at a price which it believes will make the project viable.
Switzerland's 18-time major winner, 35, beat his 33-year-old German opponent, the defending champion and world number 134, 6-3 6-4.
World number five Federer will face Russian 21-year-old Karen Khachanov, the world number 38, in the next round.
The other semi-final will be between Richard Gasquet and Roberto Bautista Agut or Alexander Zverev.
After losing to 39-year-old Tommy Haas in his first match in two months at the Stuttgart Open earlier in June, Federer is yet to drop a set at Halle, where he is bidding for a ninth title.
The seven-time Wimbledon champion has won three titles so far this season, including the Australian Open - his first Grand Slam success in five years.
Federer also won the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in March and, two weeks later, the Miami Open.
In May, he announced he would be missing the French Open and the rest of the clay-court season to concentrate on the grass and hard-court seasons. | Welsh councils have recovered the majority of money they invested in Icelandic banks prior to their collapse in 2008.
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Lyon will play Paris St Germain in the Women's Champions League final at the Cardiff City Stadium on 1 June.
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has said shipments of lithium-ion batteries on planes should be restricted due to safety fears.
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Boeing will open a plant in China in partnership with state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac).
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The US is looking for a "major" overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), a senior US trade official said as negotiations on the pact got underway.
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A lack of qualified nurses was "affecting the care and treatment" of patients at Broadmoor Hospital, the health watchdog has found.
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Sprinkler systems could be installed in the communal bin storage rooms of Aberdeen's tower blocks in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
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A ceasefire between Syrian forces and rebels north of Homs has been agreed and will come into effect on Thursday, Russia's defence ministry says.
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Portugal reached the semi-finals of the European Championship for the fourth time in five tournaments with a penalty shootout victory over Poland.
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I missed this on Tuesday due to a deadline clash with a Westminster Hall debate so I tip my hat to Construction News for spotting the prime minister's "reduced" enthusiasm for the Swansea tidal lagoon project.
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The blaze broke out at a home on Llangwm estate, near Penplas, in Penlan, just after midnight on Monday.
The house was initially too unsafe to search, but the body of the woman who died - named locally as Linda Merron - has now been moved out of the property.
A man and woman were taken to the city's Morriston Hospital with burns and smoke inhalation. A pet dog was also rescued.
Floral tributes have been left on the front gate by neighbours.
The cause of the blaze is being investigated by police and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
Neighbour Gina Norwood said the woman who lived at the house had been in poor health and had moved to the area within the last two years after her daughter came to study in the city.
"She loved her animals, her dogs - she was a lovely lady. She always had time for you, to say hello to all her neighbours," she told BBC Wales.
"My son woke me up screaming to get out of the house. I looked out of the window and I thought the flat was on fire.
"My son came out of the front and it was all blowing out, the flames."
Ms Norwood said she called the fire service initially and later an ambulance to treat the woman's daughter, whom she said had received burns to her body.
Her son Karl said he had heard a series of bangs which alerted him to the fire just after midnight.
The two teams will meet in Friday's European Challenge Cup final, with Edinburgh hoping to become the first Scottish side to win a European trophy.
"It was the right decision to move away," said 29-year-old Laidlaw.
"I've really enjoyed it and feel I've played a lot of good rugby this year. I'll need to do that again on Friday."
Gloucester have struggled domestically this season, sitting ninth in the Premiership table with only eight wins from their 20 matches so far.
Edinburgh have had a similarly mixed campaign in the Pro12, lying seventh with two rounds of fixtures to go, but on Friday they will become the first Scottish representative in a major European final, having overcome Newport Gwent Dragons in the last four.
"They've progressed since I left," continued Laidlaw, who has been capped 39 times by his country. "It's taken time under Alan Solomons but, credit to him, he's done a good job. The players are all playing very well and they deserve to be in the final.
"I know how desperate Edinburgh will be to win the final and be the first Scottish team to win this trophy, but I want to win things playing for Gloucester."
The Cherry and Whites are in their first European showpiece since the 2006 Challenge Cup final, when they beat London Irish to lift the trophy.
Laidlaw, who has started 11 times in the league this season, says Gloucester "need to do the simple things well" if they are to repeat that success against his former club.
"We're going to need a big performance to turn over a very good Edinburgh team," he said. "The forward battle is going to be key because their pack has been very strong.
"The boys have put in a big shift this season and we've been a bit disappointed in terms of the Premiership, but I feel we've played a lot of good rugby."
United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust (ULHT) has said it does not have enough doctors to staff the department safely.
The department has been shut between 18:30 and 09:00 since August. Campaigners claim it puts patient safety at risk, which the trust denies.
Protest groups claimed around 6,000 people took part in the march earlier.
Conservative councillor Ray Wootton said of the march: "I think it sends a clear message to the trust that Grantham people will not take no for an answer," he said.
Jody Clark from the group Fighting for Grantham Hospital said: "I cannot understand why they believe it is in the interest of patient safety to keep it closed when it clearly is not."
ULHT said it does not have enough doctors to staff the department safely and also maintain services in Lincoln and Boston, which see more patients.
It has insisted the closure is temporary until it can recruit enough staff to fully resource all three units.
It acknowledged the decision was unpopular and added it supported the right of people to protest against it.
Four lanes of traffic will be reduced to two while repairs to the Bromley Heath Viaduct on the Avon Ring Road take place, starting in the summer.
A South Gloucestershire Council report projects queues back to the Dramway roundabout beyond Emersons Green, almost three miles (4.8 km) away.
Traffic is also predicted to queue back to the M32 and possibly the M4.
The council said essential repairs, including pier strengthening, parapet replacement and concrete repairs, are needed on the westbound viaduct over the River Frome, which was built in 1968.
A council spokesperson said it was a "major scheme which would involve bridge strengthening and road resurfacing, as well as improved provision for cyclists and pedestrians".
They added that councillors would consider a range of options, including phasing the work over a number of years or doing the work in one go starting this summer.
The issues are due to be heard by the council's Environment and Community Services committee later.
The problem is worst in London, the North East, the North West and the East Midlands.
Literacy skills are also weak in some areas. In London and the North East, 17% of adults can read and write only as well as an 11-year-old.
The government says progress has been made but more is needed.
It commissioned the survey of 16 to 65-year-olds across England, called Skills for life and is calling on adults to take up free classes.
Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said: "Good English and maths are vital for getting a job and playing a full part in society. We have doubled the funding for adult English and maths because they are so important.
"I would urge anyone who is struggling to take advantage of the provision that is on offer which now includes maths and English GCSEs for adults who missed out the first time round."
The survey was carried out between May 2010 and February 2011 and the main findings were published last year, but the government is now releasing the regional breakdown.
The full report says there was an improvement in adult literacy between 2003 and 2011, but that at a national level 24% (8.1 million people) lack basic numeracy skills, while 15% (5.1 million people) do not have basic literacy skills.
The latest data shows that in the north-east of England, 31% of adults have maths skills equivalent to seven- to nine-year-olds. In London and the East Midlands , 25% of adults have that level of numeracy, while in the North West the proportion is 24%.
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Literacy levels are generally a bit better, with the government highlighting areas where adult skills are lower than those of nine- to 11-year-olds.
In London and the North East, 17% of adults are in that group. In the North West, the figure is 14% and in Yorkshire and Humber it is 12%.
Carol Taylor, from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (Niace), said: "There has been a huge effort from teachers, managers, volunteers and learners over the past 10 years leading to a significant improvement in the literacy skills of the country, albeit for those at a higher level.
"Those with the poorest skills have been the least well served. One in six of the adult population has some difficulty with aspects of reading and writing and one in four struggles with maths.
"This means they are seriously disadvantaged - in work, in health and in their role as parents."
Students at Blackburn College's University Centre were due to receive their results on 7 July following validation by Lancaster University.
Some of those have said the "systems issue" has put their careers on hold.
Staff at both centres are working "ensure the data is accurate", which could take at least another two weeks.
Student Karen McErlean said: "We've had no satisfactory answer as to why results are late.
"I'm supposed to be starting a teacher training in September but I can't commence with that until I've got my degree confirmed."
Blackburn College said it was carrying out data testing on the IT system, introduced four to five months ago, when issues around the results emerged.
An anomaly with the data had led Lancaster University to query the results from Blackburn College.
Vice Principal Tracey Stuart said it had come to light the week before the results were due to be released.
"It isn't anybody's fault," she said, adding results are be due to be sent to Lancaster University for validation within two weeks.
"It's disappointing, nobody regrets the delay more than I do. We must make sure the data is accurate and validated."
A date will be set for results to be released once the college's "internal systems issue is resolved" and Lancaster University is satisfied with the "accuracy of the results", Professor Mike Wright, a dean at Lancaster University, said.
Bassett is a free agent after her previous side Notts County Ladies folded last month.
Speaking to BBC Sport, the 33-year-old said she had received interest from other teams but those opportunities were not right for her.
"I acknowledge that everyone will have an opinion on my decision but I have to trust myself," she said.
"I need to look after myself psychologically and be in the right frame of mind.
"To get the best out of me, I need to be motivated, committed and really believe whole heartedly in a club's direction and I wasn't sure that I felt that".
Notts Country were liquidated on the eve of the Women's Super League One Spring Series, meaning Bassett will play no club football before the European Championships in July.
To remain fit, the centre-back is training with her previous club Birmingham City, as well being given a bespoke training programme by England.
Mark Sampson named Bassett in his 23-player squad for the European Championships in April and she says the England manager has backed her decision.
"I've been in touch with Mark and his staff a lot, they've been so supportive and helpful in my decision," Bassett added.
"I'm making sure I cover the distances and replicating tournament football so as well as training with Birmingham, I'm absolutely shattered."
Bassett says she does plan to find a new team after the Euros but that she has not yet started this process.
"I'm excited about my next venture," she added. "I'm a free agent and open to talks but I don't know if that'll be in England or abroad."
Two males have been arrested following the incident at Ty Nant Cat Sanctuary in Cymmer at 19:50 BST on Saturday.
A sanctuary spokesman said: "All our hard work and love that we have shown these cats has been devastated."
An online fundraising page set up on Sunday raised more than £3,000 in just four hours.
Writing on the sanctuary Facebook page on Saturday, the spokesman said: "Our room that we have our older cats reside in has been broken into and most of the cats that we had there are now missing/stolen.
"One cat was found killed in the lane, and only one other has been found and returned."
They added: "We have to work together through this nightmare."
South Wales Police confirmed the arrests and said the males are currently in police custody.
They also appealed for any witnesses to contact them on 101.
Samantha Henderson, 25, from Corfe Castle was reported missing just before 08:45 GMT on Thursday morning.
A 27-year-old man from Corfe Castle, who is known to Ms Henderson, has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.
Det Insp Neil Devoto said police did not yet know of her whereabouts and officers were carrying out extensive enquiries in the area.
Police "strongly believe" that Samantha may have come to harm.
Det Insp Devoto said: "Sadly, our concerns for Samantha are so grave that we have today....arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of her murder.
"Our investigations are focused on establishing exactly what has happened to Samantha between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.
"I would ask anyone who has seen or heard from Samantha since Wednesday afternoon to contact us."
Samantha is described as white, 1.60 metres (5ft 3 inches), of a very slim build and with blonde hair.
She was seen wearing a grey jumper, blue jeans and slippers.
'Veterans enraged at PSNI injustice' is the headline in the News Letter.
The paper reports that former soldiers have criticised a decision by police not to investigate IRA attacks on them during the Troubles.
Ex-soldier Mike Harmson claims the decision "only highlights the terrible injustice that we veterans have been subjected to by both the PSNI and local government".
The story also features in the Irish News, Belfast Telegraph and The Mirror.
Former solder James Leatherbarrow, who survived a terrorist attack in Ballygawley, told The Belfast Telegraph that a police service which would arrest ex-military personnel but not pursue IRA terrorists was "not worthy of the uniform they wear".
The PSNI says it does not have the "necessary resources to review or investigate any non-fatal Troubles related crimes", a situation Mr Leatherbarrow described as "ridiculous".
Mike Harmson, who served two years in Northern Ireland as a private in the 1980s before joining the RUC and PSNI, is also quoted in the Irish News.
He tells the paper that "it would appear that we veterans who gave so much are being brushed under the carpet of history by those who attempt to rewrite the bloody legacy of the Troubles".
Staying on legacy issues and the Daily Mirror carries a warning from Chief Constable George Hamilton.
Mr Hamilton has told the Northern Ireland Policing Board that the mechanisms to manage legacy matters are "inadequate".
Turning the front page of the Irish News and the Education Minister Peter Weir is facing criticism over unspent funds.
The paper reports that under his watch only £3m of a £50m pot of cash for shared and integrated education has been used and there are concerns the unspent cash will be lost back to the Treasury.
A Department of Education spokesperson told the Irish News that "negotiations were continuing with the NIO/HM Treasury" on flexibility with unused funding.
Turning to a lighter note and a photograph of a smiling monarch dominates the front page of the News Letter.
The Queen is pictured wearing a sapphire necklace and earrings, fitting considering she has become the first British monarch to reach their Sapphire Jubilee.
The paper reports the Queen will be celebrating her 65-year reign privately at her Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
Her jubilee also features in several other papers.
The front page of the Daily Mirror carries a photograph of Michaella McCollum under the headline 'Thank Peru very much'.
The County Tyrone drugs mule, who spent more than two years in a Peruvian jail after being caught with £1.5m worth of cocaine in her luggage, has spoken out to thank her supporters.
In a Facebook post, she said: " Please know I truly appreciate each one who cared and had my back".
The paper also carries the story of little Mia Warren who received a special visit from a miniature horse called Summer.
The six-year-old, who lives with spinal muscular atrophy, was treated to a visit from the tiny therapy horse at her north Belfast home.
Summer's owner, Samantha Hayes, said: "Summer just loved Mia and was as always full of fun so there were plenty of giggles and laughter."
Staying on a lighter note and the Belfast Telegraph report that prisoners at Maghaberry Prison have more pets than any other high security jail in the UK.
According to official figures, 27 animals are kept by inmates at three UK prisons with Maghaberry topping the list, with 18 budgies.
The paper wryly observes that it is reminiscent of the 1962 film, Birdman of Alcatraz.
The number of over-65s being helped by councils had fallen by a quarter in the four years to 2014, the joint King's Fund and Nuffield Trust report said.
This was despite more people needing help, because of the ageing population.
Ministers said they were taking measures to address the problems.
But the report goes on to highlight the growing numbers left with no care or having to pay for support themselves.
The report has been released on the day the BBC publishes an online guide to care, which details the costs people face wherever they live in the UK.
Care is means-tested, with only the poorest getting help to pay for services, including help in the home for daily tasks such as washing and dressing, as well as round-the-clock support in care homes and nursing homes.
You stay in your own home while getting help with everyday tasks such as washing, dressing and eating.
average amount of care provided per week, by your council
average paid per hour by your council, 2014-15
average paid per hour in your region if you pay for your own care, 2016
You live in a care home that provides round-the-clock support with everyday tasks.
TBC pay for their own care
You live in a care home which provides round-the-clock support for everyday tasks and nursing care. Depending on your medical needs, the NHS may contribute to your costs.
TBC pay for their own care
Savings, investments and income are assessed, along with the value of your home - unless you or a close relative live there.
The think tanks carried out interviews with people working in the service and being cared for, as well as analysing existing data during their review.
They found:
The report also warned that the cuts by councils were a risk to the future of the market.
It said it was only a matter of time before a care provider - most services are provided by outside agencies - collapsed, and it noted that providers had walked away from council contracts in 59 local authority areas.
Bruce Moore, chief executive of Housing and Care, a large home care provider which is looking to sell the contracts it has, said councils had driven down fees so much he could no longer recruit and retain the staff he needed.
"The local authority market is really under pressure at the moment."
The review said such pressures were likely to continue, claiming the funding outlook for the coming years was "bleak" and ministers needed to reform the system or be honest with the public that government-funded care was extremely limited.
1.2 million
people with care needs go without help
4 in 10 people in care homes pay for themselves
300,000 fewer people receive council-funded help than four years ago
£100,000 or more spent on care by 1 in 10 people
But the government said it was investing in the care system.
A £5bn pot of money has been set aside to encourage joint work between the NHS and care sector, with an additional £1.5bn being added to that by 2019, and councils have been allowed to increase council tax by 2% a year to invest in care services.
A Department of Health official added: "We understand the social care system is under pressure, and this government is committed to ensuring those in old age throughout the country can get affordable and dignified care."
Cyril Tomline has dementia and his wife of 54 years, Ann, a former district councillor, cares for him with help from their family, who live nearby, and some paid-for support.
"We are lucky, we own our own property. We have a lovely daughter next door," she says.
But problems arose when Mrs Tomline had to be admitted to hospital for an ankle injury.
She could not be discharged, because the council could not provide anyone to help both her and her husband.
Once again, her family stepped in, and she has now been able to start caring for Mr Tomline again.
"I became very depressed.," she recalls, "very, very depressed, very weepy."
"And that's not my nature. That's not my nature. I just felt nobody cared."
Ray James, of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, said councils simply did not have enough money.
"We're now at a tipping point where social care is in jeopardy," he said.
"Unless the government addresses the chronic underfunding of the sector, there will be worrying consequences."
Caroline Abrahams, of Age UK, said: "Social care is in serious trouble, and this is putting the health and dignity of today's older people at risk.
"Today's reports highlight the need for serious reform to a system that is being starved of the cash and the attention that it deserves."
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Monitor said it was also taking action against Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust because of its "board governance and financial performance".
The regulator said the hospital was in "significant breach" of the terms of its authorisation.
The hospital said it was making progress in meeting the targets.
It achieved Foundation Trust status - a supposed mark of excellence in the health service - in 2008.
The regulator has ordered the trust to improve its accident and emergency performance, take "rapid action" to strengthen its financial plan for 2012/13 and to have a review of its board governance.
Monitor's chief operating officer, Stephen Hay, said: "We have been tracking the trust's performance for some time and are requiring action to be taken because it is not acceptable that the trust is persistently failing its A&E patients.
"We now expect the trust to focus on immediately and sustainably resolving this issue."
The hospital serves 300,000 people in the north of the county.
Steve Hone, chairman of Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust, accepted the hospital had "difficulty" meeting the two targets highlighted by Monitor but said progress was being made.
He said efforts were being made to find "cost and efficiency improvements" and establishing new ways generating income for the trust.
The attacks were described by President Francois Hollande as an "act of war" organised by the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Shootings and bomb blasts left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded, with more than 100 in a critical condition.
"Three co-ordinated teams" were believed to have been behind the attacks, according to Paris chief prosecutor Francois Molins.
In the days immediately after the attacks, French police carried out hundreds of raids across the country, as the search for suspects continued. Raids also took place in the Belgian city of Brussels.
This is how the attacks happened.
The first of three explosions occurred outside the Stade de France stadium on the northern fringe of Paris where France were playing Germany in an international football friendly.
A man wearing a suicide belt was reportedly prevented from entering the stadium after a routine security check detected the explosives. According to the Wall Street Journal, the man backed away from security guards and detonated the explosives.
The bomber and a passer-by were killed.
The game, attended by President Francois Hollande, was being broadcast on TV. After a second man detonated his suicide vest outside a different stadium entrance at 21:30, the president was rushed to safety.
A third suicide bomber blew himself at a fast-food outlet near the stadium at 21:53. The attackers all wore identical explosive vests.
Who were the victims?
Fear stalks Paris
Shooting: Le Carillon
Meanwhile, other attacks were unfolding nearer to the centre of town, around popular nightlife spots. The first took place at about 21:25 in the 10th district (arrondissement), not far from the Place de la Republique.
The gunmen arrived at the scene in a black Seat car, later found abandoned, about three miles (nearly 5km) away in the eastern suburb of Montreuil.
Witnesses at Le Carillon bar, 18 rue Alibert, said they initially thought a firecracker had gone off before realising that they were under fire from semi-automatic rifles.
"People dropped to the ground. We put a table over our heads to protect us," said Ben Grant, who was with his wife at the back of the bar.
Bar reels from attack
Restaurant attack: Le Petit Cambodge
Witnesses describe how a man then crossed the road and turned his gun on a restaurant, Le Petit Cambodge (Little Cambodia).
Fifteen people died in the attack on the bar and restaurant, with 15 severely injured. More than 100 bullets were fired.
Then came an attack on diners a few streets south of rue Alibert, in front of the Cafe Bonne Biere and La Casa Nostra pizzeria in rue de la Fontaine au Roi. Five people were killed and eight were severely injured.
Again, witnesses reported that the gunmen were travelling in a black Seat.
The next reports of shootings came to the south of the first restaurant attacks, at La Belle Equipe bar in the rue de Charonne in the 11th district.
Witnesses said that the attackers arrived in a black Seat. Two men opened fire on the terrace of the cafe.
"It lasted at least three minutes," one witness said. "Then they got back in their car and headed towards Charonne station."
Nineteen people died in the shooting, with a further nine in a critical condition.
Images of aftermath of shootings
Eyewitness accounts from the scene
A few minutes later, an attacker - later revealed to be Braham Abdeslam - killed himself by detonating a suicide bomb at the restaurant Le Comptoir Voltaire on the Boulevard Voltaire, the chief prosecutor said.
One other person was severely injured in this incident.
The deadliest attack of the night came at a concert venue on Boulevard Voltaire, also in the 11th district, where Californian rock group Eagles of Death Metal was playing. The 1,500-seat Bataclan hall was sold out.
The Paris chief prosecutor said three attackers wearing suicide belts were involved - earlier reports spoke of four attackers. Witnesses said they arrived in a black Volkswagen Polo then stormed in through the main entrance and into the back of the concert hall.
Eighty-nine people died as the men fired Kalashnikov-type assault rifles into the crowd. At least 99 others were taken to hospital in a critical condition.
What happened at the Bataclan?
'I saw people on the ground and blood'
One of the attackers was said to have shouted "God is great" in Arabic. One witness heard a gunman blaming President Hollande for intervening in Syria. It was the first clear evidence that Paris was once again being targeted by Islamists.
"We thought it was fireworks but then there were men shooting in all directions. So we all lay on the floor and started crawling towards the stage," one woman said.
Some escaped via an emergency exit to the left of the stage. Others managed to find a route onto the roof.
By now, President Hollande was in crisis talks with Prime Minister Manuel Valls as well as Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Mr Hollande announced a state of emergency throughout France and a tightening of border controls.
The order was then given to send elite security forces into the concert hall. As the operation came to a head, at about 00:20, a police officer shot one of the gunmen, and his suicide belt detonated. The siege ended with the other two blowing themselves up.
The three attackers have since been identified as Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, Samy Animour, 28, and Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23.
Who were the attackers?
However, Keith Vaz - who chairs the influential Home Affairs select committee - said there was a danger of a "two tier system" among UK councils.
His comments followed the publication of a report that showed 38% of Syrian refugees were resettled in Scotland.
The UK government has pledged to take in 20,000 refugees by 2020.
Figures, first released in May, revealed that 610 of the 1,622 refugees arriving in the UK between October 2015 and March 2016 were settled by Scottish councils.
All but seven of Scotland's 32 local authorities took in refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme.
The Scottish government has said Scottish local authorities would provide homes for at least 2,000 Syrians.
Renfrewshire took the most refugees, resettling 68 people and came third in a list of councils across the UK.
Argyll and Bute took in 58 people, while Edinburgh and Glasgow resettled 53 and 51 respectively.
Across the UK, Coventry took in 105 people, while Nottingham took 81 refugees.
At the time of the survey only East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Highland, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire and Western Isles councils had taken no refugees under the resettlement scheme.
However, since then eight people have been resettled in the Western Isles while South Ayrshire has taken in seven.
Mr Vaz told Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "The commitment made by David Cameron last year that Britain would take 20,000 refugees from Syria was extremely welcome, but that depends on local authorities being able to and being willing to take a very limited number of Syrian refugee families.
"In this respect, local authorities in Scotland like Glasgow and Edinburgh have led the way for the rest of the United Kingdom.
"They've taken their fair share, but there are whole swathes of the rest of the United Kingdom where no Syrian refugees have been resettled and that is a cause for worry because we're never going to meet that target unless everyone takes their fair share."
SNP immigration spokesperson Stuart McDonald MP, who also sits on the committee, said firm action was needed.
He said: "We now need a commitment from our new prime minister that the government will step up - we have already seen Theresa May scrap the position of minister for refugees when we need a concerted effort to improve how the UK is dealing with, and continues to deal with the refugee crisis."
A Home Office spokeswoman said the UK government was "on track" to deliver on its pledge to resettle 20,000 people by the end of the parliament.
She added: "We have also made clear our commitment to bringing very vulnerable children from Europe.
"At the same time we continue to work tirelessly to maintain the security of our border, intercepting attempts to enter the UK illegally and targeting the callous gangs that profit from people smuggling."
11 August 2015 Last updated at 18:57 BST
Queen Nefertiti is thought to have been the mother of Tutankhamun, an important ancient Egyptian King.
She is famous for her beauty, and her powerful reign.
But despite her importance in ancient Egyptian history it's always been a mystery where she was finally buried.
Now, Dr Nicholas Reeves, a leading expert on ancient Egypt, thinks he might have found a hidden doorway which leads to her tomb.
He looked at scans of the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb, to find secret doorways, hidden beneath the plaster.
Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered almost 100 years ago, but archaeologists have always wondered why it was so small, for such an important king.
Now, they think it could have been added on to the side of his mother's tomb, which could be far grander.
We won't know for sure, unless Egyptian authorities choose to break through to mystery doorway and have a look.
Egyptologist, Dr Joyce Tyldesley, told Leah how important the discovery could be.
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After 11 days of action across 17 sports, the event came to a close at Hampden Park on Sunday evening, with hosts Scotland finishing fourth overall with a record haul of 19 golds and a best-ever tally of 53 medals.
England topped the medal table for the first time in 28 years, Wales surpassed their target of 27 and Northern Ireland reaped their largest tally since the Games was last in Scotland in 1986.
The Isle of Man had a silver to celebrate thanks to cyclist Peter Kennaugh's efforts in the points race, but Jersey and Guernsey failed to register.
It is the third time in their 84-year existence that the Games have been staged in Scotland - after Edinburgh in 1970 and 1986 - and chief executive Hooper maintains they have been the best.
"In my view, they are the standout Games in the history of the movement," said the New Zealander of the 20th edition.
"The way in which the people of Scotland and Glasgow have embraced the Games right from the get-go has been incredible."
After an underwhelming staging in Delhi four years ago, and the withdrawals of a succession of big names in the build-up to Glasgow, there had been concerns over whether such success would be forthcoming.
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But all the events have been well attended and, for the most part, the weather has also been favourable, as a new generation of athletes have taken their chance to impact on the public consciousness.
Botswana's Nijel Amos beat world record holder and Olympic champion David Rudisha in the 800m; Scotland's Ross Murdoch stunned poster boy and compatriot Michael Jamieson to take gold in the 200m breaststroke; English 16-year-old Claudia Fragapane claimed four gymnastics golds and 13-year-old Erraid Davies' took a swimming bronze for Scotland.
Scottish postman Charlie Flynn's response to winning lightweight boxing gold made him a cult figure, as did Lynsey Sharp's gutsy 800m silver just hours after being hooked up to a drip in the village hospital.
Rhythmic gymnast Frankie Jones ended her career by winning six gymnastics medals for Wales and the hosts' flag-bearer Euan Burton concluded his career with judo gold minutes after English wife Gemma Gibbons claimed silver.
But the big names who did appear delivered too.
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Usain Bolt anchored Jamaica to 4x100m relay gold to make everyone forget about claims he had been disparaging about the Games; South African swimmer Chad Le Clos won a record-equalling seven medals; Northern Ireland's Olympic gold medallist Paddy Barnes made history by retaining his light-flyweight title and England's Nicola Adams claimed the first ever women's boxing gold; England's Tom Daley took 10m platform diving gold; and David Weir romped to his first Commonwealth title in the men's T54 1500m.
That was one of 12 English Para-sport medals - from a tally of 174 - with Scottish athletes claiming seven from a total of 53 and their Welsh counterparts three from 36.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has praised the programme, but the Welsh 11-time Paralympic gold medallist says some Commonwealth nations still "need to do more" before the 21st Games in Australia's Gold Coast four years from now.
Of the 17 sports on the Glasgow schedule, judo will be absent in 2018. That means 13 medallists from both England and Scotland, two from Wales and one from Northern Ireland will not get the chance to emulate their successes.
Instead, the home nations' basketball players will get their chance to shine.
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Whether judo will return for 2022 is unclear. So, too, is the venue for those Games, with Canadian city Edmonton and South African city Durban both bidding to host the event.
"The entire executive board of the Commonwealth Games Federation have been delighted with the Glasgow Games," added Hooper. "They are all very excited about the future of the movement going forward to Gold Coast [in 2018] and then beyond."
What effect the events of the past 11 days will have on Glasgow and Scotland will not be clear for some time either.
David Grevemberg, the chief executive of Glasgow 2014, believes the city has shown that it has a "special way of hosting sport".
"I believe this is the beginning, not the end," the American said. "The legacy of these Games will live on in the children it has inspired and I hope, as a committee, we have done all we can to ensure that Glasgow 2014 becomes a part of everybody's lives in some way."
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The jamboree ended with a closing ceremony opened by Glaswegian singer Lulu and closed by Scottish singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean.
In between were athletes emerging from tents, speeches, a presentation from the Gold Coast organisers, Kylie Minogue, more speeches, chips, policemen dancing the slosh and yet more speeches.
Then, before the lights were turned off at Hampden Park, a mass rendition of Auld Lang Syne bid farewell to Glasgow 2014.
The Easter Road side will face either Brondby or Valur Reykjavik in the second round, with Hibs at home for the first leg on 14 July.
Lennon anticipates facing the Danes and that will mean a reunion with striker Teemu Pukki, who played under him at Celtic.
"He's a quality player, a Finnish international," said Lennon.
Pukki, 26, was signed by Lennon in August 2013 but the forward failed to make an impact at the Scottish champions, scoring seven goals in 33 appearances in his only full campaign in Scotland.
Ronny Deila, Lennon's successor at Celtic, then allowed the forward to join Brondby on loan, despite two goals in an early season Champions League qualifier.
Pukki finished as the Danish club's leading scorer and signed a three-year deal in June 2015.
"It was difficult for him to settle in Glasgow but he's a talented boy," added Lennon, who was appointed Hibs boss earlier this month.
Brondby, fourth in the Superliga last term, start their domestic season on the weekend after the first leg, while Valur are already eight matches into their Icelandic league campaign and sit seventh in a 12-team top flight.
Hibs were humbled 9-0 on aggregate by Swedish side Malmo on their most recent European outing in 2013.
"Any time you get a Scandinavian side it's fraught because these guys are up and running with their season," Lennon told BBC Scotland. "They will be that bit sharper than British teams at that time of the year.
"I would expect Brondby to negotiate the tie but you just never know.
"Brondby have been strong domestically for a long, long time and they've had some good forays into Europe.
"I'd much prefer to be at home in the second leg but we will just have to prepare as best we can.
"The priority is getting through the Championship but it's a massive bonus to have European football so we're determined to make the most of the games."
Lennon, working at Euro 2016 as a BBC pundit, aims to have bolstered his squad prior to the qualifier and would like to retain last season's top-scorer Jason Cummings, who has one year left to run on his contract.
"We are working away in the background trying to bring in players," Lennon added.
"We're looking at one or two areas of the squad to strengthen and there are players I'd like to keep - Cummings being the main one.
"I had a chat with him over the weekend and that was positive. Now we give the kid some time to go away and think about what he wants to do next.
"He's only 20 and I think he has a good future. I think he would benefit from another year or two with us."
The offences that led to convictions include sex crimes, assaults and possessing indecent images of children.
However, only 25 of the 45 forces gave figures to the Press Association after a Freedom of Information request.
A Home Office spokesman said measures had been introduced to improve standards of behaviour in the police.
The 20 forces that did not provide information either said they could not reveal the number of convictions because of the cost of retrieving the information, or did not respond to the request.
Police Scotland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland were among those not to provide the information.
Separate figures obtained from 18 forces showed that there are at least 295 officers and police community support officers (PCSOs) with convictions who are currently serving with the police.
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The Home Office spokesman said: "The vast majority of police officers in this country do their job honestly and with integrity. They put themselves in harm's way to protect the public.
"But the good work of the majority threatens to be damaged by a continuing series of events and revelations relating to police conduct.
"Over the last two years the Home Office has introduced a programme of measures to improve standards of behaviour in the police, including making the disciplinary system more independent and transparent through introducing hearings in public, preventing officers resigning or retiring to avoid dismissal, and - from next year - introducing legally qualified, independent chairs on misconduct hearing panels."
Police forces did not tell the Press Association the names of officers who had been involved in crimes, saying that it would breach data protection laws to identify them.
Analysis by BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw
What the figures demonstrate is that, proportionately, the number of "rotten apples" in the police barrel is very small.
You might expect that, given that police are meant to enforce the law rather than break it, but sometimes newspaper headlines suggest the opposite.
However, the refusal of so many police forces to provide conviction data is more troubling. Surely it's in each constabulary's interest to keep tabs on employees with a criminal record - and surely it's in the public interest for us to know, for, as Home Secretary Theresa May has recently reminded us, the police are the public and the public are the police.
The College of Policing has begun releasing details of the number of officers who leave the service for disciplinary reasons. Perhaps the College, the body which sets ethical standards for the service, should start collecting and publishing conviction data too.
Among the forces to provide figures to the Press Association:
There are 207,140 police workers in England and Wales according to the most recent government data - this figure includes police officers and PCSOs but also staff working in a support role. There are 17,295 full-time police officers at Police Scotland and 6,748 regular officers working for the Police Service of Northern Ireland, neither of which have PCSOs.
The highest-ranked officer to have been convicted in the three-year period was a detective chief superintendent at West Yorkshire Police.
David Knopwood was sacked from the force for gross misconduct last year after admitting driving at nearly twice the legal alcohol limit.
He was banned from driving for 12 months and fined £1,000 at his court hearing last year.
He had failed a roadside breath test after being stopped by officers and admitted refusing to provide a further specimen.
The court hearing was told he drank two pints and then provided a roadside reading of 60 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
His lawyer had said Knopwood was under a lot of stress and had great responsibility at the force as the head of the unit responsible for investigating major crimes.
Cleveland Chief Constable Jacqui Cheer, the lead on professional standards and ethics at the National Police Chiefs' Council, said its code of ethics was "well-embedded across the service" - 12 months after being introduced - and that it "clearly sets out the standards of professional behaviour expected of officers and staff".
She said: "When members of the service fall short of these standards, well-established and rigorous processes are in place to ensure appropriate action is taken.
"The decision by a force to retain someone with a conviction will have been carefully considered and only taken following a clear, national and regulated process."
Victim Support director Lucy Hastings said: "As a charity that supports hundreds of thousands of crime victims every year we know that the vast majority of police are honest, trustworthy and committed to getting justice for victims.
"Victims of crime will clearly find these figures alarming. It is critical that victims know they can trust the police so that they have confidence to report crimes. But, understandably, it can be incredibly difficult to speak out about a crime committed by a police officer - someone we expect and trust to abide by the law."
The boxes contained hardware which enabled users to watch Virgin Media television services without subscribing.
Mark Brighty from Leicester was arrested following an investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) and Leicestershire Police.
Fact said he had sold up to 300 of the devices, which he imported from China.
Officers found the boxes, which he was selling for £40 each, alongside £600 worth of cocaine at his property earlier this year.
Brighty pleaded guilty to two charges under the UK Fraud Act as well as possession with intent to supply a Class A drug.
"Intellectual property crime is not a victimless crime - it costs the creative industries and the UK economy hundreds of millions of pounds each year," said Kieron Sharp, director general of Fact.
"This case demonstrates that copyright theft is often considered by criminals to be a low risk activity with high returns and so is often used to fund other serious organised crime; in this case dealing Class A drugs."
Security expert Professor Alan Woodward from Surrey University said it was an "old school" approach to hacking.
"You tend to find that those trying to do this will sell you software that can run on some other piece of hardware. Supplying the hardware means the hacker is rather easier to track down," he told the BBC.
"However, set-top boxes are quite specialised so finding a piece of more generic hardware on which to run such software is not easy.
"You do see specialised hardware being sold for hacking but it tends to be to enable hackers to break into networks or conduct their hacking operations rather than being a one trick pony as in this case," he added.
"I'm quite surprised someone went to all this trouble as there are easier ways of illegally making money from hacking online."
He has pulled out of a scheduled talk after the club's co-chairman Alex Chalmers resigned over it voting to support Israel Apartheid Week.
Mr Chalmers said many members had "some kind of problem with Jews". Labour Students has launched an investigation.
Mr Miliband, a former OULC member, had been due to give a talk on 4 March.
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This has now been postponed until after the investigation.
Mr Miliband's office said: "It is right that the executive of the club has roundly condemned the comments and fully co-operates with the Labour Students' investigation.
"Ed and the Labour Club have agreed that his talk should be postponed until the investigation is resolved."
Mr Chalmers, an Oriel College undergraduate, posted a statement on Facebook announcing his resignation.
He said certain members' attitudes at the club were becoming "poisonous" and "a large proportion of both OULC and the Student Left in Oxford more generally have some kind of problem with Jews".
He said the decision to endorse Israel Apartheid Week illustrated the "uneven and insincere" attitude of some members "when it comes to liberation".
According to its website, Israel Apartheid Week takes place across 150 universities and cities and "aims to raise awareness about Israel's ongoing settler-colonial project and apartheid policies over the Palestinian people".
OULC said it would fully co-operate with Labour Students - the national youth body of the political party - in its investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism.
A spokesman for the Labour Party said it supported the investigation.
Universities minister Jo Johnson wrote on Twitter: "Concerned by reports of vile antisemitism on campus - Oxford Uni needs to undertake urgent investigation."
Oxford University did not comment on whether an investigation was being launched. It said students were encouraged to officially report harassment to the university authorities.
Emergency services were called out to the scene of the incident near Lochans at about 11:40.
Police said that the road was likely to be closed for a significant amount of time as a result of the crash.
Drivers have been advised to avoid the area if possible or expect delays. Diversions are being put in place.
John Williamson, 73, of Manse Crescent, Stanley, was identified because heroin, found inside a leopard skin dress, had first been wrapped in his shorts.
Perth Sheriff Court heard that if they had been washed, they would not have been linked to Williamson.
The shorts were found at his home and the heroin was discovered in a box wrapped in the dress.
The haul of drugs was folded up inside Williamson's shorts and were said to have had a potential street value of £88,000.
Williamson, was found guilty of being concerned in the supply of diamorphine at his home on 23 December 2014.
Scottish Police Authority forensic scientist Barry Mitchell told the jury: "We would not have expected that DNA to have persisted through washing or laundering. If the item was washed we would not expect the DNA to persist. If kept in good condition it could persist almost indefinitely."
Fiscal depute Gavin Letford said the evidence against Williamson was circumstantial and there was no dispute that the drugs had been found at his home.
He also said the quantity of drugs found, almost a kilo, meant it was being stored for onward supply.
"The accused's DNA was found on the shorts," Mr Letford told the jury. "They were the shorts used to wrap up these 13 packages. That is not disputed.
"The only DNA on the shorts that found a match belonged to John Williamson. They were his shorts and they were used to wrap up these packages.
"It can be reasonably inferred that he used his house to store drugs and used his house as a safe house. He knew these drugs were stored in the storage cupboard."
Williamson was warned he faced a prison sentence, but was freed on bail pending the preparation of background reports.
Cavendish is aiming to become the first Briton to win more than one world road race crown.
Welshman Thomas helped the 31-year-old win his 2011 title and he hopes he can repeat the feat in Doha on Sunday.
"As a team we're strong. It's good having Mark in the team - if he wasn't here I doubt I would be," said Thomas.
"It's certainly been a long season - which started in January down under [in the Australian National Road Cycling Championship].
"I've felt better on the bike and with Cav [Cavendish] in the team it was always a target to come here as best as I could."
The 257.3km men's race takes place on Sunday, with Cavendish aiming for a second rainbow jersey.
No British man has won more than one world road race title - Cavendish's victory in 2011 and Tom Simpson's in 1965 are the only successes to date.
Slovakia's Peter Sagan will attempt to defend the men's title, while Cavendish faces competition from fellow sprinters Andre Greipel, Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb, who will all compete for Germany.
Adam Blythe, Steve Cummings, Dan McLay, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Ben Swift, and Scott Thwaites complete the GB men's team.
In the women's race on Saturday, Britain's Lizzie Deignan says the race is "anybody's" as she bids to defend the title she won last year.
It was announced on Wednesday that Britain would host the World Championship for the first time in 37 years after Yorkshire was awarded the 2019 event.
Thomas rode for Team Sky when the county hosted the opening stage of the Tour de France in 2014, and he would enjoy the chance to return there in three years.
"That would be awesome - I would have to change my programme," he added.
"The atmosphere will be incredible. The Tour [de France] was just immense there - it was like being in a nightclub for five hours your ears were ringing afterwards."
President Rousseff believes the footage is not suitable for youngsters.
The education packs contain gay and lesbian video scenes and are supposed to combat homophobia.
However, evangelical church groups and their allies in Congress threatened to block any upcoming legislation unless President Rousseff halted the films.
A government spokesman said President Rousseff had viewed the material personally and decided to suspend its distribution.
"She didn't like what she saw," Gilberto Carvalho said.
He said President Rousseff was unhappy with the footage and believed it did not offer an objective picture of homosexuality.
The "anti-homophobia kits", as they are known in Brazil, were about to be rolled out by Brazil's ministry of health and the ministry of education.
Several members of Brazil's chamber of deputies with strong evangelic Christian beliefs said the sex education packs encouraged homosexual behaviour.
Gay and lesbian rights campaigners have expressed serious concerns.
A leading rights campaigner and congressman, Jean Wyllys, said the decision called into question President Rousseff's commitment to human rights.
"I voted for her in the last elections," he said, "because I thought she would defend the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual citizens."
"If she doesn't do a U-turn and change her mind, I will urge all gay people not to vote for her again."
The 10 friends from Bristol turned to Facebook and found a Joe McGrath in Stockport who agreed to go on the paid-for trip for a 30th birthday.
The 21-year-old said they were "an absolutely lovely group of people".
"They messaged 15 other Joe McGraths on Facebook and only one was stupid enough to reply, and that was me," he said.
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He admitted he thought it was a bit of a joke at first, but after chatting to one of the friends on the phone Joe realised "he was just up for inviting a random guy".
Joe added: "After a couple of days debate and re-assuring myself it was a legit offer for a free trip, I decided to take the plunge and drove down to Bristol on Saturday.
"I must be a bit mad. I was fully up for it."
The friends had only given their names to Ryanair and the hotel, and as the passport details only had to be filled in at check-in, the "new" Joe McGrath simply had to add his details in order to go on the three-day holiday.
He even stayed in his namesake's house the night before the trip.
"I didn't use his toothbrush or anything like that. He wasn't there unfortunately," he said.
Joe is already planning to visit Bristol again and bring the friends to Manchester to take them on a night out to thank them for the trip.
And will he ever meet the original Joe McGrath?
"I do think our paths will cross sooner or later. And it will be a magical moment."
The 25-year-old is Commonwealth champion and a former European double gold medallist.
Carlin will be making her Olympic debut in the 400m freestyle after missing out on Team GB selection four years ago.
"I need to have that belief in myself when I get on those blocks that I can fight against the best in the world and I can come out with a good performance," she said.
"Obviously we do a lot of hours of training and that gives me a lot of confidence.
"I've been training really well and putting in some really good times in training and I think that's really important for my confidence.
"It's the biggest event of my life and I'm going to make sure that I'm at my best. And if my best performance gets me on the podium then that will be an incredible feeling."
Carlin secured her place at Rio 2016 at the British trials in Glasgow in April but had to settle for silver in both the 400m and 800m freestyle at May's European Championships in London.
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Swindon-born Carlin did not qualify for London 2012 after suffering with glandular fever in the build-up to the Olympic trials.
She admits she came close to quitting the sport but has since claimed world, European and Commonwealth medals.
"It's been a stressful few years and to come out the other end and to say 'I'm going to Rio and I'm going to the Olympics' is an incredible feeling," Carlin told BBC Wales Sport.
"There were times where I nearly walked away from the sport and thinking 'why am I putting myself through this.'
"You put your body through hell day in day out but it's the mental thing of picking yourself up when you have the setbacks and feeling positive and enjoying the sport again.
"I had to find my love for the sport and my passion for it and I can finally say I've got all that back.
"I love what I do and I just love racing at the international stage and obviously the Olympics is the pinnacle of most athletes' career."
A man, 52, and woman, 53, believed to be the parents of three girls aged 16, 17 and 19 were all held on 12 August.
They were arrested on suspicion of possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism and have been bailed until November.
The man was also arrested on suspicion of possessing false identity documents.
Police said the 16-year-old girl had previously been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorism and had an additional bail date of September.
Research by Swansea University and the Wellcome Trust has discovered disabled people were playing equally as big a role in the coal mines of the industrial revolution in Wales.
A blind lift operator and a collier with a wooden leg are just two of the examples found by Daniel Blackie and Mike Mantin during a five-year study into disability and industrial society between 1780 and 1948.
From 20 June they will be exhibiting documents, photographs and artefacts at Swansea's Waterfront museum.
But Dr Blackie, whose research focused on the first half of the period up to 1880, said that did not necessarily mean it was a time of equal opportunities.
He said: "There's a perception that people with disabilities faced enormous social and economic exclusion during the 19th Century, but what we've found is that isn't strictly true.
"We have numerous examples of people who've experienced disabling injuries and illness playing a full part in the mines, and coming up with ingenious ways of helping themselves to adjust.
"But what you quickly realise is that these aren't all people who are choosing to work. Some are, but many had little option but to return to work because of the financial pressure being off work put them and their families under."
Dr Blackie added that part of the reason the history of disability in the mines had not been told before was because it was "hiding in plain view".
During the 19th Century there were about 100 non-fatal accidents in Britain's mines for every fatal one, each resulting in an average loss of around 30 working days, and many leading to permanent disabilities.
"Far from being uncommon, the reason it's difficult to find written records of miners with disabilities is that it's so ubiquitous," he said.
"If you'd have pensioned off everyone who had a respiratory condition or who'd received a crush injury then there simply wouldn't have been enough workers. And because it's so common people seem to have been far less shocked, and were more used to providing support networks through friends and family."
Dr Mantin said the dawning of the 20th Century brought mixed fortunes for injured and sick men, which seem to have fluctuated with the state of the economy.
He said: "Legislation towards the end of the 19th Century made mine owners liable for accidents and entitled workers to compensation, and that seems to have made bosses less inclined to rehire men with disabilities because of the perceived risk they posed.
"But a bigger factor was the demand for coal. During the depression fewer men were required and those with disabilities were let go first, but either side of the two wars there's a sense that every man is a valuable economic commodity and is therefore worth rehabilitating."
The Miners' Welfare Commission of 1920 helped establish convalescence homes such as The Rest near Porthcawl, Bridgend county.
One in Talygarn even featured a model coalface to re-acclimatise injured men - something which Dr Mantin said was telling.
"By the end of our period there's no doubt that workers' welfare has improved immensely, but there's still a sense that what's important in rehabilitation are the needs of industry rather than the needs of the individual," he said.
"A Second World War information film called Live Again insinuates in its title that life for injured workers was not worth living without treatment and the value of work.
"Its final shot is a triumphant scene of a patient holding a safety lamp and going back into the mines as a 'useful and normal citizen', so in many ways the challenges of stigma and perception which faced disabled workers were the same then as they are now."
He was elected taoiseach (Irish prime minister) in 2011, four months after the state was forced into a humiliating international financial bailout.
Despite having helped to steady the ship, navigating a path from crippling debt to economic recovery, it was not enough to prevent a slow mutiny.
He leaves the helm with new storms on the horizon - the biggest being Brexit.
The UK's exit from the European Union and the collapse of devolved government in Northern Ireland are just two of the challenges he hands on to his successor.
It is not the legacy nor the timescale he would have chosen, but Mr Kenny has dealt with his fair share of inherited problems.
He grew up in County Mayo, as the son of a Fine Gael politician who was a member of Dáil Éireann (Irish parliament).
Having trained as a teacher, Mr Kenny was 24 when he followed his father into politics.
He won the Mayo West seat vacated when his father died in 1975, and has successfully defended it over the last 42 years.
Mr Kenny was a month short of his 60th birthday when he was first elected taoiseach (prime minister) on 9 March 2011.
Fine Gael swept to power with a landslide election victory, as Irish voters vented their anger at being forced to pay for the collapse of the Irish banking system.
The new taoiseach formed a coalition with the Labour Party and the new government introduced a series of unpopular austerity measures.
New taxes and swingeing cuts to public services, pay and benefits are never exactly vote winners, but the most controversial policy was water charges.
Charging households for tap water was a condition imposed on Mr Kenny's predecessors under the terms of the 2010 bailout.
But after years of austerity, simmering public anger reached boiling point over water bills, and thousands regularly took to the streets to protest.
In December 2013, the Republic of Ireland became the first bailed-out eurozone member to exit its financial rescue programme.
Mr Kenny insisted the years of "huge sacrifice" were paying off, saying his country owed its economic recovery to its workers.
The Republic was once again vying for the title of the fastest growing economy in the eurozone, but Mr Kenny acknowledged too few citizens had benefitted from the recovery.
Although dealing with the "economic emergency" defined much of his career as taoiseach, it was also marked by passionate debates over abortion, same-sex marriage and the legacy of institutional child abuse.
Just a few months into the job, he launched an unprecedented attack on the Vatican for failing to protect children from paedophile priests.
Reacting to the Cloyne Report into clerical abuse, Mr Kenny said: "The rape and torture of children were downplayed or 'managed' to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and reputation."
The charge was angrily rejected by the Vatican, and diplomatic ties remained frosty until the election of Pope Francis two years later.
In 2012, the death of a young pregnant woman, Savita Halappanavar, made headlines around the world and reignited debate about Irish abortion laws.
The 31-year-old dentist was refused an abortion while she was miscarrying her first child in a Galway hospital, and died days later from septicaemia.
A public outcry led Mr Kenny's government to quickly reform the law - the 2013 Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act legalised abortion in very limited circumstances.
Two years later, the Republic of Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage through a popular vote.
Mr Kenny welcomed the result of the referendum, saying the Republic of Ireland was a "small country with a big message for equality" around the world.
But despite a seismic shift in attitudes to human rights and human relationships, skeletons of Catholic Ireland's past would continue to haunt his government.
In March 2017, it was confirmed that "significant quantities" of human remains had been found in a mass grave at a former mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway.
The home for unmarried mothers was run by nuns between 1925 and 1961, and high infant mortality and disease were features of such institutions.
The taoiseach described the discovery as "truly appalling" and said the infants buried in unmarked graves had been treated like "some kind of sub-species".
Mr Kenny, who was born in 1951, is a practising Catholic who is married with three adult children.
He was 41 when he wed Fionnuala O'Kelly in 1992.
She had been a press officer for Fine Gael's biggest rival and old Civil War enemy - Fianna Fáil.
Last year, it seemed Mr Kenny could be the first man in a century to lead Fine Gael into a once unthinkable coalition with its former foe.
The 2016 general election produced a hung Dáil in which no party won enough seats to govern independently.
Fine Gael held the most seats, but it took four attempts over 70 days for parties to agree who would run the country.
Eventually, on 6 May 2016, Mr Kenny was re-elected to lead a minority Fine Gael government, propped up by independent parliamentarians.
He became the only Fine Gael taoiseach to be re-elected for a second term of government and the party hailed him as the most successful leader in its history.
But the honeymoon was short-lived and within months, Mr Kenny was facing opposition from within his own ranks.
His leadership was undermined by a series of scandals involving the Garda Síochána (Irish police force).
The controversy began when two whistleblowers made allegations of corruption over how officers were recording motoring offences.
The bitter dispute escalated, costing the jobs of former Justice Minister Alan Shatter and former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.
The current Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, also faced calls to resign after fresh allegations that senior officers tried to smear one of the whistleblowers with false allegations of child abuse.
Ambitious Fine Gael ministers reportedly demanded the embattled taoiseach set out his timeframe for stepping down.
Mr Kenny resisted, saying his priorities were dealing with the fall-out from Brexit and the growing crisis in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Stormont's devolved government collapsed in January over a green energy scandal, adding fuel to the fire of the already complicated Brexit negotiations.
The taoiseach had campaigned against Brexit, warning it would create "serious difficulties" for Northern Ireland and border areas.
After the UK voted to leave the EU, he was criticised for raising the possibility of a future poll on a united Ireland.
Mr Kenny's leadership had begun with a high-point in Anglo-Irish relations - the first visit of Queen Elizabeth to the Republic of Ireland.
But he leaves office at a time full of diplomatic dilemmas over how his country will share a future EU border with its nearest neighbour.
The many, many questions over trade, travel, and territorial claims will now pass to his successor to try to resolve.
Investigators say finding the cause of the blaze will be difficult.
They are still waiting to gain access to the building due to the roof collapse, the fire service says.
Ten fire crews tackled Thursday's fire at the 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sq m) warehouse on the Blackpole East Industrial Estate in Worcester.
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Keith Chance, the Area Commander for Herefordshire and Worcestershire Fire and Rescue, said they have some good eyewitness accounts from the members of staff at the delivery company Arrow XL.
"The fire developed very quickly, a large proportion of the roof collapsed into the building so gaining access to identify exactly what happened will be difficult."
Ian Howell, the chief executive of ArrowXL said they are committed to keeping their business local to the area.
"We have been in the area for the best part of 25 years and we're committed to staying in the local area and have no plans to move away.
"We've just got to work through where we are, it's a bit too early to tell but clearly there's a big job in terms of rebuilding the site."
"The only thing that really matters is there's been no loss of life whatsoever, stock can be replaced, operations can be resumed."
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Blues lost four of their five opening games of the season, but have won on their last three outings.
They are eighth in the table, five points behind sixth-placed Munster and European Champions Cup qualification.
"We have a genuine opportunity to finish in the top six and if we did it would be a massive achievement," said Wilson.
"We're moving into a period of must-win games if we are going to give ourselves a chance of moving into the top six."
The first of those matches is against east Wales rivals Newport Gwent Dragons at the Arms Park on Sunday.
That is followed by another Welsh derby match against Ospreys on Judgement Day IV at the Principality Stadium on 30 April and a trip to Edinburgh on the last Saturday of the regular season.
Blues and Dragons go into Sunday's clash off the back of impressive away wins.
The Dragons beat Gloucester 23-21 at Kingsholm in the European Challenge Cup while Blues beat leading Welsh region Scarlets 28-22 away in the Pro12.
"This will be a massive win off the back of a huge win for the Dragons and then the Ospreys after that is another big Welsh derby," added Wilson.
"They're great games to play at this end of the season when we've got something to fight for and what's pleasing for us is we do have something to fight for. We're not playing to make up the numbers.
"Getting into the top six would be massive considering how the season started."
Blues pipped the Dragons 21-20 in December, having been dominated for much of the game.
That was one of three derby wins for the Blues this season, a specific performance target for the team according the Wilson, who expects Dragons to pose a major threat.
"You can't look further than the result against Gloucester," he said.
"That is an outstanding win at a packed house in Kingsholm in a European quarter-final against a fully-loaded Gloucester.
"It's quite an achievement and just shows what the Dragons are capable of.
"You want to win every single game but derbies have got an extra spice to them.
"Two of our remaining games are derbies and I think it will be an unbelievable achievement if we win another two derbies having won three already this season.
"And that would set us up for a final game at Edinburgh which we know is a very difficult place to go."
Jack Susianta drowned after jumping into Regents Canal in Walthamstow Marshes in July 2015.
The 17-year-old had suffered a psychotic episode and escaped through a window from his home in Hackney.
Acting Insp James Reynolds told an inquest police had to carry out an assessment before taking action.
This would take into account the conditions of the water and if officers could swim, and involve communicating a rescue plan, St Pancras Coroner's Court heard.
He said officers at the scene were "doing all they could do".
Officers threw 82ft (25m) life ropes to Jack as he became submerged, but the teenager did not grab them, the court heard.
Mr Reynolds, of the Metropolitan Police, described the water as "really oily, dark and you could not see below the surface"
Within minutes of the inspector arriving at the scene, a police officer had asked to go into the water, the inquest was told.
Mr Reynolds said that during this "quite frantic" stage he had not stopped anyone from going in.
He told the officer he could not give authorisation, and said it was for him to make a risk assessment.
The coroner told Mr Reynolds that members of the public had also volunteered.
Mr Reynolds replied he did not see or hear that, but he would have told them they also risked becoming a casualty, the jury heard.
Asked if in retrospect he would have done anything different, Mr Reynolds said he had "sleepless nights" over the incident.
"I brood about it a lot ... but looking back at it, no, I believe not," he told the court.
The inquest continues.
The Glasgow rivals meet on Sunday in a Scottish Cup semi-final, after Rangers won the Championship title last week.
And Dalglish is glad the derby will feature regularly next season following Rangers' climb up the leagues.
"Some people would get a lot of satisfaction from the demise of Rangers four years ago. But the football is not the same, is it?" he said.
"It's fantastic that we've got an Old Firm match back on the calendar.
"Next year there is going to be four, which I think for Scottish football and both Celtic and Rangers supporters is what it is all about."
The teams met last season in the League Cup semi-finals, with Celtic prevailing comfortably.
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"The game last year was really a 2-0 drubbing for Rangers," said Dalglish, who played at Celtic Park from 1968 to 1977 before enjoying a glittering career at Liverpool.
"But they have been fantastic this year with the brand of football they have played. James Tavernier at right-back is one of their top scorers with double figures.
"They have got a really good philosophy under Mark Warburton. But whether that is good enough to compete with Celtic remains to be seen.
"They had a game against St Johnstone where they lost 3-1 but then beat Dundee 4-0 in the Scottish Cup. Dundee drew with Celtic just a week ago, so you've got to give them a chance.
"It will be interesting to see how they react to playing Celtic, as they are the best team in the Premiership."
Celtic are on course to land a fifth consecutive title but manager Ronny Deila has been under scrutiny following a poor show in Europe and a stuttering domestic campaign.
"It's an important match for Ronny but I'm sure he won't underestimate it," added Dalglish on the Hampden showdown.
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"He had his first taste of it last year so he knows what it's about. He understands Celtic.
"He's been there for a couple of years. He knows what the club stands for and what this game means.
"In an Old Firm game, there is pressure on everybody.
"Nobody is going to grab any bonus points by saying, 'We're Rangers, we're just a Championship team, we're not under any pressure'.
"Ask the supporters if they are under any pressure. It's the same for Celtic. Celtic are under pressure because they want to win too."
Most fall by the wayside - often because they're controversial or somewhat niche.
There's also only a limited time in which they can come before the House, and those which miss that cut can only be saved with government support.
But others make real waves and change the way we live. The Abortion Act 1967 - the piece of law that legalised terminations - was a PMB, for example.
So too was the bill which ended capital punishment in Britain - the Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965.
More recently, the Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010 came from a Private Members' Bill from Labour MP Julie Morgan and now bans the use of commercial tanning equipment by under-18s.
And Conservative Cheryl Gillan's Private Members' Bill became the Autism Act 2009, which puts a legal duty on councils and NHS services to look after people with autism.
So what have the latest crop of MPs chosen to press for? Here's a selection of their efforts:
Labour MP for Stockton North Alex Cunningham wants to make it an offence to smoke in a car when children are present. While accepting it's a private space, he believes leaving it to individual discretion is not good enough and a ban would have "tremendous" health benefits. He's backed by medical organisations.
But Mr Cunnigham hasn't so far been able to get government support for the idea - during Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron said he'd "look carefully" at it, but would need "to have a serious think before we take that step".
This is an example of a Private Members' Bill breaking through and becoming law. Conservative MP Mark Lancaster's Coinage (Measurement) Bill - now Act - paved the way for the Royal Mint to be allowed to strike a 22-carat gold, one kilogram coin to commemorate the 2012 London Olympics. Before that, producing coins outside regulation weights was illegal.
If you want to get your hands on a mega-coin, 60 of them designed by eminent sculptor Sir Anthony Caro - and worth £100,000 each - are being made.
Lib Dem David Ward made it his mission to save the humble cheque after the Payments Council, a banking industry body, had announced it would be scrapped in 2018.
As it turned out, he wasn't the only one determined to keep the cheque alive and after widespread criticism from charities and other MPs, the council relented and said it would stay "as long as customers need them".
Standing on the terraces at football grounds was banned following the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, but Lib Dem MP Don Foster wants standing to return. His bill would allow clubs to build limited standing areas and set the safety criteria that those must meet. The Premier League has said it's against the idea, although the Scottish Premier League has given it the green light..
Mr Foster is clearly a man with a range of leisure pursuits because he also has a live music PMB. It seeks a relaxation of the regulations for small venues who want to host gigs and shows - and it made it through the Commons on 20 January.
Conservative MP Philip Hollobone is an enthusiastic proponent of PMBs and one of his latest is a bid to create a Tax Freedom Day. This, in theory at least, is the first day of the year on which a country and its citizens have earned enough to cover their annual tax burden. Last year, according to the Adam Smith Institute, it was 30 May.
By recognising the day, Mr Hollobone argues, it will "provide some transparency for the British taxpayer about the burden of taxation on them and on the national economy".
As if to demonstrate the diversity of his legislative interests, Mr Hollobone has also tabled a Private Members' Bill this session calling for a ban on the wearing of the burka in public.
Conservative Andrea Leadsom wants to create an offence of causing death or serious injury through dangerous or reckless cycling. Those found guilty would face an unlimited fine or up to 14 years in prison. A keen cyclist herself, she says her aim is to "bring equal protection and the potential for equal punishment to all road users".
But cycling pressure group the CTC called the bill "a distraction", arguing that in 2009 no pedestrians were killed in collisions with bicycles, but 426 pedestrians were killed by motor vehicles.
If you get a BA - Bachelor of Arts degree - from Oxford or Cambridge, you are entitled to a complimentary MA - Master of the Arts title - several years after graduating without doing any more work. Labour MP Chris Leslie wants to outlaw this quirk, arguing it is "quite unfair" because more than 60% of employers are not aware of the automatic degree "upgrade".
But Universities Minister David Willetts has said there is no evidence any is being harm done and he is supportive of the tradition.
Labour's Joan Ruddock says betting shops are "proliferating, squeezing out diversity and attracting anti-social behaviour". She has led calls from MPs to set a cap on the number a particular street can have.
To do this, her bill would would remove bookmakers from their current planning class - which groups them with banks, building societies and other professional and financial services - and place them in their own class for planning purposes. The same recommendation has been made by shopping guru Mary Portas in a government-commissioned report.
The Association of British Bookmakers says its businesses offer a "fun leisure product", and bring much needed investment to the High Street.
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is no stranger to controversy when it comes to sexual politics and this Private Members' Bill certainly divided opinion. Her Sex Education (Required Content) Bill called for girls aged 13 to 16 to be given compulsory lessons in school about "the benefits of abstinence".
It angered feminists, humanists and pro-choice activists alike who demonstrated outside Parliament on the day it was scheduled for second reading. The bill was eventually withdrawn before it got a hearing.
Yusra Mardini and her sister Sara were forced to swim for hours alongside their overloaded boat as it crossed from Turkey to Greece.
Yusra later competed for the first ever Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 games.
UK production company Working Title has agreed to buy the rights to her story for a film that Stephen Daldry is tipped to direct.
"It's rather important that we find someone who can act and swim," he told the Daily Mail.
Mardini, 18, the daughter of a swimming coach, left her hometown with her sister in 2015 after their house was destroyed in the Syrian conflict.
Her remarkable 25-day journey took her to Beirut in Lebanon, across the Aegean Sea and finally to Germany.
In the final part of the journey, Mardini, Sara and another young woman dragged the broken-down boat full of refugees - many of whom could not swim - towards the shore, clinging to a rope dangling from the side.
Mardini's first German home would temporarily be a refugee camp, and one of her first questions in this unfamiliar city concerned finding the nearest swimming pool.
An Egyptian translator put the sisters in touch with Wasserfreunde Spandau 04, one of Berlin's oldest swimming clubs.
"They saw our technique, saw it was good, they accepted us," she says.
After training there, she became one of two Syrians to be chosen by the International Olympic Committee for its first refugee team.
She won her qualifying heat in the 100 metres butterfly, though her time was not quick enough for her to progress.
"This is just a great story about a kid with an ambition, just like Billy Elliot," said Working Title's Eric Fellner.
Daldry received an Oscar nomination in 2001 for directing Billy Elliot and went on to direct the West End musical version.
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Lancaster gave Nowell his international debut when he started the opening game of the 2014 Six Nations in France.
The 22-year-old has won 10 caps so far, although he started only one game at this year's World Cup, against Uruguay after England were already out.
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"Stuart was the one that gave me my first chance, so I'm a bit disappointed to see him go," he told BBC Sport.
"He brought me to a home World Cup, so for me it's a disappointment. He's the guy that got me started, got me going, gave me my chance and had a bit of trust in me.
"But the decisions aren't with the players, they're with the board."
Lancaster, 46, left his position as head coach on Wednesday after England became the first sole hosts to exit a World Cup at the pool stages.
Nowell has scored two tries in two games for Exeter this season as the Devon club have risen to second in the Premiership table after the first block of matches.
And he says whoever takes over in charge of the national team, he must maintain that form if he is to play in next year's Six Nations.
"The big thing we get picked on is how we perform at the club," Nowell added.
"Whoever comes in, they're going to watch our games at club level and if they see we're playing well for the club they'll hopefully put us in the team."
The actor tweeted: "Won't go on with him after his comments about #WomensMarch."
Morgan had described some of the women who marched as "rabid feminists".
A GMB spokesman said: "Ewan came [in] this morning to be interviewed about his new film but decided not to go ahead with it."
Women's marches took place in many cities around the world to protest about Donald Trump becoming US president.
In response to McGregor's decision, Morgan tweeted: "Sorry to hear that @mcgregor_ewan - you should be big enough to allow people different political opinions. You're just an actor after all."
In further tweets responding to his followers' comments, Morgan wrote: "Why should actors be deemed to have more important or correct political opinions than anyone else?"
In another tweet, he wrote: "Ewan McGregor IS just an actor, not a brain surgeon." A further tweet claimed he was "not the Dalai bloody Lama".
"Such a shame," Morgan's co-presenter Susanna Reid tweeted. "Challenge views where there's difference.
"Would have liked to see that debate on air - it's an important one. #WomensMarch."
Reid went on to claim that her co-host's views were "widely held" and that feminists were "fighting the wrong battles if we turn on each other".
'Could be awkward'
On Monday, Morgan debated the issue with his co-presenter and three female guests, including Women's Equality Party leader Sophie Walker.
Morgan said: "For every woman who marches with good intent there are women who I would categorise as rabid feminists who don't like men very much."
Less than an hour before McGregor was due to appear, Reid and Morgan said he would be coming on the programme at 08:20 GMT to discuss Trainspotting sequel T2.
Morgan said McGregor was only one of two actors his wife "fancied" and that the interview "could be awkward".
Earlier this morning, Good Morning Britain tweeted: "Uh-oh... where's @mcgregor_ewan?
"Maybe he wants to avoid the tension of knowing @piersmorgan's wife has the hots for him?"
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Mrs May was formally appointed as UK prime minister at Buckingham Palace where she accepted the Queen's invitation to form a new government.
Earlier, her predecessor David Cameron formally stepped down.
Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, Mrs May said the union of the nations of the United Kingdom was very important to her.
"Not everybody knows this, but the full title of my party is the Conservative and Unionist Party and that word unionist is very important to me," she said.
"It means we believe in the union, the precious, precious bond between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"But it means something else just as important, it means we believe in a union not just between the nations of the United Kingdom, but between all our citizens, everyone of us, whoever we are and wherever we're from."
Earlier, the outgoing prime minister said Northern Ireland is stronger now than when he came to power six years ago.
Mr Cameron was speaking during his final Prime Minister's Question Time.
He said there were now 58,000 more people in work, inward investment was at record levels and policing and justice had been devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Mr Cameron was asked about the impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland by Ulster Unionist MP Danny Kinahan.
The prime minister said said that as the UK prepares to leave the EU, the benefits of the Common Travel Policy had to be kept.
"We do need to make sure that, as we leave the European Union, we work out how to keep the benefits of the Common Travel Area," Mr Cameron said.
"Hard work is being done now with civil servants in Northern Ireland, in Whitehall, but also in the Republic of Ireland and that work needs to quicken."
The DH Lawrence Heritage Centre in Eastwood, near Nottingham, faces closure by Broxtowe Borough Council.
Screenwriter William Ivory, who is also calling for a council rethink, said it would be is "crazy" to shut the centre.
Council leader Richard Jackson said the borough needed to save £3.5m over three years and could not afford to keep it.
Mr Ivory, who wrote a TV adaptation of Lawrence's Women In Love in 2011, said the writer was "a special figure" not only in English literature but world literature too.
He said: "It would be like shutting Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford - you have only got so much that's genuine and authentic that links us to the great literary figures of the past - and I think it is critical that they stay open."
Ms Jackson, a former Labour MP, won one of her Oscars in 1970 for a film adaptation of Women in Love.
She is among a group of actors, including Derbyshire-born Robert Lindsay, who support the campaign.
Richard Jackson, a Conservative councillor, said the closure was "simply a matter of money".
He said: "At the council we have got to save £3.5m in the next three years. It will save us around £100,000 a year - it has been under threat for 12 years and it has had £1m sunk into it."
Mr Jackson added the centre would merge with the DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum, also located in Eastwood.
The celebrities have signed a letter calling the closure "a grave error for the community".
The campaign was launched by Labour MP Gloria De Piero, whose Ashfield constituency includes Eastwood.
She said the local council had agreed to work with her to apply for lottery funding to keep the centre open.
Under current plans, the centre would close at the end of March.
The arrest followed the search of a house in north Belfast on Friday evening.
It comes after a series of paramilitary-style attacks in the Turf Lodge area.
Police said he had been released on bail pending further enquiries.
On Thursday, Facebook confirmed that it had removed a post on its site which included names and photographs of people accused of anti-social behaviour in the area.
A spokesperson said it had taken the move because the post violates Facebook's community standards.
The PSNI said they were not linking the post to recent shootings at this stage.
Paramilitary style attacks in west Belfast have doubled in 2016 compared to 2015.
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme before the post was removed, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said that some people on the list had already been shot.
Mr Sheehan said the name of a 26-year-old, who was shot in both legs on Tuesday night, was on the list.
"My understanding is that this man's name has appeared on a list on social media, a list that contains eight names and photographs of people," he said.
Mr Sheehan added that the list accuses people of so-called joy riding.
There have been a number of shootings since the beginning of the year.
Mr Sheehan said: "A number of people on this list have already been shot and it's my understanding that police have begun to visit others whose names are on this list to warn them about their security."
He said the community did not believe there was a drugs link to the attacks.
"The people who have been shot, and I exclude the couple from last week, mostly have been involved in anti-social behaviour and petty crime.
"It's a well-known fact that the people who are carrying out the shootings actually tax drug dealers and if these people pay up their tax, they aren't being shot.
"The community is having to deal with the fall-out of all of this," he added.
West Belfast People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll said he was "deeply concerned" that an "apparent hit list" of people had been published on social media, with three of those on the list being the victims of recent punishment shootings.
"So-called punishment shootings are inherently undemocratic, inhumane and wrong," he said.
"Nobody in west Belfast selected the individuals who compiled this list as their judge, jury and executioner. This is a community that understands the effects of repression and injustice.
"People don't want an even more repressive 'punishment' system foisted upon them without their say."
The incident happened at about 11:20 in Croftside Avenue in the south side of the city.
The driver of the lorry has been taken to the Victoria Infirmary for observation.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said no-one else was injured in the crash. The vehicle has been recovered from the scene.
Neighbour Julie Beckett, 43, who witnessed the incident, said: "I was drawing the curtains. The driver was out cold by the looks of it, slumped over the wheel.
"Two boys were outside the lorry collecting the bins, they looked alarmed.
"The first ambulance came quickly."
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: "We are aware of an incident in which a bin lorry left the road earlier this morning.
"The driver of the vehicle was taken to hospital to be checked over. It is a huge relief that no-one appears to have been injured.
"We are assisting the police with their inquiries."
Jubilee Pool in Penzance, Cornwall, was wrecked in storms that ravaged the south west in January and February 2014.
The pool, which first opened in 1935, is one of a few saltwater tidal open air swimming pools in Europe.
Engineers will repair the original changing rooms and anchor the pool floor to the rock bed.
Martin Nixon, chairman of the Friends of Jubilee Pool group, said he hoped the restoration would create "a sustainable future for this much-loved amenity".
The pool previously closed in 1992 as it had fallen into disrepair, but was restored to reopen in 1995.
The project has been funded by the government's Coastal Communities Fund, Cornwall Council, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership, Tempus Leisure, the Friends of Jubilee Pool and Penzance Town Council.
The UK study backs public health campaigns calling for sunscreen to be combined with other ways to protect the skin from sun, such as hats and shade.
Animal research, published in Nature, reveals more about how UV light induces cancer in skin cells.
Malignant melanoma is the fifth most common cancer in the UK, with more than 13,000 people diagnosed each year.
Sun exposure is a well-known risk factor for melanoma skin cancer.
But, until now, the molecular mechanism by which UV light damages DNA in skin cells has been unclear.
In the new study, scientists at the University of Manchester looked at the effects of UV light on the skin of mice at risk of melanoma.
This allowed them to examine the effects of sunscreen in blocking the disease.
"UV light targets the very genes protecting us from its own damaging effects, showing how dangerous this cancer-causing agent is," said lead researcher Prof Richard Marais.
"Very importantly, this study provides proof that sunscreen does not offer complete protection from the damaging effects of UV light.
"This work highlights the importance of combining sunscreen with other strategies to protect our skin, including wearing hats and loose fitting clothing, and seeking shade when the sun is at its strongest."
The researchers found that UV light caused faults in the p53 gene, which normally helps protect the body from the effects of DNA damage.
The study also showed that sunscreen could reduce the amount of DNA damage caused by UV, delaying the development of melanoma in mice.
But it found sunscreen did not offer complete protection and UV light could still induce melanoma, although at a reduced rate.
Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, said people tended to think they were "invincible" once they had put on sunscreen and may spend longer in the sun, increasing their overall exposure to UV rays.
"This research adds important evidence showing that sunscreen has a role, but that you shouldn't just rely on this to protect your skin," she said.
"It's essential to get into good sun safety habits, whether at home or abroad, and take care not to burn - sunburn is a clear sign that the DNA in your skin cells has been damaged and, over time, this can lead to skin cancer."
Malignant melanoma has become the fifth most common cancer in the UK, with more than 13,000 people diagnosed with the disease each year.
Prof Nic Jones, director of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: "With the number of cases increasing, we urgently need to understand more about the disease and find new and better treatments."
"This is the first example of a mouse model that absolutely shows that UV light causes melanoma," Prof Marais told BBC News.
Match officials reported the off-spinner, 34, during his side's first Test defeat by Sri Lanka in October.
An independent assessment revealed his elbow extension exceeded the permitted 15 degrees while bowling.
He was handed a year-long ban because he had already been banned from bowling his faster deliveries in December 2013.
An International Cricket Council statement read: "As this report constitutes the player's second suspension within a two-year period, he is now automatically suspended from bowling in international cricket for a 12-month period.
"Samuels is entitled to appeal any procedural aspect of the independent assessment that has led to this automatic suspension. However, only after the expiry of this one-year period will he be entitled to approach the ICC for a re-assessment of his bowling action."
Samuels, who bats in the top order, has taken 145 wickets in 279 matches for his country across Test, one-day and Twenty20 formats, but may continue to play as a specialist batsman.
Malala, 15, was speaking in an interview recorded before surgery at a Birmingham hospital on Saturday.
She was shot on a school bus in October in Pakistan by the Taliban after campaigning for girls' rights.
Surgeons at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital said Malala was recovering "very well" from the latest operation.
A bullet was removed from her head by surgeons in Pakistan, before she was flown to the UK for further treatment.
Malala was discharged as an inpatient from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in January and underwent a five-hour operation at the weekend to fit a titanium plate over her damaged skull.
She also had a cochlear implant fitted to deal with some deafness caused by her injuries.
Speaking in the video in English, Malala said she wanted to "serve the people".
She said: "Today you can see that I'm alive. I can speak, I can see you, I can see everyone and today I can speak and I'm getting better day by day.
"It's just because of the prayers of people, because all the people - men, women, children - all of them have prayed for me.
"Because of these prayers, God has given me this new life and this is a second life.
"I want to serve the people and I want every girl, every child, to be educated and for that reason we have organised the Malala Fund."
She also made her comments in Urdu and Pashtu.
The Taliban said it attacked the campaigner for girls' education for "promoting secularism".
The first grant from the Malala Fund will go to an organisation in the teenager's home region of the Swat Valley in Pakistan and it aims to encourage girls to go to school instead of going straight into work.
Those behind the project said it would help enrol selected girls into schools and give them the support to continue with their studies.
It is also expected to work with families to understand the importance of education for their daughters.
The Malala Fund has been set up by international organisation Vital Voices, which says it helps give women a voice to promote prosperity and peace in their communities.
A message on the organisation's website said: "We established the Malala Fund on behalf of Malala and her family, working together with supporters of the cause, including the United Nations Foundation and Girl Up, and within a community of supportive organisations and individuals, to realise Malala's vision of education for all girls."
In a news conference on Monday, the Birmingham hospital's medical director Dr Dave Rosser said everything had gone "very well" in Saturday's operation and said the teenager's condition was continuing to improve.
He said: "She went back to the intensive care unit that evening, primarily as a precautionary measure rather than because of any major concerns and she's now back on one of the wards in the hospital and doing very well."
Consultant neurosurgeon Anwen White said she now did not expect Malala to have to undergo any further surgery.
Mrs White added that Malala remained "a very happy, very enthusiastic young woman".
They were able to reach the shore after the light aircraft came down "close to the beach" in Shoreham, West Sussex.
The plane, which is believed to be a Cessna, crashed at about 15:50 BST, Sussex Police said.
Both people who escaped from the wreckage are not believed to have been injured in the crash, a force spokesman added.
Shoreham RNLI said it had had launched its all weather lifeboat.
A Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokeswoman said it received multiple 999 calls reporting that the plane had ditched in the water.
South East Coast Ambulance Service said the two people had been assessed, and neither required hospital treatment.
Jim Barrow, from Worthing said: "One guy, who I assume was the pilot, was soaked to the skin but he was standing up and talking on the phone so he looked OK.
"We're used to seeing planes fly over but not like that."
For the first time researchers showed climate to be having a similar, significant impact on bird populations in large, distant areas of the world.
Their study used population-predicting models and three decades of field data, gathered by bird-watching volunteers.
The findings are published in the journal Science.
Led by Durham University scientists, the team developed models that related each species' habitat to long-term climate patterns.
Using annual climate records - from 1980 to 2010 - these models were able to predict where a species had experienced an improvement or a decline in suitable climate.
"We then had this amazing data set collected by thousands of volunteers over decades - where people have gone out and counted birds across different countries in Europe and the United States," explained lead researcher Dr Stephen Willis.
"We can use that to see to what extent our predictions match what people are finding on the ground."
The outlook is different for each species. Increasing temperatures in the UK, for example, allow some species to expand their range and increase their population, while the same temperature patterns have made the UK a less suitable habitat for others.
But the overall trends, this study shows, are strikingly similar in the US and Europe; populations are increasing in species predicted to benefit from climate change and decreasing in those predicted to be negatively affected.
"One important thing is that we're looking at the most common birds," said Dr Willis. "These birds are doing a lot of good in the countryside - eating crop pests and helping our ecosystems work.
"So we need to understand how they'll respond."
The research shows how the climate is gradually remapping the avian habitat across two continents.
In Europe, for example, birds such as the wren have been increasing in northern areas as winters become milder, but declining in some southern countries. The American robin has declined in some southern states, but increased further north.
"This is really the first time anyone's ever looked at changes in climate across two really extensive parts of the world," said Dr Willis. "So we're getting an idea that [the impacts of] climate change on wildlife are more far-reaching than individual countries."
David Noble from the British Trust for Ornithology, who was also involved in the study, told BBC News that the findings highlighted the value of such extensive data sets generated by volunteers.
"The similarities in results between the two continents, despite very big differences in their landscapes, geographic barriers and patterns of vegetation, are compelling evidence for the climate change effects," he added.
Dr Willis agreed, saying: "This is work carried out by thousands upon thousands of volunteers; it really demonstrates the power of citizen science."
The study was carried out in partnership with the RSPB and United States Geological Survey (USGS).
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Robert Downs, 63, from Mold, Flintshire, was killed in the collision on the A525 link road between Denbigh and Ruthin on Friday.
North Wales Police said he died at the scene.
In a tribute, Mr Downs' family described him as a "loving" father and grandfather.
"He was a kind, loving and caring man who was always willing to assist anyone when he could. He was the rock of our life and was a long-standing and passionate motorcycle fanatic," the tribute said.
"He left our side so suddenly and we all sorely miss him. But he will always be there in our minds and hearts and never forgotten."
Police have appealed for witnesses.
Sally Waters, who still lives in the same house in St Andrew's, said the letter was dated 27 August 1991 and contained a receipt for a deposit from the Cliffden Hotel in Teignmouth.
The sealed envelope came in a plastic bag with a sticker which said "we're sorry this item has been delayed in the post".
Royal Mail was unable to say for certain why the letter arrived so late.
A spokesman said it had probably been put back into the postal system by someone, rather than being "lost in the post".
Ms Waters said she was not upset at the late delivery as it did not stop her going on the holiday she was planning for, in 1992.
She wondered if the letter "fell behind a shelf and got mislaid" and said she was "quite amused" by the matter.
"Somebody said I ought to frame it," she added.
Karen Whitmore was made redundant from her post as assistant director of organisation and governance at Middlesbrough Council in June.
Teesside Magistrates Court heard claims she was targeted for raising concerns about the sale of buildings for under the market value.
Ms Whitmore claims unfair dismissal.
The hearing was told of Ms Whitmore concerns over the council's sale of Grade I listed Acklam Hall.
She said that when she asked by external auditors to investigate the sale she was told officers had agreed a price reduction of £1.2m for the building.
Ms Whitmore was also told to hide the way it was handled because the then-mayor, Ray Mallon, did not want to be embarrassed, she claimed.
The tribunal was also told she raised concerns about selling Middlesbrough's Training and Development Centre to Mr Mallon's election agent, for £400,000 after an independent valuation was put at between £600,000 and £900,000.
She claimed she was bullied by the current chief executive, Tony Parkinson, undermined by the former chief executive, Mike Robinson, and her concerns and complaints were ignored by the mayor, David Budd.
All men contest the accusations, and the hearing continues.
Delport, who was born in South Africa but qualifies as a non-overseas player, has scored 2,045 T20 runs at an average of 25.56 with a strike rate of 135.70.
The 27-year-old left-hander played with elite performance director Andrew McDonald at Sydney Thunder in 2015.
McDonald said: "Cameron has experience in most of the world's top T20 competitions and his knowledge and skill will be valuable assets."
Delport shared the highest-ever one-day first-wicket stand with Morne van Wyk - an unbroken 367 set in a South African one-day game for Dolphins against Knights in Bloemfontein in October 2014.
Leicestershire's next match in the competition is against Lancashire at Old Trafford on Friday.
Livi won away at Northern Irish side Crusaders on Friday, with TNS proving too strong for Forfar on Saturday.
The Welsh Premier League leaders are the only guest team remaining in the competition.
Dunfermline Athletic meet Championship rivals Dundee United, with St Mirren at home to Ayr United.
Queen of the South, who beat Linfield, will welcome Alloa Athletic, the conquerors of Bala Town, to Palmerston Park.
Teams from Northern Ireland and Wales were included in the tournament for the first time at the last 16 stage.
The ties will be played over the weekend of 12/13 November.
Challenge Cup quarter-final draw:
Livingston v The New Saints
Queen of the South v Alloa Athletic
St Mirren v Ayr United
Dunfermline Athletic v Dundee United
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Also known as the "fire volcano", the Colima is one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico.
Jenny Pyper has said the cross-border link must be in place by 2019 "to keep the lights on and prices low".
The plan is to connect the grids using 138km of overhead lines between County Meath and a new substation near Moy in County Tyrone.
Ms Pyper said an alternative "plan b' of underground cables was "a myth."
Speaking at a conference in Belfast, she said that option would take too long and be "five times more expensive."
Environmental and health campaigners had wanted the cables placed underground.
The project, which will take three years to complete, was meant to have been ready by 2017.
In the Republic of Ireland, the state-owned commercial energy company, EirGrid, has submitted plans for the southern half of the project.
In Northern Ireland, the lead is being taken by System Operator for Northern Ireland (SONI).
A separate planning application is before the Planning Appeals Commission, with a hearing likely to take place early next year.
Belgium international striker Jelle Vossen, 25, arrives on a season-long loan from Genk, where he has scored 105 goals in 244 games.
Winger Yanic Wildschut, 22, is a former Netherlands Under-21 international and has signed for an undisclosed fee on an initial two-year contract.
Boro have also captured Chelsea goalkeeper Jamal Blackman, 20, on loan until 17 January.
The deals are subject to Football League and international clearance.
Vossen, who has been at Genk for his entire career so far, scored 13 times as the club finished sixth in the Belgian top flight last season.
He made international debut in 2009 and has two goals from 12 appearances.
Wildschut is a graduate of the academy at Ajax and has also previously featured for FC Zwolle and VVV-Venlo, as well as having a loan spell last season with Eredivisie side Den Haag.
His deal at the Riverside Stadium has an option for a further 12 months.
"Middlesbrough have been interested in me for a long time, but I wasn't ready to take the step a few years ago," Wildschut said.
"When I heard they wanted me again, I knew straight away I wanted to come here."
Alonso will miss Monaco to race in the Indianapolis 500, with full support from McLaren and engine partner Honda.
McLaren executive director Zak Brown says two-time champion Alonso's replacement is "not in place".
But there is no other serious option than Button, 37, who is contracted to McLaren as a reserve driver and will race barring unexpected circumstances.
The 2009 world champion retired from Formula 1 at the end of last season and has spent the winter in California training for Ironman triathlons, his long-time passion.
He signed a contract with McLaren last autumn that committed him to replacing any race driver who was not able to take part in a grand prix this year.
As part of that contract, the team also has an option on signing him to race in 2018.
Button tweeted a jokey reaction on Wednesday after the news of Alonso's Indy programme was announced, asking: "Why do I have so many missed calls?"
Meanwhile, Brown told a Bahrain news conference, held to discuss Alonso's Indy programme, that "conversations were ongoing" over the Spaniard's replacement.
"We have a few different options, we will state who that is when we know," he said.
"Eric [Boullier], who runs the F1 team, is ultimately responsible for making the recommendation as to what driver should go in the car and I think he will be here at the weekend so I can save questions for him, he is working on it.
"I wouldn't want to share the conversations he has had with whom."
Button's compatriot and former team-mate, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, said: "I hope Jenson comes back and it will be great for the sport if Jenson comes in.
"Jenson is still one of the best drivers in the world and his calibre and experience make him the best choice."
Hamilton and Button drove together at McLaren between 2010 and 2012.
Button is the only serious alternative McLaren have. Alonso is one of the top three or four drivers in the world and they need an experienced replacement for a race where they have one of their best chances of the season to score decent points.
The McLaren chassis is quite strong, but the car is being let down by its Honda engine, which is said to be at least 100bhp down on the best in F1.
Monaco is one of the tracks on the calendar where engine power is least important in determining lap time. Alonso finished fifth there last year, when Honda also had a power deficit.
On top of that, there are very few available drivers with the required level of skill and expertise.
Mexican Esteban Gutierrez and Brazil's Felipe Nasr both raced last year and are potentially free, but are non-starters for a team such as McLaren needing to find a replacement for a two-time champion.
And Button's deal was struck with exactly this sort of situation in mind.
However, the draw did extend Chelsea's lead at top of the Premier League to nine points.
Liverpool keeper Mignolet made up for his first-half embarrassment when he was beaten by David Luiz's superb free-kick from 25 yards.
Georginio Wijnaldum's close-range header in the second-half gave Liverpool a draw they fully deserved, ending a run of three home losses in a row.
However, it could have been much better for Chelsea and worse for Liverpool when Costa went to ground 14 minutes from the end.
Referee Mark Clattenburg pointed to the spot but Mignolet dived low to his right to save the Spain striker's spot-kick.
Arsenal 1-2 Watford: Arsenal's Premier League title hopes suffered a huge blow with a shock home defeat as Watford secured their first top-flight win over the Gunners since 1988.
Bournemouth 0-2 Crystal Palace: Crystal Palace finally earned a Premier League victory under Sam Allardyce as goals by Scott Dann and Christian Benteke secured the points against Bournemouth away at a rain-swept Vitality Stadium.
Burnley 1-0 Leicester City: Burnley secured their fifth home Premier League win in a row with victory over Leicester at Turf Moor, thanks to Sam Vokes' late goal.
Middlesbrough 1-1 West Bromwich Albion: Middlesbrough came back from a goal down but were left frustrated as a hard-working West Brom claimed a point at the Riverside Stadium.
Swansea City 2-1 Southampton: Swansea boosted their Premier League survival hopes and secured back-to-back wins for the first time this season with a spirited victory over Southampton.
Sunderland 0-0 Tottenham: Title-chasing Tottenham had to settle for a point at the Stadium of Light as Sunderland climbed off the bottom of the table with a hard-fought draw.
Lily Partridge suffered a fatal head injury in a tackle during a training session at North Tawton, Devon, in December.
The South West Organ Donation and Transplant Service said four lives have been saved after receiving organs from the 22-year-old zookeeper.
The NHS team dubbed the rise in registered donors "the Lily effect".
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James Paget, from the donor team, said: "In December 2014 and January 2015 we had 469 people sign the register.
"In December 2015 when Lily died and [then when] her funeral was held, we had 1,419 people register.
"That is a significant increase of nearly 1,000 people. We think the majority of those are as a result of Lily."
Miss Partridge, from Exeter, carried two donor cards. Her parents, Jeff and Liz, said they were proud of her legacy, which has also seen thousands of pounds raised for her chosen charities and causes.
"It is a great comfort to all her family after everything that has happened," they added.
According to the NHS website, there are more than 7,000 people on the UK national transplant waiting list.
The authorities say that, with some exceptions, foreigners should not be employed if there are Kenyans who can do the job.
The large disparity between what foreigners and Kenyans can earn has also been criticised.
An estimated 240,000 people work for NGOs in Kenya, mostly local staff.
Kenya is a regional hub for NGOs, with aid agencies working in countries from Democratic Republic of Congo to South Sudan based in the country.
Charities play a large role in providing essential services in Kenya, observers say, with some running schools and clinics.
One international NGO told the BBC that higher pay for foreigners was essential as they are working far from home.
The new employment rules are likely to be met with criticism by some in the NGO world, which has been operating without much supervision from the authorities, reports the BBC's Abdinoor Aden in the capital, Nairobi.
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Kenya's NGO board, an official body which oversees the work of the charity sector, says that some organisations have been flouting the law by employing expatriates without proper work permits.
It says that foreigners can only be employed when there is no Kenyan available with the same skills, or when they are essential to the running of the charity, or when they are committed to training people to replace them.
Research by the board suggests that expatriates earn four times the salary of locals for doing the same job with comparable skills and qualifications.
The enticement of working for an NGO is evident in Kenya.
Jobs in aid organisations in Kenya are seen as among the most lucrative due to the pay and benefits compared to other jobs.
For a long time, tensions have been brewing between Kenyan and foreign staff, as many locals are angry over what they see as unfair treatment.
Expatriate employees enjoy large allowances, security, housing, a vehicle and comprehensive attractive medical insurance.
Many of the houses in the leafy suburbs of Nairobi are occupied by foreign aid workers and landlords are known to inflate the rent thereby excluding some Kenyans.
Some local staff feel their colleagues are pampered.
The government argues the new restrictions are needed to safeguard the interests of Kenyans.
Liverpool's Laura Coombs hit the home crossbar in a goalless first half.
In the second period, Royals forward Melissa Fletcher hit the post before Lauren Bruton had a penalty saved by Reds keeper Siobhan Chamberlain.
With five minutes remaining, substitute Zelem headed home as the Royals dropped to second from bottom.
Reading goalkeeper Mary Earps:
"I felt like we were on top of the game.
"It's so disappointing to lose a goal so late on, especially one that we could have defended better, but we're going to have to pick ourselves up and go again against Chelsea.
"It didn't come off tonight, it's gutting all round. It was a good performance and not one we deserved to come away with nothing from."
Liverpool captain Gemma Bonner:
"I think we did deserve it.
"Reading had a good game plan to frustrate us, they defended in a block, fair play and credit to them, they did it well.
"I think for us we created chance after chance and it was only a matter of time, it doesn't matter how it goes in, it's an important three points for us."
Match ends, Reading Ladies 0, Liverpool Ladies 1.
Second Half ends, Reading Ladies 0, Liverpool Ladies 1.
Foul by Harriet Scott (Reading Ladies).
Laura Coombs (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Reading Ladies. Nia Jones replaces Kirsty McGee.
Substitution, Reading Ladies. Kayleigh Hines replaces Molly Bartrip.
Goal! Reading Ladies 0, Liverpool Ladies 1. Katie Zelem (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Corner, Liverpool Ladies. Conceded by Kirsty McGee.
Attempt saved. Caroline Weir (Liverpool Ladies) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Molly Bartrip (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Caroline Weir (Liverpool Ladies).
Attempt missed. Laura Coombs (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Laura Coombs (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Satara Murray.
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Mandy van den Berg.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Katie Zelem replaces Rosie White.
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Siobhan Chamberlain.
Penalty saved! Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the top left corner.
Penalty Reading Ladies. Lauren Bruton draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Siobhan Chamberlain (Liverpool Ladies) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt saved. Laura Coombs (Liverpool Ladies) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies).
Rosie White (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Harriet Scott (Reading Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Siobhan Chamberlain.
Attempt saved. Molly Bartrip (Reading Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gemma Bonner (Liverpool Ladies).
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Satara Murray.
Foul by Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies).
Rosie White (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harriet Scott (Reading Ladies).
Natasha Harding (Liverpool Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Satara Murray.
Remi Allen (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Caroline Weir (Liverpool Ladies).
Substitution, Reading Ladies. Melissa Fletcher replaces Jade.
Substitution, Liverpool Ladies. Shanice Van de Sanden replaces Emma Lundh.
Remi Allen (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
When the sport switched to a summer season in 1996, the old Bradford Northern reinvented themselves.
As the rebranded Bulls they came kicking and charging into the new era and anything seemed possible.
Odsal Stadium, an inhospitable giant hole in the ground in the winter months, became rugby league's summer hot-spot.
Crowds doubled and tripled as the fabulously successful Bulls blasted their way to silverware success to a back drop of memorable matchday entertainment.
There was live music, fire-eaters, light shows and fireworks. It was rugby league rock and roll, on and off the field.
Multiple Challenge Cups, Championships and World Club titles were won and Odsal's capacity was frequently tested by a booming, bouncing fanbase.
The club was colourful, noisy and wonderfully good fun.
But those good times weren't to last.
The 2006 World Club Challenge was their last major success.
Suddenly the Grand Finals at Old Trafford, the showdowns against the best of the Australian clubs and a powerful presence at rugby league's top table ended.
A temporary slip in playing standards, part of the cycle of sport, was magnified by colossal mismanagement. It was the start of the plunge down the Super League table, into a string of administrations, relegation to the Championship and now liquidation.
The first of the crises became public knowledge in 2012 when Peter Hood, the then chairman, revealed a £1m black hole and the club went into administration in June of that year.
Coach Mick Potter was made redundant but carried on unpaid until the end of the campaign.
Fans rallied around to raise the £1m, but saw every penny disappear in a desperate but futile attempt to steady the ship.
Instead, a new consortium fronted by local businessman Omar Khan took over the club in August 2012, the first in a series of ownerships by different groups that have come and gone as the club continued to slip towards its current state.
With six points deducted for another financial calamity in 2014, the club was relegated.
A year later, defeat by Wakefield in the Million Pound game prevented an immediate return to Super League. And more financial woes followed.
Now the club is at the lowest it has been in the modern era. With the old club liquidated, there is even a chance that the name of the Bradford Bulls may cease to exist.
That's unlikely to happen, though. More probable is that a new club will be formed, maybe even rebranded, and launched again in the Championship this year with a 12-point deduction.
The Rugby Football League reports plenty of interest in breathing life back into the currently defunct club, but that would be on the buyer's terms. No debts need be honoured.
That will leave a bad taste in the mouth of those owed money by this most recent business collapse. And many will be disappointed that a succession of owners have not been held to account for their mishandling of the club.
The RFL's role in being part of the process of approving some of those owners must also be questioned. To get it wrong once is forgivable, but three or four owners have come and gone after satisfying the scrutiny of the RFL and all have failed the Bulls' fans.
For the sake of the reputation of the governing body, the next owners must deliver something other than failure. This time it will be the RFL alone who decide who the new custodians of the club will be, so they will be accountable for their authenticity.
Nor does it feel entirely comfortable that a new club should be placed straight back into the Championship. Even with a 12-point deduction they still have a chance of immediate promotion in the game's new Super 8s set-up.
There are several clubs in League One, who, having lived by the financial rules, possibly wouldn't mind being elevated into the higher league, even at this late stage of the pre-season.
Putting Bradford right back where the last club failed has a scent of flippancy around it; a disregard for those who have lost heavily investing in the previous failed venture.
But all that said, rugby league does need a buoyant Bulls to come bouncing back.
The game as a whole has gone a little grey over the last few years for all sorts or reasons - a sense of lowered playing standards, international failure, big stars exiting for the brighter lights of the NRL.
If someone could take Bradford back to those Friday nights of glitz and glamour and gladiatorial rugby league, it would reinject some of the sense of excitement that we had in the first 10 years of Super League.
Some of the biggest and most memorable games watched by the largest crowds in the summer seasons have involved Bradford Bulls.
The sport is getting something very new this year with the coming of the Toronto Wolfpack. But a little bit of the exciting old being restored would be very welcome too.
World leaders are at the annual G20 economic summit, which is being hosted in China for the first time.
President Xi said the global economy was at a "crucial juncture" due to volatile markets and feeble trade.
Also discussed on the first day of the G20 were the global steel crisis, trade barriers and the UK's Brexit talks.
President Xi said: "Against risks and challenges facing the world economy, the international community has high expectations of the G20 in the Hangzhou summit."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the G20 leaders had agreed they need to work together to increase economic growth.
However, it is unlikely a major deal will be struck, particularly as the most productive discussions are taking place one-on-one, said BBC Asia Pacific editor Celia Hatton.
President Xi urged his counterparts to avoid empty talk in their attempts to boost trade, but his "critics might raise an eyebrow at this: China is often accused of putting up trade barriers, not tearing them down," she added.
Ahead of the meeting, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned it was likely to downgrade its forecast for global economic growth again this year.
The IMF has already reduced its global outlook after the Brexit vote, cutting forecasts for world GDP growth to 3.1% for 2016 and 3.4% for 2017.
It is the final G20 summit for US President Barack Obama and the first for British Prime Minister Theresa May.
At a joint press conference, President Obama said the first task for Britain following the EU referendum was to "figure out what Brexit means with respect to Europe".
He added that the US would prioritise its trade talks with the EU - known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - ahead of talks with the UK.
Mrs May will be explaining at the two-day summit in the city of Hangzhou what the British decision to leave the EU might entail.
It comes as Japan's government has issued a stark warning about the possible impact of Brexit on the country's firms operating in the UK.
Mrs May has also defended her surprise delay in making a decision on the £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear power project, saying she would "look at the evidence and consider it properly".
"I've been very clear that I will be doing that and will be taking a decision sometime this month," she added.
The Prime Minister is due to discuss the project with President Xi amid heightened diplomatic tensions over her perceived concerns about Chinese involvement in Hinkley Point.
China's continued production of cheap steel was also an issue on the opening day of the summit.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said China must address its problem of industrial overcapacity, saying it was "unacceptable" the European steel industry had lost so many jobs in recent years.
"Overcapacity is a global problem but there is a particular Chinese element," Mr Juncker said.
He also defended the EU commission's decision to hit tech giant Apple with a €13bn (£11bn) bill for unpaid taxes, saying it was not aimed at the US.
"We are basing our decisions on facts and on the legislation," Mr Juncker said. "This is not a decision against the United States of America."
Several leading male players, including Jason Day and Rory McIlroy, have already announced they will not be playing in Rio.
Pace, 35, said she had been weighing up whether to compete over recent months.
"My health and my future family's health must come first," she said.
"I was very much looking forward to the opportunity but I have decided that due to the health concerns surrounding the Zika virus, I will not be participating."
Zika is mosquito-borne and has been linked to defects in newborn babies, prompting those looking to start a family to take extra precautions.
Olympic chiefs and the World Health Organization have advised athletes and visitors to Rio that the risk of catching Zika is low.
But McIlroy, who has defended his decision, and Day have joined other high-profile players, including Ireland's Shane Lowry, Australia's Marc Leishman, Fiji's Vijay Singh, South Africa's Branden Grace and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, in withdrawing.
Golf is making its Olympic return in 2016 following a 112-year absence.
Mr Obama had previously released an official "certification of live birth" showing he was born in Hawaii.
But the White House has now published copies of the president's original birth certificate along with a statement on its website.
The document shows that Mr Obama was born in Hawaii on 4 Aug 1961 at 7.24pm.
"We don't have time for this kind of silliness," the president said in a statement to reporters.
Why has he chosen to do this now?
The issue has been back on the news agenda in recent weeks, mainly due to potential presidential candidate Donald Trump expressing his doubts about the president's birthplace.
He said he sent a team of investigators to Hawaii to try to find out more.
In response, CNN this week announced the results of its own investigation, in which it spoke to the former director of the health department on the island who said she had seen Mr Obama's original birth certificate herself.
The persistence with which the story kept resurfacing has prompted the White House to act.
In his statement, the president said it was particularly frustrating that the news about the Republican plan to cut the deficit was overshadowed by further allegations about his own birthplace.
But Mr Obama's opponents may question why it has taken the White House two years to yield to demands to see his original birth certificate.
What allegations were being made about Mr Obama?
For years, the "birthers" - as those who doubt Mr Obama's eligibility for the presidency are known - have been expressing their doubts about his place of birth.
The principal allegation was that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and that he is therefore ineligible to be president, according to the US constitution, which states that "no person except a natural born citizen... shall be eligible to the office of President".
It was further alleged that any documents purporting to prove Mr Obama's eligibility were either insufficient or fraudulent.
Some of those challenging Mr Obama's eligibility allege that he was actually born in Kenya, or that he adopted Indonesian citizenship as an infant.
What do Americans believe?
Despite all the evidence, the number of Americans who believe that he is not eligible to be president, and that his birth certificate is a forgery, did appear to be significant, before today's announcement.
Polling on this issue has tended to vary, but a recent CNN poll suggested that 43% of Republicans said they weren't sure Mr Obama was born in the US.
Alan Keyes, a former Republican presidential candidate, filed a lawsuit questioning Mr Obama's eligibility.
And former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin had questioned why the president had failed to produce his original birth certificate. On Twitter on Wednesday, she welcomed the news that the certificate had been released.
Other Republicans have been forthright in their condemnation of the allegations. The right-wing Fox News broadcaster Bill O'Reilly challenged Mr Trump on his show, and rejected his claims.
How have birthers reacted?
Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, a news agency that has campaigned to have Mr Obama's birth certificate released, said he was elated at the news.
But in a statement on the WND website, he added the document would have to be examined closely, and questions still remained.
"It is important to remember there are still dozens of other questions concerning this question of eligibility that need to be resolved to assure what has become a very sceptical public concerning Barack Obama's parentage, his adoption, his citizenship status throughout his life and why he continues to cultivate a culture of secrecy around his life."
Another leading birther, Orly Taitz, reacted by repeating outlandish claims that Mr Obama is not a "natural born citizen" because his father is Kenyan. Several other US presidents have had parents who were not US-born.
It is unlikely that the birth certificate with completely dispel all the doubts, but the focus may also turn to Mr Obama's college education.
Mr Trump has questioned how a "terrible student" got into Columbia University or Harvard Law School, and has demanded to see his grades.
So how did the birther story start?
During the 2008 US presidential election, rumours began to circulate on the internet that Barack Obama had not been born in the United States, and was therefore not eligible for the presidency.
Mr Obama's campaign provided evidence to rebut the claims, including the candidate's "live" birth certificate, but the chatter did not die down, and some people even launched lawsuits to question Mr Obama's eligibility.
What documents were previously presented proving Mr Obama's eligibility?
In June 2008, the Obama campaign - in an attempt to disprove another set of internet rumours that Mr Obama's middle name was Muhammad - made public his birth certificate.
The document - a Certification of Live Birth - indicated that Mr Obama had been born at 7.24pm on 4 August 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Researchers also dug up birth notices for Mr Obama printed in the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 1961.
The newspapers received information about births from Hawaii's Department of Health.
But Mr Obama had never released his original "long-form" birth certificate until now.
Why did these documents not stop the rumours?
When Mr Obama's Certification of Live Birth was published, as a scanned document on the Obama campaign's website, some people began to question its authenticity.
It was alleged in blog posts, chain emails and internet forums that the document did not have an official stamp or seal and that it lacked an official signature. Some even suggested that the document had been faked using picture-altering software.
Was there any substance to these allegations?
No. Representatives from the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Political Fact Check project examined the hard copy of the document and verified that it did in fact bear an official seal, and had been signed by Hawaii state registrar Alvin T Onaka (using a signature stamp). Both the seal and the signature were on the (unscanned) reverse of the document. | Head coach Danny Wilson says it would be a huge achievement for Cardiff Blues to finish in the top six of the Pro12.
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Farah, 34, says his last race on the track in Britain will be the 3,000m at the Birmingham Grand Prix on 20 August.
But having qualified for the 5,000m Diamond League final, he is now set to end his track career in Switzerland.
He will focus on marathons after the World Championships in London, which run from 4-13 August.
Farah won European 5,000m and 10,000m gold at Zurich's Letzigrund Stadium in 2014.
"Now, he plans to bid the track farewell in the legendary arena," said organisers in a statement.
Farah won the 5,000m and 10,000m golds at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics.
He will attempt a third successive 5,000m/10,000m double at the World Championships next month.
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Two stadiums - in Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo - are still not finished, with the tournament due to start on 12 June.
Valcke insisted there is "no way" that fixtures will be postponed.
"If you want me to summarise, we are not ready," said the Frenchman. "We have two stadiums where there is still work to do."
Preparations for the World Cup have been beset by problems.
A construction worker fell to his death last week at Sao Paulo's Arena Corinthians, which is due to host the opening match between Brazil and Croatia.
That took the number of fatalities at the site to three after two people died in November following a partial collapse of the stadium. A total of eight men have already died working on World Cup stadiums.
Porto Alegre's local mayor had said the city may drop out if additional funding was not found to build facilities for media, sponsors and fans. The city's Beira Rio stadium is due to host five matches during the tournament.
But Valcke, who visited Brazil last week, insisted finance was available.
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Decades of political instability and lawlessness mean much of Haiti is avoided by tourists.
But the story of the sprawling palace complex, whose name means "Without Worry", had fascinated me for more than 40 years.
It was the home of independent Haiti's first monarch, Henri I, also known as Henri Christophe.
Henri Christophe was one of the most prominent figures of the Haitian slave revolution of 1791-1804.
The end of French rule meant the colony of Saint Domingue, renamed Haiti after its original Taino Indian name, became the first black-led independent nation in the world.
But after independence Haiti split into two. Henri Christophe embarked on construction of his palace in 1810 and a year later declared himself king in northern Haiti. His sweetheart became Queen Marie-Louise.
Sans-Souci was completed in 1813, at the cost of hundreds, maybe even thousands of labourers' lives.
A recent holiday in the neighbouring Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, seemed too good an opportunity to miss to see the ruins.
I wondered if my 12-year-old daughter, Isabel, would share my fascination with this story.
I had first encountered it when I was roughly her age, enthralled by a play about King Henri I performed by a French modern theatre troupe.
As there are no organised tours to Haiti from the Dominican Republic, and very few taxi drivers willing to take the risk, finding a well-disposed man-with-a-van in Santo Domingo was like pulling teeth.
But eventually the man, Jose, materialised.
He turned up with a roomy, air-conditioned people carrier outside the Jaragua Hotel on Santo Domingo's seaside drive.
"Yes, let's go," Jose said, adding: ''But remember, this is not a good time to visit there.''
"So when would be a good time?" I asked.
"Never, really," he replied with a crooked smile.
Like many of his countrymen, Jose takes a dim view of Haitians and their country, an attitude rooted in Haiti's post-independence invasions of the Dominican Republic.
The sentiment is reciprocated by Haitians, who particularly resent a massacre of up to 30,000 Haitian migrant sugar-cane cutters by the regime of Rafael Trujillo in 1937.
We set out long before dawn, meandering through banana, coffee and tobacco plantations at the foothills of the Cordillera Central and arrived at the dusty border crossing of Dajabon, where many civilians carry guns and jumpy border police make life easier for you for a fistful of pesos.
Over the bridge on the Haitian side, the town of Ouanaminthe is a picture of chaos, misery and despair, with hundreds of Haitians trying to cross over into the Dominican Republic.
Heaps of rotting uncollected garbage are everywhere. Uruguayan and Chilean soldiers, part of the UN stabilisation force, try to maintain some kind of order.
We hired a Haitian man, Jouan, to show us the way to the palace, as it is not signposted in any meaningful way.
"This is a derelict non-country," Jose the driver hissed under his breath. "I don't trust anyone here. The Mickey Mouse banknotes they use don't even have serial numbers!"
Jouan pulled out a grubby 50 gourde note and poked his finger into it time and again.
"Look, it has a serial number," he said, adding proudly: "And it says senkantgoud - we're the only country in the world to have Creole on our banknotes."
"No you're not," I interceded sheepishly.
"Who else?" he asked, visibly crestfallen.
"Seychelles," I replied, dampening his mood.
After passing through towns with colourful names such as Limonade and Carrefour La Mort on a highway built by the Dominican Republic after the 2010 earthquake, we finally made it to Milot.
Sans-Souci Palace rises majestically above the town like a broken crown.
The grand edifice is now a ruin, having been severely damaged by an earthquake in 1842.
At that time Haiti was reunited, Henri Christophe long gone, and no-one could be bothered to rebuild it.
Nevertheless, climbing its broad staircases, wandering through its spacious rooms and terraces, you can see why it is considered to be the Versailles of the Caribbean.
Some historians, however, believe it was modelled after Frederick the Great's palace of the same name in Potsdam.
But Frederick's palace symbolised the Enlightenment of the day, whereas its Haitian counterpart symbolised tyranny and megalomania.
Henri Christophe was a brutal kleptocrat, pretty much like most of Haiti's rulers that came after him.
They say he blew his brains out with a silver bullet after suffering a stroke in 1820.
His widow, Queen Marie-Louise, emigrated to Europe and died in faraway Pisa in Italy, dreaming about the lavish balls on the terrace of her beloved Sans-Souci.
Vueling will operate direct flights three times a week from Scotland's capital to Rome Fiumicino, Paris Orly and Alicante.
Fiumicino and Orly are new routes for Edinburgh Airport, with Vueling flying to both from 29 March next year.
Its flights to Alicante will start from 16 June next year.
Gordon Dewar, chief executive of Edinburgh Airport, said: "It is tremendous that we have two new routes to Rome and Paris and we have increased our service to Alicante - this offers our passengers even greater choice and is further confirmation of Edinburgh Airport's position as a key driver for Scotland's economy.
"This commitment from Vueling, a strong European airline, shows that we've listened to our passengers and recognise the need for greater choice and European connectivity, this expansion in service is good news for business and leisure travellers, for Edinburgh and for Scotland as a whole.
"With over one million passengers through the doors at Edinburgh Airport last month - and in every one of the last five months - we are continuing to grow, create jobs and make a positive contribution for Scotland's economy."
The University of Southern California's report showed that women had just 31.4% of spoken roles in 2015's top 100 films, compared with 32.8% in 2008.
Lesbian, gay or transgender characters accounted for less than 1% of speaking parts - or 32 out of 35,205 characters.
Researchers described Hollywood as "an epicentre of cultural inequality".
They said little progress had been made in increasing diversity.
Between 2007, when the study was first carried out, and 2015, the authors said there has been no marked change in the proportion of black, Latino or Asian characters - at 12.2%, 5.3% and 3.9% respectively.
Study author Stacy Smith, a professor at USC, said: "We're seeing entrenched inequality.
"Whether we're studying gender, race, ethnicity, LGBT or characters with disabilities, we're really seeing exclusionary forces leaving out anybody that's not a straight, white, able-bodied man.
"Despite all the chatter and all the activism and all the press attention, it's another year where the status quo has been maintained.''
The report also showed:
The new figures follow the #OscarsSoWhite controversy earlier this year, sparked by two years of all-white acting nominees at the Academy Awards, as well as concerns over the gender gap in pay and the lack of female directors.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, has expanded its membership in an attempt to improve diversity.
Smith said: "We've seen a lot of talk and little action. What we need now is for companies to take the same leadership position, be transparent in their inclusion goals and be accountable to representing the actual world we live in when it comes to the demography of the US."
The survey found that female lead or co-lead roles increased by 11% from 2014 to 2015 - but only three films cast such a role from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. There were no Asian male or female leads across all of the films studied.
"When we really drill down in the numbers, we see a perpetuation of the same groups getting access to the most visible roles, whether that's in the director's chair or on screen, and that continues to be the problem plaguing Hollywood's hiring practices," Smith said.
Several of 2015's most profitable films had diverse casts, however, including the seventh Fast and Furious film, Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
A number of remakes or reboots with women in lead roles have also been announced, including Ocean's Eight and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
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The character, called DarkSide, was stripped then forced to leap to their death from a high bridge.
The death sentence was carried out after players gathered evidence about the trouble the hacker had caused.
This helped the game's security staff find the player, take over their account and kill them off.
Over the past three weeks many players of the popular multi-player game Guild Wars 2 have been complaining about the activities of a character called DarkSide. About four million copies of the game have been sold.
Via a series of exploits the character was able to teleport, deal massive damage, survive co-ordinated attacks by other players and dominate player-versus-player combat.
To spur Guild Wars' creator ArenaNet to react, players gathered videos of DarkSide's antics and posted them on YouTube.
The videos helped ArenaNet's security head Chris Cleary identify the player behind DarkSide, he said in a forum post explaining what action it had taken. Mr Cleary took over the account to carry out the punishment.
The video shows DarkSide being stripped to his underwear then made to leap from a high bridge in one of the game's cities. It also shows the character being deleted by Mr Cleary.
"Oh yah, he's also banned," he wrote. Several other accounts belonging to the same player have also been shut down.
ArenaNet did not reveal any information about how the player behind DarkSide had managed to exploit the game or whether the vulnerabilities used had been patched.
The punishment has sparked comment among Guild Wars players with some welcoming the action saying it felt like "justice".
Others wondered what effect it would have and if it would deter anyone else from seeking out and using exploits in the same way.
Students taking part in the "free education" protest will march through central London.
They are expected to hear a statement from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn read out and a speech from shadow chancellor John McDonnell.
The campaigners say university is being made "inaccessible" to poor families.
The National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees says that students from campuses around the country will be taking part in the demonstration.
It wants to remove tuition fees, currently up to £9,000 per year in England, and to reverse a decision to convert means-tested maintenance grants into repayable loans.
"The government is impoverishing the poorest students for minimal gains," said the campaign's Callum Cant.
"It is an attack on the least privileged students which doesn't save much money and causes misery.
"It is austerity which targets the poorest students. Our worry is that it will make university a lot more inaccessible."
But a spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which is responsible for universities, said it was "committed to ensuring everyone with the potential to benefit from higher education has the opportunity to do so, regardless of their background".
The student funding system was operated so that "lack of finance should not be a barrier to participation and more funding is available to support living costs than ever before".
Wolfsburg arrived in Spain's capital protecting a healthy lead, but that was wiped out by a Ronaldo double in the space of 86 first-half seconds.
The Portuguese swept home the first from six yards before a glancing header levelled the scores on aggregate.
Ronaldo's hat-trick goal came from a free-kick when Wolfsburg's wall parted.
It completed a quite remarkable turnaround by the 10-time champions of Europe and keeps alive a season that looked to be over for Zinedine Zidane's side after last week's loss in Germany.
Three months ago Real fans were waving white handkerchiefs in a show of anger during the final throes of Rafael Benitez's short-lived reign.
On Tuesday, supporters gave the players a standing ovation after a dominant performance saw them advance to the semi-finals for the sixth successive season.
Ronaldo grabbed the match ball at the final whistle and placed it under his shirt as he lapped up the applause from the stands after his fifth Champions League treble - and third of this season.
The former Manchester United forward has 93 Champions League goals to his name in 125 appearances - 10 more than nearest rival Lionel Messi.
Yet, despite his hat-trick, this was a team effort from Zidane's side.
Sergio Ramos twice struck the woodwork while substitute Jese forced a fine one-handed from Diego Benaglio.
Real join Manchester City in Friday's draw (11:30 BST), with the winners of Atletico Madrid's tie with Barcelona and the game between Benfica and Bayern Munich to decide the remaining two places.
Real have come alive in recent weeks under Zidane, with a deserved El Clasico win over arch rivals Barcelona one of the highlights of their late season flourish.
Yet, as good as Real Madrid were, Wolfsburg were poor defensively after sitting back and inviting pressure.
Ronaldo was unmarked when he tapped home his first, while his third goal from a set-piece came after the German wall disintegrated.
While Barca will remain favourites to defend the trophy they won last June, Real are hitting form at the right time and cannot be ignored.
Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane singled out Ronaldo for praise but added: "Cristiano needs the whole team, I want to speak about the team because they achieved this together.
"But he is special because not everyone is capable of scoring three goals."
Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale: "We have shown the world what we are capable of.
"We knew this was going to be a difficult test, but we felt we could really do it and we did."
Wolfsburg boss Dieter Hecking: "We should have defended better. To go to the next stage, we needed a goal.
"Two of the three goals were from dead balls and so that tells you that we didn't defend right."
Real, who trail by four points, now turn their attention to catching Barcelona at the top of La Liga and play struggling Getafe away on Saturday (15:00 BST).
Wolfsburg, eighth in the Bundesliga table, play on the same day away to Werder Bremen (14:30 BST).
Match ends, Real Madrid 3, VfL Wolfsburg 0.
Second Half ends, Real Madrid 3, VfL Wolfsburg 0.
Foul by Marcelo (Real Madrid).
Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Raphael Varane replaces Luka Modric.
Vieirinha (VfL Wolfsburg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vieirinha (VfL Wolfsburg).
Attempt saved. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid).
Dante (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Diego Benaglio.
Attempt saved. Jesé (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Gareth Bale.
Dante (VfL Wolfsburg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dante (VfL Wolfsburg).
Substitution, Real Madrid. Jesé replaces Karim Benzema.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Diego Benaglio.
Attempt saved. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pepe.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid).
Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Bas Dost replaces Josuha Guilavogui.
Goal! Real Madrid 3, VfL Wolfsburg 0. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Luiz Gustavo (VfL Wolfsburg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luka Modric (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luiz Gustavo (VfL Wolfsburg).
Attempt missed. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Gareth Bale.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Daniel Caligiuri replaces Bruno Henrique because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Bruno Henrique (VfL Wolfsburg) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Dante (VfL Wolfsburg) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ricardo Rodríguez with a cross.
Foul by Pepe (Real Madrid).
André Schürrle (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Vieirinha (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Naldo.
Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Toni Kroos with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Naldo.
Attempt blocked. Vieirinha (VfL Wolfsburg) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Josuha Guilavogui.
Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
The study by King's College London found they were more likely to die of infections such as pneumonia, unlike younger groups of elderly people.
Researchers said 28% of 100- to 115-year-olds died of "old age" and a fifth of pneumonia.
Cancer claimed the lives of fewer than 5% and heart disease fewer than 9%.
The study was based on an analysis of 36,000 death certificates.
By comparison, these diseases were the most common reasons for death among the 80- to 84-year-old age group, with cancer responsible for 25% of deaths and heart disease nearly a fifth.
Lead researcher Dr Catherine Evans said the findings raised important questions for health and care services.
"Centenarians have outlived death from chronic illness, but they are a group living with increasing frailty and vulnerability to pneumonia and other poor health outcomes.
"We need to plan for healthcare services that meet the 'hidden needs' of this group, who may decline rapidly if they succumb to an infection or pneumonia.
"We need to boost high-quality care-home capacity and responsive primary and community health services to enable people to remain in a comfortable, familiar environment in their last months of life."
The study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, said this was going to become even more important as the number of centenarians increased.
According to latest Office for National Statistics data, there are more than 13,000 centenarians living in the UK, but by 2066 that number is expected to increase to more than 500,000.
The researchers pointed out that, in the UK, far fewer very old people ended up dying in care homes compared with other European countries, such as the Netherlands and Finland.
Dr Evans added: "Hospital admission in the last weeks of life accounts for a third of the total cost of end-of-life care per patient."
The Celtic boss spoke after his side's 3-3 Champions League draw with Premier League leaders Manchester City.
"There's no doubt Celtic are a major threat to nearly every English club," said the former Liverpool boss.
The EFL announced last week that no Scottish clubs would be invited into any expanded set up in the future.
"If Celtic were in England, they would be in the top four/top six clubs there," said Rodgers.
"If you are another club playing in that league or Championship, or League One, would you want that type of threat coming in? I don't think you'd want it and that's the reality.
"It is going to be difficult for Celtic to be in the English pyramid system because of the sheer scale of the club. Most of our games are packed out now.
"Can you imagine Celtic with that resource? Then it can go as far as it wants then. It would be frightening prospect but an exciting prospect."
Rodgers also said that the performance against Manchester City provided proof that the Champions League should not become a closed shop to all but clubs with the biggest finances.
"Wednesday was a perfect example of that," said the manager, whose side bounced back from an opening 7-0 defeat by Barcelona.
"After the Barcelona game, there were critics, which is natural when you lose so heavily.
"But I think, when you put it into perspective, there has to be opportunities for clubs like Celtic - one of the great clubs of world football - to play in this competition and the competition is better for a club like Celtic being in it.
"I know League One clubs that probably have greater resources than Celtic, but that shouldn't stop us having an opportunity."
Following pressure from Europe's richest clubs, Uefa agreed in August to guarantee each of the continent's top four domestic leagues four places each in the group stage.
However, Rodgers thinks Celtic proved that they deserved the opportunity to be in Europe's elite club competition.
"It was an incredible advert for Glasgow Celtic," he said of the draw with Pep Guardiola's City.
"Manchester City, competing in the most competitive league in world football with the most resources in world football, won 10 out of their 10 games and came up to here and had without question the hardest game they've had all season.
"So, okay, Scottish football may not have the platform of the Premier League, but the clubs here, and the passion here, is equal to anywhere in the world, if not better."
His professional career started at Cardiff City in 1957 and ended in 1974 after spells with Northampton Town, Charlton Athletic and Doncaster Rovers.
He made 21 senior international appearances for Wales, scoring a late headed equaliser on his debut in a 1-1 draw against England in October 1959.
Moore was voted BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year in 1959.
A Cardiff statement offered the Welsh club's condolences to Moore's wife and family.
The Bluebirds sold him to Chelsea for a then-Cardiff record fee of £35,000 in 1961.
He later played 13 games in Northampton's only top-flight league season in 1965-66.
Swansea council has made summer charges apply all year round as it looks to deal with £80m of savings in the coming years.
It means winter charges at some beach and foreshore car parks will treble.
The council said car parks "have to pay their own way and be sustainable" and changes will avoid a summer rates rise.
Car parks at Clyne, Southend, Bracelet Bay, Caswell Bay, Caswell Hill, Langland Bay, Sketty Lane, The Baths and Knab Rock all had a winter charge of 50p for an hour, but that will increase to the summer charge of £1.50.
Car parks at Port Eynon and Horton were free in the winter, but they will now cost £1.50 for an hour.
Blue badge concessions also face price hikes, while coach parking fees remain unchanged.
Resuming 244 runs behind on 37-1, Gloucestershire had some hope when Cameron Bancroft's 50 saw them to 98-1.
But then five wickets fell for 19 runs and Notts saw off the tail end after Phil Mustard (49) and Kieran Noema-Barnett's 53-run seventh-wicket stand.
Steven Mullaney (5-32) impressed as the hosts stayed top of Division Two.
Notts have now won four of their opening five matches to remain top of the table by 13 points from Worcestershire, who also won inside thee days at Northampton.
They are back in four-day action this Friday with a game at home to one of their local East Midlands rivals, winless Derbyshire.
Gloucestershire head coach Richard Dawson told BBC Sport:
"I've just said to our boys that to compete in four-day cricket you've got to do two things well.
"You've got to be able to put pressure on with the ball and to be able to handle pressure with the bat, when you are up against it.
"They did it much better than us and that's very much as simple as it gets. They never let us off the hook."
Nottinghamshire's Steven Mullaney told BBC Sport:
"I certainly didn't expect that to happen. Conditions suited my type of bowling so it was nice to get a few overs under the belt and help the team towards 24 points.
"All five bowlers have done their bit in this match but it's me getting the plaudits. It's my first five-wicket haul since league cricket in about 2008.
"It was swinging nicely and we kept the ball in great condition and the wicket had a bit in it throughout."
Alastair Hamilton was speaking as Belfast software firm Neueda announced 165 new jobs in a £12m expansion. Invest NI is offering the company around £2m in aid.
Mr Hamilton said he would like to see ministers back in the executive.
He added: "We need policy makers, we need decision makers around our future. I would wish they were back in post."
Neueda has clients in Northern Ireland and further afield, like the United States and Singapore.
The expansion will see its workforce almost double in size over the next two years.
It said the posts, including software engineers and data analysts, will pay average salaries of more than £30,000.
The business is investing regardless of uncertainty around future trading relationships overseas.
Its chief executive, Brendan Monaghan, said the company "would just take Brexit head on".
He added: "It is an unnecessary, unwelcomed development, but there will be opportunities as it starts to unravel."
A stencil showing a group of pigeons holding anti-immigration banners towards an exotic-looking bird appeared in Clacton-on-Sea in October.
But it was quickly removed by Tendring District Council, which said someone had complained it was "racist".
The council received about 40 messages from the public about the mural, with just one in favour of its actions.
Street artist Banksy, who chooses to remain anonymous, created the mural in the build-up to last month's by-election, which was won, as expected, by UKIP.
By the time he unveiled the piece on his website, it had already been painted over by the council, which said it aimed to remove what could be deemed "offensive or racist" material within 48 hours of it being reported.
"Congratulations on making yourselves internationally famous as a bunch of pusillanimous morons," one person told the council in a message seen by the BBC following a Freedom of Information Act request.
"It is astonishing that people as cretinous as you have the power to make decisions affecting the public environment."
Another said it was "a crass act of cowardly authoritarianism".
"Is this what you are paid to oversee?" they asked. "Crude censorship that drives us back to the middle ages."
After it realised the work was by Banksy, the council said it would be "delighted" if the artist decided to return to Clacton to paint an "appropriate" piece of art.
One complainant said: "Would it be the pound signs that you'd welcome, you bunch of hypocrites?"
Others pointed out the removal of the artwork cost the town in lost revenue from tourism, or a potential sale, as well as damaging its reputation.
"Clacton has little enough culture as it is and a piece of art such as this would attract many people to the town who would never dream of visiting otherwise," said one complainant.
Another said: "We are now the laughing stock of the country."
Two complainants said the council's actions should be treated as a crime.
But there was one message of support, from a woman currently living in the United States.
"I absolutely applaud those that removed this painting," she said. "Banksy, whoever he is, is nothing but a cult artist who thinks he has the privilege of imposing his social comments on all of us.
"Well done Clacton."
Nigel Brown, spokesman for the council, said: "It was very much a mixed bag with some strong opinions on both sides. As is often the case, you tend to hear more from those who object - but we did also receive support for the action we took.
"The council has never said it was right or wrong to do what it did but that our staff were following our policy."
The trio, formerly of Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), will be the first to go to court over the incident.
A citizen's panel ruled last year they should face trial, forcing prosecutors to pursue the case.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered a series of meltdowns following a massive earthquake and tsunami.
Among those charged is Tsunehisa Katsumata, who was Tepco chairman at the time of the disaster.
He and two other former executives have been charged with professional negligence. They have not been taken into custody.
Prosecutors in Tokyo had twice decided against pressing charges, citing insufficient evidence.
But in a rare legal move, the panel's ruling forced a compulsory indictment of the three.
The panel said the three men did not take sufficient measures despite being warned of a risk of a tsunami near the Fukushima plant.
Japan's national broadcaster NHK said they planned to plead not guilty on the grounds they could not have anticipated the size of the tsunami.
One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Japan in March 2011, triggering a huge tsunami.
Almost 16,000 people died and more than 2,500 are still listed as missing.
None of the deaths, however, have been linked to the nuclear disaster, although there were a number of deaths in the subsequent evacuation.
Brett McGurk, special envoy for the coalition against IS, says US-backed forces have seized about 45% of Raqqa since the operation started in June.
He says the group is fighting for its own survival and that the militants are likely to die in the city.
IS seized Raqqa in 2014, proclaiming it the capital of a "caliphate".
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been gradually advancing on the city since November, and launched an offensive to take it on 6 June.
It is unclear how many civilians are still in Raqqa, but the United Nations estimates this number to be between 20,000 and 50,000.
The loss of Raqqa would be another major setback for IS after the jihadist group was driven from its main Iraqi bastion of Mosul last month.
The militants have lost 78% of the territory they held in Iraq and 58% of what they had in Syria, Mr McGurk added.
"Today in Raqqa, Isis is fighting for every last block... and fighting for their own survival," he said, using another acronym for IS. "They most likely will die in Raqqa."
More than 300,000 people have lost their lives in six years of conflict in Syria, which began with protests against President Bashar al-Assad before escalating into a full-scale civil war. Eleven million people have been displaced by the fighting.
The Champions League play-off first-leg result puts Celtic on course for the group stage of the competition.
The Scottish Premiership winners led 3-0 but lost two goals before adding two more of their own before the end
"At 3-2, to then go and win the game 5-2, really shows that mental strength of the players as well as the quality," said Rodgers.
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First-half goals from Tom Rogic and a brace from Leigh Griffiths put the Scottish champions firmly in control.
Lucio Maranhao and Maor Melikson replied for Hapoel early in the second half before Moussa Dembele's header and Scott Brown's effort restored Celtic's three-goal advantage ahead of next Tuesday's return leg in Beersheba.
"It is a brilliant result for us," added Rodgers. "You would obviously prefer 3-0 but 5-2 really shows the level that the team played at in a European game where there is everything riding on it.
"They are nowhere near the finished article yet but they look a really exciting team which is full of character.
"I said before about the supporters being patient and allowing the players to play, especially in difficult moments in games and I have to say a massive thank you because I think they took a stride forward tonight in terms of understanding how we want to work."
Captain Brown, making a club record 69th European appearance, was singled out for particular praise.
"I thought he was brilliant," said Rodgers of Brown, 31. "He has become lean over the course of pre-season and I thought he looked powerful, I thought the team looked fit and powerful.
"Having worked in England, I look at him and think he could play in the Premier League in England. There is no question of that.
"But he loves it here, his heart is here and he wants to see out his career at Celtic. I thought he was outstanding with the ball, his goal after driving forward was a wonderful finish.
"He was one of many great performers tonight."
Hapoel manager Barak Bakhar feels it will be "very hard" for his side to recover from their deficit.
"We started the match very badly, we didn't play aggressively, but came back and were close to equalising but Celtic scored," he explained.
"We showed our qualities and we hope to do the unbelievable next week. We don't have a big chance. It will be very hard."
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Bao Bao, the female panda cub, seemed unfazed by the crowds who had come to help her celebrate her first birthday.
For her birthday, Bao Bao received several items, including pictures of peaches and bamboo, symbolizing longevity and good heath as part of the Chinese tradition of Zhuazhou, the zoo said.
The BBC's Nuala McGovern sent this report.
"Thousands of people come from all over the world to look at this landscape. This is the one place in the world you shouldn't put a factory fish farm."
Roc Sandford is the owner of the island of Gometra in the Inner Hebrides - one of the wildest and undeveloped parts of the UK.
To get there you have to travel to Mull, summon the small foot ferry to the island of Ulva and then either commission a boat, walk a five mile causeway or, I suppose, swim. There are no roads so a quad bike is the fastest way to get across the island - and the handful of residents live without electricity.
Off the north shore of the island, in Loch Tuath, an application has been made for a fish farm by The Scottish Salmon Company.
"It's a wild landscape and to have something just popping out of the sea with the sheer size that it is, is just not we want here" says resident Rhoda Munro.
The residents have started a petition which they say has been signed by people from over 40 countries and the Community Councils of both Mull and Iona have objected strongly to the farm.
They argue that it will be a navigational hazard, forcing their boats to detour into rougher waters and they are concerned about the impact on wildlife including seals as well as light pollution ruining their rare dark skies.
The Scottish Salmon Company, has declined to comment on the application. But on the neighbouring island of Ulva there is support as the farm will provide four full time jobs.
"The important thing for me is we get some more young families into this area because otherwise it dies out," says Lucy McKenzie who runs a B&B on Ulva.
"If we've no young families, the school closes and if that happens young people move away.
Emma McKie and Rebecca Munro run the Boathouse café on Ulva. They say the tourists who come into the café tell them they are not put off by the nearby fish farms but realise it is part of the life and economy.
"People appreciate that the people who live here have to make a living and you can't survive on the tourist industry six months a year."
"And they are fairly sympathetic to the landscape - they blend in fairly well."
Gometra is just one of the rumbling conflicts across Scotland. In the last six months there have been five applications for new fish farms in Scotland.
The Scottish government's National Marine Plan aims to expand salmon production sustainably by 4% a year from 154,000 tonnes in 2010 to 210,000 tonnes by 2020.
But in January 2011 the Scottish and Chinese governments signed a deal to allow the export of Scottish salmon into the Asian giant's market for the first time. Previously Norway was the main exporter to China
Chinese Vice premier Li said even if only 1% of the people of China chose to eat Scottish salmon it would have to double production but that has rung alarm bells. Demand is also increasing from other Asian countries as well.
Salmon farms have traditionally involved large numbers of fish contained in nets in inshore waters raising a number of environmental issues.
Critics are concerned about the levels of sea lice at farms which can be passed on to passing wild fish and are particularly harmful to juvenile fish. They say escaped fish pass on genetic weakness to wild salmon if interbreeding occurs.
The Salmon and Trout Association's Guy Linley-Adams says they are not against salmon farming but object to "the inappropriate location of some fish farms where they have negative effect on wild fish populations."
There is also concern with the amount of allowed pollution of the sea bed under farms by faeces and waste food and the shooting of predator seals.
But the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation says the Scottish Environment Protection Agency assesses farms before and during operation, and sets limits on the use of chemicals and allowed pollution.
It says farms are required to monitor sea lice and seals are discouraged by acoustic deterrents and nets. And action is being taken to reduce the number of fish escapes.
"We measure the ecological load an area can take and we offer licences only where were convinced there is a proper balance between effects of fish farming and the ability of local environment to absorb the effects of farming," says Stewart Stevenson the Scottish Minister for Environment and Climate Change. "I think we've been successful in that and that's widely recognised."
Increasingly one way forward is being seen as locating salmon farms outside of lochs in the sea.
Applications are being seen for more dispersive 'open sea' sites out of lochs along the shoreline, which it is hoped could prove less of a threat to wild fish as they are away from the river mouths.
"On the West coast where we've traditionally farmed, it's difficult to find suitable locations to give you a good size of farm," says Steve Bracken from one of the largest salmon producers, Marine Harvest which already has two open sea sites in Uist and Barra and three more potential sites.
"2,500 tonnes is the maximum amount of live fish you can hold on your farm at any one time. So by going further out into open water locations we hope we might see larger farms develop out there."
Another possible development is "closed containment" systems where fish are grown in large tanks kept within the sea or on land and water is pumped in, filtered and recirculated.
The Salmon and Trout Association says this system would eradicate all their concerns.
Three possible onshore sites in Scotland have been identified by Andrew Robertson for his company Fish From. These are more expensive to set up but he does not think shoppers would be put off by this tank style system rather than having had them swimming in the sea.
"The quality of the product has to come highest in the list of people's beliefs," he argues, and points out there is a need for new production systems for the increasing world population.
"In the next 18 years the UN has identified there will be a huge shortfall in aquaculture produced food and unless it grows by 60million tonnes there is going to be a shortfall in nutrition. In 2050 when there are 9bn people on the planet there isn't going to be a way of feeding them without innovative ways of growing high quality nutrition."
Applications for inshore fish farms are still being made and the level of pollution that is deemed acceptable is still disputed. But for Tessa McGregor a biologist who lives on Ulva the dilemma is not just represented in Scotland but around the world.
"It's a balance with 7bn people... so this is a tiny microcosm of the tough decisions we're going to have to make worldwide. The world has changed, farming has changed, our carbon footprint, our expectations have changed and we've got to look at what is now sustainable globally."
Costing the Earth: Chinese Salmon is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Tuesday, 11 September at 15:30 and repeated Wednesday, 12 at 21:00.
Larsson, 32, was let go by the Black Cats at the end of June after making 203 appearances in all competitions over six years with the club.
The Sweden international previously played for Arsenal and Birmingham City.
"I am really looking forward to this fresh challenge; I had some options to consider, but I felt this was the best move for me to make," Larsson said.
He becomes Championship club Hull's seventh summer signing, following the arrivals of Michael Hector, Callum Burton, Ola Aina, Fraizer Campbell, Kevin Stewart and Ondrej Mazuch.
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Hove's BN3 postcode area is the most sought-after location in England and Wales for home buyers aged between 25 and 44, according to Lloyds Bank.
It is the third year in a row that Hove has come top of the annual ranking.
Neighbouring Brighton came seventh in the top 20 list.
Lloyds said Hove's seaside location and good-sized homes made it popular for families, while Brighton's "buzzing nightlife" and "thriving cultural and arts scene" helped make it "a year-round city on the sea".
Living in one of the 20 listed hotspots puts a £71,158 premium on the price of a home on average, according to Lloyds.
Its research found the average price of a home in those areas was £735,874 - 13% higher than the typical price in surrounding areas.
However, in Hove buyers typically pay about £31,000 less than in surrounding areas, Lloyds said.
Of the top 20 areas with the highest concentrations of house sales to young professionals, 16 are in London, it found.
Hampstead was the most expensive place for young professionals on the list, with a typical home there costing more than £1.3m.
"Aspiring young professionals are typically well qualified, in well-paid jobs and tend to live in areas not far from the city centre where they work," said Lloyds Bank mortgage products director Andrew Mason.
"These buyers also don't appear to be put off by the significant premium in price to live in areas popular with young professionals."
Lloyds' research was based on profiling of "young, urbanite professionals" aged between 25 and 44 by CACI and Land Registry housing market figures.
Colin Ferrie, 52, of Waters Walk, Apperley Bridge, Bradford, previously worked at Leeds General Infirmary.
Co-accused, Scott Pendlebury, 26, of Daisy Fields, Bradford, also pleaded guilty to cocaine possession and was fined £230 at Leeds Magistrates' court.
The charges followed claims made in the Mail on Sunday newspaper last year.
Ferrie was a consultant paediatric neurologist, specialising in epilepsy, and worked for the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust at the time.
He has since left his post.
The General Medical Council said it did not comment on its own investigations which were ongoing but confirmed Dr Ferrie was "interim suspended".
Charges of possessing a Class C drug, denied by both men, were dismissed.
The holders had to win and reach the 254-run target set by their opponents inside only 29.1 overs in order to qualify, but it proved to be too great an ask.
After a good start, the run-rate dropped as they missed the first target before losing the match by 20 runs.
Sri Lanka join England in the semis.
South Africa await Group A winners England in the last-four clash at The Oval on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka, who could have finished top of Group A had they bowled Australia out for 164 or less, will face India in Cardiff on Thursday.
"We are playing hard and passionate cricket. That has been the mantra of our success in the past and I hope it continues in the future also," said man-of-the-match Mahela Jayawardene.
"We look forward to another tough match in the semi-final."
Having lost their opening match to England and suffered a washout against New Zealand, Australia faced a big task even before a ball was bowled.
They won the toss and elected to field with the mindset of bowling out their opponents cheaply and achieving their target in quick time.
But Sri Lanka, who knew a victory without considering permutations would see them qualify, frustrated Australia with patient batting.
Sri Lanka's run-rate never rose above 5.00 after the fourth over, knowing they needed to play safe in order to set a competitive target for the Baggy Greens.
Only Dinesh Chandimal showed some urgency in the last few overs, smashing Clint McKay for six in the 44th over - the first and only six of the innings.
Jayawardene hung around from the 23rd over to the very end for his unbeaten 84.
It was a good if unremarkable innings, however the 36-year-old surpassed 11,000 runs in one-day cricket - only the eighth batsman to do so.
Lahiru Thirimanne was the only other batsman to make a half-century in the match, falling for 57 when Shane Watson caught his pull-shot at mid-wicket off the bowling of Mitchell Johnson. The Queensland paceman was the pick of the Australia bowlers, taking 3-48.
Australia lost an early wicket when opener Watson (five) was bowled by Nuwan Kulasekara, but that did not detract them from the task in hand as the run-rate leapt to more than 8.00, near what was required of them.
However, their plans were decimated as four wickets fell in quick succession to leave them on 80-5. The dismissal of stand-in captain George Bailey summed up the calamitous period when he was run-out in mid-jog unaware that Kulasekara's throw was about to hit his stumps.
Adam Voges (49) caused some frustration, but after he fell Sri Lanka must have thought victory was theirs.
But it appeared there might be one more twist, as the final-wicket pairing of McKay and Xavier Doherty stubbornly batted on knowing Australia could still win the match, although tournament progression was out of the question.
However, needing 20 runs to secure an unlikely victory, McKay looped Tillakaratne Dilshan's delivery back at him to the delight of bowler and the passionate Sri Lanka fans.
"It would have been nice to get over the line in the end," said Australia skipper Bailey.
"Our goal was to do it in 29 overs, but we never got going. But it was good to see the last two fight it out."
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The Sri Lanka all-rounder, a right-arm seamer and left-handed batsman, replaces Australia's Andrew Tye.
Tye was set to be the county's second T20 Blast overseas player until he injured his shoulder in May.
Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft is Gloucestershire's other overseas recruit for the summer, playing in all three formats of the game.
Perera, 28, has taken 11 Test wickets, 129 in one-day internationals and 36 in Twenty20 internationals.
He has a strike rate of 143.42 in international T20s and has hit seven ODI half-centuries.
Gloucestershire open their T20 Blast campaign against Middlesex in Cheltenham on 7 July.
Billy Redmayne, 25, from Laxey, sustained severe head injuries in the crash and passed away at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.
His girlfriend Hannah Wright announced Redmayne's death on Facebook and said he "died doing what he loved".
The Bob Smith Spring Cup meeting at Scarborough was abandoned following the Manx soldier's accident at the weekend.
Race organisers, the Auto 66 Club, said: "Our sincere condolences go out to Billy Redmayne's family and friends at this devastating time."
Wright said Redmayne's death came on the date of their second anniversary.
"Words cannot describe how hard this is for us all. Saying goodbye to him was the hardest thing I have ever done," she said.
Redmayne won the Junior Manx Grand Prix in 2015 and was regarded as one of the brightest prospects in the sport.
He had been set to make his debut at both the North West 200 and Isle of Man TT races this summer.
Redmayne was a serving member of the Parachute Regiment who had served in Afghanistan and had the full support from his regiment to pursue his road racing ambitions.
Chelsea loanee Brown put the Terriers into the lead towards half-time with a curling shot past Dean Gerken.
Schindler doubled the score after the break, pouncing close-in after Gerken saved a Philip Billing shot.
Michael Hefele failed to make the win more convincing when he was unable to convert Elias Kachunga's cross.
Huddersfield's grasp on third place may only last a matter of hours with fourth-placed Leeds United in action at Barnsley later.
David Wagner's side have lost just once in their past eight Championship games, but Mick McCarthy's Ipswich were defeated for the second time in five days following their FA Cup exit to non-league Lincoln City.
McCarthy handed debuts to new signings Jordan Spence and Kieffer Moore but his side produced just two shots on target.
Kachunga could have scored a hatful himself for Huddersfield - twice he saw headers saved by Gerken and he also shot just wide on a couple of occasions in the second half.
After the game, Mick McCarthy confirmed he was close to signing Leeds midfielder Toumani Diagouraga on loan for the rest of the season.
Former Newcastle defender Steven Taylor, who has been playing in the United States, is also expected to arrive on trial next week.
Huddersfield Town head coach David Wagner told BBC Radio Leeds:
"Not only was it a huge result for us today, in my opinion it was a world-class performance from us.
"We needed maybe five to 10 minutes, but after that, we showed what we stand for. We showed our identity, we were very energetic and very aggressive.
"We created two very good chances and scored two wonderful goals. The players have to be proud about what they delivered today.
"It's one thing to speak about a response, but it's another to deliver it."
Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy:
"There was nothing wrong with what we did. Huddersfield are a very good side. You need to keep doing what you believe in and hopefully nick a few results.
"We were beaten by a better side and I've told the players now is not the time to be falling out with each other. We had a togetherness but we need to add a bit of quality.
On speculation regarding his future at the club: "Anything can happen in the FA Cup and the underdog can turn on you and make you look rubbish.
"Why it happens, I don't know.
"The fans voice their opinions, but I'm here until something changes. I will be here on Monday morning with funny hat and red nose trying to pick everyone up."
Match ends, Huddersfield Town 2, Ipswich Town 0.
Second Half ends, Huddersfield Town 2, Ipswich Town 0.
Attempt missed. Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Michael Hefele.
Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town).
Foul by Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town).
Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Michael Hefele (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Mark Hudson replaces Nahki Wells.
Foul by Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town).
Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Dean Whitehead replaces Jonathan Hogg.
Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card.
Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town).
Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town).
Foul by Joe Lolley (Huddersfield Town).
Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Kieffer Moore (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Lawrence.
Corner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Paul Digby.
Attempt missed. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Tom Lawrence with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Christopher Schindler.
Attempt blocked. Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Lawrence with a cross.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Joe Lolley replaces Isaiah Brown.
Paul Digby (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Digby (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Tommy Smith.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Brett Pitman replaces Kevin Bru.
Foul by Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town).
Kevin Bru (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Elias Kachunga.
Corner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Christophe Berra.
Attempt missed. Elias Kachunga (Huddersfield Town) with an attempt from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Löwe with a cross.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Kieffer Moore replaces Jordan Spence.
The move comes 24 hours after Coulibaly accused Egypt's most successful club of treating him "like a slave".
Coulibaly's arrival in England last week prompted the Cairo Red Devils to lodge a complaint with Fifa, saying he was absent without permission.
But Coulibaly, who played for Kilmarnock in Scotland's top flight during the first half of the 2016/17 season - issued a statement on Twitter, saying he had no choice but to walk out on his contract, which runs until 2020.
They treated me like a slave all because of money
The 22-year-old accused one of African football's most iconic clubs of confiscating his passport and making his family feel uncomfortable practising their religion.
"I had to flee the first chance I had hold of my passport. They treated me like a slave all because of money," said Coulibaly.
Al Ahly have since issued a statement confirming the termination of Coulibaly's contract and vowed to investigate any allegations of mistreatment.
Ahly chairman Mahmoud Taher said: "Ahly totally rejects Coulibaly's allegations; these are all faulty accusations which never happened."
Coulibaly joined the eight-time African champions last January from Kilmarnock and played 12 matches, scoring six goals.
But he claimed his team-mates refused to pass the ball to him and would be willing to accept accept a ban from football rather than return to Cairo.
Joanne Rand, 47, was sprayed with an alkaline substance in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, on 3 June. She died 11 days later.
Xeneral Webster, 18, of no fixed abode, has been charged with one count of attempted grievous bodily harm.
He was remanded in custody to appear at Aylesbury Crown Court on 25 July.
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Police said Ms Rand had been in sitting on a bench when a fight broke out between a group of men and a bottle of liquid, thought to be an alkaline substance, was kicked and went over her.
Ms Rand from Marlow was originally discharged from hospital but later readmitted. She died of her injuries on 14 June.
Welsh Cycling is to set up Team SWI WC on 3 October at Wales International Velodrome, Newport.
The move comes on the back of unprecedented success of Great Britain's cyclists in the velodrome at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It will be the first time that any of the home nations have had their own track team.
Welsh cycling boasts some big names including Geraint Thomas, Becky James and Elinor Barker.
Barker has just won the junior world road race title in Holland.
As well as that Dave Brailsford, performance director of British cycling, was brought up in north Wales.
Welsh Cycling, with support from Sport Wales, are taking steps to ensure that Wales continues to be represented on podiums at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014 and the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Team SWI WC will compete at UCI Track World Cups 2012-13 in Cali in Colombia, Glasgow and Aguascalientes in Mexico.
The UCI Track World Cup series attracts the world's best track cyclists with national representations from across the globe.
In 2011-12, Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Laura Trott all competed for Great Britain in the World Cup series.
The UCI Track Cycling World Cup series are the first step towards Olympic qualification for national teams, determining each country's international ranking.
The fall in total exports last year, published by the Scotch Whisky Association, won't come as a surprise to anyone who has been watching the big distillers publish their financial figures in recent months.
As I explained when Diageo put out its numbers for the back end of last year, the market leader has done exceptionally well out of clever marketing, hitting the sweet spot of aspirational middle class consumers in emerging economies who want to buy international luxury goods.
But progress is proving bumpy and tricky. The seemingly endless India-EU trade talks still protect the world's largest whisky market behind a 150% tariff barrier.
China offered so much potential, and it still does. But for now, Scotch has got on the wrong side of official disapproval of extravagant gifting, particularly if it looks like corruption.
Brazil's economy has stalled. Venezuela is in crisis. Likewise, Spain's young club scene had a thirst for Scotland's amber nectar, but the country has been through a well-documented economic downturn.
The Scotch Whisky Association explains some new markets are consolidating, and newer ones are doing well. It's a mixed picture. Some importers of Scotch may also be running through old stock. But there's got to be more to it than that.
To find out more about the competitive world of selling spirits, it's worth a look at the United States of America. By value, it's the biggest national export market for Scotch, and by quite a long way.
Last year, exports to the US were at £750m. That was down 9%, but was still £300m ahead of France, the next biggest market. By volume, US exports were down 7% to 119 million bottles, with only France importing more.
So what's going on? Well, the US spirits market is quite healthy. Since 1999, its drinks market share has risen from 28% to 35%, while beer has fallen from 56% to 48%.
(And within that, the US beer giants have been humbled by, among other things, craft beer. Budweiser was selling 45 million barrels in 1988. I lived in the US back then, and it seemed the market consisted of three or four giant brands. By 2011, Budweiser was down to 17 million barrels.)
Whiskies do well within the spirits market. While the industry body, the Distilled Spirits Council of the US (Discus), reported $7.5bn of supplier gross value from whiskies, out of $23bn for spirits. More than half last year's growth was from whiskies.
Drill down into those figures, and you find that Scotch is not performing that well.
Of 57 million cases sold, 9.4 million were Scotch.
While blended US whiskey added 41% of sales, and bourbon and Tennessee whiskies grew 7%, blended Scotch was down 3% by volume, and 2% by value.
The brighter export prospect is fast becoming Scotch single malt. Volume was up 6.4% in exports to the USA, and 9% by value, as US sophisticates switch to premium brands, such as Glenlivet, Glenmorangie and Macallan.
By volume, Scotch blends are still way out in front: 7.6 million cases sold in the US last year, to 1.9 million of single malts. By value, however, the ratio is 2:1.
This is an increasingly crowded market. Tennessee and bourbon were up 11% by volume, Irish whiskey by 9% (11% by value to $550m) and cognac by 11%.
American blends are up most sharply, and the big growth area, according to US distillers, is in flavoured whiskies. Last year, 24 million cases of flavoured spirits were sold - more than half vodka, more than quarter of that whiskey. The flavoured whiskey segment was up more than 40% last year. (Whisky buffs should pause here to splutter with indignation.)
First into the market was Jim Beam Tennessee Honey. There's now a cider-based Winter Jack variety. It was followed by Dewar's Highlander Honey. To stick to Scotch whisky rules, it has to be described as a "spirit drink". Ballantyne's and J&B also launched their own honey versions, carefully re-labelled.
Then came Beam's cherry-infused, cinnamon spice, honey tea, and cider-vanilla Red Stag bourbons. Pernod Ricard has branded its Irish whiskey "Paddy", with honey and apple options.
While craft beers have taken off on both sides of the Atlantic, the growth in small-scale craft distilling is far faster in the US. There were 92 small-scale distillers in 2010. By last year, there were more than 700.
And that's the point. Scotch distillers have marketed hard to give themselves an edge in international markets. But others are doing the same.
US spirits exports were strong last year, up 4% to a record high for the fifth year. After Canada, the UK is the second biggest market at $178m-worth of bourbon, whiskey and tequila. UK sales of US spirits were up 10% last year, and 48% since 2004.
That's the slowest growth of the top ten markets. Canada was up 114% in a decade, France by 298% and Singapore - gateway to the Chinese market - by 543%.
And while they are still small export markets, there's rapid growth also into central and Latin America, and the UAE hub.
The message from US whiskey is similar to what you can see from sales of premium brandy and cognac.
Scotch whisky can't afford to rest on its recent growth, its unique provenance, or its laurels.
The 33-year-old will move to the Aviva Premiership club in the summer from Racing 92 on one-year contract.
Phillips was asked by Scrum V Radio if Sale could be the last club he plays for before retiring.
"I don't know - I'll see how it goes really, see how the body feels and see how I perform," said the five-cap British and Irish Lions player.
"I guess I'll be able to tell a few months into it."
Carmarthen-born Phillips has also played for Bayonne, Ospreys, Cardiff Blues and Scarlets.
Wales' most-capped scrum-half, who retired from international rugby in December 2015, will return to Britain after five years in France.
"I've enjoyed every minute of it," Phillips said.
"I really wanted to go back and finish my career in the UK and hopefully finish on a high.
"I've had a chat with a few guys who have played there and obviously the coaching staff and they were really positive.
"I think it's a club moving in the right direction."
They say the higher incidence is linked to increased risk factors, including head injuries and infections such as pork tapeworm and river blindness.
And more than 60% of sufferers in those countries receive no appropriate treatment, they say in the Lancet.
A Lancet editorial said epilepsy had to be a global health priority.
Epilepsy is a condition in which disturbances to the brain's normal electrical activity cause recurring seizures or brief episodes of altered consciousness.
There are about 40 different types. Epilepsy is not a mental illness, but can develop after injury or damage to the brain.
About 85% of the global burden of epilepsy occurs in low and middle-income countries.
Writing in the Lancet, researchers led by Prof Charles Newton, of the University of Oxford, say the death rate in developing countries is much higher than in developed ones - and that the reason for this is likely to be a failure to treat people with the condition.
Prof Newton said: "The burden of epilepsy in these regions is at least double that found in high-income countries, and sadly, adequate facilities for diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management of epilepsy are virtually non-existent in many of the world's poorest regions."
He added: "Many people with epilepsy or their families do not even know that they have a disorder that can be controlled with biomedical treatment, so it is vitally important that awareness is raised and medical care improved in these regions."
Medications are available - but there can be problems distributing them, especially to remote areas.
The researchers say there are low-cost ways of improving the situation and of reducing the stigma often faced by people with epilepsy and their families - such as working with traditional healers and awareness campaigns to increase understanding of the condition.
In some countries, traditional beliefs about the causes of the condition, including bewitchment, spiritual causes and curses, lead to stigma and increase the chance that a person with epilepsy will not get the treatment they need.
A Lancet editorial adds: "Given the prevalence of epilepsy globally, it should be included as a priority on the public health agenda, and access to treatment should be greatly improved in developing countries.
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Mr Steinmeier was speaking after a meeting with his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts in Berlin.
Earlier, the head of the OSCE monitoring group said a renewed ceasefire had opened up a window for political progress.
Almost 8,000 people have been killed since fighting began in April 2014.
Mr Steinmeier said all parties reaffirmed that the ceasefire, which has held for almost two weeks, needed to be consolidated.
The warring sides were now "very close" to a deal that would see the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the frontline, he added.
He also said there was some progress on the legal groundwork towards holding local elections in eastern Ukraine in October.
Ukraine is due to hold its elections on 25 October while separatists in the rebel-controlled Luhansk and Donetsk regions have said they would hold their own votes on 18 October and 1 November respectively,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters in Berlin that a deal was "90% ready" but said the "devil is in the detail".
The foreign ministers are due to meet again at a summit on 2 October in Paris.
In an interview with the AP news agency on Saturday, OSCE chief Lamberto Zannier said the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine had opened space "to make progress on a political level".
Mr Zannier said he had visited Mariupol and Shyrokine - the scene of recent clashes - and found the situation to be calm.
The area is on the front line between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels and has seen some of the fiercest fighting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also mentioned the ceasefire on Saturday, describing it as the "main achievement" of the peace process to date.
A ceasefire was declared in February but Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed separatists carried on fighting until a renewed truce was pledged on 1 September.
Last week, Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak said fighting had fallen to its lowest level since the conflict started. | German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says significant progress has been made in talks about the conflict in eastern Ukraine. | 34,236,464 | 435 | 26 | false |
The Swansea-born actress posted a picture on Instagram of the birds following the Swans' 2-1 victory over Manchester United.
"My home team beat Manchester United 2-1 at home last week," she posted.
"In their honour, we adopted a family of Swans - who now live happily in our swimming pool. Go Swans!!!!" | Catherine Zeta Jones has paid her own tribute to Swansea City FC by buying inflatable swans for the swimming pool at their home in New York. | 34,171,749 | 76 | 36 | false |
Some reports suggest he earlier surrendered at an unnamed diplomatic mission in the capital Ouagadougou.
Interim President Michel Kafando was reinstated last week after intervention from the army and West African leaders.
The presidential guards' unit that carried out the coup is to be disbanded.
"He [Gen Diendere] has been handed over to Burkinabe authorities," a judicial source was quoted as saying by Reuters.
The general had earlier taken refuge at the residence of the Vatican's representative in Burkina Faso, reports say.
Details of his reported surrender are still unclear.
The financial assets of Gen Diendere and another 13 people suspected of involvement in the coup were frozen last week.
The news of Gen Diendere's arrest will be welcomed with relief throughout the country.
Most people in Burkina Faso want the man who grabbed power two weeks ago - in a coup that left several dead - to face justice.
But many believe his arrest may also enable judicial authorities to investigate some of the country's darkest hours.
Gen Diendere has participated in two other coups, including that of 1987, which brought former president Blaise Compaore to power following the assassination of Capt Thomas Sankara.
The figure of Capt Sankara remains extremely popular in Burkina Faso and throughout the continent. Many hope that light can be shed on the mysterious murder.
But before his fate is decided, his arrest should at least allow the interim authorities to focus on what the international community sees as a priority: organising elections as quickly as possible.
The tables have turned - even the French ambassador in the country has already praised government troops for this arrest on Twitter. France was Gen Diendere's strongest ally until recently.
Separately, the first full meeting of the government since Mr Kafando's reinstatement decided to disband the presidential guard (RSP) and to dismiss the minister in charge of security.
The RSP - a unit of 1,200 well-armed and well-trained men - is loyal to Blaise Compaore, the country's long-time ruler who was ousted in a popular uprising last year. They were unhappy about being integrated into the regular army.
Members of the unit stormed the cabinet room on 16 September, seizing Mr Kafando, the prime minister and others.
A week later, when it became clear they did not enjoy popular support and after an ultimatum from the regular army to step down or be ousted by force, the RSP withdrew from the capital.
An emergency meeting of the regional bloc Ecowas also helped to bring a smooth end to the crisis.
At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 injured in clashes during the takeover, which Gen Diendere later described as "the biggest mistake". | Gen Gilbert Diendere - the leader of last month's short-lived coup in Burkina Faso - is in the custody of the country's security forces, sources say. | 34,418,006 | 628 | 44 | false |
Surjit Singh Chhokar was stabbed to death in Overtown, North Lanarkshire, on 4 November 1998.
The reconstruction on Monday night saw several models of cars from the 1990s placed on the streets of Overtown.
No-one was convicted of Mr Chhokar's murder, despite the arrests of three men and two subsequent trials.
Two inquiries were ordered in the aftermath of the failed prosecutions. One made allegations of "institutional racism".
Following the publication of the reports in 2001, the then Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd QC, said that the Chhokar family had been failed by the police and prosecution services.
Monday's reconstruction is part of a new investigation which Strathclyde Police was told to carry out following reform of Scotland's centuries-old double jeopardy law, which came into force at the end of last year.
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Mr Rotheram, 55, who was elected as the first city region mayor last week, was first elected MP for Walton in 2010.
Labour's NEC will now select a Walton candidate, who must be nominated to stand by 16:00 BST on Thursday.
Mr Rotheram criticised the party's decision not to give his local party a say in picking his successor.
He said: "Over the last few weeks, since the announcement of the snap general election, I have spoken with numerous people to try to ensure they understand the depth of feeling that a local candidate should be chosen to succeed me - just as my predecessor did when I was selected in 2010.
"I believe the failure of the Labour Party to allow local representation on the panels to select candidates is a significant misjudgement."
He added: "I have tried my utmost to convince the powers that be that the most acceptable solution would be a local representative on the ballot paper to succeed me as the next Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton, given that there are potentially some high calibre candidates of which to select." | Newly-elected Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram has confirmed he will not seek re-election as Labour MP for the Liverpool Walton seat. | 39,842,214 | 233 | 35 | false |
He is former energy minister Pedro Parente, who replaces existing chief executive Aldemir Bendine to become the third head of the firm in 16 months.
Petrobras is at the centre of a massive corruption scandal that has rocked Brazilian politics.
It has said it will cut 12,000 jobs by 2020 as it fights to stay competitive.
Petrobras, which has reported losses for the last two financial years, is expected to spend $1.23bn on implementing the job cuts, which come as part of an investment plan to turn around the company's fortunes.
Petrobras has long been one of the biggest employers in Brazil, with more than 80,000 employees.
But it is now struggling to cope with the corruption scandal, falls in global oil prices and economic recession in Brazil.
The corruption scandal involving price-fixing, bribery and political kickbacks over the last two years has dented confidence in the business. Some former Petrobras executives have been jailed.
Mr Parente served in the administration of former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, whose PSDB party has been the main opposition force in Brazilian politics for more than a decade.
He told reporters that he had accepted the job on condition that Mr Temer promised not to nominate any political appointees to executive positions.
In the recent past, this practice has led to corrupt overinflated deals that caused financial damage to the company, says the BBC's Daniel Gallas in Sao Paulo.
Mr Temer took over as acting president of Brazil after Dilma Rousseff was suspended from office last week pending an impeachment trial.
Ms Rousseff, who was on the board of Petrobras at the time of the offences, is facing the possibility of impeachment on unrelated charges of false accounting. | Brazil's interim President, Michel Temer, has named a new boss for scandal-hit state-run oil firm Petrobras. | 36,340,579 | 394 | 30 | false |
McAliskey was forced off late on after Michael Cassidy, Rory Brennan, and Ronan O'Neill had picked up earlier injuries in the 1-13 to 0-11 defeat.
"It's threatening at the minute," said Mickey Harte of McAliskey's injury.
"We probably won't know until there's a scan done."
A cruciate ligament injury would almost certainly rule out McAliskey from football for a number of months and possibly for the rest of 2017.
Debutant Cassidy hobbled off with an ankle injury early in the game and his replacement Brennan was then forced off before half-time with a shoulder problem.
To cap off a bad day on the injuries front for the Red Hands, Harte added that forward Ronan O'Neill "didn't look that healthy" at the end of the game.
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Like Cavan, Tyrone finished the game with 14 players with Mattie Donnelly sent off three minutes from time after being adjudged to have caught Seanie Johnston with a blow to the face.
Cavan's Niall McDermott had been dismissed 10 minutes earlier after picking up his second yellow card.
Manager Harte felt that Donnelly's dismissal - which could rule him out of Tyrone's two remaining Section C games - had been harsh although video evidence showed him raising his hand towards Johnston's face in the off-the-ball incident.
Johnston clutched his face after falling to the turf following the incident although the extent of the contact was not clear from the match footage.
"I did see what happened to Mattie Donnelly and I certainly didn't think it was a red card," said the Tyrone boss.
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"Seanie Johnston went to step inside him and he (Donnelly) threw out his hand, just to try and tackle him or stop him and somehow touched him round the face somewhere.
"It appeared to be very bad at the time but shortly after that didn't appear to be that bad."
Cavan's win saw Mattie McGleenan's side became the first team to beat Tyrone in the McKenna Cup since Derry's final triumph over the Red Hands in the 2011 competition.
Harte said his team's McKenna Cup fate is now "out of our own hands".
"Even if we win our last two games (Ulster University and Donegal), we'll still be depending on other people for results.
"It's not a good place to be. You like to always be in control of your own destiny."
However, three of the parties, the Ulster Unionists, SDLP and Alliance all voted against.
It was passed with a majority of 9-4, with support from the DUP and Sinn Féin. The budget will be officially unveiled in the assembly on Monday.
It is understood that more money has been found for protecting frontline health and education services.
Meanwhile, it is understood that the executive is to give several million pounds to Department for Regional Development for street lighting and also money to help save Ulster Orchestra in the January monitoring round.
Aneurin Bevan health board said people should not go to Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital or Abergavenny's Nevill Hall Hospital's "extremely busy" A&E departments unless it is an emergency.
People are also being asked not to visit patients if they have had diarrhoea, vomiting, colds or flu.
One Newport GP practice saw 75 patients before 11.30 GMT on Tuesday. It would usually see 50 in a whole morning.
Jones, has left English Women's Super League One club Reading at the end of her contract in December, 2016.
The 24-year old had previously prioritised football after being omitted by Wales for a World Cup.
Jones was in the Wales netball team at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and has also played football for Cardiff.
The New Zealand Silver Ferns face Wales at Ice Arena Wales on 8 and 9 February.
Wales squad: Sara Bell, Fern Davies, Suzy Drane, Bethan Dyke, Chloe James, Clare Jones, Kyra Jones, Nia Jones, Lateisha Kidner, Chelsea Lewis, Kelly Morgan, Cara Lea Moseley, Eleanor Roberts, Georgia Rowe, Leila Thomas, Amanda Varey.
This dense region of gas and dust some 6,500 light-years from Earth hosts copious numbers of bright new stars.
Radiation from these objects is sculpting the clouds of gas and dust, producing in places great columns and curtains of material.
The picture is being featured on the BBC's Stargazing Live series.
Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain are presenting the popular programmes this week from Jodrell Bank radio observatory in Cheshire.
Look just below the centre of the image and you will see the columns that were famously dubbed the "Pillars of Creation" when they were pictured by the Hubble telescope in 1995.
But Herschel and Hubble see distinctly different things in the nebula.
Hubble is sensitive to optical light, the kind of light we detect with our eyes. This is easily blocked or scattered by the dust, and shows us merely the shape of the billowing clouds of material.
Herschel, on the other hand, is sensitive to much longer wavelength radiation, in far-infrared. This enables it to detect the emission coming directly from the cold gas and dust that cloaks so much of the region.
It is a powerful ability that enables Herschel to look inside the columns and curtains, at the places where dense gas is collapsing under its own weight to trigger the nuclear reactions that give rise to new stars.
Herschel's is a false colour image in which the bluer material is relatively warm and the redder material is relatively cold. It is "relative" because these are temperatures below minus 200C.
"The Eagle Nebula is one of the iconic regions of space popularised by Hubble but this has been our first chance to look at it with Herschel," explained Professor Glenn White from the Open University.
"The dusty material you see in Herschel's image is the material that will form the next generation of stars.
"Where you see little points, what you're looking at are the cocoons, the envelopes, inside which young stars are forming. Those stars will eventually blow away all the material that surrounds them and their optical light will become visible to us," he told BBC News.
Also released by the European Space Agency (Esa) is an image at X-ray wavelengths of the central portion of the nebula.
This picture, acquired by Esa's XMM-Newton space telescope, picks out the cluster of hot young stars that are doing so much to shape the whole region.
The intense radiation from this cluster, known as NGC6611, is working to erode the famous pillars.
Scientists are using the XMM data to try to hunt down the remains of a giant star thought to have exploded thousands of years ago.
If we could magically and instantly transport ourselves to the Eagle Nebula, we might even see that the shockwave from this supernova has toppled the famous pillars completely.
However, because of the great distance to the region and the time it takes even light to travel across the vast expanse of space, the pillars' fate is something we will not know until long into the future.
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An Easyjet plane bound for Morocco was evacuated at about 15:30 GMT after a passenger claimed to have a bomb in his bag, a police spokesman said.
Security checks were carried out and no devices were found, but two men, aged 45 and 46, have been arrested.
An Easyjet spokeswoman said the airline took "any security threat" seriously and safety was a "priority".
"Easyjet can confirm that police were requested to board flight EZY1893 from Manchester to Marrakech at the request of the captain," she said, adding that the airline "would like to thank passengers for their understanding" after the evacuation.
A Manchester Airport spokesperson said further security checks have been completed and the plane would be departing later on Thursday.
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The striker has been unattached since quitting professional football with Peterborough in November.
The 27-year-old will train with Cliftonville for the rest of the season but cannot play for the Reds until the beginning of the next campaign.
He has already played for Peterborough and St Johnstone, on loan, this season.
Gormley had also been linked with Cliftonville's Belfast rivals Crusaders and Linfield but has opted to return to the club for whom he scored 122 goals in 183 appearances during an initial four-year spell at Solitude.
Peterborough director of football Barry Fry in November said Peterborough, St Johnstone and Gormley had all written letters to Fifa for asking for special dispensation to cancel his contract by mutual consent outside the January window.
The striker's goals helped Cliftonville to successive Premiership titles in 2013 and 2014 and he was also named the Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association Player of the Year for the 2013/14 season before moving to Peterborough in the summer of 2015.
Gormley suffered a serious knee injury after joining Peterborough and Fry said that player had become "disillusioned with football" and was seeking a return to part-time football.
The Northern Irishman did not score during his spell at Peterborough and a further short loan stint at St Johnstone.
"His is the signature that everyone's been fighting for and confirmation that he's coming back to Cliftonville is exactly what everybody associated with the club - fans, staff and players, have been dreaming about," said Reds manager Gerard Lyttle.
"What he achieved during his last spell here has earned him legendary status but he's never been happy to just sit back and rest on that.
"He always wants more, he's always been hungry to live up to his reputation and prove time and again why our fans called him 'Joe The Goal'.
"As the manager, I'm over the moon to add a player of Joe's calibre to the squad and, though we'll have to wait a few months until he's eligible to play, this will still give everyone at Cliftonville a huge boost."
Natalya Pasternak, 55, was gathering wood in a forest near Tynda in Amur region when the attack happened.
Some reports say that the bear thought she was dead and tried to bury her so that it could return to its prey later.
Rescuers shot the bear after they rushed to the scene and it also began attacking them, reports say.
The Siberian Times reported that they found post office worker Ms Pasternak after noticing her bloodied hand protruding from underneath a pile of undergrowth. They cleared it away to discover that she was still conscious despite the severity of injuries to her head and thighs.
The attack happened on Monday, Russian media reported. A second woman managed to escape and call the emergency services.
Wildlife expert Sergei Ivanov told the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta that he had shot the adult female bear immediately "when it leapt towards us out of a ravine, in a rage".
"Nearby we found the woman, which the bear had already managed to cover with earth. She was conscious, with many wounds on her body, and the bear had scalped her."
Reports say the bear initially attacked the women's dog.
A tissue sample from the dead bear has been sent to a lab to determine whether an infection is responsible for its unusually aggressive behaviour.
Residents of Tynda have spotted bears on the town's outskirts occasionally in the past, reports say.
There were several reported bear attacks in Russia's far east last summer - with at least three people killed in different attacks blamed on a combination of factors connected to the region's volatile climate which can range from record high temperatures to flooding and freak snow and hailstorms.
The Interfax news agency said that the animals are more hungry because nets have prevented salmon from swimming up rivers to spawn, leaving bears without regular food.
Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs had asked Mrs Foster to update the assembly on Social Investment Fund (SIF) projects.
He said constituents were in "urgent need" but none of the £1.8m allocated for fuel poverty had reached them.
Mrs Foster said the SIF was making a "huge impact" on people's lives and the UUP should "get with the programme".
"The first thing I would advise the member to do is calm down," the first minister told the Northern Ireland Assembly.
She added: "I am really, really disappointed to hear that the Ulster Unionists still haven't got what is actually happening in their own constituencies.
"What is actually happening is that we are making a real impact on constituents."
Ms Foster said the funding was helping with employment programmes and making a difference in areas "right across Northern Ireland".
Mr Beggs, a UUP MLA for East Antrim, said the SIF was first proposed six years ago and he criticised delays in implementing the programme.
He claimed it was "an indictment that, at this date and time, none of the £1.8m allocated to tackle fuel poverty has reached any of my constituents who are in urgent need".
Mrs Foster replied that a total of £80m was going to be spent on SIF projects.
"Hopefully by the time it is implemented, the members in the official opposition - that is the Ulster Unionist Party because they have deemed themselves to be the official opposition - will get with the programme," she said.
The SIF fund was set up in March 2011 to tackle inequality and unemployment.
In October 2013, a question from UKIP's leader in Northern Ireland, David McNarry, revealed that none of the £80m had been allocated but almost £400,000 of the fund had been spent on consultants.
The following year, the then First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness announced that £33m had been allocated to more than 20 projects.
Lilly-May Page-Bowden suffered a cardiac arrest as she left Willow Bank School in Woodley, Berkshire, in 2014.
The first paramedics at the scene did not use a defibrillator, an inquest at Reading Coroner's Court heard.
Peter Bedford, senior coroner for Berkshire, concluded Lilly-May died of natural causes.
A post-mortem found Lilly-May had an undiagnosed genetic heart condition that led to her death.
However, Mr Bedford said she probably would have survived if staff from South Central Ambulance Service had used a defibrillator in time.
He said that this "neglect" contributed to her death.
A statement read outside the court by the family's solicitor said: "We are concerned that a paramedic was unable to properly understand nationally-recognised resuscitation protocols for the treatment of cardiac arrest in children.
"The paramedic failed to recognise that Lilly-May had a shockable rhythm and failed to deliver appropriate treatment with a defibrillator.
"We now also know that if Lilly-May had been defibrillated within 15 minutes of her collapse, she would have survived and still be with us."
The statement added they had lost Lilly-May "far too early" and the family hoped "a child does not die again for want of defibrillation".
The inquest had earlier heard the first paramedic at the scene said she felt she had not received adequate training.
Deirdre Thompson, director of patient care for South Central Ambulance Service, said the trust had "undertaken a detailed investigation" following the death.
She added: "We accept the findings of the coroner today and offer our sincere apologies to Lilly-May's family."
An ambulance was called on Wednesday morning to a property in Aldwick Road in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, where a baby girl was confirmed dead.
The infant's mother, Gintare Suminaite, 29, was taken to St Richard's Hospital in Chichester.
Ms Suminaite was arrested on suspicion of murder and charged after she left hospital. She is due to appear at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The USS Decatur passed near disputed islands earlier on Friday in what the US says was "a routine, lawful manner".
It went close to the Paracel Islands, claimed by China but also by Taiwan and Vietnam.
China's defence ministry said two of its warships had warned the USS Decatur to leave the area.
The ministry, which called the move "intentionally provocative", said it had lodged a protest with the US.
It accused the US of being "motivated by a desire to see the world in chaos".
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Disputed islands from the air
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US Navy Commander Gary Ross, a Department of Defence spokesman, said the ship passed through an area of water subject to what he called an "excessive" claim by China.
It is not known how close to the islands the ship passed.
"This operation demonstrated that coastal states may not unlawfully restrict the navigation rights, freedoms and lawful uses of the sea that the United States and all states are entitled to exercise under international law," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
China claims almost all of the South China Sea, including reefs and islands also claimed by other nations, and has caused dismay in the region by building artificial islands and restricting access.
But in July, an international tribunal ruled against Chinese claims to rights in the area, backing a case brought by the Philippines. China dismissed the ruling and said it would not be bound by it.
Last month, while visiting China for the G20 summit, President Obama told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping he expected China to abide by the findings in what the White House called a "candid exchange".
Abid Naseer, 29, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York.
US authorities said he had been part of a plot to attack Manchester, New York City and Copenhagen.
In March, a jury found him guilty of providing material support to al-Qaeda and conspiracy to use a destructive device.
FBI assistant director-in-charge Diego Rodriguez said that Naseer, who moved to the UK to study, failed to use the British education visa system to make the best of his life.
Instead, he exploited it "to take away the lives of many others in large numbers", said Mr Rodriguez.
Naseer was first arrested in the UK in 2009, along with 11 other men, suspected of planning a bomb attack on the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester over the Easter weekend.
No explosives were found but the men were ordered to leave the country. Mr Naseer avoided deportation after a judge ruled it was likely he would not be safe if he returned to Pakistan.
Abid Naseer says he's not guilty. He defended himself throughout the trial, but his legal advisers say they'll appeal - and not just against the sentence which they believe is overly harsh. They say this was not a fair trial and Naseer should have appeared in court in the UK, not in front of a jury in a post 9/11 New York.
But US prosecutors say the 29-year-old was capable of mass murder. They say he remains a threat and they're delighted by the sentence. They hope it sends a message to terrorists that they will be caught and they will be put behind bars for life.
Naseer appealed to the judge that he was not - nor had he ever been - a "career criminal". But Judge Raymond Dearie had a response.
"I know you're not," he replied. "You're a terrorist."
UK officials arrested him again in 2010 at the request of US prosecutors.
In 2013 he was extradited to the US, where prosecutors argued Naseer was part of a broader al-Qaeda conspiracy to attack various Western locations, including the New York subway system and a newspaper office in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The US Department of Justice said the plots were "directed by and co-ordinated with senior al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan".
Evidence at Naseer's trial included a document found in the raid of the Bin Laden compound and MI5 officers testifying in wigs.
His defence was largely based on his own testimony and cross-examining prosecution witnesses.
Prosecutors brought in MI5 agents who had previously tracked Naseer in 2009 at a shopping centre in the UK.
They also relied on the testimony of two co-conspirators who pleaded guilty to the subway plot - Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay.
Prosecutors say coded emails show all three men were under the direction of the same al-Qaeda handler.
The Italy forward scored both second-half goals for second-placed Roma and was handed a mobile phone by one of the coaching staff to mark the leveller.
The 38-year-old held the phone up and took a photo with the Roma fans behind him as his side recovered from 2-0 down.
Lazio led after Stefano Mauri converted Felipe Anderson's cross, before the latter doubled the lead from 20 yards.
Totti, who has now scored 11 times against Lazio, said: "I thought about it during the week.
"Although it's in fashion, I don't usually take them because I want my private life to stay that way, but this was a special occasion, something to be remembered for a long time."
Roma went into the game knowing victory would take them above Juventus, ahead of the champions' trip to fourth-placed Napoli later on Sunday.
But it was Lazio, starting the match in third place, who opened up a 2-0 half-time lead.
Totti reduced the arrears with a fine angled strike three minutes after the restart and claimed his second from close range just after the hour to set up a tense finale.
It was his 239th goal in Serie A. Silvio Piola holds the record with 274.
The note of caution came from senior IMF official Jose Vinals, as he presented the organisation's latest Global Financial Stability Report.
But the nature of the danger has changed, he said.
Financial stability in advanced economies has improved, but risks have moved towards emerging economies, Mr Vinals explained.
The shift in the focus of the IMF's concern partly reflects issues raised in the fund's report about the wider global economic outlook published on Tuesday.
One of the key messages in that analysis was that emerging and developing economies are experiencing their fifth consecutive year of slowing economic growth.
That is one of the key factors behind the increased risks to their financial stability.
Company and bank finances are "stretched thinner in many emerging markets", the report says. The IMF estimates there is $3.3 trillion in what it calls "overborrowing" by companies and banks in emerging markets.
China, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil are identified as countries where credit has expanded markedly compared with past trends.
Another issue is businesses with foreign currency debts that could be hit by a strengthening dollar, which makes their debts more expensive to repay in national currency terms. On that measure, Hungary, Mexico, Indonesia and Chile are particularly exposed.
One big question posed by the report is "can China avoid destabilizing markets while achieving its objectives", namely moving to a more sustainable rate of economic growth based more on services and spending by Chinese consumers.
The problem for the rest of the world is that the transition involves at the very least slower growth in Chinese demand for commodities, especially energy and industrial raw materials. That has already had a marked impact on some emerging economies that supply them and the share prices of companies in the business.
The report notes that global financial markets have become more sensitive to changes in China's economic performance and policy.
There is no definitive answer to the question, but a pretty clear recognition that the Chinese slowdown does pose a risk to financial stability beyond its own borders.
The fact that the focus is increasingly on emerging economies does not mean the IMF thinks all is rosy in the rich countries. There are still legacy issues from the financial crisis, particularly in government finances and the banks in the euro area.
But it is striking that the IMF's attention is showing signs of moving away from the direct aftermath of the financial crisis that shook the rich world in 2007 and the years that followed.
The 50-year-old won gold at the 2016 Rio Games in the single kayak 200m in the KL3 class.
In doing so, she claimed ParalympicsGB's 100th medal in Rio.
"The last four years in elite sport couldn't have gone any better," said Dickins, who became an MBE in the New Year Honours.
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"To win Paralympic gold and then to get awarded an MBE, a Blue Peter badge, and to get married concluded an amazing 2016."
Dickins had been an endurance mountain biker before sustaining a freak back injury.
She overcame seasickness to take part in Para-canoeing, in which she won two world titles and was a three-time European champion.
"Even though I won't be racing I believe I can still inspire people, which was always my goal," she said.
The Nigeria international, 33, suffered the injury in Stoke's 1-0 win at Manchester City at the end of August.
"I'm happy the operation was successful, it's like a new beginning," Odemwingie told BBC Sport.
"I want to come back stronger than ever and hopefully pick up from where I stopped in August."
The former West Brom forward scored five goals in 15 Premier League appearances for Stoke last season after joining from Cardiff in January and settling well at the Britannia Stadium.
While the injury meant he was left out of Stoke's 25-man Premier League squad - named after the win at Etihad Stadium - and will not be able to play until January at the earliest, Odemwingie is in positive spirits and concentrating on his long-term future.
"I know it's going to be a long road back to kicking a football again but I am mentally prepared for that. You can't keep a good man down," he said.
"It took couple of weeks to get the surgery done because I had to wait for the knee to settle down.
"Now that it's done I believe it will give me a new lease of life for the rest of my professional career."
The 34-year-old was playing for Surrey in their match with MCC Universities Oxford.
England's record run-scorer was substituted and did not return for the final session.
He later tweeted: "I DO NOT have an injury! It's not news! Thank you Oxford for a great couple days...
"Lovely people & even nicer lunches & teas! X"
Steve Leach, the students' left-handed opening batsman, edged a Gareth Batty off break delivery towards Pietersen at short fine leg.
Pietersen tumbled as he attempted to take the catch, but the ball evaded him.
He shook his hand gingerly and laughed as he left the field.
Pietersen made 170 in Surrey's first innings on Sunday, hitting 24 fours and two sixes in 149 balls.
It was his first hundred in any form of cricket since the Old Trafford Ashes Test in August 2013, as he aims to regain his England place in time for the Ashes.
Pietersen is expected to play in Surrey's County Championship match at Glamorgan, which begins on Sunday.
Naki, 27, was prosecuted for a message he posted on Facebook after scoring the winning goal for the Turkish club Amed SK, in a crucial match in January.
He dedicated that victory to victims of the Kurdish conflict. He is Alevi-Kurdish and moved to Turkey in 2013.
He was accused of spreading terrorist propaganda for the banned PKK group.
Turkish forces have been battling the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey since a ceasefire collapsed in July 2015. Turkey, the EU and US consider the PKK to be a terrorist organisation.
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Germany's Bild daily reported that the court session lasted just 35 minutes and that even the state prosecutor called for the case to be terminated.
The charge could have resulted in Naki getting five years in jail. He argued that his Facebook post was intended as a message of peace.
He is currently under a 12-match ban imposed by the Turkish Football Federation for "ideological propaganda" linked to the Kurdish conflict.
Naki previously played for German clubs St Pauli and Paderborn, and was selected for the German under-21 squad.
"I'm happy and relieved," he said after his acquittal. "I could not assume, looking at how things are developing now in Turkey, that I would be acquitted."
Two left-wing German MPs, Cansu Ozdemir and Jan van Aken, flew to Diyarbakir - the trial venue - to show solidarity with Naki.
Mr van Aken, quoted by Bild, said the court verdict showed that "for once international pressure worked". He gave Naki a St Pauli team jersey bearing all the players' signatures.
Diyarbakir is a mainly Kurdish city wracked by political violence and it is where Naki's club Amed SK is based.
Naki has the Kurdish word for freedom - "azadi" - tattooed on one arm. On the other he has a tattoo reading "Dersim 62" - the traditional name for his ancestral town Tunceli and its vehicle number plate identifier.
The PKK says it is fighting for more Kurdish autonomy and ethnic rights, denying Turkish claims that it wants to create a separate state.
Discussions are said to be at an early stage with a potential North American developer.
The plans would also include an adjacent golf course and "associated amenities".
A report to councillors said the development could be a "truly transformational" development for the region.
Meanwhile, plans have also been revealed to create a visitor centre in the crypt of the memorial church on the estate.
It is part of the latest investment and development strategy for the university and business complex.
The Crichton Trust and its associated development company have identified two priority projects for the next year.
One includes the creation of a visitor centre in the crypt of the church along with a proposed repair programme.
It is part of plans to increase the use of the building.
The other key project is the redevelopment of the south wing of the Easterbrook Hall which used to be a hydrotherapy suite.
It will involve the reinstatement of the pool as part of the development of a spa, bar and restaurant.
The combined cost of the two schemes is £809,000.
Permission is being sought to utilise £650,000 in capital funding previously committed by the council for the development of the campus.
The Crichton Trust said it will fund the shortfall and any future increase in project costs.
Speaking in Reno, Nevada, Mr Trump said "we are one people with one home and one great flag".
"In America, we never lose faith, we never forget who we are, and we never stop striving for a better future," he told the American Legion.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the convention centre as he spoke.
In a 22-minute address to the veterans' group, Mr Trump read from a teleprompter as he said: "It is time to heal the wounds that have divided us, and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us."
He told his audience of more than 5,000 that in the US, "we are not defined by the colour of our skin, the figure on our pay cheque, or the party of our politics.
"We are defined by our shared humanity - by our citizenship in this magnificent nation, and by the love that fills our hearts."
At a raucous rally in Arizona the night before he railed against that state's two senators, both fellow members of his Republican party, and Democrats.
In his 80-minute speech, Mr Trump threatened to shut down the government unless funding was approved for his proposed wall on the US-Mexico border.
He also excoriated media coverage of his statements about violence at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month.
Mr Trump selectively quoted his initial response, omitting his much-criticised remark that "many sides" were to blame for clashes that ended with a counter-demonstrator killed.
He also accused the "damn dishonest media" of "trying to take away our culture".
"They're trying to take away our history," he added.
As he spoke, protesters clashed with police outside the venue in central Phoenix.
After Mr Trump's speech on Wednesday in Nevada, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denied a New York Times report that he was angry with the president and doubtful of his ability to lead the party.
"We are committed to advancing our shared agenda together," the Kentucky senator said, "and anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly not part of the conversation."
At the conclusion of Mr Trump's latest speech, he signed into law a measure making it easier for veterans to appeal for disability allowance after their claims are denied.
Earlier this week, he laid out his plan for US troops in Afghanistan, and met with border control agents near the US-Mexico border.
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Heatley fired into the bottom corner from the edge of the box in the 68th minute and then curled a sublime right-foot effort into the top corner on 74.
Third-placed Glenavon continued their recent good form by beating Coleraine 1-0 at Ballycastle Road.
Kevin Braniff headed home the winner from six yards out on the hour mark.
The Lurgan Blues are now unbeaten in their last nine away matches, stretching back to November, while the Bannsiders have lost five of their last seven home games.
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In the first half, Coleraine's Ruaidhri Higgins saw his drive whistle past the post and Kevin Braniff and Declan O'Brien went close for the visitors.
Braniff netted the winner against the run of play after the home defence failed to deal with Andy Hall's free-kick.
The best of the second-half chances fell to the hosts but Rodney Brown's header clipped the bar and Darren McCauley was denied by Jonny Tuffey.
Tuffey also made a fine save from James McLaughlin's 83rd-minute penalty after Kris Lindsay had been sent-off for a second bookable offence, a handball inside the area.
Crusaders had seen their lead at the summit reduced to two points when Linfield defeated Ballinamallard on Thursday night and the champions' recent form was not encouraging, having picked up just nine points from their previous six league fixtures.
In contrast, the Swifts had accumulated 13 points from six matches and had suffered just one reverse in seven Premiership outings.
Stephen Baxter's side started brightly as Michael Carvill saw his overhead kick sail over the bar and Andrew Mitchell struck a right-foot effort from 25 yards just wide.
Jordan Owens's shot was saved by Andy Coleman but for the most part, it was a lethargic, unconvincing first-half performance by the leaders.
After the break, Jordan Forsythe's header came off the post and into the hands of the goalkeeper, then Swifts forward Ally Teggart found himself through on goal but his left-foot attempt flew over the bar.
Heatley's double salvo in the space of six minutes took his season's tally to 22 goals and ensured Crusaders enjoy a five-point cushion ahead of their trip to Ballinamallard on Tuesday night.
Junior doctors will get £20,000, providing they stay for at least one year after completing their training.
Those who train as GPs will also get a one-off payment of £2,000 to cover the cost of their final exams.
It is part of a Welsh Government campaign to get doctors to train and work here in a bid to combat shortages.
Incentives will be in place in time for the August 2017 intake and BBC Wales understands this is the first scheme of its kind in the UK.
In another UK first, a new contract will be offered to all trainee doctors in Wales regardless of their specialism - which will guarantee protected time for learning.
Some trainees previously raised concerns their time to study was limited because they had to spend longer looking after patients due to increasing pressures on frontline services.
More than a quarter of GPs in Wales surveyed by the British Medical Association said they were considering leaving the profession, with concerns over workload and understaffing.
A group of GPs in Rhondda - where up to half of family doctors are over 55 - created their own website aimed at tackling recruitment issues.
It follows on from long-term concerns about doctors retiring and some practices being handed back to health boards.
The new contract, being introduced by the Welsh Government, health boards and the Wales Deanery - the body responsible for training junior doctors - includes study time written into the working week.
Specialist training in general practice takes three years to complete.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said: "Financial incentives are only part of the picture. So part of the offer will be about saying in these different parts of Wales, these are all the things you can do with your whole family if you buy into being part of the life and fabric of Wales.
"It's an uniquely Welsh offer."
This week, the Royal College of General Practitioners in Wales warned chronic under-investment meant GPs were facing a "perfect storm" of increased demand, heavier workloads and a shrinking workforce.
Under the new campaign, being run in the UK and abroad, there will also be telephone and online support for doctors interested in returning to Wales.
"I won't pretend to you or any GP that this is a magic wand that will suddenly take away all of that pressure and difficulty," said Mr Gething.
"We need to make sure people still love their job and that we do something about how busy they are and how effective they get to use their time.
"That's why other healthcare professionals are absolutely part of the solution."
Gwyndaf Williams, from north Wales, has been a doctor in Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, for four years and trained in the valleys.
Unusually, he is working with four other people in the practice aged under 40.
"Being a GP can be a very isolating job, it's important you work in an understanding team and help each other out for longevity," he said.
"It can get very intense. We're now entering the winter months and we're seeing respiratory tract illnesses, coughs and colds and we do find the access to appointments getting harder and we're seeing more patients.
"Personally, I think it's about improving the day-to-day life of general practice, just making the days easier, making the workload less, that in itself will attract people to take permanent positions."
The Exiles announced on 7 December they would be going into voluntary liquidation and are now trading temporarily as a new company.
Welsh host London Scottish on Christmas Eve and are confident they have enough players to fulfil the fixture.
Nineteen senior players remain on the books, with seven more signed on loan.
"It's been a challenge. We have had to rebuild a squad in quick time," head coach James Buckland told BBC Radio 5 live. "What we have lost in terms of players, we make up in character.
"Every player that goes on the pitch on Saturday will not be thinking about the situation the club is in. They will be thinking of the opposition, and how they are going to win."
Welsh are set to be deducted 20 points when a liquidator is appointed on Friday, which will drop the south-west London club from fifth in the Championship to the foot of the table,
In January the Rugby Football Union will rule on whether the club are able to play the rest of the season.
Welsh believe they need to raise about £300,000 to make this possible, but are "completely positive" about remaining in the second tier.
"We'll play these two games and then have a window in January which will give us time to formalise the license with the RFU," chairman Gareth Hawkins said.
"It's been difficult. I had to come in and tell players if they had opportunities a smart move would have been to go [to another club], and a number did go.
"But what is quite amazing is the number of players who stayed, and are committed to fighting to save London Welsh and taking it forward."
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The squad now only train two days a week, with some players in effect becoming semi-professional.
"Guys are able to go out and do other things to supplement their income," Buckland added.
"We are very fortunate being in London. A few guys are picking up work [in the city] and a couple of guys are personal trainers, or exploring work experience as a teacher."
The club had to make every employee redundant following the liquidation, but have signed players on new deals until April.
"They have all signed contracts, so they all have assurances," Hawkins said.
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They are the claimants, who, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), stand to lose an average of £1,000 a year from April 2016.
After losing a vote in the House of Lords, the chancellor, George Osborne has promised to soften the transition to lower tax credits, but without losing sight of the £4.4bn in eventual savings to the Treasury.
So what are the chancellor's options, and how will those three million people be affected?
Eventually tax credit payments will get smaller anyway, as claimants switch to Universal Credit. But any postponement of the cuts would reduce the £4.4bn in annual savings. So either the chancellor would need to find large cuts elsewhere, or the Treasury would have to live with the deficit beyond 2020. Currently the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is predicting a budget surplus by then.
If the cuts are reduced, the chancellor will need to be careful not to break the government's self-imposed welfare cap, which limits the amount of total benefit spending, and which comes into force in April 2016.
Tax credits are nothing to do with paying tax. They are a series of benefits introduced by the last Labour government to help low-paid families. There are two types: Working Tax Credit (WTC) for those in work, and Child Tax Credit (CTC) for those with children. Tax credits are gradually being included within Universal Credit, which is being rolled out across the country.
The idea of this benefit is to encourage people to work. As an example, most people will need to work at least 30 hours a week to qualify. If you have children, are under 25 or over 60, you will need to work 16 hours a week. You can earn a maximum salary of £13,253. Currently claimants earning less than £6,420 receive the full entitlement. As they earn above this level, their payments are reduced.
To qualify for CTC you need to have at least one child, but you don't need to work. As an example, those with one child can earn up to £25,000 and still qualify for a payment. For those also claiming WTC, anyone earning less than £6,420 (the income threshold) will receive the full entitlement. For those not claiming WTC, they can earn up to £16,105 before seeing a reduction in their payments
The income threshold for Working Tax Credits - £6,420 - is due to be cut to £3,850 a year. In other words, as soon as someone earns more than £3,850, they will see their payments reduced. The income threshold for those only claiming CTCs will be cut from £16,105 to £12,125. Osborne could tweak these thresholds.
The rate at which those payments are cut is also due to get faster. Currently, for every £1 claimants earn above the threshold, they lose 41p. This is known as the taper rate. But from April 2016, the taper rate will accelerate to 48p. So for every pound earned above the threshold, claimants will lose 48p. Again, Osborne could tweak the taper rate.
There are due to be similar reductions for those who claim work allowances under Universal Credit.
Who will be the losers?
The IFS has said that three million families are likely to lose an average of £1,000 a year, as a result of the previously announced changes to tax credits.
But the government has argued that the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) will raise incomes for many people when it is introduced in April 2016. New personal allowance thresholds will also mean many people will pay less income tax.
The Resolution Foundation - which campaigns for low and middle-income families - has analysed all the changes, taking into account the NLW and new income tax thresholds.
It claims that by 2020, a low-earning single parent, with one child, who works 20 hours a week, and who earns £9.35 an hour, will end up £1,000 a year worse off.
A low-earning couple with two children, also on £9.35 an hour, will be £850 a year worse off. However, a childless middle-earning couple will be £350 a year better off, as a result of the new personal tax allowance.
Chancellor George Osborne says that anyone who is working full-time on the National Living Wage will be better off, after the tax changes are taken into consideration. However most people claiming tax credits are likely to be working part-time.
The amount anyone can earn before having to pay income tax - the personal allowance - rises to £11,000 in April 2016, with the aim of reaching £12,500 by 2020.
The Treasury says higher income tax thresholds have saved basic rate taxpayers £825 a year each since 2010, with 3.8 million people taken out of the tax system altogether.
The government is also doubling the amount of free childcare available to working parents of three and four-year olds, from 2016. It says 600,000 families will benefit. It will be worth an extra £2,500 a year.
The actual level of tax credits, along with all working-age benefits, will be frozen until April 2020. This is scheduled to save another £4bn. If inflation were to continue at its current level of zero, the effect on claimants might be minimal. But inflation is expected to rise again to the target rate of 2% within two years. However, Osborne is unlikely to row back from this commitment, as it is a freeze rather than a cut.
Nevertheless, analysis by the IFS suggests that those in work, but receiving low salaries, will be hardest hit by the changes.
The calculations were made before taking into consideration the forthcoming NLW, or tax changes.
As the chart above shows, those in the second poorest category of workers are likely to lose more than £1,200 a year. By contrast, the richest 10% stand to lose less than £400. Only those in the ninth richest category will gain.
In a subsequent analysis, the IFS said the NLW would go 26% of the way to compensating working households for the forthcoming loss of benefits. But it said households with someone in paid work would still end up £550 a year worse off, on average.
From April 2017, those starting a family will no longer be eligible for the family element of tax credits - for CTC, that is £545. The equivalent in Universal Credit, known as the first child premium, will also not be available for new claims. In addition, new tax credit claims will be limited to two children. In other words no allowance will be made for a third or fourth child.
The government has insisted that no existing claimants will lose money as a result of this change. Again, Osborne is unlikely to change this.
The Resolution Foundation says a family with three children, making a claim after April 2017, could be £3,450 a year worse off than under the current system.
Ministers originally planned to sell Pwllpeiran Farm, near Aberystwyth, after research firm ADAS said in March it could not afford to renew its lease.
But the facility will now be run by Aberystwyth University's Institute for Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS).
The deputy agricultural minister said it would benefit the farming sector.
Pwllpeiran farm has been a research centre since the 1930s, working to improve the viability of farming the uplands of Wales.
Speaking at the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd, deputy agriculture minister Alun Davies said IBERS had made "viable proposals" last month to take over the running of the farm.
Mr Davies said: "It is an exciting development which I'm sure will be welcomed by the local community, farmers and researchers alike.
"The retention of the farm as a research facility is the outcome most beneficial to the farming sector and will help realise our ambitions for sustainable agriculture in Wales."
Plans to sell the farm in lots, announced in January, had been criticised by farming leaders and Ceredigion AM Elin Jones.
Spaniard Martinez, 43, was sacked by the Toffees in May after three years in charge at Goodison Park.
He succeeds Marc Wilmots, who left his post last month, two weeks after the Euro 2016 quarter-final defeat by Wales.
The vacancy was advertised online by the Belgian Football Association.
It wanted a "strong and open communicator" who has a "proven track record in transmitting tactical and strategic knowledge" to top players.
In a statement, the Belgian FA said it was "delighted and proud to have found a coach at this level so quickly".
Martinez will hold a news conference at 11:30 BST on Thursday and his first match is against Spain on 1 September.
At Everton, Martinez managed Belgium internationals Marouane Fellaini, Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas.
Ernest Goult, 72, was found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence following Middlesbrough and Blackburn Rovers' game in 2014.
However, he claimed the gesture meant "the pits" or "smelly".
An appeal panel at Teesside Crown Court said they could not be sure the gesture was racist.
Blackburn players Lee Williamson and Markus Olsson and Aston Villa striker Rudy Gestede, who was at the club at the time, gave evidence against Mr Goult.
Mr Williamson said he noticed the "pathetic" 72-year-old as he was walking over to the Blackburn supporters, who were seated in the away section of the Teesside club's Riverside Stadium, while Mr Gestede said he was "shocked" to see the gesture.
Mr Olsson said the French forward had got angry as a result.
Representing Mr Goult, Giles Grant said the one-armed gesture was derogatory but meant "the pits" or "smelly", adding that a monkey gesture would usually be accompanied by facial expressions and an "oo-oo" noise.
Giving evidence, Mr Goult denied he held "negative or poor views" of the footballers because their race.
The retired steel worker said the gesture was used in that industry to express displeasure, often in a noisy environment, a claim which was confirmed by another former worker.
Judge Simon Bourne-Arton, who heard the appeal alongside two magistrates, said the players genuinely felt it was a racist gesture, but the appeal panel could not be sure.
He added that while it had been proved that Mr Goult caused alarm and distress, he had not made the typical "utterly objectionable" monkey gesture, where both arms were used along with the "whooping sound of a baboon".
Snapcash is a partnership with payment-processing firm Square, which offers its own stand-alone friend-to-friend payment app called Square Cash.
The service will only be available to Snapchat users in the United States who are over 18 years old.
None of a user's personal financial information will be stored on Snapchat's servers.
Almost immediately, the news of the money-sending feature was met with some raised eyebrows, as Snapchat has struggled with several high profile security breaches.
In May, Snapchat settled with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that it misled users over data collection and failed to inform them that their messages could be saved.
The company agreed to be monitored by the FTC for 20 years.
And earlier in the year, in January, at least 4.6m user accounts were compromised by hackers, who posted usernames and phone numbers on the web.
Snapchat was keen to allay concerns over security.
Users who sign up for the service will be creating a Square Cash account.
"We set out to make payments faster and more fun, but we also know that security is essential when you're dealing with money," wrote Snapchat in a blog post announcing the feature.
"Square has a ton of experience in this area and our teams have been hard at work to make Snapcash a great experience for everyone."
Founded in 2011 by the then 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, Snapchat currently has around 100 million monthly active users.
Snapchat is a messaging app that allows the sharing of videos and images that "disappear" after a short period of time, usually just a few seconds.
To use Snapcash, a user enters their banking information into Square Cash's servers.
Then, to send a payment, a Snapchat user types in the dollar amount that they'd like to send in a private message.
The app then recognizes the dollar amount - $10 say - and a green payments button appears, which a user would tap to complete the payment.
The payment system is similar to other mobile payment services, such as Venmo and PayPal.
It is part of Snapchat's broader push to expand beyond its core messaging business by both adding advertising and branching out into live events.
It is understood the coach company involved is based in Lisburn, County Antrim.
The bus reportedly overturned on the A18 (E40) in the Middelkerke area of West Flanders at 09:45 local time (08:45 BST).
A second person was said to have been seriously injured in the crash.
Eyewitnesses have reported the bus crashed into the pillar of a motorway bridge.
Conteh played for Guinean side Ashanti Golden Boys de Siguiri and had received several call-ups to Sierra Leone's squad but was yet to secure a place in the international side's first team.
He was part of the Leone Stars 18-man squad for their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations match against Kenya last month but dropped out the night before the match due to poor health.
It's very sad to wake up and hear news like this. Alhaji was such a great person
"Conteh was not impressive in the last day of training because something was wrong with him," Sierra Leone's coach John Keister told BBC Sport.
"I even told one of my assistants about it. This forced me to drop him from the squad. We'll surely miss him. I always liked him because he was humble and always good to be around the Leone Stars team.
"He was a clever boy and had a goalkeeper's height and good goalkeeping abilities," Keister added.
Some of Sierra Leone's biggest international stars have also been playing tribute to their team-mate.
"It's very sad to wake up and hear news like this," said former Norwich city and Middlesborough striker Kei Kamara.
"Alhaji was such a great person; being a college graduate and a footballer is a hard thing to do and he was able to accomplish that. My prayers to his family," Kamara added.
Leone Stars skipper Umaru Bangura spoke of his shock at hearing the news of Conteh's death.
"We've lost a good goalkeeper. We were with him in camp last month when preparing for our match against Kenya. We'll miss him. Rest in peace Conteh," said Bangura.
Turkey based midfielder Alfred Sankoh also paid tribute to the 25-year-old.
"Rest in peace brother. God knows best but this is so scary after a month when I was with you in the Leone Stars camp."
Former Leone Stars captain Mohamed Kallon, who brought Conteh to his club FC Kallon some years ago, described the goalkeeper as a "great guy with lots of ambition."
"He graduated from college and he was working whilst playing for FC kallon," said Mohamed Kallon.
"He was a talented goalkeeper and it is a great loss for Sierra Leone. May his soul rest in Peace. We love him but Allah loves him most."
Conteh, who is yet to be buried, was one of few educated Sierra Leonean players with a degree having graduated from Fourah Bay college at the University of Sierra Leone.
He played for three Premier league clubs in Sierra Leone - East End Lions, Kallon FC and Diamond Stars of Kono - as well as two clubs in Guinea, Fello Star de Labè and Ashanti Golden Boys de Siguiri.
Stephen Hunt, 38, from Bury, was unlawfully killed in the fire at a salon in the Northern Quarter in 2013.
His mother and stepfather insist the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service "sends out the wrong message".
An inquest jury found it was probable that two 15-year-old girls deliberately started the fire after smoking cigarettes outside the building.
After a review of the inquest's findings, Greater Manchester Police said "no further action" would be taken.
Mr Hunt's mother Susan Veevers and stepfather Wilf Veevers said they were "disappointed".
In a statement, they said: "We, as a family, have suffered this catastrophic loss, the loss of a hard working, honest, caring family man.
"And having heard the evidence and outcome of the coroner's inquest, it seems the irresponsible actions that caused the tragedy will just go unpunished.
"We firmly believe that this is sending out completely the wrong message."
The two girls were arrested after the blaze and one was charged with arson, but the charges were later dropped.
Fire Brigades Union executive council member Kevin Brown said: "We respect the decision of the CPS and police.
"We hope that lessons will be learnt from Stephen's death to make all firefighters safer across the country."
A statement from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said: "Following the findings from the coroner's inquest the Crown Prosecution Service and GMP reviewed the case and it has been determined that no further action will be taken."
The five-time Olympic gold medallist, 36, had suggested last month's Ghent Six Day event could be his last, but afterwards said he was "not sure yet" what his plans are.
British Cycling said they were giving Wiggins the "flexibility" to "consider the direction of his future".
He has been named as part of the men's track endurance team.
Wiggins teamed up with Mark Cavendish to win the Ghent Six Day event in Belgium. The pair also won madison gold together at the World Track Championships in London in March.
Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France champion, also won team pursuit gold at this year's Olympics in Rio - where British cyclists enjoyed great success winning 12 medals, six of them golds.
"In a year which has seen some fantastic performances from the Great Britain Cycling Team, the bar for programme membership remains high and we have a very strong podium programme squad to lead us into the next Olympic cycle," British Cycling's programmes director Andy Harrison said.
London 2012 Olympic team pursuit champion Dani King has returned to the Great Britain cycling team along with fellow road rider Nikki Brammeier.
Six riders - Alice Barnes (road), Emily Kay (track endurance), Danni Khan (track endurance), Ryan Owens (track sprint), Mark Stewart (track endurance) and Oliver Wood (track endurance) - have stepped up from the senior academy programme.
British Cycling's Olympic podium programme is designed to support elite cyclists as they aim to win medals in major competitions, such as world championships and Olympic Games.
Olympic podium programme squad:
BMX: Kyle Evans, Liam Phillips, Tre Whyte
Mountain Bike: Grant Ferguson
Men's Road: Mark Cavendish, Steve Cummings, Jon Dibben, Owain Doull, Alex Dowsett, Andrew Fenn, Chris Froome, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Ben Swift, Simon Yates, Adam Yates, Peter Kennaugh, Geraint Thomas
Women's Road: Lizzie Deignan, Alice Barnes, Hannah Barnes, Nikki Brammeier, Dani King
Men's Track Endurance: Steve Burke, Ed Clancy, Kian Emadi, Chris Latham, Mark Stewart, Andy Tennant, Sir Bradley Wiggins, Oliver Wood
Women's Track Endurance: Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Emily Kay, Danni Khan, Joanna Rowsell Shand, Laura Kenny
Men's Track Sprint: Phil Hindes, Jason Kenny, Ryan Owens, Callum Skinner
Women's track sprint: Becky James, Katy Marchant, Victoria Williamson, Shanaze Reade | Tyrone counted the cost of their first McKenna Cup defeat in six years as a suspected cruciate damage for Connor McAliskey was among four injuries they sustained against Cavan.
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Alasdair Allan wants the government to approve a more flexible system for those looking for work north of the border after they qualify.
The UK-wide post-study visa scheme was scrapped in 2012.
Since then, the SNP has campaigned for its return.
An inquiry by the Scottish affairs committee earlier this year concluded that removing the visa had made Scotland a less attractive destination to study.
But the UK government rejected the call, saying other visa options were available for former students.
UK Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill said on Friday that restoring the scheme in Scotland would complicate the immigration system.
However, he has now agreed to an "urgent" meeting with Mr Allan.
The post-work study visa allowed overseas graduates to work for two years in the UK after completing their studies.
It was abolished after the Home Office concluded that the system had been open to widespread abuse.
Dr Allan said Mr Goodwill needed to show that he was listening to Scotland to provide an immigration system that met the country's needs.
He added: "There is consensus in Scotland - amongst business, education and every political party in Holyrood - that we need a return of a post-study route to allow talented students to remain and contribute to the Scottish economy.
"We have pressed the UK government for a number of months to meet with us and discuss this issue further and I look forward to hearing what Mr Goodwill has to say to justify this extremely disappointing and mystifying decision."
A UK government spokeswoman said: "The UK continues to welcome genuine students coming to our world-class universities and we are determined to make sure that what we offer brings real benefits to this country.
"As the home secretary announced earlier this month, we will be consulting on what more we can do to strengthen the system to support the best universities - and those that stick to the rules - to attract the best talent.
"This is not about pulling up the drawbridge to reduce student numbers, but making sure that those students that come here, come to study."
Cockerill, a former Leicester player, has been permanent boss since 2009 and only signed his last deal in May 2012.
The 42-year-old has led Tigers to three Premiership titles, five Premiership finals and a Heineken Cup final.
Cockerill said: "This club has been a huge part of my life for a long time and has a unique place in club rugby."
I am very passionate about the Tigers and in wanting to continue the club's success. This is a tough environment but it brings out the best in people
The former hooker, who won 27 England caps, joined Tigers as a player in 1992, making 262 appearances and winning five league titles, two domestic cups and back-to-back Heineken Cups.
He returned to Welford Road as part of the coaching set-up in 2005 and has been in charge since 2009 following two separate spells as acting head coach.
"I am very passionate about the Tigers and in wanting to continue the club's success," Cockerill added.
"We talk a lot with the players and staff about loyalty and commitment to the club, and that is something I feel strongly about too so I'm very happy to be able to agree a new contract here.
"This is a tough environment but it brings out the best in people."
Tigers chairman Peter Tom CBE said: "Cockers played for the club and is very much part of the Tigers family. He knows all about the Tigers culture and how to be successful here both as a player and a coach.
"Stability and continuity are extremely important in any successful organisation and, given the challenges of player availability, injury, selection, recruitment and the general ups and downs of professional sport, we see him as the man to continue to drive the team forward."
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Camille and Ghislaine are now both British champions in the sport and will be heading to the World Championships in Texas starting on 19 June.
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Israel has expressed its disappointment at the decision which it says will not advance the peace process.
Talks between the Palestinians and the Vatican - which favours a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - have gone on for 20 years.
President Abbas meets the Pope this weekend when two 19th Century Palestinian nuns will be canonised.
The Vatican is eager that property and civil rights of the Catholic Church in the Palestinian state is protected, correspondents say.
According to the New York Times, it has strong religious interests in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories that include Christian holy sites.
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says that Pope Francis is making every effort to strengthen the Christian presence in the Middle East at a time when hundreds of thousands of Arab Christians are fleeing Islamist violence.
The Vatican's announcement comes amid growing momentum to recognise Palestinian statehood. Over the last year the European Parliament as well as the UK, Republic of Ireland, Spain and France have all passed non-binding motions in favour.
Sweden has gone further, officially recognising Palestine as a state.
The moves have been criticised by Israel, which says recognition of statehood in this way discourages Palestinians from resuming talks on a final status agreement.
The agreement on Wednesday will define Catholic Church activities in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority, the Holy See said on Wednesday.
A joint statement released by the Vatican said that the wording of the treaty had been finalised and would be officially signed by the respective authorities "in the near future".
Similar separate negotiations have also been going on for two decades between the Vatican and Israel, but so far without reaching full agreement.
This weekend President Abbas will have talks with Pope Francis at the Vatican, and on Sunday he will be attend a canonisation ceremony during which two Palestinian nuns who lived in the 19th Century - when Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire - will be declared saints.
They will be the first new saints from the Arab world to be named since the early days of Christianity.
She is the first leader from another country to visit Mr Trump.
The pair spent about an hour together at the White House discussing the relationship between the UK and America.
It was also confirmed that the new American president will be coming to visit the UK, later this year.
The two leaders appeared to get on well, with May praising him for his "stunning" election victory.
While President Trump called Brexit - the UK's decision to leave the European Union - a "wonderful thing" and claimed he had predicted it would happen.
They even held hands at one point as they walked across the White House lawn.
The pair talked about a trade deal - how the UK will buy and sell goods to the US after Brexit has happened - which is seen as important to the UK economy. Although Mr Trump spoke about a deal positively, nothing was confirmed.
Mr Trump also said that he 100% backed NATO.
NATO is an important international organization where the armies of various Western countries, including Britain and the United States, work together. It is seen by many people as important in helping keep peace around the world.
Getting America's backing for NATO is important for Theresa May.
"Some people think that it does, and that loneliness within the wealthy is all relative. I think it's part of the human condition and occurs whether you are rich or poor."
The fashion designer, once the creative head of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, and now the head of his own eponymous brand, is speaking as he launches his second feature film, Nocturnal Animals.
Like his first, the Oscar-nominated A Single Man, part of Nocturnal Animals deals with affluent but isolated characters - in particular the leading role of Susan, played by Amy Adams.
She lives, Ford says, in "the somewhat rarefied world of Los Angeles" which is "far too familiar" to him.
Ford adapted the screenplay from a 1993 Austin Wright novel called Tony and Susan.
He describes it as "a cautionary tale about coming to terms with the choices we make and the life that leaves us with".
Susan, a woman with a materially rich but emotionally poor life, is sent a manuscript - called Nocturnal Animals - by her ex-husband, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
She is then consumed by the story within a story, as the violent and deadly plot of the book she is reading forces her to confront her own choices.
"It's the contemporary world and a contemporary character taken to the extreme," explains Ford.
"She's a character that's been seduced and fallen back on what's expected of her in our culture - to be financially successful, to be with a very 'masculine' man - and she's made the wrong choice.
"She has a materially impeccable life but she's cold inside. The main focus of the film is loyalty - to find the people in your life that matter to you, and to keep holding on to them.
"She has made the mistake of letting go of her true soulmate, and by reading his novel, it not only makes her fall in love with him all over again, it's his way of making her realise what she did to him."
Adams believes that even with an outwardly successful life, "it's impossible not to reach a certain age and not have some regret".
The five-time Oscar nominee points out that "the choices we make lead to the person we become, and you're left with that, for better or for worse".
"I dealt with that in my own life, by becoming this actress, by moving to Los Angeles myself, and now my life doesn't resemble the one I used to have," she says.
"It's an effort not to lose who I really am, and playing a character who wasn't able to do that really struck me."
Gyllenhaal says of his role: "I play two characters within the film, the ex-husband and the lead character of the novel, as Susan imagines him, and they have profound regret too.
"In one case, it's a question of masculinity - that he didn't fight for the things he loved. Regret really is pasted all over the film for everyone."
Nocturnal Animals was awarded the Grand Jury prize at this year's Venice Film Festival, putting it in contention with both Damien Chazelle's La La Land and Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (in which Amy Adams also stars) as favourites for rewards in this year's award season.
Asked why it took him seven years to make a second movie, Ford says: "I started doing womenswear and opening about a hundred stores, and my income as a fashion designer enables me to be a film director. But most importantly, I had a child, and I said I would be there constantly for the first few years of his life. So when Jack turned three, I decided then to look at another film."
Adams says: "I hadn't actually seen A Single Man when Tom sent me the script. But he had such a strong point of view.
"I also thought that it was nearly impossible as a story to pull off and that made me very interested."
"The script was sent to me on pink-hued paper," recalls Gyllenhaal, "Which set it apart from the conventional way a script is delivered to you.
"But it was one of the best scripts I have ever read - it actually shook me, in the same way the character of Susan is shaken by reading the novel. It's a distinctly original vision."
Part of the narrative of Nocturnal Animals takes place in Texas, where the designer grew up. That part of the story also features Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher and Michael Shannon in what Ford thinks is "a contemporary Western".
He adds: "Michael Shannon is an ageing Marlboro man and Aaron Taylor Johnson isn't a typical psychotic killer.
"In the book, this particularly nasty scene of violence doesn't take place in Texas, but in the north-east. However, the book's set in the early 1990s, and now mobile technology would mean cell phones eradicate all sense of danger. However, there are parts of Texas where I grew up where there are no phone signals for miles, and it was all too easy to imagine, so I set it there.
"One of the themes of the film that hit home personally for me was the exploration of masculinity in our culture. As a boy growing up in Texas, I was anything but what was considered classically masculine. I think it's important to write about what you know and I know that part of the world well."
Ford says that regardless of the effort involved in writing and directing, "this is the most fun that I ever have, aside from my family and friends".
He promises: "Whatever happens to Nocturnal Animals, I won't leave it another seven years until there's a third film."
Nocturnal Animals is released in the UK on 4 November 2016.
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The Met Office has a yellow "be aware" warning in place covering most of the country for Sunday, with winds expected to increase in some parts.
Forecasters said gusts of 50 to 60mph were expected over the far north and north-west and could reach between 40 and 50mph in other areas.
On higher ground, a gust of 103mph was recorded on the top of the Cairngorms.
On South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, a gust of 56mph was recorded, with 55mph recorded in Aultbea in the north-west Highlands.
Wind speeds have reached 53mph in Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve in the Highlands, and 46mph in Leuchars, Fife.
Wind warnings or restrictions have been put in place on bridges, including the A90 Forth Road Bridge, A87 Skye Bridge and A92 Tay Road Bridge.
The weather has also disrupted CalMac ferry sailings on the west coast, with some services cancelled or suspended.
The unseasonably windy weather also resulted in a historic boat, which was due to show at the Johnshaven Fish Festival in Aberdeenshire, being blown over.
The Reaper, which is one of the few of its kind to remain seagoing, was left partially submerged at Johnshaven Harbour.
Forecasters had said that while the expected gusts were not exceptional for some areas of the country, increased outdoor activity at this time of year meant there was a greater risk of disruption.
They said that the windy conditions were due to a relatively deep area of low pressure moving slowly eastwards between Scotland and Iceland.
The Met Office said: "The strongest winds are expected to be across northern and north-western Scotland, but some locally strong gusts are still possible even across south-eastern Scotland, particularly over and to the lee of hills.
"These strong winds will also generate very rough sea conditions near north and north-west Scotland."
Yellow "be aware" warnings from the Met Office are expected to remain in force until 23:55 on Sunday.
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The gas-burner will have 750MW of capacity on stand-by in case other power sources fail.
The move follows concerns that there will be insufficient reliable power in Scotland after the shut-down of the vast Longannet coal-burning plant in Fife.
The closure is expected to take place within the next nine months.
Smaller contracts have been agreed in other parts of the country, including Killingholme in Lincolnshire and Deeside in North Wales.
The total cost is £36.5m, according to National Grid, providing up to 2.56GW of power across Britain.
Three other SSE sites are to provide a much smaller 90MW total of back-up capacity; Keadby, Fiddler's Ferry and Ferrybridge.
With an increasing share of electricity generated by wind, and limited cable capacity to import power from English power plants, Peterhead has been chosen to provide emergency cover if other sources of power do not meet demand in Scotland. A similar contract was signed to cover last winter.
The contract with Perth-based owner SSE is for only one year, and would have the capacity to supply about 400,000 homes. The grid is being upgraded and expanded to allow for more transmission of power from plants south of the border, but these are not yet complete.
In addition, Peterhead power station is being funded to provide voltage support to ensure a steady and reliable power supply, and it is still being considered for government support as the site for a large-scale trial project in carbon capture and storage.
Jim Smith, the company's managing director for energy portfolio management, said: "SSE has continually invested in the Peterhead site since it opened in 1980 and we're pleased it will continue to play an important role in ensuring National Grid can provide system stability and resilience going forward."
Cordi O'Hara, director of market operation at National Grid, said: "As operator of the electricity system, it's our role to ensure we've got the right tools in place to balance the system in even the toughest winter conditions.
"Our competitive tender has secured the reserve we need to do our job, as early as possible, while providing market certainty and keeping costs down for consumers."
The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) says items such as skinny jeans, high heels and handbags can "wreak havoc" on our bodies.
However, the research has been rejected by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and other back experts.
They say we shouldn't be afraid of our clothes.
Here are the top five items which the BCA says may cause us harm.
The BCA claims skinny jeans reduce mobility "even if it's just walking that you're doing".
"Restrictive clothing can lead to a loss of 'bounce' in your stride and the natural shock-absorbing qualities in your walk, causing pressure in your joints."
The BCA claims heavy handbags are a particularly common cause of back pain in women. They advise we should avoid bags that must be carried in the crook of the arm "as the weight of these held away from your body pulls one shoulder lower than the other".
The BCA claims "large hoods can mean you strain your neck in order to see".
The BCA claims high heels force us to hold our bodies "in a manner which promotes tension in your spine".
The BCA claims mules have no support at the back of the foot which will increase strain on the legs and lower back.
They also warn that new trends such as as asymmetric hemlines, oversized sleeves and hoods and heavy jewellery can also create problems for the wearer.
The BCA's poll of 1,062 people found 73% had suffered back pain and 33% were not aware that clothing could affect their back, neck or posture. They warn that any item of clothing that restricts movement, or that leads people to stand or walk unnaturally, can have a negative impact on the posture, back or neck.
"Our advice is to consider your back and neck health when making clothing choices - moderation of outfits that limit your movement is recommended. You should choose clothing to suit the activity you are doing and try investing in a backpack for days when you have a lot to carry around."
But Dr Mary O'Keeffe, who is a back pain expert at the University of Limerick, says their research is "complete scaremongering and there is no scientific evidence to support any of it".
"Simply put, skinny jeans, parka jackets, necklaces and any other clothing items do not cause back pain.
"There is no scientific evidence of an association. This may seem counterintuitive, as women with back pain might report back pain when wearing or carrying certain items. However, to assume that the back pain was caused by these is definitely putting the horse before the cart."
Steve Tolan, head of practice at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, says "reading scare stories about skinny jeans is probably more harmful than actually wearing them.
"People should wear whatever is comfortable and they feel good in - skinny jeans and hoodies included. They certainly shouldn't fear that their clothes are going to do them harm as there is no evidence for that.
"What is probably more relevant is whether a woman thinks that they are wearing something that is damaging their back, says Dr O'Keeffe.
"The beliefs about the jeans and bags may not only be incorrect, but detrimental if they cause worry about the spine being fragile and discourage women from moving normally and wearing what they want.
"Misconceptions regarding the causes and treatments of low back pain are widespread. This story about skinny jeans and heavy bags is just another myth in the long list of myths about back pain.
"It fits with the misconception that load and movement are bad and that the spine is a vulnerable structure that is easily damaged. Strong evidence shows that this is not true."
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Some patients had to travel nearly 300 miles, while one trust had to declare a major incident.
The figures, obtained through Freedom of Information requests, are 13% higher than last year.
Care Minister Alistair Burt said the problem was unacceptable and promised to stop it within five years.
Being sent "out of area" for treatment means a patient being cared for in a unit not run by the trust whose care they are under.
It can occasionally be appropriate to send a patient outside their area if they need highly specialised care, but experts say that routinely sending people away can increase the risk of suicide - and there have been repeated calls for the practice to be stopped.
But these figures, obtained by BBC News and Community Care magazine, show the problem is getting worse.
In 2014-15, 4,804 patients were treated out of area; in 2015-16 that figure had risen to 5,411, a rise of 12.6% (according to data from 42 of 56 trusts).
Data from 28 trusts going back to 2011 shows the ever worsening scale of the problem. In 2011-12 those trusts placed 1,215 patients out of area; in 2015-16 that had risen to 4,093, a rise of 236%.
Jessica Wilson has suffered from mental health problems for several years, including post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.
Last December, the 21-year-old, from Louth, in Lincolnshire, became ill and needed a hospital bed.
None was available locally and she was sent to Roehampton in London - 170 miles from home.
"When I found out they were looking in Nottingham, I cried," says Jessica. "So when I found out I was going to Roehampton, it was a nightmare.
"It made me feel more scared, more vulnerable, more alone and totally confused."
Jessica spent three weeks in London.
While she praises the care she received there, the distance meant neither her mother nor her local mental health team could visit.
"It was really hard for me," she says.
"As part of my recovery, I feel my family need to be involved.
"So not seeing them, not being able to talk to them like I normally would, really affected me.
"I think if I'd been closer to home, my recovery would have been a lot stronger and a lot [quicker]."
The distances some patients had to travel include:
Mind chief executive Paul Farmer said: "It is truly a sorry state of affairs that the numbers have risen, despite repeated commitments from government and the NHS to improve the care of people in crisis.
"It costs more to do things badly, and the human cost is far greater.
"People with mental health problems deserve better.
"A mental-health crisis is an emergency just like a physical health emergency, and no-one should be expected to put up with a second rate service for either."
NHS England has repeatedly said it is committed to improving mental-health services, but the use of out-of-area beds has worsened every year since it was created.
It has been told by ministers to aim to eradicate the problem within five years.
In January, Lancashire Care NHS Trust had to declare a major incident because a lack of beds.
It had had to place 94 patients in out-of-area beds; another 26 were waiting to be admitted.
"It's an unprecedented decision for a mental health trust to declare a major incident," says Sue Moore, chief operating officer at the trust.
"There is a lot of time spent focusing on the crisis in [accident and emergency].
"We had to really draw everyone's attention to the fact that there was a crisis here within mental health and it needed everyone to participate to mitigate that."
By declaring a major incident, Lancashire Care could suspend some planned activities and focus on the crisis, redeploying staff to help move people ready to be discharged to go home and supporting those who had to be admitted.
The trust opened 22 beds - 10 in an assessment ward and 12 by partnering with a housing association that provided accommodation to patients still in hospital due to homelessness.
The effect has been dramatic, says Mrs Moore. There are currently just 20 patients in hospital beds out of Lancashire.
Mr Burt said it was "unacceptable that too many patients suffering from mental illness are receiving care so far from home".
"We have increased mental health funding to £11.7bn, have accepted the recommendation of the Mental Health Taskforce that the inappropriate use of out of area treatments for adults in acute care must be eliminated by 2020-21, and will work to a faster timetable if at all possible," he added.
Ofsted surveyed three local councils and 11 schools with a large intake of Roma pupils from Eastern Europe.
The report says head teachers reported no adverse effect on the achievement of other pupils already in their schools.
But some schools had struggled to get pupils to follow school routines and behave appropriately.
The report says: "The schools and local authorities reported to inspectors that many Roma pupils initially had difficulty in adhering to school routines and meeting expectations for good behaviour, especially where the pupils had little prior experience of formal education."
Head teachers in the three local authorities surveyed - Derby, Manchester and Sheffield - also reported that accessing funding for Roma pupils, as well as finding staff with the necessary expertise to help them, had proven difficult.
"They [school leaders] had experienced problems accessing available funding such as the pupil premium for new pupils quickly enough," the report says.
"This was a particular challenge when a large number of pupils joined or left during the school year."
In some instances, there was insufficient specialist advice or support available to schools.
Ofsted recommends that local authorities should ensure that there is a dedicated and knowledgeable senior leader who can push forward the local authority's strategies for improving outcomes for Roma pupils.
It says the Department for Education should consider how the allocation of existing funding could more accurately reflect the changes in the number of eligible pupils on roll throughout the school year.
Historically, Gypsy/Roma pupils have had the poorest outcomes of any ethnic group in England in terms of attainment, attendance and exclusions.
The number of Gypsy/Roma pupils in schools has been increasing over time and rose by 13.7% last year, from 16,735 in January 2013 to 19,030 in January 2014, Ofsted reports.
Sean Harford, Ofsted national director for schools, said: "This report provides a more accurate assessment of the barriers to educational engagement and attainment that Roma pupils experience, as well as the specific challenges faced by particular schools and local authorities in supporting pupils.
"Through this report, we also identify the strategies that are being employed successfully by local authorities and schools to support Roma pupils."
The Department for Education said it would be "studying this report closely".
"The difficult decisions we have taken elsewhere in government have allowed us to protect the schools budget and ensure that local authorities and head teachers have the resources and flexibility to provide the support needed by their communities," said a spokesman.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: "The majority of school leaders are only too aware of the challenges involved in supporting the children of Roma families.
"The report makes some sensible points which NAHT supports, notably the recommendations for the department to be more responsive to in-year changes to the number of pupils on the school roll.
"Schools need to be able to get money more quickly when Roma children join them part way through the school year.
"We know that rapid intervention and sustained support are vital to improving the outcomes of all children no matter their background."
Activists erected about 20 large tents on the patch of land known as E1, between Jerusalem and the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim.
Israeli plans to build in the area drew sharp criticism by members of the international community in December.
Palestinians say that building in E1 would jeopardise the contiguity of a Palestinian state.
Jewish settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
"We have set up 20 tents, and have enough equipment to stay here for a long time," Abir Kopty, spokeswoman for the Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee, told AFP news agency.
"We are willing to stay here until we ensure the right of the [Palestinian] owners of the land to build on their lands," she said.
Hours after the group started setting up the camp, Israeli authorities issued an eviction order. However, Ms Kopty tweeted that the activists had obtained a High Court order suspending the eviction notice.
Israeli plans to develop the E1 area had been on hold for years until the Palestinians upgraded their status at the UN from an "entity" to that of a "non-member observer state", a move condemned by Israel and the US as a violation of peace accords.
The following day Israel approved "preliminary zoning and planning work" in E1, and plans for thousands of settler homes.
The US called this move counterproductive, while European governments summoned Israeli ambassadors in protest.
Friday's actions of the Palestinians in E1 mirrors tactics of Israeli settlers who stake their claim to parts of the West Bank by pitching mobile homes on hilltops, known as outposts, which are not officially sanctioned.
An unnamed spokesperson for the Israeli defence ministry said the creation of the Palestinian encampment, which they named Bab el Shams, "sounded like a provocation", AFP reported.
"If it indeed is a construction violation, we will deal with it," he said.
Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala, the Most Valuable Player in the finals series, had 25 points apiece.
LeBron James once again led the injury-hit Cavaliers with a game-high 32 points.
"This is something special. From the start of the season this is what we envisioned," said Curry.
The Warriors were the top-seeded team in the play-offs after having the best record in the regular season and they become the first team since the Chicago Bulls in 1991 to win a title with no players having prior finals experience.
Steve Kerr also becomes the first rookie coach to capture the crown since Pat Riley with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1982.
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The world number two was beaten in five sets by Juan Martin Del Potro, while Kyle Edmund also lost as Argentina went 2-0 up after day one in Glasgow.
Murray and his brother Jamie are set to play doubles at 14:00 BST, but line-ups can change an hour before the start.
"I'll have to see how I feel when I wake up in the morning," said Murray.
"I've never played a match that long. I've played matches close to that length but none after an extremely long stretch of playing, so I don't know how I'll feel."
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Guido Pella beat Edmund 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-3 6-2 to ensure Argentina made the perfect start on Friday against the defending champions.
Britain must win Saturday's doubles and both singles matches on Sunday if they are to keep alive their hopes of back-to-back Davis Cup triumphs.
Captain Leon Smith said Dan Evans was ready to step in to the doubles if Andy Murray, who has the reverse singles against Pella on Sunday, is rested.
Smith told BBC Sport: "Dan's done the most amount of additional doubles practice this week. That was the thought process, so there's not too much surprise there but we'll wait for the morning."
Murray's match against Del Potro was the longest of his career at five hours and seven minutes, and his second five-set defeat in nine days following his loss to Kei Nishikori at the US Open.
It was also Murray's first Davis Cup defeat on home soil and broke his 14-match winning streak in the competition.
"I'm very proud of how I fought, I did fantastic," said the Scot after his 6-4 5-7 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4 defeat.
"I fought for every point, tried as best as I could. That's all you can do. It was very fine margins. That happens in tennis and sport sometimes. It could have gone either way and he just played a little bit better in the fifth set."
The trade gap narrowed to $45.61bn (£29.1bn), from a revised $45.63bn in July, the Commerce Department said.
However, the politically-sensitive trade gap with China widened to a record high.
US imports and exports both slowed in the month as the weakening in the global economy took hold.
For August, exports slipped by $95m to $177.6bn, as sales of expensive industrial items like cars, aircraft engines and oil field equipment all declined.
Imports fell by $111m to $223.2bn.
China gap
With China, which the US has accused of keeping its currency artificially low, imports into the US reached a record $37.4bn.
Between January and July, the US trade deficit with China was running 10% higher than the same point last year - when the trade gap between the two ballooned.
On Tuesday, the US Senate passed a bill that would mandate the imposition of tariffs on some Chinese goods if the US Treasury determines that China is manipulating its currency.
Earlier this week, Congress also approved three free trade agreements - with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.
The car blew up in the city's southern Madina district, officials say.
The blast - which ripped through shops and food stalls - is the first major attack in the capital since the election of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed earlier this month.
No group has claimed responsibility, although al-Shabab militants are likely to be the prime suspects.
On Saturday a senior al-Shabab commander vowed to target the president's supporters.
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Sheikh Hassan Yaqub said that anyone who collaborated with the new president - who he described as evil-minded - would be at risk of attack by the Islamist group.
President Mohamed has condemned the bombing, accusing al-Shabab of being behind the attack. He urged Somalis to unite against the group's brutality.
The new president visited some of the wounded, as well as the site of the blast on Sunday. He has offered a $100,000 reward to anybody who supplies information leading to the capture of those responsible.
"It was a horrific and barbaric attack only aimed at killings civilians,'' he said.
An ambulance driver told the Associated Press that some of the injured had died on their way to hospital.
"Many of them suffered extensive third degree burns and others were burned beyond recognition," he said.
Witnesses on Sunday spoke of chaos and carnage in the aftermath of the explosion, which some reports said was caused by a suicide bomber.
Shocked and grieving onlookers watched as ambulance workers desperately tried to take the injured to hospital.
"I was staying in my shop when a car came into the market and exploded. I saw more than 20 people lying on the ground. Most of them were dead and the market was totally destroyed," eyewitness Abdulle Omar told the Reuters news agency.
Other witnesses said the bomb went off at a busy junction where soldiers, civilians and traders congregate.
"There were many small scale traders alongside the road and teashops and restaurants. There were also members of the security forces and shoppers and the blast was so huge," Sumayo Moalim told the AFP news agency.
The attack underlines the magnitude of the challenge faced by the new president whose administration relies heavily on international support and does not control all of Somalia.
Troops from the African Union forced al-Shabab out of Mogadishu in 2011, but the militants remain powerful in some rural areas.
Last month at least 28 people were killed in a bomb attack by militants at the Dayah hotel in Mogadishu.
Mervyn Storey said the main business organisations had called for the move.
The last valuation for business rates was completed in 2015, but that followed a 10-year gap.
Decisions on more controversial changes to the system, like ending exemptions for charity shops, are being left for the next Northern Ireland Executive.
Mr Storey said he would like to see the executive keep any increases in rates "at no more than inflation".
"There are no viable alternatives to the existing system," he said.
The Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association welcomed the commitment to valuations every three years.
Its chief executive, Glyn Roberts, said other changes should be "a top economic issue" after the Northern Ireland Assembly elections in May.
"With the chancellor announcing last week that many small retailers in England will now be paying no rates at all, the executive has some serious catching up to do," he said.
Prasadani Weerakkody (61) and Dilani Manodara (53) helped Sri Lanka post 239-8 from their 50 overs, while seamer Isobel Joyce took 4-39.
But Ireland, with opener Meg Kendal unable to bat because of a hamstring injury, were bowled out for 93.
Only Clare Shillington, with 36 not out from 37 balls, provided any resistance.
Ireland have only once scored more than 200 batting second in a one-day international, and their reply started badly when Cecelia Joyce was run out in the third over, before left-arm seamer Inoshi Priyadharshani (3-21) reduced them to 27-4.
Shillington, captain Laura Delaney and 15-year-old Gaby Lewis were the only three batters to make double figures as they attempted to give a modicum of respectability to the scoreline.
Earlier, despite the efforts of Lewis (2-41) and former skipper Isobel Joyce, Ireland's bowlers toiled at the Nondescripts Cricket Club as Sri Lanka recorded their eighth highest total in women's ODI cricket.
Ireland are next in action on Friday against Group A favourites India, who have won both their opening games and bowled Thailand out for only 55 on Wednesday.
However, having beaten Zimbabwe by 119 runs on Tuesday, one more victory - over India, or Saturday's opponents Thailand - ought to be enough for a place in the Super Six.
The top three teams in each group progress to the Super Six stage, from which the top four qualify for the World Cup, which takes place in England this summer.
Also on Wednesday, Scotland lost their opening Group B match to South Africa, while Pakistan beat Bangladesh.
All matches played in Colombo & start at 04:30 GMT. CCC = Colombo Cricket Club; MCA = Mercantile Cricket Association Ground; NCC = Nondescripts Cricket Club.
Rugby fans flocked to see and take pictures of the "ball in the wall" when the city hosted eight games during the tournament, which ended at the weekend.
New Zealand beat Australia in Saturday's final at Twickenham.
The ball appeared in the castle wall on the eve of the World Cup as a surprise and was finally taken down during the early hours of Tuesday.
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The earthquake was measured at force 9.0 magnitude, high enough to trigger a huge wave called a tsunami.
The wave crashed onto the shore destroying huge areas. Thousands of people lost their lives.
A nuclear power plant was also damaged and began leaking radiation, which led to the world's worst nuclear disaster for 25 years.
Hinako was one of the children whose lives changed on that day. Leah went to Japan to meet her to hear about what happened.
The three-year-old beat 2,751 other entries of 199 breeds to take the top dog spot at Westminster Kennel Club.
"He has that extra sparkle," his handler, Valerie Nunes-Atkinson said. "He's an old soul."
CJ, also known as California Journey, is a descendent of two other champions and the third German Shorthaired Pointer to win the competition.
Head judge Dr Richard Meen said CJ had the intelligence and alertness he looked for in a winner.
"This is what we go to bed dreaming about," CJ's owner Valerie Nunes-Atkinson said after the win was announced. CJ gets no prize money, but will now embark on a media tour.
Lucy, a borzoi, pictured here with her handler, Shota Hirai, was runner-up in the competition.
CJ also beat this fluffy Samoyed to win the prized silver bowl.
Rumor, a German shepherd, was ranked the number one dog in the US last year, and has won 101 best in show titles, but she missed the top spot in New York on Tuesday.
This year was the kennel club's 140th Best In Show competition.
Owners often spend hours grooming their pooches.
...and sometimes the handlers get pampered themselves
An object was thrown at the Central Mosque in Potterrow at about 02:10 on Sunday which caused minor fire damage to a door.
No-one was hurt. A small bush in the garden area was also damaged.
Officers have described it as a "despicable and reckless act" and urged anyone who saw anything suspicious around the mosque or in the Potterrow area to get in touch.
Det Insp John Kavanagh, from Police Scotland, said: "Fortunately no-one was injured as a result of this incident, but the consequences could have been far worse had the fire taken hold and spread."
Police are looking for a man believed to be in his early 30s with very short hair, wearing a short-sleeved black top with a white emblem on the front and dark trousers.
It is believed the man spoke to a group of females in George Square, near the junction with the Meadows, before the incident happened.
Foysol Choudhury, chairman of the Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council, said: "ELREC strongly condemns this crime as an attack against our freedom of religion and expression.
"Edinburgh cannot tolerate any action that aims to spread hate and division within its society.
"ELREC would like to uphold Police Scotland's request for everyone who has any information to contact them and wishes to offer support to anyone who feels more insecure after this attack."
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The 39-year-old moved ahead of the retired Peyton Manning on the list, which includes regular and post-season games, with Brett Favre third on 199.
Brady, in his 17th season, took 264 career games to set the record, while Manning needed 293 games for his 200.
"That's what it's all about - winning," said Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
Brady, who threw a touchdown pass in Sunday's victory, is a four-time Super Bowl winner and last week became only the fifth NFL quarterback to reach 60,000 passing yards.
"He still comes to work like he hasn't accomplished anything," said Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler.
Brady returned in October after serving a four-match suspension for his role in a scheme to deflate match balls to give his side an advantage.
The DA took 43% of the vote compared with the ANC's 41% in Tshwane, the municipality that includes Pretoria.
The DA will need to form a coalition in order to secure control there.
In the country's largest city, Johannesburg, the ANC beat the DA but fell short of an outright majority, with 44% of the vote.
The ANC has also lost Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area in the Eastern Cape, which includes Port Elizabeth, to the DA.
End of racial politics?
It is the ANC's worst electoral performance since it was elected to power at the end of apartheid and the replacement of white minority rule by democracy in 1994, and the first time since then that it has lost control of the capital.
The DA has won 93 seats in Tshwane while the ANC is second with 89 seats in the 214-seat municipal council.
Observers say a host of corruption scandals and internal party squabbles are to blame for the ANC's decline.
The South African economy has stagnated since 2008's global financial crisis, and the country has one of the highest rates of economic inequality in the world.
Revelations that upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's private home were funded with $20m of public money caused an outcry. The Constitutional Court recently instructed Mr Zuma to reimburse the state $507,000.
The municipal election result is probably the biggest wake-up call the governing ANC has received since it ushered in democracy in South Africa in 1994.
Clearly the ANC still commands huge support across the country but that support is waning. It can no longer take it for granted that the black majority will blindly follow it.
A good example is in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, won by the DA, which has a rich history of anti-apartheid struggle. Its new DA mayor is Athol Trollip, who is white.
Twenty-two years after the end of apartheid, black people are now voting on issues and not on race. Mr Trollip, who speaks fluent Xhosa, would not be where he is if the vast majority of black people had not voted for him.
The party of late President Mandela, the icon of the struggle against apartheid, still commands strong support with about 54% of the national vote.
The DA has received about 27%, while the radical Economic Freedom Fighters party - contesting local elections for the first time - has taken about 8%.
The DA's leader, 36-year-old Mmusi Maimane, told reporters: "For far too long, the ANC has governed South Africa with absolute impunity."
He added that the idea that his party - which has its roots in the non-ANC opposition to apartheid - was a white one had been "completely shattered".
The ANC said it would "reflect and introspect where our support has dropped".
In a brief address before the final results were announced, 74-year-old President Zuma praised the conduct of a vote he called largely peaceful, free and fair.
"Our democracy is maturing," he said. "Let us get back to work and build our country together."
Jody Cundy, Jon-Allan Butterworth and 18-year-old debutant Louis Rolfe secured victory in 49.230 seconds.
Tandem sprint pair Neil Fachie and Pete Mitchell took their second title of the week to make it two golds for the day and eight for the week.
In addition, Britain won five silvers and four bronze medals.
Craig MacLean and James Ball claimed a bronze behind Fachie and Mitchell, while in the women's tandem sprint defending champions Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott had to settle for silver.
There was also an unexpected silver for Jon Gildea in the scratch race.
Head coach Jon Norfolk told BBC Sport: "I think we are confident with our performers this week. It's a good spot check of where we are now and how people can deliver.
"There'll still be plenty more we can add into the mix to make sure we can get the right result at the Paralympics in Rio."
Nigel Willerton, director of the Tennis Integrity Board, and Chris Kermode, who heads the Association of Tennis Professionals, will both be quizzed.
Tennis authorities are already conducting an independent review into the sport's anti-corruption practices.
It follows a BBC and BuzzFeed News investigation that uncovered suspected illegal betting in tennis.
A culture, media and sport select committee "will explore how the governing bodies of tennis address match-fixing, and any weaknesses in the governance of the game, nationally and internationally".
The joint investigation by the BBC and BuzzFeed uncovered files showing that, over the past 10 years, 16 players who were ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions their matches were targeted.
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All of the players, including winners of Grand Slam titles, were allowed to continue competing.
TIU chairman Philip Brook said he remains "totally confident" in the work of his organisation in catching cheats, while Kermode accepted there is the need to "be as open and transparent as possible".
He added: "Having lists of suspicious betting patterns do not mean corruption. They are a red flag and that is not evidence."
Last week, sports gambling watchdog Essa produced a report which said tennis accounted for nearly three-quarters of all suspicious betting alerts flagged in 2015.
The action targeted users of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attack tools.
Twelve of the suspects were arrested in the UK as part of an investigation led by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
Authorities across a total of 13 countries made the arrests between 5 and 9 December.
The NCA said that it had targeted users of software called Netspoof, a computer program that could direct huge volumes of internet traffic at websites and web servers in order to disable them.
Following the UK arrests, a 27-year-old man from Hamilton in Scotland was charged with offences under the Computer Misuse Act.
As part of the international operation, a US suspect has been arrested and charged over a DDoS attack that knocked a San Francisco chat service's site offline.
Sean Sharma, a 26-year-old student in California, is enrolled in a master's degree programme at the University of Southern California.
Mr Sharma could face up to 10 years in prison. His case is being investigated by the FBI.
"DDoS tools are among the many specialised cyber-crime services available for hire that may be used by professional criminals and novices alike," said Steve Kelly, unit chief of the FBI's International Cyber Crime Coordination Cell.
"While the FBI is working with our international partners to apprehend and prosecute sophisticated cyber-criminals, we also want to deter the young from starting down this path."
The international investigations, in which a total of 101 suspects were interviewed and cautioned, were supported by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre.
House searches were conducted and notifications were sent to parents, according to the agency.
The unrest broke out when a goal was awarded to Guinea Bissau after 81 minutes, with Kenya's players arguing the ball had not crossed the line.
Play was halted for 30 minutes as Kenya fans threw missiles at the Guinea Bissau bench and the fourth official.
Kenya, who were beaten 1-0 in Nairobi, could face sanctions.
The result takes Guinea Bissau to the top of their qualifying group and leaves Kenya with little chance of qualifying for next year's tournament.
Elsewhere in Group E, Congo and Zambia drew 1-1 in an identical scoreline to their result in Ndola on Wednesday.
Jordan Massengo put Congo ahead in Brazzaville just after half-time, with Winston Kalengo equalising in the 72nd minute.
Guinea Bissau lead the group on seven points, one point ahead of both Congo and Zambia, with Kenya bottom, six points off the top.
In Sunday's first Nations Cup qualifier, Ghana lost their 100% record in Group H with a 0-0 draw in Mozambique.
The result in Maputo leaves the Black Stars on 10 points, four ahead of Mauritius, the surprise package in Group H. Mauritius could close that gap with a win over Rwanda in Kigali on Tuesday.
West Bromwich Albion's Stephane Sessegnon scored twice for Benin in Cotonou as the hosts beat South Sudan 4-1 to go top of Group C.
Mickael Pote and Jodel Dossou were also on target for Benin, with Atak Lual grabbing a consolation for the away side.
Mali could regain the lead in that group if they beat Equatorial Guinea in Malabo on Monday.
Comoros, who got their first win in a major qualifying competition when they beat Botswana at home on Thursday, were brought back down to earth with a 2-1 defeat in the return fixture.
Comoros looked like they might complete a double over their opponents when Mchangama Youssouf scored just before the break.
But second-half goals from Galabgwe Moyana and then Joel Mogorosi gave Botswana the win which puts them level on points with the top two, Uganda and Burkina Faso, who play each other in Kampala on Tuesday.
All group winners are guaranteed places at the 2017 tournament in Gabon, with the best two runners-up joining them.
The head of the university's political science institute confirmed a request had been made by the man whose attacks two years ago traumatised Norway.
No decision has been made on whether to accept it, Ole Petter Ottersen added.
Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence in a prison near Oslo, killed 77 people, most of them adolescents.
On 22 July 2011, he set off a bomb in a car near government offices in the capital before travelling to a lake island, where he shot people attending a summer camp of the ruling Labour Party's youth wing.
He sought to justify the meticulously planned twin attacks, which also left 244 people injured, by saying they were aimed at stopping the "Islamisation" of Norway.
A court convicted him of terrorism and premeditated murder, and handed down the maximum sentence of 21 years' imprisonment.
Mr Ottersen confirmed for AFP news agency a Norwegian TV report that Breivik was seeking to enrol at the university.
"We don't know if his candidacy will be accepted," he said.
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One formal obstacle to his enrolment may be his lack of qualifications, as he did not complete secondary school, according to AFP news agency.
Several unnamed members of college staff who spoke to Norway's TV2 channel said they were opposed to any dealings with the killer.
"I understand very well that this causes reactions, it is human to feel that," Mr Ottersen commented.
Per Anders Torvik Langerod, a political scientist and politician from the Labour Party's youth wing, suggested that a course at the university might make Breivik confront his own extreme beliefs.
"Blindern [Oslo University] is a place where one learns that one should pursue one's opinions with words," he said.
"You cannot tape over the mouths of those you disagree with, or shoot them, and that's some of what I hope will be a punishment for Breivik. If he wants to relate to these studies and get what he wants, credits, he must do it our way."
Knut Bjarkeid, the director of Ila prison where Breivik is being held, told TV2 the jail would always try to help its inmates "get a formal qualification so that they have the ability to get a job when they come out".
Speaking to BBC News last year, prison spokeswoman Ellen Bjercke said that if Breivik qualified for educational activities, he would only be allowed to use a special internet server run by the prison "with a lot of filters".
He has the use of a laptop without an internet connection and can order books from the prison library, which is part of the public library network.
Some of the 20 protesters daubed graffiti on Shire Hall in Gloucester in what they called an act of "civil disobedience".
Councillors later rejected calls to halt construction until the contract between developers and the county council had been investigated.
Protesters pledged more "direct action" until the contract was cancelled.
Work on the Javelin Park incinerator near Gloucester was set to begin after Gloucestershire County Council voted to allow Urbaser Balfour Beatty to build the plant in 2015.
A motion laid down by Labour councillor Lesley Williams for the full council meeting on Wednesday accused the contract as having been "plagued by mismanagement".
She called on the Conservative-led administration to halt all work on the incinerator site until the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had finished its investigation and commit to an "immediate independent review of the contract".
Protesters gathered outside Shire Hall before the meeting, with members of the Rising Up group saying they "recognised people have to resort to civil disobedience".
Martin Large, from Stroud, said: "I asked a question last March about the benefits of the incinerator and the councillor said he did not need to reply.
"If he is unable to explain what the benefits are in a full council meeting, then I have to take non-violent direct action."
Police said no arrests were made.
Councillors from across party lines have criticised the incinerator plans, describing the technology as out of date and likely to reduce to recycling rates.
Nigel Riglar, from the county council, insisted the new facility "saves taxpayers over £100m, makes enough clean electricity to power 25,000 homes and reduces carbon emissions by 40,000 tonnes".
A spokesperson for the CMA confirmed it is considering a complaint about the incinerator contract.
The incinerator is due to be operational in 2019.
The crash happened on Friday on the A4260 near Banbury, between Adderbury and Deddington.
The man's Ford Fiesta was in a collision with a Scania tipper lorry. Another car was also involved in the crash.
Thames Valley Police said the man was from Banbury and his next of kin had been informed.
The road was closed for several hours while officers investigated.
Koeman also said on Thursday that the future of England defender Phil Jagielka "depends if there is interest from other clubs".
The Toffees have rejected a bid from AC Milan to take Deulofeu, 22, on loan for the remainder of the season.
Deulofeu has made 13 appearances for Everton this season.
"I spoke to Gerard and it's a difficult situation for the player," said Koeman. "If he finds a solution to go and get game-time then it's no problem.
"But the final decision will be down to the board."
Everton are waiting to see if Milan will come back with a new offer.
Ajax is another potential destination for a player who can leave but is expected to cost a loan fee.
Middlesbrough have also been linked with a January move for Deulofeu.
The Spaniard joined Everton on loan from Barcelona for the 2013-14 season, making the transfer permanent in 2015 for £4.3m.
Jagielka, 34, has been linked with a move to Sunderland, managed by former Everton boss David Moyes.
He joined the Toffees in July 2007 from Sheffield United and has gone on to make over 300 appearances for the club.
Everton also remain interested in signing Manchester United winger Memphis Depay during the winter transfer window, though he is likely to join French side Lyon.
On Sunday, Simon Hamilton announced that an extra £30m pounds would be made available in the next financial year to try to tackle waiting lists.
That is on top of the £40m he announced in November.
Eugene Kennedy has been waiting two years for surgery on his shoulders and 12 months for a knee operation.
The 56-year-old, who lives in Antrim, said he wrote to the health minister three weeks ago.
"We have not felt the benefit of £40m. It hasn't come to our door," he said.
"I have had nothing back - not even an acknowledgement that the letter was received.
"We need somebody to run the damn thing like a business and get business like.
"Stop this waste and fix the damn thing once and for all."
The BBC understands that while most of the £40m is being spent on patients, less than two thirds has actually gone on tackling waiting lists.
But the health minister insists the impact of the £40m is starting to be felt.
"We are already seeing that impacting on waiting lists," he said.
"Yes, they're high but they are starting to go down. Provisional figures from the end of February show there's been a decrease in those waiting for longer than the targeted times for inpatient and outpatient appointments.
"I want to keep that momentum going."
Economist John Simpson said long-term solutions are needed.
"This has to be delivered for the tens of thousands of people and this has to be delivered for them as well as the individuals," he said.
"We have put ourselves in an almost impossible position. We have almost eroded the value of the health service in the last number of years. Now is the time for a careful but fairly efficient delivery of a system that ensures we don't build up waiting lists again.
Dr George O'Neill is a GP in west Belfast. He said leadership is needed.
"This is just a band aid - this is not a quick fix," he said.
"Can we not get health out of politics? Can we not move on where we all come together to improve the health service. It can be done, there's a willingness not only in the community but in those who deliver health and social care.
"Unless we do this we will go from disaster to disaster."
Eugene Kennedy said all he wants is help.
"All I want is this sorted so that I can moved forward with my life. At the moment, I can't move forward with my life," he said.
The camp would house up to 500 asylum seekers in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, near Plattsburgh, New York.
The construction begins about a week after Montreal turned its Olympic Stadium into a shelter for refugees arriving from the US.
More than 3,300 people crossed into Quebec between 1 January and 30 June.
The military-built camp would house hundreds of asylum seekers in heated tents fitted with flooring and electricity while they wait for their refugee applications to be processed, said a statement from the military.
Patrick Lefort, a spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation there is currently a backlog of asylum seekers at Roxham Road, a popular crossing point near Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec.
It will take about two or three days for Canada Border Services to process the 700 asylum applications. In the meantime, there is no place for them to stay.
Francine Dupuis, of Praida, a provincial programme for the reception and integration of asylum seekers, told the BBC that another 1,200 people crossed into the province in July, about 90% of them from Haiti.
In May, Donald Trump announced that the US would end the programme that extended temporary protection to Haitian citizens after the devastating 2010 earthquake. That protection is due to expire in January 2018.
Since then, many asylum seekers have tried to get refugee status in Quebec, a French-speaking province.
No such protection exists in Canada, where the assessment is done case-by-case.
Haiti sent two government officials to meet the Quebec government on Tuesday, to discuss the situation.
Montreal's Olympic Stadium is being used to as a shelter in August, and the city also plans to use the decommissioned Royal Victoria Hospital into a 320-bed facility.
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The Irish secured a 40-29 win over the three-time world champions in Saturday's Test match in Chicago.
It was their first victory over the All Blacks in 111 years of trying.
"It's been a long time coming and history has been made," said Best, who dedicated the win to ex-Ireland captain Anthony Foley, who died last month.
"You can see how good a side they are and how much it means to our boys."
Players formed a figure eight when facing New Zealand's Haka before kick-off, in tribute to the playing number of Munster head coach Foley, who died aged 42.
"It just felt like the right thing to do and it was our way, as an Irish national team, just to show a mark of respect to Axel [Foley] and his family," Best added.
Best, who joined Peter Stringer as Ireland's fifth most-capped player by making his 98th appearance, said he "couldn't be prouder" of the work his side had put in.
The world champions had been described as the greatest rugby team of all time, and brought an 18-match winning run into the game.
But tries from Jordi Murphy, CJ Stander and Conor Murray helped the Irish to a 25-8 half-time lead.
Simon Zebo scored his side's fourth try in the corner, before Robbie Henshaw powered over late on for Ireland's fifth try in front of a 62,300 crowd.
"We just talked about attacking New Zealand," Best told BT Sport 2.
"If you give them ball and stand off them they're an unbelievably dangerous outfit. It felt like a home game for us."
New Zealand boss Steve Hansen hailed Ireland's victory, which came at the 29th attempt, admitting the All Blacks had been fortunate to win 24-22 in Dublin in 2013.
"We've got to make sure the loss isn't wasted, we've got to make sure it takes us somewhere where we get better," he said.
Ireland play Canada in their second autumn international in Dublin on 12 November, followed by a rematch with the All Blacks at the Aviva Stadium a week later.
Former Ireland captain Keith Wood on BBC Radio 5 live
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The horse, trained in Australia by John O'Shea, will bid to give Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team their first win in the "race that stops a nation".
Big Orange, for Michael Bell, seeks to become the first British-trained victor in the contest's 156th running.
More than 100,000 fans are expected at the track on what is a public holiday in the state of Victoria.
Hartnell only finished 15th last year but won the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington last month before finishing runner-up in the Cox Plate.
Godolphin have four other runners trained in Britain - Saeed bin Suroor's Secret Number and Beautiful Romance and Charlie Appleby's pair of Oceanographer and Qewy - with prize money of AUS $6.2m (£3.86m) up for grabs.
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Wintour, who has edited US Vogue for almost 30 years, has received a damehood and Davies has been knighted.
Comedy legend Ken Dodd has been knighted for services to entertainment and charity, at the age of 89.
Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance has also received a knighthood.
Rylance, who is honoured for services to theatre, won the best supporting actor Oscar earlier this year for Bridge of Spies. He also had a Bafta-winning role as Thomas Cromwell in the 2015 BBC Two mini-series Wolf Hall.
Dodd told the BBC he was "very proud and highly tickled" to be knighted.
"I'm very proud and I'd like to thank all the people who wished it for me because they're the ones that made it (happen), so thank you very much."
Asked if the honour was overdue, he joked: "Oh no - my library books are, but this came as a complete surprise and it's a wonderful feeling."
Ray Davies formed The Kinks with his brother Dave in Muswell Hill, north London in 1963. They influenced generations of British bands from The Jam to Blur and Oasis, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
Davies admitted he was surprised by the honour, saying: "Initially I felt a mixture of surprise, humility, joy and a bit embarrassed but after thinking about it, I accept this for my family and fans as well as everyone who has inspired me to write."
Actress Patricia Routledge has been made a dame for services to theatre and charity.
She is perhaps best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances but has had a prolific career in theatre in the UK and on Broadway.
She said she was "very surprised indeed but very pleased that the Honour pertains to theatre".
Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel has been knighted for services to music, saying it was "an immense honour to receive such an accolade".
"I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for all the support and encouragement I have received from the great British public and further afield," he added. "I am truly humbled."
War photographer Don McCullin has been knighted for services to photography.
The 81-year-old said his knighthood brought "a lot of honour" to his family.
"This knighthood is not going to change my life - it can't. I'm too old, I'm too set in my ways.
"I have a great respect for life and people. It won't change me. I just feel inwardly warmed by it."
Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre have been made Companions of Honour - a special award for service of conspicuous national importance limited to 65 people at a time.
The Times cartoonist Peter Brookes, the Almeida Theatre's artistic director Rupert Goold and retired BBC newsreader Angela Rippon are among those who have been appointed CBEs.
Double Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan has been honoured with an OBE.
She was was famously - and jokingly - referred to by Stephen Fry at the Baftas as a dressing like a "bag lady".
The 66-year-old said she felt "honoured and humbled to receive such an amazing 'award' for a job that I simply love doing - storytelling through clothes.
"Hopefully some of these stories can help to connect, bring enjoyment, or make someone feel they are not alone - and do some good in this difficult world."
Former Spice Girl turned fashion designer Victoria Beckham has been honoured with an OBE for services to the fashion industry. Her husband David Beckham was honoured with an OBE 13 years ago.
Also being awarded OBEs are artist Patrick Brill, aka Bob and Roberta Smith, and actress Naomie Harris, who plays Moneypenny opposite Daniel Craig's James Bond.
They are joined by actors Helen McCrory and Tim Pigott-Smith for their services to drama.
TV and stage actors Sharon D Clarke and Clive Rowe are among those awarded MBEs, as is 1960s pop star Marty Wilde - real name Reginald Leonard Smith.
Anna Wintour has been honoured for services to fashion. She started her journalism career as an editorial assistant in 1970, when Harper's Bazaar UK merged with Queen to become Harpers & Queen.
She moved to New York and became a junior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar in 1975. After becoming Vogue's first creative director in 1983, she was made editor of the UK edition in 1985.
She took over the US edition in 1987 and her no-nonsense style of micro-management earned her the nickname Nuclear Wintour.
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As Britain struggles to solve its housing shortage crisis, experts have been looking at the best solutions to building new homes.
Professor Philip Oldfield and the Sustainable Tall Buildings Design Lab at the University of Nottingham have been trying to predict what new houses will look like in 2050.
A specially-commissioned animated film for BBC Inside Out shows a variety of approaches to how our homes might look in 40 years' time.
The homes of tomorrow could range from sky-high apartments in vertical villages to flat-pack, pre-fabricated housing and eco homes.
Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One on Monday, 21 September at 19:30 BST and nationwide for 30 days thereafter on the iPlayer.
The bodies of a man and a woman were found between Salhouse Broad and Wroxham Broad after a search by divers.
The boat was found on Saturday tied to a tree, close to Salhouse Little Broad, after police were called because it had not been returned as arranged.
Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
The woman's body was found just after 14:00 BST on Sunday while the man's body was found after 16:35 BST.
Police said the girl - who was found on the boat unharmed - had been told about the deaths and was being comforted by relatives.
Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out on Monday while formal identification of the bodies has yet to be carried out, police said.
Head of the investigation, Det Supt Pete Hornby, said officers were in the early stages of their inquiries "working to establish the sequence of events which led to this evening's tragic outcome".
"The motives surrounding the incident remain unclear but at this time we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths," he added.
Police said they were called at 17:00 BST on Saturday by a member of the public concerned about the whereabouts of the boat and that it was found shortly afterwards.
The girl, who was found on board alone but unharmed, spent Saturday night in protective custody.
The craft was taken to Le Boat boatyard in Horning where it continues to be examined by police.
A mile-long section of the River Bure between Salhouse and Wroxham broads - closed while police searched the area - has reopened to boating traffic.
Democracy Avenue runs parallel to the main ferry port on Aegina.
The holiday destination is close to Athens and popular with foreign and Greek tourists alike.
Aegina also regularly plays host to Greece's current Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, and his Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
But despite the island's popularity and accessibility, its economy is suffering.
A fall in visitors from abroad, put off by the debt crisis, plus the tight restrictions on cash withdrawals affecting Greek residents, have hit Aegina's businesses hard.
Room occupancy this summer is just 15%, a spokesman for the island's hotel owners said, down from around 80% in good times.
To find out how the situation is affecting day-to-day life on Aegina we spoke to four islanders who run businesses on Democracy Avenue to find out how Greece's financial woes have affected them - and how they plan to vote.
1. Thodoris Miras, 31, bar owner
Islanders are relatively isolated and dependent on tourism, says Thodoris. The last five months of negotiations have been hard for local businesses.
The capital controls mean that people can't be paid and the business is struggling to buy products it needs.
Thodoris will be voting "Yes" as he doesn't want to gamble away his business. No one knows what would happen if it's a "No" vote, he says.
2. Nektaria Kakousi, 41, fruit seller
Nektaria says Greek people need to learn to work hard as those that do "always succeed."
She's also noticed a difference, particularly in the last two years, and says customers are always watching the bill.
She's not worried about the result of the referendum as she believes the result is "already planned".
Nektaria says Greece is the most beautiful place in the world and it will never die.
3. Kostas Miras, 83, cafe owner
Kostas Miras has owned and worked in his cafe on Democracy Avenue for more than sixty years.
The pensioner lived under the Nazi occupation of Greece but he still fears for the future. He believes neither option in the upcoming referendum is good for the country.
He believes it would be difficult to go back to the drachma.
Kostas will be voting yes as he want to stay in Europe, he says.
4. Yianna Sorou, 52, fishmonger
It's an early start for Yianna each morning at a fishmonger's at a market just off Democracy Avenue. It's a business she inherited from her grandfather.
The financial crisis has changed the island, she says, as people think twice about the expense of making the trip.
She says sales of fish have fallen as Greek people now consider it too expensive, despite it once being "the food of poor people."
She believes there is no other choice for Greece but to stay in the eurozone.
He is a rich man who wants to be richer, in short; and a Saudi investor seeking influence.
Money and influence are the two main reasons that people invest in media, and there's no reason to think Abuljadayel is any different.
Like Evgeny Lebedev, the majority owner of the Independent and the London Evening Standard with whom he is now a partner, Abuljadayel inherited his wealth.
The 42-year-old Saudi hails from a family with huge international property investments, and I am told he is not a member of the Saudi royal family or government.
But in a theocracy where all roads lead back to the House of Saud, the links between Abuljadayel and a monarchy whose reformist noises cannot conceal an appalling record on human rights will now come under the spotlight.
I have already been contacted by staff at the Independent - who are on the whole young, internationalist, and liberal in outlook - discomforted by the principle of a Saudi investor.
Their concern is naturally over "editorial restrictions as to what we could run".
This would be true of any investor, of course. But the Saudi connection will prove especially troublesome to several staff, not least young female writers disgusted by treatment of women in that country.
The deal, concluded in June, has been structured to allay concerns about editorial independence.
He will have no place on the Board, and guarantees have been written into the Shareholder Agreement.
Evgeny Lebedev retains 41%; Justin Byam Shaw, an entrepreneur, will have 26%; and a few other minor shareholders make up the rest.
The Independent is known around the world for its coverage of the Middle East, led by Patrick Cockburn, Robert Fisk and Kim Sengupta.
It opposed the Iraq War and has been ferocious in its condemnation of the Saudi regime - including during the time that this deal was in the works.
Expect a big anti-Saudi story in the next few days to prove the independent credentials of the publication.
The Independent newspaper - of which I was editor between June 2013 and its closure last March - was founded by idealists who wanted an upmarket, centrist paper free from editorial interference.
Goodness know what they would have made of the modern publication, a left-wing multi-platform digital title, pursuing a viral social media strategy with frequently salacious stories, whose main owners are the son of a former KGB economic attaché and the scion of Saudi property owners.
And yet, while the paper - which Rupert Murdoch targeted in a brutal 1990s price war - was bedevilled by financial problems, the website is now profitable and valued at around £100m.
That was simply unimaginable even five years ago.
Back then, the paper was losing around £17m, and its horror-filled path to profitability was a combination of price rises (including on the sister paper, The I, subsequently sold to Johnston Press) and cost savings across editorial, production and distribution. Full disclosure: I was responsible for delivering some of the latter.
Now the distribution costs don't exist, because the bizarre and expensive ritual of printing things on paper, putting it in lorries, and driving it to shops around the country has been eradicated.
And unlike, for instance, the Guardian, the Independent retains few of the senior, expensive and highly experienced staff of old.
The new staff, while talented and digitally savvy, are on average younger and cheaper too.
Many newspaper groups try to ride two horses: both print and digital.
The Independent, which has innovation in its DNA - it was the first title to go compact, and launched that brilliant sister title in 2010 - decided to abandon one horse altogether.
Other publications will wonder whether the commercial revival of the Independent suggests they should consider following the same strategy.
It's not always clear that they should.
First of all, the Independent online is a very different beast to the paper, and frequently publishes articles that would never have got close to the print version.
Second, the newspaper's circulation was so low towards the end, that its print revenues - while vital - could quickly be supplanted by digital revenue growth.
That is not yet true of somewhere like the Guardian, the Financial Times or the Daily Mail, for whom print revenues remain vast.
And third, moving to the much lower cost base of a younger editorial staff involves a huge amount of pain - including extensive redundancies - that many titles, and executives, just won't have the stomach for.
The huge injection of cash in the Independent will now be used to fund long-promised international expansion, with Urdu and Arab language services being explored.
One third of revenues at the title come from the US, where the anti-Trump wave has been a boon.
That's why I called him a saviour of the media. Within a few years, the business will be predominantly US-focused.
In terms of the short-term needs of ESI Media, the group which The Independent is part of (together with the Standard and television station London Live), this is precious cash for another reason.
It used to be the case that the Independent was loss-making, while the Standard was profitable.
This was always susceptible to misinterpretation both inside and outside the company, because it wasn't a verdict on the relative quality of the titles: it just so happened that the Standard's business model, in which it had become a free title under the Lebedevs, was successful.
No more. The Standard, where George Osborne is editor, now faces terrifying commercial realities.
Print display advertising provides almost all of the roughly £70m in revenues at the paper (whose website is much smaller than the Independent).
That is likely to fall to around £65m this year - which is why I have been making the point repeatedly here that Osborne's task is as much commercial as editorial.
For those who worked at the Independent in its long and proud history, a situation where Russian and Saudi money are used to fund not just international growth at the title, but the ambitions of a Tory ex-Chancellor now installed in the editor's chair of a sister title is, well, a long way from what the founders intended.
They could be forgiven a wry smile today. For staff at the title, the initial surprise will give way to a mixture of relief at their new wealth and concern about its origins.
On Friday the St George Illawarra second row was named in an initial 58-strong Tonga squad for their forthcoming Asia-Pacific World Cup qualifier against the Cook Islands.
Frizell played three Tests for Wales in the 2013 World Cup.
Wales team manager Bob Wilson said: "We met with Tyson earlier this year... and he gave a clear commitment to Wales."
Wilson added: "On seeing the announcement by Tonga we have been in contact with Tyson to check if this was correct and we are delighted to say that the player remains a Welsh international.
"He is a huge talent and his assurances that he is committed to Wales' push towards the 2017 Rugby League World Cup is a great boost to us all."
Wales say they have been aware for some time that Frizell is unavailable for this year's European Championship.
Wollongong-born Frizell made his debut for Wales against Ireland in 2011 and made two further appearances in the Four Nations tournament the same year.
The victim, who uses a walking stick, was punched in the chest and knocked unconscious during the "cowardly" attack.
Police are hunting two men who attacked him in Mannamead Road, Plymouth, at 10:45 GMT on 28 January.
He was approached by the two men who demanded cash and rifled through his pockets.
When he hit one of them with his stick, he was punched in the chest and knocked unconscious as he fell to the ground.
The victim was treated by paramedics and is now recovering at home.
Det Con Helen Batten said: "This was a cowardly attack on a man with a disability for a small sum of money. The victim was left very shaken by this incident."
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One offender is described as white, in his mid-30s, with short mousy brown hair and facial stubble. He was wearing a navy blue top and blue jeans.
The second man is aged 20 to 30, about 5ft 4in tall, with a slight moustache and possibly bald. He was wearing a cream-coloured fleece and blue jeans.
A man, believed to be in his 30s was pronounced dead at about 06:00 BST in Birmingham City Centre.
Two others, thought to have been with the man in Fletchers Walk, were also taken to hospital.
West Midlands Police warned users of the drug they were "putting their lives at risk".
Black Mamba mimics the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive chemical in cannabis.
Synthetic forms of the drug are more potent than its naturally-occurring counterpart, increasing the risk of harmful side effects.
These can include psychotic episodes, convulsions and organ failure.
Black Mamba was among a raft of so-called legal highs which were outlawed when the Psychoactive Substances Act came into effect last year.
Web hosting company OVH said it had been attacked by a botnet (zombie army) of hacked devices such as webcams.
The previous largest attack was thought to be one on security expert Brian Krebs' website which hit 620Gbps (gigabits per second).
That was also thought to be mounted via a botnet of compromised smart devices.
It is not known whether the attacks were mounted by the same botnet.
Both were so-called distributed denial of service attacks - in which websites are hit by massive amounts of data.
They have thrown the spotlight once again on the security of IoT (internet of things) devices.
According to a recent report on IoT malware from security firm Symantec, cybercriminals are increasingly looking for vulnerable smart devices - such as TVs, home security systems and webcams.
"Cybercriminals are interested in cheap bandwidth to enable bigger attacks. They obtain this by hijacking our devices and stitching together a large web of consumer devices that are easy to infect because they lack sophisticated security," said Nick Shaw from Symantec's Norton division.
OVH founder Octave Klaba has been tweeting about the ongoing attack, updating followers on the number of devices that are joining the botnet, which at one point including more than 145,000 devices : "+15,654 new CCTV participated in the DDoS last 48H," his last tweet reads.
Mr Krebs' website was offline for nearly a week and, according to Akamai - the security firm that supported the site - the attack was nearly double the size of any previous one it had seen and was "among the biggest assaults the internet has ever witnessed".
Dave Larson, chief technology officer at security firm Corero, said that IoT botnets were disrupting the industry.
"The tools and devices used to execute the attacks are readily available to just about anyone; combining this with almost complete anonymity creates a recipe to break the internet."
MOT tester Sean Reddington was driving the car into a workshop on Ivatt Way, Peterborough, when it was surrounded for about 10 minutes.
Elsewhere, Woodston Ponds nature reserve in the city has been shut until Monday because a swarm of honey bees has settled in a tree.
It is not known if the two reported swarms are connected.
Mr Reddington, who saw the first swarm on Thursday, said: "At first there were just a couple of bees, then suddenly there were thousands.
"I made sure the car's air vents were closed. I don't mind bees - just not that many bees."
He said the swarm moved on but he did not know to where.
Since then, the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire has closed its Woodston Ponds nature reserve on Wharf Road.
A spokesman said a swarm of honey bees arrived at about 11:00 BST and settled in a tree.
The site was closed for public safety reasons and to ensure the bees were not disturbed before they could be safely removed.
The British Beekeepers Association said bees can swarm when a hive is full and some leave to form a new colony.
A swarm contains a queen bee and up to 20,000 worker bees.
The swarming season is from April to July but the peak is from early May to mid June.
Swarms are not dangerous unless disturbed or aggravated - for example if sprayed with water, the association said.
Policymakers worried about lower-than-expected inflation as well as slow wage growth in the US economy, the world's largest.
The Fed has kept its benchmark interest rate at zero since late 2008, when it slashed rates to boost the economy.
Most observers do not expect a rate rise before this summer.
"Many participants indicated that their assessment of the balance of risks associated with the timing of the beginning of policy normalization had inclined them toward keeping [rates at zero] for a longer time," the minutes said.
Although the US economy has been growing at a healthy rate, sluggish growth abroad combined with slower-than-expected wage increases have made policymakers wary of raising rates and unnecessarily stifling economic growth.
During the meeting, officials were concerned about developments abroad, including the war in Ukraine, a slowdown in China's economy and continued negotiations between Greece and its creditors.
They were further concerned that markets might be inclined to overreact should the Fed drop language from its statement indicating that it could be "patient" in raising rates, adding to a decision to move at a slower pace.
Clive Colling has been missing from Bideford in north Devon since New Year's Day.
Police searches involving helicopters and dogs alongside specialist mountain rescue teams from Exmoor and Dartmoor have been looking for nearly a week.
Volunteers met at Northam Burrows near Westward Ho! to offer help trying to find Mr Colling, who has dementia.
Trevor Tomlinson, who helped organise the search over sixteen areas, said: "He may have just got up in the night and went for a walk and got lost, I've got no idea.
"The local community spirit is amazing in this area and I think they all want to try and help."
During the day there were reports Mr Colling had been seen in a nearby cafe but it proved to be a false alarm.
They ran in five tries to Scotland's one but had to wait until the result of Wales' match against Ireland to find out if they had won the title.
Wales's 41-27 win confirmed England as the competition's winners.
England can win the Grand Slam when they take on Ireland in their final game in Dublin on 17 March.
England U20 coach Tom Williams said: "We have sown up the Six Nations title this evening but we all want the Grand Slam - that is what we set out to achieve at the start of the competition.
"Ireland are going to be a real handful next week and it will be a massive game playing for the Grand Slam on St Patrick's Day."
That match will take place the day before the senior England side visit Ireland in a bid for their own Grand Slam, after thrashing Scotland 61-21 on Saturday.
His time as Motherwell manager came to an end less than a day after the Scottish League Cup defeat by Greenock Morton, but there ought to be no surprise that the club's owner acted with such clarity and decisiveness.
Les Hutchison has spent his working life scaling the heights of the business world. He was not immune to the personal cost suffered by Baraclough but it would have caused Hutchison greater disquiet to fail to address what he considered to be the growing problem of players not performing to their potential.
Hutchison has a club to revive and his own investment to manage. He was bluntly critical of some of the players and the rebuke would have been a reminder that everybody at Fir Park has a livelihood to maintain. Even so, it is always the manager's office that is cleared out more readily, and cost-effectively, than the dressing room.
The majority shareholder's involvement with Motherwell began as an act of philanthropy. The sums involved - at least a high six-figure loan so far - and football's emotional nature deter a remote approach.
Hutchison's main home is in Barbados but he keeps in regular contact with club officials while his daughter, Leanne Thomas, was one of three appointments he made to the board.
Baraclough took over as manager just before Hutchison completed his takeover, although the new owner was consulted. As the process begins again, Hutchison's involvement will be more directly influential.
There is no appetite at Fir Park for radical upheaval. Hutchison identified areas that badly need investment and attention: the non-football revenue streams, the scouting network and the youth academy. All have been addressed.
The next manager will have to work within a framework that prioritises signing undervalued players with the potential to be developed and youngsters graduating to the first team.
That strategy is the ideal of every club.
Motherwell have more pressing concerns, since an underperforming squad needs to be motivated and cajoled into more effective displays in the Scottish Premiership.
The candidate will be familiar in many ways, since he will need to fit the same profile as Baraclough.
A more commanding personality, or better defined leadership skills, will feature prominently in the search, though. There are good players in the Motherwell squad but Baraclough was unable to motivate strong and consistent performances from them. If there was any resistance to the manager and his methods, then change was inevitable.
There is a long-term strategy in place but mediocrity is the first ambition. Motherwell's wage bill and resources would be in-line with a mid-table finish and that will seem welcome right now in the midst of a period of turmoil.
Sentiment is another casualty of managerial departures. By the end of the day that Baraclough departed, Motherwell had already received 14 expressions of interest and have now had more than 30 applicants for the role.
The club will look to appoint swiftly but not rush the decision. A shortlist was drawn up the last time and at least one of the names on it - Dutchman and former Fir Park player Rob Maaskant - has ambitions to manage in Scotland. He is currently in charge of NAC Breda.
Mitchell van der Gaag also featured prominently last year, while other figures to be linked with the job already are Mixu Paatelainen, James Fowler and the club's former manager, Stuart McCall.
The search may not need to be expansive. Under-20s coach Stephen Craigan has been put in temporary charge of the first team, having returned to the club in July. Still a favourite of the Motherwell fans, he was caretaker in 2009 before Jim Gannon was appointed.
Craigan is close to many of the senior players - who Hutchison insists must play a leading role in the team's revival - and he already has good knowledge of the capabilities within the squad. He watched every game from the stand and was in contact with the bench during games.
There is economic logic, too, since he is already on the payroll and has worked with the current assistant manager, Steve Robinson, in the Northern Ireland youth squads.
Nothing will seem more urgent to Motherwell fans than the appointment of the next manager. Hutchison will feel the same, but he must also keep in mind the strategy for the coming years.
He bought the club's majority shareholding with a view to passing it on to the Well Society and delivering a fan-owned club to the local community.
He is due a series of repayments to enable the transfer but has already felt the need to urge more fans to sign up for the Well Society. Without enough backing from the supporters, the organisation will never raise the money required and Hutchison has said that he has no intention of remaining as the club's owner.
Financial considerations are paramount for the club, since Motherwell lost money even when finishing second in the top flight.
If Hutchison has to invest more, then the Well Society has to raise more. The only alternative to the fans taking control in the original five-year timeframe is the club being sold to somebody else.
Hutchison's involvement is based on improving Motherwell's fortunes on and off the field but he has no intention of becoming a benefactor. In the meantime, he has to shape the team's immediate fortunes.
Juan Sartori made an offer for the League One club earlier this year and has also been speaking to stadium owner Firoz Kassam.
Speaking exclusively to BBC Oxford, he said he got "quite close" to a deal with current club owner Darryl Eales.
But he said it was a "personal decision" by Mr Eales not to sell.
Mr Sartori said he thought he could have built "a great project" around the club.
He said: "The idea was to strengthen the academy, to develop the ground, to work at resolving the real estate issue."
Mr Sartori added: "[It was] 100% a decision from Darryl, to continue a little bit more. He thinks he can still give the club a lot of things, to go for the promotion."
He said he was "a little bit disappointed" but that he is sure "Darryl will do a great job and take the club further from here".
Mr Eales, who has always said publically the club is not for sale, said it was "a personal decision, a judgement call" to break off talks.
He added: "It was probably just easier to end the speculation and say 'not right now'."
Monaco-based Mr Sartori first expressed an interest in Oxford after watching their home game against Bolton in March.
The 36-year-old is the son-in-law of AS Monaco chairman and Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.
Oxford United have been owned by Mr Eales since July 2014 and have won promotion from League Two and made two Wembley appearances in the EFL Trophy final since then.
Mr Sartori has met with members of the club's supporters' trust, OxVox, and minority club shareholder Stewart Donald.
The legislation will convert EU law into British law.
First minister Nicola Sturgeon has described it as a "naked power grab" as it does not immediately return EU powers to devolved administrations.
But Scottish Secretary David Mundell has insisted the bill would result in a powers "bonanza" for Holyrood.
Now Mr Russell has written to all MSPs seeking support for the Scottish government's position.
The repeal bill, published earlier this week, is designed to transpose EU law into British law so the same rules apply on the day of Brexit as the day before, while giving parliaments and assemblies in Westminster, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff the power to drop or change them in the future.
Mr Russell said that Scotland "risks having to fight for powers that should rightfully belong to the Scottish Parliament" because the legislation "contains no promise to protect these".
He said: "Scotland will stand the best chance of keeping control of its devolved powers if the Scottish government can act with the full backing of our national Parliament.
"The first minister has already called on Members of the Scottish Parliament to join us now, with no equivocation, to back demands for the democratically elected Scottish government to be at the table in the UK's Brexit negotiating strategy.
"But we also need to make a stand against the UK government retaining powers that rightfully should come to Scotland once repatriated from the EU."
In his letter, Mr Russell highlighted concerns that the bill enables UK-wide frameworks on devolved matters to be "imposed" by the UK government rather than "agreed" with the devolved administrations.
He added: "We are also concerned that the scheme in the bill for correcting devolved law is unlikely to be workable in its current form. It creates a complex division of decision-making responsibility that does not reflect the reality of devolution.
"In particular, it empowers UK ministers to make changes in devolved policy areas without any involvement of either the Scottish government or the Scottish Parliament. This includes policy areas, such as the Scottish justice system, where the Scottish Parliament has primary responsibility."
The UK government said it expected the outcome of the process to be "a significant increase in the decision-making power of each devolved administration".
A spokesman added: "We welcome the Scottish and Welsh governments recognising common frameworks may be needed in some areas. Our aim is to establish common frameworks only where they are needed."
In a briefing to journalists following the publication of the repeal bill, Scottish Secretary David Mundell said that the return of powers and responsibilities currently exercised by the EU to the UK was a "transitional arrangement" that would allow for the further onward devolution of powers.
He said: "This is not a power grab, it is a power bonanza for the Scottish Parliament because after this bill has been implemented the Scottish Parliament will have more powers and responsibilities than it has today."
Scottish Liberal Democrat business manager Mike Rumbles described the bill as a "huge executive power grab" and said his party would work with others to protect devolution.
He added: "It is essential that the Scottish government and the Scottish Parliament have a central role in devolved policy areas and that any powers repatriated from the EU in these areas come to Scotland."
On Thursday, the first minister met Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, in Brussels.
Ms Sturgeon wants membership of the European single market and the customs union to be at the heart of Brexit process, but Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted the UK will be leaving both.
The UK government has also previously rejected Ms Sturgeon's calls for the Scottish government to be involved in the Brexit talks.
It has pledged to "consult" with the UK's devolved administrations during the Brexit process.
The true identity of the woman in the song Common People, by the British band Pulp, has remained a mystery for years.
But one Greek newspaper thinks it has worked out her identity - it says she is the wife of the Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
Danae Stratou certainly seems to match many of the criteria - and, in an interview with the BBC, her husband came closer to clearing up the mystery.
Pulp's hit song was released in May 1995 and went in at number two in the British charts.
The song's opening lines are: "She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge. She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College, that's where I caught her eye."
She goes on to say she wants to "live like common people".
The Athens Voice newspaper says the rumours Ms Stratou was the subject of the song were "an urban legend", although it appears it is the first time they have been aired publicly.
She studied at St Martin's College, an arts college in London, between 1983 and 1988.
Jarvis Cocker, the lead singer of Pulp, took a film studies course at the same college from 1988 to 1991.
One of the song's lyrics says: "She told me that her Dad was loaded."
And Ms Stratou's father certainly was - her paternal grandfather ran Peiraki-Patraiki, which at one point was Greece's largest textiles company and one of the country's biggest employers.
Ms Stratou herself has not yet commented, nor has Mr Cocker.
But Mr Varoufakis - who became finance minister when the Syriza party won the Greek elections in January - has shed a little more light on the rumours.
In an interview with BBC World News Mr Varoufakis said: "Well, I wouldn't have known her back then.
"But I do know that she was the only Greek student of sculpture at St Martin's College at that time. And, from personal experience, she is a very fascinating person."
There is one other candidate - the Cypriot artist, Katerina Kana. In an 2012 interview, she told a Greek magazine she was the one who told Jarvis Cocker she wanted to live like common people.
Crewe Alexandra target Devitt, 25, has signed a two-year deal, having spent 18 months at the Globe Arena.
Lambe, also 25, turned down a new contract with Mansfield to move to Brunton Park on a one-year deal.
He joined the Stags in September 2014 following spells in Canada and Sweden, making 73 appearances for the club.
"Reggie had more financially lucrative offers, but he's chosen to come here," head of recruitment Lee Dykes told Carlisle's website.
"People like Reggie can unlock doors for you in difficult situations. We'll be able to play him in a number of positions. He's a wide player who can come in off the line, or go down it, and he's good with both feet."
Former Hull City young player of the year Devitt made 98 appearances for Morecambe, scoring 12 goals, seven of which came last season, his best in any campaign since 2009.
The Irishman held talks with Alex boss Steve Davis, who had hoped to make him his second signing of the summer, but he opted for Cumbria instead.
"Jamie played a big part in three of the four goals we conceded against Morecambe," said Dykes. "He was one of the most effective players we faced."
Libya began their campaign with a 5-1 win in Tunis against Seychelles in Group E.
The match had been switched from Libya to Tunisia for security reasons.
In the first qualifier for Cameroon 2019, Madagascar were 3-1 winners away to Sudan in Al-Obeid.
Libya's dominance over Seychelles began in the 23rd minute as Anis Mohamed Saltou fired the Mediterranean Knights ahead.
Ahmad Benal added the second from the penalty spot four minutes later with Hamdou El Houni (pictured) scoring the third on the stroke of half-time.
Mohamed Zubya scored the fourth after 66th minutes and Muaid Ellafi made it five towards the end.
Leroy Coralie scored a late consolation goal for Seychelles.
Nigeria will host South Africa in the other Group E game in Uyo later on Staurday.
Madagascar kicked off the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign with a 3-1 win over Sudan in Al-Obeid as France-based Faneva Andriatsima bagged a brace.
Andriatsima opened the scoring for the Islanders when he broke into the heart of defence to rifle home from close range in the 15th minute.
Carolus Andriamahitsinoro won and scored a penalty to double the lead in the 62nd minute.
Atahir pulled one back for the home side nine minutes later, but Andriatsima completed his brace with six minutes left to seal a comfortable away win.
Hundreds of Senegalese were killed in a local separatist conflict in the southern region of Casamance, but violence has waned since a 2014 ceasefire.
The country's stability has allowed it to send peacekeeping troops to DR Congo, Liberia and Kosovo.
Slaves, ivory and gold were exported from the coast during the 17th and 18th centuries and now the economy is based mainly on agriculture. The money sent home by Senegalese living abroad is a key source of revenue.
Population 13.1 million
Area 196,722 sq km (75,955 sq miles)
Major languages French (official), Wolof
Major religion Islam
Life expectancy 59 years (men), 61 years (women)
Currency CFA (Communaute Financiere Africaine) franc
President: Macky Sall
Once an ally of former President Abdoulaye Wade, Macky Sall created his own opposition party in 2008 and defeated Wade in the 2012 elections.
During his time in office, the separatist conflict in the southern Casamance region has waned, and in 2014 rebel leader Salif Sadio declared a unilateral ceasefire.
Mr Sall proposed reducing the presidential term from seven years to five, saying he wanted to set an example within Africa, where many leaders cling to power beyond their allotted term. The proposal won approval in a March 2016 referendum but will only be implemented after Mr Sall's term.
Senegal has a lively political scene, with parties competing across ethnic, religious and ideological lines.
Senegal has traditionally enjoyed one of the most unrestricted press climates in the region. But Reporters Without Borders warned media freedom faced threats before the 2012 elections when there were "physical attacks on news media, jamming of radio broadcasts, abusive prosecutions and the jailing of journalists".
Laws that ban reports that discredit the state, incite disorder or spread "false news" have encouraged self-censorship. The private media, however, is often critical of the government.
Some key dates in Senegal's history:
8th century - Present-day Senegal is part of the Kingdom of Ghana.
1677 - French take over island of Goree from the Dutch, the start of nearly 300 years of French oversight.
1756-63 - Seven Years' War: Britain takes over French posts in Senegal, forms colony of Senegambia. France regains its holdings during American Revolutionary War of 1775-83.
1960 - Senegal becomes an independent country.
2000 - Opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade wins second round of presidential elections, ending 40 years of Socialist Party rule.
2004 - Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces and government sign pact aimed at ending secessionist struggle in the southern province of Casamance. But violence continues until rebel leader Salif Sadio declares a unilateral ceasefire in 2014.
2012 - Macky Sall wins presidential elections and his coalition wins the parliamentary elections. MPs abolish the upper house, the Senate, and the post of vice president in an effort to save money for flood relief. Critics say the aim is to weaken the opposition.
Set in New England in 1630, The Witch follows a Yorkshire family's struggles on a remote plot of land on the fringes of a dark forest.
As if eking out a existence in the wilderness of a strange new world is not bad enough, the household finds itself under attack in disturbing events. Crops mysteriously fail, livestock turn nasty, a child vanishes and another appears to be possessed by an evil spirit.
East Kilbride-born Dickie reckons she was more than ready for the film's unsettling subject matter - thanks to her bedtime reading.
"My generation grew up with the Grimm fairytales. When I first read the script for The Witch, it felt like reading a Grimm fairytale," she says.
"I also grew up with Burns' Tam O'Shanter and the Scottish tradition of storytelling, so I felt quite an affinity with the film's story because I was fascinated with such stories when I was wee.
"These stories wouldn't make you scream out loud, it was more screaming on the inside because the tales were so sinister and unsettling."
Dickie, who played the paranoid, eerie castle-dwelling matriarch Lysa Arryn in TV fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, is mother-of-five Katherine in The Witch.
Her on-screen husband is a farmer from Yorkshire played by Ralph Ineson, who has also appeared in Game of Thrones but is probably best-known as Finchy in comedy series The Office.
"My character, Katherine, is at a real crossroads in her life," Dickie says.
"She has been pushed into the extremes with her family and starts to question some beliefs she had before.
"She is an interesting character who has a lot contradictions and her firm foundations are tested.
"They have left Yorkshire for New England to start this new life to be part of this Puritan plantation.
"But her family starts to crumble around her. Even at the beginning of the movie this is starting to happen."
Filming for Robert Eggers' directorial debut feature was largely done in forests close to an abandoned lumber town in Ontario in Canada.
Dickie says the shoot could be "physically hard" at times, adding that the production team and adult cast members always had the child actors' welfare at the forefront of their minds.
"Our base was this little town and we took over a hotel where we all lived together," she says.
"We had a week's rehearsal which gave the younger kids in the cast time to get to know us and trust us. It also gave us all a chance to form the familial bonds that were needed for the film."
The young cast members were also shielded from the movie's most frightening scenes.
Dickie says: "The kids would not see what was supposed to be scaring them. Instead they would get direction from Robert and, rather than what the audience sees in the film, they are reacting to a 'boo' from him.
"Travelling back together as a crew and cast allowed us to unwind and talk about the day with the kids.
"Although it was tough physically we had a great time and made some beautiful friendships. There were a lot of good vibes."
But "good vibes" are unlikely to be associated with any of Dickie's future roles in film or television.
"I would like to say I have a romcom or a comedy coming up next," she laughs, before adding: "Sorry, I can't say that is going to happen."
"I think because of the combination of my face and the stuff I am interested in, I get drawn to things that are complex and to characters living in a time in their lives that aren't easy. I'm fascinated with that."
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's The Witch is available on digital download and will be released to Blu-ray and DVD on Monday.
Converted tries from Conor Murray and Sean Maitland in a patchy first half gave the tourists a 14-0 lead at the interval.
"Sean O'Brien, the man of the match, must have exploded into the Lions squad for the second Test. He scored a great try from a line-out, crashing over. This will be a good boost for the Lions for Saturday - it is encouraging that the midweek team are back on the winning trail."
Sean O'Brien and Ben Youngs added further scores either side of a penalty try as the Lions pressed home their superiority.
Keeping a game and committed Rebels side scoreless was a tribute to the Lions' second string in the final midweek match of the tour.
Manu Tuilagi, O'Brien, Ian Evans, Richard Hibbard, captain Dan Lydiate and Toby Faletau all put in impressive shifts in a last effort to force their way into Test contention.
Whether any player did enough to play their way into the starting side on Saturday is debatable, although Tuilagi proved his trademark power was intact on his return from a shoulder injury.
While it was far from error-free, and the Lions spurned several more opportunities to add to their score, there was far greater purpose and intensity than the miserable effort in the 14-12 defeat by ACT Brumbies in their last midweek match.
After some early line-out woes, with two of their first three failing to hit the target, the Lions started to dominate possession and territory, with Tuilagi prominent in attack.
After winning a penalty from their first scrum, they demolished the Rebels in another, paving the way for Murray to scramble over in the right corner after Faletau was held short.
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They might have had a second moments later after establishing another strong position in the Rebels 22, but a Dan Cole fumble halted momentum.
It was an untidy few minutes from the England tight-head, who then proceeded to knock on, before the Lions were penalised for collapsing a scrum.
O'Brien, perhaps over-eager to show he should be in the Test squad, conceded an unnecessary penalty, but with Rebels full-back Jason Woodward unable to capitalise, the Ireland flanker promptly showed a more enterprising side to his game.
A neat offload to Tuilagi on the left wing allowed the powerful centre to scatter defenders and pave the way for a fine team try. Faletau slipped as he cut against the grain in front of the posts, but the ball was swiftly recycled and Simon Zebo sent Maitland over for an excellent score.
Farrell converted both tries for a 14-0 lead after 28 minutes and it stayed that way until half-time.
Rebels centre Mitch Inman twice threatened to breach the Lions' defence and the hosts kicked a penalty to touch but Evans, enjoying his best game of the tour so far, got up to steal it.
The Lions should have added to their tally early on the resumption but Maitland arrowed a long pass straight into touch rather than into the arms of the waiting O'Brien, who looked suitably unimpressed.
But the Irish flanker did not have long to wait for his try, powering over from Lydiate's short pass after Faletau had won a line-out close to the Rebels' line.
Farrell's third conversion made it 18 out of 19 on tour for the Lions before he was removed from the fray intact, with Saturday's second Test in mind.
The Lions were then awarded a penalty try after Evans won a line-out and the Rebels pulled down the maul, replacement Jordy Reid earning a yellow card for his efforts.
But despite their man advantage, the Lions were forced to scramble in defence, Zebo smashing Nick Stirzaker into touch after the replacement Rebels scrum-half broke away up the right flank.
Youngs scored a superb fifth try with seven minutes left as he sprinted onto fellow replacement Tom Croft's line-out tap-down to out-strip the remaining cover.
Melbourne Rebels: Jason Woodward, Tom English, Mitch Inmar, Rory Sidey, Lachlan Mitchell, Bryce Hegarty, Luke Burgess; Nic Henderson, Ged Robinson, Laurie Weeks, Cadeyrn Neville, Hugh Pyle, Jarrod Saffy, Scott Fuglistaller, Gareth Delve (capt).
Replacements: Pat Leafa (for Robinson, 61) Cruze Ah-Nau (for Henderson, 61) Paul Alo-Emilie (for Weeks, 61), Luke Jones (for Pyle, 41), Jordy Reid (for Delve, 56), Nic Stirzaker (for Burgess, 56), Angus Roberts (for Hegarty, 72), Cooper Vuna (for Inman, 50).
Yellow card: Reid (63)
British and Irish Lions: Rob Kearney; Sean Maitland, Manu Tuilagi, Brad Barritt, Simon Zebo; Owen Farrell, Conor Murray; Ryan Grant, Richard Hibbard, Dan Cole, Richie Gray, Ian Evans, Dan Lydiate (capt), Sean O'Brien, Toby Faletau.
Replacements: Rory Best (for Hibbard, 55), Tom Court (for Grant, 55), Matt Stevens (for Cole, 55), Tom Croft (for Lydiate, 64), Justin Tipuric (for O'Brien, 55), Ben Youngs (for Murray, 62), Owen Farrell , Billy Twelvetrees (blood, for Barritt, 32-40, for Kearney, 62), Stuart Hogg (for Farrell, 52).
Attendance: 28,648
Referee: Glenn Jackson (NZ)
The Dumfries and Galloway festival is staging its biggest ever programme when it gets under way later this month.
It is now opening a campsite in Duncan Park, which will have portable toilets and showers and a cooking area, and will cost £12 a night.
A total of 236 authors are set to take part in talks, workshops and signings between 23 September and 2 October.
Last year, organisers said 10,000 people visited the town during the festival but accommodation was hard to organise.
EventScotland is supporting the organisation of the site, while extra ferries are also being put on from Northern Ireland.
Artistic director Adrian Turpin said: "In 2015, around 22,000 tickets were issued for our events and over 10,000 people visited the Wigtown Book Festival; normally the town's population is 900.
"We've been very lucky to work with EventScotland and introduce a campsite connected to the book festival in the area for the first time to help the town accommodate the population swell."
He added: "Wigtown is Scotland's National Book Town, it's a great place to come and discover books, meet people and see the area that inspired some of Robert Burns's best work.
"As one of the world's best natural beauty spots, Dumfries and Galloway is famed for its incredible green landscape, rolling hills and views of the Milky Way.
"I hope that the new camping and ferry crossing opportunities encourages more people to come to the area and the 2016 Wigtown Book Festival."
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City moved above Liverpool and into third place on goal difference thanks to Saturday's 5-0 win over Crystal Palace.
Manchester United and Arsenal, who are fifth and sixth, meet on Sunday.
"There are four amazing teams fighting for the last two Champions League places," the Catalan boss said.
"It will be a big, big battle until the last game.
"Hopefully United can focus on the Europa League and forget a little bit about the Premier League and then next season we can have five English teams in the Champions League, which would be amazing," he added.
United will qualify for next season's Champions League if they win the Europa League, giving the Premier League an extra spot in the competition. Jose Mourinho's men lead Celta Vigo 1-0 from the first leg of their semi-final.
Although City can still mathematically catch second-placed Tottenham, this season will almost certainly be the first in Guardiola's managerial career where he has not achieved at least a top-two finish.
His Barcelona side finished runners-up to Real Madrid in La Liga in 2012, but he won the title in his other three seasons there - while his Bayern Munich team were Bundesliga champions in each of the three years he was in charge.
"There is not another competition in the world with six strong teams fighting for one position - not in Spain nor Germany," Guardiola added.
"It is so clear that here, every season will be tougher and tougher to qualify for the Champions League.
"It is important to be in it for many reasons, to grow and to enjoy the big moments. We have got three games left and it is in our hands."
While City are only third in the league table, Guardiola is adamant they are the top team when it comes to their creative play - it is just their finishing that lets them down.
When asked about his side's inconsistency in attack after their crushing win over the Eagles, he replied: "I can only remember one game where the opponents created more chances than us - at White Hart Lane against Tottenham.
"The other ones? No chance.
"So we are better than all the teams in the Premier League, home and away, even the next champions Chelsea - we created more chances against them at home and at Stamford Bridge.
"In the boxes, though, we are not so good. Vincent Kompany's return has helped us, just with his presence, to be better in our own box.
"But we are the best team in the Premier League at creating clear, clear chances in front of goal - nobody can beat us at that."
Guardiola's stats are correct - Spurs had 13 shots to City's 12 when they lost at White Hart Lane in October.
Liverpool had the same number of shots as City when they drew at the Etihad Stadium in March but in City's other 33 league games under Guardiola, they have had more shots than the opposition.
And, although Spurs (460) and Liverpool (452) have had more chances, or shots at goal, in total than City this season (445), when it comes to what statisticians Opta call 'big chances' [defined as a situation where a player should reasonably be expected to score, usually in a one-on-one situation or from very close range], City are out in front with 67.
Guardiola has got used to seeing his side waste those sort of openings, and thought they would be punished again against Palace before their second-half goal glut.
"Believe me, if we had arrived in the last 20 minutes against Palace at 1-0, we do not win the game," he explained.
"I said to the players at half-time, either score another goal or forget about it, we are not able to win.
"It has happened a lot this season - I remember some similar performances against other teams, but against Palace we scored the goals, and on other days we were not able to do that."
Benny Collins, 40, a physiotherapist at Morriston Hospital's A&E department, was pulled from the sea at Three Cliffs Bay on Tuesday afternoon.
He was flown to hospital where his colleagues tried to save him, but he died.
His nine-year-old son was rescued along with him and needed hospital treatment.
Mr Collins's wife Melanie is a nurse at the hospital.
In a statement, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board said: "Benny was a very popular, gifted and much-loved member of staff.
"His wife, Melanie, is also one of our senior nurses, so this tragedy has struck at the very heart of the health board. "
National Trust Wales, which owns approximately 75% of the beach, said: "Our advice to anyone using Three Cliffs beach is not to bathe there.
"We have safety signs making it clear that people are putting their lives at risk if they go in the water in strong surf conditions or when the water is cold."
It added that extra safety signs advising against swimming would be placed on the beach.
Swansea Council said although it does not own Three Cliffs Bay it would meet with the National Trust to discuss water safety.
Mr Collins has become the latest person to die at the beach.
In June, Jason North from Macclesfield, Cheshire, died trying to get his children out of the water.
In August 2013, Wendy Phillips of Landore, Swansea, drowned at Three Cliffs Bay and the assistant Swansea coroner questioned the lack of lifeguard cover, but could not say for certain whether it would have prevented her death.
The RNLI said in order to provide a lifeguard service it had to have an agreement with the landowner, in this case the National Trust and Pennard Golf Club.
A spokesman said: "The RNLI can provide a safety service and are giving advice and guidance in best practice to the landowner."
Several nearby beaches on Gower including Langland, Caswell and Port Eynon do have RNLI cover in the summer but Three Cliffs Bay does not.
James Jones, who works at PJ's Surf Shop in Llangennith, said rip currents can make the area dangerous.
He said: "You can get rips and currents at Three Cliffs. One stream goes out through the bay and that can cause a rip current.
"It will create a flow out into the sea, they call it a rip current you can get dragged out.
"I would say it's one of the more dangerous beaches to swim on the Gower, but saying that, at different times the rips would be different and the water calmer."
"I knew the pain it would cause them to know their daughter had been violently raped, so I just decided not to tell them," she said.
She was on a visit to Belfast in 2008, when the horrific attack happened during a hike in a forest park.
"It's every parent's worst nightmare," said Ms Li.
In an interview with BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday News programme, Ms Li said she felt she could not tell them because she was worried about how they would react.
"My parents live in California, I live in London. I had enough stuff to go through and to deal with emotionally, and I didn't want to handle - as cruel as it sounds - or deal with their reaction," Ms Li admitted.
"I was afraid they were going to say, 'you shouldn't have gone hiking on your own'."
In the months following the attack, she suffered from severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
She began to recover by writing an essay about the assault and aftermath, which was later published in a book.
At Christmas 2011, she gave a copy of it to her parents.
"I was really nervous about telling them, every survivor has to go through the nervousness," said Ms Li.
"You don't know how people are going to react, sometimes they're not going to believe you and that's so damaging.
"I didn't think my parents weren't going to believe me, I was afraid they were going to crumble, but I think because I was able to tell them in a coherent way and I'd been able to put my life together, it was better than if I'd told them the day after [the attack]."
Ms Li is now an active campaigner for other rape victims, and said using her voice to help others to talk about their experiences is still incredibly important to her.
"Every time I speak about it, someone else always comes up to me afterwards and says, 'I was raped too,'" she said.
"Nobody knows what to say. There's this moment of shock, and as society we need to be better equipped to know what to say and how to help loved ones."
Ms Li has written a novel, Dark Chapter, based on her ordeal and those of other women, telling the story of a rape from the perspectives of both the victim and perpetrator.
She said she hopes that it will encourage more open and honest conversations about the subject of rape, which is often still treated as a "shameful stigma".
"We're still letting victims of rape down, but I think things have changed for the better," said Ms Li.
"It's not an easy journey - not everyone's going to understand or react in the best way, but that's the fault of our society not knowing how to deal with this issue."
Winnie Li will be appearing at the Belfast Book Festival in June to discuss her experiences and her novel.
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The in-form hosts recovered from Jefferson Montero's sublime strike to score either side of half-time.
Liam Sercombe levelled from the penalty spot before Roofe curled into the bottom corner from 20 yards.
And Roofe finished off a counter-attack to ensure Oxford reached the fourth round for the first time in 17 years, despite a Bafetimbi Gomis strike.
Swansea's rally came too late and the home side fully deserved their place in the next round following a vibrant performance.
The U's are third in League Two and a number of their young players impressed against a Swansea team that surrendered possession too often and looked shaky at the back in the absence of skipper Ashley Williams.
Michael Appleton's side are already regarded as one of the best teams in their division, and a cup run is likely to further strengthen their promotion push.
Appleton, a former Portsmouth, Blackpool and Blackburn manager, has been promised 50% of the gate receipts generated from the tie for player recruitment.
More than 11,600 supporters packed into the 12,500-capacity Kassam Stadium, guaranteeing a sizeable pay day for the promotion chasers.
Even when under some late pressure, they refused to go long, and in ball-playing John Lundstram, the pacy Roofe and midfield schemer Sercombe they have players who will surely interest clubs from higher divisions.
There was little to cheer for the visitors, who looked to have weathered some early pressure when they took the lead against the run of play from Montero's backheel after a clever one-two with Marvin Emnes.
Alan Curtis' side felt aggrieved at Oxford's leveller - McDonald tumbling without any real contact from Kyle Bartley - but the challenge was reckless and epitomised the muddled nature of some of Swansea's play.
It was desperate stuff - Jonjo Shelvey continually firing long-range shots over the bar - and more slack defending allowed Roofe time to cut inside and bury a fine finish into the bottom corner.
Again, for Oxford's third, the Swansea defence could have done better as the impressive Roofe knocked the ball past Jordi Amat and raced through to finish.
There was a late rally following a Gomis goal laid on by Jack Cork, but the sheer desperation about the Premier League side will be a concern ahead of stiffer tests in the top flight.
Oxford manager Michael Appleton: "I've got to be delighted beating a Premier League side - but not just that, it's the way we did it.
"I think a few people fancied us beforehand and I did too but we also wanted to play the same way we've been doing it all season and play with no fear.
"I've been saying since the start of the season that we've got three or four players who could play at a higher level and Kemar Roofe is one of them.
"But sometimes as a player you want to be at a football club that is also playing to your potential and hopefully they can achieve the success they want here.
"We need more days and nights like this."
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Swansea manager Alan Curtis: "We made changes and there was a certain amount of rustiness but I am disappointed. We were poor for the first hour of the game.
"The team we picked was strong enough to win, but all credit to Oxford. They were the better team and deserved to win.
"The league was always going to be the priority but we wanted a cup run and to get some momentum going. It's a huge setback for the club."
Swansea, who made 10 changes, can now focus on Premier League survival, starting with a home game against fellow strugglers Sunderland on Wednesday.
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Aberdeenshire Council is trying to find ways to deal with a shortage of teaching staff.
As a result, more than 30 new teachers have been interviewed in their own countries for posts in schools around the county.
Successful applicants will be expected to start work early in the new school term.
The council said there was a high level of surplus probationer and first year teachers in the two countries.
An interview panel of three travelled first to Dublin and then to Toronto.
The council said it was adopting an "innovative approach to attract teachers to the area on a temporary basis".
Successful applicants will receive a full induction and conversion to Scottish education standards, a temporary work visa, accommodation and travel costs.
This is expected to cost about £4-5,000 for every teacher recruited.
The move to find new teachers in Canada and Ireland is seen as a short-term solution to Aberdeenshire's recruitment difficulties.
Councillor Isobel Davidson, who chairs the council's Education Learning and Leisure Committee, said: "We need to look at innovative ways to fill teaching vacancies in Aberdeenshire.
"At the moment, we have around 40 teaching vacancies and despite our very best efforts, we are continuing to struggle to fill these posts.
"We are confident that this innovative approach will stimulate significant interest and help relieve the current pressures on our teaching staff."
Ireland and Canada both have high levels of surplus probationer and first year teachers.
The Aberdeenshire campaign is targeting these areas as a way of attracting teachers who need an opportunity to secure their first teaching post.
Recent studies undertaken in Ontario, Canada reveal the extent of the teacher surplus in the country, with almost 1 in 3 newly qualified teachers failing to secure employment.
In Ireland the position is just as challenging, with around 600 graduate teachers each year failing to secure a teaching position.
Aberdeenshire Council's Head of Education, Policy and Resources, Wilfred Weir added : "This presents us with an opportunity to attract quality probationer teachers to a teaching role in one of our schools, helping us to fill much-needed vacancies and ensure that our schools have the appropriate levels of teachers to continue to meet our high standards."
He added: "This overseas campaign will supplement our on-going and significant efforts to attract candidates to the area using more traditional methods of recruitment."
After the first year, the overseas teachers will have the opportunity to seek full time employment in Aberdeenshire if they wish, subject to visa requirements.
The acting general secretary of the teachers' union the SSTA Alan McKenzie said he was not surprised to hear of Aberdeenshire's efforts.
He said: "It reflects a combination of the difficulties some rural authorities have with recruitment outside the central belt and the appalling lack of teaching posts in the Republic and Canada."
He added: "Once again it is imperative that the teacher supply issue is examined honestly and without attempting to hide an impending crisis".
A spokesman for the largest teaching union in Scotland the EIS said: "It is essential that the balance is correct, and that all Scottish trained teachers have the opportunity to find work in Scotland if they so wish.
"It is also essential that all individuals trained outwith Scotland meet the very high standards expected of Scotland's teachers, including appropriate registration with the General Teaching Council for Scotland."
Cafodd Cerys Yemm, 22, ei lladd gan Matthew Williams yng ngwesty'r Sirhowy Arms yn Argoed ym mis Tachwedd 2014.
Fe wnaeth swyddogion heddlu saethu Williams, 34, gyda gwn Taser a bu farw'n ddiweddarach.
Dywedodd mam Miss Yemm nad oedd hi wedi darganfod nes y cwest nad oedd honiadau o ganibaliaeth yn ymwneud â'r farwolaeth yn wir.
Fe wnaeth rheithgor y cwest ddyfarnu bod Miss Yemm wedi ei lladd yn anghyfreithlon, tra bod Williams wedi marw o ganlyniad i gymryd cyffuriau a cheisio gwrthsefyll cael ei arestio.
Dywedodd Sharon Yemm, chwaer Cerys wrth raglen Victoria Derbyshire y BBC fore Iau: "Ges i bobl yn anfon negeseuon i mi.
"Roeddwn i eisoes wedi gweld mewn neges [Facebook] bod llofruddiaeth wedi bod yn Argoed.
"Wedyn ges i bobl yn cysylltu gyda fi ar Facebook yn dweud 'plîs paid â dweud fod e'n wir, nid dy chwaer di yw e ife?'.
"Roedd mam yn amlwg yn crio a methu dweud wrtha i, methu siarad ar y ffôn."
Roedd yn rhaid iddi wedyn yrru o Gaerdydd i Argoed heb wybod beth oedd wedi digwydd i'w chwaer.
Roedd mam Cerys, Paula yn feirniadol o'r heddlu am beidio â datgelu amgylchiadau llawn marwolaeth ei merch.
Ychwanegodd nad oedd hi'n "gallu dod dros" weld y penawdau am ganibaliaeth yn dilyn y llofruddiaeth, ac mai dim ond ddwy flynedd a hanner yn ddiweddarach y daeth hi i wybod nad oedden nhw'n wir.
Dywedodd Heddlu Gwent wrth raglen Victoria Derbyshire bod y teulu wedi dweud eu bod eisiau gwybodaeth gyfyngedig am beth ddigwyddodd i Cerys.
Ond er nad oedd Paula Yemm eisiau i'r heddlu ddweud unrhyw beth wrthi ar y dechrau, wrth i amser fynd yn ei flaen roedd hi eisiau gwybod mwy ac fe roddodd hi wybod am hynny i'r heddlu, meddai.
"Ces i wybod i ddechrau ei fod yn anaf i'r pen. Ar ddechrau'r cwest, ac fe welais i'r peth eto ar y newyddion, roedd yn ergyd i'r wyneb a'r gwddf," meddai.
"I mi fel rhiant mae hynny'n wahanol iawn i anaf pen. Nes i ofyn i'r heddlu 'pam mae'n cael ei adrodd fel hyn?'"
Ychwanegodd: "Am y ddwy flynedd a hanner diwethaf mae hyn wedi bod drosom ni fel teulu - ddim yn gwybod yr amgylchiadau, yn y tywyllwch am beth ddigwyddodd i fy mhlentyn, i'w chwaer hi, beth aeth hi drwyddo."
Current chairwoman Pam Duxbury announced the sale to the company she owns with Sage Investments Ltd.
Duxbury said a nominal payment was given to Coxall for the deal.
Coxall resigned as chairman in May, days before the club's relegation from the Football League, having taken over with JPNG in 2015.
Last season Pools faced three winding-up petitions before Coxall quit, saying it would "divide the club" if he was to continue in the role.
In the statement on the club's website, Duxbury said she had averted the club going into administration "several times" in recent months.
"The last six months have been the most difficult I have ever encountered in my professional career and I am very relieved to be on the other side," she said.
She also confirmed future plans for the club's ownership to be split between the club's Supporters' Trust and a consortium of individuals willing to invest.
The leading pro-Leave campaigner and Tory leader frontrunner said the 52-48 result was "not entirely overwhelming".
Setting out his post referendum vision in the Daily Telegraph, he said the UK could reform its immigration system and keep access to the single market.
But ex-chancellor Alistair Darling accused him of treating the situation "like a big game".
Thursday's EU referendum, which has triggered a Conservative leadership contest and mass resignations from Labour's front bench, followed a bitter four-month campaign with recriminations continuing over the weekend.
"We who are part of this narrow majority must do everything we can to reassure the Remainers," wrote Mr Johnson, who has kept a low profile since the result was announced.
"We must reach out, we must heal, we must build bridges - because it is clear that some have feelings of dismay, and of loss, and confusion."
He denied that the Leave vote had been mainly driven by immigration, saying restoring control of British democracy was "the main issue".
He said there would still be "intense" cooperation between the UK and the EU on arts, science and the environment and said Britons would still be able to travel and work in Europe.
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Mr Johnson said Britain would always be "part of Europe" and "there will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market".
Speaking outside his home on Monday morning, he said the status of EU nationals living in the UK and Britons abroad would be protected under what he called a "fair, impartial and humane" immigration system.
He said "project fear" - the term he has repeatedly used to attack the Remain campaign - was "over" after Chancellor George Osborne indicated there would be no immediate emergency Budget.
Mr Osborne, who warned during the campaign of spending cuts and tax rises if there was a vote to leave, said there would still need to be an "adjustment" in the UK economy, but said it "perfectly sensible to wait for a new prime minister" before taking any such action.
Speaking for the first time since Leave's victory, the chancellor said only the UK could trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, which sets a two-year deadline on the UK's formal exit from the EU.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who will step down by the autumn, has said responsibility for triggering Article 50 would fall to his successor.
Another minister touted as a possible leadership contender, Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb, said whoever is elected leader would have to work with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and have a "plan for holding this United Kingdom together".
Ms Sturgeon says a second independence referendum is "highly likely" after Scotland voted to Remain in the EU.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Darling, who campaigned for Remain, said he was more worried about the UK economy now than in 2008 during the financial crisis because there were "so many uncertainties, so many unknowns".
He said there did not seem to be a plan for what to do, and warned of a "vacuum" between now and October, when the next Conservative leader is expected to be appointed.
Mr Darling said: "We got no government, we have got no opposition, the people who got us into this mess have run away - they have gone to ground."
But Commons leader and Leave campaigner Chris Grayling said preparations would be needed for the coming months.
"We've clearly got to take things forward, we cannot sit on our hands for the next four months, that goes without saying and we'll be setting out more of that in due course," he said.
Asked whether the UK could concede some freedom of movement in exchange for access to the single market, he said last week's vote was a clear mandate for the government to put controls over immigration, and that it "had to happen".
EU politicians have urged Britain to start the Article 50 process soon.
Michael Fuchs, who is vice chair of German Chancellor Angela's Merkel's CDU party, said it would not be possible for the UK to retain access to the single market without free movement.
"Either you are in a club or you are out of a club," he told Today.
"If you are in a club you have to follow the rules. If you are out of the club, there will be different rules."
The then commander-in-chief of the Irish army was killed in an ambush by anti-treaty IRA forces in August 1922.
President Higgins said it was a "great pleasure" to deliver the speech in Cork on Sunday.
He said no side in the Irish Civil War had a monopoly on "atrocity or virtue".
"The memory of Michael Collins will forever be enmeshed with that of the tragic and bloody civil war which raged on this island throughout the years 1922-1923," he said.
"This was a dreadful human tragedy for so many Irish families.
"When the time comes, very soon, to commemorate those events of the early 1920s, we will need to display courage and honesty as we seek to speak the truth of the period, and in recognising that, during the War of Independence, and particularly during the Civil War, no single side had the monopoly of either atrocity or virtue."
1867 - European gold prospectors arrive, mining begins.
1885 - British proclaim a protectorate called Bechuanaland.
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1890 - British protectorate is extended to Chobe river.
1950 - Chief of the Ngwato, Seretse Khama, is deposed and exiled by the British.
1952 - Rioters protest at Seretse Khama's exile.
1959 - Copper mines are established.
1960 - Bechuanaland People's Party (BPP) is established.
1960 December - Britain approves new constitution for Bechuanaland. Executive Council, Legislative Council and African Council are established.
1961 - Seretse Khama appointed to Executive Council.
1962 - Seretse Khama founds Bechuanaland Democratic Party (BDP), later to become Botswana Democratic Party.
1965 - Gaborone becomes administrative centre.
1965 - BDP wins legislative elections, first to be held under universal adult suffrage. Seretse Khama becomes prime minister.
1966 September - Bechuanaland is granted independence and becomes Republic of Botswana with Seretse Khama as president.
1967 - Diamonds discovered at Orapa.
1969 August - BDP wins general election. Khama is re-elected for another term.
1977 January - UN Security Council resolution demands Rhodesian hostilities on Botswana border cease.
1977 March - Botswana Defence Force is established.
1979 October - General elections: BDP wins majority, Khama is re-elected as president.
1980 - Botswana is founder member of Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), grouping which aims to reduce region's economic reliance on South Africa.
1980 - President Seretse Khama dies. Quett Masire, former vice-president, is made president after National Assembly vote.
1984 September - General elections: BDP wins majority, Quett Masire is re-elected as president.
1985 June - Buildings in Gaborone are raided and 12 people are killed by South African forces seeking alleged ANC members. Action is condemned by UN Security Council.
1989 October - General elections; BDP wins majority. National Assembly re-elects Masire as president.
1991 - 12,000 public sector workers sacked after strike action calling for increased wages.
1994 October - Legislative elections: BDP secures 53% of vote. Masire re-elected by National Assembly.
1995 - Government begins relocating thousands of bushmen to settlements outside Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
1997 - Constitutional amendments approved. Presidency is limited to two five-year terms. Voting age lowered from 21 to 18.
1998 March/April - Masire resigns as president and retires. Festus Mogae, formerly vice president, becomes president under new constitutional arrangements.
1998 June - Botswana Congress Party established after split in BNF and is declared official opposition after most BNF deputies switch allegiance.
1999 September - Six-day state of emergency declared to resolve voter registration problem.
1999 October - General elections: BDP wins majority, Festus Mogae is confirmed as president.
1999 December - International Court of Justice grants control of Sedudu-Kasikili - a river island disputed by Botswana and Namibia - to Botswana.
2000 February/March - Devastating floods: More than 60,000 are made homeless.
2000 August - President Mogae says Aids drugs will be made available free of charge from 2001.
2001 March - National diamond corporation, Debswana, says it will subsidise drugs for workers with Aids.
2002 March - Kalahari bushmen take the government to court to challenge a forced eviction from their land; the case is dismissed on a technicality.
2003 September - Botswana begins erecting a fence along its border with Zimbabwe to stem an influx of Zimbabwean illegal immigrants.
2004 March - HIV infection rate falls to 37.5%; Botswana no longer has the world's highest rate of infection.
2004 August - Workers at Botswana's largest diamond-mining company strike over pay, after a court rules that such action is illegal. Some 1,000 workers are sacked.
2004 October - President Mogae secures a second term in a landslide election victory.
2006 December - A group of Bushmen wins a four-year legal battle to hold on to their ancestral lands.
2008 March - Botswana launches its own diamond trading company - the Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTCB).
2008 April - Seretse Khama Ian Khama takes over as president.
2008 October - Botswana's former President Festus Mogae wins a $5m prize set up to encourage good governance in Africa.
2009 April - Botswana says it will halve diamond production because of falling demands for gems.
2009 October - Ruling BDP party wins elections, and another 5-year term for President Khama.
2009 November - Botswana stages a substantial economic recovery after stepping up diamond production again, a bank reports.
De Beers moved its rough stone sales division from London to Botswana in 2013
2010 November - Human rights group Survival International calls for a boycott of Botswanan diamonds, accusing the government of trying to force Basarwa bushmen away from their ancestral lands.
2011 January - An appeals court in Botswana overturns a July 2010 order depriving the indigenous Basarwa bushmen of the right to drill for water on their ancestral land.
2011 April - Civil servants begin what becomes a two-month strike over pay.
2012 January - Talks by three main opposition parties aimed at forming coalition fail, destroying hopes of challenge to ruling Botswana Democratic Party.
2012 November - Government says it will ban the commercial hunting of wildlife from 2014, citing a sharp decline in animal populations.
2013 November - Global diamond giant De Beers completes the move of its rough stone sales operation from London to Gaborone, in what is seen as a step towards turning Botswana into one of the world's top diamond hubs.
2014 July - Opposition leader Gomolemo Motswaledi dies in a car crash, just weeks before the general election. Police say it was an accident, his party suspects foul play.
2014 September - Editor of the Sunday Standard is arrested after the paper reported that the president was involved in a car accident.
2014 October - Ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) wins the general elections with 33 of the 57 seats, giving Ian Khama a second term as president.
2014 November - Gay rights group wins legal recognition.
Plans for the cross-border project were announced at Belfast's Tall Ships maritime festival earlier this month.
The Atlantic Youth Trust has been planning the £12m ship for three years.
It has taken a step closer to being realised with the unveiling of concept drawings of the vessel.
The ship is planned as a youth development legacy project to the Tall Ships festival, and would take 40 young people at a time on 10-day sail training voyages.
Neil O'Hagan, the Atlantic Youth Trust's executive director, described the proposed ship as "considerable" at 48m long.
"[The project] is primarily trying to develop teamwork, leadership, communication and life skills among the young people that come onboard," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"Over the 10 days they will have to do everything from steer the ship, to clean the toilets, to chop potatoes, to climb to the top of the mast, to do the navigation onboard."
The trust has said about £12m is needed to build a modern, low-maintenance steel vessel that would have an expected life-span of 30 years.
After that point, the ship would be refitted or rebuilt.
Mr O'Hagan said it was "vitally important" that both governments supported the project as it would offer a "cross-border, cross-community, cultural integration" for 1,000 young people a year.
About 30%, or £4.8m, is expected to come from what the trusts calls "Northern Ireland Inc" - that could be a combination of government and corporate funding.
The Irish government has been asked provide the same total, while the remaining 40% will be made up of European peace funding and philanthropic donations.
"Until both governments come out publicly and say: 'We're going to support this provided you guys come up the rest of the funding,' we can't really push the button to move on," Mr O'Hagan said.
He added that the trust expects to know within a year whether the project can go ahead.
A bigger divide is hard to imagine than between this isolated hamlet clinging to the Himalayan foothills and the ambitious steel and glass spires of that desert capital.
Yet when Rajendra Lama set off for a job in Qatar building its World Cup airport he was following a well-trodden path, taken by hundreds of Nepalis every day.
The way his journey ended was all too common as well: this summer his wife Manju got a message to say he had died from a heart attack, one of scores of South Asian migrant workers who have perished helping the tiny Gulf nation transform itself for the football championship.
Rajendra was just 29 years old.
"He was healthy when he left," his wife says, breaking into tears as she shows me a photo of the couple together.
To get the job, a medical certificate was mandatory. If he had been ill, she says, "the doctor would have sent him back".
But soon after arriving in Qatar, she remembers him complaining about the "rotten food" and "long working hours in the heat" - a common complaint among Nepalis, Indians and others working on construction projects there, where summer temperatures regularly break through 50C.
His contract said he was supposed to work 48 hours a week. That's long by Western standards, but Manju says her husband would often work even longer periods at a stretch.
Again, this matches the accounts of other migrant labourers on World Cup projects.
Her neighbour, Bir Bahadur Dong, also worked in Qatar on the new airport, but returned home when his contract ended. He says he would never go back after experiencing similar conditions.
"We'd often get ill and then have to spend our salary on medical treatment," Dong says.
"Instead of dying in Qatar, better to die here in Nepal."
Exploitative working conditions, Manju believes, are what killed her husband. But she will probably never know for sure.
His death certificate from the Qatari authorities records the cause simply as "sudden cardiac arrest".
He had only been in Qatar for nine months when he died - for a job they hoped would mean a new future for their three-year-old daughter Bimita.
Rajendra was sending back around 25,000 Nepalese rupees every three months.
That's barely $80 (£50) a month, but in Mandu that sum went a long way. Everyone here lives off the land - there is no other work.
But now the family's prospects look even dimmer.
When we first arrive in the village, a one-hour climb from the nearest road, Manju is pounding ears of millet with a heavy, wooden pole.
Bimita looks on, along with her late father's elderly parents.
Yet, despite the horror stories coming from Qatar, Nepalis keep going there.
The government's foreign employment office in Kathmandu - where all would-be migrant workers have to go to sort out their papers - is overwhelmed every day.
Up to 10,000 people press through its rickety metal gates each week, and many are heading to Qatar.
"I have no alternative if I want to feed my children and get them educated," says a mason who had worked in Qatar before.
"There is no work here."
Across the country, young men are leaving their towns and villages, which have become "a home for the elderly", according to Kathmandu-based analyst Nischal Pandey.
With a GDP per capita of less than $700, Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world.
It relies on the remittances of workers abroad and tourist dollars to keep it afloat.
On the same measure, Qatar is the world's richest country - with a GDP per capita more than 140 times greater.
Critics say it could afford to provide much better wages and conditions to the workers it relies on to make up for its lack of people.
Nepal's government insists it is "raising its voice" for its workers abroad.
"Qatar should respect their rights set out by the International Labour Organization," says Buddhi Bahadur Khadkha, the spokesman for the labour ministry.
But when Nepal's previous ambassador to Qatar spoke out about conditions there, calling it "an open jail", she was sacked.
Manju pauses for breath in between threshing the millet.
"I don't have any education - I can't get a job. I don't know what I am going to do," she says.
"I wish I'd never heard of this place Qatar."
Under current laws, codeine can be obtained in compound form in over-the-counter painkillers and cough medicines.
But Australia's drug regulator believes the risk of addiction is too great.
The decision brings Australia into line with most developed countries in requiring a prescription for the opioid-based medication.
The US, most of Europe, Hong Kong and Japan have stopped the sale of over-the-counter codeine products.
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Australia's Therapeutic Drugs Administration (TGA) said consumers often became addicted to the drug.
"Misuse of over-the-counter codeine products contributes to severe health outcomes including liver damage, stomach ulceration, respiratory depression and death," it said in a statement.
The new rules will begin on 1 February 2018.
The TGA recommended patients discuss new treatment plans with their doctors, including whether to use painkilling alternatives such as paracetamol or ibuprofen.
1) Universities say it will be a disaster if they don't get more public money
2) Universities say it will be a disaster if anyone tells them how to spend their money.
Of course that's an unfair caricature of what must be one of the most successful social revolutions of the past half century.
The demand for universities has risen relentlessly and the size of the sector has grown out of all recognition. There are more people now getting degrees than were getting five O-levels in the early 1980s.
But has higher education kept up with these changes?
A Green Paper put out by Universities Minister Jo Johnson focuses on getting better value for money for students.
The increase in fees to £9,000 per year has irrevocably changed the relationship between student and university. It's now a transactional, contractual arrangement, as well as an academic and social experience.
When students only get six or seven hours a week contact time with academic staff, they look at how much they are paying for those hours.
That might have been fine when university was free, but it's a different when it's going to take decades to pay off.
There is going to be a new student-friendly regulator, bringing together some existing bodies, which will be called the Office for Students.
Apart from the likelihood this is likely to be re-named Ofstud, it suggests that students have never really got the consumer power that they were promised.
When fees were hiked to £9,000 it was part of a package that was meant to deliver more choice and a proper market in higher education.
There was an expectation that different universities would have different fee levels and there would be lots of new universities opening with lots of options for students.
Except in practice, almost all the universities charged £9,000 and there were relatively few new providers. For students, the market never really happened and they were left paying three times as much as before.
The latest proposals will be an explicit attempt to make it easier for new universities to open and for more institutions to be given degree-awarding powers.
The aim, as before, is to create a more diverse range of options.
But this has been a landscape that has been curiously resistant to change. Vice chancellors can play a much longer game than ministers.
And it might take new players to make any substantial impact.
Because although dependent on public funds, universities are private institutions, and have a long track record of choosing which government proposals to adopt and which to imperceptibly roll into the sidings with the promise of further reviews that slip over the horizon.
But the slow-release of the impact of fees is not going to go away.
When the Green Paper talks about "value for money" how precisely could that be applied?
If a history student is paying £9,000, do they want the full amount spent on their own less-costly course, than allowing it to be used as a cross-subsidy for a scientist, using more expensive equipment and getting longer teaching hours?
What is "value for money" in this context? Should they be paying different amounts for degrees of equal status?
Such questions would never have arisen when the contract with a university was academic rather than financial.
But as the Green Paper makes clear, it's no longer acceptable for universities to take the money, without being as rigorous about the quality or quantity of teaching.
It's as if the universities are being nudged to say that they can't turn their back on what are now their paying customers.
However, Catalan President Artur Mas, who called the early election and pushed for independence, lost seats.
His centre-right CiU remains the largest bloc, winning 50 seats out of 135, down from 62 last time.
The left-wing separatist ERC won 21 seats. But a BBC correspondent says despite their combined majority, the parties may be unable to work together.
Both the CiU and ERC want to hold a referendum on independence from Spain.
By Tom BurridgeBBC News, Barcelona
A source close to a "disappointed" Catalan President Artur Mas told me a referendum, or at least a public consultation on independence, is "still the plan".
Crucially, my source believes a deal with Esquerra Republicana, the centre-left pro-independence party which increased its share of the vote last night, "has to be possible" as there is "no other alternative".
However a pact between CiU - Mr Mas's centre-right nationalist coalition - and Esquerra Republicana will not be easy. The two are poles apart on the crucial issue of the economy and how to tackle the economic crisis in Catalonia.
CiU has implemented austerity measures, including controversial cuts to the public sector. It is possible it will want to implement more economic reforms, which Esquerra Republicana is likely to oppose.
My sense therefore is that, following last night's election result, a referendum on independence from Spain is less likely, because of the fact that the political process going forward has become even more complicated than it was before.
Bittersweet victory
Mr Mas told the BBC he would consult the people on independence within the next four years.
"I am happy with tonight's results," he said, "but not as happy as I could have been."
Mr Mas called early elections after a funding row with the central government in Madrid.
It has accused him of trying to exploit the economic crisis, saying Catalan nationalists were looking for excuses after nearly running out of money.
Mr Mas says the wealthy and influential north-eastern region gets a raw funding deal from the central government. His centre-right Catalan nationalist coalition (CiU) argues a Catalan state would fare better as a member of the EU than a province of Spain.
The European flag was prominent at Mr Mas's campaign rallies, and he says an independent Catalonia would quickly gain membership of the 27-member bloc.
However, the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), the Republican Left party, has more than doubled its previous share of seats - up from 10 in 2010 to 21 this time.
That has been seen partly as a reaction to Mr Mas's resort to austerity measures to fight Catalonia's debt.
CiU and the ERC have very different views of how to address the economic crisis, says the BBC's Tom Burridge, in the Catalan regional capital Barcelona.
The result may actually mean a referendum on independence from Spain is therefore less likely, because the political process has become even more complicated, our correspondent says.
It was already far from straightforward, he says.
A referendum would be illegal under the current Spanish constitution, and Spain's ruling Popular Party is likely to block any attempts for constitutional change.
Other parties, such as the Ciutadans, the Popular Party of Catalonia and the Socialist Party of Catalonia are all opposed to Catalonia's independence bid.
Sanchez put Arsenal ahead when he got a touch on Alex Iwobi's shot, but failed from the spot after Jake Livermore handled and was sent off.
Theo Walcott added a second after the break before Robert Snodgrass pulled one back for the hosts with a penalty.
Sanchez smashed a third into the roof of the net before Granit Xhaka's spectacular shot rounded off the scoring.
Sanchez's first goal owed much to fortune rather than brilliance as Iwobi arrived at the back post and saw his effort deflect in off the Chile international.
Livermore was shown a straight red card five minutes before half-time when he blocked Coquelin's goal-bound effort with his hands.
Sanchez took responsibility for the penalty ahead of recent regular taker Santi Cazorla only to see his low effort saved by Hull goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic.
It was a decision which also mystified Wenger who revealed it was "not planned for Sanchez to take it" and that he wants "to know what happened and for it not to happen again".
Walcott notched a second goal shortly before the hour mark when he got on the end of Iwobi's clever flick with Hull defender Harry Maguire helping the ball into the net with his head.
Snodgrass gave Hull a glimmer of hope when he converted from the spot after Petr Cech had brought down Dieumerci Mbokani, but Arsenal's response was emphatic.
Sanchez struck after Jakupovic had blocked Walcott's initial shot, before substitute Switzerland international Xhaka - a £35m summer signing from Borussia Monchengladbach - applied the gloss with the pick of the goals from distance.
After three consecutive Premier League wins for the first time since last Christmas, Arsenal's season now feels properly up and running.
Hull made Arsenal work for this victory but the quality in Arsene Wenger's side shone through.
Even when he has an off day Sanchez can be a match-winner. These were not particularly classy strikes from the Chilean, but he got the job done.
Wenger, in a season when the pressure is on him to deliver silverware, will likely feel there is plenty to build on from this performance.
Mike Phelan's side might have been comfortably outclassed by Arsenal here, but the scoreline perhaps flattered the visitors.
Whatever the delay is over caretaker manager Phelan's future at the KCOM Stadium, Hull's owners should get it sorted immediately.
Phelan has been offered the job permanently but there is speculation he could yet walk away over a dispute about wages.
Despite being down to 10 men his side chased every lost cause, scrapped for every 50-50 ball and never threw in the towel.
Given the manner in which he has galvanised a side largely in disarray when he took over in July he will be worth every penny to the club.
His spindly legs and slim frame make him look like he could be blown over at any moment, but Iwobi showed he can be a key player for Arsenal this season.
The 20-year-old occupied pockets of space, used the ball intelligently and had a hand in a couple of Arsenal's goals.
Sanchez will get the attention for his goals, but against a physical Hull side Iwobi showed he has the fight and determination to go with his flair.
There has been speculation this week that Arsenal will keep Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain waiting on a new contract.
Oxlade-Chamberlain might find that he will be playing second fiddle to Iwobi if the youngster produces this kind of performance regularly.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"I feel overall it was a positive performance after playing away in the Champions League and away again today.
"We started well, dominated and were fluent. They defended well but overall we managed to score the goal, then after the missed penalty we had to be serious and score the next goal."
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Hull caretaker boss Mike Phelan:
"My future is a lot brighter - 48 hours ago I was offered some terms. Due to this game being up on us, I decided to leave it alone for now.
"Hopefully I'll take this club on - I want to be involved and take a great group of players forward. Once we've sorted out the details, we'll make the decision."
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Both teams have away trips in the third round of the EFL Cup during the week.
Arsenal face Championship Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on Tuesday while Hull benefit from a extra day of rest before they travel to the Potteries to play Stoke.
Match ends, Hull City 1, Arsenal 4.
Second Half ends, Hull City 1, Arsenal 4.
Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dieumerci Mbokani (Hull City).
Goal! Hull City 1, Arsenal 4. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Elneny.
Attempt missed. Sam Clucas (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Robert Snodgrass.
Attempt missed. Francis Coquelin (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Substitution, Arsenal. Lucas Pérez replaces Theo Walcott.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Ryan Mason.
Attempt saved. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.
Goal! Hull City 1, Arsenal 3. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Offside, Arsenal. Nacho Monreal tries a through ball, but Alexis Sánchez is caught offside.
Foul by Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal).
Dieumerci Mbokani (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.
Goal! Hull City 1, Arsenal 2. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.
Petr Cech (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Petr Cech (Arsenal) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Hull City. Dieumerci Mbokani draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Arsenal. Mohamed Elneny replaces Alex Iwobi.
Substitution, Hull City. Dieumerci Mbokani replaces Abel Hernández.
Theo Walcott (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Meyler (Hull City).
Attempt missed. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.
Attempt blocked. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.
Substitution, Arsenal. Granit Xhaka replaces Santiago Cazorla.
Offside, Hull City. Curtis Davies tries a through ball, but Abel Hernández is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal).
Harry Maguire (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Hull City. Sam Clucas tries a through ball, but Abel Hernández is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Santiago Cazorla (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Substitution, Hull City. Ryan Mason replaces Tom Huddlestone.
Foul by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).
Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Arsenal. Alexis Sánchez tries a through ball, but Theo Walcott is caught offside.
Offside, Hull City. Eldin Jakupovic tries a through ball, but Abel Hernández is caught offside.
Goal! Hull City 0, Arsenal 2. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Alex Iwobi with a through ball.
Attempt blocked. David Meyler (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Huddlestone.
Planners have already approved the development at Ballynakelly, near Coalisland.
Mid-Ulster Council's planning committee met on Tuesday evening.
It said it would delay its decision until members visited a similar plant.
Councillors also want to view the site at Ballynakelly.
Several hundred people have written to the Planning Service to oppose it.
The proposal would see a 500KW digester that would take 10,950 tonnes of silage and 1,450 tonnes of slurry a year. It would treat it in sealed units to create gas which would be used to produce power. The residue would be returned to farms for spreading.
Documents submitted as part of the planning process show that there would be around 10 loads a week of material arriving at the facility, which is 100 metres from a housing development of 31 homes and a children's playground.
Callan Renewables Ltd, which is behind the scheme, said the facility would generate enough renewable electricity to power 500 homes.
Locals opposed to the development have sent letters to the planners saying it is "large-scale, commercial and out of character with the surrounding local area".
Callan Renewables Ltd defended the location of the site.
"Despite suggestions that the plant is located within an established residential area, the site is located within an industrial area with the nearest residential property circa 150 metres away," the company said in a statement.
Planners said that as the plan would entail the extension of a farmyard already used for industrial purposes, the proposal would not have a "negative impact on the character of the area".
They also said that as the plant would use methane gas from slurry, which would otherwise be released into the environment, it would be of benefit and in line with current government policy on meeting renewable energy targets.
But DUP peer Lord Morrow said he was "amazed" that planners had approved the proposal.
"It appears that the planners are choosing to ignore the will of the local community, who have voiced their objections totalling well over 500 submissions," he added.
"I cannot recall another application in the South Tyrone area attracting so many objections."
The former Birmingham City full-back, who returned to Shropshire for a second spell with Shrewsbury in 2015, has made more than 400 appearances in his nine-club professional career.
Ex-England Under-19 international Sadler, 31, has also played for clubs such as Walsall, Crawley and Rotherham.
The club have also given a new 12-month deal to young goalkeeper Shaun Rowley.
All lines in the Portsmouth area, along with those between Surbiton and Effingham Junction, will be shut on Saturday and Sunday.
It means no trains will stop at Cosham Station, close to Portsmouth's Mutiny Festival venue.
Organisers warned only a "limited bus replacement" service will be operating.
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Network Rail and South West Trains urged passengers to check their journeys in advance, because of the "essential" track renewal work at Portcreek Viaduct and maintenance work between Surbiton and Effingham Junction.
Headline acts at Mutiny Festival, which will be held on Saturday and Sunday and is expected to attract 30,000 people, include 50 Cent and Chase and Status.
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YouTube Red costs $9.99 (£6.50) a month and offers an ad-free experience that includes feature-length films and other clips from the vloggers and channels.
However, analysts have doubts about how many users will be willing to pay for access, having become accustomed to getting it for free.
The service will initially only be available in the US.
Gillian Lavery, 43, was cleaning Tom Winter's flat in Clydebank when the incident happened on 16 February 2016.
He had arranged to have sex with a younger woman but when she did not turn up he told Ms Lavery: "I have already taken my Viagra. You are doing it."
A jury found her not guilty after accepting she acted in self defence.
Ms Lavery's trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard that she had been acting as a cleaner for the pensioner and both had known each other for a number of years.
Winter said that they had had sex together on three or four occasions during that time.
He told the court that on the day of the attack, Ms Lavery had called to say she was going to visit him and he believed she was coming to his flat for sex.
But he said he told her to get out after she mentioned that she was expecting a friend.
Winter claimed he then walked out in front of Ms Lavery before being repeatedly struck with a hammer.
Photographs of the OAP after the incident showed him with bruising to his head, face, arms and legs.
Under cross-examination, Winter admitted that he had also been expecting "a mystery woman" to turn up that day.
He told the jury: "Gillian said she was bringing someone up...if the mystery woman did not turn up, I would have sex with Gillian with her consent."
During her evidence, Ms Lavery admitted that she had previously had sex with Winter and that she had been at his flat when he had sex with other women.
The accused said the pensioner asked her to visit that day as a woman called Sarah was coming up and she could make her "feel comfortable".
But she recalled Winter became "angry" when the woman did not show up.
Ms Lavery told the court: "He said that he had already taken his tablet...his Viagra."
She said Winter then told her: "You are not going anywhere. She is not here, so you are doing it."
Ms Lavery said she tried to flee from the flat but the pensioner hit her with a walking stick.
She said she hit him with a hammer that had fallen from a table to "get him off me" before fleeing.
Ms Lavery was cleared of attempted murder after the jury took just half an hour to find her not guilty.
The papers report that two 19-year-olds are being questioned by police.
Mr Miskelly, who had been on a night-out on Saturday, was found dying on Bangor Road, Newtownards, early on Sunday morning following a suspected assault.
Paramedics were unable to save him
The Mirror quotes a childhood friend who said he was "a nice big fella" who "loved a good time".
The Telegraph cites a floral tribute left by Mr Miskelly's family, calling him their "one and only".
Time is ticking by and we are down to the last few days before the polls open. Election fever is hotting up.
The Belfast Telegraph's front-page headline reads: "Fear of SF majority 'is hitting UUP vote.'"
In what it bills an exclusive, the paper says voters are abandoning the Ulster Unionists to back the DUP over fears that Sinn Féin could become the biggest party at Stormont.
Veteran councillor Jim Rodgers claims "project fear" over Sinn Féin topping the poll is costing the UUP votes.
However, Councillor Alex Baird says there is no evidence in his constituency of people switching parties.
The Irish News leads with the story that a unionist-dominated council could be risking £2.5m European funding because it has refused to include nationalist politicians on a committee.
The paper reports that Lisburn & Castlereagh's committee is made up of eight unionist and two Alliance councillors but none of the council's four SDLP representatives feature.
The Irish News says a letter sent by the Special EU Programmes Body to the council reveals that the council turned down a request to expand its political representation to "fully reflect the spirit of the objectives of the Peace Programme".
The paper quotes Sinn Féin finance minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir who says that the council's "refusal to include both political traditions in its partnership is completely unacceptable".
SDLP councillor Pat Catney calls the council's position "an absolute disgrace".
It means funding of £2.5m for children and children's services is being stalled, he said, putting the blame firmly with the DUP.
The council said it was considering matters and working to find a solution.
The News Letter is also well and truly in election mode.
It leads with a call from Mervyn Gibson, grand secretary of the Orange Order, for fresh legislation surrounding parading.
The issue of parades needs to be part of any talks following the election, Rev Gibson tells the paper.
He claims the law, as it stands, is "fundamentally flawed and biased against parades".
The Telegraph also features the story of a Sinn Féin Strictly show featuring the dance moves of north Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly and his wife to the strains of Roxanne by the Police.
The paper says that at one point, Mr Kelly and Paul Maskey took to the stage in fancy dress to perform to Elton John's Crocodile Rock - a joke inspired by DUP leader Arlene Foster's dismissal of Sinn Féin's demand for an Irish language Act.
"If you feed the crocodile it will keep coming back for more," she said.
And finally, the Irish News reports on new "Dead Interesting" tours at Dublin's Glasnevin ceremony.
You can hear the story of the woman who died once, but was buried twice and you can stand at the grave of the last Irish winner at Wimbledon.
There is also the chance to pay your respects to one Frank de Groot.
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They say the social affairs minister's actions breached government regulations on tobacco promotion.
However, Khofifah Indar Parawansa said she distributed the cigarettes as a goodwill gesture, reports said.
Indonesia is estimated to have more than 50 million smokers.
It is thought to be the world's fifth-largest tobacco market.
High levels of smoking among children in particular have added to concerns about the state of the nation's health.
Ms Khofifah is reported to have handed out gifts, including cigarettes, on a recent visit to an under-developed part of central Sumatra.
Campaigners have threatened Ms Khofifah with legal action unless she apologises within two weeks.
"The social affairs minister was deliberately ignoring public health by distributing free cigarettes," Tulus Abadi, operational manager at the Indonesian Consumers Foundation, was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe.
The newspaper said the minister was visiting the indigenous tribe to express her condolences for the death of 11 people who had died of starvation.
"Whatever the reasoning was, it is incomprehensible that a high official would distribute cigarettes to her own people," Mr Tulus said.
"It would have been more becoming if money spent on the cigarettes had instead been used to buy basic necessities or other useful things."
But Ms Khofifah is reported to have argued that the free cigarettes were "just a way to get on the good side of the locals".
"I don't want to argue but you'd better go there yourself. Greet them and ask them about their culture. Do not see things from a Jakarta-centric perspective," she was quoted by Merdeka.com as saying.
The foundation argues that her actions in distributing the cigarettes are "in direct violation" of 2012 government regulations on tobacco control, which disallow free distribution and discounts for tobacco products.
The BBC's South Asia editor Jill McGivering says that pictures of the cigarette distribution sparked a heated debate after they began circulating on the internet.
The baby was treated by paramedics at about 01:00 GMT on Sunday at a property on Charles Street, Blackpool.
The victim "remains very poorly" at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, police said.
Tomasz Raszkiewicz, 32, of Central Drive, Blackpool has been remanded in custody to appear before Blackpool Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
A 34-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of wounding has been released on bail.
Two other men arrested as part of the investigation were released with no further action.
Thirty-three people were killed by the UVF bomb attacks.
Speaking in a BBC documentary to be broadcast on Monday night, Mr Paisley said the Irish government effectively brought the attacks on themselves.
Mr Paisley's successor as first minister, Peter Robinson, said the only people responsible were the bombers.
"The people responsible for terrorist actions are terrorists," Mr Robinson said.
"Those responsible for priming the bomb, placing it and killing 33 people."
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said he was "absolutely shocked" by Mr Paisley's comments.
Talking about the Dublin and Monaghan bombs in the documentary, Mr Paisley said: "I was shocked, very much shocked, that there was anyone going to be hurt in that way.
"But, I mean, who brought that on them? Themselves, it was their own political leaders... at that time the attitude of the south government to Northern Ireland was ridiculous."
Mr Nesbitt said: "When we criticise the re-writing of history, this is precisely the type of comments which we mean.
"The people responsible for the murder of 33 people in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974 were the terrorists who planned and planted the bombs."
Mr Robinson also challenged Mr Paisley's account of the so-called "invasion of Clontibret".
In August 1986, Mr Robinson led a large group of loyalists into the County Monaghan village in protest against what he claimed were inadequate security measures along the Irish border following Margaret Thatcher's signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
The agreement had given the Republic of Ireland a constitutional role in the affairs of Northern Ireland for the first time.
In the documentary, Mr Paisley said the protest, which resulted in disorder, damage and a fine for Mr Robinson, "shouldn't have been done".
When asked if there was a feeling within his family then that Mr Robinson was making a leadership challenge - Mr Paisley was out of the country at the time - he replied: "Everybody has a right to decide for themselves what their answer to that is.
"I think he (Mr Robinson) thought that there was going to be a tremendous uprising as a result of all that, and that didn't happen."
Mr Paisley added: "He did it and he must take account for it and it's so unimportant, you know, in the light of what was happening. It was only like a fella scratching a match and the match burns out, and that's when he throws it away."
Speaking in Dublin on Friday, Mr Robinson said Mr Paisley's account was "a failure of recollection".
He said that Mr Paisley "was the one who had agreed to go to Clontibret".
"He had to leave to go to a funeral in the US and I stepped in as his deputy into the Clontibret arrangement," said Mr Robinson.
Mr Paisley made his comments in a BBC documentary looking at the former politician's journey from a firebrand preacher to his role as Northern Ireland's first minister.
On the Bloody Sunday shootings in Londonderry in 1972, when 13 people were shot dead by the Army, he said: "I was very angry that that's what it had come to.
"I felt it was a very dangerous thing, and then the attempt to cover it for what it was not.
"The inquiry afterwards proved that some of these people had neither weapons, nor were they using weapons. They were just making a protest within the law."
He said he welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron's 2010 apology for the killings: "Well, I wasn't embarrassed. I was glad to hear him for the first time as a British leader telling the truth about it, saying what really did happen."
Mr Paisley also said the discrimination that once existed in Northern Ireland over voting rights was wrong.
"If you vote down democracy, you are responsible for bringing in anarchy," he said.
"It wasn't one man, one vote, I mean that's no way to run a country."
"The whole system was wrong."
At the time only ratepayers in Northern Ireland were entitled to votes, while Catholics were discriminated against in terms of housing allocation and the "gerrymandering" of electoral boundaries.
In the two-part documentary, Paisley: Genesis To Revelation, the veteran politician talked to journalist Eamonn Mallie about his life.
The 87-year-old has been one of the most controversial political figures of the 20th Century.
He has lived most of his life in the public eye and played a pivotal role in Northern Ireland's history.
Mr Paisley once vowed he would never share power with Sinn Féin, but spent over a year at Stormont as Northern Ireland's first minister working with Martin McGuinness, the deputy first minister and former IRA leader.
He stepped down from politics in May 2008, just weeks after he resigned as moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church, which he founded.
In the first of the two programmes, Mr Paisley discussed his early life and his relationship with his father James, a Baptist minister from Armagh; his conversion to evangelical Christianity at six years old; his first steps into ministry in Ravenhill, Belfast; why he founded and became moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church.
He also gave his reflections on the Cromac Street riots and the flag protests on the Falls Road in the 1960s; his thoughts around the 1968 Civil Rights Movement; and his opinion on Bloody Sunday.
He discussed how he founded the Democratic Unionist Party; involvement in the Ulster Workers' Council Strike in 1974; an IRA bomb attack on Downing Street; and how he felt about the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
In the second of the two programmes, Eamonn Mallie asks Mr Paisley and his wife of 57 years, Eileen, about what they believe were the circumstances around his departure from the Free Presbyterian Church that he founded and as leader of the DUP, the political party he created.
Mr Paisley, who was admitted to the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald just before the New Year after taking ill, is still recovering there.
Mr Mallie said: "Having trawled through endless biographies, watched dozens of television interviews in these islands and further afield with retired world leaders and opinion makers, we do not believe any former prime minister or first minister has ever been as reflective, blunt or unabridged in laying bare the facts enveloping his or her public life.
"The tone in these programmes is mutually robust and challenging."
Paisley: Genesis To Revelation - Face To Face With Eamonn Mallie starts on BBC One NI on Monday 13 January at 22:35 GMT
She told the Daily Telegraph that it was "common sense" as the care for extremely premature babies had improved rapidly.
A review by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists two years ago said there was no scientific evidence to justify a lower limit.
She voted for a 20-week limit in 2008.
In an interview, she said she would do the same again: "You have got to look at these matters in a very common-sense way. I looked at it from the really important stance of the impact on women and children.
"What we are trying to do here is not to put obstacles in people's way but to reflect the way medical science has moved on."
The deputy leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman, said: "We don't want more legislation and wrangling in Parliament about the time limit on abortions, we absolutely don't.
"To see the issue of unwanted pregnancies just through the idea of restricting abortions, I think that that is exactly the wrong way for Maria Miller to be starting off her discussion on this."
The Department of Health said it had no plans to review abortion laws. Any decision would be a free vote in Parliament.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service's chief executive Ann Furedi said: "Scientific evidence does not show that survival rates before 24 weeks have improved in recent years, as the minister seems to believe.
"But it is also important for a women's minister to recognise that every year a small number of women in often very difficult and unenviable circumstances will need to end a pregnancy after 20 weeks."
Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland except in limited circumstances.
The drilling rig is to be floated on to the deck of Offshore Heavy Transport's semi-submersible Hawk vessel.
The complex operation is dependent on favourable weather conditions.
The 17,000-tonne Transocean Winner rig ran aground at Dalmore, near Carloway, on the west side of the island during a storm over a month ago.
It was successfully refloated and taken to its current safe anchorage on the east side of the island.
Hawk was already in Scottish waters having taken another rig to an anchorage in the Cromarty Firth in the Highlands.
The ship designed to move rigs and other large marine structures over long distances.
The Transocean Winner has been fitted with air bags to increase its buoyancy. A number of small tugs will be involved in an operation to float it on to the Hawk.
On Tuesday, David Walls, of the rig's owner Transocean, said relatively calm weather was needed for the operation to be completed.
Transocean Winner was being towed from Norway to Malta, from where it was to be moved to Turkey to be scrapped, when it and the ship towing it were hit by a storm off the Western Isles.
The tow line broke and the rig ran aground on the beach at Dalmore.
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A local animal rights group went to court on behalf of the orangutan, saying she was being imprisoned illegally and should be set free.
The outcome depended on whether Sandra should be thought of as a 'person' or a 'thing'.
Lawyers representing the 29 year-old orangutan argued that she should not be treated as an object because of her intelligence and complex ways of thinking.
It was decided that Sandra could have the status of a "non-human person" - the first time this has ever happened.
As long as the zoo doesn't appeal to change the decision, this means Sandra will be transferred to a sanctuary in Brazil, where she will have more freedom.
Sandra's case is one of many that have attempted to give great apes some of the rights enjoyed by humans - all of which have failed, until now.
The 19-year-old won 0-6 7-6 (11-9) 6-2 against Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez to claim his first Grand Slam title.
Later on Saturday, Hewett lost in the men's doubles final alongside fellow Briton Gordon Reid.
They were beaten 6-4 6-3 by French pair Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer, who also beat them in the Rio 2016 final.
Hewett, seventh in the rankings, said: "I had a good feeling about this week. This time last year I was outside the top 10, hadn't really won anything.
"A year on, I've got two [Paralympic] silver medals, [I am] Wimbledon doubles champion and now singles Grand Slam [champion] at Roland Garros - I can't believe it."
Fernandez had two match points during the second-set tie-break, but Hewett said he remained confident of victory.
"I played him a week and a half ago in another final and I was 6-0 3-0 down, and when it went 6-0 2-0 this time I was thinking, 'Oh no, here we go again'," Hewett added.
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Cormack, a former chief executive of Aberdeen, sold his software company for £630m last year.
"I can offer both financial support and my time to the club," Cormack told the Aberdeen website.
"I look forward to attracting American investment and strategic partnerships [to] help AFC maximise its potential."
Cormack will work with existing board members, including chairman Stewart Milne, while splitting his time between Atlanta and the north east of Scotland.
The 58-year-old was interim chief executive of the Pittodrie club between 2000 and 2001 during a sabbatical from his business interests in the USA.
He is seeking to "work with the management team at AFC to explore some innovative ideas I've seen work Stateside".
Cormack returns to the club after selling the software company that he helped to grow from a firm employing 12 people in 2004 to a 500-strong workforce, generating £107m in annual revenues, in 2016.
"While I have continued to support and provide advice to the club for many years, I'm honoured to be back on the board," Cormack said.
"The club's performance in recent seasons, both on and off the pitch, is a testament to how hard everyone at Pittodrie has worked.
"Having a team that is performing well and a club that is debt-free is an enviable position to be in. But we must fully exploit opportunities to increase revenues and our fanbase.
"I'm looking forward to working with the existing leadership team at the club, with whom I've already got a great relationship.
"Between us, and with the support of our fans, I'm sure we can get the club into a position where increased revenues, an expanded fanbase, and a state-of the-art community stadium and training campus will position AFC well to exploit changes that evolve in European club competition."
Milne welcomed Cormack's involvement and the experience he will bring to the club.
"Running a club in the modern era is increasingly challenging and we will greatly benefit from having someone with Dave's expertise, experience, enthusiasm and commitment," the Aberdeen chairman said.
"He brings a new perspective along with an innovative approach and commercial acumen to help meet the challenges head-on."
He arrived in Kenya on Wednesday, at the start of a three-nation tour of Africa.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and ululating crowds welcomed him at the airport in the capital, Nairobi.
The Pope said conflict and terrorism fed "on fear, mistrust, and the despair born of poverty and frustration".
The pontiff played down security fears about his trip, joking that he was "more worried about the mosquitoes."
A leading Muslim cleric in Kenya welcomed the visit, saying it gave hope to the "downtrodden in the slums".
An atheist group said it would challenge in court a government decision to declare Thursday a holiday in honour of the pontiff.
Pope Francis's five-day visit will also see him go to Uganda and Central African Republic, which has been hit by Christian-Muslim conflict.
Kenya's government has said that up to 10,000 police officers may be deployed during the visit.
Militant Islamists have carried out a series of attacks in Kenya - including the 2013 siege at Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre, which left at least 67 dead, and the killing of about 150 people during an assault on the Garissa National University College in April this year.
"All men and women of goodwill are called to work for reconciliation and peace, forgiveness and healing," Pope Francis said at a function hosted by President Kenyatta in State House.
Pope Francis also warned of the "grave environmental crisis" facing the world, and said leaders needed to promote "responsible models of economic development".
He made a veiled reference to corruption by calling on leaders to work with integrity and transparency, says the BBC's Joseph Odhiambo in Nairobi.
President Kenyatta called on the Pope to pray that Kenya succeeds in its fight against corruption.
On Wednesday, he sacked six ministers following allegations of corruption in the government. The six have denied the allegations.
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About 30% of Kenyans - including President Kenyatta - are baptised Catholics, and there is huge excitement around the visit, our correspondent says.
Crowds lined the streets of Nairobi to catch a glimpse of the pope as he was driven in a grey Honda saloon to Mr Kenyatta's office for his official engagement.
One of Kenya's main newspapers, The Standard, welcomed him with headlines in Latin, Grata Franciscus Pontifex, and the regional Swahili language, Karibu Papa Francis.
The Pope is expected to tackle corruption, poverty and religious conflict during his five-day visit.
Abdalla Kwamana, the vice-chairman of the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims, said he would attend an inter-faith meeting the pontiff is hosting on Thursday.
He described the visit as highly significant, and welcomed the Pope's decision to include a shantytown in his itinerary.
"It is often said that Kenya is owned by the rich and powerful. The people in the slums are never recognised," Mr Kwamana told the BBC's Newsday programme.
"When he goes to see them and console them, they'll feel they are people of substance," he added.
Pope Francis is due to hold a mass on Thursday at the University of Nairobi sports ground, where a crowd of more than one million is expected, Kenya's private Daily Nation newspaper reports.
The tiny Atheists in Kenya group said the decision to declare Thursday a public holiday and a day of prayer was unconstitutional.
"The constitution clearly states that there shall be no state religion. We cannot have the government acting religiously," its leader Harrison Mumia said, Nation FM radio station reports.
One in six of the world's Catholics are in Africa.
Mr Weiner, who quit Congress in 2011 over a similar scandal, insisted he would stick to his campaign schedule, including an event later on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, an unnamed woman said he had used the alias Carlos Danger during a six-month cyber liaison.
Flanked by his wife, he apologised in a hastily arranged press conference.
In 2011, Mr Weiner resigned his seat in Congress after admitting to sending lewd photos of himself to young women. He at first claimed his Twitter account had been hacked.
The 48-year-old has been leading opinion polls of Democratic mayoral candidates ahead of November's election.
In an op-ed, the New York Times calls for the "serially evasive Mr Weiner" to leave the mayoral race but says his decision to stay is not surprising for "those who know his arrogance and have grown tired of the tawdry saga he has dragged the city into".
"A proven liar must not be mayor," writes the New York Daily News in summation of their own op-ed, arguing point by point why the former congressman has hurt himself and the mayoral election.
A New York Post columnist describes Mr Weiner as "a repulsive, uncontrolled, power-hungry publicity hound willing to humiliate everyone he loves by raising his profile yet again".
CNN political analyst Gloria Borger writes: "Weiner's problem is not just about his personal compulsions. It's also about his inability to tell the complete truth to the people he is asking to redeem and forgive him."
On Wednesday morning, he said his campaign was "too important to give up", and that he was not surprised his opponents wanted him to quit.
"I have posited this whole campaign on a bet," the embattled candidate told reporters.
"And that is that, at the end of the day, citizens are more interested in the challenge they face in their lives than in anything that I have done, embarrassing, in my past."
After the latest revelations, three of Mr Weiner's rivals - Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Councilman Sal Albanese, both Democrats, and Republican billionaire John Catsimatidis - called on him to stand aside.
"Anthony's presence in this race has become a never-ending sideshow that is distracting us from the debate of the serious issues of this election," Mr de Blasio said.
Mr Weiner's closest rivals in the contest, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and City Comptroller Bill Thompson, condemned his behaviour but stopped short of calling for him to bow out.
The woman at the centre of the latest allegations has said they began exchanging messages in July 2012 and continued for six months.
She said she was 22 years old when they made contact on the social networking website Formspring.
On Tuesday, Mr Weiner's 36-year-old wife, Huma Abedin, a long-time aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stood by him.
"I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him," she said.
The UK government said in 2015 some services that primarily serve England could be given to other firms.
But the Welsh Government has now said it has reached an understanding the current franchise map will remain intact.
Four companies are bidding to run the network.
The UK government agreed in 2014 to devolve the Wales and Borders franchise.
But the 2015 St David's Day command paper - a document which paved the way for the Wales Bill currently passing through parliament - said it was "likely" services primarily for English markets would be put in franchises under the authority of the UK transport secretary.
This prompted concerns services such as Aberystwyth to Birmingham and Milford Haven to Manchester would be split at the border, with passengers potentially having to change trains.
The Welsh Government said it had "reached an understanding" with the UK Department for Transport that the current Wales and Borders franchise map "will remain intact".
Its spokesman added there were also opportunities for operating new routes to Bristol and Liverpool "if train paths can be secured".
John Rogers, a committee member of railway campaigning group Rail Future, described the idea of splitting up cross-border services as "completely stupid".
"Common sense has surfaced at last," he said.
Doncaster Girls' High School's facade on Chequer Road would be attached to a new £15m building, housing the central library, museum and art gallery, archives and school library service.
If Doncaster Council's plans are approved, the hub could be open by the spring of 2020.
The plans will be considered on 4 July.
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The museum and art gallery, and the central library are in two separate 1960s town centre buildings, with the archives in a former school in Balby, and the school library service at Barnby Dun.
Doncaster Council said all four buildings needed "significant repairs" and even money spent on them would not make them fit for purpose.
However consolidating all four into one unique building would create a "cutting edge space" and a wonderful resource for residents, Mayor Ros Jones said.
Doncaster Girls' School was built in 1910 and extended in 1935.
It merged with Doncaster Boys' Grammar in 1971 to become Hall Cross Comprehensive, but was mostly demolished by 2013. A boutique hotel promised for the site never materialised.
The council said a new hub would "inspire creativity" and encourage new visitors to the town.
Exhibits not seen in public for years could be displayed, including the Danum Shield, Royal Borough Charters and collections celebrating Doncaster's links with railways, horseracing, mining and Roman history.
Bob Fitzharris, chair of the Freemen of Doncaster, said it would be "absolutely marvellous" to see the school frontage restored to its former glory with all services together under one roof.
Ms Jones said the "landmark building" would enhance Doncaster's cultural heritage and be "a total step change to what is currently being offered."
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Hansen paid tribute to England's achievements on BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek, but England coach Jones was wary, comparing the Kiwi to the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood.
"Eddie's obviously not very used to getting compliments," Hansen replied.
"So he's got to try and brush it off."
Victory for England against Ireland on Saturday would be a record-breaking 19th in a row, and would seal a second straight Six Nations Grand Slam for Jones' men.
Hansen told 5 live that Jones has instilled a worth ethic previously lacking in England's team, but Jones replied: "You've always got to be careful of compliments, particularly from an All Blacks coach."
But Hansen says England deserve to be talked up.
"It's not about playing a game. In this case I - and the team - genuinely believe they should be complimented," he told Radio Sport NZ.
"They've done a tremendous job. Sport is about paying due when it is due, and they've done a good job, so well done."
New Zealand and England are ranked as the top two sides in the world, but the teams are unlikely to meet until the autumn of 2018.
Hansen says all his immediate focus is on the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand this summer.
"If you can't be motivated to meet the Lions - a team made up of four countries who only come here every 12 years - then you are in trouble aren't you.
"Our focus is on getting ready for the Lions. That's going to be a great challenge for us."
The current leader Alasdair McDonnell is being challenged by Colum Eastwood, the MLA for Foyle.
Dr McDonnell, 66, the MP for South Belfast, has been leading the SDLP since 2011.
Mr Eastwood, at 32, is the party's youngest MLA.
Dr McDonnell told party delegates during his speech on Saturday afternoon that "generational change is making its way through this party".
But he added that he intends to stay on as leader until he has completed a programme of "reorganisation and renewal" within the party.
"I don't expect to stay forever or even for a moment longer than needed to get the immediate job done," he said.
"But we need proper succession planning at all levels in this party because it is absolutely integral to the project of continuous party renewal which we have already begun."
Dr McDonnell has claimed to have achieved a "major turnaround" for the SDLP in encouraging new candidates to stand for election and increasing female representation among councillors to 40%.
But his leadership style has been criticised by some senior members of the party, including former deputy leaders Seamus Mallon and Brid Rodgers and the Foyle MP Mark Durkan.
Mr Eastwood is pointing to the support he has from figures like them, and from Pat Hume, the wife of the former party leader John Hume.
The former mayor of Londonderry says the SDLP has had "a couple of very bad elections" under Dr McDonnell's leadership and that it is time for a change.
More than 300 delegates to the SDLP conference in Armagh are entitled to vote.
The ballot opened at 16:00 GMT on Friday and the result will be announced around 17:00 on Saturday.
An attempt to block their use by an indigenous activist who claimed they are racist was dismissed by an Ontario Superior Court judge on Monday.
His decision came hours before the US team played the Toronto Blue Jays in a play-off contest.
The judge said he will give his reason for dismissing the injunction later.
The Cleveland team is in Toronto playing game three in the best-of-seven ALCS series. The Indians lead the series 2-0.
Architect and activist Douglas Cardinal sought the injunction to bar the use of the Cleveland Indian name and logo for the American League Championship Series (ALCS) game.
Mr Cardinal argues they are racist and discriminatory and wanted the franchise referred to as "the Cleveland team".
The logo - a grinning, red-faced cartoon man in a feather headband - has specifically been singled out by critics as an offensive racial caricature.
Mr Cardinal was demanding the Indians, Major League Baseball, and Rogers Communications - which owns the stadium where the Toronto team plays and broadcasts Blue Jays baseball to a Canadian viewing audience of over a million people - be barred from using both in the province.
He has also filed complaints with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
The team has been criticised for years for perpetuating stereotypes about indigenous people with their name and brand.
Toronto Blue Jays' play-by-play announcer Jerry Howarth recently revealed he has refused to say the name "Indians" during his broadcasts since 1992.
In a statement issued before Monday's decision, team spokesman Curtis Danburg said: "The Indians are focused on competing in the postseason. We will not comment any further on matters that distract from our pursuit on the field."
The team owners have said that while it is "cognisant and sensitive to both sides of the conversation," it has no plans to make a change.
Apparel bearing the Wahoo logo is still popular with fans and will be present on the sleeve of the players' uniforms and on the baseball caps they wear during home games.
Opponents have been battling the use of the name and logo for years.
The Indians did demote Chief Wahoo to secondary logo status and have significantly minimised its use over the years.
The team took on the Indians name in 1915, reportedly reviving an old team nickname used when Louis Sockalexis, a member of the Penobscot Indian tribe of Maine, played for the then Cleveland Spiders.
Other major league teams also criticised over their names include the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins, Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves and the National Hockey League's Chicago Black Hawks.
The U's leading scorer ensured his side bounced back from a midweek loss at Accrington with his 18th and 19th goals of the season.
Victory moved Shaun Derry's side up to 11th in the table, where they remain five points adrift of seventh spot.
After Jordan Bowery's early angled attempt was thwarted by Cambridge goalkeeper Will Norris' legs, Berry pounced in the 37th minute.
Crewe failed to clear their lines after Harrison Dunk's close-range header was saved by Ben Garratt and Berry seized possession inside the box and drove the ball into the far corner.
Dunk went close to adding a second on the stroke of half-time when he profited from Billy Bingham's miscued clearance, but Garratt saved the day for Crewe.
And the Cheshire side were level in the 58th minute when Chris Dagnall's cross was diverted into his own net by Leon Legge.
Berry, though, showed a clinical finish, driving a 72nd-minute free-kick low into the bottom corner to win it for the U's, who finished with 10 men after substitute Paul Lewis was sent off for a reckless lunge at Dagnall in the last minute.
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Caught somewhat on the hop by Winston Churchill's announcement that the war in Europe was over - and limited by wartime rationing - those first VE Day celebrations were more spontaneous affairs.
Bunting and flags were improvised from the now-redundant blackout curtains, while eggless cakes and powdered milk blancmanges were all that could be rustled-up at such short notice.
But as Rita Spinola recalls, the shortages and lack of planning couldn't dampen the enthusiasm at the party held on her street in Grangetown, Cardiff.
"I was only six at the time, and the main thing which sticks with me is the noise. The evenings were quiet during the war, so it was the first time in my life that I'd heard so many people out having fun.
"People brought whatever they had; guitars, mouth organs. Somebody even rolled a piano down the steps and out onto the street I recall.
"There were barrels of beer from the pub, and someone had made a Union Jack from their blackout curtains. We didn't have a lot, but there was such a sense of relief and joy that we didn't need a lot."
In Swansea, Dot and Les Prior had even more reason to celebrate as the announcement came days before both of their 20th birthdays.
Les remembers taking part in a spontaneous parade of the Home Guard through the bombed-out streets.
"I was sent home early, at about lunchtime, from work at the bakery. The boys in the Home Guard all met up at the hall on Town Hill and we didn't know what to do with ourselves.
"We'd patrolled Swansea Bay every night of the war, and now suddenly there was no war.
"So we decided to march in our uniforms down into town. A few people came out to watch us on Town Hill, but by the time we'd made it into the centre there were thousands lining the road and cheering.
"It seemed somehow fitting to be parading through the rubble of Swansea after the Blitz; we'd been knocked down but we hadn't been beaten."
Dot also remembers the size of the crowds, but for her it was the end of the blackout which she remembers most vividly.
"I'd never seen so many people in the same place. Everyone just wandering around in a shocked daze, with goofy grins all over their faces.
"By the evening everyone was popping in and out of each other's houses, sharing whatever they had; you found yourself sitting on a strange sofa, having a chat with people you'd never set eyes on before and never did again after that night.
"But the thing I remember most of all is the amount of light. It was a warm night, everyone had their windows and doors open, and all this marvellous light was spilling out onto the street.
"It was such a difference after all those depressing dark nights of the blackout and the best birthday present I could have wished for."
But not everyone was fortunate enough to take part in the parties.
Ninety-two-year-old Ted Evans, from Ruthin, was a merchant seaman aboard a ship on the River Seine, delivering oil to US troops in Rouen, when the announcement came over the radio.
"The thing I remember the most is the sense of injustice that we weren't allowed to go ashore to join in the celebrations. We could hear singing and dancing going on all around us, and we were in this little bubble, cut off from the outside world.
"But someone had managed to smuggle some gin aboard. We drunk so much of it that I still can't stand the stuff to this day, so it wasn't all bad.
"By the time we docked back in Stepney a few days later, everything was back to normal. With rationing, the hardship of life and the insecurity of what came next, nobody felt much like partying anymore.
"Of course it was even worse for the troops stationed abroad, so that's all the more reason for those of us who can to make the most of it this time around and find out what we missed out on all those years before."
A short service was held at the Palace of Westminster, with around 100 MPs and peers, and parliamentary and Downing Street staff taking part.
The union jack-draped coffin had arrived earlier in an escorted hearse.
Meanwhile, MPs have voted to cancel PM's Questions on Wednesday, after some MPs had tried to force it to go ahead.
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.
Her body will now rest overnight in the Palace of Westminster's Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, where a service was led by the Dean of Westminster for members of the family, senior figures from both Houses of Parliament, and staff from Parliament and Downing Street.
Senior figures attending included Commons Speaker John Bercow, Leader of the House Andrew Lansley, Chief Whip Sir George Young and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
Senior Liberal Democrat Baroness Williams said the service had been "very impressive" and "not at all political" but "more about the Thatcher family".
Conservative MP Sir Gerald Howarth added that it had been "dignified".
The chapel will be open for several hours in order that members of both Houses and parliamentary staff may pay their respects.
The House of Commons Speaker's chaplain will then keep vigil through the night.
Meanwhile, two MPs, Respect's George Galloway and Labour's Dennis Skinner, tried to block plans to delay the start of Commons business on Wednesday until 14:30 BST, which would cause the cancellation of Prime Minister's Questions.
Mr Galloway told MPs there was no reason to "suspend democracy" and said the "British establishment is making a profound mistake" in giving Lady Thatcher a ceremonial funeral.
"It is not a national funeral," he said. "You can only have a national funeral where there is a national consensus about the person being buried. That consensus does not exist in relation to Mrs Thatcher."
Mr Skinner said the argument was about class and that it was "one rule for those at the top and another for those at the bottom".
But MPs voted by 245 to 15 in favour of rescheduling parliamentary business to allow MPs to attend the funeral.
A debate in the Scottish Parliament on Lady Thatcher's legacy is to be postponed until after the funeral.
Green Party and independent members had wanted to hold the discussion shortly after the service, but the main parties at Holyrood have agreed that it should be moved to Thursday.
On Wednesday morning, Lady Thatcher'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 a gun carriage and taken in procession to St Paul's.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are among more than 2,000 people expected to attend the service.
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney and ex-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will also be among the guests, while 4,000 police will be on duty.
Barack Obama's official presidential delegation will be led by George Shultz and James Baker, who both served as secretaries of state during the Thatcher era.
But Argentina's ambassador to London, Alicia Castro, has declined an invitation to attend.
St Paul's has published a full funeral order of service.
Marine Le Pen, an anti-immigration Eurosceptic who may well top the first round of France's presidential election on 23 April, is riding a populist insurgency that has been growing over the past 15 years.
Its themes are familiar in the era of Donald Trump and Brexit: concern for hardworking people, support for traditional values, and opposition to immigration and supranational busybodies.
But the most distinctive characteristic of France's patriotic surge is youth. Unlike their contemporaries in the US and the UK, the under-30s in France are more nationalistic than the general population.
At the radical end of the movement are the "identitaires", or identitarians - the equivalent of the American alt-right.
Their standard bearers are Génération Identitaire (GI), a group that specialises in publicity stunts that it films and posts online to advertise its fight to reclaim French territory said to have been lost to foreign migrants.
GI has 120,000 Facebook fans - almost twice as many as the youth wings of the Socialist Party and the centre-right Republicans combined.
Unlike the skinheads of old, the group sticks to non-violence. The iPhone, it has found, is mightier than the boot.
France votes: on the BBC
Following a group of activists handing out flyers in Paris, however, it is clear that they relish verbal confrontation. Their leader Pierre Larti, 26, stands surrounded by a group of North African men.
"When I read this leaflet I understand that you don't want me here," one says.
"What we don't want is the replacement of our values by Islamic ones," replies Mr Larti. "France is historically a Christian country. I'm not criticising anyone. What happens in your land is your business. What happens here is ours. We are against colonisation, and this is why we don't want the same phenomenon to happen in reverse."
Oddly, perhaps, for a group passionately attached to national differences, GI is sprouting branches across Europe. But identitarians see the whole continent as a battleground between European and Islamic culture.
Jean-Yves Le Gallou, a former Euro-MP, speaks of a struggle for "civilisational" identity. "Whether you are Dutch, German or French," he says, "you have the same problem and have the same view of the world."
Mr Le Gallou, 69, has produced a video entitled Being European ("Europe is not a globalised, borderless space. Europe is not African or Muslim territory.") that has been viewed more than 3.2m times on YouTube in less than two years - three times as many as Being French, a sister video extolling his homeland.
Mr Le Gallou's website, Polemia, stands at the high-brow end of France's identitarian spectrum. In the 1970s, he was a leading member of the Nouvelle Droite, an influential group of far-right thinkers.
His continued influence is testament to the deep intellectual roots of the identitarian movement.
It also highlights the power of new media. Without the internet, Mr Le Gallou and others would have no mass audience. Their warnings against the "Great Replacement" of locals by immigrants are no-go areas for mainstream journalists.
Shut out by traditional media, identitarians have thrived on the web over the past decade. One of the online stars is Fdesouche, a news aggregator that features links to articles and clips from mainstream sites selected to chronicle chaos in migrant suburbs.
Fdesouche offers no comment, but leaves readers to draw their own conclusions: Islamists and "racaille" ("rabble" - code for dark-skinned criminals) are threatening to take over the country, one housing estate at a time.
Fdesouche gets about 3m views per month, dwarfing the websites of mainstream politicians. Emmanuel Macron, a centrist with a devoted following of hipsters, manages less than 1m.
Fdesouche's success has spawned a swarm of imitators and rivals.
Is France's online far right a threat to democracy?
Often collectively called the "fachosphère" (from "fascist"), websites denouncing mass immigration and Islam have seen spectacular growth in France over the past 10 years. And France's cyber-patriots are a diverse lot.
Read more here from Henri Astier's investigation
One fault line divides new-model identitarians, who view Muslims as the main threat, from traditionalists who believe the chief malevolent force in the world is "Zionism".
The most prominent anti-Zionist is Alain Soral. His website, Égalité et Reconciliation (E&R), weaves nationalist and left-wing themes by calling for solidarity with people from poor countries.
Soral rejects accusations of "anti-Semitism". He sees a clear distinction between "ordinary Jews" and what he calls the organised Jewish lobby, which he says is persecuting him.
He sympathises with native French people, but feels identitarians are focusing on the wrong target. By "inciting poor whites to turn against blacks and Muslims" they were doing the work of Zionists, he told the BBC.
Alain Soral is regularly prosecuted for incitement. But he is no bit-part player. E&R has more readers than Fdesouche, and by some measures is France's most popular political website.
Various parts of the online alt-right may be firing from different directions, but their target is the same: the political and media establishment.
Such resentment is not the preserve of the identitarian fringe, or of people languishing in neglected provinces.
Opposition to liberal elites and concern about the disappearance of borders are widespread, and increasingly being aired in the heart of Paris.
At Sciences Po, an institution that trains the next generation of government and business leaders. Eurosceptic students have set up a club, "Critique of European Reason" (CRE), to wage the fight where it matters.
Its leader, Nicolas Pouvreau, says the group has managed to "create a Eurosceptic safe space in an environment that remains hostile."
I celebrated [the Brexit vote] by eating fish and chips all day
Another member, Sarah Knafo, says the rising popularity of Marine Le Pen's National Front (FN) - France's largest party - has earned the group a grudging respect on campus: "We represent something bigger than us, and people dare not despise us as much as they used to."
Last year's Brexit vote in the UK thrilled CRE members. The next morning they gathered outside the UK embassy to drink champagne and sing God Save the Queen.
Beyond hostility to the EU, CRE members regard uncontrolled migration and trade flows as a source of social disintegration.
It would be wrong to label Critique of European Reason as far-right. The group brings together one-nation activists from both the left and the right who have much more in common with one another than with the moderates in their respective camps.
Kevin Vercin, another CRE student who supports hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is as hostile to multiculturalism as the conservatives within the group.
Having lived in an immigrant banlieue (suburb) he says he has often been called "dirty white", and says the mainstream press denies the reality of "anti-white racism".
I used to go to school with fear in my stomach. You start to feel bad about being white, about being French and loving your origins because you get beaten up
Unfashionable as they are, these feelings are widespread among those who have left the banlieues.
"I have suffered from being white," says Hugo Iannuzzi, a Sorbonne student.
"I have often cried. I used to go to school with fear in my stomach. You start to feel bad about being white, about being French and loving your origins because you get beaten up, your phone gets stolen and glasses smashed."
Mr Iannuzzi supports the FN. But his resentment of the political and media elites mirrors that of left-wingers like Mr Vercin.
Alexandre Devecchio, a journalist and author of a book on various tribes of young French rebels, calls all those preoccupied with the erosion of identity the "Zemmour generation". Eric Zemmour is an influential writer-broadcaster who argues that the 1968 revolt has led France to ruin.
Many of today's twentysomethings, Mr Devecchio argues, agree with Zemmour because they feel let down. Born after the fall of the Berlin Wall, they were expected to blossom in an open, rainbow society within a pacified, post-historical Europe.
"For that generation, reality did not follow the script," Mr Devecchio told the BBC. What they have experienced is unemployment, insecure jobs, and a sense of physical and cultural insecurity in areas where radical Islam is on the rise, he believes.
Could the identitarians and the wider Zemmour generation help Marine Le Pen win power?
At the moment that appears unlikely. Ms Le Pen lacks the backing of a major party, and is expected to be defeated by any second-round opponent.
But she can draw comfort from the fact that polls have underestimated the support of other populist leaders.
High abstention levels could also help her. The instinct to rally around whoever runs against the FN is much weaker now than in the past. Polls suggest that half the voters backing hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon would either abstain or back Ms Le Pen in a second round against Emmanuel Macron.
And should she lose the race, the setback could be temporary if her victorious opponent fails to bring about reform.
Identitarianism feeds on pessimism. The country's patriotic rebels are young and may have time on their side.
A Western official said Tuesday's talks in the Kazakh city of Almaty had been "useful" and the sides would meet again on Wednesday.
The discussions are the first since talks in July 2012 ended without a breakthrough.
Negotiators from Iran are meeting counterparts from the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - the P5+1.
International powers suspect Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons - a charge Iran strongly denies.
Iran insists its purposes are purely civilian, asserting it needs enriched uranium to make medical isotopes.
Since 2010, Iran has been enriching uranium to a level of 20%, an important technological step towards being able to produce more highly enriched weapons-grade material.
By James ReynoldsBBC News, Almaty
Each new round of the Iranian nuclear talks follows almost exactly the same choreography as the round before. Negotiators find themselves part of a de facto troupe on world tour - giving the same performance in different cities. These talks in Almaty follow previous rounds held in Geneva, Istanbul, Baghdad, and Moscow.
During the opening three-hour session, Baroness Catherine Ashton - the lead negotiator for the world powers - presented what's described as a revised offer to Iran. The proposal is thought to repeat an earlier demand to stop uranium enrichment and to shut down an underground enrichment facility near the city of Qom.
Iranian officials say that the Islamic Republic will listen to what the world powers have to say before deciding whether to reply with a counter-offer.
The two sides have until Thursday to see if they can break precedent and reach a lasting agreement.
Iran has repeatedly rejected Western calls to stop enriching uranium, insisting it is an inalienable right.
Western negotiators at the meeting are expected to offer Iran incentives to compromise.
"The offer addresses the international concern on the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program, but it is also responsive to Iranian ideas,'' said EU spokesman Michael Mann.
"We've put some proposals forward which will hopefully allow Iran to show some flexibility.''
The proposals might involve easing some of the sanctions which have been imposed on Iran, in return for shutting its Fordo uranium enrichment plant, reports say.
Several rounds of sanctions have squeezed Iran's economy, with oil revenue slashed, a currency that has nosedived in value, and growing unemployment.
Iran's Press TV said Iran would also offer "a new comprehensive package of proposals", without giving details.
The talks are taking place against a background of Israeli warnings that it will stop Iran's programme militarily if other means fail.
Speaking in London on Monday, new US Secretary of State John Kerry said time for a diplomatic solution was running short.
"The window for a diplomatic solution simply cannot by definition remain open forever. But it is open today. It is open now," he said.
"There is still time but there is only time if Iran makes the decision to come to the table and negotiate in good faith."
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters in Almaty "no more time should be lost".
"One gets the impression that on the whole there is not too much readiness or desire to agree. This should be overcome," Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
There has been little sign of the atmosphere easing. This month, Iran said it had found major new uranium deposits and was planning to expand its nuclear power programme.
Iran said the find - which has not been independently confirmed - would treble the size of known uranium deposits.
Only 10 days earlier, Iran announced an upgrade to its Natanz nuclear plant centrifuges - believed to be able to enrich uranium two or three times faster than the old equipment.
A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week said it could not yet "exclude the existence of possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme".
Hugh Robertson, 33, of Thornhill, assaulted his victim in Dumfries in November 2014.
He had denied any sex crime but admitted physically attacking the woman, insisting he had initially acted in self-defence.
However, he was convicted of sexual assault at the High Court in Glasgow and will be sentenced next month.
The court heard the woman was also struck with a belt during the attack and was "crying and very upset" during her ordeal.
Robertson was said to have turned up at the house in an "angry and frustrated state".
Prosecutor Steven Borthwick said he had "used violence to overcome her resistance".
The woman suffered bruising and swelling.
The court heard Robertson tried to "barricade" himself in when police arrived and was eventually discovered in the attic.
He claimed in evidence he had been assaulted and that he lashed out in a bid to defend himself.
But Mr Borthwick told the court: "He is a cowardly liar who cannot accept the reality of what he has done."
Susan Duff, defending, said Robertson was "ashamed" at physically assaulting the woman, but that he denied any sex attack.
Robertson had faced an allegation that he raped the woman but the jury deleted that accusation from the charge he was convicted of.
Judge Lord Bannatyne put him on the sex offenders register and he was remanded in custody.
He is due to be sentenced on 12 July in Livingston.
The Portuguese striker broke clear to smash home a low shot and was denied a second by keeper Jamie MacDonald.
Killie's Rory McKenzie was denied by a double save from Jack Hamilton, while Kyle Lafferty missed at the other end.
Both sides were reduced to 10 men when Killie's Kirk Broadfoot and Goncalves were sent off, but Hearts held out.
This was hard-fought stuff but much of it was hard to watch, an incessant riot of errors with precious little accuracy or coherence. You could blame the artificial pitch - as many have in the past - but that would not explain it fully. It was a grim battle between two teams that have a long way to go before they find their feet.
For the pair of them - after disappointing, or in Hearts' case, catastrophic - beginnings to the season, it was all about the bottom line. A win, no matter how it came, was all that mattered it and it was Hearts who landed the blow early in the game to win a league game at Rugby Park for the first time since April 2013.
Rafal Grzelak played the ball through a gap at the heart of Killie's defence to Goncalves, who beat MacDonald with a smart finish low to the goalkeeper's right. Only six minutes had been played.
If that goal gave us hope that an entertaining game was about to unfold, it was misleading. Hearts, with Goncalves and Kyle Lafferty combining, could, and probably should, have had a second when Goncalves was foiled by MacDonald, who had to come out of his box to thwart the striker. The Portuguese really ought to have put it away.
The poverty of the football continued but at least the incident rate increased.
Hearts had Hamilton to thank for snuffing out a rare Killie attack, sparked by Dom Thomas. The goalkeeper blocked two Killie efforts in a matter of seconds, the latter from McKenzie, a weak attempt from close range that was in keeping with much of what went on during the day.
Soon after, Hearts broke free and, again, there was a touch of slapstick about the way it all petered out. Don Cowie put in an inviting cross whereupon Lafferty took a fresh-air swipe at the ball - and missed.
Then, the red cards for an outbreak of needless nonsense. Kirk Broadfoot looked to have slammed Goncalves to the floor, who then retaliated. Referee Stephen Finnie consulted with assistant Calum Spence and sent off the pair of them.
Killie never looked like finding enough to force an equaliser - they roared for a penalty late on after McKenzie went down but didn't get it - and Hearts, for their part, rarely looked capable of giving themselves the comfort of a second goal. Cowie fired over from close range with four minutes left. That was the best of it.
Jamie Walker, who on his best form, might have elevated this game above the mundane, started on the bench - and that is where he finished it, too. Clearly he has some way to go yet to make amends to the Hearts interim management.
For Jon Daly and Austin MacPhee, this was a precious win in turbulent times. For Lee McCulloch, another defeat and a few more worries.
Kilmarnock boss Lee McCulloch: "I thought we were the better team. It was a sloppy goal to lose after five minutes but that was a bit of a wake-up call for us and after that I thought we were a lot better for the rest of the match.
"We were a little bit unlucky with Rory McKenzie's chance and another couple of half-chances to put crosses in, but I thought we sort of dominated and it is a little bit hard to take. But we need to dust ourselves down and go again.
"We spoke all week about starting the game well and then after five minutes it is backs to the wall. But Hearts are a definite top-four side in this league and to play the way we did for 85 minutes against them is where the positives come from, albeit we didn't get anything from the game.
"There might be a chance to get one more player in, maybe two, but we will wait and see."
Interim Hearts boss Jon Daly: "It's a massive win. We haven't won here since April 2013 so it shows how difficult a place it is to come. The players showed a lot of the characteristics that people have questioned over the last while - determination, the will to fight and hard work. I thought we saw that in abundance today.
"The effort off the ball was different class. We know we can do better on the ball but when the group is low on confidence, you can understand why. We weren't at our best there but I was delighted for big Isma with the goal, 'Laff' [Kyle Lafferty] up top was was excellent, the boys in the middle were different class and while Jack Hamilton didn't have a lot to do, I thought his handling was different class.
"His double save was outstanding. He is young goalkeeper who has had a lot of criticism but we have a lot of high hopes for him."
Match ends, Kilmarnock 0, Heart of Midlothian 1.
Second Half ends, Kilmarnock 0, Heart of Midlothian 1.
Gordon Greer (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gordon Greer (Kilmarnock).
Cole Stockton (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Gordon Greer (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cole Stockton (Heart of Midlothian).
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Malaury Martin replaces Don Cowie.
Foul by Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock).
John Souttar (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stephen O'Donnell (Kilmarnock).
Arnaud Sutchuin-Djoum (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Alex Samizadeh replaces Iain Wilson.
Attempt missed. Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Foul by Gordon Greer (Kilmarnock).
Cole Stockton (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Cole Stockton replaces Kyle Lafferty.
Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock).
Christophe Berra (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Michael Smith.
Attempt saved. Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Krystian Nowak replaces Jamie Brandon because of an injury.
Foul by Dom Thomas (Kilmarnock).
Rafal Grzelak (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dom Thomas (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Rafal Grzelak (Heart of Midlothian).
Attempt saved. Rafal Grzelak (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Connor Randall (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Connor Randall (Heart of Midlothian).
Foul by Lee Erwin (Kilmarnock).
Christophe Berra (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Rafal Grzelak (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Stephen O'Donnell (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Lafferty (Heart of Midlothian).
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Stephen O'Donnell replaces Greg Taylor.
Citibanamex blamed a glitch in the system for the decision, which left María Félix Nava unable to collect her welfare payments.
After the story was picked up by local media in Guadalajara, an official stepped in to deliver a cheque by hand.
New transparency laws require benefits to be paid into individual accounts.
Mrs Félix said she went for three months without the state payments after she was turned away from her local bank branch.
"They told me the limit was 110 years," she said.
Citibanamex, a unit of Citigroup Inc, blamed the "calibration limits" of its system, which would not register a number as high as Mrs Félix's age.
Miguel Castro Reynoso, development secretary for the state of Jalisco, visited her house to apologise for the situation, which he called atypical but absurd.
He said he was grateful for the media for bringing the case to his attention and said he would work to ensure it did not happen again.
"Sooner or later, God provides," said Mrs Félix after receiving the missing payments.
The bank is working to get her a bank card as soon as possible, Reuters reported.
Ms Felix turns 117 in July, according to her birth certificate, which local authorities recognise as authentic.
She says she was orphaned at the age of seven and has outlived six of her 10 children.
The robbers made off with a wooden casket holding the ashes after smashing their way into the home in Colebrook Lane, in Loughton, Essex.
A statement from the family said: "This has upset us more than anything and we have no idea why anybody would do such a thing."
The burglars also took jewellery and two laptops.
Police said the burglary, on Tuesday, was a "messy search" of the house.
The casket has a gold-coloured plaque bearing the name "Patricia Wilkins".
Police said the burglars broke in through patio doors at the back of the property at some point between 06:00 and 20:30 GMT.
Stewart Hosie will tell his party's conference in Glasgow that the only way to make sure Westminster delivers will be to have SNP MPs at Westminster.
Recent polling has suggested that the SNP is on course to winning the majority of Scotland's 59 seats.
The UK's electorate will vote for their next MPs on 7 May.
Mr Hosie, who succeeded Nicola Sturgeon as SNP deputy leader last November, will close his party's conference later.
With less than six weeks to go to the general election, he will say that a vote for the SNP is needed to help bring about an end to austerity and deliver more powers for Holyrood.
He will stress to delegates: "The only way to make sure Westminster delivers - on anything - will be to return the largest ever number of SNP MPs to Westminster."
With both the Conservatives and Labour "signed up to another £30bn of cuts" he will say the UK is "on track for a decade of austerity - unless we achieve change by voting SNP for investment in jobs and growth".
The MP will insist that while "austerity has failed" the nationalists offer a "real alternative" to the election.
Mr Hosie will add: "We know the opinion polls are in our favour. But this is only potential.
"Our job is now to work like never before. To turn this electoral potential into votes and seats. If we do that then this nation will prosper and flourish."
The fresh discussions come amid a new three-day ceasefire agreed between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas.
A BBC reporter in Gaza says the truce is holding so far, with signs of normal life returning to the streets.
About 2,000 people have died since the fighting in Gaza began on 8 July.
Those killed include more than 1,900 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the UN.
Sixty-four Israeli soldiers have been killed in the fighting and three civilians in Israel have also died.
On Friday, Israeli negotiators had left Cairo after failing to agree a deal with their Palestinian counterparts.
But the Israeli delegation arrived back in Egypt's capital on Monday after agreeing to resume talks as long as the 72-hour ceasefire, which began at midnight (21:00 GMT Sunday) held.
Militants in Gaza said they had fired several rockets towards Israel shortly before the truce got under way and Israeli air strikes had continued on Sunday evening, but the ceasefire has been respected since.
The Israeli government spokesman, Mark Regev, said the Israeli military would be "ready to act to protect our people" if Hamas violated the agreement.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said its representatives would be involved in the Cairo talks, but warned that it was "the last chance" to find a long-term solution to the conflict.
Correspondents say Israel will continue to demand the demilitarisation of Gaza, while Hamas will resume its calls for Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory to be lifted.
Israel has previously said that the lifting of blockades would only be dealt with in future talks on a permanent peace deal.
In an interview on Monday, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said that disarming militants in Gaza was crucial to chances of a long-term truce.
If a diplomatic solution was not possible, he told Israel Radio, then he was "convinced" that sooner or later the Israeli army would have to take "temporary control of Gaza to demilitarise it again".
Human cost of the conflict
Palestinian deaths
Israeli deaths
(Source: OCHA; 1200 GMT on 11 August)
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history.
Charles Edward Stuart believed the British throne was his birthright and planned to invade with his Jacobite followers and remove the Hanoverian "usurper" George II.
A new exhibition on the Jacobites at the National Museum of Scotland is the largest in more than 70 years, with over 300 objects on show combining National Museums Scotland's collection with material on loan from around the UK and Europe.
Exhibition curator David Forsyth reveals some of the hidden depths to one of the most tumultuous periods in Scotland's history.
The above classic "shortbread tin" image depicts Bonnie Prince Charlie as a highland hero, sweeping into the ballroom at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
In fact the painting, by John Pettie, dates from 100 years after Charles Edward Stuart died and was inspired by an episode from Sir Walter Scott's historical novel Waverley.
Charles did hold court at Holyrood for about six weeks in 1745 but expressly forbade his supporters from excessive celebration of the victory at Prestonpans.
His court was said to be business-like as Charles and his advisors planned the next steps in the campaign, eventually taking the decision to march south for London.
Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Maria Stuart was born in Rome in 1720, about 32 years after his grandfather - James VII and II - the last Roman Catholic monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland - had been deposed from the throne.
Many years later Charles would also die in Rome.
During his life he spent just 14 months on British soil, in 1745-6, and a brief clandestine return visit in 1750.
Charles was raised as a king-in-waiting, successor to his father, James, who was the deposed king's son.
He was installed by his father with the chivalric orders of both Scotland and England, depicted in the painting above - the Order of the Thistle and the Order of the Garter.
James, who still believed himself to be the king, appointed Charles as his Prince Regent in 1743, authorised to act for his father in all things.
He was resolved to reclaim the thrones of Scotland, England and Ireland for his father.
The earlier portraits of Bonnie Prince Charlie show the popular perception of a handsome and charming young man.
Contemporary accounts of the prince appear to confirm this.
In later life, these qualities faded.
The above sketch shows the prince as an old man (about 56) and perhaps the overriding sense is one of disappointment.
He lived for another 42 years after the battle of Culloden of 1746 but was never able to muster support for any further attempts to claim the throne.
Charles became increasingly frustrated and in time embittered by lack of support and betrayal, as he saw it, by his own father and his younger brother, Henry Benedict.
With James' blessing and support, Henry joined the Catholic Church.
This was a grievous blow to Charles, who would wish to distance the Stuarts from the Catholic faith in order to generate support in England.
He even converted to Anglicanism during a clandestine visit to London in 1750.
Charles never spoke to his father again.
The story of the Jacobites is often reduced to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745 rebellion, with limited consideration of what Charles was actually fighting for.
Behind that is the Stuart claim to the three kingdoms.
The Stuart dynasty had ruled Scotland since 1371.
With the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England at the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the Stuarts expanded their kingdom.
This was still the age of 'divine right' monarchy - the Stuarts believed they were answerable only to God.
The ampulla (pictured above) was a sacred object that held the holy oil to consecrate Charles I during his Scottish Coronation in 1633.
Charles, a firm believer in divine right monarchy, was executed at the end of the English Civil War.
The Stuart line was restored with Charles II, who ruled until his death in 1685.
Charles II was succeeded by his younger brother, James VII of Scotland and II of England.
James had secretly converted to Catholicism, as the revelation of his faith would jar with an increasingly Protestant Britain.
The Holyrood Altar Plate (above) is a set of devotional items James used in Edinburgh.
The birth of a male heir raised the prospect of a continuing Catholic succession.
His Protestant daughter Mary was no longer his heir.
A Dutch force led by Mary's husband, William of Orange, was invited to England to restore Mary to her rightful place.
The so-called Glorious Revolution, which installed William and Mary on the throne, resulted in James's flight to exile in France.
James then tried to reclaim his throne, with what was effectively the first Jacobite rising in 1689.
It led to violence in Ireland, where James' (largely Catholic) supporters were finally beaten at the Battle of the Boyne and in Scotland where, despite a victory at Killiecrankie, military conflict proved inconclusive.
The Scottish Parliament agreed to adopt William as their king in favour of James.
The Highlands, where the clan chiefs' old oaths were to the Scottish Stuart line, had been the focal point of rising in Scotland.
So the chiefs were ordered to swear fealty to their new king, William.
All did this bar the MacDonalds, who missed an arbitrary deadline.
Many were killed by a government force billeted with them, an act which appalled many and increased Jacobite support.
The Glencoe Massacre of 1692 is one of the most notorious episodes in Scottish history and the outcry over it alarmed King William.
The above document is a warrant for an inquiry into the massacre, signed by King William III.
The commission of inquiry, perhaps unsurprisingly, found there was nothing in the king's instructions to warrant the slaughter.
After being deposed in 1688, James VII and II went into exile for the rest of his days, along with his family, including the infant prince, James Francis Stuart.
He was welcomed as a guest of his cousin, King Louis XIV at Saint Germain-en-Laye, which the French king had vacated to move into Versailles.
From there, the Stuarts established a court in exile, receiving visitors, conducting international relations and dispensing honours.
When James VII and II died in 1701, Louis recognised his son as James VIII and III, King of Scotland, England and Ireland.
This was not a title King William acknowledged.
Further challenges to the British throne were mounted in 1708, 1715 and 1719.
After the failure of the 1715 rising, the death of Louis XIV and the Treaty of Utrecht between Britain and France, James was obliged to leave France, settling in Rome in 1719.
Charles Edward Stuart was born there the following year.
The Jacobites, named after the latin for James - Jacobus - are often personified as a Scottish movement.
The truth is rather more complex.
The suit pictured above belonged to Sir John Hynde Cotton, a leading Jacobite Tory MP from Cambridgeshire.
He acquired or was gifted this on a visit to Edinburgh about 1743.
There was Jacobite support and sympathy in England although, to Charles Stuart's chagrin, that did not translate into significant military or overt political support in the 1745 rebellion.
In addition, promised military aid from France and Sweden failed to materialise.
Nevertheless, the Jacobite army that took the field at Culloden near Inverness - the decisive battle of the '45 - was not solely Highland. It also had Irish and French units.
There was considerable opposition to the Jacobites within Scotland.
Bonnie Prince Charlie held court at Holyrood Palace for six weeks in 1745 but, just the length of the Royal Mile away, Edinburgh Castle remained a fortified government garrison throughout.
Glasgow remained loyal to the Hanoverians, who were by now on the thrones of Scotland and England.
This division is sometimes simplified to Highlanders and Lowlanders but there was strong Jacobite support in Aberdeen, Perth and Fife, and indeed some Highlanders fought on the government side.
The Gaelic bible pictured above belonged to a soldier who served with the Argyll militia, raised by the Clan Campbell to fight on the side of the government forces.
It was also not a matter of Protestant v Catholic in Scotland - many of Charles' most prominent Scottish supporters were actually Episcopalian.
The Duke of Cumberland, who commanded the Hanoverian army at Culloden, was the third son of King George.
He is vilified in the popular historical memory for the brutal crackdowns across the Highlands after Culloden, when the traditional right to bear arms and the wearing of tartan and were suppressed as the British government resolved to wipe out the social, cultural and military infrastructure of clan society, which was perceived as a source of loyalty to the Stuarts.
Some Lowlanders welcomed the Duke, and he was granted the freedom of both Glasgow and Edinburgh.
This is a letter from Robert Burns, accepting an invitation to attend a "Steuart Society dinner" on Hogmanay 1787, on what turned out to be Charles Edward Stuart's last birthday.
By now, Jacobitism was no longer a threat to the House of Hanover, more almost a gentleman's club, still toasting the kings-over-the-water but, politically and militarily spent.
By this time, after the brutality of the post-Culloden years, efforts were being made to assimilate or rehabilitate (depending on your point of view) the reputation of the Highlander into the emergent British imperial identity, with the revoking of the ban on tartan and the incorporation of the Highland regiments into the British Army.
Charles died in 1788, and was almost instantaneously the subject of this romantic memorial tradition in English - it already existed in Gaelic - which grew with Burns, Scott and others.
James, the Old Pretender, was buried with full state honours in St Peter's Basilica in Rome in 1766, the only king accorded this honour.
Charles died in 1788, leaving his younger brother, Henry, Cardinal York as the last male heir in the Stuart succession.
Despite being in no position to prosecute the claim, he never renounced it and commissioned rather regal objects like the above Caddinet - a type of serving dish for bread which was traditionally only used by monarchs.
After Henry's death in 1807, Charles was reinterred and the three now rest together in the crypt of St Peter's Basilica.
Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites is on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street, Edinburgh, from Friday 23 June to Sunday 12 November 2017
The 21-year-old woman was one of the subjects of the investigation and is in a serious but stable condition.
A raid also took place in Kent, with six people arrested in total.
Officers say the operation was not connected to an arrest near Parliament on Thursday, when a man was detained on suspicion of terror offences.
The house in Harlesden Road, Willesden, which was raided on Thursday evening, had been under observation by police.
Those arrested included a 16-year-old boy, a man and woman, both aged 20 and another man and woman both aged 28. A 43-year-old woman was also arrested in Kent. All of them were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts.
The woman who was shot is under police guard in hospital but has not been arrested "due to her condition",
Alex Paton, 50, who lives in Harlesden Road, said he saw a woman "getting all cuffed up and put in a white suit".
He described seeing "coppers and masked men with guns".
Another resident said she had heard the "bang, bang, bang" of shots.
A neighbour of the raided property suggested the shot woman had suffered injuries to her left arm and stomach.
He said the family who lived there were from Somalia.
Ruth Haile, who lives in the road, said she heard shots and the woman on the ground shouting: "Don't touch me, my body, don't touch my dress."
It is believed to be the first time a woman has been shot by police in 10 years. The last time was in 2007 when Ann Sanderson was fatally shot in Kent.
Police said searches had taken place at "linked addresses", as well as where the arrests took place.
Neil Basu, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said: "Due to these arrests that have been made yesterday, in both cases I believe that we have contained the threats that they pose."
By home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani
The intelligence convinced Scotland Yard they needed to go in fast and hard to carry out arrests.
That means they feared there was some kind of threat that needed to be contained - a threat that required a large team of the most highly-trained available officers.
They fired CS gas canisters into the building, smashing holes in the top front window.
The 21-year-old woman who was shot is not one of those under arrest - but has been described by police as one of the "subjects" - security services speak for someone at the heart of an operation.
We don't know anything about how and why she was injured and that will be subject of a police watchdog investigation, as is always the case.
Read more from Dominic here
The Willesden raid has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Met's directorate of professional standards, as is procedure.
The IPCC said it was gathering evidence but that no officers were under investigation.
On Thursday, police arrested a 27-year-old man at the junction of Parliament Street and Parliament Square, in London, as part of an intelligence-led operation.
He was identified on Friday as Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, a British national who is believed to have gone to school in Tottenham, north London, but was not born in the UK.
The Met said he had been detained on suspicion of terrorism offences and that knives were recovered from the scene.
He had been on the force's radar for some time and it is thought police acted after a concerned family member contacted them.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she had spoken to the Met about both incidents and thanked them for their actions.
"I would like to reinforce my gratitude to the police and security services, who work tirelessly around the clock to keep the people of this country safe," she said.
"They carry out their duties with calmness and professionalism, and we are all grateful for their dedication."
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Mr Modi begins his three-nation tour on Thursday.
He will hold talks with business leaders in Paris on Friday, followed by formal talks and a boat ride on the river Seine with French President Francois Hollande.
He is likely to convince French business leaders about India's improving business atmosphere.
Observers are expecting Mr Modi's government to sign an agreement with French firm Areva to set up nuclear power plants in India.
India's multibillion-dollar deal for Rafale fighter jets made by France's Dassault Aviation is also likely to figure in Mr Modi's talks with Mr Hollande.
The deal has been in the making for more than five years, but both sides have been unable to agree on costs and manufacturing details.
Analysts say a breakthrough is unlikely during Mr Modi's visit, but he will certainly push for a final deal.
"Though the French side is expected to raise the long-pending Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft deal during Modi's visit, defence sources maintained that there are issues which continue to plague the project," says an article in the First Post website.
But Indian officials insist that Mr Modi's visit is not about just one deal and he is likely to focus on other economic issues.
"Mr Modi will travel to three places: the capital Paris for the bilateral visit and meetings with CEOs, to Toulouse to visit the Airbus factory, the French Space authority CNES and discuss building 'smart cities' with officials, and then to the northern town of Lille, where he will drive to a memorial for Indians who fought and died in the first World War," writes The Hindu.
In Germany, Mr Modi will visit an international business fair with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Modi and Merkel "will have detailed talks in Berlin with focus on how Germany can work with India in its developmental agenda", reports the DNA newspaper.
In the last-leg of his tour, the Indian PM will visit three Canadian cities - Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
India is pitching for a nuclear deal to buy uranium from Canada. He is also likely to reach out to the influential India diaspora in Canada.
Analysts say Mr Modi three-nation tour highlights his ambition to ensure that his "Make in India" campaign works and the country gets uranium to fuel its development agenda.
Mr Modi launched the "Make in India" campaign last year to boost manufacturing at home and create millions of new jobs.
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Mr Stewart was MP for East Renfrewshire and its successor constituency Eastwood in the 1980s and 1990s.
He twice served as under-secretary of state for Scotland at the Scottish Office.
He lost his ministerial post in 1995 after being fined in court for confronting anti-motorway protesters with a pick axe on the M77.
Mr Stewart stood down in Eastwood - then the safest Tory seat in Scotland - at the 1997 general election.
Jackson Carlaw, the deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said Mr Stewart would be "missed enormously".
Mr Carlaw said Mr Stewart had "considerable influence" on UK government policy under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
He added: "It was a pleasure to work with Allan during his 18 years as MP for East Renfrewshire and in the years after, in which he remained a staunch supporter and campaigner."
Mr Stewart studied at St Andrews University and Harvard, and had a career as a political economy lecturer before becoming an MP in 1979.
Scottish Secretary David Mundell said Mr Stewart had brought "brought real rigour" to policy-making during his two spells as a minister at the Scottish Office.
Mr Mundell added: "He will also be remembered as a hard-working constituency MP, whose election successes were a measure of how effective and well-liked he was.
"My thoughts are with his family at this sad time."
Dave Ward, George Merrick and Aaron Morris scored converted tries to give Quins a half-time buffer, with Valentin Calefeteanu's penalty the only reply.
Charlie Walker's double secured the bonus point, before Joe Marchant touched down the visitors' sixth try.
Edinburgh can return to top spot with victory against Stade Francais.
Timisoara Saracens: Fercu; Shennan, Sefanaia, Kinikinilau, Tangimana; Umaga, Calafeteanu; Aholelei, Capatana, Pungea, Popirlan, Drenceanu, Morrison, Ianus, Burcea (capt).
Replacements: Radoi, Militaru, Maris, Muresan, Lazar, Conache, Manumua, Lemnaru.
Harlequins: Morris; Walker, Marchant, Stanley, Alofa; Jackson, Care (capt); Marler, Ward, Sinckler, Merrick, Matthews, Naoupu, J Chisholm, Clifford.
Replacements: Buchanan, Evans, Jones, South, Shields, Mulchrone, Swiel, Hopper.
Referee: Lloyd Linton (Scotland)
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Mr Brownlee, 56, was known as the "Voice of the Boro" after commentating on his beloved Middlesbrough FC for more than 30 years, as well as hosting the BBC Tees breakfast show.
He died at his home in Middlesbrough on Sunday night surrounded by family.
Tributes are being paid across Teesside.
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Fellow BBC Tees presenter Neil Green, said: "We are all heartbroken by today's news.
"Away from the microphone, Ali was such a warm, generous and kind man who genuinely cared for his work colleagues.
"I will miss his energy, his voice and his smile that I arrived to work to every morning.
"The North East, Middlesbrough and BBC Tees is a darker place without him today."
Comedian Bob Mortimer went to school with Mr Brownlee and said: "He was as lovely a lad then as he is now."
Hundreds of fans offered their best wishes to Mr Brownlee after his diagnosis was announced and Middlesbrough supporters held large scale shows of support at matches.
Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson said he had lost "a true friend".
He added: "Alastair Brownlee was a man whose enthusiasm, passion and commitment were evident in everything he did, not just behind a microphone.
"All Boro fans know about Ali and his legendary commentaries over three decades. But there was so much more to him than that.
"His tireless charity work for people in the Teesside community he was so proud to represent was the mark of the man we all knew and loved.
"He was more than a supporter. He loved the club and we loved him."
Former Boro manager Tony Mowbray, now boss of Coventry City, added: "Ali was such a genuinely good human being. I was devastated when I heard a few months ago that he was ill.
"Knowing him personally as well as professionally, he was so full of life and positivity.
"When I turned up as the Boro manager on a match day, I'd often be coming in at the same time as Ali. His optimism made me laugh every time. He could never see anything other than a Boro victory."
Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald said: "Terrible, terrible news today of the death of Ali Brownlee. A lovely, decent man and Boro to his boots. There was joy in everything he did.
"I think of him more as a friend than simply the brilliant broadcaster that he undoubtedly was. I am immensely saddened at his passing.
"We, his audience and his fans are going to miss him but, at this time, we only imagine the pain felt by his family and our thoughts and prayers are with them all."
Mr Brownlee was born in Byelands Street in Middlesbrough, within shouting distance of the Boro's former stadium Ayresome Park.
He began his career working in a bank before, in 1982, the BBC offered him the chance to report on Boro.
He regularly raised money for charities such as Children in Need, Sport Relief and Zoe's Place, a hospice for children for which he was an ambassador.
He was also closely involved with the Middlesbrough Foundation, the charity run by the football club and was a keen supporter of youth football in the area.
As well as following the ups and downs of Boro both at home and abroad, Mr Brownlee was also a well known personality in the North East and received the freedom of Middlesbrough.
Another BBC Tees presenter, Lisa McCormick, said: "Sometimes you build up a picture of what a person's like by listening to them on the radio but it's not quite who they are.
"In Ali's case, that big bubbly character full of passion and enthusiasm for life is exactly who he was in real life.
"Ali's positivity was relentless, I'll miss him terribly but I feel lucky to have known him, not only as a colleague but as a friend."
Northern Echo editor Peter Barron went head to head with Mr Brownlee in the daily headline challenge on the BBC Tees breakfast show.
He said: "You always hear nice things about people when they pass away, in Ali's case he really was the nicest person you could meet, the most polite well mannered person that I ever met.
"He had a natural warmth about him, the mornings just aren't going to be the same.
"Even if you never met him he was your friend."
Though he was known as a Middlesbrough supporter, Hartlepool United have also paid tribute saying: "We are devastated to hear of the passing of Ali Brownlee, his knowledge, enthusiasm and passion will be missed enormously."
Sunderland and Everton have also both paid tributes online.
A statement from his family, including wife Wendy better known to listeners as Mrs B and daughters Alison and Emily, said: "We would like to thank everyone for their kind words and support at this very sad time.
"Throughout his illness he maintained his positivity and hope of cheering on his beloved Boro back into the Premier League.
"He was Middlesbrough born and bred and loved his town and the people in it. He will be sadly missed by everyone."
Middlesbrough players wore black armbands for their match against Leeds United on Monday and supporters cheered when a photo of Mr Brownlee was shown on the Elland Road ground's big screen.
Higher carrot prices and the decision to harvest its carrot crop early led to a smaller crop that disappointed customers, Campbell said.
The soup giant said earnings fell by 2% to $235m (£177m) in the company's fourth quarter.
Campbell Fresh, the organic and fresh food division, suffered the most with operating profits falling by 62%.
"I am not pleased with the results of our fourth quarter," said Campbell's chief executive Denise Morrison.
"The performance of our Campbell Fresh business, driven predominantly by execution issues."
The Bolthouse Farms division which is responsible for the carrot crop was also hurt by a recall of its protein drinks in June.
The company reported an overall $81m loss for the May to July quarter, mostly due to a $141 million pre-tax charge, and the news prompted a 6% fall in Campbell's shares on Thursday.
The company made a $17m profit in the same quarter in 2015.
The soup maker has been expanding its Campbell Fresh division through several acquisitions including Bolthouse in 2012.
In the past few weeks, the management within the unit has been reshuffled and the president of Boathouse has left the company.
Campbell's said it was focused on improving management of the entire Fresh supply chain but expected the lower sales to continue into the next quarter.
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) wants to track players who are Welsh-qualified by birth, parentage or residency.
Turner will work on a part-time basis with programme manager Gareth Davies.
The 56-year-old, who has previously coached the likes of Sale, Saracens and Wasps, is currently in charge of Ampthill in the English third tier.
Turner, capped three times by Wales, left the Dragons in 2011 after six years at Rodney Parade.
He will now report to Davies and WRU head of rugby performance Geraint John in their search to make players available to the Welsh regions and the national team.
"It's an area I'm very passionate about, having lived and worked outside of Wales for many years," said Turner.
"I'll be looking for Welsh qualified players around the world who have the potential to play at the top level.
"They may or may not be available to Welsh regions at the moment so I will continue to monitor their progress and their situation, in conjunction with the potential needs of the Welsh regions and Wales."
John added: "Paul has a fantastic eye for talent, and is extremely well connected in rugby circles in the UK and around the world.
"He will watch and observe top end players capable of playing regional and international rugby in Wales."
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Denny Johnstone gave the visitors a surprise lead midway through the first-half after an error from Rangers keeper Wes Foderingham.
Miller headed them level a minute before the break before grabbing another two minutes after the restart.
Lee Wallace added a third as Rangers extended their unbeaten run to 15 matches.
With Hibernian absent from Championship action this weekend due to Sunday's League Cup final with Ross County, the Light Blues' nearest challengers remain second-placed Falkirk.
Four more wins from their eight remaining matches will seal Rangers' promotion back to the Premiership.
After the teams observed a minute's silence in tribute to former Ibrox keeper Billy Ritchie, who died aged 79 following a short illness, the home side quickly created chances for Harry Forrester, Jason Holt and Miller but failed to capitalise.
That allowed the visitors to claim a shock lead 22 minutes in when Foderingham failed to hold Bobby Barr's strike from the edge of the box, spilling it straight at Johnstone.
The striker almost tripped over the ball as it fell at his feet and looked relieved as it dribbled into the empty net.
It was the first goal the league leaders had conceded in seven hours and 45 minutes of action but they eventually snapped into life and levelled just before the interval, with Miller darting across the front post to nod powerfully past Derek Gaston from James Tavernier's outswinging corner.
And the former Scotland striker was on point again just moments into the second-half as he put Rangers ahead.
Stefan McCluskey got a foot to the ball as Barrie McKay drove into the Morton box but could only divert it to Holt, who teed up Miller to lash into the top corner.
There was another warning sign for Rangers though as Johnstone had Foderingham at full stretch with an 18-yard strike.
But skipper Wallace put daylight between the teams when he swept home the third after 56 minutes following another positive surge from McKay.
Miller thought he had his hat-trick when he pounced on the rebound after Dean Shiels thundered the ball off the crossbar but he was disappointed to be flagged for offside.
It is part of wider strategy to reduce the country's murder rate, one of the world's highest according to the UN.
Critics accuse the state of trying to censor the press.
But the security minister has justified the bill, saying the measures would be introduced to protect the population's mental health.
The media clause is part of the proposed Law on the National System for the Prevention of Violence.
It was presented in Congress on Tuesday.
It says the press "should contribute to the promotion of the prevention of violence, tolerance and the culture of peace (...) by seeking the ethical self-regulation of information and non-violent content".
Most of the violence is caused by criminal gangs, known locally as maras.
The bill "does not contain any sanctions to the media of communication, and only talks of self-regulation", said Justice and Security Minister Mauricio RamÃrez Landaverde.
Opposition politician Patricia Valdivieso tweeted on Wednesday: "If it's self-regulation, it does not have to be included in the law. Let's not open doors to media regulation, because that's where they hide gags for the press."
Media bosses will be consulted, says the government.
Almost 64,000 fines have been issued since the law changed in September 2013, a rise of about 70%, according to local authority data.
More than three-quarters of councils, 118, responded to a BBC survey.
Schools minister Nick Gibb said fewer pupils were now missing lessons.
The ban has drawn opposition from parents, with hundreds of thousands signing petitions against the new rules and calling for the government to take action against holiday companies who raise their prices at peak times.
Parents are fined £60 per parent per child per period of absence, which rises to £120 if not paid within 21 days.
Campaigner Stewart Sutherland was himself fined for taking his three children out of school for five days.
Mr Sutherland told BBC News that he and his wife work shifts and find it difficult to get time off.
"Once the regulations came into force it became just a block ban, rather than schools and local councils considering each case individually.
"It's now becoming the case that family holidays are just for the rich because so many working people either can't afford it or can't get the time off outside school terms.
"Family holidays are just as important to children as school. A happy child will get their work done better.
"This shouldn't be treated the same as persistent truancy."
BBC researchers contacted all 152 councils in England and received full responses from 118 - 78% of the total.
Overall the figures suggest that in England parents received at least 63,837 fines in the academic year to July 2014, compared with 37,650 fines in the previous 12 months.
The number of fines appears to have been highest in Lancashire, with 3,106 over the year - up from 1,125 the year before.
In Kent, there were 2,973 fines in the year to July, but the rise was less steep, up from 2,868 in 2012-13.
Some fines will have been for truancy or repeated poor attendance, but most were for parents who took children on holiday during term time.
From last September new regulations have meant that school heads can no longer grant 10 days' holiday "in special circumstances".
However, they can still allow extended leave for more than 10 school days "in exceptional circumstances".
But these absences are subject to strict rules, with heads expected to determine in advance the exact number of days a pupil may have away from school.
Some councils said the steep rise was because they did not impose fines at all before the new legislation.
Others, for example Slough, say their attendance figures have improved in line with an increase in penalty fines.
Slough issued 938 fines last year, compared with 513 in 2012-13.
A spokesman said: "The improvement in attendance in Slough in recent years coincides with an increase in the number of fixed-penalty notices issued and attendance figures for 13-14 are likely to show further improvement compared to 12-13."
Mr Gibb said the government's stance was based on research showing regularly missing lessons can damage pupils' chances of achieving good qualifications.
"This government has been determined to close the attainment gap between those from poorer and wealthier backgrounds. Improving attendance is key to delivering that objective.
"When the government came to office, the number of children missing school regularly was far too high.
"As a result of the changes we have implemented, 130,000 fewer pupils are regularly missing lessons, which means 130,000 more pupils getting the chance of a good education that prepares them for life in modern Britain.
"We do understand the concerns of parents, however, and are introducing new rules to give all schools the power to choose their own term dates.
"One benefit of this may be that teachers, pupils and parents are able to take holidays outside of current peak periods. We hope parents and schools will make good use of this new freedom."
Members of the Aslef union will walk out on 4 January, the day many return to work after the Christmas break.
Union members have been refusing to work overtime for the last three days.
The union said a pay deal had been accepted, but a dispute remained with changes to terms and conditions. Arriva said it "regrets" the disruption.
An Arriva spokesman said the strike could also result in some early morning disruption on 5 January.
He advised customers to make alternative travel arrangements for Monday and to check travel plans for Tuesday.
A planned strike was called off in November.
For three days, an ad will appear at the top of users' news feeds linking to advice on "how to spot fake news" and report it.
The campaign, which will be promoted in 14 countries, is "designed to help people become more discerning readers", the social media firm said.
But experts questioned whether the measure would have any real impact.
"Until Facebook stops rewarding the architects of fake news with huge traffic, this problem will just get worse," Tom Felle, a lecturer in digital journalism at City University told the BBC.
From Friday, users who click on Facebook's ad will be redirected to its help centre, where they will see a list of 10 tips for identifying false stories.
These include looking at an article's URL, investigating the source of a story and thinking more critically about whether an article is a joke.
It also recommends being "sceptical of headlines", as false news stories "often have catchy headlines in all caps with exclamation points".
Facebook's new guide is a useful primer on the basic principles of good journalism. If all the millions who will see it popping up in their feeds read and digest it, maybe it will have an effect.
But it will only be there for three days and one has to suspect that it will be read in the main by people who are already suitably sceptical about hoaxes and propaganda. So I'm not convinced that this will be seen as a game changer in the battle to make Facebook a place you go to find the truth, rather than wallow in your friends' prejudices.
What could be more effective is a German plan to combat hate speech and fake news that Facebook does not like one bit.
Angela Merkel's government has just approved plans which could see social networks fined up to 50m euros if they fail to remove illegal content within 24 hours.
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Adam Mosseri, vice president of news feed, said: "We think these tips will help people become more discerning readers, which is critically important as we're moving to a world where people need to be more sceptical about what they read to make sure they are not misled or lied to."
However, he also said the tool was just one part of a broader strategy, and that there was "no silver bullet".
Mr Felle said the move was "welcome" but that Facebook should go further.
"One of the biggest problems with fake news is that the algorithms that run social media sites like Facebook and search engines such as Google are being gamed by black ops companies.
"These tips to spot fake news are welcome but do nothing to address that fundamental problem - in fact they put the onus on audiences to be suspicious of what they share, expecting viewers to be fact checkers - rather than acting to stop the spread of potential propaganda in the first place."
Facebook has been under pressure to combat fake news on its platform after claims it was used to sway voters during the US presidential campaign.
Examples include a story that falsely claimed President Obama had banned the pledge of allegiance in US schools, and another fake news item, saying former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was part of a paedophile ring.
Facebook has since taken action to improve its monitoring and reporting processes.
Asked whether this had reduced fake news, Mr Mosseri said there had been a "reduction in the US, and no growth in Europe".
Eleanor Chessell was working at the four-star Alvor Baia Hotel when the corrosive substance was thrown at her.
The 28-year-old, from the Isle of Wight, has been transferred to a specialist burns unit in Lisbon.
Hampshire police said it was supporting Ms Chessell's family following the assault on Saturday.
Holiday firm Tui, parent company for Thomson and First Choice, confirmed one of its reps had been involved in a "serious incident" in Portugal.
In a statement, it said: "Our resort team are fully supporting our colleague and are co-operating with the investigation currently taking place."
Police in Portugal are not reported to have made any arrests so far.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We have offered assistance to a British woman who is being treated in hospital in Lisbon following an incident in Alvor."
Nearly 30 rocket launchers were also captured when security forces raided a camp in Tarhuna, near Tripoli.
The officials say the Brigade of the Faithful group was behind last Sunday's car bombings which killed two people.
In a separate development, at least three people died in clashes between rival tribes in northern Libya.
A number of people were also reported to have been injured in the clashes in the town of Zlitan, south-east of the capital, Tripoli.
Libya remains awash with weapons left over from last year's uprising which ousted Col Gaddafi, and the new government has struggled to assert its authority across the vast country.
The capture of the tanks and other heavy weapons was announced by the authorities at a news conference on Thursday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Abdelmonem al-Hur said one person was killed and a number of others injured during Wednesday's raid on the camp Tarhuna, about 60km (35 miles) south-east of the capital.
In all, 13 people - including the group's leader - were arrested during the operation, but three militants managed to escape.
Mr Hur added that the authorities had believed the group "defended Libya and the revolution, but it turned out to be contrary".
Last Sunday, two people died and up to five were injured in the twin car bombings in Tripoli.
One blast took place near the former military academy for women, while the other struck close to the interior ministry.
The attacks took place as crowds prepared for mass morning prayers to mark Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration at the end of the fasting month Ramadan.
Matej Vydra volleyed West Brom ahead on 25 seconds before Chris Brunt doubled the lead with another volley.
Tottenham's Emmanuel Adebayor had a penalty saved, before Stephane Sessegnon slotted in to make it 3-0.
Jonas Olsson's own goal and Harry Kane's header were followed by Eriksen's top-corner leveller.
Tottenham's recovery from three goals down was only the second time they have done so in a Premier League game
It was the second successive home match in which West Brom have conceded an injury-time equaliser to deny manager Pepe Mel his first home win, and leaves them still in a fight for top-flight survival.
Fulham's win over Norwich means the Baggies are just three points clear of the bottom three, while Spurs edged to within four points of fifth-placed Arsenal.
West Brom appointed Mel as manager in January, following the sacking of Steve Clarke the previous month, with the club 14th in the Premier League and four points above the relegation zone.
Despite just two wins under him - both on their travels - Mel's side have shown some fighting spirit in recent weeks, including a crucial win at Norwich last time out, and they again showed their character with a perfect start.
Morgan Amalfitano worked his way past Danny Rose on the right, before sending in a dangerous low cross that was parried away partially by goalkeeper Hugo Lloris. The ball fell to Vydra, who volleyed home the opener.
It got even worse for Spurs soon after as Brunt, making his first appearance for five weeks, volleyed into the net after Steven Reid's looping cross caused chaos in the box.
Tottenham's hopes of qualifying for Europe had taken a battering in recent weeks, with three defeats in their previous four league matches, leaving manager Tim Sherwood facing an uncertain future.
Sherwood had hoped Monday's 5-1 drubbing of Sunderland would spark a revival in fortunes but chances of a swift response were blown when Adebayor's low penalty was easily saved by Ben Foster, after Rose was upended by Amalfitano.
The Tottenham boss had vowed to provide an attacking brand of football but it looked to be at the expense of their defensive duties as, after a miscued header by Younes Kaboul, Sessegnon raced clear of the hesitant Vlad Chiriches to slot past Lloris.
The visitors pulled a goal back fortuitously before the break, when Olsson's block from Aaron Lennon's cross looped over Foster, and Spurs emerged a better side in the second half.
Their pressure paid off when Kane headed in after brilliant wing play from Lennon, and they deservedly grabbed an equaliser when Eriksen cut inside to fire high into the net from inside the area in the dying seconds.
West Brom manager Pepe Mel:
"We had a good first half but the result has gone against us.
"The problem is we are so keen to win the points, we need to play the same way regardless of being 3-0 up or if 0-0.
"This is very difficult for me, the players are very down but we have five games to come. Every point is very important."
Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood:
"It was crazy. We might as well put 1-0 up on the scoreboard before we start. At 3-0, I thought we were going to win the game. We totally dominated.
"They never had a shot on goal in the second half. Hugo [Lloris] was getting frostbite out there.
"I thought our supporters got us back in the game. They never left us, they are knowledgeable and knew we were battering West Brom.
"Expectations to be challenging for Champions League are too great. I am proud to be the manager of this great football club and long may it continue."
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Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 3, Tottenham Hotspur 3.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 3, Tottenham Hotspur 3.
Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 3, Tottenham Hotspur 3. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Graham Dorrans (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Ezekiel Fryers tries a through ball, but Emmanuel Adebayor is caught offside.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Andros Townsend replaces Danny Rose.
Liam Ridgewell (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kyle Naughton (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Ridgewell (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt missed. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Younes Kaboul.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Gylfi Sigurdsson replaces Nacer Chadli.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Craig Dawson replaces Jonas Olsson.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jonas Olsson (West Bromwich Albion) because of an injury.
Ezekiel Fryers (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion).
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Liam Ridgewell tries a through ball, but Morgan Amalfitano is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Emmanuel Adebayor with a headed pass.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Paulinho tries a through ball, but Emmanuel Adebayor is caught offside.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Saido Berahino replaces Matej Vydra.
Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Rose with a headed pass.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 3, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Lennon with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kyle Naughton with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Paulinho (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Emmanuel Adebayor.
Foul by Younes Kaboul (Tottenham Hotspur).
Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Steven Reid (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Steven Reid (West Bromwich Albion).
Graham Dorrans (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Aaron Lennon (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graham Dorrans (West Bromwich Albion).
Aaron Lennon (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Ridgewell (West Bromwich Albion).
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Liam Ridgewell tries a through ball, but Chris Brunt is caught offside.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Claudio Yacob replaces Stéphane Sessegnon because of an injury.
The international trade secretary, who was a GP before becoming a politician, answered a call for help when a nine-month-old girl had a seizure.
The Sun reported that Dr Fox diagnosed the child with febrile convulsion and helped bring its temperature down.
It happened seven hours into a flight from London to the Philippines, a spokesman for Dr Fox confirmed.
Dr Fox was on his way to meet the Philippines' president Rodrigo Duterte overnight between Sunday and Monday and it is understood he responded to a call from flight attendants for help, when the baby became ill. The child reportedly made a full recovery before landing.
The cabinet minister's spokesman said he had checked the baby again before the flight landed on Monday morning.
Dr Fox, who studied medicine at Glasgow University, worked as a GP and a civilian army medical officer before entering politics in 1992. His medical skills have been called upon before - in 2011 he answered another call for a doctor on a flight from Istanbul to London to help a pregnant woman in difficulty. At the time his spokesman said it was the third time in four years he had been called upon for help.
The international trade secretary, who visited the Philippines calling for closer ties with the nation, has faced some criticism for suggesting the UK's relationship with the country was "built on a foundation of shared values and shared interests" in an article for Philippines Business World.
President Duterte has attracted much controversy for his bloody drug war and undiplomatic remarks since taking office. The hallmark of Mr Duterte's administration so far has been a relentless crackdown on drug dealers and users and he has urged citizens and the police to conduct extra-judicial killings of suspects.
Labour's Barry Gardiner said Dr Fox's comments were "shocking" adding: "We do not have these shared common values with President Duterte who wants to bring back the death penalty and lower the age of criminal responsibility to nine."
Lib Dem Tom Brake added: "Duterte is one of the 21st century's most sinister leaders and Liam Fox has flown halfway around the world to grovel to him."
A Department of International Trade spokesman said closer ties would help Britain raise these issues adding: "We do not shy away from confronting barriers to trade and investment - including issues of human rights and corruption.
"Greater knowledge and understanding of one another will increase our ability to address those issues that concern us."
John Lewis, director of Wildlife Vets International, said there was evidence that Indonesian tigers were at risk.
Canine distemper virus has evolved in recent decades from infecting only dogs to affecting other animal groups.
Dr Lewis plans to work with Indonesian vets to develop a strategy to protect the nation's tigers from the virus.
A close relative of measles, Canine distemper virus (CDV) was first described at the beginning of the 20th Century and has been cited as contributing to the demise of the thylacine (commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger as a result of the black stripes on its back).
"If you wind the clock back about 30 or 40 years, it was a dog disease - it was a canine virus and only affected dogs," Dr Lewis explained.
"But in the intervening years, the virus has evolved and has changed its pattern of animals it can infect to include marine mammals (such as seals) and big cats."
Reservoir dogs
He told BBC News that CDV needed a reservoir, like a population of dogs, to remain effective as a pathogen.
These conditions were present when the first case of the disease affecting wild big cats was documented, he recalled.
"In the mid-1990s, in the Serengeti, Africa, about 30% of the lions died from CDV, which came from dogs in surrounding villages.
"It has also been recognised in the Asian big cat populations," he added.
"Since 2000, in the Russian Far East, there have been a few cats reported as behaving strangely and coming into villages, apparently not showing much fear towards people.
"In the past few years, tissue from at least a couple of those cats have now been confirmed as showing the presence of CDV infection.
"There have not been too many cases at the moment, we think about three or four, but we think there could have been more that have gone undiagnosed."
While some tigers appear as if they are able to build up a reasonable immunity response, most of the animals do succumb to the disease if they are exposed to the virus.
Dr Lewis explained that symptoms manifested themselves in a number of ways:
"Some will die as a result of respiratory problems, such as pneumonia for example.
"Some will have neurological problems, such as losing the fear of people or having seizures."
But, he added: "We do not have enough information on CDV in tigers to know what percentage go on to die; we just have a little bit of data from zoos and a little bit of data from the wild.
"There are a lot of cases of distemper in the region and tigers are partial to eating dogs.
"For a tiger to take a dog on the periphery of a village is not usual at all, so you do have the circumstances that would bring tigers into contact with CDV."
Although it was assumed the cause of CDV infection in tigers was a result of coming into contact with dogs carrying the virus, Dr Lewis said that a research project was under way to look at the source of CDV in Amur tigers (also known as Siberian tigers) in the Russian Far East.
Worrying signs
The behaviour change in tigers was particularly worrying, Dr Lewis observed.
"This puts them at big risk because they lose their fear of poachers or they bring themselves in situations of conflict, such as playing with traffic."
On a recent visit to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, he said conversations with local wildlife vets seemed to indicate that CDV could already be present in the population of the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.
They told him that they had seen strange behaviour displays by tigers, such as the big cats coming into villages and losing their fear of people.
"To me, that suggests that distemper is already beginning to have an impact on tigers in Sumatra," he warned.
"But before you say 'yes, that is definitely the result of CDV', you need diagnostic testing of brain tissue.
"The big threats facing tigers are habitat loss and degradation and poaching, but I think the third big threat now is likely to be disease, particularly one like CDV."
The Sumatran tiger is only found on the island and population estimates suggest that there are fewer than 700 left in the wild, of which only 40% are viable mature individuals.
Dr Lewis is returning to Sumatra in September to bring together all the vets from all the different areas that come into contact with tigers.
"The goal is to thrash out a very simple way of deciding what samples need to be taken from all tigers that are handled by humans throughout Sumatra, in order to help us with diagnostics," he explained.
"We also need to thrash out what samples need to be taken from domestic dog populations.
"We need to work out where we can send these samples for laboratory testing. We need to work out how we are going to store and move these samples.
"Once we have got that nailed down then we start work and try to design some sort of mitigation strategy, and that won't be easy."
The crash happened in Edinburgh's Cowgate at about 21:30 on Saturday.
The passengers, all women, are receiving treatment for non-life threatening injuries at the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary.
Police said a 64-year-old man has been charged under Section 3 of the Road Traffic Act.
A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Anyone with information is asked to contact Edinburgh Road Policing Unit quoting incident number 4400 of April 29."
It comes three-and-a-half years after industrial action led to a threat by Ineos to close the plant permanently.
A source at Ineos claimed on Friday that union officials at Grangemouth were "impossible to work with".
The union Unite accused the firm of being "reckless" over pay talks.
The union represents most staff at the Grangemouth chemicals plant.
Unite said members had unanimously rejected a pay offer from the company following a three-year pay freeze.
The union, which has been pressing for a 3.25% pay rise, said Ineos had offered a 2.8% increase for newer grades of staff and 1.4% - with a 1.4% lump sum - for staff with longer service.
The Ineos source told BBC Scotland that the company had also offered an additional bonus of up to 17%.
Unite described the move to end union agreements at Grangemouth as "an incredibly foolish attempt to undermine the democratic rights of workers" there.
Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett said: "After three years without a pay rise there is bound to be difficult negotiations, but Unite's demand for a 3.25% rise is more than reasonable and our intention remains to achieve a negotiated agreement.
"We would encourage Ineos to think again and to row back from what is an unnecessary act of aggression towards their own workforce."
The union's Scottish secretary, Pat Rafferty, added: "If Ineos doesn't change its mind, we will simply go through the normal legal procedures, and push for an independent ballot of workers."
The source at Ineos said that the company worked well with unions at plants around the world, but it was dealing with the same people who led the union side at Grangemouth during the industrial dispute in 2014.
He added: "Trust has broken down. We had hoped for a constructive relationship with the new Unite, but it is the old Unite."
Ineos announced during the 2014 dispute that it would close the facility, with the loss of 800 jobs, but later reversed its decision after workers agreed to a survival plan which included a three-year pay freeze.
Pay talks between Ineos and unions at the nearby refinery are not affected by the latest developments.
Dutchman Van Gaal, 64, replaced David Moyes as manager on a three-year deal in 2014, and finished fourth in the Premier League last season.
United last won the Champions League in 2008, and lost in the final in 2009 and 2011.
"Reaching the final is also an aim and winning the final, you need a little bit of luck," said Van Gaal.
Van Gaal, who won the Champions League with Ajax in 1995 and came runner-up with Bayern Munich in 2010, added: "It is not only quality [but luck, too], and I think Manchester United knows and remembers that fantastically when they won the Champions League in 1999.
"When you reach the final, it is a fantastic but in the media it is nothing. For me as a manager, when you reach the final, you have done fantastically and to win the final, of course, all the honours are going to your team and yourself but I know better."
When asked if United can improve enough to win the Champions League by 2017, he said: "I hope so. That is realistic.
Asked for his reasons why, he replied: "Because I did it everywhere."
Wednesday's game against Wolfsburg marks the return of Champions League football at Old Trafford after the Premier League leaders failed to qualify for last season's competition.
Under Scot Moyes, the side finished seventh and failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since the 1995-96 season.
The Red Devils have slowly made progress under former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Van Gaal, who has spent more than £200m on new signings since taking over.
After returning to Europe's elite club competition with a top-four finish in 2014-15, they have lost just once this campaign to go top of the league, one point ahead of rivals Manchester City.
"We have made progressions in the maturity of the team and the balance of the team," said van Gaal. "We have improved when we compare with the team of last year.
"We have to improve to win the Premier League title or a tournament like the Champions League. We are still improving and I can see that every week."
Asked if could stay at the club beyond his current contract which ends in 2017, van Gaal replied: "Normally I shall leave after next year but what is normal in our football world?
"You never know so I cannot answer that question but I promised my wife to go with her to our paradise [villa in Portugal] so it shall be very hard for me to deny that promise.
"I was 55 and I go to Bayern Munich and next year I am 65 and say I stay a year longer, it shall be very hard to my wife."
Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger joined United from Bayern Munich in the summer, having won eight Bundesliga titles and one Champions League crown with the side.
The German feels "comfortable" at Old Trafford and says it is "an honour" to play for the side but has urged caution against opposition he is familiar with.
"I scored my first goal away in Wolfsburg so I have my good memories," said Schweinsteiger, 31.
"They are not easy to play against, they are always tough matches. They have a good team and in the last three of four years have improved a lot. It's a big challenge for us."
In a letter to chief executive Marissa Mayer, six Democratic politicians said the hack into 500 million user accounts was "unacceptable".
It comes a day after another senator called on the powerful SEC financial regulator to investigate.
News of the hacking in 2014 was only publicly confirmed last week.
The senators said they were "disturbed" the two-year-old intrusion was revealed so long after the hack occurred.
"That means millions of Americans' data may have been compromised for two years," the senators wrote in their letter.
"This is unacceptable," they added.
The letter was signed by Senators Patrick Leahy, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Ron Wyden and Edward Markey.
Yahoo said it would respond in a "timely and appropriate" manner, Reuters reported.
Yahoo, which agreed a deal in late July for Verizon to buy its core business, is already facing class actions lawsuits.
Yahoo, which said it uncovered the hacking during the summer, believes that the theft of personal data, and unencrypted security questions and answers, was "state sponsored".
The Senators have asked Ms Mayer for a timeline of the hacking, and how such a large breach of its systems went undetected for so long.
The letter came a day after Democratic Senator Mark Warner asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate whether Yahoo and its senior executives fulfilled their obligations to inform investors and the public about the data breach.
Giving me a tour of his home, in Warsaw, once the town house of a Polish aristocrat, he mischievously speculates over the reasons for a floor-plan that separated servants from guests.
Then he tells me a joke, which did the rounds when Poland joined the European Union in 2004.
"Mr Kowalski [the Polish equivalent of Mr Smith], day after the accession, opens the windows of his flat, looks out: same pot holes in the road, same garbage strewn all over, same drunks sitting in the alley. 'Ah, what a mess they have in this EU. Was it worthwhile joining?'"
Mr Gebert starts chuckling again. The cynicism in that joke may offer some clue to the success of Law and Justice.
The centre-right political party won Sunday's general election, with 39% of the vote, becoming the first to win a parliamentary majority since the fall of Communism in 1989.
For UK Prime Minister David Cameron, the election gives him an important new ally in Britain's renegotiation of its membership of the EU.
Law and Justice is broadly Eurosceptic, and sits in the same grouping in the European Parliament as Mr Cameron's Conservatives.
So far, according to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, negotiations have been only a form of "shadow boxing" but after Poland's election "we're going to see the pace of negotiation accelerate quite sharply".
Mr Cameron's most difficult ask may be for some way of curbing migration from other countries in the EU.
When I suggest to Mr Gebert, the former editor of a centre-left Jewish periodical, that the new Polish government could help, the joking stops.
"Cameron will find an ally in sabotaging Europe if this is what he wants, but certainly not an ally in limiting freedom of movement within Europe... of Poles who want to go and work or live in the UK," he says.
This may seem surprising. After all, the Law and Justice election campaign included a tough line on the demand from Brussels that Poland admit refugees.
This is a notably homogenous country. In the 2011 census, 87.5% of people described themselves as Roman Catholic.
My visit to Warsaw brought home to me the symbolic power of freedom of movement within the EU for those living in the former Soviet bloc.
For Poles, getting a visa from a foreign country was the easy bit; the problem was getting permission to travel from their own government.
Witold Waszczykowski got out, and he wasn't allowed back in.
He was exiled to the US, he tells me, for challenging the Communist orthodoxy while teaching history.
A former career diplomat, he has been tipped to be foreign minister in the new government.
At the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, we discuss areas of potential agreement.
Both Britain and Poland have kept their own currency, so agree that there should be protection in EU decision-making to ensure they are not out-voted by those using the euro.
David Cameron also wants an exemption from the aspiration of ever-closer union.
On freedom of movement between EU member countries, and on curbing benefits for migrants, though, Mr Waszczykowski is clear.
"If you try to separate people, segregate them, and have different social benefits for those who live in UK and those who emigrated or stayed temporary in UK, this will be the problem," he says.
So the new government is unlikely to help Britain curb EU migration any more than the old one, which had bridled at the Cameron government's sometimes clumsy rhetoric about "Polish plumbers".
I am told by one of President Andrzej Duda's senior advisers that David Cameron has already held informal discussions with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Law and Justice.
Mr Kaczynski is not a popular figure in either Berlin or Brussels. When prime minister, he seemed to delight in being an irritant to those running the European Union.
Five years ago, in a book, The Poland of Our Dreams, Mr Kaczynski suggested German Chancellor Angela Merkel would like to annex the areas in western Poland that used to be German.
"Merkel belongs to a generation of German politicians that would like to reinstate Germany's imperial power" he wrote, adding, "we could wake up to a smaller Poland one day."
Since he needs Angela Merkel's goodwill, Mr Cameron may be relieved that Beata Szydlo, rather than Mr Kaczynski, is the new prime minister, though few doubt the powerful influence the party leader of Law and Justice will continue to be.
If this new ally could also be a handicap to achieving a deal acceptable to Britain, there is one thing Mr Cameron might put on the negotiating table, a promise to return to the political family of Europe's principal conservative parties, the European People's Party (EPP).
A decade ago, frustrated by the EPP's federalist stance and to reassure his Eurosceptics, Mr Cameron took his party out of the grouping.
His MEPs are in the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, along with Law and Justice.
"Angela Merkel is known to be a patriot for the EPP," Radek Sikorski, Poland's former Foreign Minister, tells me.
Until last year, Mr Sikorski served in the outgoing government of Civic Platform, whose MEPs are in the EPP.
He says by not being part of the bigger grouping, the Conservatives are not "where many of the decisions are pre-cooked".
An offer to return would please Mrs Merkel, and might help in the choreography of renegotiation, providing Mr Cameron can convince his Eurosceptic colleagues that Britain will get something concrete in return.
But how would Mr Kaczynski react? On past political form, he can be a staunch ally - but he makes a terrible enemy.
Shaun Ley visited Poland for The World This Weekend, which is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sundays at 13:00 GMT.
John Mann said the government was denying people a traditional Christmas by not allowing a blue cheese made in his constituency to bear the name.
The Bassetlaw MP was referring to Stichelton, which transgresses rules as it is made with unpasteurised milk.
Mr Mann also tabled an early day motion warning the government to avoid a repeat of the Cheese Wars of the 1760s.
Farming minister George Eustice said a consensus was needed from Stilton producers before recipe changes are accepted.
Speaking in the Commons, Labour's John Mann told the minister: "The English Christmas could not exist without Stilton cheese and yet you are refusing to allow the name Stilton to be given to the only English cheese made in the traditional way, because of bureaucracy from Defra and you."
He asked the minister: "Will you accept a full Stilton to give to the cabinet, perhaps provide the biscuits to go with it, in order that they can understand the price being paid by denying England its true traditional English cheese, and thereby rethink?"
Mr Eustice replied: "I think the company you're referring to is one called Stichelton, which... produces a cheese using raw milk that actually commands a premium over Stilton.
"When it comes to changing the protected food name status for Stilton, the reality is every single Stilton producer opposed such change and we do believe... there should be an idea of consensus before you impose changes to recipes on producers."
Under current EU law Stilton can only be produced in Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and not in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, where there has been a long-running battle over the use of the name and the origins of the cheese.
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Rhys Webb's two late tries clinched an extraordinary win which ended Blues' European Champions Cup qualification hopes while maintaining his team's.
Ospreys hit back from 17-7 behind as Hanno Dirksen' (2) and Sam Underhill added to James King's first-half try.
Aled Summerhill and Josh Navidi crossed for the Blues.
Ospreys moved into seventh place in the Pro12 table with a home game to come against Ulster on the final day of the regular season, next Saturday.
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The Swansea-based team could clinch a place in the Champions Cup next season if other results go their way.
Having led earlier in the game, Blues were 27-26 ahead with six minutes remaining, before Webb's dramatic intervention.
It was a treat for a record crowd of more than 60,000 for this event as the lead changed hands seven times.
In the first instalment of a Judgement Day double-header at the Principality Stadium, Ospreys did not take one penalty attempt at goal as they strove for a bonus point.
Blues just needed to win, and with Gareth Anscombe looking assured at fly-half and the back-row regularly turning over Ospreys possession, they looked well capable of it.
Anscombe's four penalties and a superb pass for Summerhill's try gave them a 10-point cushion early in the second half.
Wing Dirksen's two tries in five minutes ignited an outstanding finish.
Navidi took advantage of slack tackling before Underhill's try edged Ospreys back ahead.
Anscombe's fifth penalty gave Blues a point advantage before Webb's opportunism took the game away from them in the breathless finale.
If Ospreys beat Ulster with a bonus point in their final game, they could overtake Munster and claim sixth place and with it Champions Cup qualification.
But as well as contemplating defeat, Blues - and Wales - were also left with a fresh injury worry over flanker Sam Warburton.
Cardiff Blues: Dan Fish; Aled Summerhill, Garyn Smith, Rey Lee-Lo, Tom Isaacs; Gareth Anscombe, Lewis Jones; Gethin Jenkins (capt), Matthew Rees, Taufa'ao Filise, Josh Turnbull, James Down, Sam Warburton, Ellis Jenkins, Josh Navidi.
Replacements: Kristian Dacey, Brad Thyer, Dillon Lewis, Jarrad Hoeata, Manoa Vosawai, Tomos Williams, Jarrod Evans, Gavin Evans.
Ospreys: Dan Evans, Hanno Dirksen, Jonathan Spratt, Owen Watkin, Ben John, Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb (captain); Nicky Smith, Scott Baldwin, Dmitri Arhip, Adam Beard, Rynier Bernardo, Olly Cracknell, James King, Dan Lydiate.
Replacements: Sam Parry, Gareth Thomas, Aaron Jarvis, Rory Thornton, Sam Underhill, Brendon Leonard, Sam Davies, Josh Matavesi.
Referee: Nigel Owens (WRU)
Assistant referees: Leighton Hodges, Martyn Lewis (both WRU)
Citing commissioner: Dennis Jones (WRU)
TMO: Jon Mason (WRU)
World Cup winner Kay claims Ireland players have indicated that Schmidt has tailored the team's build-up with the 11 October contest in mind.
Ireland start their campaign against Canada next Saturday with Romania and Italy their other early rivals.
"That's a risky strategy if you can't get the confidence," said Kay.
Schmidt is aiming to guide the 2014 and 2015 Six Nations champions to their first World Cup semi-final and Kay says the Kiwi is taking a calculated gamble with his team's preparations.
After an impressive opening warm-up win over an under-strength Wales on 8 August, the Irish have struggled in their most recent games as a home defeat by Wales was followed by another loss against England at Twickenham.
Ireland's form in those games has led to suggestions that Schmidt is deliberately focusing on having his team in peak form for a potential pool decider against the French in Cardiff.
"Because their first World Cup game is against Canada - they haven't performed particularly well - then Romania, Ireland probably have the easiest draw," added 2003 World Cup winner Kay.
"So they've got that build-up then they have a tougher game against Italy and the big one against France at the end.
"Speaking to people around the squad they are saying that their build-up has been slightly different in that they are looking to peak slightly later in the tournament."
Former Bay of Plenty coach Schmidt created a feared attacking arsenal as Leinster dominated the European scene, but has reined in that style at Test level.
Kay believes the Ireland boss has simply reacted to resources, but pinpointed Ireland's suffocating style as being potentially hugely profitable in high-pressure World Cup contests.
"Joe Schmidt is tactically one of the best coaches in the world though and always brings the best out of the squad," added Kay.
"This Irish team has gone very much into a style of rugby that suits World Cups.
"You don't see many teams winning World Cup finals running in bagfuls of tries.
"While it might not be so exciting to watch, with the high ball to the fore, but in their half-back combination (Conor Murray and Johnny Sexton) they've probably got the most settled game-management team."
Kay admitted that he has doubts about the creativity of Ireland's backline given that Brian O'Driscoll is no longer there.
"But as a forward pack they are capable of arm-wrestling with the best," concluded the former England lock.
Corramore Construction Ltd was fined £750 for causing pollution on the Altagoan River near Draperstown.
Inspectors found silage effluent being piped into the river from a site where an anaerobic digestion plant was being built.
The company pleaded guilty to the offence from March 2016.
Officers went to the Gortnaskey Road near Draperstown after a pollution report.
They found fungal growth in the river and recorded a strong agricultural odour from the water.
A pipe was discovered that was discharging a dark coloured liquid to the river.
Further examination found two other pipes also discharging effluent.
It had gathered at a construction site where the anaerobic digester plant was being built.
Samples of discharge were collected from three different points.
All were found to contain poisonous, noxious or polluting matter that was potentially harmful to fish.
Anaerobic digesters use organic material like slurry or silage, which are broken down in the sealed units to produce a biogas.
It can be burned to generate heat and power.
Gray prevailed 6-0 in the knockout final, with Goubert taking silver.
Hosts Jersey took top honours in the archery compound event, with Great Britain international Lucy O'Sullivan winning gold, while Guernsey's Gen Witham claimed silver.
In the men's recurve head-to-head, Jersey's Mark Renouf took gold, his first ever Island Games medal.
Jersey's Rhys Hidrio battled back after his chain came off to win a silver medal in the mountain bike criterium.
Hidrio, who was fifth in the cross country after suffering a puncture, could not catch the Isle of Man's Nick Corlett who took gold.
Hidrio helped Howard Greenside, Ollie Lowthorpe, James Patterson and Richard Payne to win team silver.
Guernsey's James Roe took the bronze medal while he and his teammates Andrew Colver, Geoffrey Gibson, Michael Serafin and Danny Shaw won team bronze.
Guernsey's 16-year-old rider Megan Downton won her first-ever Island Games medal taking bronze in the women's criterium.
She finished behind Western Isles' Kerry and Kirsty Macphee, who had already won gold and silver in the cross-country.
Jersey's team of Jemima Leach, Catherine Liron and Helene Monpetit won team silver while Downton and Heather Despres teamed up to win bronze.
Jersey schoolgirl Natasha Forrest produced the best performance of her short career to make the semi-finals of the tennis singles at the Island Games.
The 14-year-old, who is the youngest player in the tournament, knocked out the Isle of Man's number two seed Laura Feely 7-6 3-6 10-8 on Wednesday.
Her place in the semi-final guarantees her a bronze medal to add to the team silver she won on Monday.
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PC Andrew Ott struck William Horner with his riot shield at a tuition fees protest in London in 2010.
He and two officers were also accused of concocting a reason to falsely arrest the student.
Ott, 36, was found guilty of causing actual bodily harm at Southwark Crown Court. All three were cleared of perverting the course of justice.
Mr Horner, then aged 20, was trying to break free from a kettled area during the protest in Parliament Square, Westminster on 9 December when he was struck.
The Royal Holloway student was then arrested on suspicion of threatening to commit criminal damage.
Ott, from Rochester in Kent, PC Calvin Lindsay, 31, from east London, and PC Thomas Barnes, 31, from Kent, were accused of making up a reason to arrest Mr Horner after he was injured.
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Ott will be sentenced on Wednesday.
The words of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of Peterhead's Amity II who featured in the BBC's Trawlermen series.
He has worked at sea since leaving school in 1976.
The 55-year-old's feelings on the forthcoming referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU are clear - leave in a bid to secure a future for fishermen.
The Aberdeenshire town of Peterhead is Europe's largest white fish port, so the topic could hardly be more crucial.
The Scottish government believes that EU membership is in the "best interests" of Scotland's fishing industry.
How the UK is affected by the Common Agricultural Policy and EU fishing policies.
In 2014, Scotland exported £449m of fish and seafood to Europe - 68% of the total value of Scottish food exports into that market.
Worldwide, seafood exports are the second largest food and drink export behind whisky, and the industry supports thousands of jobs.
Peterhead alone handles tens of millions of pounds worth of fish annually.
Much stays in the UK to be processed, including for the country's fish and chip shops and supermarkets, but the European market is also hungry for the quality, fresh product, especially the likes of Spain.
Before the processors can export, the fish has to be landed. And European regulations governing catches have long been a bone of contention for those fishermen out at sea.
The technical measures for fishermen can roughly fall into three groups;
One main aim is limiting the catch of unwanted - notably juvenile - fish.
In 2013, major reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was approved.
The reform package included measures to protect endangered stocks, bring in more regional management and have more long-term planning.
Incidents of throwing dead fish back into the sea had increased due to restrictions on which fish could be landed.
Gradually eliminating discards of unwanted catches started in January last year.
Mr Buchan believes it is now time to leave European control behind.
He told the BBC Scotland news website: "Decades of failures have left us with little or no alternative but to vote for Brexit [British exit].
"All about the EU is not bad but on balance our industry has been badly treated by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who are pressured by lobbyists in Brussels.
"It's too far removed, one glove does not fit all."
He explained: "I left school in 1976 to begin fishing, I have always been under the union.
"It was a common market, but over the years it got worse and worse and worse, some businesses are being strangled by regulations.
"Landing obligations cannot work unless quotas rise - it will be the final nail in the coffin.
"Processors have had to suffer hardship too, but some will think their market is out there in Europe - so they have a commercial decision to make.
"When I go to the ballot box, it's time to take that leap in the dark. I am prepared, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose."
He continued: "This is a lifetime, generational change.
"We have weathered a decline in stocks and things are on the up thanks to sustainability and responsibility - we are much wiser than we were 40 years ago.
"We need to see investment in young people now - never more so with the collapse of the oil and gas sector.
"New boats are on order, so people can see an element of a future. Will it be a future free from Europe?
"Let's try something different and allow our communities to thrive, creating work and business growth."
The Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) was formed in 1973, with the aim of protecting the collective interests of those out catching fish.
Its chief executive, Bertie Armstrong, said it was a complicated debate.
Mr Armstrong said: "Europe - and our place in it - is never far away from the forefront of politics and passionate debate. Being part of the EU affects all walks of life, but most especially fishing.
"Indeed, the very term Common Fisheries Policy stokes the strongest emotions within the industry."
He explained his organisation would not tell members which way to vote but it could highlight issues at the forefront of the debate.
Mr Armstrong explained: "For the individual voters involved, the fundamental question is whether there is scope to beneficially develop the CFP inside the EU, or, should the referendum so decide, would leaving the EU be the best option?
"Sovereignty and jurisdiction - beyond each member state's slim strip of territorial waters - is pooled and the EU uses the Common Fisheries Policy to govern every aspect of the industry. That fundamental change - the trading of sovereignty for collective control - took place when we joined.
"Collaboration is vital under any governance regime, but non-EU coastal states such as Norway and Iceland retain jurisdiction and negotiate on their own behalf."
Mr Armstrong continued: "If the UK were to leave the EU, then the UK's long-lost control over the greater part of the northern European fishing grounds would be restored.
"This is a statement of fact rather than a killer argument for withdrawal because, of course, there are other factors to consider in the balance."
He said that the UK rules would need to be in accordance with fish-stock science and be negotiated with other coastal states, including those still in the EU.
Mr Armstrong added: "Despite this, from the fishing industry point of view, leaving the CFP still instinctively sounds like a good thing - more so if the balance between that gain and the other effects of leaving the EU turned out to be positive - and of course, presuming that the UK and Scottish home nation governments could do a better fisheries management job than the EU does at the moment.
"But the whole debate is much more complicated than this, and the balance of benefits brought through membership of the EU also needs to be carefully considered - not least those provided by an open market place for our seafood products, and no doubt for many other reasons too."
He said that the free movement of labour within the Eurozone was a contentious issue, but it "undeniably" benefited the fishing and seafood processing sector.
Mr Armstrong told the BBC: "We could spend all day listing the faults of the CFP, but the major underlying one is the persistent micro-management from Brussels and lack of regional control of fisheries.
"Much better instead to manage fisheries regionally and adopt regional management for regional issues, and the recently reformed CFP did go some way towards achieving this - management has moved closer to the practitioners, but that change now needs to be developed further.
"From those politicians arguing for us to stay within the EU, we would like to see a pledge on that."
European Parliament fisheries committee vice chairman Jaroslaw Walesa believed the CFP was one of the "pillars of the EU and its greatest achievement".
He said it was designed to manage common resources and give all European fishing fleets equal access to EU fishing grounds in order to compete fairly.
"It would be pity if the Scottish fishing industry had to be out of it," insisted Mr Walesa.
He added: "Brexit means that Scottish fishermen will be cut off from the traditional fishing grounds.
"Also, if this happens, the Scottish fishing industry will not be able to benefit from EMFF - the fund for the EU's maritime and fisheries policies for 2014-2020.
"It helps fishermen in the transition to sustainable fishing, supports coastal communities, finances projects that create new jobs and improve quality of life along European coasts. So the money for, for example, gear development and innovations in new technologies will be lost for Scottish fishermen.
"Also CFP supports more sustainable stocks. Coastal states such as Iceland or Faroes are currently taking unsustainable amounts of fish, would Scottish fisherman like to join them?
"The CFP now states that we will have more regionalised policy, so Scotland will gain greater control over certain policy areas whilst still feeling the benefits of being in the Union."
A Scottish government spokesman said it believed that EU membership was in the best interests of Scotland's fishermen and farmers.
He added: "EU membership provides a range of significant benefits to our seafood sector and farming communities, including direct access to financial assistance, free access to a common food export market of over 500 million consumers, and the protections and opportunities offered by being part of a major global trading bloc.
"It is now more important than ever that those who support Scotland's continued EU membership make the case as strongly as possible.
"The Scottish government will be at the forefront of making that argument, and we will continue to support reform of the EU from within it."
The referendum will be held on 23 June. There could yet be some stormy waters on the debate horizon for the Scottish fishing industry in the final days left before the vote.
Governing body the FIA has told teams it wants to introduce a device called a 'halo', designed to protect drivers' heads from large airborne debris.
"It's not taking away anything from the driver in terms of courage or anything like that," said Australian Ricciardo.
"It's a simple little benefit that we can all gain from and no-one wants to see another fatality."
Frenchman Jules Bianchi died in July 2015, nine months after suffering severe head injuries in a crash at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.
British former F1 driver Justin Wilson died in August after being struck on the helmet by debris from another car during a race in the IndyCar Series in the United States.
The FIA is working with F1 teams to finalise safety plans for next year.
The 'halo' is the FIA's preferred option and would be attached to the car on each side of the rear of the cockpit, with a single strut in front of the driver.
"Our head is the only really vulnerable thing at the moment," added Ricciardo.
"I honestly don't think anyone is against it. Sure, some people probably didn't have an opinion, but most people spoke up about it and said 'it's what we want'.
"With Jules and then Justin, it just seems like a bit of tradition, for what in the end?
"If this is just a little 'halo', within a race or two people will think it looks normal."
Red Bull plan to put forward an alternative concept to the halo which team principal Christian Horner said is more of a canopy design.
"It needs to be tested, which hopefully can be done very quickly," Horner said.
In the last week, supermarkets have cut prices by between 2p and 4p per litre.
Last month, diesel became, on average, cheaper than petrol for the first time since July 2001.
Petrol has also fallen in price this week, hitting 115.24p per litre on average, its lowest for three months.
Lower fuel prices have followed the falls in the price of oil.
This month, the price of a barrel of Brent Crude oil fell below $50 (£32) for the first time since January this year.
David Hunter, an energy industry analyst with Schneider Electric, told BBC Radio 5 live's Wake Up to Money programme that "faltering economic growth in resource-hungry countries like China is keeping a lid on demand for oil, while on the other hand there is a supply glut".
The International Energy Agency said that oil demand around the world is expanding at its fastest pace in five years thanks to rebounding economic growth and low prices, but global oversupply will last through to 2016.
Petrol averaged 106.4p per litre at the beginning of February, after the previous low levels in oil prices.
"The biggest factor for the future path of fuel prices remains the crude oil price - if it continues to fall, and sterling holds its value against the dollar, then further reductions at the pumps are possible," Mr Hunter said.
Diesel had been more expensive than petrol in the UK for 14 years, but its price is now falling more quickly than petrol.
Mr Hunter added: "Recently, Saudi Arabia has ramped up production of ultra-low sulphur diesel for export to Europe - resulting in steeper falls for diesel than petrol."
James Hookham, deputy chief executive of the Freight Transport Association, said the drop in prices may not last.
"We must highlight there is nothing sinister going on and prices could go up as quickly as they are falling," he said. "It is a very volatile market."
Six Royal Canadian Air Force men and a 20-year-old Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) were killed when the plane went down in February 1944.
Businessman Ken Scott, who witnessed the crash as a six-year-old boy, said he wanted to honour the seven men.
The memorial was unveiled at Elsham Wolds RAF Museum on Sunday.
Mr Scott said: "Not only do the crew deserve something better than a hole in the ground but so do the families.
"They need something which they can visit, somewhere they can feel at ease with their family members and where they can honour them."
The dedication of the memorial was attended by Major Terry Ledrew, from the Canadian Air Force, and members of RAFVR Robert Loughrin's family.
Later, a service was held at All Saints Church, in Elsham, for members of the Elsham Wolds RAF association.
The children, aged between eight and 12, were discovered in the vehicle by officers on Aberdeen's Beach Esplanade last Thursday.
Insp Jon Barron, of Police Scotland, said: "This is another shocking example of someone blatantly putting children's' lives in danger.
"Please wear a seat belt at all times."
He added: "Had there been a collision, or had the driver to brake harshly for whatever reason, the possible consequences could not be clearer.
"Wearing a seat belt will massively reduce these risks.
"Please ensure all passengers and children carried in your vehicle are properly restrained. Please keep them safe."
The 23-year-old was taking part in the squad's first session at their base in France when he suffered the injury.
"A decision on a new player has yet to be taken," said a Germany statement.
The absence Rudiger, who plays for Roma in Serie A, is a blow with fellow centre-back Mats Hummels not fully recovered from a leg muscle injury.
Germany had arrived at their tournament base in Evian only hours before Rudiger was injured.
They are in the same group as Northern Ireland, Poland and Ukraine.
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Archie Dickson, 54, drove into Mark Sanders in Clydebank on 16 June 2012 before fleeing in his Mercedes. The restaurant manager died at the scene.
The High Court in Glasgow heard Dickson was driving on the wrong side of the road due to "fatigue and alcohol".
He contacted police after hearing of Mr Sanders' death. He was remanded in custody after sentence was deferred.
The former Stow College lecturer admitted to a charge of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene.
The court heard how Mr Sanders had been returning home from a night out with friend Gordon Wilson in the early hours of morning when he was killed.
Mr Sanders was walking on the road due to how narrow the pavement was.
The pair were chatting about a forthcoming holiday when Mr Wilson suddenly saw his friend fly into the air and land on the pavement in Milton Douglas Road, Clydebank.
Prosecutor Iain McSporran said there was no warning that a vehicle was coming and Dickson had driven on the wrong side of the road.
The court heard that after the collision, Dickson stopped his Mercedes nearby and a stunned Mr Wilson yelled at him to call an ambulance.
The lecturer drove off and later claimed he did not hear the shout.
A taxi driver tried to help Mr Sanders, who was badly hurt, but the 30-year-old died at the scene after suffering a serious head injury.
Later that day, Dickson visited a bistro in the city's Hyndland area where he met another regular customer, John McHugh.
Mr McHugh had just been told by his son that Mr Sanders had died in a hit-and-run.
Mr McHugh knew the family well having employed Mr Sanders' mother for 25 years. His brother was also Mr Sanders' godfather.
The court heard Mr McHugh explained to Dickson that he was devastated as a family friend had been killed in a car accident in Clydebank.
Mr McSporran said: "He spoke about how he had known the dead man, but Dickson seemed not to engage and just looked away. He then went elsewhere in the bar."
The prosecutor added that this conversation may have prompted Dickson to hand himself in.
He stopped police a short time later and confessed: "I think I have killed somebody. I knocked a guy down last night in Duntocher. I think I killed him."
Dickson took the officers to his Mercedes which was in nearby Partickhill Road.
It was found to have a smashed windscreen and other collision damage.
Dickson, from the city's Knightswood area, was later detained and told police he had not been able to sleep prior to the accident and had gone out driving to "wind down and get tired".
He claimed to remember a "thump in the car" and that his wing mirror was pushed in.
Mr McSporran told the court: "He went on to say that he believed he had fallen asleep and that the thump of the collision had jarred him awake."
Dickson said he got out and saw a man standing 50 feet away. He told police nothing was said between them and he drove off.
He said the next day he could not work out how his car had been damaged until he had the conversation with Mr McHugh.
The court was told Dickson had spent the day of the accident in London on business before flying back to Glasgow that night.
Police discovered CCTV footage of him visiting the Oran Mor venue in Glasgow's west-end on his return and downing three pints of what appeared to be lager.
He was seen leaving 45 minutes before the collision.
Mr McSporran said Dickson's driving was dangerous due to a combination of "fatigue and alcohol" and the fact he was "completely on the wrong side of the road" at the time.
Dickson had consumed alcohol although the amount was not known as he had driven off from the scene.
Dickson's counsel Thomas Ross said the lecturer was "truly sorry" for what happened.
Judge Lady Scott deferred sentencing for reports and remanded him in custody.
It is understood a man was taken from his home in the nearby village of Ballybogey on Sunday night, before cash was stolen from the Nationwide Building Society in Coleraine's Diamond area.
It is believed at least one family member was made to remain in the home with one gang member.
The employee was forced to unlock the cash vaults at the office.
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Home side Cardiff looked in control as goals from Matthew Myers and Patrick Asselin left them 2-0 ahead.
However, Blair Riley replied for Belfast and Jonathan Boxill then diverted a Mike Quesnele shot to the Cardiff net early in the final period.
Chris Higgins hit Belfast's over-time winner to boost their title hopes.
The home side opened the scoring at 11:11 when Myers' shot found it's way into the Giants goal with Jackson Whistle unsighted.
Cardiff doubled their lead five minutes into the second period as an attempted Joey Martin pass found its way to Asselin who shot into the empty net.
However, Riley replied within two minutes after being set up by Higgins and Michael Forney before Boxill levelled on 43:01 as he directed Quesnele's fierce slapshot to the Cardiff net.
After Belfast keeper Whistle made some great saved during the remainder of the third period, Higgins pounced on a Cardiff defensive mistake to fire in the winner two minutes and 34 seconds into the scheduled five minutes of over-time.
Belfast are back in action on Sunday away to Dundee Stars (18:30 GMT) before their home games against Nottingham and Dundee next Friday and Saturday.
Ms Pascal will start a production company that will launch in May 2015.
She has already apologised for certain revelations that came as a result of the leaked emails.
Last month, Sony condemned the "vicious" attack, which led it to suspend the release of the film 'The Interview'.
"I have spent almost my entire professional life at Sony Pictures and I am energized to be starting this new chapter based at the company I call home," said Ms Pascal in a statement.
She added that her transition to a production role had been discussed "for some time".
As part of the agreement, Sony will fund her production company for at least the next four years, and it will retain distribution rights.
Sony did not immediately name a successor to Ms Pascal, leaving Michael Lynton as the sole head of one of Hollywood's biggest production studios.
Ms Pascal was one of the highest profile Sony names whose emails were leaked as part of the hack.
She reportedly commented on the viewing habits of President Barack Obama in a derogatory manner in an email to producer Scott Rudin.
Ms Pascal and Mr Rudin both subsequently apologised for the emails, with Ms Pascal saying in a statement at the time: "The content of my emails to Scott were insensitive and inappropriate but are not an accurate reflection of who I am.
"Although this was a private communication that was stolen, I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended."
On 24 November, Sony revealed that it had been the subject of a hack by a group calling themselves Guardians of Peace (GOP).
GOP was later traced back to North Korea, who US authorities believe instituted the attack in retaliation for Sony's decision to produce 'The Interview', in which North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un is killed.
The group gained access to the firm's network and stole huge amounts of internal information, including emails and copies of films, such as Annie, that had not yet been released.
Although Sony did withdraw The Interview before its planned release, it ultimately made it available to view online and allowed it to be shown at some cinemas.
The film made about $15m (£9.6m) through downloads alone over its first three days of distribution.
The Financial Times reports the deal is worth $250m (£174m).
SwiftKey is known for its predictive keyboard, which can be found installed on millions of smartphone devices.
The company said it was a "milestone" in its history.
"Our mission is to enhance interaction between people and technology. We think these are a perfect match, and we believe joining Microsoft is the right next stage in our journey," said SwiftKey's founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock in a blog post.
The company, started by the Cambridge University graduates in 2008, is the latest UK artificial intelligence (AI) firm to be bought up by a US tech giant.
DeepMind was bought by Google in 2014, for £400m. Another firm, VocalIQ, was bought recently by Apple.
As well as the popular smartphone app, SwiftKey is known for being behind the computer software on Prof Stephen Hawking's wheelchair.
The deal furthers Microsoft's new mobile strategy, spearheaded by chief executive Satya Nadella.
Instead of focusing on hardware - where the company has a tiny share of the market with its Windows Phone range - the firm is now looking to build up a range of productivity software to be used on any kind of device.
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David Jackson was involved in an accident at the Glentress site in the Scottish Borders on Friday evening.
He came off his bike and crashed face first with a large stone getting lodged in the helmet he was wearing.
He suffered concussion and cuts and bruises but his mother said that without the helmet the outcome could have been much more serious.
Pip Jackson, of Innerleithen, told the BBC Scotland news website: "It was Friday evening and he was out on an organised ride.
"They were up doing the red route at Glentress, a spot that he had done lots of times before but this time he got it a bit wrong.
"He overcooked the jump a wee bit, came off and landed on his face and then flipped over onto his back."
His father, Neil, was following him and watched the scene unfold.
He is a member of Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team and has helped out at similar incidents in the past which is one of the reasons why they insist on wearing a helmet on a bike at all times.
"The helmet did its job," said Ms Jackson. "It has taken the full brunt of the impact.
"There is a stone lodged in his helmet which would have been lodged in his skull.
"If he had not put his helmet on there would have been a completely different outcome."
The TVMRT were on the scene quickly to help David before he was transferred to hospital by ambulance.
There were initial concerns that he might have suffered a spinal or neck injury in the crash.
TVMRT deputy team leader Dave Wright said: "Any incident that involves a mountain bike rider coming off at any sort of speed could potentially lead to serious consequences.
"We immobilised his neck and treated David for a suspected neck injury.
"Eleven team members responded and David was taken to hospital."
Mr Wright agreed that it showed the importance of wearing a helmet.
"If he had been hit on his head with that rock it would have been a very different outcome," he said.
"It shows how serious it could have been if he had not been wearing the helmet."
David has suffered a concussion which means he will have to stay off his bike for a couple of weeks, as well as cuts and bruises.
His parents do not let him out on his bike - even in the garden - without a helmet and they hope others will follow their example.
Ms Jackson said that was why they had put pictures onto social media via TVMRT to share their story.
"If one person now puts a helmet on that normally wouldn't then that's done its job," she said.
Chris Martin's failure from 12 yards in Tuesday's 1-0 defeat at Reading means the Whites have seen seven of their last nine spot-kicks saved or missed.
"I changed the taker five times and the only one who scored a goal is Chris," Jokanovic told BBC Radio London.
"It is not a lottery. We will think what is best for us and try and find a better solution."
We miss many times this season and it is a frustrating situation.
Martin saw his 90th-minute penalty saved by Royals keeper Ali Al-Habsi at the Madejski Stadium, meaning Fulham missed the chance to close the gap on the Championship play-offs.
The Whites are five points off sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday after 27 games of the campaign.
On-loan Scotland international Martin has scored twice from the spot this season, in wins over Huddersfield and Barnsley, but has now had his other three efforts saved.
Other recent misses have proved costly for the Whites, with QPR keeper Alex Smithies denying Martin in the west London derby on Saturday and Brighton stopper David Stockdale keeping out Stefan Johansen's penalty on 2 January.
Both those games were goalless at the time, and Fulham went on to pick up just one point from the six available in those matches.
The west London club even missed two penalties in the 2-1 defeat by QPR back in October, with Tom Cairney and Sone Aluko the culprits.
"I cannot blame my players as it is my decision," Serb Jokanovic, 48, added.
"We miss many times this season and it is a frustrating situation. We are disappointed in the dressing room, like our supporters.
"I have never seen something like this."
Reading have also struggled with penalties this season, missing six of their 11 spot-kicks - but Jaap Stam's side have converted five of those misses on the rebound.
Adjusting to that level of scrutiny will be one of the challenges that the Portuguese head coach faces now that he has taken charge at Rangers.
In the days building up to his appointment, former and current players, staff and associates have all provided an element of insight into his coaching methods and personality. Caixinha has worked at big clubs before, but this experience will still be new to the 46-year-old.
He has been described as focused and thorough, and he won't be caught unawares by the demands at Ibrox; time will have been spent assessing the squad and the expectations he will be held to.
Even so, his task is not just to know them, but to cope with them. There is experience and achievement on his CV that underpins his managerial ability, but his latest appointment will test them to the full.
Comparisons with his predecessor Mark Warburton will be inevitable. The Englishman was adamant about his team's 4-3-3 formation and structured play - overlapping full-backs, inverted wingers, attacking midfielders who didn't run beyond the forwards, limited crossing and shooting from distance - an adherence that eventually undermined his work.
Caixinha is less dogmatic, although his commitment has been to attacking football and a progressive style of play. It won't be proscriptive, so the goalkeeper won't be restricted to distributing only to his full-backs; pragmatism will play a role in his work.
His coaching style has been described as "aggressive", and he is demanding of his players, once remarking that he allows them "maximum freedom" but in return for them taking "maximum responsibility". He is tactically astute but versatile so that his approach is shaped by the specific challenges of the opposition.
Caixinha will seek to make Rangers an assertive side, pressing with high intensity and placing emphasis on breaking the lines of the opposition rather than possession for the sake of control.
Triple training sessions have been part of his preparatory work at pervious clubs, as well as a weekly programme based around merging physical and tactical work.
Caixinha started as a youth coach, then took charge of a local team before moving to Sporting Lisbon in 2004 as a scout and then progressing to become assistant coach.
During his time working alongside head coach Jose Peseiro, Sporting reached the 2005 UEFA Cup final, only to lose 3-1 to CSKA Moscow. The pair continued to work together until 2010, a spell that encompassed stints at Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia, Panathinaikos in Greece, Rapid Bucharest in Romania and the Saudi Arabia national team.
He returned to Portugal to become head coach of Uniao Leiria, then Nacional. It was a two-year spell at Santos Laguna in Mexico that delivered the defining spell of his managerial career so far, with Caixinha winning the 2014 Copa MX Apertura for the first time in Santos Laguna's history.
He went on to win the 2015 Liga MX Clausura (the second of the two annual Mexican championships), becoming the first European manager to win the Mexican title for 35 years, and then the 2015 Campeon de Campeones, the annual game between the winners of the two league championships - the Apertura and the Clausura.
He also guided Santos Laguna to the final of the 2013 CONCACAF Champions League - a tournament drawing teams from Central America, North America and the Caribbean. Caixinha delivered the success demanded of him at Santos Laguna, although there were also signs of an emotional character on the touchline and in press conferences, and a strained relationship at times with the game's authorities. He was once involved in an altercation with Everton player Enner Valencia when the striker was with Mexican side Pachuca.
At Santos Laguna, he also reduced the average age of the squad and worked on the development of a number of young players. Caixinha left in August 2015, and joined Al-Gharafa in Qatar four months later.
Caixinha impressed Rangers' recruitment delegation with the thoroughness of his interview presentation. He is meticulous in his preparations, but there is also an emotional intensity. He is a passionate coach, and all of those qualities will be needed to adapt to the stifling scrutiny of life in charge of Rangers.
His family remained in Portugal while he worked in Qatar alongside a trusted group of coaches and fitness staff. Much has been made about his past as a bullfighter in Portugal, and a documentary filmed by Alkass Sports Channels last month contained footage of the young Caixinha diving onto his prone father to protect him from a bull.
He has come to an environment that won't be tolerant of a slow or uncertain start. Caixinha has challenges to overcome as a foreign manager in Scotland, where there still exists a sense that only domestic managers can thrive, but he researched Mexican football and society thoroughly before beginning his work with Santos Laguna.
He has looked at the success of compatriots in the UK and wants to show that he can succeed. There are issues unique to Rangers - a squad that does not deliver value for the money spent on it for starters - but Caixinha has been self-confident and extremely well-informed throughout the recruitment process.
Now he has to deliver on that.
The ex-DJ, a friend of paedophile broadcaster Jimmy Savile, was convicted last week of a series of rapes and indecent assaults.
Teret, 73, from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, abused girls aged between 12 and 15 during the 1960s and 1970s.
He will be sentenced on Thursday. Police are now expected to formally investigate these new allegations.
Teret was convicted of seven counts of rape and 11 counts of indecent assault at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
He was found not guilty of aiding and abetting Savile in raping a 15-year-old girl in the early 1960s.
But the former Radio Caroline and Signal Radio DJ was found guilty of raping the complainant himself.
During the trial, Teret told jurors he had no interest in underage girls.
But the court heard he had a previous conviction for sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl in 1999.
Prosecutors said he had "consistently pursued" young teenage girls.
Baggies boss Tony Pulis said Berahino, 22, had "wasted three or four months" after a move to Tottenham was blocked last August.
The forward suggested he would not play for Baggies chairman Jeremy Peace again after the deal did not go through.
Berahino made a rare start against Peterborough in the FA Cup on Saturday and scored twice in a 2-2 draw.
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He took his tally for the season to six, while he has scored 22 league goals for Albion, and scored 20 in all competitions last season.
"The chairman will make the decisions on the financial matters and that's really what it boils down to," said Pulis.
"I think football-wise, everyone would want to keep Saido here. When you put Saido in front of goal, he's a goalscorer.
"But we need to get him fit because he's not fully fit."
West Brom are just seven points ahead of Newcastle, who are in the relegation zone, and may not want to sell to a close rival.
The transfer window will also close on Monday, 1 February, which would give the Baggies limited time to find a replacement.
However, if Newcastle succeeded in landing Berahino, he would join Jonjo Shelvey, Andros Townsend and Henri Saivet as new arrivals at the club.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
But before 1872, the fifth of the adult male population lucky enough to be able to vote had to do so very publically.
They made their choice by a show of hands, stating their choice out loud, or marking their paper in front of people, often surrounded by cheering onlookers and the agents of the candidates. The answer was written down and the lists or "poll books" could be bought from local newspapers.
This public system of voting had left electors wide open to bribery and intimidation, for example mobs might be brought to polls to bully the voters. In contrast elections could be like a party, where candidates 'rewarded' their voters with large amounts of alcohol.
Despite opposition from those who considered secret voting to be "unmanly" and "un-English", the Ballot Act of 1872 introduced the ballot box to counteract bribing of voters.
Pontefract was the first town to vote in private when its Liberal MP Hugh Childers was newly appointed as a minister and the rules back then meant he had to win a by-election in order to serve.
Much like today, the voters of the Pontefract by-election were provided with separate booths where they could mark their paper in private and post it into the ballot box.
The boxes were specially made for the occasion and were marked with a wax seal to make sure no one tampered with the votes. Charmingly, the seal was made with a traditional liquorice stamp of a castle and an owl from a local factory where they used them to stamp Pontefract cakes.
Interest in the 1872 by-election was high because there was a suspicion that, now voters were able to make their choice in secret, support for the parties might be drastically different. However when the votes were counted, and the results announced at the Town Hall, Hugh Childers was elected just as expected.
Unsurprisingly Childers was among the many people who were impressed with the new ballot boxes, and he was right to be - for once there were no allegations of bribery or corruption and not even that much unruly behaviour.
Observers said they had never seen "a contested election in which less intoxicating liquor was drunk', and that the town was so quiet and orderly that "it hardly seemed like an election" at all.
Deakon Wilkins, 24, from Weston-super-Mare, vanished after leaving Motion nightclub in Bristol in the early hours of 14 January.
His father Andrew Wilkins said family members were "trying to keep busy" but "didn't know what to do".
Avon and Somerset Police said it was "increasingly concerned" and using "significant" resources in its search.
Mr Wilkins said his son was last seen on CCTV leaving the nightclub at 04:30 GMT.
"Just as he was leaving, he [left a voice mail] and he sounds coherent and he doesn't sound drunk at all," he said.
"We're at our wits' end we don't know what to do now."
His mother Marcella Wilkins said someone has "got to see him soon".
"Every day is a long day - if you hear the phone go or a knock on the door you just hope," she said.
Mr Wilkins is described as 5ft 10in (1.78m) tall, medium build with ginger hair and a tattoo between his neck and chest that says 'Rush'.
When last seen he was wearing a red fitted jumper, black smart blazer, dark jeans and red trainers.
His parents will be distributing leaflets about him in Bristol city centre later.
Juve fans directed racist chants at Milan's black players and also displayed a racist banner during the Turin side's 1-0 victory.
Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng was targeted for jeers and responded by putting his finger to his lips.
Juventus fans' group the Drughi had appealed for supporters not to engage in racist behaviour before the game.
Former Portsmouth and Tottenham midfielder Boateng has become a key figure in the anti-racism campaign in Italy after walking off the pitch during a friendly with lower league side Pro Patria following racist abuse in January.
A penalty from Juventus's Arturo Vidal was the only goal of the game.
Olaolu Opebiyi, of House on The Rock church in Tuffnell Park, north London, was arranging a conference call prayer on his phone, The Guardian reported.
EasyJet said the captain had requested official assistance to investigate concerns raised by fellow passengers.
After police questioning he was cleared to complete his journey last Thursday.
Pastor Olaolu was booked on flight EZY2151 from Luton to Amsterdam on 25 February.
A spokesman for the airline said following concerns raised by other passengers the captain called for assistance and officers decided to disembark the passenger for questioning.
Pastor Olaolu told the Guardian he believed suspicion had fallen on him unjustly because the passenger next to him probably suspected him of being a Muslim terrorist on account of his Nigerian heritage.
The easyJet spokesman said: "The safety and security of its passengers and crew is our highest priority which means that if a security concern is raised we will always investigate it as a precautionary measure."
After questioning the passenger was allowed to complete his journey on a later flight, the spokesman continued.
The company also said it apologised to Pastor Olaolu for the inconvenience caused to him.
Mr Galloway, expelled by Labour in 2003, said it was the "most sensational victory" in by-election history.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said it was "incredibly disappointing" and the party needed to "learn lessons".
At the 2010 General Election, Labour's Marsha Singh, who resigned on health grounds, won with a majority of 5,763 .
The party had held the West Yorkshire seat since 1974, except for a brief period in the 1980s when the sitting MP defected to the SDP.
By Nick RobinsonPolitical editor
Mr Galloway won 18,341 votes, a 56% share of the total vote. Labour candidate Imran Hussein came second with 8,201 votes as the party's share of the vote was 20% down on its 2010 figure.
Conservative candidate Jackie Whiteley was third, with 2,746 votes. Jeanette Sunderland, of the Liberal Democrats, secured 1,505 votes - the party lost its deposit.
Mr Galloway, who co-founded the anti-war Respect Party after being expelled by Labour because of comments he made as part of his opposition to the Iraq war, said the result represented the "Bradford Spring".
He said the "mammoth vote" represented a "total rejection" of the three major parties in the British political system.
By Chris MasonPolitical reporter
George Galloway was carried out of the sports centre where the votes had been counted, on the shoulders of his supporters.
"Galloway! Galloway!" they screamed jubilantly.
A small of convoy of cars, covered in Respect posters and flags, then completed a celebratory lap around an otherwise deserted football field, at 3am.
Why did George Galloway win here?
Firstly, he appears to have galvanised some who feel ignored, even disenfranchised by the main political parties.
An element of that is due to a specific local issue, the regularly delayed renovation of the city centre.
For others, in a multi-ethnic constituency, the call for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan was appealing.
For others still, this was a mid-term by-election.
It wasn't about choosing the next government, but sending a powerful message, selecting a noisy, high profile advocate to represent them.
Handing George Galloway a 10,000 vote majority certainly does that.
He said Labour "must stop imagining that working people and poor people have no option but to support them if they hate the Tory and Liberal Democrat coalition partners.
"They have to stop supporting illegal, bloody, costly foreign wars because one of the reasons why they were so decisively defeated this evening is that the public don't believe that they have atoned for their role in the invasion and occupation of other people's countries and the drowning of those countries in blood."
Mr Miliband said the result had been unexpected and the reasons for it were "not simple".
"We should have won this by-election and I am very disappointed we did not," he said.
"I think this was to do with local factors that were particular to the constituency and we have got to understand those lessons."
He said he would travel to Bradford in the near future to start the process of trying to "win back people's trust".
A Liberal Democrat spokesman said the party was "clearly disappointed" with the result while David Ward, Lib Dem MP for Bradford East, said Mr Galloway still spoke for the old Labour Party.
"This was the Asian community within Bradford, really, who are in some ways punishing the Labour Party for abusing them and using them in the past," he said.
But Salma Yaqoob, the Respect Party leader, said it was "patronising" to suggest that Mr Galloway - a critic of the UK's mission in Afghanistan - had been dependent on support from Muslims for his victory.
She told Radio 4's Today programme: "Look at the result...Over 50% of the vote. That is not just one community coming out to vote. That is young, old people, people across all areas. In fact in every area across the constituency, Respect won."
By David CowlingEditor, BBC Political Research Unit
George Galloway's victory is the first time an independent or smaller party candidate has won a Parliamentary by-election from another party in Britain since March 1973, when Dick Taverne won the Lincoln by-election (taking it from Labour).
It is also the first time since the May 2000 Romsey by-election (when the Conservatives lost to the Lib Dems) that the main Opposition party has lost a seat in a by-election.
Bradford West is not a typical seat. In the great Labour landslide of 1997, when the Conservatives suffered their worst result since 1832, Bradford West swung their way, although it did stay Labour.
In the 2010 general election, when there was a national swing of 5.1% to the Conservatives, and a regional swing of 6.8% to the Conservatives in West Yorkshire, Bradford West swung 2.7% to Labour.
This does not detract from Mr Galloway's remarkable victory, nor lessen Labour's embarrassment at losing its seat but it prompts the need to be cautious about reading great national trends into this result.
Conservative Party co-chair Baroness Warsi said Mr Galloway had clearly "connected" with the electorate and suggested the result was disastrous for Labour.
"If Ed Miliband can't get his act together after a week like this when is he going to get his act together?" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"This is a Labour seat, has been for many, many decades and last night they lost it in spectacular fashion."
BBC Yorkshire political editor Len Tingle said there had effectively been two campaigns in the seat - one with the three main UK parties focused on the economy and jobs, and the other run by Mr Galloway which had his party's anti-war message at its forefront.
Turnout in the by-election was just over 50%, compared with 64.9% in the 2010 general election.
Bookmakers said they had taken a lot of money on Mr Galloway in the days leading up to the poll and had slashed the odds on him winning. Ladbrokes said they faced paying out up to £100,000 in winning bets.
It is the second time Mr Galloway has upset the political odds - he pulled off one of the most memorable results of the 2005 General Election when he overturned a large Labour majority in London's Bethnal Green and Bow to become the Respect Party's first MP.
His win in Bradford West is a remarkable comeback after disappointing showings at the 2010 General Election and the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections. With a different candidate, Respect only came fifth in Bradford West in the 2010 General Election.
Labour have won all five previous by-elections in England and Scotland since the 2010 General Election.
The full result (with vote share and change since 2010 in brackets):
George Galloway (Respect) 18,341 (55.89%, +52.83%)
Imran Hussain (Lab) 8,201 (24.99%, -20.36%)
Jackie Whiteley (C) 2,746 (8.37%, -22.78%)
Jeanette Sunderland (LD) 1,505 (4.59%, -7.08%)
Sonja McNally (UKIP) 1,085 (3.31%, +1.31%)
Dawud Islam (Green) 481 (1.47%, -0.85%)
Neil Craig (D Nats) 344 (1.05%)
Howling Laud Hope (Loony) 111 (0.34%)
Mata, 28, was omitted from the Euro 2016 squad before being recalled by new Spain manager Julen Lopetegui.
However, Mata was an unused substitute in the 2-0 friendly win in Belgium and the 8-0 World Cup qualifying win over Liechtenstein this month.
Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas, 29, is again omitted from the squad.
He was not included in Lopetegui's first squad.
West Ham keeper Adrian, who has conceded 16 goals in six Premier League games this season, is also left out.
Chelsea striker Diego Costa, Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea and Manchester City pair David Silva and Nolito are the four Premier League players in the 23-man squad.
Spain, who beat Liechtenstein 8-1 in their opening Group G game, play Italy in Turin on 6 October and Albania in Shkoder on 9 October.
Goalkeepers: David de Gea (Manchester United), Pepe Reina (Napoli), Sergio Rico (Sevilla).
Defenders: Nacho Fernandez (Real Madrid), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Javi Martinez (Bayern Munich).
Midfielders: Koke (Atletico Madrid), Sergi Roberto (Barcelona), Saul Niguez (Atletico Madrid), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), David Silva (Manchester City), Lucas Vazquez (Real Madrid), Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Isco (Real Madrid).
Forwards: Jose Callejon (Napoli), Vitolo (Sevilla), Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid), Diego Costa (Chelsea), Nolito (Manchester City).
Former owner Gerlinde Pommer had appealed against parliament's vote in December to seize the property.
The court said expropriation would help ensure that the building, in Braunau am Inn, did not become a neo-Nazi shrine.
The authorities plan to transform it, to erase its associations with Hitler.
The Nazi dictator was born in a rented room on the top floor of the building, near the Austro-German border, on 20 April 1889. He lived there for only a few months.
Mrs Pommer - who does not live there - argued that the building could be transformed without it being seized by the state.
Germany's Spiegel website reports that the Austrian government has been paying the elderly, ailing woman about €5,000 (£4,390; $5,700) a month in rent. Under the expropriation law she will get compensation.
There had been calls for the building to be pulled down to prevent it becoming a shrine for neo-Nazis.
Officials want to remodel the property's facade and offer it to Lebenshilfe, a charity which supports people with learning difficulties.
The building was used by the charity as a day centre and workshop for people with special needs.
But it was forced to move out several years ago when Mrs Pommer blocked renovations.
During Nazi rule, the house was transformed into a shrine to Hitler as the town drew in a wave of tourists.
But as the Nazis began to lose control in 1944, it was boarded up.
Jasmyn Chan, 14, was hit by a vehicle on Normanton Hill in Sheffield on 9 May after pushing a friend out of danger.
A 32-year-old man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving is on bail.
Friends and students gathered with their heads bowed as Jasmyn's coffin arrived at City Road Cemetery by horse-drawn carriage.
Hundreds of people lined the paths outside the crematorium, some holding flowers and garlands.
Jasmyn was crossing the road near the junction with Richmond Hill Road with a 12-year-old girl at about 21:20 when they were both hit.
The younger girl was also injured and had to be treated in hospital.
Police have said that Jasmyn's last actions were "to push her friend from danger".
By Tom IngallBBC Look North
The silence of a Sheffield cemetery on a beautiful sunlit morning, broken by the approach of hooves.
A horse-drawn carriage arrives carrying the coffin of 14-year-old Jasmyn Chan. Hundreds of the schoolgirl's friends form a silent vigil for the girl they know better as "Jazzy".
Entire families have come to pay their respects, old and young alike, dressed brightly in vibrant colours contrasting the sombre occasion.
The tributes read during the service talk of a thoughtful, generous, cheeky teenager, a giving person "beautiful inside and out". Words from teachers, friends and family offering comfort, bookending a life taken suddenly by a hit-and-run crash.
Fundraising in her name has continued in the weeks after her death. Her family say they will not know the person she would have become, but her life's work continues.
Detectives said the investigation was continuing and they were still trying to find a blue-green Honda Civic with the registration P135 FEO.
The funeral procession began on Mansfield Road and travelled through the Manor Top area before arriving at the cemetery.
Tributes read during the service talked of a thoughtful, generous, cheeky teenager, a giving person "beautiful inside and out".
The Reverend Mike Reeder, who led the funeral, said the ceremony would be "a simple service to say thank you to someone who lived her life to the full even though it was only for 14 years".
Jasmyn had "made an impression on her family, on the people of Sheffield and further afield," he added.
The teenager's parents laid white roses on the coffin to mark the end of the service.
Paying tribute to their daughter after the crash, they said: "Jasmyn was a loving, friendly girl who was very giving.
"She only recently had her hair cut short to donate it to a charity that make and provide wigs to children who have lost their own hair through cancer.
"That's just the kind of girl she was and I am filled with absolute sadness I will never again see her sweet, smiling face."
And the fireworks started.
Overnight, the Conservatives claimed that Labour had a £45bn "black hole" in its spending plans.
Its "dossier" says the party has added up the spending commitments made by Labour since 2015, from scrapping the benefits cap to supporting the introduction of 10,000 new police officers.
The Tories say the total cost of these policy commitments is £64.8bn by 2020.
Now, some of those spending pledges are offset by increased taxes, the Conservatives say.
Labour has said it will raise corporation taxes and reverse planned cuts to capital gains tax.
The Tories claim that will raise £14.1bn over the same time period - leaving the "black hole" figure, the gap between their analysis of increased spending and increased revenues under a future Labour government.
Labour has dismissed the document as "misinformation and misrepresentation", saying the Tories have costed policies that Labour is not committed to and failed to give their own commitments on tax and spending.
So how do voters make sense of the row - the first, I am sure, of many on the economy during this election campaign.
After all, despite the focus on Brexit, voters still put the economy and worries about issues such as rising prices towards the top of their political concerns.
It is still the economy, stupid, when it comes to winning general election campaigns.
First, it is correct to say that Labour has committed to some spending increases such as restoring the education maintenance allowance, restoring student grants and adding to the number of police officers.
It says all of these are fully funded by increasing corporation tax and reversing the cuts to capital gains tax.
So, voters can judge, voting Labour will lead to an increase in some taxes to pay for new policies.
Other possible spending commitments contained in the Tory dossier - such as on arts funding - are more difficult to nail down and are just that - possible.
Let's take one - that Jeremy Corbyn wants to increase the proportion of gross domestic product the government spends on the arts to match the European average.
The Tory document also says that "Labour will reverse Tory real terms cuts to arts expenditure".
Mr Corbyn did say that he would reverse arts spending cuts made since 2010, at an event in Edinburgh in August 2016.
But Labour's general election campaign chief, Andrew Gwynne, has pointed out that this is not official party policy.
For that, voters will need to wait for Labour's manifesto, which is expected to be published in the week starting 15 May.
Some talk by Opposition politicians about what they might like to do is just that - talk. It can be criticised - maybe - for being "loose-lipped", but it does not make it an official spending commitment.
What today has revealed is that there is a fundamental dividing line between the two parties.
Labour will raise some taxes and fund some new policies.
The Conservative offer is different.
They will seek to balance the amount the government spends with the amount it earns in taxes, reducing the deficit to zero.
They say by this method - and by keeping businesses taxes lower - the economy will strengthen, government revenues will increase and support for public services will improve.
Don't deliberately borrow more now is the message.
There is another big elephant in the room.
Most of the Tories' "black hole" claim is made up of the £35bn it says the Labour Party is committed to spending on improving Britain's infrastructure, such as providing better high-speed broadband.
Labour has certainly spoken about investing £500bn over 10 years "in infrastructure, manufacturing and new industries".
According to an interview given by the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, in September 2016, £350bn of that will come from central government - so the Tory "£35bn a year" figure of new spending on infrastructure (£350bn phased over 10 years) does not appear to be disputed.
Although, again, we will have to wait for Labour's manifesto to see if that £350bn pledge is repeated.
It's the impact of the pledge that is in dispute.
The Conservatives say that the infrastructure money will have to be borrowed, adding to the £1.7trn debt pile the country is already carrying.
Mr McDonnell says that capital spending for investment should not be viewed as adding to a "black hole" as it is not day-to-day spending.
Under the present public accounting system, nearly all spending commitments - whether current (day-to-day) or capital (investment) - is added to the public sector net debt figure.
So, increasing borrowing means the national debt rises and funding the costs of the debt also increases.
Mr McDonnell argues that borrowing rates on the international markets are cheap (true historically, although the rates are ticking up) and that the economic return on new projects outweighs the cost.
If the economy grows, government income increases and deficit levels fall, Labour argues.
There is one simple point at the heart of this row.
The Conservatives say they are the party of economic stability, and that by maintaining strong controls on the public finances, national wealth will grow.
Labour says that borrowing to invest will also lead to economic growth.
Numbers will be thrown around.
The moment to take notice is when the manifestos are published - by all the parties.
What commitments are made on policies, on spending and on taxes?
And what effect might that have on the economy.
Which is what, after all, many people will vote on.
The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) does not take effective action, they say.
The PRS said it was not a regulator and could only help when an agent acted legally.
By law, letting agents cannot trade unless they are a member of one of three schemes, including the Property Redress Scheme.
However, dozens of customers of one rogue agent in London said when things went wrong, victims were not protected, a BBC You and Yours investigation has found.
Doni Soeyono bought a small two bedroom terrace house in Stanley Road in Ilford, east London 18 months ago as a rental property.
He signed up with Carter Stones, just round the corner in Connaught Road, which promised him a couple would rent the house for about £1,300 a month.
But in reality the couple Carter Stones claimed were renting the property did not live there.
Instead up to eight other people do, none with a contract. Mr Soeyono has not received any rent for six months.
He managed to get inside the house in the autumn and took pictures showing the sitting room with several beds.
When I went to the property with Mr Soeyono, we were shouted at by two women, who told us to go away. Then they left and walked down the street.
Mr Soeyono says he's seen one of the women a number of times and believes she lives in the property, helping to operate a subletting ring involving about 16 people.
But the owner says he has not had any useful response from Carter Stones.
Several landlords have contacted You and Yours complaining about unpaid rent, or legal documentation, and claim multiple people are living in the properties without any right to be there.
For more than 30 years, Teresa's family have owned a two bedroom terraced house in nearby St Mary's Road, Ilford.
She signed a management agreement with Carter Stones and was assured that a couple would be living in her house.
"Alarm bells rang when the council contacted me to ask who was responsible for the council tax at the house," Teresa said.
"They said many people were living in the house, but not the couple on the tenancy agreement."
Teresa says the people we met coming out of Mr Soeyono's house are also organising the subletting not only of her house but also her garage.
"I saw curtains up in the garage window, and the door was blacked out, but they would not let me in.
"Carter Stones declined all responsibility for this. They were not transferring me the rent and I couldn't get any sense out of them, even after telephoning them on a daily basis," she told me.
I tried to talk to Carter Stones, but while I could see two people in their office, each time I knocked they hid behind the door.
Since 2014 it has been a legal requirement for letting agents to be a member of one of three government-approved dispute resolution schemes: the Property Redress Scheme, the Property Ombudsman or the Ombudsman Service.
The Property Redress scheme costs £200 to join. It is run by the insurance company Hamilton Frazer, and unlike the two other organisations it is run for profit.
Carter Stones used to be a member of the PRS.
Last year the PRS upheld four complaints against Carter Stones but the company failed to pay compensation of £15,406. The PRS cannot enforce that order - the only redress it has is to expel rogue traders.
So in March 2016 the PRS expelled Carter Stones, making it illegal for the firm to continue trading. When Carter Stones stayed in business, Trading Standards became involved.
Redbridge Trading Standards then fined Carter Stones £5,000, but the company did not pay, and continued to trade. Trading Standards is still investigating.
In November 2016, seven months after Carter Stones was expelled from the scheme, Shakeel Ahmed paid £2,350 as a deposit to secure a flat to rent.
Even though the flat fell through, Carter Stones kept his money.
Several other prospective tenants have since contacted me with the same story.
When the landlords and prospective tenants complained to the PRS, they were told that as Carter Stones had been expelled from the scheme, nothing could be done.
"The PRS is pretty much useless," Mr Soeyono told me.
Teresa said: "The PRS is not effective at all, absolutely not in the case of a rogue agent. They're just using the scheme for their benefit."
The PRS does not require letting agents to sign up to a code of conduct, and does not publish a list of companies that have been expelled on its website.
Paul Shamplina, who is on the PRS advisory council, said that none of the redress schemes are regulators, but are "escalated complaint handling schemes put in place to prevent service related complaints from having to be issued in the court by consumers.
"This allows them access to a much quicker and cost effective remedy to resolve matters with property agents."
However, he said that when companies do flout the law, redress schemes are powerless, and complainants must rely on Trading Standards.
You can hear more about this story on You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 on Monday at 12:150 GMT.
Gloucestershire started slowly on a wet night, but Ian Cockbain, Kieran Noema-Barnett and Jack Taylor added 101 to help steer the hosts to post 168-8.
The visitors rallied, however, and were rewarded with a fine batting display.
Colin Ingram smashed five sixes in his 64 off 30 balls, while Aneurin Donald hit 48 not out to see them home.
Glamorgan's seamers made early inroads with the pacy Dale Steyn difficult to get away but Cockbain and Noema-Barnett both hit 37 to turn the hosts' innings around.
Gloucestershire struggled to quell Glamorgan's batting line-up and suffered when Aussie paceman Andrew Tye was removed from the attack after two high full-tosses in damp conditions.
Tye's misfortunes meant Glamorgan had few worries as they made it three wins out of four.
Glamorgan batsman Colin Ingram told BBC Wales Sport:
"You have to use the short side (of the ground), I thought we were quite intelligent in our batting tonight, and you don't have to over-hit it, just time it well.
"It's never nice to see a bowler (Tye) go through that (being taken off by the umpires), fortunately it was the over we needed to put us ahead of the rate and secure the win.
"It can happen to anyone, but bowlers are never the happiest bunch, they can be quite grumpy and he was probably frustrated, he was a bit upset.
"Credit to our bowlers for getting wickets in the early part of the innings which slowed them down, it was a great effort with a wet ball and a short boundary."
The player has so far been tested in more than 200 of the site's community groups, known as subreddits.
With 48 million annual visitors, Reddit is the eighth most visited website in the world, according to statistics from Amazon-owned Alexa.
Posters have been able to share images and gifs, as well as text and links, since 2016.
"Prior to this launch, content creators had to go through a time-consuming, circuitous process to post videos, using third-party hosting platforms, copying URLs, and sharing them as link posts," said the firm in a blog.
"This inhibited many users, especially those who capture videos on their phones and want to share them quickly with their favourite subreddits."
The new system "streamlined" the process, it added.
In an interview with tech news website The Verge, Reddit product manager Emon Motamedi said it also kept people on the platform, rather than clicking links to videos posted on other sites and then coming back to comment.
The potential for ad revenue if Reddit starts incorporating ads around user content is significant, Lauren Foye, senior analyst at Juniper Research, told the BBC.
"By hosting their own content, they can start adding ads on top of it and monetising the content," she added.
However, the site has yet to confirm specifically that this is what it will do.
"Video is classed as a more premium content type," added Charlotte Palfrey, senior analyst with Ovum.
"They can charge more for advertising alongside it because it's more engaging. I would anticipate that we'll see a launch of pre-roll and mid-roll adverts in the future to fully exploit this new content."
Early Reddit video posts include a golfer seeking tips on his swing, a man asking for advice on his next haircut, and cute videos of pets.
However, enabling video uploads may mean the platform will have to deal with the same policing problems faced by other social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
"It is going to be a headache for moderators, but moderators can opt out of having video on their boards," said Charlotte Palfrey.
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Caley Thistle rallied with three wins in their last four games but fell one point short of Hamilton Academical.
Chairman and chief executive Kenny Cameron stood down three days after relegation was confirmed.
New chairman Willie Finlayson told his club website: "Richie has been a great servant and put 100% into his job."
He said that had been the case "in his job as manager and previously as a player".
Former Motherwell striker Foran had signed as a player for Caley Thistle after leaving Southend United in 2009.
After an injury disrupted season, the 36-year-old Irishman was promoted to player-manager last summer on a four-year contract after the departure of John Hughes.
With Foran's side sitting bottom of the table, former Caley Thistle assistant Maurice Malpas was recruited to the coaching team in April.
They won three of their last five fixtures, but it was Hamilton who claimed the play-off spot and went on to retain their Premiership place by beating Dundee United.
Following relegation, Foran lamented his decision not to rid the dressing-room of what he called "two or three bad apples" during the January transfer window.
The incident took place after the victim left a friend's flat in Argyle Street at about 18:30 on Friday.
He returned to the flat at about 01:20 on Saturday, having suffered a stab wound and a head injury. He was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for treatment.
Police are treating the incident as attempted murder.
Officers have been searching the area around Argyle Street to establish the location of the attack.
Detectives are also gathering any available CCTV footage which could assist their inquiries.
Det Sgt Ian Ross said: "Our inquiries are at an early stage and we are trying to establish the man's movements after he left the flat on Friday evening.
"The man has suffered a violent attack and we need to piece together where he went and who he saw.
"This information will assist our investigation as we try to trace the person or people responsible for his attack.
"I am appealing to members of the local community to contact us with any information or knowledge they may have.
"It's vital we find out exactly what happened to this man and why."
In an interview with the BBC Future website about his experiences piloting an air ambulance, he has spoken about his "dark" moments in the job.
It was William himself who insisted on finding a civilian job after he completed his tour of duty as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot in 2013.
Piloting an air ambulance was his way of finding a new role for himself.
It was a departure from tradition. No royal in direct line to the throne had done such a thing before.
Normally, the progression to the throne for a future king is pretty rigid: a period in the armed services, followed by years of royal duty in support of the monarch until, finally, upon the death of that monarch the crown becomes his.
That's the path being followed by William's father, Prince Charles, but it's been clear for some time that that's not how William sees his future.
As he explained in a BBC interview earlier this year, while his grandmother remains, as he put it, "extremely active at the helm of the royal family" and with his father "incredibly busy" with his charities and other activities, William feels that there is "the time and the space to explore other means of doing a worthwhile job".
And for him that means serving the community at the controls of an air ambulance in East Anglia.
And it is absolutely apparent from the unusually relaxed interview, which he has given to mark Air Ambulance Week, that he relishes his role.
"I really look forward to coming here every day," he says.
"And I love working as a team: that's something that my other job doesn't necessarily do: you are more out there on your own a little bit."
William has perhaps come to realise, more than some earlier generations of royals, that simply being born to a position of immense privilege does not automatically confer a genuine sense of worth and validity. Those are things that even a thoughtful future king has to earn so that he can feel comfortable with himself.
Piloting the air ambulance appears to be William's way of giving his life a sense of broader purpose, alongside the royal duties which take up a good many of the days when he's not heading to Cambridge Airport, where the air ambulance is based.
That's the broader framework of William's life, a framework which leads him to say in this interview: "I want to be a valuable member of the team… at the end of the day (I want to) feel like I have made a difference and a contribution to whatever it is I've done that day."
Inevitably, many of the things witnessed by air ambulance crew members are distressing: this future king is seeing, and helping to alleviate, situations which none of his relatives will have encountered on a regular basis.
"There are some very dark moments," William says.
"You try not to take it away, but sometimes… it can be quite difficult."
And it is perhaps the demanding nature of this job that he chose, one in which he's judged by his team-mates purely on the basis of his own abilities and commitment, that explains why it matters so much to him.
The insurgents had now been driven from virtually all the territory they had held, it said.
Some militants were now fleeing towards border areas, the military said.
News of Gwoza's recapture comes a day before presidential elections, which were postponed by six weeks because of the offensive against Boko Haram.
Meanwhile, the president of Chad, which is helping Nigeria fight Boko Haram, has strongly criticised Nigeria's military.
Thousands of people have been killed since 2009, when the group began its insurgency to create an Islamic state.
An estimated three million people have fled their homes because of the unrest, and many may be unable to vote.
Analysis: BBC's Will Ross, Lagos
Gwoza's location made an ideal base: The nearby Mandara Mountains offered protection and the jihadists could flee into Cameroon until the military there stepped up patrols. There is a complex system of caves and tunnels, some of which burrow hundreds of metres into the mountainside. Recent rumours suggest the Boko Haram leader may have been hiding there.
When Gwoza was captured by the jihadists last August thousands of residents were trapped and terrified on the mountain slopes with no food. They were badly let down - the military fled, leaving the jihadists to help themselves to the armoury.
Now on the eve of a pivotal election there is at last some good news for those who survived. The cost was high though.
One resident told me the jihadists recently assembled all the elderly residents and informed them that, as they were unable to defend themselves from a military attack, they would be helped on their way to paradise. They were slaughtered in Gwoza's abattoir.
Eyewitnesses say that after the military assault, people could be seen heading over the mountain by torchlight - Boko Haram fighters on the run.
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BBC Africa security correspondent Tomi Oladipo says Gwoza's capture is a major milestone for the Nigerian army.
The town is not far from Chibok, where Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from a boarding school last April.
Our reporter says Gwoza was one of the places where the militants were rumoured to be hiding the girls, who are yet to be found.
After his fighters captured Gwoza in August 2014, the Boko Haram leader declared a caliphate in areas under his control.
The militants have been pushed back since Nigeria's neighbours, Cameroon, Chad and Niger sent troops to help it earlier this year.
"These successful operations have culminated in the dislodgment of terrorists from towns and communities in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states," military spokesman Chris Olukolade said.
A lot of arms and ammunition were recovered and "a massive cordon and search has commenced to locate any of the fleeing terrorists or hostages in their custody", he said.
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Maj-Gen Olukolade also thanked Nigeria's regional partners for their encouragement during the recent operations.
But Chad's President Idriss Deby has been fiercely critical of Nigeria's response, saying the Nigerian military had been uncooperative.
He told French magazine Le Point that Chadian troops have had to retake towns twice from Boko Haram because Nigeria's forces had failed to secure them.
He estimated Boko Haram had 20,000 young fighters, some of whom had been trained by Islamic State in Libya, the AFP news agency reports.
The competition to find the "world's most accurate" lookalike was organised by the work's creator Douglas Coupland.
He chose actor Dan Baker, 35, from Christchurch, out of 1,250 entries from 37 countries.
Canadian author and artist Coupland said the bronze bust celebrates "the genetic magic" in both redheads and Pinot Noir grapes.
He said Pinot Noir grapes were the result of "natural mutations in Burgundy's vineyards over centuries", while red hair was a genetic mutation in humans.
The 3m (10ft) high and 2m (6.5ft) wide sculpture has been installed in the Pinot Noir vineyard at Martin's Lane Winery in British Columbia.
Coupland, author of cult novel Generation X, said it was lying on its side as if listening to the grapes growing.
It is the first in a series of works commissioned by the vineyard, under the title "Redheads".
Mr Baker, who was flown to Canada to have his head 3D-scanned for the project, said he felt "utterly honoured" to have been cast into bronze as an "iconic ginger".
Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 in the Dutch village of Zundert.
He worked as an art dealer and took up painting himself in his 20s but struggled to sell his art.
Van Gogh cut off his own ear in 1888 and died from a gunshot wound in July 1890, in an apparent suicide.
He had produced more than 2,000 artworks including about 850 oil paintings. After his death buyers began to emerge for his work and his reputation grew. In the 20th Century he became regarded as one of the most influential figures in Western art.
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam opened in 1973 and his paintings sell for millions of pounds. His work Irises, painted in 1889, became the most expensive painting in the world when it sold for $53.9m in 1987 (£29.5m at the exchange rate of the time).
Honda's Crutchlow, 30, is the first Briton since Barry Sheene in 1979 to win more than once race in a season.
"People think you can only ride in the rain when you win in it," Crutchlow said. "So it's nice to win in the dry."
He held off Italy's Valentino Rossi to win after Spanish world champion Marc Marquez crashed on lap 10.
Rossi, who started the race in 15th, finished second with Spain's Maverick Vinales taking third place.
Australian GP result:
1. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Honda 40 minutes 48.543 seconds
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 40:52.761
3. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 40:53.852
4. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 40:57.700
5. Pol Espargaro (Spa) Yamaha 41:02.842
6. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 41:08.668
7. Scott Redding (GB) Ducati 41:16.912
8. Bradley Smith (GB) Yamaha 41:17.324
9. Danilo Petrucci (Ita) Ducati 41:17.335
10. Jack Miller (Aus) Honda 41:17.358
MotoGP standings
1. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 273
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 216
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 192
4. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 181
5. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda 155
6. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Honda 141
7. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 137
8. Pol Espargaro (Spa) Yamaha 117
9. Andrea Iannone (Ita) Ducati 96
10. Hector Barbera (Spa) Ducati 84
Deeney looked to have earned a point for the Hornets with a late penalty, but then slid home a Bastian Schweinsteiger cross.
Memphis Depay - starting a Premier League match for the first time since 4 October - netted United's opener, volleying home an Ander Herrera cross.
Odion Ighalo and Etienne Capoue fired off target for the home side.
But, with just four minutes left, they made a breakthrough when Deeney smashed home after Marcos Rojo clumsily brought down Ighalo.
The drama in an end-to-end second half was not over, though, as United pushed for a winner.
They got their reward as Jesse Lingard's ball across the box fell to Schweinsteiger, who slid it back across goal and Deeney bundled home.
Very well. United's injury problems up front - with both Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial out - meant Depay was given his first league start since the drubbing at Arsenal on 4 October.
Manager Louis van Gaal has said he expects more from his fellow Dutchman, and his faith here was rewarded.
Depay sweetly struck the opener, showing calmness and composure to guide Herrera's cross into the roof of the net.
Full of confidence, he tested Heurelho Gomes with a low drive shortly afterwards, and sent another two efforts wide of goal.
Rooney has been entrusted with leading the line for the Red Devils this season, but he has scored just twice in the league, a tally now matched by Depay.
Should he be fit, the captain will surely be restored to the side for Wednesday's home Champions League game against PSV Eindhoven, but where?
On this showing, it may be better to leave a confident Depay up front against his old side, playing Rooney in the number 10 role, particularly as Herrera went off injured.
United were in control for much of the game, and finished with 56.7% possession, but should have put the game to bed early on. Lingard was twice thwarted by Gomes when through on goal and the industrious Morgan Schneiderlin firing narrowly over.
Watford grew into the game and forwards Deeney and Ighalo caused them some problems in the second half.
They found visiting goalkeeper David de Gea in fine form, though, and it took a penalty for them to get past the Spaniard.
De Gea - playing against a side managed by Quique Sanchez Flores, who gave him his debut for Atletico Madrid - made five crucial saves, including a stunning reaction stop from Almen Abdi's deflected strike.
Deeney's spot-kick ended United's run of 641 minutes without conceding.
The Hornets may have lost back-to-back league games for the first time this season, but they posed a real threat to title-chasing United.
Having been tipped for an immediate return to the Championship, they are seven points above the relegation zone after 13 games and showed their fighting spirit.
Spaniard Flores took over in the summer and has put together a well-drilled side who are organised and work hard for each other.
The introduction of midfielder Nathan Ake at half-time provided them with more bite, as the on-loan Chelsea man made six tackles, more than any other player on the pitch despite playing only 45 minutes.
They do not concede many goals - just 14 in the league so far this season - but with only 12 scored at the other end, they will need to be more clinical if they are to remain in the top flight.
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Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores: "We deserved a draw in the second half. It was difficult to play with the wind in the first half, same for them in the second half, but this is football.
"We tried in the first half but we could not. At half-time we had to forget and play a match for 45 minutes."
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Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal: "It was a short time to play after the penalty but you have seen also the spirit of my team. It was amazing because even after the penalty we gave another injection into the game. In five minutes we had possibilities and scored a goal, that was the consequence of the spirit.
"I am very happy for Bastian Schweinsteiger. He needed a goal, he got it and Memphis Depay also scored a beautiful goal. I am a happy coach."
Watford travel to bottom side Aston Villa next Saturday, while United play PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Match ends, Watford 1, Manchester United 2.
Second Half ends, Watford 1, Manchester United 2.
Attempt saved. Odion Ighalo (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Almen Abdi with a headed pass.
Own Goal by Troy Deeney, Watford. Watford 1, Manchester United 2.
Attempt missed. Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left following a corner.
Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andreas Pereira.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Heurelho Gomes.
Attempt saved. Chris Smalling (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Andreas Pereira with a cross.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Ikechi Anya.
Goal! Watford 1, Manchester United 1. Troy Deeney (Watford) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Watford. Odion Ighalo draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Memphis Depay (Manchester United).
Juan Carlos Paredes (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ashley Young (Manchester United) because of an injury.
Offside, Manchester United. Marcos Rojo tries a through ball, but Jesse Lingard is caught offside.
Substitution, Manchester United. Andreas Pereira replaces Juan Mata.
Offside, Manchester United. Memphis Depay tries a through ball, but Jesse Lingard is caught offside.
Foul by Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United).
Etienne Capoue (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United).
Almen Abdi (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Troy Deeney (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Odion Ighalo.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ashley Young (Manchester United).
Juan Carlos Paredes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Ben Watson.
Foul by Patrick McNair (Manchester United).
Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Almen Abdi (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Etienne Capoue (Watford) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Odion Ighalo.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Manchester United. Patrick McNair replaces Phil Jones because of an injury.
Substitution, Watford. Juan Carlos Paredes replaces Nyom.
Delay in match Phil Jones (Manchester United) because of an injury.
Ben Watson (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
The three will be scrutinised over their account of a meeting with Andrew Mitchell in October 2012, over claims - denied by the then minister - he had called Downing Street officers "plebs".
A West Mercia Police-led investigation ruled the men had "no case to answer".
However, the IPCC has now decided to conduct a fully independent probe.
It follows a High Court ruling in October which found there was no proper final report prepared for the investigation - conducted by West Mercia Police but supervised by the IPCC.
The court also ruled that the decision of the three police forces - from Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands - that their officers had no case to answer was invalid.
Following the "plebgate" incident at Downing Street in September 2012, then-Chief Whip Mr Mitchell apologised for using bad language but said he had not used the word pleb when having a row with police officers guarding the street's main gate.
He later resigned as chief whip as the row continued.
A month later, Mr Mitchell held a meeting in his Sutton Coldfield constituency with Det Sgt Stuart Hinton, Insp Ken MacKaill and Sgt Chris Jones from the federation.
After the meeting, the three officers - who represented police in Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands respectively - briefed the media.
But a transcript of a recording Mr Mitchell made of the meeting apparently contradicted the officers' account of what was said.
The matter was then referred to the IPCC, which decided not to conduct its own investigation but directed the forces which the officers represented to launch their own inquiry.
When all three police authorities concluded the officers had "no case to answer", Deborah Glass, then the IPCC's deputy chair, decided in October 2013 that the investigation into the officers' conduct should become "an independent investigation" conducted by the IPCC itself.
All three officers applied for a judicial review at the High Court in London and at hearing in July, asked two judges to quash the decision on the grounds that the IPCC had no power to re-determine the case - changing it from a supervised investigation to an independent one.
Lord Justice Davis and Mr Justice Wilkie found decisions made by the police forces were so legally flawed that they were "invalid and of no effect".
But while the judges ruled that the IPCC did have the power or re-determine the case, they also ruled that Ms Glass's decision must be quashed following allegations of apparent - though not actual - bias and a fresh decision taken.
That fresh decision has now been taken by the IPCC, which has reached the same conclusion as Ms Glass.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the leaders of the "Bali Nine" group of heroin smugglers, are set to be executed in Indonesia soon.
On Monday a court ruled they cannot challenge the president's decision to refuse them clemency.
But their lawyer said the case would now go to the constitutional court.
"We believe that these men over the last 10 years have rehabilitated themselves and we are very concerned that that fact has not been properly and genuinely considered by the Indonesian authorities and the Indonesian legal system," Michael O'Connell told the BBC.
"There is no further appeal that lies in the administrative court, however... Andrew and Myuran will file an application in the Indonesian Constitutional Court challenging the interpretation of the clemency law and arguing that the president has an obligation to properly and genuinely consider their exceptional rehabilitation."
The application would be filed this week, he said, with a preliminary hearing expected "a week or two afterwards".
Both men had clemency appeals rejected by Indonesian President Joko Widodo earlier this year.
Mr Widodo, who took office last year, has a policy of denying clemency to drug offenders, saying the drug trade has caused huge damage to Indonesia.
In January he authorised the executions of six drug offenders, including five foreigners. The two Australians are in a second group, of 10 foreign nationals, to be put to death.
No date has been set for the executions, however. Indonesian authorities say they are waiting for all legal avenues be exhausted in all of the convicts' cases before the group are executed.
On Monday, responding to news of the constitutional court challenge, Indonesian Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo said: "The legal process is already done."
"This proves that they are simply trying to buy time. We can say they are playing with justice," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.
But another lawyer for the men, Peter Morrissey, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the aim was to get the men's cases for clemency properly heard, not "some delaying tactic".
"No matter what our opponents might like to say or how they'd like to get around it, this is litigation."
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, in a statement on Monday, said it was "important that all legal processes are allowed to run their course".
Chan and Sukumaran were arrested in Bali in 2005 while attempting to smuggle heroin to Australia. A court ruled that they had organised a nine-member smuggling operation.
But their families have argued that they are now reformed characters and should be shown mercy. Australia has also mounted a passionate diplomatic campaign on their behalf.
Indonesia has faced criticism from other countries whose nationals are facing execution. The group of 10 includes people from Brazil, France, Nigeria and the Philippines among others.
Who are the Bali Nine?
Fred Berger, La La Land producer: "We lost by the way, but you know."
Jordan Horowitz, La La Land producer: "Guys, I'm sorry, no, there's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture."
Marc Platt, La La Land producer: "This is not a joke, I'm afraid they read the wrong thing."
Jordan Horowitz: "This is not a joke, Moonlight has won best picture. [Reads] Moonlight, best picture."
[Someone off camera, possibly Warren Beatty]: "I think you should keep it anyway."
Host Jimmy Kimmel: "Guys, this is very unfortunate what happened. Personally I blame Steve Harvey for this [referring to Harvey's mistake in announcing the Miss Universe winner in 2015.].
[To Jordan Horowitz]"I would like to see you get an Oscar anyway, why can't we just give out a whole bunch of them?"
Jordan Horowitz: "I'm going to be really proud to hand this to my friends from Moonlight."
Jimmy Kimmel: "That's really nice of you thanks very much."
Warren Beatty: "Hello. I want…"
Jimmy Kimmel: "Warren what did you do?!"
Warren Beatty: "I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope, and it said Emma Stone, La La Land. That's why I took such a long look at Faye, and at you [the audience], I wasn't trying to be funny. "
Jimmy Kimmel: "Well you were funny, that was very funny."
Warren Beatty: "Thank you very much. This is Moonlight, the best picture."
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight director and writer: "Very clearly, even in my dreams this could not be true, but to hell with dreams, I'm done with it because this is true, oh my goodness.
"And I have to say, and it is true it's not fake, we've been on the road with these guys for so long and that was so gracious, so generous of them, my love to La La Land, my love to everybody, man."
"Thank you to the Academy. You know, there's one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered. One place. And that's the graveyard.
"People ask me all the time: 'What kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola?' And I say, exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories.
"The stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition. People who fell in love and lost.
"I became an artist, and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life. So here's to August Wilson, who exhumed and exalted the ordinary people.
"And, O captain, my captain, Denzel Washington. Thank you for putting two entities in the driving seat: August and God. And they served you well.
"And to Dan and Mae Alice Davis, who were - and are the centre of my universe. The people who taught me good or bad, how to fail, how to love, how to hold an award, how to lose: my parents.
"I'm so thankful that God chose you to bring me into this world. To my sisters. My sister Deloris, who's here, who played Jaji and Jaja with me. We were rich white women in the tea party games.
"Thank you for the imagination. And to my husband and my daughter, my heart, you and Genesis. You teach me every day how to live, how to love. I'm so glad that you are the foundation of my life. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you."
"I want to thank my teachers and professors, I had so many wonderful teachers, and one thing they consistently told me was that it's not about you, it's about these characters. You're a servant, you're in service to these stories and these characters.
"I'm so blessed to have had an opportunity. It was such a wonderful experience, thank you [director] Barry Jenkins, thank you Tarell Alvin McCraney [writer of the play Moonlight was based on].
"I also want to thank my wife, we just had our daughter four days ago, so I just want to thank her for being such a soldier through this process and really carrying me through it all. Thank you, peace and blessings."
"To the women in this category - you were all so extraordinary and I look up to you and admire you. It has been the greatest honour to stand alongside you.
"I realise a moment like this is a huge confluence of luck and opportunity so I want to thank Damien Chazelle to be given the opportunity. Ryan Gosling, thank you for making me laugh and always raising the bar and being the best partner on this crazy adventure.
"To all the people that worked on this movie, I'm going to find you all individually and I'm going to thank you. I'm going to hug the hell out of you when the feeling re-enters my body. I still have a lot of growing and learning to do, and this guy (the Oscar statue) is a really beautiful symbol of continuing to do that."
"One of the first people who taught me how to act was Denzel Washington and I met him tonight for the first time, thank you.
"I'm only here because of all the talent and goodwill of so many people. Most of all [director and writer] Kenneth Lonergan, without his writing I wouldn't be here for sure. I'm really proud to be a part of this community and I'm dumfounded that I'm included.
"Thank you to [producer] Matt Damon for creating this opportunity [he was going to star in the film and handed the role to Affleck] and to my mother and my father for mostly, usually believing in me and doing this. Ben [his brother] I love you, you ain't heavy, I appreciate it.
The Iranian director's speech was read out on his behalf by the world's first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari.
She referenced President Trump's recent ban of immigrants travelling to the US from seven countries, including Iran.
"It's a great honour to be receiving this valuable award for the second time.
"I'm sorry I'm not with you tonight, my absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of the other six countries who have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans immigrants from seven countries to the US."
Joanna Natasegara: "Thanks to the Academy for this huge honour. To all of our teams. Of course to Netflix, our work family, for supporting us with this film but most of all, thank you to the White Helmets.
Orlando von Einsiedel: "Sadly, Raed Saleh, the head of the White Helmets, is not able to join us tonight. We have a very short statement from him that we'd like to share with you: 'We're so grateful that this film has highlighted our work to the world. Our organisation is guided by a verse from the Koran: 'To save one life is to save all of humanity.'
"We have saved more than 82,000 civilian lives. I invite anyone here who hears me to work on the side of life, to stop the bloodshed in Syria and around the world.
"It's very easy for these guys to feel they're forgotten. This war's been going on for six years. If everyone could just stand up and remind them that we all care, that this war end as quickly as possible. Thank you."
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The shooting took place at a home in the Falcarragh Drive area at about 22:15 BST on Thursday.
The shots passed through the front door and embedded in the stairs. Four adults aged between 18 and 50 were in the house at the time, including a mother and her son. No one was injured.
Police say a motive has not yet been established and have appealed for information.
Joanna Perrens is now receiving a course of post-exposure vaccinations.
She was bitten at the weekend as she approached an injured Daubenton's bat on Inchconnachan island.
Bats are known to carry the rabies virus. In 2002 a man from Angus died from contracting rabies as a result of a bat bite.
Ms Perrens was bitten on her thumb as she tried to remove the injured animal after it flew up onto her shirt.
She said: "I really didn't think anything of it - it was a tiny pin-prick of a bite with a tiny bit of blood and we just put antiseptic on it."
She said it was only after talking to a doctor friend that she got in touch with NHS 24 who sent her to A&E. Doctors there established the rabies risk and she was started on treatment.
"It's a low risk that I would have had rabies, but if I did have it then this is obviously 100% effective, so I'm not worried," Ms Perrens added.
"The worrying thing is if I'd gone along as I was - thinking nothing was wrong, it was a tiny wound, and nothing to worry about."
Daubenton's is a common species in Scotland and some of the bats are known to carry the rabies virus.
In 2002 David Macrae, a conservation worker from Angus, died after contracting rabies from a bat.
Since then tests have revealed that 3% of Daubenton's bats have been exposed to the rabies virus.
Bats are particularly active at this time, as young bats leave the roost to search for insects.
Anne Youngman, from the Bat Conservation Trust, said: "It's unusual for a bat to bite somebody, I expect it flew up from the ground because it was trying to escape.
"We know that some of our bats do carry rabies - it's a tiny, tiny proportion but because it's such a serious disease we advise people not to take any chances."
Ms Youngman said that if anyone comes across a bat which looks injured, take care, try to cover it and phone the trust.
The organisation's bat helpline number is 0845 1300 228.
In the western part of the town in the Faubourg-d'Amiens cemetery is a memorial to the missing: 35,000 soldiers who were killed in the last two years of World War One. Their bodies were never found but their names are inscribed, row by row.
Among them is that of the Welsh footballer James "Ginger" Williams. A hundred years ago this month, he was blown up by an exploding mine, aged 30.
Williams was at his peak as a footballer when war intervened in 1914. But he soon found himself occupying a very different front line to the one he was familiar with on the football field.
The game has changed a lot since the early 1900s but Wales fans might be familiar with the narrative: Energetic, journeymen footballers from lower rung clubs giving their all for the red shirt alongside a sprinkling of more gifted stars.
Williams was one such unremarkable footballer. A stocky forward, he played alongside fellow north Walian, Billy Meredith - one of the superstars of the early 20th Century - to win his two caps.
While he was not of Manchester United star Meredith's quality, Williams, from Buckley, had proved more than useful. He scored 58 goals for Crystal Palace in the Southern League, mostly as an inside forward.
His attitude to the game was reflected in his nickname - "the Palace terrier".
Busy and tenacious, when switched to centre forward, he scored five goals in a game against Southend at Sydenham in 1909 causing "as much surprise as delight" for the 7,000 crowd. As one local newspaper described it "Williams had fine support and was in his element".
Williams transferred across south London to Millwall but had only a few months at his new club when war was declared.
He was in the right place to become one of the first to join what became known as the Footballers' Battalion - the 17th, Middlesex Regiment.
This particular "pals" battalion was set against a background of growing criticism that matches were still being played, while young men were going off to war.
Within four days of the launch at Fulham town hall in December 1914, Williams had added his name.
Recruitment posters were soon being displayed outside stadiums encouraging supporters to follow the players in joining up.
More than 120 players alone would sign up with the battalion by the following spring, and while training for war at home were given Saturdays off to play for their clubs.
Other Welshmen to enlist included Cardiff City's Fred Keenor, just 20, who would suffer a gunshot wound to his thigh at the Somme in July 1916.
He was one of the lucky ones. Keenor got to go home and resume a career that would see him lift the FA Cup in 1927 - Welsh club football's greatest triumph - and win 32 Wales caps.
Cardiff team-mate Lyndon Sandoe, a full back in his early 20s, became company sergeant major.
His honours on the front line would eclipse anything he ever managed on a football pitch.
Sandoe was decorated three times for gallantry, including a distinguished conduct medal for "splendid coolness and fearlessness at all times under intense fire of every description".
James Williams's service record notes that stocky frame: 5ft 5ins tall and with a 37in waist. Eleven months after enlisting, he shipped across to France, leaving a three month old son Kenneth with his wife Sarah in New Cross.
It appears Williams was seconded to the Royal Engineers in the spring of 1916 and died on 5 June. His body was never recovered but his name is there at Arras.
Palace and Millwall staged a benefit match for his widow and son.
His name is also on a plaque remembering Millwall players who died in the war; his family had a large photograph of "John Will," as they called him, wearing one of his Welsh caps on the wall.
OTHER WELSH FOOTBALLERS WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR ONE
Robert "Bobby" Atherton. Born Bethesda, Gwynedd; nine caps for Wales, died 19 October 1917, aged 41.
An inside right, his clubs included Hibernian - he was captain and memorably lifted the Scottish Cup in 1902 and also led them to the league title. Retired from playing, Atherton moved back to Edinburgh, where he joined the Merchant Navy as a steward. The SS Britannia carrying iron bound for France was sunk by U-Boat in the English Channel with the loss of 22 crew.
Frederick "Fred" John Griffiths. Born Presteigne, Powys; two caps for Wales. Killed 30 October 1917, aged 44.
A goalkeeper, he won both his Wales caps - against Scotland and England in 1900 - while playing for Blackpool. He went on to play for clubs including Preston and West Ham.
His great-grandson Stewart Woodland, who lives in Australia, has spent eight years researching Fred's story.
Fred was born in Harper Street in Presteigne, the son of a coal merchant and played for his local club and occasionally for Knighton.
Hs burly 6ft 2in, 15st physique saw him work part-time in the metal-working and blacksmithing industries before he launched himself into the world of professional football at the age of 21.
Stewart says Fred found himself playing for Tottenham Hotspur in an epic series of FA Cup ties against Southampton in 1901 but despite losing a second replay in a heavy snowstorm it was reported Fred's display was such he was carried "shoulder high" by supporters from the station afterwards.
Injury cut short his professional career at the age of 33 and he moved to Shirebrook in Derbyshire, where he helped train the local side. He also worked as a bar manager at the village's Station Hotel and by the outbreak of the war also had his own pork butchery business.
After joining up he rose to the rank of sergeant in the 15th Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment and was killed during the Battle of Passchendaele during the "big push".
Fred is buried in Dozinghem military cemetery, south of the village of Westvleteren in west Flanders, near the French frontier.
He left a widow Elizabeth and six children.
"The news of Fred's death caused general sorrow in Shirebrook, where 'Griff', as he was more intimately known, had a wide circle of friends," said Stewart.
Fred's granddaughter June Woodland has been to pay her respects.
"I feel so proud of him in all he achieved in his life and the ultimate sacrifice he gave," she said.
"It was such an emotional time when I went to visit his grave. I wish I had known him".
George Griffiths. Born Chirk, near Wrexham 1865; one cap for Wales; died 7 July 1918, aged 53.
Played for his local club Chirk - who were a strong amateur side, winning the Welsh Cup and producing 20 Welsh internationals around the turn of the 20th Century.
His granddaughter Barbara said George and his brother Peter both played for Chirk. "There is a story that they began playing football at school and were trained by the head teacher," she said. "He made them play with a plimsoll on their strongest foot in order to encourage them to use both feet!"
Griffiths worked as a miner before the war and had moved to Leigh in Lancashire, where he had eight children.
As inside left, he played for Wales once against Ireland in 1887, a 4-1 defeat.
A veteran of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, he was discharged from the Royal Army Service Corps in 1917 after an accident involving his knee - he already had signs of arthritis - and died at home in Leigh a year later. He may also have suffered from the effects of gas but there is nothing on his Army medical record and he died of stomach cancer. Nevertheless, he was given a military funeral.
William James Jones. Born Penrhiwceiber, near Aberdare; four caps; died 6 May 1918, aged 41.
Became the first player from the South Wales League to represent Wales in 1901, while a player with Aberdare Athletic. He also played briefly for West Ham, then a Southern League club. He joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Tonypandy and was killed in Macedonia - now northern Greece. His body was not recovered but he is remembered on a memorial there.
Leigh Richard Roose. Born Holt, near Wrexham; 24 caps; died 7 October 1916.
One of the most flamboyant personalities of his era - Roose made headlines on and off the pitch as a goalkeeper for clubs from Wrexham, Stoke City to Aston Villa. This son of a pacifist minister always wore the shirt of his old university Aberystwyth under his jersey. Ambitions to become a doctor were diverted by football and a love of the London life. Girlfriends included music hall star Marie Lloyd and he wore Savile Row suits. Roose once hired a train at huge expense so he could get to an away match in Birmingham on time.
He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and latterly the Royal Fusiliers, for whom he earned the Military Medal during his first engagement with them.
Roose's abilities as a goalkeeper to throw a ball it appears extended to grenades.
"Though nearly choked with fumes with his clothes burnt [he] refused to go to the dressing station," says the citation. "He continued to throw bombs until his arm gave out, and then, joining the covering party, used his rifle with great effect."
But just weeks later L/Cpl Roose was killed in the final stages of the first battle of the Somme at Gueudecourt, one of 190 dead or missing that day.
About 10 miles north of Lens, is another Welsh football connection with the war.
Although not a footballer, Lord Ninian Crichton Stuart at least had a claim to fame in that he was the first to kick a ball at Cardiff City's stadium in 1910.
The second son of the third Marquess of Bute had stood as a guarantor for £90 so Cardiff City could rent their new ground from the local authority.
He was an important figure in helping the then Riverside club move to grander surroundings and turn semi-professional.
Club historian Richard Shepherd said: "The club had agreed a lease with the corporation but had to find a number of benefactors - and these had to be in place for the start of the 1910/11 season," he said.
"One of the benefactors withdrew at the last minute and Lord Ninian offered to fill the gap. He was particularly well known in Cardiff and added a lot of credibility to the club."
Ninian Park was subsequently named after him and he was invited to ceremoniously kick off Cardiff's opening match with Aston Villa.
Ninian - also a Cardiff Conservative MP - was already commanding officer of the 6th Glamorgan Welch Regiment and when war was declared, more than 840 men and officers - mostly from Swansea and Neath - volunteered and headed for France under him as Lieutenant Colonel.
At the Battle of Loos at the start of October 1915, after a decision to evacuate when ammunition ran out near La Bassée, Ninian was shot dead as he stood on the fire step to rally his men.
He was 32. Even after his death, his bequests helped the club.
Although Cardiff City now has a new stadium nearby, his contribution was such that one of the stands is named after him and the Ninian gates moved across the road.
Around 2,000 of Britain's footballers are estimated to have served in the war, while the Footballers' Battalion alone lost 900 men.
Some clubs suffered deeply. Heart of Midlothian in Edinburgh lost seven members of their first team. But Clapton Orient, who as a club provided an astonishing 41 players and staff, could be considered fortunate to lose only three at the Somme.
Of the Welsh internationals who died, only a couple were household names and all but John "Ginger" Williams had already retired from the game.
But those Wales supporters, who were gathering in Arras before the match, might care to imagine the rubble of the town a century ago and just a short distance away, where former heroes played their part and paid the ultimate price.
The 350-seat Shakespeare North Playhouse is planned for Prescot, where the first Elizabethan indoor theatre outside of London was built.
The theatre will be built alongside a new international university college focusing on Shakespearean drama.
The council planning committee will consider the plans next month.
Councillor Andy Moorheard, leader of the Labour-controlled council said, it would be a "huge boost" to Knowsley and the Liverpool region.
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"While the proposals still need to gain the necessary planning approval, it would appear to be very much in the interests of local people and businesses to do what we can to make sure the development happens," he added.
The Shakespeare Trust hopes a combination of public finance and private donors will pay for the project.
The theatre will be built based on designs for The Cockpit in Whitehall drawn by Inigo Jones in 1629.
Among the project's patrons are Vanessa Redgrave and Dame Helen Mirren.
Joe McCafferty died after petrol was poured through a letterbox on Haywood Avenue, Huddersfield, on 3 May 1997.
A man, 65, and a 60-year-old woman were questioned by West Yorkshire Police on Wednesday.
The arrests followed an anniversary appeal by Joe's mother, Tracey, on Friday.
Joe's aunt, two cousins and older brother were also in the house when it was set alight.
He later died in hospital.
A Oxford University team will use adult stem cells, which have the ability to become any cell in the human body - to examine the neurological condition.
Skin cells will be used to grow the brain neurons that die in Parkinson's, a conference will hear.
The research will not involve the destruction of human embryos.
Induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells were developed in 2007.
At the time, scientists said it had the potential to offer many of the advantages of embryonic stem cells without any of the ethical downsides.
Three years on, it seems to be living up to that claim.
The team at Oxford University is among the first in the world to use IPS to carry out a large scale clinical investigation of Parkinson's, which is currently poorly understood.
Researchers will be taking skin cells from 1,000 patients with early stage Parkinson's and turning them into nerve cells carrying the disease to learn more about the brain disorder, the UK National Stem Cell Network annual science meeting will hear.
The technique is useful because it is difficult to obtain samples of diseased nerve tissue from patient biopsies.
IPS enables the researchers to create limitless quantities of nerve cells to use in experiments and to test new drugs.
"Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the UK and is set to become increasingly common as we live longer," said Dr Richard Wade-Martins, head of the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre.
"Once we have neurons from patients we can compare the functioning of cells taken from patients with the disease and those without to better understand why dopamine neurons die in patients with Parkinson's."
The research is being funded by Parkinson's UK.
The charity's director of research, Kieran Breen, described it as "vital research that will help us better understand the causes of this devastating condition and how it develops and progresses.
"We hope the work will pave the way for new and better treatments for people with Parkinson's in the future."
About 120,000 people in the UK are living with Parkinson's.
It is facing billions of dollars in liabilities over its defective airbags, which have been linked to at least 17 deaths worldwide.
Some of the airbags contained faulty inflators which expanded with too much force, spraying metal shrapnel.
US-based Key Safety Systems (KSS) has bought all of Takata's assets, apart from those relating to the airbags.
The $1.6bn (£1.3bn) deal was announced after the Japanese firm filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, with similar action taken in Japan.
"Although Takata has been impacted by the global airbag recall, the underlying strength of its skilled employee base, geographic reach, and exceptional steering wheels, seat belts and other safety products have not diminished," said KSS chief executive Jason Luo.
More than 100 million cars with Takata airbags, including around 70 million vehicles in the US, have been recalled since concerns first emerged in 2007. It is the biggest safety recall in automotive history.
The faulty airbags are believed to have been manufactured between 2000 and 2008 in Takata's US factory.
The first explosion happened to a Honda Accord in 2004 in Alabama, injuring the driver. But both Takata and Honda said it was "an anomaly" and didn't disclose the danger of exploding airbags for years.
It was a decade later in 2014 when the New York Times reported about its alleged cover-up which led to legal action against Takata. The firm finally accepted the full responsibilities the following year.
The company's chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada - who's the grandson of the founder - has been criticised repeatedly for mishandling the crisis.
In a press conference on Monday, he apologised and promised to resign after a new management team takes over.
But there are still many unknowns.
The cause of the malfunctions has not yet been identified, and despite the size of the the recall, Takata admits it is not clear how many of the airbags are still in vehicles on the roads.
In January, Takata agreed to pay $1bn (£784m) in penalties in the US for concealing dangerous defects, and pleaded guilty to a single criminal charge.
The firm paid a $25m fine, $125m to people injured by the airbags as well as $850m to carmakers that used them.
But it is facing further legal action in the US and liabilities of 1 trillion yen ($9bn) - including to 10 carmakers who used its airbags.
Three of them - Honda, Nissan and Toyota - who have been paying recall costs until now, told the BBC that while they would continue negotiating, they were not hopeful of getting the money back.
Trading in Takata shares has been suspended on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the firm will be delisted late next month.
Small businesses that may be affected by Takata's bankruptcy will get support including loan guarantees says Japanese trade minister Hiroshige Seko.
Matilda, eight, was in a witch's costume when it brushed against a candle at a house in London last year.
"We couldn't put her out," Winkleman told BBC One's Watchdog programme. "Her tights had melted into her skin."
Matilda has had several operations. Her surgeon is calling for tougher fire safety laws on fancy dress outfits.
Winkleman said: "She went up, is the only way I know how to describe it. It was not like fire I had seen before."
She added: "Like if your shirt caught fire or anything I could put it out.
"It was the tights that... they came back to life.
"It was like those horrific birthday candles that you blow out and then they come back."
Accident statistics show that 94 people in England were admitted to hospital as a result of their clothing either igniting or melting last year, of which 21 were children under 18.
Jorge Leon-Vallapalos, who treated Matilda at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, said there was "a mini epidemic" of paediatric burn injuries "in certain periods of the year".
As part of an investigation to be screened on Thursday, Watchdog intends to highlight a legal flaw which classes fancy dress costumes as toys, rather than clothes.
In her interview, Winkleman described how she had bought Matilda the witch's costume in a local supermarket for "five quid" last October.
It caught fire at a neighbour's house while the family were out trick-or-treating.
"I was talking to somebody, and then I just heard her scream," Winkleman said.
"She just screamed 'Mummy' and I turned round and that was that, she was just on fire.
"Everyone was screaming. She was screaming, all the kids there were screaming," Winkleman continued, her voice catching in her throat.
"It feels like she was on fire for hours but the surgeon said that definitely wasn't the case and it was probably just seconds."
Winkleman missed part of last year's series of Strictly Come Dancing following the accident.
Asked if Matilda's injuries were life-threatening, Winkleman replied: "It's life-changing but not life defining.
"It was definitely life-changing for me. I can't remember life before it."
Watchdog has tested the flammability of several costumes bought on the High Street, "with shocking results".
Winkleman said she hoped speaking about her experiences could prevent similar accidents.
"I would like parents to - just on Halloween, just to think about what they're going to put their kids in because I didn't, and it cost us".
Watchdog is on BBC One from 20:00 BST on Thursday, 14 May.
The party said the event was not needed following a decision to hold the main UK conference in Llandudno next spring.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage is still due to visit Swansea on 23 October, as part of his Say No to EU tour.
A ticket website said the conference was cancelled due to a lack of sales, but a UKIP official said the message was incorrect and caused by an administrative error.
An anonymous artist painted gates of the former Muhammad Ali Centre in Birmingham, opened by the former boxer in 1983.
The site is council-owned but managed by community group the Kajans Womens Enterprise in Aston.
The artwork was reported missing on 17 June, said West Midlands Police.
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The painting, that appeared after Muhammad Ali's death, featured the three time world champion with a butterfly, echoing his renowned catchphrase: "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Hermin Macintosh from Kajan Womens Enterprise said: "The creativity of the artist was fantastic so we wanted to save it.
"Ali was a world-class fellow and his contribution went across all cultures and communities, so the mural was for everyone and welcomed by everyone."
The centre had been boarded up since 1998 and Kajans are sifting through ideas from the public about how it should be developed.
"The artist could have gone anywhere but they specifically chose this site because Ali opened it," said Ms Macintosh.
"If there is an opportunity for it to be returned it would be welcomed by everyone."
"They destroyed us," he says. "I'm not going to lie. They smashed us. We got pumped. Getting done by 60 points hurts big-time. It's an experience I don't ever want to feel again. A thing like that sits in you. It's like a rot. It's a rot in the pit of your stomach. You move on to the next game, but you never really forget. Nor should you."
In the aftermath of a horrific defeat you sometimes have to coax the words out of the players who were on the wrong end of it. Not Reid. Destroyed. Smashed. Pumped.
There were others as well. No English language scholar could have been as prolific as Reid was in coming up with different ways of saying thrashed or hammered. The prop could have gone head-to-head with thesaurus.com and he'd have beaten it out the gate.
He wasn't short of perspective either. These Scotland players can't afford to mope - and they're not moping.
They know that a good season is still in their gift if they take care of Italy on Saturday. Not just good, but great - in a Scottish context. We all know the numbers from Twickenham, the stats that will, alas, stand the test of time. But there are others.
Scotland can achieve their highest ever place in the Six Nations if results go their way on the weekend - a bonus point win in Edinburgh, an England win in Dublin and a non-bonus point win for Wales in France. That sequence of events would put Scotland second.
Scotland have never been second in the Six Nations. They've never even had a chance of being second.
They need five points against Italy to pass their all-time Six Nations points total (118 now and 122 last season) and they need two tries against Italy to pass their all-time Six Nations try total (10 now and 11 last season.)
They've scored as many tries in their last nine championship matches as they've done in their previous 20.
England's brilliance tends to obliterate all of that, but it shouldn't. Scotland got it horrifically wrong and England got it thrillingly right. A perfect storm when you add in the injury woes that befell the visitors on the day and in the weeks before.
Scotland travelled south without six players who would have made the 23 and probably five of them would have made the 15. Then they lost more players. It was the rudest awakening for everybody.
Scotland are making definite progress but it's only in the cold light of Saturday that you properly realise that they have a long road to go before they can go toe-to-toe with a fully-loaded England in their backyard. That's not just Scotland either. That's most teams. It was the Scots misfortune to run into a juggernaut last weekend.
"Nobody wants to feel that again," says Reid, but the fact is that most teams that ever achieved anything went through days like that.
In 2001, France lost to Wales and England and shipped 43 points to the former and 48 points to the latter. In 2002 they won the Grand Slam.
We all remember the desperate angst England experienced in trying to win a Slam before they finally did it in 2003. They beat Ireland 42-6 in Dublin to clinch it. That was a sobering day for Irish rugby. They learned from it. The following season they went to Twickenham and won. Ireland went on to win their first Triple Crown in nearly 20 years.
The 2004 season saw Wales concede six tries to Ireland in a thumping defeat. A year later they beat Ireland to win a Grand Slam. Ireland were a mess in 2008 but won a Slam in 2009. They won one match in the 2013 Six Nations - Italy beat them on the final day - but won the championship in 2014 and 2015.
Teams grow up. They develop. They nurse their disappointment and turn it into motivation. That's where Scotland are at now. The final day fireworks will be in Dublin on Saturday, but there's a game to be won and progress to be made at Murrayfield.
If Scotland win - and win well - then this season will be declared as their best in Six Nations history, even allowing for the unmerciful beating in Twickenham. Three wins and a six-point loss in Paris would represent a significant step forward.
"Hopefully we can go out on Saturday and do the whole of Scotland proud," says Reid. "It's not just the players who felt the disappointment after the England game. When you walk down the street and people are pulling you up and telling you they feel gutted it brings it home to you how much this matters.
"Everybody needs to see a reaction. Italy are no mugs at all. They put it up to England, they made life hard for France for a while.
"Everybody saw an England reaction after the Italy game. Everybody saw a Wales reaction after we beat them. Now it's our turn to react. You have to let Twickenham simmer away. You still think about it in the back of your head. You want to forget it, but you also want to keep it there.
"We can't let this season just be frittered away. We've beaten Ireland, we've beaten Wales, we've done OK in Paris on a very difficult day with injuries.
"We need to finish on a high or else we're at the wrong end of the table and that's no good. We know how big this is. Italy have nothing to lose and they have good memories of Murrayfield having won there two years ago. We owe it to the country to perform."
The pastor told the RUC in the 1980s that he abused a boy who was being cared for at the former Bawnmore children's home in north Belfast.
The inquiry also heard from counsel Christine Smith that the former care worker told the RUC in the mid-80s about "other sexual incidents involving other people in the various places" where he worked.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was told that the police wanted to pursue a prosecution against the man who cannot be named.
However, prosecutors decided against it because the incidents linked to the Bawnmore boy happened 17 years previously.
The man now lives in another part of the world.
The victim only heard about that decision on Monday, more than 30 years later.
He told the inquiry: "I found out today the truth has been told. Thank God I can now put my head to rest with it. Just happy at that."
Another man, a Catholic, also told the inquiry of how a staff member subjected him to sexual and sectarian abuse at Bawnmore.
Clearly distressed on the witness stand, the man wiped away tears and held his head in his hands as details of the alleged abuse he suffered were outlined to the inquiry.
A friend who accompanied the witness shook his head in disbelief as the extent of the abuse was presented.
When asked what should happen now, the witness replied: "I'm not the only one, there are thousands. Just say sorry."
Former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball was jailed last year after he admitted sexually abusing teenagers and young men.
The Diocese of Truro is working to find out what evidence it has that Ball conducted services in the area.
Bishop Ball's brother, Michael, was a former Bishop of Truro in the 1990s.
An independent review is under way into the way the Church of England responded to the case.
Ball, who has been jailed for 32 months for abusing young men in the 1970s and 1980s, was investigated by police in 1993 and given a caution.
Ball promised to resign as Bishop of Gloucester and "immediately leave the country", but instead continued to officiate as a priest in the Church of England until 2010.
The Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Tim Thornton said there was no evidence that the Diocese of Truro gave Peter Ball permission to lead services in Cornwall in the 1990s.
The Bishop said: "We have one or two bits of evidence now where it does appear as if Bishop Peter went and did things which Bishop Michael should have been doing.
"It might be that Bishop Peter thought it was clear that he was being Bishop Peter, and on some occasions might have made it very clear at the beginning that he was there in place of his brother, but it might not have been evident to everybody."
He added that it would have been "a limited number of services in a limited number of churches".
Umpires Paul Baldwin and Nick Cook decided to take an early lunch, but called it off at 14:30 BST.
Middlesex were 419-5 overnight, in reply to Lancashire's 513 all out.
Having started the game joint top with reigning champions Yorkshire, Lancashire now lead the Tykes, who have a game in hand, by nine points.
Middlesex picked up two extra batting bonus points to climb to third, above Durham.
With the match seemingly a stalemate anyway, even without the weather, the overwhelming odds had been on hands being shaken on a draw.
Lancashire, who face Yorkshire at Headingley in the T20 Blast on Friday night, are in Championship action again on Sunday when they play a Nottinghamshire side likely to be strengthened by England fast bowler Stuart Broad, fit-again captain/wicketkeeper Chris Read and new overseas signing Imran Tahir.
Middlesex go to Hove on Friday night to play Sussex in the Blast before heading to Scarborough on Sunday to face Yorkshire in the Championship.
Middlesex coach Richard Scott told BBC Radio London:
"It's frustrating again to lose a day and a bit out of this game. We've had a lot of those this season. But we're really pleased at how we've played. Especially the way that both Nick Gubbins and Stevie Eskinazi batted on Tuesday. They epitomise the skill and spirit in the side at the moment.
"Stevie didn't look at all out of place at number three. He's earned his opportunity because of his performances in the Second XI. He will play again at Scarborough, and he will get a real belief that he can compete at first-class level from this innings.
"Nick looks the real deal and has been very consistent this summer in partnership with Sam Robson at the top of the order.
Lancashire coach Ashley Giles told BBC Radio Manchester:
"That was the flattest wicket we have played on this year. We were heading for a draw here anyway. But, overall, we've got something out of the match and we'll move on.
"With the division very bunched up due to all the weather-affected games we've had, it looks like being an exciting Championship run-in.
"To play here in only his second first-class game was great experience for Matt Parkinson. On a flat pitch like this, the margin for error is so much less. But, ff he is to go on and play at the highest level - and I know he has aspirations to do so - then he's got to learn how to bowl on surfaces like this." | Inverness Caledonian Thistle have parted company with manager Richie Foran following relegation from the Scottish Premiership.
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Mr Garton, 69, from Devizes in Wiltshire, disappeared on 25 September on a hillwalking trip in the area.
Despite extensive searches involving helicopters, divers and search dogs, there has been no trace of him.
The poles were recovered near Aonach Eagach Ridge, but a subsequent search of the area revealed nothing.
Police Scotland said the poles were Lecki telescopic trekking/walking poles in a black and gold colour.
Officers said they would like to hear from anyone else who may have lost poles on the ridge, a prominent feature in Glen Coe.
Mr Garton's family are also helping the police establish if they were his.
Robin Garton was reported missing after he failed to meet up with friends as planned in Kinlochewe in Wester Ross.
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Prof Thomas Marshall carried out the post-mortem examination on Ms Brown, who died in disputed circumstances.
His report at the time said her wounds were more likely caused by a Thompson sub-machine gun than an SLR rifle.
The Thompson was a weapon used by paramilitaries in the 1970s, while the SLR rifle was used by the Army.
Seventeen-year-old Ms Brown, who was pregnant at the time, was hit by at least three bullets in Roden Street in west Belfast.
For a number of years, the family believed she had been shot by loyalist paramilitaries, but it later emerged that an Army patrol had been involved in the shooting.
Some witnesses reported hearing sub machine gun fire, others of hearing single shots.
Prof Marshall told the inquest the situation had changed in recent years, after he was shown documents that made clear Marian Brown was in the middle of a lot of ricochet fragments on the street.
He said he was now reviewing his earlier statement, and now cannot say that one weapon was more likely than the other to have caused her wounds.
The inquest continues.
The matter was debated by the full parliament after a report condemning the Westminster bill was put together by the devolution committee.
The SNP and Scottish Labour are both strongly opposed to the bill, and have made efforts to have it blocked north of the border.
Conservative MSP Alex Johnstone alone defended the bill as "reasonable".
Members lined up to speak out against the legislation, which seeks to tighten regulations on trade unions and make it more difficult to call strikes.
MSPs voted to support the conclusions of the committee by 99 to 14, while an amendment from Labour calling on parties to support efforts to block the bill was also overwhelmingly accepted.
Leading the debate, SNP minister Roseanna Cunningham described the "poorly thought-out bill" as being "nothing more than an ideological attack on trade unions, with no evidence to underpin it".
She earlier attempted to lodge a legislative consent memorandum, a special motion which would have allowed the Scottish Parliament to block the bill from applying north of the border, but this was rejected by Presiding Officer Tricia Marwick.
Scottish Labour is making efforts to have Holyrood's standing orders changed to allow such a motion to be lodged.
The party has voiced opposition to the bill repeatedly, with one MSP ejected from the chamber while protesting against Ms Marwick's decision.
Labour MSP Neil Findlay said the "vast majority" of MSPs opposed the bill, which he called an "aggressive, regressive and an unwarranted ideological attack on workers' rights".
Lib Dem MSP Liam McArthur added his voice to those opposing the bill, saying it had "no place in Scotland, frankly no place anywhere in the UK".
There was however some division among the parties opposing the bill, with SNP MSP Mark McDonald criticising Labour for not supporting his party's attempts to have employment law devolved to Holyrood.
Only Mr Johnstone spoke in defence of the bill, accusing other members of trying to "out-left each other". He was the sole member of the devolution committee to dissent from the conclusions carried in its report.
He said the bill fulfilled a Conservative manifesto promise, saying people had "real concerns" about strikes.
He said it would "increase transparency" and reiterated the Tory position that unemployment and trade unions laws were reserved to Westminster.
Jordan Coe, 20, is reported to have been found dead in a heavy tracksuit after failing to return to his hotel.
It has prompted speculation that the professional athlete, who is originally from Maddiston near Falkirk, died of heatstroke.
His coach, Craig Floan, said the boxer may have been trying to lose a few pound before a fight.
He had been due to fight Khon Bola, a Cambodian boxer, in the Muang district of Thailand on Sunday night.
Last week Mr Coe wrote on Facebook that he loved fighting every month.
He wrote: "Almost three years living in Thailand and with each year, I always learn more and more.
"Thank you to my team, family, friends and fans for always helping me on my journey.
"I recommend anyone to go with their gut feeling and follow their dream. No matter what it may be."
Mr Floan, a coach at the Glasgow Thai Boxing Academy, told BBC Scotland that Mr Coe began fighting at a gym in Grangemouth.
He later trained in Glasgow before he moved to Thailand after finishing school to "live the dream".
Mr Coe lived in Ubon Ratchathani, in the east of Thailand, according to his Facebook profile.
He has fought in Australia, Japan and Cambodia, as well as in Thailand and Britain, said Mr Floan.
He won 11 out of the 12 fights last year, he added.
"As a person he was very cheeky," he said. "He was an entertainer, everybody knows that he was famous for dancing out of the ring and dancing in the ring."
Mr Floan went on: "As a fighter, he was tough as nails. He would fight anyone - he didn't care.
"He had a very, very promising career."
The coach has now set up an appeal to raise money for Mr Coe's family to help pay to repatriate his body and funeral expenses.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We are providing assistance to the family of a British national following their death in Thailand.
"Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time."
Malaysia's David beat the Englishwoman 15-13 11-5 11-3, hitting 30 winners in 39 minutes to claim the title.
"It was one of my best performances in quite a while," said David.
Despite defeat, US Open and Qatar Classic champion Massaro, 32, will replace Raneem El Welily as world number one in January.
"It was a high quality match and I tried to fight for every point but it was just too much in the end," said Massaro, who was aiming to win a third successive PSA World Series title.
"The first game was crucial and it could have been a different match if I'd taken that one but Nicol was playing at her best, and I was a little off my best, and that was ultimately the difference."
Massaro secured the number one ranking with her semi-final win in Hong Kong over Egypt's El Welily.
The claim: Leaving the EU would put £250bn of trade at risk, according to Britain Stronger in Europe.
Reality Check verdict: The group has taken a set of figures predicting the benefits of EU membership and used that to reach a figure for the risks of leaving. It would not necessarily work like that. Also, the figures include imports, a fall in which would not necessarily be a bad thing.
In a press release announcing the number, former Chancellor Alistair Darling said: "Those wanting to leave the EU want to pull Britain out of the single market, which would mean introducing tariffs and barriers to our trade and putting billions of vital trade at risk."
The figure is based on part of the Treasury's work on the impact of a Brexit.
The Treasury compared the amount of trade done between EU members with the amount done by non-members.
That's a tricky thing to do. While the method chosen is reasonable, the conclusions should not be seen as precise.
Its analysis concluded trade with EU countries was 76% higher as a result of Britain being in the EU than it would be if Britain were not.
It also identified smaller benefits coming from membership of the European Economic Area (EEA), and from other free trade agreements negotiated by the EU.
For the EEA it was 44%, and for the other free trade agreements it was 17%.
BSIE has taken those Treasury figures for gains from EU membership, reversed them, and used them to conclude £250bn of trade would be at risk if the UK were to leave the EU.
But looking at how much trade is increased by signing a free trade agreement is not the same as predicting that amount would be at risk from leaving.
The effect of leaving may or may not be the reverse of the effect of joining - there are no examples of countries leaving the EU that could form the basis for the research.
To reach the £250bn figure, BSIE has started with the total amount of trade the UK did with the EU in 2014, which was about £520bn.
Remember, that's a figure for both exports and imports.
But some might think a reduction in imports could be a good thing, helping reduce the country's trade deficit.
If you assume leaving the EU would have the exact reverse effect of joining, then a 76% increase equates to a 43% fall (imagine you were doing £100 of trade - if it increased by 76%, there would be £176 - you would have to reduce it by 43% to get back to £100).
So, you take 43% off EU trade, a loss of £224bn.
Similarly, you take 31% (that's the reverse of the 44%) off the £29bn of EEA trade, a loss of £9bn.
These are the figures BSIE reaches.
Its figure for the trade with countries with which the EU has other free trade agreements, however, looks a bit off.
The Treasury says trade with these countries has been increased by 17% as a result of EU membership.
To reverse a 17% rise, you would need a 14.5% fall.
BSIE says the UK did £62bn of such trade in 2014.
And losing 14.5% of that would be a loss of £9bn, not the £14bn claimed by BSIE.
So, the total comes to £243bn, not the £247bn suggested by BSIE.
But splitting hairs about £4bn or £5bn here and there may be flattering the accuracy of the prediction.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
Gerrard says the Football Association's £105m national football centre needs to be more player friendly.
The 35-year-old also says that his slip against Chelsea, as Liverpool missed out on the 2013-14 Premier League title "kills" him, in a BT Sport interview.
And he admits being left out against Real Madrid in last season's Champions League hastened his Liverpool exit.
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The 330-acre St George's Park site in Burton, Staffordshire, opened in 2012 as a base for all 24 England teams at various levels. It includes a replica of the Wembley surface and an altitude chamber to mimic a variety of playing conditions.
But in an interview with Rio Ferdinand for a BT Sport programme, Gerrard said he thinks the complex needs a golf course to help overcome the "shyness" in the England squad.
St George's Park managing director Julie Harrington has since told BBC Sport that a nine-hole golf course is planned for the centre.
"It's an unbelievable site but they need to be a bit more realistic around it," he said. "They need to make it a little bit friendlier for the players.
"It's a top place to train and prepare but away from the training pitch and the games, it can be boring. We need to create that atmosphere where England players are desperate to get away and do well."
"When you get to England, you want to have your lunch and go to bed and keep away from everyone because there's a shyness. There needs to be an England atmosphere when you turn up and you know each other, you want to be with each other."
Gerrard announced in January he was leaving Liverpool after 17 years to join MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy.
But he has revealed it was during a 1-0 defeat by Real Madrid in November that he made his mind up about leaving Liverpool.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers chose to start with Gerrard on the bench for the match at the Bernabeu.
Gerrard said: "When I was told I wasn't playing for the sake of the team, because of my relationship with Brendan, I took it and I accepted it.
"But I sat on that bench devastated because I wanted to play. It pushed me into making a decision to move on and try something different."
In 2014 Liverpool were top of the Premier League with three games to go when they hosted second-placed Chelsea at Anfield.
But a slip by Gerrard allowed Demba Ba to score Chelsea's first goal and Jose Mourinho's side went on to win 2-0 as Liverpool's title challenge fell apart.
Gerrard has criticised Liverpool's tactics in the game and said they "lost their way" and went "gung-ho instead of being controlled" - but refused to blame Rodgers.
He said: "The inexperience showed from myself having not been in many title races and the inexperience of the team.
"The slip happened at a bad time, it was cruel for me personally.
"I'm not scared of any criticism or cruelty. I understand it and the impact it had - it kills me, don't get me wrong. Inside it kills me and it will do for a long time. I think to myself: 'If I'd have got that league, it would have been the icing on the cake'.
"That one moment will always hurt me until the day I go because I'd have achieved every dream with Liverpool. It hurts."
The protest was organised by the Scrap Trident coalition, as the focus on the general election campaign trail in Scotland turned to nuclear weapons.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon addressed the rally in George Square.
Patrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens and Labour election candidate Katy Clark also spoke.
A police estimate suggested about 2,500 people attended the rally, while organisers said the figure was closer to 4,000.
The Bairns Not Bombs demonstration is the first of three against the nuclear weapons in the run-up to the general election.
The Clyde-based submarines that carry Trident are due to reach the end of their operational lives within the next decade.
However, the UK government has yet to make a final decision on their replacement.
Ms Sturgeon told the rally: "One of the biggest decisions that MPs will take in the next parliament is whether to waste £100bn on renewing these morally obscene weapons.
"Broken down, that will be around £3bn a year, peaking at an eye-watering £4bn in the 2020s.
"We all know that Trident is morally unjustifiable, but at a time when the Westminster parties are all committed to forcing yet more austerity on us after the election, Trident is economically indefensible.
"Just think of what could be achieved with this money for the NHS, education or other public services - not just in Scotland, but across the UK."
Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie told the crowd: "There's a wave of anger up and down Scotland and throughout these islands at the idea of cutting billions from the budget that support the most vulnerable people in society, while spending even more billions on a new generation of weapons of mass destruction.
"Your job over the coming weeks is to make sure people hear the alternative voice.
"You need to take the message out day after day, to friends, family, your colleagues, your neighbours, make sure they bring the issue of Trident to the top of the political agenda when they decide how they will cast their vote.
"Let's convince everybody in this country to vote no to Trident."
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy argued that the SNP approach did not make sense.
He said: "We want a world free of nuclear weapons. We don't want them just out of one country and the way we do that is by negotiating with the French, the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and all the other nuclear nations so we have a global agreement against nuclear weapons.
"I don't think it makes sense when India and Pakistan are facing off against a nuclear divide, when Iran is trying to get a nuclear bomb, when North Korea is trying to get a nuclear bomb, for us to give up unilaterally.
"Let's make the world free of nuclear weapons by negotiating them away together."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "Liberal Democrats favour nuclear disarmament and want to do so together with other countries in multilateral talks.
"In government we delayed the renewal of the Trident submarines so alternatives could be investigated thoroughly.
"We now favour cutting the number of submarines from four to three. That will save money whilst maintaining our deterrence."
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Jackson Carlaw said: "It's time to talk up Trident.
"Faslane employs thousands of people in the west of Scotland.
"Those opposed to it would happily see these people out of a job without a second thought for the consequences.
"The SNP's faux opposition to it is purely a political tool to appeal to the left of its membership."
The man, Mario Bravo, was taken from his mother as an infant while she was in jail and given to military government supporters to bring up.
Unusually, his mother was not executed but was released and is still alive.
On Tuesday Mario and his mother are expected to meet in Buenos Aires.
Mario is the 119th child to be found by the Grandmothers.
They have worked for decades to reunite families with missing children, stolen by the junta.
In an interview on the radio, Mr Bravo said "I have talked these last few days to someone who has been reliving very difficult moments and she told me she was released after two years in captivity on condition that she had to keep silent about what had happened."
Mr Bravo said he had been talking to the Grandmothers since February.
"They interviewed me and then started testing me on dates. They asked me to come in to their offices a week ago to have a chat. Then they asked my permission to announce my discovery."
Mr Bravo had a DNA test done in 2007 when he first approached the Grandmothers, after he had begun to have doubts about his identity.
His DNA was compared with a bank of genetic samples collected by the Grandmothers from families searching for their children.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo was formed to reunite families with their missing children, who had been stolen by the junta.
Some 30,000 people were murdered by the military junta in Argentina.
The leader of the campaign group, Estela de Carlotto, and a co-founder, Delia Giovanola, both found their missing grandsons last year.
Marian Brown was pregnant when she was shot and fatally wounded while walking back to her sister's house along Roden Street in West Belfast in June 1972.
Her sister, Teresa, told a new inquest into her death that a few days later two bullets in an envelope were posted through her letter box.
She was with Marion when she was shot.
She described hearing a burst of gunfire and man shouting at them: "Hit the dirt!"
When the shooting was over, she went over to her sister who was lying on her back with her boyfriend lying across her.
She grabbed Marian's wrists and she said that she knew she was dead.
The Brown family believed at the time that Marian had been killed by loyalist gunmen firing down Roden Street. However, it later emerged that soldiers had opened fire during the incident.
A fresh inquest was ordered after questions were raised over the velocity of the bullet that killed her.
Last week, Marian's older brother, Richard, said he "felt ashamed that he couldn't do anything" to help her and he was angry that whoever fired the shot "took her life and robbed us of a sister, a daughter and a friend".
Mr Brown said the 17-year-old "never got to bloom".
The inquest is being heard in Belfast by Judge David McFarland.
The 31-year-old has been struggling with a broken bone in his foot for the past few months, as well as a shoulder problem.
"We've been going non-stop for a year so I'm looking forward to five weeks off," the Wasps captain told BBC Sport.
"I will enjoy the time off, but I'll be attached to an ice bag. I'll be ready."
Haskell was one of England's outstanding performers in the first two Tests, with his man-of-the-match display in the first game in Brisbane arguably the finest of his international career.
The supporters' player of the series says coach Eddie Jones' man-management has given him the confidence to deliver on the biggest stage.
"He's created an aspirational environment where people want to play," he said. "It's a very hard environment but also one where you smile and enjoy yourself.
"I've always been really interested in how people learn, how people receive feedback and people's body language. Eddie and his coaching staff are masters of that.
"You can't talk to all people the same way. You have to understand what motivates them and he does that really well."
The former Stade Francais, Ricoh Black Rams and Highlanders forward is one of England's senior players with 70 caps, and has benefited from a leadership role.
"The way Eddie and the other coaches have empowered the senior boys has been great," Haskell said. "I feel respected and listened to, which is key.
"I'm so hungry to improve, and if I can help other people and use some of the experiences I've had of playing all around the world to help, then that's what I try and do."
A document - the Columba Declaration - will be debated by the ruling bodies of both churches next year.
It commits the churches to "grow together in communion and to strengthen their partnership in mission".
Founded in two different branches of Protestantism, England's church is Anglican and Scotland's Presbyterian.
The declaration has been authored by Kirk minister the Reverend John McPake, and the Church of England's Bishop of Chester, Peter Forster.
They say the agreement will allow clergy and lay people from each church to be welcomed into the other when they move across the border.
The pact also recognises that the two churches have constitutional responsibilities in separate parts of the UK.
"We face the common reality that constitutional change could have a significant impact on our own identity and relationships," the 15-page declaration says.
In a joint statement from both authors they said they hoped the pact would "affirm and strengthen our relationship at a time when it is likely to be particularly critical in the life of the UK".
They also said they wanted it to: "Enable us to speak and act together more effectively in the face of the missionary challenges of our generation."
The Church of England's ruling body - the General Synod - will discuss the document in February, while the Church of Scotland's General Assembly will go through the same process in May.
Both churches were formed separately during the Reformation - which began in 1517 and focused on ways to reform the Catholic Church.
The new agreement is the first between the churches - which both describe themselves as part of "one holy catholic and apostolic church" - but have significant ecclesiological differences.
The Church of England retained more vestiges of Catholicism, has Catholic and evangelical wings, and is governed by bishops.
Meanwhile, the Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in structure and has no bishops or cathedrals.
This year the two churches established the Churches' Mutual Credit Union as a response to concerns that low-income families needed access to low-cost banking and loans.
Patricia Davies, from Sapcote, Leicestershire, who served in the army between April 1945 and 1948, said she was "living a lie" as a man.
Ms Davies said she knew she was transgender aged three and secretly came out to her late wife in 1987.
"They didn't realise it was something that you could not cure," she said.
Coming out to neighbours felt like a weight being lifted, she added.
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Ms Davies said: "The atmosphere [around being transgender] was not safe.
"Even the medical profession didn't understand it as the treatment was to give you the 'electric shock treatment'.
Ms Davies served in the army, as Peter, in the Far East, India, East Africa and Palestine, before marrying when she was 21.
"You couldn't flaunt [being transgender] that would have been a disaster," she said.
"I would have been classed as homosexual, which would have caused problems in the army. I would have ended up in prison."
After coming out to her wife, who bought her jewellery and dresses to wear, they agreed to keep it quiet.
They were married for 63 years before her wife died six years ago.
She visited her doctor last year and has been taking female hormones.
Ms Davies said: "I have been keeping quiet. I have slowly started to tell some of my neighbours. Everybody said 'don't worry, as long as you're happy'."
She has joined the Women's Institute and is enjoying a "new lease of life".
She said: "[The best thing about coming out] is being accepted as a woman. That has been something I've wanted all of my life."
The 20-year-old, who can play as a winger or striker, has signed a three-year contract at the Madejski Stadium.
"He has a great left foot, good technique, good physique, pace - all together he is a promising young player," Royals boss Jaap Stam told the club website.
"We are hopeful he can be a good player for us going forward."
Paris-born Meite has played for the Ivory Coast at Under-17 level, and has been allocated Reading's number 19 shirt for the coming season.
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The Electoral Commission received "almost 200 calls" from voters worried about using a pencil on 23 June.
Lib Dem Lord Rennard has asked the government if it would provide "special ballot pens" instead of pencils.
And the Electoral Commission says it is looking at "alternatives to providing pencils for voters in polling stations which could improve confidence".
The issue of using pencils to vote became an issue on social media for people voting in June's referendum who feared ballot papers filled out in pencil could be rubbed out and changed, leading the hashtag #usepens to gain traction on Twitter.
Lord Rennard asked the government for its assessment of voter concerns about using pencils instead of pens to mark ballot papers. He also asked whether the government was planning to provide polling stations with "special ballot pens or pencils with indelible ink".
Cabinet Office spokeswoman in the Lords, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen, responded saying "voters were able to use the pencil provided, or mark their ballot paper with a pen if they preferred - we are not aware of any cases of ballot papers being changed at the referendum".
She added that the government had "noted the Electoral Commission's comments on this issue in its report on the EU referendum".
That Electoral Commission report into the EU referendum says that voters are able to use either a pen or pencil to mark their ballot paper, and that "there is nothing in law which states whether a pen or a pencil should be used to mark a ballot paper."
The report also says that the Commission would be working with returning officers and national governments to see "whether there could be alternatives to providing pencils for voters in polling stations which could improve confidence."
An Electoral Commission spokesman said that historically pencils were used for practical reasons, as pens carry the risk that "they may dry out or spill".
Wet ink might also smudge on to the other side of a folded ballot paper, leading to the risk that votes could be rejected if it looks like more than one box has been marked, he added.
The 32-year-old, who won the 2014 World Cup with Germany, is recovering from a knee injury he suffered in pre-season.
"Mentally, he's a guy who brings a level of urgency into the team," said Wenger on Thursday. "He is back in training, but not with the squad."
Mertesacker's contract was due to expire in the summer.
Wenger added: "There were no negotiations in fact, because he had an option for extension.
"So it's not really a new contract, it's just an extension of the old one. We had to take that option early in the season and the decision was made quite easily."
Mertesacker joined Arsenal from Werder Bremen in August 2011 and has won two FA Cups with the Gunners.
Meanwhile, Wenger does not expect to "do anything special" during transfer window.
The Gunners are fourth in the Premier League table, eight points behind leaders Chelsea.
With striker Danny Welbeck available after a long-term knee injury, Wenger described Arsenal's attacking options as "very strong".
"I expect it to be a very quiet period because we have Danny Welbeck coming back," added the Frenchman.
"Offensively we are very strong, we have many players who can come in."
Arsenal announced the signing of left-back Cohen Bramall, 20, from non-league side Hednesford Town for £40,000 earlier this month.
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Nick Corsellis, lawyer for Carl Wood, said an "inside man" must have been involved in the raid but his client lacked the expertise to be that person.
Mr Wood and three other men deny taking part in the £14m heist.
Four others have already pleaded guilty for their roles in the robbery.
During his closing speech, Mr Corsellis told Woolwich Crown Court the gang were "serious organised criminals" who had put a team together where "each member has to have a role".
"And this is one of the reasons Mr Wood is not guilty. What did he bring to the table?" he said.
Mr Corsellis said it did not follow that his client was the man identified by the prosecution as "Man F" in CCTV footage of the raid.
"Male F was actually a player. An inside man, or linked to the inside man, fully familiar with the inner workings of Hatton Garden Safe Deposit".
Mr Wood lacked such knowledge and would have only been able to act as a "general dogsbody", the lawyer said.
Mr Corsellis asked the jury whether professional criminals would have been prepared to give up part of their millions to a person who would have only been an "extra pair of hands (EPH)".
He called it "illogical" and "implausible" that such a person was involved as "criminals are not charitable people".
Speaking about how the prosecution had said the heist could be turned into a TV programme or film, Mr Corsellis suggested movie titles could include "Bad Grandpas" or "The Enfield Expendables".
"But who would play Carl Wood - the EPH? Do you think Mr Tom Hardy or Mr Vinnie Jones is going to rush to take the part of... the EPH?" he asked.
The case continues.
Daniel Jones, 60, of Park Avenue, Enfield; John Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington; Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield, and Brian Reader, 76, of Dartford Road, Dartford, have all previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
The right-hander's decision to retire from all cricket after the upcoming series against West Indies was not unexpected, but it still took a while to accept that the "god of cricket" will not play for India after he appears in his final match.
And as the realisation begins to sink in, it is time to pay tribute to one of the greatest players in the history of cricket.
But then what is the best way to mark the retirement of a man who has carried the hopes of millions for more than two decades?
Newspapers and experts, too, seem to be grappling with the same question.
Pradeep Magazine, one of India's best cricket writers, says it would be "pointless here to delve in detail about his genius, which even otherwise would be impossible to describe in words".
When verse and prose fail to match the achievements of a genius - it is best to deliver the message in a simple way.
And the message from Indian newspapers to India is simple and clear: Let them say you lived in the times of Sachin Tendulkar but accept that his era is coming to an end.
"There will never be another you," is how a front-page banner headline in the Hindustan Times sums up the country's sombre mood.
The legend has enthralled cricket fans all over the world with his elegant cover drives, smashing square cuts and a straight drive that matched the precision of a master craftsman.
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Tendulkar's artistry on the cricket field will remain etched in his fans' collective memory, but they must, rather reluctantly, get ready for a life without him.
"The trouble we will face is to see cricket with Tendulkar permanently missing... With Sachin's retirement, a special, long stretch of cricket will now come to an end," writes Indrajit Hazra in the Hindustan Times.
And Hazra is not alone is feeling that the world around him has changed.
The Hindu too says the world, as we knew it for close to 25 years, has changed forever after the master batsman's retirement from all forms of the game.
"When Tendulkar leaves, his absence will be as keenly felt in spheres of the game quite removed from its run-making aspect," says the Indian Express.
Tendulkar's retirement also marks an end of the "fantastic four" batting line-up that included two former captains in elegant left-hander Sourav Ganguly and gritty number three Rahul Dravid, as well as the free-scoring VVS Laxman.
The quartet earned India many memorable wins at home and abroad and also inspired the current generation of cricketers, including skipper Mahendra Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh.
"Everyone adores Sachin, the cricketer, but for me personally, having played with him for almost 16 years, I feel really privileged and honoured to have known him so closely," Laxman told an Indian TV channel.
Ganguly still seems enamoured with his colleague's achievements.
"It is impossible to emulate his feats. They are so enormous that he will be talked about as long as cricket is played anywhere in the world," he says.
How does Tendulkar handles the pressure of expectations and love from one billion people? And how does he manages to stay normal when his regular morning walk has the potential of causing a stampede in any Indian city?
A natural answer would be that he earns his fans' admiration by winning matches for India. But that may be just oversimplification.
There is more behind the astonishing success of the maestro.
Many cricket pundits say its his mental strength and his ability to stay humble under a massive media spotlight and the glitz of modern-day cricket.
"He has been the sage voice in the dressing room... Tendulkar was, in a way, Indian cricket's first celebrity. Largely staying away from controversy despite the singeing effects of media scrutiny, something that only increased in intensity towards the autumn of his career," says the Indian Express.
Another paper says Tendulkar is not the only legend of the game, but others did not have to withstand the constant scrutiny of of fans, and that too for 24 long years.
And whole of India and the world will be watching this champion when he takes a bow in his home city of Mumbai in November.
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The boy was attacked in Wash Brook Nature Park on Tuesday, prompting an appeal to parents not to let their children walk alone in the area.
He was left "deeply distressed" and needed medical treatment.
Leicestershire Police said Ajay Jetha, from Keyham, had been charged with "numerous sexual offences" and was due before magistrates on Monday morning.
Ch Supt David Sandall, who has been leading the investigation, urged people not to speculate about the boy's identity.
"Throughout this investigation, my priority has been to safeguard the interests of the boy in this case.
"He and his family are going through a deeply distressing time and any attempt to identify him will only add to their distress."
The boy, whose age has not been released, was attacked between 15:30 and 16:00 BST on Tuesday.
But what has caused the concerns - and what has the UK government been saying to try to allay them?
David Cameron announced during the Strategic Defence Review last November that eight new Royal Navy Type-26 anti-submarine frigates would be built at the Clyde shipyards - which opponents said was five fewer than had been promised by the UK government ahead of the independence referendum.
Mr Cameron also said that "at least" five new general purpose Type-31 frigates would be built in Scotland in the future, "if the conditions are right".
The prime minister said: "The only way these ships wouldn't be built in Scotland is if Scotland was independent and didn't have the national resources of the Royal Navy."
Mr Cameron also announced that two smaller offshore patrol vessels would be built on the Clyde to tide the Govan and Scotstoun yards over until work on the new frigates began, which had been expected to happen later this year.
But the final contracts for the new frigates have not yet been signed by the Ministry of Defence and BAE Systems, which owns the Clyde yards.
The unions don't seem to think that the Type-26 order is going to be cancelled by the Ministry of Defence - but they are concerned that construction of the new vessels will apparently not now begin until next year.
This seems to have come from briefings given to the unions by BAE Systems last week, following talks between the defence contractor and the MoD which saw the current demonstration phase for the new frigates being extended until June 2017.
Union officials have raised fears that any gap between the completion of the offshore patrol vessels and work beginning on the new frigates could lead to job losses, with some claiming between 800 and 1,000 posts could be at risk.
There has also been speculation that work on the new vessels could be carried out over a longer timeframe - meaning it would need fewer workers.
And unions on the Clyde are also concerned about the possible implications of a review of British shipyards currently being carried out for the Treasury by Sir John Parker, which they fear could lead to at least some of the work on the new frigates being contracted out to other yards elsewhere in the UK.
The Treasury wants to see competition for Royal Navy work to help drive down costs and to help Britain win export orders for naval ships - something it has not been doing well.
When the Clyde yards won the battle with Portsmouth to become the shipyards for building Royal Navy complex warships more than two years ago it had to accept some job losses as the price for protecting most of the jobs, and that deal may not stick if the timetable slips for shipbuilding.
As already mentioned, there were originally to have been 13 of the Type-26 warships built, before that was cut to eight last November during the Strategic Defence Review.
And there was also a plan floated to build a "frigate factory", with £200m of investment in Scotstoun on the north side of the Clyde to ensure more efficient production, which could in turn have helped the Clyde become a centre for exporting, which it has failed to do for many years.
That plan did not come to fruition, and the intention now is to spend only half of that over the next two years, mainly on the Govan yard, to get it ready for the Type-26 contract.
However, the trade unions are concerned that they have not seen much of that investment so far.
David Mundell, the Scottish secretary, told BBC Scotland on Monday morning that there was "no change" to the UK government's plans to build the eight new Type-26 frigates on the Clyde, but that it was up to BAE to deal with operational requirements.
It followed Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson saying she had been told by UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon that nothing had changed, and that the orders for all eight Type-26 frigates, five Type-31 frigates and two offshore patrol vessels would be "coming to the Clyde, as discussed last year, to the same timetable and the same number".
But politicians from other parties remain to be convinced, with both the SNP and Labour calling for clarity and warning against any "betrayal" of the shipyards, while the Scottish Liberal Democrats said the UK government should give an "absolute commitment" to the Clyde yards.
BAE Systems said it was working with the MoD to "agree a revised baseline for the Type-26 ships and a production schedule for the two additional offshore patrol vessels in Glasgow".
There is almost certainly a political element at play here. The lead up to a Holyrood election seems like a good time to put pressure on the UK government to remind it - but also Labour and the Liberal Democrats - of the arguments that were made about the fate of the Clyde yards if Scotland became independent.
And it will not look good for the UK government to be attacked with words such as "betrayal" and "deception" so close to the EU referendum - particularly when it is in connection to promises made before another referendum.
So it won't do BAE any harm in its negotiations with the MoD to have unions raising these issues in public.
Andrew Lane, 61, contracted the infection necrotising fasciitis after an operation to have his prostate gland removed at Southend Hospital, Essex.
He claims his bowel was punctured during the procedure, leading to the infection.
The hospital said it was aware of the case but could not comment further.
Mr Lane, from Thurrock, had so much diseased tissue removed that he lost his penis and was left with a protruding stomach where the outer tissue was "eaten away".
He had to use a catheter and colostomy bag for two years after the operation in 2013.
"It has just been a horrendous experience. I thought I was going to die," Mr Lane said.
"That night I was taken to theatre three times while the surgeons took more and more tissue away.
"I was super-fit before all this. I had a good body, but now I look like I'm nine months pregnant. I can't ever bear to look at myself naked."
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Nick Greaves, from Mr Lane's lawyers Slater and Gordon, said: "Mr Lane believed he was going into hospital for a routine operation and would be home within days.
"Instead, he has been left with permanent and life-changing injuries that have turned his world upside down.
"Although nothing can change that, he wants to know what happened and ensure it is fully investigated and everything possible done to prevent anyone else having to go through the same ordeal."
Pietersen was released by Rising Pune Supergiants in December after injury restricted him to only four games for them in the Twenty20 series last year.
"My winter has been too busy with all my travel and I don't want to spend April/May away too," he tweeted.
This winter, the 36-year-old has played in South Africa's T20 Challenge and Australia's T20 Big Bash League.
He is also to play a second season with Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League in February and March.
This year's IPL auction will take place in Bangalore on Monday, 20 February.
Pietersen played in the IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2009 and 2010, and Delhi Daredevils in 2012 and 2014.
Mewnwhile, Pietersen has been fined 5,000 Australian dollars (£3,000) for his on-air comments criticising an umpiring decision while playing for the Melbourne Stars during a Big Bash League semi-final.
Pietersen was wearing a microphone when he criticised an umpire's decision to turn down a caught behind appeal against Perth Scorchers batsman Sam Whiteman on 24 January.
"That was a shocker, an absolute shocker," Pietersen was heard saying while fielding during the Scorchers' run chase.
After the match, Whiteman admitted he had hit the ball, while umpire Shawn Craig conceded he had made an error.
Pietersen has 48 hours to decide whether to appeal and have the issue heard by a Cricket Australia code of conduct commissioner.
They are charged with abusing boys who were aged between 11 and 16 at the former St Ninian's School in Falkland.
At the High Court in Glasgow John Farrell, 73, Paul Kelly, 63, Edward Egan, 78, Michael Murphy, 76, and William Don, 61, denied the charges.
The court indictment lists 121 charges involving sexual and physical abuse.
The majority of the allegations are against Farrell and Kelly.
The Crown claim that a total of 35 boys were allegedly abused at the school.
Many of them allege they were assaulted with a variety of implements, including shoes, belt and a ruler.
Among other claims is an accusation that Kelly left a 13-year-old boy rolled up in a rug overnight.
He is also said to have stripped another pupil and hung him upside down from a bridge.
Farrell is accused among other charges of indecently assaulting a 12-year-old boy by simulating sex with him and forcing a pair of underpants into his mouth to prevent him screaming.
He also faces a charge that in the early 1980s he indecently assaulted a boy at a monastery on the isle of Iona.
He is said to have attacked the same boy at a Catholic church in Motherwell in 1999.
Farrell, who is represented by QC Edward Targowski, lodged a special defence of alibi and Don, who is represented by advocate Laura Thomson, lodged special defences of alibi and incrimination.
Dozens of witnesses are expected to give evidence during the trial before judge Lord Matthews.
It is likely to last between 12 and 14 weeks.
The trial continues.
Little Ross near Kirkcudbright hit the headlines in 1960 when a lighthouse keeper was killed by a colleague.
The island, which covers 29 acres, is on the market for offers over £325,000.
The listing includes a six-bedroom, B-listed cottage and courtyard which is next to an operational lighthouse tower which is not part of the deal.
The lighthouse tower - which is not included in the sale - was designed and built by Alan Stevenson and first lit in 1843.
It was built at the mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay to close the gap between other lighthouses at the Mull of Galloway and Southerness.
It was manned until 1960, the year of the infamous killing.
Keeper Hugh Clark was found dead on the island and his assistant Robert Dickson was later tried and found guilty of his murder.
The property up for sale is completely off-grid with power drawn from solar panels and a small wind turbine.
The selling agents have described it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a unique property which offers an alternative lifestyle or holiday retreat.
However, prospective buyers will need their own boat or a helicopter to get to and from the island.
David Corrie, senior associate at Galbraith, Castle Douglas, said: "Private islands rarely come up for sale at an affordable price and particularly one with a habitable house and additional properties.
"Given the exciting prospect Little Ross island presents, we expect a lot of interest from all over the UK as well as abroad."
The host team of Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo won the first three frames, before Wales rallied.
But China A then clinched the deciding fifth fame in the best-of-seven match.
Wales had finished top of Group A with four wins and one defeat - including a 4-1 success over defending champions China B.
Wales' other pool wins were over Finland, Norway and Malaysia, while they lost 3-2 to Brazil after already clinching a quarter-final spot.
The World Cup format sees 24 teams competing for the biggest prize in pairs snooker and the top two teams in the four groups advanced to the quarter-finals.
But instead of a thank you, Toronto has blocked off access to the steps and asked Adi Astl, 73, to take them down.
Before the stairs were installed, Mr Astl said a few people had fallen down the steep muddy embankment to the park.
Mr Astl said he took matters into his own hands after his local councillor told him about the city's price tag.
"To me, the safety of people is more important than money," Mr Astl told CTV News. "So if the city is not willing to do it, I have to do it myself."
He said the whole project took him and his neighbours about 14 hours.
Mr Astl's councillor, Justin Di Ciano, said the official estimate, which the city said could go from $65,000 to $150,000, was outlandish.
"With $150,000 you can put up half a house," Mr Di Ciano told GlobalNews.
Toronto Mayor John Tory agreed the price estimate was overblown, but said it just won't do for private citizens to "go out to Home Depot and build a staircase in a park because that is what they would like to have".
City staff say they are re-assessing the estimate, which was based on a staircase built at another park.
Resident Dana Beamon told CTV News she is thankful for Mr Astl's staircase.
"We have far too much bureaucracy," she said.
"We do not have enough self-initiative in our city, so I am impressed."
The former Lancashire, Durham and England batsman thought nothing of it. It was his way of recharging the batteries.
However, the 59-year-old now believes that it was a pre-cursor to his depression diagnosis. Ten years after he retired from playing the signs started to appear again.
"Everything was perfect. I had a wife, children and a job," Fowler told BBC Radio Tees as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. "But in December 2006 my wife told me I needed to go to the doctor."
Fowler, who has previously formed part of the BBC Test Match Special team, was diagnosed with clinical depression.
It was something his daughter Georgina had also picked up on, noticing he repeatedly spent his days in the conservatory reading the same magazine. "I did not realise I had disconnected from everyone," Fowler said.
"There was no trigger, it absolutely floored me. But then you start your journey to get back to normal - whatever that is.
"It shut me down. I'd lie on the sofa and stare out of the window. I couldn't do anything. It was awkward for the children too."
His lightbulb moment came in creating a scale. "One day I came up with this scale from zero to 20," he added. "10 was neutral. If the number was less then I was unwell, if it was higher then I was happy to play with the children. It was an instant way of communication.
The Lancastrian, who now lives in County Durham, also said social media had been an important part of his recovery.
"I used to rant on Twitter. But then people were coming back with messages of support and it has been a massive influence," he said. "If used in the right way it can be very supportive and a lot of fun as well."
The batsman, who scored 1,307 Test runs for England between 1982 and 1985 - including the first-ever double century by an Englishman on Indian soil, says cricket is "way ahead" of other sports when dealing with mental health issues.
"Cricket encourages people to be open, honest and to deal with it," he said. "A lot of other sports don't really acknowledge it, they are frightened and it's easier to shove it in a cupboard. By being honest people come round."
Marcus Trescothick, Michael Yardy and Jonathan Trott have suffered with high-profile cases of mental illness during their careers.
The first two years after retirement is the most difficult time for players, according to the Professional Cricketers Association.
"In sport you get physical injuries, you get the diagnosis, the treatment and the rehabilitation to get you playing again," Fowler added.
"With mental illness it is the same. There should be no stigma attached. Mental illness does not define you.
"Cricket is a mental game, but how much welfare is there? Well, it's pretty good, that's why you hear about it more than any other sport.
He continues to raise awareness for cricketers and sports people by telling them to notice the signs.
"You can tell if their behaviour changes drastically," he said. "Just ask 'are you alright?' It could be anything, but if they say they are not feeling great, there is no shame attached. Deal with it because you'll get back on track."
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Alongside the England and Wales Cricket Board, the PCA ensures it closely monitors the well-being of it's members. This month it released the "Personal Development and Welfare Programme" - an 80-page document that looks more closely at mental health and support available.
Jason Ratcliffe, assistant chief executive at the PCA, says Somerset and former England opener Trescothick was the catalyst for cricket leading the way in mental health issues.
"We've been very fortunate ever since Marcus came out to speak openly about his illness," he said. "His high profile encouraged others to talk about it as soon as possible. Cricket is supportive and most of its initiatives come from Marcus."
Ratcliffe said research into mental health was still progressing.
"We've got a network and helpline. It's an ongoing initiative but if we get it right then it means, even right down to county level, we can get to people quickly," he added.
"We are well armed, we've just got exercise the plans and use this great infrastructure we have."
You can hear the full interview with Graeme Fowler on the BBC Tees website.
Barclays said it wanted to accelerate the pace of change at the bank, and the news sent its shares up more than 3%.
The FTSE 100 rose 16.90 points to 6,449.11.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.4% against the euro to €1.3998 was also 0.4% lower against the dollar at $1.5409.
His wife, Barbara, said he died on Tuesday at their home in Vermont, after suffering from leukaemia.
Kinnell was among the most celebrated poets of his time and wrote more than a dozen books spanning five decades.
He won the Pulitzer for his 1982 book Selected Poems.
The collection also won the National Book Award for Poetry, sharing the honour with contemporary Charles Wright.
His other best-known works include The Book of Nightmares, inspired by the horror of the Vietnam war, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone and Mortal Acts, Mortal Words.
One his most famous poems is The Bear, telling of a hunter who, after consuming animal blood and excrement, comes to identify with his prey.
Other notable poems include After Making Love We Hear Footsteps and When the Towers Fell, about the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York.
'Warm hearted'
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, on 1 February 1927, Kinnell was the son of immigrants from Scotland and Ireland.
The Los Angeles Times reported the poet once told students he was "a very silent child, almost mute".
"I developed a big sense of isolation from others... Gradually I felt that if I was ever going to have a happy life, it was going to have to do with poetry," he said.
He attended Princeton University, where he was roommates with future US poet laureate WS Merwin, who introduced him to the works of WB Yeats.
Merwin told Associated Press he and Kinnell had been "like brothers" and remembered his friend as a "very generous soul".
He praised the poet's work as "warm hearted" and the creations of "someone who was independent but felt sympathy with other people".
Kinnell's breakthrough poem came in 1960, with The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World - a 14-part work about Avenue C in Manhattan and the people that walked the street.
He served as poet laureate for Vermont from 1989 to 1993, and moved there in 2005.
The Academy of American Poets later gave him the Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement in 2010.
He married his first wife, Spanish translator Ines Delgado de Torres, in 1965 and had two children, Fergus and Maud, but divorced 20 years later. He married second wife Barbara in 1997.
The singer died in April 2016 at his Paisley Park studios, from an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl.
He did not leave a will and did not have any children.
Reports place the value of his estate at around $200m (£153m), though taxes will likely absorb around half of that.
In a protracted legal battle, as many as 45 people have staked a claim to the fortune, including a prisoner in Colorado who wrongly claimed to be Prince's son.
Last July, a judge rejected claims by 29 would-be heirs, and ordered genetic tests to be carried out on others.
Prince's assets include properties and the rights to his music, including hits like Let's Go Crazy and When Doves Cry, and previously unreleased material.
District judge Kevin Eide said that those people denied the status of heirs must have time to appeal against the ruling.
As a result, Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, and five half-siblings - Sharon Nelson, Norrine Nelson, John Nelson, Omarr Baker and Alfred Jackson - must wait another year to get their share of the millions.
The music icon's estate has struck deals to make his albums available by streaming, and is planning a series of releases including a remastered Purple Rain album, two albums of unreleased tracks, and two concert films.
Medicines regulator NICE has recommended that Translarna can be used for some children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
However, it will only be given to those who can still walk.
Leo Le Gal, from Ivybridge, lost the use of his legs two years ago - shortly before he began testing the drug.
The uncertainty over his future follows an announcement by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence that Translarna - also known as ataluren - will only be made available to about 50 children in the UK under a "managed access agreement" between the manufacturer, PTC Therapeutics and NHS England.
Those aged five years and over and who can still walk will be given the drug for five years while further data is collected on its efficiency.
Leo, who was diagnosed with DMD five years ago, has been taking part in a three-year international clinical trial at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
For the first year of the trial - when he could still walk - Leo was taking a placebo and was only transferred to Translarna after he lost the use of his legs.
A placebo is an inactive substance with no medicinal benefits used in trials to determine the effectiveness of a medicinal drug.
Leo's mother, Ruth Le Gal, said while it was "fantastic news" that a drug which could help DMD children would be funded by the NHS, her son's future was uncertain.
"It's great for all those children that will be eligible but sadly Leo won't because, unfortunately he lost the ability to walk before he was able to start taking the medicine," she told BBC News.
Despite not been able to help Leo's legs, his mother said Translarna has stabilised his condition and has been very beneficial.
"He's done really, really well and the medication has maintained his core strength, so he's still got good use of his arms" she said.
Leo's clinical trial is due to finish in six weeks.
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The six Super League teams will take part in a round-robin T20 competition between 10 and 26 August.
The top three teams will then play at finals day on 1 September at Hove.
BBC radio will broadcast every round of the Women's Super League in an extension of last summer's coverage.
BBC Test Match Special producer Adam Mountford said: "This continues our commitment to covering the women's game which has recently included commentary on all of England's home fixtures plus coverage overseas during the tour to the West Indies last October, and the ICC Women's World T20 in India in March."
You will be able to keep up to date with the twists and turns of the whole tournament via BBC radio, online and the BBC Sport App, plus regular podcasts rounding up all the latest action.
DX Group said police had launched a preliminary investigation centred on its DX Exchange operations, after "an allegation" was made against the group.
DX said it was "co-operating fully" with the police.
It comes as the two firms close in on a planned merger of distribution arms.
In a stock market announcement, DX said: "The board of DX announces that it has been notified by the City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate of an allegation that has been made against the company which has resulted in the commencement of a preliminary investigation centred on the DX Exchange operations.
"The investigation is at a very early stage. The board of DX received the details of the allegation on 7 June 2017 and is co-operating fully with the City of London Police.
"A further announcement will be made when appropriate."
Reacting to the news, Edinburgh-based Menzies said: "The board of John Menzies plc notes the announcement made this morning by DX (Group) plc.
"The board of John Menzies is considering its position and will make a further announcement as and when appropriate."
This week an activist investor at DX ended its opposition to the proposed merger between DX and Menzies' distribution unit, after the companies agreed revised terms.
Gatemore Capital Management had threatened to block the original deal unless it was "markedly improved".
Under a revised deal, DX agreed to buy Menzies Distribution for £40m in cash and issue new ordinary shares representing 65% of the enlarged firm.
At the time of that announcement, both companies said they expected the transaction to be completed during the summer.
Reina is a glitzy venue, known for attracting famous singers, actors and sports stars. It also attracts a wide range of nationalities.
Among the 39 people killed, the biggest single nationality was Turkish, but some two-thirds of the dead were from other countries.
Here are some of those we know a little about.
One of the three Lebanese people who lost their lives in the attack, Elias Wardini was a personal trainer. He had travelled to Istanbul to celebrate the New Year with his friends.
His final post on Instagram shows him in Istanbul with Rita Chami, 25, who also died in the attack.
The third Lebanese citizen killed was Haikal Mussalem, 39, who owned a fitness club. His wife survived the arrack.
The Jordanian parliament held a moment of silence on Tuesday for two men who died in the attack. They were Nawras Assaf and Mohammad Al-Sarraf, who were celebrating New Year's Eve in Istanbul along with their wives, who were both injured but survived.
Leanne Nasser, 18, an Arab-Israeli from the northern town of Tira, is thought to be the youngest victim. She went to Istanbul with several friends.
Israeli officials said her family tried to persuade her not to go due to recent attacks. One of her friends was wounded in the nightclub attack.
Leanne's uncle Rani said: "It's so hard to understand. A few days ago we could hold her and now she is gone."
Among the Turkish victims was Hatice Koc, who was working as a private security guard deployed specially for the New Year celebrations.
After December's bomb attack on a stadium in Istanbul, which killed 44, she wrote on Facebook: "You were the place I had the pleasure of coming to, the place I looked forward to being deployed to. Now it'll always hurt when I see you."
Another security guard, Fatih Cakmak, who survived that attack on the Besiktas stadium, was killed while working at the Reina nightclub.
His brother said he was a courageous man, who "fought day and night to make a living".
Burak Yildiz, a 22-year-old police officer, was shot dead outside the club.
Anadolu news agency reported that his body was being transported for burial in the southern city of Mersin.
Mustafa Sezgin Seymen, 32, travelled to Istanbul to take part in New Year festivities with his fiancee, Sezan Arseven.
She posted a picture of them together on Facebook and wrote: "I lost my other half. I lost my partner, my love."
A friend described him as "generous, lively, a person [that] cannot be described with words".
Local media reports say that Ayhan Arik, 47, a Turkish travel agent and father of two, was shot dead outside the club.
A relative said: "He was talking to the police officer in front - turns out they were born in the same city. He used to work at a tourism agency, taking tourists on tour."
Flags in the Belgian town of Houthalen-Helchteren were lowered to half-mast to remember Mehmet Kerim Akyil, 23.
Originally from Kayseri in Turkey, he managed a restaurant with his father and had gone to Istanbul for New Year with his girlfriend.
Houthalen-Helchteren mayor Alain Yzermans said he was well known in the town for being a sociable and open person.
Yunus Gormek, also 23, was working at the Reina nightclub at the time of the attack.
A relative wrote on Twitter: "We lost Yunus Gormek, who worked for Reina, in the horrible attack... he was working to pay for his education."
Alaa Al-Muhandia was a mother of two from Milton, Ontario. She had spent the last few months in Jordan and had travelled to Istanbul to ring in the new year. Her family described her as an "outgoing, optimistic and loving person".
Seven of those who died were from Saudi Arabia. Among them were twins Mohammed and Ahmed Saud Al-Fadl, 24, who had just graduated from university, and Lubna Ghaznawi, 24.
Abis Rizvi was a 49-year-old Bollywood producer who co-wrote Roar: The Tigers of Sunderbans in 2014. He was working on a second film.
He was one of two Indians killed. The other was Khushi Shah, a Mumbai fashion designer in her 20s.
Husband and wife Mohamed Azzabi and Senda Nakaa left behind a five-month old orphan. Ms Nakaa was also a citizen of France, and the French ambassador to Tunisia said his country would treat the baby as a ward of the state.
Bulent Sirvan Osman, a married father-of-two, was on a business trip to Turkey.
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Are players right to take evasive action? Can diving ever be condoned or is it simply cheating?
Former England winger Trevor Sinclair, 41, tells BBC Sport he believes no player plans to dive but argues that hitting the deck is sometimes the only option.
Ex-Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton striker Gordon Watson, 43, was widely criticised for a dive during a 6-1 defeat by Leeds when he was at the Owls in 1992. He says the controversy that followed the incident set his career back by a year.
And BBC Sport pundit Kevin Kilbane, 38, who began his career with Preston, believes Rooney was focused only on gaining an advantage for his team.
Sinclair: "I've got quite firm views about diving. If there's no contact and it's not a case of a player taking evasive action, then certainly I'm all for that being stamped out.
"But if you're an offensive player and a defender comes flying in at 100 miles per hour and that causes you to lose momentum, then I think players are entitled to go down.
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"People are naïve if they think players are going to stay on their feet. A player has a right to go down, football is not this Walt Disney world a lot of people think it is."
Watson: "No one in my dressing room battered me for the dive. I was the baby of the squad.
"Not once in my career did I see a player take stick for diving. You are looking to win a game and that may sound cut-throat but it's win at all costs. That's what players think."
"It's not Diego Maradona handballing the ball into the net. It's still the referee's decision at the end of the day, he doesn't have to give a penalty."
Kilbane: "All Rooney was thinking was 'can I gain an advantage for my team?' The worst that could happen was he would have been booked and it came at a key time because it killed the game for Preston.
"I don't imagine it was spoken about in the dressing room after the game. If it was, it would probably just be as a laugh between team-mates."
Sinclair: "No. Some players might get into a situation on the pitch, perhaps when they get into the box, and have it in the back of their mind that they will go down but I do not believe that any player goes into a match planning to dive.
"For some players, it's a choice between taking evasive action or spending a few weeks on the medical table."
Watson: "A lot of players invite it. The one I don't like which has come into the game in recent seasons is when a player dangles his leg into a defender to get tangled up. That is gamesmanship.
"Sometimes they look like a dive but it's not. Players are travelling at such speed these days and they may go over someone but they haven't dived. If we look at replays of the same incident in slow motion we are not looking at the same thing."
Kilbane: "It's definitely instinctive. It's ingrained more in some players than others and that's why it happens more with some than others but I don't believe any player goes out thinking 'I'm going to win a penalty today'."
Sinclair: "I don't think so. A lot of it is about better defending. They need to stay on their feet and defend properly and then the referee would not have a decision to make. I'm a coach at Lancaster City. One of our main messages to our players is to stay on their feet and be disciplined."
Watson: "Trevor Francis was my manager and he'd not encourage it but he always told us, if you get clipped in the box, go down. He used to say that all the time."
Kilbane: "You might get a manager asking a player why he didn't go down in the area after a match but I don't think a manager would tell a player before a match to go down."
Sinclair: "If you get a reputation for diving, it's probably because you have been diving. If decisions start going against you because of it then it's something you need to put right by not going down as easily and possibly taking a few whacks.
"It's not cheating. It's almost an unwritten rule that if you get your body between the defender and the ball then he can't touch you.
"He can't slide down the side and he can't tackle you from behind. If you feel contact, you go down."
Watson: "Saint and Greavsie (TV pundits Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves) battered me. It was on the back page of The Sun and they called me a cheat.
"That put me back about 12 months. My confidence was shot, every ground I went to I was slaughtered. I had to grow up pretty quickly.
"These days there are 15 games a week on TV and it's very different. Diving was in its infancy when I did it and it made the reaction a bit different."
Kilbane: "We've seen it recently with certain players getting a reputation and increasingly it is not just players from overseas. Diving used to be known as the 'foreign disease' but Premier League players of all nationalities have been accused of diving.
"This is not the first time Wayne Rooney has faced criticism - he was accused of diving against Arsenal to end their unbeaten run in 2004-05."
Sinclair: "I was too honest and too dumb. I was from an era in the late 1980s and early 1990s when offensive players did not get a lot of protection from referees. I wish I'd played when referees protected offensive players better because I'm sure I would have played more matches.
Watson: "It's the most disgraceful dive you'll ever see. My son still batters me for it. Live on TV, 19 million people watching as it was the only game on TV that week.
"We were playing Leeds, a local derby, we lost 6-1 and I remember Chris Whyte clipping the back of my ankle, I took a step and went down.
"I had players screaming in my face and I had no idea why but when I watched it back I thought it was unbelievably bad. It was the fact I took a step before going down, I over-egged it."
Kilbane: "I genuinely don't think I did. I'm sure someone will correct me on this but, hand on heart, I don't think I ever dived."
For the fourth quarter it expects profits of $1.6bn to $1.9bn, less than half the $4.2bn it made a year ago.
It expects full year profits of $10.4bn to $10.7bn, below its $10.8bn guidance.
The oil firm has issued the preliminary results to enable investors to have up-to-date information on its performance ahead of the vote on 27 January.
Its shares fell 3.7% in early trading.
But chief executive Ben van Beurden said he was "pleased" with the results.
"The completion of the BG transaction, which we are expecting in a matter of weeks, will mark the start of a new chapter in Shell, to rejuvenate the company, and improve shareholder returns," he added.
Royal Dutch Shell's results are calculated on the basis of replacement cost, which reflects the current cost of supplies and is widely seen as the best measure of an oil firm's underlying performance.
In April, Shell announced it had agreed to buy oil and gas exploration firm BG Group in a £47bn deal.
At the time oil was trading at around $55 a barrel, but has fallen sharply since then and is currently trading at around $28 a barrel, leading some to question the logic of the tie-up.
Standard Life, a key investor in Royal Dutch Shell, said earlier this month that the price of oil needed to be $60 a barrel for the takeover to make financial sense.
Despite the opposition, David Hunter, an energy industry analyst with Schneider Electric, said the deal was likely to be voted through.
"It's clear that it's a challenging deal but clearly there is the expectation that at some point in the future the oil price will recover.
"BG's production is increasing 16% year-on -year and it is attractive to Shell for diversification," he told the BBC.
Shell reiterated on Wednesday that it had cut operating costs by $4bn, or around 10%, in 2015, and expected to cut costs by a further $3bn this year. It has already said it will cut 10,000 staff if the deal with BG Group goes ahead and it said synergies though its tie-up with BG would be on top of the cost savings already outlined.
In a separate announcement, BG Group said its oil production for 2015 would be better than it had outlined due to an increase in output from fields in Australia, Brazil and Norway.
The firm said its LNG shipping and marketing unit, one of the main attractions for Shell, will report 2015 core earnings of at least $1.4bn, in line with expectations, it said.
"Our excellent operational performance in 2015 is expected to deliver results in line with, or ahead of, our guidance for the year," said BG chief executive Helge Lund.
BG shareholders will vote on the deal on 28 January, which requires the support of 50% of Shell shareholders and 75% of BG shareholders to go ahead.
If investors do approve, the deal is expected to complete by February 15.
The drop in the price of oil has been driven by oversupply, mainly due to US shale oil flooding the market.
At the same time, demand has fallen because of a slowdown in economic growth in China and Europe.
The world's energy watchdog warned on Tuesday that the market could "drown in oversupply".
The International Energy Agency, which advises countries on energy policy, said it expected the global glut to last until at least late 2016.
Investors fear the lifting of Western sanctions on Iran could worsen the existing oversupply problem, with the country's deputy oil minister Roknoddin Javadi predicting it can produce an extra 500,000 barrels per day.
Algeria was the only North African country to qualify for the 2014 World Cup, but the latest controversy raises doubts over the country's footballing future.
A media investigation has suggested that corruption was common in Algerian football clubs, due to a lack of consistent regulation.
Algerian sports commentators and fans are now blaming the government and Algerian Football Federation.
The damning report by London-based Al-Arabi al-Jadid on 27 January says that the four recent cases are not unique, and highlights 10 other instances where players tested positive for drug use since 2013.
At a nightclub in trendy western Algiers, where players allegedly buy and use amphetamines and other drugs, an employee told the paper that footballers frequented the club to "let off steam and get amphetamines and other drugs, which they believe will enhance their performance on the pitch".
And, medical experts told Algeria's El-Khabar newspaper that the football industry was in "chaos" since no doctors were assigned to clubs on a regular basis, and club management was too "centralised" - opening the door for corruption.
The Confederation of African Football banned Belaili for two years from national and international football. Some of the other players were suspended for up to four years or are undergoing investigation.
All the players denied taking illicit substances, with some claiming that they had been under the impression that they were taking vitamin supplements.
For its part, the Algerian Football Federation has said it will enforce more stringent testing for performance-enhancing and social drugs, requesting that football clubs supply information on training schedules in order to monitor players more regularly.
But El-Khabar described these measures as merely "cosmetic" and inconsistently enforced.
A number of papers also recall previous allegations of "systematic, involuntary" doping, after the children of a number of players in the national team which reached the 1982 and 1986 World Cups were born with severe disabilities.
The players ordered an investigation into the national team coach from the time.
Algerian authorities have not commented on the allegations and the investigation has yet to take place. However, one of those affected, midfielder Mohamed Kaci-Said, has said "doubts persist until an inquiry has been opened and the truth told".
An article in Algeria's French language daily El-Watan attributes drug use among players to "disproportionately high salaries" coupled with young players' "lack of maturity".
Algerian Echourouk Sports website directly asks whether the controversy will have an impact on the country's possible participation in the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
While some commentators also attribute the use of drugs to salaries and lack of responsibility, others make more outlandish claims - that players such as Belaili were victims of a "conspiracy" against Algerian football.
Although government and football officials have not commented on the reported increase in the use of stimulants, Algeria's state-owned news agency APS discussed the "shattered dreams of a number of promising sports stars" and noted that this may pose a significant setback to Algeria's performance in the 2016 African Nations Championship.
Several Twitter hashtags were launched expressing solidarity with the Algerian player, including: #JeSuisBelaili, #Solidarite_Avec_Belaili and #WeAreAllYoucef.
Algerian football commentator Hafid Derradji criticized the campaign in the press, saying Belaili was fully responsible "morally, legally, and as a sportsman".
But, he also demanded that sports journalists accept responsibility for allegedly creating the problem "by justifying Belaili's behaviour and feeding his ego".
One reader responded: "Perhaps we should go back to a time when Algerian footballers weren't paid so much, they played well, and their only stimulants were bread and olive oil."
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Ms Rudd wants more gas-fired stations to be built since relying on "polluting" coal is "perverse".
Only if gas-fuelled power can fill the void created by closing coal-powered stations would coal plants be shut, she said.
Environmentalists are concerned little is being done to promote renewables.
Announcing the consultation, Ms Rudd said: "Frankly, it cannot be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to be relying on polluting, carbon-intensive 50-year-old coal-fired power stations.
"Let me be clear: this is not the future.
"We need to build a new energy infrastructure, fit for the 21st century."
Former US vice president Al Gore, an active campaigner for clean energy, described the announcement as an "excellent and inspiring precedent".
If coal power plants are able to install carbon capture and storage (CCS) before 2025, they would not be closed. CCS has long been mooted as the answer to cleaning up coal plants, but very little progress has been made in developing the technology, with just one commercial scale plant currently operating in the world.
Currently, coal provides about a quarter of the UK's electricity, but Ms Rudd said: "We are tackling a legacy of underinvestment and ageing power stations which we need to replace with alternatives that are reliable, good value for money and help to reduce emissions."
Ms Rudd also said investment in nuclear power was vital to the government's policy.
"Gas is central to our energy-secure future," she said. "So is nuclear."
She believes that plans for new nuclear power stations, including those at Wylfa in Wales, Moorside in Cumbria and Hinkley Point in Somerset, could eventually provide almost a third of the low carbon electricity the UK needs.
The speech comes amid concerns in some quarters that the UK could suffer from blackouts as a result of short supplies, brought about in large part from the closure of a number of power stations that have come to the end of their working lives.
Tony Lodge, who has published a report on the UK's energy needs for the free-market think tank Centre for Policy Studies, said Britain was on the verge of an "energy crisis" with electricity demand set to outstrip available supply in the near future.
However, National Grid and many experts have dismissed these concerns. The Grid says it has plenty of gas and enough electricity to get through the winter without any disruptions.
Successive governments have highlighted our energy dilemma - the need to keep the lights on, while cutting greenhouse gases and ensuring energy is affordable for consumers.
Today the Energy Secretary Amber Rudd will focus on energy security and keeping prices as low as possible.
But for the world's first industrialised nation to end coal-powered generation sends a strong signal ahead of the UN Climate summit in Paris.
All the major parties had signed up to phasing out coal. The previous government's projections saw it falling to 1% by 2025.
The big question is how to ensure gas plants are built to replace it. Only one large plant is under construction today. Another, which secured a subsidy last year, is struggling to find investors.
The government was criticised earlier this year for cutting renewable energy subsidies.
Ms Rudd said that such subsidies must be carefully focused on technologies that offer the best value for money, fitting into a "consumer-led, competition-focused energy system".
It has slashed solar subsidies and will cut those for onshore wind next year.
Professor Paul Ekins, an expert on resources and environmental policy at University College London, said the government had "abandoned" the cheapest forms of low carbon power - onshore wind and solar energy.
He said: "We need some gas fired stations, but in tandem with investment in renewables and nuclear. It is the investment in renewables that is being cut back to an enormous extent."
He said the government kept changing course on its energy policy and this was discouraging investment.
Ms Rudd's speech comes ahead of the UN summit on climate change in Paris in December, aimed at securing a new global climate change agreement.
Environmental group Friends of the Earth welcomed the phasing out of coal, but criticised the new emphasis on gas.
"Switching from coal to gas is like an alcoholic switching from two bottles of whisky a day to two bottles of port," senior energy campaigner Simon Bullock said.
The GMB union's national secretary for energy Brian Strutton welcomed Ms Rudd's statement but added: "Government needs to get on with addressing the urgent need for nuclear power stations and gas-fired stations to supply reliable power.
"The investment will only happen when the framework is right, which it is not now."
Environmentalists say nuclear and gas power are not the cheapest form of energy in the long run. Not only are renewable energies cleaner, they say, but because there are no fuel costs - the sun and the wind are free - then ultimately these technologies offer better value for money.
The UK cannot rely on renewables alone yet, however, as they are variable, so improvements in energy storage technologies are needed.
Feeley's Fish and Chip Shop revealed the unusual request on its Facebook page on Friday.
The online order asked the driver to stop and get cold and flu tablets.
"I'll give you the money, only ordering food so I can get the tablets Im dying sick," it added.
The chip shop posted the note online and said: "Good to see customers making use of the 'add comments' section!"
The post has attracted more than 8,000 likes on Facebook and more than 1,000 comments.
It later posted a picture of the medicine and added a message of "get well soon" to the customer.
The shop also said on Facebook that they would send a free meal if the woman let them know when she is better.
She replied: "Yous are real angels will do."
Ofcom said that Openreach will become a distinct company with its own staff, management and strategy "to serve all of its customers equally".
It must consult with customers such as Sky and TalkTalk on major investments.
Ofcom boss Sharon White told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "we can now expect better service from Openreach".
Openreach controls the fibre connections, ducts and pipes behind the UK's broadband infrastructure and sells access to BT's rivals, such as TalkTalk and Sky.
The regulator had threatened to force BT to legally separate Openreach.
However, Ofcom said on Friday that the company had agreed to all of the changes needed to address its competition concerns.
"As a result, Ofcom will no longer need to impose these changes through regulation. The reforms have been designed to begin this year."
BT's rivals such as Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone, which use Openreach's network to offer broadband to consumers, have long complained of high charges, poor service and failure to invest in the division.
Ms White called it a "significant day" for phone and broadband users and pledged to "carefully monitor" how the revamped Openreach performs.
Sky welcomed the announcement: "A more independent Openreach is a step towards delivering better service to customers and the investment that the UK needs. It's important that today's agreement is now implemented by BT in good faith and without delay."
Dido Harding, chief executive of TalkTalk, said: "We hope this is the start of a new deal for Britain's broadband customers, who will be keen to see a clear timetable from Openreach setting out when their services will improve."
Vodafone said it is "an encouraging start".
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said: "Now we need to see this deal implemented, along with significant improvements to Openreach's service standards, and increased investment by Openreach in the country's digital infrastructure."
BT chief executive Gavin Patterson said the deal, reached after two years of negotiations with Ofcom, meant Openreach would have its own board and make its own investment decisions. However, he admitted that BT would set the overall budget.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The BT board will set the annual budget. As the 100% shareholder, the owner of the company that's not unreasonable."
It has been a lengthy, not to say tortuous, saga but now the battle over the future of BT - and the UK's broadband infrastructure - appears to be over.
A legal separation of Openreach and BT may not satisfy those who feel the parent company should have been forced to sell the broadband division.
But even fierce critics such as Sky and TalkTalk appear to be accepting that this is a more realistic option. A forced sell-off could have meant a lengthy legal battle that would not have done anything to speed up the rollout of superfast broadband at a crucial time.
But will customers see any difference? The accusations had been that Openreach delivered a poor service, favoured BT over other suppliers and was pressured to deliver cash to fund the acquisition of expensive sports rights.
That last charge was always denied by BT - but it accepts that it needs to do better when it comes to serving customers.
Will an Openreach run by an independent board suddenly see an economic case for investing billions more in fast fibre broadband connections right into homes when BT did not? That seems doubtful.
The other question is whether BT's shareholders will be happy to see a vital part of their company sail off on its own. They still own Openreach but have little control. Maybe they will end up feeling it would be better just to sell it off and say goodbye.
Under the agreement, Openreach chief executive Clive Selley will report to its chairman, Mike McTighe. However, the boss will still have to report to Mr Patterson on legal, fiduciary and regulatory issues.
BT's chief executive can veto the appointment of Openreach's boss, but only after notifying Ofcom.
Openreach's 32,000 staff will transfer from BT to allow the new business to "develop its own distinct organisational culture".
Mr Patterson said the agreement would end a "period of uncertainty" for staff. "We have listened to criticism of our business and as a result are willing to make fundamental changes to the way Openreach will work in the future," he said.
He also admitted that Openreach's service has "not been where it needed to be" and said the separation would improve the situation.
The BT logo will also be removed from Openreach's branding.
Shares in BT jumped 4.3% to 344.2p in morning trading in London.
George Salmon at Hargreaves Lansdown said keeping Openreach as part of BT, but with its own board and brand, "should put to bed any lingering concerns investors may have had over this potentially disruptive issue".
RSPB Scotland said the issue was the result of an "administrative error".
The work was carried out at the Dyke and Forsinain commercial forestry plantations in Sutherland.
It was part of a long-running deep peatland restoration project which was removing conifer plantations from the Flow Country.
The vast peat bogs of the far north of Scotland are seen as internationally important.
They store large quantities of carbon and support a wide range of plant and animal species.
Felling at Dyke was halted in March 2015 when it was discovered that licences had lapsed the previous month.
In addition, a licence application for the felling operations at Forsinain had not been completed.
Forestry Commission Scotland referred the matter to the procurator fiscal but it has now been decided no further action should be taken.
RSPB spokesman Dr Pete Mayhew said: "We welcome the decision by the procurator fiscal and look forward to moving ahead with our important peatland restoration work under a forest plan agreed with Forestry Commission Scotland.
"To ensure there is no repetition of this unfortunate incident, we have undertaken a complete and thorough review of our operating procedures and strengthened them significantly so that we can focus on our work restoring the internationally important peatlands of the Flow Country."
The removal of conifer plantations on the deep peatland of the Flow Country has long been seen as a priority by conservationists.
The RSPB says that since the mid-1990s, more than 2,000 hectares of conifers have been felled and the land restored to blanket bog.
Similar work has been carried out by Forestry Commission Scotland and private landowners.
Dr Mayhew added: "RSPB Scotland is proud of its record in removing thousands of inappropriately planted trees over the last two decades and we deeply regret that, in this instance, felling took place without the proper documentation in place."
A spokesman for Forestry Commission Scotland said: "We take a very serious view of any offence against the felling requirements of the Forestry Act.
"In line with normal practice when there is an unauthorised felling of this scale and significance, a thorough report was produced and submitted to the procurator fiscal.
"It is for the procurator fiscal to decide whether or not to take forward any prosecution and in this case they decided not to do so.
"We have issued formal warning letters to the parties involved and met senior staff from both RSPB and their contractors to ensure their procedures are revised to avoid such incidents in the future."
A Crown Office spokesman said: "Following full and careful consideration of the facts and circumstances of this case, including a number of mitigating circumstances, the procurator fiscal decided that there should be no criminal proceedings at this time.
"The Crown reserves the right to proceed in the future."
Exeter wing Nowell twisted his knee against Gloucester, while Saracens lock Kruis was concussed against Harlequins and taken off on a stretcher.
But, in front of new England boss Eddie Jones, Tuilagi came off the bench for Leicester as they beat Northampton.
Saints hooker Dylan Hartley missed the game because of a "bang to the ribs".
England's Six Nations campaign begins against Scotland on 6 February and Jones is due to reveal his first England elite squad squad since taking over from Stuart Lancaster on Wednesday.
He now has more injury worries to add to centre Henry Slade, back row Dave Ewers, lock Ed Slater, prop Kieran Brookes and wing Jonny May, who is out for the season with a knee injury.
Nowell injured his knee in the 19-10 victory over the luckless May's club, Gloucester, although the extent of the injury is not yet known.
Exeter backs coach Ali Hepher said Nowell had picked up a "twisted knee" and would be "assessed in the week", but added: "Sometimes the least painful ones can be the longest out."
Kruis was struck by the swinging arm of James Horwill just 90 seconds into the 29-23 defeat by Harlequins at the Twickenham Stoop and was tended to by medics for eight minutes before being carried off on a stretcher.
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall said: "George is fine. There is nothing wrong other than the concussion. He was knocked out. He'll do the normal checks."
He will now be assessed ahead of Saturday's Champions Cup match with Ulster.
Tuilagi played his first game since suffering a serious groin injury in October 2014.
The 24-year-old managed 20 minutes after coming on in the second half of the thrilling 30-27 win against Northampton.
He was a late inclusion on the Leicester bench, with his appearance in the match-day squad only announced less than an hour before kick-off as Leicester looked to dampen down excitement ahead of his return.
And Leicester boss Richard Cockerill urged caution over the block-busting centre's fitness for the Six Nations opener at Murrayfield.
He said: "I will speak to Eddie [Jones] in the next few days. Manu will keep improving, but the start of the Six Nations is unrealistic because we need to make sure he is 100% right."
Northampton hooker Hartley, a contender for the England captaincy, was forced to withdraw from the Saints replacements shortly before the game with a rib injury.
Northampton boss Jim Mallinder said: "He got a bang to his ribs last week. He trained a little bit in the week but at the last minute, he was just too sore to play today. He is not going to be out for a long time."
The Schull Community rescue boat brought in the body which was found on Tuesday, south of Schull.
The fisherman had set out on trip on Monday morning and the alarm was raised after he failed to return that evening.
Local rescue boats, the LÉ Orla and a coast guard helicopter were involved in the search.
The person has yet to be formally identified.
The move, a day after Sauber cancelled their planned switch to Honda engines next year, is a continuation of a relationship that started in 2010.
Sources say the deal is likely to see French Formula 2 frontrunner Charles Leclerc, a Ferrari protege, promoted to Formula 1 with Sauber in 2018.
The deal is for latest-spec engines the Ferrari works team will use - Sauber are using year-old engines this season.
The team this year run Swede Marcus Ericsson and German Pascal Wehrlein. Ericsson's backers are part-owners of the team but Wehrlein is funded by Mercedes.
Team principal Frederic Vasseur said the partnership would "allow us to move forward swiftly and efficiently".
The facility would prevent jihadists from spreading their extremist ideology to the rest of society, he said.
The country's anti-terror law allows security forces to detain people suspected of terrorist activities for a long period without charge.
Kenya is battling home-grown militants linked to Islamist group al-Shabab, which is part of al-Qaeda.
In 2011, Kenyan troops entered neighbouring Somalia in an effort to stop the jihadists from carrying cross border attacks and kidnapping people.
Speaking at the passing-out parade of more than 2,000 prison wardens, Mr Kenyatta said additional money would be provided to meet logistical and operational requirements of the prison service.
The country's correctional facilities have previously been described as inhumane, with some of them heavily overpopulated, reports the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza from the capital, Nairobi.
At the moment, only death row inmates are kept in separate prison blocks from the rest of the convicts, he says.
It is not clear when and where the new prison will be set up.
Kenya contributes more than 4,000 troops to the 22,000-strong African Union force that is in Somalia helping the UN-backed government battle al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab in Kenya
Al-Shabab has staged numerous attacks in Kenya. It killed 147 people at Garissa University, near the border with Somalia, on 2 April 2015.
It killed 68 people when it attacked Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre in 2013.
There are also regular gun and grenade attacks attributed to the group both in border areas, where many Kenyans are ethnic Somalis, and in Nairobi.
Al-Shabab has also set up a recruiting network in Kenya, especially around the port city of Mombasa, which has a large Muslim population.
From ancient times to the present day, security, codes and puzzles have been intertwined, as have the people who have tried to crack those codes to read messages they were never meant to see.
During World War Two, the code-cracking centre at Bletchley Park was known to recruit people who were a dab hand at solving crosswords and other puzzles. The thinking was that success at those challenges demonstrated an ability that could aid attempts to crack German codes and ciphers.
In the modern day, the ability to work through a problem and decipher it is essential to anyone who works in cybersecurity, partly because a lot of what they do involves working out what is going on with less than perfect knowledge.
The puzzles below have been drawn up with the help of the team behind the UK's Cyber Security Challenge, which uses similar tests to find people who are good at problem solving who could be of use for attacking and defending computer networks.
They range in difficulty from simple to knotty and fiendish. We will let you know the answers next week.
Good luck.
This first puzzle is pretty straightforward. You even get the key. Use it to decipher the questions and then choose the right answer.
This time there is no key to help decipher this short string of numbers, so it is a bit harder. However, here is a hint - once deciphered the string will reveal the name of a famous maths code that uses numbers.
5 8 1 14 13 0 2 2 8 18 4 16 20 4 13 2 4
Code-breaking was practiced in Roman times: Julius Caesar was known to use a code to securely send messages to his armies. This message uses a type of cipher named after the Emperor to conceal its meaning. When you crack it you will find out where he kept his armies.
X S K L V V O H H Y L E V
Now the puzzles get more tricky. This code does not use numbers and letters to hide what it says. Instead, it swaps those familiar characters for symbols. Once cracked, the following message reveals who famously made use of this type of enciphering and the name of the technique. Here is a hint: it requires a code that shares its name with a place where a smelly farm animal is kept.
Challenge Five
This one is a real step up in difficulty. It can probably be done by trial and error, but it will be quicker to work out the rules governing the substitution and apply them. The key to cracking the message is elementary and you may find it easier to sit at a table rather than a desk to crack it.
Breaking the cipher will reveal a question. The solution is the answer to that question.
81, 1, 68, 59, 68, 86, 53, 76, 105, 53, 24, 22, 89, 5, 57, 68, 77, 50, 89, 81, 85, 4, 113, 71, 95, 86, 47, 44, 45, 33, 11, 64, 99, 12, 63, 10, 73, 8, 87, 52, 67, 68, 24, 72, 63, 25, 77, 6, 13, 3, 68, 57, 63, 101, 99, 60, 43, 14, 76, 88, 64, 47, 7, 53, 50, 99, 66, 76, 60, 22, 1, 99, 5, 47, 62, 53, 106, 8, 9, 81, 2, 68, 53, 75, 89, 52, 8, 25, 77, 27, 28, 113, 42, 4, 63, 75, 34, 63, 71, 63, 27, 52, 88, 76, 11, 17, 8, 11, 26, 77, 32, 113, 45, 13, 52, 77, 76, 11, 14, 13, 11, 66, 44, 63, 6, 114, 44, 37, 77, 7, 31, 6, 67, 63, 42, 77, 17, 13, 57, 84, 45, 8, 15, 63, 86, 43, 77, 68, 62, 74, 68, 23, 63, 92, 14, 68, 66, 53, 22, 52, 8, 24, 44, 68, 13, 81, 63, 18, 17, 53, 46, 72, 68, 44, 83, 39, 92, 62, 77, 28, 31, 52, 67, 63, 53, 28, 77, 43, 53, 13, 3, 3, 68, 65, 43, 63, 45, 34, 8, 26, 73, 67, 63, 68, 3, 63, 42, 68, 60, 65, 21, 4, 92, 73, 52, 74, 8, 57, 68, 65, 43, 63, 44, 38, 20, 13, 10, 52, 5, 63, 92, 50, 68, 66, 74, 67, 13, 81, 33, 75, 68, 81, 80, 63, 70?
Good work if you have got this far. This final challenging set of puzzles has three parts; when each one is completed it will reveal a quote from a well-known work of literature, whose author loved intellectual games of all kinds. Can you find all three?
Bear in mind while you are working on these that each puzzle is not necessarily just a cipher - there are some computer science basics mixed in. Each one is designed to be solved independently so if one of the puzzles defeats you then move on. Here's one final clue: Alice fell down a rabbit hole and left clues so Bob could find her...
The BBC would like to thank Bryony Chinnery and the UK's Cyber Security Challenge for helping to draw up this set of coding challenges.
The Ashton Gate club, back in the top tier for the first time since 2009, won just three league games as they made an immediate return to the Championship.
"We thought we were ready, with a squad that could compete, but we were wrong," Lansdown told BBC Radio Bristol.
"We've learnt a lot of hard lessons. No excuses, we got it wrong. I should have recognised the danger signs sooner."
In November, after losing their first 10 games of the season in all competitions, Bristol sacked director of rugby Andy Robinson - who had led them to promotion in 2016.
With Connacht boss Pat Lam not able to replace Robinson until this summer, Mark Tainton took interim charge until the end of the season, but despite a brief upturn in form, he was unable to keep them in the top flight.
"Off the pitch, I don't think we've covered ourselves in glory," Lansdown admitted.
"I should have perhaps stuck my oar in a bit earlier and said 'we need that change'.
"We started off very badly. We underestimated what the Premiership would do.
"Our players have got better over time, but we know we didn't get it right at the start of the season.
"We knew it was going to be tough but we felt we would be able to win the number of games to keep us there."
Bristol finished the campaign 13 points adrift of 11th-placed Worcester and 20 below 10th-placed Sale.
But major changes have already been made to their squad for next season, with Worcester Warriors flanker Chris Vui, Gloucester pair Mat Protheroe and Dan Thomas, and Sam Bedlow from Sale Sharks their most recent signings.
"We [thought we] had teams like Worcester and Newcastle in our sights, but they were miles ahead of us. I don't think they will be when we come back," said Lansdown.
"We've got to take our medicine now, step back and regroup. We need that extra class - I think we've brought that in now - and we need that development. The plan is in place.
"We've got to regenerate Bristol. We were stuck in a time warp, and we never actually got ourselves out of it when we got up to the Premiership. But we've been shaken up now and we are definitely out of it."
Steve Lansdown was speaking to the BBC's Damian Derrick.
A University College London team spoke to paediatricians at 177 hospitals in England and Wales and found poor knowledge on identifying underweight children and serious complications.
This was despite most respondents having experience of treating a child with an eating disorder.
The Royal College of Paediatrics said it was working to improve training.
Study leader Dr Lee Hudson from the Institute of Child Health, University College London, said more under-13s now presented with eating disorders than meningitis due to the success of vaccination programmes.
This shift in childhood illness may be one reason why his research suggested a lack of knowledge on spotting underweight children and the associated medical problems, he added.
In the study, one on-call paediatrician was questioned in every hospital providing acute in-patient care for children.
During a phone interview they were asked how they would identify if a child was underweight and what clinical examinations they would carry out to check for severe or potentially life-threatening complications.
Only half said they would use Body Mass Index to decide if older children or adolescents were underweight, as advised in international guidelines.
And only one in five said they would adjust that for appropriate cut-offs in children.
There was also a lack of awareness of signs and symptoms of complications in children whose weight had dropped to seriously low levels.
The researchers were particularly concerned that only 13% knew a specific danger sign to look for in tests checking that the heart was working properly, the team reported in Archives of Diseases in Childhood.
Doctors also scored poorly on knowledge of dangerous complications associated with giving nutrition to someone who has not eaten for a while or is severely malnourished.
Dr Hudson said this was not a criticism of doctors because eating disorders tended to present with vague symptoms, but highlighted a gap in training.
"In addition to that, services for children with eating disorders are very hit and miss around the country."
But he stressed that as those surveyed would be the first paediatricians to assess such children, especially out of hours, they needed to know how to spot dangerously underweight children and teenagers and signs of severe complications.
"From previous research we know that a third of children who are underweight present with life-threatening features," he added.
Prof Russell Viner, a co-author of the study but also a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics Nutrition Committee, said the college was aware there was a training need around eating disorders and underweight issues.
"We are refreshing training on adolescent health," he said.
"And in association with the Department of Health and the Royal College of Psychiatry we are developing a training programme around mental health in adolescents."
Abrahams has previously worked under Reds coach Neil Tunnah and Australia boss Michael Cheika in his homeland.
The 22-year-old played seven games for Hartpury College last season as they gained promotion to the second tier.
Quarrie, 29, has played in New Zealand, Spain and France and also had a spell at Birmingham & Solihull in 2012.
The new arrivals come after Reds chairman Mark Morgan told BBC Radio Jersey they have had to make "significant" cuts to their playing budget this summer.
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It is the largest and most complex shoot ever to film in historic Old Town and other locations in the capital's city centre.
More than 400 crew have been working on the project, which started in the city on Wednesday.
The production's first schedule with cast in the city will be in mid-April.
Avengers: Infinity War stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olson and Paul Bettany.
The film is directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.
Mr Russo said: "When Edinburgh came up as a location option we jumped at the chance.
"The city is such a unique and iconic location, but one never seen as the backdrop for a big action film, which is incredibly exciting.
"We appreciate the entire city's help and are excited to have such a beautiful and historic city in the film."
Gavin Barrie, City of Edinburgh Council's economy convener, said: "Our cobbled streets, historic properties and stunning green spaces could set the scene for some of cinema's greatest superheroes and it is fantastic to secure such an A-list production.
"We know 40% of visitors to the UK are attracted to places they have seen on screen and the Marvel franchise offers a huge opportunity to promote Edinburgh all over the world.
"This is fantastic news for the city and our film industry.
"The council will do all it can to support Film Edinburgh and the producers and keep the city moving throughout the shoot."
Rosie Ellison, Film Edinburgh film manager, said: "This is the biggest production to ever film in the region.
"But crucially, it also clearly demonstrates Edinburgh has the infrastructure and process in place to accommodate major filming of this scale.
"The reinforcement of the Edinburgh Film Charter, which was ratified again a few years ago, has played a massive role in simplifying procedures and allowing the city to gear up and facilitate productions of all sizes.
"Film Edinburgh and the council have worked closely with the filmmakers for over a year to coordinate the smooth running of the location shoot in the region."
Former Conservative Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd called on ministers to "inject some urgency" into proceedings.
Labour peer Lord Morris called for a "time limit" on inquiries while Lib Dem Baroness Williams said lessons would be less relevant with the passage of time.
Government Minister Lord Hill said the inquiry determined its own timetable.
Iraq recently marked the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion which toppled Saddam Hussein.
The inquiry into the UK's involvement in the invasion and its aftermath, led by former civil servant Sir John Chilcot, began its work in 2009 and held its last public hearings in 2011.
Although Sir John has never set a deadline for completing the inquiry's work, it was initially hoped that it would be in a position to hand its report to the prime minister at the end of 2011 or by some point in 2012 at the latest.
However, the process has dragged on and in his latest update - in July 2012 - Sir John said he hoped to begin the process of contacting individuals criticised in the document to give them the opportunity to respond - an official process known as Maxwellisation - by this summer.
This means that the report could potentially be delayed until 2014.
Responding to a question on the issue in the House of Lords, Lord Hill said the government had no plans to discuss the inquiry's timetable with Sir John.
"It is very important that this inquiry is independent and it was set up very deliberately to be independent," he told peers. "It must consider the evidence it has got and reach its conclusions which we will all be able see in the fullness of time. It must have a free hand to do that."
But Lord Hurd urged his colleague to "inject a little bit of urgency into this process". He told peers: "The furthest we got today from him was to say we would have the benefit of the report in the fullness of time. In our experience, the fullness of time is fairly full."
Baroness Williams warned that the usefulness of the lessons depended on the "passage of time" and there was a "gap between the necessary and right attempts to give people the right to respond but also the importance of the conclusions on the future work of this government".
In response, Lord Hill acknowledged that for any lessons to be applicable in future, they must be presented within a "reasonable timeframe" but insisted the inquiry should not be "rushed".
Former Labour attorney general Lord Morris said he had "noticed a tendency for public inquiries to be longer, longer and longer".
He added: "I realise the need to collect all the material evidence and for all due processes to take place but should there not be, in future, a time limit imposed and only, in exceptional circumstances should an extension be granted."
In the past, Sir John has appeared to be express frustration at the length of time that it has taken for some government documents to be declassified so they could be referred to in the final report.
Cross-bench peer Lord Butler, who conducted his own inquiry in 2004 into the intelligence used to justify the decision to go to war, said Chilcot's terms of reference were "so wide as to be almost infinite".
"The timing of the publication of the report depends not just on the handling of the representations but the government's own clearance of what is to be included in the report. Will he undertake that this process will be done as quickly as the government can manage?"
Lord Hill said the Chilcot inquiry had made it clear that the process of de-classification was "working well" and the government would co-operate as fully as it could to "expedite the process of de-classification".
A spokesman for the Iraq Inquiry said it had nothing to add to Sir John's last update about the process. In July, Sir John said "extensive progress" had been made but the task was "complex and difficult" given the unprecedented scope of the period under review.
The final report, he added, would be about a million words long, about twice the size of literary epic War and Peace.
One hundred and seventy-nine British troops were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2009.
According to the US Department of Defense, 4,487 US military personnel were killed in Iraq between March 2003 and July 2010. The organisation Iraq Body Count says between 97,461 and 106,348 Iraqi citizens were killed over the same period.
The idea is one of a number aimed at helping Highland Council to cut carbon emissions and save money in a report sent to councillors.
Officers said the local authority could "promote use of warm clothing rather than supplementary heating".
A council spokesperson said it was not suggesting turning heating off.
"There are legal minimum temperatures for working conditions," the spokesperson said.
"We are not suggesting we reduce heating below the legal minimum. However, we often heat our buildings by several degrees warmer than this.
"By reviewing our practices, we could save thousands of pounds and, in the light of the budget savings required, we cannot afford to ignore this potential saving."
Highland Council has been working for several years to reduce its carbon footprint by trying to use less electricity and fuel.
Other suggestions in the new report include switching off computers when they are not in use, turning lights off where they are not needed and changing to more energy efficient LED lighting.
The BMW was pulled over in North Quay, Great Yarmouth, on Wednesday morning.
Norfolk and Suffolk Road Policing tweeted a photograph of the car and said "4m of guttering does not fit in a 2 door saloon. #RoadSafety".
On Friday, a car was stopped in Great Yarmouth with a wardrobe strapped to the roof with bubble wrap.
Police are yet to comment further on the latest incident but are deciding whether to prosecute the driver using a "clearly very dangerous" method to transport furniture.
Sgt Chris Harris tweeted an image and said the thin plastic was "not sufficient to secure a wardrobe to a car roof".
NHS Highland said two affected patients were still at Raigmore and were being treated in isolation.
A deep clean is now under way at 4C, which is a surgical ward.
NHS Highland chiefs said they were not treating the cases as an outbreak because they had not been traced to a common source.
Bradley Lowery. from Blackhall Colliery, near Hartlepool, has terminal neuroblastoma.
A 24-year-old from Hartlepool was arrested in December on suspicion of offences under the Malicious Communications Act.
Cleveland Police said the case remained open and inquiries were continuing.
Bradley, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2013, made headlines around the world after featuring as Sunderland Football Club's mascot.
Last year £700,000 was raised for him and treatment has now begun in hospital in a bid to prolong his life.
Drivers of "public carriage vehicles", which seat 9-16 people, are not subject to a criminal check - unlike hackney carriage and private taxi drivers.
This allowed "unscrupulous drivers" to work even if councils have banned them, the Local Government Association said.
A Department for Transport spokesman said it was planning immediate action.
Under the current rules, drivers of public carriage vehicles are licensed by the DVLA, whereas councils license taxi drivers.
Taxi drivers require an up-to-date enhanced criminal record check to be issued with a licence.
The LGA said a loophole meant drivers who have been refused a taxi or minicab licence - or whose licence has been revoked by councils - could instead obtain a minibus licence and continue to operate in the same area.
Some had continued working with the same company, the LGA added.
It urged the government to change the law to ensure vehicles seating nine to 16 people were instead licensed by councils.
Simon Blackburn, from the LGA, said the majority of minibus drivers were "people who the public can trust".
However, he added: "This loophole provides an opportunity for unscrupulous drivers to continue to work in close proximity to passengers, even when a council has determined that they are not safe to do so.
"Larger minibuses are often sent in place of a regular taxi to pick up individuals or small parties, purely because they are nearest to the pick-up point rather than because there is a requirement for such a large vehicle.
"They are used to take groups of children to school, or to drive groups home after nights out.
"It is therefore extremely worrying that councils' proactive work to protect taxi passengers from harm - and particularly those who may be most vulnerable - is being undermined by this loophole."
A Department for Transport spokesman said public safety remained "our first priority".
It said: "It is the responsibility of councils to meet their legal requirements to ensure all drivers are 'fit and proper' persons before issuing a taxi or private hire driver's licence.
"We are taking immediate action to provide the same level of protection for passengers in minibuses as they receive in taxis."
Waring, 22, played under Rovers manager Micky Mellon at League One Shrewsbury last season during a loan spell.
He spent the second half of the season with Carlisle, helping the Cumbrians reach the League Two play-offs.
"I enjoyed working with George at Shrewsbury and know the qualities he will bring to the group," Mellon said.
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Row upon row of empty seats were on show when the athletics events began in the Estadio Olimpico on Friday.
But officials claim 93% of tickets were sold for Saturday's morning session, and 79% for the evening.
"We'd rather celebrate the fact that the Olympic Stadium looks beautiful today with a full crowd," said Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada.
"As we move forward into the second half of the Games, we see more and more people coming, more and more people enjoying the Games and more and more Brazilians bringing the energy to the Games.
"I think it looks very promising moving ahead."
Ticket prices, VIPs not filling their allocations and ticket holders only wanting to see one particular contest in a long session have been cited as reasons for the empty seats on Friday.
"We cannot regret something that we cannot fix," said Andrada, adding organisers were "not disappointed" by the sales.
Organisers say a total of 3,311,000 tickets have been sold across all venues since the Games started.
Rio 2016's organising committee has been criticised for the ticket-pricing structure, considering the country is in the midst of an economic recession.
It has denied high ticket prices have put Brazilian fans off, while the International Olympic Committee said prices offered to overseas fans were not too high.
"Without heroes and local athletes the public take longer to fall in love," Andrada said on Friday.
"But one of the legacies of the Games will be to show Brazilians how spectacular these other sports can be and there will be no problem when Usain Bolt competes on Sunday."
Jamaica's Bolt, 29, is attempting to win the 'treble treble' of 100m, 200m and 4x100m golds at three successive Olympics.
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It comes as Durham Tees Valley Airport in Darlington is losing money and seeing passenger numbers fall.
Instructors say flying a microlight can be a route into professional piloting and airport bosses hope the new school will help it become a centre for aviation.
The Newry Democrat has the story of the children of St Patricks Primary school in Mayobridge, County Down, taking direct action in defence of their patrol lady.
The children, accompanied by adults of course, blocked the main Newry to Hilltown road in protest after their patrol lady, Aveen Killen, was almost knocked down by a car said to have been speeding.
That incident came just months after Ms Killen was struck on the arm by another car.
Both vehicles were coming from the Hilltown direction, the paper reports.
Locals have long complained that few cars seem to adhere to the 30mph speed limit as they pass through the hamlet.
However, despite the protest the Newry Democrat reports that Transport NI has no plans to introduce any further traffic calming measures in Mayobridge.
The principal of St Patrick's, Margaret Ryan, told the Democrat that the situation was at "crisis point".
Zulu spear
As headlines go, "Man threatened to kill with a 'zulu spear'" is probably not what one would immediately expect to see having flicked to page three of the Coleraine Times.
That headline relates to a court case in Coleraine over a stabbing incident in the town last June.
Twenty-year-old Nathan Robert McIntyre, formerly of Weavers Court in Coleraine, pleaded guilty to a number of changes.
A defence lawyer said McIntyre had not himself manufactured the makeshift weapon, but had been given it by a friend prompted by his nickname - Swahili.
Mr McIntyre was sentenced to one year in prison and two on licence.
Fermanagh wants its share
If there was any doubt about what the Fermanagh Herald was after with their lead headline - "Worst county in Ireland for jobs" - the sub-headline below kills off any chance of a misunderstanding: "Fermanagh crying out for share of DUP's £1bn windfall".
The piece points out that Fermanagh has just 1.19% of the available jobs in Ireland. The paper says that makes the county the "worst performing" in terms of job creation, and that that is due to its border location.
A picture of Fermanagh native, and DUP leader, Arlene Foster accompanies the piece.
The paper's editorial piece is entitled "The case for Fermanagh's cut" - in reference to the income Northern Ireland will receive as part of the £1bn confidence and supply deal with the Conservatives.
Its final line sums up the paper's view: "Let's just hope, when the time comes to share out the spoils of this famous general election, we're not forgotten about like we have been so many times in the past."
The Ballymena Guardian splashes with an exclusive story on a council whistleblower.
"Mid and East Antrim Council is conducting an internal probe into the procurement of a major professional services contract, following complaints from a 'whistleblower'," the paper reports.
Details of this investigation came to light in the minutes of the council's Audit and Scrutiny Committee meeting in May, which had been held behind closed doors at the time.
Postal fails
The Strabane Chronicle fears: "More and more people in Strabane could see their mail arriving late or not at all, as the local postal service lumbers towards a crisis situation."
The story is based on reports from staff in the town's Royal Mail sorting office who say they are "fed up" and "done" due to staffing shortages.
The paper reports that there have been a number of "fails" in the town's postal service in recent times.
Speaking of letters...
"Are gender-neutral school uniforms coming to Strabane?" That's the question asked by a former Castlederg teacher and Ulster Teachers' Union official on the Chronicle's letters page.
Lewis Love is calling for the rights of young people "who don't fit the general binary perception of gender" to be respected, "even if that means radical changes in uniform".
Shoes, not politics
Meanwhile, "'People power' led to action on Clendinnings" is the front-page headline in the Lurgan Mail.
The paper details the story of how diggers moved in to clear a former factory site in the north of the town which had become a "major anti-social hotspot".
The Mail does not hold back on its description of the area saying it was an anti-social behaviour "Mecca" and that local residents have been "tortured" by that behaviour.
The PSNI described the location as a "drugs den" with children being "drunk, unconscious and covered in urine" at the site.
The Mail says its destruction is the result of local residents taking to the streets and demanding action.
The Mail also has an interesting story of the oldest shoe store in Northern Ireland - and possibly the whole of Ireland.
The McConville family have been keeping the people of Lurgan shod and booted for an incredible 144 years.
The great grandson of the founder Paddy McConville, Jarleth McConville, is now in his 50th year of running the business.
"I stay clear of politics and stick to music and shoes," Jarlath tells the paper.
The man's stepfather said Rodney Todd, 36, was trying to keep his family warm with a generator after the power was cut because of an unpaid bill.
Lloyd Edwards said that Mr Todd, his two sons and five daughters died when "the carbon monoxide consumed them".
Police said they were still investigating the cause of death.
They said they have ruled out foul play, adding that a generator with no fuel was found in the home's kitchen.
Officers also said that the electricity to the home was disabled.
They identified the victims only as one adult and seven children, ranging in age from six years to the teens.
Mr Edwards said that his stepson bought the generator after the power was shut off to their home.
He and his wife, Bonnie, spoke outside the one-storey home in Princess Anne, which is located about 60 miles (95km) southeast of Annapolis, the Maryland state capital.
A spokesman for the local power company would not say whether the power to the home was cut off, only that it was being investigated.
Police were first alerted when Mr Todd's co-worker became concerned that he had not come to work in several days.
"I don't know anyone his age who would have done what he did," Ms Edwards said. "I was so proud to say he took care of seven kids".
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas that is produced when carbon-based fuels are burned.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also advised against packing the phones into any checked-in luggage.
Samsung recalled the phone last week after reports emerged of the device exploding during or after charging.
Qantas and Virgin Australia have also told customers not to charge or use the phone during flights.
Samsung said it would speed up shipments of replacement Galaxy Note 7 phones to ease safety concerns.
Earlier this week, US TV channel Fox 10 reported claims that a faulty Galaxy Note 7 had set fire to a family's Jeep.
Samsung has said that battery problems were behind the phones catching fire, but that it was difficult to work out which phones were affected among those sold.
"In light of recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung about its Galaxy Note 7 devices, the Federal Aviation Administration strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices on board aircraft and not to stow them in any checked baggage," the FAA said.
Following Samsung's recall of its Galaxy Note 7, Qantas said on Thursday it was "requesting that passengers who own [the devices] do not switch on or charge them in-flight."
The phone was launched last month and has been otherwise generally well-received by consumers and critics.
Some 2.5 million Note 7s have been shipped globally.
Samsung has said customers who have already bought the phone will be able to swap it for a new one and that it would take about two weeks to prepare replacement devices.
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This is precautionary advice and not understood to be in reaction to any incident on a plane.
But it does continue the headache for Samsung - even once the company goes through the motions of getting the device recalled, the Note 7 will forever be the exploding smartphone.
This is not the first time the FAA has warned about the dangers of lithium batteries on flights. Earlier this year, it urged airlines to assess the risk of transporting lithium batteries as cargo.
And the administration also insists that any spare lithium battery be kept with the passenger rather than kept with luggage in the hold - though as a person who regularly travels with big lithium batteries for camera equipment, I can tell you this is inconsistently enforced.
What makes lithium batteries catch fire?
The US trade group Airlines for America said it was "closely monitoring" the Note 7 issue and that carriers in the US would make their own ruling over the use of the phone on board.
"Each individual carrier makes determinations, in compliance with FAA safety rules and regulations, as to what is permitted to be carried on board and in the cargo hold," an Airlines for America spokesperson said in a statement.
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About 15,000 cyclists will descend on south Wales when Cardiff hosts Velothon Wales on Sunday.
The 140km (87m) race will also go through Newport, Torfaen, Monmouthshire and Caerphilly, with some roads shut.
Organisers said they contacted those affected so they could plan around it.
Anna Jones, of Usk Garden Centre, in Llanbadoc, told BBC Wales' Jason Mohammad programme she expected the business to lose about £10,000 because customers would not be able to get there.
"We've got to think about our future and the fact that our trade is 12 weeks of the year and to be closed on a Sunday is a disaster for us," she said.
"No one has sat us down around a table, looked for alternatives."
Carol Knight, wedding organiser at Glen Yr Afon Hotel in Usk, said a couple getting married at the venue had to get special permission from race organisers for the bridal car to travel to the hotel.
"It's caused an enormous amount of distress... it was thought they would have to cancel it [the wedding]."
"We [the hotel] would support anything that supports tourism in Wales, and we have no issue with this particular event, it was just landed on us in February and we weren't thought of."
David Evans, who lives in Talywain, Torfaen, said the road closures would leave him "marooned" and he had to cancel plans "because there's no way I can get out".
Speaking in the Senedd last week, First Minister Carwyn Jones said Velothon organisers should have spoken to residents and businesses earlier, but he was confident they were now informed of the consequences of the event.
But Steve Jenkins, chairman of Caerphilly Cycling Club, said many businesses would be benefit from the race.
"There's thousands of cyclist coming from across the country, and they have to eat, they have to sleep. There's going to be spectators going to the event; they'll be spending money along the route," he said.
Velothon Wales organisers said: "Over the past six months, we have engaged with hundreds of businesses and thousands of residents along the route to inform them of the event and the associated road closures so that they can plan around it." | Businesses fear they will lose thousands of pounds and residents claim they will be trapped in their homes as roads are closed for a major cycling event. | 33,062,663 | 514 | 30 | false |
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Landscape gardener Dabby McCreadie witnessed their skills as the convoy passed Bargrennan Bridge near Newton Stewart.
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The 26-year-old Saracens second row will be examined on Wednesday to gauge his fitness for the Twickenham contest.
His Saracens second row partner Maro Itoje is set to start a Test in the back row for the first time.
Itoje has trained at blind-side flanker and is expected to fill the void vacated by the injured Chris Robshaw.
If coach Eddie Jones persists with his plan to field the 22-year-old on the flank, Courtney Lawes and Joe Launchbury will pair up in the second row if Kruis is unavailable.
Wing Jack Nowell missed training, but is understood to be fully fit and available for selection.
There are three loose-head props retained, with Joe Marler, Matt Mullan and Ellis Genge competing for the two places in the matchday 23.
The following 25 players have been retained by England:
Forwards: D Cole (Leicester), E Genge (Leicester), J George (Saracens), T Harrison (Northampton), D Hartley (Northampton), J Haskell (Wasps), N Hughes (Wasps), M Itoje (Saracens), G Kruis (Saracens), J Launchbury (Wasps), C Lawes (Northampton), J Marler (Harlequins), M Mullan (Wasps), K Sinckler (Harlequins), T Wood (Northampton)
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Phil Bale made the claim in a letter to the Welsh Language Society - Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg - about Cardiff's Local Development Plan (LDP).
Calling the comment "completely ignorant", the group said Welsh was "vital" to the city's social fabric.
The council said "technical" wording concerning planning guidance in the letter had been taken out of context.
Mr Bale survived a leadership challenge at the annual general meeting of Cardiff's Labour group in May.
He wrote in the letter: "On the basis of the evidence presented, this response comes to the conclusion that the use of the Welsh language is not part of the social fabric [of the city], in accordance with national guidelines.
"This means that it is not considered that development proposals which are noted in the Plan materially affect the linguistic balance communities across Cardiff, at the expense of the use of the language.
"As a result, I understand it is not considered that any specific policies are necessary in the plan to deal with the specific interests of the Welsh language."
Local Cymdeithas yr Iaith chair Carl Morris criticised the comment, in a letter to the Planning Inspectorate.
"It must be said that this claim is daft and completely ignorant, and obviously raises questions which need to be answered in terms of the attitude and the policy of the authority and its officers," he said.
"We are not of the view that the remark reflects the support of the present leader of the Council for the language, but rather the ignorance of officers in the planning department.
"We ask you to insist that the County, in its development plan, considers the Welsh language in terms of its status, requirements in terms of new schools and education provision, and its place in our communities."
A Cardiff council spokesman said the LDP was currently being considered by the Welsh government's planning inspector.
The spokesman said: "The wording that is quoted by the Welsh Language Society is technical language taken from a national planning guidance document.
"Unfortunately, the wording has been used selectively in this instance, as it fails to show the full context on how the wording was used in this planning document."
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Fifteen babies under the age of one died in Slough between 2012 and 2013, including seven from "chromosomal, genetic, and congenital" anomalies.
It is believed the deaths are linked to intermarriage in some communities.
A 2013 study conducted in Bradford found marriage between cousins doubled the risk of birth defects.
Following the Bradford study, Slough Council began collating data on child deaths and on people living with disabilities due to genetic disorders.
Herschel Grammar secondary school, which draws 81% of its pupils from minority ethnic groups, is the first school in Berkshire to offer the genetic guidance.
Headteacher Joanna Rockall, who also chairs Slough Child Death Overview Panel, said there were a number of communities in the town where intermarriage was common.
Genetic counsellor Lyndon Gallacher said if people were concerned, they could request a referral to their GP and talk to a genetic service about their family background of disease.
He said: "Some populations have higher incidents of breast cancer or cystic fibrosis as a result of marrying within their population.
"We're helping people make decisions based on their cultural and family values."
Mr Gallacher said genetic disorders were still "comparatively rare", but "higher incidents" were seen in "closed populations" in which people had children with partners from the same country or ethnic group.
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The attack happened at a petrol station on the Crumlin Road on 22 January. The officer was hit three times in the arm.
Police believe 10 shots were fired from an AK assault rifle in the attack.
A number of cars at the petrol station were also struck by gunfire. Police revisited the scene on Sunday night and appealed for information about a car used in the attack.
A car identical to the dark red Audi A4 Estate, registration number KNZ 2862, which detectives believe the attackers used to leave the scene, was parked in Flax Street during the hour-long revisit.
Det Supt Kevin Geddes said: "The investigation into the shooting of a community police officer in north Belfast last week is progressing, however, I'm still keen to trace the movements of this dark red Audi.
"We know it was parked in Flax Street at 7.02 pm last Sunday night and it left the street just after 7.30pm and was driven through the Oldpark area before being burnt out around 8pm in Culmore Gardens in West Belfast.
"I am particularly interested in its movements during January in west and north Belfast."
Det Supt Geddes described the attack as "cowardly" and "completely reckless".
"It is my belief that the weapon used to fire indiscriminately at the filling station has been used before to attack police in Belfast," he said.
"I believe it is an AK type assault rifle."
"It is a busy thoroughfare for motorists at that time of night and anyone could have been hit.
"There are a number of strike marks on the forecourt and on cars belonging to members of the public which could quite easily have killed or seriously injured local people, including the children who were at the station.
"Had any of the bullets hit the fuel pumps we may have also been facing casualties from an explosion."
A dissident republican group known as the New IRA said it carried out the shooting.
Three men aged, 30, 36, and 39 who were arrested following the attack were all released unconditionally.
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Protests broke out over labour law reforms in May, while 130 people were killed in attacks on Paris in November.
Desailly, 47, said there should be no fears over security, adding that his "own kids are going to the fanzone".
"We need football. We need football to be there for us to enjoy and to have hope," he told BBC Sport.
"France is going through a little bit of trouble. I'm sure it's going to be secure. The information I have, people will be protected."
Desailly was part of the France squad that won the 1998 World Cup on home turf and Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands.
The former Chelsea defender said Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann will be "the man of the Euro".
"We need him because he has shown that he can score," said Desailly, who also expects West Ham's Dimitri Payet, Manchester United's Anthony Martial and Arsenal's Olivier Giroud to impress.
"I am hoping that Payet or Martial will play in this offensive formation. But we need Giroud for Griezmann to express himself."
Desailly, who spent five years in Serie A with AC Milan, said Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba is "one of the major players with a problem".
"He has so much quality but is he an offensive player or a defensive player? We need him to protect the defensive block," he said.
"Pogba should concentrate on one thing, not trying to be everything - being a playmaker, being a defender, being a skilful player."
Desailly thinks France have a chance of winning the tournament if they can "wash away all this pressure", but said England "will surprise everyone".
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Nick Selman led the visitors' effort with a watchful century, his third of 2017, but Glamorgan could not accelerate.
Selman's 103 came off 252 balls and included 13 fours on a sluggish pitch.
But Rushworth's new-ball burst put Durham in charge on day one at Chester-le-Street.
The 30-year old paceman's 500th wicket for his county came in satisfying fashion as he uprooted Aneurin Donald's off-stump.
Selman, 20, reached three figures shortly afterwards but was then trapped leg-before by the persevering Rushworth, who followed up by dismissing David Lloyd the same way for his third wicket in the space of five overs as the innings fell away badly.
Durham seam bowler Chris Rushworth told BBC Newcastle:
"It was a long day with the heat which makes things feel a lot harder, but when you have a day as rewarding as that, you're happy with it.
"I didn't realise (the 500-wicket mark) but when I got off the pitch, I had a message from my dad, so it's a good feeling to put the team in a good wicket and leave us ahead.
"The key to how we've been successful here is to not let them go above three an over, the lads have done fantastically and to have 81 overs' worth of dot balls is a special effort."
Glamorgan batsman Nick Selman told BBC Wales Sport:
"It was a bit tricky out there against the new ball and they bowled well, they kept going, though we didn't go out to score that slowly.
"Salts (Andrew Salter) and me ground it out but it was disappointing to lose those wickets at the end, hopefully we can push to 280 or 300.
"I just need to get consistent, I look at (former Glamorgan captain) Steve James who used to average about 90 once he'd got to 20, so when I've got to 20, I work hard to make a big one."
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Mae'r darn yn canolbwyntio ar safbwyntiau rhieni oedd yn gwrthwynebu'r newid.
Dywedodd Kirsty Williams wrth y Cynulliad bod yr erthygl yn llawn "anwireddau".
Mae'r BBC wedi gofyn am ymateb The Guardian.
Roedd Ms Williams yn siarad wedi i AC Plaid Cymru, Simon Thomas, feirniadu'r papur a gofyn i'r ysgrifennydd ymyrryd.
Dywedodd Ms Williams wrth y Senedd ei bod wedi ei "digalonni gan y pennawd camarweiniol a'r anwireddau sy'n frith yn y darn o newyddiaduriaeth honedig yma".
Ychwanegodd: "Mae'n siomedig iawn ac yn rhoi camargraff ddifrifol o'r hyn sy'n digwydd yn y gymuned arbennig hon, ac uchelgais Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer addysg cyfrwng Cymraeg."
Fe ddywedodd Ms Williams hefyd y byddai'r llywodraeth yn ceisio "cywiro a rhoi'r argraff gywir" o'r system addysg yng Nghymru "pan fo materion am yr iaith yn codi".
Roedd ymateb chwyrn i'r erthygl ar Twitter, gyda'r cyn-ysgrifennydd addysg, Leighton Andrews, ymysg y beirniaid.
Dywedodd ei fod yn "siomedig iawn" ag agwedd The Guardian, a bod hi'n "nodweddiadol" bod adran addysg y cyhoeddiad "ond yn edrych ar Gymru ac addysg Gymraeg pan mae'n synhwyro bod 'na ffrae".
Ymhlith y beirniaid eraill oedd dau o gyfranwyr The Guardian, Rhiannon Cosslett ac Elena Cresci.
Dywedodd Ms Cosslett ei bod wedi'i "digalonni gan ba mor ragfarnllyd yw'r erthygl", gan ychwanegu ei bod yn dangos "grym y lobi gwrth-Gymraeg".
Fe ddywedodd Ms Cresci ei bod hi "ddim yn hapus". Mae'r ddwy yn bwriadu cwyno i un o olygyddion y cyhoeddiad.
Mae'r erthygl yn trafod effaith addysg Gymraeg ar blant o deuluoedd di-Gymraeg ac yn dweud bod "cael eich trwytho i mewn i ddosbarth lle dydych methu cyfathrebu neu ddeall yn medru bod yn brofiad brawychus a diflas" i rai disgyblion.
Daw rhan o'r dystiolaeth am gyfer y darn o adroddiad o 2009 gan elusen Achub y Plant.
Mae'r elusen wedi egluro nad ydy'r sylwadau hynny'n sôn am addysg Gymraeg yn benodol.
"Daw'r darn o ganllaw yn datgan pwysigrwydd ieithoedd lleiafrifol mewn addysg", meddai'r elusen ar Twitter.
Ychwanegodd mai bwriad y canllaw oedd "helpu'r rheiny mewn gwledydd sy'n datblygu, yn rhanbarth Asia/Môr Tawel, i ddatblygu gwasanaethau addysgol amlieithog effeithiol".
Mae BBC Cymru Fyw wedi gofyn i'r Guardian am ymateb i'r feirniadaeth.
"I know what it feels like not being able to have someone to tell a secret to, so I created my blog and Twitter page to help this."
Oloni, one of eight Girls' Champions in the BBC's 100 Women season, began her sex and relationships blog, Simply Oloni, in 2008.
It began as a personal lifestyle blog and she wanted to be the person that someone could speak to without being - or feeling - judged.
She aims to give out impartial advice - something she believes can be more valuable than the opinion of a friend or a relative, who could be too emotionally involved.
But she also invites others on social media to have a say.
"The identity of the person who sends me their dilemmas is kept completely confidential," says Oloni, who is based in London.
"I then post the dilemmas on Twitter for my 26,000 followers to also share their advice and tips on the dilemma."
Oloni's followers share a range of experiences, from bad one-night stands to humorous stories, as well as seeking advice on a relationships or sex dilemma.
But not all of the topics Oloni discusses online go down well with the people reading.
"Not everyone has accepted that women are allowed to talk about sex freely, and we are allowed to embrace our sexuality; whether it's choosing to keep your virginity until you're married, or wanting to have casual sex, or wanting to be friends with benefits," she says.
"Your sex life is not a decision for other people to dictate."
She says the first time she was trolled she was "shocked" but she has gradually become used to it over time.
"I've had trolls online telling me I'm 'disgusting' for suggesting that girls dating more than one man [at a time] is fine," she says.
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"A lot of the people who are threatened by what I do just don't want women to be better. I can't think of a time that I've given a woman ridiculous advice, apart from: 'If you're not happy, leave'."
Both men and women seek Oloni's online service for advice. And sometimes finding the right way to respond is difficult.
"I do get some queries that I sometimes don't know how to best advise, such as about being in abusive relationships," she says.
"I get thousands of messages coming through from people, but sometimes not all can get the answers immediately. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it"
When people confide in her, Oloni says she gains more confidence in what she's trying to do - educate and raise awareness.
In one case recently, a young woman told her how she had been living with HIV for 10 years. "It reminded me of the importance of trust and how much I believe in my brand," she says.
Oloni helped the woman, named Natasha, speak out anonymously about living with HIV and the importance of knowing how to protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases.
"We need to start talking about condoms, how to stay safe," Oloni says.
There should be more sex education, she believes.
But she also wants a more open conversation about sex and relationships in general - so that these topics are "no longer seen as such a taboo".
"You'd be surprised to know that so many women don't even know they can identify themselves as bisexual or bi-curious," says Oloni.
"We need to be more inquisitive and knowledgeable when it comes to sexuality."
One man and three women, who were all from the Isle of Man, died as a result of the crash in Laxey at about 09:00 BST on Monday.
Two of the vehicle's four occupants died at the scene, near Fairy Cottage, and two died later in hospital after suffering critical injuries.
Insp Mark Newey said all four are yet to be named.
Staff from all three emergency services attended the scene and police said no other person or vehicle was involved.
Anyone who witnessed the crash was asked to contact police headquarters.
Following Monday's crash Noble's Hospital said its accident and emergency department was experiencing waiting times of between five and six hours as staff dealt with the casualties.
Its plan, which was first revealed last year, is part of the budget for 2016/17.
Council leader Frank McAveety said the scale of the savings was the result of "Scottish government budget cuts".
A Scottish government spokesman said the council had accepted "our fair funding deal".
He said Glasgow received a government funding allocation which would amount to £1.344bn next year.
The council claimed that £83m of the £130m shortfall would need to be found in the next year.
It said it would use reserves and other measures to reduce that to £58m.
The council said the 1,500 posts reduction would be achieved through "natural wastage". It was estimated this would save £25m.
It also plans to save £10m in procurement costs by renegotiating contracts and reviewing how it buys in goods and services.
Community grants could be cut by £6.15m, with a £1.6m reduction targeted for Police Scotland.
Grass cutting and hedge trimming could be reduced in frequency to save £1.5m.
Schools, museums, libraries and office buildings may also be cleaned less often and to a lower standard in a bid to save £700,000 and £48,000 could be cut from the graffiti removal scheme.
The council is also proposing to remove support for the Theatre Royal and reduce grants for the King's Theatre and Pollok House by 10% as part of £208,000 savings from its cultural grants.
Christmas activities and the whole festive programme will also be reviewed in the months ahead in a bid to identify possible savings.
The council leader said: "The £130m cuts we face over the next two years are not just cuts from Westminster.
"Glasgow has had a double-whammy of Holyrood cuts piled on top of those from Westminster.
"When I became leader the city faced a cuts bill of £103m. Now its £130m. Make no mistake this is a direct result of the Scottish government's budget cuts."
Mr McAveety said that despite making cuts the council was still committed to frontline services.
He added: "Despite facing a huge budget shortfall, Glasgow City Council has committed to investing £100m in our schools and community facilities over the next five years with an increased capital investment fund.
"This fund will ensure that these vital facilities across the city continue to operate and don't suffer from the cuts being imposed on us - a real example of the council delivering for the communities of Glasgow."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "Glasgow City Council remains the highest funded per head of any wholly mainland council, and has accepted our fair funding deal, securing their share of a £10.3bn package - they will continue to receive their allocation which amounts to £1.344bn next year.
"In addition, updated independent analysis published today by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Spice) has found that when it comes to the council tax freeze and the funding of local government, the freeze has been 'over-funded' by the Scottish government, which 'has resulted in an estimated £180m extra going to local government'."
Meanwhile, East Ayrshire Council has agreed to use its reserves to avoid making any cuts in the next financial year.
The authority set its budget on Thursday and said that by using reserves it had bought time to plan ahead.
It said the decision meant there would be no compulsory job losses and spending on services would continue as planned.
17 November 2015 Last updated at 07:39 GMT
Barnsley's Central Offices in Kendray Street will be knocked down and replaced with a new market building.
The demolition began at 13:00 GMT Monday with a firework display.
The offices were built for South Yorkshire County Council until it was abolished and replaced in 1986 by Barnsley Council.
Sheku Bayoh died after being restrained by officers in Kirkcaldy in May 2015.
A police watchdog has now submitted a supplementary report to the Lord Advocate, but the Crown Office said "further work may be required".
Mr Bayoh's family want a public inquiry to be set up to investigate his death.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) has now provided a full report on the death of Sheku Bayoh to the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC.
Pirc submitted an initial report in August 2015, but has now made an extra submission relating to "additional lines of investigation" which came up during their inquiry.
Mr Bayoh died in police custody after being restrained by officers in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on 3 May 2015.
His family set up a campaign for answers amid fears race may have played a part in his death, and met the previous Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC to discuss their concerns.
Mr Wolffe will consider the latest report, but the Crown Office warned that more work may yet need to be done.
A spokesman said: "The Pirc report will be carefully considered, but this is a complex investigation and further work may be required before any decision is made as to whether or not there should be any criminal proceedings.
"The family will continue to be kept informed of any significant developments."
Aamer Anwar, a solicitor representing Mr Bayoh's family, said their "confidence in the robustness and impartiality" of the probe had been "shattered".
He added: "The Bayoh family hope that they can maintain confidence in the new Lord Advocate to ensure all necessary further enquiries are completed by Crown Office before any conclusion is reached on what happens next. We understand that this process is likely to take some time.
"Whilst the family await the Lord Advocate's decision on the appropriate way to proceed, they believe there is still a need for fundamental reform of Pirc so that no family who loses a loved one through a death in custody is forced to set up a campaign simply to get answers.
"As a result the Bayoh family maintain their call for a public inquiry to be set up into the death in custody of Sheku Bayoh and into the wider issues raised surrounding police accountability in Scotland."
Police have previously dismissed suggestions of racism surrounding the case. Mr Mulholland confirmed that a fatal accident inquiry will be held into the case, regardless of any criminal proceedings.
A spokesman for Pirc said: "The Commissioner appreciates that this has been a difficult period for the family of Mr Bayoh whilst this complex and wide ranging investigation has continued.
"A significant part of the work involved the gathering of expert evidence from a range of specialist forensic pathologists to give a greater understanding as to the cause of Mr Bayoh's death.
"During the enquiry additional lines of investigation emerged which have lengthened the process. The Commissioner ensured that all of the matters raised were rigorously explored so that the Lord Advocate is presented with a comprehensive report in order that he can make informed decisions on further action.
"The Commissioner considered it was important that the quality of the investigation was not compromised by speed."
Research by the BBC has found only Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust expects to record a surplus.
One academic described the problem as "chronic" and said a failure to address it would impact on patient care.
The government says funds are available to trusts that balance their books.
Of the 15 trusts in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, United Lincolnshire and Leeds Teaching Hospital trusts expect to record the largest deficits.
£110.7m East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
£80.7m West Yorkshire
£51.5m South Yorkshire
£10.1m North Yorkshire
In Leeds, where in 2013/14 the trust recorded a £1.6m surplus, the debt is set to hit £40.2m while in Lincolnshire the projected deficit has risen from £26m to £57.8m over the same period.
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust are predicting the highest deficit in South Yorkshire of £27m. In 13/14 it recorded a surplus of £5.2m.
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the only trust in North Yorkshire predicting a deficit, expects to record a deficit for the first time in its history - with an £11m loss.
In 2013/14 only five trusts recorded a deficit.
Alan Maynard, professor of health economics at the University of York and former chairman of York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "I think it is now quite chronic because we saved and scrimped through the 2010 to 2015 period but there are no more savings to be found easily in the NHS.
"I think it will begin to have an impact on patient care."
He said some trusts were "having difficulties" in meeting the 18-week target for hip and knee operations and "scandals" linked to Accident and Emergency waiting times were on the rise.
"This is a product of inadequate funding and it's got to be sorted out in order to ensure the local population have their health care needs met."
In November, 190 out of the 241 NHS trusts reported a deficit for the second quarter of the year.
Pat Crowley, from York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We're asking our staff to avoid any spending on anything that is non-critical in order to improve our financial position, in order to improve and secure our cash reserves, in order to secure our ability to invest in the future. If we can't do that of course that is damaging to our services."
Tony Whitfield, finance director at Leeds Hospital Trust, said: "For this organisation to be one of the best in the country and to thrive we need to be able to make some surpluses so we can invest in facilities, in infrastructure and the staff."
A spokeswoman for United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust said its deficit was largely due to spending on agency staff and the cost of additional beds for patients medically fit for discharge but have no community or social care support available.
She said the trust had "many actions and plans in place to save money and boost our income".
Earlier this month, The Department for Health said it had made £1.8bn of "transformation funding" available to trusts able to meet financial targets for the remainder of this financial year and "balance the books" in 2016/17.
The health watchdog Monitor, which is sponsored by the government, said problems such as rising costs, a growing and ageing population and a need to keep developing treatments were out of its control.
Paul Chandler, from the organisation, said a new approach to healthcare was needed to cut costs.
"What we need to do is focus much more on preventing people from getting ill, helping people to lead healthy lives with a minimal need for healthcare.
"Where people do need healthcare we also need to develop a range of treatments outside hospital."
The building closed in January 2011 and the site is being redeveloped for retirement homes.
The sign will go into storage while it is decided what to do with it but the apostrophe is to be presented to site archivist Hugh Evans.
Mr Evans, who started work in 1975, has documented the history of the Somerdale site in Keynsham.
He lists his favourite chocolate bars as Crunchie and Turkish Delight and said a lot of his generation had given 35 to 40 years' service to the company.
"It was a stunning setting to work in and we had lots of fun and lots of laughs," he said.
"We used to joke you could be born on site, go to school on site and work on site - soon you will be able to live on site as part of a retirement community."
The £50m scheme by the St Monica Trust will see 151 assisted living apartments and a 90-bed care home when it opens in spring 2017, as part of the wider development of the site.
The factory closed after Cadbury was taken over by US food giant Kraft.
The two home nations are on Euro 2016 qualification duty four days later.
Gordon Strachan's side host Gibraltar on Sunday 29 March and Michael O'Neill's Northern Ireland welcome Finland on the same day.
Strachan said: "Playing Northern Ireland, a national side full of confidence, will be a good challenge for our team."
O'Neill's side are second in Group F, one point behind leaders Romania after four games, while Scotland are third in Group D, three points adrift of leaders Poland.
"There will obviously be a British derby feel to the game, which brings an added competitive edge, and that is exactly what we are looking for before we resume our qualifying campaign against Gibraltar," said the Scotland manager.
"We have enjoyed a good 2014 and now we will work together - the coaches, players and supporters - to make it an even better 2015."
Scotland have played their recent internationals at club grounds after Hampden was converted to an athletics stadium for this summer's Commonwealth Games.
However, the athletics track has been moved and Strachan said: "We have thoroughly enjoyed our travels to Ibrox and Celtic Park - two top-class football stadia.
"But we are also looking forward to getting back to our home ground of Hampden Park and we look forward to having that excellent support behind us again for the second half of our campaign."
The last time the sides met was at Dublin's Aviva Stadium in February 2011, the Scots winning 3-0 in the Carling Nations Cup, but O'Neill's side will arrive in Glasgow with renewed confidence.
"This is an excellent match for us prior to the Finland qualifier," said the 45-year-old who played midfield for six Scottish clubs as well as managing Brechin City.
"It will have been just over four months since we were all together in Bucharest, so a testing game against local opponents will give us good preparation for the qualifier later in the week.
"In addition, Glasgow is so close to Northern Ireland, so we would hope to see a good travelling support, which always adds noise and colour to our away games and is appreciated by the players."
The VJM10 was unveiled at Silverstone on Wednesday by Sergio Perez, entering his fourth year as a driver with the team, and new recruit Esteban Ocon.
Britain-based Force India, fourth in the constructors' championship last season, hope to compete with Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari.
"We always dream big," said owner Vijay Mallya.
"We have never had conversations, even in private, that we cannot break into the top three."
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The Indian businessman indicated that Renault managing director Cyril Abiteboul may come to regret suggesting that the sport will become an "arms race" this season.
Abiteboul, speaking at Renault's launch on Tuesday, said new regulations will allow Renault to "be easily capable of beating teams like Haas and Force India".
"[Abiteboul] may have to eat his words - it's not about the arms you have, it's about the quality of your machinery," said Mallya.
Mexican Perez, 27, finished seventh in the 2016 drivers' championship, behind the six drivers from Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari.
"It makes me feel confident that in the four years I've been in the team, I know the right people have been working on this car," said Perez.
"I expect to have a very big year for the team."
Following the departure of Nico Hulkenberg to Renault, Perez is joined by 20-year-old Frenchman Ocon, who raced nine times for the now-defunct Manor team in 2016.
"I've got to aim to score points at every race," said Ocon.
"That's the level of this team and I will be disappointed if we don't start the season with some good results."
Chief F1 writer Andrew Benson
Force India did superbly to finish fourth last year but is their target of going one place better this season realistic for a team of limited resources at the start of new regulations?
Their new car is not exactly attractive, with its 2014-style anteater nose and 2012-esque chassis hump.
But they are the experts at making the most out of their resources and can be expected to punch above their weight again.
How high remains to be seen.
The incident happened at Kilgallioch wind farm, which straddles the border between Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire, early last Friday.
An investigation has been launched by developer Scottish Power Renewables and turbine manufacturer Gamesa.
The 96-turbine site is currently under construction and due to be fully connected to the grid later this year.
A spokeswoman for Scottish Power Renewables said: "We are currently investigating an incident relating to an installed turbine at Kilgallioch wind farm during the early hours of Friday 13 January.
"The turbine was not yet operational and no one was in the vicinity at the time."
Spanish firm Gamesa confirmed that they were also involved in the investigation.
A spokeswoman said: "We are currently investigating - jointly with the owner of the wind farm - the root-cause of this incident."
Scottish Power Renewables has previously said Kilgallioch wind farm would be the second largest in the UK once completed.
It said it could meet the energy needs of 130,000 homes.
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The 34-year-old was given a rousing reception by supporters in his 709th game for the Reds, which ended in a 3-1 defeat by Crystal Palace.
"It was very emotional. An unbelievable send-off," he told BBC Sport.
"I am very proud looking back at the last 17 years and I will never forget this day."
He added: "It's a day I've been dreading, because I will miss it so much."
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Gerrard will play his final game for his hometown club away at Stoke next weekend, before leaving to play for LA Galaxy in the United States in the summer.
Liverpool supporters arrived at Anfield hours before the game against Palace to pay tribute to the former England midfielder, who was given a guard of honour by both teams on his way to the pitch before kick-off.
The result did not match the sense of anticipation in the ground, with Palace coming from 1-0 down to win 3-1.
But the Liverpool faithful roared its approval as Gerrard addressed the crowd after the game, while his team-mates looked on, all wearing shirts with the name Gerrard and the number eight on the back.
"Steven got a wonderful send-off and he gave everything right to the end," said Reds manager Brendan Rodgers.
"It was fantastic for him and his family but obviously the result and performance were disappointing.
"Steven is a player and a person who is irreplaceable in terms of what he has given over his time here. The standards he has set have been second to none."
Eagles manager Alan Pardew paid his own tribute to Gerrard, saying: "For me, he's carried the nation at times. We should all be honoured to have someone who has conducted himself as Steven has."
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Gerrard was asked about the possibility of him returning to Liverpool on loan in the future.
"I wanted to say goodbye in a proper way," he said.
"The only way I'd ever come back would be an emergency situation, but I hope I'm not needed come the winter."
"You have to be good enough. This is a big club and can be brutal at times.
"I'm trying to go through the coaching badges and it's a bridge I will cross in a couple of years."
"It was a cruel blow losing Luis Suarez in the summer [to Barcelona] and Daniel Sturridge's injuries.
"But there is a big core of potential and it's important we strengthen to compete and bridge that gap between the top sides."
"It will be a difficult challenge, with less pressure, but I want to play for a few more years.
"Only then will I decide what's next for me."
Brian Thomson, 64, of Holyhead, spent 14 years of his service as a coxswain with the town's rescue team.
He was previously awarded an MBE for services to the RNLI.
To mark the occasion, crew members gathered to recreate a 100-year-old photograph of the Duke of Northumberland steam-powered lifeboat at Holyhead's Mackenzie Pier.
The new photo shows the current crew alongside the Holyhead RNLI all weather lifeboat, with Mr Thomson on the bridge and incoming coxswain Tony Price.
Mr Thomson said he was looking forward to spending more time with his wife and family.
The name of their second child - sister to Prince George - could be announced later and members of the Royal Family and the duchess's parents may visit.
The princess, who is fourth in line to the throne, was delivered at 8.34am on Saturday at St Mary's Hospital in London, and weighed 8lbs 3oz.
Royal baby in pictures
There was lots of excitement outside the hospital when the birth was announced. There was even a town crier.
The little princess's big brother George also came to visit and waved to the crowds with his father.
Lots of photographers and journalists were waiting outside, as well royal fans, some of whom have been camped outside the hospital for weeks.
The new arrival was born in the Lindo Wing at St Mary's Hospital where the duke and duchess's first child, Prince George, was born in July 2013.
The new baby will be fourth in line to the throne, behind her grandfather Prince Charles, father Prince William and big brother Prince George.
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The Scots had led by three points at half-time as numerous home chances were tossed away, and they remained in touch until the final five minutes after England failed to convert further golden try-scoring opportunities.
But a late try for Jack Nowell sealed a win set up by a try and 10 points from the boot of the impressive George Ford, and leaves Stuart Lancaster's men top of the table and in the hunt for their first title in four years.
Their advantage is slender - locked on six points with Ireland and Wales, they have a points difference of +37 to Ireland's +33 and Wales' +12.
And with a misfiring France to play at home next Saturday, Ireland travelling to Scotland and Wales away in Italy, the title could yet go three different ways.
For Scotland the Wooden Spoon looms again as their 32-year wait for a win at Twickenham goes on, but they gave their error-strewn opponents a genuine scare.
For the first time in an age England got out fast, almost across the line in the opening minute when Ben Youngs and Ford set Luther Burrell away, but Stuart Hogg pulled off a fine tackle.
But soon afterwards, the Bath combination of Ford and Jonathan Joseph sliced the blue line again, and this time the outside centre stepped full-back Hogg to go under the posts.
Mike Brown was then hauled down by Hogg two metres short after the easiest of inside breaks from Youngs before Nowell squandered another break with supporting runners either side of him.
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The sole positive for a ramshackle Scotland was the fact they were only seven points down, but from their first foray deep into England territory they were somehow level - Tommy Seymour making inroads off quick line-out ball, Jonny Gray taking it on and Mark Bennett stepping inside Chris Robshaw on the right touchline to spin over the line.
Ford and Greig Laidlaw then exchanged simple penalties to leave it 10-10 with half an hour gone, before Anthony Watson had a try ruled out for a forward pass from the lively Ford.
Only a desperate tap-tackle from Brown denied Seymour after Finn Russell's cute inside pass and when England went offside Laidlaw put Scotland into an unlikely lead - the first time they had been ahead at Twickenham at half-time in a quarter of a century.
The lead was short-lived. Nowell made rapid progress down the left, and when the ball was recycled Ford spotted prop Euan Murray in front of him, dummied a pass to Courtney Lawes to take out Rob Harley and accelerated under the posts.
His conversion made it 17-13, a penalty a few minutes later extending the advantage to seven, although further chances continued to go begging.
Replacement hooker Tom Youngs threw away one pass when clear, Watson failed to find the galloping Burrell on his shoulder after being sent away by his fly-half and then Brown had a try ruled out for a blatant forward pass from James Haskell.
Disregarding the damage done to England's hopes of winning the title on points difference, it meant Scotland remained within a converted try with 15 minutes remaining, and it was to roars of relief from the home support that Nowell dived over in the left-hand corner late on.
Only in seven days' time will they know whether that wastefulness will cost them the first silverware of Lancaster's regime.
England: Brown, Watson, Joseph, Burrell, Nowell, Ford, B. Youngs, Marler, Hartley, Cole, Attwood, Lawes, Haskell, Robshaw, B. Vunipola.
Replacements: Cipriani for Brown (76), Wigglesworth for B. Youngs (66), M. Vunipola for Marler (59), T. Youngs for Hartley (50), Brookes for Cole (66), Parling for Attwood (50), Wood for Haskell (66). Not Used: Twelvetrees.
Scotland: Hogg, Fife, Bennett, Scott, Seymour, Russell, Laidlaw, Dickinson, Ford, Murray, Hamilton, Gray, Harley, Cowan, Denton.
Replacements: Tonks for Scott (41), Hidalgo-Clyne for Russell (71), Grant for Dickinson (59), Brown for Ford (59), Cross for Murray (54), Swinson for Hamilton (47), Beattie for Harley (66), Ashe for Denton (54).
Att: 82,000
Ref: Romain Poite (France).
The elephant was washed away a month ago in the strong currents of the Brahmaputra river from the northeastern Indian state of Assam to Bangladesh.
An Indian wildlife officer told the BBC that officials from both nations were working together to rescue the animal.
The number of elephants has dwindled in both countries in recent years.
The chief wildlife officer of Assam, Bikash Brahma, said that a team of officials was trying to find ways to bring the stranded animal back.
"Our team is working with Bangladeshi wildlife officials to help the animal. She is weak and under stress and has travelled more than 100kms (62 miles) in flooded parts of Bangladesh," he said.
Officials were considering "tranquilising her and then bringing her back through the land route", he added.
Reports said the animal was struggling to move to higher grounds due to insistent rains.
Floods force thousand of animals to move to higher grounds every year in the border areas between the two countries.
The shrinking natural habitat of wildlife animals has made it increasingly difficult for them to move to safer areas during monsoon floods.
Wildlife officials last week rescued three baby rhinos from the Kaziranga national park in flood-ravaged Assam.
Many wildlife elephants were photographed swimming away from a national park in the state last month.
Backed by 3-46 from in-form ex-Surrey all-rounder Rikki Clarke, Patel took his season's haul of first-class wickets against Surrey to 14.
Surrey looked in control at 110-1 midway through the second session.
But Patel claimed the wickets of Rory Burns (50) and Kumar Sangakkara (47) as Surrey folded to 252 all out, bad light preventing the Bears from replying.
Patel took 10-123, the best match analysis of his first-class career, when the Bears beat Surrey by 10 wickets inside three days at Guildford in July.
Surrey are without Ben Foakes (quad strain), rested as a precaution ahead of next Thursday's One-Day Cup quarter-final at Northampton, while Warwickshire made two changes,.
They brought back formert captain Ian Westwood for the out-of-form Andy Umeed, while Laurie Evans was also recalled from his loan spell with Northamptonshire to replace Sam Hain (shoulder injury).
Warwickshire captain Ian Bell told BBC WM:
"To be honest, I didn't think we got absolutely everything we deserved. In the morning the guys were outstanding and only got the one wicket but at the end of the day to bowl them out for 252 was a really good effort.
"It's a good wicket with a bit of pace and good carry and a bit in it for everyone. The bowlers did really well to keep them down to around two an over, especially with such a small boundary on one side. Jeetan and Rikki were the stand-outs but the bowlers collectively were very good.
"With regard to tosses, I've given up on them! Hopefully it will change at some point but it's certainly not helping us. I'll have to work on the technique over the winter and see if I can come back a bit better next season."
Surrey batsman Rory Burns told BBC Radio London:
"They were tough batting conditions. It seamed all day and it's quite tufty sort of grass, so it helped the spinner and the ball swung for them as well.
"I don't think we ever really felt in in any part of that innings but we have got to try to make 252 look as good as it can be. Hopefully conditions won't change too much. It might be a good score, you never know.
"Warwickshire's bowlers have pretty much given us the blueprint there. You've got to stay disciplined and hold your length and make batters come to you because there is so much assistance in the pitch."
But can you remember some of the quirkier headlines from 2014? Here are 10 things we've learnt in the last 12 months.
Running is a national pastime in Burundi, with hundreds of people out jogging on weekend mornings. But in March the authorities banned jogging in groups - unless permission was sought from the authorities. It affects all group sports in the capital, which can now only be played in designated areas.
The restrictions followed the arrest of some opposition members who were out jogging and chanting political slangs. Police officers tried to stop what they regarded as an illegal march and the situation deteriorated into clashes. More than 40 Movement for Solidarity and Democracy (MSD) party members received sentences ranging from five years to life.
Burundi: Where jogging is a crime
Two police officers in Tanzania who were photographed in a passionate embrace have been fired. The image was widely shared on social media. A regional commander said the pair had breached the police code of conduct by kissing in public and whilst in uniform. The officer who took the photograph and uploaded it online also lost his job.
Students at the University of Zimbabwe were also subjected to a kissing ban this year. However, after an uproar on campus, it was subsequently reversed.
Tanzanian officers fired for a kiss
University of Zimbabwe condemned for kissing ban
The University of Zimbabwe was also at the centre of a storm over a sociology PhD awarded to the country's first lady Grace Mugabe.
Academics have called for an investigation after reports that it only took her two months to get the doctorate. They also expressed concern that her thesis has not been filed in the university library. There is a nod to her title in a new Harare road sign reading: "Dr Grace Mugabe Way".
Call for Zimbabwe's Grace Mugabe to return PhD
The rise of Zimbabwe's first lady
When British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver published his own version of jollof rice - a dish popular in West Africa - there was outrage online.
He had suggested using coriander, parsley and a lemon wedge, which some people said should not be associated with it. Jollof rice is popularly made from blended tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and scotch bonnet. Twitter users came up with hashtags like #jollofgate.
Jamie's jollof rice recipe rejected
In September, South Africa seized $9.3m (£5.7m) from two Nigerians and an Israeli who arrived at Johannesburg's Lanseria airport in a private jet. The money was being carried in $100 bills in three suitcases and was to buy weapons for the Nigerian government, which later said it was having difficulty purchasing arms because of restrictions imposed by the US.
Ghana's government also resorted to flying in cash, not for weapons but to pay $3m to footballers in Brazil after a row over the Black Stars' World Cup appearance fee.
Nigeria MPs storm out over South Africa 'cash arms deal'
Nigeria fury over US arms refusal
Ghana sends $3m cash to players in Brazil
People magazine named Lupita Nyong'o as the world's most beautiful person for 2014.
The Kenyan actress shot to fame in the film 12 Years a Slave, winning the Oscar for best supporting actress. She also made Vanity Fair's best-dressed list, though the magazine came in for criticism online for seeming to lighten her skin in a photograph in January.
Lupita Nyong'o named world's most beautiful person
In January, South Africa's government ordered sculptors to remove a bronze rabbit they had hidden in the ear of a nine-metre (30ft) bronze statue of Nelson Mandela, which was unveiled after the former president's death.
They reportedly inserted the rabbit as a trademark signature and to denote the haste with which they had to complete the statue. Rabbit in the Afrikaans language is "haas", which also means haste. The rabbit was later removed.
Row over rabbit in Mandela statue
The tale of Nelson Mandela's rabbit
Botswana's leader, a general and pilot in the army before he entered politics, likes to fly military aircraft himself when on official trips. But while campaigning for general elections in October, Ian Khama also insisted on using his own wheels.
A week before the polls, he was pictured meeting voters on a bicycle and turned up to address a rally on a quad bike.
Botswana's ruling Democratic Party wins general elections
Elections were also held in Guinea-Bissau, the first since a coup in 2012. A run-off vote was won by Jose Mario Vaz, an ex-finance minister. His main rival was independent Nuno Gomes Nabiam, who was pictured whilst campaigning in a bobble hat.
He had the backing of former President Kumba Yala, who died shortly before the vote and was known for wearing a woollen hat.
Guinea-Bissau run-off to decide president
Guinea-Bissau's ex-President Kumba Yala dies
The male grooming and beauty industry is booming in South Africa. According to trends consultant Siphiwe Mpye, the growth is being driven by black African men because sustained economic growth on the continent has been giving them greater disposable income.
After a facial in men's salon in Johannesburg, the BBC's Milton Nkosi wrote: "I feel almost as if my skin is breathing. I feel new. I feel like a million dollars."
Male beauty industry hits South Africa
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The big-serving sixth seed won 6-3 6-7 (3-7) 4-6 7-5 6-3 on Centre Court to become the first Canadian man to reach a Grand Slam final.
Raonic, 25, will face Andy Murray or Tomas Berdych in Sunday's final.
Federer, 34, was beaten for the first time in 11 Wimbledon semi-finals.
Federer appeared to have nullified the Raonic threat and had victory in sight before the Canadian found another level to clinch the biggest win of his career.
He played superbly in the final set, while Federer - playing his second five-set match in three days - required treatment from the trainer twice in the closing stages.
Raonic recently added John McEnroe to his coaching team of Carlos Moya and Ricardo Piatti, and said the American's influence had been significant.
"What he told me was to go out and leave it all out there," Raonic told BBC Sport.
"I showed a lot of emotion, always positive. Mentally I had one of my best matches of my career. He gave me plenty that helped today, so did Carlos Moya. I hope they have a lot more to give me.
"I'll focus on the task at hand. I've by no means done what I came here to do."
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Federer was on course for a tie-break at two sets to one up, but lost a 40-0 lead with two double faults in a row.
"I can't believe I served a double fault twice," he said. "Unexplainable for me really. Very sad about that and angry at myself because never should I allow him to get out of that set that easily.
"I mean, he deserved it. He earned it at the end. But I helped him so much to get back into that game."
The 17-time Grand Slam champion suffered a heavy fall in the fifth set, and does not yet know the extent of any damage done.
"I hope I didn't hurt myself," said Federer. "Is it a three‑day thing, is it a 24‑hour thing or is it more? I don't know at this point. I hope it's not so bad. I walked it off. I was able to finish. But I don't slip a lot. I don't ever fall down. It was a different fall for me than I've ever had.
"With the body that's been, you know, playing up this year, I just hope I'm going to be fine. I believe I am, but I'll know more tomorrow when I wake up."
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Raonic came into the semi-final with the most aces and the fastest serve in the tournament, but Federer appeared to have done the hard work as he pushed for a decisive break in the fourth set.
The Swiss had offered up the first set thanks to only his third double fault of the tournament but took the second with four straight points in the tie-break, and then clinched the third as Raonic's serve started to misfire.
With a tie-break looming in the fourth, the Centre Court crowd was stunned to see seven-time champion Federer double fault twice in succession on his way to letting a 40-0 lead slip, and then steer a forehand into the perfect place for Raonic to fire a backhand past him.
That gave the Canadian the fourth set and, adrenaline now flowing, he took control.
Federer has struggled with injuries this year and came into Wimbledon with a relative lack of matches, and after having treatment to his thigh before the final set, the Swiss needed another visit from the trainer before dropping serve.
Raonic fired a forehand winner to break for 3-1 as Federer tried desperately to stay alive at the net, but once ahead in the set the Canadian was not about to falter, serving his way to a stunning victory.
John McEnroe, three-time Wimbledon champion: "Think about what that young man has accomplished. Roger Federer was 10-0 in Wimbledon semi-finals before this. Federer is an amazing champion and this was amazing from Raonic.
"It was not just his serve. He showed a lot of heart, a lot of fight and found a gear I'm not sure he even knew he had. He put everything together at the right moment."
Lleyton Hewitt, 2002 Wimbledon champion: "Raonic kept playing big and passed really well on some really important points, and there were also some great pick-up, low volleys. Raonic kept to his game-plan, even after going 2-1 down.
"In the fifth set Roger was stretching wide and not coming back into court as well as he had been. That match against Cilic probably took its toll.
"Federer hasn't played a lot of tennis this year - he pulled out of the French Open leading into this - so there were going to be question marks and that could have been the big difference.
"As soon as Federer went up two sets to one he looked like he had a lot of opportunities and he wasn't quite able to get up that break. To Milos' credit, though, he kept coming at him."
Tim Henman, four-time semi-finalist: "If you've got a serve like Milos Raonic, it's so difficult to break and even when he was ahead, Roger was never really in control of the match. Raonic reacted extremely well on the big points.
"All credit to Raonic, he's played fantastically well the whole grass-court season, reaching the Queens final and maintaining that form at Wimbledon. He will be a threat to whoever he plays in the final."
Raonic really punished Federer with heavy forehands, as you can see in this Hawk-Eye graphic. Overall his first shot after serving was a forehand 69% of the time, increasing to 78% after his first serve. In total he hit 26 forehand winners, led by 11 ground strokes and nine volleys.
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Bottom side Daggers broke the deadlock when Joss Labadie's long-range drive bounced over Morecambe keeper Barry Roche and into the net.
Dagenham doubled when Labadie teed up Jamie Cureton who rounded Roche before tapping in from close range.
Morecambe's Tom Barkhuizen found a consolation tap in late on but Dagenham held on for all three points.
Dagenham are 11 points from safety at the bottom of the League Two table with seven games left to play, but have a game in hand on 23rd-placed York City.
Dagenham & Redbridge boss John Still told BBC Radio London:
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"It's been a funny time because we've gone so long without playing.
"Sometimes people say is it a good thing or a bad thing, but you never know how it's going to be.
"I thought in the first half we were good. I thought in the second half we got pushed back too much.
"I actually think that will do us the world of good for Saturday. I think it will put a little bit more in the tank."
Mercedes dominated and the rest were left to pick up the pieces as the title battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg took another shift.
But, behind the scenes, it is starting to appear as though the sport will soon look very different.
A generational shift is taking place before our eyes among the drivers, with the retirement of Felipe Massa and the year out announced by Jenson Button, which could well also turn out to be goodbye.
And it seems F1 itself may soon have a new owner, with US company Liberty Media in the final stages of a buyout that would see it take over from majority shareholder CVC Capital Partners.
That in itself could lead to a change of seismic proportions, with the eventual departure as F1 commercial supremo of Bernie Ecclestone, who has led the sport with a vice-like grip for 40 years.
Inevitably, although a deal is said to be close, there is a degree of scepticism within F1.
Over the past few years, there have been innumerable claims about modifications to its business structure.
At one stage, F1 was going to be floated on the Singapore stock market. Then it was not. Any number of potential new owners have supposedly been waiting in the wings, only for nothing to happen.
As ever, Ecclestone did little to clear the muddy waters.
Having said all of that, informed sources believe the Liberty Media takeover is real. Some say it could happen as early as this week.
Although it is inevitably a time of uncertainty, the news was greeted with cautious optimism in the F1 paddock.
CVC is not the most popular of owners, the general perception being it has taken a lot of money out of the sport and given very little back.
The apparent pursuit of profit above all else that has characterised the running of the sport in the past decade or so has led to decisions with which many are uncomfortable.
They include the decision to pursue of new races in countries with questionable regimes that have a lot of money to spend on trying to clean their global public image.
And the choice of a tyre supplier based largely on how much money it is willing to spend rather than the regard for which its product is held by teams and drivers.
Of course, the new owners are not buying F1 out of philanthropy and are only in a position to do so because they have made an awful lot of money.
But the assumption is a media group might at least give some more consideration to the quality of the spectacle provided by the sport.
Whatever happens with the takeover, on the track things will definitely be changing in 2017 with the departures of Massa and Button at the end of the year - even if one of them does turn out to be temporary after all.
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Already Max Verstappen is turning heads at Red Bull, becoming the youngest winner in F1 history upon his promotion from the Toro Rosso junior team in Spain in May.
Button is being replaced by the highly promising Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne - a decision McLaren were almost certain to take even if they had not been able to come to a clever compromise deal with the 2009 world champion.
And next year the double world champion Fernando Alonso has a big decision to make about whether to continue his career.
Massa looks set to be replaced by the Canadian Lance Stroll, son of the hugely wealthy businessman Lawrence Stroll, who built the fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger among other huge companies.
And 19-year-old Frenchman Esteban Ocon, who made his grand prix debut with Manor in Belgium just over a week ago, is likely to be given one of the two seats at the factory Renault team next year.
The feeling in F1 is that Vandoorne and Ocon have bright futures - and why not?
Vandoorne has had an impressive career in the junior categories and out-qualified Button on his one-off debut in Bahrain earlier this year.
Ocon beat Verstappen to the European Formula Three title in 2014 and there is undoubtedly a bit of needle between the two.
These are interesting times indeed.
Button is going into what could well be the final seven races of his career. But while he told McLaren he did not want to race next year because he feels he needs a break, he is clearly driving as well as ever.
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His Italian Grand Prix was a highly accomplished performance in which he flat beat Alonso despite being out-qualified.
Button dropped to last on the first lap while Alonso rose from 12th to ninth. But 43 laps later, Button overtook the Spaniard on the pit straight, having made his soft tyres last five laps longer in the second stint,
That enabled him to switch on to the super-softs for his final stint, while Alonso was on the softs, which gave the Englishman a significant advantage.
The deal McLaren has come to with Button is an inspired piece of thinking by chairman Ron Dennis.
Button was wary about fully committing to retirement, not being completely sure it was what he wanted but knowing he did not want to race next year.
This allows him to step back from the sport while still keeping a foot in the door should he change his mind, even if there is no guarantee of anything if he does.
It keeps Button on the McLaren books, which the team's sponsors are thrilled about because he is a marketing dream.
It also gives the team a safety net in the unlikely scenario that Vandoorne disappoints.
Having Button working in the simulator and coming to some races to help the team gives them a reserve driver who is so over-qualified it makes a bit of a mockery of the title.
And it gives Dennis more leverage in negotiations with Alonso next year if he decides he wants to stay on.
If, for example, Alonso demands another $40m (£30m) salary, Dennis can say, "Do you know what, Fernando? How about you take $20m instead? Otherwise, we can always have Jenson back."
Next year, McLaren have hopes of winning races. For now, only Mercedes can realistically expect that every weekend.
And after 14 grands prix, Hamilton and Rosberg find themselves going into the championship countdown only two points apart.
After losing what had seemed a certain victory because of a bad start, Hamilton is concerned about what he sees as the variability of the performance of Mercedes' clutch and is going to be poring over the data with his engineers at the factory on Tuesday in an attempt to improve things.
Had he been able to unleash in the race the speed he had in qualifying, Hamilton might have won anyway, but the characteristics of the Pirelli tyres used in F1 make that impossible.
He reduced Rosberg's advantage from 15 seconds to nine, but the tyres cannot be pushed beyond a certain limit and there was literally not enough rubber on them to keep going at that pace. Gone are the days when drivers can drive flat-out in races in pursuit of the seemingly impossible.
"I could have kept going at the pace I was going," Hamilton said. "Maybe I would have brought the gap down to six. Maybe. Still not enough to win the race.
"To close a 15-second gap, you are going to have to go 0.3-0.4secs quicker per lap probably over that span of time and you are not going have the tyres left at the end of it.
"If I was eight seconds behind in the beginning, I would have closed the gap and put some pressure on and maybe been in a better position, but 15 seconds is a long way to come back.
"Nico drove a great race. He was faultless. Falling back to fifth, I lose so much of my tyres coming back through the field."
Fragile tyres, questionable Mercedes starts, this is business as usual.
Rosberg had bad starts in Hungary and Germany, the two races at the end of July before the summer break.
In one small aspect, though, there was something different about Monza.
All season, Rosberg has stuck rigidly to the same mantra in news conferences: I'm not thinking about the title, I'm just taking it race by race.
After the race on Sunday, though, he allowed the mask to slip just a little.
It was pointed out to him that the season had seen huge swings - a 43-point lead for Rosberg after four races; a 19-point lead for Hamilton after six wins in the next seven, now cut to two points after two consecutive wins by Rosberg.
Had Rosberg's belief in his ability or otherwise to win the title ever changed through all that, I asked him?
"No," he said, "because as I say I am not thinking about it. My belief to win individual races is as high as ever and I showed it today again and that's it, because its my best approach.
"Because if I think about 43 points going to 19, I would lose sleep over that. So I just don't think about it and enjoy winning the races."
Monza was Rosberg's seventh victory of the year, which is one more than Hamilton and already makes it the German's most successful ever season.
Three of those wins have come as a direct result of poor starts by his team-mate.
Hamilton remains favourite for the title, not least because he has access to a pace beyond Rosberg's reach, as he proved again in qualifying in Monza.
But those sorts of statistics are at least enough to give the Englishman pause for thought.
Nashville newspaper The Tennessean said the star has filed legal papers at a Los Angeles federal court, accusing the record company of "breach of contract".
He argues that he should receive a higher royalty rate for digital downloads than for physical copies.
A lawyer for Universal Music Group could not be reached for comment.
In the past, record labels have argued that online sales should be treated the same as physical album sales.
But artists say that, because online music does not incur packaging and shipping costs that are usually paid for by the record company, they should be entitled to larger royalty percentages.
Frampton is seeking damages and has hired music lawyer Richard Busch, who has represented Eminem and The Knack's Bruce Gary in similar court cases.
"The issues in these cases go beyond simply breach of contract," Mr Busch told the Tennessean.
"The plaintiffs allege the wrongdoing here is a part of deliberate effort to deprive the parties of their royalties."
Mr Frampton, first signed with A&M Records, a division of Universal Music Group, in 1971.
He went on to record rock classics such as Show Me the Way and Baby, I Love Your Way.
His 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive! is still one of the best-selling live albums in the US.
The newspaper said the star signed a new contract in 1998, which stated that any "licensed" music would give the singer a 50% royalty.
But the lawsuit has claimed the company paid less than the agreed percentage and it "systematically and knowingly" breached its contract with Mr Frampton.
Renata Antczak, 49, was last seen near her home in Hull after dropping her daughter off at school on 25 April.
Her dentist husband Majid Mustafa, 47, of Beamsley Way, is accused of conspiracy to administer a noxious substance to Mrs Antczak.
Mr Mustafa and Robert Lipinski, 45, of Emerald Grove, are also charged with conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm with intent to Dariusz Kleinert.
Mr Lipinski also faces one count of conspiracy to administer a noxious substance to Mrs Antczak and another victim, his wife, Anna Lipinski.
Both men appeared at Hull Magistrates' Court earlier.
They were remanded in custody and will appear before Hull Crown Court on 19 June.
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Ms Antczak had driven her daughter to Broadcare Primary School on the morning she disappeared.
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Justine Allingham from Portchester, Hampshire has been photographed standing on her hands at hundreds of sites in southern England.
The former martial artist, 24, has flipped upside down on a bouncy castle, outside an EU referendum polling station and at several fire stations.
She is raising money for The Fire Fighters Charity.
Ms Allingham, who works as a licensing officer, is more than 300 days into her challenge and has performed handstands at Winchester Cathedral, Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower and the Ageas Bowl cricket stadium.
She was inspired to begin the quest by her stepdad, Ian Harper, is a firefighter for Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service.
"My connection with the fire service is through my stepdad, and it is through him that I know how much they do,
"I think it takes a very special kind of person to do the things they do and risk their lives to keep other people safe. They are heroes," she added.
Many of her hand stands have been captured on camera and shared on her social media feeds.
Justine Greening told MPs expanding grammar schools would help families who could not afford to buy houses in the catchment areas of good schools.
Ms Greening said the proposals would create a "truly meritocratic" system.
But Labour's Angela Rayner said: "Stop your silly class war."
The plans for expanding selection in schools, announced by the prime minister last week, have been presented to Parliament.
Ms Greening said it would increase the number of good school places and make sure there is a school system that "works for everyone, not just the privileged few".
Labour's shadow education secretary Ms Rayner said the new mantra of the Conservative party should be "segregation, segregation, segregation".
And she asked the education secretary to explain who would decide which non-selective schools should be able to convert to become selective.
Ms Greening said: "We want to look again at selective schools and how they can open up excellent places to more children - particularly the most disadvantaged.
"We will therefore look at how we can relax the rules on expanding selective schools, allow new ones to open and non-selective schools to become selective where there is a demand."
The plans were challenged by former education secretary Nicky Morgan who asked how creating more grammar schools would help pupils who were already underachieving or in schools that were underperforming.
Mrs Morgan's own flagship education policy - forcing all schools to become academies - was sunk this year by a backbench rebellion by Conservative MPs.
But another former education secretary, Michael Gove, gave his backing to the plans.
Another former Conservative education secretary, Ken Clarke, cautioned on the impact on those pupils who did not get into a grammar school and urged that it should not "distract from raising standards".
Former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said the school system should be based on examples, such as London, which had many successful schools without selection.
Conservative backbencher Keith Simpson said he was uncertain about putting an emphasis on grammars, rather than focusing on the achievement of mainstream schools.
But Conservative Edward Leigh backed the government plans, saying it was "perverse" not to allow good grammars to be able to take more pupils.
And he supported the removal of the cap on faith group places in free schools - saying that it had been a mistake from the outset.
If the government faces rebellions from its own MPs over grammars, there will be questions on whether the Scottish National Party would vote on this English issue.
The party has kept its options open so far, saying: "We will closely examine any proposals brought to the House of Commons to identify any potential impact on Scotland's budget."
But Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has written a warning to Conservative MPs saying that the proposals for grammars could be as damaging to them as tuition fees were to his own party.
He said more admissions tests would not be popular with voters, who could find their children without places in a school which had become selective.
Kevin Courtney, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said: "This is a backward-looking policy. Promoting grammar schools as the elite academic option instantly casts all other schools into the role of supporting actor."
Head teachers' leader Russell Hobby said the "rhetoric does not match the reality" with grammars and "social mobility will be reduced, opportunities will be narrowed and life chances will be limited for the majority of pupils in this country".　
A report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies concludes that grammars can "stretch the brightest pupils, but seem likely to come at the cost of increasing inequality".
The think-tank study argues that grammars do well for those who get places, but those who do not get in are likely to do "worse than they would have done in a comprehensive system".
The education proposals include:
This is how many Ukrainians start and finish their summer holiday in Russian-annexed Crimea.
Queues of cars snake for several hours as people wait to visit relatives or get to the peninsula for a beach break.
Lorry-loads of watermelons are sold by the side of the road while people wait to be checked or waved through, in the southern region of Kherson, next to Crimea, where Kiev's vast Dnipro river enters the Black Sea.
Aside from the odd soldier dug in by the side of the road and the vigilance of Ukraine's border guards, there is little to suggest that the country is preparing for Russian military action from the south.
Most analysts think any such action would be highly unlikely.
But after Russia seized Crimea in March 2014 without firing a shot, Ukraine has learnt to expect the unexpected from its powerful neighbour.
Vigilance is the watchword of Ukraine's National Border Guard.
Spokesman Ivan Shevcov said his colleagues were "prepared for any type of action from the Russian side".
The war of words between Russia and Ukraine has intensified following Moscow's accusation that Kiev plotted a sabotage attack in Crimea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised a response.
Russia has moved more military hardware on to the peninsula. And pictures of the Russian navy carrying out military drills in Crimea to counter the threat of saboteurs were quickly beamed around the world.
This week Russia is carrying out more exercises in Crimea to counter the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has put his military on high alert. He insists the Russian claim of a sabotage attack by Ukrainian special forces was cooked up by the Kremlin to justify future attacks.
However little, if anything, has changed at the checkpoints in and out of Crimea.
One man from the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa said he went there only to visit his elderly mother who lived there and wouldn't leave.
When she dies, he will not travel there any more.
For Igor, travelling to Crimea to visit relatives, the latest rhetoric is "mostly exaggerated".
"Whatever you see on TV, (with) saboteur groups arrested, I think this can be faked by any side. Each side can create provocations."
With his tennis racket bag slung over his shoulder, Artyom, a Ukrainian probably in his 20s, explains how pleasant his holiday in Crimea has been, and how friendly the people there were. And he is not alone.
"The Russians say one thing and the Ukrainians another. I don't know who to trust," says an elderly woman with sunglasses.
The line between fact and fiction is often blurred when it comes to Russia's tactics and actions in relation to Ukraine.
Kiev calls this "hybrid warfare", which mixes propaganda with cyber attacks and semi-clandestine operations.
Tamara is driving across to Crimea, where she owns property, with her chihuahua Charlie.
She might not believe all the rumours in Kiev. However, she does not trust the Russian version of recent events.
"I think [the Russians] did this intentionally. But I don't know why they did this during the holiday season. Everything was fine when I came here in June with my mum."
Tamara's mother-in-law and daughter were going to join her on the trip to Crimea, but because of what they had seen on the news they decided to stay in Kiev.
Across the water from Crimea in the small town of Skadovsk, the melee of swimsuits and food-sellers on the beach is proof that many Ukrainians will simply not travel to Russian-annexed Crimea as a point of principle.
Few seem to notice the Ukrainian National Border Guard soldiers high above in their concrete look-out post at the back of the beach, behind an invisible network of trenches.
For all the political rhetoric of recent days, the fun-loving normality of the summer season in southern Ukraine goes on.
Preeti Rathi, who was 23 when she was murdered, had just arrived from Delhi to join the Indian navy as a nurse.
Her neighbour Ankur Panwar attacked her after she rejected a marriage proposal.
It is the first such sentence for an acid attack in India. Many such attacks go unpunished, campaigners say.
Panwar, 25, was convicted of murder and other offences at a special court in the city on Tuesday. He is likely to appeal against the verdict in a higher court.
On Thursday, the special court said that the crime fell within the "rarest of rare" category which justified the death penalty.
Ms Rathi, who suffered severe injuries to her lungs and eyes in the attack on 2 May 2013, died a month later.
A month after her death, India's Supreme Court ordered federal and state governments to regulate the sale of acid.
The court ruled that acid could only be sold to people who showed a valid identity card. However, critics say that it is still widely and easily available.
According to government figures, there are hundreds of such attacks a year; but campaigners say the real figures are much higher.
Andrew Conway's early try put the visitors in control, with the hosts struggling to find any cohesion.
Warriors were hindered by injuries to Peter Horne and Rory Hughes but stole a line-out for Ali Price to score.
Mark Bennett raced clear to nudge Glasgow ahead but the conversion was missed and Keatley had the last say.
The visitors got off to a flier against a dreadfully poor Glasgow; Keatley banging over an early penalty before Conway scored the game's first try. That score had its origins in a sliced clearing kick from Peter Murchie that gave Munster a line-out, then a collapsed maul gave them a free play.
Keatley hit a crossfield kick to the right-hand corner where Darren Sweetnam and Murchie missed it in the air. Conway followed up to touch it down. Keatley's conversion made it 10-0.
Until their dramatic recovery, Glasgow were uninspired and utterly unable to break down a terrific Munster defence.
They had 60% possession and 60% territory in that first half, they played a quarter of the half with a one-man advantage when Dave Kilcoyne was binned, they were awarded seven penalties - and gave away only three - and still all they could do on the scoreboard was three points from Horne's boot.
Glasgow turned down kickable penalties and went for touch instead. Dubious decision-making that led to frustration after they ran into one red wall after another.
Munster didn't have to be anything other than aggressive and well-organised in defence to have a 13-3 lead at the break. They even won the 10 minute sin-binning period 3-0.
Glasgow scrum-half Price made his international debut last weekend in the final minutes against Georgia. He helped create a try that day and he scored the one that woke Glasgow up in this game.
Price had been one of the few home players who stood out in the first half and, on the hour, he came alive with a try. Glasgow stole line-out ball and Price saw his chance, taking it brilliantly.
He darted through the visitors' defence, eluding Sweetnam and Keatley and going in by the posts. Clegg converted.
Glasgow hit Munster with another try nine minutes later, attacking from their own 22; Tommy Seymour slipping a lovely offload to Bennett who ran 60 metres to put Glasgow ahead 15-13. There was no conversion - and it was costly.
With three minutes left, Munster worked good field position and Keatley kept his nerve wonderfully to strike the winning drop goal straight and true.
Munster, deservedly, had continued their winning run and Glasgow had continued a losing sequence that is now looking deeply concerning for them. That's three in a row in the Pro 12 - for the first time since 2011 - and four losses in five in all competitions.
A terrific night for Munster, but a grim one for the hosts.
Glasgow: Murchie, Hughes, Grigg, Bennett, Seymour, Horne, Price, Reid, Brown, Puafisi, Swinson, Harley, Strauss, Fusaro, Wilson.
Replacements: Jones for Hughes (45), Clegg for P. Horne (22), Allan for Reid (51), Flynn for Brown (51), Rae for Puafisi (61), Haupeakui for Strauss (57), McAlpine for Fusaro (78). Not Used: Kenatale.
Munster: Conway, Sweetnam, Taute, R. Scannell, R. O'Mahony, Keatley, Williams, Kilcoyne, N. Scannell, J. Ryan, Kleyn, B. Holland, P. O'Mahony, O'Donnell, O'Donoghue.
Replacements: Goggin for Keatley (78), Toma for Williams (65), Marshall for N. Scannell (78), Archer for J. Ryan (61), D. Ryan for Kleyn (41), Copeland for P. O'Mahony (57), du Toit for O'Donnell (28). Not Used: Wootton.
Sin Bin: Kilcoyne (27).
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales).
Both attend Manchester College and were attacked outside its Shena Simon campus on Chorlton Street shortly before 11:10 GMT.
One, aged 17, was found with a stab wound to his chest while the other, 18, had a stab wound to his back. Both are in a stable condition in hospital.
Another boy, aged 17, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Students reported parts of the campus being put into lockdown for about an hour after the attack.
Others were told to stay in their lessons, before the campus was closed for the remainder of the day.
Lisa O'Loughlin, principal at Manchester College, said: "An incident occurred this morning at our Shena Simon campus in which two of our students were injured.
"We are providing full support to our students and staff at this difficult time."
Greater Manchester Police said a knife was found at the scene.
Chief Inspector Gareth Parkin said: "The knife will be forensically examined, but we still need people to contact us with any information they have.
"I'd like to reassure the community that we have a number of highly-skilled officers working on this investigation and will continue to carry out extensive enquiries."
According to its website, Manchester College is the largest further education college in the UK, with about 20,000 full and part-time students across 17 campuses.
Its Shena Simon campus offers courses in performing arts and music.
It's thought that more than half of Africa's GDP comes from the informal sector which accounts for around 80% of the labour force, many of them small traders. So should governments regulate traders? These vendors tell the BBC about their lives:
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The former Great Britain rugby league star had been linked with an England role in the wake of Stuart Lancaster's post-2015 World Cup sacking.
But Edwards will remain in the role he took up under Warren Gatland in 2008.
"It is fantastic to work alongside such a dedicated and talented group of players and to be part of a strong management team," said Edwards.
He initially worked on a part-time basis with Wales, while head coach at Wasps, becoming full-time Wales defence coach in 2011.
Edwards' expertise has helped Wales win Six Nations titles in 2008, 2012 and 2013 - including two Grand Slams - and a World Cup semi-final in 2011 and a quarter-final in 2015.
He was offered the role of coach to England Saxons following the 2011 World Cup, but turned down the role in favour of his post with Wales.
"Warren has assembled a great team off the field and it's a great environment," added Edwards.
"I get to work alongside some of the best coaches and management in the world and alongside some of my best friends in the game Rhys Long (WRU head of analysis) and Paul Stridgeon (WRU consultant head of physical performance).
"For me it is great to have signed through until 2019, but as I always have done, my focus is always on the next match and the next competition, which for us is the Six Nations."
Wales attack coach Rob Howley and forwards coach Robin McBryde have deals running until after the three-Test tour to face New Zealand in June 2016.
Kicking coach Neil Jenkins is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union's staff.
The supermarket chain first outlined the proposals in May, and had initially forecast that up to 2,600 people would lose their jobs.
After a 45-day official consultation with staff, Asda confirmed that although it is creating 5,670 new roles the majority will be on a lower pay grade.
The move affects 4,100 managers.
The retailer, which has 578 stores across the country, says 1,360 people are expected to take redundancy, as staff choose to leave or do not meet the overall selection criteria for the new roles.
Asda currently employs over 170,000 people across the UK.
BBC business correspondent Emma Simpson writes:
All the big supermarkets are grappling with the rise of online shopping and changing shopping habits.
These are big structural shifts for the industry and retailers are having to adapt.
Asda has arguably moved faster than its main rivals. Last November it said it would invest a billion pounds to improve its stores and cut prices - before Tesco and Morrisons launched their price cuts.
The way it manages its stores is now going to radically change. For instance, Asda says the e-commerce side of the business has become much more complicated than it used to be, driven by the rise of click-and-collect, and this requires new managerial roles.
But, this is not just about strategy, it's also about cost cutting. Asda will likely make multi million pound savings as a result of the restructuring. Many existing staff will be let go.
Just last month, Morrisons said it would be cutting more than two and a half thousand jobs as part of moves to simplify its management team. Question is, will Tesco and Sainsbury's eventually follow suit?
Commenting on the new measures, Asda chief executive, Andy Clarke, said: "As much as it is my job, and privilege, to be CEO of this business and to do what is right for Asda as a whole, this is one of the most difficult decisions I've had to make.
"Whilst I genuinely believe that it is the right decision for the future of Asda, knowing that it will result in valued colleagues leaving us is not easy."
Over the coming weeks, managers affected by the changes across Asda stores will either begin training for their new jobs or take a redundancy package.
In June, one of Asda's rivals, Morrisons, said it was cutting more than 2,500 jobs as part of moves to simplify the management structure in its stores.
The company, which is based in Bradford, had reported annual losses of £176m, and said it wanted to modernise the way its supermarkets are managed to improve customer service and win back shoppers.
His views on the virgin birth and the resurrection caused a storm of protest and considerable opposition to his appointment as Bishop of Durham.
His forays into the field of politics saw attacks on both Conservative and Labour administrations for what he saw was their over-reliance on market forces.
An academic theologian, rather than a parish priest, he became for many, the symbol of modernisation and liberal ideas in the established church.
David Edward Jenkins was born on 26 January 1925 in Bromley, Kent, and brought up in a Methodist family.
Confirmed into the Church of England as a teenager, his education was disrupted by World War Two. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and ended the war in India.
On his return to civilian life, he took up a scholarship to Queen's College Oxford, graduating in 1954. He studied at Lincoln Theological College before his ordination by the Bishop of Birmingham, and served for a brief period as a curate in Birmingham Cathedral.
He was never to become a parish priest, something his future opponents took delight in pointing out. Instead, he took on a series of academic and administrative posts including a spell with the World Council of Churches in Geneva before returning to his old Oxford college where he served as chaplain and lectured in theology.
He was professor of theology at Leeds University when Mrs Thatcher recommended his appointment as Bishop of Durham in succession to Dr John Habgood, who had become Archbishop of York.
In April 1984, shortly after his appointment, David Jenkins said on ITV's Credo programme that the story of the virgin birth had been added later by early Christians to express their faith in Jesus as the Messiah.
"I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if he wanted, but I very much doubt he would," he said.
He also said that the resurrection was not a single event, but a series of experiences that gradually convinced people that Jesus's life, power, purpose and personality were actually continuing.
He caused more outrage a month later when he said there was absolutely no certainty in the New Testament about anything of importance. Widespread doubts were expressed about the wisdom of making him a bishop, and a petition with more than 12,000 signatures was delivered to the Archbishop of York. Neither he nor the Archbishop of Canterbury apparently doubted Jenkins's suitability.
The consecration in York Minster was interrupted twice by protesters. Two days after the service, the Minster was struck by lightning and badly damaged by fire - an event some Christians believed to be a warning from God.
He later joked that the Almighty had missed the target. "God was probably aiming at the General Synod, but he missed even that."
At his enthronement in Durham Cathedral in September, when the miners' strike was some months old, Dr Jenkins called for the replacement of coal boss Ian MacGregor - "an imported elderly American" - and the scaling down of NUM leader Arthur Scargill's demands. Later, he was to advise the miners that they had lost and should go back to work.
He made no secret of his loathing for the Conservative government and regularly urged ministers to intervene in the decline of industry in his diocese in North-East England.
The then party chairman, John Selwyn Gummer, who was also a member of the Church of England Synod, was one of his strongest critics, and Lord Hailsham, in a bitter attack after the 1987 election, referred to Dr Jenkins's intellectual limitations.
Margaret Thatcher seemed to take a more sanguine view, once remarking after Dr Jenkins and another bishop had criticised the government, that it wouldn't be spring without the voice of the occasional cuckoo.
Jenkins's term as bishop coincided with the split between the liberal and traditionalist wings of the Church. He said of his unorthodox approach to some questions of theology that he hadn't been the only cleric to express such concerns - but that he'd expected more support from the higher ranks of the Church.
He faced his critics at the General Synod in York, and won an ovation. Nevertheless, his beliefs continued to cause distress and concern to many in the Church.
He remains one of the few bishops ever to be immortalised on the satirical puppet show, Spitting Image. In one episode, his caricature appears with that of Dr Robert Runcie, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and persuades God to become an atheist.
Tony Blair, just days before he was elected Labour leader in 1994, addressed the congregation at Dr Jenkins' retirement service in Durham Cathedral - praising the bishop's "honesty, humanity and integrity".
Those who hoped he would disappear into quiet retirement were disappointed. In a 2003 BBC interview, he opined that the Church of England had suffered for being the established Church.
"To have an (Anglican) established church, it's necessary for Islam to be an Islamic state, to have Judaism ruled by ultra-orthodox rather than more secularised sharing people. It's a disaster."
Two years later, Jenkins became one of the first churchmen to bless a civil ceremony between two gay men, one of whom was a Church of England priest.
It is doubtful whether the majority of lay people fully understood what David Jenkins's beliefs actually were, but very few could doubt the sincerity and passion with which he delivered them.
He was a cleric who believed the church had to break free of dogma if it was to retain a place in the modern world.
Two students complained after their photographs were apparently edited to remove Mr Trump's name and his campaign slogan, Make America Great Again.
Another student was upset that a quote by Mr Trump that she had submitted for the yearbook was not included.
The teacher who advised the yearbook team has been placed on paid leave.
The Wall Township High School teacher, whom local media have identified as Susan Parsons, may have violated the free speech rights of the students, said school superintendent Cheryl Dyer.
"References to and support of President Trump were involved in each of these incidents," Ms Dyer wrote in a statement published over the weekend.
She added that the teacher's actions amounted to "censorship and the possible violation of First Amendment rights" to free expression.
"This allegation is being taken very seriously and a thorough investigation of what happened is being vigorously pursued," Ms Dyer wrote.
Third-year student Grant Berando told the Asbury Park Press on Friday that the alteration was an obvious case of Photoshop.
"I sent it to my mom and dad, just like 'You won't believe this.' I was just overall disappointed," he said about his photo, which had been edited to show him wearing a non-descript black shirt.
"I like Trump, but it's history, too. Wearing that shirt memorialises the time," he said.
Other references to the 2016 presidential election were not altered, students say.
Grant's father, Joseph Berardo, said: "I want the yearbooks to be reissued and I want a letter from the administration explaining why they are reissuing the yearbook.
"What's frustrating to me is that this was the first election he took interest in, but what message did the school send?"
Other students' parents took to cable news over the weekend to express outrage.
"I want to know who thought it was OK to do this," Janet Dobrovich-Fago told CNN.
Her daughter, Montana, had a quote removed from her bio, and her son Wyatt, had his photo altered.
The Trump quote submitted by Montana read: "I like thinking big. If you are going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big".
According to a LinkedIn profiled belonging to the teacher, Susan Parsons, she has worked in the school district for 15 years.
According public records, she earned over $87,000 (£68,000) in 2016.
The student's parents are due to meet with the high school principal and yearbook adviser this week.
Prosecutor's spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch said a car broke through fences at about 02:00 (00:00 GMT).
She said there was "sensitive material" inside the laboratories, but it is not yet clear what if anything was destroyed in the fire.
Five people arrested nearby were later released without charge.
Initial reports in Belgian media said a bomb had exploded. But Ms Van Wymersch said that while a bomb was unlikely to have detonated, it was impossible to fully rule out that scenario.
"The location was not chosen randomly," she said. "It's an important site, that includes sensitive documents relating to current investigations."
"The possibility of a terrorist act is not confirmed. It goes without saying that several individuals may have wanted to destroy evidence related to their legal cases," Ms Van Wymersch added.
The case was being treated as arson, she said.
Some 30 firefighters helped put out the fire at the National Institute of Criminology, which Ms Van Wymersch said caused damage but caused no casualties.
Forensic analysis linked to criminal cases is carried out at the site, but while it is not the only laboratory of its kind linked to the police, it is the most important forensic test centre in Belgium.
Images submitted to broadcaster RTL by nearby residents showed flames and heavy smoke rising into the night sky.
The independent institute, linked to Belgium's federal justice body, is in Neder-Over-Heembeek, a suburb in the north of Brussels.
Belgium's terror alert level remains high since bomb attacks on Brussels airport and the city's metro, claimed by so-called Islamic State, that killed 32 people in March.
The founders hope that the Clixta app can act both as a place where families or other groups can share old photos privately and as a public archive for British social history.
They are working with foundation the Copyright Hub to ensure that each photograph has a digital identifier.
The app will be free initially.
The idea was formed when Dean Newsome and Shaun Cutler - who describe themselves as middle-aged dads rather than typical entrepreneurs - started talking by the side of a football pitch in Morpeth, Northumberland.
"I was in the process of digitising old photos for my in-laws and we realised that there was no place to share these on a large scale," said Mr Cutler.
"We treasure our old photographs and the memories that go with them but we are in real danger of the photos that are gathering dust in the attic or under the bed getting lost forever," he added.
Users can upload photos either by scanning them or by taking a photo with their smartphone. They can choose whether to share them publicly or limit the images to a specified group.
The duo behind the app hope that people will share at least some of their photos publicly.
"I envisage a day when historians and educational institutions can use it, for example, to chart a high street going back over decades," said Mr Newsome.
Andrew Mitchell, a social media officer at Northumberland National Park, is using the app to chart changes in the history of the park
"We are celebrating our 60th anniversary and I read about the app and thought it would be a good fit. We had lots of people telling us that they had pictures but had no way of getting them to us. For us it is a way to see how the park has changed."
"We can do this on Instagram or other social media but there is a lot of digital detritus on there and this allows people to focus on something specific."
A trial version of the Clixta app has been used by around 300 users and is now available to the wider public via Android's Google Play store and Apple's iTunes.
Once it has established its user base, the founders said they may introduce subscriptions.
Rapid advances in camera, sensing, aeronautics, battery and autopilot navigation technologies have helped make UAVs affordable, easy-to-operate and increasingly reliable for individuals, civil authorities and businesses alike.
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Small, vertical take-off or landing (VTOL) multi-propeller helicopters equipped with hi-tech equipment are already saving big business millions of pounds.
John Moreland, spokesman for the UAV Systems Association, the UK's main industry body, with about 140 members, told the BBC: "Hundreds of these UAVs are being used commercially these days, typically flying below 400ft (120m) and with a range of about 500m (0.3 miles).
"Most are engaged in aerial photography and 3D surveying, but applications are expanding all the time."
For example, UAVs are being used to carry out aerial inspections of oil refinery flare stacks, fuel tanks, power lines and pipelines.
With their ability to access difficult and dangerous areas, they can provide high-definition video, infrared and still images in live situations without the need for shutting down plants and erecting expensive scaffolding. This saves time and money.
Livingston-based Cyberhawk, a company that specialises in aerial inspections for companies such as Shell, Total, Statoil and ExxonMobil, saved one of its clients £4.6m last year after its UAVs were able to inspect a drilling derrick while it was still operational.
The inspection cut the amount of time the plant had to be closed for painting and reduced the overall amount of work needing to be done, winning Cyberhawk an industry award for business efficiency.
Philip Buchan, Cyberhawk's commercial manager, told the BBC: "We also carry out a lot of live flare-stack inspections for our clients. Not having to shut down the whole processing plant can save them millions of pounds.
In the UK, organisations wanting to use small UAVs - 20kg (3st 2lb) or less - for surveillance, data collection, and commercial purposes, have to get permission from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
This requirement covers UAVs flying within 150m "of any congested area" or within 50m "of any person, vessel, vehicle or structure not under control of the pilot".
Pilots of these small UAVs also have to keep them in sight.
Larger UAVs with extended ranges can only be flown in segregated airspace known as "Danger Areas", says the CAA.
They will only be allowed into normal airspace once they have demonstrated an ability to "detect and avoid" other manned aircraft.
Nearly 200 companies and organisations have been granted permission to use small UAVs in British airspace, ranging from big corporations such as the National Grid, the BBC and BAE Systems, to small aerial photography firms and county fire and rescue services.
"We're now starting to export this service around the world."
In another example, French firm EDF Energy is planning to build two new nuclear power stations at its Hinkley Point site in Somerset in south-west England.
Preliminary ground works have already begun and EDF is using "a photogrammetric unmanned aerial system" (UAS) - a fixed-wing craft with built-in digital camera and autopilot system - to take measurements and assess progress against the plans.
It flies over the 150-hectare (0.5-sq-mile) site each week, taking hundreds of photos and following a predetermined pattern, operated and monitored on the ground via a tablet computer.
The data is used to create 3D maps of the terrain.
Explaining the system's advantages, EDF spokesman Gordon Bell told the BBC: "Compared with a traditional land surveyor equipped with a GPS antenna, the UAS system can cover 1.2 sq km [0.5-sq-mile] in one flight and produce a points cloud composed of millions of points, where a land surveyor can take only hundreds of points at the most per day."
Other advantages included being able to fly below cloud level and at short notice, he added, but the system could be slightly less accurate than man-made surveys and had a shorter range than manned surveillance aircraft.
Many countries around the world have authorised the use of fixed-wing and rotary UAVs for civil purposes, such as border control, police surveillance, fire-fighting, search-and-rescue, land management and topographical surveys.
In Brazil, for example, UAVs have been mapping the Amazonian rainforest for the past two years, while in Japan they are used extensively for crop spraying.
Prof James Scanlan, of Southampton University's department of engineering and environment, is developing larger UAVs containing low-cost nylon parts produced by a 3D printer.
His team is about to safety-test a fixed-wing reconnaissance UAV for a consortium of clients including the police, coastguards, the lifeboat service and Dutch port authorities, to help them carry out maritime surveillance more efficiently.
"Our unique selling point is [the] low cost," he told the BBC.
"We can now build a reliable, durable UAV system for £20,000 or less, when a low-flying helicopter can cost £6,000 an hour to run.
"The potential is massive if we can solve the problem of flying in non-segregated airspace."
Most civil aviation authorities will only allow larger, longer-range UAVs into civilian "non-segregated" airspace once they have demonstrated "detect and avoid" capabilities that make collisions almost impossible.
But we may already be closer to achieving this than many think.
Engineers at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (Grasp) Laboratory at Pennsylvania University have developed ways to make small quadrotor robots fly in formation, co-operate and map their surroundings without global positioning systems (GPS) .
This video illustrates how close we are to achieving "sense and avoid" capabilities that could satisfy aviation authorities around the world, if only for smaller UAVs at this stage.
Grasp Lab team leader, Dr Vijay Kumar, believes such autonomous, self-learning UAVs could be used to search buildings for signs of life after natural disasters, for example, or check for chemical or radiation leaks.
Programmable UAVs that cost less than £300 are now accessible even to hobbyists.
The latest iteration of Parrot's AR.Drone quadcopter includes a 4GB GPS recorder that can store flight data, photos and video for users to share online. Pilots can operate the drone via smartphone or tablet computer and watch live video streamed from the on-board camera.
When operated in conjunction with Q Ground Control software, pilots can set up flight plans on a map that the AR.Drone will then complete automatically, directed by the software.
With a wi-fi connection range of about 55m, this UAV - marketed primarily as a toy - could easily have commercial applications for estate agents, surveyors and roofing contractors, to name but a few.
In time, automated drones could be used as city couriers delivering letters and packets around congested cities or over difficult terrain.
"The civilian and commercial potential of UAVs is being realised more and more now", says Tony Dodd, of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. "The market is potentially worth billions."
But low-cost UAVs could also become the voyeur's tool of choice.
A spokesman for the Information Commissioner's Office, the body responsible for policing the Data Protection Act, told the BBC: "It would become a major concern for us if organisations were using these things to record people without giving notice. It's definitely an issue of growing concern."
Paramedics outside the Queen Alexandra Hospital said they are "spending hours sat waiting to off-load patients".
They said it is having a "massive effect on staff morale" and the "public are not getting the ambulances that they require and that they deserve".
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust said there was an "extremely high demand" at A&E on Monday night.
There were 16 ambulances in the queue at 16:00 GMT, one third of the 46 on duty in Hampshire at the time.
One paramedic for South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) described the situation as "chaos".
He said: "We're seeing it pretty much on a daily basis and it's having a massive effect on staff morale."
Another, who did not want to be identified, said: "I love my job but every time I log on I know there's potential that I could be put back in that same situation where I'm stuck with a patient at their own home and I can't do anything for them and it's too much, it's too much stress."
A Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust spokeswoman said there had been "15 per cent more attendances in the Emergency Department compared to this time last year".
She added: "Last year we received 2,154 more ambulances than any other hospital in the area."
The trust said it had been working with health system partners in an emergency care improvement programme.
Mark Ainsworth, director of operations for SCAS, said he is "increasingly concerned" about ambulances being held at the hospital.
He said patients were waiting for more than two hours outside the hospital.
Mr Peake said on Twitter it was not intended to be a "prank call".
The astronaut, a father-of-two from Chichester, West Sussex, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday 15 December.
He is spending six months conducting scientific experiments on the station.
Earlier in the week, Mr Peake helped two fellow crew members to conduct a space walk outside the ISS.
Astronauts Tim Kopra and Scott Kelly, from the US space agency Nasa, went outside the ISS to fix a broken component.
Mr Peake, who is a former major in the Army, is the first Briton to join the crew of the ISS and is employed by the European Space Agency.
Helen Sharman became the first British citizen to travel to space when she visited the Soviet Mir orbiting station in 1991.
Other Britons who have flown into space have done so either as private individuals or by taking US citizenship.
Earlier this month Mr Peake, 43, was waved off by his wife and two sons, Thomas, six, and Oliver, four, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Police opened fire after the stabbing in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, south-east of Paris, wounding one of the women.
Officials said the suspects were "radicalised" and appeared to have been preparing an immediate attack.
In November, 130 people died in Paris in attacks by so-called Islamic State.
A state of emergency has been in place in France since then.
The Peugeot 607 was found early on Sunday on the Quai de Montebello, just metres from the cathedral which attracts millions of tourists every year.
The car had its hazard warning lights flashing and no number plates, police said.
Documents with writing in Arabic were also found in the car, police said.
One of the canisters, on the front passenger seat, was empty, and there were no detonating devices inside.
A man on the terrorism watch list was arrested on Wednesday as well as an associate of the car's owner.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the three women arrested on Thursday - aged 39, 23 and 19 - "had been radicalised, were fanatics and were in all likelihood preparing an imminent, violent act".
Investigators, Mr Cazeneuve said, had been in a "race against time".
One of those arrested is reportedly the daughter of the car owner who had already been questioned.
According to French media, the car owner was on an intelligence watch-list.
The man was extricated from mud at Charmouth by coastguard crews after an alert by a member of the public shortly after 11:00 GMT.
He was treated at the scene for the effects of cold after the three hour ordeal.
Police said he was the second person rescued within the past week and warned fossil hunters there was a "real risk of death or injury" from landslips.
Councils will be told they must rule on applications within the current 16-week statutory timeframe.
If they repeatedly delay, ministers might take over the power to decide all future applications in that local area.
Environmentalists say it makes a mockery of the government's promise to give power to local people.
The government says it will take local views into account, but that developing shale gas is a national priority that must not be held up.
The announcement is less of a major change in planning law than a warning shot across the bows of local authorities.
Ministers already have powers to take over the decision on any controversial planning issue at any stage of the application.
They say they will now consider applying this power routinely to every bid to drill for shale gas.
They will also ask the Planning Inspectorate to give priority to any appeals against planning refusal for shale gas that come its way.
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said: "We need more secure, home grown energy supplies - and shale gas must play a part in that.
"We can't have a planning system that sees applications dragged out for months, or even years. We need a system that delivers timely planning decisions and works effectively for local people and developers."
If fracking yields ample supplies of gas (which is still an unknown), the Treasury will be relieved. The tax take from North Sea oil and gas tax has dropped by more than £6bn over three years and the Office of Budget Responsibility recently slashed its long-term North Sea revenue forecast by 94%.
The government's announcement is seen as a response to Lancashire County Council's recent rejection of Cuadrilla's shale gas applications after more than a year of deliberations.
But the council is unhappy at the suggestion that they delayed on purpose.
They point out this was the first such application in the UK so it was bound to take extra time to decide on complex technical issues. They also point out that Cuadrilla actually asked them to delay to get more time to solve traffic issues.
A spokesman told BBC News: "It would be very unfair to suggest that we didn't go as fast as possible. This was the first decision in the UK on fracking so there was a lot of pressure on us to get it right."
Daisy Sands from Greenpeace said: "The contrast between [the government's] view that local councils should be 'masters of their own destiny' and the new provisions announced today is staggering.
"Local residents could end up with virtually no say over whether their homes, communities and national parks are fracked or not.
"There is a clear double standard at play - the same government that is intent on driving through fracking at whatever cost has just given more powers to local councils to oppose wind farms, the cheapest source of clean energy. The government is riding rough-shod over democracy to industrialise our most beautiful landscapes and damage the climate."
Ken Cronin, chief executive of UKOOG, the onshore oil and gas body, said: "Experience has shown that the planning process is unwieldy and the time taken for planning decisions has soared from three months to over a year, causing delay and cost and this is not in the interests of local people, the industry, or indeed the British people.
"It is right that the government is acting to ensure that local people can have their say and that the highest standards of safety and environmental protection are met, but also ensuring that the planning process itself is fit for purpose."
A CBI spokesperson said: "Shoring up our energy supply for the future is critical for businesses as they look to make long-term investment decisions.
"Shale gas could play an important role in UK energy and it is important that the planning process works in a timely manner so that industry is able to get on and explore its potential."
The Local Government Association's environment spokesman Councillor Peter Box said: "People living near fracking sites - who are most affected by them - have a right to be heard. Local planning procedure exists for a reason, to ensure a thorough and detailed consultation with those communities. "
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Pressure has grown on the UK to take more of the people fleeing to Europe from Syria after the bodies of Greece-bound migrants, including a three-year-old boy, washed up on a Turkish beach.
Martin McGuinness spoke with Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday and told him that "more needs to be done".
He said Northern Ireland "could take a couple of thousand refugees" at first.
He described the situation as "absolutely horrendous".
But he said the prime minister firstly had to permit entry to the UK for more migrants before they could be accepted by Northern Ireland.
"David Cameron is the person who can free up the devolved administrations who I think are willing to do more," Mr McGuinness said.
"I have no doubt the people of the north would gladly welcome any moves to allow more refugees to come here."
Thousands of migrants have died this year trying to reach Europe by sea.
Images of a Syrian toddler, reportedly named Aylan Kurdi, who was found dead on a beach after the migrant boat he was travelling in sank have sparked an international outcry over the human cost of the crisis.
The Alliance Party has tabled an assembly motion calling for the UK to accept a significant number of migrants.
Alliance MLA Stewart Dickson said the UK had a "moral obligation" to help alleviate the crisis.
"Here in Northern Ireland we can ensure provisions are in place to take in as many people as we can," he said.
Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt said that while Northern Ireland had "limited resources and can play a very small part in any solution" the humane thing to do was to "play that part".
Jeffrey Donaldson of the Democratic Unionist Party said the government could not turn its back on the crisis.
"As individuals, we are not powerless to help through donations to the many agencies helping refugees directly and providing vital humanitarian aid," he added.
SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said the government needed to "commit to offering sanctuary to those so desperately in need of our help".
The World Orienteering Championship's and orienteering's Scottish Six Days event will run at the same time from 31 July to 8 August.
It will involve using roads in and around Forres, Nairn, Achagour and at Darnaway Forest.
Other elements of the events will be staged in Glen Affric.
The competitions will bring 450 athletes from 50 nations and more than 5,000 others, including club competitors and spectators.
Organisers said that from 17:00 and 20: 30 on 31 July, a 10mph speed limit will be in place on Forres' Grant Drive, Pilmuir Road, Pilmuir Road West and Grantown Road.
In Nairn on 1 August roads in and around Fishertown will be closed from 17:00 to 21:30.
The car park by The Links near Cumming Street will also be closed.
In Forres on 2 August roads in and around the town centre, including the High Street, will be closed from 16:00 to 20:00.
Car parks in the town centre will also be closed or have restricted access.
The minor road south of the entrance to Achagour Fisheries to the Ardclach junction will be closed from 08:30 to 18:30 on 2 August.
The minor road running through Darnaway Forest north of Logiebuchany will be closed from 09:30 to 18:15 on 5 August and until 17:30 on 6 August.
British Orienteering beat a bid from Sweden to host the 2015 World Orienteering Championships.
It could generate an economic boost of more than £2m, according to a report by Highland Council officers published in 2011.
The last championships in Scotland were held around Inverness in 1999.
The 34-year-old was released by Doncaster in the summer after scoring 21 goals in 80 games in two seasons.
Tyson, who scored a second-half goal for the Cumbrians in the friendly against Queen of the South on Monday also had spells at Wycombe and Derby.
"We're always on the hunt for good players and there are no strings attached to trial periods like this," manager Keith Curle said.
Following Sunday's election, the 550-seat parliament now includes 98 women - up from 79 in the previous parliament.
Before the 7 June vote, more than half of Turkey's female MPs came from the governing Justice and Development Party (AK).
But the latest rise is largely due to the success of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), which entered parliament for the first time and will have 32 female MPs.
The party, which is led by both a man and a woman, demanded that 50% of its candidates standing in the election were female.
Meanwhile the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) appears to have been the worst performer in this field, with two women in the last parliament and four this time around.
The BBC looks at some of the most prominent female politicians in Turkey's new parliament.
Feleknas Uca was previously a member of the European parliament for Germany, but is now one of Turkey's first two MPs from the Yazidi Kurdish religious community.
The 39-year-old HDP politician has faced investigations in Turkey in the past.
She was arrested at Istabul's Ataturk Airport in 2012 while carrying a large number of B-1 vitamins that she reportedly planned to take to Kurdish hunger strikers in Turkish prisons.
AK Party MP Leyla Sahin is well known after taking legal action against the country's headscarf ban at the European Court of Human Rights a decade ago.
The niece of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Dilek Ocalan also won a seat in the vote.
At 28, she will become one of the youngest parliamentarians.
Safak Pavey was re-elected as an MP for the main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP).
She became the first disabled woman ever elected to the Turkish parliament in 2011.
Filiz Kerestecioglu, a lawyer and a women rights activist for 30 years, will be entering parliament as a member of the HDP.
She helped set up the country's first women's shelter 25 years ago. The refuge for women suffering domestic violence also become home to Turkey's feminist movement.
She told the BBC that the rise in the number of female parliamentarians was "not satisfactory but still, it is important".
Women have never been far from the political stage in the country's 92-year history.
Nearly every political party has a women's branch, and women get involved in campaigning before every election - often organising meetings and persuading others to vote a certain way.
During the 1990s, Tansu Ciller served as Turkey's first female prime minister.
However, she was one of only a handful of women MPs at the time.
And figures show women have historically struggled to make it from campaign office to parliament.
According to Turkish State Statistic Agency, there have been 351 female MPs in 76 years, while the numbers if male MPs reaches into the thousands.
Equal representation in politics became a key issue in the run-up to this month's election, due to pressure from civil rights groups, women's activists and young campaigners.
But it is hard to tell whether they are satisfied by the latest numbers.
Hatice Kapusuz from the Association for Support of Women Candidates told the BBC: "It is impossible to say whether this is a successful outcome for women."
She thinks that in order for any social change to take place, a 33% of representation in parliament is necessary.
Women now make up 17.8% of MPs following Sunday's vote, up from 14.3%.
So Turkey will have more female voices in the parliament in the next session.
But it is also clear that political parties need to do more to ensure their voices grow louder.
The Argentina international arrived in England on Wednesday to finalise the transfer for a reported £38m.
On Thursday evening the club announced Aguero had signed a five-year deal.
The club said the striker, 23, was likely to be in their squad for the weekend's Dublin Super Cup tournament.
Aguero, who will wear number 16, told City's official website: "I think we are a team that in future will be fighting every year to win major trophies.
"When we were talking I asked my agents to do everything they could because this was a good club and I'd always wanted to play in the Premier League. It felt right.
"I don't think I'll have too many problems settling into the team. I'll obviously be doing my best to do what the manager asks and try to work the way he wants me to."
Asked about adjusting to life in England, he added: "Firstly I don't like very hot weather so on that side of things I'll be ok. I'm sure I'm going to enjoy myself here and life will be fine."
Earlier on Thursday, Aguero had Tweeted: "I'm already a City player. Happy to be in this club and this city."
City pressed on with the move despite the collapse of Carlos Tevez's proposed switch to Corinthians.
The striker, nicknamed 'Kun', also interested Real Madrid and Juventus but has become the most expensive signing in City's history, eclipsing the £32.5m paid for Robinho in 2008.
Neither Real nor Juventus met Atletico's valuation of the striker.
Aguero flew in from Buenos Aires, via Heathrow, early on Wednesday morning and went straight to a private Manchester hospital to undergo his medical.
The comparisons with Diego Maradona are inevitable, but in style I think he is closer to Romario. He is very, very powerful from his waist down but relatively slight on top. He is extremely skilful in tight space but he can also bring the ball down and make something happen. He really could be amongst the best five of six players in the world.
He then had a brief stop at City's stadium in the early evening, and, after holding discussions with City officials, he happily signed autographs for the growing crowd of fans who had gathered.
Corinthians, meanwhile, pulled out of their bid to take Tevez back to Brazil last week after initially agreeing a £38.6m transfer.
That translated as 40m euros plus 4m euros in add-ons and City were happy to accept payment in instalments as part of the deal, but Corinthians were unable or unwilling to provide the customary bank guarantees associated with a deal of such magnitude.
Tevez's desire to leave City remains as strong as ever, but he may face an added complication as City are unlikely to accept a similar fee to that offered by Corinthians from any of the top European clubs considering an approach for the 27-year-old Argentine.
Cordina became the fourth Welsh athlete to qualify for Rio by beating Ireland's David Joyce in the 60kg semi-final at the European qualifier in Turkey.
The 24-year-old will now meet France's Sofiane Oumiha in the final after he overcame home favourite Volkan Gokcek.
"It is six years of work," said the 2014 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist.
Cordina, European amateur champion in 2015, was beaten and stopped by Joyce four years ago when the Cardiff boxer was trying to secure a place at London 2012.
"It feels amazing," Cordina told BBC Sport. "This came around at the right time for me.
"When I fought David Joyce four years ago in an Olympic qualifier he beat me.
"I was young and inexperienced and even though I started well, he kept on coming and ended up stopping me.
"So it was good to get one back on him."
Cordina will join shooter Elena Allen, triathlete Non Stanford and sailor Hannah Mills on the TeamGB plane to Brazil while world number one defending Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones has virtually sealed her spot.
Cordina trains with 2012 Olympic welterweight silver medallist Fred Evans, IBF world featherweight champion Lee Selby and 2010 Commonwealth Games bantamweight champion Sean McGoldrick at Newport's St Joseph's gym.
Forest led in controversial fashion through substitute Zach Clough's shot, much to the disgust of the Seagulls, who felt Britt Assombalonga got the final touch from an offside position.
Brighton went close to levelling through Lewis Dunk, substitute Solly March and Anthony Knockaert.
But Ben Osborn and Clough's late injury-time penalty sealed victory.
Osborn's simple 89th-minute tap-in, after keeper David Stockdale made a mess of Liam Rosenior's backpass, settled the nerves at the City Ground following a run of three defeats in Forest's previous four Championship matches.
And Clough's second goal for the club, eight minutes into stoppage time following a foul by Dunk on teenage striker Ben Brereton, added a comprehensive feel to a result which lifted them six points clear of the relegation zone.
Brighton - who would have gone above leaders Newcastle with a win - offered little until they fell behind, but were still a long way short of their best.
They produced just one shot on target in a largely uneventful first half, with Forest keeper Jordan Smith making a decent save from the lively Knockaert.
Seagulls top scorer Glenn Murray did have the ball in the net when he smashed in from close range after a smart turn and shot following a long throw, but an 18th goal of the season was ruled out for handball.
Clough's opener put the hosts ahead and they were able to resist Brighton's best spell of the game soon after and close out the win late on.
Nottingham Forest interim boss Gary Brazil: "In key moments in the game we were strong. If we have got a little bit of luck, I think we have earned it. Our all-round performance was one that deserved victory.
"It was not a defining moment in the game, because there was still a lot of football to play.
"In the first half we got a real grip of the game and then we pushed on from that in the second half.
"I am chuffed to bits for the players and the staff, but particularly for the fans who stuck with us throughout the game.
Brighton manager Chris Hughton: "Whether the referee knew if Assombalonga had touched the ball or not, I am not so sure. He must have been made aware of it.
"I was disappointed that the goal was not overturned. It looked as though he was in an offside position. The person with the best view of that is the linesman and you would expect him to give that decision.
"We got through to half-time without being at our best. We knew we needed to raise our game, which we have been able to do in the past.
"We did do that, but they got the first goal which made things tougher. Then we conceded really poor goals after that."
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 3, Brighton and Hove Albion 0.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 3, Brighton and Hove Albion 0.
Liam Rosenior (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 3, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Nottingham Forest. Ben Brereton draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Aaron Tshibola replaces Jamie Ward.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Rosenior with a cross.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Solly March with a cross.
Attempt missed. Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Lewis Dunk.
Foul by Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Ben Brereton (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Brereton.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Daniel Fox.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Ben Brereton replaces Britt Assombalonga.
Attempt missed. Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Oliver Norwood with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Daniel Fox.
Attempt missed. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Oliver Norwood with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Joe Worrall.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Tomer Hemed replaces Sam Baldock.
Attempt missed. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Bruno with a cross.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Jordan Smith.
Attempt saved. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Oliver Norwood.
Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest).
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Oliver Norwood replaces Steve Sidwell.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Solly March replaces Jamie Murphy.
Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Daniel Fox (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Zach Clough replaces Hildeberto Pereira.
Delay in match Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Lewis Dunk with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
The 35-year-old was reported overdue on Sunday night after leaving for a weekend trip from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire.
A kayak matching the description of his was found on Monday night near Lybster in Caithness, and safety equipment was found near Portknockie in Moray.
An air, sea and coastline search for the fit but inexperienced kayaker resumed on Wednesday.
His sister Ellie told BBC Scotland from Australia: "The longer this stays in the minds of the nation the better."
She remains hopeful he had made it ashore to cliffs and was injured and would be found.
A Find Dom page has been set up on Facebook by friends, and the local community has been providing food and offers of free accommodation.
Mr Jackson, who lives in Fettercairn in Aberdeenshire and is originally from Uckfield in East Sussex, is believed to have set off in his kayak from Portsoy harbour on Saturday.
The alarm was raised by his flatmate on Sunday night when he failed to return home as expected.
Mr Jackson's green VW Transporter - which he was camping in for the weekend - was found in the Portsoy area.
Tries from Rory Parata and Fionn Carr helped Connacht lead 14-0 but Treviso hit back and Jayden Hayward's last-gasp penalty ensured the home side's win.
Scores from Luca Morisi and Braam Steyn cut Connacht's lead to 14-12 by half-time and Treviso then edged ahead with a penalty try on 45 minutes.
A Peter Robb try restored Connacht's lead before Hayward's penalty won it.
Treviso's players celebrated after a victory which puts them in position to claim the European Champions Cup spot available to Italy as they move above Zebre into 11th spot in the table.
Connacht's losing bonus point guaranteed their semi-finals spot as they moved 11 points ahead of fifth-place Scarlets but Glasgow's expected victory over Zebre on Friday will drop the Irish province to third in the table.
Next weekend's game in Galway between Connacht and Glasgow is now likely to be a shoot-out to decide who earns a home semi-final.
In Friday's game, Connacht poached two tries in the opening 14 minutes as Parata dived over and Carr then latched onto a Jack Carty grubber kick.
However, Connacht failed to control their remainder of the first half as Morisi and Steyn scored two tries in the space of five minutes before the break.
As the Connacht scrum began to struggle, Treviso notched a penalty try five minutes after the resumption.
Following the introduction of Ireland players Robbie Henshaw and Finlay Bealham, Robb dived over in the 52nd minute with John Cooney a third successful conversion.
Just before the match entered injury-time, Connacht's replacement scrum-half Caolin Blade conceded possession as he threw a forward pass and a further scrum infringement just short of halfway allowed Hayward to kick the decisive penalty.
Connacht: T O'Halloran; N Adeolokun, R Parata, P Robb, F Carr; J Carty, J Cooney; R Loughney, T McCartney (capt), R Ah You; Q Roux, A Browne; S O'Brien, J Heenan, E McKeon.
Replacements: D Heffernan for McCartney 79, JP Cooney for Ah You 59, F Bealham for Loughney 44 mins, A Muldowney for Roux 67, J Muldoon for Heenan 57, C Blade for John Cooney 67, AJ MacGinty for Carty 51, R Henshaw for Parata 51.
Treviso: J Hayward; A Esposito, L Morisi, A Sgarbi (capt), L Nitoglia; S Christie, E Gori; M Zanusso, O Gega, S Ferrari, F Paulo, T Palmer, F Minto, A Zanni, A Steyn.
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Two thirds of the money, which was to be given to United over three years, was to come from the Northern Ireland Executive.
The flight is the only direct air link between Northern Ireland and the US.
The European Commission has said EU rules do not allow public authorities to grant a specific airline an "undue advantage".
The financial assistance was revealed by BBC News NI in August. However, it is understood only part of the £9m aid was ever paid to United and it has now been refunded.
On Friday, United said the last departure from Belfast will be on 9 January.
United said it had taken the decision because of the route's poor financial performance.
"We will contact customers with bookings for flights beyond those dates to provide refunds and re-accommodate where possible. We apologise for any inconvenience caused," it added.
United's decision to axe its service between Belfast and New York is a setback for the airport and the Northern Ireland Executive.
But before now each had been mindful Europe could scupper a hastily arranged £9m rescue deal.
However, the gamble was considered worth taking, as without it United would have pulled out earlier.
Only part of the aid money has been paid and it has now been refunded.
Northern Ireland has long struggled to attract airlines on long-haul routes, while Dublin Airport rapidly expands its destination choices.
United's decision will not make the job any easier and, at the very least, is an undoubted knock to the prestige of Northern Ireland Plc.
Belfast International Airport said the flight is going because the European Commission blocked the funding package on state aid grounds.
The airport's managing director Graham Keddie tweeted that he was "absolutely spitting" about the decision which he blamed on "useless, faceless EU bureaucrats".
He said the decision would be a "body blow" to Northern Ireland executive ministers "who use it to promote Northern Ireland to would-be investors from the United States".
"To block a support package for an airline that delivers direct access to the United States is almost beyond comprehension," Mr Keddie said.
"The EU decision-making process is abysmal, biased and unfair and has resulted in the loss of this service."
In a statement, the European Commission said EU state aid rules did not allow public authorities to "grant a specific airline an undue advantage to the detriment of competing airlines and distorting competition in the single market".
It added that the arrangement between United and the Stormont executive had been put in place "without prior notification" to the commission. The commission then received a complaint about the deal, which led to the ruling.
Economy Minister Simon Hamilton said he was "baffled" by the EU ruling, and insisted that the executive did the right thing by trying to save the route.
"There was a risk to the flight and we stepped in to save it," Mr Hamilton said.
"Faced with the same circumstances again, I would make the same decisions. All public money has been recouped with interest and we retained the route for a longer period."
He said it was "deeply regrettable that unelected bureaucrats in Brussels have effectively scuppered this important flight for Northern Ireland".
He added that he would establish an air routes task force and said: "I have already been in discussions about bringing new airlines to Northern Ireland."
In September, MLAs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) were told the deal got rushed executive approval in the face of concern about value for money.
The NI Auditor General said Economy Minister Simon Hamilton issued a ministerial direction for the bail-out, which was endorsed by First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, "under emergency procedure". | US airline United is to stop flights between Belfast and New York, months after a £9m rescue deal. | 37,834,823 | 829 | 24 | false |
Amnesty urged India to scrap the Public Safety Act (PSA) which allows detention for up to two years without charge.
The group also criticised the judiciary for its failure to protect human rights of the detainees.
Kashmir has been gripped by a violent separatist insurgency since 1989.
Corrrespondents say the Indian government does not comment on reports by international rights groups.
The detentions have been made since the beginning of the insurgency, Amnesty says in a new report released in Srinagar on Monday.
Detentions under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act documents how the law is used to secure long-term detention of individuals against whom there is insufficient evidence for a trial.
"The Jammu and Kashmir authorities are using PSA detentions as a revolving door to keep people they can't or won't convict through proper legal channels locked up and out of the way," said Amnesty campaigner Bikramjeet Batra.
"Hundreds of people are being held each year on spurious grounds, with many exposed to higher risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment," he added.
The report says the detainees include political leaders and activists, suspected members or supporters of armed opposition groups, lawyers, journalists and protesters, including children.
Often, they are initially picked up for "unofficial" interrogation during which time they have no access to a lawyer or their families.
Even minors are being held under the law, the report says.
Amnesty International called upon the government of Jammu and Kashmir to repeal the law and end the system of detentions.
It also urged the government to release all detainees or charge those suspected of committing criminal acts with recognised offences and try them fairly in a court of law.
The Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and is claimed in full by both.
The region is also one of most militarised in the world, with hundreds of thousands of troops present on both sides of the Line of Control - the de facto border dividing the territory. | Rights group Amnesty International has criticised a tough Indian law which it says has been used to detain up to 20,000 people without trial in Indian-administered Kashmir. | 12,802,359 | 470 | 44 | false |
The woman was hit on the head by the device after it crashed into a building and fell on to her.
Detectives are investigating the case, which happened at a gay pride parade in Seattle on Sunday.
The incident is the latest in which a person has been injured by a consumer drone that either crashed or cut them with its rotor blades.
According to Seattle police's blog, the injured woman's boyfriend caught her as she fell to the ground. One of her friends handed the damaged drone to police, along with photographs of the man they believed was piloting it. A man later contacted the police.
The police blog said that the drone weighed about 2lb (0.9kg) and sold for about $1,200 (£770). However, Seattle police did not specify the model or manufacturer.
An off-duty firefighter helped treat the 25-year-old woman, who was reported to have made a full recovery. But, according to drone expert Prof David Dunn of the University of Birmingham, the incident illustrated a growing problem.
He told the BBC that drones posed a danger because their popularity had outstripped both the regulation and education on how to use them safely.
He said that, although it may be considered a heavy-handed approach by some people, the government needed to consider licensing the devices.
Last month, the singer Enrique Iglesias fractured his hand onstage at a concert when he was hit by the blades of a camera-equipped drone that he had reached up to take hold of.
In December last year, the Brooklyn Daily reported that one of its own photographers had been hurt by a small drone that had hit her in the face.
And, in April of the same year, there were reports that an Australian athlete had been hurt by a drone that had fallen from the sky and landed on her.
A group of tourists were brought into the glitzy event, having been told they were going to see a costume exhibition.
One woman said she and her partner were getting married in August and that Washington was her favourite actor.
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel then asked Washington to perform a quick ceremony in the front row of the auditorium.
"I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride," Washington said.
Kimmel joked: "He's Denzel, so it's legal."
All of the tourists were invited to shake hands with the stars on the front row, including Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling and Viola Davis.
Jennifer Aniston was asked to give them a gift and gave one lucky woman sunglasses from her handbag.
Previous Oscar stunts include host Ellen DeGeneres taking a selfie in 2014, featuring stars such as Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
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The Russian Proton vehicle ejected the satellite high above Papua New Guinea in the early hours of Saturday (GMT).
The spacecraft is needed by Inmarsat to complete its new global telecommunications network.
This will offer customers substantially faster mobile broadband connections at a lower cost, and should come into service towards the end of the year.
"The launch is just the start of a quite lengthy process," explained Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce.
"We've got to test the new satellite's systems and sub-systems, and do the full integration with the other satellites in the network, and with the ground infrastructure. That's why it takes until the end of the year," he told BBC News.
The new network, known as Global Xpress, is hugely important to the fortunes of company, which is fighting to maintain its dominance of the mobile satellite services market.
Its principal customers are found in the shipping sector, but Inmarsat also caters for any groups that need telecoms away from a fixed line.
These include oil and gas platforms, aeroplanes, military deployments, aid agencies in disaster areas, and even TV news crews reporting from trouble zones.
Recent times have seen some of these customers drift away to rival satellite systems that provide higher-bandwidth connections.
Global Xpress is Inmarsat's £1bn ($1.6bn) response - a constellation of three spacecraft relaying seamless communications around the world via the Ka-band of the electromagnetic spectrum.
"This is a massive deal for Inmarsat," observed Wei Li, who follows market trends for space consultancy Euroconsult.
"Inmarsat, as you know, has traditionally built its business around L-band. It's a great frequency; it's very reliable. But its bandwidth is limited, and in the last five years we've seen a lot of maritime, aeronautical, and even land mobile users switch from Inmarsat's L-band to competitors offering Ku or Ka-band.
"So, for Inmarsat, the Ka of Global Xpress is really important to help them maintain their market leader role."
The mission was also a big deal for Proton, which was making its first outing since the botched launch of a Mexican satellite in May.
The Proton left the launch pad at the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 17:44 local time (12:44 BST) on Friday. It took fully 15 hours and 31 minutes for the vehicle to get the Inmarsat spacecraft into the right position.
It dropped it off into an elliptical orbit around the equator that brings the 6-tonne platform as close to Earth as 475km and as far out as 65,000km.
The satellite itself must now circularise this path and manoeuvre to a "stationary" orbital slot some 36,000km above the Pacific.
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Mr Corbyn used a speech in Glasgow to accuse the Scottish government of "devolving austerity and passing the buck".
He also accused Theresa May of engaging in a "race to the bottom" with her Brexit plans.
The SNP accused Mr Corbyn of "carping from the sidelines" and said Labour in Scotland were "stuck in a sorry place".
In his speech, Mr Corbyn said: "The SNP government simply passes on Tory austerity and is increasingly failing to govern effectively or fairly.
"Trying to talk left at Westminster when in opposition, whilst acting right in power at Holyrood, is not standing up for Scotland.
"It is not standing up for Scotland failing to tackle the scandalous level of health inequalities here in this great city of Glasgow and across Scotland. It is not standing up for Scotland overseeing a growing attainment gap between children from poorer and wealthier backgrounds.
"It is not standing up for Scotland refusing to use the powers of the Scottish Parliament to invest in all of these areas - and many more where the SNP has failed.
"The SNP is not standing up for Scotland. It's standing up for the establishment."
The Labour leader met with "Justice for Jannies" protestors outside the event, who are in dispute with employers Cordia, a body of Glasgow City Council.
Mr Corbyn, who was joined by Kezia Dugdale at the Glasgow event, also made reference to the Scottish party leader's plans for a "people's constitutional convention".
Ms Dugdale has also suggested a "new act of union", but opponents accused Labour of being "all at sea" on the issue after Mr Corbyn told the BBC he "would not use" those words.
Mr Corbyn said he agrees with Ms Dugdale about the need for a review to "redistribute reclaimed powers and resources across all our nations".
He also said Scottish independence would "lead to turbo-charged austerity and a glaring hole in the money required to fund essential services".
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon responded to this on Twitter, calling it "rubbish", adding: "If Corbyn wasn't leading such a pitifully ineffective opposition, the Tories wouldn't be getting away with half of what they are."
A spokesman for the SNP said: "Jeremy Corbyn's comments are exactly the sort of carping from the sidelines that Kezia Dugdale warned about when she said that Labour would be unelectable under his leadership.
"Labour in Scotland are stuck in a sorry place between completely irrelevant and totally desperate.
"Just last week Jeremy Corbyn fatally undermined Kezia Dugdale's plans on the constitution - and the attempts to paper over the cracks with this contrived photo op will fool no one.
"But it's not just internal Labour division that is driving voters away, it's the fact that nobody knows what purpose they serve.
"While the SNP are standing up for Scotland against a Tory hard Brexit, Labour have capitulated to the Tories at Westminster - opening the door to economic catastrophe."
The announcement by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a setback to their plan to replace Obamacare.
Five Republican senators had vowed to oppose the bill, and the party could only afford to lose two votes to get it passed in the upper chamber.
US President Donald Trump invited Senate Republicans to the White House for a meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
Sitting alongside some of the party rebels, he said: "This will be great if we get it done. And if we don't get it done, it's just going to be something that we're not going to like. And that's okay, and I understand that very well."
A similar version of the bill has already passed the House, after facing a similar delay.
After Congress returns from the bank holiday, there will be a two-week window before the summer break.
Mr McConnell vowed to continue to try to find the votes, and would make changes to the bill if necessary.
Moderate senators say the bill will harm some of their vulnerable constituents, while conservatives say it has too much government interference.
The news of a delay comes just one day after the non-partisan Congressional Budgetary Office said the bill would strip 22 million Americans of health insurance over the next 10 years.
The 142-page Senate bill - the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 - phases out the expansion of Medicaid, a government health programme for the low-income Americans, and imposes deep cuts to the programme.
The bill also gives states more latitude in requiring insurers to provide essential health benefits guaranteed under Obamacare, including emergency and maternity care and mental health services.
Details also include:
We have our first tangible indication of just how dire the situation is for the Senate healthcare bill.
House Republicans faced similar setbacks, of course. In fact, their leaders didn't delay their measure until just hours before what would have been a doomed vote. The Senate, as always, moves more cautiously. The political reality in both instances, however, is the same.
Moderates Republicans think the bill cuts government health programmes too much. Conservatives believe the reforms don't go far enough.
The House eventually managed to find a compromise. Senators can be a bit more stubborn, though - and the Republican margins in that chamber are slimmer.
Washington politicians now head home for a week of Fourth of July parades and constituent meetings. They're certain to get an earful from across the political spectrum.
When they return, they'll have just three weeks to cobble together a solution - while also juggling the need to reach a budget agreement and raise the federal debt ceiling. A vote in July could be harder, not easier.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has proven to be a legislative magician, but if he pulls this off it will rank among his greatest tricks of all.
Not one single Democrat is expected to support the proposed legislation, having lambasted it as a huge transfer of wealth from poor to rich.
Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi has warned that "hundreds of thousands" of Americans will die if the bill passes.
"Republicans cannot excise the rotten core" of this bill, said Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer after the delay was announced.
The American Association of Retired Persons, the nation's oldest non-profit organisation representing Americans over 50 years-old, slammed the bill as an "age tax".
At least five Senate Republicans - moderate senators Susan Collins and Dean Heller and conservatives Ron Johnson, Rand Paul and Mike Lee - had announced opposition to the bill.
Moderate Republicans who have opposed the bill criticised it for stripping protections for the poor and elderly, as well as access to women's health.
Conservatives are upset that the bill "does not go far enough" to repeal the Affordable Care Act passed under Barack Obama.
The president has already been playing a significant role, phoning wavering senators like Ted Cruz, to try to get them behind the plan.
He has the power to offer perks and dole out punishment to individual members of Congress who need something more than simple persuasion.
On Tuesday, a pro-Trump fundraising group began a £1m television and radio campaign against Mr Heller as he prepares for re-election in Nevada in 2018.
But the president has had an ambiguous relationship with his party's legislation, decrying the House bill as "mean" just weeks after celebrating its passing through the lower chamber.
When asked what the president thought of the Senate bill, his spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said she had not yet asked him.
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Both clubs were fined by Uefa following their Europa League last-16 tie last season, as supporters mocked tragedies suffered by each side.
"I will be really sad if in such a big football match that was a negative point," said Mourinho.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp said the fixture "will never be a normal game".
The Reds defeated their rivals 3-1 on aggregate in the first meeting between the clubs in European competition, but the tie was marred by a number of unsavoury scenes.
Liverpool were sanctioned for setting off fireworks, a late kick-off and had to pay for damage caused by fans at Old Trafford, while United were charged for stairways blocked at their stadium.
Rival fans were also seen fighting in the stands, seats were thrown and flares were lit in Manchester.
Klopp added: "We should use this opportunity on the pitch to make sure all the nice stories are written about what happens on it, and not around.
"Big respect is what this sport stands for and you face your biggest opponents and play football against them. That is the battle we have, that is where we should show who is the best and create a special atmosphere."
Last season's games were marred by chanting about Munich and Hillsborough.
In 1958, eight United players were among 23 people who died after their plane caught fire and crashed in Munich.
Ninety six Liverpool fans died as a result of a crush during an FA Cup semi-final with Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough in 1989.
"In football you have some football tragedies," said Mourinho. "You lose a big match or make a mistake. You can make fun of it.
"Human tragedy is something much more serious. It is the last thing someone should use in a football pitch. Really big tragedies are serious."
Mourinho's side go into Monday's game - which kicks off at 20:00 BST - sixth in the Premier League with 13 points, two places and three points adrift of Liverpool.
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Rodgers' side, who were seeded in the 'champions route' section of the draw, beat the Kazakh outfit in last season's third qualifying round.
The first leg at Celtic Park is on 16 August, with the return six days later.
"We know what it's like - the hotel, the astroturf, it's virtually the same managers and players," said Rodgers.
"It will be as tough as last year but we look forward to it and will be ready for it."
The trip to Kazakhstan involves a seven-hour flight and a five-hour time difference, and Rodgers will adopt the same technique that served his side well last season as they drew 1-1 away and then won 2-1 in Glasgow to progress.
"We stayed on British time because obviously there is the time difference which can really throw you," he said.
"I have done it in the past, we stayed on British time to keep our body clocks the same.
"Some of our staff outside the football stayed on the time in Astana and they actually felt it would have been better to stay on the British time.
"You are not sure if you are having your dinner or breakfast but it certainly helps you. You couldn't really do it over a sustained length of time but when it is only a short trip, to throw your body out sometimes isn't ideal.
"We did last time and it worked well for the players."
The 10 play-off winners will join 22 teams already qualified for the group stage, including four English, three Spanish and three German teams.
In the 'league route' of the play-off draw, Liverpool were paired with Hoffenheim and will be away first.
Losing teams at the play-off stage enter the Europa League group stage.
Celtic, who defeated Linfield earlier in the competition, beat Rosenborg 1-0 on Wednesday to secure an aggregate win by the same scoreline in the Champions League third qualifying round while Astana overcame Poland's Legia Warsaw 3-2 on aggregate.
The last flight out from Entebbe airport to London's Heathrow will depart on 3 October 2015, the UK carrier said.
British Airways operates four flights a week to Entebbe.
However, their rates are not as competitive as the ones offered by other airlines, says BBC Uganda analyst Alex Jakana.
It offers the luxury of direct flights from Uganda to the UK, but some Ugandan travellers prefer to use airlines going via the Middle East, despite the longer journey time, he says.
In a statement, British Airways said it was "sorry for any disruption" to travellers who had already booked their flights.
Entebbe is Uganda's busiest and only international airport.
Every week, at least 49 domestic flights and 490 international flights depart from there, according to the travel website Tripadvisor.
The dispute is over job security, conditions and pensions.
The union said it remained available for talks with the company to resolve the dispute.
A spokesman for CalMac said they had only just begun talks with the RMT and were concerned a strike may prevent both sides reaching an agreement.
The RMT said its members voted by 92% for strike action and by 98% for action short of a strike in a turnout of 60%.
Overall, 55% of the total number eligible to vote backed strike action and 58% of the total eligible voted for action short of a strike.
The union said the industrial relationship with CalMac on the Clyde and Hebrides network has "deteriorated" in recent months to such an extent that it had "no choice" but to declare a formal dispute with the company.
The union claimed the ferry operator had failed to provide it with satisfactory reassurances over job security, conditions of service, pensions and continuity of lifeline ferry services for remote communities and businesses.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "The failure to give our members the most basic assurances meant that RMT had no alternative but to ballot CalMac members for strike action and industrial action short of strike action, in order to secure our members' rights during this period of increasing uncertainty and insecurity.
"That ballot has now concluded and members have delivered a massive and solid mandate for action.
"RMT remains available for serious and constructive talks aimed at resolving this dispute."
CalMac has previously said it would seek to minimise disruption if a strike was to happen.
Acknowledging the result of the RMT ballot, a spokesman for the ferry operator said: "We recognise that there are difficult issues facing our employees currently.
"We acknowledge that our trade unions wish to support the interests of their members, however, we do not believe that taking steps toward industrial action is appropriate at this stage.
"We have only just entered dialogue on the matters. That process has only just started and hasn't had any chance to deliver progress. We would be concerned that a dispute now can only damage the prospects of reaching a mutually acceptable outcome.
"We remain committed to continuing the ongoing discussions with all trade unions."
The idea has been pitched to club representatives by Scotland coach Gordon Strachan.
"You could imagine that, in the run up to this, people would become more interested in the young talent at certain clubs," said Martin Calladine.
"And it will focus people's minds on the next generation."
Strachan and Scottish FA performance director Brian McClair revealed the idea at a meeting of the Scottish Professional Football League this week as part of its review into youth development.
Under the plans, aimed at giving more competitive game time to young fringe players, top-flight clubs would provide up to five players for a draft pool that would then provide loan picks available to clubs in the lower leagues.
Calladine, who wrote a book about what football can learn from its United States equivalent, says sponsorship cash and fan interest could soar, should the SFA proposal becomes a reality.
"I think it's a terrific idea," he told BBC Scotland.
"Scottish football needs interesting stories around it. It needs to get people excited about the game and especially during the off season."
The SFA has set up a steering group to look at the idea further and has invited representatives of the clubs to be involved in the process.
Calladine also believes attention and cash could follow if a National Football League-type system were adopted.
"This would be the first major league in the world doing anything like this, so it would be an open goal in terms of generating some positive press," he added.
"The draft provides sponsorship and broadcast possibilities for the NFL and there's no reason those principles couldn't be adopted for Scottish football.
"When you look at other sports around the world and then back at football, you see how conservative it is as sport, how frightened of any change it is.
"But I would be very surprised if, after the first few drafts, people aren't very excited about this."
By sharing shocking images and video showing the killing of US journalist James Foley, IS has brought to the fore an issue many have warned about: that social networks are locked in a continual battle against extremists and the spread of shocking propaganda online.
Some experts say the networks are losing this battle, as more and more messages - many purporting to be from news agencies - flood services.
Others argue that social networks are doing what they can to protect users, and that measures in place to flag and remove content are effective.
Meanwhile, some have criticised social networks for putting more effort into detecting copyright infringement than they have into removing harmful material.
Here are the key issues.
After video of Foley appeared online, users on social networks urged others not to watch or share the clip.
But the effectiveness of IS's approach is staggering - mimicking the kind of efforts corporations would invest millions in for marketing purposes.
As the graphic video was circulated, some Twitter users started two hashtags - #ISISmediablackout and #DontShare - which sought to drown out messages showing the disturbing content, replacing it with images of Foley taken while he was working.
But the reality is that extremists are finding new ways to circumvent the efforts of social networks trying to shut down accounts, a constant cat-and-mouse game that one source close to a major network described to the BBC as being a never-ending "game of whack-a-mole".
JM Berger is an analyst specialising in monitoring extremism on social media. He says that the online actions of IS - formerly Isis - rival the efforts of the finest social media marketing experts in the world. Indeed, the swift "brand name" change from Isis to IS has shown the effectiveness of the group's online message.
In spreading propaganda, one tactic utilised by the group stood out - a specially created app that, when willingly exposed on a person's phone, would tweet co-ordinated propaganda messages worded by IS, carefully timed not to fall foul of Twitter's spam filter.
In one example, 40,000 tweets were sent in this way in just one day. Given the vast number of tweets, and more importantly, the vast number of usernames being used to spread such messages, it was extremely difficult for Twitter to remove the material.
There is some progress. In the past week, Twitter has been acting to disable dozens of prominent accounts believed to belong to prominent IS members. It is making it harder for IS to spread its message, JM Berger told the BBC.
"IS has been struggling with how to respond to suspended accounts on Twitter.
"In reality, Twitter is one of the most permissive social media environments for them."
But he added: "While several dozen accounts have been suspended over the last few weeks, many more have remained online and many of those who have been suspended come back with new accounts."
One further tactic seemingly employed by IS supporters has been to temporarily deactivate their own accounts in an attempt to avoid a ban, although the BBC understands this has no impact on Twitter's ability to suspend inappropriate accounts.
Furthermore, noted Mr Berger, Twitter's ability to share links easily meant that while some IS members may be banned from Twitter itself, they were now beginning to appear on smaller social networks posting material that could then be passed on.
One network, Diaspora, appears to have emerged as the new network of choice for IS - it provides greater protections because of its decentralised nature.
The question of why extremist material cannot simply be blocked by websites is a question that is frequently asked - but has a complex answer.
When dealing with images of child sexual abuse, many services use sophisticated technology to automatically check content that is being uploaded against a database of known abusive content.
It means that images are, in theory, blocked before they are uploaded to the website in question.
PhotoDNA, a Microsoft product, is a market-leading piece of software for carrying out this work. The BBC understands that the same technology could be applied to images known to be spreading extremist propaganda, but that there are currently no plans to do so.
For video on YouTube, Google has created ContentID, a system set up to detect when users upload copyrighted material. It checks uploaded content against a known database of footage and audio - most often music videos - and allows the copyright owners to either remove or place advertising on the video.
ContentID could be adapted to spot content known to be harmful - but Google is reluctant to put it to use in this way.
This is for a variety of reasons, but most significantly it is because while child abuse imagery is easy to categorise - there's no grey area; it's all illegal - violent or shocking material relating to terrorism is harder to define.
Often it is social networks that provide the only means of communication for those wanting to spread news of atrocities in hard-to-reach areas.
Facebook and Google have both in the past said that shocking images are permitted in cases where they are shown in a "news context", rather than for glorification.
Furthermore, the social networks are keen to argue that they should not be the guardians of what should be censored online.
But Mr Berger said: "As far as who should decide, Twitter and YouTube and all the rest are businesses, they are not public services or inalienable rights.
"Just as a movie theatre or restaurant can eject patrons who are harassing or threatening other patrons or engaging in criminal activity, online services have both the right and an obligation to take care of their customers and do the best they can to provide a safe environment."
This is difficult.
The very nature of social networks is that it is easy to share content, and the strength of Twitter and others is that information travels extremely quickly.
This presents a problem - a teenager browsing Facebook could stumble across the video of Foley's death in their news feed if a friend posted it. More worryingly, many videos posted to Facebook now auto-play, meaning a user does not have to click to start seeing the footage.
It's hard to avoid the possibility of seeing something upsetting, suggested security expert Graham Cluley.
"If your children are on the internet, it's an impossible task to completely shield them from some of the ghastly things going on in the world," he told the BBC.
"You can put your home computer in a shared room rather than a private bedroom, and have some oversight over what they're accessing online. But the proliferation of mobile devices makes it more difficult to oversee what your children are watching.
"Consider enabling parental controls that restrict which websites your kids can visit, but realise that it's an imperfect solution - it's perfectly possible that legitimate sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook might contain footage that many - young and old - would find harrowing."
Mr Cluley added that the best course of action for parents would be to spend time explaining what may have been seen.
"Talk to your children about the unpleasant and inappropriate things which can be watched on the net, and help them understand why it isn't cool to seek it out or to share it with their friends."
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Sir Harry Burns is standing down as chief medical officer to become professor of global public health at Strathclyde University.
He has said health inequality is the biggest issue facing Scotland.
Health Secretary Alex Neil said Sir Harry had made a "significant contribution".
Sir Harry, a former surgeon who became chief medical officer in 2005, has played a key role in shaping health in Scotland, including leading the response to the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
He said: "It has been a pleasure working with the Scottish government over the past eight years, but it is time to hand over to a new chief medical officer.
"I have enjoyed the challenges over the past eight years, and I have had the opportunity to do a lot of work around health inequalities.
"I am looking forward to being able to develop my interest in health inequalities further, and continuing to contribute towards building a better public health landscape."
After graduating from Glasgow University in 1977, Sir Harry spent 15 years as a surgeon, eventually becoming consultant surgeon at the city's royal infirmary.
He went on to become director of public health for Greater Glasgow health board in 1993, until his appointment as Scotland's chief medical officer.
Sir Harry, who was knighted in 2011, has become well know for highlighting the links between poverty and poor health.
In 2012, he told the Scottish Parliament's audit committee: "Health inequalities are the biggest issue facing Scotland just now, because not only are health inequalities a problem but [they] are really a manifestation of social inequality.
"Social complexity, social disintegration drives things like criminality, it drives things like poor educational attainment, it drives a whole range of things that we would want to see different in Scotland.
"The more attention we can get paid to the drivers of that situation, the better."
Last year, Sir Harry suggested the decline of heavy industry was partly responsible for poor health in Scotland, saying at the time: "A void appeared in men's lives and the void was filled with drink, drugs and fighting."
Paying tribute, Mr Neil said: "Sir Harry has brought a renewed focus to the issue of health inequalities within Scotland, and I am delighted that his new role will enable him to continue his focus in this area."
Sir Harry will start his new post in April and the Scottish government is currently working on appointing a new chief medical officer.
The incident took place on 22 July after 28-year old Mark Ross had been refused entry to the sheriff court for being drunk.
Ross had first approached four sheriffs as they had coffee at a nearby cafe.
He then kicked Sheriff Frank Crowe on his right leg as he returned to the court building in Chambers Street. Sentence was deferred for reports.
Fiscal depute Bruce Macrosson, prosecuting, told the court that Ross had been refused entry to the court building because of his drunken state.
Five minutes later, Ross entered the cafe where sheriffs Crowe, Gordon Liddle, Nigel Morrison and Norman McFadyen, were having coffee.
"The accused approached the table occupied by the sheriffs and mumbled something towards them which they either neither heard nor understood" said Mr Macrosson.
"The accused then approached another table."
The sheriffs left the cafe at 09:20, walking towards the court building in Chambers Street.
The fiscal depute said: "The accused approached Sheriff Crowe and kicked him on his right leg to his injury."
Sheriff Crowe reported the matter to the police and pointed out Ross as his assailant.
Mr Macrosson added that Sheriff Crowe suffered soreness to his right shin but did not require medical attention.
Defence solicitor Ray Megson told the court: "I want to see if this man can get help.
"He has a large number of previous convictions, all of the same sort. This man is not getting proper medical attention and resorts to alcohol."
Sheriff Alistair Noble deferred sentence until later this month for an updated psychiatric report and Social Work report.
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Nine years in the making, the Wolfpack will compete in their first professional game against the West Yorkshire side in round three of the cup competition.
The Canadian club start this season in the third tier of English rugby league, but they have high ambitions - to reach the Super League within five years.
With the world of rugby league eager to see what the Canadian side are made of, BBC Sport uncovers how they came to play in England and what fans can expect.
The man behind the team is Eric Perez, who has worked in PR and broadcasting. He's a born and bred Torontonian who first came across rugby league when he was living with his girlfriend in Gibraltar and saw a match on TV.
Nine years ago he was living in Birmingham and started to regularly watch the Super League. He says he was blown away by the sport, describing it as the most Canadian sport not played in Canada.
He decided to make it his lifetime goal to set up a side in his home city of Toronto.
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Their head coach is the highly rated Paul Rowley, a former England international and ex-coach of Leigh, while director of rugby is former Great Britain, Bradford and Wigan coach Brian Noble.
For the past nine years Perez has been working behind the scenes to convince the Rugby Football League (RFL) and other clubs that this was no pipe dream.
He's worked closely with Gary Hetherington, chief executive of Super League side Leeds Rhinos, to learn how to run a club.
Perez gathered together financial backers and sponsors and secured the 10,000-seater Lamport Stadium in Toronto. He's also sold the broadcast rights for TV stations to cover the Wolfpack across Canada and the UK.
He created a Canadian national rugby league side using players from a league he set up, and got a crowd of more than 8,000 to watch their opening game against a visiting Royal Air Force team.
All that work convinced the RFL that they should be allowed into the league. When a vote was put to the English clubs they gave their backing with an overwhelming majority in favour.
And with nearly 3,000 season passes having already been sold before a tackle has been made, Perez is confident the Wolfpack will play in front of sell-out crowds on home soil.
The majority of players are drawn from England and the Wolfpack have assembled quite a squad. Their captain Craig Hall, a former Hull FC and Hull KR centre, was still playing in Super League for Wakefield Trinity last year. And Trinity wanted to keep him.
Their most charismatic signing is Tonga pro Fuifui Moimoi, who played for Parramatta Eels in Australia, before spending last season at Super League side Leigh Centurions.
Most expect the Wolfpack to romp through League 1 this year and be a real challenger in the Championship next year as they bid for promotion to the Super League.
The team also includes American centre Ryan Burroughs plus Canadian scrum-half Rhys Jacks and prop Tom Dempsey.
They've also run trials in several Canadian and US cities to identify youngsters who haven't quite made the grade in the National Football League (NFL) or Canadian Football League (CFL) but who could transfer their skills to rugby league.
But that's a longer term project.
The North American-based, Australian mining millionaire David Argyle is the main financial backer behind the new club.
But they have several sponsorship deals in place too. Not the least of them is with the Airline Air Transat. That deal will cover Toronto's travel costs, but will also mean that each English team will travel free when they go to Canada to play against the Wolfpack at home.
Each English club will be able to take a full squad, coaches and ancillary staff to Toronto, at no cost to them.
English fans will also be given subsidised travel.
The Wolfpack have been based in England for their pre-season training. Following the match against Siddal, their opening five league games, starting with a match against London Skolars on 4 March, will be played in England.
Then Toronto fly home and over the next five weeks, English sides will fly out to play them.
That pattern is reversed throughout the season.
It's expected that the English clubs will fly out on a Thursday morning, play the game on Saturday and then fly home on Sunday.
That might give the Wolfpack an advantage, but Perez is having none of that. In League 1, clubs are as far apart as Workington and Whitehaven in the north and London, Oxford, Hemel and Gloucester in the south.
He argues that players would rather spend eight hours on a flight, than six hours on a coach.
With a mixture of excitement and caution. Most players and coaches fancy regular trips to play in Toronto. And the idea of a side based in Canada has captured the public's imagination.
But now their campaign is about to get under way, the proof of whether this business model can work will finally be tested.
There's no hint of anything less than supreme confidence from Perez. And he's already suggested that more North American clubs will be coming in the next few years, with Montreal and Boston mooted as the next staging posts.
Watch live coverage of Siddal v Toronto Wolfpack on the BBC Sport website on Saturday, 25 February.
Only two minutes had passed when Lisa Evans headed the hosts in front from a Brown cross.
They started the second half just as quick; Jane Ross directing another Brown cross beyond the goalkeeper.
In a slick performance from Anna Signeul's side, they could have had more goals as they stepped up their preparations for Euro 2017.
They face a tougher test on Tuesday, when they travel to Sweden, the world's sixth-best team in the world rankings, before the squad is then announced for the finals in Netherlands.
Scotland were keen to impose themselves on visitors who are 15 places below the 21st-placed hosts in the rankings.
Ross shrugged off her marker and laid it off to Leanne Crichton in the box, but her shot lacked power.
But, a minute later, Scotland were ahead when Evans met Brown's floating cross at the back post and nodded in.
Vaila Bardsley headed over then Caroline Weir had a free-kick pushed wide as Scotland continued their assault on the Romanian goal.
The movement and passing was electric and, in 21 minutes, the defence was opened up for Brown to burst through from the left, but she lifted her shot over.
As good as they were going forward, Scotland's frailties at the back were shown when Florentina Olar was able to easily pick out Cosmina Dusa, who should have done better with her header from close range.
Romania started the second half with 10 players, Laura Rus not yet ready to come on, but while they waited for a break in play, they were punished as Scotland made the extra player count to grab a second.
Brown picked out Ross and, although goalkeeper Andreea Paraluta got a touch to her header, she could not keep it out.
Romania were proving to be more stubborn as the game went on and Rus could have pulled one back when she rounded goalkeeper Gemma Fay, but Joelle Murray got back to clear.
Scotland were still creating chances. Brown cut inside and shot over, Lana Clelland and Bardsley both headed over and Erin Cuthbert's stab at goal was pushed wide by Paraluta.
Bardsley threatened again at a free-kick, being denied at the back post, then showed her worth at the other end when she cut-out Mara Batea's goalbound effort.
Scotland head coach Anna Signeul: "I'm very pleased with the performance.
"We defended well, we played as a team, everyone did really well from Gemma Fay to Jane Ross. I'm delighted with how we defended together.
"A lot of players were very good, but I was very pleased for Vaila Bardsley as that was her second game.
"Against Belgium, we didn't perform very well, but now she showed how good she can play."
Scotland: Fay, Bardsley, Dieke, Love, Lauder, Weir, Crichton, Evans, Jane Ross, Frankie Brown, Fiona Brown.
Substitutes: Lynn, Alexander, McLauchlan, Leanne Ross, Arthur, Corsie, Christie Murray, Cuthbert, Clelland, Smith, Joelle Murray.
Romania: Paraluta, Corduneanu, Havristiuc, Bortan, Ficzay, Giurgiu, Vatafu, Olar, Lunca, Gorea, Fusa.
Substitutes: Kajtar, Bistrian, Rus, Voicu, Batea, Carp, Goder
Referee: Sarah Garrett (England)
Attendance: 1,877
Carlton Power plans to build a plant in Trafford which would generate enough electricity to power two million homes.
The firm secured an annual £30m government contribution for the next 15 years, but originally had to raise the rest of the cash by September.
Carlton Power now has until 19 December to secure the investment.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change is proposing to shut all coal-fired plants by 2025, and replace them with gas-fired power stations.
The government's capacity market scheme aims to encourage the construction of new power plants and keep existing ones going.
The Trafford power station is the only new major gas-fired power plant to be offered the capacity market contract.
This will be terminated in December if Carlton Power is unable to secure financial backing.
The Brazil right-back, 34, confirmed his departure via Instagram before the club also confirmed the move.
"Today our professional relationship ends and I will carry with me all of those who with love and a true heart make Juve a great club," he wrote.
City have been linked with a move for Alves with Juve saying they would release him from his contract.
Alves added: "I apologise to the fans of Juventus if they at some point thought I did something to offend them. Never had ever the intention, just I have a way of living things spontaneously that few understand. Even if it seems I'm not perfect, but my heart it is pure. "
"I would like to thank all the Juventus fans for the year I've had, to my team-mates who welcomed me like the professionals they are, for a club that wins and reaches finals."
His final game for Juventus was the 4-1 Champions League final defeat by Real Madrid in Cardiff. Alves made 33 appearances as the club sealed the domestic double for the third successive year.
21 March 2017 Last updated at 14:25 GMT
It's a new craze that is sweeping the internet, where you try to blow one cup into another.
We went to a school to meet some of you guys to find out a bit more about it.
Can you do it?
The S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq also achieved new highs, fuelled by hopes that President Donald Trump's policies will boost the US economy.
The Dow, which has nudged the 20,000 milestone during January, rose 0.8% to 20,068.51.
Investors' cash has poured into shares on hopes of tax cuts and higher growth.
The Dow had risen above 20,000 early into the trading day, prompting Mr Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to tweet that the landmark was down to "The Trump Effect".
"It was definitely a milestone that the market has been focused on for really the better part of two months and you were starting to get a little bit of anxiety as to whether it was going to be surmounted or not," said Julian Emanuel, Equity Strategist at UBS.
The Dow reached its latest 1,000-point milestone two months after closing above 19,000, making it the second quickest 1,000 point rise ever.
The index rose from 10,000 to 11,000 in only 24 trading days between 29 March and 3 May, 1999, while the rise from 18,000 to 19,000 took 483 trading days (nearly two years).
Financial stocks have been a major factor in the gain - with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan accounting for around 20% of the rise.
This is because investors believe that some of Mr Trump's policies will trigger inflation and produce a rise in interest rates.
Also on Wednesday, the broad-based S&P finished up 0.8% at 2,298.37, while the Nasdaq advanced 1% to 5,656.34 - both fresh records.
Finally, the Dow hit 20,000 at the US market open after being tantalisingly close for weeks.
When the moment came, floor traders at the New York Stock Exchange were ready.
Long before the opening bell rang, one trader yelled 'get your hats on, get your hats on'.
He was referring to the baseball caps emblazoned with Dow 20,000 on the front.
It's a tradition dating back to the first time the Dow passed 10,000. To mark the occasion, they made hats. And the habit stuck.
Wall Street veteran Art Cashin, director of floor operations at UBS had his on.
When asked if the Dow at 20,000 matters, he answered that the publicity would make people think about their own investments and that was a good thing.
For many though today's historic milestone is just a round number. Its value is symbolic.
In part that has to do with the index itself.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is made up of only 30 companies compared with 500 in the S&P 500. So it is far from comprehensive.
Then there is the way it is calculated.
The Dow puts too much emphasis on share price, unlike the S&P 500 which reflect its members market capitalization. As a result, a few names have the power to significantly move the index.
Make no mistake though, this will be front page news. And for market professionals, it's a moment to pop the champagne, celebrate and pull out their Dow 20,000 baseball caps because who knows when they'll be able to wear it again.
Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of financial management firm Solaris Group in New York, said: "There is a real belief that [Mr] Trump is real, he has been extremely active these first couple of days of the presidency and a change may happen faster than people had thought."
Neil Wilson, senior market analyst at London brokers Capital, said: "It's psychologically huge and, after a bit of pullback ahead of the inauguration, really confirms that the 'great rotation' from bonds to stocks is definitely upon us.
"Fears about protectionism are running second to optimism about inflation and growth - for now at least.
"The question now is how long can this last?
"Mr Trump's first steps as president have confirmed much of what investors had hoped for and that he's extremely pro-business and light on regulation for energy and financials. That's what's driving this renewed rally.
"The other argument claims that this is a massive bubble and if this is a real rotation from bonds into stocks, ending a 30-year bond bull market, there is still a huge amount of cash piled up that could yet pour into equities and power further gains through 2017.
"It might not be too long before 21,000 is in sight."
Dr David Rosser said she was making good progress, but has a long way to go and is not out of the woods yet.
The 14-year-old schoolgirl was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for her campaign for girls' education.
Pakistan's president described it as an attack on "civilised people".
Speaking in Azerbaijan on Tuesday, President Asif Ali Zardari said: "The Taliban attack on the 14-year-old girl, who from the age of 11 was involved in the struggle for education for girls, is an attack on all girls in Pakistan, an attack on education, and on all civilised people."
Malala was flown to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham on Monday night for treatment.
Security is tight at the hospital, with a police presence in place to deal with any unauthorised visitors.
On Monday night a number of well-wishers turned up hoping to see her but were turned away by West Midlands police.
Dr Rosser described the incident as "irritating", but said the hospital and its partners are "comfortable with security arrangements".
The Taliban have threatened to target Malala again and she was given tight security for her journey to the UK.
Dr Rosser said the team of specialists working with her have been pleased with the teenager's progress.
"There's a long way to go and she is not out of the woods yet... but at this stage we're optimistic that things are going in the right direction," he added.
Once Malala recovers sufficiently, it is thought she will need neurological help as well as treatment to repair or replace damaged bones in her skull.
She was flown to the UK from Pakistan by air ambulance on Monday, almost a week after she and two other schoolgirls were attacked as they returned home from school in Mingora in the Swat Valley.
The gunman who boarded the van in which she was travelling asked for her by name before firing three shots at her.
Malala is widely known as a campaigner for girls' education in Pakistan. In early 2009 she wrote an anonmyous diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban, who had banned all girls in her area from attending school.
It has taken a 112bn yen ($1bn; £780m) charge, citing "an acceleration of market decline".
The rise of online streaming services has hit demand for traditional media such as DVDs and blue-ray discs.
Sony's movie division has also struggled, with recent flops including an all-female Ghostbusters sequel.
Sony had warned earlier this year its movie division could post more losses.
The Japanese firm, which reports its third-quarter results on Thursday, is still assessing whether the impairment charge will affect future earnings.
It plans to offset the loss by selling shares in medical web service M3.
The head of Sony's entertainment business, Michael Lynton, recently announced he would be stepping down in February after more than a decade at the firm.
The gambiense strain of the trypanosoma parasite is resistant to proteins the immune system produces to fight the infection.
Belgian researchers have developed a mutant version of the protein, which early tests show can kill a wide range of trypanosomes including gambiense.
The study was published in the journal Nature.
The gambiense strain causes more than 97% of sleeping sickness cases in western and central Africa. According to the World Health Organization, there were 7,197 cases in 2012.
The immune system produces apoL1 to try to attack the parasite.
In the study, researchers from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles outlined how gambiense evolved a three-part defence mechanism against the protein apoL1.
ApoL1 is normally taken up by the trypanosoma parasites, as it tricks the parasite into believing that it is beneficial.
The protein then embeds itself into the walls of the gut membrane, where it kills the parasite.
The first step in gambiense defence is they "create a protein that stiffens the membranes against the apoL1 protein," said Prof Etienne Pays, lead author of the research. "This acts as a barrier."
The second stage is to make it more difficult for the parasite to absorb the protein.
Finally, if the protein was to get through the other barriers, gambiense is able to digest apoL1 quicker than other forms of the parasite, so that it cannot be absorbed by membranes.
Prof Pays said: "The crucial thing here is that apoL1 is still there. It has not been absorbed. It can still be used to kill the parasite."
This led Prof Pays and his team to develop a mutant strain of apoL1. This not only kills gambiense, but "it kills all African trypanosomes, pathogenic for humans or for cattle".
But Prof Pays said the research was still in the early stages.
"Needless to say, this is a promising discovery," he added.
"However, it remains to be seen if this apoL1 variant could be used to treat sleeping sickness. In the blood, this protein could be either unstable or toxic in itself, so more work is needed to appreciate the potential of this finding."
In 1998, the same group of researchers discovered how rhodesiense, another strain of the parasite trypanosome, resisted our defences.
Rhodesiense uses an anti-protein to disable apoL1 so that we cannot fight against it.
Wendy Gibson, professor of protozoology at the University of Bristol, who has been studying the evolution of trypanosome said: "They've finally solved the mystery of how the gambiense has been fighting our defences. It is a meticulous piece of work."
The musical is based on Mel Brooks' Oscar-nominated film which starred Gene Wilder as Dr Frederick Frankenstein, a descendant of the deranged Victor.
Living in New York, he tries to play down the family name, until he inherits the infamous castle and discovers Victor's book: "How I Did It".
Noble will play Frankenstein's hunchbacked servant, Igor.
Joseph will appear as housekeeper Frau Blucher, whose very name causes horses to rear in fright; while West End star Hadley Fraser will take the main role of Dr Frederick Frankenstein.
Brooks will produce the show, which will open for a pre-West End season in Newcastle on 26 August until 9 September.
It will then open at the Garrick Theatre on 28 September.
The musical previously ran on Broadway between 2007 and 2009.
The cult film on which it's based was co-written by Brooks and Wilder, and earned them an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.
Beachgoers saw a "massive fire" spread quickly up East Cliff on Bournemouth beach at about 15.30 BST.
Firefighters said a patch of gorse was alight behind some beach huts near Undercliff Drive and Pier Approach and part of the promenade was evacuated.
Dorset Police advised people to avoid the area and said no injuries had been reported.
Bournemouth Council said its seafront rangers guided beachgoers away from danger and ensured the area was clear.
Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood posted on Twitter: "Huge praise for Bournemouth's Emergency Services in responding to major grass fire that spread rapidly on East Cliff cliff top above packed beach."
The 53-year-old, who denies nine sex offences against six complainants, allegedly "forced his tongue" into the mouth of a girl aged 13 or 14.
The allegations, spanning more than two decades, also include a charge that he grabbed hold of a 16-year-old girl at Chessington World of Adventures.
Mr Fox is due in court again on 30 April for a case management hearing.
Details of what the Magic FM presenter, known as Dr Fox, is alleged to have done can be reported after his barrister, Jonathan Caplan QC, asked for the usual reporting restrictions that apply to preliminary court hearings to be lifted.
Mr Caplan said there had been a lot of false reports about what his client had allegedly done.
Mr Fox faces seven charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching without consent, over a period from 1991 to 2014.
One of the complainants alleges that Mr Fox, from Fulham in south-west London, repeatedly assaulted her at Capital Radio's studios in London's Leicester Square.
Two other women claim to have been sexually touched against their will at Magic FM's premises in Winsley Street in central London, between January 2003 and August 2014.
Prosecutor Darren Watts told the court: "The Crown argue that the complaints show a consistent and determined pattern of sexual predatory behaviour on the part of the defendant which spans some 23 years."
He said Mr Fox assaulted two girls at a motor show in Bromley, south-east London, in summer 1991, at which he was appearing in his capacity as a DJ.
Mr Fox is also alleged to have kissed a girl aged 13 or 14 and forced his tongue into her mouth after she asked for a photograph with him.
The court heard a second teenager was assaulted by Mr Fox in a similar manner at the event, and she claims he also put his hand up her skirt.
A third complainant, who was also under the age of 16, alleges that, while she was at Chessington World of Adventures theme park in April 1996, she asked the DJ for a photo and a kiss.
He allegedly grabbed hold of her, causing her to back away.
The ages of the complainants range from the 13 or 14-year-old to a woman who was 36.
By Lisa Hampele, BBC News correspondent
In an unusual move, Neil Fox's barrister asked for regular reporting restrictions which apply at this stage in court proceedings to be lifted.
Jonathan Caplan QC made the request because he said he wanted to "safeguard a fair trial".
He said there'd been a lot of speculation on social media about what his client had allegedly done, and that created prejudice against him.
The chief magistrate at Westminster Magistrates' Court, Howard Riddle, granted the application.
So, details of the allegations can be given. The alleged victims will remain anonymous.
Four of the alleged indecent assaults are said to have taken place at Capital Radio between January and December 2003.
It is alleged that on one occasion he put his arms around a woman and squeezed her breasts, that he would regularly touch her bottom, and that one incident involved him simulating sex with one of the complainants.
During one of the alleged assaults at Magic FM, Mr Fox is said to have walked up behind a complainant and kissed her shoulder.
"When questioned about his actions, he has said 'Oh, I just had to. You look as if you taste so good'," Mr Watts said.
Mr Fox, who was first arrested in September last year, then again in December and last month, has been granted bail.
He has elected to have his trial at the magistrates' court.
The DJ, who rose to fame presenting the chart show on Capital Radio, was a judge on Pop Idol between 2001 and 2003 alongside Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman, and Nicki Chapman.
Not only is the first royal tour for the newlyweds a photo opportunity to die for - just think of all the different hats and dresses Kate will wear - for Canada, it's a matter of cultural identity.
While Canadians remain deeply divided on the issue of the monarchy, support for Crown rule appears to be gaining ground, thanks to what will be three royal tours in as many calendar years and a staunchly traditionalist Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper.
When Charles and Camilla popped over for a visit in November 2009, loyalist crowds were embarrassingly thin on the ground. An Angus Reid poll conducted at the time found that two-thirds of Canadians wanted to see an elected home-grown head of state.
But just seven months later when the Queen came to stay, royal support had perked up. A record-breaking crowd of over 100,000 turned up to greet Her Maj on Parliament Hill - more than double the regular turnout.
Surveyed at the time, Canadians reported overwhelmingly positive feelings for the Queen and the number who felt the monarchy was outdated then dropped to just under half - not exactly a 21-gun salute, although we gave her one of those as well.
Presumably the Palace learned its lesson: If Britain wants to strengthen Commonwealth bonds, send over your most charismatic royals. And it helps if they are extremely good-looking.
Now that Canada is the first to officially welcome Will and Kate, the nation is poised to return the love.
And what better choice of host could there be? Like the royal couple themselves, Canada is young, clean-cut, polite, uncontroversial and financially secure. A bit dull, perhaps, but we make up for it with upbeat small talk and unfailing good manners. It's an approach to life the Royal Family instinctively understands.
Last spring, Canadians got up in droves in the wee hours to watch the royal wedding - a reception that could only have validated Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own not-so-covert monarchist agenda.
In the past couple of years, his Tory government has re-introduced the crown to Canada Customs agents' badges, emphasised the swearing of allegiance to the Queen in the Oath of Citizenship and reportedly has plans to to tie together the bicentennial of the War of 1812 (in which Canada, as a colony, fought with British troops against the US) with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee next year.
When asked during last spring's election campaign whether he supported UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's wish to abolish male primogeniture in the Royal Family (a move that would have serious constitutional ramifications for Canada), Mr Harper was dismissive.
"The successor to the throne is a man. The next successor to the throne is a man. I don't think Canadians want to open a debate on the monarchy or constitutional matters at this time. That's our position, and I just don't see that as a priority for Canadians right now at all."
Judging by the warm-to-slathering reception William and Kate have received from the Canadian media so far, the PM's instincts are right.
While Canadians might have strong opinions about the monarchy when polled, the Monarchist League of Canada estimates that in fact fewer than 0.6% of the population is actively engaged in the debate over the issue of republicanism.
The prevailing mood in parliament is, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
John Fraser, author of the forthcoming book The Secret Crown: Canada's Fling With Royalty, recently observed: "The idea of a Canadian monarchy, derived from our history and evolved through our federal and provincial offices of governor general and lieutenant governors, rests on a firm foundation of two sturdy and irrefutable facts: It exists and it works."
Maclean's, a popular Canadian news magazine (for which Fraser and I occasionally write), has produced four special commemorative issues and a royal wedding book since the the royal couple announced their engagement late last year - that's over 500 glossy magazine pages devoted to a pair who live an ocean away.
Cathrin Bradbury, editor-in-chief of Maclean's Intelligence Unit, says Canadians can't get enough of the young royals.
"It's a love story - a happy, well-matched, stylish pairing of two great-looking young people with the future gleaming in their eyes," she said in an interview, adding that the fascination is not just about celebrity.
"Canadians, many Canadians, are proud and serious monarchists. It's part of who we are, and how we govern ourselves.
"And it's a very visible way that we are not American, and not being American is central to our identity. There are some who say the monarchy will survive longer in Canada than in Britain, and they might be right. William, King of Canada."
Or perhaps King Harry instead, if you agree with Etienne Boisvert, the Quebec provincial spokesman for the Monarchist League of Canada, who this week told the press he thought William's younger brother ought to take up residence across the pond.
Being third in line to the throne, Prince Harry "has virtually no chance of becoming king and could set himself up here and found a Canadian branch of the Royal Family", Boisvert suggested.
It's an odd notion, especially coming from a Francophone Quebecker. While the monarchist love-in is expected to predominate in the rest of Canada, La Belle Province, as it is known, with its history of separatist tension, is the one place royal visitors can expect to feel some resistance.
A small crowd of 100 protesters disrupted the Prince of Wales' last tour in 2009, and it is expected the Duke and Duchess will be forced to keep calm and carry on through more of the same.
The Quebecois Network of Resistance has announced it will demonstrate at Quebec City Hall against the royal visit's cost to tax-payers (which, according to the Monarchist League of Canada, works out to only a few cents per citizen).
But William and Kate would be wise not to take such insults too personally.
The late separatist politician Rene Levesque once said, "I have great respect for the Queen... but what the hell part should monarchy have in Quebec?"
Until recently one could have said the same for the rest of the country. But once Kate and William have their way with us, I suspect Canada will be singing God Save the Queen.
Leah McLaren is a London-based columnist for The Globe and Mail newspaper.
Police said Rashan Jermaine Charles was followed on foot after officers tried to stop a car in Kingsland Road, Hackney, at 01:45 BST on Saturday.
He then tried to swallow an object but died later in hospital.
Following a vigil outside Stoke Newington police station, some people threw bottles and sticks at police and set fire to rubbish bins in the road.
A mattress was placed across the road and one protester's car was parked across the street, BBC reporter Andy Moore said.
Police were monitoring the situation and would intervene if necessary, The Met said.
A spokesman for the force said no officers had been injured.
Earlier people held Black Lives Matters placards during the vigil organised by Stand Up To Racism.
Campaigners said they were "enormously concerned and angered" about the death of 20-year-old Mr Charles.
Ch Supt Simon Laurence, the borough commander for Hackney, said officers "understand they will be asked to account for their actions and they would not want it any other way".
He said the death "has had an impact on some members of the local community" and police had met with community representatives "so we can hear the community's concerns and how they are feeling."
Scotland Yard said the officer involved "intervened and sought to prevent the man from harming himself".
A force medic provided first aid at the scene before London Ambulance Service paramedics arrived.
Mr Charles was taken to the Royal London Hospital in east London and was confirmed dead at 02:55.
The police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, is investigating.
A spokesman for the heavyweight told the Tass news agency the 36-year-old returned "low concentrations" of the substance in a blood sample in April.
Povetkin's promoters say the WBC will now decide whether the 21 May fight with Wilder in Moscow can go ahead.
The World Anti-Doping Agency said in September it was adding meldonium to its banned list from 1 January 2016.
Andrei Ryabinsky, the head of Mir Boksa promotions, described the situation as "ambiguous".
"He consumed it in September last year. He has not taken it since 1 January," he added.
"We have been in contact with the World Boxing Council, which is to decide if Povetkin's boxing bout against Deontay Wilder will take place or not."
Povetkin's fight against American Wilder, the reigning WBC heavyweight champion, is due to take place at the Megasport complex in the Russian capital.
Povetkin is the latest among several Russian athletes to fall foul of the new meldonium ban.
Tennis player Maria Sharapova was the first high-profile athlete to test positive for the Latvian-made drug - in a test taken at the end of January - but since then leading Russian athletes from boxing, skating, swimming and winter sports have all failed tests for the substance.
Recent Wada figures showed there had been 172 positive tests for meldonium this year - 27 of those involving Russians.
Wada says it is aware of the possibility of the drug remaining in an athlete's system long after taking it, as is claimed by Povetkin's management.
The organisation admitted last month there was "a lack of clear scientific information on excretion times".
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Iain Provan, 64, Elizabeth Allan, 63, and Len Stern, 71, died at a stage near Coldstream in 2014.
The event has not been held on closed public roads since then and was cancelled this year due to low entries.
The Crown Office has said it "will not compromise thoroughness for speed".
Rally organisers have said they are "descending into despair of ever running this world-famous event again".
They claimed volunteers who helped at the rally have been left "living on their nerves for over two years" wondering whether they are going to be subject to criminal charges.
And they accused the Crown Office of failing to meet a reasonable timescale to investigate the incident.
They have now written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC and Holyrood's Justice Committee urging them to bring the matter to a conclusion.
Event chairman Dan Wright said: "I believe the Crown Office has singularly failed to give the inquiry the priority it warrants, has failed to meet a reasonable timescale in coming to a conclusion concerning this incident, has failed to keep those affected informed, and consequently has not served the public as it should."
Mr Wright also claimed that "despite our requests to solicit information, Scottish ministers seem not to be prepared to scrutinise the Crown Office in its delivery of service".
Raising the issue with the first minister, he said: "This letter is not an attempt to influence the outcome of, or comment on, the circumstances of the incident. It is a plea to you to ask the Lord Advocate to come to a conclusion quickly so the organisers can attempt to rescue the event.
"We have now been waiting over two years and our team is descending into despair of ever running this world-famous event again."
He told Ms Sturgeon the rally had been one of the biggest events of its kind in the UK and had the "overwhelming support" of the public, local communities and businesses in the area.
"Scottish Borders Council (SBC) estimates it generates over £3m of its annual £21m tourist income and our development plans aim to raise this to around £7m over the next few years," Mr Wright said.
"We were well on track to take it forward as a major international event and showcase for Scotland.
"However, the current position of SBC is that it will not allow council officials to engage with us in planning until the Crown Office investigation is complete. Police Scotland also refuses to co-operate for the same reason."
A Crown Office spokesman said: "We will not compromise thoroughness for speed.
"A detailed and thorough investigation has been undertaken into these deaths, under the direction of the Crown's Health & Safety Division and the Scottish Fatalities Investigation Unit (SFIU).
"It would not be appropriate to comment publicly on the current state of the investigation without providing that information to bereaved family members first."
Snaith School, an academy, is closed to its Year 7, 8 and 9 pupils after the group began arriving on Saturday.
In a letter to parents, head teacher Jean Pickerill said the school, on Pontefract Road, had "spoken with the [travellers'] family lead and... they are awaiting some vehicular repairs".
The health and safety of pupils was "of paramount importance", the school said.
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The letter was published on the school's website on Sunday.
In it, Mrs Pickerill wrote: "We have carried out a school risk assessment on site and have spoken with the family lead and they have assured us that they will be leaving school premises on Tuesday..."
Year 10 and 11 students have been advised to "attend school as normal".
She said: "I know that these arrangements will cause a significant inconvenience for parents/carers and for this I can only apologise, but the safeguarding of the pupils on site is of paramount importance."
In a statement, the school said: "We were informed that members of the traveller community were on the school field on Saturday evening.
"We have been working tirelessly since then with the local council, the local authority and the police to ensure that the school could partially open safely today.
"Year 10 and 11 are in the middle of important GCSE examinations and we would not wish to disrupt their preparation.
"The health and safety of the young people in our care is always of paramount importance to us."
The pianos - together worth more than £50,000 - are a gift from Millers Music in Cambridge to mark the shop's 160th anniversary.
They are being offered to schools and colleges across the region that apply for one before 12 March.
King's College Chapel will host the instruments in its 50-minute 21 Piano Nocturne concert on Tuesday.
Richard Causton, King's College fellow in music at the University of Cambridge, described it as a "unique event".
"The sound and sight of 21 pianos in this wonderful space promises to be really memorable," he said.
Young pianists from the Peterborough and Saffron Walden Centres for Young Musicians will take part in the concert.
Simon Pollard, managing director of Millers Music, said: "We're thrilled to be collaborating with a prestigious university that celebrates music education.
"We are dedicated to encouraging more young people in the region to embrace music, and gifting these pianos to local institutions does just that."
The Wolves led 16-14 at half-time through tries from Stefan Ratchford, Ben Currie and Ben Westwood, with Gene Ormsby (2) and Aaron Murphy replying.
Nathan Mason put the Giants ahead but the hosts hit back through Chris Sandow and Ryan Atkins to make it 28-20.
Ormsby's third and Craig Huby's score restored the visitors' lead but Daryl Clarke crossed late on to settle it.
With Huddersfield bottom of the table and resigned to playing in the Qualifiers, the meeting in humid and overcast conditions at the Halliwell Jones Stadium lacked intensity.
Warrington raced into a 10-0 lead but lost their way when full-back Ratchford was forced off with injury midway through the first half.
The lead changed hands six times over the afternoon but the Giants were unable to hang on and secure a first win under new coach Rick Stone, despite Ormsby's hat-trick against his former club.
The Wolves face Wakefield in the Challenge Cup semi-finals next Saturday before the start of their Super 8s campaign while Huddersfield have two weeks to prepare for their first fixture in the Qualifiers.
Warrington: Ratchford, Russell, T. King, Atkins, Evans, Gidley, Sandow, Hill, Clark, Sims, Currie, Hughes, Westerman.
Replacements: Dwyer, Westwood, Bailey, G. King.
Huddersfield: Brierley, Murphy, Cudjoe, Connor, Ormsby, Brough, Ellis, Rapira, Hinchcliffe, Huby, Ta'ai, Lawrence, Ikahihifo.
Replacements: Wood, Roberts, Mason, Crabtree.
Referee: Jack Smith.
SFA chief executive Stewart Regan has revealed that the organisation's board is "considering the options" on where Scotland should play from 2020.
"There are financial implications should we choose to stay," he said.
"There may be commercial implications of taking our games elsewhere."
In March, Scotland played Canada in a friendly at Hibernian's Easter Road, but a crowd of a little more than 9,000 attended the match in the capital.
For Scotland's most recent match at Hampden, a World Cup qualifier against Slovenia in Glasgow's south side, the crowd numbered more than 20,000.
Saturday's qualifier against England is expected to be sold out.
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"Any board faced with a lease expiry in three years' time would have a very long, hard look at the implications of renewing that lease," said Regan.
"The board will be reviewing the financial assessment, the lifecycle costings to stay here and we will make a decision hopefully in the next 12-18 months.
"We should be proud to have a national stadium. Other countries are building national stadia in order to bid for major events.
"Having a national stadium is not the issue; it's the cost of having a national stadium and that's what we need to get under the skin of.
"If it's workable, of course it would be our preferred option."
Scotland play England on Saturday in a match they can scarcely afford to lose if they are to keep alive their slim hopes of reaching the 2018 World Cup via the play-offs for teams in second place.
But Regan is upbeat about the team's chances, especially after the morale-boosting 1-0 win over Slovenia in March.
"It has given everybody hope that, if we can beat Slovenia, who played incredibly well against England and managed to get a draw, there's no reason why we can't get a result," said Regan, who added that he thought it "inappropriate" to discuss head coach Gordon Strachan's future should Scotland lose.
"It could get us right back into the reckoning for a play-off place if we were to win.
"We've got matches against Malta and Lithuania after that, which we think are more than winnable, and our two biggest rivals we've got in the final matches of the campaign.
"We believe we've still got a chance of a play-off spot.
"Gordon was in the last team to beat England. We want him to be the last manager to beat England in a qualifier.
"It's a must-not-lose match, it's fair to say. We're not going to say it has to be three points, but that is what everyone would like to see."
Meanwhile, Regan stated that 19 clubs in Scotland had expressed an interest in becoming an elite academy as part of Project Brave, the blueprint to improve the national game led by the SFA's performance director Malky Mackay.
"We are in the detailed planning phase between now and the summer of 2018," said the chief executive.
"We have asked clubs who are interested to put forward bids to be considered to be one of Scotland's elite academies.
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"There's still a lot of work to do on Project Brave, but the key focus areas, which are investing in the best, focusing on the very best players within fewer academies, trying to get more game time for players, focusing on coach development rather than just coach education and better use of the loan system.
"There's nobody out there who would argue against the principles."
Mr Clarke, who has represented Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire since 1970, had suggested he would step down in 2020 after 50 years as an MP.
But with an early poll confirmed by MPs, his office confirmed the 76-year-old would stand again.
Mr Clarke, a staunch Remain supporter, is Father of the House - an honour bestowed on the longest-serving MP.
Speaking in June 2016 to China Daily, Mr Clarke said: "I have told the officers of my constituency association that once we have finished the boundary changes they had better start choosing my successor.
"I will not stand again. This is my last Parliament."
However, a general election will take place sooner than expected after MPs gave the go-ahead to Theresa May's request for an early poll.
And Mr Clarke's office confirmed: "He's putting himself forward to be the Conservative candidate for Rushcliffe in June."
The three-time champion held off the challenge of Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso after passing the Italian on lap nine.
Spain's Marc Marquez came third on his Honda, while Italy's seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi, 37, finished fourth on his Yamaha.
Britain's Cal Crutchlow crashed his Honda on the seventh lap following a mistake on turn four.
Fellow Briton Bradley Smith, who will join Austrian manufacturer KTM in 2017, finished eighth on his Yamaha, while Scott Redding was 10th on his Ducati.
Northern Ireland's Eugene Laverty, who equalled his best MotoGP performance in qualifying, finished 12th.
Spanish rider Lorenzo, 28, was pleased that his gamble of switching to a soft tyre following an off-the-pace warm-up lap paid off.
"To choose the right tyre was very important" he said.
"I tried the warm-up lap with a hard tyre but I did not get the best feeling.
"It was very risky to go for the soft tyre, as our main rivals Rossi and Marquez chose the hard one.
"But it turned out well, as I made the fastest lap of 1:54.9 seconds [late in the race], which was impressive."
Qatar result:
1. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 42:28.452
2. Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Ducati +2.019
3. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda +2.287
4. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha +2.387
5. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda +14.083
6. Maverick Vinales (Spain) Suzuki +15.423
7. Pol Espargaro (Spain) Yamaha +18.629
8. Bradley Smith (Great Britain) Yamaha +18.652
9. Hector Barbera (Spain) Ducati +21.160
10. Scott Redding (Great Britain) Ducati +24.435
His absence could prompt a recall for Sam Byram, while Andre Ayew is expected to start in attack after scoring as a substitute at Bournemouth last weekend.
Leicester midfielder Nampalys Mendy remains a doubt with a knee injury.
Danny Drinkwater is available despite ruling himself out of England duty because of a minor ongoing injury, believed to be a groin problem.
Alistair Mann: "Thoughts of Atletico Madrid will somehow have to be discarded as Leicester have four demanding league fixtures before they can once again indulge in a little fantasy football.
"If the Foxes aren't careful, they could find themselves remembered as the first Champions League quarter-finalists (and, who knows, maybe further than that!) to be relegated in the same campaign.
"It's away from home where their season has particularly imploded, winless on their travels in more than a year and with just three points accumulated on the road.
"Hosts West Ham are by no means completely clear of trouble yet either, with results in their inaugural season in the London Stadium of particular concern. It all points to a fixture that's simply brimming with possibilities."
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West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "Leicester is a different team from four weeks ago. They really played extremely well, especially against Sevilla, when they got a great result for them and for English football in general.
"In all those three games, against Liverpool, against Hull and against Sevilla, they looked lively - and of course those kind of results, three wins on the spin including qualifying for the quarter-final of the Champions League, has given them a massive boost."
Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare: "I haven't banned talk of the Champions League but after the [Sevilla] game the focus, what I wanted, has been on West Ham.
"The talk straight after the game was to improve the away record. We want to move away from (the relegation zone) because it is tight down there but we can't look too far ahead."
West Ham are on a poor run of four games without a win and I think Leicester's revival will continue.
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High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein warned the clampdown would "stifle the voices of those who advocate for victims".
On Thursday, a court is due to rule on the asset freeze ordered against rights defenders Gamal Eid and Hossam Bahgat.
They are accused of illegally receiving funding from a foreign government.
The prosecutions of Mr Eid, a lawyer who heads the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, and Mr Bahgat, a journalist and former head of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, are part of a five-year investigation into local and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
The first phase concluded in 2013, when a court sentenced 43 foreign and Egyptian employees of five international NGOs to between one and five years in prison, although the sentences were either suspended or issued in absentia.
Under President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who led the overthrow by the military of President Mohammed Morsi that year, the authorities have focused on local NGOs.
The Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said many NGOs had been dissolved under the 2002 Law on Associations.
The law empowers the government to shut down any group not believed to be acting in compliance, freeze its assets, confiscate its property, reject nominees to its governing board, and block its funding, or deny requests to affiliate with international organisations.
Other NGOs have been closed over alleged links to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement to which Mohammed Morsi belonged.
On just one day this month, at least 20 NGOs were dissolved in the Nile Delta region and other NGOs elsewhere in the country had their activities frozen pending investigation, according to the OHCHR.
Among NGOs at risk of closure is the Nadeem Centre for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence. Last month, officials told staff that by publishing reports on torture they had breached their licence to carry out human rights activities because this was deemed an unlicensed "medical activity".
Human rights activists, journalists and political activists have also been subjected to travel bans. Sources told the OHCHR that hundreds of people had been prevented from entering or leaving the country, in many cases without any judicial order.
"This looks like a clampdown on sections of Egyptian civil society and it must stop," Mr Zeid said. "NGOs who have played a valuable role in documenting violations and supporting victims will see their activities completely crippled if this continues."
Mr Zeid added: "The Egyptian authorities must stop all prosecutions targeting legitimate human rights activities and in particular terminate the cases against Hossam Bahgat and Gamal Eid, who by international standards have clearly not committed any crime."
A group of 14 international human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, also condemned the crackdown on Wednesday.
It comes after shadow chancellor John McDonnell said sharing a platform with the Conservatives "discredits" Labour.
A spokesman for Mr Khan said many Labour voters did not know the party's EU stance, and he would take any opportunity to spread the message.
Mr McDonnell later insisted he was not criticising Mr Khan personally.
While most Labour MPs support a Remain vote, Jeremy Corbyn is regarded as the most Eurosceptic leader of the party in a generation and the Vote Leave campaign is chaired by a Labour MP, Gisela Stuart.
Mr Corbyn is campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU, but he has been urged by some in the party to make a bolder case for membership.
Mr Khan made a joint appearance with the prime minister on Monday to launch a Britain Stronger In Europe battle bus and pledge card aimed at persuading voters to back Remain.
The show of cross-party unity came after Mr Cameron repeatedly attacked Mr Khan during the London mayoral contest for having a history of sharing platforms with extremists - a claim firmly rejected by Mr Khan.
According to a report by Politics Home, Labour's shadow chancellor, Mr McDonnell - who, along with Mr Corbyn, has refused to campaign with the Tories in the referendum, despite being on the same side as the government, appeared to criticise Mr Khan's decision.
Asked whether Labour should put aside its differences with the Tories to campaign for a Remain vote, Mr McDonnell was quoted as saying the two parties did not share the same vision of Europe, and accused Mr Cameron of wanting to do away with workers' rights.
"Sharing a platform with them discredits us. It demotivates the very people we are trying to mobilise," he is reported to have said at a Labour In for Britain event.
However, speaking to the BBC later, Mr McDonnell denied he was criticising Mr Khan, saying: "I never mentioned Sadiq Khan's name at all."
He said the party had "learnt the lesson" of the Scottish independence referendum, when it campaigned alongside the Conservatives.
And he added: "It doesn't help us appearing on platforms with Tories because they have a differing view of Europe. So this is a distinct Labour campaign, and as a result of that I think we'll be able to mobilise Labour votes."
A spokesman for Mr Khan said he had made it "crystal clear" he would campaign with the PM for a Remain vote.
He added: "It is deeply concerning that the polls today suggest that Labour voters are unsure where the Labour Party stands on the referendum.
"Sadiq won't miss a single opportunity to make it absolutely clear to those voters where Labour stands on the referendum."
According to a YouGov poll for the Times, almost half of Labour voters do not know that their party is campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU - and thought it was either split on the issue, supporting an EU exit, or they did not know.
Labour MP and Remain campaigner Emma Reynolds told the BBC the party had "a lot more work to do" to show it was behind a vote to stay.
"What's really important is that we get more Labour voices out there - so that our natural voters, who say they don't know which way we are campaigning, know that we are campaigning to Remain," she told BBC News.
Held on Saturday and called Whisky, Fire and Song, it included a tour of the construction site of the isle's first whisky distillery.
There was also a baking competition which invited children to make cakes in the shape of buildings found on Raasay.
About 50 people also took part in a torchlight parade and a bonfire.
The distillery and visitor centre is being built by R&B Distillers at the site of Borodale House, a derelict Victorian hotel.
The production of the first whisky at the site could begin in April next year.
The distillery would be one of the largest employers on an island with a population of about 120 people. Raasay lies off the Isle of Skye.
R&B stands for Raasay and Borders. Co-founder Alasdair Day's great grandfather, Allan MacDonald, was from the Hebrides while his other great grandfather, Richard Day, was a master-blender in the Borders in the early 19th Century.
The company secured planning permission for the project from Highland Council in February this year.
The 53-year-old former Wimbledon and Carlisle midfielder joined the club's coaching staff in 2003.
The club will play in the Women's Super League in 2015 after winning promotion, and the WSL2 title, in October.
Mick Mulhern stepped down in November after six-and-a-half years as boss as he could not commit to coaching full-time as well as being a police officer.
Mulhern rejoined the club in May 2008 after a previous stint in charge.
Having begun his playing career in non-league football, Fairweather became a member of Wimbledon's famed Crazy Gang in the 1980s, and made 138 league appearances for the club before a brief spell with Carlisle preceded a move overseas.
The party is on course to beat the Conservatives by two percentage points, gaining more than 300 councillors.
But along with the Lib Dems and the Tories it saw UKIP eat into its support - in Essex, the Midlands and the North.
Having lost control of 11 councils, one prominent Tory backbencher said his party had to "reconnect" with its core support after an "unsettling" result.
The Conservatives were around 200 seats down with only two councils left to declare on Saturday morning.
Chancellor George Osborne is due to address supporters at a London conference at which high-profile donor Lord Ashcroft will reveal the results of a large-scale opinion poll in marginal seats.
Late on Friday night, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt insisted it was Labour that should be worried by the results.
"No opposition party has ever won a general election without being the biggest party in local government," the Conservative minister told the BBC's Newsnight.
"We are going to be the biggest party in local government."
Senior Labour figures Yvette Cooper - the shadow home secretary - and shadow chancellor Ed Balls both said their party now needed to talk "more" about immigration.
Another shadow minister told the BBC Mr Miliband still had to "weave a clearer narrative" on what he was offering to voters.
But shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: "Importantly we have got the biggest share of the vote in the areas which are the boundaries of some of the key marginal seats."
Michael Dugher, shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, says the party is making "extremely good progress" but that its members are "not complacent".
He told the BBC: "I'm pleased that we won in those key battleground seats.
"I'm realistic but I'm also aware that in some of or heartland areas, we did lose seats to UKIP and that is an area where we're going to have to work much harder."
The party is keen to stress its successes in areas it needs to win come next year's general election.
There has been an "awful lot" of criticism of Ed Miliband, according to the BBC's political correspondent Alan Soady.
He said: "I think it is a wake-up call for some in the party leadership that UKIP can do a substantial amount of damage to their vote in their traditional heartlands.
"I think previously they had assumed that largely UKIP would do more damage to the Conservatives than Labour."
UKIP, meanwhile, said leaving the EU would not be a deal-breaker should it continue its rise and win seats at Westminster.
"I don't think we'd be so arrogant to think that we'd be allowed to dictate to the entire government that they must leave the EU without a referendum," director of communications Patrick O'Flynn said.
"It would be a way of guaranteeing that the referendum actually took place," he told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions.
The BBC's projected national share of the vote suggests UKIP would have scored 17% in a country-wide election.
Labour would have got 31% of the vote, just two points ahead of the Conservatives on 29% with the Liberal Democrats on 13%.
UKIP's projected national share figure is lower than the 23% it got in council elections last year.
Yet the challenge from Nigel Farage's party, which took council seats from all three main parties in England, prompted one Conservative to reflect on voters' lack of "trust" and "respect" for his party.
Adam Afriyie - once mooted as a leadership challenger to David Cameron - said: "Many of our core supporters feel alienated and disillusioned."
Writing on the Conservative Home website, he said many supporters felt "duped" and called for a "swallowing of pride" from the party establishment to win them back.
Although UKIP does not control any councils it has emerged as a "fourth national political force capable of disrupting the hopes and plans of each of the established three parties", BBC political editor Nick Robinson said.
David Cameron rejected calls from some in his party for an electoral pact with UKIP.
By Nick RobinsonPolitical editor
Already the Conservatives and Labour are wrestling with how to react. A few eurosceptic Tories demand a pact (with UKIP). They won't get one but there will now be huge pressure on David Cameron to show how he intends to reform the EU and how he'll control the immigration that comes from it.
Ed Miliband too is under pressure - not least from Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper - to sharpen Labour's message on those same subjects - Europe and immigration.
The Lib Dems endured another bad time at the polls, although there were signs of them holding on in areas where they have MPs, such as Sutton, Eastleigh, and Cheltenham.
The party lost control of Portsmouth City Council where suspended MP Mike Hancock - standing as an independent but unopposed by the Lib Dems - lost his seat after 43 years as a councillor.
The Green Party, which is hoping to double its tally of MEPs to four in the European elections, performed moderately well in the local elections with an average 9% share of the vote in wards where it stood, adding 17 councillors.
Mayoral elections took place in four London boroughs and Watford, with Labour winning contests in Hackney and Lewisham.
Lutfur Rahman, once of Labour then George Galloway's Respect, beat Labour into second in the Tower Hamlets mayoral contest.
In Northern Ireland, counting is taking place in 11 new "super districts" councils, with 462 seats up for grabs.
All results should be known by Saturday evening but the DUP and Sinn F??in are expected to take most of the seats.
There were no local elections in either Scotland or Wales - apart from a by-election in the Hawick and Denholm ward of Scottish Borders Council.
American-born Mrs Rausing was found dead in the bedroom of the couple's house in Cadogan Place, Belgravia, on 9 July.
Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, whose family is said to be worth more than £4bn, has been charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of her body.
He is due to appear at West London Magistrates' Court later.
Police are treating the death of Mrs Rausing as "unexplained" and a post-mortem examination held last week failed to establish a formal cause of death.
Mr Rausing was stopped by police on 9 July on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
A subsequent search of the couple's home led to the discovery of Mrs Rausing's body.
The couple, who have four children, were well known for their philanthropic activities having donated millions over the years to charities, especially those working in the field of drug abuse and rehabilitation.
The Rausing family made billions from the Tetra Pak carton firm.
Shadow's ordeal in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis began at about 02:00 on Monday.
Three attempts were made to coax her off the roof with food and "gentle encouragement", said the Scottish SPCA.
After it started raining heavily, firefighters were called and managed to get Shadow off the roof and reunite her with her owners.
Maggie Adkins, an auxiliary inspector with the SSPCA, said, "After three attempts of trying to coax her down with food and gentle encouragement it was clear that she was getting more and more anxious.
"The heavens opened so we called the fire brigade in for help and they successfully got all four of Shadow's paws back on the ground."
She added: "We'd like to take this opportunity to thank the fire brigade again for their assistance."
26 October 2015 Last updated at 18:27 GMT
So it matters when he says western politicians expected too much of central bankers over the past few years, and that governments were too obsessed with making budget cuts.
Passengers were evacuated as the aircraft was preparing to depart from Manchester Airport at about 11:00 BST, causing a 40-minute delay.
An investigation by the Romanian airline Carpatair found it was not smoke but steam that had been released from the air conditioning system.
City play Steaua Bucharest on Tuesday.
A spokesman for Manchester Airport said: "It appears that there was a smell of smoke in the cabin after (the passengers) boarded."
However, the charter airline's president Nicolae Petrov said: "The crew decided to disembark passengers because steam was released into the passenger cabin.
"After the necessary checks, it was established that it was caused by condensation accumulated in the air conditioning ducts system on the long previous flight."
There were no players on board the plane.
The passengers were taken to the departure lounge while the fire service carried out checks.
The Japanese firm reported a net deficit of 23.2bn yen ($229m; £135m), a reversal of its 7.1bn yen profit the previous year.
It said lower-than-expected demand for its Wii U console and 3DS handheld had caused sales to miss its forecasts.
However, it added that it expected forthcoming games would help it to turn around its fortunes ahead of a more fundamental shift in strategy.
The company still has more than 1.3tn yen-worth of net assets on its balance sheet thanks to the stronger performance of its earlier games systems.
That offers it some leeway as it attempts to refocus the business.
In March, its president, Satoru Iwata, announced it planned to establish a new division focused on "health", separate from its video games business, as it attempts to increase customer numbers.
However, he was not specific about what kind of products this involved or when they would launch.
Nintendo previously had success with the Wii Fit "home workout" hardware and software released for its last-generation console.
Its decision not to host a press conference at E3 - Los Angeles' Electronic Entertainment Expo - next month might indicate that a preview of the new technology is still some way off.
"The quality-of-life initiative, I think, is still in its embryonic phases and I don't think we will see any concrete development in that area for a number of quarters," Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at consultants IHS, told the BBC.
"I definitely think it's too early to write off Nintendo. But its strategy reveals a company that is looking for new opportunities to grow its business - and trying to develop a new market from scratch holds significant risk."
The original Wii was the bestselling console of the last generation and its successor, the Wii U, beat its rivals - the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 - to shop shelves by about a year.
However, the Wii U and its main innovation, a touchscreen controller, have failed to live up to Nintendo's own expectations.
The firm initially forecast nine million units would be sold over the year to 31 March 2014. In fact it sold just 2.72 million machines despite cutting the price of the console.
That brings total sales since launch to 6.17 million Wii Us.
By contrast, Sony sold more than seven million PlayStation 4s and Microsoft shipped more than five million Xbox Ones - both within five months of their launches.
"The content has not highlighted the unique offering of the Wii U, and has not explained how it's different from the other platforms and the previous Wii," said Mr Harding-Rolls.
Nintendo appears to concur with this analysis, saying it intends to release more games that take advantage of its gamepad's inclusion of an NFC (near field communication) chip.
Pokemon Rumble U uses this feature to unlock content when toy characters - which can be purchased at additional cost - are placed on the controller, but other titles have yet to exploit the facility.
Nintendo also highlighted the forthcoming release of titles originally developed for its touchscreen DS handheld that would run on the Wii U's gamepad, to boost its library further.
In addition, it forecast that the release of the driving game Mario Kart 8 this month and the fighting title Super Smash Bros in the winter would attract more gamers to the platform.
As a result it predicted 3.6 million Wii Us would be sold this business year.
He drowned after a strong current swept him out to sea as he swam with team-mates during a training camp on the Caribbean island of St Kitts.
Barnaby was sixth in his heat at London 2012 and reached the semi-finals at last year's Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Athletics Canada chief executive Rob Guy called Barnaby "an outstanding athlete and an even better young man".
Substitute Denis Suarez, who replaced the injured Sergio Busquets, opened the scoring with a crisp 20-yard drive.
Barca increased the tempo after the break, doubling their lead when Lionel Messi cushioned in Luis Suarez's pass.
Luis Suarez robbed defender Florian Lejeune to drill in clinically before Neymar converted an injury-time cross.
Victory moved third-placed Barca two points behind leaders Madrid, and a point adrift of Sevilla, at the halfway stage of the Spanish season.
Madrid - who edged past Malaga at the Bernabeu on Saturday - still have a game in hand on their nearest rivals though, after missing a league game in December when they took part in the Club World Cup.
While Barcelona coach Luis Enrique will be pleased with his team's professionalism in seeing off ninth-placed Eibar, he was less than happy at seeing holding midfielder Sergio Busquets taken off on a stretcher inside the opening 10 minutes.
The Spain international, 28, fell to the ground instantly when an over-the-ball challenge caught him on the right ankle.
He received treatment on the field before being lifted on to a stretcher by medical staff and carried off down the tunnel.
Barca later confirmed Busquets had sprained an ankle ligament and would have more tests on Monday to determine the severity of the injury.
Enrique, who is already without skipper Andres Iniesta through injury, appeared to be positive about the loss of another key member of his midfield trio.
"We leave here with one piece of bad news which is Busquets's injury although it's not as serious as we thought," he said.
Eibar, a tiny Basque club who attract crowds of fewer than 6,000 and generate a fraction of Barcelona's vast income, are one of Spanish football's remarkable success stories.
They reached the top flight for the first time in 2014, but their promotion was only ratified after they raised 1.7m euros (£1.35m) to meet the league's demands over the amount of working capital generated by a club.
Eibar narrowly avoided relegation in their debut season, going on to finish a credible 14th last year, and are aiming for an even higher final placing this time.
However, their miserable record continued against Barca as they were condemned to another heavy defeat by the 24-time Spanish champions.
Back to Copa del Rey action for both clubs. Holders Barcelona host Real Sociedad on Thursday with a 1-0 lead in their two-legged quarter-final.
Eibar, playing in their first quarter-final, will try to overturn a 3-0 deficit at home to Atletico Madrid on Wednesday.
In the other two ties, Real Madrid trail 2-1 as they visit Celta Vigo and Alaves start with a 2-0 lead at home to second division Alcorcon.
Match ends, Eibar 0, Barcelona 4.
Second Half ends, Eibar 0, Barcelona 4.
Corner, Eibar. Conceded by Samuel Umtiti.
Goal! Eibar 0, Barcelona 4. Neymar (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aleix Vidal.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Sergi Enrich.
Attempt missed. Sergi Enrich (Eibar) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Pedro León (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Fran Rico.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pedro León (Eibar).
Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sergi Enrich (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Fran Rico (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gonzalo Escalante following a corner.
Substitution, Eibar. Cristian Rivera replaces Antonio Luna because of an injury.
Corner, Eibar. Conceded by Jeremy Mathieu.
Attempt blocked. Sergi Enrich (Eibar) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro León with a headed pass.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Antonio Luna (Eibar) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lionel Messi.
Substitution, Eibar. Rubén Peña replaces Takashi Inui.
Corner, Eibar. Conceded by Jordi Alba.
Attempt blocked. Sergi Enrich (Eibar) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ander Capa.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Florian Lejeune.
Substitution, Barcelona. Paco Alcácer replaces Luis Suárez.
Substitution, Eibar. Fran Rico replaces Adrián González.
Offside, Barcelona. Lionel Messi tries a through ball, but Neymar is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic with a headed pass.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Yoel Rodríguez.
Attempt missed. Florian Lejeune (Eibar) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.
Goal! Eibar 0, Barcelona 3. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Dani García (Eibar) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Florian Lejeune following a corner.
Corner, Eibar. Conceded by Marc-André ter Stegen.
Substitution, Barcelona. Aleix Vidal replaces Sergi Roberto.
Attempt saved. Adrián González (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Pedro León (Eibar).
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pedro León (Eibar).
Offside, Eibar. Pedro León tries a through ball, but Adrián González is caught offside.
Goal! Eibar 0, Barcelona 2. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luis Suárez with a through ball.
Foul by Denis Suárez (Barcelona).
Florian Lejeune (Eibar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
He faced a daunting regime of scans, X-rays, biopsies and five intensive weeks of chemo-radiotherapy.
But with just six weeks to go until surgery Harry is the fittest he has been for years and feeling positive about the outcome.
Inspired by his doctors, Harry is the proud owner of a new exercise bike and sweats it out at home four times a week.
"They kept saying the fitter you are the better you'll recover from surgery so I wanted to be as fit as I can be going into surgery," he said.
Harry was motivated to buy his bike after taking part in a pilot study at Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool. Patients are invited by Malcolm West, surgical registrar and expert in bowel cancer, to jump on exercise bikes to get into shape for surgery.
"The idea is to try to improve their fitness, their physical fitness, after the downfall they have sustained with their chemotherapy," explained Mr West, who undertook the research at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease.
The patients in this trial all have stage-three rectal cancer, a form of bowel cancer which requires the most aggressive of cancer treatments: five to six weeks of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to shrink the tumour and major surgery 10-14 weeks later to remove it.
It is during the waiting period between chemo-radiotherapy and surgery that Mr West puts patients through their paces on bikes. Usually this time is spent anticipating surgery while fitness dwindles, muscle mass wastes, and spirits dim.
"Patients are literally left at home to do nothing much, to wait for the treatment to work and then have their operation at 14 weeks," said Mr West.
But in this new regime, patients come in for supervised exercise three times a week for six weeks. It's known as prehab - getting in shape in preparation for major surgery rather than rehabilitating afterwards.
Harry is certainly feeling better.
"I have less problems climbing up hills. I have no problems at all moving about. And I just generally feel a lot better for it," he told Health Check, "I'm hoping this will help aid me for a quicker recovery."
Cancer of the colon or rectum, also called colorectal cancer or bowel cancer, is the third most common cancer globally.
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And judging by other patients in the trial Harry might be out of hospital sooner after surgery as a result of his training.
Liz Prichard, another patient in the study, stayed in hospital for only three days after her surgery, a recovery Mr West describes as remarkable.
He said: "We usually have patients staying here for weeks on end."
Liz said: "I actually did the programme properly 12 months ago, more or less January last year. Since then I've had quite serious surgery and then chemotherapy but I've carried on doing fitness all the way through. And I've enjoyed it and hopefully helped myself in the process.
"You know you're doing good for your body so it helps you recover from the surgery. And that's all you can do when you're in this situation.
"It was a commitment but it was well worth doing."
In general the fitter patients are when they go into surgery, the better their chances of a quick recovery. The Liverpool trial aims to find out if a tailored exercise programme and improved fitness after chemo-radiotherapy translates to a shorter stay in hospital.
Chemo-radiotherapy specifically degrades muscle mass, and depresses the function of mitochondria, the tiny structures that act as the boiler room of the cell, generating energy. The theory is that reversing that decline before surgery may help patients be mobile and active afterwards.
"With chemo-radiotherapy you knock the mitochondria function down, hence knocking your muscle activity down. The power output of that muscle is reduced compared to a normal healthy muscle. We're trying to build that back up," explained Mr West.
It is not as simple as encouraging patients to build muscle back up on their own, though.
"We've tried telling patients to join the gym and become more active. However, we've shown that this doesn't work. Patients invariably don't do that and revert to their old lifestyle."
But Harry travelled 34 miles three times a week to take part in Mr West's exercise sessions. It was a big commitment, but he says he is glad he did it.
"As far as I was concerned I had two personal fitness trainers for six weeks, so it was worth the round trip."
The Liverpool trial is currently at the pilot stage but funds are in place to launch a larger randomised control trial, due for completion in May 2015.
Dr Julie Silver, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, believes this approach could be beneficial for lots of types of cancers.
She was inspired to found the STAR Programme, a rehabilitation service for cancer patients, after she herself was diagnosed with cancer.
"I got really really sick after treatment and basically was not offered any rehab and struggled to get better and go back to work."
And in summer 2012 STAR started rolling out prehab as well as rehab. Dr Silver is a huge advocate.
"Prehab is a great idea because usually there is the window of time in which someone has been diagnosed, they're very worried and you can utilise that time to their benefit with very specific strategies that help them emotionally and physically. I think of prehab as some sort of umbrella that's offered to patients before they go into the storm."
Malcolm West agrees. "Patients love it. They come in after completing their chemo-radiotherapy in a vulnerable state. They complete their exercise training programme feeling great."
Two men were pursued by staff, who were contracted to Metrolink, from Manchester's Victoria Station at about 23:20 BST on 11 October.
A 28-year-old man was detained outside the Australasia restaurant in Deansgate before "falling ill", police said. He died in hospital on Friday.
Four men were arrested in October on suspicion of assault and bailed.
The men - aged 32, 43, 52 and 60 - are have been bailed pending further inquires.
A police spokesman said it was "believed" the man had been involved in an assault.
Appealing for information, Det Insp Rebecca Boyce said officers were working to "determine the precise circumstances of that night".
A post-mortem examination is due to take place to establish the cause of the man's death.
Prosecutors said the German suspect is a board member of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS).
He is suspected of using videos of his trips to Syria for propaganda purposes.
Switzerland remains on high alert following the terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November that left 130 people dead.
Last week, the city of Geneva raised its security alert following a warning that a cell of so-called Islamic State (IS) was in the area.
Swiss prosecutors did not name the suspect, but the ICCS said - in a statement announcing a press conference for Monday morning in Berne - that Naim Cherni would be among those taking part, and would give his personal response to the allegations.
A statement from the Swiss attorney general's office said that criminal proceedings had been opened against the ICCS board member on suspicion of violating laws banning extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and IS.
The suspect is said to have produced videos of his trips to conflict zones in Syria for propaganda purposes.
The attorney general's office said the man was "accused of having interviewed a senior member of the jihad umbrella organisation Jaish al-Fatah, of which the Syrian al-Qaeda branch, Jabhat al-Nusra, (al-Nusra Front) is also a member".
It said he had made the video "without explicitly distancing himself from al-Qaeda activities in Syria".
The office indicated that the man had not been arrested.
Separately, a statement by the authorities also confirmed that charges had been filed against four Iraqi citizens, accused of preparing a terrorist attack.
In total, Swiss authorities say they are conducting 46 criminal cases related to "jihad motivated" terrorism.
Last week, President Simonetta Sommaruga said a "foreign authority" had warned of a possible IS cell in Geneva. Security was stepped up.
In a separate development, two Syrians were arrested on 12 December near the French border, with police saying that traces of explosives were found in their car.
IS said it carried out the attacks in Paris on 13 November. Two men linked to the attacks - Salah Abdeslam and Mohammed Abrini - are still on the run and investigations have been launched in several European countries.
The star said he was "very chuffed" about his knighthood, which was first reported in the press last weekend.
Over the course of five-decade career, he has survived occasional criticism without forfeiting the affection of the British public.
Born to Jamaican parents on 29 August 1958 in the West Midlands town of Dudley, Lenworth George Henry shot to fame in 1975 aged just 17 after appearing on the TV talent show New Faces.
His winning performance led to the comedy series The Fosters and the anarchic children's show Tiswas, where he started to forge his own energetic and spontaneous comedy style.
However, his next career move was to haunt him for many years.
He joined the Black and White Minstrel Show, in which "blacked up" white entertainers sang songs from the American South - a concept which has since been much ridiculed and reviled.
The comedian spent five years touring with the show, which he has since called a "grotesque parody of black people".
"I sort of wish it had never happened, but I don't regret that I did it," he told The Telegraph last year. "Although it was a weird, reprehensible position to be in, I was working in huge venues and learning how to work a crowd."
His escape route was the BBC sketch series Three of a Kind, which also starred Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield.
First broadcast in 1981, it used state-of-the-art video effects and Ceefax-style graphics to deliver a fast-paced, gag-filled show - although many of its idiosyncrasies seem dated today.
At the same time, the alternative comedy scene was heating up, and through TV producer Paul Jackson, Henry met the cutting-edge comedians of the Comic Strip team - one of whom was Dawn French.
At first, French was critical of the comedian's manner and the stand-up routines he still used to make a living, which had evolved in northern working men's clubs.
He would wipe sweat from his forehead and say it tasted like chocolate - or threaten to move next door to hecklers if they did not shut up.
But, despite their first impressions, the couple warmed to each other, eventually marrying in 1984 at St Paul's Church in London's Covent Garden.
At the same time, Henry's political views began to mature. He refused to judge a Miss Blackpool beauty contest in 1984, saying it was degrading to women.
His TV career progressed fast with BBC One's The Lenny Henry Show, and later The Delbert Wilkins Show.
As a charity fundraiser, he also co-founded Comic Relief in 1985, which has raised more than £1bn over the past three decades.
1993's Chef! was another successful BBC One vehicle - but behind the scenes Henry was trying to nurture new black comedy talent, helping to set up BBC Two's The Real McCoy sketch show.
He also began to take on more serious roles.
Hope and Glory, in which Henry played an embattled head teacher, first aired on BBC One in 1999 while other projects included White Goods, Alive And Kicking and The Man.
He also co-created, with Neil Gaiman, and produced the 1996 BBC drama serial Neverwhere.
In 2009, he turned his attention to the stage, appearing in the title role of Northern Broadsides production of Othello at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.
It transferred to London and earned Sir Lenny the title of best newcomer at the London Evening Standard theatre awards.
In 2010, the star's 25-year marriage ended in divorce. Soon after, his older brother Hylton lost his wife and two children, to cancer and TB.
Sir Lenny said the "cataclysmic" deaths helped put his own life in perspective and reassert his love for his family.
He threw himself into work and, in 2011, followed up his Othello role with a debut at the Royal National Theatre in London, playing Antipholus of Ephesus in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
His reputation as a serious actor was cemented in 2014, with a best actor title at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for his lead performance in Fences.
In recent years, Sir Lenny has become an outspoken critic of British television's lack of ethnic diversity in its programming.
"I'm used to being the only black person wherever I go," he said. "There was never a black or Asian director when I went to the BBC. Eventually I thought 'where are they all?' I spent a lot of time on my own.
"Things have changed a bit, but rarely at the BBC do I meet anyone of colour in a position of power."
During a speech at Bafta in March 2014, he called the lack of minorities "appalling," and he has continued to raise the issue publicly.
On learning of his knighthood, the star said his "mum would have absolutely been chuffed" - and admitted to being bowled over himself.
"It was lovely, it was a lovely feeling, it was like being filled with lemonade for 10 or 15 minutes," he told BBC Radio 2.
The hosts went ahead in the fifth minute when Adama Diomande tapped home after Ikeme spilled a loose ball.
Dave Edwards, unmarked in the penalty area, headed past Allan McGregor to draw mid-table Wanderers level.
At the end of a dreary second half, Snodgrass' set-piece hit the bar before ricocheting off Ikeme into the net.
Hull, who had won only one of their previous eight league matches, remain fourth in the table.
They are eight points behind Brighton, who beat Fulham 5-0 on Friday to move into second, with five games left to play - one more than the Seagulls.
The game began perfectly for the Tigers when a youthful Wolves defence, missing captain Danny Batth because of illness, failed to clear a through ball and Diomande scored on his first league start for Hull.
Edwards, leading Wolves in Batth's absence, was afforded time and space to meet Jeremy Helan's cross and score from six yards out to equalise.
As both sides struggled to find a cutting edge in the final third, it took until the 87th minute for the next effort on target, substitute Sone Aluko's low shot forcing Ikeme into a smart save.
With the match looking destined to end in a draw, Snodgrass stepped up to help give Hull a precious three points.
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Hull City boss Steve Bruce told BBC Radio Humberside: "It wasn't good enough.
"I've been around the block many, many times and it is amazing that when you are in a bad place in terms of results you lose that bit of confidence and you get edgy. That tumbles into the supporters.
"Let's hope that is the spark that re-ignites us again.
"Nobody has to tell me we are under-performing at this moment in time but we have not got a divine right to romp this league."
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Wolves head coach Kenny Jackett told BBC WM: "It was an excellent free-kick. Carl had no chance.
"We played well in the first half, despite the early goal and a couple of mistakes. We offered a threat going forward and we played some good football.
"In the second half, although we were solid and competitive, I didn't think we had enough of a threat. Overall, we were unlucky not to get anything out of the game."
The government has vowed to invest £1.4bn to transform young people's mental health services.
But Dr Richard Vautrey, a Leeds GP and deputy chair of the British Medical Association (BMA), said the government needs to "turn rhetoric into reality".
Figures show one in 50 children under 18 are in contact with specialist mental health services in England.
Dr Vautrey said: "This is an emergency. We've talked about it for too long, we haven't done enough to resolve the situation and the longer we leave it, the worse the problem gets."
NHS Digital started collecting figures about under-19s in contact with mental health services in January, and in June the number stood at 235,189.
The data also shows wide geographical variations in how long young people wait for treatment.
The BBC found that in 40% of areas that had provided data the average wait to begin treatment was longer than a month.
One of the big problems when looking at the issue of children and young people's mental health care is the fact the data is still limited.
NHS Digital only began collecting specific information about children and young people accessing services in January.
Only 65% of mental health care providers have so far provided good quality data.
Making decisions about the strategic provision of mental health care is made even harder when you don't have the complete picture.
The Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust had the longest average waiting time in the country with the typical patient having waited 18 weeks to begin treatment.
Oxford Health has disputed NHS Digital's figures and say that the median waiting time for their patients in June was 34 days. NHS Digital say mental healthcare providers have sole responsibility for ensuring the data they submit to them is accurate.
Patients in Bradford had to wait nearly two months to begin treatment, which Catherine Wright from the local trust said reflects the growing demand for services.
"Our local target is to see all patients within 11 weeks and we are seeing 100% of all urgent cases within a week. But because we have seen a large increase in referrals, this is having an impact on waiting times".
NHS England guidelines stipulate that 50% of children and young people with a diagnosis of psychosis should begin treatment within two weeks of referral.
Under-19s with an eating disorder should begin receiving care within four weeks of referral or one week for urgent cases.
In February, the government announced that it would invest £1.4bn to transform young people's mental health services.
Alistair Burt, minister for mental health, said "we are investing more than ever before in mental health and will make sure the NHS delivers on this plan".
The man was arrested in the Springfields area of Portadown after the murder of Michael and Majorie Cawdery on Friday.
The couple, both 83, were found in their Upper Ramone Park home in Portadown by a relative.
Police said they had been killed in a "very brutal attack".
They are reported to have been stabbed.
The extension was granted by a court on Sunday.
Police have said their enquiries are ongoing.
In a statement, the Cawdery family described the couple as "wonderful people" and their murder as "awful and incomprehensible".
The agreement means BBC Northern Ireland will continue to broadcast Irish Premiership games from season 2016/17 through to 2019/20.
BBC Sport Northern Ireland will bring fans weekly action and up to the minute news from the Irish Premiership across TV, radio and online.
Every Saturday, the highlights of all the action will be available on Final Score on BBC One Northern Ireland and on Monday's popular Irish League show which is available on the iPlayer and online at bbc.co.uk/sportni
In addition to highlights coverage, live radio commentary of games will continue on Sportsound on BBC Radio Ulster, as well as midweek fixtures, across all BBC Sport NI services including online, BBC iPlayer Radio and the BBC Sport app.
Fans can also follow all the action on Twitter and Facebook.
Jane Tohill, Executive Producer BBC Sport NI said: "After a great summer of football we are delighted to announce continued guaranteed coverage of all the domestic action across television, radio and online.
"We are looking forward to working with the IFA, NIFL, the clubs and their representatives over the next four years.
"Our reporters, commentators and guests are known for providing first class coverage, news and analysis of Northern Ireland football both at home and at international level and we are delighted to be able to bring this football package to the fans."
The new deal also means BBC Sport NI continues as the host broadcaster for the Irish Cup and will show highlights of the Irish League Cup Final on the BBC iPlayer.
Patrick Nelson, Irish FA Chief Executive said: "With its comprehensive coverage across TV, radio, online and social media, BBC Sport NI is the perfect partner for the Tennent's Irish Cup and Danske Bank Premiership.
"I am therefore extremely pleased that BBC Sport NI has made this new four-year commitment to football in Northern Ireland and I look forward to continuing to build our excellent partnership over the coming seasons."
Andrew Johnston, Managing Director of the Northern Ireland Football League, said: "This is fantastic news for the Northern Ireland Football League and for the many fans around the country and beyond who tune in every week to radio, online and TV coverage.
"The BBC have shown great faith in local football by investing in their infrastructure and technology at each Premiership ground, and we are delighted that they have extended their broadcasting agreement for another four years."
It follows a profit warning from the Fife-based company, issued last year, after a number of shops and financial sector customers deferred orders.
However, Havelock said a number of its divisions were seeing improvement.
In healthcare it said it had won its first two significant orders, which will be supplied mostly during 2015.
The firm which is headquartered in Dalgety Bay said in retail it was "developing new customer relationships from which we expect to benefit during the coming year".
And as expected it said education activity was "beginning to show signs of recovery" with an order book of £25m compared with £14m last year.
Last May, Havelock Europa announced the resignation of its group finance director. It said the search for a new chief executive was beginning.
HS2 has announced a new route through South Yorkshire, scrapping a proposed station in Meadowhall in favour of a stop in Sheffield city centre.
People living on the Shimmer estate in Mexborough have been told that "some or all of their land" may be required if the plans are approved.
Resident Amie Webster told the BBC the "bottom has fallen out of our world".
The newly proposed route will run east towards the M18 before rejoining the original route south of the M62.
Meanwhile high-speed trains will use existing tracks to access Sheffield, stopping at the city's Midland station.
More on this and how South Yorkshire has reacted
Housing developer Strata said it was "shocked" by the news and was still "digesting the information" on how the changes affected people living on the estate, part of which is still being built.
Chief executive Andrew Weaver said: "Late yesterday afternoon the Strata team met with advisors from the Department of Transport and representatives for High Speed Two.
"During this meeting we were informed that properties within our Shimmer development, which is based in Mexborough, will be affected by the proposed changes to the HS2 route should this updated plan be approved.
"We are working closely with representatives to understand proposals so that we can be clear on what this may mean for our existing and future home owners... [and] we will be doing all that we can to support them during this time."
The letter to residents said: "A detailed plan for construction would not be developed until at least 2020, and would be subject to detailed scrutiny before approval by Parliament.
"If this plan is approved by the Secretary of State for Transport, it is likely that the Government would need to acquire some or all of your land or property in order to construct the railway."
David Higgins, of HS2 Ltd, said he understood the change of route would add to the uncertainty of those living on the original route and bring new fear to those on the newly proposed route.
"It's important that we give them certainty as soon as possible," he said.
"If we can lift the blight from those communities then the quicker the better.
"It's always the same with any change; some people who were impacted are no longer impacted while those previously not affected will be.
"There are less people impacted by this route, in terms of houses affected, but that's no consolation for those people."
He said he hoped the secretary of state would make a decision on the final route by the end of the year.
On the wider impact of the proposed changes, Mr Higgins claimed it would save more than £1bn and result in journey times to London of 79 minutes.
The proposed route would see up to two trains per hour leave the HS2 line near to Clay Cross, in Derbyshire, and join the existing line into Sheffield before rejoining HS2 east of Grimethorpe.
Mr Higgins said the location of the South Yorkshire station had proved "one of the most difficult" challenges, citing factors including the region's topography and flood plains.
Plans to build at Meadowhall attracted strong criticism when they were announced in 2013.
Sheffield City Council claimed a city centre station would create 6,500 more jobs, increase usage and generate up to £5bn more for the local economy.
Now, HS2 say the Meadowhall site would fail to cut journey times between northern cities - a target of the Northern Powerhouse Rail project - and could create problems with road congestion.
Asked if these issues could not have been foreseen Mr Higgins said: "I don't think so. I'm not sure everyone in the whole of South Yorkshire would have accepted the spur line.
"We had to work through the options and solutions in order to reach this decision and the more and more work we did the more complex Meadowhall became."
Relocating the station has also allowed planners to re-direct the HS2 line along the M18 before heading north between Rotherham and Doncaster and opens up the possibility of a parkway station being built to "serve the South Yorkshire area as a whole".
The HS2 report said the new route would be "easiest, result in less overall expected noise impact and be less expensive to build".
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The new route is expected to shave more than £1bn off the cost of building HS2
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Sheffield City Council leader Julie Dore has previously described the decision to relocate the station as "fantastic news for Sheffield".
Sir Nigel Knowles, chairman of the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership, also praised the announcement, saying he was "delighted".
However, elected mayor of Doncaster Ros Jones said she will fight to ensure the town does not lose out as a result of the decision.
Ms Jones said: "I support the national HS2 project and recognise its importance to our country. However, I am shocked and surprised by these significant last-minute changes.
"They have never been suggested during the last four years so it is extremely disappointing that local people and our communities are being put in this position at the 11th hour."
Joe Rukin, campaign manager for Stop HS2, said: "This cut to the HS2 project is one in a long line of cuts, and it is certain there will be more cuts to come, but the irony is it is a vindication of all those who said any new high speed link should go into existing stations."
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Akhtar Javeed, 56, was shot during a robbery at his business premises in Digbeth, Birmingham, on 3 February.
One man, Suraj Mistry, 26, has been convicted of his manslaughter.
But police are looking for Tahir Zarif who, the prosecution, say shot Mr Javeed in the legs, throat and mouth and is thought to be in Pakistan.
Mr Zarif is said to have passed through Heathrow Airport with his mother five days after the killing.
On Tuesday, at Birmingham Crown Court, Mistry, of Laundon Way, Leicester, was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy to commit robbery.
On Wednesday he was also convicted of possession of firearms with intent to cause fear of violence.
Lemar Wali, 19, also of Osmaston Road, who drove to the scene but said he did not know his accomplices were armed, was cleared of murder, manslaughter and firearms charges but convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery.
Sander Van Aalten, 50, of Kyrwicks Lane, Birmingham, admitted conspiracy to rob before the start of the trial.
Mr Javeed's daughter, Lilas Javeed, from Ilford, north east London, said: "There has been three people brought to justice. It's three less criminals roaming the streets but of course it's very important for us that the other person [Zarif] is brought back.
"I have faith that the relevant authorities will work together to bring him back and face trial so that we can get justice.
"I do believe the police and the relevant authorities will work their hardest to bring him back," said Mrs Javeed.
"I don't want to think about the idea that he will get away with it."
Det Ch Insp Martin Slevin, of West Midlands Police, said the convicted men had planned the robbery for weeks.
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In a statement, James Richardson's family said: "Jim was a loving husband and father and will be hugely missed by all his family."
The 29-year-old was found dead at Forteviot, Perthshire, after going missing on his way home from the festival earlier this month.
His funeral is being held in his home town of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire.
Mr Richardson's family said: "Today, we lay our beloved son, husband, father, brother and uncle to rest.
"He will never be forgotten and will always have a special place in our hearts.
"We would like to say thanks for all the tremendous support we have received from friends, family and the local community, which has been of enormous comfort to all of us at such a difficult time.
"Today, we will pay tribute to the life of James and would ask for our privacy to be respected."
The father-of-three attended the music festival at Strathallan, Perthshire, earlier this month.
He went missing after getting off a bus on the way home and his body was found on 12 July - two days after the festival ended.
The Police Investigation and Review Commissioner is probing how officers responded to the first reports expressing concern about Mr Richardson's welfare.
The high street shop in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, has been targeted by opponents since it opened in November.
The party now invites its "anarchist friends" to aim their eggs at posters of Mr Farage and Cardiff South and Penarth candidate John Rees-Evans.
A UKIP spokesman said no eggs had been thrown since the posters were put up.
The 24-year-old replaces Travis Head, who was called up to the Australia squad on Monday, but is not eligible to play in limited-overs cricket.
He averages 41.05 from 19 innings for South Australia in first-class cricket.
Former Australia international Darren scored over 14,000 runs for Yorkshire in nine seasons with the county.
"We're very fortunate that we've been able to find a replacement quickly for Travis Head, who's got a deserved call-up to the Australian squad," Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie told BBC Radio Leeds.
"I know the Yorkshire supporters will be buzzing about the fact that it's another Lehmann on the scorecard, but he's his own man.
"He's a wonderful young player. He hasn't played a lot of first-class cricket, but he's made a real impact with South Australia and Australia A very early on."
Yorkshire, who are chasing a third County Championship title in a row, have six four-day games left this year starting with the Roses match at Old Trafford which gets under way on Saturday.
In the video, obtained by local media in San Antonio, Gilbert Flores is seen outside a house with his arms raised before shots are fired and he falls.
Police say he was armed and officers first attempted to subdue the 41-year-old with a Taser.
A series of fatal police shootings in the last year have sparked protests and increased scrutiny on police tactics.
Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood said the video was "disturbing" but told people not to "rush to judgement" over what may have happened.
Police said the officers were responding to a domestic dispute and a woman at the home had been cut in the head with a knife. She had been holding a baby who may have been harmed.
The officers involved, Greg Vasquez and Robert Sanchez, have been placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated by the sheriff's department.
"Certainly, what's in the video is a cause for concern," said Sheriff Susan Pamerleau, adding that the investigation must be allowed to run its course.
The fatal shooting a year ago of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked protests and a national debate about police use of force.
There has also been increased awareness in recent days of the dangers facing police, with four officers killed while on duty in the last eight days.
The changes will affect administration staff in its carpet, curtain and blinds fittings service.
No jobs will be cut among the estimators and fitters.
However, administration roles will move from stores to a centre in Didsbury, Manchester, which will also serve online customers.
Catering staff in its in-store restaurants will also be affected.
John Lewis already uses outside suppliers in a third of its restaurants and plans to adopt a uniform menu in all, meaning chefs will no longer be required.
John Lewis said about 773 staff could be affected by redundancy but would be able to apply for 386 new posts. At the end of the process about 387 roles will go.
The changes will affect 32 of its 48 stores.
"These proposals will allow us to modernise our business as it adapts to the changing needs of our customers and the role that shops play in their lives," said Dino Rocos, John Lewis operations director.
More than 40% of sales at John Lewis over Christmas were online.
In January the retailer said it expected its full-year pre-tax profit, which it will announce on 9 March, to be higher than last year's £435m.
However, it added that trading was "under pressure" as a result not just of the shift to online, but also because the weaker pound was pushing up costs.
The staff-owned John Lewis Partnership, which includes Waitrose, said last month it expected staff bonuses to be "significantly lower" than last year because of the challenging outlook for retail.
Last year the 89,000 John Lewis and Waitrose staff received 10% of their salary as a bonus. The figure was 17% in 2013.
Pensions auto-enrolment and the impending National Living Wage are seen as factors in the dip in confidence.
However, the survey was carried out before the Budget, which was viewed as good for small companies.
"Small business confidence has clearly faltered, " said the FSB's vice-chairman, Sandra Dexter.
"Which is why the welcome small business focus in the Budget is so important," she added.
"We need a renewed push for growth and productivity, with policymakers delivering a sustained package of support for ambitious small firms," she added.
The survey found FSB members in all UK regions reported a fall in confidence, but it was most marked in London and the East of England.
Overall, Scotland and Northern Ireland were the least confident regions.
The organisation, which represents about 200,000 firms, points to "uncertainty about the strength of the UK and global economy" as contributing to cooling confidence.
It also highlights the first fall in jobs being created by its members for three years and the weakest performance for their exports since 2012.
However, Ms Dexter acknowledged that budget measures, including changes to business rates which will mean many small firms will not have to pay at all, would help.
"Delivering on tax simplification measures will be vital," she added, "as will pressing ahead with new investment in much-needed infrastructure.
"Taken together, these measures should help to boost confidence and help small firms to grow and succeed."
The results of the survey were published ahead of the FSB's national conference, which is being held in Glasgow.
PM Tony Abbott said that "a much larger" area of the ocean floor would now be targeted.
But he said it was "highly unlikely" any surface wreckage would be found, and suspended aerial searches.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The plane, carrying 239 people, disappeared off radar over the South China Sea.
Officials say that, based on satellite information, they believe it ended its journey in seas north-west of the Australian city of Perth, far from its planned path.
By Jon DonnisonBBC News, Sydney
Investigators have given no reason yet as to why the plane flew so far off course. Finding the "black box" flight recorders is seen as key to understanding what happened.
Mr Abbott made his announcement at a news conference in Canberra.
"It is now 52 days since Malaysia Airlines Fight MH370 disappeared and I'm here to inform you that the search will be entering a new phase," he said.
By now, he said, most debris would have become waterlogged and sunk, so operations would now focus on "searching the ocean floor over a much larger area".
So far, a robot submersible called the Bluefin-21 has been scouring the seabed in the location of acoustic signals heard on 8 April believed to have originated from the plane's flight recorders.
Bluefin-21 has been searching a circular area with a 10-km (6-mile) radius, some 4,500m below the surface.
Planes and ships from multiple nations have also been searching the sea for signs of debris, based on where it might have floated from the possible impact point.
So far, however, no sign of the missing plane has been detected.
Mr Abbott said there was still "a considerable degree of confidence that the detections that were picked up" in early April were from a flight recorder.
He said the new phase of the search would involve commercial contractors with additional sonar mapping equipment - an operation towards which Australia would be seeking contributions from other countries to help meet the estimated $60m (£36m) cost.
Getting this equipment in place could take several weeks, he said, and in the interim the Bluefin-21 would continue to search.
Mr Abbott also promised that while the operation was changing, "it certainly is not ending".
"We will do everything we humanly can... to solve this mystery," he said.
If the £27m plans are approved, New College Nottingham's Basford Hall campus would be completely demolished and rebuilt for opening in 2015.
The new campus, which would become a hub for training, could provide a jobs boost for the area.
The £9m investment has come from the Skills Funding Agency. The college said the rest of the money would be loaned.
The college said students would be able to continue their studies at the Basford Hall site during construction as the new campus would be built around the existing one.
Dawn Whitemore, principal and CEO of New College Nottingham, said the campus would become a regional hub for training in construction, science, technology and sustainable technologies.
She added: "We are determined to ensure it is a true 'community college' which reflects the hopes and aspirations of those living nearby, we are committed to supporting everyone who wants to learn, wherever their starting point."
Basford Hall campus, which dates to the 1960s, was saved from closure six years ago. At the time the college had wanted to sell it because it said it would be too expensive to update.
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After threatening revenge "a thousand fold" in response to United Nations sanctions over its destabilising lurch towards a nuclear capability, how can Pyongyang top President Donald Trump's return volley, through which he pledged "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if North Korea continues to threaten the United States?
First, let's put this latest exchange in context. How much of this have we experienced before? And to what extent are we beginning to break new and dangerous ground?
Terminology surrounding North Korea has always seemed backwards. The end of the Korean War in 1953 technically represented a cessation of hostilities between the two sides. But in reality there has been open hostility ever since.
The US and North Korea came very close to armed conflict in 1994 after Pyongyang refused to allow international inspectors access to its nuclear facilities as required under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
That crisis was resolved diplomatically, but it set the stage for a two-decade cat and mouse game where North Korea paid lip service to its pledge to denuclearise but kept its options open to build an actual weapon and the means to deliver it.
Over time, while the international community offered North Korea normal relations in return for denuclearisation, Pyongyang wanted normal relations and nuclear weapons. Without admitting it, the US policy became containment, preventing North Korea from exporting its nuclear know-how while hoping that its erratic regime would implode before it actually obtained a nuclear deterrent.
In recent years, two key developments changed the basic contours of the North Korea problem.
First, the removals of Saddam Hussein by the Bush administration and Muammar Gaddafi by the Obama administration - two leaders who contemplated nuclear weapons but didn't actually build them - led Pyongyang to a simple conclusion: an actual nuclear capability is the ultimate regime insurance policy.
And second, Kim Jong-il passed away in late 2011. The elder Kim was sufficiently deferential to his primary benefactor, China, that he maintained plausible deniability as to North Korea's actual nuclear capability. Kim Jong-un, his son and successor, has abandoned all pretence and is openly racing to obtain a demonstrated nuclear deterrent.
The Trump administration must decide what it can and cannot live with, and what to do about a situation that is rapidly moving from bad to worse.
To his credit, even as a candidate, President Trump placed the North Korea issue at or near the top of his list of national security concerns. And he has consistently called on China, North Korea's leading trading partner, to do more to rein in its client state.
On the other hand, Mr Trump has underestimated the risk and complexity surrounding the North Korea problem. While he vowed early in his tenure that he would solve it one way or another, he ignored the reality that there are no good policy options available.
At one level, President Trump's threat of fire and fury is not new. In many different forms, albeit not as colourful, the US has always said that if North Korea ever attacks, the regime will cease to exist. That said, Mr Trump's rhetoric seemed to suggest that he was prepared to take pre-emptive action if North Korea gets closer to an actual nuclear deterrent.
But any use of force immediately places hundreds of thousands of South Koreans and Japanese citizens at risk. North Korea will almost certainly respond to a pre-emptive attack.
What is different about this cycle is the lack of a diplomatic process that could serve as a firebreak.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a recent media briefing that the United States is open to dialogue with North Korea, provided talks are about ending missile tests and giving up nuclear weapons. Pyongyang, even as it confronts new sanctions, is unlikely to agree to those conditions.
While China welcomed Mr Tillerson's gesture, North Korea's young leader doesn't seem to care what Beijing thinks. And the next move is his.
The danger is that at some point, the over-heated rhetoric creates an action-reaction cycle without an obvious reverse gear.
They fire a missile. We slap on more sanctions. They promise revenge. We declare these threats intolerable. They fire another missile. Then what?
This is where rhetoric meets strategy. But it's unclear if there is one behind Trump's fire and fury.
PJ Crowley is a former US Assistant Secretary of State and author of Red Line: America Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States.
Paul Doswell's men unlocked the Silkmen in the first half. Ross Stearn pounced from close range after goalkeeper Craig Ross could only parry an earlier effort.
Frenchman Bedsente Gomis made it two, rounding off an intricate passing move. The U's were very much on top, and Nicky Bailey also rattled the visitors' crossbar on the stroke of half-time.
After the break, Dean Beckwith again headed against the woodwork as the Gander Green Lane club continued to dominate. And when Andy Halls was given a straight red card for a nasty foul, Macclesfield's race was run.
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South Koreans must complete two years' compulsory military service before the age of 29 or face being exiled.
Midfielder Ki, 27, only had to complete four weeks service after being part of the team which won men's football bronze at the 2012 Olympics.
"I was treated like a soldier and there was no time to think about football," Ki said.
"The training was not hard but mentally it was a little bit tough because I needed to stay there for four weeks."
North and South Korea are technically still at war as the 1950-53 conflict ended with a ceasefire.
Tensions between the two countries remain and centre on the differences between democracy and communism.
"In Korea there's always a possibility of a war between South and North so I'd have to be ready and need to know how to deal with it," Ki added.
"I didn't know much about the army before and I didn't know how they sacrifice their life for the country.
"In four weeks I learnt a lot about them and that they work for the country. I'm very proud of them."
The former Celtic player made his first appearance of the season as a second half substitute in Swansea's 2-0 defeat at home to Hull City on 20 August.
Michelle Thomson said she had been "overwhelmed" by messages of support since reliving her ordeal.
Ms Thomson moved fellow MPs to tears on Thursday when she told how she was attacked 37 years ago by someone she knew.
The Edinburgh West representative said: "I'm not a victim, I'm a survivor."
She spoke out during a debate on the UN's International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women.
Campaigners and fellow politicians have praised her for her bravery in speaking out.
In a tweet on Friday, the independent MP said: "Humbled by the responses and support.
"Thanks also to @policescotland for their rapid response and with whom I have made contact."
Police have not commented on the message. However, it is understood officers would make an approach to an individual to see if they wanted to take matters further if they publicly disclose they have been the victim of an offence.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Speaking out about sexual abuse is incredibly difficult and disclosures are often made many years after an incident took place.
"Police Scotland will listen to any such disclosure, regardless of the passage of time, and will investigate.
"Our response is always victim-focused and every investigation will be tailored to meet their individual needs."
The MP told the Commons she had known her attacker and afterwards had "bottled it all up inside".
Ms Thomson said the rape had "fatally undermined" her self-esteem, confidence and sense of self-worth, and said she had not sought help until her mid-40s.
"I carried that guilt, anger, fear, sadness and bitterness for years," she told MPs.
Ms Thomson later told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that a decade ago she wanted to "go after" her attacker. But seeking help had given her "a liberty to move on".
She said: "I'm not doing this to try and go after somebody, it's not what it's about for me - hence the 'I'm not a victim, I'm a survivor'.
"Had it been even 10 years ago I would have probably said 'No, I want to go after him' and I remember after it happened I used to idly daydream - 'If I could do this to him, if I could do that' - because I was so angry and bitter. I'm not now.
"That, I would stress, is a personal perspective I'm taking and everybody must take their own view about how they want to move forward. I would encourage everyone to do what they feel is right for them."
Ms Thomson's decision to share her story publicly was hailed as "brave and important" by Rape Crisis Scotland.
National co-ordinator Sandy Brindley said: "Someone speaking so publicly about rape can send a strong message to other rape survivors - that the shame is not theirs and it is okay to talk about it and to seek support."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the speech as "very moving and incredibly brave", and said it would help give strength to others.
The unseeded 44-year-old was pushed hard by Sherrock, the sixth seed from Milton Keynes, but eventually prevailed to win her second Lakeside crown.
Ashton, from Bolton, took the first set and snatched the second after Sherrock missed a series of chances at doubles.
The youngster regrouped to win the third but Ashton clinched victory in the fourth.
She dropped just two sets on her way to the title, during a run that saw her knock out top seed Deta Hedman and nine-time world champion Trina Gulliver.
"I'm over the moon," Ashton told BBC Sport. "I've been really pleased with my form this week and I can't ask for any better."
Sherrock, the youngest player to reach a BDO world final, can be proud of her achievements during her second World Championship appearance, hitting six 180s in her first final.
"I've really enjoyed it," she said. "I've got this far so I'm pretty sure I can win it in the future."
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David asked ministers for money in September for the Canolfan yr Egin project, a briefing paper revealed.
In October the university denied a funding gap had appeared for the hub.
Trinity said no such gap had appeared since S4C had received the "Yr Egin" business plan.
S4C said building and financing the hub was the university's responsibility.
In October, Economy Secretary Ken Skates told AMs it was "disappointing" a funding gap had appeared, but the university denied this was the case.
But a briefing paper sent by the university to the Welsh Government a month earlier stated public investment was needed for the project to "eliminate the financial viability gap".
The university told the Welsh Government about 65 core staff would relocate from S4C and the BBC to the new hub.
BBC Wales said no deal had been finalised and discussions were ongoing.
A Trinity spokesman said S4C had been fully aware that there would be applications for money through other channels, and no funding gap has appeared since the Welsh language broadcaster received the business plan.
A university spokesperson said: "While taking nothing for granted it would be hard to understand why a transformative project like this one would be refused government support."
Analysis of data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) showed a 4% rise in the number of cases of alleged abuse referred for investigation in the past year.
Age UK urged the government to do more to protect vulnerable adults.
The government said more measures were in the process of being introduced.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "No-one should suffer abuse or neglect in a place they are meant to feel safe in, whether this is in their own home or in a care setting."
A new Chief Inspector for Social Care would hold local areas to account for abuse, the spokesman added. New measures were also being considered to make directors of care homes and hospitals personally and criminally accountable for failures in care if they allowed neglect and abuse to take place.
HSCIC figures showed that the number of cases referred for investigation by councils in England rose from 108,000 in 2011/2012, to 112,000 in 2012/2013.
Of these, 38% of the alleged abuse took place in the older person's home, while 45% took place in a care home.
Physical abuse and neglect were the most common types of abuse reported.
In 6% of cases the alleged abuser was the older person's partner, in 16% it was another family member and in 37% a social care worker.
Three fifths of the referrals were for vulnerable adults - those described in the report as people who "are or may be in need of community care services" because they are "elderly or suffer mental illness, a disability or another ailment", aged 65 or over.
Charity director Caroline Abrahams said: "These numbers are disturbing: even though growing awareness of the abuse of older people is likely to have contributed to the increase in the number of safeguarding concerns reported to and taken forward by English councils, they concern some of the most vulnerable people in our society, many of whom feel that they have no-one to turn to for help.
"Any abuse of older people is unacceptable and we need a zero-tolerance approach to any abuse, whether through neglect, financial manipulation or physical or mental cruelty.
"Our biggest fear is that there are still many cases that are not reported and we would encourage anyone who suspects that an older person is being abused to contact their social services department or the police straight away."
Age UK urged people to call the its advice line on 0800 1696565 if they suspect an older person is being abused.
The piece, Benefits Supervisor Resting, was one of four portraits Freud made of the ample-figured Sue Tilley.
Another, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, sold for $33.6m (£21.2m) in 2008.
Freud, a grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and one of Britain's most highly regarded artists, died in 2011 at the age of 88.
When Benefits Supervisor Sleeping sold seven years ago, it set a new world record price for a work by a living artist.
Tilley, who became widely known as Big Sue, was paid £20 a day to sit for the artist in the early 1990s.
Wednesday's sale at Christie's saw another nude, by Freud's contemporary Francis Bacon, sell for $44.7m (£28.3m).
The event also saw an untitled abstract by the late US painter Cy Twombly fetch $42.7m (£27m).
Firefighters were called to the ground-floor property on Ferry Road just after 01:00.
They removed the woman from the flat and she was taken away by ambulance, but was pronounced dead a short time later.
An investigation has been started into the cause of the fire.
The S92 incident happened on the West Franklin Platform last month.
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) bulletin has revealed when panels were removed it was immediately clear a tail rotor piston was damaged.
The helicopter came to rest having rotated more than 180 degrees.
No-one was injured.
Sikorsky S92s began undergoing specific tail rotor safety checks worldwide on Tuesday due to the incident.
The bulletin said a bearing was in a "severely distressed condition", and initial findings were the failure had been "rapid".
Further disassembly founds "signs of severe overheating with extreme wear".
The report said there was a "consequential total loss of control of the tail rotor".
Initial investigations show the S92 helicopter spun 187 degrees when landing on the West Franklin platform.
The AAIB said the incident took place on 28 December and it was made aware of it on 5 January.
Its investigation is continuing.
A phased return to service of the fleet after the checks got under way on Tuesday, although bad weather was limiting flights on Wednesday.
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop brought some of the humour of his appearances on BBC satirical quiz Have I Got News For You to proceedings at the Royal Courts of London.
Swipes at Ex-Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan and Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond brought wry smiles from those in attendance.
But Mr Hislop had a serious message for inquiry chairman Lord Justice Leveson. "Statutory regulation is not required," he said, pointing out that phone-hacking and paying police officers were already illegal.
He pointed the finger at newspapers' relationships with police and politicians, saying News International was so "deeply embedded" that the proprietor's wife had been invited to "slumber parties" at the prime ministerial retreat Chequers.
It was the Press Complaints Commission that felt the ire of Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, whose revelations about conduct at the News of the World triggered the inquiry.
Rusbridger described the PCC investigation into phone-hacking as "worse than a whitewash" and said it had "undermined the principle of self-regulation".
The week had begun with the reading of a letter from former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, denying claims he had threatened to "destroy" News International during a call to Rupert Murdoch after the Sun switched political allegiance.
Then Daily Mirror editor Richard Wallace admitted phone-hacking "might well have been" hidden from him when he was in charge of the paper's showbiz desk.
It could have been the source of a scoop revealing Sven-Goran Eriksson's affair with Ulrika Jonsson, Mr Wallace said, stressing he had no knowledge of hacking ever having taken place.
Similarly, Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver said there was "no guarantee" it had not happened at her paper.
Ahead of Times editor James Harding's appearance, News International boss Tom Mockridge's witness statement revealed one of the paper's reporters had been disciplined for hacking into a computer.
Harding argued some intrusion was in the public interest, quoting the publication of Adam Werritty's bank details during an investigation into the level of access he had to former Defence Secretary Liam Fox.
Sunday Times editor John Witherow called phone hacking "illegal and unethical" and said it had never happened on his paper, although he had employed private detectives.
Next up were the editors of glossy magazines Heat, Hello! and OK!
Heat's Lucie Cave argued there was a public interest in exposing hypocritical behaviour by stars who portrayed themselves as loving their family, only to cheat behind their partner's back.
Editors of eight regional papers rounded off the week, with several arguing that the local press should not be tarnished by any malpractice at the nationals.
Transcripts of the hearings so far are on the Leveson Inquiry website.
England beat Australia 3-0 in the June series down under but Vunipola says players were sent letters to keep them "on their toes".
"My interesting bit was don't eat too much, to lose some weight," he said.
England play South Africa, Fiji, Argentina and Australia at Twickenham starting on 12 November.
Saracens player Vunipola, who has 35 England caps, said he limited his weight gain to only half a stone, and added: "I was expecting worse so it was all right.
"I got a letter through saying I'm in contention…. I'm happy to be in contention.
"Eddie likes to keep us on our toes - everyone got the letter reminding them of what they need to do."
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New Zealand-born Vunipola is part of Jones' 45-man elite squad for the four-Test series, which starts with a fixture against the Springboks - the final squad will be announced on 26 October.
He will face competition from Harlequins' Joe Marler, who ruled himself out of the Australia tour saying he needed rest after a summer laced with controversy.
The 25-year-old was suspended for two weeks for kicking Grenoble's Arnaud Heguy in April, directly after serving a two-match ban for calling Wales prop Samson Lee "Gypsy boy" during a Six Nations game.
"Having Joe Marler back in the squad is a bonus," Vunipola said. "He's a good guy, I play some cards with him. He is in good spirits.
"Joe didn't really change during last season, he kept his private life to himself. He's the same Joe as usual."
Knox, who triumphed in the World Golf Championships HSBC Champions, and Yorkshireman Willett, who shot a final-round 62, could both figure in the continent's defence of the Ryder Cup next year.
European Tour membership is now on Knox's mind because the American-based Scot has to join to become eligible for captain Darren Clarke's team.
Willett, meanwhile, has breathed new life into the Race to Dubai with his share of third place in China. He remains in Shanghai this week, knowing a top-25 finish at the BMW Masters would enable him to overtake Rory McIlroy at the top of the standings.
This sets up perfectly the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai the following week.
It is a scenario new European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley would want as he seeks to reinvigorate the Wentworth-based circuit.
Pelley is considering changes to the membership criteria to ensure the Tour attracts as many top names as possible. One idea is a restructure that would allow members to compete in only five regular tour events per season.
Currently, they are required to play in 13 with the four majors and four WGCs counting in that total. This works for players in the world's top 50 because they are guaranteed entry into the elite eight tournaments.
For the likes of Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and Luke Donald, who are based in the United States but are no longer in the top 50, it becomes more difficult to satisfy the joint demands of the PGA and European Tours.
Knox was in a similar position until his maiden Tour victory in China on Sunday. It was arguably Scottish golf's biggest individual win since Paul Lawrie's Open triumph in 1999 and propelled the Inverness man firmly into the world's top 50.
The 30-year-old can now look forward to a Masters debut and entry into the game's most important events.
He remains firmly committed to American ways and the former Jacksonville University student, who still resides in the Florida city, intends to stay Stateside for the rest of his life.
However he also harbours ambitions to play for the continent of his birth. "Absolutely, what an honour it would be to represent Europe in the Ryder Cup," Knox told BBC Sport.
"It was kind of close but wasn't really close until this win happened, so I'll definitely have to sit back and look at all my options."
The prospect of making an Augusta debut next April has also been on the Scotsman's mind and, by his own admission, almost to a destructive degree in China last Sunday.
"It's amazing and actually I thought about that on one hole," he said.
"And I yelled at myself 'stop it, stop it, stop thinking about it.' I mean I've never been to the Masters and it'll be a massive dream come true to play there."
One of Willett's fondest memories is the arrival of his first Masters invitation at the start of this year. He greeted his postman with gleeful pride when the envelope was delivered.
Now he is thrilled to have consolidated his position among the game's top names with sustained excellence in 2015. This was his second top-three finish since winning the European Masters the week after finishing sixth at The Open at St Andrews in July.
By competing this week and then in the season finale in Dubai, Willett is playing four straight tournaments in an effort to land the title that reflects performances over a 12-month period.
"You keep working hard every day, every hour," Willett told me. "This proves what I did with scheduling and how I've planned the year has come through.
"We planned it so I had a good break in the middle of the season when the Ryder Cup qualifying points just started. A lot of people suggested I could fall a long way behind but that wasn't really on my mind.
"It was to try to prepare well so that we were fresh to be able to do five out of six weeks now."
Willett trails McIlroy by only 74,214 points heading into the final two tournaments on the European schedule.
Pelley and his management team will try to exploit the fact that the Race to Dubai is being contested by young and vibrant talent.
It plays into the psyche of the Canadian who took over George O'Grady's Wentworth office three months ago. Players, officials and sponsors have been impressed by the energy Pelley has brought to the role.
The European Tour boss, along with the new R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers, projected a fresher and more dynamic image when they appeared at last week's HSBC Golf Business Forum in Shanghai.
Slumbers talked of making the game more accessible at all levels, while Pelley was in bullish mood discussing the prospects of his tour.
"I believe that we are incredibly healthy right now," he said. "And we only have one way to go and that's up."
These are laudable sentiments but words have to be backed up by actions. In that regard, the likes of Knox and Willett provide an inspiring example.
We now all know what a disaster for the party looks and feels like, after witnessing it in the general election last year.
They have done a lot of soul-searching in recent months, and have come up with a strategy to strip away everything they believe will be surplus to requirements in the assembly campaign.
It's all geared towards getting a message across in a few sentences on the doorstep about plans to reduce class sizes and raise the number of nurses.
In marked contrast to recent Lib Dem conferences, there's little talk of the constitution at this weekend's spring conference in Cardiff.
And there's no public talk at least about potential coalitions.
The leader Tim Farron did make one nod to post-election politics in Cardiff Bay during his speech, when he accused Plaid of always being willing to prop up a Labour administration whenever it got into trouble.
This is potentially difficult territory, as the party has been in coalition with Labour in the past, and has struck three out of the past four budget deals allowing the Labour Welsh government to get its financial arrangements through without an overall majority.
In fact, the deals of recent years which Kirsty Williams has struck with Carwyn Jones will form a central part of the Lib Dem campaign, as they look to defend the money (£100m a year) which they have secured for the pupil deprivation grant.
One question is how the party squares the willingness to help Labour survive in government with ripping into the Welsh government at conference time?
In other words, does the anti-Labour rhetoric reflect the reality of what the Lib Dem group has done during most years of the past administration?
The Lib Dems say they've secured valuable concessions that are important to them.
The flip side of the argument is that if Labour are as bad as the Lib Dems say they have been in government, why has it, in effect, supported them?
Behind the scenes, Labour have been pleasantly surprised by how relatively easy it has been to get their budgets passed every year.
There has not been blood on the carpet every time a budget has been voted on and, as a result, you could argue that this has been a group of opposition parties that has not made life that difficult for the government.
On the big picture challenge for the Lib Dems, the party will need to call on their resilience which has seen them survive crises in the past.
But they haven't faced a combination of threats like these in recent years with the rise of UKIP, together with a near wipe-out at a parliamentary level.
One insider at the assembly unkindly referred to the prospect of Kirsty Williams being a sole-trader after the assembly elections, with the other list members not making it through.
This is why the Lib Dems know they're in the fight of their lives, and why they need to squeeze everything out of their achievements in recent years.
And even that might not be enough.
Those still harbouring doubts about the wisdom of this sudden move and apparent switch of emphasis from previous transfer policy had the logic laid out before them in gory detail at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
It looked more a case of whether United and Moyes could actually do without Mata rather than a question of whether they needed him in the first place.
Yes, United were without the injured Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney - but what was left behind was mediocre mess, almost devoid of inspiration, as Sunderland deservedly won the Capital One Cup semi-final after a penalty shoot-out of almost laughable ineptitude.
It was no laughing matter for Moyes as his depressing start as successor to Sir Alex Ferguson took another turn for the worse after losing over two legs to a Sunderland team 19th in the Premier League, meaning they miss out on a Wembley meeting with Manchester City.
Moyes refused to take questions on Mata's proposed arrival after the defeat - perhaps not wanting to tempt fate in a season when most of what could go wrong has done.
But United and their supporters were left clinging to the hope provided by the Spaniard's proposed arrival amid the wreckage of another miserable Old Trafford night.
United looked like a team ripe for Mata's creative instincts and fiercely competitive nature. So what are the issues surrounding this acquisition?
One experienced Old Trafford observer said before the game: "Yes Mata is a panic buy - but he is a very good panic buy."
All the noises coming out of United this season were that they felt no need to pursue a player such as Mata or Mesut Ozil because they believed they were well served in this area, with players such as Wayne Rooney, who can play just off the striker, Adnan Januzaj and even Shinji Kagawa in the "number 10" slot.
The targets were a left-back, a central midfielder of real authority and also the possibility of buying a central defender.
All this has changed. Was it because of the manner of defeat at Chelsea on Sunday, when Jose Mourinho's side barely had to move through the gears to beat a team once regarded as their greatest adversaries?
Was it the very real prospect of missing out on the Champions League that prompted such significant activity?
There has been loose talk of United being able to take one season on the outside looking in at the Champions League on the chin. This is a dangerous assumption as once you are out there is no guarantee you will get back in.
Liverpool probably thought they would only be absent for one season after failing in 2010 but they have yet to return, and Mata's arrival will be designed to ensure United avoid that fate.
Maybe it was simply the chance to buy a quality player who was available, albeit at a hefty premium, and the opportunity was too good to miss.
Panic is too strong a word but there is certainly surprise at the speed of United's move and the position they have decided is the priority for such heavy spending.
Watch a rerun of the defeat by Sunderland for confirmation. In Moyes's defence he was without Rooney and Van Persie but, Januzaj apart, United were pretty much the word that was unmentionable under Sir Alex Ferguson - dull.
Moyes will have the pleasant task of fitting 25-year-old Mata into what looks like an overcrowded area but watching United struggling in vain for a spark against Sunderland was an illustration of why the purchase makes sense.
The key for Moyes is finding the right position for the Spaniard. He is not a winger and he is not a central midfielder, so it will be intriguing to see how the former Everton manager solves this conundrum.
Even allowing for absentees, the loss to the Black Cats - where United were lacking in ideas for the most part - simply added weight to the logic of bringing in Mata.
It may seem odd in the context of a team that won the Premier League last season but Manchester United simply do not have enough high-quality players. Mata is one such player, United can afford him and he is better than much of what they have. So do the deal.
Not unless he can play as a world-class central midfielder - and he cannot. Mata is a wonderful talent, just ask Chelsea's supporters who adore him, but he is a fine adornment to United's squad rather than a solution to the most pressing problem.
Moyes still has to find that player to fill the gaps left behind by Roy Keane and Paul Scholes over the years. Mata's arrival will add gloss and star quality but the major flaw still remains.
This is a fading United squad that is out of two domestic cup competitions, 14 points adrift of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League and no longer serious contenders to win the Champions League. It needs all the help it can get where it can get it.
Mata's signing may have implications for the biggest names at Old Trafford simply because of his favoured position behind the striker.
Rooney's future is still the subject of speculation, while Van Persie is 31 this year and appears to have regressed to his previous injury-troubled years after a golden spell at Arsenal and inspiring United to the title last season.
Moyes could use Van Persie as his main striker and a combination of Mata, Rooney and Januzaj behind while picking two holding midfielders - but this would be desperately narrow.
It is a tricky puzzle and may delay the use of 18-year-old Januzaj in his best position - although he still needs the decision-making skills that come with maturity - while the Mata deal sounds ominous for Kagawa.
Mata's arrival may also signal the start of the serious rebuilding process by Moyes. All the evidence this season suggests United need a major overhaul and there is no obvious downside to signing a player who has proved so impressively that he can cope with the rigours of the Premier League and exert influence on the biggest games.
The signing of Mata works on many levels for Moyes and Manchester United. Before events on the pitch and defeat by Sunderland deflated the atmosphere, there was a mood of renewed buoyancy around Old Trafford with the buzz created by the transfer news.
And even after a loss that picked at every weakness of what now looks a very dubious inheritance for Moyes, there was at least the consolation that help was travelling towards Manchester in the shape of Mata.
It shows United mean business after the debacle of last summer's transfer dealings and offers proof that Moyes can bring big players to the club - although Mata's appetite and need for a move has also been sharpened by the forthcoming World Cup.
United can show their supporters, as well as more high-profile members of their squad, that they are still contenders and retain the ability to flex the big financial muscles. They had to make up for a whole summer of lost time and this is their first opportunity to do it.
Perhaps the devil is in the detail with Jose Mourinho. Last Sunday, after beating United, he very gently (almost with pity in his voice) removed them from title contention but added that he hoped they finished fourth by beating all Chelsea's rivals between now and the end of the season.
And what better way to help them do it than by selling them a player coveted around Europe but surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge - while pocketing a cool £37m into the bargain?
It is difficult to remove mischief from any Mourinho equation but the brutal, simple logic is that he may regard this as getting a huge sum of money from a club he does not regard as title rivals for a player he does not need.
And what does this say about Mourinho's power and popularity at Chelsea?
If, say, Rafael Benitez had a) decided to sell Mata and b) decided to sell him to Manchester United, there would have been mutiny and marches along the King's Road.
Mourinho's word is law and accepted on trust. He is the untouchable one.
Whether he has made the right move in sanctioning Mata's sale to Manchester United remains to be seen.
The Road Haulage Association in Scotland said the move could have a "massive" cost attached to it.
And the Scottish Chambers of Commerce warned the cost to business would be "huge" in terms of higher transport costs and reduced productivity.
It called for action to mitigate at least some of the disruption.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) also warned that "employers of all description" faced serious disruption.
Earlier, Transport Minister Derek Mackay said it would take at least three weeks to repair the bridge.
It was closed at midnight, following the discovery of structural faults earlier in the week.
Mr Mackay said a full travel plan was being prepared, including extra trains and buses and possibly a ferry.
Early on Friday morning, 11-mile tailbacks were reported approaching the Kincardine Bridge, the alternative route across the Forth from Fife to Edinburgh.
Martin Reid, from the Road Haulage Association in Scotland, said: "Our members are bearing the brunt of this - there is no doubt about that.
"Every time there is the smallest delay then there is a cost attached to that, and the cost must go to the client or to the haulier. At the minute, with all the delays, there is massive cost attached to this."
Amazon which has it biggest UK "fufilment centre" in Dunfermline said it was confident the bridge closure would not affect deliveries.
The firm said in a statement: "Amazon has a network of ten fulfilment centres in the UK and each of these serve customers across the country.
"We are used to dealing with transport disruptions and put in place contingency measures to ensure we continue to provide the highest levels of service to our customers."
Garry Clark, from the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said: "The closure of the Forth Road Bridge until the New Year and the resultant impact we are witnessing serves to underline the fragility of Scotland's transport network.
"Scotland's bridges are major infrastructure pinch points and whenever these are disrupted due to engineering or road works, the result is often severe.
"This is as true for the likes of the Erskine or Kessock bridges as it is for the Forth Road Bridge.
"These events remind us just how essential the construction of the Queensferry Crossing is to provide resilience in cross-Forth travel.
"The priority now must be to implement a deliverable travel plan to mitigate at least some of the inevitable disruption that is now occurring.
"The cost to business will be huge in terms of higher transport costs, reduced productivity and restricted access to customers."
The FSB said firms across Scotland and beyond would be "alarmed" to hear that the bridge would not reopen until 2016.
Scottish policy convener Andy Willox said: "Not only will this closure impact those that use the bridge to bring their goods or services to market, employers of all description will face serious disruption.
"Businesses will look forward to clear advice regards alternative routes.
"Further, communities and firms facing the worst disruption will look to local and national government to mitigate the impact of the measure.
"While matters of safety should override other concerns, every effort should be made to minimise the impact on the economy."
The gunman, who had kidnapped a woman, barricaded himself inside the bureau before fleeing by car. He was shot in the head by police but survived.
A second officer was shot in the leg during the stand-off about a mile (1.6km) from the US Capitol.
The incident was not related to terrorism, the FBI said.
Police said the security guard, Lawrence Buckner, saw two people fighting in a car that matched the description of a vehicle involved in an armed kidnapping.
When Mr Buckner - whose age was not given - approached the car he was shot in the chest.
The gunman also fired at police cars during a chase before he was blocked in and wounded in a fire fight.
The woman, thought to be the suspect's wife, got out of the car somewhere between the Census Bureau office in Maryland and central Washington. She was later found alive.
Police said the officer who was shot in the leg is expected to recover.
The outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in South America is being linked to severe birth defects.
Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a global public health emergency.
Kipchoge Keino said: "We are not going to risk taking Kenyans there if this Zika virus reaches epidemic levels."
Brazilian authorities insist there will be no risk to athletes and spectators, except pregnant women, when the Rio Games take place in August.
The International Olympic Committee says it is in "close contact" with organisers, while Olympic venues will be inspected daily in the lead-up to and during the Games.
Kenya topped the medal table at last year's World Athletics Championships and the country's absence would be severely felt on the track as they boast many of the best middle and long-distance runners in the world.
They won 11 Olympic medals at London 2012, all in athletics, and David Rudisha, one of the sport's biggest stars, would be denied an opportunity to defend his 800m Olympic title.
Meanwhile, the United States Olympic Committee has told American sports federations that athletes and staff concerned for their health should consider not going to the Games.
The Australian and New Zealand Olympic Committees have also said they would support athletes should they withdraw.
The 20-year-old right-back, on loan from Bournemouth, went to hospital with club physiotherapist Gareth Law on Wednesday and now faces some time out.
"When it's chest or heart-related things you've just got to make sure," said Gulls manager Kevin Nicholson.
"He's going to go up to St George's Park to have a thorough set of tests, just to make sure there's nothing."
Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon: "I'm pretty sure that it's nothing major, but until ourselves and Bournemouth are comfortable that he's 100% then, unfortunately, he's not available to us."
Lee, who has made two FA Cup appearances for the Cherries, has played 11 times for Torquay over two loan spells.
"He just woke up in some discomfort in his chest," Nicholson added.
"It's probably a virus, and these things can show up like that, but we've just got to make sure he's right and so we wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to getting him back."
Last year Gulls midfielder Aman Verma, now at Tamworth, spent a month out after collapsing at home after a training session.
They identified almost 1,000 species of bird introduced into new areas by human activity over the past 500 years.
More than half of these arrived after 1950, probably driven by the trade in exotic birds.
Global demand for parrots, finches, starlings and other exotic birds has soared.
"Areas that are good for native birds are also good for alien birds," said Prof Tim Blackburn, of University College London and the Zoological Society of London, who worked on the study.
"It's a worry because aliens may threaten the survival of native species."
The first wave of introductions happened in the mid-19th Century as Europeans, predominantly the British, deliberately moved game birds such as duck, geese, grouse and pheasants into new territories.
This is reflected in a high number of alien bird species in the mid-latitudes, including former British colonies.
After World War Two, there was a second wave, which continues today, most likely driven by growth in the pet trade.
More birds have been introduced into the wild in the 20 years between 1980 and 2000 than in the 400 years from 1500 to 1900.
"We've been able to map alien species richness for an entire group of organisms for the first time in such detail that we can locate populations and the historical processes that led to their introduction," said lead researcher Dr Ellie Dyer, of UCL and ZSL.
"It has given us valuable insights into the different stages of species invasion - humans play a key role, but so too do environmental factors that allow alien bird species to thrive in new locations."
"An enormous increase in global trade and areas around the world that are growing in their wealth and disposable income has led to a much greater demand for birds as pets and so there's a large trade in birds and lots of species are moved around the world," Prof Blackburn told BBC News.
"For a variety of reasons, those species can get out into the wild and they can establish populations in areas where they haven't naturally occurred.
"That trade has become so large that it's now a really significant driver of the establishment of new bird populations around the world."
The research, published in PLOS Biology, was carried out by international scientists based at UCL, ZSL, the University of Adelaide, the University of Cambridge, the University of Exeter, the University of Queensland and Imperial College London.
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At 18:30 GMT National Rail said congestion caused by earlier delays was holding up Southern and Thameslink services to and from London Bridge by up to 30 minutes.
It said congestion was likely to last until about 20:30, as on Monday.
The station is being rebuilt for the Thameslink Programme. Photos have appeared on Twitter for a second night.
Southern warned passengers that from 5 January train routes would be restricted with "limited infrastructure in and around the station".
Valerie Shawcross, Labour transport spokeswoman at City Hall, tweeted: "London Bridge concourse packed again tonight @networkrail seem to have no idea about safe crowd management."
London Green Party tweeted: "More delays for passengers at London Bridge - straight after fare rise. We need railways run for public by the public."
Earlier, Dave Ward, Network Rail South East route managing director, apologised for Monday night's disruption.
He said: "The service provision and station operation was not what we would expect or would like to deliver to passengers.
"As a matter of urgency we will be reviewing the operation of the station concourse as clearly not only did the overcrowding prevent the station operating in an efficient manner it led to circumstances that were unpleasant for passengers."
In March last year, passengers were warned to expect "years of disruption" while a multibillion-pound upgrade took place, part of the biggest station rebuild that Network Rail has ever carried out.
Up to 100,000 youngsters will be eligible for half-price day tickets using The Young Persons 16-18 card from September.
It was agreed by the area's mayor Andy Burnham and Transport for Greater Manchester, and a similar scheme is being considered for the Metrolink.
Hajrah Ahmed, 17, said half-price bus tickets "will be such a big help".
The Manchester College business student who travels to Openshaw from Cheetham Hill every day said her journeys are costing £100 per month.
"[It] is obviously an awful lot of money for someone like me, who doesn't have a part-time job.
"I can look ahead to the next year or so without the worry of how much money I am spending on my journey," she said.
The deal was proposed by Mr Burnham in his manifesto for mayor in April.
"I promised to help our young people get on in life, and this is the first step in delivering on that," Mr Burnham said.
Greater Manchester Travelcards Ltd, which represents all bus companies in the area, will extend its multi-operator 50% discounted 16-and-under ticket.
A junior day ticket to cover 16 to 18 year olds will also be introduced.
Eligibility to use the ticket will run up to 31 August after the user's 18th birthday.
The all-rounder, 34, will lead the side in all formats, succeeding Kumar Sangakkara, who quit after the World Cup final defeat by India in April.
Former captain Marvan Atapattu, 40, has been named batting coach for the tour.
But the selectors have postponed naming a replacement for Mahela Jayawardene as vice-captain because a number of prospective candidates are injured.
All-rounder Angelo Mathews, 23, has been tipped to take over the role, but he is nursing a side strain suffered during the World Cup semi-final win over New Zealand.
Dilshan has led his country once before, during last June's tour of Zimbabwe, when his team won the final of a one-day tri-series which also featured India.
However, he has never previously captained the side in a Test match.
The opening batsman was the leading scorer during the World Cup - which Sri Lanka co-hosted along with India and Bangladesh - with 500 runs at an average of 62.50.
He also took eight wickets at 15.75 with his right-arm off-spin as his side made it to the final before losing by six wickets to India.
His predecessor Sangakkara resigned the captaincy three days after the defeat in Mumbai, citing the need for a younger leader be put in place to guide the side through to the 2015 World Cup.
Sangakkara replaced Jayawardene as captain in March 2009, with the latter reverting to vice-captain.
However, Jayawardene too quit his role in the aftermath of the recent World Cup, after becoming the first player to score a century in the final and end up on the losing side.
The country's four selectors, headed by former national skipper Aravinda de Silva, also resigned after the tournament.
Sangakkara had initially offered to stay on as interim Test captain while a successor was found for the shorter formats.
Dilshan is also famous for popularising the "Dilscoop" - a scoop over the wicketkeeper's head - at the ICC World Twenty20 in England in 2009, when Sri Lanka were losing finalists and Dilshan was named as player of the tournament.
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Tor claimed that the FBI was "outsourcing police work" and paid the university "at least $1m (£675,000)".
Tor is a so-called dark net - a hidden part of the internet that cannot be reached via traditional search engines.
A university spokesman told the BBC: "You can read what you want into it."
The anonymised system lets people use the web without revealing who or where they are.
There are sites on it that offer legitimate content, services and goods but it also has a reputation for hosting criminal activities such as the selling of drugs and images of child abuse.
It gained notoriety in late 2014 when a big operation carried out by the FBI took down dozens of Tor sites, including the Silk Road 2, which was one of the world's largest online drug-selling sites.
It was this attack that the Tor Project is claiming was undertaken by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, which is based in Pittsburgh.
"This attack sets a troubling precedent," the Tor Project wrote in its official blog.
"Civil liberties are under attack if law enforcement believes it can circumvent the rules of evidence by outsourcing police work to universities," it added.
Prof Alan Woodward, a computer science expert from the University of Surrey, said that such partnerships were not unusual.
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John Burke stole money from the 83-year-old from Warrington, Cheshire, over five years, using the cash to buy a Mercedes and a new kitchen.
Burke, 74, of Teal Close in Altrincham, admitted fraud by abuse of position.
He was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
Burke befriended the woman and gained her trust between 2007 and 2012, persuading her to give him cheques, Greater Manchester Police said.
He promised she would see good returns on her investment, despite not being a registered accountant or qualified to give financial advice.
Burke was arrested in January 2015 after a family solicitor became concerned about a lack of paperwork and interest payments from the victim's purported investments.
An investigation then found he had stolen £160,000 and prepared a homemade will, which the victim had signed, appointing him as sole executor.
As well as the car and kitchen, Burke had spent most of the money on loans to another company, paying off his own debts, loaning money to a friend and other living expenses.
By 2014, the woman had been repaid just over £25,500 from the accounts held by Burke.
Det Con Laura Watson said Burke was a "callous fraudster" who had "gained and then obliterated" the trust of a "vulnerable" woman.
She added: "This is a sad case where an elderly woman has lost her savings and has been left extremely upset by what has happened."
Lucy Taylor of Aberystwyth University has studied the relationship between the Welsh and the people of Argentina 150 years ago.
Speaking at the Eisteddfod, she said the Welsh could not claim economic, military or political dominance.
Instead they focused on moral supremacy, she said.
Dr Taylor said it could be argued this has remained relevant, through post-devolution policies such as banning smoking in public places, the introduction of a plastic bag levy and presumed consent over organ donation - all containing a moral agenda.
"The Welsh in Patagonia emphasised the principles of righteousness when they first met the indigenous people of Patagonia, and purposefully followed a path of friendship, not violence, based on a desire to exercise compassion and mercy," she added.
"They contrasted the peaceful 'Welsh way of colonisation' with the scornful and sometimes violent policies adopted by the Argentines in Patagonia and within the British Empire."
Australia international Johnathan Thurston, a man seemingly destined to take his place among the Immortals Down Under, is looking to bring the world's biggest club prize back with him to the far-flung rugby league-mad north of his homeland, where the Great Barrier Reef meets World Heritage rainforest.
The Cowboys, founded 21 years ago, are taking on Super League's best for the first time, while Leeds have won the trophy three times in the past 11 years.
BBC Sport takes a look at the "aura" of Thurston that drives the Cowboys on, the crisis facing reigning Super League champions Leeds and the other stories from the 2016 World Club Series - starting with St Helens against Sydney Roosters on Friday before new England coach Wayne Bennett leads Brisbane Broncos against Wigan Warriors on Saturday.
The annual World Club Challenge, which pits the champions of England and Australia against each other in a one-off contest, was expanded to become the World Club Series in 2015.
Three Super League clubs take on three teams from Australia's National Rugby League, with the World Club Challenge match providing the climax to the three-day event.
NRL sides won all three matches last year.
Thurston has almost every major honour available in the rugby league world, at domestic and international level. Every honour but the World Club Challenge, that is.
Fifteen seasons after making his first-grade debut for Canterbury Bulldogs, he can finally achieve that aim when he leads North Queensland Cowboys into the cross-hemisphere contest.
"It'd be huge and would mean plenty to me," Thurston told BBC Sport.
"It's been such a privilege to play at this level for as long as I have, and although you never earmark 'x' number of premierships, or Origins, or World Cups, you always want to win every competition you're involved in.
"So, to win this World Club Challenge match against Leeds would be fantastic, not so much to 'win a set' but to be able to say we, as a team, were successful in an event in which we competed in for the first time.
"I think the fact we have the same team competing in England that won the NRL premiership last year is very significant and would make any success we had over here that much more special."
Last season's NRL premiership win capped a remarkable year for the 32-year-old, with team success matched by a Clive Churchill Medal man-of-the-match display, and a Dally M Player of the Year award.
He missed out on the recent Indigenous All-Stars squad in order to stay fit for Sunday's game, but is aware of the responsibility his status as a sportsman brings.
"I'm very proud of my heritage and culture," he added. "I'm in a privileged position, I really enjoy the work I do in the community. I need to make the most of it, I'm not the only one."
Leeds' record in the competition is an impressive one, collecting the world's top club prize three times with victories against Canterbury Bulldogs, Melbourne Storm and most recently against Manly Sea Eagles in 2012.
But never before has a side preparing for the international fixture faced the sort of crisis that Leeds are grappling with.
Seven first-team players are sidelined, including captain Danny McGuire, talismanic winger Tom Briscoe and recent signing Beau Falloon. Those losses have made their disastrous start to their title defence - losing both league games and conceding 68 points in the process - all the more distressing.
Even before the season started, last season's treble winners were in all sorts of bother, with their training ground subjected to an estimated £1m of flood damage in December.
Rhinos forward Brett Ferres, preparing for just his third game for Leeds since joining from Huddersfield, admits he has never been part of a side that has been confronted by such hardship so early in the season.
"We've lost a few leaders in the past and now it is time for the boys to stand up," Ferres told BBC Radio Leeds.
"Obviously me coming into a fresh environment, I'm a senior player and I want to take the responsibility on. I look forward to the challenge."
Despite the setbacks, the England international says it is hard not to get caught up in the thrill of playing in the World Club Challenge.
"It's exciting times for us, going into a different competition and getting away from Super League as it has been a tough start for us," he said.
"We can't get nervous. We need to go out and enjoy it. In the warm up, suck it up, take in the atmosphere, take it all in then forget about it. After that, it's just another game to play in.
"It's a big experience. These moments don't come around often."
Wayne Bennett, newly appointed England boss and Australian rugby league's most decorated coach, takes his Brisbane Broncos to the DW Stadium on Saturday to face a Wigan Warriors side coached by Shaun Wane, the man he may very well appoint as his national team assistant.
The match comes as a tantalising rematch after Brisbane overcame their English opponents in golden-point extra-time 12 months ago.
Wigan captain Sean O'Loughlin said: "There were a lot of disappointed lads after that, so to get another crack at Brisbane this year gives us a good chance to put that behind us with a win.
"Intensity wise, there is a massive step up in these games. We are not in the World Club Challenge game, but to get a crack at a top Australian side is still a huge deal.
"It's a game that has a cup mentality and final mentality to it."
Wigan, who lost the 2014 World Club Challenge to Sydney Roosters, are the only Super League side in this year's series with a perfect record going into the cross-competition fixture.
"We have been involved in two real tough games, not so much big-scoring or free-flowing games, but real grinding and tough intensity games," O'Loughlin added. "We expect this weekend's game to be like that, so it has been good preparation going into it."
A cold, raining night on Merseyside will be alien to Sydney Roosters captain Jake Friend, but the hooker expects the St Helens faithful to turn the heat up at Langtree Park on Friday.
"I've heard the songs and war cries and it is something I'm looking forward to - hopefully it will be an awesome atmosphere," the 26-year-old told BBC Radio Merseyside.
The Roosters, who won the World Club Challenge for a third time in 2014, will face a Saints side that suffered a thumping defeat by Salford Red Devils - a club one of its own players admitted had been a "laughing stock" last season - in their previous outing.
"I'm sure they will be out to prove a point," said Friend, who helped Sydney top the NRL table as minor premiers last year.
"I know they are capable of throwing anything at us at any time. Defensively we will need to try to limit them."
Saints lost last year's World Club Challenge game to South Sydney Rabbitohs by a record score, and are out to prove that Super League can match their more illustrious and better-financed southern hemisphere rivals.
"Super League versus the NRL is a big thing isn't it?" said St Helens captain Jon Wilkin. "We need to show our competition still has got merits and show young guys they should want to stay and play in our competition."
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Tobias Ellwood was criticised after he said that a planned 10% pay rise for MPs was "well overdue".
He said he had been trying to make a point about not deterring future MPs who were not wealthy, but recognised his comments were "insensitive".
The Bournemouth East MP earns a basic salary of £67,000 plus about £20,000 for his Foreign Office role.
MPs salaries are to rise from £67,060 to £74,000 - backdated to 8 May.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) - put in charge of MPs' pay after the 2009 expenses scandal - approved the salary increase despite appeals from Downing Street and many MPs who said it was inappropriate.
Ipsa says in future MPs' pay would rise in line with average rises in the public sector.
During Ipsa's consultation, Mr Elwood, a junior Foreign Office minister, wrote to support the proposed pay increase.
In his submission, he said: "I know I speak for the silent majority (who are not millionaires) to say this increase is well overdue.
"I never expected to be watching the pennies at my age and yet this what I now have to do."
The Conservative MP had said he would be earning much more if he had stayed in his job in the armed forces.
However, his comments attracted criticism - prompting the minister to issue an apology "for the offence I've caused".
In a statement on his official Facebook page, he said he recognised that the remarks in his "confidential submission" were "inappropriate and insensitive" and an "error of judgment".
"Constituents' comments have been a stark personal reminder of the challenges everyone is facing and I am the wiser for it." he added.
Mr Ellwood said the submission had been a "private attempt" to express "a genuine concern" about MPs pay, which he said was lower than in other public sector jobs.
"Good candidates who are not so financially secure are being deterred from entering politics and this is not good for Parliament or the country.
"We need to attract the best from all walks of life to ensure that Parliament is as representative as possible of our society in terms of its diversity," he said.
But the MP said his comments had "underlined the perception that MPs are out of touch".
"That is something I very much regret and must now focus on repairing."
Villa sacked Paul Lambert on Wednesday after a winless run of 10 league games in which they scored just two goals.
Sherwood, 46, replaced Andre Villas-Boas as Tottenham manager in December 2013 but was sacked at the end of last season and has been out of work since.
"It is a great honour to manage one of the biggest clubs in English football," said Sherwood.
"I can't wait to get started and I'm really looking forward to the challenge."
Sherwood takes over a Villa side that have struggled badly since taking 10 points from their first four matches - scoring just 12 league goals in 25 games, the lowest in Premier League history at that stage.
They dropped into the relegation zone after Tuesday's 2-0 defeat to Hull.
The appointment comes just two days after first-team coach Scott Marshall and goalkeeping coach Andy Marshall took temporary charge following Lambert's dismissal.
Sherwood has been linked with a number of jobs since leaving Spurs, most recently the QPR post, when he looked set to be named as Harry Redknapp's successor.
However, negotiations with the ex-Tottenham boss ended after he sought assurances about the club's future.
Aston Villa chief executive Tom Fox said: "Tim had a fantastic career at Tottenham, not only in his brief spell as first-team manager but, just as importantly, in the role he played in developing young talent.
"We strongly believe Tim has the qualities to get the best out of our current squad and help us build and develop for the future."
After working as a coach at White Hart Lane from 2008, Sherwood stabilised Spurs following the exit of Villas Boas, taking them above Manchester United to finish sixth in the Premier League in 2013-14.
Villa chairman Randy Lerner says he is convinced that the "fresh, positive approach" of Sherwood will be "very good for the club".
It is not known at this stage whether the new boss will be in the dugout for Villa's FA Cup fifth-round tie at home to Leicester tomorrow.
Sherwood, who won three England caps, joined Tottenham as a player in 1999 from Blackburn, where he captained them to the Premier League title in 1994-95.
He left White Hart Lane in 2003 and moved to Portsmouth but returned as part of the club's coaching staff under then manager Harry Redknapp.
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee faces years behind bars even though her writing has not been published.
She was convicted of "insulting Islamic sanctities" and "spreading propaganda against the system".
Amnesty International called the conviction "ludicrous" and the trial "farcical".
Victims of stoning are executed by having rocks thrown at them until they are dead. In Iran, most are women accused of adultery.
Ms Ebrahimi Iraee's work describes the emotional reaction of a young woman who watches the film The Stoning of Soraya M - which tells the true story of a young woman stoned to death - and is so enraged that she burns a copy of the Koran.
The Iranian authorities found the piece on 6 September 2014, when the writer and her activist husband Arash Sadeghi were arrested by men believed to be members of the Revolutionary Guard.
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Ms Ebrahimi Iraee was transferred to Tehran's Evin Prison and held there for 20 days, without access to her family or a lawyer, Amnesty International says.
She says she was interrogated for hours while blindfolded and facing a wall, and repeatedly told that she could face execution for "insulting Islam".
She says she could clearly hear the interrogators threatening and verbally abusing her husband in the next cell. Mr Sadeghi has since said that he was beaten and tortured while in custody.
Now the activist has been ordered to hand herself over to Tehran's Evin Prison to begin serving her sentence. Her husband is already serving 15 years in the infamous institution, which has a special wing designated for political prisoners, academics, intellectuals and journalists.
His interrogators allegedly used copies of his Facebook messages and emails to journalists and human rights activists - among them the BBC's Persian service - as "proof" of the charges against him.
Philip Luther, Amnesty's Director of Research and Advocacy for the Middle East and North Africa, said Ebrahimi Iraee "is effectively being punished for using her imagination".
He said Iran continues to justify the use of stoning in the name of morality.
"Instead of imprisoning a young woman for peacefully exercising her human rights by expressing her opposition to stoning, the Iranian authorities should focus on abolishing this punishment, which amounts to torture," he said.
The medical body, one of the biggest providers of healthcare in Rakhine, was ordered out of the state in February.
The government said all aid groups in Myanmar (Burma) could return to Rakhine but that MSF "was especially welcome".
In February the president's office accused MSF of being biased in favour of Rakhine's Muslim Rohingya minority.
The group had publicised casualties among Rohingyas who had allegedly been attacked by a Buddhist mob. Some Buddhists accused MSF staff of favouring Rohingyas.
Announcing the decision to allow MSF back into Rakhine, President's Office Minister Soe Thein promised to guarantee the safety of the group's staff in the state.
"As human beings we all commit errors and the errors usually lie on both sides," he told a press conference in Yangon.
MSF welcomed the move.
"We look forward to continuing constructive discussions with the Ministry of Health regarding how MSF can support the ministry in the immediate expansion of lifesaving medical activities for the people of Rakhine currently facing a humanitarian crisis," it said in a statement.
MSF was providing emergency assistance to tens of thousands of Rohingya people displaced by recent violence.
The United Nations has described the Rohingya as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
They are considered stateless and are rejected by both Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh.
The Rohingya have faced widespread public hostility in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
There have been several outbreaks of mass violence against them since June 2012, with tens of thousands fleeing their homes for temporary camps.
The baker had been told by Hull City Council that it needed to have lavatories in city shops with seats.
The firm was to challenge a ruling in favour of the council made at the High Court in 2016 but has now withdrawn its appeal.
Greggs said it has revised its policy "which we believe meets the requirements of the law".
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Hull sought a judicial review after Greggs claimed it had received guidance that toilets were not required from Newcastle City Council, the bakers' home town authority.
Under government legislation this "Primary Authority" advice should have been followed by other local councils.
Hull challenged this with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BIS), arguing that the law had been wrongly interpreted by Newcastle.
When the department's Regulatory Delivery unit ruled against it, Hull sought a judicial review at the High Court in May 2016, which found in its favour.
Hull City Council said it was pleased with the decision to drop the appeal and added. "We will now work with Greggs with the aim of achieving local compliance, providing any advice and support as necessary.
"If local compliance is not achievable we have a duty to consider taking further action but hope that this will not be necessary".
In a statement, Greggs said: "We will continue to abide by Newcastle's guidance, which is that where a local authority has a policy on the provision of sanitary facilities for customers in food to go outlets we would not have more than ten seats without such sanitary provision in the absence of that local authority's approval."
Concorde 216 is currently parked next to the runway at Filton Airfield, which is due to close later this year.
It has been there since being withdrawn from service in 2003 and was part of an open-air exhibit which closed in 2010.
The Save Concorde Group (SCG) says there is an urgent need for the aircraft to be housed under cover.
SCG chairman Ben Lord said: "This airframe has been exposed to the elements for an unacceptable level of time.
"We believe that the only way this aircraft will be secured and not out in the open for another winter is if our plan is executed."
The group has submitted plans to Airbus UK and British Airways (BA) for the plane, known as Alpha-Foxtrot, to be housed in a £1.2m permanent indoor exhibition facility.
The proposed centre would be just off a new link road between Filton and Cribbs Causeway - bordering the northern edge of Filton Airfield.
The plan includes a science and technology centre, which would train engineers from local universities.
A proposal by another group, The Concorde Trust, for a museum at Cribbs Causeway stalled after a £9m Heritage Lottery Fund bid was turned down in 2011.
Mr Lord added: "As soon as the news broke that the alternative £9m scheme had failed to secure funding, we immediately announced our low-cost plans and gave an outline proposal to BA that we believe is the only feasible solution to the future of Alpha-Foxtrot."
The SCG has held discussions with potential partners such as BAE Systems and De Boers Structures, and has also received support from the Save Filton Airfield Group.
"All of these organisations are brought together with one fundamental aim - to see Concorde preserved in this unique location in the quickest and best possible way," Mr Lord said.
He added that SCG expected to hear from Airbus and British Airways regarding the proposal in the next few weeks.
A BA spokeswoman said: "There is no doubt that Concorde Alpha Foxtrot deserves a permanent home and should be shown off to the public in a manner befitting her iconic status.
"In the last few months, British Airways and Airbus have invited interested parties to share their ideas for how best to do this. Two bids were received, and are now being considered.
"We hope that a successful outcome can be reached in the months ahead."
Concorde 216 was the last of the fleet to fly as the aircraft was decommissioned by British Airways in 2003.
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Balandin had been the slowest qualifier, but won in a time of two minutes 7.46 seconds, with American Josh Prenot second in 2:07:53.
Willis came fourth in 2:07:78, 0.08 seconds behind third-placed Anton Chupkov of Russia.
Germany's world champion Marco Koch could only finish seventh in the final.
"I feel like when I do finish swimming, four will be my lucky number. But I gave it everything and I wouldn't change anything," said Willis, who has now finished fourth at the Olympics, twice at the World Championships and once at the European Championships.
"I touched and I knew I was up there. When you touch and you look around it seems to take forever. I'm just a bit gutted."
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In the women's 200m breaststroke, Great Britain's Molly Renshaw, 20, and Chloe Tutton, 20, advanced to the final.
Renshaw set a British record of 2:22:33 and finished second in her semi-final to qualify as the third fastest swimmer, while Tutton's time of 2:22:71 put her through as the seventh fastest.
Controversial Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova, who was only allowed to compete at Rio after successfully appealing against a doping suspension, also reached the final, coming second in her race to be sixth fastest overall.
Efimova, 24, was banned for 16 months in 2013 after traces of an anabolic steroid were found in her system.
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The society is due to give evidence on a bill that would make smoking in cars when children are present illegal.
Police Scotland have raised concerns about being the sole enforcers of the proposed legislation.
The force said the move would divert police resources away from counter-terrorism and organised crime.
Alison Britton, convener of the Law Society's health and medical law committee, said: "Of course we support the policy intent behind this bill, and the harmful effects of smoking and second-hand smoke are well documented."
However, she added the society had concerns the legislation would be "difficult to enforce."
She argued challenges would be presented in particular cases such as when a car was moving, or in heavy traffic.
"The enforcing officer would need to be able to see the offence taking place and ascertain the age of any child present," she added.
In written evidence submitted to the Scottish Parliament's health and sport committee, Police Scotland said it questioned "the decision to make the police solely responsible for enforcement".
It posed the question: "As a public health issue is it proportionate or necessary to justify the use of limited police resources to enforce [this legislation]?"
The force said while the aims of the legislation were "commendable", as a public health issue the legislation did not "sit comfortably within the Police Scotland policing plan and the force priorities".
It said making the police the sole enforcers of the measures outlined in the bill could result in resources being diverted away from "force priorities" such as organised crime or counter-terrorism.
Police Scotland suggested local authorities could share some responsibility for enforcing the ban.
Scottish Conservative transport spokesman Alex Johnstone said: "Of course, no-one wants to see someone smoking in such a confined space when there are children around. But the reality is almost nobody does this, and taking an educational approach would be far better.
"We have said from the outset that it will be nigh on impossible to enforce this.
"With the force's limited resources, we really need officers to be concentrating on more important matters."
The Law Society has also recommended the driver should be legally responsible for ensuring no-one smokes in the vehicle in the presence of children, rather than the smoker.
It claimed this would bring the proposals in line with other road laws on child safety and with legislation that has been passed in England, and would be "more logical".
Currently, the proposed legislation would place the criminal liability on the smoker rather than the driver of a car.
The Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Bill was introduced by Lib Dem MSP Jim Hume, and is currently being considered by the Scottish Parliament's health and sport committee.
Tomas Georgeson hid the incomplete cheque in the Milton Keynes Gallery to help promote the town as a "cultural destination".
He said whoever discovers it can write the cheque out to themselves.
Gallery director Anthony Spira, said staff "knew nothing about it" but would "scour" the building looking for it.
Primarily a painter, Tomas Georgeson was the winner of the Derby Open competition in 2002 and exhibited his Portrait of my Father at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the 2011 BP Portrait Award.
Mr Georgeson said he had "the greatest respect" for the gallery, its director and its exhibitions programme.
He said: "I should point out that I have not hidden the cheque on or around any of the artwork on display and the public should take proper care if they choose to look for the cheque.
"I hope that the personal risk I have taken in doing this can stand as something positive in a town eager to establish itself as a cultural destination.
"Milton Keynes began with a sense of bold, risk taking creativity and long may that continue."
Mr Spira said the claim had come as a "complete surprise" and he had brought in extra staff to guard its displays.
He revealed there had "definitely been more visitors than normal" on Wednesday after the story appeared in the Daily Telegraph.
He said: "It's early days, they haven't been queuing around the block but there have been about 30 extra people in the first two hours and some have not been to the gallery before so that is fantastic.
"So far so good, nothing has been destroyed but we have had people rifling through our bookcases, looking for clever titles which might be hiding it."
If unclaimed, the cheque will be collected on 1 March.
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said a thorough check prior to publication was necessary to rule out security breaches.
She said highly sensitive material given by the government to author Sir Desmond de Silva would not be included.
This follows concerns about identifying sources, Mrs Villiers said.
The NI Secretary said the government had a legal obligation to examine the report to make sure lives and national security were not endangered.
She said the report would be published as soon as possible after the security checks and Mr Finucane's family would be offered the chance to see it first.
But relatives of Mr Finucane, who have been critical of the review from the outset, said the security exercise should have been done by the courts.
Pat Finucane was shot dead in his north Belfast home by loyalist paramilitaries, the UFF, in 1989.
The murder of the prominent solicitor and Catholic father of three was one of the most controversial of the Northern Ireland Troubles with allegations of state collusion in his killing.
Sir Desmond, a leading QC, was commissioned by the government to undertake a legal review of the case last year.
However, the move angered members of the Finucane family who said it fell well short of the full public inquiry for which they had long campaigned.
Relatives subsequently launched a legal challenge against Prime Minister David Cameron's refusal to establish an inquiry.
Mr Finucane's son John said on Wednesday his family never had confidence in the review and the government's decision to subject it to a security check had emphasised their misgivings.
He said it was not appropriate for the state to control the information published in a report that was supposed to be examining its alleged role in a murder.
"This confirms again that the government, who on the one hand are being accused of collusion in the murder of my father, and the Prime Minister has accepted that there was collusion, controls the flow of information - which I don't think is credible," he said.
"It is not a process that I think is independent, we think that process is best managed by a court."
Mr Finucane again called for a full public inquiry to be held.
The security checks ordered by Mrs Villiers are similar to those conducted by the government on other sensitive reports - such as the Bloody Sunday Inquiry - prior to publication.
Mrs Villiers said it would be unlikely that any material would need to be redacted but the government had a legal obligation to carry out the checks.
Government lawyers and representatives of the Ministry of Defence, Security Services and Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) will examine the report.
In 2004, the then Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy announced his intention to hold an inquiry under the new Inquiries Act.
The Finucane family are opposed to the inquiry being held under this legislation, which they say makes the inquiry accountable to the minister responsible, rather than to parliament.
Liam Booth, 18, a member of St John Wales in Llandudno, stopped his car to offer help when he came across the accident on the A55 in nearby Colwyn Bay.
He performed CPR until paramedics arrived to take the man to hospital.
St John Wales is offering free life saving awareness sessions this month.
Recalling the incident, Liam said: "I knew what to do thanks to my training. For people who might not have the skills or the confidence to help, a quick first aid course could really be the difference."
St John Wales says only one in 10 people have the necessary skills to save a life.
Chief executive Keith Dunn said: "We believe that no one should die because they needed first aid and didn't get it. That's why our aim is to have a first aider in every home in Wales.
"Liam's training and presence of mind to act calmly and effectively in a difficult situation shows just how valuable first aid training can be."
The row comes days after the online retailer apologised for selling doormats featuring the Indian flag.
Gandhi, who campaigned for independence from Britain, is widely revered and known as the Father of the Nation.
The Indian embassy in Washington had been told to tell Amazon US to respect Indian feelings, a foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying.
"As a follow up to the matter regarding the sale of doormats with the Indian flag on Amazon, our Ambassador in Washington has been instructed to convey to Amazon that while providing a platform for third party vendors, they should respect Indian sensitivities and sentiments," Vikas Swarup said, NDTV reported.
The Indian government's Secretary of Economic Affairs Shaktikanta Das was among those to express anger on social media, telling Amazon its "indifference to Indian symbols" would be "at your own peril".
He later said that he had been writing as a citizen, was not threatening government action against the company and remained committed to free trade.
The row follows fury over the sale of Indian flag-themed doormats.
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj took to Twitter to demand that Amazon "apologise unconditionally" or its officials would not be given visas.
Amazon India vice-president Amit Agarwal wrote to Ms Swaraj saying the doormats had been offered by a third-party seller on its Canadian website and there had been no intent to offend.
Mr Agarwal said in a statement that the firm was "committed to respecting Indian laws and customs".
Desecration of the flag is punishable with fines and imprisonment in India.
Last June Amazon found itself in a similar controversy over sales of doormats illustrating Hindu gods.
Amazon has not commented on the latest controversy over the flip flops but the product had been removed from its US site on Sunday.
Amazon is locked in a fierce battle with Flipkart, India's biggest online retailer, over market share.
Charlie Hammerton and Bandit hiked 84 miles (135km) in three days from Newcastle to Bowness-on-Solway following his mother's funeral.
The 22-year-old from Ipswich said he was "suffering a little bit" and Bandit was "fine but really sleepy".
The pair raised more than £3,000 for charity during the walk.
"I started the walk as me grieving," said Mr Hammerton, an RAF airman.
"I wanted to get out on the open air wand go for a walk with my mate Bandit.
"Now it's over all that is behind me and it's a really emotional time."
Mr Hammerton chose Hadrian's Wall because he said the Romans were the people who "domesticated the ferret" and would have walked their ferrets along the same route.
During their hike they were joined by other ferrets and their owners for support - as well as dogs, horses and even a cat.
Mr Hammerton was fundraising for St Elizabeth Hospice in Ipswich, where his mother died last month, and the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association.
There is no cure for MND, which attacks the nerves that control movement, leaving people unable to move, talk and, eventually, breathe.
Harlow Edwards died on 13 October after two cars crashed into each other on the A94 Forfar Road in Coupar Angus.
Her six-year-old brother and 17-year-old sister were both seriously injured in the incident.
The man is expected to appear at Perth Sheriff Court and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.
The test involves all twelve alarms in and around Grangemouth petrochemical complex being activated.
The system will broadcast warning tones and verbal instructions to the public at 19:00.
The biannual warning test is operated by the plant's major incident control committee (MICC).
MICC chairman Derek Brown said: "Throughout the year, MICC member companies work together with the emergency services and Falkirk Council to train and exercise to ensure we are match fit to deal with the many different situations that could arise."
An investigation was launched into the cause of a gas leak at the Grangemouth petrochemical site earlier this month.
"In the end if I keep failing and keep failing and keep failing, it'll be best for everybody if I go - but give me some time to see if I can fix the problems first," he said.
At the retailer's annual meeting, independent shareholders opposed the re-election of the company's chairman.
But Mr Ashley asked for "time" to regain the confidence of investors.
"I believe that in 12 months' time we shall see that [chairman Keith Hellawell] does have the confidence of the independent investors," he said.
"I believe that we should be given time to work on the areas of the business where we have had shortcomings."
The company had earlier heard from angry shareholders at its annual meeting.
A majority of independent shareholders voted against keeping Keith Hellawell as chairman, despite him having Mr Ashley's backing.
Mr Ashley owns 55% of the company, which said it was "disappointed" and will hold another vote.
Sports Direct executives, including billionaire Mike Ashley, faced calls at the meeting for widespread changes to the way the company is run.
"I take this clear message from our independent shareholders seriously, and I will do my best to address their concerns and earn their confidence over the next year," Mr Hellawell said.
Excluding Mr Ashley's votes, the re-election of Mr Hellawell was voted down by a margin of 53% to 47%.
It was a telling moment in a day that was supposed to be a perfectly orchestrated piece of corporate theatre.
In a bid to prove to assembled reporters that he was all too aware of Sports Direct employees' daily vexations, billionaire founder Mike Ashley demonstrated a routine search procedure at the company's Shirebrook warehouse.
In his pockets? A huge wad of red £50 notes - like a caricature of a 1980s tycoon.
A brash, outspoken and often controversial figure, Mr Ashley is in many ways moulded by the business culture of the decade in which he founded the sports retail empire.
But the charm offensive on display at this year's annual general meeting was an attempt to rebrand himself, and Sports Direct, in an image more appropriate for an age when negative publicity can hammer a firm's bottom line, as well as its reputation.
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Earlier in the day it was revealed that Mr Hellawell had offered to resign over the weekend, but stayed on after the board, including Mr Ashley, unanimously backed him to continue and assist in further improvements.
The 74-year-old told independent shareholders that he would stay on to make improvements but would leave next year if he did not get their full backing.
Now, another meeting must be called within three to four months from today to vote on Mr Hellawell's position.
Legal and General Investment Management, Sports Direct's 11th largest shareholder, called for Mr Hellawell to step down immediately.
Sacha Sadan, the fund's director of corporate governance, said: "At absolute minimum, we believe the current chairman should step down immediately and an external, independent appointment made to oversee management and protect the interests of all stakeholders - including employees, suppliers, and shareholders."
Mike Ashley, dabbing his forehead with a tissue, showed reporters around the firm's troubled Shirebrook warehouse.
Sport's Direct's legal advisers Reynolds Porter Chamberlain carried out a report into its work practices after MPs accused the firm of not treating staff there like humans.
Responding to concerns that employees were suffering ankle and hand injuries because they were expected to work too fast for too long, Mr Ashley said they would look to vary their duties.
Education budgets are under pressure from rising prices and pupil numbers, which could leave schools worse off unless funding increases.
Remember we are only talking about England here - education policy is devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Labour promised to ring-fence the entire education budget, from pre-school up to the age of 19. This means the amount of money available each year will stay the same and it won't be eroded by inflation. However, the number of schoolchildren is expected to increase by about 460,000 between now and 2020. With this growth in the population the amount of money spent on each pupil will fall.
The Conservatives have looked at the funding question differently. They say that they will protect the schools budget for children aged five to 16 years by protecting funding per pupil. In other words, they will keep the amount spent on each pupil the same, so school funding will rise in line with pupil numbers, but it will not necessarily keep pace with inflation.
This is a change of policy from the Tories, who over the past five years have protected schools against inflation, but not rising pupil numbers. They have not committed to protect the pre-school and further education budgets.
The offer from the Liberal Democrats is the most generous of the three. Not only will they ring-fence spending "from cradle to college", but later in the Parliament they will also inject extra money into the system to effectively increase funding in line with both pupil numbers and inflation.
They say that once they have balanced the books by 2017-18, they would then increase funding in line with economic growth (that's inflation plus the rate of growth in the economy). This would mean a sharp increase in funding from 2018 onwards, which would help schools account for the rise in pupil numbers. So even with an increase in the number of school-age children, the money spent on each child would have risen in line with inflation by the end of the Parliament.
The Liberal Democrats say that this is equivalent to an extra £2.5bn on top of what Labour is promising, and £5bn more than the Conservatives, but it does rely on them managing to sort out the deficit by 2017-18 and the economy growing. Over the past five years, the government, of which they have been part, has been very bad at predicting when the deficit will be eliminated.
The Liberal Democrats say they will spend so much more than the Conservatives because the Tories are only protecting spending on education for five to 16-year-olds. The £5bn figure is based on Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis, which assumes that the Conservatives would cut spending on pre-school and education for 16 to 19-year-olds in line with other unprotected areas.
Whether you protect for rising prices or rising pupil numbers is particularly significant at a time when pupil numbers are rising. A report from the National Audit Office found that there was a strain on school places because between 2001 and 2011 there had been the largest 10-year increase in children born in England since the 1950s, with live births rising 22% to 688,000.
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The Welsh education inspection body Estyn's latest annual report found 40% of pupils in Wales cannot read as well as they should be able to when they arrive at secondary school. And many of them will never catch up.
Wales' Chief Inspector of Schools says that is unacceptable.
The most recent tests for 11-year-olds in England put the equivalent figure at 16%.
Just as concerning is Wales' ranking in international tests for 15-year-olds. Wales is lagging behind England, Scotland and Northern Ireland in reading, maths and science.
Poor literacy is seen as the root of the problem. The challenge lies in knowing how to improve it.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews says tackling literacy is his priority.
He believes a five-year National Literacy Programme will transform standards in Wales.
Compulsory reading tests are being introduced for five to 14-year-olds (Years 2 to 9) for the first time in Wales in May 2013. In May 2012, the Association of Directors of Education in Wales have agreed that all schools will use reading tests on a voluntary basis.
This is not testing for testing's sake, says Mr Andrews, but rather a chance for teachers to identify the pupils who need to be challenged, and those who need more support.
Standard Assessment Tests (Sats) were abolished in Wales in 2004. Since then, teachers have been responsible for assessing pupils, but across the board, a consistent approach has been difficult to find.
The new tests are perhaps the closest Wales will get to having a standard method of assessing pupils once again.
Turn your focus to the Foundation Phase though, and the situation is altogether more positive.
It started in 2008, encouraging the youngest pupils to use their imagination and learn through play and outdoor activities.
This alternative method of teaching the under sevens has been widely praised. Boys in particular have benefited from the Welsh government's flagship policy.
Mr Andrews says that in the best cases, teachers are finding creative ways of introducing literacy and numeracy through the different opportunities that this phase offers.
Time will tell whether this will be reflected in exam results.
A growing funding gap between what Wales and England spend on each pupil is often blamed for the problems in the Welsh education system.
The gap now stands at more than £600 per pupil. Teaching unions unite in their condemnation of it.
The Welsh government says it is injecting more money into education, over and above what it gets from the UK government.
But the education minister points out that success does not always follow the money.
"One of the best funded local authorities in Wales is also one of the worst performing local authorities. It's not about funding, it's about the application of those funds," he says.
The director of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in Wales, Philip Dixon, believes Wales could learn from other nations when it comes to literacy.
"While it's undoubtedly true that Wales' high levels and high concentrations of deprivation have taken their toll - too many children are from backgrounds where literacy is not valued and hasn't been for generations - that cannot be used as an excuse."
"There are examples from Scotland and the United States where these adverse social factors have been successfully overcome. And that's perhaps where we should be looking for inspiration."
"The English prescription is not one that we'd want to take, as it is far too rigid in its approach."
Business leaders are calling on the Welsh government to take "urgent action" to ensure school leavers are prepared.
Emma Watkins, head of policy at CBI Wales, said: "This is the first generation of school children to have been educated completely under the policies of the Welsh government."
"The skills of our people are a vital resource we ignore at our peril. Wales simply cannot realise the goal of a more prosperous nation without sustained higher skilled employment."
It is a year since the education minister announced a 20-point plan to improve standards across the board. The First Minister Carwyn Jones has said he expects it to lead to an improvement in literacy.
Twelve months on, the stakes could not be higher.
"Trust, betrayal and the inability to consent - that's what this case is about," a prosecutor told the court in Pennsylvania.
Mr Cosby is on trial for allegedly molesting a woman who was seeking career advice in 2004.
Dozens of other women accuse the 79-year-old entertainer of sexual assault.
It is seen as the biggest US celebrity court case since the murder trial of former American football player OJ Simpson in 1995.
Assistant District Attorney Kristen Feden told jurors on Monday: "This is a case about a man - this man - who used his power and his fame and his previously practised method of placing a young, trusting woman in an incapacitated state so he could sexually pleasure himself, so she couldn't say no."
As Mr Cosby sat a few feet away, the assistant district attorney urged jurors to look beyond his role as the dad on the hit 1984-1992 television sitcom The Cosby Show.
That wholesome TV image would be "shattered", she said, accusing the entertainer of "heinous crimes".
Defence attorney Brian McMonagle countered that Mr Cosby is the victim of false accusations.
"Today I get a chance, with your help, to right a wrong," he told jurors.
"I get a chance, with your help, to protect a man from the destruction of the rest of his life."
The courthouse, in Norristown, about 20 miles (32km) outside Mr Cosby's home city of Philadelphia, swarmed with reporters as the celebrity arrived, emerging slowly from the back seat of a black SUV.
Inside court he reappeared, dressed in a navy suit and a striped tie, never turning towards the packed courtroom behind him.
He sat stoically, facing forward and periodically leaning over to confer with one of his lawyers. At one point he spoke out to no-one in particular, as one of his associates had walked away, possibly revealing an issue with poor sight. But as members of the jury entered, Mr Cosby - like everyone else in the room - turned his attention to their corner.
Judge Steven O'Neill appealed to the courtroom full of reporters to "let the trial play out", before spending the first hour explaining to jurors their job.
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Former university employee Andrea Constand says Mr Cosby drugged and molested her after she visited his home seeking career advice in 2004.
She was 31 at the time and had befriended him through Temple University in Philadelphia, where he served on the board of trustees.
Ms Constand said Mr Cosby gave her three blue pills which made her legs feel "like jelly" and began to grope her.
In 2006, the comedian settled with Ms Constand after providing an undisclosed cash sum to her.
Mr Cosby's defence lawyers argued on Monday that his encounter with her was one of many consensual, romantic episodes between them.
His legal team said he only offered her Quaaludes - a sedative widely used recreationally in the US in the 1970s - after she complained of having trouble sleeping.
Mr Cosby's lawyers asked why Ms Constand returned to his house after she said he had made previous unwanted sexual advances on her.
They also presented evidence that the two had more than 70 phone discussions after the alleged incident, and accused Ms Constand of changing her story to police at least three times.
Mr Cosby's wife of 53 years was not seen with him as he entered the court in Norristown, near Philadelphia, on Monday.
But Keshia Knight Pulliam, who played his on-screen daughter in The Cosby Show, did accompany him.
Mr Cosby faces three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 10 years and a fine of up to $25,000 (£19,500).
The comic - who was at one point the highest-paid actor in the US - has said he will not testify in the trial, which is expected to last about two weeks.
He has speculated that some of the allegations against him could be motivated by racism.
The jury has seven men and five women - two are black and 10 white.
A tight first half saw the sides reach the interval at 3-3 after Shannon Izar cancelled out Emily Scarratt's penalty.
England upped their game in the second period and Scarratt edged them back in front with her second penalty.
Prop Sarah Bern drove over for a converted score to move England clear before Megan Jones' last-gasp try.
They will now play New Zealand on Saturday at the Kingspan Stadium in Belfast, kick-off 19:45 BST, in a bid to retain the title they won against Canada in 2014.
Four-time champions the Black Ferns were far too good for the USA, running out 45-12 victors in the first semi-final.
England were under the cosh for long periods in the first half and the fact they had made over 50 tackles in the first 15 minutes showed just how hard France came at them.
However, the Red Roses' white wall was unbreakable and when they finally lifted the siege, the psychological victory was probably as important as keeping the French scoreless.
In the second half England were much the better side and kept France pinned back for long periods, but even then it took two brilliant tackles to keep France out at a time when the champions only led by 10 points.
First Bern somehow held up Julie Annery as she stepped inside a yard from the line, and a minute later a desperate tackle from Jones saw the flanker just put a foot in touch as she dived over the line.
Despite France's pressure, England were level at the break and they looked like a side who never thought they could lose.
After the interval they turned up the power and, with front-foot ball to play with, the backs began to enjoy much more possession.
Even then the champions only led by three points entering the final quarter, before the relentless pressure they were applying finally told.
Bern was superb in both attack and defence and she popped up to dive over from close range.
As the game entered the final minutes England looked the fitter side and their suffocating defensive pressure saw Jones seize on a loose French pass to score with the clock deep in the red.
The Red Roses were totally dominant in the line-out, stealing half a dozen French throws, which prevented Les Bleues from building momentum at crucial moments.
Goal-kicker Scarratt was her old self from the tee, landing two conversions and two penalties in another classy all-round performance.
One gliding break lifted the first-half siege and took England into French territory, before she popped up at the next phase to give winger Lydia Thompson the chance to attack with a crisp, first-time pass.
Katy Mclean's kicking helped pin France back and although not every tackle was made, the total commitment in defence was key to subduing France - and is likely to be crucial once more against free-scoring New Zealand on Saturday.
Tight-head prop Bern has been in superb form all tournament, and the 20-year-old was once again a force of nature in Belfast.
The England scrum went into reverse on occasion against France, but at other times Bern and co shoved Les Bleues back at a rate of knots.
And around the park Bern was sensational, one moment smashing the French back in defence, the next powering forward with ball in hand.
Saturday's World Cup final could be the first of three or four for the Bristol front-rower.
England captain Sarah Hunter speaking to ITV: "It's fantastic that we've come and done the job that we wanted to do. Our defence won that game. France came at us and they've given us the greatest test we've had so far in this tournament.
"We knew we had the mindset. Both defences stood up and the tackle count shows that, but we had a white wall and there was no way they were getting across our try line tonight.
"One try and France would have been back in the game but we pride ourselves on our defence and Megan Jones made a fantastic tackle [to deny Julie Annery]."
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England: Danielle Waterman (Bristol); Lydia Thompson (Worcester Valkyries), Emily Scarratt (Lichfield), Rachael Burford (Harlequins Ladies), Kay Wilson (Richmond); Katy Mclean (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Natasha Hunt (Lichfield); Vickii Cornborough (Harlequins Ladies), Amy Cokayne (Lichfield), Sarah Bern (Bristol), Abbie Scott (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Tamara Taylor (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Alex Matthews (Richmond), Marlie Packer (Bristol), Sarah Hunter (Bristol, captain)
Replacements: Vicky Fleetwood (Saracens), Rochelle Clark (Worcester Valkyries), Justine Lucas (Lichfield), Harriet Millar-Mills (Lichfield), Izzy Noel-Smith (Bristol), La Toya Mason (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Amber Reed (Bristol), Megan Jones (Bristol)
France: Amedee; Guiglion, Ladagnous, Poublan, Izar; Drouin, Rivoalen; Deshayes, Mignot (capt), Duval, Corson, Forlani, Mayans, Annery, N'Diaye.
Replacements: Thomas, Arricastre, Carricaburu, André, Diallo, Le Pesq, Neisen, Pelle
An independent report was expected to be finished by the New Year.
However, it is understood a delay means city councillors will not now consider its findings until February.
A crisis that began with a collapsed wall at Oxgangs Primary led to disruption for about 7,600 pupils.
Once the repairs were complete, City of Edinburgh Council asked John Cole, an experienced architect from Northern Ireland, to investigate.
He was due to report before Christmas. But it is understood, although not a legal requirement, he has been advised that any organisation or individual criticised in the report must be given time to respond.
It means it will be February at the earliest before the report is then published and councillors are able to consider Mr Cole's final conclusions.
A City of Edinburgh Council spokesman said: "As planned, the chairman of the inquiry intends to provide his report to the council's chief executive by the end of the year.
"We expect the final report to be considered by councillors early in the new year."
The schools which were closed in April 2016 were all built or refurbished as part of the same public private partnership (PPP) scheme.
The problems - with wall and header ties used to hold exterior and interior walls together and attach them to the rest of the building - first became apparent when part of a wall at Oxgangs fell during stormy weather.
Safety inspections were ordered and pupils were bussed to other schools across the city while repairs were carried out.
Gatland has said he rejected an approach from Super Rugby side Chiefs about leading them from 2018.
Gatland is contracted with Wales until after the 2019 World Cup in Japan.
Phillips reinforced his belief Gatland will return, saying he "made it very clear his intention was to come back".
The WRU boss also does not expect any fall-out from the Lions tour that would affect the Wales camp.
After Gatland's Wales and Lions predecessor Graham Henry took the Lions to Australia in 2001, his relationship with senior Wales players suffered.
"The reason Warren has got the Lions job twice and assistant once is that he is a very experienced leader in that space," Phillips told Scrum V.
"So I would back him to manage the situation."
Phillips also defended the decision to allow Rob Howley to join Gatland as part of the Lions set-up.
Forwards coach Robin McBryde will be in charge of Wales' June tour Tests against Tonga and Samoa, assisted by regional coaches Danny Wilson, Matt Sherratt, both of Cardiff Blues and Scarlets' Stephen Jones.
"I think Warren and Rob will both benefit as coaches from the Lions experience," added Phillips.
"I don't think the South Sea Island tours will be hugely beneficial to them.
"Our belief was for Warren and Rob to go into the white-hot heat of a Lions tour will test and develop them.
"We genuinely have to give some coaches exposure so I am comfortable with that decision."
Phillips also defended the 2016 decision to award contracts until 2019 to members of Gatland's backroom staff, including Howley and McBryde.
"The demand for the very best coaches is greater than it has ever been," added Phillips.
"When you have got a good coaching team it tends to work in World Cup cycles so what you don't want is a major disruption halfway through.
"Four years will become the norm. Warren picks his coaching team and his belief was this was the best team. We looked at everything."
Watch the Martyn Phillips interview on Scrum V, Sunday, 8 January, BBC Two Wales from 17:30 GMT.
The 23-year-old right-hander could appear in their opening Championship game against Sussex on Sunday.
And he will also be available for subsequent matches against Essex, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
The opener marked his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire in 2014 by scoring a century against Sussex.
However, he missed much of last season after suffering knee-ligament damage in Australia.
He recently made a century for Nottinghamshire against Hampshire during a pre-season tour to Barbados.
Stephen O'Brien, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator, said the militant group's actions had forced thousands to flee and left unprecedented numbers in need.
The UN estimates that more than nine million people in the region need humanitarian assistance.
Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.
Mr O'Brien told the UN Security Council that Nigeria was bearing "the brunt of the crisis", with Nigerians accounting for seven of the nine million people in need.
He said Boko Haram's "heinous, barbaric and unconscionable" violence had led to serious human rights violations in the country.
"From January to June 2016, more than 50 children have been coerced to carry out suicide bombings across the four countries," he said.
UN political chief Jeffrey Feltman said Boko Haram remained a threat to stability in the region, despite the group being pushed back from some areas.
Both men warned the council that the fight against the group was suffering from a lack of funding.
The militant group continues to target countries in the region, including Nigeria and Cameroon, with bomb and suicide attacks.
The UN's children's agency Unicef warned last week that almost 250,000 children in parts of Nigeria's Borno state, formerly controlled by Boko Haram, were suffering from severe malnutrition.
Officers converged on the Robroyston area of the city at about 10:55. They later cordoned off Robroyston Road.
Police have now confirmed that "vehicle tyre deflation rounds were discharged directly into vehicle tyres".
The nature of the operation has yet to be disclosed but the use of the shotgun rounds will be referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner.
In a statement, Police Scotland said: "Around 1055 hours on Friday 30 September 2016, Police Scotland officers carried out an intelligence-led operation in the Robroyston area of Glasgow.
"As part of the operation, vehicle tyre deflation rounds were discharged directly into vehicle tyres.
"This is a recognised and practiced tactic which is used specifically to disable a vehicle and was deployed in order to reduce any potential wider impact to the public and to maximise their safety."
The statement added: "As a result, and in line with the routine procedure, this incident will be referred to PIRC for review."
A spokesman for the PIRC said: "Police Scotland has notified the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner of an incident in Robroyston, Glasgow, on 30 September 2016, where officers fired tyre deflation rounds (TDR) at a vehicle as part of an ongoing police operation.
"The PIRC will assess the circumstances of the police use of TDRs before determining whether there is a need to investigate further."
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John Fahey believes Armstrong ducked key issues relating to his cheating in a TV interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Both Fahey and the United States Anti-Doping Authority (Usada) want the disgraced cyclist to explain the full extent of his doping "under oath".
"That is his way forward if he is serious," Fahey told the BBC.
"Don't go on a show with a woman who will give benign questions, lead you to the answers and not follow up when you don't answer properly.
"But is he going to do it? Probably not. If he was prepared to do it, he probably wouldn't go down the Oprah Winfrey route in the first place."
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in 2012 after he was found guilty of doping, but had always maintained his innocence until he confessed to cheating in the first of a two-part interview with Winfrey, recorded on Monday and broadcast at 02:00 GMT on Friday.
If he wants to help cycling and redeem himself, he should expose all, and not just conveniently give a few titbits that really tell us what we already know
The American cyclist revealed he took performance-enhancing drugs in each of his Tour wins from 1999-2005 but said doping was "part of the process required to win the Tour".
He also said he did not feel he was cheating at the time and viewed it as a "level playing field" but now admits that "all the fault and blame" should lie with him and he was a bully who "turned on" people he did not like.
Armstrong added that he would now co-operate with official inquiries into doping in cycling.
But Wada president Fahey has called on the 41-year-old to name names.
"I think his credibility has suffered," Fahey said. "If he is serious about redemption, he will go before an appropriate tribunal, give evidence under oath, subject himself to cross-examination, name names, say who in the entourage was helping him cheat, who supplied the drugs, which officials warned him he might be tested and who in the way of riders was associated with it.
"He claims he was doing what everyone else was doing. If he wants to help cycling and redeem himself, he should expose all, and not just conveniently give a few titbits that really tell us what we already know."
Usada chief executive Travis Tygart has also called on Armstrong to explain himself before a court.
"If he's sincere in his desire to correct past mistakes, he will testify under oath about the full extent of his doping activities," Tygart said.
Usada was the agency that brought the charges against Armstrong after federal prosecutors in California dropped their investigation into alleged doping.
The American filed a lawsuit against Usada last July, accusing them of "corrupt inducements" to other cyclists to testify against him before stating in August that he would not fight doping charges filed against him. He was subsequently stripped of his titles since 1995 but maintained his innocence up until the interview with Winfrey.
"Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit," added Tygart.
"His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction."
Cycling's world governing body UCI came under scrutiny in the interview. It had been alleged that Armstrong had paid UCI to keep quiet about positive drugs tests.
But the president of the organisation Pat McQuaid said Armstrong's confession revealed there was no collusion.
"Armstrong's decision finally to confront his past is an important step forward on the long road to repairing the damage that has been caused to cycling and to restoring confidence in the sport," he said.
"Armstrong has confirmed there was no collusion or conspiracy between the UCI and Lance Armstrong. There were no positive tests which were covered up and he has confirmed that the donations made to the UCI were to assist in the fight against doping.
"Finally, we note that Lance Armstrong expressed a wish to participate in a truth and reconciliation process, which we would welcome."
But Fahey criticised the UCI for failing to do enough to tackle doping in the sport, and questioned McQuaid's future.
"They have got to make some moves that will change the way the sport operates, and if that involves current office bearers, so be it," Fahey said.
Armstrong faces a series of potential legal issues in the wake of his confession, although he would be unlikely to face perjury charges, despite making sworn testimony in a 2005 court case that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs.
New York defence attorney Stuart Slotnick told BBC Sport earlier this month that, under United States law, the Statute of Limitations means any prosecution must be launched within five years of the offence.
Armstrong said during his interview with Winfrey that he had not doped since 2005.
However, his former team-mate Floyd Landis - who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping - has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Armstrong of defrauding the US Postal Service, which paid more than £18.7m to sponsor the team Armstrong competed for.
In addition, the Sunday Times is already suing Armstrong for £1m over a libel payment to him in 2004 after the newspaper alleged he had cheated.
Livestrong, the non-profit organisation set up by Armstrong to help those affected by cancer, said it was disappointed the American "misled" people during his career.
The Texan, who won his own battle with testicular cancer, stepped down as chairman after Usada published its findings.
"We at the Livestrong Foundation are disappointed by the news that Lance Armstrong misled people during and after his cycling career, including us," said the Livestrong statement.
"Earlier this week, Lance apologised to our staff and we accepted his apology in order to move on and chart a strong, independent course.
"We look forward to devoting our full energy to our mission of helping people not only fight and survive cancer, but also thrive in life after cancer.
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Guthrie Meville's boat The Solstice was fishing for razor clams in Largo Bay when diver James Irvine died in March 2011.
Mr Irvine, 42, was found by a police diver lying face up on the seabed with neither of his air supply regulators in his mouth.
Melville was found guilty of safety failings last month.
The 60-year-old was sentenced at Stirling Sheriff Court on Thursday.
The Solstice was thought to have been using an unapproved technique known as electrofishing when Mr Irvine died.
The technique is designed to make the razor fish rise to the surface of the sandy sea bed by trailing unprotected copper electrodes connected to an electric welder.
An expert said the set-up posed a risk of serious injury, with only a few milliamps being capable of stopping a diver's heart.
The court was told that there was no way of knowing if this was what had happened to Mr Irvine.
Last month prosecutor Louise Beattie said Mr Irvine had been left "truly on his own", eight metres down in the Forth.
The court heard that Mr Irvine, an unemployed kitchen fitter, had been doing his first day's work as a diver.
His only dive training had been a two-week holiday course in Turkey.
He had been recruited by Melville to fish for razor clams, which could be sold on at high prices. A day's catch could fetch Melville more than £2,000.
Melville, from Cardenden in Fife, was found guilty of a string of breaches of diving at work regulations and health and safety legislation, leading to the death of Mr Irvine.
He was also found guilty of putting five other divers at risk through similar failings over a six-year period from April 2005.
Melville had denied the offences and claimed that he had been taking Mr Irvine out for "a pleasure dive".
Sheriff William Gilchrist told him: "The court has to take into account how foreseeable were the risks and how far short of the applicable standards you fell.
"It's quite obvious to me that the risks were clearly foreseeable, and there were effectively no health and safety measures in place, you completely ignored the requirements of health and safety.
"The consequences were extremely, extremely serious."
"I can only conclude that this was a most serious and wilful breach of health and safety regulations, which resulted in a death."
Defence advocate Greg Sanders said since his client had been convicted, he had been subjected to "a litany of abuse" on social media and had been to see his GP about thoughts of taking his own life.
Mr Sanders said: "If it is being suggested he is some sort of greedy businessman, nothing could be further from the truth."
Outside court, Mr Irvine's wife Hazel, 42, said Melville should have been treated like a killer.
She said: "I am disgusted with the sentence. He took my husband's life and he should have gone down for years. He should have been treated like it was culpable homicide, because that was what it was."
His brother Richard Irvine, 39, said: "I hope it sends out a message to other captains who are putting divers' lives at risk."
Mr Irvine's daughter Chloe, 18, said: "He failed to protect five other men, so if this hadn't happened to my dad, sooner or later it would have happened to someone else."
Gary Aitken, the Crown Office's head of heath and safety division, said: "This was a foreseeable and entirely avoidable tragedy which has left family and friends devastated at the loss of a loved one.
"Hopefully, today's outcome will highlight the need for dive contractors and vessel owners to keep the health and safety of their employees and divers to the fore."
Judith Tetlow, HSE principal inspector of diving, said: "This dive resulted in tragic consequences which could have been avoided had Guthrie Melville planned the activity properly using competent and appropriately qualified divers.
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500 BC - Thracian tribes settle in what is now southeastern Bulgaria. They are subsequently subjugated by the Macedonian king Alexander the Great and later by the Roman Empire.
Volunteers re-enact the liberation of Sofia from the Ottoman Empire. It was previously ruled by the Romans
681 - Bulgarian state established.
890s - The earliest form of the Cyrillic alphabet - later versions of which are now used in dozens of Slavonic languages - is created by Bulgarian scholars.
1018-1185 - Bulgaria is part of Byzantine empire.
1396 - Ottoman Empire completes conquest of Bulgaria. Next five centuries are known as era of the "Turkish yoke".
1876 - Nationwide uprising against Ottoman rule is violently suppressed.
1878 - Treaty of San Stefano - signed by Russia and Turkey at the end of their war of 1877-78 - recognises an autonomous Bulgaria.
1878 - Treaty of Berlin creates much smaller Bulgarian principality. Eastern Rumelia remains under Ottoman rule.
1886 - Eastern Rumelia is merged with Bulgaria.
1887 - Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha elected prince.
1908 - Bulgaria declares itself an independent kingdom. Ferdinand assumes title of tsar.
1914-18 - World War I. Bulgaria allies itself with Germany. Some 100,000 Bulgarian troops are killed, the most severe per capita losses of any country involved in the war.
1939-45 World War II - Soviet army invades German-occupied Bulgaria in 1944. Soviet-backed Fatherland Front takes power.
1946 - Monarchy abolished in referendum and republic declared. Communist Party wins election. Georgi Dimitrov elected prime minister.
Todor Zhivkov was the Soviet bloc's longest-serving leader
Bulgaria's ex-communist leader dies
1947 - New constitution along Soviet lines establishes one-party state. Economy and industry sectors nationalised.
1954 - Todor Zhivkov becomes Communist Party general secretary. Bulgaria becomes staunch USSR ally.
1971 - Zhivkov becomes president.
1978 - Georgi Markov, a BBC World Service journalist and Bulgarian dissident, dies in London after apparently being injected with poison from the tip of an umbrella.
1984 - Zhivkov government tries to force Turkish minority to assimilate and take Slavic names. Many resist and in 1989 some 300,000 flee the country.
1989 - Reforms in the Soviet Union inspire demands for democratisation.
Zhivkov ousted. Multiparty system introduced. Opposition Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) formed.
1990 - Economic crisis. Communist Party reinvents itself as Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and wins free parliamentary elections.
President Petar Mladenov resigns and parliament appoints UDF's Zhelyu Zhelev.
BSP government collapses amid mass demonstrations and general strike.
1991 New constitution proclaims Bulgaria a parliamentary republic and provides broad range of freedoms.
UDF wins election.
1992 - Zhelev becomes Bulgaria's first directly-elected president. UDF government resigns. Lyuben Berov heads non-party government.
Todor Zhivkov sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption in office.
1993 - Mass privatisation programme.
1994 - BSP returns to power in general election.
1995 - BSP's Zhan Videnov becomes prime minister.
1996 - Financial turmoil. Petur Stoyanov replaces Zhelev as president.
Bulgarian Supreme Court overturns Zhivkov's conviction.
Videnov resigns as prime minister and chairman of the BSP.
1997 - Mass protests over economic crisis. Opposition boycotts parliament and calls for elections.
Interim government installed until elections, when UDF leader Ivan Kostov becomes prime minister.
Bulgarian currency pegged to German mark.
1999 - Protracted demolition attempts on marble mausoleum of first communist leader Georgi Dimitrov become national joke.
2000 - Post-communist prosecutors close file on Georgi Markov case. In December Markov is awarded Bulgaria's highest honour, the Order of Stara Planina, for his contribution to Bulgarian literature and his opposition to the communist authorities.
2001 June - Former King Simeon II's party, National Movement Simeon II, wins parliamentary elections. Simeon becomes premier in July.
Simeon II of Bulgaria served as Tsar between 1943 and 1946, when he was forced into exile. In 2001 he returned to become prime minister
2001 November - Thousands march through Sofia on 100th day of Simeon's premiership, saying he has failed to improve living standards.
Socialist Party leader Georgi Parvanov wins presidency in an election with the lowest turnout since the fall of communism. He vows to improve people's lives and to speed up EU and Nato entry.
2001 December - Parliament agrees to destroy Soviet-made missiles by late 2002, ahead of Nato membership.
2004 March - Bulgaria is admitted to Nato.
2005 August - Socialist Party led by Sergei Stanishev tops the poll in general elections. After weeks of wrangling the main parties sign a coalition deal under which he becomes prime minister.
2005 December - Bulgaria's contingent of 400 light infantry troops leaves Iraq. In February 2006 parliament agrees to dispatch a non-combat guard unit.
2006 December - Bulgarian officials condemn death sentences handed to five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor by a Libyan court. The six were found guilty of deliberately infecting Libyan children with the HIV virus.
2007 January - Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, raising the EU membership to 27.
2007 June - The European Commission calls on Bulgaria to do more to combat corruption.
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were condemned to death by a Libyan court for allegedly infecting children with HIV. They were later released
2007 July - The death sentences against six foreign medical workers in the HIV case in Libya are commuted to life in prison. They are repatriated to Bulgaria under a deal with the European Union.
2008 February - European Commission interim report says Bulgaria and Romania have failed to show convincing results in their anti-graft drives.
2008 March - European Union freezes some infrastructure subsidies over corruption in the traffic agency.
2008 April - European Union calls on Bulgaria to take urgent action after two prominent gangland killings, including a senior figure in the nuclear industry.
Interior Minister Rumen Petkov resigns over police officers accused of passing state secrets to alleged crime bosses.
Government reshuffled in order to combat organised crime and wave of contract killings. Ambassador to Germany, Meglena Plugchieva, appointed deputy prime minister without portfolio to oversee use of EU funds.
2008 July - European Commission suspends EU aid worth hundreds of millions of euros after series of reports criticise Bulgarian government for failing to take effective action against corruption and organised crime.
EU pressed for reactors to close at Kozloduy nuclear plant
2008 September - European Commission permanently strips Bulgaria of half of the aid frozen in July over what it says is the government's failure to tackle corruption and organised crime.
2009 January - Russia's gas dispute with Ukraine cuts supplies to Bulgaria, resulting in a severe energy shortage lasting several weeks and widespread anger at the government's energy policies.
2009 June - Workers rally to protest at government's handling of economic crisis.
2009 July - General election is won by the centre-right GERB party led by Sofia mayor Boiko Borisov.
2010 January - Boris Tsankov, a prominent crime journalist who specialised in reporting on the mafia in Bulgaria, is shot dead in Sofia.
2010 June - EU expresses concern over reliability of Bulgarian national statistics and says these may have to be subjected to EU scrutiny.
2010 July - Former PM Sergei Stanishev is accused of failing to return files containing state secrets relating to security and organised crime after losing the 2009 election, and is charged with mishandling classified documents.
2010 September - EU calls on Bulgaria to take urgent action to tackle crime and corruption.
2010 December - Government-appointed commission finds that 45 senior Bulgarian diplomats were secret service agents during the communist era.
France and Germany block Bulgaria from joining Schengen passport-free zone, saying it still needs to make "irreversible progress" in fight against corruption and organised crime.
2011 September - Anti-Roma demonstrations in Sofia and elsewhere following the death of a youth who was hit by a van driven by relatives of a Roma kingpin.
2011 October - Rosen Plevneliev, from the centre-right GERB party of Prime Minister Borisov, beats the Socialist candidate in the presidential election.
2012 January - Bulgaria becomes the second European country after France to ban exploratory drilling for shale gas using the extraction method called "fracking" after an overwhelming parliamentary vote.
2012 July - A suspected suicide bomber kills five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver on a bus in the Black Sea resort of Burgas.
2013 January - A controversial referendum on whether to build a second Bulgarian nuclear plant is invalidated by low turnout.
2013 February - The Bulgarian authorities say the Burgas suicide attack was most likely the work of the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Hezbollah itself denies the allegation.
Prime Minister Borisov resigns after 14 people are injured in clashes with police at anti-austerity protests.
2013 March - After failing to persuade any of the leaders of the main political parties to form a government, President Plevneliev appoints a caretaker cabinet headed by Marin Raikov, the ambassador to France. He is tasked with organising fresh elections.
2013 May - The centre-right GERB party of former prime minister Boiko Borisov narrowly beats the socialist BSP in parliamentary elections, but falls well short of a majority. The Socialists provide parliamentary support for a technocratic government headed by Plamen Oresharski.
2013 June - Tens of thousands of protestors take to the streets for five days over the appointment of controversial media mogul Delyan Peevski to head the national security agency. Parliament reverses the appointment but anti-government demonstrations continue.
2013 July - Weeks of protests over official corruption culminate in a blockade of parliament and clashes with the police.
2014 January - Transitional curbs on Bulgarians' right to work and receive benefits in some EU members in place since Bulgaria joined the bloc in 2007 lapse.
2014 June - Banking crisis. Rumours of liquidity shortfalls cause panic and runs on major banks.
2014 July - Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski steps down after little more than a year in office, paving the way for a snap election due in October 2014.
2014 October - Low turnout of about 50% produces parliament divided between a record eight parties.
2014 November - Boyko Borisov returns to premiership as his GERB party forms coalition with fellow centre-right Reformist Bloc.
2014 December - Russia scraps plans for South Stream gas pipeline because of EU opposition. The project planned to pump Russian gas across the Black Sea through Bulgaria, bypassing Ukraine.
2015 January - Bulgaria says it will extend a controversial fence along its border with Turkey by 80 kilometres to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants.
Residents in Balcombe, which was at the centre of anti-fracking protests two years ago, purchased the panels.
They are being installed on Balcombe Primary School and also Turners Hill School, in nearby village Turners Hill.
More than 1,000 protesters set up camp in the village in 2013 when energy firm Cuadrilla test-drilled for oil.
There were fears this could lead to fracking, which the company denied.
Joe Nixon, spokesman for the Repower Balcombe project, said: "We are very happy to get solar panels up on Balcombe and Turners Hill primary schools.
"The local kids returning from summer holidays will learn how solar energy works and attend lessons powered by the sun.
"We are also excited about our plans for Chiddinglye Farm for a 5MW solar farm that will provide more clean energy to our community in sunny Sussex."
The organisation said Balcombe Primary School would use about 80% of the power generated which would save it £530 per year.
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Demitre Clarke-Oliver, 24, of Kennet Walk, Reading, admitted causing grievous bodily harm to PC Raymond Tse on 1 October in Oxford city centre.
He threw a single punch and ran away but was detained by another officer using pepper spray, Oxford Crown Court heard.
PC Tse had two plates and eight pins inserted in his jaw after it was fractured in two places.
Superintendent Joe Kidman said: "To attack a police officer is a cowardly and despicable act."
Armitstead finished second in the road race at the 2012 Olympics in London.
She told BBC Sport: "I think about Rio every day. Every day in training it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.
"I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever."
Armitstead, 26, who finished behind the Netherlands' Marianne Vos at the London Games, also finished second in the 2010 Commonwealth Games road race before winning gold in Glasgow last year.
She is also targeting a road world title after admitting getting her tactics wrong at the World Championships last year and finishing seventh.
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Armitstead, a world champion and three-time silver medallist on the track, said: "A world championship medal on the road is something that I'm missing from my CV.
"I wouldn't be happy to retire until I've achieved at least a medal anyway."
The Commonwealth champion has admitted to finding it difficult to appreciate just how talented she is.
"To think that I'm one of the best in the world at something is still hard to get my head around," she added.
"I do have to give myself a kick and say - when I'm surprised at podium results - why am I surprised? I am one of the best in the world and it's a position I should get used to being in."
Armitstead won the overall women's World Cup title last season but said it was not a main priority to defend it this year.
She has started the season well, winning the Tour of Qatar, ahead of the first World Cup race the Ronde van Drenthe in the Netherlands on Saturday.
However it is the Tour of Flanders in Belgium on 4 April which is firmly in her sights. It is a tough course, partly over cobbles, and one that she is relishing.
"Flanders is an iconic race. When you win Flanders you're one of cycling's greats," Armitstead said.
"It's just a hard person that wins it. A Yorkshire lass should win it," she added.
The Daily Mail branded them "Enemies of the people", while the Daily Express said the ruling had marked "the day democracy died".
Labour called the silence of Justice Secretary Liz Truss "embarrassing" and said she had "let down" the judiciary.
On Thursday, the court ruled Parliament should vote on triggering Article 50.
The judges found that the government could not start the formal process of leaving the EU - the triggering of Article 50 - by using the royal prerogative alone, and would need the backing of Parliament.
That would require publishing legislation to be debated by the Commons and the Lords.
Conservative MP Dominic Grieve said the criticism in parts of the media over the judges' decision was "horrifying" and reminiscent of "Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe".
The former attorney general told BBC's Newsnight on Friday: "The judges did exactly what was asked of them.
"They highlighted that our constitution does not allow you to overturn statute law by decree, which is so well established in this country."
Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon called on the government to intervene to curb the level of criticism.
"The first duty of the Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, is to protect the independence of the judiciary, and to be frank her silence on this is embarrassing, and she's letting down the British judiciary and the British legal system.
"Giving judges a roasting isn't part and parcel of any healthy democracy."
Ms Truss has made no comment yet.
Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover defended his newspaper's stance, saying he did not believe the judges would "feel frightened or worried" by the criticism.
He said they had made a "decisive intervention" in the political process, and "must expect some comeback - and that's what they got."
Some MPs have also attacked the judges, including UKIP MP Douglas Carswell who called them "politicians without accountability".
Bob Neill, Conservative chairman of the justice select committee, said the criticism by some politicians was "utterly disgraceful" and the ruling should be respected, even if it was considered wrong.
He told the Times newspaper: "Some members of Parliament do not appear to understand that this judgement had nothing do with subverting the will of the people."
Chantal Doerries, who chairs the Bar Council, said attacks on the integrity of the judges could lead to the "undermining of the respect of judgements".
Labour said the ruling underlined the need for Mrs May to spell out her Brexit plans to Parliament "without delay".
In a speech in London, leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "We accept and respect the decision of the referendum to leave the EU, but there must be transparency and accountability to Parliament about the government's plans.
"I suspect the government opposes democratic scrutiny of its plans because frankly there aren't any plans."
Meanwhile, Gina Miller, the investment manager and philanthropist who led the legal campaign, has said she plans to report online trolls to police after receiving rape and death threats.
She told BBC Radio 5 live that other abuse included people telling her "I'm not even human, I'm a primate, I belong in a kitchen - that's the nicest of some of them. It is unbelievable.
"I am really cross at the politicians and the media who are whipping this up because they are the ones inciting racism and violence and acrimony."
On Friday, Conservative MP Stephen Phillips resigned over "irreconcilable policy differences" with the government, saying he was "unable properly to represent the people who elected me".
The pro-Brexit campaigner, who has held the Lincolnshire seat of Sleaford and North Hykeham since 2010, accused ministers of ignoring Parliament since the Brexit vote.
The government is to appeal against Thursday's ruling to the Supreme Court next month.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she is "confident" the government will win and is committed to triggering Article 50 by March 2017.
The outbreak across 16 states has killed one person in New York state, and seen 35 patients hospitalised.
The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) said that maradol papayas imported from Mexico are the "likely source".
It believes the outbreak started at a single farm in Campeche, Mexico, which sells papayas under the Caribena, Cavi and Valery brands in the US.
A recall has been issued for the brands suspected of contamination.
But the CDC is urging the public and restaurants to throw away any maradol papayas from Mexico while they investigate.
"When in doubt, don't eat, sell or serve them, and throw them out", it said.
Testing by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found five different strains of salmonella on a range of samples.
Infections were recorded as far back as May, and by 21 July 47 cases were recorded.
Less than three weeks later, the case count had more than doubled to 109.
The documented cases are concentrated in the states of New York and New Jersey, the CDC said, which together account for 62 cases.
Other states affected so far are: Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Salmonella bacteria can induce symptoms including diarrhoea, stomach cramps and fever.
Usually, the infection runs its course in less than a week and most patients do not need treatment.
But in serious cases it can require hospitalisation for antibiotic treatment.
Risk of salmonella infection is usually linked to animals and animal food products - like eggs, milk and meat.
However, fruit and vegetables can also be contaminated from farm activities or contact with infected animals.
Lara Casalotti, 24, is part-Chinese, part-Thai and part-Italian.
People who are black, Asian or mixed-race are far less likely to find a match than a white northern European, so a celebrity-backed viral campaign (Match4Lara) was started by the Casalotti family.
Within weeks, a match was found. But perhaps more importantly, people who turned out not to be a match signed up to the register too.
Since the beginning of the Match4Lara campaign more than 15,600 people have joined the Anthony Nolan register.
This compares to 4,135 during the same period last year - a 277% overall increase.
The has also been a sharp increase of black, Asian and mixed-race donors signing up during this period - 684% higher than the same period last year.
According to Jack Wilson at Anthony Nolan, a complete match with a stranger is "like gold dust".
"It's incredible to think there could be someone on the register who is essentially your genetic twin," he said.
"It doesn't mean they have exactly the same background or heritage as you - for example Lara's match may have been someone part-Chinese, part-Thai and part-Spanish. But it's really special and personal thing to have a match."
Currently, about 60% of patients find a perfect match - often with a sibling - and while partial matches can be considered they are not as successful.
But that 60% drops to just 20% when the patient is of black, Asian or mixed ethnicity.
There are a few potential reasons for this - the vast majority of donors registered are white, northern Europeans, so matching stem cells simply cannot be found.
According to NHS figures there are three times as many white people registered as all the black, Asian and mixed-race donors put together.
Another reason for the difficulty is that a mixed heritage is likely to be more complex than one which is completely one race - which further narrows down potential matches.
In the words of Mr Wilson: "If we knew the answer to that, we could tackle it."
But he suggested that in some ethnic groups there "may be more barriers" to signing up.
"In some communities, older people are very influential and many people still have outdated information about the donation process, which may be off-putting. People don't seem to realise how very easy it is."
He also suggested a general lack of awareness in all demographics.
"People think it will hurt, or they'll need time off work. They won't - it's just like donating blood but takes a little bit longer. Plus you can register all online and it's all completely free," he said.
Matching is based on human leukocyte anitgen (HLA) tissue type. HLA is an individual genetic characteristic inherited from each parent.
It is similar to blood groups, but more diverse and complicated.
HLA is made up of genes and to find a match, experts look at five key sites. Each of the sites has two alleles (types of genes) making 10 in total.
The genes are compared to those of donors. If all 10 match then it is a 10/10 match.
When it comes to finding a match, the higher the better, because bodies need to recognise and accept the donor's stem cells.
If the genes do not match, the body will treat them as intruders and reject them.
Source: Anthony Nolan Trust
According to the Anthony Nolan Trust, although it is too soon to see a direct impact from the surge in registries, in the coming months and years there will be "a massive" effect.
"Any one of those people would be a match for someone in the future," said Mr Wilson. "And remember, you're not just saving the person who needs a transplant - in many ways you're saving their loved ones too.
"The odds are, if you register, you won't be called - it's quite rare. But 2,000 people need a transplant every year - and you could be their lifeline, which is quite incredible really."
Recruitment events organised by the Casalotti family which were scheduled for later this year will still go ahead, encouraging more mixed-race donors to sign up.
If the trend continues, Lara's legacy could be more than simply her own recovery.
The tourist from eastern Jiangxi province was trying on the bracelet in a shop in Ruili in Yunnan province near the border with Myanmar, where much of the jade in China is from.
When she was told the bracelet's price she quickly took it off but in her haste dropped it, state media reported.
No agreement over compensation for the shop has yet been reached.
Shop staff attempted to calm the woman after the breakage, but she turned pale, began sweating and eventually fainted, a report on news website 163.com quoted the shop owner's son as saying.
She came round after other customers who had rushed to help pinched her under her nose, the People's Daily reported.
Shop staff then told the woman she could pay $25,000 to resolve the matter, but she said she could only afford $1,500, the 163.com report said.
Police were unable to persuade the parties to reach an agreement and the matter may need to go to court.
A local precious gem association told news portal Sina that the bracelet was worth only $26,000.
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The centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said Ms Le Pen's nationalist proposals amounted to "economic warfare".
But she was also accused from the right of not being tough enough on France's membership of the EU.
Francois Fillon, meanwhile, said that France needed Europe when up against the US and China.
Ms Le Pen, leader of the National Front (FN) party, promised to restore control of France's borders and scrap the euro, or else hold a referendum on EU membership.
Speaking alongside 10 other candidates as things got a little heated in the second of three televised French presidential election debates, she said that her presidency would improve the lives of French citizens.
Mr Macron, the frontrunner, accused Ms Le Pen of lying, and said that "nationalism is war".
"You are saying the same lies that we've heard from your father for 40 years," he said.
Ms Le Pen, who also came under attack from conservative candidate Mr Fillon, retorted: "You shouldn't pretend to be something new when you are speaking like fossils that are at least 50 years old."
Meanwhile, nationalist right-wing outsider Francois Asselineau said that he was "the only true candidate of Frexit", and promised to trigger Article 50 - the process to start the country's divorce from the EU - immediately if he were to win power.
The debate was extended to include the six minor candidates, so inevitably it is on the six minor candidates that water-cooler conversation is going to focus.
On Jean Lasalle - "son of a shepherd, brother of a shepherd" - with his impenetrable Pyrenean accent; on Francois Asselineau with his "Frexit" obsession; on the rival Trotskyites Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud with their rousing calls to punish the bosses.
Some of it was diverting, some of it was deadly serious. But after a while you realised that there were really only two people out there who were in any sense defending - more or less - the way things are. Those two are Francois Fillon and Emmanuel Macron.
Everyone else - from Marine Le Pen to the uber-Gaullist Nicolas Dupont Aignan to the firebrand of the left Jean-Luc Melenchon (as brilliant as ever on stage) - wants the rules of Europe and the economy totally rewritten.
Small wonder this first round boils down to a fight between Mr Fillon and Mr Macron. It is a fight for the chance - in round two - to stand up for the existing order against the anti-system.
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Turning the topic to security, Ms Le Pen said that France had become a "university for jihadists", prompting angry interruptions from the left-wing candidates.
Most polls suggest that Ms Le Pen and Mr Macron will face each other in the two-candidate run-off for presidency on 7 May.
However, Tuesday's debate gave Mr Fillon, 63, an opportunity to close the gap on the leaders.
Mr Fillon was the frontrunner in the campaign until he was hit by the "fake jobs" scandal and placed under formal investigation. He is accused of paying hundreds of thousands of euros to his family for work they did not do.
He was trailing third in the first round, according to polls, a position which would eliminate him from the race.
The UN says 12 civilians were shot dead on 11 November when they tried to stop militants launching rockets from the roofs of the homes in the Bakir area.
Militants allegedly killed 27 others suspected of passing information to Iraqi security forces.
The government launched an offensive to recapture Mosul six weeks ago.
Special forces and army units entered the city's eastern outskirts at the start of this month.
However, their progress has since been slowed by sniper fire, suicide car bomb attacks and the presence of more than a million civilians still living there.
A spokeswoman for the UN high commissioner for human rights, Ravina Shamdasani, said reports continued to arrive of serious breaches of international human rights and humanitarian law in and around Mosul.
"[IS] has been installing rocket launchers and placing snipers on the rooftops of civilian houses," she said.
"Those who refuse to allow their houses to be used in this way are threatened or killed. These families are effectively used as human shields, placed squarely in harm's way, caught between IS and Iraqi Security Force fire responding to rocket and sniper attacks."
Ms Shamdasani said IS was also continuing to abduct and forcibly move civilians, and to kill those it suspected of leaking information to the government.
Reports suggest that on Friday, militants publicly shot to death 27 civilians in Muhandiseen Park, in the north of Mosul, she added.
There have also been reports of IS shooting at fleeing civilians, including one from 22 November of an IS sniper killing a seven-year-old child who was running towards troops in the eastern Adan district.
Human Rights Watch meanwhile said on Tuesday that an Iraqi government or US-led coalition air strike targeting IS militants south of Mosul last month had hit a medical facility and killed eight civilians, including five children.
Two IS militants and the IS "transport minister" were also killed in the attack on 18 October in Hamam al-Alil, a witness told HRW.
A healthcare worker said militants had forcibly taken over an office at the clinic and that several had been there at the time of the attack, along with about 50 patients.
"Forces attacking [IS] should take all necessary measures to minimise harm to civilians, including those that [IS] forces may have placed at risk," said Lama Fakih, HRW's deputy Middle East director.
HRW called for an impartial, thorough and transparent investigation into the incident to establish who was responsible and whether it was lawful.
The occasion planned for Church Street would form part of Highland Council's efforts to support a Scottish government children's play strategy.
In a report to councillors, council officers have set out progress and also further plans to provide youngsters with opportunities to play.
Officers said the "play event" was planned for later this year.
Highland Council's education, children and adult services committee will consider the report at a meeting on Wednesday.
The recordings, which cannot be independently verified, are believed to have come from the security services.
They have been placed in the public domain by the Abdullah Abdullah camp who refuse to disclose their source.
Fraud allegations have been made by Dr Abdullah and by his rival Ashraf Ghani.
But the audio tapes appear to reveal a partisan senior election official working in Dr Ghani's interest.
However the former world bank executive's team say secret recordings without a court order are illegal and must be investigated.
The audio tapes - which the BBC has heard - appear to capture conversations between a senior election official, Zia Ul-Haq Amarkhail, and colleagues in at least four other provinces.
In an apparent reference to ballot box stuffing, the tapes appear to show Mr Amarkhail urging a colleague to "bring the sheep stuffed and not empty". The reference to sheep and goats - ballot boxes and people or votes - is made several times during the recorded exchanges.
In a separate conversation, the senior official also apparently deals with concerns from a colleague in one of the north-western provinces, who warns that "others make the majority in our office".
Mr Amarkhail apparently responds to him with the words "why don't you get rid of them, take a stick and kick them all out" and goes on to suggest new officials are recruited from ethnic groups, assumed to back Ashraf Ghani.
Many awkward questions still surround the release of tapes, copies of which have now been handed to the presidency and the Independent Election Commission (IEC).
The UN, which is being urged by Mr Abdullah to step in and help arbitrate disputes, has also been made aware of their existence.
In a statement, the UN said the Afghan election authorities should consider the "validity, weight and implications" of the tapes and "take action in line with the principles of accountability".
It wants the Afghans to sort out their own problems but do so in a "transparent" manner.
For the past week the IEC has been under pressure to suspend Mr Amarkhail pending an investigation.
An altercation between him and a senior police official on election day, after the police chief had become suspicious of his movements, was aired on Afghan TV.
Since then the cries for him to be relieved of his duties have grown louder, but so far the election body has resisted taking any action.
Mr Amarkhail has not responded to BBC requests for an interview. The election authorities simply stated that his "privacy" was protected by the constitution when asked for a comment about the tapes.
Many questions arise from these audio recordings. How were they obtained, why are they being released now and will they be admissible as "evidence" of alleged fraud?
The Abdullah camp has tossed this explosive material into the public domain but the presidential hopeful himself has been away from the media spotlight - in sharp contrast to his public appearances earlier this week.
He has suspended his co-operation with the election authorities, a position the UN has described as "regrettable" and says he will not recognise any result they release.
More demonstrators from Mr Abdullah's camp have been out on the streets of Kabul on Sunday.
Many say they are there to "protect their vote" from fraud.
Both sides have lodged complaints about the conduct of these elections and for Abdullah Abdullah, who felt he was robbed of the presidency back in 2009, there is a sense that history is repeating itself.
Yet both teams are being reminded by the UN's second most senior envoy here, Nicholas Haysom, that there "will be a winner and there will be a loser" in the landmark presidential election.
And, as the slow task of counting and verifying votes continues for some time to come, they are quietly being urged to show restraint.
They made the appeal a week after Penelope Davis, 47, known as Pennie, was found stabbed to death in a field where she was tending to her horses.
Her five children and husband said they were "overwhelmed" by people's support.
Crimestoppers has offered a £5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the killer.
A 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail.
Hampshire Constabulary said it was possible Pennie may have been followed on the day of her murder, on 2 September, from the local supermarket where she worked to the horse paddock.
Her children, Sophie, Alex, Georgia, Daniel and Josef, and her husband Pete, said in the statement: "It has been a long, agonising week since our precious mum and wife was selfishly taken from us.
"We had no idea how many lives she had touched, as we have been overwhelmed by love and support. Despite this, the void in our hearts only continues to grow.
"The police have made progress, but there is still much more to be done. We only hope that no other family should ever have to go through the ordeal that we are currently facing.
"No other person deserves to ever have to go the way our poor mum and wife did. We will never begin to understand how scared and how alone she must have felt.
"This is why we are pleading for anybody with any information to come forward. Even if you think it won't make a difference, it might just be the call we were waiting for."
The mother-of-five's body was found by her husband in the paddock near Leygreen Farm in Beaulieu. A post-mortem examination revealed she died from multiple stab wounds.
Mrs Davis, from Blackfield, worked in a local supermarket and visited the field daily to tend to her horses.
Police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen or heard anyone acting suspiciously near Sainsbury's on Hampton Lane, Blackfield, between 13:00 and 15:00 BST on 2 September.
The departure of Bevington, who was appointed in March, comes a month after David Bernstein and Lord King resigned from the club's board.
Villa, who finished bottom of the Premier League, were relegated to the Championship in April.
Owner Randy Lerner has been seeking a buyer for the club since May 2014.
The club are also awaiting to appoint a new manager after the sacking of Remi Garde in March.
Bevington said he told chairman Steve Hollis that he would not be taking on a full-time role with the club.
"I know how hard Steve is working on a number of levels and I hope he can conclude the ownership and managerial positions very soon," Bevington said in a statement.
"There is a huge amount of work ahead for Aston Villa. A club of its size with its great support should be competing at the higher levels of the Premier League, not in the position it currently finds itself.
"To move forward, now more than ever, it is crucial the club makes the right calls on the big decisions it is faced with."
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The 45-year-old woman was found in a "seriously ill" state, according to police, who were called to The Avenue, Gurnard, shortly after 16:10 GMT on Thursday.
She was taken to St Mary's Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Hampshire Constabulary said a 60-year-old man from Sandown was being held on suspicion of murder.
Unite members were set to stage three walkouts later this month in a dispute over the closure of a final-salary pension scheme.
The union said it was not recommending the deal to workers at the Oxford, Goodwood near Chichester, Hams Hall and Swindon plants.
BMW said it believed the offer was "fair".
Staff at the sites have already held four strikes - the first ever by BMW employees in Britain.
The union's national officer for BMW, Fred Hanna, said it was not recommending the new offer "as it will have different outcomes for different people and their pensions".
He added: "Members should be proud that by standing together they have forced BMW into making this offer.
"Without the action that Unite members have taken and the resolve they have shown in recent weeks, BMW would not have made this latest offer."
According to BMW, 67% of those affected by the changes who were eligible to vote backed the action.
A company spokesman said: "The company is keeping all staff fully informed and we await further feedback from Unite following its ballot.
"We believe the offer to be fair and in the long-term interests of both the company and all our employees."
The ballot is expected to run from 24 May to 9 June.
The Brexit committee said ministers' claim that "no deal is better than a bad deal" was "unsubstantiated" until an economic assessment was published.
But the report divided the cross-party committee, with some members saying it was too pessimistic about Brexit.
The government said it was "preparing for all potential outcomes".
Prime Minister Theresa May has formally triggered Brexit using Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, with the UK due to leave in March 2019.
The Brexit committee's report assesses the government's objectives for the negotiations that are to come over the next two years, as set out in a white paper in February.
A total of 12 principles were set out, including migration control and "taking control of our own laws".
The report said it was important to avoid no deal being reached, saying: "The government has talked about walking away from a bad deal, but has not yet explained what terms would be demonstrably worse for the UK than 'no deal'."
It called for a "thorough assessment of the economic, legal and other implications" to be published, adding: "Without an economic assessment of 'no deal' having been done and without evidence that steps are being taken to mitigate what would be the damaging effect of such an outcome, the government's assertion that 'no deal is better than a bad deal' is unsubstantiated."
The MPs said it said it was "essential" for Parliament to get a vote on whether to proceed if no deal was reached.
Labour MP Hilary Benn, who chairs the committee, said the government was right to push for both negotiations on a new trade deal and separation talks to take place at the same time.
But he said ministers had to be prepared for "the worst case", given the "particularly tight" timescale.
The committee said it was possible that the current "convergence" between the UK and EU would mean talks could move more quickly than previous negotiations, but added: "It is not yet evident, however, that the two-year timetable for achieving this is realistic."
The report looks at different aspects of the EU talks, saying the status of EU nationals "cannot be left unresolved" until the end of talks and warning new migration controls should not damage the economy.
It also says the government has to recognise "differences in the negotiating priorities of the different parts of the UK".
Some MPs walked out of a private meeting of the committee as the report was being finalised, saying it was too "gloomy", and six MPs voted against it, with 10 backing its publication.
Five Conservatives - including former ministers John Whittingdale and Dominic Raab - and Democratic Unionist Sammy Wilson voted against the report, but were outnumbered by 10 Labour, Tory, Liberal Democrat, SNP and SDLP committee members, all of whom backed Remain in last year's referendum.
Mr Whittingdale said he thought the report was "unduly negative" and had "very much concentrated on the problems without really recognising the opportunities" of Brexit, and Mr Raab added: "The report was rushed, skewed and partisan. After two reports that had strong support, it's regrettable that this one split the committee.
"That undermines its credibility and influence, but I hope and expect the committee will learn the right lessons as we move forward."
But Lib Dem committee member Alistair Carmichael said the report was "a devastating critique of the shambles that is the Conservative Brexit strategy".
Brexit Secretary David Davis said: "We are confident that such an outcome is in the interests of both sides. However, a responsible government should prepare for all potential outcomes, including the unlikely scenario in which no mutually satisfactory agreement can be reached, and that is exactly what we are doing.
"We have also been analysing the impact of different scenarios on different sectors of the economy.
"We are clear that no deal is not what we want or expect, but that it would be better than a deal which sought to punish the UK."
The eligibility rules will be broadly the same as for a general election, rather than local or European votes.
Irish citizens in the UK are eligible. Residents from two other EU nations, Malta and Cyprus, also qualify, along with others from the Commonwealth.
The SNP's Humza Yousaf said excluding other EU citizens risked entering "into the rhetoric of division".
He urged the government to rethink eligibility rules.
David Cameron is to hold talks with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at Chequers later.
Legislation for the voting eligibility of the referendum - which the Conservatives have promised to hold before the end of 2017 - will be introduced to Parliament via the EU Referendum Bill on Thursday.
The Bill will make clear that the franchise will follow broadly the same rules as the general election:
A Number 10 source said: "No Brit under the age of 58 has had their say on the UK's membership of the European Union.
"It is time to put this right and to give people the choice - in or out.
"This is a big decision for our country, one that is about the future of the United Kingdom. That's why we think it's important that it is British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens that are the ones who get to decide."
Eurosceptics have previously claimed that as many as 1.5 million people from other EU countries could have been allowed to vote in the referendum, if it had taken place under the rules for local government elections.
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Less than a year ago, the prime minister was doing his best to make sure Jean Claude Juncker didn't get the gig as President of the European Commission.
Well, you win some, you lose some. And David Cameron lost that one. Because they call him President Juncker now.
So, Mr Cameron has invited the president around for tea at his country retreat, Chequers. I'm told the prime minister will be "open, practical and friendly" in his approach.
Later in the week, David Cameron will visit Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Poland and Germany. And the talking is only just beginning.
Former Tory defence secretary Liam Fox, a Eurosceptic, said allowing EU citizens to vote in the referendum "would have been an unacceptable dilution of the voice of the British people".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the plans were "sensible and reasonable".
However, the SNP's Mr Yousaf, the party's Europe minister in the Scottish parliament, urged the government to reconsider.
He told BBC News: "Excluding EU citizens, many of whom live here for a number of years, pay their taxes, their children attend local schools, to disenfranchise them over their own future in this vote is illogical, is utterly perverse and creates a democratic deficit."
He added: "We don't want to enter into the rhetoric of division and I think that's exactly what this franchise aims to do."
The party's Westminster leader Angus Robertson also called for the voting age to be lowered for the referendum.
He said: "Young people are our future. It is their UK - and their Europe - so they must have their say."
Labour's shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn agreed.
"It's a matter of principle," he said. "If a person aged 16 to 17 is old enough to work and pay taxes - and they are - to marry, to join the armed forces, why should they not be allowed to participate in our democracy?"
In 2014, the Conservatives promised to remove the 15-year cap on expats voting in general elections if they were returned to power.
Party chairman Grant Shapps said at the time: "Being a British citizen is for life... we believe it should also give you the lifelong right to vote."
But Conservative backbencher John Redwood told the Today programme it would be "wrong to hijack" the referendum to extend the vote to groups not previously included in the franchise.
And he said it was "a myth put around by the pro-Europeans" that 16 and 17-year-olds were interested in the issue of Europe.
The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, welcomed his citizens' opportunity to make their voices heard in a "seminal exercise in democracy".
This week, Mr Cameron will take a whistle-stop European tour, meeting the leaders of Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Poland and Germany to talk about the UK's agenda for reform.
No 10 said he hoped to talk to the other leaders of EU member states individually before the European Council at the end of next month.
But UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said the prime minister's promised renegotiation would be "more or less worthless".
He added: "We now know he's not seeking treaty change and none of the new deal that he is looking for will apply specifically to Britain... none of it is going to fundamentally change our relationship with Europe."
One victim was a four-year-old Bosnian migrant, snatched in October from a refugee registration centre in Berlin. The other boy disappeared last July.
The judge said the guard, identified only as 33-year-old Silvio S, kidnapped and sexually abused the boys, then killed them to cover up the abuse.
Silvio S was arrested after his mother recognised him in CCTV footage.
In the court in Potsdam he admitted both murders and expressed remorse.
The life term means he will have to serve at least 15 years before seeking early release.
Elias, aged six, was abducted from a Potsdam playground, near Berlin, last July. Later the boy was murdered and buried in a rented garden plot. His body was found after the defendant led police to it.
Mohamed Januzi, aged four, came to Germany with his family from Bosnia-Hercegovina. He was murdered in October.
As the murder was being described in court, Mohamed's mother stood up and screamed at the defendant: "What have you done with my child?"
The German news website RBB said court officials restrained her and led her away at that point.
The attack followed a minor crash between a car and a van on Gressel Lane, Kitts Green at about 18:30 BST on Friday.
The van driver hit the car driver in an "unprovoked" assault before leaving the scene, police said.
The motorist suffered serious head injuries and is unconscious in hospital.
"This was a vicious attack on a family man who was on his way home to his partner and four-year-old child," Det Cons Katie Lees of West Midlands Police said.
"The road is a really busy road and we are sure that there were lots of people who would have seen what happened and we are appealing for them to come forward."
She appealed to the van driver to "search his conscience".
"We have several lines of inquiry and it is only a matter of time before we come knocking at your door," she added.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond also said new F-35 Lightning jets would be flying from the base in 2018.
After Mr Hammond's briefing Elizabeth Truss, Conservative MP for South West Norfolk, said the development would boost job opportunities.
It is also the culmination of a long campaign to keep the base open.
Four years ago RAF Marham's future was under threat as plans favoured a transfer of aircraft and facilities to RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland.
Ms Truss welcomed the new announcement and said more than 5,000 people were now employed at the base by the RAF and contractors.
"Many of these people are highly skilled in disciplines like engineering," she said.
"They now have an opportunity to provide maintenance facilities for other countries' aircraft and this will create even more jobs.
"Already we know the base is protected until 2040 when the strike fighter goes out of service.
"The base is hugely important to the local community as the biggest employer in south west Norfolk with a variety of jobs in many skilled disciplines."
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The teenager played the full match as the Cherries beat Birmingham 2-1 in the FA Cup last month.
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Liverpudlian Sean O'Brien, who now lives in London, was trolled in March after being spotted dancing at a gig.
He was dubbed "The Dancing Man" by a social media campaign to uncover his identity and offer support.
During his LA trip he has been feted by stars, appeared on TV shows and thrown the first pitch at an LA Dodgers game.
Campaigner Monica Lewinsky, musicians Andrew WK and Moby attended his party, while Pharrell Williams recorded a special video message of support that was played at the party.
Mr O'Brien's story has become popular in the US after the social media campaign brought his story to the public's attention.
Pictures of him dancing and then looking upset after he was mocked were posted online, first on message board 4chan and then to the website Reddit.
They were posted with the caption: "Spotted this specimen trying to dance the other week. He stopped when he saw us laughing."
This led to a mass outpouring of support from Twitter users, who managed to track him down.
A group of American supporters, including American writer Cassandra Fairbanks, arranged for him to fly to California for this weekend's events.
His party, which was attended by about 1,000 people, raised money for anti-bullying charities.
Mr O'Brien has also appeared on US television dancing with pop star Meghan Trainor on the Today show.
He told its viewers his experiences after becoming famous had been "completely surreal".
He added: "It's something I never thought would ever happen in my life. It's amazing. What happened to me appeared to touch a lot of nerves.
"We've raised some good money for charity, we've got more money coming in. We're just really trying to help people know that there's support there.
"There'll always be bad in the world but there's far more good people."
He also said that he liked to dance often, "but badly - very, very badly".
Moby acted as the DJ at the party , held at the Avalon nightclub, where Mr O'Brien also met Ms Lewinsky, an anti-bullying campaigner famous for her affair with the former US President Bill Clinton.
On Sunday, Mr O'Brien threw the symbolic first pitch at a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, wearing a Dodgers shirt with "Dancing Man" printed on the back.
But as a young man growing up in the town of Rampur in northern India, Mohammad Javed never imagined his love for a Pakistani relative would see him branded a terrorist and sent to jail for eleven and a half years.
Two years after a court cleared him of all charges, he shared with the BBC his extraordinary tale of falling in love, the letters they exchanged, his abduction and torture by the Indian authorities, the long years spent in prison and the most heartbreaking part of all - losing his love.
Javed, now 33, met Mobina for the first time in 1999 when he took his mother to Karachi to visit her cousins and uncles who had migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947. For the couple, it was love at first sight.
"Within a month of our meeting, we expressed our love for each other," Javed told me when I visited him at the modest home he shares with his parents, brothers and their families.
"We were at a family wedding where there were other young women and I think she felt insecure. She took me aside and told me that I was not to look at any other girl since she was in love with me. I told her I felt the same way."
Love blossomed - and deepened - during the three-and-a-half months that Javed spent in Karachi.
"She would leave home in the morning telling her family that she was going to college. I would meet her outside the college gate, and we would go and hang out in Sipari Park," he said.
On his return to India, the television mechanic spent his entire salary on calls to Mobina whom he still refers to by her pet name Gudiya, or Doll.
"Cellphones hadn't arrived here then. So I would go to a telephone booth and call her. It was very expensive, I had to pay 62 rupees [at the time nearly £1; $1.45] a minute to speak to her."
A year later, he travelled to Karachi again, this time for two months.
By now, their families were aware of their feelings and although no-one had any objection to their union, there was one bone of contention - Mobina's family wanted Javed to move to Pakistan, while Javed and his family wanted her to come to India.
"This time as I prepared to leave, she said, 'You go, I will convince my family and then you come back and take me with you.' I didn't know that when I left, I would never return. That I would never see her again," he says, wistfully.
Over the next two years, Javed regularly called Mobina and they wrote each other long love letters.
When Javed received the first letter, he hit a hurdle - he had little schooling and couldn't read Urdu, the language in which Mobina wrote.
So he enlisted the help of his friends - Maqsood who read the letters out to him, Taj Mohammad who translated and wrote the letters in Hindi so Javed could read and re-read them, and Mumtaz Mian who printed a floral design along with "MJ" - the initials of the young lovers - on sheets of paper on which Maqsood wrote out Javed's response to Mobina.
"Her letter was 10 pages long. I wrote her a 12-page letter. It took me 12 days to write it," he says.
And then one day, everything changed.
"I still remember the day very clearly," says Javed. "It was 10 August 2002. It was a Saturday. I was in my shop when a man came and asked me to go with him and fix his television. I told him I didn't do house calls, but he seemed quite distraught, so I agreed."
As they walked a few metres from the shop, a car pulled up and he was abducted.
Initially, Javed says, he thought they were criminals, "but then I overheard them talking and I could understand that they were from the police".
His ordeal began in the car.
"They took away my wallet, watch and other things. I had two of Mobina's letters on me and they took them away too. They threatened to shoot me if I didn't keep quiet. They said they'd abducted my family too and that they were being tortured in another car.
"I was crying, begging them for mercy."
After a while, they blindfolded him and when they took it off, Javed found himself in a room where he says he was tortured for the next three days.
"They beat me black and blue, hung me upside-down and kept lowering my head into a tub of water. It was so painful. I couldn't bear it any longer. I begged them to kill me."
Javed was accused of being "an agent" for Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, and his tormenters claimed he had been passing on secrets about the ministry of external affairs and defence ministry to Islamabad.
Three days later, they brought him back to Rampur and his three friends - Maqsood, Taj Mohammad and Mumtaz Mian - were also arrested.
The next day, the four men were produced in court and paraded before journalists as "dreaded terrorists" who were "waging war against India".
The authorities said Javed's two visits to Pakistan had been to meet his ISI contacts and that his calls to Karachi were to pass on secrets to them.
A month and a half later, they were charged under India's controversial special anti-terror law, The Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota).
"This meant we couldn't get bail. We were so demoralised. We were told if we were convicted, we could get the death penalty."
Javed says he has no idea why he was singled out. "But in jail, people said it was because of the Kargil conflict and that any Muslim who had travelled to Pakistan soon after the fighting was a suspect."
A spokesman for the campaign group Rihai Manch told the BBC that there are dozens of young Muslim men like Javed who have been held in prisons across India on trumped-up charges.
The hardest part of jail life, says Javed, was when there was a family wedding or when his father fractured his leg and he couldn't visit him. "I was lodged in Rampur jail. I was so near, yet so far."
In prison, he also lost his best friends - Maqsood, Taj Mohammad and Mumtaz Mian blamed him for giving their names to the police.
Javed says it was the memory of his love that kept him sane during the long years in jail.
"I used to tell my fellow prisoners about Mobina, how we fell in love, her habits, how she would tease me when I visited her. This made my time in prison more bearable and helped me keep her memory alive."
The years were tough for his parents too.
Javed's mother Afsana Begum blamed herself for her son's misfortune. "If I hadn't insisted on going to visit my relatives in Karachi, maybe he would have been spared the ordeal," she tells me, wiping away tears.
His father sold his land and the family jewellery and accumulated massive debts to hire lawyers to fight his son's wrongful confinement.
Finally Javed was freed from jail on 19 January 2014, a day after a court threw out all charges against him and the judge said the prosecution's evidence did not add up.
"When I walked out of jail, for a while it was difficult to believe that I was really free," he says, adding, "but one-third of my life, which was the most important time of my life, my entire 20s, was taken away from me."
Over the past two years, Javed has been trying to rebuild his life, bit-by-bit. He's taken a shop close to his house where he repairs old TV sets, but he's angry that there's been no compensation and no punishment for the people who ruined his life.
I ask him if he's been in touch with Mobina since his release.
"No, it's been a long time, she may be married," he says.
I ask him if he would like to get in touch with her?
"I have managed to expel her from my head, but not from my heart. I still love her, but I'm afraid to call her. What happens if they go after me or my family again?"
Baker, 33, follows defender Matt Clarke and midfielder Danny Rose as new additions to Pompey manager Paul Cook's squad for next season.
The former Morecambe and Coventry player scored 15 goals in 72 games during his two seasons with MK Dons.
He was offered a new deal by the club at the end of last season, but opted to join Portsmouth instead.
Baker's move to Fratton Park will become official on 1 July, a club he admitted he nearly joined two years ago.
"It's lovely to finally arrive on the south coast," he told the club's website.
"Since then I've kept a close eye on their results and another big factor in me coming here is that Paul Cook was my boss at Southport, where I started out."
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An IPC taskforce has unanimously recommended the suspension, imposed in August, stays in place.
Russia was banned from last September's Rio Paralympics after revelations of systematic doping,
A taskforce report has expressed its concern at Russia's lack of action ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Last month, IPC president Sir Philip Craven told the BBC that the country's athletes may still be banned at next year's Games.
Russia was suspended after World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren detailed widespread drug use, and cover-ups allegedly involving government officials.
However, officials have not "specifically addressed'' McLaren's findings, either by accepting them or "properly rebutting'' them, according to the report from the IPC taskforce, which has been working with the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC).
"Unless and until the problems that led to the suspension are fully understood and addressed, the IPC taskforce is of the view that there can be no meaningful change in culture,'' said taskforce chairman Andy Parkinson, the chief executive of British Rowing.
Parkinson did report "various positive developments" since the taskforce started its work, including trying to set up an effective short-tern testing programme.
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A short while ago the pound was up 0.45% at $1.476, having hit $1.479, its highest since January 4, the first trading day of the year.
On Monday the pound jumped the most in a single day against the dollar in seven years.
The currency market has been reacting to polls which have recently suggested the Remain campaign gaining ground.
Last week the pound was trading close to $1.41, its lowest level since early April.
On Monday, against the euro, the pound gained 0.2% to €1.301.
Bookmaker Betfair and Ladbrokes show a 73% chance that the UK will vote to remain in the European Union.
Analysts said that a vote to leave the EU would likely lead to a sharp drop in the pound.
"If the UK does leave the EU, there will uncertainty from a political standpoint and a fiscal and monetary policy standpoint. This would drive investors from the pound into other currencies as it loses the safe haven effect it has come to enjoy over the last number of years," said independent markets analyst Brenda Kelly.
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Dywedodd Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru fod tua 500 o fusnesau yn dal i aros am eu taliadau o Bolisi Amaeth Cyffredin yr UE (CAP) i gael eu prosesu.
Dywedodd Huw Jones o Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru, wrth BBC Cymru fod yr oedi yn "annerbyniol".
Ond dywedodd Llywodraeth Cymru nad oes cyfnod talu wedi ei osod.
Dywedodd Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru fod y rhan fwyaf o'r rhai sy'n wynebu oedi wedi eu lleoli yng Ngwynedd, gyda 21% o'r bobl sy'n disgwyl taliadau yng Nghymru, wedi eu lleoli o fewn y sir.
Ym Mhowys mae 62 o bobl yn aros am arian i gael ei dalu, gyda'r mwyafrif yn disgwyl eu taliadau erbyn canol mis Ionawr.
"Mae'r oedi yn afresymol. Mae'r taliadau yn cael eu rhoi drwy fisoedd yn hwyrach na'r sefyllfa'r llynedd," meddai Mr Jones.
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England striker Lambert has had a frustrating last two years, making just 12 Premier League starts for Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion.
Now Lambert, 34, is refreshed following his deadline-day move to Cardiff.
"I want to be relied on, like I have been all of my career," he said.
Cardiff will be led by Sean Morrison at Carrow Road, with the centre-back inheriting the captaincy following goalkeeper David Marshall's move to Hull City.
But Joe Bennett, signed from Aston Villa, will have to wait for his debut due to a slight calf problem.
Head coach Paul Trollope says Lambert was his "number one target" during the transfer window and was delighted to have landed the player he signed for Bristol Rovers 10 years ago.
Now Lambert, who said Trollope was a major factor in his decision to join the Bluebirds, is anxious to repay that faith and play regularly again.
"Throughout my career everyone in the club has looked upon me to score goals, relied on me to push the team forward and at Liverpool it was kind of I was a chess piece and the same at West Brom," he said.
"In the Premier League most teams have four strikers and you become a certain type of striker, where I am used to being the main man and teams revolving around me.
"Obviously if that happens the teams gets the rewards out of me, I feel. My record in the lower leagues and the Championship speaks for itself and I'm hoping with Trolls [Trollope] I can get back there.''
"I am desperate to enjoy my football again. I'm 34, obviously I want to be playing now until I retire, whenever that is going to be. `
"I don't want to be sitting on the bench and I don't want to be remembering the last few years of my career sitting on the bench somewhere. I want to be playing and if that means dropping down from the Premier League that doers not bother me whatsoever.
"I loved the Premier League, I loved getting there, I have had great memories. But being relied on, playing and being involved in a team week in week out means more."
Lambert said he had no regrets about joining his boyhood heroes Liverpool in a £4m move from Southampton in 2014, despite making only seven league starts for the Reds.
"I have been asked that question many a time and in hindsight may be you would have picked a different choice," he added.
"But no-one is telling me when Liverpool comes in for you, anyone in my shoes is going to say no being a Liverpool supporter.
"It did not work out but, at the end of the day, I still played for Liverpool, I played in the Champions League and still scored.
"It is something I am proud of, I wish it would have gone better but that's football sometimes. It went my way for years and obviously it did not work out that time."
Meanwhile, Trollope confirmed defender Morrison will be the new captain.
"Sean is going to be the new skipper on and off the pitch. He has grown in stature form coming on the scene quite early as a young centre-half, did well through his time at Swindon and Reading and through here," said Trollope.
"I think he is making good progress. He has shown really good leadership qualities on and off the pitch. He is respected in the group, he has shown a real hunger and desire firstly in preseason when he got injured and he pushed himself to get back available, which is a testament to him."
After England's capitulation at Lord's, the 25-year-old struck two sixes and 39 fours in his 291 against Sussex.
He shared a partnership of 365 at Horsham with skipper Chris Read, who made 121, a club-record for the sixth wicket against Sussex.
Read eventually declared on 570-7, and Sussex were 157-4 in reply at stumps.
Taylor's innings finally came to an end when the persevering Steve Magoffin was finally rewarded with his first wicket of the innings, having only conceded 53 from 31.1 accurate overs.
He had not previously reached three figures in a Championship match this summer, but with Gary Ballance and Ian Bell both short of form in England's middle order, his name is likely to be discussed when the selectors meet to decide the squad for the third Test against Australia, which begins at Edgbaston on 29 July.
Taylor, who batted for 501 minutes, won two Test caps against South Africa in 2012, but only managed a highest score of 34.
Read, meanwhile, played the perfect supporting role and reached three figures for the third time this summer as Notts posted a total that must have far exceeded their expectations when they were 30-3 on the opening morning.
Sussex made a solid start in reply as Ed Joyce and Luke Wells, who both made 40, put on 79 for the first wicket.
But left-arm paceman Harry Gurney then took 3-54 and spinner Gary Keedy, playing his first Championship game of the summer, had Chris Nash caught at slip as he tried to drive.
Luke Wright and Craig Cachopa halted the slide before bad light ended play with the pair on 21 and 13 not out respectively.
Notts batsman James Taylor:
"It gave me a lot of pleasure. I was due some runs and I set my stall out when I got out there to bat for a long time.
"Sussex bowled exceptionally well to start with, which made it hard to score initially, but as my innings went on I got more fluent.
"As far as England is concerned I'd like to think I'll be talked about again after this innings. I feel I have matured as a player and I know my own game a lot better.
"I've got a lot more experience in terms of knowledge of the game too. I feel in a really good place after that knock and it's up to me to kick on now."
Sussex coach Mark Robinson:
"James Taylor had to fight hard for a long while yesterday and again this morning. He rode his luck a bit but he is a great player of spin and got better and better.
"He's got a fantastic appetite for scoring big runs which I've seen both against us and when I've worked with him with England Lions.
"Even after he reached 200 he was still running hard for quick singles and showing great fitness.
"There is something in the pitch for the bowlers but it's a good cricket wicket and, as Taylor showed, if you get in you can go big."
The carrier posted a net profit of €425m (£312m; $472m) in the last quarter, up from a €252m loss last year, helped by the falling oil price.
But Lufthansa said rising pension and other costs remained a burden, and that pilots' strikes had cost it €42m.
Lufthansa said the disaster this year at its Germanwings division had no impact on the parent firm's profits.
The crash on 24 March, in which 150 passengers and crew died, had limited impact on bookings, Lufthansa said, and that insurance is expected to cover the claims brought by the families of the victims.
Lufthansa, like other national carriers, is trying to bring costs down in order to compete better with rivals from the Gulf and Turkey and low-cost carriers in Europe.
"We continue to see great pressure to act," chief financial officer Simone Menne said in a statement. "We cannot accept the continuing increase in fees or the development of our unit costs."
The weaker euro, down more than 11% against the dollar in the first quarter, boosted Lufthansa's revenue, but airline was also helped by cheaper oil.
Lufthansa now estimates a 2015 fuel bill of €6bn, against an earlier estimate of €6.2bn.
In an interview with the Associated Press and Russian channel NTV, he also said he gave no orders to open fire on protesters in the capital, Kiev.
Mr Yanukovych fled Kiev after protests in which more than 100 people died.
Meanwhile, a top Nato commander says Russian forces could seize swathes of Ukraine in three to five days.
Moscow is believed to have massed tens of thousands of troops on Ukraine's eastern border in recent days, causing alarm in Kiev and the West.
By David SternBBC News, Kiev
Viktor Yanukovych's remark that Crimea's annexation by Russia was a "tragedy," and that the peninsula should be returned to Ukraine, could be viewed as a cunning strategy to boost the ousted Ukrainian leader's standing among his countrymen - or a blunder of gigantic proportions.
He was careful to lay the region's loss squarely at the feet of Ukraine's new leadership, not with the Kremlin (or himself).
Still, saying even that Crimea was not an eternal and undisputed piece of Russian territory - as Moscow officials insist - is a spectacular case of "going off message".
But does it even matter now what Mr Yanukovych thinks? His relations with Vladimir Putin were already said to be frosty, well before he was ousted by angry protesters. This reportedly lowered his standing evenfurther in Mr Putin's eyes.
In his interview, Mr Yanukovych said he would try to convince the Russian president to give Crimea back. One wonders if he will even be able to get a meeting.
General Philip Breedlove, Nato's top commander in Europe, said all the elements were in place for a rapid advance, including armour, mechanised units, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and all the logistics needed to back them up.
Russia annexed Crimea in southern Ukraine last month following a controversial referendum branded illegal by Kiev and the West. The peninsula has a majority ethnic Russian population.
Moscow has insisted it has no intention of invading Ukraine.
Mr Yanukovych, now in Russia, said he would try to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to return Crimea to Ukraine.
"Crimea is a tragedy, a major tragedy," he said.
"We must set such a task and search for ways to return to Crimea on any conditions, so that Crimea may have the maximum degree of independence possible... but be part of Ukraine."
Mr Yanukovych said had he remained in power, he would have tried to prevent the referendum, calling it a "form of protest" against Ukraine's new pro-Western leaders.
More than 100 people were killed in street protests in Kiev in January and February, many of them by sniper fire, but Mr Yanukovych said he had no role in their deaths.
He said gunfire came from the opposition camp, not from riot police, and that responsibility for the high number of deaths lay with the opposition.
"I personally never gave any orders to shoot," he said.
"As far as I know the weapons were never given to those special troops who took part in defending the state buildings and the state bodies - they just complied with their orders."
He added: "My principles which I always follow are that no authority, no power is worth a drop of blood."
Unrest in Ukraine began late last year when Mr Yanukovych rejected an association agreement with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia.
The interim government in Kiev that took power after Mr Yanukovych fled has scheduled a presidential and some mayoral elections for 25 May.
Reports that Moscow has massed troops along the eastern border with Ukraine has sparked fears of further incursions into parts of the country with large Russian-speaking populations.
The Kremlin has said it wants to protect ethnic Russians from "fascists" in Kiev.
In an interview with Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, Gen Breedlove described the situation on the border as "incredibly concerning".
"This is a very large and very capable and very ready force," he said.
"We think it is ready to go and we think it could accomplish its objectives in between three and five days if directed to make the actions."
Nato foreign ministers have agreed to suspend all practical civilian and military co-operation with Russia.
Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has described Moscow's annexation of Crimea as the gravest threat to European security for a generation.
Foreign ministers from the 28-member Nato bloc, gathering in Brussels, are also looking at options including putting permanent military bases in the Baltic states to reassure members in Eastern Europe.
Russia's actions in Ukraine have caused concern in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which were part of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Federica Boscolo-Gnolo, 32, initially reported her daughter Farah missing but later admitted suffocating her.
She pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.
At a hearing at the Old Bailey she was sentenced to remain in a mental health facility with an unlimited restriction order following psychiatric reports.
Farah's body, which has never been found, is believed to have been disposed of in the Russell Square area.
The court heard Boscolo-Gnolo was a depressed woman who became pregnant as the result of a brief romance through a dating website.
Outlining the facts of the case, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said Boscolo-Gnolo, 32, first came to the UK in 2012 to do a language course and took a job as a receptionist.
She met a man on Match.com in 2013 and began a relationship, but by the time she found she was pregnant, the pair had "drifted" and she returned to her family in Italy in September 2014.
When the baby was born in November 2014, she was found to have an eye defect.
Boscolo-Gnolo's mother described the defendant as being "attentive and caring" towards the newborn child, the court heard.
But in January last year she took a flight to London without telling her family and checked into the Lily Hotel near Earls Court in west London with Farah.
While there, she texted the baby's father and contacted a former colleague who visited and promised to stay in touch.
Boscolo-Gnolo then suffocated baby Farah because she felt "hopeless" and saw no reason why her daughter should suffer.
Sentencing, Recorder of London Nicholas Hilliard QC said psychiatric reports had provided an explanation of how the "precious life" had been lost.
He accepted that the mother had been suffering from at least "moderate" depression with psychotic symptoms and probable underlying personality disorder.
She had been hearing voices telling her how her daughter would "suffer in her life" and had also lost touch with reality, he said.
The judge told her: "You were quite simply overwhelmed by the prospect of how you thought your daughter would suffer in her life."
He added: "I have no doubt you have expressed remorse for what you did and will continue to do so as your insight increases."
An armed ex-policeman hijacked the bus carrying Hong Kong tourists in August.
The five-person jury found that the victims were unlawfully killed and the authorities' botched handling of the crisis directly led to their deaths.
Police stormed the bus and shot dead gunman Rolando Mendoza, who seized the vehicle in a bid to get his job back.
The gunman had spent almost three decades with Manila's police force, but was sacked over claims of extortion.
The hostage drama lasted for 11 hours and eight of the 25 people on board were shot dead.
The botched rescue attempt by Philippine forces was broadcast live on television and radio, heightening questions about how it was managed.
The Hong Kong inquest jury said the Philippine authorities had not met the hostage-taker's demands quickly enough and that they had lied to him.
The jury said the bungled rescue had meant potentially life-saving treatment for two of the victims was delayed.
"Philippine officials left to dine at a restaurant even after Mendoza fired warning shots, meaning no one was on scene to take command when Mendoza started firing at the hostages," the jury said in its verdict.
The inquest heard minute-by-minute details of the crisis from 31 witnesses from Hong Kong and 10 from the Philippines.
The inquest's findings do not ascribe criminal or civil liability to anyone involved.
The incident has strained ties between Manila, Hong Kong and the Chinese government.
Following a Philippine inquest in October, Philippine President Benigno Aquino sought only minor charges, such as "neglect of duty" against four police officers.
The Mayor of Manila, Alfredo Lim, escaped criminal prosecution after President Aquino overturned a judge's recommendation; the mayor and a deputy ombudsman were recommended for administrative charges only.
The BBC's Hong Kong correspondent, Annemarie Evans, says President Aquino came in for much criticism in what constituted his first international crisis.
The BBC One show is nominated in the reality and factual entertainment category, against Swedish hidden camera programme Who Cares? and Canadian fly-on-the-wall parking show Street Jungle.
British nominees account for 24 out of the 33 nominees across 11 categories.
BBC TV and radio shows scored 17 nods in total.
BBC Two's Inside No. 9 is up for best comedy alongside Sky Arts' Psychobitches and BBC Three's The Revolution Will be Televised.
Gold's Monty Python: The Meaning of Live and Channel 4's Our Gay Wedding: The Musical are both nominated in the arts category.
The Graham Norton Show is also up for best entertainment, with Channel 4's Catastrophe nominated for best sitcom.
In the radio categories, BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra scored nine out of the 15 nominations, with science series The Infinite Monkey Cage receiving two nods for best radio comedy and best radio talk show.
The latter category was made up solely of Radio 4 shows, with Woman's Hour and Chain Reaction completing the list.
BBC Radio 2 received two nods - Ken Bruce's Pop Master was nominated for best radio game show and Friday Night is Music Night: The Sinatra Legacy was recognised for best radio music show.
BBC Radio 6 Music's Army of Me: Bjork Now and John Grant's Songs from a Dark Place were also both nominated for best radio music show.
More than 450 programmes were submitted for this year's Rose d'Or awards. Three finalists were then selected in the six categories covering television and online video, and five radio categories.
"The quality of the nominees this year is extremely high - not just in television but also in radio. It highlights the level of entertainment content that's being produced across the industry," said Jean Philip de Tender of awards organiser Eurovision said.
Winners of each category will be chosen by judges who work in the industry.
The awards will be handed out at a London ceremony on 9 December.
The full list of nominations can be seen on the Rose d'Or website.
The Via Partnership trading as Connexions went into administration in December.
It offered careers advice and training in a joint venture with Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen Council.
The company folded "after losing a major contract" but helped "hundreds of young people", said Blackpool Council leader Simon Blackburn.
It comes as Lancashire County Council has to make savings of £85m next year and £200m more over the next four years.
The authority said in a statement: "When issues with the company's cash flow became evident, the county council, along with the company's other shareholders, actively explored the options for a management buyout or sale to a third party.
"It only became clear in early December last year that there was no realistic prospect of a sale of the company at which point the decision was taken to place Via into administration."
Blackpool Council has already written off £300,000 and Blackburn with Darwen has been unavailable for comment on its investment.
Councillor Blackburn said after receiving interest payments on the loan for 18 months the company collapsed after the "loss of a major contract and there was no way to recover the outstanding debt".
He said when the loans were made the Via Partnership was turning over around £4m a year.
He added: "The Via partnership was successful for a number of years and the loan helped hundreds of young people get access to training and apprenticeships, as well as keeping local people in work to carry out that important job."
Ulster finished fourth in the table at the end of the regular season, with Leinster topping the standings.
Former Ulster back-rower, now BBC Sport NI analyst Tony McWhirter, offers his thoughts on the interprovincial derby.
Connacht entertain Glasgow Warriors at the Sportsground in Galway in the other semi-final on Saturday evening.
T McW: Ulster had the game won against Glasgow last year until a dubious decision by the Television Match Official saw the momentum and initiative swing towards the hosts.
History stacks up against Ulster in the sense that no away team has ever won a semi-final in the competition since they were introduced but I think Ulster are a better side than last year and this is the best chance they will have.
They are playing with confidence and winning matches and you can't underestimate the confidence that going on a run of wins brings, especially when a number of those have been away from home.
T McW: You have to take Leinster's big defeat at the Kingspan Stadium a couple of weeks ago into consideration but they will be a different proposition at the RDS.
It's a sell-out crowd and their coach Leo Cullen has been talking revenge, so that will be high on their priorities.
T McW: The game will be won up front, as these matches generally are, and Leinster have a very strong scrum.
Ulster must keep their discipline, listen to the referee, get him on side, and make sure it stays that way.
It could come down to a kicking contest between the two fly-halves, Johnny Sexton and Paddy Jackson, but I think the game will be a bit more open than that.
Both teams went into their last games of the regular season knowing that they had to score four tries to secure five points, which left some gaps and holes to exploit, but Ulster will have to tighten up their defence for this game, which I'm sure they are capable of doing.
Ulster will have to be as near flawless as they can in their execution, keeping errors to a minimum and taking their scoring chances.
T McW: There won't be an awful lot in it at the end but I think Ulster will win.
They have lost a few important matches in recent years and Leinster have been a bit of a bogey team for them but Ulster are a team on the up, while Leinster are maybe slightly the opposite.
Having experienced players will be important but it's a big stage for the younger players to shine too.
A lot of the younger players have been progessing well since the turn of the year, the likes of Peter Browne, Callum Black and Ricky Lutton, who are maybe unsung heroes, and don't attract a lot of headlines.
They have really come to the party and put themselves into consideration for Ireland by their good late season form.
Leinster have not always played to their potential in recent weeks, while Ulster not only beat an Ospreys side who still had something to play for in their last game, they really put a score on them.
T McW: I fancy Glasgow to beat Connacht as the mitigating factor in their defeat in Galway a few weeks ago was that they had a man sent-off after 50 minutes when the score was 7-7.
Glasgow move the ball well and coach Gregor Townsend is very cute with how he tweaks his team selection. They also have experience of winning a competition and that counts for a lot.
Connacht's season has been a real fairytale and they probably deserve to be in the final given how they have performed all season but whether they can go that extra step I don't know, it might be just too much for them.
Tony McWhirter was talking to BBC Sport NI's Richard Petrie
Heavy machinery rolls along rails to the strange music of beeps and sirens. Further from the shore, 20m-high stacking cranes choreographed by computers load and unload lorries . And all this comes with a minimum of visible human effort.
Welcome to the 21st Century container port.
This is London Gateway on the River Thames in Thurrock, Essex. It's owned by Dubai-based DP World.
Britain's newest container port - it's less than two years old - uses the latest technology to make its operations as efficient as possible.
In the control room, banks of computer screens could place you in any generic open-plan administrative office.
But the hard hats dotted about hint that this is somewhat different.
Closer inspection of some of the screens reveals charts containing numerous charcoal blocks - graphic representations of the metal containers that are the staple of the global freight trade.
"From here we plan, control, monitor and execute all the container movements", says operations manager Ivan Deosdad i Lopez.
"It's like a very complicated game of Tetris."
Tetris is a maddeningly addictive computer game involving the arrangement of coloured blocks. This is why London Gateway actively seeks job applications from gamers.
After all, the controls of a quay crane are not too dissimilar to a game console.
These quayside cranes are huge, roughly equivalent to the London Eye in height with their booms up. And they can move four containers on or off a ship at once.
Each container is identified by an optical character recognition system that reads a unique identifying code - a combination of four letters and seven numbers. This helps track the containers as they move around the world.
The 6m or 12m long metal containers can carry anything from car parts to clothing, perishables to periscopes - in short, a vast array of goods demanded by industry or consumers.
Southampton's port - also owned by DP World - offers customers "live terminal data" giving them the ability to track cargo "from ship to shore", while the UK's busiest container port at Felixstowe has just commissioned two new track-mounted gantry cranes to increase cargo volumes by rail.
While a lot of the port operations are automated, people are still required. Yet the workforce is a far cry from the nearly all-male ports of old.
"Around 1-in-10 of the terminal operatives is female, which I guess is pretty impressive for the port industry," says Lucy Golding, a terminal operative.
Her duties include driving tractors to move containers within the port. She also happens to have a Masters in History from the University of Amsterdam.
Elsewhere on the site, a former beautician from Basildon retrained to become a crane driver.
Of course, it wasn't always like this. Manual handling of loads on and off barges under sail occurred within living memory.
"We used to carry fishmeal which used to stink to the high earth," recalls 71-year-old Suffolk skipper Gordon 'Willie' Williamson. He's now master of the 1909 Thames sailing barge, Ardwina.
"Some barges used to carry what they called hoof and horn to take to the glue factory, which was the bones and hoofs of animals."
Holds that had carried such odorous cargo required fumigation before they could transport foodstuffs again, he says.
In the Museum of London Docklands, historian Alex Werner goes back even further.
"At the beginning of the 19th Century and right through to the early 20th Century the most common form of shipment unit was the barrel."
Although we now associate barrels principally with wines and spirits, in those days they would also carry dry goods, he explains.
Global trade has moved into the digital world and ports are using the latest technology to help them attract new trade from Asia and the Far East.
Ships calling at London Gateway take in countries such as India, Argentina, Morocco, the Caribbean, and South Africa - it's like some vast never-ending version of London's Circle Line.
The quicker ports can move containers between train, truck and ship, and the more reliably they can keep tabs on them in port and in transit, the better it is for importers and exporters.
Buyers are increasingly expecting next-day delivery of goods.
"The internet has had a dramatic effect on the way that retailers operate," observes Xavier Woodward, the port's communications manager. "We have a large modern port directly connected to what will become Europe's largest logistics space for retailers."
Technology is helping to make our hugely complex global trading system as efficient and seamless as possible.
But who'd have thought Tetris gaming skills would be an advantage?
However, the Eurogroup still wants Greece to create a privatisation fund and banking legislation before providing the cash.
It also says it will offer Greece a form of debt relief from 2018 if it completes reforms by then.
Greece agreed to a third bailout package worth €86bn (£60bn) last year.
On Sunday, the Greek parliament approved unpopular measures designed to overhaul tax and pension systems, a condition for receiving €5.4bn under the bailout deal.
Greece also has to specify how it would make further spending cuts if it fails to meet financial targets in the coming years.
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was upbeat that a deal could be reached on the next tranche, after meeting fellow ministers in Belgium.
BBC economics correspondent Andrew Walker says some eurozone finance ministers, including the influential Wolfgang Schaeuble of Germany, also expressed optimism an agreement could be reached later this month.
Monday's talks were focusing on debt relief measures aimed at avoiding the prospect of Greece defaulting in July. That is when Athens is due to make its next major repayment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank.
The IMF believes Greece needs debt relief and says it will not sign off on a review of Greek reforms unless such relief is granted.
However, eurozone finance ministers say they have agreed to offer debt relief by giving Greece longer grace periods and bond maturities from 2018, if the country delivers by then on all reforms agreed under its latest bailout.
"This agreement on debt... by the European partners is expected to allow the IMF to participate in the programme," the ministers said in a statement.
The IMF and other European partners are demanding Greece implement further austerity measures to generate an extra €4bn (£3.1bn) in savings - contingency money in case Greece misses future budget targets.
"A deal needs to address three issues: reforms - we are there - the contingency mechanism - we are almost there - and the debt issue - we are starting the discussion," said European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, as he arrived for the Brussels talks.
The debate in Greece's parliament on the reforms lasted for two days and protesters clashed with police in Athens in the lead up to the vote early on Monday.
Three days of a general strike also paralysed public transport and slowed the public sector.
Greek trade unions say the country cannot bear another round of austerity measures.
Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe, Jack Dakin and manager Craig Tarry, who were aged between 20 and 33, were killed when their car plunged more than 25m (82ft) from a bridge into a canal.
The band had hours earlier played their first gig outside the UK.
Swedish police are examining their car to try to find the cause of the crash.
UK band Viola Beach die in Sweden crash
The Warrington band were in Sweden to take part in a music festival on Friday and were due to play a gig in Guildford in Surrey on Saturday.
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday near Stockholm.
Police say their car hit a roadside barrier and plunged into a canal - falling through a gap in a bridge which had opened to let a boat pass through.
The family of Mr Lowe said his life had been "tragically cut short".
"Tomas was the best son, brother, uncle and friend you could ever wish for and he will be missed dearly.
"Tomas had a passion for music and for life and he was, in his words, 'living the dream' when his life was tragically cut short. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him," the family added in a Foreign Office statement.
Mr Leonard's family said "words cannot express the sadness we feel at the loss of our precious Kristian".
"He was doing the job he loved and will be missed so much by his family and friends," they added in a statement.
Mr Tarry's relatives said they were "devastated" and "grieving the loss of their son and also for the other families involved in this tragic accident".
They added: "Craig was a warm, loving person who had worked tirelessly to achieve success and follow his dreams within the music industry."
Mr Reeves's family said they were "heartbroken".
"River had such talent and such humility, such charm and such innocence it seems so unfair that he can be taken so cruelly from us like this," they said in a statement.
Mr Tarry, who spent time in Los Angeles, was passionate about Manchester City football club and was a member of the Hollywood branch of the team's supporters club.
Fellow member and friend Matthew Kershaw said: "He was much loved by all of us, and all those that ever came in contact with him, and we are devastated for his family, and for his friends, who are truly all around the world."
BBC video journalist Olivia Richwald
The Lounge is a live music bar in Warrington and it's where friends say Viola Beach was "made".
Three members of the band had worked here, one of them, Tomas Lowe, for 10 years.
It's where the boys rehearsed and tried out new songs on a friendly crowd.
A poster of Viola Beach is still proudly displayed outside - it says the boys will be back in Warrington in March.
Not at the bar, because their fan base had grown too big, but at a bigger venue just over the road.
It was a homecoming gig that had sold out with two months to go, one that won't now take place.
This afternoon friends gathered inside the bar and spoke of how talented the band was and how they were just getting big. Successful but still modest, they said.
The Lounge is known as a live music venue. This afternoon it's silent.
The band's record label, Communion Records, expressed its "total shock and sorrow".
And Ian Grimble, the band's producer, said Viola Beach's energy and vibrancy "jumped out of the speakers".
He added: "It is with great sadness that we will not be able to see them grow from the spark that they are now, into the raging fire that they so desperately desired to become."
United Talent agency, which represented the band, said the four-piece was "a truly great team of young men and about to take on the world together".
Other figures from the music industry and fans of the band have also been paying tribute to the four-piece and their manager.
BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens said the Warrington band were "incredibly promising", were building a loyal fan base and had already toured with bigger bands.
Music promoter Dave Pichilingi booked the band for the Liverpool Sound City festival last year and they were scheduled to play again this year.
They were a "hungry, energetic, amazing" band who "were on the verge of great things", he said.
BBC Radio Merseyside presenter Dave Monks, who was among the first to play their music on air, said they were "great guys" who had "so much going for them".
Ross Jarman, from The Cribs, tweeted: "Heart goes out to the Viola Beach guys and their families."
Indie rock band, The Enemy, tweeted: "RIP Viola Beach and their manager. Such incredibly tragic and sad news. Thought with the friends and families of all involved x"
The principal of Priestley College in Warrington, where three of the band members went, said they had "really bright futures ahead of them".
"It is a very sad day for Priestley and for Warrington," he said.
A musician who played at the Where Is The Music? festival in Norrkoping, Sweden, said "they were fantastic people to be around".
John Olsson, from Swedish band Psykofant, said: "They were a great band. I was standing in the audience thinking I will be able to say I hung around with Viola Beach before they made it big."
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Swedish police said they received a call about 02:30 local time (01:30 GMT) and were on the scene within five minutes.
They said divers recovered the bodies of the victims after their Nissan Qashqai plunged through a gap in the bridge, which has a middle section that rises directly upwards without tilting.
A barrier before the opening has flashing lights and warning signs, the officer handling the case said.
Inspector Martin Bergholm said: "For some reason, the car drove through the barriers and crashed down into the canal.
"The witnesses just saw a car beside them and kind of disappear."
Eyewitness Jonny Alexandersson told the BBC he was waiting for the bridge to go down when he saw a car coming very fast on the left side.
"It was very tight," he said. "They passed me and in front of me was a taxi and the car smashed the side of this car and then they go in the barrier, then I don't see anything more of the car, the lights were gone."
The attack took place at the El Sayad restaurant, in the central Agouza area.
Egyptian officials say six suspects are believed to have targeted the building after two of them had earlier been barred from entering.
The restaurant was in the basement, with only one door leading out, making it harder for people to escape.
The victims died from burns or the effects of inhaling smoke, Reuters news agency said. Three other people were injured.
Eleven of those who died were members of staff, AP quoted Interior Ministry spokesman Abu Bakr Abdel-Karim as saying.
Police and forensic investigators are still working inside the charred remains of the restaurant on the banks of the Nile.
When the blaze broke out at around 06:30 local time there was little chance of escape for those inside. The narrow blackened entrance way was the only way out.
One eyewitness told us firemen were slow to enter the building because they did not know anyone was trapped inside.
The local chemist told us he saw two men fleeing from the scene on motorbikes. He said initially he thought it was a terrorist attack but then he recalled having seen some of the men outside the restaurant the night before when they were turned away.
Video shot at the scene by an Egyptian news site showed thick, grey smoke billowing out of a doorway at street level as passersby tried to get close. Flames could be seen inside the entrance, as one man used a fire extinguisher to try to tackle the blaze.
The venue also served as an unofficial nightclub, reports said.
Cairo has previously been rocked by a series of attacks on security forces and civilians carried out by suspected Islamist militants.
An Islamist insurgency intensified in the wake of the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Pacquiao is being sued in Nevada after being accused of lying about the shoulder injury he suffered pre-fight.
The Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) says Pacquiao, 36, did not declare the problem, but the Filipino claims a treatment plan was agreed with United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada).
He could face a fine or suspension.
Pacquiao is being sued by two people in Nevada who have alleged the boxer defrauded ticket buyers, television viewers and gamblers.
They have opened lawsuits just hours after the NAC accused the fighter of being dishonest by not declaring his injury on a pre-fight questionnaire - which has also led to suggestions he could face a charge of perjury.
The state attorney general's office is investigating.
However, Pacquiao's adviser Michael Koncz said he took "full responsibility" for the "inadvertent mistake".
"Number one, Manny didn't check the box," Koncz said. "I checked it. We weren't trying to hide anything. I just don't think I read the questionnaire correctly."
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Pacquiao blamed his injury for his points defeat to undefeated Mayweather, 38, claiming it stopped him using his right hand.
His camp claimed Usada had been notified of his treatment and plans for an anti-inflammatory shot on fight night.
But Usada was only charged with monitoring anti-doping issues and NAC officials prevented the injection, saying they had not been told about Pacquaio's shoulder issue.
No date has been set for surgery to repair the "significant tear" and although Pacquiao will face up to a year out, ESPN claims Mayweather is open to a re-match in 12 months time.
Mayweather scored a unanimous points victory in the four-belt unification bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the win extending the American's unbeaten record as a professional to 48 fights.
He has said he intends to retire after one more fight, possibly in September, with Britain's Amir Khan among the potential opponents.
To those unversed in the long-running politics surrounding the race, this will sound like shocking and worrying news. To long-time observers, it will be met with a wearisome sigh - "oh no, here we go again".
The future of the British Grand Prix has been in doubt for as long as many people in Formula 1 can remember. The current contract, signed at the end of 2009 for a 17-year period, was meant to end that. But it has done anything but. The devil was in the detail.
Silverstone desperately wants to host the British Grand Prix but it cannot do it at any price
F1's former boss Bernie Ecclestone had a difficult relationship with Silverstone. Baiting them, criticising the track, its owners the British Racing Drivers' Club and pretty much anything to do with the race was something of a sport for him.
For Ecclestone, this was rooted in Silverstone's inability to pay him the money he wanted to host the race. Not benefiting from the largesse of a government, the BRDC has to make the event work financially, and as Ecclestone's fees went up, that became increasingly difficult.
That is still the core of the problem.
The current contract - signed at the end of a tedious few years of speculation and machinations concerning the future of the race - was for £12m in the first year, 2010. But it has a 5% annual escalator in it. So this year, the race is costing £16.9m. By 2019, it will be £18.6m, and by 2027, the final year of the deal if it were to run its course, £27.5m.
These numbers are massively less than some circuits are paying - for example, Bahrain pays at least $40m (£31m) a year; Russia $50m (£38.7m); Azerbaijan a reputed $75m (£58m).
But those races all have one thing in common - they are funded by authoritarian governments keen to promote their country to the world. Silverstone is a private members' club that has to run a viable business.
Silverstone desperately wants to host the British Grand Prix but it cannot do it at any price. The BRDC has a responsibility to protect the track in the interests of British motor racing. It cannot do that if it goes bankrupt because of the F1 contract.
Negotiations with the new owners of F1, who took over from Ecclestone in January, are still ongoing but have pretty much reached an impasse. F1, now owned by US group Liberty Media, has said it cannot renegotiate an existing contract. If it did, after all, the next thing would be they would have a whole bunch of other tracks knocking on their door demanding the same thing.
It has been leaked to Reuters that the F1 Group offered to take the race over for five years - saving Silverstone some money. But that only looks like largesse if you don't look very closely. It still leaves Silverstone with a contract from 2023-27 that it cannot afford.
So the circuit is set to end the contract and hope it can renegotiate a new one on better terms.
The BRDC knows this is a risk but it is a risk it cannot afford not to take.
So then the question becomes, what does F1 do next?
You can forget right off the bat any suggestion that any other permanent circuit in Britain could host the race. There is none suitable for a start - and none that could afford it either.
F1 chairman Chase Carey and commercial boss Sean Bratches have made it clear they value Silverstone highly and that they see the British Grand Prix as an irreplaceable part of the F1 calendar. But that does not mean the race has to be at Silverstone.
They have also talked about wanting races in "destination cities". That is usually a reference to a desire to have further events in the US in places such as New York and Los Angeles. But it could just as easily apply to the UK. After all, very few cities rival London for global cachet and appeal.
But the practical issues preventing a grand prix in London are immense - air quality, noise pollution, traffic complications, location, planning and, of course, money. Who would fund it? Where would the cash come from?
Carey and Bratches are highly accomplished businessmen but it would take some kind of miracle to resolve all those issues.
In reality, surely, if there is to be a British Grand Prix after 2019, it has to be at Silverstone. But there will likely be a whole load of hot air and headaches before it is finally sorted out.
"Positive Train Control" is a digital system that allows trains to communicate with each other and can automatically stop or slow the train if danger is detected.
"We feel that had such a system been installed on this section of track, this accident would not have occurred," said accident investigator Robert Sumwalt of the National Transportation Safety Board.
The system monitors regional speed limits, works zones and other operational data using Wifi, GPS, and radio transmissions according to the Association of American Railroads.
A human engineer remains in control of the train but can be overridden by Positive Train Control (PTC) if sensors on the train and along the track notice that the train is moving too fast or heading into a danger zone.
Investigators in Philadelphia report that the derailed train, which killed at least eight people, was travelling at more than 100 mph (160 km/h) when it entered a curve - over twice the speed limit for that stretch of rail.
Congress mandated in 2008 that railways be equipped with PTC after a head-on collision between two trains in California that investigators determined was caused by the engineer running past a stop signal while texting on his mobile phone.
December 2015 is the deadline to outfit more than 600,000 miles of US railways with PTC, but experts say that it is unlikely that the deadline will be met for one reason - a steep price tag - about $10bn (£6.35bn).
The Philadelphia railway, as well as those that carry passengers or hazardous materials, are required by Congress to equip the technology.
Amtrak, which operates the Philadelphia commuter railway, has so far equipped about 400 miles of track with PTC sensors.
Completing PTC installation would require training for 180,000 employees, new equipment added to 22,500 locomotive, and 30,000 new wireless antennae, according to the Association of American Railroads.
"A national-wide PTC system built, installed, tested, and approved on this scale simply cannot happen by the 2015 deadline," they claim.
A Spanish train derailment in 2013, which occurred while the engineer was in control of the steering, prompted authorities to install automatic braking at the curved section of the track where the crash occurred.
Across the Middle East and beyond, many are pondering Mr Trump's declarations in the heat of the campaign, his still sketchy comments in sit-down interviews, and his first choices for his team in White House Inc.
Last week's Sir Bani Yas Forum in Abu Dhabi, an annual gathering of foreign ministers and prominent regional experts, provided a snapshot of the uncertainties and ambiguities before Mr Trump formally takes charge on 20 January.
A respected US commentator derided a businessman without experience in governing who "discovers our policies while speaking." He summarised Mr Trump's foreign policy thinking as "contradictory impulses."
Others urged everyone to "give him time."
"He likes to do deals, so there could be opportunities," remarked an Arab ambassador.
So unpredictable is the man about to assume the mantle of the world's most powerful president that one policy expert warned "he could open hotels in Iran or go to war with Iran".
The region presents the property tycoon turned President-elect with a number of complex deals to try to strike: end a devastating war in Syria; resolve a destructive conflict in Yemen; untangle the geopolitical knots which harden these tensions and are threaded through parallel wars against so-called Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda-linked groups.
Mr Trump has already cast his eye on the most elusive agreement of all - an Israeli Palestinian peace accord.
"That's the ultimate deal," he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview shortly after his electoral victory. "As a dealmaker, I'd like to do... the deal that can't be made."
But its the nearly six-year-long conflict in Syria which is likely to be his first test.
In his latest and most extensive interview, with a group of New York Times editors and reporters, the president-elect seemed to hint at greater engagement than his so far single focus on defeating IS. But it was still bereft of details or depth.
When asked what he would do about the Syria conflict he replied: "I can only say this: we have to end the craziness that's going on in Syria."
Then, intriguingly, he asked to go off the record about "one of the things that was told to me."
Over the past year, Mr Trump repeatedly said he would team up with Russia and its ally President Bashar al-Assad to take on IS. Ending extremist groups' control of territory in Syria and Iraq is also one of President Obama's principle aims, which is now making progress.
But Mr Trump has been publicly nailing his colours to a different mast.
"I'm not saying Assad is a good man, because he's not," Mr Trump told The New York Times in an interview earlier this year. "But our far greater problem is not Assad, it's ISIS," he said, using an alternative name for IS.
As for the US-backed rebels, he's said "we have no idea who these people are".
"Wait until he gets his first intelligence briefing," cautioned one Western analyst at the Forum hosted by the UAE's Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed.
"Will he really want to abandon the rebels, especially when he realises that Russia spends more time attacking them, rather then IS?"
Mr Trump has made no secret of his admiration for strongmen including Russia's President Vladimir Putin, arguably the most influential dealmaker now when it comes to crises like Syria.
Before Mr Trump's electoral victory, I asked a senior State Department official which options for Syria would be presented to the next administration.
The response: "It depends on what kind of relationship we want with Russia."
A Russian expert at the Abu Dhabi Forum predicted that Hillary Clinton's defeat meant a step back from what could have been "a kinetic collision in Syria."
He said President Putin and Mr Trump speak the "same language," but could still be pulled apart by conflicting interests.
And Mr Trump will face stiff resistance in the US Congress, where prominent Republicans like Senator John McCain denounce the Russian and Syrian bombing as "barbaric".
There are wars within wars in Syria. Strengthening the Putin-Assad axis would also bolster Iran, a country Mr Trump repeatedly warned he would "get tough with".
Turkey's President Erdogan may also be the kind of authoritarian leader Mr Trump is drawn to, but he also has strong red lines in neighbouring Syria, most of all stopping the advance of Syrian Kurdish groups the US is now relying on to fight IS in northern Syria.
The president-elect has also threatened to tear up "bad" deals, including Iran's nuclear agreement, which limits Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
"Only someone who wants to send us into an unknown world would tear it up," remarked a senior Gulf Arab official.
It's Iran's influence and interventions across the region that most Arab states, and Israel, want to stop. President-elect Trump is likely to find support in the Republican-dominated Congress to move in that direction.
For now, most Arab leaders appear to be keeping an open mind about the man soon to lead their most important foreign ally.
They've been bitterly frustrated by President Obama's reluctance to intervene more forcefully in Syria, and his efforts to ease Iran's isolation.
Syria's opposition leaders and activists are still hoping Mr Trump will revise his first simplistic draft of his Syria policy.
"If he wants a partner to fight IS, he will find one in us," former opposition spokeswoman Bassma Kodmani told me in a recent interview.
But for some activists, there's a growing worry that nearly six years into a punishing war, ending President Assad's rule will become even less of a priority for the US. The Syrian leader has already said Mr Trump could possibly be "a natural ally."
Once in office, a president-elect who says he makes decisions by instinct will be held in check by what's often invoked as the "system:" US lawmakers; the security establishment; vested interests and new views across his administration.
What is, for many, a surprising ascent to power is likely to keep bringing surprises.
The 23-year-old Denmark international signed a three-year deal last summer after moving from Aalborg for an undisclosed fee, but he now moves back to the Superliga club for a season.
He made six substitute appearances for Villa, scoring once against Sheffield United in the FA Cup.
His agent revealed in May Helenius was not in Villa's plans for next season.
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The exhibition game saw France great Thierry Dusautoir and his fellow back row Roger Wilson kicking conversions in their final games before retirement.
Ulster debutants Mark Keane and Callum Patterson both scored first-half tries.
But two tries from both Waisea Nayacalevu and Chris King helped the Baa-Baas fight back as they outscored Ulster by seven tries to four.
Ruan Pienaar was joining Wilson in making his final Ulster appearance before he heads to Montpellier to join a club that will be coached by Vern Cotter, in charge of the Barbarians in Thursday's game.
Pienaar, devastated to be leaving Ulster after seven years with the province, came off after 35 minutes but by that stage the Baa-Baas' bulk had already swung the game in the visitors' favour.
Three of the Barbarians' four first-half tries came after line-out mauls as the damp conditions in Belfast made slick handling an unrealistic prospect.
The visiting tourists were able to produce more running rugby as space began to open up in the second half and Nayacalevu and Tekori both ran in scores more in keeping with the Baa-Baas' proud history.
Out-of-favour Ireland centre Stuart McCloskey barged over for Ulster's first try in the sixth minute and his clever chip set up debutant wing Keane to score another touchdown five minutes later.
But former All Black hooker Corey Flynn rumbled over a reply in the 20th minute as the Barbarians pack began to bully the opposition.
After scores from centre Nayacalevu and prop King put the Baa-Baas 17-14 ahead, youngster Patterson finished off an Ulster line-out maul to restore the home side's lead only for prop King to drive over for another try in first-half injury-time.
A break from Pienaar's replacement Paul Marshall set up to Alan O'Connor to put Ulster ahead again after the resumption.
However as the Baa-Baas again began to overpower their opponents, the pressure yielded a penalty try and Nayacalevu's second score in a five-minute period to put them 36-28 ahead.
Marshall fumbled a glorious chance to reply in the 68th minutes with the line gaping after Dave Shanahan's perfect pass and Tekori's late score at the other end confirmed the Barbarians' win.
Ulster: Nelson; Keane, Patterson, McCloskey, Gilroy; Herron, Pienaar; Warwick, Herring, Ah You; Browne, O'Connor; Rea, Ross, Wilson. Replacements: Andrew, McCall, Kane, Mulholland, Henry, P Marshall, Shanahan, Smith, Lutton.
Barbarians: Goode; Smith, Nayacalevu, Fruean, Agulla; Madigan, Kockott; King, Flynn, Ross; Willemse, Albacete; Tekori, Dusautoir, Isa. Replacements: Hibbard, Pelo, Johnston, Thrush, Masoe, Fotuali'i, James, Buttin.
Stop Killing Cyclists laid 21 cardboard "coffins" on Blackfriars Road to represent the riders killed in London since the group began in November 2013.
Organisers of the No More Coffins event want TfL to invest 10% of its budget on improving cycling infrastructure.
TfL said it was investing nearly £1bn on measures that would improve safety.
Eight cyclists have been killed in the capital this year, seven of them in incidents involving HGVs. The death toll in 2014 stood at 13.
The campaign group was set up after six cyclists were killed in the capital in one month, November 2013.
Nicola Branch, co-organiser of the protest, said: "We want 10% of the TfL budget to be spent on cycling infrastructure. At the moment it is only 1.4% of their transport budget and that's nowhere near enough.
"As cyclists we are the canary in the coalmine, you sort out the problem of cycling deaths first and then all the other deaths fall into place."
As part of the protest scores of cyclists lay down with their bikes on the road in a "die-in" near the coffins. Several cyclists also spoke before the event, which is in its third year.
Among the protesters was Vicky Lebreck, 25, from London, who said she was trying to "get my life back together" after her leg was amputated after her pelvis was crushed by a lorry in a crash in December last year.
"I don't think it should be a possible outcome that a mistake made by a driver means people cycling on London's roads should be dying or having dramatic injuries."
Leon Daniels, Managing Director of Surface Transport at TfL, said: "We are investing nearly £1 billion in upgrading the existing Cycle Superhighways with greater segregation, introducing major new segregated cycle routes and backstreet quiet routes, and overhauling dozens of junctions both on our roads and on borough roads, to give more protection to pedestrians and cyclists."
The 26-year-old will be available for all three competitions, but will not be able to play against his parent club.
In 12 first-class games for Somerset and Surrey, Burke has scored 274 runs, with a highest score of 79, and taken 23 wickets at 28.13.
"It is important for us to have depth and James is highly talented," head coach Pierre de Bruyn said.
"James will add strength to our batting and bowling, and he is also a dynamic fielder."
Leicestershire finished seventh in County Championship Division Two last season, and they were knocked out in the group stages of the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast.
Now he has come up with the idea of making a portable, electronic, version of his youthful practice wall.
But this is one that can be transported in a flight case and features a number of different electronically monitored games.
Using the Sokka unit basically involves kicking a ball against a flat playing surface containing a number of electronic sensors that monitor accuracy and technique.
It can be set for a number of different games - with names such as Block It, Pass and Receive, and On the Spot - designed to hone different aspects of a player's skills.
A price tag of £99,000 will get you three portable units - featuring six playing surfaces, as well as a Mercedes van and other necessary kit to transport and set up the equipment for use at your playing location.
And, as the former Liverpool, Hamburg, Southampton, Newcastle United and England player reveals, the unit has been a long time in the development pipeline.
"After I retired I went to New Zealand in 1985 and went to do a coaching session as a guest," he says.
"I saw kids doing things in a really different and enjoyable way, not just, 'Go there, do this'. I like football to be enjoyable too.
"So this is where we are 35 years after then - with what we believe is doable. It has just taken us time to get it all spot on.
"After initially thinking we would just have static units, for the past year we have been trying to make them really transportable."
That has been achieved by manufacturing a double-sided playing surface which folds neatly into a standard aircraft flight case, and can be wheeled away after use.
Production is based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, and Keegan has been joined by two other shareholders in the venture. But he stresses it is his idea and his company.
The former England captain also devised the theme of the Soccer Circus business, in conjunction with Scottish entrepreneur Peter Barr and engineer Clive Mockford.
The Soccer Circus team spent more than £5m in the research, development and delivery of the concept, which is centred on a series of football skill games.
The first site opened in Glasgow in 2006 and has since been joined by two other outlets; at the Centre Parcs complex near Penrith, Cumbria, and one in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The former star, who started his career at Scunthorpe, is also a popular after-dinner speaker on the sporting and business circuits.
The 62-year-old was arguably the first successfully media-savvy footballer, as famous for his Brut adverts with Henry Cooper, pop singles, and curly perm haircut as he was for his successful playing career.
He won the three League titles, two Uefa Cups, the FA Cup, and the European Cup with Liverpool, before becoming one of the first players of the 1970s to move overseas where he won the German Bundesliga with Hamburg..
"I have never been scared to do something new - I did the adverts, I did the record, I moved abroad, I have always been one of those people who say, 'Why not?' rather than 'Why?'" he says.
"I am very lucky in that I enjoy meeting people, it is a great help in life, not just business.
• Born in Doncaster in 1951
• Debut for Scunthorpe United in 1968
• Signed for Liverpool in 1971
• Moved to Hamburg in 1977
• Returned to England with Southampton in 1980
• Moved to Newcastle United in 1982
• Retired from playing in 1984
• Played 63 times for England, scoring 21 goals
• Managed England and Newcastle United (twice), Fulham, Manchester City
• European Footballer of the Year in 1978 and 1979
"People come and ask for a picture and I am always happy to do that, but you can tell the ones who are also really interested in what we are doing [with Sokka]," he says.
He says that the beauty of his design is that, as well as being portable, it can also be installed as an interactive sporting attraction in a club's museum or shop.
"Interactive stuff is what kids want now, not to see an old football shirt of Kevin Keegan's," he says.
"If you visit a football museum and there is a club legend's score on Sokka that you might be able to beat, then that is something different, more exciting," he says, adding that the appearance of the units can be tailored to customers' needs.
And, although the concept has only recently launched, he says there has already been healthy interest both from within the UK and in other parts of the world.
The court ruled unanimously that the 1970 law applied only to "tangible" material sent through the post.
Charles Lee Warren faced up to three years in prison.
Mr Warren was arrested after he texted the photo in October 2012 and the woman went to the police.
The obscenity law under which he was prosecuted makes it a felony to send unsolicited material depicting nudity or sexual conduct unless the "envelope or container" in which it is sent bears a warning in "at least eight-point boldface type".
The arguments in the case were heard in front of the Georgia high court in November.
On Monday, the court said the case was not being dismissed merely because electronic text messaging did not exist in 1970 when the law was passed.
"The specific prohibition is clearly aimed at tangible material that is delivered in a tangible manner... and because appellant did not send anything through the mail, he did not violate this prohibition," reads the opinion, which overturned a lower court's decision.
"This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that the imprinted notice on the envelope or container must be in 'eight-point boldface type' and must say that the 'container' should be 'returned' to the sender if the addressee does not want to 'open' it."
The state has no other law governing these types of cases, a spokeswoman for Georgia attorney general's office told the Reuters news agency.
Legislation has been proposed in Georgia to amend the law to include pictures transmitted electronically, but it has not been passed.
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Gary Reilly, 45, is accused of stabbing 49-year-old Paul McCarroll at Westmuir Street, in the Parkhead area, at about 00:40 on Tuesday 23 February.
Mr McCarroll died a short time later in Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Mr Reilly made no plea or declaration during an appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody.
He will return to court next week for a full committal hearing.
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The world number one, 29, lost a tie-break but came through 6-7 (9-11) 6-4 6-4 against the Japanese fifth seed.
At three hours and 20 minutes, it was the longest match at the event since it moved to London in 2009.
Stan Wawrinka beat Marin Cilic 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-3) in the evening match to end the Croat's semi-final hopes.
Murray will face US Open champion Wawrinka in his final round-robin match on Friday.
The only way that Murray can be eliminated is by a straight-sets defeat for himself combined with Nishikori beating Cilic in the other Group John McEnroe match.
After an underwhelming defeat by Nishikori in his O2 opener, Swiss Wawrinka looked close to his best with his forehand proving especially potent.
Murray's success was the first time since his debut in 2008 that the Briton has won his opening two group matches.
The victory, his 21st in succession, had added significance as Murray needs to at least match Novak Djokovic's results in London if he is to stay ahead of the Serb in the year-end rankings.
Djokovic has a 2-0 record in the Ivan Lendl Group, as does the Scot in the John McEnroe Group, having beaten Cilic in his first match.
"It could come down to a match between me and Novak," said Murray.
"Who knows what's going to happen the next few days?
"I'll concentrate on trying to win my own matches, get through as many as I can and make it as tough as possible for Novak to jump me."
It was resilience rather than brilliance that eventually carried Murray through in a match that lasted eight minutes longer than his 2010 semi-final loss against Rafael Nadal.
The Wimbledon champion erased the memory of his US Open quarter-final defeat by Nishikori in the most punishing manner.
"I feel OK right now, but it is the following day when you feel it often," said Murray.
"Hopefully there will be another three days to this season and I'll do my best to get through them."
Nishikori, 26, deservedly took the opening set but only after an 85-minute tussle that saw both men create - and miss - numerous opportunities.
I eventually got over the line. These are the sort of matches you work so hard for.
Murray netted a forehand on set point before they headed into a remarkable tie-break, which saw the Scot recover from 6-3 down - saving the third set point with an outrageous backhand when all seemed lost.
Nishikori fended off two more set points, one with a spectacular smash, before converting his fifth chance when Murray found the tramlines.
The 16,000 spectators buzzed with excitement but there were signs that the players were understandably flagging as the match wore on.
Murray could not hold on to an early break in the second set, with Nishikori breaking serve for the first time after two hours to make it 4-4, but the Briton toiled his way through the next two games to level.
A net cord helped Murray get the crucial first break at 2-1 in the deciding set, but even with a 5-1 lead there were more twists to come.
Nishikori discovered a burst of energy to peg Murray back to 5-4, but the top seed found his range when he needed it to serve out the match at the second time of asking.
"I eventually got over the line," added Murray. "These are the sort of matches you work so hard for."
Former British number one Tim Henman on BBC Two:
"Andy Murray needed to be stubborn today. He was not playing well at all. He normally has a great feel for the ball but his timing was off.
"Early in that first set he was mis-hitting balls or placing them too central and short for Nishikori.
"Murray needed his resilience to get through. Winning breeds winning - that was his 21st straight victory - and that helped get him over the line."
The dog was overcome by the heat and smoke of the blaze in Santa Monica, California, and was unresponsive.
But firefighter Andrew Klein managed to bring 10-year-old Nalu, a Bichon Frise/Shih Tzu, "back from the dead".
Mr Klein discovered Nalu unconscious in a back bedroom after crawling on all fours into the blazing apartment
"He was totally lifeless," the firefighter told the Associated Press news agency. "I picked him up and ran out of the apartment because time is key, especially with a small dog... Failure was not an option.''
As the dog's distraught owner Crystal Lamirande knelt crying nearby, Mr Klein and his crew spent the next 20 minutes giving the dog oxygen and performing "mouth-to-snout" resuscitation.
"After 20 minutes, the dog began breathing on its own and regained consciousness, even regaining the ability to walk around," the Santa Monica Fire Department said in a press release.
Nalu has now fully recovered after spending 24 hours in an oxygen tent.
Ms Lamirande, a radiology nurse, said she was overwhelmed by the effort made by Mr Klein and his team to save her dog.
"His eyes were glazed over and he was not breathing and I assumed he was dead," she said. "But the firefighter said 'I'm a positive person. Let's just get him back'."
Speeches at the ceremony criticised the attending Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his plans to loosen the restrictions on what Japan's military can do.
At least 70,000 people died in the attack, which came three days after another bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Nagasaki was only chosen after a cloud obscured the original target, Kokura.
A solemn ceremony in front of guests from 75 countries, including US ambassador Caroline Kennedy, began on Sunday with a declaration read out by children.
A minute's silence and bells marked the time of the explosion in 1945 at 11:02 (02:02 GMT).
Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue then delivered a peace declaration to the ceremony. He said there was "widespread unease" about Mr Abe's bid to alter the country's pacifist constitutional.
A survivor of the Nagasaki attack, 86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi, described the injuries he had suffered and said he could not accept Mr Abe's new legislation.
The legislation would allow Japan to engage in combat - in defence of an ally which comes under attack - for the first time since World War Two.
As the peace bell chimed, the people of Nagasaki stopped and bowed their heads remembering that moment 70 years ago when their city was destroyed in a blinding flash of white light.
Nagasaki often gets forgotten as the world focuses on Hiroshima. But the bomb dropped here was made from plutonium and was even more powerful.
Perhaps the most powerful moment in the ceremony came when survivor Sumiteru Taniguchi got up to speak. He described his own terrible injuries - of the skin hanging like rags from his arms and back.
But then he turned on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sitting nearby. Do not meddle with Japan's pacifist constitution, he warned him. The audience erupted in loud clapping. Mr Abe looked straight ahead, showing no emotion.
In pictures: The Nagasaki bombing
In his address to the ceremony, Mr Abe said Japan remained "determined to pursue a world without nuclear weapons".
In a statement read out on his behalf, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said: "Nagasaki must be the last - we cannot allow any future use of nuclear weapons. The humanitarian consequences are too great. No more Nagasakis. No more Hiroshimas."
The effects of the bomb were instant and devastating. It destroyed a third of the city, killing thousands instantly and condemning more to death from radiation sickness.
Days later, Japan surrendered, ending World War Two, although the necessity of the two bombs has been debated ever since.
"It was a clear, sunny day and there was a sudden, blinding flash," remembered one Nagasaki survivor, Toru Mine, who now guides visitors at a museum dedicated to the event.
"My first thought was that it should be a thunder, but I soon realised it's bizarre to have a thunder in a clear sky."
Mr Taniguchi still bears scars on his back, the remains of three ribs that half rotted after the bomb dropped protruding from his chest.
''While people around me were dying, I lived. People say I survived but I think I was kept alive. I am still suffering," he said.
The blast at a two-storey house in Wiggin Street, Edgbaston, Birmingham happened at about 12:20 BST.
A neighbour told the BBC she saw a man run out from the wreckage screaming.
A man, thought to be in his late 30s, made his own way to City Hospital but his burns were so severe he was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.
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A woman was checked at the scene and was uninjured.
Next door neighbour Tracy Clayton was at home with her husband Bilal Azhar when they felt a "huge explosion".
"The neighbour next door to us whose house was blown up, he ran out screaming," she said.
"I think he was on fire or hurt."
She added: "Everything fell on top of us. The roof gave in. There was just smoke everywhere, bricks flying.
"I switched my electric off and thought about my cat and did not know where it was but she was unharmed thank God."
West Midlands Police said a small number of homes had been evacuated as a precaution.
"Investigations at the scene are likely to be suspended once it gets dark, then continue tomorrow," said West Midlands Fire Service.
The culprits are said to be following a trend that started in the US.
A 30-year-old man was arrested and cautioned in Norwich after someone dressed as a clown jumped out from behind a tree and "terrified" a woman in a public park.
On Sunday Thames Valley Police said it was called to 14 incidents in 24 hours.
In the Norwich case, the woman was walking alone in Eaton Park at about 20:30 BST on Sunday when the man leapt out, screamed at her and ran after her.
Supt Lynne Cross, of Norfolk Police, said such incidents "may seem harmless, but it is quite frightening to those who experience it".
In County Durham on Friday, four children were followed to school by a man in a clown outfit who was armed with what turned out to be a plastic machete.
In a separate clowning caper in County Durham on Friday, police in Peterlee posted a photo on their Facebook page of items including two masks confiscated from two 12-year-olds who officers said had gone to a primary school to scare children.
Elsewhere, a 13-year-old boy is currently on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of common assault in West Bromwich on Saturday.
It is alleged they boy, wearing a clown mask, approached a 14-year-old on New Swan Lane at about 16:45 and grabbed his arm.
Professor Mark Griffiths, a chartered psychologist at Nottingham Trent University, says clowns tend to be scary because of their exaggerated looks and evil representation in films.
"The vast majority of people are not scared of clowns day-to-day but a clown's face has become part of a scare culture.
"There is a stereotype of the nasty, evil, eerie clown. If you look at clowns facially what you tend to find is part of their face or feet are exaggerated, they have huge noses, scary mouths and wildfire hair.
"We also have a cinematic trope. If you look at everything from Heath Ledger in Batman to Stephen King's It, we've got these characters with clown faces that are either killing people or doing really nasty things. Even if you have not come into contact with clowns, you're influenced by what you see in television and films."
Meanwhile, in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, a man dressed as a clown and carrying a baseball bat was reported to have chased a 10-year-old child through a park.
Gloucestershire Police said it had received six reports of "clowns" behaving suspiciously or carrying knives. In one instance a child was followed.
A cyclist in Eastbourne, Sussex, was left "shaken" after someone dressed as a clown jumped out from a bush brandishing what he believed was an offensive weapon.
And in Sudbury, Suffolk, a boy was chased by "several people dressed as clowns".
People who have been approached by the clowns have taken to social media to warn others.
A contributor to the Spotted: Loughborough Facebook page said: "I was walking through Shelthorpe cemetery via the footpath next to the school. I was approached by what can only be described as a clown with an axe. I have never been so terrified in my life."
Thames Valley Police said clowns were "tying up resources which could impact on calls to other incidents".
Ch Supt Andy Boyd said: "While we do not want to be accused of stopping people enjoying themselves, we would also ask those same people to think of the impact of their behaviour on others and themselves.
"Their actions can cause fear and anxiety to other people. This could be perceived to be intimidating and threatening which could lead to public order offences, arrest and a criminal record."
The clown craze began in the US in late summer and has since spread to Canada and Australia.
Schools in Texas and Alabama were shut down, while the White House press secretary had to field questions about the president's stance on the phenomenon.
Inspector Simon Starns, of Sussex Police, said: "We will respond if someone feels threatened and the culprit could end up being arrested and then they won't find it so funny."
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Beneath the gloss provided by Eden Hazard, Diego Costa and N'Golo Kante, there is an unheralded efficiency to this Chelsea side.
BBC Sport takes a look at the players who have had a quiet impact on a title-winning season, and the unexpected areas that have sealed the championship for the Blues.
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Cesar Azpilicueta has proven his adaptability this season, moving from right-back to a position in a central-defensive three. One thing has not changed though - his reliability.
The Spain defender is one of only three outfield players to have featured in every minute of every Premier League game this season - clocking up 3,240 minutes.
His defensive colleague Gary Cahill has only missed six minutes of action, giving boss Antonio Conte a dependable duo at the back.
When it comes to minutes played, Cesc Fabregas is way, way down the pecking order.
The former Arsenal midfielder, who has said he could have left Stamford Bridge in the summer, has started only 12 league games this term, but his impact has been substantial.
Only three players have provided more than his 11 assists in the top-flight campaign - Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne leads the way with 15, while Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea) and Christian Eriksen (Spurs) have 12.
That trio have played much more football than Fabregas, so it is no surprise that the averages show the Spaniard far outshines his rivals, with an assist every 111 minutes he has been on the pitch.
And having seen his reaction when he was told he might lose one of his assists - which Opta later gave him back - we think he'll be pretty pleased.
You know where you stand with Gary Cahill - block it, head it, get rid of it. Right? Wrong.
The England centre-half fancies himself as a bit of a ball player, it seems.
Of all the Premier League defenders to have played at least 20 games this term, only Manchester City's John Stones has a better passing accuracy.
Not only has Cahill been composed in front of his own goal, he has been deadly at the other end too. The same can be said for Marcos Alonso who, until joining Chelsea in the summer, was best known in England for spells with Bolton and Sunderland.
The pair have six goals each this season - the only defender with more is Liverpool's James Milner, and all seven of his were from the penalty spot.
So while Costa has been grabbing the headlines for being on target 20 times, maybe his defensive team-mates deserve a bit of recognition.
Though Alonso has scored those six goals, it is the wing-back on the opposite flank who has been the more adventurous this season.
No Chelsea player has seen their career revitalised so sharply under Conte than Victor Moses. The Nigeria international, previously recognised as a forward in four unspectacular years at Stamford Bridge, has flourished as a right wing-back.
The 26-year-old has had 99 touches in the opposition area this season, more than any other Blues defender.
In fact, the only defender to have had more touches in the opposition box this term is Michail Antonio (122), who plays in a similar role for West Ham.
The old adage of not scoring if you do not shoot has been very apt for Chelsea this season.
Their tally of 12 goals scored from outside the box is a league high, with Liverpool closest on 11.
And Spain international Pedro, who leads the way for the Blues, has found the net three times from long distance.
Costa, Fabregas and Alonso have each pitched in with two.
It must be tough playing alongside the best defensive midfielder in the world.
Kante is considered the king of Hoovering up, the emperor of the track back and the don of mid-pitch duels.
Nemanja Matic gives his partner-in-midfield-hustling a run for his money, though, particularly when it comes to discipline.
Matic has been shown yellow cards to Kante's nine, and given away 33 free-kicks to 52.
And when it comes to recoveries [the number of times a player has picked up a loose ball], he is only 22 behind Kante's tally of 263.
A school complex was reportedly among several locations targeted in the village of Haas, in Idlib province.
It was not immediately clear if the raids were carried out by Syrian government or Russian warplanes.
State media quoted a military source as saying several "terrorists" had been killed when their positions were hit.
The UN's children's charity Unicef said 22 children were reportedly killed.
"This latest atrocity may be the deadliest attack on a school since the war began more than five years ago," executive director Anthony Lake said.
The incident comes as the government and its ally Russia said they would continue a moratorium on the aerial bombardment of besieged, rebel-held eastern districts of the city of Aleppo.
"It's horrible, I hope we were not involved. It's the easiest thing for me to say no, but I'm a responsible person, so I need to see what my ministry of defence is going to say," Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said some 300 civilians appeared to have been killed in 11 air strikes in Syria by the US-led coalition in two years.
More than 100 civilians were reportedly killed in June and July of this year in three strikes in Aleppo province, the group said.
The attack on Haas, about 75km (46 miles) south-west of Aleppo, appears to have been intense and flattened a number of buildings, reports the BBC's James Longman in Beirut.
The Syria Civil Defence, a volunteer group whose rescue workers are known as the White Helmets, said a complex containing three schools was targeted.
Children were reportedly gathered around an entrance when it was hit, at about 11:30 local time (08:30 GMT). They had been allowed to leave classes early because of the raids elsewhere in the village.
Activists shared photographs of dead bodies - many of them children - on the floor of a makeshift treatment centre.
The Syria Civil Defence said at least 20 children died in the attacks, while the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the total death toll at 26, including 15 children.
Idlib is one of the last strongholds of the Syrian opposition, and the province has been repeatedly bombed by the Syrian and Russian air forces.
The US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) has also targeted rival jihadist fighters linked to al-Qaeda who operate there.
Idlib is where civilians from other parts of Syria have been evacuated after being forced to surrender by years of siege and bombardment by government forces.
As part of efforts by the United Nations, the people of eastern Aleppo are being offered safe passage to the province, our correspondent says. But as these latest attacks demonstrate, he adds, nowhere in rebel-held Syria is free from violence.
Amnesty International has separately called for US-led coalition forces to investigate civilian casualties from its air strikes targeting IS in Syria.
The human rights group said it had reviewed publicly available information from local human rights and monitoring organisations, and where feasible interviewed eyewitnesses and analysed satellite imagery, photographs and video evidence to estimate some 300 civilians had been killed.
Three of the reported air strikes took place in June and July 2016 in the Manbij area of Aleppo province, which together are believed to have killed more than 100 civilians, including 34 children, in the villages of Tokhar, Hadhadh and Ghandoura.
Another struck two houses in the village of Ayn al-Khan, in Hassakeh province, on 7 December 2015. Activists said 40 civilians, including 19 children, were killed.
Amnesty said that research and documentation by local groups indicated that more than 1,000 civilians could have been killed by coalition forces since the air campaign in Syria began in September 2014. To date, the group added, the coalition had only acknowledged one single death.
New father Jamal Mahmoud was fatally stabbed at the north London jail in an attack on 18 October in which two other men were also injured.
Joshua Ratner, of no fixed abode, was charged earlier and is due before Highbury Corner magistrates via videolink on 5 January.
Two other men previously charged with murder have been remanded in custody.
The co-accused are Basana Kimbembi, 34, and Robert Butler, 30, of no fixed abodes, who must appear at the Old Bailey for a pre-trial hearing on 23 January.
The former world and European medallist missed out on the 800m final in Amsterdam on Thursday after suffering a hamstring injury in the heats.
Meadows, 35, wants to be a mentor for younger athletes and a "real advocate" for anti-doping campaigns.
"It is time to pass over to the next generation," she told BBC Sport.
"I did think my career would either end here or in Rio in a few weeks' time.
"I've done this sport for 28 years, I've given my all and it's taken a lot from me. I definitely won't miss it."
Meadows believes she "fulfilled her potential" in athletics, despite suffering from injury and illness towards the end of her career.
She won a European Indoor Championships 800m gold in 2011, but it is the 2009 World Championships - where she won bronze - that Meadows says will provide her lasting memory of the sport.
"I remember being on the back straight with the Union Jack flag just thinking, 'I'm one of those people you see on TV'," she said.
"Athletics is a great sport. I'm not the tallest, but you should never be determined by your size, your shape, your background."
Meadows has previously admitted feeling very "demoralised" over athletics' doping crisis.
She missed out on a place in the 800m final at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, in 2011 only to see two of the Russian athletes in that final, Ekaterina Kostetskaya and Yuliya Rusanova, since serve doping bans.
She was also only awarded her 2011 European Indoor Championships gold medal after the event, when Russia's Yevgeniya Zinurova was banned for tampering with urine samples.
Meadows, who has also said she has been cheated out of at least three medals, would now like to contribute to anti-doping campaigns.
"My name is synonymous with anti-doping from some of the experiences I've had," she said.
"I'd love to get involved. I want to create a new message and drive the future of clean sport in Europe and the world."
Doha News said both of the Gulf state's internet service providers had prevented readers reaching the site since Wednesday. It created another domain, but that too stopped working.
"We can only conclude our website has been deliberately targeted," it said.
There has so far been no comment from the ISPs or the Qatari authorities.
Qatar has enjoyed a reputation as a centre for media freedom, owing in part to its funding and hosting of the Al Jazeera news network.
But last year the authorities detained two groups of foreign journalists from the BBC and West German Broadcasting, as they attempted to report on the treatment of migrant workers as the country prepares to host football's World Cup in 2022.
Doha News has been operating for almost eight years and says it has an audience of almost one million unique users a month.
In a statement posted on its website on Thursday, Doha News said its domain had become inaccessible to most online users in Qatar on Wednesday after apparently being blocked simultaneously by the country's two ISPs, Ooredoo and Vodafone.
While it put in requests for information from the authorities it temporarily diverted readers to an alternative domain. However, that also stopped working.
"Given this development and the silence from the government and ISP providers, we can only conclude that our website has been deliberately targeted and blocked by Qatar authorities," the statement said.
"We are incredibly disappointed with this decision, which appears to be an act of censorship."
"We are also puzzled because authorities did not discuss any concerns they had with us before taking such serious action," the statement added.
The AFP news agency noted that Doha News carried an editorial two months ago that alleged that Qatar's cybercrime law was being used to "silence" people.
In August, it published an article by a man on the challenges of being gay in Qatar, where "sodomy" can be punished with one to three years in prison and Muslims convicted of sex-outside marriage can be sentenced to flogging or even death.
This is where the most raucous Connacht fans hang out. Pat Lam and his coaching staff operate at the other side of the stadium, in a quiet room where they can plot in peace.
The visitors - and it's entirely deliberate - have to work amid a racket. "Oh, they make a lot of noise and they bang on the side of the box and shout and roar," says McFarland. "It's great fun."
McFarland should know because for the longest time he was part of this scene, as Connacht as any Englishman can possibly be.
He replaced Shade Munro in the Glasgow set-up in the summer, but for 15 years McFarland was a driving force at the home of Irish rugby's perennial underdog, a dog that this season has bitten back in a major way.
He was a Connacht prop from 2000 to 2006. He was only the second player in their history to play 100 times for the province. Then he was Connacht forwards coach, then assistant coach. He was on the coaching ticket with the Ireland Under-20s and the Emerging Ireland side. His son, Thomas, was born in Galway. Some of the best years of his life were spent out west.
"I love the people and the place," says McFarland. "When we went there a few weeks ago for the last match of the regular season, everybody was very welcoming. But I know when there's a lion waiting in the long grass for me. When we were shaking paws it was ready to bite me - and it did."
Connacht won that game 14-7. Now comes the semi-final in the same sell-out venue.
"It was hard losing. I came home and the weird thing about it was that in the first 24 hours afterwards I was more upset about losing that game than losing any other game in the year.
"We were still in the semi-final, but I was gutted. That feeling demonstrated to me how sucked into the Warriors environment I've been even though it's only been a year. It hurt that much. It was pleasing that it hurt so badly."
McFarland's history with Connacht goes deep, not just in terms of years but in terms of what happened in those years.
At the end of 2002, during his second season, rumours started circulating in Ireland that the IRFU were about to put Connacht to sleep, that they couldn't afford four teams any longer and that the western province were going to be shut down.
McFarland was the Connacht players' representative at the time. In January 2003, a newspaper report effectively brought confirmation that it was all over. That was the way it was done back then. Players found out their fate in a story in the Irish Independent, the source of which was a high-ranking IRFU official.
"I'd been at Richmond when they went bust a few years earlier and I'd learned a few lessons about that experience. I wanted to fight. Everybody stood up."
The public got engaged, the politicians came on board, there was a counter-attack on the IRFU from Connacht about the financial wastefulness in the union.
A story was leaked about an upcoming Six Nations trip to Italy where the IRFU had booked 83 rooms for three nights in one of the city's finest hotels. 'If they want to save money, how is that justifiable?' That was the message from the war cabinet in Connacht. And it put the blazers on the back foot.
"We had a march on the IRFU office in Dublin. I was at it, all the players were. We were told that we shouldn't be up the front when the IRFU came to the door to collect the petition because we'd end up on RTE, so we kinda stayed around the back of it.
"Everybody met in the pub beforehand and by the time the 2000 of us were standing outside Lansdowne Road there was little bit of anger there.
"I love the fact that I played for a team that people looked down on and that I went out and helped fight our corner. We had a group of people at Connacht who really felt they were being put-upon.
"People in the west of Ireland are characterised by resilience. Call it grit if you like, it's a funky word in sports psychology these days. When something comes at you, you always respond. If it's hard, you come back, you take a knock and you get back up again. It's very difficult to defeat an opponent that refuses to lie down."
Connacht's campaign earned a reprieve- and they have slowly built from there, McFarland at the heart of it until last summer when he swapped Galway for Glasgow.
He mentions a conversation he had with Glasgow's defence coach, Matt Taylor, recently. Taylor was talking about something he'd read about the San Antonio Spurs basketball team and a widely-used phrase they use called 'pounding the rock'.
"Think about this enormous rock and you have a sledgehammer and you're pounding away at it and after each blow you get little chips coming off the rock but the effect, visibly, is not huge. If you're willing to keep pounding then you're going to get a result, the more you pound the more stress you will cause the rock and at some point that rock just breaks.
"Pat Lam was pounding the rock at Connacht, so was Eric Elwood before him and Michael Bradley and Steph Nel, who was coach when I joined. They understood that if they kept doing what they really believed in then they were going to have success. Pounding the rock. You see the results today."
This is part of why so many people see a lot of Glasgow in Connacht, because Glasgow pounded the rock themselves for many years and eventually it broke on that memorable day in Belfast last year when they became Pro 12 champions.
McFarland worked with Connacht coach Pat Lam, for two happy years, until his move to Glasgow, a decision he made because he wanted to test himself in a whole new environment.
"It was an opportunity to come to a club that has followed a similar path to Connacht, from underdogs to developing a really good culture."
And now, in this semi-final, new club meets old back in his former home in Galway. Was he surprised by Connacht's victory over Glasgow the last time? "No. I was involved in games with Connacht over the years when they demonstrated exactly the same stuff, the same physicality.
"We learned lessons from the Sportsground. Discipline is a big one. We've got to make sure we are controlled in what we are doing and that we don't give them a chance to get into positions where they can use their strengths. We can improve on the collision area. We need to negate them there.
"We're going up against a group of players who are used to digging deep and fighting. They have a history of that. So do we."
The weather, he says, will be mixed. A little bit dry, a little bit wet, a little bit of everything during the course of the afternoon. Unpredictable, in other words. A bit like the outcome. It's hard to think of Saturday without that image of a man pounding a rock springing to mind.
Hopefully it'll be a day for artistry. Unquestionably it'll be a day for physicality. Above all, perhaps, it'll be a day for mentality, a game between two teams that are so hard to break.
"It'll be great crack," says McFarland. Amid so much uncertainty, that's the one guarantee.
Det Ch Insp Paul Rymarz said aviation law blocks access to some Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) material.
This includes cockpit recordings and footage, witness accounts and specialist reports.
He told a pre-inquest hearing their inquiry "cannot progress effectively" until the court rules.
Without this material "key evidence is missing and experts are not in a position to provide interpretations".
A Hawker Hunter plane crashed into spectators watching the airshow from the A27 at Shoreham last August, killing 11 people.
The pilot, 51-year-old Andrew Hill, survived and has been interviewed under caution.
Mr Rymarz said there was "very good liaison" with the AAIB but police have had to work without its specialist knowledge and key evidence is missing.
Police said 330 statements, 3,500 documents and video and images from more than 200 people now form part of their inquiry.
The senior coroner for West Sussex, Penelope Schofield, plans to hold the full inquest in March next year and expects it to last about eight weeks.
But she said there might be a prosecution and that could "add a further delay to the families having some closure".
A lawyer for six of the bereaved families, James Healy-Pratt, of Stewarts Law, told the BBC they want the inquest to be completed but do not want corners cut.
He said: "We know there is key evidence still subject to a High Court dispute or application between the police and the Department of Transport.
Once that is resolved, we hope there will be a full air accident investigation."
A spokesman for the AAIB told the hearing on Tuesday it had released three bulletins about the crash with its final report expected to be published in "early summer".
The coroner adjourned the proceedings for another pre-inquest hearing on 19 September.
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The city is going to grind to a halt to observe the spectacle. Local bars are opening early to host viewing parties. Democrats and Republicans will be united in rapt attention as the former director has his first opportunity to publicly give his account of his interactions with the president and the circumstances of his dismissal.
Oh, and don't forget - after Mr Comey's public testimony, he'll be answering more sensitive questions from senators in a private hearing. If there are any shocking revelations that come out, their chances of not leaking to the media are just about zero.
Here's a look at the most pressing questions Mr Comey will face during his appearance - and what we can expect from his answers.
In a morning of big questions, this will be the biggest. Back in mid-May, the New York Times reported - based on a contemporaneous memo Mr Comey had written - that the president had asked the then-FBI director to go easy on Mr Trump's former aide.
"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," the Times reported that Mr Trump told the director after privately taking him aside in the Oval Office. "He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
Mr Flynn, whom the president fired from his job as national security adviser in February, had served as a close foreign policy advisor and surrogate to Mr Trump during the presidential campaign and was even on the short list to be his vice-presidential running mate.
If Mr Comey testifies under oath that he felt pressured to adjust his investigation at the request of the president - and he does in fact have memos to back up these claims - it would bolster the arguments made by Democrats and other Trump critics that the president attempted to obstruct an ongoing investigation.
That's the sort of charge that someday could be a centrepiece of an effort to impeach the president.
Then again, Mr Comey did testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in early May that "in my experience" the FBI had never been pressured to stop an ongoing investigation by the attorney general or senior Justice Department officials (although he was not explicitly asked about the president).
That response hints at the possibility that Mr Comey could downplay any allegations of presidential pressure and turn what was thought to be a looming bombshell into a political dud.
It may be an unlikely outcome, however. According to an ABC News report, while Mr Comey does not plan to accuse the president of obstruction of justice, he will not paint the president's actions in a favourable light.
Assuming the answer to the previous question is in the affirmative - which, according to an article by the Wall Street Journal, it will be - the next question is obvious. Why did the FBI director, a man with a reputation for independence and probity, who stood up to his own administration when he was deputy attorney general back in 2004, hold his tongue for so long?
If Mr Trump was leaning on the FBI director during an ongoing investigation, that surely wasn't the only instance of presidential meddling. Didn't Mr Comey have a responsibility to come forward with these allegations and not simply file some memos and tell a few associates?
Waiting to drop this particular bombshell until after he was fired and publicly ridiculed by the president has opened Mr Comey up to accusations of sour grapes.
Mr Comey, according to reports from his associates, may have decided not to go public because he thought he could be more effective working on the inside and that anyone who replaced him would be more beholden to the president.
We'll see if that's the line he goes with on the big stage.
Speaking of being beholden to the president, another eye-popping revelation from the New York Times last month was that Mr Trump invited Mr Comey to a one-on-one dinner just days after he was inaugurated and, during that meeting, asked the FBI director for his loyalty.
According to the Times, which relied on two sources with knowledge of the meeting, Mr Comey offered his honesty and, when prompted by the president, his "honest loyalty".
The White House denies this version of the events, although it does confirm that the two had dinner. In an interview the president said that Mr Comey - who was three years into a 10-year term - asked the president to keep him on as director.
Mr Comey will surely be asked to give his version of that fateful evening and explain any discrepancies between his version and the president's.
Given that Mr Trump has yet to name Mr Comey's replacement, the notion of a presidential loyalty requirement for the top US law enforcement official will be of considerable interest to the senators who eventually have to vote to confirm the president's nominee.
In the letter Mr Trump sent Mr Comey informing him that he was being fired, the president said he appreciated being told by the director "on three separate occasions" that he was not under FBI investigation.
One of those times, according to the president, was the now-famous dinner.
According to ABC News, Mr Comey will deny that he gave the president any such assurances - setting up yet another direct conflict between the president and director's stories and raising the prospect that Mr Trump is, in fact, within the crosshairs of the ongoing federal probe.
The Washington Post's Robert Costa reports that the president could tweet his reactions to the director's statements on Thursday, so it may not be long before the public hears his take on the matter.
The last time Mr Comey appeared before a Senate committee, on 3 May - just a week before his firing - the then-director was questioned about who may have revealed the identity - or "unmasked" - Trump aides who were inadvertently swept up in US government surveillance of foreign officials.
Under US law, the names of Americans whose communications were intercepted or who came up in conversations between foreign nationals are redacted from intelligence reports unless a national security official requests the information.
Republicans will likely press Mr Comey for further information about unmasking requests and the status of any federal investigations into how the unmasked names of Trump officials - most prominently former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn - leaked to the media.
Even if the questions are tangential to the big story of the day, if Mr Comey stumbles in handling them it could give his critics fodder for making accusations that the director went easy on anti-Trump leakers or was even complicit in the revelations.
The best way for Trump supporters to undermine Mr Comey's testimony as a whole is to somehow paint him as a partisan operative or otherwise not the model of rectitude he makes himself out to be.
According to Mr Comey's previous testimony, he decided to publicly announce the results of the Clinton investigation after Bill Clinton met with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch at Phoenix Airport in June. He was concerned that their private conversation called the impartiality of any Justice Department findings into question.
During that press conference, Mr Comey said the former secretary of state had been "extremely careless" in her handling of sensitive material - a description that would dog the Democratic candidate until the very end of her presidential campaign.
According to a Washington Post report, however, Mr Comey may have made the announcement without co-ordinating with the Justice Department - a break with FBI tradition - in part because he feared that a Russian intelligence document indicating collusion between the Clinton campaign and the Obama Justice Department could be leaked to the public.
Mr Comey reportedly was concerned the revelation of the document, even though it was almost certainly fraudulent, would undermine the FBI investigation and the credibility of the Justice Department as a whole.
In fact, the FBI director may be questioned extensively on his actions during the 2016 presidential campaign once again, given that the Justice Department has cited Mr Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation as grounds for his dismissal.
If most of Mr Comey's testimony will make the president and his associates sweat, this may be where the former director feels a bit of the heat as well.
This is the biggest of questions hanging over Washington these days, but it's also the least likely to get an answer from Mr Comey.
The former director will almost certainly demur, citing the ongoing independent counsel inquiry headed by his former boss, Robert Mueller.
How he dances around the question is worth watching, however. When former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was asked a similar question in March, he said he hadn't seen any evidence of collusion - a response that has been cited by the Trump White House from the president on down as evidence that the Russia investigation is a "witch hunt".
Mr Clapper has since clarified that he wasn't privy to details of the FBI investigation and had no access to findings after he left office at the end of January, but that hasn't stopped Trump administration officials from continuing to point to Mr Clapper's original statement as exoneration.
Whatever Mr Comey says on the matter will be parsed down to the pauses and twitches on his face for any indication of where the Russia investigation currently stands.
The ailing baby, named Fiona, had become dehydrated after refusing milk and required an urgent intravenous drip.
Fiona was born six weeks early to 17-year-old hippo Bibi on 24 January.
At birth she weighed 13 kg (29 lbs), which the zoo says is about half the previous lowest recorded birth weight for her species.
The normal range is 25-54 kg and at almost a month old she does not yet weigh 25 kg.
Zoo staff, who have been blogging about the little hippo's progress, said last week that she was teething.
The discomfort may have made her bottle feeding uncomfortable, they said.
When she grew sick and lethargic, the local Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center stepped in to help rehydrate her.
"Preemies have very tiny and unstable veins, and even though our vet team was able to get multiple IVs placed, the veins could not sustain the IV and would blow," said the zoo's curator of mammals Christina Gorsuch.
"Lucky for us, we're right next door to a world-class facility with a whole department dedicated to working with difficult veins."
Two members of the hospital's vascular team brought ultrasound equipment to the zoo on Friday and put an IV catheter into Fiona.
It lasted just 30 minutes before her vein ruptured, but the team were able to secure a line into one of her deep leg veins.
Keepers have been monitoring the IV round the clock since then.
"Five bags of fluid later, Fiona is showing signs of recovery," Ms Gorsuch said.
"She is still sleeping a lot but has started to take bottles again and has periods of carefully-supervised activity. The catheter is still in place."
Baby Fiona is being cared for close to her mother Bibi and father Henry, so the family can hear and smell each other.
She made the history books even before her arrival, when scientists at the zoo captured the first ever ultrasound image of a Nile hippo foetus.
The Vascular Access Team were delighted to help the diminutive beast, whose growing pains have charmed fans online.
"Like many people, we are rooting for Fiona!" said clinical director Sylvia Rineair.
Cincinnati Zoo was in the news last year over the fatal shooting of gorilla Harambe after the animal grabbed a four-year-old boy who had fallen into his enclosure.
The shooting last May sparked angry reaction and prompted a social media backlash that saw the zoo temporarily delete its Twitter account.
Fiona isn't the first of Cincinnati's animal residents to get help from the local children's hospital.
In 2015, Ali the aardvark had CT and MRI scans at Cincinnati Children's after suffering from eye trouble.
The multi-talented team have also helped baby gorillas, and consulted on a polar bear pregnancy test.
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Your cup final day starts bright and early as BBC Breakfast kicks things off from 06:00 BST. Keep your eyes peeled for appearances from BBC Sport presenters Jason Mohammad and Dan Walker, as well as former Arsenal player Ray Parlour.
The fun continues on CBBC at 07:45 BST with MOTD Kickabout, while Danny Baker's 5 live show from 09:00 BST will also be cup final flavoured.
Fighting Talk from 11:00 on 5 live comes from Wembley with Pat Nevin taking part, and the build-up continues with Football Focus from noon.
Dan Walker will be joined by cup winners Martin Keown and Ruud Gullit, who will dissect where the big game could be won and lost.
Noon is also the starting point for live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app - your home for the remainder of the day. Stay in touch with #bbcfacup across social media. Arsenal Ladies defender Alex Scott - a multiple Women's FA Cup winner - is your social media host throughout the day.
A special FA Cup edition of Pointless takes place at 13:15 BST on BBC One before Jason Mohammad presents the FA Cup show from 14:00 BST.
With build-up now in full swing, Jason looks back at the FA People's Cup, recaps the Wenger years (so far) and is joined by comedian and Chelsea fan Omid Djalili.
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The match coverage begins at 16:15 BST live on BBC One and online, as Gary Lineker is joined by Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard, Ian Wright and Ruud Gullit, who will be providing separate analysis on Facebook during the game.
Guy Mowbray is joined by Danny Murphy for television commentary, while on 5 live Mark Chapman presents from Wembley with John Murray, Ian Dennis and Jermaine Jenas on commentary duties.
You can also watch the game with 5 live commentary on the Red Button, and watch the game with Spidercam footage on the BBC Sport website and app.
At half-time you will also be able to choose your FA Cup goal of the season from the following shortlist:
Qualifying - Adam Coombes - Welling United v Swindon Supermarine
R1 - Junior Morais - St Albans v Carlisle
R2 - Adam Morgan - Curzon Ashton v AFC Wimbledon
R3 - Sean McConville - Accrington v Luton
R4 - Steven Defour - Burnley v Bristol City
R5 - Danny Graham - Blackburn v Man Utd
QF - Son Heung-min - Tottenham v Millwall (first goal)
SF - Nemanja Matic - Chelsea v Tottenham
Mr Duggan, 29, was shot by officers in Tottenham, north London, on 4 August 2011 and a gun was found nearby, a trial at the Old Bailey heard.
Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, 30, had denied selling or transferring a prohibited firearm to Mr Duggan.
Mr Duggan's death sparked riots in Tottenham, which led to disorder in a number of English cities and towns.
During the trial the jury heard Mr Duggan collected the BBM Bruni Model 92 handgun in a shoebox just 15 minutes before he was killed.
Prosecutor Edward Brown QC told the court: "The death of Mr Duggan has been regarded as the event that sparked the riots in north London, which then spread across London and then to other cities and which attracted widespread publicity in the United Kingdom and abroad."
He told the jury it was not their task to decide the "rights and wrongs" of Mr Duggan's shooting, which will be examined at the inquest into his death, set to take place in September.
Hutchinson-Foster has admitted using the same gun to beat barber Peter Osadebay at a barber's shop in Dalston, east London, just six days before Mr Duggan's death.
The defendant, a cannabis user with convictions for possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to supply, claimed Mr Duggan had wanted his help to sell some cannabis.
He said that was why his DNA was found on the gun when it was retrieved from Ferry Lane, along with traces of Mr Osadebay's blood.
According to the BBC's Danny Shaw the case has helped clarify events leading up to the shooting of Mr Duggan and the inquest into his death can now go ahead.
Armed police, who gave evidence anonymously, described how they had opened fire on Mr Duggan because they saw him get out of a taxi holding a loaded gun.
The officer responsible for the two shots that fatally wounded Mr Duggan said: "I had an honest-held belief that Mark Duggan was going to shoot me or one of my colleagues, so I brought my MP5 (sub-machine gun) up to the shooting position."
The officer, known only as V53, shot Mr Duggan in the chest and arm.
He told the jury: "Mark Duggan then fell to the floor. I then closed the suspect down."
The court heard Mr Duggan had been under police surveillance before the shooting.
A taxi driver, who also gave evidence anonymously, collected Mr Duggan from Hoxton, east London, and took him to an address in Leyton, where he saw his passenger collect a box from another man.
Asked if he could remember the events clearly, the taxi driver said: "It was such an incident that a person cannot forget about these things, even at night."
He detailed the "hard stop" carried out by police, who surrounded the cab, forcing it to halt.
Police descended on the halted minicab and the driver said he saw his passenger get out and run, followed by the gun shots.
The court heard the driver was was pulled from his cab and and forced to lie face-down on the ground with his hands tied behind his back, where he saw Mr Duggan's body lying nearby.
The driver said: "His mouth was open.
"He was bleeding from the front. They were trying to remove his clothes."
An Independent Police Complaints Commission inquiry into the shooting is on-going.
Chief Supt Dean Haydon, from the Metropolitan Police's Trident Gang Crime Command which tackles gang and gun crime, said: "The Kevin Hutchinson-Foster trial has primarily been about the supply of an illegal firearm and I welcome the verdict of the jury in this case today."
Hutchinson-Foster will be sentenced on 26 February.
The Court of Cassation ordered that the 65-year-old be retried on the charge of conspiring to commit terrorist acts with foreign organisations.
Last week, the court quashed a death sentence handed to Morsi in a separate case revolving around a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution.
But he is still serving lengthy sentences related to two other cases.
Morsi was elected president in 2012 but was removed by the military a year later after protests against his rule.
Maudie tells the true story of Maud Lewis, who overcame her disability to become one of Canada's best-known folk artists. She died in 1970, aged 67.
Hawkins couldn't attend the premiere on Monday as she was filming elsewhere in the city.
But she said in a message that Maud Lewis was the "role of a lifetime".
Hawkins gives an extraordinary performance in which she appears to physically diminish as the film goes on.
One review has already described it as "Oscar-worthy".
The film co-stars Ethan Hawke as the reclusive Everett Lewis, who hires the fragile Maud as his housekeeper.
As she covers the walls of his tiny house in Nova Scotia with her colourful paintings the pair fall into an unlikely romance.
Everett takes over the housework while Maud concentrates on selling her art.
Ethan Hawke, who plays Everett, said after the screening that he regarded Maud Lewis as a "ferocious feminist".
Hawke, who also starred in Toronto's opening night film The Magnificent Seven, said had first become aware of the screenplay after his wife found it on his desk and read it.
"I got home from doing a play one night to find her in tears," he recalled.
"I thought the worst, but she took the script and said, 'you have to do that movie'. I said, 'Okay, I'll read it.'
"And she said, 'I didn't say that. You have to do it'."
Irish director Aisling Walsh described the relationship between Maud and Everett as "a beautiful love story".
She urged the audience to discover more about Lewis's work, which often featured sunny outdoor scenes and cats.
The painted cabin where Lewis and Everett lived is now on display at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs until 18 September.
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The South Africa-born back-row will make his first Six Nations start against the French, having become eligible to play for Scotland ahead of last year's World Cup.
"At this level, every game is a must-win game," said Strauss. "Pride-wise, though, this is a must-win game.
"It's very big for us. We feel everything is in place for us."
Strauss wants his team to build on the momentum generated by the victory over Italy in Rome last time out that ended the Scots' nine-match losing run in the Six Nations.
"We feel there has been a constant improvement in the team," he said. "That's a very important factor at this level, trying to build on the positives and trying to get the negatives out of the game.
"Two weeks ago against Italy, things came together nicely. We've got to build on what we did well."
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The form of David Denton resulted in Strauss playing a less prominent role in Scotland's World Cup campaign than many had anticipated, but now he wants to stake a claim for the number eight jersey in Vern Cotter's team.
"It's obviously a very big opportunity for myself," said Strauss, who replaces Glasgow Warriors team-mate Ryan Wilson in the starting XV.
"It's been a bit of a topsy-turvy experience with the World Cup and coming straight back into the Pro12. It's the first time I've experienced something like it.
"It was a very different experience and I struggled a bit with injuries before the Six Nations, which I think threw me off a little bit more.
"But I'm just happy to get back into the squad and get working."
Strauss is keen to make an impact after preparing with the squad for previous games.
"I've been in since the start, but I've been biding my time just training with team, trying to get my fitness back to where it has to be to play a game," he added.
"I've had a few games for the Warriors and I feel like my fitness is where it has to be.
"Everyone wants to start. Everyone wants that jersey."
The boy was struck by the vehicle driven by a 58-year-old man from Carlisle earlier on the A7, between the A6071 junction and Longtown Bridge.
The victim's family have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers.
The road is closed while police investigate. Officers are appealing for witnesses to the crash to come forward.
Pearson blamed lower enrolments at some US colleges and a drop in school textbook purchases in South Africa.
The FTSE 100 opened lower, but then recovered to close 3.29 points or 0.05% higher at 6,348.42.
Shares in chip designer ARM Holdings rose 6.5% after it reported a 27% rise in third-quarter profits to £128.4m.
The firm - whose designs can be found in iPhones, tablets and many consumer electronic goods - added that full-year revenues were set to hit market forecasts.
Shares in Sky were also among the top risers, climbing 2.5% after the satellite broadcaster reported another strong increase in subscriber numbers.
In the three months to the end of September, it added 77,000 customers in the UK and Ireland - its best performance for four years.
Merlin Entertainments rose 4.7% after the company announced it would open a Legoland amusement park in Shanghai after signing an agreement with China Media Capital.
The deal is being announced as part of the state visit to the UK of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Home Retail Group sank 15.8% after it issued a profit warning. The firm - which owns Argos and Homebase - said uncertainty over the impact of Black Friday and investment in the Argos delivery service meant full-year profits would be slightly below forecast.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.14% against the dollar to $1.5467 and gained 0.15% against the euro to €1.3635.
The commission rejected an application to grant charitable status to The Temple of the Jedi Order.
It said Jediism did not "promote moral or ethical improvement" for charity law purposes in England and Wales.
In the 2011 census, 177,000 people declared themselves Jedi under the religion section, making it the seventh most popular religion.
The following began as a tongue-in-cheek response from some atheists on the UK's 2001 census when a question on religious belief was asked for the first time.
But others took the message from the Star Wars films further, aiming to build a belief system and religious code inspired by the franchise.
In its ruling the Charity Commission said Jediism "lacked the necessary spiritual or non-secular element" it was looking for in a religion.
It said there was insufficient evidence that "moral improvement" was central to the beliefs and practices of Jediism and did not have the "cogency, cohesion, or seriousness" to truly be a belief system.
The commission said to be classed as a religion it must also have a positive beneficial impact on society in general and raised concerns that Jediism may, in part, have an "inward focus" on its members.
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Daniel Jones, leader of the Church of Jediism in the UK, said Jedi would continue to do charity work without any legal status and was convinced "Jediism's status will change in the next five years".
"It's not what anyone in the Jediism community wants to hear, when you have churches like Satan and Scientology with charitable religious statuses," he told the BBC.
Jediism has more adherents than Rastafarians and Jains, according to the 2011 census.
But the number of Jedi fell sharply from 2001, when 390,000 people said they were followers of The Force.
Kenneth Dibble, the chief legal adviser at the Charity Commission, said: "The law relating to what is and is not a charity evolves continuously and, as in this case, can be influenced by decisions in other areas. Our role is critical in interpreting and explaining the extent of what the law considers charitable."
David Cameron has launched a review of the current system, which he says fails to encourage people with long-term, treatable issues to get medical help.
Some 100,000 people with such conditions claim Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), the government says.
Labour said the policy would do nothing to help people to get off benefits.
Campaigners said it was "naive" to think overweight people did not want to change their lives.
There is currently no requirement for people with alcohol, drug or weight-related health problems to undertake treatment.
Mr Cameron has asked Prof Dame Carol Black, an adviser to the Department of Health, to look at whether it would be appropriate to withhold benefits from those who are unwilling to accept help.
Announcing the proposal, he said: "Some [people] have drug or alcohol problems, but refuse treatment.
"In other cases people have problems with their weight that could be addressed - but instead a life on benefits rather than work becomes the choice.
"It is not fair to ask hardworking taxpayers to fund the benefits of people who refuse to accept the support and treatment that could help them get back to a life of work."
David Cameron sees the wide-ranging welfare reforms introduced in this Parliament as part of a "moral mission".
He has said they give new hope to people who have been written off by helping them back to work.
He also knows taxpayers who fund the welfare state like policies which ensure benefits only go to those who need them.
So despite criticism of what some see as an increasingly punitive benefits regime, the Conservatives are floating a new suggestion - possible sanctions for those claimants who refuse help to overcome treatable conditions.
On the same day, during a speech in Wales, Labour's leader will pledge to continue his attack on tax avoidance.
So David Cameron runs the risk of being seen as someone wanting to crack down on some of society's most vulnerable, while Ed Miliband targets the wealthiest.
The truth is both party leaders are trying to persuade "hard-working families" that they're on their side.
Similar proposals have been considered by the government before.
In 2010 and 2012 the Conservatives considered plans to remove or cut benefits for drug and alcohol addicts who refused treatment.
At the time the plans were met with concern by charities, who said there was no evidence benefit sanctions would help addicts engage with treatment.
Dame Carol welcomed Saturday's announcement, saying: "These people, in addition to their long-term conditions and lifestyle issues, suffer the great disadvantage of not being engaged in the world of work, such an important feature of society."
And Minister for Disabled People Mark Harper told the BBC the right interventions could be "very successful".
Terry Hogan, 45, from Ashton-under-Lyne, has been on incapacity benefit - before it became ESA - since 1992 and is also on a weight-management course.
He suffers from fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, type-2 diabetes, depression, lymphoedema, cellulitis, and Klinefelter's Syndrome.
He said his illnesses had caused him to become more sedentary, which in turn led to him putting on weight.
"When I was well enough I did voluntary work," he told the BBC.
"In 2012 I became incapacitated to the point where everything I do leaves me tired and in pain.
"I don't think this review is helpful. If you're overweight on sickness benefits, forcing someone to lose weight and cutting benefits won't help the individual. There may be underlying causes to weight gain.
"I still walk on crutches, am in a lot of pain all of the time, and take a lot of painkillers. I do want to lose weight but it's not that simple."
Susannah Gilbert, from obesity support group Big Matters, said the policy "wouldn't be feasible".
She said: "I think it's naive to think that people don't want to change their life. Many of them have tried every diet under the sun and they still have a weight problem, so to think they don't want to have help isn't true."
Labour's shadow minister for disabled people, Kate Green MP, said the announcement did "nothing to help people off benefits and into work", adding: "David Cameron's government has stripped back funding for drug support programmes and their Work Programme has helped just 7% of people back to work, so it is clear the Tory plan isn't working."
The UK Independence Party also said it was "another example of the way that this government bullies those it has decided are beyond the pale".
Deputy chairman Suzanne Evans said: "The government obviously doesn't care about those with weight or addiction problems, it is just ideologically driven by its contempt for those on benefits and its need to get the benefits bill down at all costs."
ESA was introduced in 2008 to replace incapacity benefit and income support, paid because of an illness or disability.
It requires claimants to undertake a work capability assessment to see how much their illness or disability affects their ability to work.
Once a claim is accepted, those receiving ESA get up to £108.15 a week.
Some 60% of the 2.5 million people claiming ESA have been doing so for more than five years, government figures show. | A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of another man who died after being found seriously injured in a Glasgow street.
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40,000 BC - The first Aborigines arrive from south-east Asia. By 20,000 BC they have spread throughout the mainland and Tasmania.
1770 - Captain James Cook charts the east coast in his ship HM Endeavour. Cook claims it as a British possession and names eastern Australia "New South Wales".
1788 - British Navy captain Arthur Phillip founds a penal settlement at Sydney. He had arrived with a fleet of 11 vessels, carrying nearly 800 convicts. The Aboriginal population at the time is thought to number several hundred thousand.
1829 - Colony of Western Australia established at Perth by Captain James Stirling.
1836 - South Australia established, with Adelaide as its capital.
1850s - Gold is found at several locations leading to gold rushes throughout the decade. The population increases three-fold in 10 years to pass the million mark. An influx of Chinese leads to restrictions on their entry. Aborigines are treated very badly and their numbers collapse.
1856 - Australia becomes the first country to introduce the secret ballot - or 'Australian ballot' - for elections.
1877 - Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
1901 - The country is unified. The Commonwealth of Australia comes into being on 1st January.
The Immigration Restriction Act puts a brake on non-white immigration.
1911 - Canberra is founded and designated as the capital.
1914 - Outbreak of World War I. Australia commits hundreds of thousands of troops to the British war effort.
Their participation - alongside New Zealanders - in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915 leads to heavy casualties. The Gallipoli landings help cement a sense of identity in the young nation.
1929 - The Great Depression following the Wall Street Crash hits Australia hard. Recovery is uneven, and the Labor government is defeated in the election in 1931.
1939 - Australia follows Britain's lead and declares war on Nazi Germany.
1941 - The US declares war on Japan. Australia turns to the US for help in its defence after the Japanese take Singapore. Australia allows the US to base its supreme command for the Pacific war on its territory.
1948 - Australia begins a scheme for immigration from Europe. Over the next 30 years, more than two million people arrive, about one-third of them from Britain, and hundreds of thousands from Italy, Greece and Germany.
1950 - Australia commits troops to the UN forces in the Korean war.
1956 - Olympic Games held in Melbourne.
1965 - Australia commits troops to the US war effort in Vietnam.
1967 - National referendum on changes to constitution is passed. Section which excluded Aboriginal people from official census is removed. Another change enables federal government to pass laws on Aboriginal issues.
1975 - Australia introduces new immigration laws, restricting the number of unskilled workers allowed into the country.
The government of Gough Whitlam is plagued by resignations and the blocking of its budget by the upper house of the parliament. In an unprecedented move, the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, dismisses the government. A caretaker administration under Malcolm Fraser is installed.
1983 March - Bob Hawke becomes prime minister after his Labor Party secures a landslide victory.
1986 - The Australia Act makes Australian law fully independent of the British parliament and legal system. There is no longer any provision for Australian courts to mount final appeals to the Privy Council in London.
1991 December - Paul Keating becomes prime minister.
1992 - The Citizenship Act is amended to remove swearing an oath of allegiance to the British Crown. Prime Minister Paul Keating's Labor government pledges to make Australia a republic and to concentrate on links with Asia.
1993 - Keating wins elections. The Native Title Act establishes a process for the granting of Aboriginal land rights.
1996 - Keating defeated in elections. John Howard of the Liberal Party becomes prime minister.
1998 - Elections see Howard's Liberal and National party coalition re-elected, but with a reduced majority. Delegates to a constitutional convention vote to replace Queen Elizabeth II as head of state with a president chosen by parliament. The issue is put to a referendum in 1999. The proposal is defeated, with 55% voting to retain the status quo.
1999 - Australia leads intervention force in East Timor to counter pro-Indonesia militia violence after territory's independence vote. Relations with Indonesia worsen.
2000 - Australia hosts the Olympic Games in Sydney, the most popular ever.
2001 January - Australia celebrates 100 years since its inauguration as the Commonwealth of Australia.
2001 February - Sir Donald Bradman, Australia's most famous cricketer, dies at the age of 92.
2001 May - Churches rebuke Prime Minister John Howard for failing properly to acknowledge suffering of thousands of Aborigines under past assimilation policy. Howard has refused to apologise to "Stolen Generations" of Aborigines who as children were forcibly removed from their parents to live with whites.
2001 August - Australia turns away hundreds of boat people over several months, the most prominent group having been rescued from a sinking ferry. Australia pays Nauru to detain many of them.
2001 November - Howard wins a third term in general elections.
2002 - Aid agencies, rights groups and UN report criticise policy of holding asylum seekers in detention camps until their visa applications are processed. Woomera desert camp in South Australia sees riots, hunger strikes and escapes.
2002 October - Australia mourns as 88 of its citizens are killed in a night club bombing in Bali, Indonesia, which some call Australia's September 11. The attacks - which killed 202 people in total - are blamed on al-Qaeda-linked Islamists.
2003 January - Australia deploys troops to the Gulf ahead of a possible war. The move sparks public protests.
Bushfire ravages the capital, Canberra. More than 500 homes are destroyed. Other fires rage across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania.
2003 February - Senate passes no-confidence motion against Prime Minister John Howard over his handling of Iraq crisis. It is Senate's first-ever vote of no-confidence in serving leader.
2003 May - Governor-General Peter Hollingworth resigns after admitting that, as an Anglican archbishop in the 1990s, he allowed a known paedophile remain a priest.
2003 July - Australia heads peacekeeping force intended to restore order in troubled Solomon Islands.
2004 February - Race riots in district of Sydney, sparked by death of Aboriginal teenager.
2004 March - Parliamentary committee clears government of lying about threat posed by weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In July, report details intelligence failings over Iraq, Bali bombings, but clears government of manipulating Iraq intelligence.
2004 August - Government announces a multi-million dollar cruise missile programme, set to give Australia the region's "most lethal" air combat capacity.
2004 September - Bomb attack outside Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, kills at least nine, injures dozens more.
2004 October - John Howard wins fourth term as prime minister; his party extends its grip on parliament.
2004 November - Death of Aboriginal man in police custody sparks rioting on Palm Island, off north-east coast.
2005 January - Worst bush fires for more than 20 years kill nine people in South Australia.
2005 July - Australia says it will deploy 150 special forces troops in Afghanistan to counter rebel attacks. The original contingent was withdrawn in 2002. Further deployments are announced in 2006.
2005 November - As parliament debates controversial new anti-terrorism laws, police say they have foiled a planned "large-scale terrorist attack".
2005 December - Racially-motivated violence, involving thousands of youths, hits Sydney.
2006 January - Australia and East Timor sign a deal to divide billions of dollars in expected revenues from oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea. Under the agreement, discussions on a disputed maritime boundary are postponed.
2006 April-May - Australian troops spearhead peacekeeping forces in the Solomon Islands and East Timor after unrest in both countries.
2006 August - Proposed legislation, under which future asylum seekers who arrive by boat will be sent to offshore detention camps, is scrapped after a revolt by ruling party lawmakers.
2006 December - Amid the worst drought in a century, the government slashes economic growth forecasts, reflecting a slump in farm output. In January PM John Howard declares water security to be Australia's biggest challenge.
2007 November - Opposition Labor Party, under Kevin Rudd, sweeps to power with landslide victory over John Howard.
2007 December - Prime Minister Rudd signs documents ratifying Kyoto protocol on climate change, reversing the previous government's policy.
2008 February - Government apologises for past wrongs committed against the indigenous population.
Australia ends its policy of sending asylum seekers into detention on small Pacific islands, with the last refugees leaving Nauru.
2008 July - Labor government abandons policy - introduced in 1990s - of holding all asylum seekers in detention centres until their cases are heard.
2008 September - Quentin Bryce sworn in as Australia's governor-general, the first woman to hold the post.
2009 February - Devastating bushfires in the south-eastern state of Victoria kill more than 170 people.
2009 May - Australia announces plans to more than double its submarine fleet and buy 100 US Stealth fighters as part of a $70bn military modernisation programme.
Indian students hold rallies in protest against a series of violent attacks - more than 70 in the past year - which they say are racially motivated. India voices concern about the violence.
2010 February - Five Muslim men are sentenced to lengthy prison terms for conspiracy to carry out attacks.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the policy of sending thousands of children to former colonies under a migrant programme that ended 40 years previously.
2010 June - Julia Gillard becomes prime minister, ousting Kevin Rudd in a Labor Party leadership challenge.
2010 August - Parliamentary elections fail to deliver a clear winner. Prime Minister Gillard clings to power after securing support of independents to form a minority government.
2011 January - Queensland is hit by floods which are described as the most expensive natural disaster in the country's history.
2011 December - Economy grows unexpectedly fast in the third quarter of 2011, driven by construction and mining. GDP rose 2.5% on the year, whereas analysts had expected 2.1%.
2012 January - Talks between government and opposition on asylum seekers break down. The opposition says the government fails to address concerns about a plan to swap refugees with Malaysia that the high court had declared unlawful.
2012 February - Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns to mount a challenge to Prime Minister Gillard's leadership, but is defeated.
2012 July - Controversial carbon tax, which penalises big polluters, comes into force. Prime Minister Gillard says it is needed to meet climate change obligations; opponents say it will cost jobs and raise prices.
2012 August - Five Australian troops are killed in Afghanistan in what Prime Minister Gillard says is Australia's deadliest day in combat since the Vietnam War.
2012 September - After an independent panel recommends setting up holding centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea to cope with rising numbers of asylum-seekers, the government says it will send the first group for processing in Nauru. Australia also signs an agreement with Papua New Guinea to conduct offshore processing on Manus Island.
2013 January - Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard says elections will be held in September, hoping to use the long run-in to recoup support.
2013 March - A chaotic and abortive leadership challenge bounces Prime Minister Gillard into a major cabinet reshuffle to oust supporters of long-standing rival Kevin Rudd. The previous month the Greens dropped their alliance with Labor, but pledged to keep the government in power.
2013 June - After months of infighting, Kevin Rudd manages to oust Julia Gillard as Labor leader and prime minister in a parliamentary party vote.
2013 July - Australia reaches deal with Papua New Guinea that will allow it to ship asylum seekers arriving by boat onwards to its Pacific neighbour.
Papua New Guinea will receive generous aid in return, and the offshore processing centre on its Manus Island will be significantly expanded to hold up to 3,000 people.
Liberals return
2013 September - Parliamentary elections. Landslide victory for Liberal-National Coalition, led by Tony Abbott.
2013 October - Government adopts new policy of naval vessels intercepting boats of migrants and directing them back to Indonesia, which is followed by a dramatic reduction in arrivals.
2014 March - Australia takes a leading role in search for missing Malaysian Airlines plane MH370, thought to have been lost in the southern Indian Ocean.
2014 April - Japan and Australia reach an agreement over a trade deal that will lower tariffs between the two nations.
2014 September - Australia says it is sending 600 military advisors to Iraq as part of effort against Islamic State group.
Police carry out the nation's biggest ever counter-terrorism raids, with 15 arrests in Sydney and Brisbane, sparked by intelligence reports that Islamic extremists were planning random killings.
2014 December - Islamist Man Haron Monis takes 18 people hostage in Sydney cafe; two hostages and gunman die when police storm premises.
2015 March - Parliament passes law requiring its internet and mobile phone providers to store customer data for two years as anti-terror measure.
2015 June - Government announces 20-year plan to develop the infrastructure of the north, including transport and water resources.
2015 September - Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull replaces Tony Abbott as prime minister after a successful Liberal Party leadership challenge.
2016 April - Prime Minister Turnbull announces plan to hold early parliamentary and Senate elections in June, after Senate rejects government bill twice.
2016 July - An early general election sees Prime Minister Turnbull's conservative Liberal-National coalition secure the narrowest of majorities over the opposition Labor Party.
2016 August - Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International accuse the Australian government of condoning the systematic abuse of refugees and asylum seekers at its camp on Nauru. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the claims will be investigated.
China says Australia's decision to block two Chinese companies from buying a controlling stake in the country's largest electricity network will seriously impede future investment in Australia.
Australia agrees to close a controversial asylum seeker detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island but says none of the 850 people held there will be resettled on Australian soil.
Linda Burney becomes the first indigenous woman to be elected to Australia's lower house of parliament.
2016 September - Australia says it will close its permanent research station on Macquarie Island, a remote post between Australia and Antarctica due to lack of funds.
Controversial politician Pauline Hanson says Australia is in danger of being "swamped by Muslims" and calls for an end to further Muslim immigration and a ban on the wearing of burqas.
Australia acknowledges that its warplanes took part in a US-led raid in Syria which Russia says killed up to 90 Syrian government soldiers.
2016 November - Government's bid to hold a referendum on whether to legalise same-sex marriage is narrowly defeated.
Australia says refugees held in detention centres on the Pacific islands will be resettled in the United States in a "one-off deal".
Islamic State militant Neil Prakash, described as Australia's "most wanted terrorist" who was thought to have been killed in an air strike in Iraq , is arrested in Turkey.
2016 December - Police arrested five men suspected of planning a terrorist attack in Melbourne on Christmas Day.
2017 January - Indonesia suspends military cooperation with Australia after material allegedly insulting the country's founding principles is found on display at an Australian military base. | A chronology of key events: | 15,675,556 | 3,554 | 8 | false |
There isn't a city or village, bar or community hall - except, of course, those being targeted by African jihadists - where the World Cup in Brazil has not taken centre stage over the past two weeks.
Unlike any other continent, Africa's footballers belong to us all - not to Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast or even Algeria - but to the whole expectant mass of us in our constant need to reassert ourselves as a continent of heart and talent, especially on the world stage that is Brazil 2014.
Four years on from the first World Cup on African soil, many of the same splattering of players have landed on Brazil's green fields only to raise our anxiety levels as we watched mediocre football garnished with ageing strikers, petulant red cards and kamikaze defences.
Furthermore, we smelt the stench of mutiny and rebellion over money amongst the ranks of our African stars all the way across the Atlantic Ocean separating Brazil from the west coast of Africa.
Ghana's President John Mahama was in no mood to have his football interrupted by players who were bickering over unpaid fees and he dispatched a plane with $3m (£1.76m) to appease the feuding team.
The Black Stars, meant to light up our World Cup with the purest of African football as they had done in 2010, had been threatening a power cut.
Cameroon's Indomitable Lions, who at one stage had threatened not to board the plane to Brazil over unpaid money, played without teeth.
Ivory Coast's Elephants, long considered the most talented team we could offer, surrendered a chance to reach the last 16 with an idiotic penalty in the dying seconds and will go down in history as the team that could never deliver.
Pele famously predicted that an African team would win the World Cup by 2000
No African team has ever reached the semi-finals
Only three teams have reached the quarter-finals: Cameroon in 1990; Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010
2014 was the first time two African teams reached the last 16
More lows than highs for Africa in Brazil
Cameroon investigates World Cup match-fixing claims
Ghana FA chief to sue Daily Telegraph
Would there be a silver lining in these dark clouds over Brazil? And would that lining be all about the silver? Nigeria's Super Eagles - Africa's current champions - soon missed a training session over disagreements concerning their bonuses.
It is altogether some miracle then that, for the first time, we had two teams through to the last 16 of this world cup as Algeria and the disgruntled Nigerians continued to stamp Africa's mark on Brazil.
But why are things so fraught in African football federations? Why is it so easy for the headlines about African football to look like allegories of bad politics and corrupt governance?
It doesn't matter where you are - Zimbabwe, South Sudan, South Africa and beyond - Africa's football fans bemoan the administrators who generally fail to provide the national teams with the support they need.
Talent and potential remain unfulfilled, teams are stranded at football tournaments because federations could not afford return tickets, and South Africa, the hosts of 2010, have had 23 coaches in 20 years.
Those that have made it to Brazil cannot escape the organisational chaos of their own federations as the constant bickering over bonuses and fees has shown.
Yet, a country's appearance at the World Cup final is worth, at the last count, $8m.
There should, should there not, be enough silver to pay the talent? When we consider Ghana's spectacular performance four years ago, Cameroon's regular appearance at tournaments, and Nigeria's status as reigning African champions - where has all the silver gone? Why is the talent treated so shabbily?
It is almost certainly the case that football is too close to political patronage in many countries and those that run our federations are closer to government than the fans.
They will preach impractical patriotism as incentive enough to play, and leave themselves open to the lure of criminals' betting syndicates and bogus international fixtures to line their own pockets.
Is it any wonder then that there is a desperate lack of trust between the players and their federations?
Moreover, the African talent on display on the fields of Brazil is made up of international stars from every league in the world who at times carry their poorer countrymen, but who cannot be expected to work under the kind of dodgy federations the Messis, Ronaldos and Neymars of this greatest show on earth never have to deal with.
It is then we saw the egos. I don't know what other football fans can see on their televisions, but there were African coaches standing on the side lines who we knew had not picked the team, whose body language said: "I have no control over these moneyed and arrogant peacocks and this is not my fault."
As the curtain fell on Africa's participation at Brazil 2014, Nigeria and Algeria lifted the football from the mediocrity of Africa's football administrators at last - losing in the dying minutes to France and Germany - and lifted us all from the nightmare images of players kissing bundles of cash.
Having previously offered his resignation following his Africa Cup of Nations triumph, citing "a lack of support and respect", Nigeria's manager Stephen Keshi did resign after the French defeat - perhaps to become South Africa's 24th coach - but he has left a young exciting attacking team we will no doubt watch for years to come.
Planeloads of cash will not win us a World Cup, but it is time to treat African talent as talent and pay them what they're worth.
And that means talent on and off the field - for football administration should not be a job for life as it so often is in many federations.
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Charlie Parker, a former politician, was shovelling snow near his home in Nova Scotia when he spotted a dark shape moving through the snow.
When he came closer, he found 73-year-old Gerald Whitman face down on the road.
"He thought I was a seal," Mr Whitman told CBC News.
"On behalf of all seals, I'd like to thank him for his interest. … If he hadn't been as strong as he was, I think we still would be there."
Mr Whitman had been driving to hospital on Monday for a dialysis treatment, when he took a detour because the road was closed.
"I made a wrong turn somewhere," he said, explaining how his car became stuck in the snow.
Not wanting to become trapped in his car, Mr Whitman crawled out of the passenger side and set out for a house he could see in the distance.
But snow was deep and hard on his arthritic knees. When he sat down for a break, he could not get up. So he crawled, knowing "what would happen if he fell asleep," he told the CBC.
"After about an hour, I thought, "Well, if this is what it's going to be - I made peace with the Lord and said 'If it be your will, so be it.' And I just stopped. Apparently it wasn't his will."
Mr Parker had spotted Mr Whitman while he was shovelling the driveway for his son, who was on his way home from a night shift.
"I'm sure I didn't do anything different than anyone else would have," Mr Parker said.
Whitman was taken to a hospital and has since recovered. He plans to drive to his next appointment later this week.
The 29-year-old reached his ton from 169 balls - with 14 fours - as captain James Franklin hit 63 off 67 balls.
Franklin earlier had Kumar Sangakkara caught behind for 114 as the visitors collapsed from 265-5 to 311 all out.
Surrey took regular wickets, with Mark Footitt claiming 3-83, but the hosts recovered from 204-5 to close on 296-5.
Sangakkara was ousted after adding just a single to his overnight score when Ollie Rayner took a spectacular one-handed catch at third slip.
Franklin claimed his second wicket in as many overs when Sam Curran nicked the ball to Rayner and Tom Helm (3-81) then mopped up the tail soon after as Surrey collected their third batting bonus point.
Middlesex's openers survived through to the break unscathed only for Curran to trap Nick Gubbins lbw the very first ball after lunch.
Stevie Eskinazi (67), put down on 29 by Scott Borthwick, hit his third Championship half-century this season but was caught behind off Footitt to bring an end to his 100-run third-wicket partnership with Malan.
When Adam Voges (9) and John Simpson (11) fell cheaply the home side looked in trouble, but Malan battened down the hatches as Franklin attacked from the off, contributing 63 to their 92-run sixth-wicket stand.
With the new ball available in just two overs' time, Surrey will be looking to make early breakthroughs on Sunday morning.
Middlesex century-maker Dawid Malan told BBC Radio London:
"I needed those runs. It was nice to contribute in a game we need to win. I've been making 20s and 30s, with the ball hitting the middle of the bat, so it was nice to convert my decent start into three figures.
"Our bowlers stuck to their guns this morning, especially having strayed from out plans yesterday. They were right on it and all credit to them for that session when they took 48-5.
"There's still a little bit in the pitch. If we can get another 120, then there's no reason why we can't put them under pressure and give ourselves something to chase on the last day."
Surrey coach Michael de Venuto told BBC Radio London:
"It was a disappointing day to lose five wickets for 48. The nature of our dismissals was poor.
"We certainly weren't got out, and that was a below-par total for us on that wicket.
"We have to put it behind us quickly and come out with a new ball and bowl like we know we're able to. There is still a lot of cricket to be played."
Cardiff University is leading a three-year research project into a special form of concrete to reduce the need for road repairs.
The new material uses bacteria in microcapsules which burst out to plug gaps and cracks when water enters them.
The bacteria forms to produce a limestone seal.
Professor Bob Lark from Cardiff University's school of engineering said: "We can introduce fibres into the mixtures which limits cracks from being formed.
"But equally it's about saying once those cracks form - and when water gets into them and that freezes and expands it makes the cracks bigger - we can have a mechanism for knitting those cracks together."
Prof Lark said it was similar to someone cutting themselves while shaving, with the bleeding being part of the process as the skin repairs itself.
The material is being developed in conjunction with Bath and Cambridge scientists.
The 39-year-old appeared in court in Belfast on Saturday, facing 14 charges, including causing the fake alert at Mr Adams' west Belfast home in May.
The Sunday Life newspaper has named the accused as Eric Rohloff from Clifton Road in Bangor, County Down.
The charges also include making threats to kill other members of Sinn Féin.
Mr Rohloff was remanded in custody to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court again on Thursday.
It reported Mr Cameron as saying that the appointment could destabilise the UK government and bring forward referendum plans on EU membership.
Downing Street has not yet commented.
Mr Juncker told a German newspaper that his opponents should not be allowed to "blackmail" the EU.
The former Luxembourg PM was quoted in Bild - Germany's biggest newspaper - as saying he remains confident of becoming the next president of the European Commission.
Correspondents say Mr Cameron, at an informal EU summit earlier this week, made his views clear - that he wanted a reformer to take charge of the EU executive.
Mr Juncker's European People's Party won the largest number of seats in the European parliament in the May polls.
The centre-right grouping, which also includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, won 213 out of 751 seats in the Parliament and chose Mr Juncker as its candidate for the presidency to succeed Portugal's Jose Manuel Barroso.
But Mr Cameron and several other European leaders have voiced opposition to his appointment, which has received the backing of Chancellor Merkel.
Der Spiegel says the British prime minister issued the warning to Angela Merkel during the meeting in Brussels.
Quoting "sources close to the participants" of the summit, the influential magazine said Mr Cameron told Chancellor Merkel that selecting Mr Juncker could destabilise his government to such an extent that an in-out referendum on Britain's EU membership would have to be brought forward.
The magazine quotes Mr Cameron as telling the German chancellor that "a face from the 1980s cannot solve the problems of the next five years".
A senior government source told the BBC it did not recognise the language about destabilisation and that it is not something the prime minister would have said.
Jean-Claude Juncker
But the BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says it is no secret that Mr Cameron opposes Mr Juncker and that the UK view is that the need for change is well-established.
The report comes a day after Angela Merkel made her clearest statement yet of support for Mr Juncker and leaves her in a difficult position, our correspondent says.
He adds that much of the German political establishment believes Mr Juncker should get the job because his party will be the largest political grouping.
EU leaders traditionally choose the Commission head on their own, but under new rules have to "take into account" the results of the European elections.
Downing Street has emphasised that it will be national governments - not the European parliament - which will have to agree on the president.
Mr Juncker's main rival is the Socialist candidate Martin Schulz.
Mr Juncker is known for his role in chairing the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers that had to make tough decisions about struggling debt-laden countries.
Mr Juncker is not thought to be amenable to a wide-ranging renegotiation of Britain's relationship with Brussels.
Other leaders opposing the appointment include Sweden's Fredrik Reinfeldt and Hungary's Viktor Orban.
It is Butetown but could be Tottenham or Easterhouse - areas that are often talked about but rarely heard from.
The aim is to give a platform to voices within the community.
BBC Wales, 1XTRA, Radio 2 and News Online are collaborating all week with documentaries, news reports, features, comedy, spoken word and music.
To catch up on any of the coverage you may miss, we will be posting updates as and when they are published and broadcast across the BBC.
You can also get involved on social media #towerlives.
Betty Campbell MBE, who grew up in Tiger Bay and went on to become Wales' first black head teacher.
As a young black girl in post-war Britain, the road to realising a childhood dream and inspire self belief in a disinherited community was far from easy.
To listen to Mrs Campbell on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show click here and move the time bar to 01:34:00
Tony Paris was living in the tower blocks in 1988 when he was arrested for the brutal murder of Lynette White which led to one of the UK's most infamous miscarriages of justice
An interview with Mr Paris was broadcast on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show. To hear the full interview broadcast on his show on BBC Radio 2 on Monday, click here and move the time bar to 01:31:12
A shorter clip can be found here where Mr Paris describes hearing his father had died while still in jail
#towerlives: Butetown storytelling week
Dilemmas of a Hijabi girl
Haifa Shamsan is a fashion designer and blogger from Butetown in Wales. She also happens to be a proud Muslim, and wears a hijab. No big deal, right? Or is it? Her headwear still seems to confuse some people, and she has to negotiate a few personal dilemmas like double chins and postmen along the way too.
BBC 1Xtra: Charlie Sloth live from Butetown
BBC 1Xtra: DJ Target live from Butetown on Sunday
BBC 1Xtra: Mim Shaik explores Butetown through the eyes of Tiger Bay FC on Sunday
Former shot putter and wheelchair sprinter, Julie Hamzah from Butetown, Cardiff, has faced setback after setback; mishap after misfortune; bad news and bad luck.
But she is still going, still fighting - she never gives up. Here the full interview on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show here and go to 01:37:00
Rugby players from Butetown, Cardiff, are few and far between in today's game amid claims the colour of people's skin prevented them from being picked to play for Wales in the 1950s and 60s.
Some in the area believe the talent is out there and more needs to be done to take advantage of it
For many people in Butetown one of the most pressing issues is finding work as unemployment is double the Welsh average.
Is Butetown's postcode a 'barrier to work' as some suggest?
Theatre maker Gavin Porter looks to the future and discusses what could happen to tower block estates like Butetown where he was born and raised.
#towerlives: 'Beauty among the concrete'
High fashion Hijabi: Haifa Shamsan is part of the rapidly growing Muslim fashion industry and has set her sights on the big time
Is it? Cardiff comedian Leroy Brito explores a curious dialect widely spoken in the streets of Butetown
Tiger in the tower: The extraordinary events that led to their construction, a history of fortunes - both financial and social - made and lost
After Tiger Bay was razed the council estate tower blocks and low-rise flats were built in its place.
Here Miriam Salah (left) and Antonia Correa (right) both of whom lived on the original Loudoun Square, react to their new homes.
The singer is Clara (Mingo) Graham of Sophia Street. Her father was well known as the 'Bengal Tiger' who featured in the 1930s film Sanders of the River.
A look back at the Butetown Carnival which was first staged in the 1960s. It stopped in 1998 but made a come back in 2014
Sylvia Baillie, 60, was bitten on the cheek by the Japanese Akita in Paisley, in July 2016, after trying to kiss it.
Leeane McHugh, 35, admitted being the owner of a dog that was dangerously out of control when it attacked Ms Baillie.
Her boyfriend Patrick Maher, 46, pled guilty to the same charge in relation to an attack on his aunt Jane Darroch.
The 72-year-old was left with "severe injury and permanent disfigurement" to her arm.
Paisley Sheriff Court heard that neither McHugh or Maher had gone to the aid of Ms Baillie after the attack at their flat.
The pair had other dangerous dog charges dropped for agreeing to admit guilt in relation to the attacks on Ms Baillie and Ms Darroch.
Procurator Fiscal Depute Alan Parfery told the court that on the day Ms Baillie was attacked, all parties had been at a funeral and had been drinking at Ms McHugh and Mr Maher's house
He said: "The 60-year-old [Sylvia Baillie] made to leave the property during the course of the evening and, in the course of waving and saying goodbye, made to wave goodbye to the dog.
"She went to give the dog a kiss and, at that time, the dog bit her on the face.
"The dog's jaw locked, for what's described as a few seconds, before her daughter grabbed the dog and pulled the dog away.
"Neither [Ms McHugh or Mr Maher] did anything during that period of time."
He said Ms Baillie needed so many stitches that doctors were unable to say how many had been applied.
On 30 June last year, Maher's aunt was bitten by the dog while it was tied up outside her home.
Her wrist bone was exposed and she had to have 12 stitches.
The dog, which has been in kennels since being seized by police, faces being euthanised.
Sheriff David Pender called for background reports on Ms Maher and MrMcHugh and deferred sentence until next month.
He reached his 100 in a one-day match against West Indies in Queenstown from 36 balls, breaking the record of 37 set by Pakistan's Shahid Afridi in 1996.
Anderson, 23, finished with 131 from 47 balls with his ton including 14 sixes and six fours.
The Kiwis made 283 for four in just 21 overs on their way to a 159-run victory in a rain-shortened match.
Anderson was supported by Jesse Ryder, whose 104 was itself the sixth fastest ton in ODIs in only his second match since being left in an induced coma after being attacked outside a nightclub last March.
The pair, who put on 191 for the fourth wicket, came together at 84 for three in the seventh over.
Anderson said he was unaware of the record.
"I didn't have a clue actually. It's not that I'd look it up and try and take it down. But it's nice to have it," he said.
Among some ugly West Indies bowling figures was Ravi Rampaul, who went for 64 runs off three overs. The tourists, who won the toss and put New Zealand into bat, made 124 for five in reply.
The result left the five-game series tied at 1-1 with two matches remaining.
The new rules, ratified at the Football Association's Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, will apply to players in the top eight tiers of English football.
Players are currently banned from betting on competitions only in which their club is involved.
Under the new ruling, players will be unable to pass on inside information to a third party who uses it for betting.
Tottenham's Andros Townsend, Cameron Jerome - on loan at Crystal Palace from Stoke last season - and Newcastle's Dan Gosling, who will join Bournemouth next season, are among those who have breached current betting regulations.
Winger Townsend was fined £18,000 by the FA in June 2013, striker Jerome £50,000 last August and midfielder Gosling £30,000 in March.
The new rules, which will come into effect on 1 August, cover betting on all games around the world, as well as "football-related matter" such as transfers, managerial appointments and team selection.
They will apply to players in the Premier League, Championship, Leagues One and Two, Conference and top Northern, Southern and Isthmian leagues.
The death was confirmed as murder days after the suspect burned his victim's body and changed his identity.
The 33-year-old suspect, surnamed Sun, allegedly kidnapped his 29-year-old victim, tied his hands behind his back, and set him and a rented car on fire.
But Sun forgot to untie his victim's hands and left the body by the car.
Local residents reported the fire and it was extinguished before the victim's body was completely burned.
Sun had left a suicide note nearby but DNA tests later revealed the body was not his.
Police say Mr Sun had also stolen his victim's identity card and convinced a government office to issue him a new ID card with his own picture on it by claiming he had gained weight.
He was about 25kg (3st 13lb) heavier than his victim.
Sun had recently been sentenced to eight years in prison for a sex offence, but under Taiwan's legal system he was allowed to remain free until his deadline to report to prison.
His victim was a student studying for a doctorate in business management. Police said the two may have met online.
Police tracked Sun down after finding the victim's scooter, which Sun was using.
The Booker Prize-winning novel about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell beat four other books to win the prestigious prize, worth £30,000.
The judges said it was "head and shoulders" above the other contenders and was "quite simply the best book".
Dame Jenni Murray, who chaired the panel, said the judges had made a unanimous decision.
Responding to criticism about her book winning too many awards and stifling other talent, Mantel said she was "not going to apologise".
"I'm not sorry, I'm happy and I shall make it my business to try to write more books that will be worth more prizes," she said on stage.
Speaking to reporters afterwards, she said: "I was writing for many years and I was not among the prizes at all or I was the perpetual runner-up.
"Things have changed in a big way, I feel my luck has changed but of course that's not true.
"What's changed is what I'm working on, possibly a project that's played to my strengths and a project that came along just when I was ready for it".
Dame Jenni said the prize had been "very difficult" to judge because the shortlisted books spanned five very different categories - poetry, children's, biography, first novel and novel.
The judges' discussion, which lasted around an hour, had considered that Mantel had already won the Booker but ultimately disregarded it.
"We couldn't allow the number of times it has already been lauded to affect our decision," she said. "It was quite simply the best book.
"[Mantel's] prose is so poetic, it's so beautiful, it's so set in its time, so you know exactly where you are and who you are with.
"But it's also incredibly modern, her analysis of the politics is so modern and everybody found there were things that just stuck in their minds that they would think about for a very long time."
A comic-style graphic memoir about James Joyce's daughter by Mary and Bryan Talbot and Francesca Segal's debut novel The Innocents were also in the running.
Kathleen Jamie's poetry collection The Overhaul and children's book Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner completed the shortlist.
All five shortlisted writers received £5,000 each.
The judging panel included actress Jenny Agutter, broadcaster Katie Derham, author Wendy Holden and writer DJ Taylor.
Six artists aim to raise funds for two charities, including one founded by ex-Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson.
The Gift Of A Goal project was initiated by animator and Tottenham Hotspur fan Richard Swarbrick.
He is one of the founders of Wundergol, a social network of artists who combine their love of football and art.
"I was inspired by the Panini Cheapskates, who created their own World Cup album in 2014 to raise money for charity," said Mr Swarbrick.
In addition to Mr Swarbrick, other artists taking part are Manchester City supporter Lesley Ross, Arsenal fan Mathew Vieira and Preston North End fan Hanna May Jones, who will draw Manchester United goals. New York-based Van Hong will focus on Liverpool goals
They have also been joined by Chelsea follower Matt Pascoe.
The idea of recreating every goal scored by their teams was inspired by Ms Ross, who drew all of the 100-plus goals Manchester City scored in the 2013-14 campaign.
He said: "I don't actually do anything while the game is on as I am a fan first - I then look at the videos and try to pick a particular moment."
People can either donate to a special page or buy copies of the prints.
Some of the images are going to be given to young people helped by the Willow Foundation, the charity set up by former BBC Presenter and Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson for seriously ill adults aged 16 to 40.
The second charity set to benefit is The Robin Cancer Trust, which aims to raise awareness of germ cell cancers.
The 2009 world champion had been considering his future but the 35-year-old said McLaren's determination to improve following a difficult year was decisive in his decision to race on.
McLaren chairman Ron Dennis said an option to end his contract "became an irrelevance" once he was sure Button was "as committed and focused as ever".
There was no mention in the statement of Button's team-mate Fernando Alonso.
The Spanish two-time world champion is contracted to the team until the end of 2017, but his future is in doubt after he said following the Japanese Grand Prix that he "didn't know" whether he would be racing in F1 next year.
He later put out a series of tweets which seemed to reconfirm his commitment to the team.
Asked why there was no mention of Alonso in the statement, a McLaren spokesman said: "Today is about Jenson."
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Button, who has been with McLaren since 2010, had refused over the weekend in Japan to say anything concrete about his future.
But the McLaren statement made it clear that he would be retained on the terms of his original contract, which dictates a pay rise from $10m (£6.9m) to $15m (£10.3m) next season.
Dennis added that Button's "wealth of experience makes him a massively valuable asset to our team - he is also supremely fit and as super-fast as ever".
Button said: "Over the past month or so I have done quite a lot of thinking, and it is no secret that I was at one point in two minds about my future.
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"But I have been a McLaren driver for six seasons now, and in that time I have got to know Ron very well.
"He and I have had some very good chats these past few weeks, and during those chats it has become clear to me that Ron is both utterly determined and uniquely equipped to lead our team through its current difficulties to great successes in the future.
"That gives me great confidence, and it is for that reason that, together, he and I have decided to continue our partnership.
"As soon as I had made that decision, straight away I realised it was the correct one."
McLaren have had a difficult season in 2015 and are ninth out of 10 teams in the constructors' championship with little prospect of improvement in the remaining five races.
The lack of performance is largely caused by the Honda engine, which is uncompetitive in the extreme in the Japanese company's first year back in F1 since 2008.
Button said: "Granted, this year has not been an easy one for us, but we know what we need to do to improve things and, in collaboration with Honda, we will work extremely hard over the next weeks and months in order to make sure that 2016 will be a much better season than 2015 has been."
The bomb was found outside a house at Glenrandel in Eglinton in the early hours of last Thursday.
The 57-year-old man was detained in Lurgan, County Armagh, on Tuesday morning.
A police spokesman said he was released unconditionally on Wednesday afternoon.
He was the fifth person to be arrested over the attack by police on both sides of the Irish border over the last few days.
All five were questioned and released without charge.
Police said the bomb attack was a "clear attempt to murder". The officer's wife is also a member of the PSNI.
So who is right: the markets or the ministers? The swing factor between a continuing stable but uninspiring global recovery and relapse into a global downturn is China.
The big question is: how steep is China's economic slowdown? Those looking for an answer have pointed to China's surprise decision to devalue its currency in early August.
Does this suggest that policy-makers are panicking and trying to boost exports?
The fundamental problem that China faces is that its economy is deeply unbalanced - both internally and externally - at a time that it is also slowing.
Economists tend to look at an economy for internal balance (a state of affairs in which neither employment nor inflation is too high or too low) and external balance (a situation in which a country's current account (its borrowing or lending to the rest of the world) is neither too high nor too low.
China is currently struggling to achieve both kinds of balance.
Chinese policy-makers have a tricky task ahead but not unmanageable one.
It's a challenge that could be made much easier by some global policy co-ordination and co-operation.
At the heart of China's problem is the "impossible trinity" of international macroeconomics.
The impossible trinity - or trilemma - is the idea that it is impossible for a country to have three things at the same time: a stable currency, the free movement of capital (i.e. the absence of capital controls) and independent monetary policy.
A country can instead choose just two of the options from this policy suite.
The UK, in common with most developed economies, has free capital movement and an independent monetary policy - but not a controlled exchange rate.
The Bank of England sets interest rates at a level it thinks is right for the UK economy and - as capital can flow into and out of the UK at will - the exchange rate is determined by the market.
If, as in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the UK wanted to retain free movement of capital but have a stable exchange rate then it would cease to have an independent monetary policy.
Instead of being set as appropriate for UK domestic conditions, the interest rate would have to be set to maintain the value of sterling against other currencies - in effect monetary policy would be outsourced.
China's policy mix has been to have an independent monetary policy and a controlled exchange rate, which has meant restrictions of the free movement of capital.
In reality the situation is a bit more complicated. China's capital controls are porous, money does flow in and out of the country and the renmimbi has been semi-pegged to the dollar, rather than straight-forwardly stable.
But things are changing. China is currently pushing for the renmimbi to be formally included in the International Monetary Fund's list of reserve currencies.
Part of that process involves dismantling its capital controls bit that exposes its own central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), to the trilemma.
The slowing domestic economy suggests an easier monetary stance is required and that an easier monetary stance, coupled with freer movement of capital, suggests that a weaker renmimbi lies ahead.
But as Karthik Sankaran of Eurasia Group has convincingly argued this wouldn't be ideal either for China or for the global economy.
Domestically, a weaker currency would tighten financial conditions for any Chinese company that has borrowed in dollars at a time when the PBOC was trying to ease them. But the international spill-overs of a weaker Chinese currency matter more.
Before the financial crisis of 2008 China's economy was far from externally balanced - indeed it was a major driver of global imbalance, with a current account surplus of 10% of GDP. That's now down to around 2%, but a weaker currency could force it back up.
At a time when disinflationary factors, such as lower commodity prices, are at work and when Western inflation is stuck around 0%, then the last thing the world needs is a Chinese devaluation which would risk turning a still benign period of low inflation into a damaging spell of deflation.
China needs easier monetary policy and the world could do without a much weaker renmimbi.
Thankfully that is an achievable mix. But it requires Chinese capital controls to stay in place for longer than intended - giving China the ability to both have an independent monetary policy and a stable exchange rate.
The IMF was once regarded as fairly dogmatic on the need for countries to sign up to the free movement of capital.
But during the crisis that attitude shifted and the Fund recognised that there are times when capital controls might be appropriate. China right now feels like one of those times. If China can keep its capital controls while moving towards reserve currency status - even for a while - it may be better placed to seek balance.
It's very easy to attack China's economic policy missteps of the past few years.
Propping up an overvalued stock market and surprising the market with currency announcements are just the latest examples.
But the bigger criticism is usually over the nature of the post-2009 stimulus package - which kept Chinese growth high by going on a credit and investment binge driven by state owned enterprises, state owned banks and local government.
That's left the Chinese economy with a serious mal-investment problem (the often mentioned empty ghost cities) and high level of debt.
But, for all the criticism, the counterfactual is rarely stated. What would global growth have looked like without it?
At a time when the world was desperately short of economic demand, China stepped up and provided some.
That stimulus package helped prop up global growth during the crisis but left China's economy dangerously out of balance.
Helping China make the transition back towards balance needs to be a central aim for global policymakers.
The 13 issues included broken fridges which meant that meat and fish were kept at temperatures deemed unsafe.
Tap water was not warm enough to properly sanitise employees' hands, and a shelf in a walk-in freezer was covered in rust.
The initiation fee at the private club is $200,000 (£159,000).
The 13 violations were discovered days before the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to Mar-a-Lago.
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Two fridges were not in working order, and had to be emptied and repaired.
According to the report filed after a 26 January visit by state inspectors, fish that was "raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction".
In addition to three "high priority violations" (which can cause illness), 10 other, lesser violations were found.
According to the Miami Herald, Mr Trump was known in the past to have personally checked the Mar-a-Lago kitchens himself, as well as conducting staff inspections.
The newspaper reports that inspectors last year found 11 violations, and two were discovered in 2015.
Higher commodities, increasing investment and a general pick-up in the world economy should all boost the continent's growth to more than 5%.
But the World Bank added that African governments had to do more to ensure that this growth reduced poverty.
Global GDP was forecast to grow by an average of 2.4% this year.
Foreign direct investment is forecast to reach record levels in the coming years, hitting $54bn (£35.3bn)a year by 2015, the Bank said.
The report said strong economic growth in Africa had significantly reduced the extent of poverty in Africa over the past decade or so.
The Bank's provisional figures showed that the proportion of Africans living on less than $1.25 a day fell from 58% to 48.5% between 1996 and 2010.
"If properly harnessed to unleash their full potential, these trends hold the promise of more growth, much less poverty, and accelerating shared prosperity for African countries in the foreseeable future," said World Bank economist, Punam Chuhan-Pole.
But the Bank added that poverty reduction was being held back by income inequality and a reliance on mineral and mining exports in some African countries.
Resource-rich countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Gabon were singled out as making less progress in combating poverty than other African countries with fewer natural resources.
"While the broad picture emerging from the data is that Africa's economies have been expanding robustly and that poverty is coming down, the aggregate hides a great deal of diversity in performance, even among Africa's faster growers," said Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa.
The Bank said infrastructure development was critical to ensure the strong pace of economic growth.
Investment in infrastructure would be key to the continued success of the oil and gas sectors in East Africa and the exploitation of the huge coal deposits in Mozambique.
The mineral sectors in places such as Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone should continue to attract investment, the Bank said.
The World Bank did, however, identify some problem areas it felt could hold back economic growth.
Labour unrest in the continent's largest economy, South Africa, as well as political issues in the Central African Republic, Mali and Togo were identified as potential concerns.
The Bank warned that risks to African growth remained, not only from the continuing crisis in the eurozone, but also from any sharp unforeseen downturn in demand for commodities from China.
In his first Mansion House speech, Mr Osborne said he would abolish the current system of financial regulation.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) will "cease to exist in its current form", he told the City of London.
But he also revealed that Hector Sants, the chief executive of the FSA, would stay on to oversee the transition.
The chancellor added that Financial Secretary Mark Hoban would set out further details to parliament on Thursday.
By Norman SmithChief political correspondent, BBC Radio 4
For those in the City who hoped it might be back to business as usual under a Conservative-led government George Osborne's Mansion House speech was a wake up call. Apart from the scrapping of the FSA - and the handing over of its regulatory duties - to an increasingly all powerful Bank of England, Mr Osborne also confirmed there would be a bank levy and further action on pay and bonuses. But most significantly he announced a new banking commission to overhaul the City. It will examine breaking up the major banks; the competitiveness of the City; whether power had become too concentrated among some leading city institutions; and whether there should be restrictions on bank activities. In Mr Osborne's words it will be "a new settlement between our banks and the rest of society". Mr Osborne may have donned the traditional black tie outfit - for his Mansion House speech - but it is clear he believes many other City traditions are going to have to change.
Earlier, Mr Osborne had told the House of Commons that Sir John Vickers, former head of the Office of Fair Trading, would chair a commission to look into the potential break-up of the UK's biggest banks.
The independent commission will take at least a year to review whether casino-style investment banks should be split from deposit-taking institutions on the High Street.
In his first keynote address at the Lord Mayor's annual dinner to the City, Mr Osborne said the new coalition government was proposing a new system of regulation that "learns the lessons of the greatest banking crisis in our lifetime".
Mr Osborne paid tribute to Alistair Darling, his predecessor as chancellor, but went on to criticise the current tripartite system of regulation, which divided responsibility between the Bank of England, the FSA and the Treasury.
"No one was controlling levels of debt, and when the crunch came no one knew who was in charge," he said.
As expected, he confirmed that the FSA would be broken up and the part that monitors financial institutions would continue as a "new prudential regulator" but would operate as a full subsidiary of the Bank of England.
The parts that are supposed to protect consumers and crack down on crime will be injected respectively into a new Consumer Protection Agency and an Economic Crime Agency.
He also said the government would create a powerful new Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England.
Mr Osborne said that the process of reforming the regulatory system would be completed by 2012.
He also revealed that he had asked Hector Sants, the chief executive of the FSA who had been due to leave this summer, to stay on to oversee the transition.
Mr Sants will become the first new deputy governor of the Bank and chief executive of the new "prudential regulator" charged with regulating banks and other financial institutions.
Andrew Bailey, currently chief cashier at the Bank of England, will become his deputy in the new regulator.
The chancellor also confirmed that the government would introduce a bank levy and "demand further restraint on pay and bonuses".
Gordon Brown, made chancellor when the Labour Party won the 1997 general election, created the FSA following criticism that the Bank of England had failed to sufficiently regulate the UK's financial system.
But in recent years critics have said the problem with the system was that it was not clear who would be in charge in a crisis and the tripartite financial authorities needed to communicate better with each other.
The FSA, in particular, also came in for criticism for not doing enough to prevent or limit the crisis in the financial markets.
The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, welcomed the new powers given to the Bank by the new government.
"Monetary stability and financial stability are two sides of the same coin. During the crisis the former was threatened by the failure to secure the latter," Mr King said in his speech, which followed the chancellor's.
The Gloria Knolls Slide is at least 300,000 years old and 32 cubic km in volume, or 30 times the size of Uluru, a rock landmark in central Australia.
The landslide could also have triggered a tsunami, the international team says.
The scientists said debris from the landslide, found as deep as 1,350m (4,430ft) below the sea, also provided clues about hidden marine life.
The team made the discovery while conducting three-dimensional mapping of ancient reefs in the Queensland Trough, a vast basin adjoining the Great Barrier Reef.
Dr Robin Beaman, from Queensland's James Cook University, said the researchers located a cluster of hills, or knolls, more than 1,100m beneath the surface.
"What we discovered was the smoking gun," he told the BBC.
"It was quite clear that those knolls were the remains of a very large undersea landslide that had occurred some time ago."
That time was at least 300,000 years ago, he said, because coral fossils collected from the knolls went back that far, and the landslide would have predated them.
He described it as "catastrophic collapse" because the knolls - as long as 3.6km (2.2 miles) - were found 30km from their original location.
Other evidence of the landslide would have been buried over time, he said.
The research, published in the journal Marine Geology, said the landslide had the potential to cause a large tsunami.
Although modelling had put its elevation as high as 27m, the impact of a tsunami would have been significantly offset by the presence of coral reefs.
"The Great Barrier Reef acts like a giant porous breakwater to reduce the energy [of ocean swell]," said Dr Beaman. "If it was in existence at the time of this landslide, it would have done a similar job."
He said future risk to the Queensland coast appeared unlikely because it was a "a very old event", but it was a worthy topic for future research.
The researchers found deep marine life including cold-water corals, molluscs and barnacles were thriving on the knolls.
The corals, unlike their shallow reef counterparts, could survive in 4C temperatures with no sunlight, Dr Beaman said.
He said possibilities for future research were exciting.
"That really is the next frontier," he said.
"We probably have a bit of an idea of what's living up to 200m or 300m [deep], but beyond that, very few people have done much work in this area."
The research was a collaboration between James Cook University, University of Sydney, University of Granada, University of Edinburgh and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.
The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) was up to 50.1 from February's 49.9, and higher than economists' forecasts of 49.7.
A reading above 50 points shows an expansion in activity in the sector, while one below indicates contraction.
China has cut interest rates twice since November among other measures to boost economic activity.
However, a private survey of the sector showed a much dimmer outlook, indicating that activity had contracted this month.
The final HSBC/Markit PMI came in at 49.6, slightly higher than a preliminary "flash" reading of 49.2 released earlier in March.
Despite the contradicting surveys, economists said both continued to show the persistent weakness in the world's second-largest economy.
The Asian giant has been impacted by a downturn in its once red-hot property market, overcapacity in factory production and high levels of local debt, which contributed to growth of 7.4% in 2014 - a 24-year low.
Economists are now expecting growth to slow to around 7% this year.
On top of the manufacturing data, figures on China's services industry also added to concerns about slowing growth.
The official services PMI cooled in March, hovering around one-year lows.
The non-manufacturing index fell to 53.7 from February's 53.9, at the one-year low hit in January.
The service sector, which was expanding strongly last year while manufacturing struggled, accounted for over 48% of the economy in 2014, up from about 47% in 2013, according to Reuters.
Declaring their second innings overnight on 251-6, Australia set India a victory target of 349.
Steve Smith's side were left three wickets short as they chased a final day win with India finishing on 252-7.
Opening batsman Murali Vijay top scored with 80 as Ajinkya Rahane (38) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (20) secured a draw.
Victories in the opening two Test matches in Adelaide and Brisbane were enough to secure the 2-0 series win for Australia, as the final two Tests in Melbourne and Sydney were drawn.
Despite some disciplined bowling from Australia on a turning final-day pitch, only one India batsman had fallen in each of the first two sessions and the match looked destined for a draw at tea.
Australia were given a glimpse of victory as India collapsed from 178-2 to 217-7 in the final session, but Rahane and Kumar held out in the closing overs with an unbroken eighth wicket partnership of 35.
Earlier, captain Smith took a sensational one-handed diving catch at slip to dismiss Rohit Sharma (39) just before lunch, while spinner Nathan Lyon and fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazelwood all claimed two wickets apiece.
The start of the series had been rearranged and moved from Brisbane to Adelaide following the death of Australia Test batsman Phillip Hughes in November.
The proposed cut of £325,000 for 2017-18, would see investment drop to £200,000, the "lowest received by any other comparable theatre".
While accepting the difficult position the council is in, the theatre said it has "done all it can" to absorb cuts.
The council is facing a budget overspend of £49m.
A further £78m of savings are required to balance the 2017-18 council budget, it was revealed last month.
The theatre said it was being asked to operate with £900,000 less per year than it had in 2010.
Stuart Rogers, executive director, said: "The REP has worked hard to absorb the ongoing cuts with great success, however there is a limit to what we can do.
"A cut of this magnitude means that Birmingham City Council is now giving The REP less than we have to spend on the basic overheads and upkeep of the theatre - a building that is owned by the city council."
Since 2010 the theatre has increased its income by 54% and received grants from Arts Council England and raised money from private trusts, a spokesman said.
Gary Topp, director of Culture Central, which represents Birmingham's arts organisations, said a "radical new proposition for cultural investment" in Birmingham was needed but he was disappointed by the council's response to these calls.
The council said it faced "unprecedented cuts" and must make savings of £180m over the next few years - on top of around £590m in cuts since 2010.
The authority was still investing more than £3.2m into Birmingham's arts and was willing to engage to consider new approaches.
Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne has confirmed the deployment of the Coruisk between Oban and Mull for a second summer season to meet increased demand.
Islanders on Skye have accused CalMac of ignoring their calls for the ferry return to the Armadale-Mallaig service.
They say replacement vessels are unsuitable for the crossing.
Tidal conditions at certain times of the year prevent these ferries from getting into the harbour on Skye.
Roddy Murray, chairman of Skye's Sleat Transport Forum, said islanders were "dissatisfied" with CalMac's newly-published summer timetable.
He told BBC Alba: "It is not acceptable to us and not going to be suitable at all for the needs of this area.
"The first two weeks of the summer service is going to be disrupted because the vessel and the tides are not going to be compatible.
"And we are told that on 87 days throughout the summer there is going to be disruption for the same reason."
In a statement, CalMac said it had "come up with a solution" using the ferries MV Lord of the Isles and an upgraded MV Loch Fyne which would provide "the additional capacity, frequency and improved reliability requested by the Sleat community".
Tommy Lee Laverick-Whitworth died in hospital on 25 September after an ambulance was called to an address in Anlaby Road, Hull, two days earlier.
Liam Laverick, 25, of Beeford Grove, was told of the plan to alter the charges at Hull Crown Court.
Jeremy Richardson QC said the charge would be changed to murder before his next court appearance in September.
Mr Laverick was remanded in custody and is due back in court on 11 September.
Mufti Abdul Hannan, the leader of Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (HuJI), was hanged at the same time as two associates on Wednesday.
All had been found guilty of the 2004 attack at a 14th-Century Sufi shrine in Sylhet, in which three people died.
The British high commissioner, Anwar Choudhury, sustained leg injuries.
Mr Choudhury, who was born in Sylhet, was just 18 days into the job when he was caught up in the attempt on his life.
At the time, Mr Choudhury, who is now ambassador to Peru, told AFP news agency: "The bomb hit my stomach after it was hurled, but did not explode [then].
"It fell on the ground near the foot of the district chief and then exploded with a big bang."
Hannan had fought in Afghanistan against the Soviets before joining HuJI, which has been accused of being behind several attacks.
Prosecutors said he had headed the organisation since the late 1990s, but - speaking on Wednesday - his wife said he was innocent of all charges.
Last month, militants threw bombs at a prison van carrying him, reportedly in an attempt to free him.
A last minute bid to change the three militants' sentences, handed down in 2008, to life in prison failed.
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Fifth-placed Reading travel to Sheffield Wednesday, who are sixth, on Friday, looking to halt a run of three successive away defeats.
Wednesday have also suffered a dip recently, with three defeats in their past five matches.
"We don't look too closely at what other people are saying or doing as it's not important for us," Stam said.
Reading have taken just nine points from a possible 24 since the start of February.
But despite his side's form slump, Dutchman Stam believes the race for the play-offs will have plenty of hurdles for the main contenders in the coming weeks.
"Every game's different," the 44-year-old told BBC Radio Berkshire. "All teams struggle for a while in the Championship and we've had it of late.
"This point of the season isn't the best time to have that, you want to win your games obviously.
"But, we need to look at it in terms of the teams we need to play between now and the end of the season.
"Other teams (in the play-off picture) will face each other too, so you don't know how it's going to go in terms of who drops points and who picks them up."
The 35-year-old Nigerian joined the Championship strugglers on a short-term deal on Monday.
The former West Brom and Cardiff frontman was a free agent after leaving Stoke City in the summer.
"I was close to signing for Bolton but the Championship is a higher league and it's a good league for me. I didn't need to think for long about the move," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"It's a short-term deal but if things go well then we can talk about a longer deal closer to Christmas.
"I know it's a difficult situation but I've been in these positions before and done quite well and I think they bring out the best in me."
The Millers, who appointed Kenny Jackett as manager on Friday after the sacking of Alan Stubbs, are eight points adrift of safety.
Odemwingie, who also played in the second tier with Bristol City last season, believes Rotherham are capable of turning their season around.
"It's a huge task but you expect teams around you to have a dip in form as well and what you need to do is have a run of games where you pick up points," he added.
"November and December are always big months in English football. The objective is to not look too far ahead of ourselves and try to pick up as many points as we can."
The alarm was raised at about 14:15 on Monday after reports a man had fallen from cliffs at Yesnaby.
It is understood he was in his early 20s.
Haggis Adventures said it had made arrangements for everyone who was in the group to return to Edinburgh.
The company paid tribute to the RNLI, the Coastguard and police who responded to the emergency.
Following the incident, Police Scotland said there were no suspicious circumstances.
Their report, in the journal Nature Genetics, identified genes involved in how the body repairs itself.
Ultimately the findings could contribute to a fertility or menopause test, or lead to new drugs.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said the results were important for those at risk of an early menopause.
Most women go through the menopause between the ages of 40 and 60. However, what controls that timescale is not completely clear.
Comparing the DNA of nearly 70,000 women allowed the researchers to identify the differences between those starting the menopause early and late.
The team at Exeter and Cambridge universities showed that at least two repair mechanisms were involved.
The first is used when the eggs are being formed and the woman's DNA is being broken, rearranged and repaired.
The second corrects damage, caused by factors such as smoking or alcohol, throughout a woman's life.
Both would influence the number of viable eggs a woman has.
Women become infertile about 10 years before the menopause starts.
So could this knowledge lead to a test that predicts the age of menopause?
Dr Anna Murray, one of the researchers from the University of Exeter, told the BBC News website: "We would love to be able to do that, but the answer is no.
"[But] possibly by adding other risk factors such as smoking, hormone levels we might be able to get towards something more useful."
The age of menopause is thought to be controlled by a 50-50 split between genetics and lifestyle choices.
However, even after discovering 56 genetic variants linked to the age of menopause, that comprises only 6% of the total variation.
Dr Murray said the findings could help develop new drugs: "We really don't understand the process of egg loss, the timing of it, so better understanding of the basic biology of losing eggs will help us with that."
The researchers also found genes that controlled menopause timing were involved in both the age of puberty and the development of breast cancer.
Dr Edward Morris, a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: "We have known for some time about the fact that an early menopause protects against breast cancer whilst a late menopause increases the risk.
"It is reassuring that such a large study taking a genetic approach has clearly demonstrated this link.
"In addition this study has shown that there may well be future possibilities not only to have a clearer understanding of the length of a woman's reproductive life, but possibly to find treatments in the future.
"This type of knowledge would be of particular importance in women with a high risk of early menopause."
If this turns out to be true it will be some of the best news Nigerians have heard for decades.
The fact that the announcement comes from the top of Nigeria's military ought to give it considerable weight. This is not a whisper or a rumour of a deal. It is a statement from the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh.
But there is massive scepticism here, and some question whether the announcement was in any way timed to coincide with the imminent announcement that President Goodluck Jonathan is going to run for re-election.
Air Marshal Badeh gave very few details apart from saying a ceasefire had been struck with the group known as Boko Haram and that the Nigerian military service chiefs had been instructed to comply.
Then he walked away - no more details and - certainly - no questions from the media, who had been expecting a somewhat duller statement following a meeting between the top brass of the Nigerian and Cameroonian military.
Then it was over to the politicians and spokesmen to fill in the large gaps, including the fate of the Chibok girls, who have to an extent already become political pawns.
President Jonathan's principal private secretary, Hassan Tukur, told the BBC that as part of the deal 219 abducted schoolgirls who have been missing for six months would be freed by Boko Haram.
But (and it is a very big but) he said more talks would take place next week to work out exactly how the girls would be released.
But what is the position of the jihadists who have been causing havoc across the north-east? That is the big question.
It would, of course, be more convincing if the news of the deal had come from both sides.
On Friday, the Voice Of America broadcast an interview with Danladi Ahmadu, a man calling himself the secretary general of Boko Haram (hardly a regular title for a jihadist group).
I have failed to find anyone who has ever heard of him. He said a deal had been struck with the government.
The surprising thing is Nigerian officials had not given any indication that negotiations with Boko Haram were taking place.
There had, however, been plenty of rumours of talks being held in neighbouring Chad sparked by President Jonathan's surprise visit to Ndjamena last month.
The presence at those talks of the controversial ex-governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, added fuel to the rumours. He has long been accused of having links to Boko Haram - an accusation he denies.
With Nigeria's elections due early next year, it would be a major boost for the governing People's Democratic Party if a deal were to be struck soon.
A deal with Boko Haram now would fuel the belief that this conflict is more to do with Nigeria's internal politics than to do with religion.
It would also prompt the question as to whether there are politicians from whichever party who are willing to see thousands killed and entire communities torn apart for their own personal gain?
Many Nigerians will remain extremely sceptical about the news of this deal.
The military and the government have in the past released statements about the conflict which have turned out to be completely at odds with the situation on the ground - including one report which said almost all the Chibok girls were free.
The celebrations here will not begin unless the violence stops and the hostages are home.
The announcement comes on the same day as the first commercial flight between the two countries in 55 years.
Under President Obama, the US has begun normalising relationships with Cuba.
The list of US airlines now granted permission to fly to Havana includes: American Airlines, Jet Blue, Delta, Southwest, United, Alaska Air, Spirit, and Frontier Airlines.
Most airlines plan to launch flights later this year or at the beginning of 2017.
Until now only chartered flights flew from the US to the Communist country. Most Americans travelled to the island, which is just 90 miles (144km) from the tip of Florida, via a third country.
Relations between the US and Cuba had been frozen since the 1960s when the US placed an embargo on the communist nation.
In 2014 President Obama announced he would take steps to normalise the relationship, and in August 2015 the US reopened its embassy in Havana after more than five decades.
The President is unable to lift the trade embargo and under US law Americans are still not permitted to travel to the US for tourism.
Travel even on commercial flights must fit into twelve pre-approved categories that include family visit, education and journalism.
A Jet Blue flight from Miami landed in Santa Clara, Cuba on Wednesday morning, marking the changing relationship.
Mohamed Nasheed obtained 45% but needed more than 50% to avoid a run-off against his rival, Abdulla Yameen, who got 25% of the vote.
After decades of autocratic rule, the Maldives held its first free election in 2008, which was won by Mr Nasheed.
But he was ousted as president 18 months ago in an alleged coup.
Officials said the run-off was due to be held on 28 September.
Mr Nasheed's rival, Abdulla Yameen, is the half-brother of the Maldives' former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who led the country for 30 years.
Mr Nasheed resigned in February 2012 when army and police personnel joined opposition-led protests over the arrest of a senior judge.
The judge, Abdulla Mohamed, was detained in January 2012 after ordering the release of an opposition politician.
Mr Nasheed said he was stepping down to prevent "bloodshed", but later said he was forced to resign at gunpoint by police and army officers.
He was replaced by President Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik, who had also been running in Saturday's election but polled only 5% of the vote.
Mr Waheed has consistently rejected claims of a coup by Nasheed supporters.
The leadership change sparked political unrest, leading to fears that the protests would have an impact on the islands' tourism industry.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said last week that he hoped the elections would be "credible and peaceful".
Key issues for voters included religion, nationalism, education and the economy.
Thoriq Hamid, a representative of poll monitoring group Transparency Maldives, said that the campaigning had been conducted "smoothly and peacefully".
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The Lionesses secured a semi-final against hosts Netherlands as they finally overcame Les Bleues, who had beaten them in the past three major tournaments.
The result means England are now the highest-ranked team left in the competition following Denmark's shock victory over Germany, the winners of the past six European Championships.
Striker Jodie Taylor was England's match-winner, clipping in on the hour for her fifth goal in three Euros matches after being set up by the excellent Lucy Bronze.
It leaves the Arsenal forward on course to win the Golden Boot as no other player has scored more than twice so far.
England hung on after Taylor scored, with injured goalkeeper Karen Bardsley being replaced by Siobhan Chamberlain, as France created several goalmouth scrambles.
The only blemish on an otherwise historic night was a yellow card for Jill Scott, who will now miss the semi-final.
The result ensured boss Mark Sampson created his own history by becoming the first England manager since Sir Alf Ramsey in 1968 to reach consecutive semi-finals at major tournaments, having also guided his team to third place at the 2015 World Cup.
And if England beat Netherlands in Enschede on Thursday, Sampson will become only the third senior England manager, after Ramsey in 1966 and his own predecessor Hope Powell in 2009, to lead the national side to a major final.
England's poor record against France extended back to 1974 but, perhaps more significantly, they had failed to win in five previous meetings since Sampson took over as manager, throwing away a lead at the SheBelieves Cup in March, when Les Bleues scored a 95th-minute winner.
But without the scorer of the winner that night, suspended captain Wendie Renard, France could not find an equaliser as England produced some last-gasp defending.
It will have been a huge relief for Sampson, as the coach had risked embarrassment with his pre-match comment that England did not need to be at their best to beat France, who have failed to reach a major tournament semi-final in their past four attempts.
But in the final analysis, England will feel that judgement was correct, and they should have more to offer when they face the Netherlands, having beaten them 1-0 in a friendly last November.
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Having rested players for their final group match against Portugal, England returned to their strongest team, which had earned wins in the first two games.
Bronze and Jordan Nobbs proved England's strongest partnership again down the right side, helped by the threat of Taylor, who is one goal shy of equalling the European Championship record held by former German striker Inka Grings.
It was from that avenue that the winner originated.
The dangerous Bronze had already waltzed through the France defence in the first half, and, after an hour, her endless energy nicked the ball in midfield before feeding Taylor, who made no mistake from a narrowing angle.
Manchester City right-back Bronze played a telling part in England finishing third at the 2015 World Cup, scoring a winner in the second-round victory over Norway and against hosts Canada in the last eight.
Having won the European Under-19 Championship with England, plus several trophies with her club, she is inspiring the national side to greater heights in the Netherlands.
England struggled to get into their rhythm in the first half against the French, who had 10 Champions League winners in their squad compared with the two in Sampson's team.
Anchored by the excellent Amandine Henry, and with Camille Abily adding guile further forward, France looked more dangerous, with striker Marie-Laure Delie wasting a good opening early on.
England's frustration got the better of Scott, who dived in on Henry to receive a second yellow card of the tournament, but they improved when they got the ball forward more quickly.
That tactic led to Taylor's goal, but they had to defend in numbers as France poured forward for an equaliser.
As they showed against Spain, England combined clinical attacking with brilliant defending, with Jade Moore pulling off some superb blocks.
Substitute keeper Chamberlain was tested several times, but looked assured before England celebrated wildly at the final whistle.
England manager Mark Sampson on BBC Radio 5 live: "I'm proud of them. They work so hard and are desperate to improve. All those qualities were apparent tonight. This was a tough game against an excellent French team. They're one of the best in the world for a reason.
"It's a huge result for us because this is a French team that beat the USA to win the SheBelieves Cup. They came in as one of the favourites and are full of Champions League winners. It's a big result and I'm very, very proud."
England captain Steph Houghton on BBC Radio 5 live: "I'm delighted. You could tell by the celebrations how much it meant. We knew it would be tough but it showed what we're about - we put out bodies on the line for that win.
"The character and determination were unbelievable. I knew they weren't going to break us down.
"It means everything. We're experienced in big games and we know we can dig results out and we're looking forward to a semi-final against the Netherlands."
England substitute keeper Siobhan Chamberlain, who replaced the injured Karen Bardsley, said: "It was a fantastic display from front to back. Everyone was commanding their areas.
"The Netherlands are unbeaten for a reason. A lot of their players we know from the Women's Super League. We'll go and work on the game plan to try to win."
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Match ends, England 1, France 0.
Second Half ends, England 1, France 0.
Foul by Eugénie Le Sommer (France).
Millie Bright (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Clarisse Le Bihan (France) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jessica Houara with a cross.
Corner, England. Conceded by Sarah Bouhaddi.
Claire Lavogez (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jade Moore (England).
Foul by Claire Lavogez (France).
Jade Moore (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, France. Clarisse Le Bihan replaces Marie-Laure Delie.
Attempt missed. Amandine Henry (France) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Claire Lavogez from a direct free kick.
Claire Lavogez (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jade Moore (England).
Foul by Marie-Laure Delie (France).
Stephanie Houghton (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, England. Conceded by Sakina Karchaoui.
Attempt missed. Claire Lavogez (France) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Griedge Mbock Bathy.
Attempt blocked. Amandine Henry (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Laura Georges (France) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Eugénie Le Sommer (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lucy Bronze (England).
Griedge Mbock Bathy (France) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Griedge Mbock Bathy (France).
Jodie Taylor (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Millie Bright (England) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jill Scott with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, England. Conceded by Sakina Karchaoui.
Marie-Laure Delie (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stephanie Houghton (England).
Substitution, France. Claire Lavogez replaces Camille Abily.
Attempt missed. Élodie Thomis (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marie-Laure Delie.
Substitution, England. Siobhan Chamberlain replaces Karen Bardsley because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Karen Bardsley (England) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Jordan Nobbs (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Jodie Taylor (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jordan Nobbs.
Attempt blocked. Amandine Henry (France) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eugénie Le Sommer.
Onema Grace Geyoro (France) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jill Scott (England).
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So-called bed-blocking is estimated to cost the service about £820m a year.
A recent report by the National Audit Office said delays in discharging patients from hospitals in England had risen by nearly a third over two years.
Mr Stevens told MPs the number of blocked beds may not reach zero soon because of social care pressures.
Bed-blocking occurs when a patient is deemed medically well enough to be released from hospital, but something else delays their discharge.
More than a million days of bed occupancy were lost to other patients last year.
The main reasons were delays in getting a home care package or nursing home placement.
A senior Department of Health official, John Rouse, also told the public accounts committee there was an unacceptable variation in performance, but that more than 40% of local authorities providing social care had reduced delays.
The department has previously said the issue would be tackled as councils get £3.5bn more for adult care by 2020.
Across England, the audit office found that for every 100 beds, three days of use were taken by patients who no longer needed to be in hospital between March 2015 and February 2016.
It represented a rise of almost one third on the same period two years earlier.
Analysis of figures showed 26 trusts where there were at least five days of delayed discharge for every 100 beds in 2015-16.
This was out of a total of 148 acute trusts surveyed. | Delays in releasing elderly patients from hospital could continue for up to five years, NHS England boss Simon Stevens has warned. | 36,466,409 | 300 | 27 | false |
Striker Beckford, 33, joined North End on a full-time deal in 2015 after helping them win promotion to the Championship when on loan from Bolton.
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Lindegaard, 33, made his loan move from West Brom permanent last summer, but made just 10 outings.
Defender Smith, 19, came through the academy but did not play a senior game.
The Lilywhites have also taken a option in 18-year-old keeper Mathew Hudson's contract for next season. | Jermaine Beckford, Anders Lindegaard and Clive Smith will leave Preston at the end of their contracts this summer. | 39,857,486 | 113 | 29 | false |
Police numbers were boosted and North Africans were targeted, after hundreds of sexual assaults on women marred new year celebrations a year ago.
The city's police chief said about 650 North African men were checked because some of them were acting aggressively.
Some politicians criticised the policy.
A year ago police received hundreds of complaints from German women who said they had been robbed or sexually assaulted by men mostly of North African or Arab origin on New Year's Eve.
Most of the attacks happened in and around Cologne's main railway station, near the cathedral.
On Sunday city police chief Juergen Mathies said: "Overall, we checked the identities of 650 people of whom, based on police officers' assessments, around 98 to 99 per cent - almost all of them - were from North Africa."
He said the mass questioning of North Africans happened "because we recognised corresponding aggressive behaviour amongst them".
Police said 92 people were detained, including 16 ethnic Germans.
During the night, police numbers were boosted to 1,700 for the event in central Cologne, and fireworks were banned from the vicinity of the cathedral.
A reporter for Germany's Tagesschau TV news programme said security in the area was so tight that the atmosphere did not feel very festive.
Very few suspects were caught after last year's assaults. They mostly took place among crowds, under cover of darkness.
Mr Mathies apologised for a police tweet which referred to checks on "Nafris" - a police abbreviation for "North African offenders".
Both the left-wing Linke party and Greens leader Simone Peter condemned the term "Nafris" as derogatory.
Ms Peter said the large police deployment had prevented many sexual assaults.
But she added: "There is a question mark about behaviour and legality when some 1,000 people are checked and in some cases detained solely because of their appearance."
O'Neill's side will face Germany in Hannover on Tuesday after Saturday's routine 4-0 triumph over San Marino.
"I felt they were the best team in the competition and slipped up in terms of how they went out," said O'Neill.
"There will be no surprise element in terms of how tough it is going to be."
O'Neill, whose squad travelled on Sunday, will make his players watch a re-run of their 1-0 defeat by the Germans at the European Championships in June as part of their preparations for Tuesday's game.
It will not be comfortable viewing given the reigning world champions were so formidable, despite only winning by a single goal that day in a tournament where O'Neill thought they were the stand-out nation.
However, Joachim Low's team were beaten by hosts France at the semi-final stage and O'Neill believes their comfortable 3-0 World Cup qualifying wins over Norway and the Czech Republic since are evidence of a team with a point to prove.
"We played them recently in the Euros - that's a big thing in our favour," added O'Neill.
"I think the players will be ready based on the fact that they've faced a German team in the Euros who probably hit top gear against us. If you look at their first two games, they're reacting, possibly, to not having won in France.
"We have to be ready for that backlash because I think they've started this campaign in a different mindset than possibly they did for the Euros when they dropped points against teams that I think they wouldn't normally do."
There will almost certainly be personnel changes from the victory over San Marino - O'Neill suggested "as many as five or six" - and Kyle Lafferty will be at the front of the queue following his brace from the bench.
Defender Aaron Hughes, 36, was brought into the fold with this contest in mind and Corry Evans' industry in midfield may be needed in a game set to be dictated by Germany's Toni Kroos.
Focusing on the Real Madrid man or any other specific player is considered frivolous by O'Neill, though.
"I've found that when you do start to possibly nullify them in one aspect they start to hit you with another problem," he admitted.
"As soon as you try to solve something, there's another problem that exists. That's down to the quality of the players that they have.
"Tactically they've really evolved and they can pin you in with possession of the ball."
Their study will suggest the body's own immune system could be attacking brain cells of those genetically susceptible.
It builds on global studies identifying 30 genes linked to the disease.
About 45,000 people in Wales are thought to be living with dementia, with Alzheimer's the most common form of the illness.
For years, scientists have been looking at a small number of genes which apply to very rare forms of Alzheimer's but they have been trying to find the ones which apply to more common forms of the disease.
To do that, they need to study of the genes of far greater numbers of people.
Forty research groups led by scientists in Cardiff, France and the United States have been working more closely together and have now pooled a worldwide database of 90,000 samples.
45,000
people with Alzheimer's disease
100,000 numbers estimated to have dementia by 2055
25,000 estimated to be living with dementia but undiagnosed
£1.4bn estimated cost to Welsh society of Alzheimer's a year
"We're about to submit a paper that is enormously exciting and which I think will really change, without a doubt, what we think of Alzheimer's disease going forward," Professor Julie Williams, head of the research team at Cardiff University, said.
"Over the last five or six years we've been successful in identifying 30 genes that increase - or decrease - your risk for Alzheimer's disease.
"Now this is telling us what some of the major components in disease development are. It's new, it's exciting; it's a different perspective on what Alzheimer's disease is."
A lot of dementia research over the last two decades has been looking at a few elements in brain behaviour such as amyloid plaques - the tangles that occur within the neurons.
Prof Williams said now they were looking at something different - backed by genetics - which is the immune response in those people who go on to develop Alzheimer's disease.
"Our immune response is about how the brain keeps us safe, it's about getting rid of things which might invade the brain, getting rid of nerve cells and bits that go wrong," she said.
"It has a very complicated set of activities and some of those are actually, I think, dismantling the brain at its roots."
One of these involves a pruning function which is quite normal and helps our brains develop as we grow.
But now scientists believe it is triggered again in some people as they get older and actually eats away at synapsis [connections between nerve cells] and brain cells.
Researchers will also look at how factors such as lifestyle and exercise could play a part.
"If we can understand how that happens we can then possibly have preventive treatments or therapies for people who have the disease," Prof Williams said.
HOW SUPER SCANNERS WILL HELP RESEARCH
Cardiff University's range of scanners at its new £44m brain imaging research centre Cubric will be used in the research.
It includes Europe's most powerful brain scanner - which has been described as the "Hubble telescope of neuroscience".
One research project is targeting 180 people in the Cardiff area, aged between 40 to 60, to help study the genetic risks of Alzheimer's and how issues like lifestyle and obesity interact.
Volunteers will be given MRI scans as well as having blood and saliva samples taken.
Cardiff University is also looking for volunteers for research into early onset dementia.
Meanwhile scientists in Bangor have developed new ways of helping individuals develop new skills or re-learn skills they have lost, and lead projects allowing patients to create visual art.
They are looking into ways to communicate with patients who have lost the ability to speak.
Prof Williams said: "It's great people are living longer, it's something to celebrate but it means there will be more disease out there and Alzheimer's and dementia will be up at the top of that list unfortunately."
The 66-year-old Englishman, who stood down as team principal in 2009 and had been at loggerheads with the McLaren board, has been appointed chief executive officer.
We will win again
He replaces Martin Whitmarsh, whose role as team principal is under threat.
The identity of the team principal will be announced next month, but no-one has yet been sacked or made redundant.
Dennis has been in dispute with Whitmarsh over the past two years and has tried to remove his former protege from his position on several occasions, but failed because of his fractured relationship with the other board members.
It is not clear how that relationship has been repaired.
Dennis told McLaren staff on Thursday that "there will be change" and "we will win again".
In December, he said he had spoken about the future with former Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn, who will be considered a front-runner to be McLaren's new team principal once he has finished a planned six-month sabbatical.
A senior McLaren insider told BBC Sport that Dennis, who has been dissatisfied with the performance of the F1 team for some time, did not want to return to a role on the pit wall at races.
McLaren had their worst season for three decades in 2013, failing to secure a podium finish for the first time since 1980.
The team have not won a drivers' title since Lewis Hamilton in 2008 and have failed to win the constructors' title since 1998.
In a statement, Dennis said the company's shareholders had "mandated me to write an exciting new chapter in the story of McLaren, beginning by improving our on-track and off-track performance".
He added: "Over the coming weeks, I intend to undertake a thorough and objective review of each of our businesses with the intention of optimising every aspect of our existing operations, while identifying new areas of growth that capitalise on our technologies, and where appropriate further investing in them.
"During February, I will articulate a new Group strategy and implement the organisational structure best suited to achieving it."
There has been no change in the company's shareholding. The Bahrain royal family's Mumtalakat investment fund owns 50%, with Dennis owning 25% and his long-time partner Mansour Ojjeh the remaining 25%.
Ojjeh is recovering from a double lung transplant and has temporarily relinquished his role as a director to his brother Aziz.
Whitmarsh had been trying to persuade Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso to join the team in 2015 but the latest development must make that move highly unlikely now.
Dennis and Alonso fell out in dramatic style when the Spaniard drove for McLaren in 2007.
Last month, Dennis told BBC Sport he would not have a problem with the two-time champion returning to the team, but Alonso has made it clear he still blames Dennis for their past problems.
Alonso is under contract to Ferrari until the end of 2016, although his relationship with the Italian team cooled during a troubled 2013 season.
These super-fast machines promise to revolutionise computing, harnessing the world of quantum mechanics to solve problems that are beyond reach for even the most advanced "classical" ones.
But the challenges of building practical, large-scale models have kept quantum computers confined to the lab.
The new blueprint, based on a modular design appears in Science Advances.
"We have produced a construction plan - a real blueprint to actually build a large-scale quantum computer," Winfried Hensinger, from the University of Sussex, told BBC News.
In classical computers, the unit of information is called a "bit" and can have a value of either 1 or 0. But its equivalent in a quantum system - the qubit (quantum bit) - can be both 1 and 0 at the same time.
This phenomenon opens the door for multiple calculations to be performed simultaneously. But the qubits need to be synchronised using a quantum effect known as entanglement, which Albert Einstein termed "spooky action at a distance".
But scientists have struggled to build devices with more than 10 or 15 qubits. Lab machines suffer from a kind of drop-out called decoherence, where qubits lose their ambiguity and become straightforward 1s and 0s - a technical obstacle to building practical quantum computers.
"With our concept we include a method to correct these errors allowing the possibility to build a large scale device," said Prof Hensinger.
The University of Sussex professor led an international collaboration consisting of scientists from Google, Denmark's Aarhus University, the Riken research institute in Japan and the University of Siegen in Germany.
"If you go back in time to the first computers, they started with tens of bits. This is where the full field of quantum computing is right now," said Winfried Hensinger.
He added: "For some of the really exciting applications of quantum computers, such as inventing new drugs, or understanding the fabric of reality itself, understanding the Universe, designing new materials, instead of 10 or 15 quantum bits, I need a lot more qubits, maybe up to 10 billion quantum bits eventually."
The researchers started with a question: using only existing technology, how would you go about building a large-scale quantum computer?
Their latest work provides an answer, drawing on a variety of applied science approaches to assemble the blueprint for a "universal" quantum computer - one that can tackle a comprehensive array of complex problems.
The plan uses charged atoms (ions), confined in a trap to function as qubits. This approach allows the computer to operate at room temperature, unlike an alternative "superconducting" model, which requires the whole system to be cooled to very low temperatures.
Logic gates are the building blocks of circuits, and are used to perform the computations in this quantum computer. One way to achieve this is with lasers, but this would require aligning an individual laser beam onto each ion - an extremely challenging prospect when dealing with a large number of qubits.
The latest proposal uses microwaves and the application of voltages to make the gate system work - a much simplified solution.
In addition, other modular designs have proposed the use of fibre optics to connect individual computer modules and to encode quantum information.
However, this solution is slower and more complicated than the scientists would like, so they instead advocate the use of electric fields to push the ions from one module to another. Prof Hensinger explained: "A modular design is absolutely critical in order to realize a quantum computer with truly phenomenal processing power".
As their next step, the team plans to build a prototype quantum computer at the University of Sussex, based on this design.
This machine will cost £1-2m to build, although Prof Hensinger estimates that a practical device for real-world applications would cost tens of millions by comparison, maybe more.
There are several continuing efforts to build large-scale quantum computers for practical applications.
D-Wave, a company headquartered in Burnaby, Canada, has recently released a quantum computer with a 2,000 qubit processor. It has several longstanding customers, including Nasa, Google and defence giant Lockheed Martin, and recently added a fourth - US cybersecurity firm Temporal Defense Systems.
However, there is a continuing debate on whether D-Wave's machines are achieving speeds beyond those possible with classical computers.
Google is also working on devices that employ superconductivity, while Microsoft is exploring a form known as topological quantum computing. Meanwhile, start-ups such as IonQ are focusing their efforts on the trapped ion approach favoured by Prof Hensinger and his colleagues.
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The youngster discovered the man in her house in Bridge of Dee, in Dumfries and Galloway, at around 06:30.
Police said the man, who had black, greased-back hair, ran off when the girl alerted her family.
It was one of a series of break-ins reported in the village near Castle Douglas overnight.
The man who was found in the teenager's bedroom was in his 20s, of slim build and average height.
He was wearing a blue shiny shirt with long sleeves and dark trousers.
PC Chris Wightman said: "It appears at this time that the male's intention was to steal from the house.
"This is an unusual crime for this part of Dumfries and Galloway and we are keen to hear from anyone who may have seen this make or a small white van that was seen nearby."
A temporary RNLI lifeguard service has already been put in place at Camber Sands over the bank holiday weekend to reassure people and advise on safety.
Sources have told the BBC lifeguards will remain at the East Sussex beach until the end of the summer season.
Relatives of those who died have criticised the lack of lifeguards there.
How to stay safe at the beach
The men who died at the beach on Wednesday were in their teens and 20s and all from south east London.
They have been named by police as:
Last month, 19-year-old Brazilian Gustavo Silva Da Cruz also died while swimming in the sea at Camber.
Mr Sriskantharaja's brother-in-law Sivasothy Bijayaruba said: "We don't know what happened the other day. He went to the beach with his friends, but we don't know what happened there.
"At midnight, the police knocked on our door, they said there's a sad incident."
Mr Bijayaruba said he and his wife travelled down to Sussex to identify the body.
Paying tribute to him, he said: "He was always laughing and joking...he was a nice guy, and funny."
He said his brother-in-law liked to spend time with friends and play with his nine-year-old niece and added: "We can't forget him."
The RNLI said it was providing extra lifeguards this weekend after Rother District Council accepted its offer to provide them.
Councillor Sally-Ann Hart said safety was under constant review, but Camber had been categorised as a safe beach.
"Having said that, the RNLI are providing a temporary service this weekend," she said.
"They are redeploying services from other beaches around the country to provide reassurance to visitors and holidaymakers in view of the recent tragedies, because they are horrendous.
"It might well be that lifeguards may be deployed in the future when all the evidence is looked at as to what caused these deaths."
Rother council previously said beach patrols were on duty to advise beachgoers of potential dangers.
An online petition calling for lifeguards at Camber Sands has been signed by more than 7,500 people.
Helen Jones, Labour's candidate for Warrington North, tweeted: "Classic election injury - bitten by a dog, currently in A&E."
BBC News understands Ms Jones, who had her fingers bitten, has had an X-ray and an anti-tetanus jab.
She won the seat in Cheshire by 6,771 votes at the 2010 general election.
"I'd like thank the fantastic staff at Warrington Hospital who are clearly under pressure at A&E but are resolutely cheerful and caring," she told BBC News.
She does not know the breed of dog which bit her.
The other candidates standing in the constituency on 7 May are Sarah Hayes (Green); Stefan Krizanac (Liberal Democrat); Trevor Nicholls (UKIP) and Richard Short (Conservative)
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said women were being accepted after the military received "hundreds of letters" expressing interest in enrolling.
There will be 15 women in the first group, which starts training in October, Mr Shoigu said.
During WWII, Russian female pilots were known as "Stalin's Falcons". German troops called them "Night Witches".
This new generation of fighter pilots will be trained at the Krasnodar military aviation school, in the south of the country.
The academy has been accepting women since 2009, the state news agency Tass reported, but not for pilot training.
The campaign said that genuine files were mixed up with fake ones in order to confuse people.
It said that it was clear the hackers wanted to undermine Mr Macron ahead of Sunday's second round vote.
The centrist will face off against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
The documents were leaked on a file sharing website late on Friday, as the official presidential campaigning period drew to a close.
Opinion polls had indicated Mr Macron carried a lead of 20 percentage points or more over Ms Le Pen.
About nine gigabytes of data were posted online by an anonymous user.
The details are unclear so far, but Mr Macron's En Marche movement said internal campaign documents, including emails and financial data, had been taken in an "act of massive, co-ordinated hacking".
"The leaked files were obtained several weeks ago by hacking personal and professional email accounts of several officials of the movement," it said in a statement.
The campaign said the documents showed only legitimate campaign activities.
That too remains unclear. The Macron camp has not blamed any specific party but said the hack clearly aimed to damage it and undermine French democracy,
It compared it to the leak of Democratic Party emails in last year's US presidential election that was blamed on Russian hackers.
Last month security experts from the company Trend Micro said that Russian hackers were targeting Mr Macron's campaign.
Russia has denied that it is behind attacks aimed at Mr Macron.
On Thursday, the centrist candidate filed a lawsuit over online rumours that he had a secret bank account in the Caribbean.
Mr Macron called the allegations "fake news and lies" and said some of the sites spreading them were "linked to Russian interests".
Separate security alerts in and around Paris marred Friday's final scramble by the candidates to court voters.
A suspected radical Islamist possessing weapons and a pledge of allegiance to IS was arrested north of the capital.
And Greenpeace activists scaled the Eiffel Tower to unfurl a banner, sparking an emergency police meeting.
France's voters have rejected the two big political parties - the Socialists and the Republicans - that have governed for decades,
Voters will be making a decision on France's future direction and on its place at the heart of the European Union.
If they opt for liberal Emmanuel 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.
If instead they choose far-right Marine Le Pen she promises quite the opposite. She wants a Europe of nations to replace the EU.
"I give myself six months to negotiate with the EU the return of sovereignty. Then it will be the French who decide," she tweeted.
The assumption is that she would fail and a referendum would take place initially on France's membership of the euro.
After the Brexit vote in the UK and the election of US President Donald Trump, France is the latest country to deal a blow to politics as usual.
One of the overriding issues facing French voters 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 all the leading candidates say deep changes are needed.
Economic challenges facing next president
Marine Le Pen wants the pension age cut to 60 and to "renationalise French debt", which she argues is largely held by foreigners.
Emmanuel 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%.
What the two candidates want
The election is taking place amid a state of emergency, and the first round took place three days after a policeman was shot dead on the Champs Elysées in the heart of Paris.
More than 230 people have died in terror attacks since January 2015 and officials fear more of the hundreds of young French Muslims who travelled to Syria and Iraq may return to commit new atrocities.
Intelligence services believe attackers are deliberately pursuing a Le Pen victory, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris - because that could tip the country into chaos.
The former FN leader wants to suspend the EU's open-border agreement on France's frontiers and expel foreigners who are on the watch lists of intelligence services.
Mr Macron and Ms Le Pen came top of the 11 candidates in total who participated in the first round of voting on 23 April.
While the outcome of Sunday's second round should be clear that evening, the results will be officially proclaimed by France's constitutional council on Thursday, 11 May.
Sunday, 14 May, marks the end of outgoing President François Hollande's term, and is the latest possible date for the inauguration and official transfer of power to his successor.
You can follow the French election on the BBC News website. Click here for all our latest stories.
On the day of the election, we will be running a live page bringing together the latest news, video and analysis.
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 38m (124.6ft) Mark II radio telescope is the smaller of the two large dishes at the observatory site.
The Lovell telescope, the other dish originally known as Mark I, was given the same status in 1988.
Historic England said the listing celebrated the Cheshire observatory's history and its impact on the world.
Other buildings and structures at the site that played a pioneering role in the early days of radio astronomy have also been recognised.
Four buildings and part of a converted ex-army radar antenna, known as the Searchlight Aerial, have been given Grade II listing.
They include the Park Royal building, the Electrical Workshop, the Link Hut and the Control Building.
Jodrell Bank Observatory dates from the start of radio astronomy soon after World War Two.
It was pivotal to developing the new science, which involves capturing light at invisible radio wavelengths to "see" celestial objects that would otherwise be hidden.
The site was bought by the University of Manchester in 1939 and was first used for radio astronomy in 1945 by Sir Bernard Lovell and his team.
The Mark II telescope was built between 1962-64 to the specifications of a design developed jointly by Sir Bernard and structural engineer Charles Husband.
Source: BBC Science
Crispin Edwards, listing adviser at Historic England, said: "Jodrell Bank is a remarkable place where globally important discoveries were made that transformed radio astronomy and our understanding of the universe.
"We are celebrating the history of the site and its impact on the world by increasing its recognition on the National Heritage List for England."
Prof Teresa Anderson, director of the Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, said: "Science is a hugely important part of our cultural heritage and we are very pleased to see that recognised, and protected, with these new designations."
The fans were due to fly to Gatwick with Easyjet at 20:00 BST on Friday before travelling on to Paris.
However, after a number of delays the flight took off with only a small number of the 160 passengers on board.
Dozens of others were left behind.
Easyjet has apologised for any inconvenience.
Banbridge man Alan Hylands was due to travel on the flight and had booked an overnight bus to Paris.
He said there were a number of delays before passengers were told at about midnight that the flight was boarding.
Mr Hylands said at this stage, because he had missed his bus connection, he booked a train to Lille online and then another to Paris.
However, he said when passengers were at the gate a member of staff told them the flight was cancelled.
"It was pandemonium at that stage," he said.
"There were families with wee kids in buggies, there were elderly couples - it wasn't just Northern Ireland fans, although there was a good few of us.
"Everybody was in good form, surprisingly, up until that point because we thought we were going to get away and then it went nuts."
He said another member of staff came out and told them he would escort them back to the EasyJet desk where they would be told what was happening.
He said they were taken back through the airport to the desk where one member of staff was on duty.
"Everybody was climbing over each other trying to get in, shouting at him," he said.
He said that went on for about half an hour before the staff member said the flight had not been cancelled, that they had got a slot and were going to fly.
Mr Hylands said everyone calmed down and they were told they would have priority through security.
He said the security line was moving very slowly when there was "a bit of a commotion at the front of the queue" and some people came back through.
He said they told other passengers "they took the first 20 [passengers] down there and they boarded them and took off".
Mr Hylands said he was told by the EasyJet staff member that because the flight had not been cancelled he was not entitled to a refund.
He said he and his friend were out about £1,500 between them, but more than this they had missed out on a once in a lifetime trip.
He said he understood that flights got delayed or cancelled, but said the lack of staff on duty and the lack of communication was "quite frankly disgusting".
Mr Hylands said he was now resigned to watching the match on TV in Banbridge.
Another Northern Ireland fan, Alan Roper, told a similar story.
He had been due to travel with his 17-year-old son and had booked trains and an overnight ferry.
He said people felt let down and angry and there was little assistance at the airport or explanation of what was gong on.
Mr Roper said it was particularly disappointing as a father and son trip could not go ahead.
In a statement, Easyjet said: "Due to air traffic control restrictions at Belfast International yesterday it was expected that the flight would need to be cancelled and so our ground agents transferred passengers back through security.
"However, during this time it was confirmed that the flight could depart in a limited time window. As a result unfortunately not all passengers had time to return through security for the departure."
The company added: "Passengers who did not travel yesterday were offered overnight accommodation and transfers on to other flights from Belfast this morning.
"We would like to sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused."
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It found 82% of supporters would have no issue with a gay player.
However, 8% of football fans said they would stop watching their team.
It would be easy to get ridiculed for it - but no-one did and it means a lot to me
Last week, Football Association chairman Greg Clarke told MPs he was "cautious" of encouraging a player to come out because they may suffer "significant abuse" from fans.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live on Wednesday, Clarke said he stood by his "personal view" that "vile abuse" from a "small minority on the terraces" must be solved before any gay footballers "take that risk" to come out.
"If they want to take that risk I would respect them and support them," said Clarke. "But we can't promise to provide them at the moment with the required protection. We need to redouble our efforts to provide that safe space."
Clarke added that he hoped to achieve that in a "year or two".
In an online survey of more than 4,000 people - 2,896 of whom were sports fans - commissioned by Afternoon Edition and carried out by ComRes, 71% of football fans said clubs should do more to educate fans about homophobia.
And 47% of all sports fans - 50% of football supporters - say they have heard homophobic abuse at matches.
Former Premier League striker Chris Sutton told Afternoon Edition that Clarke had "taken the easy way out" by being "dictated to by 8% of cavemen".
Sutton, who played for Norwich, Blackburn, Chelsea and Celtic, said: "Coming out wouldn't be a problem in the workplace. Working at a football club is just like anywhere else. Players I played with wouldn't bat an eyelid.
"This 8% shouldn't be allowed in football grounds. By not taking it on, the 8% are the winners in all of this. Greg Clarke should be taking these people on.
"It's bonkers in our society that people like this can dictate whether someone can come out or not."
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Simone Pound, head of equality and diversity at the Professional Footballers' Association, told BBC Sport the PFA and the FA were not "blaming any one particular group" for a lack of visibly out gay players.
"I have worked in the game for over 15 years and I have certainly seen a shift in the culture as well as greater understanding and acceptance of LGBT people," she said.
"Coming out is a personal journey that is up to each and every individual. The PFA will continue our work tackling homophobia until someone does come out and thereafter."
An FA spokesman said it "welcomed the statistics" as a "sense check" on homophobia. It said it takes "strong action" against anyone found guilty of "homophobic, biphobic or transphobic abuse".
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On Wednesday, gay rugby league player Keegan Hirst, 28, guest edits a special Afternoon Edition programme on homophobia in sport on BBC Radio 5 live from 13:00 BST.
The survey of fans of 11 different sports also found:
Justin Fashanu became the first player in England to come out as gay in 1990, but took his own life in 1998, aged 37. No male professional player has since come out while playing in England.
Former Germany and Aston Villa player Thomas Hitzlsperger became the first player with Premier League experience to publicly reveal his homosexuality, in January 2014, after he had finished playing in England.
American ex-Leeds United winger Robbie Rogers announced his retirement at the same time as revealing he was gay, saying it was "impossible" to come out and remain in the game, although he subsequently returned to football with American team LA Galaxy.
Former England women's captain Casey Stoney was the first active footballer to come out in England since Fashanu, in February 2014.
Swedish lower league player Anton Hysen, son of former Liverpool player Glenn Hysen, publicly announced his homosexuality in an interview with a Swedish football magazine in 2011.
Out On The Fields, a two-year global study of homophobia in sport, examined the experience for players and spectators in English-speaking countries including the UK, United States, Canada and Australia.
Study manager Erik Denison said "rates of homophobia in sport were rampant right around the world".
He told BBC Radio 5 live that the UK had "many more" young people willing to come out to their team-mates than in other countries, but that LGBT spectators felt they were "not very safe" at sporting events in comparison.
He said: "What was a bit alarming in the UK was that young people were more likely than older generations to say that they had personally been targeted by homophobia in the form of slurs, bullying, and assaults."
Coventry City defender Chris Stokes was banned, fined and sent on an FA education course after tweeting the word "faggots" when commenting on a Chelsea-Tottenham Premier League match in May.
He apologised, immediately removed the tweet and told BBC Radio 5 live that "what I said was totally wrong".
The 25-year-old added: "Nowadays, how the world is, it is a great time for someone who is gay to come out.
"They would get the full support from the changing room - and hopefully the full support of people in the stand."
Listen to Keegan Hirst on Afternoon Edition from 13:00 BST on Wednesday, 26 October.
Delroy Facey, 34, is accused of acting for two men who have already been convicted of match-fixing.
The prosecution claims the former Bolton Wanderers striker had acted as a "middleman" for them in November 2013.
Mr Facey is on trial at Birmingham Crown Court alongside former non-league player Moses Swaibu. Both deny conspiracy to commit bribery.
At the start of a three-week trial, Nick Mather, prosecuting, said the case would be looking at the "ugly side" of football.
He also told the jury they would not need to know anything about the sport to reach a verdict.
The prosecution alleges the case surrounds an attempt to profit from rigged bets targeted at the lower leagues.
The jury were told Mr Swaibu was one of the players targeted by Chann Sankaran and Krishna Ganeshan, who were both convicted of match-fixing in 2014.
Mr Facey had played for a range of clubs including Bolton Wanderers, Bradford, Burnley, Hull City, Lincoln City, Notts County, Oldham Athletic, Rotherham United, Tranmere Rovers, West Bromwich Albion and Wycombe Wanderers.
His role in the plot was as a "fixer", Mr Mather said.
"He was somebody who cast his net around to find players who might be willing to take part in match-fixing."
Mr Mather said there was no question the conspiracy had taken place.
"The issue for you to decide is whether you are sure that firstly, Delroy Facey, and secondly Moses Swaibu, was a part of that agreement.
"This case is focused on them and what they did, and why they did it."
Mr Facey, of Woodhouse Hill, in Huddersfield, and Mr Swaibu, of Tooley Street, Bermondsey, in south London, deny conspiring together with others to commit bribery between 1 and 27 November 2013.
The trial continues.
The PSNI's Operation Reiner was set up last May to tackle the growing problem of hate crime in Northern Ireland.
In the period to the end of January 2015, 383 racially motivated offences were recorded across the city; in the same period the previous year, 268 offences were recorded.
A third of offences recorded last year in the city were in east Belfast.
The figures come as police in north Belfast continue to investigate what they described as a racially motivated hate crime.
A group of men attacked two houses and threatened residents at Mountcollyer Avenue in the Tiger's Bay area on Monday. A Polish woman living in one of the houses said she did not feel safe there.
ACC Chris Noble said racist hate crimes account for a small percentage of overall crime, but officers recognised there is a "significant impact on the victim which can also have implications for the wider community".
"A hate crime affects not only the victim but every member of the group that the victim represents," he said.
He said police were working with a range of groups to enhance victim support and encourage greater levels of reporting, "but policing can only be as successful as the information and support we receive from the wider community".
"There is a collective responsibility on everyone in Northern Ireland to make sure that people who choose to come to live and work here from different countries and cultures, who add value to Northern Irish society and economy, feel reassured and protected," he said.
"We need communities to give us information about who might be involved in racist hate crime to ensure that we investigate these crimes as thoroughly as possible."
Police were called to the property in West Main Street, Whitburn, at about 15:30 on Tuesday after the 30-year-old was found dead.
Bertie Hall, 49, was charged with murder when he appeared at Livingston Sheriff Court on Thursday.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
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It showed prices in four main categories have reduced for 2013-14.
The annual study - the biggest in British football - includes the prices of 164 clubs in the top 10 divisions.
"It is good news for fans but it does come after a long period of incremental rises year on year," Sports Minister Hugh Robertson told the BBC.
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"The key thing is that it is replicated in years to come. I think clubs are beginning to understand what fans are going through and to adjust their prices accordingly."
Five leagues in England, four in Scotland and the Women's Super League were consulted.
Last year's study showed the average price of the cheapest ticket in English football had gone up by 11% - four times the rate of inflation.
But this year, average prices for the cheapest and most expensive match-day and season tickets were all down - as clubs in the Football League face up to an average 5% drop in attendances, from 9,949 in 2011-12 to 9,481 in 2012-13.
In the top four divisions of English football, the biggest fall was 4.4% for the cheapest adult season ticket category, down from £344.63 in 2012 to £329.59 in 2013.
The average for the most expensive adult season ticket fell 2.4% - from £546.30 in 2012 to £524.52 in 2013. The average for the cheapest adult match-day ticket is down 3.1% - from £21.24 to £20.58. The average for the most expensive adult match-day ticket dropped around 3.5% - from £34.11 to £32.91
In Scotland, the average price of the top flight's cheapest season tickets was 1% down. However, the average cost of the cheapest match-day tickets rose by more than 3%.
As well as the most expensive and cheapest season and adult match-day tickets, we recorded the cost of a cup of tea, a pie and a programme. Just two clubs, Lincoln and Rangers, failed to respond.
The study also found:
Dave Whelan, chairman of FA Cup winners Wigan, said it was "difficult" for clubs to put prices up amid the current financial climate in Britain.
"Money is so tight and our area is running at 8-9% unemployed and it's impossible to ask anyone to pay any more to watch football," he said.
Football League chairman Greg Clarke said three-quarters of Football League clubs had either reduced their ticket prices or kept them at the same level as last season.
"I think this is a case of clubs responding sensibly to declining living standards in what has been a challenging economic period," he said.
While the overall picture across English football was lower ticket prices, the Premier League saw a 4.3% rise in the average price of the cheapest season tickets.
Alton Towers: £35.10
Blackpool Tower: £45
Edinburgh Castle: £16
Madame Tussauds, London: £22.50
One Direction, Etihad Stadium: £66
Malcolm Clarke, chair of the Football Supporters' Federation, said there was "no justification" for any increases in the top flight given a new television deal that is bringing in an extra £600m across the division.
He had called for the extra cash to be used to cut admission prices drastically, but during the transfer window clubs spent a record £630m on players.
Clarke said: "It is disappointing that the average price of the cheapest season ticket has still gone up despite the extra income and despite the very difficult economic circumstances many supporters are in.
"There is plenty of scope to do much more than they have already done. If all that happens is that most of that money is being used to go into players and agents, then there is a danger that there will be a real kickback from fans."
Despite the concerns, the average Premier League attendance in 2012-13 was 35,975 - up from 34,646 the season before. In addition, there were record season-ticket sales of 476,776.
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said these figures were helped by the "fact that so many clubs are working so hard to ensure that Premier League football remains as accessible and affordable to as many people as possible.
"That sets a high bar - one that both we and the clubs are determined to maintain," he said. "That is why clubs are looking at a range of innovative and inclusive offers to encourage high-attendance, particularly for younger fans and away supporters.
"It is great to see the continued high levels of support for top-flight football in this country. The passion and commitment of the fans is an integral part of the Premier League's success and English football culture and we want to make sure that is intact this season, the next and for many to come."
Professor Tom Cannon, a football finance expert from Liverpool University, said top-flight clubs were under pressure to produce greater revenues.
"The truth is, we are in a situation where the cost of talent, at the top in particular, continues to soar, not just because of that pressure but because of regulatory pressure like Financial Fair Play, which means they have to generate more and more income," he said.
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"This means on the one hand you have a bonanza of TV income but you also have a bonanza in expenditure and potentially the gap has to be filled by gate income and that puts the pressure on the fans."
Last year, Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for ticket prices to be cut as a result of the Price of Football 2012.
In response to this year's study, he said: "The cost of watching football is still huge. There are some signs that clubs are making serious efforts to try and make sure that not just season tickets but match-day tickets are very affordable.
"There have been early steps made in the right direction, but there are still many of the large clubs who are appearing to be totally and utterly inconsiderate towards the fact that many people are being priced out of being able to watch their team."
Some of the above figures have been amended since the publication of the survey due to additional information being received from clubs.
Mr Simpson, 22, from Embo, near Dornoch, has not been seen since he left the Dornoch Show dance on 26 July.
The body was found in the water more than 70 miles around the coast at Whitehills near Banff on Wednesday.
Police said "early indications" were that it may be Lachlan Simpson but the body had not been formally identified.
Mr Simpson's family said in a statement: "Police Scotland has kept us informed of the discovery of a body yesterday and they will continue to keep us updated on progress.
"We want to thank the public for their support during the search for Lachlan and would ask that our privacy be respected whilst these enquiries are carried out."
Mr Simpson's family and friends used social media networks and posters to raise awareness about his disappearance.
Posters were put up at the Belladrum Music Festival near Beauly and appeared at other venues in the Highlands.
Police also continued to make searches in and around the area where he was last seen.
The 32-year-old was sent off in the second half of the Championship game at the City Ground for an apparent high tackle on Clayton Donaldson.
Vaughan has made 25 appearances this season, collecting nine yellow cards.
He will be banned for league games against Bolton, Middlesbrough and QPR.
There were heavy exchanges of gunfire and plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the building afterwards.
The attackers escaped with several suspected militants detained there.
Local officials blamed the raid on al-Qaeda, which has urged supporters to take up arms against the government in response to a crackdown in the east.
The assailants - dressed in military uniforms - pulled up outside the heavily guarded compound, which is situated in the al-Tawahi district near the city's port, in two cars at around 0740 local time (0440 GMT), officials said.
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They then opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, before storming the central courtyard and setting free several suspected militants, the officials added.
The attack came amid a flag ceremony at the Political Security Organisation (PSO) headquarters, one security official told Reuters news agency
"The high number of casualties was due to the fact that the attack came during the morning flag salute," the official said.
Witnesses told the AFP news agency that the assailants were later "seen leaving the building in a bus, taking people who had been detained there with them".
Medics told the agency that three female cleaners had also died during the raid.
In 2003, 10 men escaped from the same building, including one later convicted of involvement in the plot to blow up the USS Cole in Aden's harbour in 2000.
Saturday's attack caused a fire at the compound, which officials said was being brought under control. The military has sent troops to the area to secure it.
Yemen's government is facing three different threats - from al-Qaeda, southern secessionists, and a rebel movement in the north - although it has it has called a truce with the latter.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), formed in 2009 by a merger between two regional offshoots of the Islamist militant network in Yemen and neighbouring Saudi Arabia, has taken advantage of the instability and established strongholds in the country's largely autonomous tribal regions.
It has claimed to have been behind a number of attacks in the two countries over the past year, and has been blamed for attempting to blow up a US passenger jet as it flew into Detroit on Christmas Day.
Earlier this week, the group called on tribes in eastern Yemen to help it "light up the ground with fire under the tyrants of infidelity in the regime" in retaliation for alleged air strikes in the region.
Facebook earned $2bn (£1.5bn) in the period from April to June, up from $719m in 2015.
Analysts had anticipated revenue of $5.8bn, but the company managed to beat even those high expectations bringing in $6.4bn in revenue.
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company was particularly pleased with the growth in video.
"Our community and business had another good quarter," he said, "We're particularly pleased with our progress in video as we move towards the world where video is at the heart of all our services."
Shares of the social media giant climbed nearly 7% in after-hours trading.
Facebook has been encouraging businesses to experiment with video and rolling out new advertising platforms for mobile ads.
Mobile advertising made up 84% of Facebook's ad revenue in the second quarter up from 76% last year. The company has benefited from an influx of advertising money moving away from television and on to digital platforms.
"Facebook still has many growth levers left to pull, not least of which is video advertising," an analyst from RBC Capital Markets wrote in a client note.
The number of monthly-active-users (MAU) - a key measurement for advertisers - increased by 15% to 1.71 billion as of 30 June 2016.
By comparison, Twitter's MAU increased by just 3% in that period.
The number of daily active users topped one billion for the first time. The time spent on the site by daily users also rose.
"Facebook remains a top pick for us, given its position as the largest/most engaging mass-reach internet platform for advertisers, unmatched targeting potential, and very potent monetisation formats," Cantor Fitzgerald analysts said in a research note.
"Mobile has been the main driver of growth to date, video and Instagram should start moving the needle more meaningfully in the second half of 2016."
Facebook has been pushing new services, including photo and video-sharing on Instagram and its messaging apps.
The company has also encouraged advertisers to try new means of reaching their targets, including the new Facebook Live feature, where users can watch live streaming videos.
Revenue increased in all geographic areas, climbing 19% in Asia and 21% in Europe.
Even as Facebook celebrates its success, analysts say the company needs to keep an eye on rival Snapchat, which has a fast-growing user base.
The owner of the dance music club David Vincent said he is closing its doors indefinitely to concentrate on his club in Ibiza.
He said he wants to make the Ibiza club the best in the world and cannot keep both clubs open at the same time as he needs his staff from Manchester.
The club which was originally called Sankeys Soap will shut its doors with a 12-hour "spectacular party" on 6 May.
Mr Vincent said he has "truly amazing memories" of Manchester.
He said: "Brilliant highs include being recognised for contributing significant culture to the city of Manchester at a national museum and also quite a few challenging lows.
"We have made our name in Manchester as the world's best club in the DJ Mag Awards 2010, and the Sankeys spirit will live on there."
DJ Krysko, who was a resident at Sankeys for six years, said on his Twitter account it was a "sad day".
Sankeys is based in Beehive Mill, Northern Quarter, Manchester. It opened in 1994.
The 22-year-old Ivory Coast defender tangled with Eden Hazard during Sunday's 4-0 defeat at Chelsea and was substituted in the 52nd minute.
After the game, manager Jose Mourinho said he was "afraid" it was "a bad injury."
"I hope to be able to play again for United and The Elephants before two months," Bailly said on social media.
Bailly had played every minute in the league for United before Sunday's match at Stamford Bridge.
The centre-back signed from Spanish side Villarreal for about £30m in the summer.
Real trailed before Tito's red card - Danilo putting the hosts ahead before headers from Antonio Amaya and Jozabed.
Bale levelled with a header before Raul Baena was sent off in conceding a penalty which Cristiano Ronaldo scored.
As the game opened up, Bale added three more, Ronaldo scored a second and Karim Benzema netted a hat-trick - including number 10.
Real boss Rafael Benitez has been under pressure after losing three of their last five La Liga games.
But it remains to be seen if the farcical circumstances of their win over neighbours Rayo will ease much of that, as they were playing poorly before the sendings off.
It was the first time they hit double figures in a La Liga match since 1960, when they beat Elche 11-2.
Real remain two points off leaders Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, who both have a game in hand.
Real Madrid's win will never be forgotten by anyone who watched the game - but remarkably Benitez will still be under pressure.
Whistles were ringing out at the Bernabeu from unhappy home fans at 1-1 - moments before Jozabed put Madrid minnows Rayo into the lead. But the game changed when Tito was deservedly sent off for a dangerous studs-up, two-footed tackle on Toni Kroos.
And after Ronaldo made it 3-2 from the spot against nine men in the 30th minute, double figures always felt as a possibility as Real were able to launch attack after attack with limited options in defence for Rayo.
Real Madrid lead 1-0: Bale plays in Danilo to fire past Yoel
Rayo Vallecano level 1-1: Amaya heads home from a corner
Rayo Vallecano lead 2-1: Moments later Jozabed scores a second header
Read Madrid level 2-2: Bale heads home against 10 men
Real Madrid lead 3-2: Raul Baena holds onto Sergio Ramos' shirt and gets a second booking. Ronaldo scores the penalty
4-2: Bale is given space to run in on goal and slots home his second
5-2: Unmarked Benzema scores early in the second half
6-2: Ronaldo, with no defenders around him, heads home
7-2: Ronaldo crosses to Bale - in plenty of space - for his hat-trick. Benzema was standing behind him ready to pounce
8-2: Bale tries to find Ronaldo but his attempted pass is deflected back to him and he fires home
9-2: Unmarked Benzema converts Luka Modric's pass
10-2: In the final minute, Benzema gets his hat-trick and makes it 10 from 16 yards
Radio Marca's Juan Castro told BBC World Service: "At 11 v 11, Rayo were 2-1 up. Right now Rafa Benitez is not wanted by the Bernabeu. Even after the match people are not happy.
"The sensation of the game and the style, the relationship with the players is not the best. But if they keep on winning he'll remain coach of Real Madrid.
"It's not the right moment for Jose Mourinho to take over. Who knows in the summer? The fans here are 50-50 for and against Mourinho."
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said they "regularly and systematically" exchanged information and discussed prices.
The biggest fine was given to the Storm agency, which has used models such as Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne.
Three of the agencies - Storm, Models One and Premier - said they would appeal against the fines.
The CMA said the five agencies got together regularly to agree on a minimum level of prices - which is against the law.
It also accused the Association of Model Agents (AMA), the trade association, of sending round emails to its members telling them to keep prices high.
However, the CMA stressed that big name "top models" were not involved in the price-fixing.
The CMA investigation looked at a wide range of modelling assignments, from small magazine shoots to big advertising campaigns.
It said that the customers affected included well-known High Street chains and online fashion retailers.
"Strong competition benefits consumers, the economy and society," said the CMA's John Wotton.
"In this case the agencies and the AMA colluded with each other over their approach to pricing and, in some instances, the agencies agreed to fix minimum prices."
Storm Model Management was fined £491,000; Models One was fined £394,000, and FM Models has been told to pay £251,000, although it has since gone bust.
Smaller fines were given to Viva Model Management and Premier Model Management.
The AMA was fined £2,500.
John Horner, the managing director of Models One, said they had decided to appeal against the fines without hesitation.
"It is clear that even after a 20-month investigation the CMA has failed to understand our complex industry.
"The CMA is penalising modelling agencies for seeking to maintain professional standards within the industry, whilst also protecting the interests of young and vulnerable people."
He said the level of the fine was out of line with the CMA's own guidance.
The agencies said that any communication between them was more about usage and publication rights, rather than prices.
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Yasmin Le Bon was among the models who spoke out in defence of the agencies.
"Had it not been for the knowledge, experience and professionalism of the agency I would not have sustained a career in the industry," she said.
Hannah Cassidy, another well-known model, said she found the guidance offered to her by Storm was essential.
"Agents promote, but also protect, models from unfair contract and exclusivity terms which could harm their careers. They also make sure I get paid on time," she said.
Firefighters were called to Wimborne Road, Winton, in Bournemouth, after the display caught fire on Christmas Day.
Neighbours evacuated homes as Dorset Fire and Rescue put the fire out.
A spokesman said: "At the risk of sounding like a Christmas tale, the cause of the fire was... sun refracting through a snow globe which then ignited the reindeer food."
He added: "There was severe fire damage to the shop window display, heat damage to the window and severe smoke damage to the entire shop."
A fire investigator described the incident as "rare", but said it was possible because of the sun's low position in the sky.
"Consideration should be given to the possibility that this could happen in your homes, particularly with shaving-type mirrors which can focus the suns rays and cause fires," the spokesman added.
The happened at about 11:30 GMT, with fire engines from Redhill Park and Springbourne tackling the fire.
The jet overshot the runway at Blackbushe Airport in July 2015 and crashed into a car auction site.
The Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said emergency warnings prior to landing may have "saturated the pilot's mental capacity".
The pilot and three passengers survived the crash but died in a severe fire.
Bin Laden's half-sister, Sana Mohammed Bin Laden, her mother, Raja Bashir Hashim, and his brother-in-law, Zuhair Hashim, were killed, along with pilot Mazen Al-Aqeel Da'jah Salem.
The AAIB report said the private Saudi-registered Phenom 300 jet, travelling from Milan, Italy, landed at high speed and touched down on 31 July 2015 with only 438m (1,437 ft) of runway remaining.
It collided with an earth bank before crashing into a British Car Auctions site, losing one of its wings and bursting into flames among parked cars.
Airport firefighters, who arrived on the scene within five minutes, were unable to control an "intense" blaze involving leaking fuel.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said there had been a "ball of flames" and "several explosions".
The AAIB said the three passengers appeared to have made an unsuccessful attempt to open the cabin door.
The report said the 57-year-old Jordanian pilot may have become "fixated on landing" because of "a very high workload situation" in the final minutes of the flight.
He made an emergency climb to avoid colliding with a microlight, and then came close to a second light aircraft.
The jet then began "a very high-speed descent", dropping at up to 3,000ft per minute.
The pilot ignored six "pull up" warnings from the aircraft's Terrain Avoidance and Warning System (TAWS), touching down at a speed of about 135 knots (155mph).
The AAIB said the 66 messages and alarms in the final three-and-a-half minutes of the flight may have created "audio overload" and "mental stressors".
"It is possible that in these circumstances the pilot... fixated on his initial strategy (landing) and lacked the mental capacity to recognise that the approach had become unstable," the report said.
Following the crash, the jet's operators have installed co-pilots on all Phenom 300 flights.
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The elder Brownlee, injured for the first half of the year, went away on the 10km run and crossed the line with a union jack draped over his shoulders to delight a huge Hyde Park crowd.
It was Great Britain's 19th gold medal of these London Olympics.
Jonny had incurred a 15-second penalty for mounting his bike too early in transition one and had to take it at the end of the penultimate run lap.
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That cost him any realistic chance of a fraternal one-two, but he dug in over the last 2.5km to hang on for a gutsy third, behind Spain's Javier Gomez in silver.
At the finish, Jonny collapsed across the line and was given immediate medical treatment in the shelter of the main stands, before being taken away in a wheelchair to put the medal ceremony on hold.
Alistair has been the dominant triathlete of the last three years when not injured, but his Olympic dream seemed in doubt when he tore his Achilles at the start of the year.
"The race was unbelievable and the crowds were amazing," he said. "My ears are still ringing from all that noise.
British triathlete and current Ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington hails Alistair Brownlee's success following his injury battle
"It is incredibly impressive. Not only would it have been physically difficult to train but mentally he will have been riddled with self-doubt. It is never easy struggling with an injury and that is what makes this victory all the more impressive. He even had a pool installed so he could aqua jog and do some of his training in the water."
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"The pressure was stacked up and so many things put to bed today.
"It feels a bit underwhelming because Jonny has collapsed, but, no, it is fantastic. I am massively proud of Jonny."
Alistair only returned to World Series racing in Kitzbuehel last month but wound up the pace to burn off 2010 world champion Gomez in ruthless fashion.
Four years ago in Beijing, as a callow 20-year-old, he had led for three laps of the run before blowing up and finishing down in 12th.
This time there would be no repeat. Gomez stuck to his heels as long as he could but was stretched and stretched until he snapped.
Both Brownlees came out of the 1500m Serpentine swim in a lead group of five that also included Gomez, with third Briton Stuart Hayes just a few seconds back.
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Jonny then made an error by mounting his bike too early and so incurred a 15-second penalty.
That group of five built a lead of around 20 seconds after the first bike lap of seven but were then closed down as a large group came together with four laps left.
All the big guns were in that lead pack coming into transition two, meaning the battle for medals would come down to the 10km run.
The brothers went off hard, taking Gomez with them as a small gap immediately opened up, and for the first two laps around the lake the three stayed together.
The younger Brownlee was the first to drop off, before Gomez capitulated as Alistair wound the pace up relentlessly from the bell.
Brownlee's 10km run split of 29 minutes and seven seconds was only just over a minute and a half slower than Mo Farah's gold medal-winning time in the track 10,000m last Saturday and only a second off the second-placed Briton in that final, Chris Thompson.
Although that comparison is slightly unfair on Farah - his personal best in the 10,000m of 26 mins 46.57 secs is considerably faster than he needed at the Olympic Stadium - Brownlee jogged the final 200m here, walking across the line as he soaked up the adoration of the home crowd.
The 148-room Hilton will continue to be run as a hotel under a new name which has not yet been confirmed.
The exchange of contracts is set to be completed on 31 March.
Celtic Manor Resort chief executive Ian Edwards said: "We are extremely pleased to be exchanging contracts to acquire Hilton Newport and look forward to working with the experienced team there."
The attack happened at Allanmore Farm, Drumnadrochit, at about 07:30 on Tuesday.
At least three sheep have since died as a result of their injuries, officers said.
The white and brown spaniel is believed to be called "Max". Anyone who recognises the dog is asked to contact the police.
Sgt Craig Stuart said: "Police Scotland are keen to trace the owner of the dog to assist with the inquiry. The dog is safe and well and being looked after locally."
The problem was discovered during an unannounced inspection visit to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.
The inspectors asked questions about procedures after finding dust on patient equipment.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it would deal immediately with the oversight in its record-keeping system.
The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) carried out an unannounced inspection visit to the hospital in September.
While most of the inspection was problem free, issues emerged in the accident and emergency department.
The HEI report states: "During the inspection, we saw some areas that had been cleaned but had debris on the flooring.
"We also saw some cleaned, empty patient rooms which had dust on high level surfaces.
"In the accident and emergency department, we saw dust on high surfaces such as pendant lamp arms, ledges, cupboard tops, and curtain rails."
The report added: "There was no domestic cleaning or domestic cleaning supervision records for the accident and emergency department.
"The deputy facilities manager explained that there had been no recording of this information since the hospital opened.
"We were told that all domestic cleaning records in the hospital were electronic. However, this electronic system had not been put in place in the accident and emergency department."
Claire Sweeney, interim director of quality assurance for Healthcare Improvement Scotland, said: "During the inspection of Royal Hospital for Children, we observed staff adhering to standard infection control precautions while carrying out their duties.
"However, we identified issues around cleanliness in the accident and emergency department.
"The NHS board has drawn up an action plan to address these issues. We will continue to monitor the cleanliness of Royal Hospital for Children at future inspections."
In a statement, the health board said: "We have already taken steps to address the two requirements identified by the inspectors during their visit in September and have put in place increased cleaning and monitoring in the emergency department.
"We are delighted that the inspectors found good compliance in a number of areas including infection prevention and control, hand hygiene and the uniform policy.
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Plans for the hike were dropped during a full meeting of Surrey County Council earlier. A rise of almost 5% has now been approved.
The proposed increase would have added nearly £200 to a Band D bill and sparked a referendum which could have cost the authority up to £300,000.
Councillors will now consider an alternative budget.
The council announced its original plan in January, blaming government cuts of £170m and an increased demand for social care.
Council leader David Hodge told the meeting at County Hall: "We are willing to take a risk that a solution will soon be found for the issues that all councils face.
"However, if there isn't any progress in finding a solution to the adult social care crisis, our situation will become untenable and intolerable."
Mr Hodge said increases in tax went "against the grain" of the party and were "not in our DNA".
He said the authority had been left with "significant financial challenges" but "the government had been listening" to his concerns about funding.
The council meeting was adjourned twice to allow for last minute "conversations" involving the leader and the chief executive.
But we do not know what those were about or what has happened in the discussions with the government.
Opposition councillors are absolutely furious, complaining about secrecy and a lack of information about potential cuts.
This will be one of the key questions going forward, given the dire warnings over the state of the council's finances.
Meanwhile for Surrey Conservatives there is a sense of relief; they had felt uncomfortable about a referendum.
But it really is not clear where this decision leaves the council or the future of services it runs.
Authorities are legally required to hold a referendum for council tax increases above 5%.
After heated exchanges, 53 councillors voted in favour of a 4.99% increase, with 18 voting against, and one abstention.
Councillor Hazel Watson, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the whole process had been a "disaster" and cuts were looming "like an iceberg".
Labour councillor Robert Evans said the situation was "shambolic" and the referendum "would have been lost had it gone ahead".
Deputy leader Peter Martin said approving a 4.99% increase was the "right thing to do" and "better than having a divisive 15%".
Councillor Hodge added: "This is about people, not politics, about the people on limited incomes, pensioners on fixed incomes."
A council spokesman previously said £450m worth of savings had been found but it was still not enough to keep services running.
The revised budget carried significant "financial risks", a finance officer told the chamber.
Alltech's main business is animal nutrition but it is also developing a brewing and distilling division.
It has bought the Station Works brewery from the Haughey family, better known as the owners of Norbrook Laboratories.
The deal includes the Cumberland Breweries at Great Corby in the north of England.
Alltech produces craft beers at its US facility in Kentucky and said this deal will give it a platform for expansion in Europe.
Dr Lyons' first job was with Harp Lager, in his native Dundalk, just across the Irish border from Newry.
He described the purchase as "a kind of homecoming for me, as well as a big moment for the beverage side of the company and for craft brewing in Britain and Ireland".
The Station Works brewery began operation in 2013 on a site behind Newry train station.
It brews Finn lager and Foxes Rock pale ale. It also houses a bottling and canning facility.
A spokesperson for Norbrook said: "We are delighted that the company will continue as a trading business under its new ownership, as a key player in the craft brewing industry.
"We will be working closely with the new owners and staff to ensure business continuity throughout the transition process."
Craft brewing has been a growth industry in across the UK and Ireland in recent years.
According to the Campaign for Real Ale, there are now 22 independent brewing companies in Northern Ireland - the vast majority of which have opened in the last three years.
The UKIP leader said the PM was in fact a "Eurofanatic" who had been "deceiving the British people for years".
Accusations of lying have been levelled by both sides in recent days with the EU referendum debate becoming increasingly ill-tempered.
Mr Cameron said the EU was "not perfect" but that access to the single market justified the "frustrations".
The UK's EU referendum takes place on 23 June.
Mr Farage, who has been touring the country in UKIP's purple bus, was asked about a recent row over Turkey's membership of the EU.
On Sunday Mr Cameron rebuked Armed Forces Minister Penny Mordaunt after she suggested the UK would not have a veto to prevent Turkey joining, saying she had made "a very misleading claim".
Mr Farage said Ms Mordaunt had made a mistake but claimed the PM would never be prepared to use a veto, because he had "campaigned" for Turkey to join for 10 years.
The UK government's formal position is to support Turkey joining the EU, but the PM said at the current rate of progress it would be the "year 3000" before this happened.
Mr Farage - who has also clashed with the official Leave campaign - is trying to contrast his street campaigning with the government's approach, BBC political correspondent Eleanor Garnier said.
The UKIP leader said the "whole apparatus of the state is being used" to persuade people to stay in, accusing Mr Cameron of "twisting and turning" on the EU.
The prime minister had gone from "ruling nothing out" during his negotiations to warning of "World War Three" if the UK leaves, he said.
"This man has won elections, and won votes, by pretending to be a Eurosceptic," he said.
"We are now seeing the real David Cameron. He's a Eurofanatic, he believes in the European project. He has been deceiving the British people for years."
Leave campaigners have reacted furiously to Treasury warnings about the economic consequences of a vote to leave, including on Monday that a recession could be triggered and on Tuesday that family holidays would get more expensive.
Speaking in Luton at Easyjet's headquarters, Mr Cameron said he had "great faith" that voters would back a Remain vote.
"Europe is not perfect, it can be frustrating," he said, adding that he thought it had improved following his renegotiations.
Despite the problems, he said it was in the UK's economic and security interests to remain in.
The robots do not resemble their insect counterparts; they are tiny cubes equipped with two watch motors to power the wheels that enable them to move.
But their collective behaviour is remarkably ant-like.
By being programmed simply to move forward toward a target and avoid obstacles, the robot colony finds the fastest way through a network or maze.
The secret, the researchers report in the open access journal Plos Computational Biology, is in their ability to take cues from one another - just like an insect swarm.
"Each individual robot is pretty dumb," said Simon Garnier from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, lead researcher on the study. "They have very limited memory and limited processing power."
"By themselves, each robot would just move around randomly and get lost... but [they] are able to work together and communicate."
This is because, like ants, the robots leave a trail that the others follow; while ants leave a trail of chemicals - or pheromones - that their nest mates are able to sniff out, the robots leave a trail of light.
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To achieve this, the researchers set up a camera to track the path of each robot. A projector connected to the camera then produced a spot of light at regular intervals along their route, leaving a "breadcrumb trail" of light that got brighter every time another robot tracked over the same path.
Dr Garnier explained: "[The robots each] have two antennae on top, which are light sensors. If more light falls on their left sensor they turn left, and if more light falls on the right sensor, they turn right."
"It's exactly the same mechanism as ants."
The researcher explained how both the robots and ants worked together, describing their navigation skills as a "positive feedback loop".
"If there are two possible paths from A to B and one is twice as long as [the other], at the beginning, the ants [or] robots start using each path equally.
"Because ants taking the shorter path travel faster, the amount of pheromone (or light) deposited on that path grows faster, so more ants use that path."
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There are many other research and engineering projects that take inspiration from nature to solve problems or design robots, as Dr Paul Graham, a biologist from the University of Sussex, explained.
"The classic example," he said, "is the way in which we design information networks to move packets of data around.
"Ants don't have someone in charge telling them where to go, so you can [mimic this].
For instance - in a complex network, there may be a junction with different possible routes that packets [of data] could take. Packets would leave messages for each other at the junction to give information about which routes were quick."
This, he explained, is the basis of an algorithm called ant colony optimisation which has already been used in telecoms networks.
And although Dr Graham doesn't see an immediate practical use for these particular robotic insects he says the study demonstrates an important and interesting piece of biology.
"Lots of animal behaviour gets described using words like 'choice'.
"This shows that you don't need something as complex as choice to get some of the behaviour you see in ants.
"And these things look pretty cool, too."
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Hampshire slow left-armer Liam Dawson could make his debut on his home ground alongside Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid.
Captain Eoin Morgan said a spinning pitch would be "a good test" for the winter tours of Bangladesh and India.
"It will be a very tough series, especially as conditions may suit them more than they suit us," he said.
"Having Liam Dawson brings the option of playing three spinners and that is something we might have to take into consideration."
All-rounder Ben Stokes and fast bowler Mark Wood have been included in the squad following injury, although Stokes will play as a specialist batsman for at least the first two games as he recovers from a calf problem.
England have won their past three one-day series against Pakistan, including a 3-1 victory in the United Arab Emirates in November.
Opener Alex Hales made his maiden one-day century in that series, but struggled in this summer's drawn Test series against Pakistan, scoring only 145 runs in eight innings.
"I have been in that position before and it's a nice feeling to be able to play with freedom in white-ball cricket," said Morgan.
"Alex played very well in the limited-overs matches in South Africa last winter, even though he didn't have the best time in the Tests. He has the backing of everyone."
Pakistan this week went went top of the International Cricket Council Test rankings for the first time, following the 2-2 draw with England.
However, they sit ninth in the ODI rankings, and their warm-up win over Ireland last week was their first victory in six matches.
"Being number one is a massive boost and a proud moment for Pakistan cricket and the whole nation is very happy about it," said one-day captain Azhar Ali.
"Our one-day ranking is not great right now but we will take the opportunity and, the way the team is performing, hopefully we can convert it into ODIs".
Pat Murphy, BBC Radio 5 live
These days there's a clear difference between England's one-day squad and the Test team as the selectors hone in on specific skills.
Only five who played in final Test at The Oval are in the one-day squad and Ben Stokes won't bowl in the first two games. While David Willey's hand injury will be closely monitored, he won't play in the first match.
England, the favourites having beaten Pakistan handsomely in the UAE last winter, and with Mark Wood back to add raw pace and reverse swing, England have a varied bowling attack covering all bases.
Pakistan, meanwhile, remain a work in progress at one-day level but their talent should never be underestimated.
England: Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Jake Ball, Jos Buttler (wk), Liam Dawson, Chris Jordan, Alex Hales, Eoin Morgan (capt), Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood.
Pakistan: Azhar Ali (capt), Babar Azam, Hasan Ali, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Sami Aslam, Sarfraz Ahmad (wk), Sharjeel Khan, Shoaib Malik, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah.
Residents holding white roses lined the route as the convoy of white hearses passed the children's school.
Earlier, relatives of 44 of the 150 victims viewed their coffins inside a hangar at Duesseldorf airport.
The victims' remains are the first to be repatriated following delays over errors on the death certificates.
Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have deliberately crashed the Airbus A320 into the French Alps in March.
Eighteen of the victims - 16 schoolchildren and two teachers - were from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium school in the north-western German town of Haltern and had been returning from an exchange trip in Barcelona when the plane crashed.
White hearses carried the children's remains from Duesseldorf airport while the coffins of the two teachers were in black hearses.
White candles were lit in the school grounds, where 18 trees - one for each victim - were recently planted as a memorial.
Flags on the town hall in Haltern were at half-mast.
Hundreds of students gathered outside the school gates, some clutching white roses and others carrying candles. For the small town of Haltern, this was the most unimaginable homecoming.
The white hearses carrying the coffins crept past the school. There were hugs and tears. The children watched in silent grief and disbelief.
After the cortege had passed, small clusters of children congregated on the kerbside, taking comfort in companionship.
The white roses that fell from the hearses were carefully collected and placed underneath the freshly planted saplings. Eighteen trees placed in a classroom formation to remember those they loved and lost.
Haltern Mayor Bodo Klimpel said there was a sense of relief in the town now that the children's remains had been repatriated.
"After so many weeks of waiting, especially for the relatives, we are of course relieved that we have them back," he said.
"It was very moving when we left the motorway and entered town, how people showed their sympathy by lining the streets, praying and crying."
Ulrich Wessel, the school's headmaster, said it had been an important event.
"From Friday, the burials will take place over the course of two weeks and this will be a further horrible moment, having to say goodbye to the children. So today was brutal but, at the same time, important."
The remains of the rest of the victims will be repatriated over the coming weeks. The passengers were from 18 countries, including Australia, Argentina and Japan, but most of those on board were either Spanish or German.
Germanwings: The unanswered questions
Who were the victims?
Families of the victims were angered last week after the repatriation of some of the bodies was delayed because of errors on the death certificates in France.
Lufthansa, which transported the remains of the 44 victims from Marseille on Tuesday night, is a parent company of budget airline Germanwings.
Prosecutors investigating the crash are looking into the possibility of launching a criminal case against the airlines for failing to recognise that Lubitz posed a danger, with reports that he had a history of depression, our correspondent in Duesseldorf says.
Earlier this month, French state prosecutor Brice Robin reportedly said Lubitz had attempted to speak to dozens of doctors ahead of the crash, but did not specify what the co-pilot was seeking help for.
Mr Robin, who is leading the investigation, is due to meet some of the victims' relatives on Thursday to discuss identification and the process of handing over the remains.
Both Germanwings and Lufthansa have previously said that Lubitz, 27, had passed all fitness to fly tests.
Lufthansa has also acknowledged that it knew the co-pilot had suffered from severe depression in 2009 while training for his pilot's licence.
Andrew Swan is charged with driving a bus "without due care or attention" on North Street, St Andrews, on 10 December 2016.
Prosecutors said he failed to observe a red light and failed to slow down or notice Beth Moffat crossing the road.
Mr Swan, 50, from Dundee, denies careless driving.
Solicitor Jim Caird, defending, asked for the case to be adjourned so the defence could view CCTV footage of the incident.
Sheriff George Way set a trial date in November and a pre-trial hearing in October.
Marsh, who also scored a hundred against Kent last week, was unbeaten on 136 as Australia racked up 440-6.
Marsh faces competition from Shane Watson, who made 52, for the first Test against England starting on 8 July.
Opener David Warner crashed a sparkling 94, Adam Voges a composed 49 and wicketkeeper Peter Nevill 78.
If Marsh clarified Australian thoughts through weight of runs, then the make-up of their pace attack for the first Test in Cardiff also became clear, albeit for a different reason.
Ryan Harris was due to play against Essex at Chelmsford, but pulled out with soreness related to a long-term knee problem, meaning Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood are likely to form the tourists' Test pace trio.
The news on Harris was confirmed before a toss where Essex captain Ravi Bopara - perhaps in a pre-arranged agreement - invited Australia to bat on a scorching hot day.
On a true pitch showing occasional signs of bounce, the tourists made the most of the Essex hospitality against a line-up in which four of the bowlers had played only 28 previous first-class matches between them.
The hosts stuck to their task and did not help themselves with five dropped catches but, in the main, this was a day of batting practice for Australia.
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Still, they wobbled midway through the morning session when Tom Moore - playing only his fifth first-class match after signing from club side Brentwood last summer - struck twice in two balls.
Chris Rogers was caught behind for 21 and Australia captain Michael Clarke was brilliantly caught at leg gully by Ryan ten Doeschate for a golden duck.
At the other end, Warner was unaffected, with flowing drives and powerful cuts leaving him set for a hundred before lunch until he guided Jamie Porter to gully for 94.
Watson, dropped on 10, dealt mainly in boundaries before he dragged Ten Doeschate on to his stumps, while Voges played a chanceless knock before being run out in a mix-up with Marsh.
Marsh was put down on the deep square leg fence on 15, but went on to play an array of drives and lofts down the ground from the spinners.
Again reprieved on 98 as Nick Browne missed a caught and bowled opportunity, he brought up a 118-ball hundred with his fifth six.
He was dropped once more by Browne, this time at second slip, on 128 before Nevill was caught down the leg side off Jesse Ryder to signal the end of the day.
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Former Middlesbrough and Bournemouth forward Tomlin, 28, has been used as a substitute for struggling Bristol City's past two Championship games.
"I don't know where people get it from. Me and the gaffer sort of laughed at it," he told BBC Points West.
"There is nothing going on. Niggles in training have kept me out of the team."
Bristol City have lost a club record eight straight league games and Tomlin has not scored since 3 December's win over Ipswich, the Robins' only league victory since October.
Tomlin starred during a loan spell at Ashton Gate last term, netting six goals in 18 games, prior to signing a three-year deal in July - but has been in and out of the starting side in recent weeks.
"I've been ill. I'm in a bad way at the moment," he added. "For me personally, from the the first month or two of the season, my standards have been nowhere near [what I expect].
"I've not been buzzing as much as I should be. I take full responsibility for that. I'm desperate to get back to where I was last season, when I loved everything."
Owner Stephen Lansdown has given Johnson his backing despite a run of 11 defeats from 12 league games that has seen the club slip to 20th in the table.
"The gaffer is doing the right things," continued Tomlin. "We speak to each other every day. I have so much respect for him.
"I want to get to the top again. I'm working so hard to do it. I'm desperate to win."
Johnson's side face Burnley away in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday before consecutive home league games against Sheffield Wednesday and Rotherham on 31 January and 4 February.
The poll for driving safety charity Brake found 49% of 17-24 year olds had been in work calls while on the road, compared with 17% for all age groups.
About 35% of young people said they had spoken to family, and 21% with friends - compared with 23% and 15% overall.
Brake asked about hand-held and hands-free calls. They are both a distraction "risking devastating crashes", it said.
"It is a sobering thought that a significant number of these life-threatening distractions come from drivers' own friends and family," said Julie Townsend from the charity.
The survey questioned 1,000 drivers from across the UK on whether they had spoken on the phone while driving, hand-held or hands-free, in the last 12 months. If so, they were asked who they were talking to.
Using a hand-held phone while driving was made illegal in 2003. Using a hands-free kit is allowed but a driver can still be stopped if police believe they are being distracted.
Brake says that making calls hands-free is still a cause of distraction and are campaigning for it be banned.
The charity is advising drivers to put their phones on silent while driving, with their phone away from them. The safest way to make a call is to stop, they say.
According to an observational study by the Department for Transport last October, motorists who use phones are more likely to be texting or using social media than making calls.
Brake has also warned about the dangers of being tired while driving, saying that it is wise to break for at least 15 minutes every two hours.
When asked how often they driven for more than two hours without a break in the last 12 months, 8% said weekly or more, 16% once a month and 29% once a year.
The 2012 Olympic bronze medallist, who had won his previous 11 pro fights, never recovered from being knocked down by a right hook in the second round.
Ogogo was retired by his corner in the eighth with blurred vision.
Also on the card, Sam Eggington stopped Frankie Gavin to claim the vacant WBC international welterweight title.
Eggington knocked down his fellow Brummie in rounds three and six and frequently had his opponent hemmed in on the ropes.
Gavin took a barrage of punches in the eighth round and sunk to his knees before the referee intervened to stop the fight.
Cunningham, who has lost just one of his 18 bouts, was a 20-1 outsider with some bookies to beat Ogogo at the Birmingham Arena.
But Ogogo was struggling long before the end as he had no answer to the 28-year-old's powerful combinations and accurate jabbing.
Cunningham said: "I love being the underdog. Nothing fazes me.
"I had to check how quick he actually was. I fancied myself as a counter-puncher.
"My knockout record isn't great but if I catch someone, they're going to go."
Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, AM for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, has written to Transport Minister Edwina Hart regarding fears over the A470 Dolgellau bypass.
The letter comes days after a motorcyclist was killed and weeks after a fatal crash between a car and a refuse lorry.
On Friday, three people were injured following another crash.
It is understood the incident, which happened at the junction of the A470 and A494 just after 13:15 BST, involved people laying flowers in tribute to motorcyclist Kevin Haddock, 56, from Birmingham, who died at the weekend.
In May, John Roach, 83, of Irlam, near Manchester, died after his car collided with a refuse truck.
On Friday, the road was closed in both directions at the junction of the A470 and A494 and one woman was taken to Ysbyty Bronglais hospital, Aberystwyth.
In his letter, Lord Thomas suggested extending the 50mph speed limit and introducing roundabouts at the A494 and A493 junctions.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "A police investigation is currently under way into the accident on the A470/A494 junction last weekend and we are working with all concerned to assist the investigation.
"We are aware of an incident earlier today and are considering whether additional measures on this stretch of road are appropriate.
"We are committed to making Wales' roads safer and continuously monitor the situation across the network, including this stretch of road."
The documents, shredded but legible, belonged to the Nassau County Police Department, New York station WPIX says.
They included sensitive data such as social security numbers and banking information for police employees.
They were shredded horizontally, not vertically, leaving text visible.
The confetti strips were found by a college student, who noticed one strip stuck on a friend's coat.
"It landed on [a friend's] shoulder," Ethan Finkelstein told the TV station "and it says 'SSN' and it's written like a social security number."
He and his friend looked at the other confetti more closely: "There are phone numbers, addresses, more social security numbers, licence plate numbers and then we find all these incident reports from police."
Some of the strips mentioned arrest records and had official police reports.
Some identified Nassau County detectives by name.
A representative for Nassau County Police told WPIX the department was "very concerned about this situation.
"We will be conducting an investigation into this matter as well as reviewing our procedures for the disposing of sensitive documents."
Macy's has denied that it was the source of the confetti, saying its official confetti are punched-out pieces rather than shreds of coloured paper.
The 57-year-old's body was found after firefighters put out the blaze at Standford Hall flats in Allison Drive.
The emergency services had been called to the incident at about 17:30 on Friday.
Police have said inquiries are under way into the cause of the fire but there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances.
Very quickly, in addition to smuggling weapons, the tunnel operators began importing any kind of sellable civilian wares.
After Israel withdrew from Gaza, the number of smuggling tunnels jumped from a few dozen to hundreds as more and more Gazans got involved in this lucrative business.
Taxes imposed by the Hamas government on the imports were a major source of its revenue. After the Egyptian military overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood government, the new regime shut down these tunnels - this being one of the causes of the present economic crisis in Gaza.
From 2001 the Palestinians began using explosive-filled tunnels to attack Israeli border posts. There were not many attempts to do this because the effort far exceeded the benefit - casualties were light and it was much easier to achieve them by other means.
In 2006, the Palestinians tried something new - a tunnel was dug underneath the Gaza-Israel border and an assault team emerged behind an Israeli border post.
The Israeli soldiers were surprised - two were killed, one wounded and one - Gilad Shalit - abducted.
After taking control of Gaza, Hamas began a project to build a maze of underground concrete bunkers connected with tunnels and multiple entrances and exits underneath the residential areas of Gaza.
These underground complexes are fairly similar in concept to the Viet Cong tunnels dug beneath the jungles of South Vietnam, though the quality of finishing is better, with concrete walls and roofs, electricity and other required amenities for lengthy sojourn.
Maintenance of a concrete tunnel is fairly simple - virtually nil unless there is groundwater that needs pumping. Without the concrete walls and roof the tunnel would gradually deteriorate (in the area of Gaza most of the soil is soft, with very little bedrock) and require re-digging and shoring up.
The smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt are generally bigger and better equipped to enable continuous operation and transfer of bulky items, whereas infiltration tunnels are meant to be used at most once or twice and only wide enough for an armed man to walk through.
The purpose of the defensive tunnels is to enable the Hamas command structure to reside safely underground while their armed forces conduct a mobile defence against Israeli forces.
Many of the tunnels are interconnected to enable travelling underground from one to the other, with multiple camouflaged openings to emerge above ground in different locations.
This enables surprise attacks on the IDF units from different directions and then disappearing again underground to emerge and attack somewhere else.
The exact extent of these complexes is not known, though the Israeli army estimates there are dozens.
The entrances and probably the tunnels themselves are booby-trapped with explosives. These were first used during the Israeli offensive against Gaza in 2008-09. They were deemed successful so the project was expanded and accelerated.
After the failure of Hamas' rocket forces to inflict significant damage on Israeli towns in November 2012, they decided to build a large offensive-tunnel capability that would enable them to infiltrate assault teams into Israeli villages within a few kilometres of the border or place large bombs underneath these villages.
The IDF knew of this plan but failed to find and destroy more than a few tunnels.
Detecting tunnels requires either detecting the entrance to the tunnel or "seeing" the tunnel itself with various acoustic, seismic or radar detection devices.
Even after detecting an entrance, one does not know the exact route of the tunnel from there to the border.
To hide the tunnel work from Israeli intelligence, the entrances are mostly located on the bottom floor of houses, mosques, schools or other public buildings.
Digging smuggling and offensive tunnels is a long manual process, usually of several months, because the use of motor diggers would create a noise that could be heard by Israeli listening posts.
Removal of the earth from the site is done gradually and camouflaged by various ruses.
As yet no reliable technology has been developed that can cover a wide area and see a man-sized tunnel to a depth of more than a few meters underground.
The tunnels dug by Hamas are usually about 65ft (20m) underground - so, even if you know the approximate location, they are almost impossible to detect.
Therefore to discover the tunnels, the Israelis must either have excellent intelligence from within Gaza or they must go in and search for them house by house.
Destroying a tunnel is a lengthy and somewhat complex operation because just blowing in the entrance or some of the airshafts leave most of the tunnel intact, so Hamas sappers will be able to quickly dig by-pass sections and continue to use the tunnel.
Therefore, the entire length of the tunnel and its branches must be located, mapped and then completely destroyed.
Dr Eado Hecht is a defence analyst and lecturer in military doctrine at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University.
Correction 5 February 2015: This page has been amended following complaints that were upheld by the BBC's Editorial Complaints Unit.
The bleak forecast came in a five-yearly report released by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
Climate change remained the biggest threat to the site, the report said.
But poor water quality from land-based run-off, coastal development and fishing also posed challenges, it said.
"Even with the recent management initiatives to reduce threats and improve resilience, the overall outlook for the Great Barrier Reef is poor, has worsened since 2009 and is expected to further deteriorate," the report released on Tuesday said.
Greater reduction of all threats at local and regional levels was needed to stop the decline and improve the reef's ability to recover, it said.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral structure, rich in marine life.
It stretches for more than 2,600km (1,680 miles) along Australia's eastern coast, containing 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc.
It is a Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, but in recent years the UN body has warned that it could be put on its World Heritage in Danger list because of its worsening condition.
Conservationists also fear that proposed development on the Queensland coast, including a planned coal port expansion at Abbott Point, could further harm its health.
In its report, the GBRMPA said that investment in some areas of reef management had yielded positive results, for example in reducing pollutant loads entering the reef.
It also highlighted examples of species that were making a comeback after years of decline, such as humpback whales and estuarine crocodiles.
But it said that climate change was already affecting the reef - causing coral bleaching and ocean acidification - and was "likely to have far-reaching consequences in the decades to come".
It said that measures had been put in place to tackle the impact of run-off, but it would be some time before the effect would be felt.
Illegal fishing also remained a problem, despite management reforms. On port development, the report said understanding of the effects of dumping dredged sediment at sea remained incomplete.
The expansion at Abbott Point involves dredging to improve access to the port, with the sediment to be dumped within the marine park - a move criticised by conservationists.
The GBRMPA report coincided with the release of a strategic assessment by the government on measures needed to protect the reef.
"Together, these reports reinforce there are no quick fixes and it will take time to turn around the overall health of the reef with a concerted effort from government, industries and communities," said Environment Minister Greg Hunt in a statement.
About A$180m (£99m, $167m) was being invested annually in the reef's health, he said, and an "overarching framework" for managing the reef from 2015 to 2050 was being developed.
"We are absolutely committed to protecting and improving the health of this iconic natural wonder so it can be enjoyed by future generations," he said.
The sports lawyer has accepted an offer from new Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis to take up the position at the City Ground.
In the letter, Randall said: "We know that the necessary infrastructure is not in place to take the club forward.
"It is clear to any outsider the club has not been run as it should have."
Greek shipping magnate Marinakis was confirmed as the new owner after his takeover was passed by the English Football League (EFL).
The businessman and Olympiakos owner is facing accusations of match-fixing in Greece but has passed the EFL's owners' and directors' test.
Marinakis' buyout brought an end Fawaz Al Hasawi's five-year reign in charge of the Championship club, after a previous takeover by a United States consortium fell through in January.
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"We believe that the vast majority of supporters know what is needed to reinvigorate the club," continued Randall.
"The first requirement is stability. Stability is one of the most precious commodities in football and it has been more or less entirely lacking at the club for far too long.
"We are fundamentally committed to ensuring the club enjoys a period of stability. We want to assure the supporters we are here for the long term."
Randall has also given his backing to manager Mark Warburton, who took over in March and narrowly managed to prevent the club being relegated to League One.
He wrote: "We believe that in Mark Warburton we have not just a good fit but the perfect fit.
"He is a man of great courage who turned around the club's playing style.
"Mark will be given the precious commodity of time to turn matters around and to build something special at the club again."
Eleven sector champions are being appointed to help make different areas of business more accountable to the disabled.
They will cover business sectors including banking, tourism, retail and public transport.
The initiative is being launched by the Department for Work and Pensions.
"There are currently more than 11 million disabled people in the UK and the spending power of their households - 'the purple pound' - is almost £250bn," a spokesperson said.
"But many businesses are missing out on this potential customer base by having everyday products and services which aren't available to disabled people - who, as a result, are regularly excluded from experiences and opportunities that many others take for granted."
The sector champions are:
The aim is for them to "amplify the voices of disabled customers and employees within their own industries", promoting changes and improvements that will make a difference to them.
At the same time, they will strive to show other businesses the merits of making disabled customers a priority.
The Minister for Disabled People, Work and Health, Penny Mordaunt, said: "As a public advocate for accessibility, these champions will help businesses realise the value of disabled consumers and the importance of catering to every customer's needs.
"These industries must become fully inclusive. Not being able to access the high street, products and services, transport or simply to access a loo jars with our national values: it must change."
Suzanne Bull of Attitude is Everything, an organisation that aims to improve deaf and disabled people's access to live music, said everyone should have the right to enjoy the arts.
"Only 3.6 million of the UK's 11 million disabled adults attended a live music event last year," she said.
"Fear of discrimination can deter deaf and disabled people from attending music events, but without their participation change won't occur.
"I'll be making a solid business case for accessibility and will be sharing best practice and innovative ideas, many of which don't only just focus on physical access, and demonstrate that ways of working can be adopted by other industries with a high degree of success."
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Pre-schools will not cope financially after a planned two-year package of taxpayer support ends, says the National Association of Head Teachers.
In 2017, free care for three-and four-year-olds is set to rise from 15 to 30 hours a week in term-time.
Ministers say the extra funding will provide stability for nursery schools.
There are 400 maintained nursery schools in England, offering an early years education to three- and four-year-olds.
Two-thirds are in the most deprived areas of England, and 99% are rated as good or outstanding.
The NAHT carried out analysis with the charity Early Education.
They found those in the local authority areas with the highest number of nurseries - including Birmingham, Lancashire and Hertfordshire - would see huge cuts in funding if the proposal to double the current 15 hours of free time was introduced.
They say:
NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said: "The Department for Education's [DfE] own data shows that any funding approach that does not reflect these costs on an ongoing basis will be a body blow for early years education in nursery schools.
"There is additional funding available, but only for two years.
"After that point, England's nursery schools will cease to be financially viable.
"The 30 hours offer will be doomed before it even gets started, additional places won't materialise and current places will be lost as nursery schools across England close their doors for good.
"The government has the data - it must rethink before thousands of families, many in the poorest areas of the country, are left high and dry.
"In contrast to grammar schools, high-quality nursery education is a proven method of helping the most disadvantaged families.
"It is inexplicable that a government serious about social mobility would focus on one at the expense of the other."
The NAHT claims come on the final day of a government consultation on early years funding and the 30 hours of free care in term time.
A spokeswoman for the DfE said the proposals for supplementary funding would be for at least two years.
"This extra funding will provide stability for nursery schools, which make a valuable contribution to improving the lives of some of our most disadvantaged children.
"The funding is part of our record investment in early years - £6bn per year by 2020.
"We will be consulting with the maintained nursery schools' sector on future funding in due course."
Valerie Daniel, head of Washwood Heath Nursery School, in Birmingham, said: "The government seems to recognise the quality of early years education such settings provide, but has no plans to secure their future beyond the two years of transitional funding set out.
"This will lead to a massive loss for nursery schools, with larger settings potentially losing more than £200,000 from their current budgets, which have already been hit by local budget cuts.
"I fear that a significant loss to maintained nursery budgets will create a ripple effect on safeguarding the most vulnerable children in the region."
In April, a poll of childcare providers carried out by the Pre-school Learning Alliance found almost feared they could have to close as a result of the 30-hour offer.
The online poll also found that 48% of the providers felt they would have to reduce the number of places they offered to other age groups.
The 16-year-old said she was "so excited" to be performing at the ceremony on 20 January. She finished second on the TV talent show in 2010.
Boris Epshteyn, director of communications for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, said she was "an inspiration for all Americans".
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and rapper Kanye West have also been rumoured.
West met the president-elect at Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday, but there has been no confirmation on whether the pair discussed the inauguration.
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Organisers March for Europe said a stronger connection "makes Britain stronger".
Geraint Talfan Davies, of Wales Stronger in Europe, said Brexit had caused "uncertainty" but Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said everyone needed to "come together".
Similar events were held across the UK.
Those attending the event sought to put pressure on the UK Government to pause invoking Article 50 following the vote for Brexit.
It comes two days before Parliament reopens after summer recess, with MPs set to debate a petition calling for a second EU referendum.
More than 20 years after the death of the Grateful Dead founder, the auction of the custom-made guitar fetched a total of $3.2m (£2.5m).
It was bought at a New York charity concert by Brian Halligan, CEO of marketing group HubSpot and a lifelong fan of the band - or a "Deadhead".
The money raised will go to the Southern Poverty Law Centre.
Halligan bought Wolf for $1.9m, including the buyer's premium, and had his $1.6m pre-premium bid matched by an anonymous charity.
Garcia was the best-known member of the Grateful Dead and was known for his guitar sound.
Devoted Deadheads identify five classic guitars which Garcia played at different times: Alligator, Rosebud, Lightning Bolt, Tiger and Wolf. The last two were auctioned together in 2002 and made more than $1.5m (£1.2m).
Wolf was put up for auction again on Wednesday night to raise funds for the advocacy group.
It got its name after Garcia stuck a cartoon wolf sticker on it as a joke. When the instrument went back to guitar maker Doug Irwin for repairs, he decided to incorporate the motif in a more permanent way.
Halligan is one of the Deadheads who followed the band for years, travelling from concert to concert.
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Upon his arrival in Delhi, Premier Li will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, followed by dinner at the Indian leader's residence.
Border tensions and trade ties are expected to be among the issues discussed by the two men.
The neighbours are the world's two most populous countries.
Beijing hopes the visit will help build trust and a new strategic partnership to the benefit of both countries, China's official news agency Xinhua said.
Delhi thought "very highly" of Mr Li's decision to make India his first foreign stop and the aim of the talks was to "enhance trust", Indian foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said.
A decades-long border dispute flared up last month after India accused Chinese troops of crossing the countries' de facto border in the Himalayas.
The dispute over the territory in the Ladakh region has dogged the two countries since the 1950s.
Boosting trade ties is also expected to dominate the talks. China is already one of India's top trading partners and both countries have already agreed a new $100bn (£65bn) bilateral trade target for 2015.
Premier Li will spend three days in India before travelling on to Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany.
In a tweet, the train operator acknowledged "severe overcrowding" at Paddington Station.
The company put on 8,000 extra seats for the Ireland-Canada game, which took place at the Millennium Stadium, but had to add 1,500 extra seats.
Passengers have reacted angrily with one describing it as "unforgivable".
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The alarm was raised several hours after the Irish Ferries service from Rosslare arrived in Pembroke Dock, when it was realised the man was missing.
He was last seen at about 45 minutes before the ferry docked at 12:45 BST.
The Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 187 from St Athan has been searching an area several miles off St Anne's Head.
RNLI lifeboats have also been involved in the search which was called off for the night at 22:00 BST and is due to resume at first light on Friday.
An Irish Ferries spokesman said after the vessel sailed for Rosslare later in the afternoon it was realised that the man was not at his post.
The crewman had worked for the company for more than a year and was part of the catering staff on the Isle of Inishmore ferry.
A "top to bottom, thorough search" was carried out and when the man was not found Milford Haven Coastguards were alerted.
The vessel was given authority to continue to Rosslare, where a further search was carried out without success.
The spokesman added: "We are naturally very distressed this man is missing and we have no reason to jump to any conclusions and we hope he is found alive and well.
"Authorities have been notified on both sides of the Irish Sea."
A Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokeswoman said: "HM Coastguard has been coordinating a search off the Pembrokeshire coast today for a crew-member of a ferry who may have gone overboard late this morning.
"The UK Coastguard St Athan helicopter has been involved in the search for the missing man, along with the Weston Super Mare and Angle lifeboats and two lifeboats from St Davids."
Fans at the German national team's match against Slovakia on Sunday held up banners in support of Boateng, whose father is Ghanaian.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) deputy leader Alexander Gauland's comment was "vile".
The AfD has apologised.
"I can only smile about it. In all honesty, it's sad like something like that is said these days," said Boateng, speaking after Sunday's 3-1 defeat for the national team.
"I am happy to be German, I'm proud or I wouldn't be here in the team. I believe I am well integrated and there is nothing more I need to say."
After the row erupted, Mr Gauland said his remark did not reflect his own views and AfD leader Frauke Petry apologised for the "impression that has arisen".
She later tweeted: "Jerome Boateng is a super footballer who is rightly a member of the German national team. I'm looking forward to the European Championship."
However, on Monday another AfD politician criticised another German international footballer, Mesut Ozil.
Ozil, a Muslim of Turkish origin, had published a photograph on social media of himself on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Andrea Kersten, an AfD official in Saxony, accused Ozil of sending "an unpatriotic signal".
In May, the party adopted an explicitly anti-Islam policy at a party conference, saying the religion was "not part of Germany".
The AfD was started three years ago with a Eurosceptic message and has attracted many voters who are angered by an influx of migrants and by Chancellor Merkel's pro-refugee approach.
Terry Griffiths was snooker's World Championship winner in 1979, Masters winner in 1980 and UK Championship winner in 1982, but is able to look back with a smile on the occasions Davis foiled his attempts to lift more major titles.
The 69-year-old Welshman retired in 1997 yet can still be found in practice halls at many of the main events coaching today's stars.
China's Ding Junhui, Northern Ireland's Mark Allen and England's Michael Holt are three who currently glean tips from the man who was once a postman in Llanelli.
With the Scottish Open in Glasgow from 12-18 December, Griffiths took time to answer some of BBC Scotland's questions.
"It's peaceful. People can have their cup of tea in the interval and still watch the snooker.
"The sportsmanship is very strong in snooker, people like to see people dressed correctly, then there is the competition and everybody loves watching competition.
"It can be boring at times but every sport can be boring - you look at football now and there are more 1-1 or 0-0 draws, but people still watch it. The game is still very popular and the standard of snooker now is incredibly good."
"People in Scotland are still very interested in snooker.
"They've still got John Higgins who is as good as anybody at the moment - Alan McManus as well - and there are quite a few young players coming through.
"Stephen Maguire's still a good player; so Scotland hasn't finished - a long way from it."
"Everybody likes to move a ball; whether it's a golf ball, a football, a tennis ball, a cricket ball, a rugby ball - all these things are about moving things. In snooker it's more peaceful; it's one-to-one.
"In my club I had a private room which I used to play snooker in. If anyone was to go in that room that had never played before, and you lock the doors, they will pick the cue up and move the balls around the baize.
"That's what the game is about - it's not about winning World Championships."
"About three months after I won the World Championship, I was driving up the M6 in the pouring rain going to this exhibition.
"I had a friend with me and he said 'You know Terry, it doesn't matter where you go or where you look; you are the champion'.
"I always remember him saying that and it was the first time I realised I was the champion of the world."
"I knocked the world snooker globe off the pedestal when I was playing Steve Davis in the final in 1988.
"It was quite funny and at the time he was beating me, but I still laughed. I was used to him beating me!"
Rupert Thompson was not near the crash site but was arrested the next day and kept on police bail for five months.
He said he cannot understand why best friend Ryan Morrish, who was jailed last week for six years, tried to pin the crash in St Agnes, Cornwall on him.
Morrish had told police he thought his friend stole his car as a joke, before the crash last August.
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The defendant was also convicted of perverting the course of justice over the deaths of Calvin Trevena and Ann Varran, who both died at the scene on the B3277.
Mr Thompson, 27, told the BBC he was "gobsmacked" and "confused" by Morrish's actions.
"I was arrested on suspicion of stealing Ryan's car and causing death by dangerous driving," he said.
"I was very confused, as far as I was concerned the car had been stolen. I was nowhere near the car. I was in custody for about 22 hours."
He said during the five months he was on bail "everyone knew I was friends with Ryan and everyone jumped to conclusions that I must have been involved".
Mr Thompson, who was starting a new business, left St Agnes when the "hatred grew" for him.
Judge Christopher Harvey Clark told Morrish he had systematically told "lie after lie after lie" when sentencing him at Truro Crown Court earlier this month.
Morrish eventually admitted the crime and pleaded guilty to causing the deaths on 29 April.
At sentencing, the court heard he knew his victims and Ms Varran and Mr Trevena had gone on a skiing holiday with Morrish's family earlier in the year.
Mr Thompson has since moved back to St Agnes and said "people are making quite a lot of effort" and "everything's going in the right direction".
He said he and Morrish have not spoken since the crash.
"We were best friends until that moment," he said.
Marvin Johnson's stoppage-time goal at Inverness made it six wins in the last seven league matches for the Steelmen.
"Even if we end up in the top six we want to get as many points as we can," McGhee told BBC Scotland.
"That means the Celtic game is every bit as important as the rest.
Fourth-placed Motherwell will clinch a top-half place in the Premiership if Partick Thistle fail to beat Dundee United in midweek.
The Motherwell manager won the title as a player with both the Dons and Celtic and saw his side put a dent in the current Pittodrie club's hopes of success a fortnight ago.
That 2-1 defeat at Fir Park leaves Aberdeen playing catch-up but McGhee insists they will make it just as tough for the defending champions at the same venue next weekend.
He said: "Thistle are still coming up in the rails so we will see what happens to them in midweek and what we need from the Celtic game on Saturday.
"Nothing will lessen the importance of the Celtic game as we have to maintain the integrity of the competition as well.
"We have got the give them every bit as hard a game as we gave Aberdeen when we beat them before the international break.
"Hopefully we will be in the top six and we can make it a good end to the season but we are not taking anything for granted.
"Today was by far the poorest performance in that seven-game run as I feel we mugged Inverness today."
John Hughes is frustrated that his Inverness Caley Thistle players are still paying the price for naive defending late on in games.
The Highlanders could still sneak into the top six with wins against Hearts at home and away to Dundee United before the split.
Finishing in the bottom half of the table for the first time in four years looks much more likely though after losing to Johnson's sucker punch goal in the third minute of stoppage time.
He said: "We have lost too many goals late in games this season. Everyone wants to be a hero and win games but you need to be more intelligent at times.
"I'm honest enough to say I don't know what I'm going to get from the team now. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror and go out and win every game to the end of the season now.
"The boys work hard and they dominated the game but we keep beating ourselves as the goals we gave away were comical.
"If we keep doing that we are going to be right up against it. It's simple, we need to put the ball in the net more often and keep the back door shut."
The Sharks, who were beaten in the 1973, 1978 and 1997 Grand Finals, won 14-12 in front of 84,000 spectators.
Cronulla let an 8-0 lead slip to trail with 11 minutes left, before Andrew Fifita scored the winning try.
"I thought we were gone when Will Chambers scored, they hardly concede anything," said hooker Michael Ennis.
"Melbourne are champions, they just cover and cover and cover. It's unbelievable!"
Storm captain Cameron Smith said: "With 15 to go it maybe looked like we had the game, but they're a special footie team. They just kept plugging away, they didn't panic and they deserved the win.
"Everyone that follows rugby league must be happy for the Sharks, they've waited a long time for this."
Cronulla, from south Sydney, finished last in 2014, the same year in which 10 past and present players from the club served 12-month doping bans.
At the German banking giant's annual meeting, 39% of investors refused to support the performances of the co-chief executives.
Germany's corporate governance code gives investors a vote to ratify executives' performance over the year.
Last time, the chief executives won the support of 89% of investors attending the meeting.
Investors have been uneasy about Deutsche's profit growth, mounting regulatory fines, and restructuring plans.
Hermes Equity Ownership Services, which holds a stake in Deutsche Bank of almost 5%, publicly criticised the board ahead of the meeting.
"We no longer have confidence in the management board," said Hermes' director Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt.
The bank said it needed more time to carry out its planned restructuring, and unveiled a management shake-up that gave more power to co-chief executive Anshu Jain.
Deutsche also removed some executives and re-arranged responsibilities.
In response to criticism of the bank's performance, co-chief executive Jürgen Fitschen said: "We have not delivered, so far, the returns you expect and deserve.
"However, we are convinced: we are moving Deutsche Bank in the right direction. For that reason, we ask for your continued support."
Davies' comments came after Sam Allardyce left the England job due to allegations that he offered advice on how to circumvent rules on transfers.
His view was supported by former FA chief executive David Bernstein, who said the FA "produce poor results".
"It is in need of serious reform and it isn't a coincidence these things keep happening," said Bernstein.
Allardyce parted ways with the FA just 67 days into his tenure, after the Daily Telegraph said he advised undercover reporters posing as businessmen on how to "get around" the FA's regulations on player transfers.
Meanwhile, the League Managers' Association says it is "extremely concerned" after the Telegraph also alleged that eight current or ex-Premier League managers have taken bribes related to player transfers.
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"The sooner the allegations of corruption are dealt with by an independent commission the better, there's no doubt about that," Davies told BBC Sport.
"Let's have an independent enquiry, let's get all the allegations out there and let's assess them and let's see what evidence there is."
In July, sports minister Tracey Crouch warned that football could lose millions of pounds of funding if it didn't reform its governance.
"I'm not shy to say to the FA 'if you don't reform your governance structures, I will give that money to other bodies that deliver football'," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
Crouch said there was good work being carried out by association executives but problems revolved around the FA Council, which has 124 elected members.
Another to call for reform within the FA was former chairman Greg Dyke, although he admitted it may not have made any difference "in these circumstances".
"Whether the FA needs to be a much tougher regulator is worth a debate," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"In most of the jobs that I've ever done, you look at what needs to be done and you do it. At the FA we knew what needed to be done but doing it was very difficult."
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After just one match in charge - a 1-0 win over Slovakia in England's opening game of their World Cup 2018 qualifying campaign - Allardyce becomes the national side's shortest-serving full-time manager.
The FA said it would begin its search for a new England manager, while under-21s boss Gareth Southgate takes charge for the Malta game as well as World Cup qualifiers against Slovenia and Scotland plus a friendly with Spain.
Allardyce was due to name his next squad on Sunday.
However, while Davies said that it was "entirely true" that the image of English football has "suffered", he claimed that defeat to Iceland in the last 16 of this summer's European Championships was "the lowest moment".
"I've known senses of doom before and they do pass," he said.
"There will be a new manager and, God willing, that manager will take England to the next World Cup - and who knows what the future holds on the pitch?
"Let's give that manager and, most importantly, the players the best chance to be successful by the way the game is governed off the pitch."
The choice of sites was driven largely by operational considerations - they are places engineers believe a lander can get down with the least risk.
No-one has attempted to land on a 10-billion-tonne comet before.
The Rosetta probe will despatch its Philae contact robot to 67P's icy surface on 11 November.
The European Space Agency says it will be a one-shot opportunity.
Rosetta and the comet are currently about 400 million km from Earth, making real-time radio control impossible.
Instead, the process will have to be fully automated with commands uploaded several days in advance.
The five sites on the "longlist" were selected at the end of a special meeting convened in Toulouse, France, this past weekend.
Esa project managers were joined by attendees from the space agencies of France (Cnes) and Germany (DLR), which play key roles in the Philae effort.
Instrument principal investigators on the washing machine-sized robot were also there to argue their preferences, as were the engineers, who could explain the technical possibilities.
If one considers the comet to look like a rubber duck, then three of the chosen potentials (B, I and J) are on the head. Two are on the body (A and C). The dramatic neck region has been ruled out.
The letter designation stems from an even longer list of 10 that was used to kick-off the whole selection process. The letter ordering carries no weight.
A landing site needs to be relatively flat and free from boulders and fissures.
One key requirement has been the need to find places on the comet that experience something of a day/night cycle.
This will give not only a better appreciation of the changing behaviour of 67P under all conditions, but will provide the lander with some important protection - from too much sun, which could lead to overheating, or too little light, which would make it difficult to charge the batteries.
The engineers have also emphasised the need to find locations where Rosetta can deliver Philae at the right altitude and velocity, and maintain a communications link throughout the descent, which is likely to take several hours.
The longlist will be reduced to a leading candidate and perhaps a couple of back-ups in mid-September.
A final go/no-go decision on a target landing site is expected by mid-October.
By then, Rosetta's cameras and other instruments will have returned detailed data on the number one choice.
Comet 67P has very little gravitational attraction - several hundred thousand times weaker than what Philae would experience at the Earth's surface.
For this reason, it will touch down at no more than a walking pace - about 1m/s.
It will use harpoons and ice screws to try to hang on to the comet and avoid bouncing back into space.
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May Brown from Weymouth, Dorset was told her sister Martha was a "10 out of 10" tissue match.
Martha was initially refused a visa to the UK because her income was too low.
The Home Office said it reversed its decision on her visa application due to "exceptional circumstances".
It comes after more than 61,000 people signed a petition against the refusal.
Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill said: "I have carefully considered the case of May Brown and decided that her sister will be granted leave to enter the UK given the compassionate and exceptional circumstances."
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In the first two decades of his rule Libya became the world's pariah, as the flamboyant colonel used his country's oil wealth to support groups such as the Irish Republican Army and the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
Western enmity towards Libya reached a peak in 1988 when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Scotland killing 270 people. It would be 15 years before Libya admitted responsibility.
Eventually it was his own people, helped by Western military effort who rose up and finally removed him from power.
Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was born into a Bedouin family on 7 June 1942, near the Libyan city of Sirte.
As a teenager, he became an admirer of the Egyptian leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose brand of Arab Nationalism struck a chord with the young Gaddafi.
He first hatched plans to topple the monarchy of King Idris, while at military college, and received further army training in Britain.
As Captain Gaddafi, he returned to the Libyan city of Benghazi and, on 1 Sep 1969, launched a bloodless coup while the king was receiving medical treatment in Turkey.
Gaddafi became chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council which was set up to run the country - one of his first acts was to expel his country's Italian population.
Like Nasser, he did not promote himself to the rank of General, as is the custom of most military dictators, but remained a Colonel throughout his rule. This fitted in with his idea of Libya being "ruled by the people".
He laid out his political philosophy in the 1970s in his Green Book, which charted a home-grown alternative to both socialism and capitalism, combined with aspects of Islam.
His rule blended Arab nationalism with a socialist welfare state and popular democracy, although the democracy did not allow for any challenge to his own position as leader.
While small business were allowed to remain in private hands, the state ran the big organisations, including the oil industry.
No-one doubted that he exercised total control, and was ruthless in dealing with anyone who stepped out of line and opposed him.
Gaddafi believed in a union of Arab states and set out to extend Libya's influence throughout the region.
He began by trying to merge Libya with Egypt and Syria but disagreement over the conditions rendered it impossible. A similar arrangement with Tunisia also floundered.
The Muammar Gaddafi story
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Gaddafi's strong support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation also harmed his relations with Egypt which had reached a peace deal with Israel.
He sent Libyan forces into the neighbouring country of Chad in 1973 in order to occupy the disputed Aouzou Strip. Eventually this led to a full-scale Libyan invasion and a war that only ended in 1987.
In 1977 he invented a system called the "Jamahiriya" or "state of the masses", in which power is meant to be held by thousands of "peoples' committees".
His committees called for the assassination of Libyan dissidents living abroad and, during the 1980s, sent hit squads to murder them.
Gaddafi's regime was accused of serious human rights abuses
Libya had a law forbidding group activity based on a political ideology opposed to Gaddafi's revolution.
Campaign group Human Rights Watch claimed the regime has imprisoned hundreds of people and sentenced some to death. Torture and disappearances have also been reported.
By the early 1980s Gaddafi's support for a diverse collection of revolutionary groups brought him into conflict with the West
The UK broke off relations with Libya in 1984, after the killing of Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in London.
Two years later, the United States bombed Tripoli and Benghazi as a reprisal for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin nightclub used by American military personnel.
Libya was reportedly a major financier of the "Black September" Palestinian group that was responsible, among others, for the kidnap and killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, as well as becoming a supplier of weapons to the IRA.
The Lockerbie bombing eventually triggered a change in the relationship between Gaddafi's regime and the west, although it was 11 years before Gaddafi agreed to hand over the two Libyan nationals who had been indicted for the crime.
Anxious for foreign investment as the price of oil fell, Gaddafi renounced terrorism. A compensation deal for the families of the Lockerbie victims was agreed and UN sanctions on Libya were lifted.
Months later, Gaddafi's regime abandoned efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, triggering a fuller rapprochement with the West.
American sanctions were also lifted and Libya was reported to be helping western intelligence services in their fight against al-Qaeda
In a climate of rapprochement, then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair went to Libya to meet Gaddafi in a Bedouin tent on the outskirts of Tripoli in 2004.
However, some in the West questioned this new relationship. And in parts of the Arab world, Gaddafi was criticised for cosying up to his old adversaries.
Gaddafi's eccentricity was legendary: He had a bodyguard of woman soldiers, and an almost narcissistic interest in his wardrobe. On one occasion reporters called to a news conference found him ploughing a field.
A tent was also used to receive visitors in Libya, where Gaddafi sat through meetings or interviews swishing the air with a horsehair or palm leaf fly-swatter.
There was also growing unrest among ordinary Libyans who claimed reforms were slow in coming and said they were not benefiting from Libya's wealth. Many public services remained poor and corruption was rife.
That unrest boiled over in 2011 when, spurred on by the toppling of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, and Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, demonstrators took to the streets demanding the end of the Gaddafi regime.
Security forces, including African mercenaries hired by Gaddafi, clashed with anti-government protesters with reports the Libyan air force jets had bombed opposition areas. Hundreds of people were reported to have been killed.
This prompted the UN Security Council to authorise the use of force and Nato countries immediately started bombing loyalist positions.
Gradually, with Nato help, the rag-tag opposition forces advanced across the country, seized the capital, Tripoli, in August and set up a transitional government.
Gaddafi remained at large until 20 October, when he was finally located and killed in his home town of Sirte.
After all his bluster and bravado the longest serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world met an ignominious end.
Keiron Simpson fell around 20ft (6m) from the top of the disused Habergham High School in Burnley at about 21:45 BST on Saturday, police said.
The teenager, who had been with with friends, was taken to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital suffering from a fractured skull and internal injuries.
Lancashire Police believes at this stage that it was a "tragic accident".
Det Insp Alisa Wilson said: "This young man has suffered serious injuries and while detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fall, at this stage there is nothing to suggest this was anything other than a tragic accident."
Ruth England, the head teacher at Shuttleworth College in Padiham, where Kieron is a pupil, said it was a "very upsetting incident" which has "shocked all of us in the school".
"We have been in touch with Kieron's family to offer our support and let them know that we are all thinking of them and sending our very best wishes for a speedy recovery for Kieron."
The festival allows cinema exhibitors to get a first look at new films as studios and actors present footage from their most-hyped forthcoming projects.
This week, the first scenes from the eagerly-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation were unveiled.
The new Hobbit, X-Men and The Amazing Spider-Man films were also teased.
A behind-the-scenes clip of The Hobbit: There and Back Again, which is due in December, showed Orlando Bloom saying to director Peter Jackson, "the better end'', to which Jackson replies, "the happy end.''
Sony Pictures debuted 30 minutes of 3D footage from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone - including scenes explaining the death of Peter Parker's parents.
They also introduced Max Dillon who becomes Electro - played by Jamie Foxx; and Harry Osborn who becomes the Green Goblin - played by Dane DeHaan.
Jupiter Ascending, the new sci-fi fantasy adventure from the Wachowski siblings Andy and Lana, who created The Matrix trilogy, was also unveiled.
Mila Kunis joined her co-star Channing Tatum to promote the film in which Tatum plays a "genetically engineered human and wolf".
"People always say that they're tired of seeing old movies remade and comic book movies made," said Tatum.
"This is a completely-out-of-the-Wachowskis'-brain type of a crazy film," he added.
Other films included Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The Fault of Our Stars, based on John Green's best-selling tearjerker about two young people with cancer who fall in love.
Its star Shailene Woodley was handed the female star of tomorrow award.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were awarded a prize for comedy filmmakers of the year after unveiling scenes from their new film The Interview, which stars Rogen and James Franco as two friends asked to assassinate Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea.
Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann - who was named comedy star of the year - attended the convention to promote their forthcoming film The Other Woman.
Due in US cinemas at the end of next month, it sees Diaz's character discover her boyfriend is actually married to Mann's character, before the pair team up to seek revenge.
A very pregnant Barrymore and Adam Sandler were handed the awards for male and female star of the year, after attending the festival to promote Blended.
The comedy about two families who embark on a trip to Africa reunites the pair who previously starred in 50 First Dates and The Wedding Singer.
A first look at Fifty Shades of Grey, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, suggested it may focus more on the romance than the erotic element of EL James' best-selling novel.
Exhibitors were shown scenes featuring Grey whisking Steel off her feet with a joyride in his helicopter and a fancy make-over.
Johnny Depp presented clips of his new sci-fi drama Transcendence, in which he plays a terminally ill scientist-turned-unruly computer system, alongside British actress Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara and Paul Bettany.
Members of the GMB union have voted overwhelmingly to reject proposals for changes to the terms and conditions for frontline staff.
More than 98% of ballot papers returned opposed the council's proposals after a three-week consultative ballot.
The council has said no decisions have yet been made on the options, which are still at the consultation stage.
The union has described the plans as ''unacceptable, unfair and unsustainable''. The vote opens the way for a second ballot on whether to take industrial action.
Twitter had 320 million average active monthly users, up from 316 million the previous quarter, below investor hopes.
The social networking site reported revenues of $569m, up 58% from $361m during the same period last year.
The company's shares fell 11% after the results announcement.
Competition among social network providers has stepped up.
Advertising revenue was $513m for the period, an increase of 58% from $361m over the prior year.
"We've simplified our roadmap and organization around a few big bets," wrote chief executive Jack Dorsey, "across Twitter, Periscope, and Vine that we believe represent our largest opportunities for growth."
The company also lowered its forecast for fourth quarter revenue to a range between $695 and $710.
This was the company's first quarter with Jack Dorsey serving as permanent head, after his return as interim chief executive in June. Dorsey a co-founder of Twitter left in 2008 and founded electronic payment services Square.
Last quarter he took a critical stance to the potential profitability of some Twitter products.
Since Dorsey's return Twitter has laid off more then 300 members of staff and said it plans to use the saving from these cuts to invest in priority products but did not say which products.
Twitter has launched several new commercial partnerships with Bigcommerce, Demandware, and Shopify. The website also launched new advertising tools targeting events and editing several ad campaigns at once.
During tonight's first World Series baseball match - between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets - millions of viewers will see an advert from Twitter promoting its 'Moments' feature.
The ad campaign will run into 2016, and is yet another attempt by Twitter to help normal people (i.e. not media geeks, politicians or trolls) find some kind of continued use for Twitter.
Moments, Twitter chief exec Jack Dorsey hopes, will make it much easier for users to follow events. "You don't have to do any of the work," he said.
Baseball is a sport that loves its statistics. So here's a couple about Twitter right now: 307 million monthly active users, with just 3 million added since June.
That's terrible, and they know it. Big money ads alone won't be enough to change that.
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The company has been going for more than 30 years and is one of the biggest employers in the area.
Its new butchery facility at Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, has been operating for just over a year and skills are a prime focus.
Staff are trained on the premises but also study at training centres as part of their NVQ qualifications.
Castell Howell now employs 600 people across the business and last year it had sales of £94m.
When the company started its boning line in 2008, the shortage of skilled butchers meant it recruited from eastern Europe.
Migrant workers make up about 5% of the workforce and they are now used in a buddy system to pass skills down to a new generation.
They include 19-year-old apprentice Dewi Davies, from Whitland, who has been working at Castell Howell for three years.
He has already finished third in a Welsh young butchers' competition.
"I just want to develop my skills as a butcher - because it's a trade you can go anywhere with. I just want to keep developing and getting better," he said.
In recruitment, Castell Howell start with an assessment of literacy and numeracy levels and then their school leavers go towards NVQs.
Edward Morgan, butchery director, said skills were vital but fitting in with the rest of the workforce was also essential.
"It's vitally important for all our staff to have the right attitude and if that's right they can build on that with training," he said.
"In Carmarthenshire, there are some large players in the meat industry and there are some skills gaps there but it's incumbent on all companies to take the initiative to train their workers to their requirements."
Middle managers also attend leadership courses at Trinity St David's University.
Castell Howell is now setting up a butchery academy with a local training provider.
MEASURING THE SKILLS GAP
37,200 vacancies
11,600 hard-to-fill vacancies
31% of applicants lack basic numerical skills
23% of applicants lack manual dexterity
47% of applicants lack customer handling skills
A 10-year skills strategy was launched by the Welsh Government in 2014, part of which includes measuring skills performance.
This will include monitoring any changes in the level of investment made by employers in the skills of their workforce.
The latest UK Employer Skills Survey, published in January, showed skill shortages have increased in Wales to 23% of all vacancies.
There were particular problems recruiting machine operators.
But employers reported a reduction in the skills gap of their workforce as a whole. More (50%) were also offering off-the-job training than before.
Two thirds of Welsh workers (66%) were given some training in the last year, but 49% of companies wanted to give more than they did.
However, the survey - which involved more than 200 Welsh companies - showed the challenges ahead.
While computer skills were less of an issue, more applicants for jobs in Wales lacked skills such as basic numeracy, manual dexterity, customer handling skills and the reading and writing of basic instructions than the UK as a whole.
Many small businesses argued it was easier for the bigger companies to absorb the costs of training, but Mr Morgan said the time invested in it was important whatever the size of the company.
"If we train a percentage of our workforce, we lose the same amount of time with them as a small business would.
"But we see it as an investment and every hour spent in the classroom goes towards improving productivity."
In the end, both large and small firms will be looking to see how the parties are offering to help them improve their skill levels and training in the next assembly.
It used to be a rare thing for a brand new artist to debut at the top spot. Whigfield was the first to do it 20 years ago with Saturday Night.
But in 2014, Sam Smith, Ella Henderson and 5 Seconds of Summer all achieved the feat.
It reflects changes in the way fans consume music. Downloads and streaming can give songs a big first-week boost.
But many of the "new" acts who hit number one had also built up a fanbase by guesting on other people's songs first.
Sam Smith, for example, had already scored a number one as a featured artist on Naughty Boy's track La La La before he launched his solo career.
Official Charts Company boss Martin Talbot said the onslaught of new artists kept the charts "fresher than ever".
Mr Probz had the biggest-selling debut single of the year, selling 815,000 copies, while Kiesza's Hideaway was the fastest-selling debut of the year, racking up 135,000 sales in its first week.
This year the Official Charts Company - who compile the UK charts - began including streaming from sites like Spotify, Deezer in the chart.
Radio 1 and 1Xtra's Head of Music, George Ergatoudis, told Newsbeat earlier in the year: "I think there is a real correlation there, that streaming is starting to grow and it's starting to eat into download sales."
Sam Smith was guest vocalist on 2013 Number 1 La La La by Naughty Boy, but Money On My Mind was his first release as a featured artist.
Speaking to Zane Lowe the winner of the BBC's Sound of 2014 admitted to being scared when his debut single came out.
He said: "I didn't want people to think that song was a cheap shot because it sounded like a hit. Before I give you my most personal piece of work, I'm giving you this to dance and I'm giving you this as therapy."
Ella Henderson told Newsbeat she was really nervous about releasing Ghost but had spent so long working on her sound she was proud of whatever she brought out.
The former X Factor contestant said: "It is exciting to hear what people have to say about me who haven't watched X Factor and don't know me. My music is very different to what I did on the show."
Ella's album Chapter One also debuted at number one and she was nominated for Best British Solo Artist and Best British Breakthrough at the Radio 1 Teen Awards.
Alice Levine became the first ever Radio 1 presenter to hit the top spot with a number one single.
She was part of Gareth Malone's All Star Choir who released a cover of Avicii's Wake Me Up to raise money for Children in Need.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India invited applications for the role in May but subsequently "endorsed an extension" to his one-year contract.
Captain Virat Kohli denied reports of a row with former India skipper Kumble, 46, before the start of this month's Champions Trophy.
India were beaten by rivals Pakistan in the final on Sunday.
Former leg-spinner Kumble, who played 132 Tests and 271 one-day internationals was appointed coach in June 2016 on a contract that expired after the Champions Trophy.
During his time in charge, India won 12 and lost one of the 17 Tests they played, and claimed ODI series win over New Zealand and England.
India play a five-match ODI series and a T20 in the West Indies starting on Friday.
"As a lad, he used to come to me ask how I'd make him taller. I used to say, 'Greig, I can't make you taller, but I can make you wider and broader like a pocket battleship'.
"Over the years when I've seen him up at Murrayfield, he always comes and says hello and I think, 'Yeah, you've become a pocket battleship, my son. Well done'."
You want to talk about long roads? Well, here you are. Before Saturday's win over Ireland, Laidlaw had played 25 Six Nations games and had won only five - three of them against Italy. In five years of championship rugby the only games he won that he wasn't expected to win was Ireland in 2013 and France 2016. Everything else, bar those Italy matches, were a mixture of disappointment and angst. Mostly angst.
Despite what happened on Saturday - a hit job on one of the world's best teams - you could drag the Scotland captain to the highest rooftop and yet his feet would still be planted on the ground. He's measured, focused, hard-bitten. Excited, for sure, but cool at the same time. It's one win, he says. Just one win.
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You'd need to eat up a lot of road to find somebody who cares more about rugby than Laidlaw. It's a game that's thrilled him and tormented him. As captain of Scotland he's taken more than his share of blows - the late sucker-punch against Italy at Murrayfield in Vern Cotter's first year, the shut-your-eyes despair of the World Cup quarter-final against Australia and then the repeat in the autumn that made you wonder if Scotland would ever develop that killer instinct, that capacity to close out games that they've done enough to win.
And then Argentina came - a test passed. Peace-time rugby, though. "I'd agree with that," he says. "From November to the Six Nations is a different beast. If that (the Ireland comeback on Saturday) had happened to us before, we probably would have lost that game. The record tells you that.
"We believe we're changing but we're not shouting about that. The key is to back it up. It's the next step for this team."
International players talk about the little moment of solitude after a major victory, the scene in the quiet of the dressing room where they sit with their team-mates, spent but happy, and there's nothing that can compare with it. It doesn't last long. The reality of another upcoming battle barges in on their thoughts soon enough, but in those carefree minutes before the mind starts to race again, it's bliss. And that's how it was on Saturday.
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"You sit back in your seat, take a breath and think, 'Oh, happy days'. It's just relief and then it's enjoyment and you get to experience it for a small time and then it's France. You're thinking about what's next. And that's the way it should be.
"We know we're not successful on the back of one game, but this team is learning to adapt to different situations. We're learning how to win tight games. As captain, I'm learning that we're resilient, I'm learning that there are more players round about me now that I can turn to for leadership."
Laidlaw spoke of many players but reserved comment for the two props, the 24-year-old loosehead, Allan Dell and the 21-year-old tighthead, Zander Fagerson. They had a torrid time in what few scrums there were on Saturday, but their work in the loose was outstanding.
"They're strong, strong boys. It was a good Irish scrum but we fixed it. And their work around the field, we're not playing with extra back-rows, but it's not far off it. Delly is excellent around the field. He gives lots of extra things.
"Zander? For a young lad to have to play for 80 minutes and still be getting off the line and making tackles and carrying right to the end is a credit to him."
Anybody who has ever played for Joe Schmidt will tell you about his obsession with detail. If one of his players goes to the toilet, Joe will tell you how long they were in there and how quick their line speed off the bowl was, to the millisecond.
A narrative is built up around successful teams. We hear about their cosmic preparation because we want to know how winning teams are created. We don't tend to ask how the others do it. But the others, Scotland, are every bit as obsessive. It's just that the light isn't shone as brightly upon them.
It's not often that Schmidt gets out-analysed, but he did on Saturday. And it was his big mate, Cotter, and his wider coaching team who orchestrated it. The work they put in, the detail they went into, was key.
The vibe after the weekend was that Scotland may have taken inspiration from how Argentina beat Ireland at the World Cup, exposing their narrowness in defence at the breakdown and then stripping them out-wide.
They didn't. The focus was largely on the two games they played against New Zealand in the autumn - the historic victory in Chicago and the honourable defeat in Dublin.
"We tried to understand why New Zealand lost the first one and why they won the second one. They were the two main ones we looked at it.
"New Zealand made a lot of errors in America and Ireland made minimal errors. When you're playing against this Irish team you can't be loose. You just can't be. They're a fantastic team, but we studied them really hard.
"We looked at their backline and felt we were bigger and stronger, especially in the centre with Alex (Dunbar) and Huw (Jones). Garry Ringrose is not the biggest guy and we really felt we could power-up in the backs and run lines into Paddy Jackson and we did that and they tightened up a little bit, so we were able to subtly shift the ball wide. They came back at us, but we hung in there and dug it out. I thought we deserved to win."
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We drag Laidlaw back to Saturday, but France is his focus now. He's moving there in the summer - Clermont's new scrum-half. That's Clermont - second in the Top 14 right now, first seed in the Champions Cup quarter-finals and supplier of six of the French starting team that played England last weekend.
How's Laidlaw's French? "Un peu. It's going in my right ear and out my left, but I'm trying."
In France's attempt to better themselves we see something of Scotland - big games lost that they might have won. Their last three games under Guy Noves? A two-point loss to Australia, a five-point loss to the All Blacks and, last Saturday, a three-point loss to England.
"They're getting better," says Laidlaw. "Mark my words, this is a very dangerous rugby team and we can't be loose. If you're loose against this lot, they sniff it. We need to play a really smart game.
"No matter where you look they've got strength up front (the relentless captain Guilhem Guirado of Toulon at hooker, the terrific new La Rochelle blindside Kevin Gourdon and Northampton's force of nature Louis Picamoles) and real danger out wide on the wings. Clever players in around nine and 10 as well.
"You can't just run straight into the French. You run straight into the defence then you get slow ball and slow ball is hard to play off. Be smart around the attack, get quick ball, move them around. We'll be fitter than them. They fade. The Top 14 is definitely slower. Speaking to Richie (Gray of Toulouse), it's a slower competition, so we need speed in the play and we need skill to be able to do that."
This issue of France's fitness is an interesting one. In the last year the French have played 11 Tests - four wins and seven losses - and have failed to out-score their opponents in the second half in eight of them.
Scotland haven't won at Stade de France since 1999, of course. They've had their chances, though. In 2001 they were within a converted try until the last kick, in 2005 they led until three minutes from the end, in 2009 there was only six points in it with nine minutes left and in 2015 Scotland trailed by just four points with 77 minutes on the clock.
"We understand where we came from and we understand where we are now. It's always about the next game. We're going over there confident but we know what France are capable of. They're going to start winning very soon."
The challenge is to delay the renaissance for one week longer.
Proposed changes to the company pension scheme could see workers retiring at 65 instead of 60.
But Tata said it was committed to offering "still very competitive" pension arrangements.
It employs 7,000 people in Port Talbot, Llanwern in Newport, Shotton in Deeside, and Trostre, Carmarthenshire.
Tata also has plants at Scunthorpe, Rotherham, Hartlepool and Redcar.
Steel unions Community, GMB and Ucatt said traditionally, because of the demands of the job, it was not uncommon for workers to take early retirement but under the proposals this would go and they would have to work until they were 65.
The company said the scheme was facing a financial shortfall, mainly due to people living longer.
It has been consulting with about 17,000 workers about replacing it with a "more balanced solution" of a defined contribution scheme.
A spokesman said: "We will consider employees' views before making a final decision. Tata Steel remains open to unconditional talks with the unions to find resolutions to the very substantial challenges facing the pension scheme."
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community, said: "This is not a situation we wanted to find ourselves in. The unions were prepared to discuss changes that resolved the challenges faced by the scheme but Tata rejected that constructive offer."
Dave Hulse, national officer for steel at GMB said: "Our members are determined to stand up for their pensions and they will now have the opportunity to show their resolve by voting for strike action."
Unite is expected to follow suit in sending out ballot papers.
Jurgen Klopp's side were protecting a two-goal lead from the first leg at Anfield but Anthony Martial's 32nd-minute penalty offered United brief hope after he was fouled by Nathaniel Clyne.
Jesse Lingard and Juan Mata had missed clear opportunities for United but Liverpool were also a threat as David de Gea saved superbly from Coutinho while Daniel Sturridge hit the bar with a free-kick and Jordan Henderson missed an open goal.
The away goal Liverpool threatened, and which left United needing four on the night, came right on half-time when Coutinho beat Guillermo Varela with ease before lifting a near-post finish past De Gea.
It ended the game as a contest with United unable to rouse themselves again as Liverpool completed the formalities to win the first European meeting between the two clubs.
Sadly, the final stages of the match were marred by clashes between supporters near the Liverpool corner of the ground - and it remains to be seen if Uefa take any action.
Manchester United, in the first half at least, played with a pace, and showed a spirit and endeavour, that has rarely been displayed at Old Trafford this season - but the task was too much.
And that was down to the lamentable performance at Anfield last Thursday when Liverpool dominated every facet of the first leg to secure a two-goal lead that could actually have been much more.
It left United vulnerable to one goal from Liverpool that would leave them needing four, and so it proved when Coutinho's brilliant dribble provided that crucial away strike.
United, from that point on, looked like the team they have been for most of this season - pedestrian, uninspired and struggling to illuminate an Old Trafford stage that has suffered much this season.
And there was suffering in hearing songs of celebration from 3,000 Liverpool fans tucked away in one corner of the stadium as their arch-rivals celebrated victory in the first European meeting between the two sides and a place in the last eight of the Europa League.
It was also further evidence that, for all those who still feel United might be better off without Wayne Rooney, that this team still misses him very badly as he was reduced to watching the game from the stands with his son as the England captain recovers from a knee injury.
Liverpool are progressing rapidly under Klopp, who is putting his imprint on the side six months after he succeeded sacked Brendan Rodgers.
And some of the old European anticipation will be rising at Anfield as they contemplate Friday's quarter-final draw.
Time for some perspective, though, and a warning that Klopp is embarking on a rebuilding programme that will not be a quick fix.
There are still some tasty potential opponents lying in wait, none more so than Klopp's old club Borussia Dortmund, tournament favourites and impressive winners against Tottenham over two legs.
The notion of Klopp facing Dortmund is an enticing one and he would be guaranteed a rapturous reception at the club he took to two Bundesliga titles and the Champions League final.
And that is before you even get to Sevilla, winners in the past two seasons and who cruised into the last eight against FC Basel.
This was another disappointing night in a disappointing season for Manchester United - and there will be extra pain in losing a European tie to such fierce adversaries.
If there is some comfort, it can be gained in the performances of young strike duo Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.
Rashford, just 18, never gave up at any point, chasing lost causes endlessly while trying to provide United's lost spark.
Martial, 20, tormented Clyne with his pace in the first half to earn - and score - the penalty that gave United some hope.
They are small crumbs of comfort on a miserable night for United but they need all the hope they can get after this.
Liverpool's on-field celebrations were marred by trouble in the stands in the closing minutes and after the final whistle.
BBC Radio 5 live commentator Ian Dennis had a clear view of the disturbances in the crowd and said he saw fighting and seats being ripped out.
"Punches are being traded by rival supporters," he said.
"I have seen three red seats from the Liverpool section being thrown into the Manchester United fans.
"There are about 10 Liverpool supporters sat on the front row of the top tier and there is a human wall of police officers in luminous clothing protecting the Liverpool fans sat in the Manchester United end.
"Uefa will take action - mark my words."
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal: "I am not angry, I am not frustrated. I was very proud of my players.
"They gave everything and I was very pleased the fans recognised that. They applauded after the match despite us being out - that was remarkable I think.
"I hope Man City is the catalyst. We have to beat City and we have a chance to still qualify (for the Champions League)."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "They got a penalty - it was a penalty - and Phil had a genius moment.
"I love it two minutes before half-time because he twice reacted quicker than his opponent.
"It was the most unexpected that he could do in a situation like this."
Manchester United will travel to the Etihad for a Premier League derby against neighbours Manchester City on Sunday, the same day as Liverpool play Southampton.
Match ends, Manchester United 1, Liverpool 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 1, Liverpool 1.
Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Benteke.
Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Benteke.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Matteo Darmian.
Attempt missed. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marouane Fellaini following a corner.
Attempt missed. Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Attempt missed. Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by James Milner.
Substitution, Liverpool. Christian Benteke replaces Roberto Firmino.
Attempt missed. Daley Blind (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Roberto Firmino (Liverpool).
Foul by Chris Smalling (Manchester United).
Divock Origi (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United).
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Liverpool. Mamadou Sakho tries a through ball, but Roberto Firmino is caught offside.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Emre Can.
Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Substitution, Liverpool. Joe Allen replaces Jordan Henderson.
Substitution, Manchester United. Bastian Schweinsteiger replaces Michael Carrick.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mamadou Sakho (Liverpool).
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Matteo Darmian.
Substitution, Liverpool. Divock Origi replaces Daniel Sturridge.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Milner (Liverpool).
Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Matteo Darmian replaces Marcos Rojo.
Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho.
Attempt saved. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Carrick with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.
Ashley Coe was working on a new solar plant for British Solar Renewables in Devon when a digger operating beneath the overhead cable caused the accident.
He suffered a serious brain injury and two other workers were also hurt, Exeter Crown Court heard.
Sub contractor Pascon was fined £35,000 for failing to manage the work safely.
Mr Coe was working for Walsall-based Pascon when the incident happened in March 2013 at Knockworthy Farm near Huntshaw.
The digger which struck the 33,000 volt cables was reversing while laying a cable in a trench and Mr Coe was helping to control the drum when he suffered the shock.
British Solar Renewables, of Butleigh, Somerset, admitted breaching the construction, design and management regulations by failing to ensure the safety of power cables.
Pascon admitted failing to plan, manage and monitor construction work adequately.
The court was told Mr Coe was left with mobility problems which prevented him from working again. Fellow workers Malcolm Stewart and Andrew Capper suffered less serious injuries.
Simon Morgan, prosecuting, said the cables should have been protected by fencing, goal posts, and bunting to prevent vehicles operating beneath them and a banksman should have been used to ensure safe movement of plant.
BSR were fined £250,000 with £72,000 costs and Pascon were fined £35,000 with £25,000 costs.
Women in Football said its language expert is certain Mourinho used abusive language towards a woman, contrary to the verdict of the FA's chosen expert.
"It's another example of the FA failing to tackle discrimination," it said.
"We are concerned by the serious flaws in the process of such investigations."
The FA studied footage from the 2-2 draw with Swansea on 8 August after a member of the public made a complaint.
It said it was "satisfied the words used do not constitute discriminatory language under FA rules".
Carneiro and head physio Jon Fearn were criticised by Mourinho for treating Eden Hazard with the side a man down.
The club doctor, 42, had her role downgraded before she decided to leave the club.
The Women in Football statement said: "Our own language expert made it abundantly clear that the abusive words used by Mr Mourinho on the touchline that day were specifically directed towards a woman, as indicated by the grammar of his sentence.
"Other Portuguese speakers we contacted in gathering evidence also emphasised this point. We therefore find it extraordinary that any expert or Portuguese speaker would report otherwise."
The FA said it had appointed an independent academic expert in Portuguese linguistics to analyse the footage of the incident, which included the audio recording.
It said in its statement: "Both the words used, as translated and analysed by the independent expert, and the video evidence, do not support the conclusion that the words were directed at any person in particular."
The industry body said it now expects house prices to rise by about 6% in 2016.
Experts say a dash to invest in homes for the rental market is partly responsible, with stamp duty taxes set to rise in April.
Rics says the number of homes up for sale has fallen, down 6% overall.
"The evidence suggests that the market is becoming tighter as housing stocks decrease and more buyers come into the market," said Rics residential spokesman, Tony Filice.
"This is pushing up prices and the expectation amongst surveyors is that this will continue for now."
Keyakizaka46 went on stage in Yokohama on 22 October wearing black capes and caps resembling those of SS officers
Social media users were quick to point out similarities with the uniforms of Hitler's brutal paramilitary force.
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) said in a statement: "We express our heartfelt apology for causing offence."
It blamed "our lack of understanding" for the incident, which had prompted the Simon Wiesenthal Centre to demand an apology.
The band is a sister act to the country's popular AKB48 super group. Both are produced by Japanese hit-maker Yasushi Akimoto, an executive board member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics committee.
In a statement on the band's website he also apologised for his "lack of oversight", saying he had not been aware of the clothing choice before the performance and that he did not think the designers had intended the Nazi parallels. Staff will be better educated and outfits will be checked in future, he said.
With Japan determined to make a good impression in 2020 despite spiralling costs and scandal, the girls' outfits prompted some to hope (in Japanese) that the Games' opening ceremony was being prepared with a bit more care.
Ignorance of the offensiveness of Nazi iconography is surprisingly widespread in Japan and across Asia, and commentators have suggested the mostly teenage pop stars themselves were unaware of the significance of their striking look - one that Sony in Japan has had to apologise for before, when boy band Kishidan appeared on TV in similar uniforms in 2011.
After a lifeless first 45 minutes, Elgin took control when Craig Gunn rifled a spot-kick home into the bottom-left corner.
Brian Cameron put the result beyond doubt with a late goal three minutes from time.
East Stirlingshire - who mustered just one shot on target - remain bottom and are now five points behind Berwick.
The political activist, who is serving an 11 year term on subversion charges for calling for greater democracy, has been moved to hospital after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.
His wife Liu Xia, who is under house arrest, says it is beyond treatment.
The US has called on China to give the couple "genuine freedom".
"We call on the Chinese authorities to not only release Mr Liu but also to allow his wife Ms Liu Xia out of house arrest," US embassy spokeswoman Mary Beth Polley said.
Some American politicians have also called on China to allow the dissident, a key leader in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, to travel overseas for medical help.
But Chinese foreign spokesman Lu Kang criticised the calls, saying: "China is a country with rule of law. Everyone is equal before the law. All other countries should respect China's judicial independence and sovereignty and should not use any so-called individual case to interfere in China's internal affairs."
Mr Liu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, with the Nobel committee describing the jailed dissident as "the foremost symbol" of the human rights struggle in China.
He was not allowed to collect his prize and was represented at the awards ceremony by an empty chair. The Chinese government, which regards him as a criminal, was infuriated by the award.
Following the award, Mrs Liu was placed under house arrest, although she was never charged with a crime. The Chinese authorities have never explained why they restricted her movements.
According to friends, Mrs Liu has been allowed to visit her husband, who is being treated in hospital in northern Liaoning Province after being diagnosed a month ago.
The Nobel laureate was diagnosed with cancer on 23 May, lawyer Mo Shaoping told the South China Morning Post. He was released days later and is now being treated in the northern city of Shenyang.
"He has no special plans. He is just receiving medical treatment for his illness," Mr Mo told AFP news agency.
But speaking in a video which was shared online this week, a tearful Mrs Liu said: "[They] cannot perform surgery, cannot perform radiotherapy, cannot perform chemotherapy."
A statement from the government in Liaoning said Mr Liu had been released on medical parole and was being treated by eight tumour experts.
Mr Liu has three years left to serve of an 11-year sentence for "inciting subversion" after drafting Charter 08 - which called for multi-party democracy and respect for human rights in China.
Amnesty International said he should never have been jailed.
It urged China to ensure he received "adequate medical care, effective access to his family and that he and all others imprisoned solely for exercising their human rights are immediately and unconditionally released".
Following his Nobel award, China froze diplomatic ties with Norway - relations were normalised only last December.
Lloyd, 23, came through Vale's academy but made just 18 appearances in all competitions and was released in May.
He spent the past two seasons on loan with Chester, scoring three goals in 63 National League appearances.
Lloyd is Macclesfield's fifth summer signing, following the arrivals of Courtney Richards, Scott Wilson, Shwan Jalal and Jared Hodgkiss.
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Officers sent to the scene at Leighton Court in Turners Hill, Cheshunt, found the woman dead and the man with a knife wound.
They were dispatched at 13:05 GMT after receiving reports of a disturbance.
The man died shortly afterwards from his injuries. The woman is also thought to have been fatally stabbed, a police spokesman said.
The force added they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said everyone had to "step up" to ensure the "golden opportunity" was not missed in Wales.
Firms are preparing to bid for work on the £1.3bn project, which could involve 2,000 jobs.
One company boss urged a commitment to more big infrastructure projects.
An independent review into tidal lagoons on Thursday recommended Swansea Bay's energy project should go ahead, with the prospect of larger lagoons in future.
A final decision now rests with the UK Government.
Helen Kane, chair of the RICS board in Wales, said everyone was working flat out to ensure Wales could meet the potential but support needed to be consistent and funding in place to attract people into 17 trades in surveying and construction.
"It is very feasible we can provide the skills in Wales to boost the economy but we need to work together and start now," she told BBC Wales.
Ms Kane said the HS2 rail project and Hinkley Point would provide competition, with south Wales workers only this week classified as "local" for the purposes of the nuclear power station project on the Somerset coast.
"In all honesty, we're not geared up at the moment [for the lagoon], we've been preparing for it - this is a superb opportunity and we're asking Welsh and UK governments to work together with education and employers so we know where we're going and that we can provided the right skills."
Ian Hoppe, managing director of Braithwaite Structural in Baglan said the lagoon was fantastic news for heavy engineering especially and industry in south Wales was ready to embrace it.
"It's something we'd dearly love to be involved with and it's the type of work suited to our operation," he said.
"There are quite a lot of components around the turbines which would be of interest to us."
Mr Hoppe said currently there was an older age profile in engineering and his firm did not actually have a skills shortage, with a waiting list of people looking to work.
"The industry has had a very difficult period last five to seven years so there are a lot of skilled and well qualified people waiting to find jobs."
But he said there needed to be more infrastructure projects - to generate a demand for skills - which would then lead a new influx of the next generation of engineers.
"There definitely needs to be an emphasis on the projects to create the capacity requirement to bring training up to fulfil that."
If more tidal lagoons go ahead there would be even more demand for skilled workers.
It is thought the lagoon in Swansea could support more than 2,000 jobs and company behind it wants to build lagoons in Cardiff, Newport and Colwyn bay - which is forecast to bring up to 6,500 jobs.
At Neath College they are training students from the age of 16 and there is a confidence among them that there will be jobs out there.
Whereas engineering was perhaps once seen as a contracting industry, that is no longer the case.
James Llewellyn, a lecturer involved with engineering courses, said: "There are more, keen students now pushing forward in engineering because there are massive jobs, globally now and with manufacturing. It's on the rise."
Captain Surgeon Graeme Nicholson told an inquest that official guidelines he authored "should have been followed".
L/Cpl Craig Roberts, 24, of Conwy county, L/Cpl Edward Maher and Cpl James Dunsby died after attempting a 16-mile march in the Brecon Beacons on one of the hottest days of 2013.
He said assessors should have been aware of environmental conditions.
Dr Nicholson wrote the Army's guidance document on climatic illness and injury.
He told the inquest in Solihull, West Midlands, that this was "the standing guidance" and should have been followed by soldier 1A and 1B, who were in charge that day.
This document was primarily used outside the UK in hot conditions, he said.
Coroner Louise Hunt asked how he felt about many witnesses not having any knowledge of the guidance.
"Frustration is the honest statement," he replied.
Keith Morton QC, representing Cpl Dunsby's father, asked: "It's completely unacceptable isn't it that those on the ground were ignorant to it?"
Dr Nicholson said: "That again I would refer back to their chain of command… I do not feel from a personal point of view that it was appropriate."
The inquest continues.
The 30-year-old former Ospreys, Bath and Northampton Saints player has made two appearances for Bristol in the top flight this season.
"It is really unfortunate for Martin," Robinson told BBC Radio Bristol.
Roberts could miss as many as 12 Premiership, European Challenge Cup and domestic cup games.
Meanwhile, Robinson said the club are still waiting for news on how long versatile back Gavin Henson will be sidelined for.
Henson, 34, has not played since having to be withdrawn during Bristol's opening game of the season on 3 September, following a collision with Harlequins' Joe Marler.
"Gavin has got a bruising of the bone and it's very difficult to treat," Robinson explained. "So we're waiting still.
"It's frustration for everybody involved, but most importantly for him, because he wants to get out there and show everybody what he can do.
"When he's unable to do that because of injury, it's disappointing for him."
Family Group was sold for £353,000, The Black Church - a 50th birthday gift from her husband Bobby - fetched £245,000 and The Spire £100,000.
They were sold as part of a wider auction of modern and post-war British art.
The 72-year-old Liverpool-born star died in Spain in August after a 50-year career in entertainment.
Family Group, which was painted in 1939, was described by Sotheby's as representing "a life she would have known growing up in Liverpool".
The Spire, which dates from 1949 is rated as a "typical Lowry".
According to the singer's family, the Black Church as a pun on her stage name, which she changed from Priscilla White.
In a speech on Sunday, following the terrorist attack in London, she said the internet provided a "safe space" for extremist ideology to breed.
But technology companies and cyber-security experts have warned that tighter regulation of the internet will not solve this problem.
Messages sent online can be scrambled as they leave one device and they remain scrambled until they are deciphered by the recipient's device.
This is end-to-end encryption, and it stops messages being read by third parties - be it criminals or law enforcement - if they are intercepted.
This adds valuable security to the messages we send online, which could contain private information, bank details and personal photographs.
Some apps such as WhatsApp already add end-to-end encryption to messages automatically.
However, this does mean that theoretically messages can be sent that police or other authorities cannot read if they intercept them.
On Sunday, Mrs May said there should be no messages that law enforcement "cannot read", while Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she wanted tech companies to "limit the use of end-to-end encryption".
Critics say disabling encryption in popular apps will not deter criminals - they could simply switch from one app to another, or create their own messaging apps.
Meanwhile, messages sent by law-abiding citizens would become "easy for criminals, voyeurs and foreign spies to intercept", journalist and former digital rights activist Cory Doctorow wrote in a blog.
Cyber-security experts are particularly critical of the notion that messaging apps should have a "back door" in their systems, to let authorities read users' messages.
"It's impossible to overstate how bonkers the idea of sabotaging cryptography is to people who understand information security," said Mr Doctorow.
"Use deliberately compromised cryptography, that has a back door that only the 'good guys' are supposed to have the keys to, and you have effectively no security."
Even if app-makers were ordered to stop using encryption, it would be very difficult to stop criminals encrypting their messages manually, or writing them in code.
On Sunday, Mrs May said large internet companies provided a "safe space" for extremist ideology to breed.
Earlier this year, a Home Affairs Select Committee report said social networks were "shamefully far" from tackling illegal and dangerous content and took too long to remove offending posts.
The volume of material uploaded to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks is astonishing, making it difficult to moderate.
YouTube says 400 hours worth of video are uploaded to its platform every minute, making it impossible to review every clip a user posts.
The Open Rights Group, which campaigns for online freedoms, said governments and companies should "take sensible measures to stop abuse" but warned that "attempts to control the internet" would be difficult to enforce.
Technology companies have defended their handling of extremist content following the London terror attack.
YouTube told the BBC that it received 200,000 reports of inappropriate content a day, but managed to review 98% of them within 24 hours.
It said hate speech made up a small proportion of the "tens of millions" of videos it removed every year.
Facebook said: "Using a combination of technology and human review, we work aggressively to remove terrorist content from our platform as soon as we become aware of it - and if we become aware of an emergency involving imminent harm to someone's safety, we notify law enforcement."
It said it actively worked to identify extremist accounts and worked with rivals Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube to help identify such content.
Both Facebook and Google have stated that extremist content has no place on their websites.
Germany has tried to further motivate internet giants, by threatening them with fines of up to 50m euros (£43.5m) if they fail to remove hate speech quickly.
However, the Open Rights Group warned that tough regulation by governments "could push these vile networks into even darker corners of the web, where they will be even harder to observe".
It comes after a BBC Freedom of Information request about the DG One facility in Dumfries.
Dumfries and Galloway Council declined to reveal the information in its original reply to the request in July.
After carrying out a compliance review it said it had to "reiterate its initial response".
The leisure centre opened in May 2008 but suffered a string of problems which ultimately led to its complete closure in October 2014.
Temporary gym facilities at the Loreburn Hall and a swimming pool at Dumfries Ice Bowl have been put in place while the centre is shut.
A long-running legal wrangle between the Dumfries and Galloway Council and builders Kier Construction over the centre was settled earlier this year to allow major remedial work to begin.
The total cost of repairs is just short of £10m.
However, the council has refused to reveal the scale of its financial contribution to the remedial works.
A review carried out this month concluded that a confidentiality agreement prohibited it from releasing any details of the settlement.
It said that provided an "absolute exemption" which meant the council was not required to consider the public interest.
The local authority stressed that it was aware of the public interest in the information and would have fully considered disclosing it if it was able to do so.
It said that releasing any details could lead to a breach of the confidentiality agreement which might adversely affect its terms.
"For that reason, disclosure is not in the public interest," said Eddie Whitefield who chaired the review panel.
"Reaching a settlement rather than proceeding with the court case when no result could be absolutely guaranteed will allow remedial works to begin at the end of this summer which is very much for the public benefit."
In 1894, Gillette published a book arguing that "our present system of competition" breeds "extravagance, poverty, and crime".
He advocated a new system of "equality, virtue, and happiness", in which just one corporation - the United Company - would make all of life's necessities, as cost-effectively as possible.
Gillette's book called for everyone in North America to live in a single city, called Metropolis.
He imagined "mammoth apartment houses… upon a scale of magnificence such as no civilization has ever known", connected by artificial parks with "domes of coloured glass in beautiful designs".
It would be, he said, "an endless gallery of loveliness". His idea didn't take off.
But a year later, in 1895, King Camp Gillette had another brainwave that really did change the world. He invented the disposable razor blade.
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It revolutionised more than shaving. Gillette's blade led to a business model that has become ubiquitous in the modern economy. That model is called two-part pricing.
If you have ever bought replacement cartridges for an inkjet printer, you may well have been annoyed to discover they cost almost as much as you paid for the printer itself.
That seems to make no sense.
The printer is a reasonably large and complicated piece of technology. How can it possibly add only a negligible amount to the cost of supplying a bit of ink in tiny plastic pots?
The answer, of course, is that it doesn't. But for a manufacturer, selling the printer cheaply and the ink expensively is a business model that makes sense.
After all, what's the alternative? Buy a whole new printer from a rival manufacturer? As long as that is even slightly more expensive than the new ink for your current printer, you will reluctantly pay up.
Two-part pricing is also known as the "razor and blades" model, because that's where it first drew attention - draw people in with an attractively priced razor, then repeatedly charge them for expensive replacement blades.
Before King Camp Gillette, razors were bigger, chunkier affairs - and a significant enough expense that when the blade got dull, you would sharpen - or "strop" - it, not chuck it away and buy another.
Gillette realised that if he devised a clever holder for the blade, to keep it rigid, he could make the blade much thinner - and hence much cheaper to produce.
He did not immediately hit upon the two-part pricing model, though. Initially, he made both parts expensive.
Gillette's razor cost $5 (£4) - about a third of the average worker's weekly wage.
The Gillette razor was so eye-wateringly exorbitant that the 1913 Sears catalogue offered it with an apology that it was not legally allowed to discount the price.
It also included an annoyed-sounding disclaimer: "Gillette safety razors are quoted for the accommodation of some of our customers who want this particular razor. We don't claim that this razor will give better satisfaction than the lower-priced safety razors quoted on this page."
The model of cheap razors and expensive blades evolved only later, as Gillette's patents expired and competitors got in on the act.
Nowadays, two-part pricing is everywhere.
Consider the PlayStation 4.
Every time Sony sells one, it loses money: the retail price is less than it costs to manufacture and distribute. But that is OK, because Sony makes its money whenever a PlayStation 4 owner buys a game.
Or how about Nespresso? Nestle profits not from selling the machine, but the coffee pods.
Obviously, for this model to work you need some way to prevent customers putting cheap, generic blades in your razor.
One solution is legal: patent-protect your blades. But patents don't last forever. Patents on coffee pods have started expiring, so brands such as Nespresso now face competitors selling cheap, compatible alternatives.
Some are looking for another kind of solution: technological.
Just as other people's games don't work on the PlayStation, and non-branded print cartridges may not work in some printers, coffee companies have put chip readers in their machines to stop you sneakily trying to brew up a generic cup.
Two-part pricing models work by imposing what economists call "switching costs". Want to brew another brand's coffee? Then buy another machine.
They are especially prevalent with digital goods. If you have a huge library of games for your PlayStation, or books for your Kindle, it is a big thing to switch to another platform.
Switching costs don't have to be financial. They can come in the form of time, or hassle.
If I am already familiar with Adobe's Photoshop software, I might prefer to pay for an expensive upgrade rather than buy a cheaper alternative, which I would then have to learn how to use.
That is why software vendors offer free trials, and why banks and utilities offer special "teaser" rates to draw people in. When they quietly raise the price, many will not bother to change.
Switching costs can be psychological, too - a result of brand loyalty.
If Gillette's marketing department persuades me that generic blades give an inferior shave, then I will happily keep paying extra for Gillette-branded blades.
That may explain the otherwise curious fact that Gillette's profits increased after his patents expired and competitors could make compatible blades.
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Perhaps, by then, customers had got used to thinking of Gillette as a high-end brand, worth paying a premium for.
Two-part pricing can be highly inefficient, and economists have puzzled over why consumers stand for it. The most plausible explanation is that they get confused.
Either they don't realise they will be exploited later, or they do realise but find it hard to think ahead and pick out the best deal.
The irony is that the razors-and-blades model - charging customers a premium for basics such as ink and coffee - is about as far as you can get from King Camp Gillette's vision of a single United Company producing life's necessities as cheaply as possible.
Evidently, it's easier to inspire a new model for business than a new model for society.
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The bonfire, made of wooden pallets, has been built on a grass verge at Prince Andrew Way in Carrickfergus.
The NI Fire and Rescue Service said it was working with the local community "to provide safety advice in relation to the Castlemara bonfire".
The bonfire, estimated to be about 50ft (15m) tall, is roughly twice the height of a two-storey house.
Bonfires are traditionally lit in loyalist areas of Northern Ireland on the eve of the annual 12 July celebrations marking King William III's victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The council-led Mid and East Antrim Bonfire Liaison Group has also been involved in talks about the bonfire, concerns about which were first reported by the Irish News.
Assistant Chief Fire Officer Alan Walmsley advised bonfire builders to keep the structures "at a manageable size and sited in a clear, open space at a safe distance from buildings and overhead cables".
"A bonfire should be a minimum distance of five times its height from property," he said.
"It should not contain any potentially hazardous materials or tyres and never use flammable liquids such as petrol or paraffin as these can produce explosive vapours."
Ch Insp Stephen Humphries said the police would work closely with partner agencies and local communities to address concerns linked to bonfires.
"Constructive dialogue and engagement involving the community, politicians, public bodies and police is the approach most likely to result in workable solutions on bonfire issues," he said.
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Liow Tiong Lai told the BBC that search teams would keep looking for the aircraft which had been carrying 239 passengers and crew.
The Malaysian airliner was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished.
Investigators are due to release a report on the search on Sunday.
Australia is leading an international search team in the southern Indian Ocean, approximately 1,600km (1,000 miles) off its west coast.
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Malaysian police say they are still investigating whether the plane's disappearance was intentional but have not revealed any details of their findings, the BBC's Jennifer Pak reports.
Earlier this year, the Malaysian government declared flight MH370 to have been lost with all on board, in a move it said was necessary to start processing compensation claims for the families.
But Mr Liow promised his government would continue to back the search operation.
"We are confident we can complete the search hopefully by May this year, and we hope we can get the plane," he said.
If the scan of the designated search area did not yield any result by May, investigators would go "back to the drawing board", he told AFP news agency.
That would mean re-examining all available data that was used to determine the crash zone.
Some families of those on board the plane have accused the Malaysian authorities of hiding some information, but the transport minister urged them not to "believe in all the conspiracy theories".
"[They] have to believe in data, facts, in... experts who give us the data that shows that - proves that - this plane is in the south Indian Ocean," he said. "And that is why we are focused in that area."
The family of the flight's pilot has said there is no evidence to suggest Zaharie Ahmad Shah was responsible for the aircraft's disappearance.
His sister, Sakinab Shah, issued a media statement online to deny renewed speculation that her brother had intentionally flown the plane to avoid detection.
She said no-one had the right to blame her brother without any proof.
Of all the many theories about what happened to MH370, the idea that it might have been diverted to a remote airfield and its passengers taken off, seems the least plausible. What motive could the mysterious hijacker have had? No demands have been made.
But it is a theory that Wen Wan Cheng is clinging to with defiant certainty. And who can blame him? The 64 year-old property developer from Shandong had his son, Wen Yong Sheng, on board the ill-fated flight. Until he sees some evidence of what happened to the plane, he believes his son must still be alive.
The Malaysian authorities still insist the best theory is that the plane crashed into a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean, after being diverted and flying south for several hours. That is where they are still looking, in 60,000 sq km (23,166 sq m) of sea.
But they lost the trust of the families early on due to their clumsy and confused response to the disappearance. The inexplicable absence of any wreckage, one year on, allows relatives to hold on to the near-impossible hope that some of the 239 passengers and crew may have survived.
The Irish airline said fares would fall by between 5% and 7% in the 12 months to March 2018, partly due to the weakness of the pound. In the previous financial year they fell by 13%.
Despite the weaker pricing, Ryanair posted a record profit of 1.32bn euros (£1.14bn) as passenger numbers rose.
But it warned that Brexit and the fear of terror attacks remained challenges.
Shares fell 1.5% to 17.75 euros in early trading, but have jumped by a fifth this year.
The airline, which flies 1,800 daily flights across 33 countries, attributed its lower fares to competition among European airlines and the weakness of the pound since the Brexit vote.
Despite the current challenges, Ryanair said it was cautiously forecasting an 8% increase in profits for the current financial year.
Sterling has slipped by about 16% against the dollar since last June, meaning the tickets the airline sells in sterling are worth less in euros - the currency in which it reports its results.
However, Ryanair said it had stimulated growth with cheaper fares, with passenger numbers up 13% in the year to the end of March 2017.
The carrier also said it had weathered a series of "security events" in European cities that had also prompted it to cut prices.
Its 1.32bn euro profit for 2017 was in line with analysts' forecasts. Revenues climbed 2% to 6.65bn euros.
Despite the lower fares, Ryanair said the number of on-time departures fell from 90% to 88% due to repeated air traffic control staff shortages and strikes, as well as bad weather.
"In March alone, a series of unjustified … strikes caused almost 560 Ryanair flight cancellations, and the loss of over 100,000 customer bookings," it said.
Ryanair, which campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU, said a "hard Brexit" - in which the UK leaves the EU without a trade deal - was a significant risk as it could disrupt UK-EU flights.
Kenny Jacobs, Ryanair's chief marketing officer, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there had been no clarity from the government.
"They have indicated they will leave the European Court of Justice, that is the European institution that governs open skies, so Britain is going to leave open skies as it now stands," he said.
"If there isn't a new bilateral [deal] in place then you may have very restricted or no flying between Europe and the UK for a period.
"I think it's clear we're heading to what looks to be a very ugly divorce at the moment."
To offset these risks, the firm said it would continue to expand capacity elsewhere in Europe to capitalise on the "many growth opportunities" outside the UK.
The year-long celebration of Wales' past will promote the nation's heritage and culture with events covering everything from food to sport.
Tourism body Visit Wales has already approved £1.2m for 35 projects as part of the project.
Now, Matthews and Rheon have thrown their weight behind the campaign.
Born in Carmarthen and raised in Cardiff, Rheon shot to fame in smash hit TV show Game of Thrones.
"I'm really excited to be a part of this project, I was so lucky to have Wales' stories, history and culture as part of my upbringing," he said.
"I'm looking forward to sharing Wales' epic story."
Former Catatonia front-woman, Matthews, said she too was excited by the idea of sharing Wales' rich history and culture with the world.
"Wales' myths and legends have been huge inspiration for creativity from music, art to literature," she said.
Steve Goldswain and Norman Pickthall, members of Redcar and Cleveland Council cabinet, will not be allowed to seek re-election as Labour councillors.
The BBC understands they were told that they had not "demonstrated a commitment to campaigning for the Labour Party". The pair deny the allegation.
The Labour Party says it does not comment on individual selection cases.
Both councillors said they "refuted such an allegation" and that they were "extremely disappointed" by Labour North's decision.
They also described the reselection process as "unfair".
There is nothing particularly unusual about political parties deselecting councillors ahead of local elections. More often than not they do it in a bid to bring in "fresh blood".
What is significant about these de-selections though is that both councillors are members of the cabinet and therefore considered to be part of the local party's leadership team.
The leader and deputy of the Redcar Labour party wanted both councillors reinstating.
However, Labour North - the body that runs Labour in the North East - decided against doing that, raising the question: Who exactly does run the Labour Party in Redcar?
Mr Goldswain represents Eston ward, while Mr Pickthall is a councillor for Teesville.
Both were initially deselected by the Labour Party in November but had appealed against the decision.
Redcar and Cleveland council leader George Dunning had publicly backed both councillors ahead of their appeal hearing.
Mr Dunning said: "I am very disappointed by the decision taken by Labour North. Both men have been excellent Labour councillors and I felt both had excellent cases and should have been reinstated as candidates."
A Labour North spokesman said: "Next May, Labour will be putting forward an excellent team of candidates committed to serving their communities and to campaigning on local issues all year round."
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Official data shows the number of nurses employed in the two most senior grades have fallen by 3% since 2010.
The Royal College of Nursing said senior nursing roles would be vital in the proposed seven-day drive.
The Department of Health said extra money was being provided to train up a "new generation" of nursing leaders.
The senior posts cover roles such as ward sisters and senior positions such as nurse consultants that lead teams.
The government has promised to recruit 5,000 new GPs and another 5,000 support staff, including practice nurses, to pave the way for the weekend opening of GP surgeries.
But there has been little detail about how the initiative will work across other areas, such as routine hospital operations and cancer care.
While the overall workforce of nurses has been growing, the number filling senior band seven and eight roles fell by 2,295 over the past five years to just over 64,000.
Speaking ahead of the start of the RCN annual conference on Monday, the union's general secretary Peter Carter said: "Nursing staff, and above all, senior expert nurses, are a huge part of the solution to delivering seven-day care.
"Many nurses working as ward sisters or clinical experts are able to make decisions, supervise teams and educate and mentor their junior colleagues."
The issue also looks set to be a major theme of the British Medical Association's annual conference which is being held at the same time as the RCN meeting.
In his speech to open the conference, BMA leader Dr Mark Porter will say there is a need for more clarity on the seven-day working proposals.
He will say: "We all want our patients to have the care they need when they need it. So show us the detail of what you mean. Show us how the country will pay for it.
"Show us something real, because all we've seen so far is the pursuit of easy headlines."
The Department of Health said it was liaising with NHS England on the issue.
A spokeswoman said: "Ensuring we have the right number of nurses is vital. That's why we're taking the issue of nursing recruitment seriously and have prioritised and invested in frontline staff, so there are over 8,000 more nurses on our wards."
She added there were now attempts to train up a new generation of nursing leaders with extra money being provided.
Where else could you find the biggest pop, rock and rap stars rubbing shoulders with Brazilian bossa nova legends, Nobel peace prize winners, film directors, politicians, punk ballet dancers, Russian dissidents and a giant fire-breathing rave spider?
They are some of the 26 essential things to look and listen out for this year.
A 50-tonne fire-breathing mechanical spider with acrobats dangling from it and thousands of ravers surrounding it - only at Glastonbury. The spider is the centrepiece of the Arcadia area, which has been given more money and a bigger field by organiser Michael Eavis. The spider has a DJ booth in its belly, its eyes are made from old jet engines and its legs are old HM Customs & Excise scanning machines.
Walk On By, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, I Say a Little Prayer, The Look of Love, What's New Pussycat? - Burt Bacharach and co-writer Hal David were responsible for many of pop's greatest hits. Expect most of those tunes to feature in the 87-year-old pop legend's singalong Saturday afternoon set on the Pyramid Stage.
Before the bands begin, choreographer Michael Clark's dancers will open the Pyramid Stage on Friday morning with Come, Been and Gone, his homage to 1970s rock featuring the music of David Bowie. The English National Ballet performed last year - but this is probably more apt for Glastonbury, where Bowie has played twice.
In January, the Tibetan spiritual leader's website said he would appear at Glastonbury on Sunday morning. The listing was later removed, but it's fair to assume the 79-year-old will put in an appearance. The mystery may be something to do with protests that are planned for his other scheduled UK stop, in Aylesbury, on Monday, by people who say the Dalai Lama has "persecuted" Shugden Buddhists.
Michael Eavis, who started the festival on his Somerset dairy farm in 1970, is the godfather of Glastonbury. Now 79, he has handed over much of the organisation, including booking the bands, to daughter Emily. If the Dalai Lama's not up your street and you want to hear from Glastonbury's own spiritual leader, Michael will give a talk at Speakers Forum on Sunday afternoon.
It is eight years since Florence Welch played a disastrous set in Glastonbury's Tiny Tea Tent. "My guitarist didn't turn up. I was crying and had to do half the gig acapella," she later recalled. But that has not stopped her working her way up to the top of the bill, replacing Foo Fighters after frontman Dave Grohl broke his leg. Florence's promotion to headline status was not universally welcomed. Can she pull it off?
Escape the crowds and craziness for a while and head to the Green Fields to soak up the lingering essence of the alternative spirit that has always made Glastonbury a little bit special. Up here, you can watch music on a solar-powered bandstand, take part in a laughter workshop, have a go at using a kiln, learn about eco technologies or just chill out in the stone circle.
Yes, that Stephen Hawking. Physics genius Prof Stephen Hawking. So far, we do not know what he will be doing - only that he will be appearing in the Kidz Field, where he shares a bill with Captain Kipper and Mr Yipadee. Which makes the prospect even more mind-boggling.
It's Sunday lunchtime. You are knackered and hungover. You wander past the West Holts stage. Wafting on the air is a tempting concoction of feelgood Afro-funk, souped-up Nigerian folk and tropical disco. It is Ibibio Sound Machine, and suddenly you feel ready to party once more.
No, he hasn't come to upstage the Dalai Lama. Jesus - or more accurately J.E.S.u.S. - is a team of superstar DJs consisting of Jackmaster, Eats Everything, Skream and Seth Troxler. (Except they say the German "und" instead of "and" to make their acronym work.) They will take over the Wow! stage, part of the Silver Hayes dance arena, for four hours on Friday night.
After the first Glastonbury in 1970, Andrew Kerr persuaded Michael Eavis to have another the following year. Kerr dowsed the ley lines to determine where the first Pyramid Stage should go. It was this event in 1971 that really made Glastonbury's reputation. Kerr died last October and, fittingly, there will be a daily tribute led by another Glastonbury old-timer, Hawkwind's Nik Turner, on the Mandala Stage.
Glastonbury always has its fair share of curious bookings, and this year they include Lulu sandwiched between folk singers Cara Dillon and King Creosote on the Avalon Stage on Friday evening. But it becomes less curious when you consider that her latest album Making Life Rhyme, her first for 10 years, has less to do with her as a Shouter and more to do with her as a soulful singer-songwriter.
If you hurry, there may be time to watch Lulu after moshing to thundering rock veterans Motorhead on the main stage on Friday. Lemmy and co will be making their Worthy Farm debut, with the crowd perhaps more receptive to heavy rock after Metallica's headline set last year.
Not the name of a new death metal band, but the drug, also known as laughing gas and "hippy crack". Last year, two tonnes of discarded nitrous oxide canisters were collected from the King's Meadow stone circle. This year, they say it will not be welcome in the sacred space. "Now is the time to reclaim the spirit and lighten up the energies," says Green Fields organiser Liz Eliot.
Mr Saturday night TV is becoming Mr Friday night DJ in one of the festival's most surreal venues, the Rabbit Hole. It contains a series of tunnels leading to different areas and stages, and punters must solve riddles to gain access. Dermot has played the venue for the past couple of years and if he can find his way out, he will also present a BBC Radio 2 show on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Glastonbury has not lost its political principles, and this year two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot will appear twice to give talks about their protests against President Vladimir Putin. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who spent 21 months in jail for a 2012 protest, will speak on the Park stage and Billy Bragg's Left Field stage on Friday.
There will also be political discussion at the Speakers Forum along Glastonbury-friendly themes like sustainability, human rights and corporate responsibility. It may not have a Dimbleby, but Saturday's environment-themed Question Time session will feature Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven and BBC environment and energy analyst Roger Harrabin.
Dolly Parton, Tom Jones and Neil Diamond have all filled the Sunday afternoon legends slot in recent years. This year it is Lionel's turn. The slot is always a highlight of the weekend, and Lionel will bring hits like Hello, All Night Long and Dancing on the Ceiling. If you really want to get in the mood, you can learn a Lionel Richie-inspired dance, to be performed during a flashmob in the theatre and circus fields.
After the bands finish on the main stages, Shangri-La is the place for a legendary party. It is a self-contained netherworld of surreal sights, street performers, micro-venues and art installations. It has its own version of Heaven - where you have to persuade "angels" to let you in - and Hell. This year's theme is Shang Re-election, where revellers can rage against the establishment machine.
Film director Julien Temple (right) is as close as Glastonbury gets to an official chronicler. In 2006, he released a documentary tracing the festival's history, and in 2012 made Glastonbury After Hours, about the late-night revelry. He has now chosen Glastonbury for the first UK screening of his new film, which follows guitarist Wilko Johnson (left) after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
This fabled speakeasy is one of the festival's secret spots. It does not appear on any official map or line-up, and last year the entrance was apparently disguised as a portable toilet with a doorman who set you a test to decide whether to let you in. If you passed, you could have found yourself watching a gypsy folk band or Michael Eavis doing a duet with Lily Allen.
Marcos Valle has been one of the most influential and popular figures in Brazilian pop for the past 50 years, and has now somehow found his way to a mid-afternoon slot on the West Holts stage at Glastonbury. Encompassing bossa nova, lounge jazz and funk, his sound became fashionable among certain worldly DJs in the UK in the 1990s.
More than 134,000 people signed an online petition to drop Kanye from Glastonbury and get a rock band to headline on Saturday night instead. But surely Glastonbury's hip-hop debate was settled when Jay-Z blew away the doubters in 2008. And surely Kanye, one of the most gifted, ambitious and audacious musicians today, will do the same. Surely he won't launch a 15-minute rant and be booed like he was at the Wireless festival in London last year. Surely.
The musical mastermind behind Mercury Prize-winning band The xx and the most in-demand dance producer in Britain, Jamie xx has now gone solo. He will be playing tracks from his album In Colour, which features guest appearances from his xx bandmates, on The Park stage on Friday night.
Young Fathers were the surprise winners of the Mercury Prize last year. The judges have been vindicated and the trio's second album White Men Are Black Men Too has earned five-star reviews from The Guardian, which called it "a superb mix of pop and politics", and The Independent, which said it was "a joyous mash-up that crosses the cultural divide". They play the Other Stage on Saturday.
The Avalon tent on Sunday evening is the place to see one of Britain's legendary "lost" bands. The Zombies' 1968 album Odessey and Oracle often appears on lists of the greatest albums ever made, but virtually sank without trace when it was first released and the band split up straight afterwards. But after getting belated recognition, Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone reunited a decade ago.
Hearts defended stoutly as Dundee piled on the pressure to level after Jamie Walker's winner in the 53rd minute.
"I was really pleased with the back four," explained head coach Neilson.
"Liam Smith, 19, (Jordan) McGhee, 19, (John) Souttar, 19, and (Alim) Ozturk, 22, so to keep a clean sheet against such a good team was very pleasing."
The result leaves Hearts closing in on a European spot, having opened up a 17-point gap over fourth-placed Ross County.
"It's looking good but it's still not secured," Neilson told BBC Scotland.
"We would like to try and do it as soon as possible but it's not something we are talking about. We next have St Johnstone and if we win that then that takes us another step."
Dundee boss Paul Hartley was left scratching his head at how his players were unable to score after creating numerous chances in the game.
"We had some fantastic opportunities and we just didn't take our chances," he lamented.
"Hearts get a golden opportunity and they take it."
Rory Loy missed the chance of the game late on when clean through on goal but was denied by Neil Alexander, who kept a fourth straight clean sheet for the Tynecastle side.
"I think he (Loy) maybe has to go round the goalkeeper and show that little bit of composure," Hartley added.
"It's a good move and I think it's going to be a goal but you need to take your chances or you get punished."
Defeat leaves Dundee in seventh place - two points behind Motherwell, three behind St Johnstone and Ross County - with four games to go before the split, but with a top-six finish still within their grasp.
"We have got four games and we have got to get as many points as we can," Hartley added.
"We have just said to the group, 'Do you want to be in the top half or the bottom half?' It's up to us to try and achieve that."
Fe fu farw menyw, sy'n cael ei chyfeirio ati fel Ms D yn yr adroddiad, yn Ysbyty Brenhinol Morgannwg, ddiwrnod ar ôl cael ei chymryd mewn i'r ysbyty ym mis Tachwedd 2012.
Mae Ombwdsman Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru wedi dyfarnu bod Bwrdd Iechyd Cwm Taf wedi cymryd gormod o amser i ymchwilio i gŵyn mab y ddynes gan ddweud bod "diffyg tryloywder" yn ei hymateb.
Mae bwrdd iechyd wedi ymddiheuro.
Mae adroddiad gan yr ombwdsman yn dweud fod Ms D yn "sâl iawn" pan gafodd ei chymryd fewn i'r ysbyty drwy'r adran frys ar 9 Tachwedd.
Mae'n dweud fod ganddi hanes o drafferthion anadlu, heintiau, pwysau gwaed isel a diffygion gyda'i harennau.
Fe gafodd Ms D o leiaf ddau adolygiad meddygol y diwrnod canlynol ond fe wnaeth ei chyflwr waethygu a bu farw yn ddiweddarach yn y prynhawn.
Mae'r bwrdd iechyd wedi derbyn fod toriad wedi bod yn ei dyletswydd i ofalu ac y bydden nhw'n ymchwilio, ond fe wnaeth ei mab, Mr D ddim clywed unrhyw beth am bron i ddwy flynedd.
Fe gafodd wybod yn ddiweddarach fod y gŵyn wedi cael ei golli mewn "ymarferiad didoli".
Dywedodd yr Ombwdsman, Nick Bennett ei fod yn teimlo rheidrwydd i ymchwilio gan nad oedd y mab wedi derbyn ymateb erbyn Medi 2015.
Yn ogystal â'r "oedi difrifol" yn ymateb i bryderon Mr D, fe wnaeth yr Ombwdsman ddyfarnu nad oedd Mr D wedi derbyn y cyngor cyfreithiol a meddygol yr oedd gyda'r hawl i'w dderbyn.
Mae Mr Bennett wedi gwneud nifer o argymhellion, gan gynnwys y dylai'r bwrdd iechyd dalu £2,000 i Mr D am y "gofid."
"Roedd hyn ar y gorau yn ddiffyg tryloywder ac ar y gwaethaf yn ymgais gan y bwrdd iechyd i gamarwain ac o bosib peryglu ffydd rhai cleifion yn y broses o wneud pethau'r ffordd iawn," meddai.
"Er nad ydw i'n gallu newid y canlyniad trist i Ms D, rwy'n gobeithio fod y bwrdd iechyd am ddysgu o'r profiad a sicrhau bydd cwynion yn y dyfodol yn cael eu trin yn amserol ac mewn ffordd dosturiol."
Dywedodd y bwrdd iechyd ei bod yn derbyn canfyddiad yr ombwdsman.
Dywedodd Prif Weithredwr Bwrdd Iechyd Cwm Taf, Allison Williams: "Rydym yn ymddiheuro i'r teulu am y methiannau o fewn yr adroddiad.
"Rydym wedi cymryd nifer o gamau yn barod i wella a chryfhau ein proses gwynion a byddwn yn gweithio ymhellach i edrych ar argymhellion yr adroddiad."
There were doubts in January that the Fermanagh course may not stage the event and this was confirmed on Monday.
The Lough Erne Resort said it was extremely disappointed, adding that the European Tour had decided to "change the venue to a links course".
Tour officials have already visited Portstewart to check its suitability to stage the Irish Open.
In April 2014, it was announced that the 2017 event would be held at Lough Erne and supported financially by the Northern Ireland government.
"During a recent visit to the Lough Erne Resort, I was delighted to meet with the owners and to learn more about their significant investment plans for the golf course and hotel," said Keith Pelley, European Tour Chief Executive, on Monday.
"It is a beautiful facility with an outstanding championship golf course designed by Sir Nick Faldo.
"While the 2017 Irish Open will not be staged at Lough Erne, the European Tour looks forward to working with the new ownership consortium, and I am confident that the Lough Erne Resort will host an event with the European Tour in the future."
The Lough Erne Resort failed to persuade the European Tour to keep the event at the Fermanagh venue.
It added: "Over the last several months, senior tour officials began telling us that European Tour management was considering a 'traditional links course strategy' for future Irish Opens.
"We have remained steadfast in our position not to accept this change from the Tour, and we have spent the last few months trying to work with Tour officials at the highest level to persuade them to keep their commitment to Lough Erne Resort and the region.
"However, despite our willingness to work with the Tour in every way to convince them to maintain their commitment, they have made the decision to change the venue to a traditional links course in 2017."
Meanwhile, Danny Willett's first European Tour appearance since winning the Masters on Sunday will be next month's Irish Open at the K Club.
The girl had been playing in a garden in the Carntyne area of the city at 19:00 on Thursday.
A Police Scotland spokesman said officers had attended after receiving a report of a man acting suspiciously towards a child.
"A 40-year-old man has been arrested and is subject to a report to the procurator fiscal," he said.
The footbridge came down near Maidstone in Kent after it was hit by a lorry carrying a digger last weekend.
A large part of the motorway was due to be shut in both directions until Monday morning for the removal to take place.
But Highways England had reopened both north and southbound carriageways by 16:30 BST on Sunday.
About 100 people were working "around the clock" to remove the remaining section of the bridge, Highways England said on Saturday.
Drivers had been warned the road would be closed between junctions 1 and 4 coast-bound and junctions 4 and 2 London-bound from Friday evening until 06:00 BST on Monday.
The collapsed section of the pedestrian bridge, near the village of Addington, was removed from the scene last weekend, and the road was reopened a day later.
The M20 is the main route to the Channel Tunnel and Port of Dover.
The blast at the Barnbow Munitions factory at Crossgates, Leeds, happened in a fusing room on 5 December 1916.
Historic England recommended the site be protected to recognise the role of women in the conflict.
It has now been protected as a scheduled monument by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Historic England said the story of the "Barnbow lasses", as they became known, was covered up for fear of harming morale.
Amateur historians Bob and Jacki Lawrence, of East Leeds Historical and Archaeological Society, have researched the Barnbow Lasses for several years.
Mr Lawrence said: "A girl had picked a shell up, put it on a machine and it blew up.
"It killed 35 girls and injured a lot more - there were probably between 150-175 girls working in that room."
Mrs Lawrence said: "A lot of the relatives felt...the girls had not been given the recognition that they should have done, that their story hadn't been told and they hadn't been acknowledged."
Heritage Minister Tracey Crouch said: "As we mark the centenary of the First World War, it's so important that we remember the sacrifices of those who supported on the home front - especially women."
Neil Redfern, of Historic England, visited the site recently, which is now open greenbelt land.
He said: "This site we would consider to be nationally important now.
"This site made munitions, munitions were meant to kill people, this isn't somewhere you could easily come and celebrate but I think it is really important to commemorate."
You can see more on this story on BBC1 at 19:30 on Inside Out on Monday 10 October
An eyewitness said firefighters had to physically remove the man from a crossing outside a school in Luton, as he continued to help children cross.
The fire engine was on its way to an out of control bonfire on St Ethelbert Avenue, at about 15:30 BST on 13 April.
Luton Borough Council said it has requested CCTV footage from the fire service.
Jacqui Brittain said she saw the fire engine coming down her road, with its lights on, from her bedroom window.
She said he continued to help one group of children from William Austin Junior School cross the road but to her surprise then started a second crossing.
"He just continued to cross them," she said. "He came out into the middle of the road and was ushering them across the road.
"Four of five firemen got out of the vehicle and escorted him off the road.
"It was like watching a car crash."
A spokesman for the council said the man would be suspended while an investigation into the incident was carried out.
"It is vital that emergency services are able to reach their destinations quickly and freely and we have begun an immediate investigation in line with council procedures," he said.
Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said the lollipop man ushered "children and their parents across the road several times in front of the fire appliance".
A spokesman said: "A firefighter spoke to the crossing guard and moved the remaining pedestrians out of the road before assisting other vehicle drivers to clear a path so we could continue to the incident."
It happened when their car was in collision with a van at about 04:45 BST on Wednesday on the N13 at Trimragh, just outside Letterkenny.
It is understood the car was being driven in the wrong direction.
The driver of the van, a 40-year-old man, is in a serious condition at University Hospital.
Insp Michael Harrison said he believes the two dead men are from the Letterkenny area.
"The collision occurred on the inbound lane and it was between a grey Mitsubishi Carisma hatchback and a yellow Renault master van.
"We're in the process of making identification and contacting the families. We believe they are from the Letterkenny area."
Insp Harrison told BBC Radio Foyle the driver of the van may have "life changing" injuries.
"His condition is serious but at the moment we have been told that his injuries are not life threatening but possibly life changing injuries.
"It's a tragic day, to lose two young men in one incident is very sad," he said.
The inbound stretch of the dual carriageway is closed to traffic and diversions are in place.
Police have said the road will remain closed until 18:00 BST.
As nearly three thousand Communist Party delegates gather in the capital for the National People's Congress, this is clearly a critical time for China's economy.
The rate of growth is down yet again, and although that by itself doesn't necessarily make the Chinese government unhappy, it does mean a greater possibility of a so-called hard landing for the economy, with worrying effects on people's jobs and their standard of living.
The American ratings agency Moody's has cut its outlook for China from "stable" to "negative".
"The real economy is suffering big time," says Liu Qian, the director of the Economist Intelligence Unit's China service.
"If anything, I'd say that 2016 is the most critical year for the Chinese economy in the past decade or so."
If things turn out awkwardly here, there's always the possible danger of social unrest: the one thing any Chinese government dreads.
And so President Xi Jinping is pulling up the drawbridge.
Two weeks ago he made his new approach unmistakably clear. On a single day, he visited the main Communist Party newspaper, the state news agency, and state television.
In each place he told the staff they must be absolutely loyal to the Communist Party and follow its leadership in thought, politics and action.
At CCTV the staff welcomed him with a banner which read "Central Television's family name is The Party". And, not by coincidence, he told them: "The media run by the Party and the government… must have the Party as their family name."
What he is demanding from the state broadcaster, the main newspaper, and the national news agency is nothing short of total loyalty to the Party line, and to his own leadership.
For some people here, that's uncomfortably reminiscent of 1970s Maoism. They talk nervously of a new Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong's hugely destructive campaign to destroy his enemies.
A leading pro-government academic, Wang Yukai, who teaches at a top school for Party officials insists that this view is mistaken.
"Seen from the outside, it might look as though our top leadership has become more aggressive. However, this aggressiveness won't last long."
"In order to solve the current economic and social problems that China faces now, these strong measures are understandable."
"China needs a stronger government in order to govern our country and society effectively."
Others see the new hint of authoritarianism as a sign that the top leadership is feeling decidedly vulnerable. Zhang Lifan, an outspoken independent historian, thinks Mr Xi feels a crisis is approaching.
"He is worried that he will lose the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also worried that he might be replaced by his peers."
"For those reasons, he must hold on to his power tightly. He's like a man who doesn't know how to swim. He is going to grab hold of whatever he can."
In the new climate, these might be difficult opinions to voice. Does Mr Zhang feel nervous?
"The fact that I can still talk is quite an exception. I don't know for how much longer, though."
President Xi has some important advantages. He is unquestionably popular. People associate him with China's economic success and with its impressive new standing in the world, and they're proud of what has been achieved.
He has cleaned out any potential opposition in the armed forces. The anti-corruption campaign, which is also hugely popular, has enabled him to get rid of many of his political opponents in the upper ranks of the Communist Party.
Even so, he still seems remarkably thin-skinned. The case of the five Hong Kong booksellers, who vanished in October after they had stocked books purporting to give details of the private lives and power struggles of China's political elite, is particularly disturbing.
The books themselves are scarcely serious. One which I have seen is simply softish porn using Mr Xi as a character. It's absurd and trivial. Yet the full weight of the Chinese Communist Party's anger has fallen on the five men who sold these books.
In spite of the supposedly separate status of Hong Kong, four of the booksellers have appeared on television in mainland China and "confessed" to various crimes in grovelling terms, in a way which is unpleasantly reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution.
One is a Swedish citizen. The other was British, though he claims he has now renounced his British nationality.
Britain has protested that this is a clear breach of the "One country, two systems" agreement under which Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
But the Chinese government has noted with considerable satisfaction that Britain's response was noticeably more muted than that of the United States. The new, closer relationship between China and Britain seems to be paying off - for China.
Senior government and Party figures insist that China won't move away from the path of greater democracy for long.
But the sense of nervousness among better-off people here is growing.
Many wealthy Chinese are getting their money out of the country, and they're sending their children to school and university in Western countries, particularly Britain and the United States.
They hope the latest crack-down won't last. But they aren't taking any chances.
The 29-year-old, ranked 196 in the world, is the second player to shoot 59 on the PGA Tour this year, after Justin Thomas' effort at the Sony Open in Hawaii, but only the fourth ever to achieve the feat on a par-72 course.
The last player to post a 13-under round was David Duval in the final round of the Bob Hope Classic in 1999.
Hadwin's total of 13 birdies ties Chip Beck's record from the 1991 Las Vegas Invitational.
"I got away with a few shots on the back nine and, for whatever reason, whenever I hit a putt, it went in," he said. "I legitimately thought about it [shooting 59] walking off the green on 11."
Hadwin goes into Sunday's final round seeking a first win on the PGA Tour, leading Dominic Bozzelli by a stroke, with a chasing pack of eight players within four strokes of the lead.
Former US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy of Australia is five strokes behind with Scotland's Martin Laird a further shot behind and Greg Owen of England on 10 under.
The incident happened at about 16:40 on Saturday during the SPFL game at Tynecastle Stadium in Edinburgh.
Police said a 48-year-old man had been charged with offensive behaviour at football and an offence under the Threatening Communications Act.
He has been released on bail and will appear in court at a later date.
Police Scotland said the man had been given special bail conditions not to enter within half a mile of Tynecastle Stadium, or any other ground where Hearts are playing, for two hours before the match until two hours after it has finished.
PC Gavin Stupart said: "Since Kilmarnock FC reported this matter we have been carrying our extensive inquiries alongside Hearts and I would like to thank them for their assistance and support now that we have made an arrest.
"Offensive behaviour at football matches will not be tolerated and whenever we identify those responsible we will ensure they are brought before the court.
"We will also seek special bail conditions and banning orders to prevent offenders from attending further football matches."
Magennis, 25, a striker for Northern Ireland, is in his second season at Kilmarnock and has scored 10 goals this term.
It might only have been a few weeks, but it seems a very long time since this election campaign started.
How fresh-faced and young we all were. Politicians were chasing public approval like Labrador puppies rushing after a loo roll. Halcyon days…
…days when, as the Vote Now Show put it, Nicola Sturgeon was the most dangerous woman in the world.
Perhaps William Hague, "the Yorkshire James Bond", as David Cameron put it, could be her nemesis?
The party leaders were invited to debate live on-air, and Question Time became "the BBC's version of Take Me Out" as David Dimbleby put it. Or, if it wasn't Mr Dimbleby, it was a Dead Ringer.
Reaction to the debates was mixed. On the News Quiz, Susan Calman thought Ed Miliband could actually see her watching at home… in her pants, rather unsettlingly.
Meanwhile, after receiving many an intense grilling at the hands of ruthless interviewers, a dead ringer for David Cameron faced perhaps his most challenging showdown with none other than fearless hand puppet, Sooty.
His coalition colleague Nick Clegg gave an exclusive interview of his own, recounting the tale of his five year-long incarceration by the Conservatives (courtesy, of course, of the Dead Ringers again).
UKIP leader Nigel Farage's debate performance somewhat charmed Romesh Ranganathan on the News Quiz.
This was before Mr Farage was admonished by Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru, the party whose manifesto, as digested by Guardian satirist John Crace, aimed to "decide everything about Wales apart from the bits that are a bit tricky or expensive".
Of course there'll always be the killjoys. Not everyone was excited by the rollercoaster ride of polls, photo opportunities and people interrupting the leaders' debates, inspiring Mitch Benn's Boring Election Blues sound.
Unfortunately these naysayers seemed to include Dimbleby, the Vote Now Show cat, who summed up the views of the British public with an overwhelming disdain for all parties simultaneously.
You'd think at least Dimbleby the Cat would have backed the Greens to support his furry friends and, again as John Crace's digested manifesto put it, to embrace "the widespread planting of lavender bushes".
But this, of course, has been a 21st Century election, backed by 21st Century technology. Politicians could make use of a brilliant new app that made any manifesto sound entirely reasonable… by relaying the bad news through the voice of beloved actor Penelope Wilton.
Or to help we, the people, Andy Saltzman devised the Sub Textricator 3000 for the Vote Now Show that tells us what on earth they, the politicians, are really thinking.
But if older technology is your thing, why not try satirist Alistair Beaton's Electionland phrasebook, with direct translations of such familiar sound bites as "taking tough decisions" (breaking promises) and "let me make this crystal clear" (let me repeatedly avoid answering the question).
It's a funny old game, politics.
More from the Radio 4 Comedy Election.
The GCC's secretary-general accused the Iran-backed Shia group of recruiting youths from Gulf states for attacks.
Hezbollah is a key political and military force in Lebanon, and is involved in the conflict in Syria.
The GCC decision appears to be the latest measure by Saudi Arabia and its allies aimed at countering Hezbollah's power over Lebanon's government.
Two weeks ago, Saudi Arabia halted a $3bn (£2bn) military aid package after the Lebanese government failed to condemn attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran by protesters angered by the execution of a prominent Saudi Shia cleric.
Saudi Arabia and two other Sunni-ruled GCC states, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, subsequently warned their citizens not to travel to Lebanon.
The GCC's designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation brings it into line with the United States and the European Union, although the latter has only blacklisted the group's military wing.
In a statement, GCC Secretary General Abdul Latif al-Zayani accused Hezbollah of "hostile acts" against member states, which also include Oman, Qatar and Kuwait.
They included recruiting young men for "terrorist attacks, smuggling weapons and explosives, stirring up sedition and incitement to chaos and violence", he said.
The decision came a day after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned that Saudi Arabia had pushed Lebanon into a new phase of a political conflict by ending its military aid programme and dealing a blow to the country's tourism industry.
He also accused Saudi Arabia of direct responsibility for recent car bomb attacks in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, and denounced the "massacres" resulting from a Saudi-led coalition military campaign against the Shia Houthi rebel movement in Yemen.
"Who gives Saudi Arabia the right to punish Lebanon and its army and Lebanese people living in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf just because Hezbollah is speaking out? We urge Riyadh to settle accounts with Hezbollah and not all the Lebanese,'' he said.
Following the GCC decision on Wednesday, the Saudi-backed Lebanese Sunni politician Saad Hariri criticised Hezbollah's actions in Syria and its alleged involvement in Yemen's conflict as "criminal, unlawful and terrorist", but stressed that he wanted to continue domestic dialogue to "avoid sedition" in Lebanon.
Ibrahim Halawa could face a death penalty with nearly 500 others over anti-government protests in 2013.
In April, the BBC revealed the Egyptian government had rejected allegations by the United Nations about his treatment.
His family said they had been told a number of time that a court would pass judgement on his case on Wednesday.
Mr Halawa, the son of Ireland's most senior Muslim cleric, has been held for more than two-and-a-half years since his arrest in Cairo.
In a statement, his family said they were told on Wednesday that judges now plan to reopen the case and to reassess video evidence.
It has been adjourned until 2 October.
"This decision comes as a surprise to our family, and the Irish government, in circumstances where we all understood the proceedings would come to a conclusion today," they said.
"To say we are devastated by today's outcome is an understatement."
The Irish government was represented at the court hearing and has expressed "deep disappointment and concern" at the latest development.
In a statement, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said he shared the Halawa family's sense of frustration.
"I will be conveying my concerns about this delay directly to the Egyptian government," he said.
"I will be seeking more information of the review of technical evidence ordered by the court and its likely impact on this trial.
"Yesterday I met Ibrahim's father and sister and reassured them of my own and the government's continued commitment to achieving our two objectives: to secure Ibrahim's return to Ireland as soon as possible and to ensure his welfare during his detention."
Mr Flanagan added that the case is one of his "key" priorities.
The minister revealed that he met the Egyptian foreign affairs minister in Cairo on 16 June to underline the Irish government's concerns about the case.
Lawyers for the family said they plan to re-apply for Mr Halawa to be released under the presidential decree, which would mean he would be deported back to the Republic of Ireland.
Solicitor Darragh Mackin said he will meet with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in the coming days "to consult on the proposed way forward."
Mr Halawa was 17 at the time of his arrest after Egyptian security forces ended a siege at the Al-Fath mosque in August 2013.
Three of his sisters were also arrested, but were later released on bail.
The family said they were on holiday at the time and had sought refuge in the mosque to escape the violence outside.
They have denied claims that Mr Halawa is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and largest Islamist organisation.
The Eyptian government has declared it a terrorist group, a claim it rejects.
Mr Halawa and 492 others have been charged with murder and a range of other serious offences.
Together with Charlie Adam's 65-yard strike, Bobby Zamora's lob, Wayne Rooney's volley, Bafetimbi Gomis's acrobatic effort and Alexis Sanchez's thunderbolt, we could almost put together a list of goal of the season contenders in one week.
BBC Sport takes a look at the goals that were scored, asks which was the best and reports the reaction they all brought. Here are the results.
Pundit reaction:
Former Wales midfielder Robbie Savage on BBC Radio 5 live: "Charlie Adam's goal is better than David Beckham's. Beckham was just outside his own half but Adam is outside the centre circle. It is about 65 yards and he has driven it like a wood over the goalkeeper."
Ex-Stoke City winger Matthew Etherington on BBC Radio Stoke: "Charlie Adam's tried that nine or 10 times before but it has come off today. He's had an absolute stinker in this first half but that will go down as one of the best goals in Premier League history. I won't see many better in my lifetime. Absolutely unbelievable."
Social media:
Chris Mitchell via #bbcfootball: Stunning hit from Adam. An absolute worldy. QPR's Matt Phillips the only person who didn't jump up the minute it hit the net!!
Haider Munir via #bbcfootball: What a day for amazing goals. Ozil, Zamora, Sanchez, Rooney and the best of the bunch, Charlie Adam.
Niki Trueman on the Match of the Day Facebook page: Better than Beckham and Rooney. Goal of the season.
Pundit reaction:
Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright on 606: "Defoe's goal was brilliant. It is the kind of goal that gets you off your seat and that he is capable of scoring."
Ex-Scotland winger Pat Nevin on BBC Radio 5 live: "Defoe's goal is up there in the pantheon of the best he has scored. Put three goalkeepers in that goal and that is not getting saved."
Social media:
Raman Chettiar via #bbcfootball: Come on guys Defoe's goal has got to be up there with Tony Yeboah's goal for Leeds.
Dan McCartney via #bbcfootball: Defoe scoring the 4th best goal of the weekend and getting into the top 10 for the season simultaneously.
Greg Matthews via #bbcfootball: Great goal Defoe, but it is struggling to make top 3 this weekend. Been incredible really.
Pundit reaction:
Ex-England winger Chris Waddle on BBC Radio 5 live: "You won't see a better goal this season than Wayne Rooney's for Manchester United. That is absolutely phenomenal. It was an awkward ball to bring down, but as it bounces Rooney swivels and fires the ball into the top corner. The ball is still very high but he gets right on top of the ball. What a fantastic goal."
Social media:
IAMstan via #bbcfootball: Absolute stonkers in the league this weekend. My pick Wazza's goal.
Peter Malath via #bbcfootball: What a goal! Wayne Rooney. Goal of the day nomination now, all Arsenal four plus this one.
Kenny Kong via #bbcfootball: Rooney celebrating as if he was Cantona, after that goal if was only fair enough, great control and technique.
Pundit reaction:
Former Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas on Final Score: "Bobby Zamora's strike is definitely up there for goal of the season. We spoke about Matty Phillips's goal at Crystal Palace but Zamora's is up there."
BBC Football Focus presenter Dan Walker: "Lovely goal from Bobby Zamora for QPR's third. Off the bar and everything. Even got a single clap from MOTD pundit Ruud Gullit."
Social media:
Craig Malpass via #bbcfootball: Any goal from half-way looks good but isn't as technically impressive as the likes of Zamora's or Defoe's. Bobby wins it for me.
Theo Bearman via #bbcfootball: From a QPR fan, Zamora's goal yesterday has to be GOTS. Tight angle with a player on him with his outside left boot; magical.
Harry Boustead via #bbcfootball: Adam & Rooney both great goals yesterday but done before. Bobby Zamora's was the stand out goal, pure skill.
Pundit reaction:
Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown on BBC Radio 5 live: "That is a stunning, stunning goal and it is done at breakneck speed. He must have ABS brakes the way he turns inside Kolo Toure. The speed of his feet... he has hit it in a flash. That is as good a goal as you will see all season."
Social media reaction:
Cooper via #bbcfootball: So many good goals this weekend. Adam, Defoe, Zamora, Rooney, Cambiasso, Vargas and all of the Arsenal goals.
Daniel Osunbor via #bbcfootball: Sanchez is better than Hazard. Brilliant goal.
Bishop Yinkus via #bbcfootball: Sanchezzzzzz what a screamer of a goallllll
Pundit reaction:
Former Tottenham striker Garth Crooks: "Here is a player who is taking complete advantage of the departure of Wilfried Bony to Manchester City and filling the void admirably. He took both his goals extremely well."
Social media:
Dan Wade via #bbcfootball: Best weekend for goals ever? Just need a Yannick Bolasie backheel volley from his own penalty area now.
Callum Shaw via #bbcfootball: Are all of April's goal of the month contenders going to be from this weekend? Wouldn't be surprised. This is insane!
Huw Rowlands on the Match of the Day Facebook page: Two awesome goals yesterday! Well done our Bafe.
A 21-year-old man was arrested after failing a roadside drug test following the incident on the A55 near Llanfairfechan, Conwy county.
He was later released on bail.
The crash happened at about 20:00 GMT on Monday and the injured police officer is being treated at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.
Click on the links below for Saturday's Scottish match reports.
Scottish Championship
Alloa Athletic 0-1 St Mirren
Falkirk 1-2 Livingston
Greenock Morton 0-1 Raith Rovers
Rangers 4-3 Queen of the South
Scottish League One
Airdrieonians 1-1 Albion Rovers
Ayr United 2-1 Stranraer
Dunfermline Athletic 3-1 Brechin City
Peterhead 0-1 Cowdenbeath
Stenhousemuir 2-1 Forfar Athletic
Scottish League Two
Berwick Rangers 2-0 Elgin City
Clyde 1-2 Arbroath
East Fife 1-1 Queen's Park
Montrose 0-5 Annan Athletic
Stirling Albion 3-0 East Stirlingshire
The Rhondda MP said politicians' offices had been barricaded, and one MP's house had been surrounded.
Mr Bryant said such abuse was "beyond the pale" and that security at MPs' homes and offices should be reviewed.
Caerphilly MP Wayne David said he was called a "murderer" and "warmonger" for backing wider military action.
Mr David and Mr Bryant were among the four Labour MPs to join 11 Welsh Conservatives in supporting David Cameron's proposals, the measure was passed by a large majority of 174 on Wednesday night.
Air strikes targeting Islamic State militants in Syria began shortly afterwards.
Mr Bryant told the Commons on Thursday that many people had "hurled a great deal of abuse" at MPs on both sides of the debate.
He said some had been called "murderers, peacenik, terrorist sympathisers, whatever", but insisted "no MP should ever be intimidated".
"Sadly the abuse for all members of this house has been beyond the pale," Mr Bryant said.
"Several members have had their offices barricaded, one member had her house surrounded, many had photos of dead babies pushed through their front door at home.
"I gather today some members have received photos of severed heads."
"MPs have broad shoulders, of course we do, but can I ask members to review the security of members homes and offices," Mr Bryant added.
Mr David, a frontbench justice spokesman and former minister, told BBC Radio Wales that as well as being called "a warmonger" he had been told he would have "blood on my hands", had received anonymous calls to his office and was threatened with de-selection.
Mr David, Mr Bryant and Stephen Doughty were the most prominent Welsh Labour MPs calling for military action.
They were joined by Susan Elan Jones, the Clwyd South MP.
Twenty of Wales' 25 Labour and three Plaid Cymru MPs rejected the plan.
Among the Welsh Labour MPs who voted against air strikes were shadow cabinet members Nia Griffith and Owen Smith.
They were joined by Kevin Brennan, Geraint Davies, Chris Evans, David Hanson, Paul Flynn, Carolyn Harris, Huw Irranca-Davies, Gerald Jones, Stephen Kinnock, Ian Lucas, Madeleine Moon, Christina Rees, Jo Stevens, Nick Smith, Mark Tami and Nick Thomas-Symonds, Jessica Morden and Albert Owen.
Ann Clwyd was absent from the vote due to illness.
Although the Liberal Democrats said they were in favour of air strikes, the party's only Welsh MP, Mark Williams, voted against.
Glyn Davies, Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire, who voted in favour of the action, said most MPs accepted there was no certainty the strikes would work to combat so-called Islamic State targets.
"If there was certainty then there would be no difficulty securing the vote of everyone. It's a big problem we're confronted with - a massive problem," he said.
The prime minister said carrying out UK air strikes in Syria would "keep the British people safe", as MPs debated the issue on Wednesday.
Mr Corbyn had claimed David Cameron's case "doesn't stack up", but he allowed his MPs a free vote on the issue.
Had the Commission not intervened the "deplorable" cartel "would have continued", said EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia.
The illegal cartel had harmed both companies and consumers, he said.
British Airways was fined 104m euros, Air France-KLM 340m euros and Cargolux Airlines 79.9m euros.
The fines follow lengthy investigations by regulators in Europe, the US and Asia, dating back to 2006.
The EU said that the airlines "co-ordinated their action on surcharges for fuel and security without discounts", between early 1999 and 2006.
"The carriers contacted each other so as to ensure that worldwide air freight carriers imposed a flat rate surcharge per kg for all shipments."
The Commission imposed the biggest fine - 340m euros - on Air France-KLM, which was formed from a merger in 2004 and which now owns Martinair, which was also fined.
"It is deplorable that so many major airlines coordinated their pricing to the detriment of European businesses and European consumers," said Mr Almunia.
"With today's decision the Commission is sending a clear message that it will not tolerate cartel behaviour."
BA said it had already made a £350m provision for any possible fines over the cargo price fixing.
A BA spokesman said the airline's fine fell "within the provision made by the company in its 2006/7 report and accounts".
The German carrier Lufthansa escaped a fine because it alerted the regulatory authorities to the cartel.
The maximum fine the Commission could have imposed on any single carrier was 10% of their 2009 turnover.
The US Department of Justice has already charged 18 airlines and several executives in its investigation of the cargo cartel and imposed more than $1.6bn (£997m) in fines.
The Commission's decision will have an impact on several pending legal actions by European companies against some of the airlines.
A group of firms, led by the Swedish telecoms group Ericsson and Dutch electronics giant Philips, are suing Air France-KLM and its Martinair subsidiary for 400m euros.
The vehicle was used in the Antarctic to map the movement of deep, cold water as it moves away from the White Continent towards the Atlantic Ocean.
Scientists say this flow of water plays an important role in helping to regulate the Earth's climate system.
Boaty made a total of three dives, reaching down to 4,000m below the surface.
And by all accounts, it acquired a remarkable set of new data.
"We were extremely pleased with Boaty's performance," said Prof Alberto Naveira-Garabato from the University of Southampton, the lead scientist for the investigations conducted from the deck of the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross.
"Boaty's longest dive was over three days, covering 180km. Boaty flew through some very strong currents, very close to the ocean bottom and encountered some really steep terrain. And it did this while running through a very complex sampling pattern."
Boaty carries the name that a public poll had suggested be given to the UK's future £200m polar research vessel.
The government felt this would be inappropriate and directed the humorous moniker go on a submersible instead (the ship will be called the RSS Sir David Attenborough).
Southampton's National Oceanography Centre (NOC) - the home of Boaty - is actually going to use the brand on three robots in its new Autosub Long Range class.
These subs have proven their capabilities in various sea trials but the Antarctic venture was the first full science expedition, proper.
Boaty was programmed to swim through a narrow gap in the ocean-floor ridge that extends northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Known as the Orkney Passage, this opening is a critical "valve" in the so-called "great ocean conveyor" - the relentless system of deep circulation that helps redistribute all the heat energy that has built up in the climate system.
There is evidence that this flow of bottom-water is warming, perhaps because of a strengthening of the winds over the Southern Ocean.
Prof Naveira-Garabato told BBC News: "When the winds change speed they can lead to an acceleration or deceleration of the currents carrying the bottom-water out of Antarctica. And when these currents change speed they will produce more or less turbulence depending on whether they go faster or slower, and that can change how much heat gets mixed into the currents from above, because the waters above are warmer."
That could have a number of important implications, not least for sea-level rise, because if the bottom-water is warming it will expand and push up the ocean surface.
Boaty took temperature, salinity (saltiness), current, and turbulence measurements on its deep dives.
"On the cruise, we also took lots of measurements from the ship using profiling instruments, giving us very high-resolution in depth, but at a fixed point in time and space,” explained Dr Povl Abrahamsen from the British Antarctic Survey.
“And we recovered instruments that had been moored in the area over the last two years, giving us good coverage in time, but again at a fixed point and depth. The data from Boaty fills in the gaps between these measurements, yielding data that we can’t get in any other way."
The sub's exploits were not all trouble free, however. At the start of one dive, Boaty encountered a swarm of krill so dense that its echo sounders thought it was approaching the seabed even though it was only at 80m depth. The sub returned to the surface as a consequence.
"Boaty is cutting-edge technology, and is still under development. As is always the case when pushing the boundaries, a few minor mishaps did occur," said Dr Abrahamsen.
"But we learn from these problems, rectify them, and it makes Boaty more reliable in the future, enabling it to undertake more complex missions, farther away from ship support."
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Thirteen people were killed and 22 injured when a lone Heinkel 111 bomber flew along Holderness Road in Hull on 17 March 1945.
The crew opened fire with machine guns and dropped fragmentation bombs.
Many of the dead and injured were just leaving the Savoy cinema at the end of a film performance.
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The victims are commemorated on a plaque on the site of the cinema.
No high explosives were used, so no structural damage to buildings was done.
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Nathan Arnold's injury-time goal sent the Imps through at the expense of a side 59 places higher in the pyramid.
Ipswich are 14th in the Championship, without successive wins all season.
"If the club want to sack me, so be it, and if the fans are that sick of me then that makes life difficult for me at every game," said McCarthy.
"When we win it's OK, and when we lose it's 'I'm getting sacked in the morning'.
"I've had wonderful support from the fans, I'm not going to complain about them.
"That was disappointing for all of us, and even more so for the guys that have travelled up, paid their money and watched a dreadful performance."
National League side Lincoln twice took the lead in the original tie to earn a replay at Sincil Bank and played superbly to defeat the 1978 FA Cup winners and reach the fourth round for the first time in 41 years.
McCarthy told BBC Radio Suffolk: "Clearly it wasn't a good performance but I am going to congratulate Lincoln and say how well they played. They dominated the game.
"I would expect better from my team and I didn't get it. I'm not going stand here and berate my players because they're the ones I have to trust and rely on.
"They're bitterly disappointed with how we played."
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"People are celebrating on the streets," a resident said.
Fighters loyal to anti-Islamist Gen Khalifa Haftar are reported to have taken over the port, a hospital and have cut off a key weapons supply line.
Thousands have fled more than a year of fighting in Benghazi, the birthplace of the 2011 uprising.
Once in the Libyan army, Gen Haftar fought with revolutionaries to overthrow long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya has since fragmented and has rival parliaments backed by various militias and brigades spawned by the uprising.
The chaos has allowed Islamic State fighters to gain a foothold in the country, and some are believed to be fighting with other Islamist militias in Benghazi.
In January, the UN brokered a deal between rival lawmakers to form a unity government, but this has not yet happened.
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The controversial Gen Haftar's gains give him a stronger hand in Libya's volatile political landscape, and puts military actors in eastern and western Libya on a near equal-footing in terms of territorial control.
The general and his political backers will now be emboldened to demand a greater say in who leads the army under the proposed unity government.
But the already faltering peace process could go back to square one as politicians and militiamen in the west, who are vehemently opposed to the general, harden their attitude.
One MP in the west, who played a key role in getting the big Misrata brigades to support the peace process, has already launched a scathing attack on Gen Haftar, calling him a "dictatorial coup leader".
Last year, Gen Haftar was appointed as the head of armed forces for the parliament based in the eastern port city of Tobruk.
Some of the Islamist militias he has been battling in his hometown of Benghazi are backed by political factions in the west, where the Tripoli administration is based.
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Admiral Lord West, First Sea Lord between 2007 to 2010, told the defence committee that the MoD had effectively "run out of money".
MPs are looking at claims the timetable for the new Type 26 has slipped.
The committee heard that work was scheduled for this year but may not start until the first part of 2018.
Union bosses, who represent workers at the Govan and Scotstoun shipyards, where the frigates are due to built, are worried that if the project continues to be delayed jobs could be lost.
The UK government confirmed in its Strategic Defence and Security Review in November that eight Type 26 frigates would be built on the Clyde, although the total number was scaled back from 13.
In the meantime, the BAE Systems-run yards are being sustained by Ministry of Defence orders for new offshore patrol vessels.
Lord West appeared before MPs at Westminster alongside Sir Mark Stanhope, former First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, and Peter Roberts, senior research fellow for sea power and maritime studies at RUSI (Royal United Service Institute).
The peer, who sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, told the committee: "There is almost no money available this year and we are really strapped next year. The government aren't coming clear about that. I think if they did people would understand.
"We have run out of money effectively and they [MoD] have pushed this programme to the right and that is bloody dangerous because whenever you do that you end up costing more money and we did that in the early 1990s for the astute class subs. Finally the order came in two months before the election.
"It has taken almost 20 years to get submarine building back on track properly and has cost an extra three-quarters-of-a-billion more than if we had got on with it then.
"This is where the Treasury don't see the long term thing and we are in danger of doing the same thing with our surface warship capability of the Type 26."
He added that a "steady drumbeat of orders" was needed to keep "high tech industries" going.
The UK government said it remained committed to shipbuilding on the Clyde.
In April, Scottish Secretary David Mundell told the BBC: "Obviously it is for BAE Systems on how they deal with their operational requirements and I very much want to see them engaging with the trade unions to ensure that they have a smoother transition through to the Type 26 programme."
The committee also took evidence from representatives of BAE Systems, GE Energy Connections - Power Conversion, Northrop Grumman and Rolls-Royce.
John Hudson, managing director of BAE Systems, was asked if the frigate programme was to go ahead tomorrow, would the Clyde yards be ready.
He told MPs that the ability to start would depend on three things;
Mr Hudson added: "We would need to accelerate some of those activities to accelerate the building of those vessels."
He went on to tell the committee: "We are in detailed negotiations with the MoD as to the build programme for Type 26, we continue those discussions."
In addition, MPs also heard from Unite union official Duncan McPhee.
He said that with a likely delay skilled workers would have to be sent elsewhere, such as Barrow. He believed such a move would "mess up the drumbeat" of construction.
Mr McPhee said the workforce on the Clyde was "very concerned" about the slipping timetable.
During questioning by SNP MP Douglas Chapman, the union boss said: "We have the workforce ready to do it [build the Type 26].
"If you are saying, could we start immediately, we could do it reasonably soon I think, but there would be design issues because obviously with the date moved to the right things have slowed down.
"We released some designers last year who were working on the programme, but we could get it back on track quite quickly and also it would need to fit in with the Offshore Patrol Vessel programme as well."
Original plan
2016 - first steel cut for Type 26
2021 - handover of first ship
2022 - brought into service
BAE System's managing director, John Hudson, explained to the committee that in 2013 the plan was for Govan and Scotstoun to build three Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs), followed by the Type 26. After the 2015 MoD review, a request was made for two further OPVs, impacting on when the Type 26 work would start.
Possible new plan
2017 - first steel cut at the end of the year
2023 - handover of first ship
2025 - brought into service
Committee chairman Julian Lewis put to Mr Hudson what the new timetable would be. The BAE chief would not be drawn on the dates, stating that his company was currently in negotiations with the MoD.
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The 2007 Masters winner finished a shot ahead of South African Louis Oosthuizen and three ahead of Australian Marc Leishman over four extra holes.
Earlier, the three ended on 15 under to lead a competitive field at St Andrews.
Jordan Spieth's hopes of a Grand Slam were ended as he finished on 14 under along with Australia's Jason Day.
Joint halfway leader Danny Willett and fellow Englishman Justin Rose both carded two-under 70s, as did Spaniard Sergio Garcia, to finish joint sixth on 11 under.
American Jordan Niebrugge also hit a 70 to finish 11 under and claim the Silver Medal for leading amateur ahead of Ireland's Paul Dunne, the joint overnight leader, who shot a six-over 78 to drop to joint 30th on six under.
Australian Adam Scott was in contention but a poor back nine gave him a one-under 71 and a share of 10th on 10 under.
Ireland's Padraig Harrington, who claimed back-to-back Open titles in 2007 and 2008, started well with three birdies in his first five holes but a double-bogey on six checked his progress and he ended up carding a three-over 75 to finish joint 20th on seven under.
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Johnson struck just 15 putts over the first 12 holes of his final round on Monday to record seven birdies and his skill on the green again came to the fore in the play-off.
The 39-year-old holed challenging putts on the first and second to claim two birdies and go one shot clear of Oosthuizen and two ahead of Leishman.
Leishman, who had followed his stunning third-round 64 with a six-under 66 on Monday to head the leaderboard after making the cut by a shot, fell out of contention with two pars.
This left 2010 Open winner Oosthuizen, whose birdie on the last gave him a 69 and a shot at the Claret Jug, to challenge Johnson but after a bogey on the third extra hole he pushed his putt on the last just wide to give the American the win.
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Masters and US Open winner Spieth started well in pursuit of a 2015 Grand Slam, birdieing three of the first seven, but a wayward tee shot and then a hugely over-hit putt on the par-three eighth ultimately led to a double bogey that looked to have cost him dear.
But such is the ability and cool temperament of the 21-year-old, he hit back with successive birdies on the ninth and 10th before sinking a 30-foot putt to join the clubhouse leaders on 15 under.
However, a bogey on the Road Hole 17th left him needing a birdie on the last - and when his chip rolled back off the green his hopes were left hanging on a putt that proved too much for the world number two. His three-under-par 69 was one shot shy of the play-off.
A run of four successive birdies from 11 to 14, helped Sheffield-born Willett to 11 under and joint sixth place, eclipsing his previous best Open finish - the tied 15th he managed at Muirfield in 2013.
Rose, the 2013 US Open champion, famously finished fourth as an amateur at Royal Birkdale in 1998 but his own 11-under overall score gives him his best finish in 12 Opens as a professional.
Fellow Englishmen Luke Donald (68) and Anthony Wall (70) both ended on nine under for a share of 12th, but it was a bad day for Scottish pair Paul Lawrie and Marc Warren, who carded 73 and 74 respectively to finish five under and tie for 40th.
Spaniard Garcia remains without a major title after claiming a 20th top-10 finish in one of golf's top four tournaments, courtesy of a round of 70 that began well but tailed away, with bogeys at 12, 13 and 17, to an 11-under finish.
It was another emotional finale for Jason Day, who was visibly upset after his par on the 18th left him one shot short of the play-off. His only consolation is an impressive ninth top-10 finish in his 19th major.
American halfway leader Dustin Johnson continued his slide from the majestic to the mediocre, suffering a hangover from the three bogeys that ended his efforts on Sunday by dropping another three shots on the front nine to tumble further down the leaderboard.
A second successive three-over 75 left the US Open runner-up a disappointing four under overall and to reflect on another missed opportunity.
Irishman Dunne, 22, was calmness personified on Sunday with a superb six-under 66 to take a share of the overnight lead but looked far less assured during Monday's final round, starting with a bogey as his professional rivals racked up birdies.
He hit three wayward tee shots on the par-four second before finally finding his first shot, which had come to rest on a green on an adjacent course. It was in bounds and playable but a second bogey followed.
Birdies at the third and fifth steadied him but a back nine comprising four bogeys and a double bogey saw him plummet to six under and fourth in the race for the Silver Medal.
That honour went to American Niebrugge, whose final-round 70 saw him finish two shots ahead of compatriot Oliver Schniederjans (67) and England's Ashley Chesters, who followed Sunday's 67 with a three-under 69.
"I would rank it the top accomplishment I've had so far: the Silver Medal in a major championship, especially at St Andrews, is definitely a dream come true," said Niebrugge, 21.
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As in Sunday's third round, the course was there for the taking on Monday morning courtesy of calm, dry weather.
American Brendon Todd paved the way for what was possible in such conditions, going out at 09:40 BST to shoot a six-under 66 and establish an early nine-under clubhouse lead, matched soon after by England's Luke Donald and Germany's two-time major winner Martin Kaymer, who both carded 68.
Phil Mickelson was on course to better both but hammered his tee shot at the 17th way right and on to one of the balconies of the Old Course Hotel as part of a triple-bogey that ultimately led to a three-under 69 and the end of his prospects at seven under overall.
The Loch Carron reef near Plockton was "intensively" dredged on two occasions and could take decades to recover.
The dredger was operating legally, but marine conservationist Howard Wood said it represented a "complete failure" of inshore fishery management.
The Scottish government said it would investigate the "worrying" reports.
Flame shells are bivalves that make nests on the sea bed. The reef that forms around the nests is a valuable nursery ground for young scallops, crustaceans and fish.
Many of the flame shell beds that used to be found off the west coast of Scotland have now disappeared and Scottish Natural Heritage considers large beds rare.
Mr Wood, a winner of the international Goldman Environmental Prize for his marine conservation work, said he was "mad and outraged" by the destruction of the bed, which has been photographed and filmed by divers.
"It's a complete failure of Marine Scotland's inshore fishery management," he told BBC Scotland.
"We're way behind other countries. Norway and other Scandinavian countries would not allow this in inshore waters. We need to bring our inshore fisheries up to modern-day standards."
Mr Wood said the damage would also have an economic impact on the local area, as scallop divers who had been sustainably fishing the reef for many years had now lost a valuable source of income.
"They're going to have a hard time over the next few years," he said.
The reef is in Loch Carron, a sea loch to the east of Skye. It is not in a Marine Protected Area (MPA) and can be legally dredged.
But marine biologist Sue Scott, who has lived in the area for 25 years, said the flame shell reefs were a vital habitat for hundreds of species - including the commercially-important scallops.
Ms Scott told the BBC the same dredger had visited the area twice in April, making repeated passes close to the shore.
It is thought to have been the first time in 10-15 years that a dredger has come to the area.
She said the reef, which covers about a square kilometre, had been "wrecked".
"Divers have seen hundreds of dead and dying flame shells.
"The seabed has been ripped up and there's damage to marine life - starfish with legs missing, dead squat lobsters, dead spider crabs and smashed sea urchins.
"It's just devastating."
Ms Scott said she could not understand why it was legal for dredgers to cause so much damage.
"They really should be banned from fishing so close inshore. My quibble is with the law not the dredgers," she added.
Bertie Armstrong, from the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, said scallop dredgers were an "economically-important part of the market".
"There are local jobs in local communities from scallop dredging," he said.
"Not all scallops can be hand-dived. It has its place, but the market cannot be supplied just by that.
"Secondly, MPAs exist that protect flame shell beds and we are great supporters of that. But you can't protect all the flame shell beds, all the time, everywhere."
However, the Open Seas organisation, which campaigns to "promote sustainable seafood", said the federation did not represent the interests of 80% of the vessels operating inshore which use creel or dive methods for harvesting shellfish.
Open Seas spokesman Phil Taylor said: "Such reckless damage for the profit of just one boat is subsea scandal. It brings shame on our seafood industry, damages the future of the fishing industry and the productivity of our sea.
"Recent measures designed to manage scallop dredging are totally inadequate. For the sake of our fishing long term, we need fundamental reform of the way we spatially manage bottom-towed fishing."
Open Seas has urged the Scottish Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham to investigate the issue.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: "These reports are worrying and will be investigated.
"But it is worth noting that there are already strong measures in place to protect valuable marine habitats around our coastline.
"We work closely with local communities and the inshore fisheries groups to review what, if any, additional protective measures are required."
"We will continue this dialogue as we seek to balance the need for legitimate and responsible fishing activity whilst simultaneously preserving our incredibly diverse marine environment."
Bashar al-Assad told a Russian news agency he would expect it to consist of "independent forces, opposition forces and forces loyal to the state".
Indirect talks between the government and opposition resumed this month.
The opposition insist Mr Assad must step down, though the government says his fate is not up for discussion.
The president has previously said it is up to the people of Syria to decide who governs them.
A spokesman for the main opposition umbrella group at the UN-led talks dismissed Mr Assad's latest comments.
"The government, whether it's new or old, as long as it is in the presence of Bashar al-Assad, is not part of the political process," said George Sabra, of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), Reuters news agency reported.
"What Bashar al-Assad is talking about has no relation to the political process."
The major powers backing rival sides in the war agree that there must be a political transition process, a new constitution and elections in Syria, but so far the talks in Geneva have not produced any signs of progress.
Speaking to RIA Novosti, Mr Assad said despite deep differences between the two parties, the format for a new government could emerge from the talks.
"There are many questions that need to be discussed in Geneva, but there are not difficult questions," he said. "I don't consider them difficult, they can all be resolved."
Mr Assad did not spell out what he meant by "opposition forces". The Syrian government does not recognise rebel groups, which it commonly refers to as "terrorists", while there has long been a tolerated political opposition inside Syria.
Mr Assad said a new draft constitution could be drawn up "within a few weeks" and would then need to be put to a national vote.
The HNC has accused the Syrian government of trying to scupper the negotiations by refusing to discuss Mr Assad's future.
At the end of the previous round of talks last week, the UN's special envoy said both sides were taking the process "very seriously", noting the atmosphere had been more constructive than previously with "no breakdowns; no walkouts; and no de-legitimisation".
The talks are expected to resume in the first half of April.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service crews arrived at the scene of the three-car collision at about 12:15.
There have not been any reports of casualties from the other vehicles involved in the crash on the town's Glasgow Road.
The two men were treated by ambulance staff before being taken to Crosshouse Hospital.
Incident commander Tony Cano confirmed that both men had been safely removed from the car.
They allege that some people have used such services "to distribute illegal and harmful information, seriously undermining public interests".
China has said suspects arrested in recent anti-terror sweeps shared their knowledge of making explosives via chat services and text messages.
Instant messaging apps have become hugely popular in China.
One of the biggest ones, WeChat, boasts more than 800 million users.
Over the past few years social media platforms have gained popularity among Chinese internet users keen to voice their opinions and share unfiltered information.
However, this has resulted in increased scrutiny and censorship by the authorities.
China even introduced a law to allow the government to imprison microbloggers, and dozens were arrested last year.
Subsequently, many users have ditched social media platforms in favour of mobile messaging services.
China's state-owned media agency, Xinhua, reported that the latest campaign will "target public accounts on instant messaging services, which can spread information on a large scale and mobilize followers".
It will crack down on those spreading rumours and information relating to violence, terrorism and pornography.
Those using instant messaging services for fraud will also be targeted.
"We will firmly fight against infiltration from hostile forces at home and abroad," Xinhua quoted China's state internet information office as saying.
Seven firms offering instant messaging services, including WeChat, Momo, Mi Talk and Yixin, have agreed to co-operate with the authorities and launch internal inspections, Xinhua said.
The son of a UK circus owner, he spent his school holidays wowing large crowds with his daredevil aerial shows.
And when he wasn't flying through the air under the big top, he was breathing fire, showing off his juggling skills, or performing as a clown.
But while his siblings joined his father's business - Gerry Cottle's Circus - full-time when they left school, Gerry Jr ultimately decided it was not for him.
"Something didn't feel quite right, I wasn't obsessive about it," says Gerry Jr, now 34. "I wanted something different."
So hanging up his circus costumes, he spent his 20s working in public relations (PR) and event management in London.
But with an overwhelming desire to run his own company like his dad, a novel idea for a business projected itself in his mind.
And while it didn't include trapezes, it did involve going way above ground level, and putting on a good show.
"I always loved films and had a passion for events because of the circus background," he says.
"I'd noticed pop-up cinema events, and I'd seen a rooftop with not much happening on it in east London, and I thought, 'Why not have a rooftop cinema?' No-one else was doing it."
And so he had the idea for his business - Rooftop Film Club - which he launched in 2011. Today the London-based company runs regular screenings in the UK capital, as well as in New York and Los Angeles.
To get Rooftop Film Club off the ground, Gerry Jr was able to persuade a bank to lend him £10,000 while he still worked in PR.
"I'd get home from work at 8pm, and then work on Rooftop Film Club," he says. "Before I knew it, it would be 2am. It was hard work but I loved it."
However, a week before the company's first event - a screening of the coming-of-age film Stand by Me, on top of the Queen of Hoxton bar in Shoreditch, east London - a spanner was thrown into the works.
Gerry Jr, who had just quit his day job at the time, says: "The owners said, 'We can't have amplified sounds, we don't want to upset the neighbours.'
"I thought 'this will finish me'."
But determined to go ahead, his solution was to provide everyone who attended with a large pair of headphones.
He was unsure whether people would be happy with this, but says the headphones were a big success.
"Headphones have been our USP (unique selling point), and we now use them even if the venue does offer amplified sound.
"People love it, it immerses them in the film, and blocks out the urban noise of being in the middle of a city."
Over the past five years Rooftop Film Club has become a staple on the London summer calendar, with screenings expanding to five venues including the Bussey Building in Peckham and Kensington Roof Gardens.
Tickets cost £15 plus booking fee, and events seat up to 130 people.
Gerry Jr says the deals with the venues vary. "Some are set fees for the hire of the venue, and others are a percentage of sales."
Films are diverse, with the 800 screenings this summer including Spice World, Muriel's Wedding and Casablanca.
Gerry Jr says that he always had global ambitions for the business, and expansion into the US came last summer.
"For us, it's about keeping the experience the same whilst growing the quality of the brand and moving into markets across the world."
The business is now looking at opening in two other US cities - Chicago and Austin - while also planning to expand into Hong Kong and Singapore.
To fund this growth, Gerry Jr says he is now seeking outside investors.
"We want smart money," he says. "We know our brand, we want someone who has expanded into a global market with, say, bars or shops, and we can use that experience."
To earn additional revenues, the business has also extended beyond rooftop film showings.
"We were a seasonal business running five months a year," says Gerry Jr. "For the other seven months we were twiddling our thumbs and losing money. We wanted to create a brand that runs all year through and keep our customers happy."
To move to a more year-long operation, the company now organises underground cinemas during the winter - in a cellar underneath London's Waterloo Station.
It also has a roof-top crazy golf course - Birdies, in east London.
But how much of a challenge is the British weather?
"The weather is a difficulty in one sense," says Gerry Jr. "It doesn't make it easy in terms of creating the right experience.
"But we've been lucky - we still screen come rain or shine and people still come along."
Now with nine full-time members of staff, and 80 or so freelancers, Rooftop Film Club enjoyed revenues of £1.2m last year, and expects this to rise to £1.6m for 2016.
Karsten Grummitt, managing director of cinema analysis group Dodona Research, says Rooftop Film Club has benefited from the upswing in consumers looking for something different from their cinema experience.
He says: "Rooftop Film Club [currently] operates in London in a limited number of well-chosen locations with limited seat capacity.
"At the same time it has a huge potential market as more young people participate in the experience economy."
Despite not joining the family circus, Gerry Jr says his dad is proud of him.
"He laughs about the fact that we both get bums on seats, and sell popcorn to make a living."
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But one of them, Donald Trump, has landed himself in some big trouble after comments he made about women 11 years ago were released.
In the past Donald Trump has used words like "pig", "fat" and "ugly" to describe women he disagreed with.
Now a 2005 video has come out, in which he said even worse things about women.
Since the recording was made public, Donald Trump has released a video statement where he apologised for the comments.
But Hillary Clinton has said that Trump should not be president after what he has said.
She says that his words will have a negative effect on women and girls.
People in Donald Trump's own party have said they strongly disagree with the things he has said. Some of them have said they will no longer be supporting him in the election.
The president of the United States is one of the most powerful and important jobs in the world, and the winner of this year's election will take over from current president Barack Obama.
These big presidential debates are shown on TV to try to help people make their mind up about who they want to vote for in the election.
It was to prove a baptism of fire for O's interim manager Andy Edwards, who stood in after Andy Hessenthaler was sacked on Monday.
With only 20 seconds on the clock, Orient captain Robbie Weir lunged in with a heavy tackle on Ben Purrington and was shown a red card by referee Charles Breakspear.
On 12 minutes, the table-toppers took the lead when David Goodwillie slipped a free-kick past a static home defence for Spencer to run on and slide the ball past keeper Alex Cisak.
Then O's midfielder Liam Kelly limped out of the game with an injury before Orient's problems were further compounded when their debutant defender Jens Janse saw red after being adjudged to be the last man when he brought down Jake Jervis.
The home side showed battling qualities against an Argyle outfit for whom Graham Carey was an influential playmaker.
However, the visitors failed to add to the slender advantage as Cisak parried away a Carey effort and then saved a close-range shot by Spencer.
Early in the second period, Nigel Atangana, who had replaced Kelly, was himself substituted after suffering a leg injury.
The one-way traffic continued after the break as the heroic Cisak prevented the visitors causing further damage producing outstanding saves from Spencer and Carey while a number of other Plymouth opportunities went sailing wide of the goal.
Argyle finally found the target again with six minutes of normal time remaining when Spencer crossed for substitute Donaldson to tuck the ball home from close range.
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Match ends, Leyton Orient 0, Plymouth Argyle 2.
Second Half ends, Leyton Orient 0, Plymouth Argyle 2.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Jordan Bowery.
Attempt blocked. David Goodwillie (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Alex Cisak.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Tom Parkes.
Attempt blocked. Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from long range on the right is too high from a direct free kick.
Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Goal! Leyton Orient 0, Plymouth Argyle 2. Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Purrington.
Attempt missed. James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Jordan Bowery replaces Paul McCallum.
Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Ryan Donaldson replaces Connor Smith.
Foul by Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle).
Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient).
Attempt missed. David Fox (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Craig Tanner replaces Jake Jervis.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Callum Kennedy.
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Ben Purrington.
Attempt blocked. Callum Kennedy (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle).
Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Sonny Bradley.
Foul by Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle).
Tom Parkes (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. David Fox (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Alex Cisak.
The match at Hampden Park on 21 May was disrupted when fans invaded the pitch after Hibernian's 3-2 win over Rangers.
Hibernian supporters invaded the pitch and some Rangers fans also made it past stewards before mounted police officers restored order.
Police have so far made 76 arrests as part of the ongoing investigation.
The Scottish Football Association (SFA) announced on Wednesday that neither club would face punishment for the crowd trouble, in line with the governing body's disciplinary rules.
Earlier, an independent report commissioned by the SFA said the Scottish government should consider making it a criminal offence to run onto a football pitch.
Anyone with information about the identities of the suspects should contact Govan Police Office or use the dedicated mailbox address.
Alternatively they can contact Crimestoppers where information can be given anonymously.
Luminaries Woburnensis at Woburn Abbey promised animated fire models and a UV light trail.
Matt Morelli from Bedford said he "waded through a quagmire" towards a fire, which turned out to be "a figure of a man in a burning cart".
Organisers said they were offering visitors a full refund for the event.
"Unfortunately we experienced some issues with this year's Luminaries Woburnensis event," a Woburn Abbey spokesman said.
"We are very disappointed that all of the hard work that our staff did put into this event resulted in such an unrewarding experience for visitors."
The event has taken place since 2013, with almost 3,000 people attending last year.
Many callers to BBC Three Counties Radio on Monday said they had already demanded a refund of the £10.50 admission because it was not as described and they expected more from the "Woburn Abbey brand".
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Some claimed candles illuminating a "maze" were mostly extinguished and ice sculptures were already melting early in the evening.
Lesley Keys said: "The only spectacular lights were the miles of red lights lining every road around Woburn for hours.
"There were just a few trees lit by lights, it was so disappointing. It was a complete shambles."
Mr Morelli said he queued through the deer park for almost an hour and saw stewards pushing cars out of mud.
"We can't blame them for bad weather, but they are planning an outdoor event in autumn," he added.
"Once we were in, I saw a ball of flames, so we wandered across the quagmire of muddy fields to watch a man in a wooden cart, burning.
"It looked like a man in a wheelchair being set on fire."
Katherine Denham on Twitter said: "Seeing some fairy lights, a bonfire and a few melting ice sculptures ain't worth a tenner in my book."
But Janet from Kempston said it was good value and she had had a thoroughly enjoyable evening and Helen, from Dunstable, said: "I loved it, the ice sculptures were excellent.
"It wasn't built up to be a massive event."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness stepped down on Monday over the handling of a botched energy scheme.
The situation made an assembly election look "highly likely", Secretary of State James Brokenshire said.
Mr Brokenshire is also stepping up his efforts to find a resolution to the current crisis at Stormont.
He spoke to the Republic of Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan by telephone and will hold meetings with the main Northern Ireland parties - as well as Justice Minister Claire Sugden - over the next 24 hours.
Earlier, former first minister Arlene Foster warned that if an election goes ahead, it will be "brutal".
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme could cost NI taxpayers £490m.
Mrs Foster set up the RHI scheme in 2012 when she was enterprise minister, in an attempt by the NI Executive to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
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Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, Mrs Foster loses her role with Mr McGuinness' departure.
Speaking at a press conference at her party's headquarters in Belfast on Tuesday, the DUP leader said: "I have no doubt that if the election proceeds it will be a brutal election, it will be a very difficult election."
She said she had been "disgracefully maligned in a most vicious manner" over the RHI scheme.
Businesses received more in subsidies than they paid for fuel, and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed.
The debacle has held centre stage in politics in Northern Ireland over the past month, with Mrs Foster facing repeated calls to resign - all of which she rejected.
However, she said there was still room for optimism, as an inquiry into the flawed scheme could get under way by the end of the week under the 2005 Inquiries Act.
"It is of the utmost importance that the truth comes out," she said.
In a week's time, Mr Brokenshire will have the power to set a date for a new election.
Both the British and Irish governments have urged Sinn Féin and the DUP to enter talks to resolve the dispute, and Mrs Foster said she was open to such a discussion.
Irish Foreign Minister Mr Flanagan has urged both sides to act responsibly to protect the institutions of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Mr McGuinness said he wanted to "call a halt to the DUP's arrogance".
Sinn Féin have not disclosed details of his recent illness, but it has been reported by RTÉ that he has a rare heart condition.
Mr McGuinness denied that the decision had anything to do with health problems.
Speaking on RTE radio, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams said the question of who led the party into any election was a matter for Mr McGuinness.
Mrs Foster said she was disappointed by his resignation, which she said was "not principled".
Mr Brokenshire told the House of Commons that both Westminster and the Irish government would "continue to provide every possible support and assistance to the executive parties".
"We do, however, have to be realistic. The clock is ticking," he said.
"If there is no resolution, then an election is inevitable despite the widely held view that this election may deepen divisions and threaten the continuity of the devolved institutions."
Mr Brokenshire said the RHI scandal was an "entirely devolved matter" for the Northern Ireland Assembly.
However, he said it was imperative that a "comprehensive, transparent and impartial inquiry" be established as soon as possible.
The political crisis means the Executive still has not agreed a budget for the 2017/18 financial year.
Earlier, DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson said he was unsure whether power sharing could be restored in Northern Ireland, even after an election.
He said he was "not convinced" that a coalition government could be formed in the next few months, and that an election would not resolve the issues.
Sinn Féin's Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said that power-sharing could be restored if "the DUP commit to the principles of the Good Friday Agreement".
"We will never rebuild credibility in these institutions unless we commit again to the promise, to the principles and to the parity of esteem that is at the very foundation and root of the Good Friday Agreement," he said.
He accused the DUP of "trampling" on the agreement.
He also said the operation of the scheme had been "botched" and he would not accept any "botched solution to the loss of public funds".
Former Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, meanwhile, said he was "disgusted" by the turn of events, hitting out at both Mrs Foster and Mr McGuinness.
"The real damage was done by the fact that you had not got the type of integrity in the OFDFM that simply wouldn't and shouldn't have accepted the abuse that was taking place," said the former SDLP MLA.
People were being penalised by "the greed of some and the ineptitude of others", he added.
Officials say the militant detonated his explosives outside a police base in the port of Mukalla, killing recruits as they queued up outside the building.
IS's jihadist rival, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was forced out of Mukalla last month by a Saudi-led military coalition.
The conflict in Yemen has displaced two million people since 2011.
Hospitals in Mukalla, capital of Hadramawt province, said they were treating at least 60 people wounded in the attack.
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Reports said the bomber had joined a queue of men lining up at the police recruitment centre before detonating his explosives belt.
A statement from IS said the bomber had been targeting "apostates of the security forces".
The bombing is the second such attack in Mukalla claimed by IS militants since AQAP's withdrawal from the city.
The group claimed a suicide car bomb attack that killed 15 soldiers last week.
The port city of 500,000 people had been held for more than a year by AQAP, which has taken advantage of Yemen's civil war to seize territory, weapons and money.
A club-developed player is defined as one who has been registered to the club for at least a year before the end of his under-19 season.
The new rules were agreed following a meeting of all 72 EFL clubs.
"I am confident that this decision will have a positive and lasting impact," said EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey.
"It is imperative that we provide young players not only with a platform, but also with the belief that opportunities will be made available to progress from youth to senior football."
Teams have previously had to include six home-grown players, defined as those registered with a club in England or Wales for three seasons, or 36 months, before their 21st birthday.
Spurs, one of only two sides from below the Women's Super League left in this season's competition knocked out Brighton of WSL 2 on Sunday.
There will also be a Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton, plus two all-WSL 1 matches.
All the fifth-round ties are scheduled to be played on Sunday, 19 March.
Champions Manchester City will host fellow-top-flight side Reading, while Notts County host Yeovil in the other all-WSL 1 meeting.
Chelsea, winners in 2015, will be at home to WSL 2 side Doncaster Rovers Belles, while Birmingham City - who finished fourth in WSL 1 last term - will host West Midlands counterparts West Brom, who play in the third tier.
Notts County Ladies v Yeovil Town Ladies
Liverpool Ladies v Everton Ladies
Arsenal Ladies v Tottenham Hotspur Ladies
Sunderland Ladies v Aston Villa Ladies
Birmingham City Ladies v West Bromwich Albion Women
Bristol City Women v Millwall Lionesses
Manchester City Women v Reading Women
Chelsea Ladies v Doncaster Rovers Belles
Affinity Water, which supplies parts of the home counties, north London and Kent, says many rivers in the region are low on water.
It said that since July last year, the region had received just more than half of its average rainfall.
Farmers across the country have also been affected by low moisture levels.
Affinity has asked its customers to save water to minimise the possibility of restrictions - such as hosepipe bans - later in the summer.
Among the ideas being suggested are:
Hosepipe bans have not been seen in the UK since 2012, when seven water companies introduced restrictions.
Farmers in the south-east and eastern England say they have had just 10% of the expected rainfall since the beginning of March.
Crops such as spring barley and sugar beet have been hit, because a lack of moisture in the ground has hindered germination.
The National Farmers Union said there was also concern about some fruit and vegetable farms.
The low rainfall has affected some livestock farmers as far north as the Midlands, where there has been a shortage of grass to feed beef and dairy herds.
A spokesman said it was too early to say whether agricultural production would be down, as that would depend on the weather over the next few weeks.
However, prices are unlikely to be affected, as they are determined by global markets.
Concern appears to be restricted to areas of the South East. Thames Water, which supplies nine million households in the region, has no problems at the moment.
It draws its water from rivers and reservoirs, while Affinity relies on ground water.
But Water UK, which represents the industry, said everyone should consider using water carefully.
"Following a dry winter, some rivers, groundwaters and reservoirs are lower than normal for the time of year," a spokesperson said.
"We always advise that everyone use water wisely - especially during a period of dry weather - and to follow the advice of their water company should water saving measures be required."
Customers of Affinity Water are being offered some free devices, such as economical shower heads, devices to save water in toilets, and shower timers for children.
The remains of NCO Jagmail Singh were found on the Dhakka glacier in northern Himachal Pradesh state.
The soldier's identity was established by an identity disk, an insurance policy and a letter found in his pocket, the spokesman said.
The army transport plane crashed in February 1968, killing all 98 soldiers on board.
Nothing more was heard from the aircraft after it made radio contact near the Rohtang pass, which links Himachal Pradesh with Indian-administered Kashmir.
The debris of the Antonov An-12 was discovered by accident by a team on the Dhakka glacier in 2003, the BBC's Baldev S Chauhan reports.
Four other bodies were recovered in subsequent search missions.
The latest search operation started on 13 August.
Its Mercedes-Benz cars actually saw a 39% sales increase in China in the third quarter, bucking the downward economic trend.
The firm's profits in the July-to-September period rose 31% to €3.6bn.
However, net profit fell 14%, because last year's figure was flattered by asset sales.
In 2014, Daimler benefited from selling a stake in ship engine maker Rolls-Royce Power Systems Holding.
Chief financial officer Bodo Uebber said the results showed the carmaker "has the right products in the market".
The new Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan and its SUV models made a strong contribution to Daimler's performance.
There had been fears that the Volkswagen scandal could lead customers to turn away from diesels in general.
Its competitor, fellow German carmaker VW, is facing fines and lost sales after the US Environmental Protection Agency said it had installed emissions control software that could detect when vehicles were being tested and reduce pollution levels.
However, Mr Uebber said Daimler was confident in its diesel technology.
That dull thud you can hear in high offices of state across Europe at the moment is the sound of the rule book crashing to the ground after being thrown out of the window.
No-one appears to be thinking twice, and no-one is saying nothing. The barbs are flying thick and fast as Greece seems to be stumbling towards default.
The Greeks accuse the International Monetary Fund of criminal responsibility for their current plight; they say the rest of Europe is trying deliberately to humiliate them.
The Europeans accuse the Greek government of lying to its people, of amateurism and double-dealing.
It is mendacious, they say, and playing with fire.
Officials in Brussels mutter darkly about a betrayal of trust.
The diplomatic style of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker usually involves a slap on the back and a kiss on the cheek.
But even he seems to have lost his sense of humour when it comes to dealing with Greeks, who are most emphatically not bearing gifts.
How did it come to this?
Five years of austerity and crisis in Greece have produced the deepest recession ever seen in a modern industrialised economy.
And the depth of that recession - more than a quarter of the economy wiped out - produced Syriza, the coalition of the radical left.
It came to power at the beginning of this year determined to change an economic relationship it has described as servitude: reliant on loans to keep the economy afloat so that it could pay back the debts owed to the same people who were now lending it more money.
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The options for Greece
There was, I think, a working assumption in official corridors in Brussels that there would be some sound and fury, a few howls of protest, but eventually the Greeks would play ball.
Because they would have no other choice.
That meant they would have to do what previous governments had done - push through more reforms of the public sector, cut salaries and pensions, and raise more money through taxation.
But five months of tortuous negotiations later, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the toughest battles are just about to begin.
So far he hasn't blinked. We can't take any more, he says, and the Europeans have to look seriously at restructuring our debts.
The last five months, it seems, have just been the warm-up.
The trouble is, time is fast running out.
If all the predictions made in the past few weeks that Greece was running out of money had come true, the country would have gone bankrupt several times already.
But there is a limit. And officials in Athens have emptied pockets and rummaged down the back of the national sofa, looking for every last piece of spare change.
There's not a lot left.
So what would happen if Greece did finally empty the coffers, and it was forced to default?
The honest answer is no-one can say for sure. But European politicians have been lining up to warn of looming catastrophe - capital controls and a collapse of the banking system, a state of emergency and possible exit from the euro.
In the short term, Greece's economic misery would almost certainly get worse.
But Greek citizens are not the only ones with plenty still to lose. Because countries, governments and in the end taxpayers in the eurozone, having bailed out the banks, now own the vast majority of Greek debt.
And if the radical leftists who hold power in Athens did walk away shouting a plague on all your European houses, the rest of the eurozone would all be left with billions of euros, and in some cases tens of billions, in unpaid debts.
So however hard this is proving to be, all the main players still have an interest in compromise.
Can they find one?
Ceremonies are taking place on Thursday a few miles away from Brussels, in the rolling Belgian countryside, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
The Duke of Wellington described his victory over Napoleon - a turning point in European history - as the "nearest-run thing you ever saw".
Today's European battles are thankfully fought on different terrain. But it would be wise to prepare for another very close shave.
Two men approached the car in Croxteth Hall Lane, Croxteth, on Friday afternoon.
A passer-by saw what was happening and shouted at the men, giving the woman time to close the door and drive away.
A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery.
Merseyside Police said the suspect, from Norris Green, was arrested on Saturday after three raids at addresses in West Derby and Norris Green.
Det Insp Phil Mahon, of Merseyside Police, said: "This was a highly unusual incident.
"The woman has been left incredibly shaken up by what has happened to her and is being looked after by her loved ones."
Raised in a biking family in the same Kentucky town that was home to seven Nascar drivers and actor Johnny Depp, Hayden and his siblings would spend four hours a day riding on their own home circuit from the age of three.
Practice made perfect. One of only six men to win the MotoGP title this century, Hayden provided the sport with one of its most memorable finales when he pipped Valentino Rossi to the 2006 crown.
Hayden, who has died at the age of 35, five days after a collision with a car while cycling in Italy, never again got close to the championship but remained one of the sport's most popular riders.
"When I was a little kid I never wanted to be a firefighter or anything else - just a world champion," he said.
"The idea of growing up to be a world champion, it just seemed so far away. But dream big, and dreams do come true."
Hayden, along with brothers Tommy and Roger, turned professional after years of home schooling on the track at 'Earl's Lane' - the name for their home in Owensboro, nestled on the Ohio river.
It was no fluke that all three became pro riders. Dad Earl was a dirt track racer for more than 20 years and mum Rose and sisters Jenny and Kathleen also competed.
"I was bred into it. Bikes are more than just a job for us. It's a way of life," Hayden told the BBC in 2013.
"When I won the title I went to my pit box before the awards ceremony, and there was the banner that said, 'Nicky Hayden, World Champion,' and I just lost it.
"My parents gave up a lot, and there are a lot of bumps and bruises and it hurts sometimes. So you definitely have to be prepared to suffer a bit.
"It's not always just a big cupcake ride."
Family remained foremost for Hayden, who would often make the long trip back to Kentucky from Europe throughout the season to spend time with them.
He listed the 2001 Springfield TT - a dirt-bike race which saw all three brothers finish on the podium - as one of his career highlights, despite the fact that Tommy won.
His three-word Twitter biography perhaps sums it up best: "Bikes and Family."
With his distinctive Appalachian twang and broad smile, Hayden was popular the world over for his friendly, self-deprecating charm as much as his speed.
Former team-mate Rossi called Hayden "one of my best friends in racing" earlier this week.
"He never changed, from the first moment I met him as a 17-year-old kid to world champion," said former BBC commentator Steve Parrish.
"He was very relaxed. He had an amazing year when he won the championship - I don't think I've ever seen anyone more joyous to win a title.
"His dad got on the back of his bike, they were both in tears. That's the overriding memory of Nicky that I will remember. It was a dream picture - he achieved the greatest title in motorcycle racing.
"I never heard anyone have a bad word to say about him which in racing is unusual, most riders at one time or another cross swords with other riders. It's the name of the game."
He left MotoGP at the end of the 2015 season to join Honda in World Superbike, and raced in Italy the weekend before his accident.
Last year Hayden got engaged to his girlfriend, actress Jackie Marin, who was with him in hospital, along with Rose and Tommy.
Former MotoGP rider James Toseland said there was "nobody better in the sport."
"He has my complete respect," he said. "He was always the first on the track at every test, and the last off it.
"He was a guy with so much dedication, passion, drive and motivation and was so humble with it all, even after being a world champion. It never changed him one bit.
"Nicky was the shining star among the three successful brothers, but if you were in a bar with all three of them you wouldn't know that. They were all so close.
"The glass was always half full with him. He had that confidence and a natural, ambitious personality, he was infectious.
"His biggest achievement is not the trophies he won, or the championship, it was the respect he got from his peers. The way everybody talks about Nicky Hayden speaks volumes for the type of person he was."
The visitors extended their 2-0 advantage in the Oswestry rematch with Florentin Matei's first-half goal.
Rijeka cut loose in the second, with fine strikes from Mario Gavranovic, Alexander Gorgon and Stefan Ristovski.
Adrian Cieslewicz curled in a consolation goal, but Gavranovic's second underlined Rijeka's superiority.
Saints boss Scott Ruscoe told BBC Radio Shropshire: "Until 42 and a half minutes in, we were excellent. We stuck to the game plan, everything that we wanted, the players gave.
"We closed gaps, we didn't let them get in between us or behind us.
"We passed the ball at times, we broke… I thought we did everything that we asked of them.
"I'm really disappointed (at the outcome) so I can't really say a lot else."
Match ends, The New Saints 1, HNK Rijeka 5.
Second Half ends, The New Saints 1, HNK Rijeka 5.
Goal! The New Saints 1, HNK Rijeka 5. Mario Gavranovic (HNK Rijeka) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Jonathon Routledge (The New Saints) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! The New Saints 1, HNK Rijeka 4. Adrian Cieslewicz (The New Saints) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
Substitution, HNK Rijeka. Matic Crnic replaces Alexander Gorgon.
Substitution, The New Saints. Tom Holland replaces Aeron Edwards.
Goal! The New Saints 0, HNK Rijeka 4. Stefan Ristovski (HNK Rijeka) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, HNK Rijeka. Damjan Djokovic replaces Héber.
Substitution, The New Saints. Greg Draper replaces Scott Quigley.
Goal! The New Saints 0, HNK Rijeka 3. Alexander Gorgon (HNK Rijeka) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, The New Saints. Adrian Cieslewicz replaces Wes Fletcher.
Goal! The New Saints 0, HNK Rijeka 2. Mario Gavranovic (HNK Rijeka) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
Substitution, HNK Rijeka. Mario Gavranovic replaces Marko Vesovic.
Second Half begins The New Saints 0, HNK Rijeka 1.
First Half ends, The New Saints 0, HNK Rijeka 1.
Goal! The New Saints 0, HNK Rijeka 1. Florentin Matei (HNK Rijeka) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Edwin Poots has recently provided extra resources to try to tackle long waiting times in emergency departments.
However, staff say they are still under severe pressure on a regular basis.
Between April and June, targets to treat patients within 12 hours were missed more than 700 times in Northern Ireland, according to the latest data.
The majority of those breaches were at the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) in Belfast and Antrim Area Hospital.
Senior health service staff have in the past appealed for people to only go to A&E units if they are genuinely in need of emergency care.
And the health minister is concerned about the number of patients who require treatment because of their own irresponsible behaviour.
"The United Kingdom has a great principle of health care, free at the point of need to all who need it irrespective of their ability to pay for it," said Mr Poots.
"I think it is a wonderful principle but I think on occasions it is abused and we sometimes need to look at how we can make sure that abuse doesn't take place."
The delays in some patients receiving emergency care has had severe consequences.
In January, a major incident was declared at the Royal Victoria Hospital because of the sheer number of people waiting on trolleys.
The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has acknowledged that delays may have contributed to the deaths of five patients.
Colette MacRuagain's 81-year-old mother was one of those who died at the RVH after she was admitted with a head injury.
"Even when she was seen, it was hours after that before she was scanned and then there were numerous issues," Ms MacRuagain said.
"We often think that maybe if we had made more of a noise in A&E maybe things would have been different."
Efforts have been made at the RVH to try to tackle backlogs, which can build during the weekends and cause delays for days afterwards.
New ways of working have been introduced to ensure patients are moved more quickly between hospital departments and extra nurses have been employed.
However, problems remain and budgets throughout the NHS are already stretched.
With concerns about funding within the health service, some people have called for a debate about limited charging, including the former Labour health minister Lord Warner.
Now, Northern Ireland's health minister has suggested the possibility of people paying for emergency care if alcohol or drugs contributed to their need for hospital treatment.
"The principle of it has merit," said Mr Poots.
"The implementation of it is more challenging.
"We need to ensure that people who need medical care are not put off receiving that medical care."
Roisin Devlin of the Royal College of Nursing said such a scheme would be unfeasible.
"The NHS has a duty to care for all, and the principle is that it's free at the point of care," she said.
"My concern would be where the line would be drawn and who would decide which patients should be charged. It's not something that emergency nurses would be keen to do."
A union representative said it was an example of the Stormont health minister's "desire to introduce charging for health care".
"This is political dogma and has nothing to do with the delivery of safe, high quality universal health care," said Patricia McKeown of Unison.
The Trussell Trust estimates more than 7,000 people needed help in the third week of December.
The trust, which runs the biggest network of food banks in the UK, said it had seen a sharp increase on previous years.
It claimed food bank use had grown by 17% in the past six months.
Ewan Gurr, Scotland network manager of the Trussell Trust, told BBC Scotland that 7,000 men, women and children accessing three-day emergency food supplies over the Christmas week was a "conservative estimate".
He said the third week of December was the busiest week of the year and in 2014 there were 5,818 people who used food banks in Scotland.
Mr Gurr said people had been driven to rely on charity due to low incomes, increased winter fuel bills and the absence of free school meals during the holidays.
He said: "We are not talking about misplaced spending priorities. We are talking about struggling to keep their heads above water.
"Over the past four years we have seen a consistent increase in Scotland.
"It is not decreasing. It is not even plateau-ing.
"I don't think we have seen the worst of the financial famine families are experiencing just yet."
He added: "I think it is going to get more difficult and darker for families unless we take serious political action to decrease the pressures men, women and children are experiencing."
Bottas, who was quickest by just 0.047 seconds, has suffered the same gearbox problem that hit his team-mate at the Austrian Grand Prix last weekend.
Mercedes have changed the gearbox and, as it has not done the requisite six races, that means an automatic penalty.
The team say the problem is now "understood and contained".
It means the highest Bottas can line up for Sunday's race is sixth, even if he is fastest in qualifying on Saturday.
The 27-year-old was quickest in both practice sessions on Friday - although Hamilton set his fastest time on the slower 'soft' tyres because he had an off-track moment through the fast Becketts section on his qualifying simulation run on the super-soft tyres and then pitted to check for damage.
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Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was third, 0.332secs behind Bottas, 0.128secs ahead of team-mate Sebastian Vettel.
The German is 20 points ahead of Hamilton in the championship after nine of 20 races heading into this weekend and Hamilton has made it clear he sees it as important to start clawing back some of that margin.
Hamilton would almost certainly have been quickest had he completed the lap on which he lost control at the final right-hander in Becketts - as many drivers did through the day.
He was on course to be about 0.3secs quicker than Bottas had he completed that lap.
And on the race-simulation runs later in the session, Hamilton was lap-for-lap about 0.2secs quicker than his team-mate - and the Mercedes had an advantage over the Ferrari.
"I definitely feel great," said Hamilton. "Driving around the track today has been incredible, seeing the fans, every time I go out I get to wave to the fans, and that is one of the greatest feelings when you see them and the response you get."
Red Bull had looked quick in the first session - splitting the Mercedes and Ferraris - but fell back slightly in the second session to be fifth and sixth, Max Verstappen ahead of Daniel Ricciardo.
Nico Hulkenberg impressed for Renault to set seventh fastest time, 11 places and 0.9secs ahead of team-mate Jolyon Palmer.
Felipe Massa's Williams was eighth, ahead of McLaren's Fernando Alonso, who is expected to have a new engine fitted overnight that will lead to the Spaniard starting from the back of the grid, and Force India's Esteban Ocon.
Raikkonen and Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz were the other drivers to lose control at Becketts.
Raikkonen spun at the same place as Hamilton's incident, but managed to extricate the car from the gravel without any damage, while Sainz lost his car earlier in the sequence of bends and had a high-speed spin across the grass, losing a fair portion of the session as the car was cleaned up.
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The QPR striker scored on his home debut to boost his hopes of making the squad for the Euro 2016 finals.
"Conor has strength, power and composure - he looks like he is going to be an asset for us," said O'Neill.
"It's a great achievement to go unbeaten in 10 games and now we just want to build on it."
Washington struck his first goal for Northern Ireland before the break, while Roy Carroll kept out Milivoje Novakovic's penalty in the second half.
"Scoring the goal was crazy but overall the boys played well and we deserved the win," said a delighted Washington.
"To set the new 10-game unbeaten record is brilliant and hopefully we can take this form into the next few games and into the tournament in France.
"I'm pleased to get another start and a goal, and I just have to work hard and see where it takes me."
Carroll was another Northern Ireland hero, with his fine penalty save ensuring the feel-good factor continues going into friendlies against Belarus on 27 May and Slovakia on 4 June.
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Nicholas Jacobs, 45, denied murdering the officer, who was stabbed 43 times at Broadwater Farm in Tottenham.
The Old Bailey jury heard from three witnesses who said they saw Mr Jacobs take part, but his defence team questioned their credibility.
On Wednesday, after four hours of deliberations, Mr Jacobs was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter.
Mr Jacobs - who was 16 at the time of the riot - stood up, held his head in his hands and punched the air as the verdicts were delivered. He then sat down and sobbed before being taken from the dock.
PC Blakelock's family looked distraught. One of his three sons held his head in his hands, while his widow, Elizabeth, wept.
In a statement, they said: "We are obviously extremely sad and disappointed at the verdict. We viewed this trial as an opportunity to see some form of justice served for Keith.
"We hope that more people are able to come forward so that some of those guilty can be brought to justice in the future."
Defence lawyer Courtenay Griffiths QC said outside the courtroom: "I'm delighted, I think the jury reached exactly the right verdicts."
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, said: "The patience and determination that Keith's widow, Elizabeth, has shown over the years as she has pushed for answers about her husband's murder has been inspirational. She so richly deserves those answers and justice.
"We accept the decision of the jury and our work to bring those responsible for Keith's murder to justice will not stop."
Crown Prosecution Service London prosecutor Jenny Hopkins said: "It was right that all the evidence in this case was put before a jury and we respect its decision."
Retired policeman Richard Coombes, 63, who survived the Broadwater Farm attack, said: "The jury has reached its decision and we must all respect that."
PC Blakelock, 40, was repeatedly stabbed, and attempts made to decapitate him, as he tried to protect firefighters tackling a blaze at the height of the unrest on the Broadwater Farm estate on 6 October 1985.
During the trial, the jury heard Mr Jacobs had allegedly written a poem, while serving time in a juvenile detention centre, in which he boasted about "chopping" at the officer.
But his defence team claimed his account of the wounds the officer received did not match the post-mortem examination.
Mr Jacobs' prosecution followed an previous trial in 1987, when three men were convicted of the murder, before being freed four years later on appeal.
During the course of three separate investigations, a decision was made to give immunity to so-called "kickers" - those who were involved in the attack but did not use weapons - in exchange for their co-operation.
Among them were the prosecution witnesses given the pseudonyms Rhodes Levin and John Brown who both admitted kicking PC Blakelock and were given amnesty from prosecution.
Some of the witnesses also received payments from police for their co-operation, the court was told.
The judge said Mr Jacobs had been within his rights not to give evidence during his trial and the jury could draw their own conclusions about his decision not to take the witness stand.
Winston Silcott, one of the so-called Tottenham Three convicted of the murder of PC Blakelock in 1987, said outside the Old Bailey: "The police are bitter about what happened, that's why they brought this case.
"My conclusion is that they had promised the Blakelock family that they would get justice for him and so they were trying to get anyone they could.
"Vengeance, that's what the police were out to get. I just hope Nicky Jacobs will be able to rebuild his life after this."
Posh notched their third league in on the bounce, but they were made to work for it with Adam Smith in good form in goal for the visitors.
Forrester and Leonardo Da Silva Lopes both went close early on, while Marcus Maddison was twice denied by Smith and Tom Nichols shot just wide.
Zander Diamond's header was saved at the other end by Luke McGee, while Alex Revell and Paul Anderson were wasteful when well-positioned in front of goal.
McGee produced a double-save from Sam Hoskins and Revell in quick succession, while Smith continued to frustrate Peterborough by saving from Da Silva Lopes to ensure the sides went in level at the break.
The game opened up in the second half and Brendon Moloney fired just over the bar from the edge of the box for the hosts, as did Jak McCourt.
Both sides had good chances late on, but it was two minutes into stoppage-time when the deadlock was finally broken as Forrester headed home at the far post for his third goal of the season.
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Match ends, Northampton Town 0, Peterborough United 1.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 0, Peterborough United 1.
Goal! Northampton Town 0, Peterborough United 1. Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Marcus Maddison.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lee Angol (Peterborough United).
Attempt blocked. Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked.
Attempt missed. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Luke McGee.
Attempt saved. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United).
Substitution, Peterborough United. Gwion Edwards replaces Leonardo Da Silva Lopes.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Harry Beautyman replaces Jak McCourt.
Attempt saved. Lee Angol (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Lee Angol (Peterborough United).
Substitution, Peterborough United. Lee Angol replaces Shaquile Coulthirst.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Paul Taylor replaces Tom Nichols.
Attempt missed. Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United).
Attempt blocked. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Matthew Taylor.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Lewin Nyatanga.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Brendon Moloney.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Nichols (Peterborough United).
Second Half begins Northampton Town 0, Peterborough United 0.
First Half ends, Northampton Town 0, Peterborough United 0.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United).
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United).
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United).
Attempt saved. Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Sabrina de Sousa says she lost an appeal against extradition last week.
She is one of 26 Americans convicted in their absence for the abduction of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar.
He was allegedly flown to Egypt from Italy and tortured as part of the US extraordinary renditions programme.
Ms de Sousa said she was waiting to be informed when she will be transferred to Italy, where she has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail.
Ms de Sousa was arrested in October on a European arrest warrant in Lisbon. She had appealed against extradition at the Supreme Court.
Many of the US citizens convicted with her in Italy have since been pardoned, and she would be the first CIA officer to be handed over to Italy.
Correspondents say it is not clear whether she will immediately be jailed or whether she might be granted a new trial.
Support for her cause is reported to come from an unusual source. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Abu Omar said that he believed that Ms de Souza and the other 25 Americans convicted in Italy have been made scapegoats and should be pardoned.
The cleric was taken to a US military base in Germany after his abduction and was later flown to Egypt where he says he was tortured.
He was eventually released in his home country, although an Italian court in 2013 is reported to have convicted him in absentia of terrorist activities.
The England striker scored after two goals from Riyad Mahrez early in the second half had put the Foxes ahead.
Leicester dominated early on, but Salomon Rondon's near-post header gave West Brom the lead before the break.
Rickie Lambert's late penalty reduced the arrears but Leicester hung on for the win and remain unbeaten away from home so far this season.
The result and their fine run on the road pushed Claudio Ranieri's side into third place in the Premier League.
The home side had not conceded a goal in their last two outings and were on the back foot until Rondon's opener.
Mahrez's two goals in seven minutes provoked a strong reaction from West Brom, but Vardy's strike looked to have secured a comfortable win for Leicester.
Late substitute Lambert forced a save from close range in the dying seconds after grabbing his first goal since moving to The Hawthorns.
Minutes before he had extended his scoring streak, Vardy's participation in the rest of the game had looked in doubt.
The 28-year-old went down clutching his right ankle, and had extensive treatment on the pitch, but the magic sponge did the trick with his 11th goal of the season a few seconds later.
Leicester had forced the pace in the opening half-an-hour, with Vardy hitting the post after just seven minutes.
But they did not take several other chances, and West Brom made the most of their first real opportunity when Rondon's powerful header had too much on it for Foxes goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.
West Brom's defence had held firm in their two previous outings, but they were caught napping by teasing crosses from Marc Albrighton from either side of the pitch for both of Mahrez's goals.
Vardy's pace had tested the home back line all afternoon, and he used it to good effect when slicing through to make it 3-1 to the visitors.
West Brom go to Old Trafford to face Manchester United next weekend, and follow that with a visit to Arsenal.
Leicester will look to build on their fine start to the season by hosting Watford, and follow this by a trip to St James' Park to take on Newcastle United.
West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "Leicester did really well, it was a good game and in Jamie Vardy they have an exceptional player. His pace frightened us all afternoon.
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"But the referee should have given us a penalty and sent their man off. It shouldn't happen at this level - the standard of refereeing should be better.
"[Referees' chief] Mike Riley should be on the phone asking why we weren't given two penalties.
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"I've had a go in the tunnel with him and I apologise about that. I should be writing my report but I do hope they look at it."
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "We fight to the end. We have a very strong character and play good football.
"I told my players they were playing very well at half-time, to be careful at set-plays, and it was important to move the ball quickly and put them under pressure. We did that well.
"It's important Jamie Vardy continues to work for the team. The record is good for everybody."
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How West Brom v Leicester unfolded
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 2, Leicester City 3.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 2, Leicester City 3.
Attempt missed. Rickie Lambert (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by James McClean with a headed pass.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Gareth McAuley.
Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Vardy.
Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Callum McManaman (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Rickie Lambert with a headed pass.
Robert Huth (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Robert Huth (Leicester City).
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Leicester City. Shinji Okazaki replaces Daniel Drinkwater.
Attempt missed. Callum McManaman (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Rickie Lambert with a headed pass.
Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rickie Lambert with a through ball.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 2, Leicester City 3. Rickie Lambert (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Nathan Dyer (Leicester City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty West Bromwich Albion. Callum McManaman draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Callum McManaman replaces Chris Brunt because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Craig Dawson with a cross.
Attempt saved. James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Darren Fletcher.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Leicester City 3. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Daniel Drinkwater with a through ball.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. James Morrison replaces Claudio Yacob.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Rickie Lambert replaces Saido Berahino.
Substitution, Leicester City. Nathan Dyer replaces Marc Albrighton.
Foul by N'Golo Kanté (Leicester City).
Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by James McClean with a cross.
Foul by N'Golo Kanté (Leicester City).
Stéphane Sessegnon (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leicester City. Andy King replaces Leonardo Ulloa.
Attempt saved. Stéphane Sessegnon (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top left corner.
Foul by Marc Albrighton (Leicester City).
Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Stéphane Sessegnon (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top left corner.
Foul by Marc Albrighton (Leicester City).
Jonny Evans (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Jeffrey Schlupp.
Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Leicester City 2. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jeffrey Schlupp with a cross.
Led by manager Claudio Ranieri, the East Midlands side claimed their maiden Premier League triumph having started the campaign as 5,000-1 outsiders.
France international Kante joined Antonio Conte's team for a fee of around £30m this summer.
"Kante allowed Ranieri to play the system he did," Lineker told BBC Sport.
"He can't do that anymore. Kante was the most unsung of the big three players, but he was probably the most important."
Leicester's stunning season saw them win the title by 10 points from Arsenal, losing only three league games all season.
Algerian midfielder Riyad Mahrez won the PFA Player of the Year award after contributing 17 goals and 11 assists, while England striker Jamie Vardy scored 24 goals.
But defensive midfielder Kante made the most tackles (175) and most interceptions (157) of any player in the top five European leagues.
This season, Leicester are seventh favourites to top the table at 33-1, while none of 33 BBC pundits polled have predicted them to repeat their feat from the 2015-16 season.
Match of the Day presenter Lineker added: "It was a one off.
"I never thought I would see something like that in my lifetime, Leicester winning under those circumstances - or any other club of that stature in this modern age.
"I am sure the league will be a little anti-climactic because they won't do that again but there is the Champions League to look forward to. That will be a wonderful experience for the supporters."
Stroud Farmers' Market, The Rollright Stones, Westonbirt Arboretum and Cotswold limestone made the final list.
The "Seven Wonders of the Cotswolds" was compiled to celebrate 45 years of the region being designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Cleeve Hill and Common, the Cotswold Way National Trail and Woodchester Mansion and Park also made the final seven, voted by more than 500 people.
A spokeswoman for the Cotswold Conservation Board, which led the search, said it had been a "fascinating campaign".
"The final list is a very interesting one which represents some of the Cotswolds' most distinctive features which we plan to use to create some new 'wonder walks' to help more people access and enjoy our beautiful Cotswolds landscape," she added.
Some 80 nominations were received from members of the public after the board began its search in December last year.
Ideas included historic sites, viewpoints, cultural features and towns and villages.
The Cotswolds is the second largest protected landscape in England after the Lake District National Park.
It covers 790 sq miles (2,038 sq km), stretching from Warwickshire and Worcestershire in the north, through Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, down to Bath and Wiltshire in the south.
But the Indian government is in the final stages of enrolling all of its citizens in the world's largest ID system. Siva Parameswaran of the BBC's Tamil Service finds out how they did it.
The system is known as Aadhaar, which means foundation.
It started as a voluntary programme to help tackle benefit fraud - and is now described as "the largest and most sophisticated ID database in the world".
Once the government committed to it - with the hope that it would be able to use it to raise more taxes, register voters and identify the hundreds of millions of drivers using false licences - it began taking the details of people whenever they came into contact with state agencies.
Biometric details were - and continue to be - recorded in schools, hospitals, childcare centres and special camps.
Aadhaar's website claims that 90% of Indians are now registered, though this figure is disputed by activists.
Aadhaar, or a Unique Identification Number, is allocated to every Indian and remains their national identity document forever.
It has become virtually impossible to do anything financial without it - such as opening a bank account or filing a tax return.
However, the scheme does in theory remain voluntary, and the highest court is hearing a petition on making it compulsory; the final judgement is awaited.
When Indian cricket star MS Dhoni accidentally had his number published on Twitter in March 2017, it exposed the many worries Indians have about having one single code so crucial to many aspects of their lives.
One fear is that it will become a method of financial surveillance.
Questions have also been raised about the moral authority of the government to force citizens to share biometric data. Activists say it is breach of the UN's Fundamental Right of Privacy.
People's Union for Civil Liberties activist Suresh told the BBC that citizens were not briefed about the implications of sharing their private data, but did so as they feared they would not be able to carry out financial transactions, gain admission to educational institutions and access subsidised food products from government-run shops.
"There is no guarantee that the data will not be leaked and also no accountability structure is in place," Suresh explained.
Activists also fear that it will be impossible to ensure that data will not be misused or abused, though authorities told the BBC that all the biometric data was well protected.
Investigative reporter Saikat Datta of the Observer Research Foundation says that Aadhaar has been converted into "the world's biggest surveillance engine."
And while India has a billion phones, laws for protecting the data on those phones are antiquated.
When the National Identification Authority of India Bill was introduced in 2016, it was sent to a special committee of the Parliament, whose members made scathing remarks about the project.
This committee recommended that enactment of legislation on data protection and privacy law was a "prerequisite" for the Aadhaar scheme.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also strongly criticised the scheme in 2014.
But Aadhaar's authorities say their data protection goes far beyond what is required in the law.
Two girls, aged three and eight, and two boys, aged six and nine, escaped injury in the crash in Nab Tower Lane, Selsey in West Sussex, on Sunday.
The driver and a female passenger were also unhurt.
The woman, aged 36, from London, is also charged with being drunk in charge of a child under seven and is due at Worthing Magistrates' Court on 9 June.
The programme which aims to tackle deprivation has been in the media spotlight.
It follows remarks made by a Ulster Defence Association leader, Dee Stitt, chief executive of Charter NI, which has been awarded £1.7m from the fund.
The Alliance Party called for an independent review of the fund.
MLA Stewart Dickson said it needed "root and branch reform".
Nicola Mallon, SDLP , said people had lost trust in the scheme.
She criticised the first and deputy first minsters saying they lacked courage and should stand up to Dee Stitt.
Danny Kennedy, Ulster Unionist Party, acknowledged that the fund did good work. However he said there were legitimate concerns about the way it was being run.
Junior Minster Alastair Ross said the recent media attention was distracting. He said the fund had created jobs, was changing communities and was making a difference to people's lives.
The motion calling for an independent review was defeated by 53 votes to 38.
The Potters' £20m bid for 22-year-old Berahino was rejected but a £13m offer for Wales international Allen, 26, has been accepted.
"You can never second guess deals," Hughes told BBC Radio Stoke.
"Ideally you want to do all your business before the season starts."
Stoke are yet to go back with an improved offer for Berahino, with Albion thought to be keen to bring in a potential replacement first.
"Things are ongoing - we're very hopeful over a number of deals we're involved with but until they are actually done you can never be too sure," Hughes said.
"Sometimes the deals seem quite easy and others seem to drag on, which a number of them have this time unfortunately, but we just have to wait and be patient - sometimes other clubs need to do business first."
Stoke's preparations for the new season continue with a 10-day pre-season tour of Florida.
The president of Family Division of the High Court said there would be "blood on our hands" if the 17-year-old did not now receive adequate supervision.
She is due to be released in 11 days, but a secure unit place has not yet been found for her - a situation Sir James Munby said was "utterly shaming".
NHS sources later indicated that three possible beds had been found.
Dr Mike Prentice, medical director for the NHS North Region, said: "A number of options have now been identified, with detailed clinical and social assessments taking place tomorrow (Friday) to ensure the right package of care can be put in place before her release date."
The girl, identified only as "X", has tried to kill herself several times.
The judgement in the case of X - who is in the formal care of Cumbria County Council - revealed she was convicted at a youth court and has been detained in custody for almost six months.
Sir James had previously noted the "enormity of the task facing the local authority" but stressed that the need for a final care plan was "overwhelming".
During the latest hearing in July, he emphasised this need further, adding: "On a large number of occasions... X has made determined attempts to commit suicide".
Staff at the unit where she is being held have said sending her back to her home town would be a "suicide mission to a catastrophic level".
The judgement said: "Staff do not think it will take more than 24 to 48 hours before they receive a phone call stating that X has made a successful attempt on her life."
An earlier ruling heard how unit staff had witnessed "a profoundly disturbing and distressing scene when X self-harmed by repeatedly banging her head and face against the wall".
Staff have said she has to be checked every 50 seconds when she is in the shower.
Earlier, Simon Rowbotham, the solicitor for the legal guardian of the teenage girl, told the BBC that X has a "determined wish" to kill herself and lives in a stripped-down room and is restrained "for hours on end".
By Mark Easton, home editor, BBC News
The problem of providing suitable services for disturbed children and young people has been flagged up to ministers before.
Two months ago, after complaints from police that cells were being used to accommodate youngsters who should have been in a mental health unit, the government introduced a law banning their use for such purposes.
Doctors are warning there is still a critical shortage of appropriate care beds.
A survey of child and adolescent mental health workers, conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2015, found 62% had seen adolescent patients held in inappropriate settings, with 14% saying patients had attempted to kill themselves while waiting for a suitable bed.
The prime minister has promised a "revolution" in mental health care, and the number of mental health staff in the NHS in England is rising by 21,000.
But the agonies of a judge unable to help a suicidal young woman suggest the revolution still has some way to go.
When X was younger, she "was a child with poor school attendance, low-level criminality and periods of absconding", a previous judgement said.
In Sir James' judgement, delivered in private in the High Court family division sitting in Manchester, he said: "If this is the best we can do for X, and others in similar crisis, what right do we, what right do the system, our society and indeed the State itself, have to call ourselves civilised?
"The honest answer to this question should make us all feel ashamed."
He went on: "I feel shame and embarrassment; shame, as a human being, as a citizen and as an agent of the State, embarrassment as President of the Family Division, and, as such, Head of Family Justice, that I can do no more for X".
Liberal Democrat former health minister Norman Lamb told the BBC that the judgement reflected a "wholly unacceptable situation in our country".
"This is not a unique case, families are being let down routinely across our country and there is a moral imperative that we address this as a matter of real urgency," he said.
By Philippa Roxby, health reporter, BBC News
There are about 1,440 hospital beds for children and young people with mental health problems in the NHS in England.
But a recent review found that they were not evenly spread across the country - for example, some areas had no in-patient beds within a 50-mile radius.
The picture is also complicated by who those beds are for - some are in specialist units for children with eating disorders, others are in high dependency units for young people with complex needs.
And there are many more specialist beds than high dependency ones.
This means that children and their families often travel large distances to access in-patient treatment.
NHS England says it wants to change this by increasing the number of beds in badly-served parts of the country and by offering crisis help to children and young people in the community, at an earlier stage.
Mr Lamb said if investment was not made up front in the NHS, families would continue to be let down.
"The real problem is that the whole of the finances of the NHS are under such strain that the government's fine words about recruiting extra staff won't be delivered, because the money won't get through to mental health.
"Mental health always loses out whenever the money is tight and I fear that that will be the same again this time."
Earlier this week, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that thousands more mental health workers were to be recruited by the NHS in England.
The government said an extra £1bn already promised for mental health services in England would fund the scheme - part of a pot of £1.3bn committed in 2016 to transform provision.
The judge said copies of the ruling would be sent to the chief executive officer of NHS England Simon Stevens, Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Education Secretary Justine Greening and Justice Secretary David Lidington.
Labour MP Luciana Berger, who previously served as shadow minister for mental health, tweeted that it was a "devastating" judgement, while Conservative MP and former children's minister Tim Loughton said it was "worrying".
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Professor Wendy Burn, president of The Royal College of Psychiatrists, said some mental healthcare units were "desperately short" of suitable beds.
She said the college urged the government in 2015 to prioritise investment in crisis care services for children and young people.
It had also called on NHS England, clinical commissioning groups and social services to ensure emergency care pathways were in place.
"It's alarming to see that two years later, children are still not getting the support they need," Prof Burn said.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said PC Keith Palmer will be commemorated by the UK Police Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
Khalid Masood killed the unarmed officer who was guarding Parliament, minutes after Masood drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge.
"He gave his life, in the line of duty, to keep others safe," said Ms Rudd.
Ms Rudd said the Charlton Athletic season ticket-holder's sacrifice has "touched the lives of millions of people in this country and around the world" as she thanked the police for their "phenomenal" bravery and professionalism after the attack, on Wednesday.
Writing for Police Oracle, she said: "So much has been said and written in tribute to Pc Palmer - a husband and father who went to work on Wednesday morning and will never go home.
"His sacrifice, the tragedy of his death, has touched the lives of millions of people in this country and around the world."
The UK Police Memorial "provides a lasting tribute to the sacrifices that all too many police officers have made".
The MP also praised the two officers who remain in hospital after being injured in the attack.
At the arboretum there is an avenue of trees called The Beat in memory of fallen officers, and a police memorial garden.
Plans are in place for a new police memorial at the arboretum, with organisers hoping it will be in place by 2019.
Colombian Quintana had led overall since winning Thursday's second stage.
Team Sky's Chris Froome, winner of Saturday's fourth stage, after losing 17 minutes in the second stage, trailed home in the peloton.
French rider Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), quickest in Friday's time trial, came second overall.
The closing stage was a 177.4km ride between Ollon-sur-Villars and Geneva.
Froome was part of a breakaway before the two-time Tour de France winner attacked on the final climb with 36km remaining.
He was was unable to gain a decisive lead, and instead it was a move from Verona that proved crucial. Swiss Albasini tracked it carefully and went on to claim the sixth Romandie stage win of his career.
The Tour de Romandie is regarded as a pointer to the Tour de France, with three of the previous five winners going on to win in Paris.
Tour de Romandie 2016: Final classification
1. Nairo Quintana (COL) Movistar 16hrs 20mins 20secs
2. Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ +19secs
3. Jon Izagirre (SPA) Movistar +23"
4. Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) Katusha +26"
5. Tom Dumoulin (NED) Giant +57"
6. Rui Costa (POR) Lampre +1:12"
7. Simon Spilak (SLO) Katusha +1:16"
8. Mathias Frank (SWI) IAM Cycling +1:16"
9. Bauke Mollema (NED) Trek +1:24"
10. Tejay van Garderen (US) BMC Racing +1:27"
The report, carried by the state-run Xinhua news agency, did not say what measures would be taken.
But the government also said transport during the busy Spring Festival holiday needed to be better managed.
On Tuesday, the relatives of the dead laid flowers at Shanghai's riverfront where the incident took place.
The mourning took place on the seventh day after the death of the relatives, in keeping with Chinese tradition.
The families were accompanied by government handlers and kept away from the media.
The victims, including the youngest a 12-year-old boy, were trampled and asphyxiated as hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the Bund, as the riverfront is known. The cause of the stampede is not known.
China's cabinet also said on Tuesday that governments should take rapid action to ensure safety and respond quickly when accidents occur, Xinhua reported.
Kenya said sprint coach John Anzrah "presented himself as an athlete" and "even signed the documents" for the doping test.
"We cannot tolerate such behaviour," said Kip Keino, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya.
Anzrah is the second Kenyan official to be sent home over doping issues after track and field manager Michael Rotich.
Rotich was dismissed following allegations that he was prepared to warn coaches about drugs tests in return for £10,000.
Keino said Kenya's Olympic body had not facilitated Anzrah's travel to Brazil, adding: "We don't even know how he came here."
It was not clear which athlete Anzrah was pretending to be.
However, a senior Athletics Kenya source said he had spoken to the athlete, who claims Anzrah used his accreditation purely to obtain free meals from the athletes' village.
"When the anti-doping officials met him, they assumed he was the athlete and that he was lined up for testing," added the source.
"The coach, for fear of being exposed or discovered, did not explain to the anti-doping guy that he is actually not the athlete. Hence he played along and went for the test."
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The men, aged 22 and 25, were assaulted on the Garvaghy Road in the County Armagh town in the early hours of Sunday. Both suffered head injuries.
Francis Patrick McNally of Carnreagh, in Craigavon, appeared before Lisburn Magistrates court.
He is also charged with having an offensive weapon, listed as a crowbar.
Mr McNally faces a further charge of causing grievous bodily injury to one of the men by dangerous driving.
When asked if he understood the charges, he replied: "I do."
The two men were attacked by a gang carrying weapons.
Police said a burned-out car, believed to be related to the assault, was later found on the Drumnagoon Road.
The accused will appear again on 1 September. His defence lawyer said he hoped he would have an address by then so that his client could then apply for bail.
Past fixtures have seen anti-Semitic behaviour by Hammers fans.
Spurs fans traditionally have strong ties with London's Jewish community.
"Any fan acting inappropriately - including racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic behaviour - will be banned from attending future matches," Sullivan and Gold said in a statement.
"It is vitally important that every West Ham United supporter attending the fixture remembers that they are acting as ambassadors for our club and their behaviour should reflect the values and standards that we set," the statement continued.
Gold is of Jewish heritage, and has previously revealed that his great grandfather killed himself after suffering anti-Semitic taunts.
West Ham are currently sixth in the Premier League table, while Spurs are second.
The Office for National Statistics said the population was expected to increase by 4.4 million in the next decade, before reaching 70 million in 2027.
That increase is roughly the size of the Irish Republic.
The population is projected to grow by 9.7 million over the next 25 years, to 74.3 million. Latest figures show there are 64.6 million people in the UK.
The statistics predict an ageing population, with some 29.5% of people aged over 60 by 2039 - up from 23.2% this year.
By then, more than one in 12 UK people are expected to be aged 80 or over.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said its latest projections assume that more people will come to live in the UK than emigrate, accounting for about half of the projected population increase.
The remainder is attributed to births outnumbering deaths.
Projections were also revised upwards in the latest figures. The population estimate for 2024 is now 249,000 more than the previous projection in 2012.
64,596,800
People living in the UK
491,100
more than the previous year
259,700 added from net migration
226,200 from natural growth
25% of all births in 2013 were to mothers born outside the UK
The overall trend is "very similar" to past figures, said Prof Christian Dustmann, director of the Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration at University College London.
"What we see in many European countries, in particular the larger economies such as Germany, is actually a trend in the opposite direction," he said.
"Population is decreasing in Germany, as it is in Italy or Spain. That puts these countries in a very difficult situation.
"[When] populations are decreasing, you're dealing with a shrinking working-age population, which basically has to be confronted with an increasing ageing population which is not productive any more."
In the UK, where migration is contributing to population growth, the challenge was to ensure immigrants paid more in taxes than they cost in public services, he said.
"An increase in population means a larger economic base - part of the GDP growth we have seen is due to immigration," he said.
Prof Dustmann said one reason the ONS produces these figures is to prepare policy makers for "future demands" - and he said they should "clearly be prepared to expand public services".
Dr Jo Michell, of the University of the West of England, said the population rise would increase the pressure on public services.
"It will have an impact on public services such as health and education, services which are already under pressure because of cuts in government services and cuts which are planned for the next five years," he said.
"So the government should consider whether these cuts are appropriate at such a time."
The eight-storey development forms part of an £80m British bid to win the America's Cup for the first in the sailing trophy's 164-year history.
But under new proposals music could now be allowed outside until 23:00.
Alan Richards, 61, who lives nearby, said: "With amplified music you'll get a 'boom-boom' beat all the time."
The Camber Dock development, with top floors arranged as roof terraces, was initially given planning permission as a place of work.
Mr Richards added: "There are some exceptional properties round here.
"Lots of them have balconies of their own and with this kind of proposal they're going to suffer greatly.
"Loud music should be contained inside the building where they can close off doors."
David Higham, from the Camber Action Group, said: "The music's going to be heard from a long way away.
"If the licensing committee wouldn't allow it for an organisation that earns its living from music and liquor licensing, they shouldn't for Ben Ainslie.
"BAR say they want to be good neighbours. Let's hope they will be."
BAR chief operating officer Andy Hindley said he sympathised with objectors and had pared back the plans.
He said: "We'll be mindful of our neighbours and make sure we won't be upsetting anybody.
"We want to share the space, we don't want to take it over.
"People think we're opening a rave here fairly soon, that's absolutely not going to happen."
Portsmouth City Council's licensing department is due to make a decision within 20 days.
They confronted housing minister Alok Sharma MP on why the homeless are not yet rehoused, in tense exchanges on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
The minister told them people would be offered a suitable place to live within three weeks of the fire.
Later, the Prime Minister confirmed 120 tower blocks had now failed fire tests.
And police said 80 people were missing presumed dead, but a true total of those who died may not be known until at least the end of the year.
During the TV programme, residents and survivors set out their problems in the wake of the 14 June inferno.
"I am not moving my child from here, to here, to here, to here - I want permanent accommodation," Oluwaseun Talabi, who escaped the fire with his wife and young daughter, told Mr Sharma.
"I am not going to take any house you give me, it has to be suitable.
"I was happy in my house. I work hard. I want permanent accommodation,"
He and his family have been living in a hotel room after they "lost everything".
Mahad Egal, who escaped the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower during the fire in the early hours of 14 June, described how he had been offered alternative accommodation in a high rise block. He has refused it.
"My first priority is to put suitable accommodation over my children and my wife," he said.
"These people have the right to get back their dignity. Where is the dignity?" asked survivor Sid-Ali Atmani. "I don't want Theresa (May) to go to the TV, I want her to come (here)."
The group described the practical problems they have faced in being rehoused; trying to replace burned documents; accessing funding; being unable to return to work without a permanent base; and their dealings with the authorities.
They also spoke about the psychological impacts.
Many said they had not been able to sleep since the disaster, or were haunted by images of their escape and their friends, family and neighbours who perished.
Omar Alhajali, whose brother Mohammed died in the blaze, said: "When I see (his image), I remember everything. Not only now but every night... I can't sleep."
The group were hugely critical of the local council and the government's emergency response.
Kensington and Chelsea council provided no spokesperson for the programme's debate and they were empty-chaired.
Mr Sharma, the government's housing minister, arrived to answer their questions part-way through the show.
Survivors have themselves begun to compile a list of the victims as the current official number of people who died stands at 79, but it is expected to rise.
They feel it will rise much further and are concerned the number is being downplayed.
Other residents have also voiced concerns - nearby blocks of flats and houses still lack hot water.
Simone Willis, a nurse who helped victims on the night, addressed a panel of politicians on the programme including the local MP Emma Dent Coad and London Assembly member Tony Devenish, saying: "When you're coming to these kinds of scenarios asking, 'what is needed?', think!
"You have a family, a mother, daughter, what would you need?
"This is not going to take a few shows, a few meetings, this is years of work."
Mr Sharma said the government guaranteed "people who have had their homes destroyed will be offered suitable accommodation within three weeks".
That timeframe leaves one week remaining. He initially said that would be "accommodation" and later said "temporary accommodation".
Everybody would have "good quality accommodation" he said, inviting them all to tell him their issues.
During the programme, residents raised the questions about the disaster they want to see answered by an inquiry.
They included:
Afterwards, Mr Sharma said he was going straight to the Westway emergency relief centre to hold a surgery with survivors.
At Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May updated MPs on progress in dealing with the aftermath of the disaster.
She told MPs cladding on blocks across 37 local authority areas in England had failed tests for combustibility.
Given the "100% failure rate" she said local authorities had been told to get on with fire checks and any further necessary action.
She said 282 good quality temporary accommodation units had been identified, 132 families have had their needs assessed and 65 offers of accommodation had been made so far.
She said the lord chief justice would recommend a judge to head the public inquiry soon.
As of Wednesday morning, £1.25m had been paid to those affected and a further £1m would go to local charities and supporting groups, she said.
The tournament, which features 48 men's and 16 women's teams, will run until 16 July.
A temporary arena has been constructed in the city's George Square, with seating for 3,500 spectators.
The opening fixtures of the tournament saw Scotland's men beat Hong Kong 8-4. The women's team beat Norway 11-1.
This is the 14th year of the competition.
Scotland last hosted the tournament in 2005, in Edinburgh. The first took place in Graz, Austria, in 2003.
The aim of the competition is to inspire homeless people to change their lives.
It was set up by the International Network of Street Papers and Mel Young, founder of the Big Issue in Scotland.
The Scotland teams are managed, selected and coached by social enterprise Street Soccer Scotland. They include players from across Scotland picked after a series of selection days throughout the year.
Ally Dawson, manager of Team Scotland, said: "The Homeless World Cup is a very special event for everyone involved and being host nation brings an added honour.
"The men's and women's squads have been training very hard over recent weeks in preparation for the start of the tournament.
"Every year the Scottish teams are determined to do their country proud but this year has an added edge as they look forward to playing in front of what will be a very noisy home support."
About 100,000 spectators are expected to come to watch matches during the week-long tournament. Entry is free and no tickets are required.
The Grade-II listed tower, known as the Belvedere, in Sketty, is believed to have sold for around £130,000.
Built between 1820 and 1830, the folly is all that remains of Sketty Park House, the former home of copper and tin magnates the Morris family.
It was sold by Swansea council as the local authority looks to save more than £80m over the next three years.
The folly, which is in need of renovation, had been owned by the local authority since the 1930s, although the rest of the mansion was demolished in the 1970s.
Local historian Gary Gregor explained: "Sketty Park House was designed by William Jernegan, the architect of Regency Swansea, whose local designs include Stouthall, Kilvrough Manor, Mumbles lighthouse and the Assembly Rooms.
"After varied usage by the Swansea Corporation, including as the Civil Defence Service headquarters, it was demolished in 1975 so that the Sketty Park housing estate could be erected.
"The part which still remains is a ruined gothic belvedere, after a design of Margam Park's Chapter House, on a tree-covered mound in Saunders Way. It was built by Sir John's reclusive grandson Sir John Armine Morris."
The dynasty began in the 1720s when Shropshire entrepreneur Robert Morris started the first mass smelting at the Llangyfelach Copper Works.
However, it was his son Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet of Clasemont, who made the most lasting impact.
In the 1760s, Sir John hired architect William Edwards to create Morris Town - now Morriston - one of Europe's first purpose-built villages, to house his workers.
At its heart was Morris Castle, containing 24 workers' apartments which were palatial by the standards of the day.
While Morriston was good enough for his workers, Mr Gregor explained that it was not entirely to Sir John's own liking, so he moved.
"Built around 1775, Sir John had a Palladian-style mansion called Clasemont at Pengwern, near the present-day DVLA building. Lord Nelson and the Hamiltons dined there in 1802.
"But the spread of fumes from the copper smelting works in the lower Swansea valley rendered it unsuitable, so Clasemont was dismantled in 1805 and much of the materials were transported west of Swansea to construct the new mansion, Sketty Park House."
Sir John never saw the fruits of these labours as he died aged 74 in 1819, a year before work started on Sketty Park House.
But Mr Gregor said he left an "enduring memorial" in the form of Morriston, where you can still see "the workers village laid out in a gridiron pattern, with every cottage having sufficient garden to grow vegetables".
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said there would be an investigation into whether the eight had illegally issued identity papers.
The consulates affected are in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans and New York.
The consuls' suspension comes days after local media alleged that they had issued illegal papers in exchange of payments of up to $50 (??30).
The only ones to remain in their posts were the consuls in Washington DC and San Francisco.
An estimated 700,000 people of Honduran origin resided in the United States in 2011, according to the US Census Bureau.
The case came to light after a group representing Hondurans living in the US said a number of consulates were issuing "consular IDs" - documents that bear the crest and flag of Honduras, but which are not officially recognised forms of identification.
President Hernandez said in a statement that such documents were "false" and that any consular staff issuing them would be penalised.
Jorge Rivera, of the Honduran Unity group in Dallas, Texas, said he knew of at least four consulates that had issued such IDs.
"They're selling them for $50 in a number of places and I don't know how the consulates can be doing that because that document is not an approved document," Mr Rivera said.
"They're just trying to make money," he added.
Expatriate Plinio Rodriguez said that the Honduran consulate in Los Angeles had issued him with a "consular ID", which he said he had found "very useful".
Mr Rodriguez told Honduran newspaper La Prensa that the ID was widely accepted by US authorities and even got him access to the prison in California where his son was serving time.
He said he had not been charged for the ID, but knew of others who had.
Zamalek's board met after a 3-2 loss to El-Gaish on Sunday evening and decided not to complete the competition.
The board are due to meet again on Monday to discuss the matter further.
The Egypt Football Association says it is yet to receive any official communication from Zamalek and has defended the standard of officiating in the league.
Zamalek's request for Mahmoud Al Banna to be replaced as the referee for the match against El-Gaish was rejected in the build up to the game.
Al Banna sent off Zamalek defender Ali Gabr after just four minutes and awarded El-Gaish the first of two penalties, the second came 10 minutes into the second half.
Under the league's regulations Zamalek risk being relegated to the fourth tier of Egyptian league if they do not reverse their decision to withdraw.
Lions boss Gatland is set to call up at least five players before the first Test against New Zealand on 24 June.
The players may well come from Wales and Scotland, who are in Australasia, while England are away in Argentina.
"It's only a 13-hour trip from here to New Zealand," said Jones.
"The [England] boys could be there."
The Lions face Maori All Blacks on Saturday (08:35 BST) and the Chiefs on Tuesday before the first Test in Auckland, with Gatland wanting extra players to ensure none of the Test squad have to play twice in a week.
It is understood Welshmen Kristian Dacey, Tomas Francis, Cory Hill and Gareth Davies are among those set to be called up to the Lions squad.
The quartet all featured last night in Wales' 24-6 victory over Tonga in Auckland on Friday. Scotland, meanwhile, are in Sydney to face Australia on Saturday.
Jones' squad are preparing for the second Test in Argentina, which is in a different time zone and may count against those players.
"The Lions is a prestigious team - when you become a Lion, you're remembered for life," Jones told BBC Radio 5 live.
"My only comment would be I would like to see it picked on merit rather than geographical proximity."
Lions fly-half Owen Farrell is out of Saturday's game and may miss the first Test against the All Blacks after suffering a quadriceps injury in training, while full-back Stuart Hogg has left the tour with a facial injury.
Gatland's Lions have won two and lost two of their four games in New Zealand so far.
More than half of cases related to people that had gone missing at least once before, with one person reported missing 170 times.
The figures were revealed during a two-day conference on missing people, being held at Abertay University in Dundee.
Police Scotland said the figures showed that more support was needed for vulnerable people who go missing.
More than three quarters of missing people are located within 24 hours, according to the figures. However, about 1% are never traced.
Police Scotland said it had recorded about 40,000 missing person "incidents" in the past year, with men accounting for 58% of missing people, while 53% were aged between 13 and 16.
Speaking at the conference, Assistant Chief Constable Andy Cowie, said: "Since April 2016, we have been compiling data on missing persons and the first full year of information provides us with a very clear picture of who goes missing and the locations from which they go missing.
"It is also illustrative of the non-crime related demand on Scotland's police service.
"People go missing for a broad range of reasons and usually voluntarily. But we also know that the majority of people who go missing are vulnerable."
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Mr Cowie said the issue showed the kind of pressure that was being placed on police resources.
He added: "We recognise we simply cannot do that alone. We need our partners and communities to work with us to protect those most at risk of going missing and prevent missing person episodes wherever possible."
The conference features speakers and delegates from across the world.
Dr Penny Woolnough, from Abertay University who works as an adviser to the police on missing people, said the event was the first of its kind to be hosted in Scotland.
She added: "It is the only international conference which sees multi-disciplinary academics, practitioners and policy makers come together to explore and discuss the full range of issues associated with the challenges faced by those who are missed, those who are charged with responding to missing and those who are affected by missing in its broadest sense."
"It reiterates Scotland's commitment to leading development of policy and practice in this area."
The winners of England's second-tier competition will be promoted if they satisfy 'minimum standard criteria' to play in the top-flight.
Promotion this term will again be decided via the four-team play-offs.
Championship clubs also get a funding boost as part of the new agreement between the RFU and Premiership Rugby.
Bristol won promotion via the play-offs last season, having topped the table in five of the seven campaigns in the Championship following relegation at the end of 2008-09.
But not all clubs reaching the play-offs have been eligible to go up, with Cornish Pirates not having a suitable home ground, while Bedford openly state they do not want to move into the Premiership.
The financial boost for clubs in England's second tier, and only other professional level of rugby, comes after London Welsh went out of business and were expunged from the league in January.
Money troubles are widespread in the competition, with a BBC Sport investigation into the health and future of the league discovering that just one of nine clubs with available accounts at Company House reporting a profit in 2015.
The exact figure in the multi-million pound deal has not been disclosed, but distribution will be based on final league positions "to ensure competition among clubs throughout the entirety of the season".
London Irish, relegated from the Premiership last season, are 15 points clear at the top of the Championship after 15 games.
Fourth-placed Ealing are 27 points adrift of the leaders, having played an extra game.
Mark McCafferty, chief executive at Premiership Rugby, said the play-off system "does not always help" sides prepare for a top-flight campaign.
Bristol lost their opening 10 league games on their return to the Premiership after a seven-year absence.
"It's vital that any club being promoted from the Greene King IPA Championship is as prepared as it can be to compete, given the quality and intensity of Premiership Rugby," McCafferty added.
The gadgets were already prohibited on rides but now visitors will be asked not to bring them to the parks at all.
A spokeswoman told the BBC: "Handheld extension poles have become a growing safety concern for both our guests and cast."
The ban comes into effect at Disney parks in the United States on Tuesday.
Paris and Hong Kong will follow suit on Wednesday.
The long arm of a selfie stick helps users take a better self-portrait, but there are fears that they could cause injury if somebody was accidentally struck with one during a photo opportunity.
The gadget also poses a safety risk on rides as its long arm can extend far outside the carriages and could come into contact with a ride's mechanism.
Visitors will now be asked to leave their selfie sticks in lockers at the parks' entrances to collect later.
A number of football clubs, the National Gallery, and the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club in Wimbledon have already banned the sticks over concerns they could cause injury or be a nuisance to other visitors.
Apple banned the device from audiences attending its annual WWDC developers conference, held in the US earlier this month.
A spokesperson for St John Ambulance said the first aid charity had not noticed a surge in selfie stick-related injuries but did offer advice for anybody hurt.
"If you get hit in the head with a selfie stick, sit down and hold a cold compress against the injury," said training officer Clive James.
"Advise the casualty to seek medical help if they develop signs of a worsening head injury - like dizziness or nausea, confusion and loss of memory of events preceding the injury."
Durham police tweeted a picture of the new doors, apologising that "time travel was not an optional extra".
A spokesman said customising the lifts showed the force could be "professional and still have a sense of humour".
Staff moved into the new £14m building next to its old base at Aykley Heads in Durham City last Autumn.
The tweet attracted one complaint saying the doors were a "waste of taxpayers money".
The six lifts were covered with vinyl wraps, not hand painted, and the cost had been "pretty modest", the spokesman for Durham Constabulary said.
Personalising the headquarters was a "bit quirky" and a "talking point" for anyone who came into the building, he added.
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The 25-year-old moves to Eastlands for a reported fee of £7m.
The defender, who joined the Gunners from French club Cannes in 2003, is City boss Roberto Mancini's first signing of the summer.
"I'm really happy to be joining such a great club. I hope I can add to the quality we already have here because we have a fantastic squad," he said.
"I can't wait to get started and I think anything is possible with this team."
The defender, who joined the Gunners from French club Cannes in 2003 and has 10 France caps, will contest the City left-back position with Aleksandar Kolarov.
And the Frenchman immediately directed a jibe at his new side's closest rivals, Manchester United.
"I understand that the people who live in Manchester are the true fans - they are from City," he told the club's official website. "That is a good point. I won't be bothered by United fans."
Clichy reportedly told Arsenal he wanted to leave last month and had also been linked with Liverpool and Roma.
The Frenchman spent the first half of his career with Arsenal as cover for Ashley Cole but became a regular in Arsene Wenger's side over the past five seasons following Cole's move to Chelsea.
Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown believes that selling Clichy represent a "good bit of business" for Arsenal.
"He was making mistakes at key moments and he wouldn't have been especially pleased with what he achieved at the club," said Keown.
"Whether or not Kieran Gibbs is going to be the replacement or not, I still feel that Wenger should buy another left back."
Clichy will be officially unveiled during City's forthcoming tour of the United States and Canada.
His move comes at a tricky time for Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, with playmaker Cesc Fabregas again being linked with Barcelona.
Midfielder Sami Nasri has also been tipped to leave the club and is thought to be a target for both Manchester City and Manchester United.
The body of a girl was found in Shipley on 19 May, 2011 and West Yorkshire Police hopes to identify the baby who was about three days old.
Her remains were discovered by staff at the Associated Waste Management depot last year.
The appeal comes as police talk with the coroner about the the infant's remains being released for a funeral.
Officers have sent 37,000 letters to homes in Bradford and Leeds to appeal for information in the past year.
Scientific work has now provided officers with a DNA profile of the child, although a matching profile of her mother is not on record.
It is believed the baby's delivery did not take place in a hospital and a post-mortem test failed to ascertain a cause of death.
Det Supt Sukhbir Singh, who is leading the investigation, said: "I would again urge the child's mother and family to come forward and help us identify her baby girl as she is laid to rest."
Police believe the mother of the baby is from the West Yorkshire area.
Staff at the waste management depot have taken an interest in supporting the funeral of the baby according to the police.
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Stuart Irvine, from Lerwick, frequently travelled the 450 mile-round-trip from the Shetland Islands to Aberdeen to box.
With no official club on the Shetland Islands the 25-year-old joiner, who is nicknamed the "Road Warrior", learned the basic skills by watching tutorials on the internet.
After winning his first official fight at the end of 2014, he is now in the process of setting up the first boxing club on the islands.
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Deputy Assistant Commissioner Maxine de Brunner lost the case brought by Ch Insp Adrian Denby.
The incident was her "pet hate" as it made female staff uncomfortable.
But she was found to have discriminated against Ch Insp Denby by placing him under an internal and criminal investigation.
Ch Insp Denby was in charge of the Central London Territorial Support Group (TSG) unit at the time of the incident.
DAC de Bunner wanted to make the unit "more attractive" to women and ethic minorities by challenging its macho culture, the Central London Employment Tribunal heard.
The investigation into the unit involved beer being found in a fridge with a price list on the front, allegations of homophobic bullying and claims for overtime which had not been worked.
Ch Insp Denby said he regretted not addressing the practice of male staff walking across the office wearing only a towel because of the "poor design" of shower facilities.
He said he was left with a "clear impression" that he was removed from his post because of the cultural failings DAC de Bunner felt existed - and she had shown no interest in the improvements he tried to tell her about.
The situation resulted in Ch Insp Denby being placed under internal and criminal investigation.
A damning judgment found that Ch Insp Denby had been sexually discriminated against.
The tribunal said he was an "impressive and straightforward witness" and, by contrast, it concluded that Ms de Brunner's testimony was "not credible".
In a statement Scotland Yard said: "We have sought leave to appeal the findings".
In 2008 Ch Insp Denby was seconded to Afghanistan, where he worked as temporary superintendent and senior adviser to the Kabul City Police.
In the UK he has commanded numerous suspected suicide bomber incidents and has been awarded nine commendations throughout his career.
A damages hearing will be held in October.
The report released on Monday stated the star may have taken cocaine three days before she fell ill on a flight on 23 December, US media reported.
Traces of heroin and MDMA, popularly known as ecstasy, were also found in the Star Wars actress's system.
But investigators could not determine what impact the cocaine and other drugs had on her death.
The findings were based on toxicology samples taken when Fisher arrived at a Los Angeles hospital.
Investigators could not say when the actress had taken the MDMA or heroin.
The star, who played Princess Leia in the film series, died on 27 December.
On Friday, a statement from the Los Angeles coroner said the exact cause of death was unknown but cited factors including sleep apnoea, heart disease and drug use.
Sleep apnoea is a common condition in which a person stops breathing during sleep, either for a few seconds or minutes.
In a statement released to People magazine after the coroner's ruling, Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd said: "My mum battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life. She ultimately died of it.
"She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases."
Her manner of death will be listed as undetermined, the coroner's statement said.
Fisher's death certificate, issued in January, stated that the cause of death was "cardiac arrest/deferred".
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The animal welfare charity hopes Wales will join 15 European countries which have implemented a ban.
Last year, it received more calls about primates in Wales than in any of the previous 11 years.
RSPCA's senior scientific officer, Ros Clubb said: "All primates, hand-reared or not, are wild animals.
"It doesn't matter how well intentioned the owner is, primates are not suitable pets."
"We fear there are hundreds more that are suffering behind closed doors because people do not know how to look after these animals properly."
It is estimated that there are around 120 privately-kept primates in Wales, with marmosets, capuchins and squirrel monkeys being the most common.
In a survey, RSPCA Cymru found that 72% of those polled in Wales support a ban of keeping primates as pets.
Former Assembly Member Lorraine Barrett re-homed a monkey from a pet shop in the 1980s after feeling "desperately sorry for him."
"The minute I walked in the house with the monkey I realised how out of my depth I was," she said.
"One time he was on the top of the cupboard and jumped on my son's head. I went to grab him and he bit me all around my arm. We were all just screaming."
"The only advice people need is that primates should never be kept as pets."
Back in 2002, consultants in England rejected the terms on offer and British Medical Association negotiators went back into talks with the government. A year later, a deal was agreed second time round and the contract was brought in.
But history is not going to repeat itself this time. Government sources have already indicated they are "minded" to impose the contract that they agreed with union leaders in May. We can expect confirmation of this in a couple of days I'm told.
The truth is the dispute has lasted too long and caused too much damage and bad will to see the two sides return to the table. And even if it hadn't, ministers feel hospitals have gone too far down the road implementing it to row back now.
New rotas are due to be introduced next month for 6,000 newly qualified junior doctors, with changes to pay to follow later in the year. Much of the rest of the profession is expected to follow over the course of the next 12 months. It is why on Monday I suggested the result of the vote may well end up being academic.
And regardless of all this the BMA is hardly in a position to fight its corner. It's in disarray.
The union's junior doctor leader Dr Johann Malawana has resigned (after spending the past two months arguing it was a good deal) and its senior leadership have no stomach to carry on fighting given the current situation facing the country over Brexit.
Ahead of the vote result being announced, they, in effect, ruled out sanctioning further industrial action in the short term.
In theory, that could all change when a new junior doctor leader is appointed, but the vote is not binding on the BMA and momentum has been lost anyway.
But that does not mean this is the end of this sorry saga. Far from it.
It's stating the obvious to say the profession is angry. It is furious. Throughout the dispute, the government had tried to paint BMA leaders as militant firebrands - unwilling to listen and politically motivated.
But when it came to it, the wider membership has ended up even more militant.
That, as the influential junior doctor blogger Rachel Clarke points out, has as much to do with the wider pressures in the system as it does with the details of the contract.
The risk now is that a whole generation of junior doctors feels disenfranchised, upset and undervalued. That is a disaster.
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The officers, known as bailiffs in the US, provide security for courthouses.
The inmate, who was due in court, grabbed an officer's gun during a scuffle and opened fire, Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey said.
People in the courthouse took shelter before other officers shot and killed the inmate, Mr Bailey said.
A deputy sheriff and another person were also wounded and were taken to hospital, where they are in a stable condition.
The inmate was not identified, and Mr Bailey did not say what charges he was facing.
The shooting occurred is in the resort town of St Joseph - about 100 miles (160km) northeast of Chicago.
Mr Bailey called the deaths of his colleagues "terrible".
"Our hearts are torn apart. ... I have known them for over 30 years. It's a sad day," he said.
Rescue officials say a boy and a girl are now being treated in a hospital.
A woman who was also pulled alive from the wreckage in the eastern Kware Pipeline Ebakasi area later died.
Kenya Red Cross says another person was killed after the building collapsed on Monday night. Several more people have been reported missing.
A search and rescue operation is continuing.
The Star newspaper said dozens of people had been evacuated moments before the collapse.
Witnesses told the paper that the building had been condemned after cracks appeared in its walls.
The co-ordinator of the rescue efforts, Pius Masai, said that 128 tenants had been accounted for by midday on Tuesday.
Earlier reports said that 15 people were missing, but this figure has not been confirmed.
The National Disaster Management Unit said that most families acted when ordered to leave the building prior to its collapse.
Local media reports that some people re-entered the building apparently to collect their belongings when it caved in, possibly trapping them.
Building collapses are a problem in Kenya with many people in Nairobi living in low-income areas or slums. Housing is in high demand, and developers often bypass regulations.
In April 2017, 49 people died after a building collapsed in heavy rain in Nairobi.
At the height of Kenya's rainy season in April 2016, a six-storey building collapsed killing 52 people in Nairobi's Huruma district.
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Joshua Reece Coppinger, 25, from Castle Vale, Birmingham, was riding a Suzuki GSX-R motorcycle which was in a collision with a Citroen Relay van.
Mr Coppinger's family described him as a "lovable rogue who's infectious laugh and cheeky grin was adored by many".
The accident took place on Salts Lane, Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, on 19 July.
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They said he would be "cherished forever and never forgotten".
"Our beloved, one of a kind, treasured son, brother, uncle and family member who was lucky enough to have two families. One he was born into and the other family of friends that he chose," the statement said.
An investigation into the collision is continuing and anyone who saw either vehicle before or during the incident was urged to call Staffordshire Police.
She said the coalition had made changes to the system and had further plans for the next Parliament.
Labour's Yvette Cooper said the Tory pledge from 2010 was in "tatters" but did not identify a target herself.
They were taking part in a Daily Politics debate on BBC Two.
Lib Dem Norman Baker said the target of tens of thousands was "non-deliverable", while UKIP's Steve Woolfe said his party was in favour of a "fair, ethical, non-discriminatory" system.
Plaid Cymru's Simon Thomas, meanwhile, said his party would not allow immigrants to be "scapegoated".
The Conservatives said at the last election that they wanted to reduce net migration - the difference between the numbers of people moving to live in the UK and the numbers of people leaving - to the "tens of thousands" by May 2015.
But figures earlier this year showed annual net migration had risen to 298,000.
Ms May said: "We've accepted that we have failed to meet that particular target."
Asked why people should trust her party this time, she said: "We've actually shown that we have made some changes to the immigration system.
"And crucially we have set out a credible plan for what we would do for the future, in terms of tightening up, not just on EU immigration but also on people from outside the EU."
Ms Cooper, quizzed about her party's reluctance to identify a target, said Labour was proposing "practical things we believe should change".
She said she wanted to see the net migration figure "come down".
And she said part of the problem was agencies and employers "driving low-skilled migration" to undercut local pay.
Mr Baker said his party had a strong record in government. Asked why the Lib Dems had not supported the Conservative target, he said: "You can't have a target for the number of days it's going to rain each year. It's a non-deliverable target."
But he said the most recent migration figure was "probably too much".
UKIP's Mr Woolfe said leaving the European Union was the only way to reduce the figure.
He said: "It's absolutely clear - Plaid Cymru and their leader Leanne Wood said in the debates between the leaders - that you cannot reduce migration in this country, net or otherwise, unless you are outside of the European Union."
His party wants immigration to return to "normal" levels, leader Nigel Farage has said.
Mr Thomas, meanwhile, said the Welsh economy needed migrants.
He added: "We want the voice of Wales to be heard."
Ms May also said during the debate that currently one person was on a Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measure, or TPim.
The home secretary can consider imposing a TPim if MI5 "reasonably believes" someone is involved in terrorism-related activities.
Ms Cooper questioned why more people were not subject to the orders, given the number of Britons known to have taken part in the conflict in Syria.
"Despite all the people coming back from Syria and despite all the concerns that have been raised about terror suspects and so on, they've only got one person under a TPim and that is because they weakened the powers and removed the relocation powers," she said.
Ms May said it was up to the security services to identify people who should be subject to TPims and denied they had not identified those who had travelled to Syria.
"We do know people coming back," she said.
Dubliner John Edwards volunteered to lie in a coffin which was then sealed and buried in the grounds of an east Belfast church.
But he's not alone down there - the coffin has been specially adapted so he can broadcast live on social media.
His aim is to reach out to those in despair.
Mr Edwards, 61, is former drug addict and alcoholic who has been sober for more than two decades.
After experiencing what he described as an "incredible encounter with God 27 years ago", he set up a number of Christian rehabilitation centre and homeless shelters.
Having lost more than 20 of his friends to addiction and suicide, Mr Edwards now counsels and prays with people in distress or despair.
For the next three days, his message of "hope" is coming from beyond the grave in the grounds of Willowfield church in east Belfast.
He has been taking calls, texts and emails from members of the public who are seeking help.
"My plan is to speak to them from the grave before they get there and show them hope," he told the Belfast Telegraph.
Mr Edwards said he is not claustrophobic but was still a little apprehensive about being buried alive.
"When the lid is closed and you're underground, and you hear the soil getting thrown on top of the coffin... it is freaky," he admitted.
The wooden structure is more spacious than the average coffin, being 8ft long, 3.5ft high and 4ft wide (2.4m x 1m x 1.3m).
It is equipped with a caravan toilet and access to air, food and water supplies are maintained through pipes.
It is not the first time Mr Edwards has been early for his own funeral.
He spent three days buried underground in his adopted town of Halifax in England last year.
The Dubliner has also been physically close to death on several occasions.
Having experienced sexual abuse, mental illness and homelessness, the former drug addict said he overdosed a number of times.
He also underwent a liver transplant after developing Hepatitis C from a dirty needle, and has survived cancer twice.
He admitted his habit of being buried alive is a "bit of a gimmick" but said it was one with a serious message.
"I'm desperate to reach as many people as possible."
Kylie Minogue, Lulu, Deacon Blue and more than 2,000 performers brought the curtain down on what has been praised as the "best Games ever".
Team England topped the medals table with 174, while Scotland ended up with a record 53.
Comedian Des Clarke opened the show promising to say "cheerio with the biggest party in Scotland's history".
Lulu, wearing a tartan scarf, then performed a rousing rendition of her first hit Shout on a huge shooting star-shaped stage in the centre of the pitch.
The athletes who took part in the Games emerged from almost 700 tents dotted throughout the stadium to a thunderous Glasgow welcome from the 40,000-strong crowd.
The behind-the-scenes workers who kept Glasgow going for the duration of the Games were then celebrated.
Deacon Blue, who formed in the city in 1985 and went on to become one of its most famous and successful bands, paid tribute to them with a rendition of their anthem, Dignity.
All in all, some 220 members of the emergency services and various council services took centre stage during the ceremony.
The workers - some on foot and some in the vehicles they use day-to-day - were led into the arena by police outriders who had taken part in the baton relay and held aloft a "Let Glasgow Flourish" banner.
Local synthpop band Prides introduced the Games volunteers - known as Clydesiders - and performed their song Messiah.
Next up were representatives of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
The 240 massed pipes and drums from 12 international territories played ear-piercing renditions of Wi' a Hundred Pipers and The Bloody Fields of Flanders to herald the arrival of various Commonwealth dignitaries.
Glasgow 2014 chairman Lord Smith of Kelvin paid tribute to the athletes who "gave it their all" and the Clyde-siders, whom he described as the "lifeblood" of the Games.
He said: "We've welcomed the world to our dear green place and it has been an experience we will never forget. Thank you Glasgow and thank you Scotland. You've done us proud."
Prince Imran, of Malaysia, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), presented an award which recognises an outstanding athlete of the Commonwealth Games.
The 2014 David Dixon Award was handed to Welsh rhythmic gymnast Frankie Jones.
Prince Imran went on to describe Glasgow 2014 as "the best Games ever", adding: "Glasgow - you were Pure, Dead Brilliant."
He told the crowd: "The Commonwealth Games are known as the Friendly Games. Glasgow has succeeded in making them even more than that. These have truly been the People's Games."
The CGF flag was lowered by two military representatives to the backdrop of Robert Burns' Ae Fond Kiss, sung by Scottish folk singer Karen Matheson, lead singer with Capercaillie.
Michael Cavanagh, chairman of Commonwealth Games Scotland said: "As a Games family, I believe we have entertained and inspired the watching world in the last 11 days."
Receiving the flag, Tom Tate, mayor of city of Gold Coast, said: "I am honoured to receive this flag on behalf of the people of City of Gold Coast, Australia.
"We accept this responsibility with great pride and in the spirit of the Commonwealth Games."
Vice patron of the CGF, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex formally declared the Games closed.
Pop icon Kylie, then took to the stage to begin a seven-song set, starting with Spinning Around.
The ceremony rounded off with Scots singer songwriter Dougie MacLean performing his classic ballad "Caledonia" as ceremony host Des Clarke urged everyone "haste ye back" to Glasgow.
A mass performance of Auld Lang Syne featuring all of the ceremony's performers and the thousands in the audience followed.
A Lone Piper on the stadium's roof introduced the song, before Maclean, Lulu and Kylie joined in as the crowds crossed arms in traditional style.
The celebrations were then completed with the finale fireworks.
Closing ceremony parties were also held at the Glasgow Green and Kelvingrove Bandstand live sites - with music and entertainment and the ceremony being shown on the big screens.
The closing ceremony marks the end of an almost seven-year journey for Glasgow that began on 9 November 2007 when the city was awarded the Games.
When the dust settles on Monday, the focus will begin to turn to what legacy the sporting extravaganza has left behind and whether it was worth the time, effort and huge amount of public money spent.
The Masters champion is in a nine-way tie for fifth after finishing with an eagle in Switzerland.
Fellow Englishman Daniel Brooks shares a four-way tie for the lead.
Willett will play in the Ryder Cup on 30 September and European team-mates Andy Sullivan and Matt Fitzpatrick struggled at Crans-sur-Sierre.
Sullivan finished on four-over with Fitzpatrick a shot back, while fellow Englishmen James Morrison and Andrew Johnston are tied for second with Willett.
Willett, 28, has struggled since winning his first major at Augusta in April. finishing no higher than 37th place at the US Open, The Open Championship, the US PGA Championship and the Rio Olympics.
The European Masters is one of a handful of tournaments before the Ryder Cup begins at Hazeltine in the United States.
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Honiton-based Bale Group, which runs 55 lorries and employs 120 people, said it would save £25,000 a year in fuel.
Widening the road would provide an alternative route to using the M5 and M4 but campaigners say the plan would be devastating for the environment.
The views of businesses will be presented to the government later in September.
The A303 is one of the most direct routes from London and the South East to Devon and Cornwall, but single carriageway sections, including around Stonehenge, suffer from bottlenecks.
Traffic also builds up after accidents on the alternative M5 route into the South West.
Tony Bale, managing director of Bale Group, said: "We get two or three miles per gallon better fuel consumption by going on a dual carriageway than we do by going on the normal A roads, especially the A303 because you have traffic jams and everything else that goes with it.
"The cost to us is about £25,000 a year extra if we go that way.
"That's not very good for the environment, your carbon footprint or anything."
Environmental campaigner Andrew Bell said rail should be improved and a wider road would threaten the Blackdown Hills.
He said: "It's utter madness. This is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and to put a dual carriageway through it would be devastating for the environment."
Conservative MEP Giles Chichester is backing proposals by Somerset County Council to dual the road.
He said: "Dualling the A303 all the way to Cornwall would improve the environment. If you make traffic smooth running there are less fumes."
The A303 is 92 miles (148km) long and runs through five counties.
The proposals, which also include upgrades to the A358 and A30, are being developed by a multi-agency task group consisting of Highways Agency representatives and county council officials from Wiltshire, Somerset, Cornwall, Devon and Dorset.
The pair, aged 16 and 17, are in custody in connection with an alleged serious assault.
The incident happened near a children's play area in Ballantay Terrace in Castlemilk at about 20:00 on Saturday.
The men are expected to appear in court on Friday.
Earlier police launched a murder inquiry after Jamie Lee, 22, was shot and killed during the incident.
Striker Jonathan Walters put Stoke ahead with an exquisite finish, guiding home a volley from Mame Biram Diouf's teasing cross.
Spanish defender Muniesa made it 2-0 before half-time thanks to a crisp low volley following clever play on the left flank by Marko Arnautovic.
Burnley went close late on when Andre Gray's angled shot was parried by goalkeeper Lee Grant.
Stoke withdrew Arnautovic in the second half after he was on the receiving end of a strong tackle from on-loan Liverpool full-back Jon Flanagan.
Potters defender Bruno Martins Indi was also floored by an elbow from Ashley Barnes, although he recovered to complete the game.
Stoke's fifth win in seven games lifted them to ninth in the table, while Burnley slipped to 14th spot courtesy of a third successive defeat.
Eyebrows were raised when Stoke manager Mark Hughes decided not to recall Joe Allen to his starting line-up following suspension.
The former Liverpool midfielder has been one of Stoke's most influential performers this season and has scored four league goals.
Hughes, though, stuck with the same team which saw won 1-0 at Watford last weekend, and was rewarded with another determined and disciplined display.
The starting line-up might have lacked some of their star players - Wilfried Bony, Peter Crouch, and Bojan KrKic were also left on the bench - but Stoke proved the whole is greater than the sum of its parts to clinch a second win in a row.
Burnley's away record this season does not make pretty reading: one point, five defeats, one goal scored and 16 conceded.
Premier League survival will largely be determined by how many games they win in the familiar surroundings of Turf Moor.
However, it is essential the Clarets pick up points on the road sooner rather than later, especially against their fellow relegation contenders.
Two goals from Danny Ings gave Burnley a 2-1 win over Stoke in their previous meeting at the Potteries in November 2014.
Victory was Burnley's first away from home in the 2014-15 season, but there was no danger of a repeat on this occasion.
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Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "We performed superbly well in the first half and then the second half was more about game management and making sure we defended well as a group, which we did.
"I get a lot of pleasure from us doing that because it shows all the elements and characteristics of a really strong-minded group of players, which is what I have here.
"We see ourselves as a top-10 club so we have to maintain these levels now and try to build on the fact that we have suffered just one defeat in nine."
Burnley boss Sean Dyche: "I know we have to change our away form. That's an important part of the Premier League and, even though that's difficult, there were clear signs today that was a team that went to win a game.
"We haven't shown that much away from home, but we did today and I thought the mentality was clear and some of the football was good.
"We just have to keep believing we will get our rewards if we keep performing like that."
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Stoke City travel to Arsenal, who have not lost at home since the opening day of the season, on Saturday 10 December, when Burnley host Bournemouth at Turf Moor. Both matches kick off at 15:00 GMT.
Match ends, Stoke City 2, Burnley 0.
Second Half ends, Stoke City 2, Burnley 0.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andre Gray.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Jonathan Walters.
Substitution, Burnley. Michael Kightly replaces Scott Arfield.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Joe Allen.
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Barnes (Burnley).
Substitution, Stoke City. Glenn Whelan replaces Charlie Adam.
Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Stephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Burnley. Dean Marney tries a through ball, but James Tarkowski is caught offside.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Lee Grant.
Attempt saved. Andre Gray (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jeff Hendrick.
Attempt saved. Joe Allen (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Peter Crouch with a headed pass.
Charlie Adam (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Substitution, Burnley. James Tarkowski replaces Jon Flanagan.
Attempt blocked. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Ben Mee.
Attempt blocked. Peter Crouch (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Burnley. Sam Vokes replaces George Boyd.
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Hand ball by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Stephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jon Flanagan (Burnley).
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Crouch replaces Marko Arnautovic because of an injury.
Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt saved. Joe Allen (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Attempt missed. Ben Mee (Burnley) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Scott Arfield with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Glen Johnson.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City) because of an injury.
Substitution, Stoke City. Joe Allen replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
They are among hundreds of employers recently fined by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The government said the list of 360 employers from across the UK "is the largest ever" record of companies that broke regulations on the national minimum or living wage.
It includes the retail giant Debenhams.
According to HMRC, the hairdressing, hospitality and retail sectors are "the most prolific offenders".
As well as recovering the arrears for workers, HMRC issues penalties to the offending businesses.
A firm based in Portadown - WH Recruitment Limited - topped the list of Northern Ireland businesses which were fined. It failed to pay 143 workers a combined total of £26,418.
A spokesman for WH Recruitment told the BBC: "We are a registered agency and put our hands up. This was to do with the accommodation offset regulation."
BC Plant Limited, another of the companies fined by HMRC, told the BBC the discrepancy in payments was due to the difference in the overtime rates for apprentices and other employees: "The oversight concerned overtime payments to apprentices which were paid at a rate of time and a half of the minimum apprentice rate as opposed to time and a half of national minimum wage. This was an oversight and all employees involved were reimbursed immediately once the error came to light."
The National Living Wage rate is currently £7.20 for workers aged 25 and over.
The full list of Northern Ireland employers fined by HMRC is:
The UK Foreign Office has confirmed the detention of two British nationals.
The three men, who received terms ranging from four to seven years, were alleged to have had links with local jihadists, the Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) said.
Ethiopia has extremely strict anti-terror laws.
It has long waged a campaign against Islamist militancy in East Africa - and has been involved in fighting against al-Qaeda linked militants in neighbouring Somalia.
The country has also faced criticism from donors for jailing its critics, including some of the country's leading bloggers who are facing trail on terrorism charges and have been in detention since April 2014.
According to FBC, Ali Adros Mohammad and Mohammad Sharif Ahmed had lived in London while Mohammad Ahmed was from Hargeisa in the self-declared republic of Somaliland.
The trio had been in communication with local members of a jihadist group since December 2012 and had travelled to the Ethiopian city of Adama, capital of the Oromia region, where they were conspiring to carry out terror attacks, it reported.
The Federal High Court in the capital, Addis Ababa, heard that Ali Adros had travelled to Kenya for military training and had also made a deal with a local rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), to carry out joint attacks, it said.
The 70-year-old received multiple wounds when he was attacked in Hythe Hill, Colchester, Essex, at 17:40 GMT on Tuesday.
Officers are searching for a tall white man who was wearing camouflage trousers and a green top.
The victim is undergoing surgery for his injuries, which are described as life changing.
He was taken to Colchester Hospital and was later transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where he is in a critical condition.
Detective Inspector Jim White, of Essex Police, said the motive behind the attack is not known.
"We believe the weapon may have been discarded.
"We are asking residents in the Hythe, New Town or Military Road areas to be vigilant and would ask them to check their bins and gardens.
"If they find a knife, blade, or blood stained clothing, they are asked to contact us immediately," he said.
She visited Royal Manchester Children's Hospital where she also spoke with staff who have treated the victims.
The Queen expressed her shock that young people had been targeted in the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert.
At least six children were killed in Monday's blast, including an eight-year-old girl, and a number of others were seriously injured.
The Queen praised hospital staff for "coming together" after hearing how many had come in from home offering their assistance in the wake of the attack.
Speaking to the parents of Evie Mills, 14, the Queen said: "It's dreadful. Very wicked, to target that sort of thing."
She also told Evie, from Harrogate, she thought Ariana Grande was a "very good singer", adding: "She sounds very, very good."
The Queen told a member of staff: "The awful thing was that everyone was so young. The age of them."
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She also met Millie Robson, 15, who suffered injuries to her legs, and wished her a speedy recovery.
The Queen spoke to Millie's dad David, who had been waiting at the exit of the arena for his daughter when the bomb exploded.
"It's not something you expect at all," she said.
Amy Barlow, 12, from Helmshore, Lancashire, who suffered injuries to her legs, also met the Queen.
Her parents have told how a merchandise seller ripped up concert T-shirts to help stem the bleeding from their daughter following the blast.
Dad Grant, 46, said: "The guy selling T-shirts used the T-shirts as bandages."
Mum Kathy, 43, who was with her daughter when the bomb went off, added: "I think he was selling them outside, but he very quickly dumped his bag on the floor, ripped them all up."
She said it felt like "someone had thrown a massive firework" when they were struck by shrapnel coming from the bomb.
The report gives details of a study into the potential for seals coming into contact with the renewable energy devices in the Pentland Firth.
The research suggests collisions could happen, but were not likely to be fatal to grey seals, a large seal species.
Smaller harbour seals might be "less robust", the report noted.
The report and analysis was commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
The study examined the movements of tagged seals in the Pentland Firth, a narrow stretch of sea separating mainland Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
Scientists based their research on a hypothetical array of up to 86 tidal turbines.
In their report, the researchers said there was potential for seals to collide with turbines, adding that larger grey seals were unlikely to be fatally injured.
But they also pointed out that seals should be able to detect turbines "both visually and acoustically and are also likely to be able to modify their behaviour to avoid collisions".
The scientists said this avoidance behaviour required additional research.
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The move directly affects six militants who were facing imminently execution.
In December Pakistan ended a seven-year moratorium on executions, after militants killed more than 150 pupils and staff at a school in Peshawar.
Since then about 60 death-row inmates have been executed on the orders of civilian courts.
More than 8,000 people have been sentenced to death in Pakistan, human rights groups say.
In March the government announced that all of those who had exhausted the appeals process and pleas for clemency would be executed.
But on Thursday, a 17-judge panel headed by Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk suspended executions carried out by the military, after the Supreme Court Bar Association challenged the constitutional amendment that created the tribunals.
It said that the tribunals would not be allowed to handle terror cases, which can carry the death penalty, until it makes it final ruling.
It is not clear when the court will do so, but it has directed the attorney general to file a reply in the cases of condemned prisoners by 22 April.
Human rights lawyer Asma Jehangir has criticised the secrecy of the military tribunals, arguing that defendants are given few details of the alleged offences.
Senior lawyer and retired Colonel Inam-ur-Rehman - who has defended cases before the military courts - told AFP that Thursday's ruling was a "great achievement".
"It shows that the judiciary is performing its role independently and no parallel judiciary can be allowed to work in the country," he said.
The SNP's motion said the former Labour prime minister had not given Parliament correct information on his dealings with US President George W Bush.
MP Alex Salmond said the push towards war in 2003 had been "very much a personal campaign" by Mr Blair.
But Labour's shadow foreign office minister Fabian Hamilton warned against making him a "scapegoat".
The current Conservative government also said there was no need for an investigation.
The US-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003 and the UK, which lost 179 military personnel in the conflict, ended its combat role in 2009.
MPs rejected the SNP's House of Commons motion, calling for an investigation into Mr Blair's pre-Iraq war role by the Justice Committee, by 439 to 70 - a margin of 369 votes.
Mr Salmond, a former Scottish First Minister, said it was a "question of parliamentary accountability" and "that an examination of statements made to Parliament and public, against the facts as we now know them, would be a valuable additional sanction and tool in restraining future prime ministers from any such course of events".
Mr Blair had "grievously misled" the public "into that disastrous conflict", he added.
The Iraq Inquiry, led by Sir John Chilcot and published in July, found the former prime minister had overstated the threat posed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, had sent ill-prepared troops into battle and had "wholly inadequate" plans for the aftermath.
The SNP said the inquiry's release of a note from Mr Blair to US President George W Bush in 2002, saying "I'll be with you, whatever", proved that he had misled MPs about his intentions.
But, during the three-hour Commons debate, ex-Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke suggested a focus on Mr Blair risked relegating the issue of ensuring that such a "catastrophic foreign policy decision" was not repeated.
He told Mr Salmond: "As you are aware, I agree with you about your descriptions of the catastrophic nature of the invasion of Iraq and I agree with you that the former prime minister has a lot to answer for and no doubt will continue to do so although he was cleared by Chilcot of deliberate misbehaviour."
But, for the government, Cabinet Office minister Chris Skidmore said there was "no merit" in further inquiries into the Iraq war, and the Chilcot report contained "nothing" which pointed to "deliberate deceit" of Parliament by Mr Blair.
He added: "But there were clearly occasions where more information or better information could have been presented.
"As for how people should account for themselves, it is for them to read the report and explain why they did what they did."
Labour's Mr Hamilton said: "There are many serious lessons to learn from the Chilcot report... but in terms of learning those lessons, we will do ourselves and future governments no favours if we spend even more time in this House and in the committee rooms examining contentions that the Chilcot report and four other inquiries - at exhaustive length - have already found to be incorrect.
"Nor will any of us benefit if we continue to try and turn a collective institutional and international failure in Iraq into an attempt to pillory or scapegoat one individual."
There had been doubts over the attitude of Labour's frontbench to the motion with calls for leader Jeremy Corbyn - a prominent opponent of the war - to order the party's MPs to vote against.
After the Chilcot report was published in July, Mr Blair, who led Labour to three general election victories, apologised for intelligence assessments having been "wrong".
But he defended the decision to go to war, saying that "there were no lies. Parliament and cabinet were not misled. There was no secret commitment to war. Intelligence was not falsified and the decision was made in good faith".
Allied, which also stars Marion Cotillard, took £1.3m on its opening weekend to debut in second place.
But it was not enough to dethrone Fantastic Beasts, which took a further £8.9m on its second week of release.
The film, which is a spin-off from the Harry Potter series, stars Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston.
The animated children's film Trolls continued to perform well in its sixth week - taking a further £834,000 to land at number three.
Bad Santa 2 debuted at number four with £799,000 - 13 years after its predecessor was released.
Arrival, which stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, held on to its top five position for a third week after taking a further £778,000.
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Both Northern Irishmen will have the opportunity to match the two gold medals they won five years ago.
If all goes to plan, the friends could win 100m and 800m titles within 15 minutes of each other on Sunday night.
"Whenever we won at London 2012, the stadium turned green," says McKillop.
"It will be great to have that opportunity again for the island of Ireland. Fingers crossed, it will be another amazing night."
However, while McKillop is bubbling with confidence after clocking his best 800m time in three years (1:58.25) at last week's Belfast International, the 27-year-old North Belfast Harrier, who has a mild form of cerebral palsy, is mindful that the standard in the T37 and T38 middle distance events is "rising all the time".
"I know Canada's Liam Stanley, who took the silver behind me in the T37 1500m final in Rio, is getting better all the time so it's not going to be easy.
"But I still want to win. There is no greater feeling that being on the podium, hearing your national anthem and looking at the people in the crowd clapping and celebrating what you have achieved. I love that."
McKillop has been beset by injury since 2012 and his annual stint on the treatment table this year was caused by a calf problem in January.
However, "unbelievable" physio work by Kerry Kirk at the Sports Institute in Jordanstown got the Glengormley man back on the track much quicker than he expected.
An impressive 4:04 for 1500m at the Northern Ireland Championships in early June suggested McKillop was peaking at the right time and while he then clocked a disappointing 4:09 metric mile a couple of weeks later, his 800m time last Wednesday was a "huge confidence booster".
"I got back sooner than I normally would after such an injury. That's why you saw me run 1:58 for 800m last week and not 2:05.
"I feel back as an athlete and I'll be in a stadium in front of 60,000 people believing I can run my fastest," adds McKillop, who has not lost at paralympic level since 2006.
Visually-impaired Smyth, who recently turned 30, has been unbeaten at Paralympic level since beginning his international career at the 2005 European Championships.
The county Londonderry man joined able-bodied stars such as Dwain Chambers and Christophe Lemaitre at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona when he narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 100m final.
A year later, Smyth was alongside Usain Bolt in the 100m entry at the World Championships in Daegu and the Derryman's personal best of 10.22 seconds saw him missing out on qualifying for the London Olympics by 0.04 seconds.
Smyth regrouped from that disappointment to star at the London Paralympics as he clinched the T13 100m and 200m titles in world record times of 10.46 and 21.05.
Since 2012, the Eglinton man's track times have been slowed by injury but he has remained far too good for the opposition at paralympic level - most recently last year's Rio Games when he took a third successive 100m gold.
Heading into London, Smyth, who dashed home from the last world championships in Doha two years ago for the birth of his daughter Evie, insists his motivation to win remains "as strong as ever".
"At the end of my career, I will want to be able to look back and think that I did everything possible to keep improving as as an athlete.
"I will want to leave my sport on a high rather than dwindling away," adds Smyth who intends to remain in competition until at least Tokyo 2020.
With the Mark Kirk-trained Ballyclare man James Hamilton representing the host nation at the London championships, McKillop will be the first of the Northern Ireland trio in action when he competes in the T38 800m heats on Friday evening (20:25 BST).
McCoist's £825,000 salary was made public in the club's annual accounts but as part of cost-cutting measures he had been willing to have it halved.
Despite the club losing money on a monthly basis, it has taken until now for that to be implemented.
Rangers have also employed Philip Nash to oversee the financial overhaul at Ibrox.
Chief executive Graham Wallace has acknowledged it is necessary at the club and has brought in Nash as a consultant.
He has previously worked for Arsenal and Liverpool and is charged with helping Wallace and the finance director Brian Stockbridge sort out the Scottish League One club's finances.
A spokesman for the Rangers board said: "Mr Nash is a consultant and will be called on from time to time by Graham Wallace as he works on his 120-day restructuring project.
"Mr Wallace will call on the best strategic minds in the sporting and business world to put Rangers Football Club back to where they belong."
The share price of the Rangers International Football Club plc fell to a new low of 28.5p on Friday, less than a third of the 90p price at the launch of the share issue just over a year ago.
The visitors led after just 23 seconds through John Akinde, in what was the fastest goal scored in the English Football League this season.
However, it will not count as a goal now.
The Bees also hit the crossbar but will have to start again at 0-0 when the game is eventually replayed.
Barnet manager Martin Allen told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "It was a good 45 minutes for our team, 1-0 up, who knows what would have happened?
"I don't think it was a good decision [to call the game off], surely you give it 20 minutes?
"There were three puddles, but none of them were bigger than the paddling pool I have got in the garden for my dog.
"The rain was no big deal. There were three little patches and it is a big football pitch. But we respect the referee's decision."
Newport manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales Sport; "I am disappointed, but I can understand the referee's decision.
"You could quite clearly see the issues with the puddles and the ball getting caught under people's feet.
"The players' safety has got to come first. The referee probably had to look at it and I understand his decision."
The 26-year-old Swede, who has played 25 times for the Championship promotion chasers, will undergo surgery on his left knee.
He suffered the injury in Saturday's 1-0 loss to Ipswich.
"The feeling for this type of injury is around the nine months mark to get back," said Hornets head of medical Richard Collinge.
Azarenka is the WTA Tour's form player after her Indian Wells win, but Konta is rising fast through the rankings.
They meet for the second time, after the Belarusian retired at a set down in Wuhan last September.
"It was difficult to consider that a full match since I didn't feel physically well," said Azarenka.
"But it's really impressive to see how much she improved over the last couple months."
Their quarter-final is scheduled for the evening session in Miami.
Azarenka, ranked eighth, beat world number one Serena Williams to win in Indian Wells earlier this month, and looks to be back to the form that won her two Australian Open titles, before two injury-hit years.
However, Konta is on the verge of a place in the top 20 having been ranked 151st in the world this time last year.
"She obviously had some great results, playing with a lot of confidence," added Azarenka. "She has a very solid game, big serve.
"I'm just looking forward to that challenge. I think for me it's going to be our first meeting, but I'm looking forward to that."
Konta, 24, is the first British woman to reach the last eight in Key Biscayne and would break the top 20 if she reaches the final.
"It will be an incredibly tough battle," said the world number 23.
"Azarenka has had an incredible season so far. I'm going to have to really run down every ball, fight every single point and we'll see what the day will hold."
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data compares the number of deaths during the winter months with the average in other parts of the year.
There were 24,000 excess deaths in the winter of 2011-12, compared with 25,700 the year before.
The vast majority of excess deaths, 19,500, were in the over 75s.
The ONS said levels of flu last winter were the lowest on record. It said this, combined with mild weather, would explain why there were fewer deaths.
The charity Age UK welcomed the fall in deaths, but said the overall number was too high and was a "national tragedy".
Its director general, Michelle Mitchell, said: "Every single excess winter death is preventable and represents our failure to meet the challenge of plummeting temperatures in Britain.
"Even in very cold countries such as Finland, excess winter deaths are much lower because they take staying warm seriously and prepare for cold weather."
"This fall does not prove progress in tackling the problem of excess winter deaths, as data shows that colder temperatures in future years could result in another sharp hike in deaths.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "We're pleased to see there was an overall reduction in excess winter deaths however there is no room for complacency.
"We have allocated £20m to local authorities to help vulnerable people stay well during cold weather and get the help they need within their communities.
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But how many athletes would actually dice with death in the pursuit of perfection and to achieve the ultimate dream of Olympic gold?
For British judoka Kelly Edwards, who had multiple concussions in the eight months before Rio 2016, the advice from neurological specialists was clear.
"They said if I carried on, I might die - it was that serious," she told BBC Sport.
"Even then I was insisting - 'but it's the Olympics' - it was everything I'd thought about for four years and never considered not being there."
What should have been a reality check was briefly considered 'just another challenge' before Edwards reluctantly accepted a break - meaning she would miss Rio - was not only recommended but required.
"It was devastating to miss the Olympics, but if I'd carried on and tried to get there then in the worst-case scenario, I may not be here now, or be unable to continue with a 'normal' life," said the 26-year-old.
Edwards' struggle to accept the decision was in part down to her passion for judo, but also the confusion around exactly how the problem had arisen.
She took a minor hit to the head at an event in Mongolia in July 2015, and another in Uzbekistan three months later.
Dismissing her "slow and sluggish" behaviour as jet-lag, she went on to compete in Portugal later in October - before her headaches worsened.
"It was strange because I didn't feel like I had taken any big knocks," she said.
"It was only when my team started looking back at video footage that we realised where the concussions may have happened."
She improved after resting, before an awkward landing in a competition at the end of 2015 saw the problems return.
"It felt like my head was full of cotton wool," she said.
The "fogginess" in her mind cleared during a six-week break over Christmas, and in late January last year she was back hunting for an Olympic place.
The 2014 Commonwealth silver medallist came through a competition in Cuba unscathed, but a 'minor' knock at the prestigious Paris Grand Slam in February 2016 prompted the symptoms to return - with a vengeance.
"The hit felt like nothing, but the impact was so debilitating," she said.
Edwards was immediately managed using the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool, also known as Scat 3. It includes six elements, with athletes only allowed to progress to the next phase once symptoms have ceased.
She was initially ordered to rest completely and not use technology.
"It impacted every part of my life," she said. "I couldn't make my own meals, and when I'd lean over to feed my cat I was getting dizzy and falling over.
"I was sleeping for 16-17 hours a day and was still tired. Technology was a complete no-go - I couldn't look at my iPad, computer screen or TV for weeks."
I was angry, at times really, really scared... I couldn't get my head around why it was happening
Despite the precautions, her condition did not improve, and in the second phase of her recovery even going for walks and using her mobile were ruled out.
She said: "I didn't think sending a few texts to friends and family was a problem, but I was showing no improvement and had to try something different."
In those few hours she was awake, Edwards felt in a 'dream-like' state, where nothing was real.
"I didn't feel in control of the situation - I was angry, at times really, really scared, and I couldn't get my head around why it was happening," she said.
"It wasn't like a knee or shoulder problem where you're told: 'It'll be four-six weeks of recovery and this is the plan.' It was this invisible injury."
Despite an increase in media coverage and heightened concerns about the long-term impact of repeated concussions on the brain - driven by research into dead American footballers and boxers - very little is known about the mechanics of the condition.
In the UK, rugby union is leading the way with a new Pitch-Side Concussion Assessment (PSCA) system which aims to detect concussions early and prevent players from returning to action too soon.
However, forms of diagnosis and treatment are still very much in their infancy.
"The brain is so complex and I think that's why there's not a lot of information out there," said Edwards.
"I didn't get a lot of answers about why I suffered repeated concussions and was hearing lots of 'we don't know' which I found bizarre and really frustrating.
"Hopefully what I've been through will in some way help others."
Edwards' condition had improved considerably by the time the Rio Olympics began - in April she had resumed running drills, and by July she had returned to full contact work.
But that made watching from home all the more difficult.
"Four years earlier, I'd been in London and had the whole arena chanting my name as I came out to compete," she said.
"It was really hard not being part of an amazing Games for Team GB."
Seeing team-mate Sally Conway claim bronze helped reignite the desire to win medals again, and piece by piece she rebuilt her career.
"I was struggling doing forward and backward rolls, handstands and cartwheels - all things that used to be so easy," said Edwards, who as a child did gymnastics training five times a week.
"When I started doing judo again, if I got thrown or hit on the head I would stop and check I was OK as I was really nervous."
Her confidence grew, though, and she embarked on a run of career-best form, winning medals in all six events at the end of 2016 including first Grand Slam and Grand Prix honours.
"I'm a fighter, I'm a warrior, and if you can overcome the challenges then you'll be stronger than you were before," she said.
"The experience and how bad it was has given me a new lease of life and my mindset is totally different."
This week, Edwards will look to prove just how far she has come by challenging for a medal at the European Championships in Poland - her first major international since the 2015 World Championships.
Further concussions are possible, and there are no guarantees serious symptoms will not emerge again in the future.
Dr Keith Barrow, British Judo's chief medical officer, said it was unclear whether Edwards had had three or four concussions.
He added: "It was hard to tell her she had to stop pushing for the Olympics as she's an honest athlete who had worked so hard to get to Rio, but we had a duty of care.
"Concussions have been linked to mental illness and dementia so we had to think about her life outside of sport as well."
Despite the risks, Edwards is not ready to give up on her dreams.
"There's so much I still want - like being Olympic, world and European champion - but to simplify, it's about being the best I can possibly be," she said.
"I hope taking that break has put any long-term risk of [brain] damage at bay, but what fuels my life is judo and in sport there is always risk.
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The deal will encompass 24 England teams across the men's and women's game and could rise if performance-related targets are achieved.
FA chief Martin Glenn said the deal would allow the non-profit organisation "to invest even more in the game".
The government has threatened to cut FA funding if it does not reform.
And on Monday it said it could bring in legislation to force change.
A group of former FA executives have written a letter to parliament, urging reform for a body they claim is outdated and held back "by elderly white men".
The FA says it is working on governance reforms to adhere to Sport England and UK Sport's Governance Code for Sport, which was released in October.
The FA has also started a review into claims of sex abuse in football.
Nike have supplied England for the last three years but the new deal is worth less than the £42.5m a year that world champions Germany receive.
"With the FA striving to be a world-class organisation, it's vital for us to partner with innovative global leaders such as Nike and look to the future together," said FA group commercial and marketing director Mark Bullingham.
The deal struck has reportedly not grown substantially partly because of England's disappointing Euro 2016 campaign where they lost to Iceland at the last-16 stage.
It was the second tournament at which the country had worn Nike, following on from England's exit at the group stage of the 2014 World Cup.
In its 2015 financial accounts, the FA made £56m of its its £318m revenue from sponsorship and licensing. But the organisation made a £9m annual loss overall.
In the same year, its accounts state £117m was invested back into the game.
The 21-year-old made one Blues first-team appearance before leaving Stamford Bridge this summer and had loan spells at Rotherham, Swindon and Brentford.
Swift scored seven goals in 27 Championship appearances for the Bees last season.
He was also part of the England Under-21 team to win the Toulon Tournament in May.
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The 24-year-old centre-back has joined from MK Dons after impressing for the Brewers in pre-season games against Leicester City and Derby County.
He said: "The training facilities at St George's Park are out of this world.
"The whole atmosphere at the club and the way the boys play football here all made sense as well. It was a real-no brainer moving here."
Flanagan added: "It's a fresh start with a new team who are already doing pretty well. Hopefully I can help take the club to where it wants to be, which is the next level."
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Klukowski played 29 times in his only season at York, helping them win the FA Trophy at Wembley, but could not help them avoid National League relegation.
The 30-year-old moved to York after his release by Newport, having scored eight times in 73 games for the Welsh side.
"He is a strong guy who can play anywhere down the spine of the team," Gulls boss Kevin Nicholson said.
The BFI 's Black Star season, launching on 17 October, will show Smith's film Ali and Nyong'o's 12 Years a Slave at almost 300 screenings around the UK.
Classics will also feature, including Sidney Poitier's 1969 film In the Heat of the Night, and be re-released.
Black Star comes as Hollywood's diversity record is under scrutiny, following the row over the Oscars.
Many stars and film-makers boycotted the ceremony due to the lack of black and ethnic minority talent nominated for an award.
The action sparked the international #OscarsSoWhite debate and has led to the organisers of the Oscars inviting a record number of new members to vote in next year's ceremony, including John Boyega, America Ferrera and Idris Elba.
The BFI's Heather Stewart said of Black Star: "Imagine cinema history without Paul Robeson, Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Poitier, Pam Grier, and Samuel L Jackson - some of the greatest actors to light up our screens with their charisma and talent.
"Now imagine how much richer our shared memory would be, had the opportunities available to black actors matched their abilities.
"With Black Star we are celebrating great performances and bringing them back to the big screen for everyone to enjoy. And we are also asking searching questions, of our industry and of ourselves."
Running for nearly three months in cities including London, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and Exeter, the season will also focus on key themes.
Blaxploitation - the exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in films - will be explored in films such as Pulp Fiction and 1974's Foxy Brown.
Black stars who have taken on roles based on historical figures will be celebrated with movies such as Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, and Will Smith as Muhammad Ali.
Black Star's programmer, Ashley Clark, said: "From cinema's earliest trailblazers to today's transatlantic stars, I'm excited for audiences to enjoy icons, heroes and heroines back on the big screen where they belong."
The festival will also run live events including seminars, concerts and on-stage interviews.
The BFI's Black Star season runs from 17 October to 31 December.
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The coastguard responded to a call for assistance at about 10:45 on Saturday. The divers were helped from the water by local dive charter boats.
One of the divers, who was suspected to be suffering from bends, was airlifted by the coastguard to a specialist treatment facility in Aberdeen.
The other divers and their boat were taken ashore by an RNLI lifeboat.
Stander suffered an ankle injury in the quarter-final victory over Toulouse but could feature in the Dublin encounter.
Conor Murray looks very doubtful however as he continues to struggle to overcome his shoulder injury.
Centre Rory Scannell's ankle problem is not as bad as first feared.
Scannell was forced to retire hurt after 66 minutes of his side's 22-20 Pro12 win over Ulster on Saturday, while Darren Sweetnam is following the return to play protocols after suffering a concussion in the opening minute.
Scannell sustained an ankle sprain and his progress will be monitored throughout the week.
Duncan Williams, who was a late withdrawal from the match-day squad for the Thomond Park interprovincial derby due to a tight groin, took a full part in training on Monday.
Murray remains an unlikely starter for the match against the European and Premiership champions as he continues his recovery from a 'stinger' injury which has kept him out of action since Ireland's Six Nations game with Wales on 10 March.
Munster are aiming to reach their first final for nine years, having lifted the Heineken Cup by beating Toulouse at the Millennium Stadium in 2008.
On Sunday. Saracens started only four of their European Cup quarter-final line-up that thrashed Glasgow, with Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje, Mako Vunipola, Brad Barritt and Richard Wigglesworth among those rested.
Billy Vunipola and Chris Ashton were called into the fray from the bench in a 27-25 comeback success over Northampton, while George Kruis returned for the first time since December.
Bernard Baldwin launched the 5km (3.1m) event in 1958 to celebrate the life of Welsh runner Guto Nyth Bran.
The race attracts thousands of runners and spectators to Mountain Ash each New Year's Eve.
Mr Baldwin - who was made an MBE in 1971 - died at Cynon Valley Hospital on Tuesday.
"The legend of Bernard Baldwin MBE will live on forever alongside the legend of Guto Nyth Bran himself. The Nos Galan Road Races will be his lasting legacy to us all," said Gary Marsh, family friend and author of Guto: Story of the Nos Galan Road Races.
Mr Baldwin started the race, having fallen in love with the area after moving there as a child and developing a passion for athletics.
He was involved in the sport all his life, becoming Welsh AAA junior men's mile champion and participating in cross country events nationally.
Mr Baldwin went on to become Team GB athletics manager and also played football nationally, with his contribution to athletics leading to him being honoured in 1971.
He started the Nos Galan Road Races to commemorate famed 18th Century runner Guto Nyth Bran, from Llwyncelyn.
It is traditionally started by a mystery runner - including Welsh rugby players, cycling champions and athletes - with Wales football manager Chris Coleman doing the honours this year.
Mr Baldwin was made the race's honorary patron in 2006.
"I feel deeply honoured to have been able to call Bernard a very close friend of mine for many years," author Mr Marsh added.
"Just like so many other people, the Nos Galan Road Races that he gifted us back in 1958 is very much a part of my childhood memories of growing up in Mountain Ash.
"My thoughts are very much with Bernard's family at this sad and difficult time but he has left us with such a wonderful event, which is as popular today as it was on that very first New Year's Eve in 1958."
Mr Baldwin's family said in a statement he had been "a passionate Welshman" who "meant so much to so many people".
They said they were "devastated to lose a husband and a father".
The group, formed in the city 20 years ago, will play Glasgow University Union debating hall on 13, 14 and 15 June.
Their participation was announced as WEF organisers published the programme of events, which run from 3-26 June.
The Byres Road parade has been dropped from this year's event but organisers said it would return in the future.
WEF chairman Liz Scobie said: "The West End Festival is 21 today and all of us connected with it feel very happy that we've reached this major milestone.
"Over the years we've grown to become the largest community festival in Scotland and this is due to the efforts of a small army of dedicated staff, volunteers who donate their time and effort, and numerous supporters and sponsors who give us their money and encouragement."
Organisers said the festival would feature more than 400 events, including a festival of singing, a big band concert and a series of rock concerts.
Many of these will be held at the bandstand in Kelvingrove Park.
Among the highlights will be Capercaillie's Karen Matheson performing at Maryhill Community Hall, an "All Dayer" at the Oran Mor venue in Byres Road, the Gibson Street Gala and "Sounds of Shakespeare" at St Bride's Church, commemorating 400 years since the Bard's death.
Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said the three countries had ignored "repeated calls" from the EU's executive to take their share.
Only 20,869 of the 160,000 refugees have so far been relocated in the EU.
The three states could be referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and eventually face heavy fines.
The relocation plan was conceived in response to the large influx of migrants and refugees in 2015, in an attempt to relieve pressure on frontline states, mainly Greece and Italy, where the vast majority of migrants were arriving.
EU countries agreed to relocate 160,000 asylum-seekers between them - though Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary voted against accepting mandatory quotas. Hungary and Slovakia challenged the quota last month in the ECJ.
While the UK and Ireland were exempt from the original 2015 proposal, Poland's previous government backed the plan, although its current Eurosceptic administration has since rejected it.
The Czech Republic has accepted only 12 of the 2,000 it had been designated, while Hungary and Poland have received none.
"I regret to see that despite our repeated calls to pledge to relocate, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland have not yet taken the necessary action," Mr Avramopoulos, told journalists.
"For this reason, the Commission has decided to launch infringement procedures against these three member states. I sincerely hope that these member states can still reconsider their position and contribute fairly."
But Poland has already signalled it will not fall into line with the quota.
"Each decision to relocate groups of migrants encourages thousands or millions more at the borders of Europe, to come to Europe, to get on boats and pontoons and risk their lives to reach the European continent," said Polish government spokesman Rafal Bochenek.
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka stressed that his country too would not take part either, "with regard to the worsened security situation in Europe and dysfunctionality of the quota system".
The quotas were based on the size and wealth of each country, but Austria and Denmark have so far not taken in any refugees either. Despite the small number of refugees relocated from Italy and Greece, the European Commission says the pace has quickened since January.
As the young altar boy rose from his bed and ironed his cassocks that Sunday morning, preparing for duty at St Agnes Catholic Church, he could smell smoke.
"I thought people must be barbecuing or something," he recalled.
The phone rang and his mother, an emergency room technician who worked an overnight shift, called to tell her son to stay put.
Fewer than 10 blocks away, Detroit was beginning to burn.
Fifty years ago and five days before Mr Buchanan's birthday, police raided an after-hours African-American blind pig, or an unlicensed drinking and gambling club, and arrested 82 people in the middle of the night.
The incident touched off civil unrest across Detroit over the next five days, prompting Michigan Governor George Romney to deploy the National Guard and eventually President Lyndon Johnson to send troops from the US Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Division to quell the violence.
Once the dust settled, 43 people were dead, 1,000 were injured and more than 7,000 were arrested - many of whom were African-American - in what seemed like a warzone to the rest of the country.
The subject is the focus of Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's forthcoming film Detroit, which centres on a single incident at the Algiers Motel during that week of violence.
Police fatally shot three black teens at point-blank range and beat other black men while looking for snipers at the motel.
Only one officer faced trial for the shootings and was acquitted by an all-white jury - a refrain that has continued in recent years amid a national debate on excessive use of police force.
Mr Buchanan spent the next week watching as the 12th Street neighbourhood - once a bustling business and commercial district - became engulfed in chaos, destroyed brick by brick.
"People were coming down the street with shopping carts and things in their hands," he recalled of that first morning.
"I actually saw a guy run from the meat market across 12th Street with a side of beef on his back," he says with a chuckle. "I for one didn't know what he was going to do with it because you gotta have the right carving tools for that, but that's just how insane it was."
Mr Buchanan remembers sweaty nights sleeping beneath his grandparents' dining room table that week, peering out the window as police raided the building next door and watching looters burn down a dry cleaners as he stood across the street.
"When the building collapsed through the floor, there was this rush of cool air that came out of the basement that you could feel change in the intensity of the heat," he says.
"These rats were on fire, running down on 12th Street, as the whole thing came down.
"When a building catches fire it doesn't smell like a bonfire or paper burning. It is a smell like after an earthquake or something, that smell of decay. And that lingered because the rubble just sat there."
The devastation included more than $50m (£38m) in damages and reduced more than 2,000 buildings to piles of smouldering ashes, plunging the one-time Model City into a downward spiral of poverty and blight.
During the stifling temperatures of the summer of 1967, known elsewhere as the Summer of Love, civil unrest erupted across nearly 130 cities across the country - but Detroit would mark the bloodiest and its scars would run deep for decades to come.
"Detroit's story is America's story," says Marlowe Stoudamire, the director of the Detroit Historical Museum's exhibit commemorating the event.
Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward, is a three-year project spanning the 50 years before and after 1967, including oral histories from hundreds of locals and former residents.
"We've had some victories and we've had a lot of failures," he says. "But it's important for us to look at our collective history no matter where we are and understand how it intersects with our lives."
Before the unrest, Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh, often described as a white liberal visionary, touted the Motor City as a successful example of President Johnson's Model Cities Program.
Detroit was among several cities to receive millions in federal funding for urban development as its booming economy attracted thousands of workers to the centre of the automobile industry.
"Detroit was really this shining city on a hill in terms of racial harmony," says Jeffrey Horner, a Wayne State University urban studies and planning senior lecturer who is teaching a course on the events.
The city, home to the three largest US carmakers, brimmed with wealth and boasted more than 90% of the car market after World War Two.
"Detroit had this amazing history before the riots, but it was this 10-year period of time where city's fortunes completely reversed," Mr Horner says.
For many, the blind pig arrests marked the final straw in the black community's long-simmering frustrations with economic strife, housing discrimination and racial tensions with a predominantly white police force.
By 1967, African-Americans made up just 5% of the police force, but roughly 40% of the population.
The 1967 crisis has been described as riots, with hundreds of locals taking part in burning buildings, ransacking local businesses and widespread violence.
Of the 43 people killed, 33 were African-American and 10 were white, including a police officer, two firefighters and a National Guardsman.
But the disorder has also been called a rebellion, underscoring long-standing economic and racial frustrations among the city's large black community amid a period of urban renewal.
"The timber was dry that weekend," says Mr Horner. "It should have been no surprise to anybody in the black community but I think there is almost unanimity this took the white power base in the city completely by surprise."
The chaos on the streets was indeed met by shock from city officials and police, who were overwhelmed by the violence and required both state and federal help to put an end to the volatility.
Mr Horner is among those who refer to the unrest as a rebellion, titling his class The 1967 Rebellion: Retrospect and Prospect.
He says his research shows that the black community was "entirely morally justified" in rebellion against its mistreatment.
"These were very disenfranchised people and people who were being treated as second-class citizens," he says. "But I don't think there was any justification for the horrible outcomes and loss of lives and loss of property.
"It really turned the city upside down and in many respects the city hasn't recovered from it, but as far as the rebellion occurring in the first place, I think it was justified."
Ike McKinnon, a former police chief and deputy mayor, was one of the few African-American police officers on duty as the unrest roiled Detroit.
He was driving home after a long shift when he was pulled over by two white officers, he recalled in the Detroit 67 project.
Still dressed in uniform, Mr McKinnon was ordered to get out of his car, where one of the officers pointed a gun in his face and said: "Tonight you're going to die, nigger."
Mr McKinnon said he saw the officer begin to pull the trigger, then he dived back into his car and took off as they open fire.
"So that was a sad reality to me that here we had these two police officers who shot at me, and it hit me in terms of, if they shot at me, a fellow police officer, what are they going to do to other people in the street, the city?" he said.
Before the unrest, Stella Heatley, a British nanny from Suffolk who worked for the British Council in nearby Grosse Pointe Park from 1966 to 1969, recalls the thrill of taking a bus downtown to shop at department stores, never concerned for her safety.
"It was really a pleasant life. We really didn't think anything about it," she says of how she spent her days as a nanny. But then came the outbreak of violence and her sense of well-being changed.
"The riots really put a stop to going downtown with the same sense of security."
Mrs Heatley, who permanently returned to Detroit in 1973 after marrying her American husband, Henry, remembers hearing about the violence a day after the police raid.
She received a phone call from the Council to pack a bag and to be ready to leave, possibly by boat, on Monday afternoon.
The family remained, but Mrs Heatley remembers watching television images of plumes of smoke billowing from the streets.
"There was a media blackout so it was about a week before the full gravity of the damage done became clear to the general public," she says.
"It was just block after block after block just burnt to the ground," she says, describing the days that followed. "They had burnt their own homes, their own shops, their own professionals - it was just decimated.
"People were genuinely alarmed that if it started there it could continue elsewhere. There was a fear," she added, "an apprehension."
The fear was palpable - and it hung over the city, Mrs Heatley says.
"People literally left in the next few weeks because they weren't sure of what would happen, what the impact on immediate future of the city would be and they were afraid, in some cases, for the children going to school," she says. "They just didn't feel safe."
The city's population would indeed shrink from 1.8 million people, at its peak in 1950 as the country's fifth largest city, to just 672,000 people today.
The Twelfth Street business district never recovered after 1967, leading many of the buildings to fall into a state of disrepair and shop owners to abandon the area.
The street now stands commercially barren, marked by empty plots of land, a park and housing complexes.
"I felt this sense of loss that the community I knew was never going to be the same. And it wasn't," Mr Buchanan says.
The events also exacerbated the white flight of the middle class to the suburbs, which began in the 1950s, starving the city of tax revenue and ultimately leading to the decline of Detroit's public schools.
But the unrest is also a reminder to residents of the community leadership that rose from the ashes of 1967, with the creation of several organisations including New Detroit and Focus: HOPE.
Some of those community-driven changes served as the city's backbone as it endured the following decades of economic turmoil, Mr Horner points out, including the so-called Great Recession of the late 2000s, the near collapse of the car industry and Detroit's historic declaration of municipal bankruptcy in 2013.
"The community development movement was a very important link between city government and residents, to the extent that it spurred discussion amongst stakeholders and groups such as aggrieved citizens," he says.
"Just the fact that there's a lot more talking going on now than there was in 1967 is an important lesson."
The state also passed the Michigan Fair Housing Act to fight housing discrimination and Detroit elected its first black mayor, Coleman Young, in 1973.
These lessons are more important than ever as the city undertakes a massive revitalisation effort, accelerated by young entrepreneurs returning to the city, Mr Stoudamire says.
"Detroit is not a blank canvas. You don't build on top or around people, you build with people," he says.
"That's why we're trying to use this as a catalyst to move forward. Our identity doesn't need to be recalibrated, but our stories need to be told."
Crown Ocean Capital (COC) succeeded in removing five directors, including chief executive Kevin Hart, at a general meeting earlier this week.
However, a resolution to oust chairman Billy Allan was narrowly defeated.
COC has requested another meeting of shareholders to vote on Mr Allan's removal.
In a stock market announcement, Bowleven said it would provide "a detailed response" ahead of the meeting.
The Monaco-based private equity firm has been calling for a change in direction by the Africa-focused exploration company, in which it holds a 22% stake.
In its requisition notice, COC said Mr Allan did not acknowledge that shareholders had voted this week for change in leadership and direction and was "unwilling to implement the clear new mandate for the new board proposed and voted for by the voting majority of shareholders".
It said: "As a result, we now see a significant danger posed by either a dysfunctional board or one controlled by Mr Allan who could use his casting vote to maintain the status quo and protect his and the old leadership's entrenched positions.
"We note that Kevin Hart still acts as chief executive of the company and the other removed executive board member Kerry Crawford remains a Bowleven employee without termination notices having been served.
"We understand that Mr Allan has no intention to change this.
"We also want to remind shareholders that Mr Allan does not own a single share in Bowleven as of 31 December 2016."
This week's general meeting saw two COC nominees appointed to the board.
The private equity firm is putting forward two more nominees for the second requisitioned meeting.
Lucia Richardson found the metal spike in a burger from Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Martlesham Heath on Saturday.
KFC apologised and gave her vouchers. They also asked to meet her and earlier showed her revised kitchen procedures.
The spike was from a brush used to bread chicken. These would now be checked regularly, KFC said.
Miss Richardson, 29, of Wickham Market, said: "I thought at first it was a bone but it wasn't, and I pulled out a bit of metal.
"It was like a Kirby grip - about two-and-a-half inches long. It was a corrugated bristle.
"I went back into the store and showed them what I had found in my burger. They got their manager, she cleaned it up and apologised profusely."
Miss Richardson said she was not interested in compensation, but concerned about health and safety procedures at the restaurant.
"Thank God it wasn't my niece or any other child," she said.
The manager later contacted her and asked to show her around the kitchen area to "see what they have done as a result of what happened".
"The bristles that are used to fluff up the flour are now being changed every three months instead of six months. It isn't part of their procedure everywhere, but they are doing it in this store now," Miss Richardson said.
"They are also checking the chicken thoroughly before put it into the fryer."
A KFC spokesman said: "We're very sorry that on this rare occasion we failed to meet our usual high standards."
Staff had been reminded to be "extra vigilant", he added.
The 25-year-old has made 72 appearances for the Hatters, including 24 this season, since joining from Dagenham and Redbridge in the summer of 2014.
The former Daggers player of the year has not featured since 12 December after picking up an injury.
He joins a Stevenage side 19th in League Two before Saturday's home match against Barnet.
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By letting the kick-off bounce, as if it were an under-11s game on a muddy school playing field.
England recovered from that inauspicious first act, if not to flourish or necessarily frighten the bigger boys who lie in wait over the next month and a half.
What they might go on to do now is almost as uncertain as those first few seconds. For while a 35-11 win over a team ranked ninth in the world appears an encouraging opener, this team and this tournament are in the same state: full of promise, as much about ambition and anticipation as solid achievement.
Twickenham played host to a wonderful atmosphere but an ordinary performance. While the stadium itself looked both familiar and entirely new, as if you had popped round to an old mate's house to find he had redecorated the entire ground floor, England were as they have been for much of the Stuart Lancaster regime: spirited yet often anxious, full of passion but sometimes short of pragmatism, victorious but often flawed.
You can forgive opening night nerves. When France hosted their own World Cup eight years ago they found themselves upstaged and upended by an Argentina side who refused to play the supporting role allotted to them.
England instead began at a canter. With 20 minutes gone they were 15 points up and playing against 14 men who appeared unable to match their old-fashioned forward power.
That should have been it, for all Fiji's dash and muscular daring. Instead, with 15 minutes remaining, England sat a mere converted try ahead. Had their opponents landed their several kickable penalties, the anxiety around the half-cut stands would have turned into full-blown panic.
The battles of the next two Saturday nights, when Wales and Australia come armed with greater weaponry yet, will tell us whether this performance sets the tone for English involvement in this tournament or merely represents a shaky start to soon be forgotten.
But while superior fitness and the power and control exerted by an impressive set of replacements calmed those nerves, the foundations of this performance will concern Stuart Lancaster and his specialist coaches.
England's scrum, the cornerstone to both their historic triumphs and the best displays of this particular team, continued to look as vulnerable as it had in their warm-up games.
Three of their eight scrums were lost, the most costly coming on their own five-metre line and leading directly to the first Fijian try.
At the breakdown they were short of control and often overwhelmed. Seven rucks were lost, a startling 16 turnovers conceded. Trepidation about the damage the more vaunted Wales and Wallaby back rows might wreak over the next fortnight is unlikely to dissipate.
The pressure told. Eleven penalties were conceded, even if referee Jaco Peyper had an over-cautious evening. The big ball carriers failed to make enough yards. The half-back pairing of Ben Youngs and George Ford, denied a solid platform, wobbled further.
Fijian flair has wrecked better teams before. For England to miss 16 tackles, even against 20-stone wingers and flankers built like fire engines, nevertheless sends alarms clanging.
So too does the team's approach in the fog of battle. Having smashed through the Fijian defence with an unstoppable rolling maul to win an early penalty try, more seasoned teams would have returned to such lucrative tactics to profit again.
Instead England looked to go wide when the speed of ball or shape of play seldom merited it, too often sucked into trying to match Fiji's own harum-scarum invention when a more prosaic approach would have brought greater dividend.
Great sides aren't built on slick hands and stepping feet alone. No child grows up dreaming of becoming a pragmatist, yet sometimes sensible is the only way to be. Play the odds not the maverick, at least until the opportunities have been earned.
England have started slowly before in World Cups only to find a style and momentum as the tournament has developed.
Having lost to New Zealand in their opening match of the 1991 showdown they went on to reach a final they probably should have won; eight years ago they were humiliated 36-0 by South Africa in the group stages before scrapping through to meet the same opponents in the final and coming within a stud or two of Mark Cueto's left boot of shocking them further.
As his reign began, Lancaster showed a chart to his RFU bosses which showed that the average World Cup-winning team had 663 caps in its starting XV. As judgement approaches, his own first-choice team features at least 200 fewer than that, reflecting a side both in perpetual transition and in search of its true core.
This is a team that has won back the affection of a nation that had lost faith following the bad behaviour and dismal displays at the last World Cup.
It is also one that has lost one big game a year in the Six Nations and at least one every autumn against the might of the southern hemisphere.
There is immense promise in Ford and Jonathan Joseph, in the rampaging Courtney Lawes and Billy Vunipola. There is also a back row that can lack balance, a callow centre partnership and a first-choice hooker who is not in the squad.
Britain now hosts these big global sporting events with both style and unmatched support. The 2012 Olympics flowed into the Tour's Grand Depart and the Commonwealth Games a summer ago.
To keep that wonderful sequence flowing, England's rugby team must now convert all that potential as effectively as Great Britain's athletes did in and around the capital three years ago.
How will success be judged? Probably only in reaching their fourth final in eight attempts. It is a mighty task, even as the opportunity to spark another celebration of sport promises so much.
Ex-PC Colin Hart, 61, from Nelson, Caerphilly county, has been charged with seven counts of indecent assault and one of raping a girl under 16.
He has denied the offences, alleged to have happened between 1988 and 1990.
At Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday, Mr Hart said she was "at least 17" when a sexual relationship began in 1992.
The court heard the pair met at a pub he visited frequently and after "banter and sexual innuendo" they started to talk to each other "much more intimately".
The jury was told they would meet at his home and at his parents' house in Cardiff.
Mr Hart said he thought she was "a willing participant" and sexual conduct had been "reciprocal".
Defending, Jeffrey Jones asked: "Did she indicate at any stage that she didn't want to be there or was unhappy with what you were doing?"
Mr Hart replied: "No."
Under cross-examination, Mr Hart admitted their affair had been "inappropriate" as he had been engaged at the time, but said he soon "came to his senses".
Martyn Kelly, prosecuting, said: "What you have done is pushed all the dates forward."
"No sir, I'm afraid she has pushed them backwards," he replied.
The trial continues.
Terry, 35, was ruled out of Tuesday's Champions League game at Paris St-Germain with a hamstring injury.
Hiddink said it was "difficult" to know whether he would return against City.
"That's why we prefer to leave him at the training centre, to have daily treatment and see how his development will be for the weekend," he added.
Defending champions Chelsea are 12th in the table, but victory at Stamford Bridge on Sunday will secure their place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
Terry was substituted after 38 minutes of Saturday's 5-1 Premier League win over Newcastle United, with right-back Branislav Ivanovic moving alongside Gary Cahill at centre-back.
Spain international Cesar Azpilicueta switched to right-back, with Baba Rahman coming on at left-back, and Hiddink is expected to name the same back four in the Champions League last 16 first-leg tie against the French champions.
United States defender Matt Miazga, 20, and 18-year-old academy defender Jake Clarke-Salter have also travelled to Paris and could feature on the substitutes' bench.
Kurt Zouma, Terry's first-choice partner at centre-back, was this month ruled out for the season with a knee injury.
"Of course not having John is a bit of a setback. He's a leader," said Hiddink, who has not lost in 12 matches since replacing Jose Mourinho in December.
"But I'm not the type of coach or manager who starts moaning and moaning.
"We go on and the players who will replace him, I have huge confidence in them."
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The unseeded American duo, who have won five Wimbledon doubles titles, triumphed 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 on Court One.
They will play Hungary's Timea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan in Saturday's final.
Serena Williams will also play in the women's singles final on Saturday, against Germany's Angelique Kerber.
Serena, 34, and 36-year-old Venus last took the Wimbledon doubles title in 2012 and have won 13 Grand Slam doubles events.
They also won Olympic gold in the doubles in 2000, 2008 and 2012.
Fifth seeds Babos and Shvedova won 6-4 6-2 against American pair Abigail Spears and Raquel Atawo.
Elsewhere, Britain's Heather Watson moved into the semi-finals of the mixed doubles as she and Finland's Henri Kontinen won 6-3 6-2 against American Scott Lipsky and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia.
Watson and Kontinen play Austria's Oliver Marach and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia in the last four.
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On 30 November 1995, she accompanied her husband Bill Clinton to Belfast, as he became the first serving US president to visit Northern Ireland.
The couple were mobbed by well-wishers on both sides of the sectarian divide as they visited the Shankill and Falls.
They literally lit up the city, as they switched on its Christmas lights.
The couple's first trip to Northern Ireland was hugely symbolic, encouraging hope and reconciliation at a time of fraught political negotiations.
In Londonderry, the reception was even more enthusiastic, with crowds waving a sea of US flags in Guildhall Square, chanting: "We want Bill!"
A year earlier, Mr Clinton had taken a political risk by granting Sinn Féin's leader Gerry Adams a US visa, and during his Belfast trip, he controversially shook hands with him on the Falls Road.
Mrs Clinton, too, took a hands-on approach to peace-building.
She famously dropped into the Lamplighter cafe on Belfast's Ormeau Road where she met a group of Catholic and Protestant women involved in cross-community work.
During the encounter, the then First Lady was presented with a teapot by peace campaigner Joyce McCartan - who had lost several family members in the Troubles.
The teapot was reportedly brought back to the US and used in the White House.
Mrs Clinton described Mrs McCartan as an "inspiration" and has recalled the Lamplighter cafe anecdote many times in subsequent speeches about Northern Ireland.
The peace campaigner died about a month after the meeting, but when Ulster University honoured her with the Joyce McCartan memorial lecture two years later, Mrs Clinton returned for a solo visit to Northern Ireland to deliver the inaugural speech.
In 1998, the Clinton family was rocked by Bill Clinton's admission of an extra-martial affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Later that year, and under intense personal scrutiny, Mrs Clinton chose Northern Ireland as the location for her first public speech since the scandal broke.
Addressing a Women in Democracy conference, she received a standing ovation as she spoke about the rights and achievements of women in public life.
"If you listen you can hear the voices of women who withstood jeers and threats to make themselves heard in a political world once reserved primarily for men," Mrs Clinton said.
The couple's 1998 visit had a very sombre tone, taking place just weeks after the Omagh bomb claimed the lives of 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
The Clintons travelled to Omagh to meet and sympathise with some of those bereaved by the Real IRA explosion.
The First Lady returned to Northern Ireland the following year, without her husband, to reiterate the Clinton administration's ongoing support for the peace process.
She met the then First Minister David Trimble and Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon.
By 2004. Northern Ireland was hosting its eighth Clinton visit, and perhaps it was a sign that patience was wearing thin as the couple were booed as they left the Clinton Peace Centre in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
It was not that they were no longer welcome in the town - the boos were from spectators who were disappointed when the couple left without the usual meet-and-greet contact that had been the highlight of previous visits.
Four years later, when Mrs Clinton was challenging Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, she cited Northern Ireland as one example of her greater foreign policy experience.
However, she was criticised for "exaggerating" her role in the peace process after she told CNN: "I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."
Forced to defend her comments, she said: "I actually went to Belfast more than Bill did, as part of what I was doing to help the process."
Her critics included former Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble, who dismissed her claims as a "wee bit silly".
"I don't know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around," Lord Trimble said at the time.
"I don't want to rain on the thing for her, but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player."
But Lord Trimble's fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner, SDLP leader John Hume who is a long-time friend of the Clintons, defended her contribution.
"I am quite surprised that anyone would suggest that Hillary Clinton did not perform important foreign policy work as first lady," Mr Hume said in 2008.
When she became America's top diplomat the following year, Mrs Clinton returned to Belfast to address the Northern Ireland Assembly.
She told MLAs that US investment had helped to create about 20,000 jobs in Northern Ireland since the early days of the peace process in 1994.
Secretary of State Clinton also appointed an economic envoy to Northern Ireland on behalf of the US government.
Stormont's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said Mrs Clinton had been "a true friend" to Northern Ireland.
She was back in 2012 but this time her trip coincided with the start of the union flag dispute, and Mrs Clinton was once again condemning violence on the streets.
She challenged political leaders to tackle sectarianism and political divisions at a grassroots level.
"What we have to do is get out of the ballrooms, out of Stormont and into the communities where people live, where they do not have that lasting hope of optimism," she said.
After giving her a personal tour of the newly built Titanic centre, the then First Minister Peter Robinson defended the peace process, saying "this ship is not going down".
Last year, Mrs Clinton was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame and used her speech to praise the role of women in cementing the Northern Ireland peace process.
She said she was accepting the honour "on behalf of all the remarkable women that I met and admired in Northern Ireland".
His assistants will be Alan Mulvanny and Douglas Ross, with Bobby Madden the fourth official.
There will also be two goal-line officials in place with Kevin Clancy and Don Robertson fulfilling these roles.
In the other semi-final, a day before, John Beaton will take charge of Hibernian's clash with Dundee United.
Beaton will be assisted by Graham Chambers and Stuart Stevenson while Euan Anderson is the fourth official. Andrew Dallas and Alan Muir will be the goal-line officials.
The Department of Infrastructure said its staff had been dealing with fallen trees at numerous locations, including one that fell on live power lines.
Winds of up to 53mph (85km/h) forced the cancellation of some flights as well as the overnight ferry to Heysham.
The Manx Met Office issued an amber weather warning for the whole island.
A spokesman said wintry showers remained possible in the strong to gale force winds.
The Isle of Man Fire and Rescue Service said it has dealt with two weather related incidents.
At 07:36 GMT, fire crews from Peel attended a collision at Ballacraine after high winds had caused a tree to fall on to a moving van.
Neither of the two occupants were seriously injured.
The fallen tree damaged overhead power cables, however, leading to loss of power to nearby houses.
Earlier crews from Douglas attended a car which had left the road and rolled 20m down a steep hill near Ballasalla.
Esmé Rose Weir died following the incident in Gladstone Road, Neston, at about 12:00 GMT on Friday.
She was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, but later died, Cheshire Police said.
In a statement, Esmé's parents said: "Our little princess has gone to heaven and will be deeply missed."
They added: "She will remain always with us in our hearts and thoughts.
"We would like to thank everybody who helped at the scene, residents of Gladstone Road, paramedics and all the staff at Arrowe Park Hospital.
"We have been overwhelmed with all the love, support and spirit of the community in Neston and all at St Winefride's church.
"God bless and sleep tight Esmé. Love always. Mummy and daddy."
The driver of the van, a 62-year-old man, was also taken to hospital for checks.
Any witnesses are asked to contact police.
The centre will employ 15 people, including software engineers and business analysts.
It will be led by Gary Kennedy, the company co-founder, who began his career at Newry-based First Derivatives.
The project is supported with an Invest NI grant of £75,000.
Mr Kennedy said the company had considered other locations but "the strength of the talent pool, the proximity to Queen's University and the support from Invest NI" made Belfast the best option.
Clarus operates in international capital markets and provides data, analytics and research services to its customers, who include investment bankers, hedge fund managers and regulators from the the UK, the US and Europe.
Figures released by the Department for Education (DfE) show nearly £2m has been spent on free schools that have failed to open since the first ones were launched in England in 2011.
The free school scheme was introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in 2010, the aim being to make it easier for charities, community groups and religious organisations to set up their own schools independently of their local authority, in an attempt to drive up education standards.
Trusts intending to set up a free school are entitled to a project development grant from the DfE to cover essential costs up to the point at which the school opens.
However, should a free school project be cancelled before opening, this funding cannot be reclaimed as long as it has been spent in line with DfE funding rules.
One that failed to open was Gateway Academy. Scheduled for opening in Brent, north-west London, in September 2015, it was due to educate 700 secondary school and sixth-form pupils. It folded after the free school trust failed to find a suitable site, costing the taxpayer more than £300,000. Of the 60 free schools planned to open in 2015, five failed to open.
Johnny Kyriacou, who was to be the head teacher of Gateway Academy, explained in a statement that this was due to rising land prices and competition against developers preventing a suitable site being found to accommodate the school.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Our country needs more good school places for children. Free schools provide more options for parents so they can choose a place that really works for their child's talents and needs.
"We have a rigorous assessment and pre-opening process to help ensure that only the best projects are approved, and that only high-quality free schools open."
They added that 345 free schools had opened, "providing greater choice and more places in schools that are more likely than other state-funded schools to be judged outstanding".
The spokesman also said: "To maintain these high standards, schools open only when we are confident they are in a strong position to provide an excellent education to all pupils from day one. Costs are controlled very carefully to deliver value for money to the taxpayer".
Shadow education minister Angela Rayner told the BBC: "These new figures show that free schools have become a costly obsession of the government.
"Public money is being wasted on an ideological Tory obsession which is failing to deliver the good schools which all our children deserve. It's time Theresa May junked free schools, like she has junked forcing every school to become an academy."
Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said: "As the maintained sector heads for a funding crisis to squander money to little effect and waste such huge sums on schools that do not even open borders on the criminally negligent."
A spokeswoman for the New Schools Network, which supports the opening of free schools, said: "Free schools remain the most cost effective way of meeting the demand for new school places, short of putting Portacabins in school playgrounds."
Nicola Sturgeon is to take part in a question and answer session with 450 people from 24 different EU countries.
The event will follow a meeting of Ms Sturgeon's cabinet in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 17 August.
The Scottish government is examining its options in the wake of the referendum result.
While the UK as a whole voted to leave the European Union, voters in Scotland backed staying in by 62% to 38%.
The first minister has travelled to Brussels and Berlin for talks since the vote in June, and has had meetings with consuls from member states in Edinburgh.
Ms Sturgeon said Scotland "spoke loudly and clearly" when it delivered an "unequivocal" vote to remain in the EU.
She said: "It is my duty as first minister to speak on behalf of all Scottish citizens, including those who have chosen to come from other parts of the EU and make Scotland their home.
"They have brought a wealth of social, economic and cultural benefits and have enriched our society. And as I said on the day after the referendum, they remain very welcome here.
"My cabinet and I are determined to provide reassurance and certainty, wherever we can, to those who have come to Scotland and have contributed so valuably."
Ms Sturgeon has also outlined an economic stimulus plan in a bid to boost the economy and tackle uncertainty in the wake of the Brexit vote, and set up a Standing Council on Europe to provide advice.
The Reading forward, 30, says the team enjoyed the best preparation for success in Brazil after being crowned EuroHockey champions in August.
"Winning gold is something I have had my heart set on my whole career," Danson told BBC South Today.
"For as long as I can remember I have looked up to athletes who have won that sort of accolade."
Danson, from Odiham, was a member of the GB team that won bronze at London 2012, but believes they will have an even stronger squad in Rio next year.
They are currently ranked seventh in the world and will face Argentina, Australia, Japan, India and the United States in Pool B.
"It is going to be an absolute spectacle and it will be an incredible hockey tournament.
"The 16 athletes that go will be the fittest, the fastest, the best technically we have ever been," she said.
Danson made her international debut at the age of 16 and has played more than 250 games for England and Team GB.
Her form at the EuroHockey Championships led to her being nominated for the World Player of the Year award, alongside Delfina Merino, Jodie Kenny, Lidewij Welten and Mi-Hyun Park.
"To win it would be a complete and utter shock," she said. "It is a huge honour but the nomination is reflective of the team, I am very proud and it is an early Christmas present."
However, Danson may have to wait to unwrap her other presents on 25 December.
"We are actually training Christmas Day this year," she added. "The last time we trained before London 2012 at Christmas, we all wore Santa hats."
Brothers Billy and Geoffrey Midmore, from London, were detained in Gillingham, Kent. A 33-year-old woman was also arrested.
Carla Whitlock, 37, was attacked in Guildhall Square, Southampton, on 18 September.
She suffered burns to her neck and arms and said she feared she would "lose the sight in her right eye".
She added: "It has changed my life completely. I'm coping with it as best as I can."
The mother-of-six was attacked outside the Turtle Bay bar and restaurant in Southampton's Guildhall Square.
The arrests followed a joint operation by police in Hampshire and Kent.
The defender, 19, helped Birmingham knock out holders Arsenal in the quarter-finals before a semi-final win over Chelsea Ladies on penalties.
Manchester City are bidding to add the FA Cup to their 2016 WSL and Continental Cup (League Cup) titles.
"We don't fear anyone, especially not City," Carter told BBC WM.
"We have played them a number of times, we know what they are capable of and what they can do.
"We know we are good enough to compete with the supposedly better teams in the league, it's now about showing everyone else."
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Birmingham have drawn their past two league meetings with Manchester City, both of which were away from home, including 3 May's 1-1 draw in the Women's Super League One Spring Series.
The two sides were also level after 90 minutes in October's Continental Cup final, before England right-back Lucy Bronze won the game for Manchester City in extra-time.
"We don't fear them at all. Obviously they are a good team, they have a lot of great players," Carter said of the Women's Champions League semi-finalists.
"You show them a certain sort of respect, but you don't want to show them too much respect because they are just another player. It doesn't matter who they are."
Saturday's final at Wembley will see two close friends go head-to-head in Manchester City's defensive third, with centre-back Steph Houghton up against Birmingham striker Ellen White.
When asked about the threats Birmingham will pose, England captain Houghton highlighted her England team-mate White.
"My best mate Ellen," Houghton told BBC Two. "As a defender, she is one that you can't keep quiet. She is always trying to press the ball and she scores goals as well.
"I'm made up that she made the move to Birmingham. She is enjoying her football there."
White, 27, joined the West Midlands club from Notts County in January and netted the deciding penalty in 17 April's win over Chelsea in the last four.
The former Arsenal Ladies and Leeds Carnegie striker told BBC WM: "We have a lot of belief and ambition. We have beaten Arsenal and Chelsea. That has given us a lot confidence and momentum.
"We want to be competing and beating the likes of Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea and these top teams. This is the great stage to show what we are about."
At the other end of the field, Carter and the Birmingham defence will look to cope with World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd.
The United States forward, who has scored 96 goals in 235 international appearances, has netted twice in Manchester City's Champions League campaign, having signed on a short-term deal in February.
"Apart from ability, she brings her experience and leadership," Houghton added.
"No matter if you are a 17-year-old or someone like myself, who is more experienced, you are still learning from her and how she applies herself.
"She is always giving 100%, always wanting to do extra, always wanting to win. She has definitely brought a lot out of the other players and brought a lot to our side."
Brian Fakir, 59, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday on behalf of MB Fire Consultants in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
He pleaded guilty to 13 charges in relation to checks he carried out at four St David's shops in south Wales.
Fakir claimed the assessments were "drafts".
The St David's Hospice charity shop in Pontypool caught fire in August 2014, and at one point fire crews were pulled back because of the ferocity of the blaze.
A few months later another shop in nearby Newbridge was also damaged by fire and had to be demolished.
No prosecutions were brought in either case, but concerns were raised that two similar properties had been destroyed within months of each other.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service investigated, and found Fakir was paid as a consultant to produce risk assessments for many of the charity's shops across Wales.
It said none of the risk assessments he provided were suitable or sufficient in other premises such as Abergavenny, Cwmbran and Merthyr Tydfil.
He later pleaded guilty to 13 charges in relation to four premises with the most serious issues in Blackwood, Bargoed, Aberdare and Caldicot.
The court heard people were put at serious risk of death because of poor escape routes, a lack of fire alarms and insufficient precautions to reduce fire and the spread of fire.
At the Aberdare shop, there was insufficient emergency lighting, doors with inadequate fire prevention mechanisms and no mention of a neighbouring business which relied on a connecting door as its means of escape.
At the Blackwood shop, Fakir "entirely missed" the fact the building had a basement.
He claimed his assessments were drafts, but Judge Tom Crowther QC said there was no evidence of this.
"Your assessments failed to address the most obvious risks, and it seems to me they were valueless," he said.
"There can be little more frightening than a fire in a building.
"Those of us who work in the crown court have seen its consequences."
He ordered Mr Fakir to complete 180 hours of unpaid work in the community, and handed down a six month sentence, suspended for two years.
He added that the fact that someone could set themselves up to provide advice about fire prevention with no formal qualifications was "jaw-dropping".
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it hopes the conviction will help bring in new rules to regulate the industry.
Honeywell is said to have offered $108 (£76) per share for United Technologies last week, a more than 20% premium to the share price at the time.
United Technologies said the two firms only held "preliminary" conversations.
A tie up would have created one of the aerospace industry's largest companies worth more than $160bn.
However, United Technologies broke off talks because a deal "would face insurmountable regulatory obstacles and strong customer opposition".
"[It] could either be blocked outright or conditioned on significant divestitures after a lengthy and disruptive review period that would destroy shareholder value," it said in a statement.
This isn't the first time Honeywell and United Technologies have held merger talks.
The two firms explored combining in 2000 but United Technologies ended discussions after General Electric submitted a rival bid.
The subsequent GE and Honeywell deal was rejected by European regulators on fears it would lead to higher prices for airlines and consumers.
The funding was awarded to help deal with a series of employment setbacks.
Scottish Borders Council submitted its spending proposals earlier this month including the immediate development of a number of key sites.
The local authority said ongoing negotiations meant specific details of the projects could not be released.
A second phase will see a feasibility studied carried out on other prominent sites in the town.
The council said the projects being funded would provide "new job opportunities to benefit the local community" and also "act as a catalyst for further potential property development in the future".
Mr Belhadj, a key brigade leader in the 2011 toppling of Col Gaddafi, plans to run in elections next month.
He is a former member of an Islamist insurgent group which sought to overthrow Gaddafi in the 1990s.
Mr Belhadj is currently taking legal action against the UK authorities, alleging they were complicit in his 2004 rendition to Libya.
He claims he was interrogated by agents from countries including Britain and United States while detained in Libya.
Mr Belhaj said he had handed in his resignation on Monday night, telling AFP news agency that it was "now time to turn to politics".
He said he quit as head of Tripoli's Military Council in order to compete in the elections next month as leader of The Nation party, which will be launched next week.
The polls see Libyans elect a 200-member Constitutional Assembly, which will draft a constitution setting out a political framework for the country after more than four decades of rule under Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr Belhadj told the BBC his message to other rebels and militiamen is to rebuild a new Libya, and that they need to join the state's security or civil institutions to do so.
Many rebels who fought to oust Gaddafi have been drawn into official security entities, but many more remain aligned to strong regional brigades, presenting a security challenge for the ruling National Transitional Council.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says Libyans have mixed views on Mr Belhaj's decision.
Some are wary of ex-military personalities joining politics altogether, she says, but others hope Mr Belhadj's move will encourage other rebel strongmen to abandon their guns and join Libya's political process to rebuild the country.
Meanwhile, Libyan political analyst Sami Khashkhousha told the BBC he believed Mr Belhadj's chances in politics were remote, saying liberal parties are likely to be more successful.
"The influence of Islamists on the future politics of Libya has been blown out of proportion by the media," he said.
Mr Belhadj was imprisoned in Libya following a secret rendition he claims the CIA carried out from Bangkok in 2004.
Earlier this year Mr Belhadj alleged that British ex-foreign minister Jack Straw and the UK government's various spy agencies were complicit in his rendition to Libya, where he says he and his wife were tortured.
Mr Belhadj told the BBC he is not asking for money, he only wants a formal apology.
Gaddafi was killed in October 2011 after a Nato-backed uprising forced him from power.
He reels off some of the problems he has faced: a five-point deduction, reports of the club entering administration, having to cut a four-figure amount from his weekly budget, one of his players coping with the sudden death of a close family member.
There is no exasperation to Burchill, though. The opportunity to manage came earlier than he expected, but he was fully prepared. "I started my coaching badges when I was 24, so I'm 11 years into a plan," he said.
"I could have picked 1,000 easier jobs for my first in management, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
"I went into it with my eyes wide open. I've been in football for near enough 18, 19 years and there's nothing I've not seen in dressing rooms."
He has provided Livingston with hope. A season pockmarked by setbacks, disappointments, crises and tragedy has also delivered a Petrofac Training Cup success - which Darren Cole played a part in despite the loss of his cousin days before - and most crucially an opportunity to avoid relegation.
With one round of games left, Livingston stand second bottom of the Championship, ahead of Alloa on goal difference and one point away from the team in third bottom - Cowdenbeath - and safety.
That scenario alone is testament to Burchill's work. His first task, following the departure of John McGlynn last December, was a trip to Ibrox. Livingston lost 2-0, leaving them five points behind Alloa at the bottom of the league.
The previous month, the club had been docked five points for breaching Scottish Professional Football League rules relating to non-payment of tax, which contributed to the team being adrift.
Burchill's fourth game in charge was a home match against Cowdenbeath, which came directly after media reports that the club was about to fall into administration. "It was on the six o'clock news, so my team talk was, 'don't worry, we're not going into administration'," Burchill said.
"There have been another two or three off-field things that have not helped, but it's a fantastic learning curve.
"We've got a young squad and the whole situation has arisen because of the five-point deduction and then a lot of the games became more pressurised. The players started to feel that every game was a must-win. I was trying to go the other way and say, 'don't feel pressure. Let me feel the pressure and you go out there to express yourselves'.
"They've come to terms with that now, but we've had a wee bit of luck in games and won them, which is when confidence comes back."
Livingston had been bottom of the Championship for almost a full five months, but Burchill has led the team into a spell of rejuvenation. There was a time when the club looked beyond rescue, but Burchill has held his nerve and his principles. He did not seek relief or security in defensive tactics or a siege mentality.
A much-travelled striker - he has played for 14 clubs, including a spell in Cyprus - but still only 34, Burchill understood the dynamics of playing in the Championship but also the need to help and nurture his young, inexperienced squad.
"I know this division inside out, I know the players, and if you give people time on the ball in this division, they will cause you problems," he said. "But if you put people under pressure and play on the front foot, try to get in behind them, that's the way [to succeed].
"It's in my nature, I'm a striker, I want to play attractive football, fast-flowing, attacking. I'm not the kind of guy who is going to go out and defend.
"There have been times after games when I've thought maybe we should have sat in, but we ran Hearts close.
"In my first eight games we played Hearts three times and Robbie [Neilson] said to me that we were the best team he had faced, we pushed them very close.
"We're unlucky not to have been out of this situation sooner, we were playing better earlier on and should have got better results, but at least we're there now and in with a chance.
"I've been in relegation battles before and some of them have been very difficult places to go into because the guy at the top was feeling the pressure and it was passing down to the players. I've tried to not do that."
He does not identify a specific change that has led to the team losing only twice in their last nine games and haul themselves into a position where safety is now within reach. Livingston are simply converting more of their chances, and crucially have been scoring first in recent games, reducing the pressure on the players.
Burchill will not personally keep in touch with the game between Alloa and Cowdenbeath on Saturday, preferring to focus on trying to lead his team to victory over Queen of the South. Whatever happens this weekend, though, Burchill has impressed with the way that he has approached the job.
He is out of contract in the summer, and wouldn't rule out reverting to player/manager next season, having felt it was important to focus on the managerial side since December. The effort has been worth it. "I believed in myself and the Livingston players," he said. "I believed we could do it." | The Football Association has signed a new England kit deal with Nike worth more than £400m which will run from August 2018 until 2030.
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Gayle forced home his 10th of the season early in the second half after the home side failed to clear a corner.
And the former Crystal Palace striker increased the lead from the edge of the box from Matt Ritchie's through ball.
Barnsley's Sam Morsy was just too high with a 25-yarder and they have now taken only one point from six games.
Rafael Benitez's Magpies, relegated from the Premier League last season, have won nine of their past 11 league games, and overtake Norwich at the summit who let a two-goal lead slip to draw at Fulham.
Newcastle went into the game having won only once previously in 15 league visits to Oakwell - a 5-0 success in 1983 when Kevin Keegan was among the scorers.
Barnsley had skipper Conor Hourihane back after missing Saturday's 4-2 loss to Fulham with a calf strain and they gave as good as they got for much of the first half, with full-back James Bree driving just wide after a free-kick rebounded to him off the defensive wall.
Gayle's double prompted head coach Paul Heckingbottom to make changes in a bid to rescue the game, with winger Adam Hammill clearly unhappy to be substituted.
The Magpies almost added a third late on as Jonjo Shelvey played an excellent free-kick into the box, but keeper Adam Davies reacted well to keep out the livewire Gayle's flick.
Barnsley manager Paul Heckingbottom:
"We worked our socks off, went toe-to-toe with the top of the league and two lapses in concentration cost us the game and they gave us absolutely nothing.
"Dwight Gayle was the difference and that's what they paid all that money for.
"On another day we might have got something from the game. It was much better tonight, but we've got to keep improving and aim higher."
"[Adam Hammill] showing a lack of respect to his team-mates is not on. He is frustrated, but I had a big problem with him not showing the lads respect."
Newcastle United boss Rafael Benitez:
"The team played well and created chances. His job is to be there, fighting with the centre-back and try to score if he gets a chance. Dwight Gayle is on fire now, he is happy and we're all happy.
"I made it our priority in the summer to get him and Matt Ritchie to the club.
"We did that in the first half, while scoring in the second half where we had more time, more space and possession and we could play in a different way. I am really pleased as we did what we had to do."
Match ends, Barnsley 0, Newcastle United 2.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 0, Newcastle United 2.
Attempt saved. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dwight Gayle.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Jack Colback replaces Mohamed Diamé.
Foul by Paul Dummett (Newcastle United).
Elliot Lee (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Newcastle United. Paul Dummett tries a through ball, but Mohamed Diamé is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Karl Darlow.
Attempt saved. Adam Jackson (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marc Roberts.
Attempt saved. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross.
Christian Atsu (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Barnsley).
Substitution, Barnsley. Cole Kpekawa replaces James Bree.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Christian Atsu replaces Matt Ritchie.
Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Winnall (Barnsley).
Foul by Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United).
Adam Jackson (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross.
Attempt missed. Marc Roberts (Barnsley) header from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Conor Hourihane following a set piece situation.
Offside, Newcastle United. Ciaran Clark tries a through ball, but Dwight Gayle is caught offside.
Offside, Barnsley. Conor Hourihane tries a through ball, but Sam Winnall is caught offside.
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United).
Elliot Lee (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United).
Sam Winnall (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Karl Darlow (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc Roberts (Barnsley).
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Sam Morsy (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Newcastle United. Jonjo Shelvey tries a through ball, but Dwight Gayle is caught offside.
Substitution, Barnsley. Tom Bradshaw replaces Adam Hammill.
Substitution, Barnsley. Elliot Lee replaces Marley Watkins.
Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam Hammill (Barnsley).
Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Barnsley).
Goal! Barnsley 0, Newcastle United 2. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Paul Dummett (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Juno was commanded to pass just 4,200km above the cloud tops of the gas giant on Saturday.
No previous spacecraft has got so close to the world during the main phase of its mission.
Juno had all its instruments - and its camera - switched on and primed for the encounter.
Nasa expects to be in a position to release some images from the approach in the next few days. They will be the highest resolution pictures ever obtained of Jupiter's clouds.
The moment of closest approach occurred at 13:44 GMT.
At that time, Juno would have been moving at 208,000km/h with respect to the planet, sweeping from north to south over the multi-banded atmosphere.
The probe became gravitationally bound to Jupiter on 5 July after a five-year, 2.8-billion-km journey from Earth.
Executing a carefully choreographed engine burn, the spacecraft put itself in a large ellipse around the world that takes some 53 days to traverse.
"[On 5 July] we turned all our instruments off to focus on the rocket burn to get Juno into orbit around Jupiter," explained principal investigator Scott Bolton.
"Since then, we have checked Juno from stem to stern and back again. We still have more testing to do, but we are confident that everything is working great, so for this upcoming flyby Juno's eyes and ears, our science instruments, will all be open.
"This is our first opportunity to really take a close-up look at the king of our Solar System and begin to figure out how he works," the Southwest Research Institute scientist said in a Nasa statement prior to the flyby.
Juno's quest is to probe the secrets of the Solar System by explaining the origin and evolution of its biggest planet.
The spacecraft's remote sensing instruments will look down into the giant's many layers and measure their composition, temperature, motion and other properties.
We should finally discover whether Jupiter has a solid core or if its gas merely compresses to an ever denser state all the way to the centre.
We will also gain new insights on the famous Great Red Spot - the colossal storm that has raged on Jupiter for hundreds of years. Juno will tell us how deep its roots go.
Controllers will send the probe on another 53-day orbit before firing the probe's engine once again on 19 October to tighten the circuit to just 14 days.
The configuration will then be held until February 2018 when the spacecraft will be commanded to make a destructive dive into Jupiter’s atmosphere.
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The rise was fuelled by strong growth in sales of both its computers and software.
IBM, the world's biggest maker of mainframe computers, made $3.66bn (£2.27bn), compared with $3.39 billion a year earlier.
IBM raised its prediction for full-year earnings for the second quarter running.
Revenue at the 100-year-old company was 12% higher at $26.7bn.
IBM said strong growth was coming from new signings for its services division, which were up by 16% in the quarter - a sign businesses are still spending on technology.
Although the figures beat expectations, IBM's shares initially fell slightly on the results before rising by 2% in after hours trading.
Kim Caughey Forrest, senior analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group, said: "The margins were very strong and the revenue, especially in the second quarter when you expect softer revenue, makes it look like they did well in the quarter."
Both countries also called for a simultaneous suspension of US-South Korea large-scale military exercises.
North Korea said its missile could hit anywhere in the world.
But while Pyongyang appears to have made progress, experts believe the device cannot accurately hit a target.
Despite the North Korean claim, both the US and Russia said the missile presented no threat to either country.
Calling the launch "unacceptable", Russia and China, which share a land border with North Korea, also urged the US to not deploy the Thaad missile system - which aims to intercept attacks from Pyongyang - in South Korea.
Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Moscow, where he held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The announcement on North Korea state television said the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test was overseen by leader Kim Jong-un.
It said the projectile had reached an altitude of 2,802km (1,731 miles) and flew 933km for 39 minutes before hitting a target in the sea.
North Korea, it said, was now "a full-fledged nuclear power that has been possessed of the most powerful inter-continental ballistic rocket capable of hitting any part of the world".
But experts also believe that Pyongyang does not have the capacity to miniaturise a nuclear warhead that can fit onto such a missile.
How advanced is North Korea's nuclear programme?
The big question is what range it has, says the BBC's Steven Evans in Seoul. Could it hit the United States?
David Wright, a physicist with the US-based Union of Concerned Scientists, says that if the reports are correct, this missile could "reach a maximum range of roughly 6,700km on a standard trajectory".
That range would allow it to reach Alaska, but not the large islands of Hawaii or the other 48 US states, he says.
It is not just a missile that North Korea would need, our correspondent adds. It must also have the ability to protect a warhead as it re-enters the atmosphere, and it is not clear if North Korea can do that.
Once again North Korea has defied the odds and thumbed its nose at the world in a single missile launch. With the test of the Hwasong-14, it has shown that it can likely reach intercontinental ballistic missile ranges, including putting Alaska at risk.
Kim Jong-un has long expressed his desire for such a test, and to have it on the 4 July holiday in the US is just the icing on his very large cake.
Despite this technical achievement, however, it is likely many outside North Korea will continue to be sceptical. They will ask for proof of working guidance, re-entry vehicle, and even a nuclear warhead.
From a technical perspective, though, their engines have demonstrated ICBM ranges, and this would be the first of several paths North Korea has to an ICBM with even greater range.
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has called on the United Nations Security Council to take steps against North Korea.
Japan described "repeated provocations like this are absolutely unacceptable" and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country would "unite strongly" with the US and South Korea to put pressure on Pyongyang.
US President Donald Trump also responded swiftly on Tuesday.
On his Twitter account he made apparent reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying: "Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?
"Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!"
President Trump has repeatedly called on China, Pyongyang's closest economic ally, to pressure North Korea to end its nuclear and missile programmes.
On the prospect of North Korea being able to strike the US, he tweeted in January: "It won't happen." However experts say it might - within five years or less.
Meanwhile, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the international community "must redouble its efforts to impose a price on this regime, which strains every nerve and sinew to build nuclear weapons and launch illegal missiles, even as the people of North Korea endure starvation and poverty".
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It has always said the document would be fully costed and provide a rounded set of proposals covering the main aspects of government.
There is a UK manifesto and a shorter Welsh version, which is fifteen pages of direct bullet points. It's the kind of easily-digestible length that can be read over a cup of coffee.
The two main themes are, of course, a withdrawal from the EU (UKIP would hold a referendum as soon as possible) and dealing with concerns over immigration (for the record the latest figure we have for annual net migration in Wales is 6,500).
Arguably, the most significant result of the emergence of UKIP in recent years has been the fact that all of the parties are now addressing immigration in a way they have never done in previous general elections.
UKIP says there should be no immigration for unskilled jobs for five years and immigrants should only gain access to the NHS and welfare after five years of paying tax.
A key question is whether pledges like these give them enough of a point of difference, when the other parties are offering variations on the same theme.
The big policy for Wales is a pledge to make up any loss in regional aid it would suffer as a result of a UK withdrawal from the EU.
This deals with a question journalists always put to the UKIP leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, that Wales will inevitably lose out because it is a net beneficiary of being in the EU.
Dealing with concerns over immigration is something that filters its way through the entire manifesto.
On housing, for example, social housing would only be available to those with local connections, and the various government schemes set up to help those get onto the property ladder would also only be available to British people.
There's also some populist measures, such as re-instating weekly bin collections and things like "provide best value for money for council tax payers by cutting council costs".
Housing and local government are devolved but, like the other parties, the manifesto is full of policies that apply at a Westminster and a devolved level.
On the deficit, it speaks about the irresponsibility of leaving national debts to our children and our grandchildren.
UKIP has pledged to raise the level at which you start to pay income tax to £13,000 and raise the level at which you start to pay the 40% rate to £55,000, as well as to abolish inheritance tax.
It will be paid for as a result of savings from not being in the EU, scrapping HS2 and cutting back on funding to Scotland.
The question is whether there's enough of an overall vision from UKIP to attract voters in sufficient numbers to break through in the UK's first past the post electoral system.
In Wales, it's going to be difficult to see UKIP picking up any seats, but nevertheless its impact in constituencies such as the Vale of Glamorgan could be decisive.
As part of Gad Weil's artistic project "Climate Noah's Ark", two boats travelling along the River Seine carried the art project into Paris, as France prepares for a climate summit.
Leaders and important people from around the world will meet in the French capital in November to discuss the issues surrounding climate change.
President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said a "major decision" could now be made at a eurozone finance meeting on Saturday.
The proposals are aimed at staving off financial collapse and preventing a possible Greek exit from the eurozone.
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras will put the plan, which contains many elements rejected in a referendum last Sunday, to a vote in parliament on Friday.
The prime minister submitted the proposals to Greece's creditors - the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - by the Thursday deadline they had set.
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde and Mr Dijsselbloem were scheduled to hold a conference call on the new proposals at 11:00 GMT.
Mr Dijsselbloem said the new Greek paper was "a thorough piece of text" and that support from the Greek parliament would give it "more credibility".
"But even then we need to consider carefully whether the proposal is good and if the numbers add up. We have to make a major decision. Whichever way."
Analysis: Robert Peston, BBC economics editor
Only a few days ago Mr Tsipras won an overwhelming mandate from the Greek people, in a referendum, to reject more-or-less these bailout terms.
And today, on the back of that popular vote, he is signing up to the supposedly hated bailout. This is big politics that would make Lewis Carroll proud.
But here's the point. If a way isn't found to allow the banks to reopen within days - and the ECB simply maintaining Emergency Liquidity Assistance won't come anywhere near to achieving that - the Greek economy will implode so that any bailout deal agreed this weekend will become irrelevant in weeks.
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Eurozone finance ministers meet in Brussels on Saturday. A meeting of Eurogroup leaders is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, followed by a full EU summit two hours later.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said he was optimistic and hoped a deal could be struck on Saturday so that the Sunday meetings would not be needed.
French President Francois Hollande said the new proposals were "serious and credible" and that the "Greeks have just shown their determination to remain in the eurozone".
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However Germany, which has been far less upbeat on a deal, would not comment in detail on the new plan.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said it was withholding judgment and waiting for the creditor institutions to give their opinion.
Finance ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger said Germany would not accept any reduction of debt that caused it more losses.
"The outcome of the Eurogroup meeting on Saturday is completely open," he said.
In Athens, Mr Tsipras convened a meeting of his Syriza party ahead of the Greek parliamentary debate.
A government official quoted him as telling the party's lawmakers that the referendum had given him a mandate to seek a better deal but not to leave the eurozone.
"We are all in this together," he was quoted as saying.
Syriza parliamentary spokesman Nikos Filis said he was confident MPs would give the government the mandate to negotiate the new bailout package.
The coalition government has 162 seats in the 300-strong parliament, and also has the backing of many opposition MPs.
However, the BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says that no matter how it is packaged and whatever the positive spin, Mr Tsipras has made a major climb-down, with the measures he has agreed similar to what the creditors were demanding.
Further rallies for and against a new bailout are planned in Athens on Friday.
The measures submitted in the new Greek document include:
Greece's creditors have already provided more than €200bn in two bailouts since a rescue plan began five years ago.
The second bailout expired on 30 June.
Greece's banks are still closed and the €60 (£43; $66) daily limit on cash machine withdrawals for Greeks, imposed on 28 June, remains in force. With a shortage of €20 notes, for many the withdrawal is in effect €50.
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BBC analysis of NHS figures showed nearly 475,000 patients waited for more than four hours for a bed on a ward in 2015-16 - almost a five-fold increase since 2010-11.
Hospitals reported using side rooms and corridors to cope with the growing number of "trolley waits".
NHS bosses acknowledged problems, blaming "growing demand" on the system.
But doctors said hospitals were now dangerously overcrowded, with three quarters of hospitals reporting bed shortages as winter hits.
Bed occupancy is not meant to exceed 85% - to give staff time to clean beds, keep infections low and ensure patients who need beds can be found them quickly.
But 130 out of 179 hospital trusts are reporting rates exceeding this for general hospital beds.
Hospital managers said the problem was causing "deeply worrying" delays for these patients.
They are people who have already faced a wait to be seen in A&E but whose condition is deemed to be so serious they need to be admitted on to a ward.
About one in five people who come to A&E fall into this category and it includes the frail elderly and patients with chest pains, breathing problems and fractures.
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The BBC analysed official NHS England figures and found 473,453 patients waited more than four hours for a bed between October 2015 and September 2016 - 11% of the 4.2 million patients admitted in total during the period. More than 1,400 of them faced delays of more than 12 hours.
It compares with 97,559 "trolley waits" in 2010-11 - although NHS England pointed out a small fraction of the rise could be attributed to a change in the way the waits were measured in December 2015.
Directly comparable figures are not available for other parts of the UK, although data suggests there is an increasing strain on beds.
While the delays are known as "trolley waits" not all patients find themselves on one. Hospitals use all sorts of areas, including side rooms, seats in the A&E department and spare cubicles depending on what is available.
Rupert Nathan, 55, was rushed to hospital in an ambulance when he started suffering chest pains at home in June. He had previously had two angioplasties - one in 2000 and one in 2001 - because of angina and feared he was having a heart attack.
He was taken by ambulance to Barnet Hospital in north London and was given blood and heart tests. At that point, staff decided to admit him for further checks. But he spent more than five hours waiting for a bed.
"I was left in a waiting area with my girlfriend. I was in pain and really concerned. There was little contact with staff and it was after midnight when I was finally found a bed."
He asked for morphine and was told he would undergo scans in the morning. But when morning came, he was in a much better state and was discharged.
"I was told the delays were because it was very busy. I could see that, but it's still not acceptable."
Mr Nathan has made a complaint about his care. The hospital said it was sorry about the long wait, but said this can happen at busy times. It said it had to prioritise patients and maintained the way he was cared for was "appropriate".
Siva Anandaciva, of NHS Providers which represents hospitals, said: "These figures are deeply worrying. We are heading into winter in a more fragile state than I have seen in the past 10 years or so.
"Even the historically top-performing trusts are being challenged, which shows that this is an issue affecting all parts of health.
"No-one wants to see people waiting in corridors, side rooms and emergency bays when they should be admitted to a hospital bed. These patients are still under the care of doctors and nurses of course, but it is not ideal for them and we know overcrowding leads to worse outcomes."
Dr Chris Moulton, of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, echoed the concerns.
"Patients who are delayed like this are still being monitored by staff. But we know that the overcrowding we are seeing is dangerous. It leads to worse outcomes for patients - higher infection rates, patients ending up on the wrong wards and generally a negative experience."
Dr Moulton believes there are too few beds. There are just over 100,000 general beds in England - a fall of 40,000 in the past 20 years.
"We simply don't have enough. If you compare us to other European countries we are really short and the demands being placed on the health service means we are now struggling to cope," he added.
A spokesman for NHS England said "growing demand" was putting pressure on the system - the number of emergency admissions having risen by more than 500,000 in five years to 4.2 million.
But he added it was "a tribute to front-line staff" that the NHS was able to handle so many patients.
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Stoke Gifford Parish Council voted to become the first in the world to charge Parkrun a fee for use of its grounds.
Hundreds take part in two free, timed runs organised by Parkrun UK in Little Stoke Park on Saturdays.
Organisers said it meant the end of the Little Stoke event, while the council said it had received hundreds of abusive emails against the move.
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At Tuesday's meeting, councillors claimed it was "unfair" to expect non-running residents to pay for the upkeep of paths, and voted six to four in favour of charges for "wear and tear".
The local Labour group called it a "mean-spirited decision" by Stoke Gifford Parish Council and described the levy as a "health tax".
The decision has been met with strong criticism online, with double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes tweeting: "Have I missed the whole reason park runs exist and are free? Parish council decision is a disgrace."
While marathon runner Paula Radcliffe tweeted she was "totally against this decision" and sports minister Tracey Crouch described the decision as "contrary to government sports strategy" and creating a "barrier to participation".
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Seamer Anderson, 32, was given a level three misconduct charge over claims he abused and pushed Jadeja during the first Test at Trent Bridge.
All-rounder Jadeja, 25, was appealing against a fine imposed for his part in the incident last month.
Anderson could have faced a maximum four-Test ban if found guilty.
Both men were cleared soon after the conclusion of a six-hour hearing overseen via video conference by judicial commissioner Gordon Lewis, who is based in Australia.
Lewis heard accounts from witnesses, including India and England players, who were cross-examined by legal counsel.
Anderson is now available to play in the fourth Test at his home ground Old Trafford, starting on 7 August, the final match at The Oval, and the five-match one-day series that follows.
He took seven wickets in England's series-levelling 266-run victory in the third Test at Southampton to move within 12 of equalling Sir Ian Botham's England record of 383.
"The decision is a huge boost," England batsman Ian Bell told BBC Sport. "He was at his best in Southampton, he leads our attack and all the young players look up to him.
"I hope he can take that form to his home ground. His experience of bowling there will be massive and give us some momentum."
Jadeja was originally fined 50% of his match fee when his case was heard before the start of the third Test, with match referee David Boon downgrading the offence to a level one infringement.
Lancashire bowler Anderson denied India's claims over the altercation, which is said to have taken place as the teams left the field for lunch on day two at Nottingham.
Anderson was also involved in a verbal altercation with India batsman Ajinkya Rahane at the end of the fourth day's play in Southampton, before umpire Rod Tucker stepped in to tell both players to calm down.
A clash with Michael Clarke during the Ashes series in November resulted in the Australia captain being fined 20% of his match fee for telling Anderson to expect a broken arm.
The Bolton comic will flick the switch at a concert on 29 August after a live performance from X Factor winners Little Mix.
The switch-on marks the start of a three-day festival of entertainment on the Tower Festival Headland including a Thriller Live show and a concert headlined by Rebecca Ferguson.
The promenade lights will shine nightly from 29 August to 9 November.
Graham Cain, Blackpool council cabinet member for tourism said: "Our switch-on line-up is now complete and it promises to be a fantastic night to launch the 2014 illuminations season."
Blackpool Illuminations attract more than 3m visitors to the resort each year to see the light display on the promenade that stretches for more than five miles.
The campaign is being led by Stoke-on-Trent South Labour MP Rob Flello, whose constituency neighbours the site of one the factories.
The 20,000 workers at ROF Swynnerton became known as the Swynnerton Roses. Across the UK, about 1.5 million women worked in similar factories.
Mr Flello said "recognition was long overdue".
"Every day these women were putting their lives on the line for this country, producing the bullets and shells that were needed on the front-line," he said.
"We've recognised the Bevan Boys, the Land Girls and so forth but we've never recognised the munitions workers and it's about time we put that right."
In 2009, a tree was planted at the National Memorial Arboretum, near Alrewas in Staffordshire, in honour of the Swynnerton Roses.
Mr Flello said their work and the work of the other women required a more "significant memorial" within the arboretum.
Iris Aplin and Mary Taylor, who both worked at the Swynnerton factory, said their work should be remembered.
"Everybody accepted the work because there was a war on and we were intent on helping our troops to win it, but it should be recognised," said 90-year-old Mrs Aplin.
Mrs Taylor, also 90, said: "It was women at work which helped to win the war and because it was troops that were on the front-line, munitions workers have been overlooked."
The factory the women worked in remained open until 1958.
The site is now owned by the Army and is used as a training base.
The US president signed the executive order to stop federal money going to international groups which perform or provide information on abortions during his first week in office.
Known as the "Mexico City Policy", or global gag rule by critics, it was no surprise that he reinstated it. First introduced by Ronald Reagan in 1984, it has been become a game of policy ping pong between Republican and Democrat presidents.
Supporters of the ban say it protects the fundamental right to life.
But some health workers in Africa say when it was last put in place under George W Bush in 2001, it had far-reaching consequences.
"Women could not have access to contraceptive services and so they were getting unintended pregnancies and that increased the number of unwanted pregnancies and as such they went to the backstreet to do unsafe abortions," says Kenyan gynaecologist Dr John Nyamu.
The policy blocks US funding to overseas organisations that "support or participate in the management of a programme of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilisation".
It even affects countries like Kenya - where abortion is illegal unless a mother's life is at risk - as some family planning clinics or organisations get their funding from US pro-abortion groups.
The Trump order goes even further than previous Republican administrations, which only targeted reproductive health services, by extending the ban to cover all global health assistance provided by all departments or agencies.
"By removing funding from organisations that also deal with malaria and other child health issues, the policy could threaten progress on many fronts, including efforts to reduce HIV-related deaths and new infections, and decrease childhood mortality through malaria prevention and treatment initiatives and immunisation programs," Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said in a statement.
The medical charity does not receive US government funding - so is not affected by the policy - but it fears that women's lives could be endangered.
Unsafe abortion is one of the five main causes of maternal mortality, accounting for 13% of cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Mexico City Policy is based on the US Republican party's pro-life position, which has resonance with much of socially conservative Africa, where abortion is largely illegal.
Abortion on demand can only be offered in four out of 54 African countries, according to the UN's World Abortion Policies report.
But the continent carries the biggest burden of unsafe abortions, according to the WHO.
Marie Stopes International's projections for Nigeria suggest the policy will have a big impact on women's health in Africa's most populous country.
"Without US funding, from 2017 to 2020, over 1.8 million unintended pregnancies will probably occur; more than 660,000 abortions will happen and over 10,000 maternal deaths will not be averted," says Effiom Effiom, country director for Marie Stopes in Nigeria.
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) regional office in Africa says it will lose up to $100m (£80m) in US funding meant for sexual and reproductive health services for millions of women and girls who would otherwise go without these vital services as it refuses to abide by the gag rules.
"Over the years USAid has been a huge supporter of family planning - with a budget of over $600m per year. Reinstatement will mean that years of progress to increase access to essential services globally, will be lost," it said in a statement.
IPPF works with affiliates in 30 African countries including at least a dozen clinics in Kenya, five of which shut down the last time the Mexico City Policy was reinstated.
But it has struck a defiant note, saying it will work to bridge the funding and services gaps as the Dutch government has done with plans for an international fund to finance access to birth control in countries hit by the cuts.
"We cannot and will not - deny life-saving services to the world's poorest women," IPPF said.
The 53-year old grandfather, who cannot be named, will spend an additional 18 months on probation when he is released from prison.
Downpatrick Crown Court, sitting in Belfast on Thursday, heard the abuse occurred between 1977 and 1983.
The defendant was aged between 14 and 19.
The abuse occurred in various locations in the County Down village where both the abuser and his victims lived, including in their homes as he babysat and in a disused lorry.
He pleaded guilty to a total of 22 offences, including multiple counts of indecent assault and gross indecency.
The judge said it was "quite clear that on each occasion, you isolated the victims in order to abuse them ... and you kept them available to you and you alone."
Accepting that the defendant had a troubled upbringing and was an alcoholic, the judge also noted there had been no further offending since 1985.
The UK will hold an in/out referendum on its EU membership by the end of 2017.
But what priorities do other EU countries bring to the table? How much overlap with the UK is there?
UK
Mr Cameron's Conservative government sees controlling immigration from the EU as a top priority. Limiting options for EU migrants to claim welfare benefits could make moving to the UK less attractive.
Mr Cameron says his main purpose is to eradicate abuse of the system.
From 2004 the UK saw a huge surge in migration from Eastern Europe - especially Poland - with EU enlargement.
Free movement of people is enshrined as a fundamental right in the EU treaties. It is one of the "four freedoms" of the single market - people, goods, services and capital. The European Commission - the EU's executive - says that those freedoms are non-negotiable.
Under Mr Cameron's plans, EU migrants new to the UK would not be able to claim in-work benefits, such as tax credits and access to social housing, for four years.
The Commission says such a move would be "highly problematic", but is considering whether the UK could have an "emergency brake" to curb immigration from the EU. The brake might be invoked if the UK could show that migrants were putting too much strain on schools, hospitals and other services.
Mr Cameron's other three priorities cover:
You can read more about the UK government's EU reform agenda in this Q&A.
Germany
EU migrants' welfare claims are certainly a political issue in Germany.
The influx of non-EU migrants has put huge pressure on German housing and welfare. A record 1.1 million migrants sought asylum in Germany in 2015.
In November 2014 the European Court of Justice backed Germany's right to deny certain benefits to a Romanian woman and her son living in Germany, in the Dano case.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government favours a six-month limit for EU jobseekers, after which they can be expelled from the country, tougher qualification rules for child benefit paid to children living outside Germany and a re-entry ban for welfare fraudsters.
That is an agenda similar to Mr Cameron's.
But Germany is worried about any UK restrictions on in-work benefits for EU migrants, Simon Tilford of the Centre for European Reform says.
"Germany won't upset the Poles - Germany's relations with Poland are arguably as important as those with the UK," he told the BBC.
Germany has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe and relies heavily on migrant workers from fellow EU states, many of them Poles.
Like the UK Conservatives, the German government is keen to develop the single market. But in the services sector there are some strong vested interests in "protected" professions - areas where foreign competitors face high barriers to entry.
Germany is one of the strongest advocates of deeper eurozone integration, to bolster the single currency. That has already caused some tensions with the UK.
Mrs Merkel wanted a treaty change to enforce new EU-wide budget rules - something that Mr Cameron famously vetoed in December 2011.
His veto came after France and Germany had refused to grant a separate "protocol" to exempt the City of London from new EU financial service regulations.
France
There are worries in the French political elite - as in Germany - that Mr Cameron's reform ideas could trigger EU treaty change. That is anathema to President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Merkel, both of whom must fight general elections in 2017.
Mr Hollande defends the freedom of movement principle, but there is great concern about immigration in France, particularly after Islamist extremists managed to enter from Belgium undetected last November to murder 130 people in Paris.
Mr Hollande's main political rival, conservative ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy, is urging reform of the Schengen passport-free travel system.
National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen wants barriers to immigration - she totally rejects EU migration policy.
So there is some French sympathy for Mr Cameron's demands, though French concerns tend to focus on radicalisation of Muslims in the banlieues (suburbs).
French welfare benefits - as in many other EU countries - are mainly insurance-based. The UK's welfare system is more universal - funded out of general taxation.
Stephen Booth of the Open Europe think-tank says the UK system makes it harder to change in-work benefits without other Europeans seeing it as discrimination.
"The UK tax credit system doesn't fall neatly into EU definitions of social security," he told the BBC.
On the single market, France's economic woes have made its politicians more open to liberalisation, and that is happening in some sectors, albeit slowly.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls is seen as pro-business and there is French support for creating a capital markets union, so that businesses can turn to financial services other than banks for loans.
But France remains hostile to British calls for cuts in agricultural spending.
The Netherlands
Free trade lies at the heart of the Dutch commitment to the EU, so in that respect the Dutch position is very close to the UK's.
The Dutch government presented EU reform proposals in 2013 which called for less EU regulation, in language similar to Mr Cameron's. They opposed further EU attempts to harmonise social security systems.
And the proposals said "ever closer union" should not be a general ambition.
EU leaders have already started addressing UK concerns on that score. Their summit conclusions in June 2014 said: "The concept of ever closer union allows for different paths of integration for different countries, allowing those that want to deepen integration to move ahead, while respecting the wish of those who do not want to deepen any further."
The Netherlands supports UK calls to reform the EU's structural funds - big allocations to the EU's poorest regions, which are managed from Brussels. The idea is to end the bureaucratic procedure whereby net contributors to the EU budget send money to Brussels, only for it to be returned in the form of structural funds.
Italy
Italy is on the frontline of the EU's migration crisis in the Mediterranean and has played a key role in shaping the response to it.
Facing unprecedented boatloads of migrants fleeing turmoil in Libya, Italy urged its EU partners to share the burden of housing them and processing asylum claims.
That EU burden-sharing is going very slowly - and Greece is now the most urgent challenge. Syrian refugees are the biggest group among thousands of migrants who sail to Greek islands daily from Turkey.
The UK has sent naval help to the Mediterranean, but it wants the EU to focus more on smashing people-smuggling networks and stopping the migrants before they reach Libya or Turkey.
With its low birth rate Italy faces a big demographic challenge, like Germany, so it does not want measures that could discriminate against EU migrants. Many Italians also work elsewhere in the EU.
UK ideas for boosting the single market and competitiveness could however win support in Italy, as its economy is fragile.
Poland
Polish leaders dislike Mr Cameron's plans on migrant benefits, fearing that they might discriminate against many Polish citizens living in the UK. In recent years more than 800,000 Poles have settled in the UK.
However, the new right-wing Polish government is likely to be sympathetic to UK concerns about sovereignty.
European Council President Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, is playing a key role in the UK negotiations.
On the euro, both countries worry about a eurozone "inner club" developing. Poland is treaty-bound to join the euro in future - unlike the UK. But it is equally concerned to protect its voting rights in economic policy.
Poland and other former communist countries want more of the EU budget to be spent in their region, so that they can catch up with the older EU member states. They object to the British budget rebate, which was worth €5.3bn (£3.7bn; $5.8bn) to the UK in 2014.
Sweden
Sweden is often seen as one of the UK's natural allies in Europe, sharing the UK enthusiasm for free trade and the business opportunities in the single market.
And like the UK it has stayed out of the euro - though it does not have a treaty opt-out.
Immigration has become a thorny issue in Sweden too.
Like Mr Cameron, Sweden is keen to lessen the EU's regulatory burden, but it puts more emphasis on protecting workers' rights and promoting the green economy.
Mr Cameron can rely on Swedish support for completing the EU single market and reforming the EU budget to help give Europe more economic clout globally.
The Swedish parliament is one of the most pro-active in scrutinising EU legislation and in using the "yellow card" system, whereby several parliaments acting together can send EU laws back to Brussels for revision. That also brings Sweden closer to the UK Conservatives' agenda.
Amy Stewart, 31, failed to return to HMP Cornton Vale in Stirling on Sunday.
She was jailed in 2004 for the murder of a 21-year-old man in Glasgow.
Police believe she may be in the Blantyre area with a 23-year-old man and have appealed to her to hand herself in to a police station or return to prison.
Insp Jim Young said: "We are continuing our search for Amy Stewart who we are now treating as a wanted person.
"Through our inquiries we suspect that she may be in the company of a known 23-year-old male in the Blantyre area and that they are both aware we have been looking for her.
"Amy's conduct remains a cause for concern due to her breaching the terms of her temporary release.
"Although we don't believe she poses an immediate risk to the public we strongly advise the public not to approach her and to report any sightings of her immediately to the police".
Mr Livingstone, along with other developers, has helped set up The National Videogame Foundation in support of Nottingham's National Videogame Arcade (NVA).
He said it should be to gaming what the National Gallery is to art.
The NVA was close to folding just one year after it opened.
Mr Livingstone, who helped launch the Lara Croft franchise, said it was his and the gaming industry's "duty" to support the NVA - the only institute of its kind in the UK.
He said it was only when it nearly closed that its profile was raised.
"There were people [in the industry] who didn't know about it," he said.
"They asked 'what is it?', 'how can we help?'"
Visitor feedback was positive, scoring an average of 4.5 out of 5 on Tripadvisor, but for a number of reasons, including funding delays, the business ran out of money.
The NVA's co-director, Iain Simons, said the arcade's staff took "deferred payment" to keep the doors open.
He also appealed to videogame developers for help with investment, with Mr Livingstone one of the people who answered the call.
It was not surprising that Ian Livingstone, the co-founder of games company Games Workshop, stepped in to help the NVA.
He has been a huge supporter and says the National Videogame Arcade should be to gaming what the National Gallery is to fine art.
He was at its launch in March 2015 and spoke of how pervasive gaming was - everywhere you go people of all ages are playing games on smartphones, on consoles.
Mr Livingstone also likes to remind people how much the games industry is worth, a cool $100bn.
But he said gaming was much more than entertainment, it is a "genuine art form" and should be recognised as such.
He said the NVA should not just be a museum but explore the "cultural impact" of videogames.
The National Videogame Foundation will concentrate mainly on education.
Mr Livingstone said it was a "call to action" and a "vital moment for videogames' cultural confidence".
The foundation will deliver the GameCity Festival, held every October, and operate the arcade.
Richard Wilson, CEO of TIGA, which represents the UK's games industry, said the NVA was a "great project" and the largest videogame developers could have a "bigger role to play" there.
However, he said smaller companies were "up against it" and could not always give up time and resources.
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It has lost its previous triple-A rating from the World Energy Council (WEC) - a global body representing the energy sector.
The authors of the WEC report said a vacuum in energy policy since the election was deterring investors needed to create new electricity supplies.
But the government said it was still a world leader in energy policy.
It said it was committed to securing energy supplies through nuclear and shale gas.
The criticism from the WEC follows a complaint from the UN's chief environment scientist that the UK was turning away from renewables, just as they were being embraced by the rest of the world in the run-up to Paris climate talks this month.
The WEC report ranks countries on their policies to keep the lights on, bills and carbon emissions down. It says the UK has been a leader in these policies.
But its says the government's drastic withdrawal of subsidies for wind and solar power has deterred investors needed for new energy supplies.
Electricity has become comparatively more expensive, and the UK remains on a "watch-list" over how it will secure its future energy supply.
The report warned the UK faced the run-down of nuclear plants and the closure of coal-powered stations, alongside ageing infrastructure - meaning its ranking is set to fall in future assessments.
It urged the government to ensure consistent policy to secure and maintain investments while reforms to the energy system are being implemented.
Britain still gets an AAB rating from the council and is still in the world's top four. But that may be a let-off, because the report was written before damaging revelations in a leaked letter that the government has misled people over its progress on EU renewable energy targets.
The government denies misleading Parliament to believe that it will hit its mandatory 15% renewable energy target in 2020.
But the letter makes clear that the shortfall of approaching 25% in renewables has been hidden from the public - and over several summer months in which subsidies were being cut, journalists were consistently told that the EU renewables targets were still being met.
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd told MPs the government remained committed to the targets, which will be achieved by greater focus on renewable heat and transport, rather than electricity.
She added: "I recognise, as that letter does, that we don't have the right policies, particularly in transport and heat in order to make those 2020 targets, but we have four to five years and I remain committed to making those targets."
A spokesman for her department, commenting on the WEC report, said: "We've made record investments in renewables and are committed to lower-carbon secure energy, such as nuclear and shale gas, which will help keep the lights on for future generations."
Energy analysts are baffled as to why the government is blocking onshore wind and large-scale solar power, as these are among the cheapest options for hitting the renewables target.
The UN praises the UK for its international role on climate, especially in helping developing countries get clean energy supplies like wind and solar.
But the head of the climate negotiations said she noted concern among international allies over recent UK policy changes.
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Any message informing a driver of a car problem "must include an irreversible instruction to return to the pits to rectify the problem or to retire".
The ruling from governing body the FIA comes after Mercedes broke radio rules at Silverstone last time out.
Nico Rosberg was demoted from second to third after a 10-second penalty.
The new ruling means teams will not be able to make calculations about the potential time loss of any post-race penalty in giving instructions to a driver.
Instead, the requirement for a driver to return to the pits to rectify a problem he does not know how to solve himself will automatically result in losing a significant amount of time.
The new FIA ruling also stresses that any change a team tells a driver to make must be with the aim of repairing a problem and not improving performance.
A note issued to the teams says any instruction "must be for the sole purpose of mitigating loss of function of a sensor, actuator or controller whose degradation or failure was not detected and handled by the onboard software".
It adds: "It will be the responsibility of any team giving any such instruction to satisfy the FIA technical delegate that this was the case and that any new setting chosen in this way did not enhance the performance of the car beyond that prior to the loss of function."
Teams have said that the radio rules need to be re-thought as it is wrong to penalise a driver for fixing a serious problem on his car.
But the FIA is concerned that the cars are too complicated, and do not need to have such complex control systems.
Part of the intention of the radio ban was to force teams to simplify the cars, but this has not happened.
They blame poor care and medical negligence at Furness General Hospital at Morecambe Bay in Cumbria.
Parents also allege that important reports were suppressed in the run-up to the local NHS trust achieving foundation trust status in March 2010.
The trust said there was "no denying" families were let down in the past.
The hospital is at the centre of the scandal which is now the subject of a number of investigations including a police inquiry.
Since June 2011, a team of 15 detectives have been investigating a number of deaths at the hospital.
Parents and NHS staff have been interviewed and the BBC understands that police are looking into the possibility of bringing corporate manslaughter charges against the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation NHS Trust.
James Titcombe, a nuclear engineer living near Barrow-in-Furness, told the BBC how he watched his son Joshua die at just nine days old in November 2008.
Mr Titcombe and his wife, Hoa, are one of five sets of parents to have settled their claim with the trust.
The coroner heard that midwives and medical staff made 10 serious errors that contributed to Joshua's death including a failure to detect and monitor the baby's infection and a failure to provide care before and after birth.
"We asked repeatedly if Joshua should have antibiotics and we were told 'No, he didn't'," said Mr Titcombe.
"He was wheezing and he wasn't feeding properly and my wife called the emergency bell because he was grunting.
"And every time we were told Joshua was fine and that there was nothing to worry about. At no stage was a doctor ever called."
Mr Titcombe described how and his wife watched helplessly as Joshua died from sepsis.
To make matters worse, Joshua's progress chart went missing, never to re-emerge and the coroner later said there was a suspicion that it may have been deliberately destroyed.
The government has announced an inquiry to be held in public and there are other investigations into two other NHS bodies in relation to Morecambe Bay.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) stands accused of hindering an investigation into parents' concerns, as well as allowing the trust to get foundation status despite allegations about the standards of the maternity services.
The Health Ombudsman is investigating allegations of poor supervision by the North West Strategic Health Authority.
One of the most serious allegations against the trust is that it suppressed the damning findings of an internal inquiry into maternity services led by nursing expert Dame Pauline Fielding. The report made wide-ranging criticisms.
The report described the team working as "dysfunctional in some parts of the maternity services" and that consultants were preoccupied with their own agendas possessing "little confidence in the clinical leadership" while the management had failed to "establish a common culture… within which good practice could flourish".
In February 2012, a separate report commissioned by the foundation trust's supervisory body, Monitor, also criticised managers.
In the report, the accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers said the trust lacked a "risk management culture", adding that some doctors who had voiced concerns over patient safety had felt ignored.
Dr John Ashton, currently director of public health for Cumbria, told the BBC that he had concerns about the management of the trust for some years.
"I was with a senior manager at Morecambe Bay when he was told about the death of neonatal baby some months after it had taken place," said Dr Ashton, who has recently been appointed as the next president of the Faculty of Public Health.
"It beggars belief that the trust kept the Fielding Report secret. If you've got weak clinical governance, that's a disaster waiting to happen.
"And I think it's quite clear that there's been weak clinical governance at Morecambe Bay for a long time and it wasn't being taken seriously at a board level."
Of the 37 cases of litigation, 23 were started in the past two years. These 23 cases involve nine baby deaths and eight cases of cerebral palsy. Since 2002, the legal cases have involved the deaths of 14 babies and two mothers.
The CQC said it would publish the findings of an inquiry into its alleged failings by accountants Grant Thornton. A spokesman for the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust said he could not comment on individual cases due to the police inquiry.
John Cowdall, trust chairman, said: "There is no denying that the trust has let women and their families down in the past and there are things that should have been done differently.
"Although we can't change the past, the new trust board is determined that we can learn from it and we will ensure we continue to do so.
"Due to the ongoing police investigation into the deaths of babies and mothers following care received at Furness General Hospital, it would be inappropriate to comment on individual cases. We will continue to co-operate fully and openly with the police."
"The new trust board is resolute in its determination that this trust will never let anyone down again in the way it did in the past, and we will not accept second best for our patients."
A delay in submitting audited accounts means the club are under embargo from 1 January until accounts are submitted.
A statement said information needed, which is not available until the change of ownership is completed, would be submitted in a "matter of days".
A United States consortium are set to take an 80% stake in Forest.
Former San Diego Padres baseball team owner John Jay Moores heads the consortium.
It is looking to take on a controlling interest in the two-time European Cup winners from Kuwaiti Fawaz Al Hasawi, who has owned the Championship club since 2012.
Last summer's transfer window was the first time the Reds have been free to do business, having been under embargo for the previous three windows, dating back to December 2014, for breaching Financial Fair Play rules.
Philippe Montanier's side are 18th in the Championship after 24 games this season, five points above the relegation places.
People were upset at the journalist's approach while speaking to Nick Varney about an accident on the park's Smiler ride that left 16 people injured.
Many felt her questions - about park safety and the extent of the victims' injuries - were too aggressive.
A 17-year-old had her leg amputated following the crash.
Four other passengers were seriously injured when a carriage full of passengers on the 14-loop roller coaster collided with an empty one.
The incident, on 2 June, resulted in the Staffordshire theme park closing for six days.
In her interview, broadcast three days after the accident, Burley pressed Varney - the chief executive of Merlin Entertainment - to reveal whether a report one of the victims had lost a leg was true.
"We are deeply sorry for the accident that happened," he said.
Burley replied: "I'm sure they are not interested in your sympathy at this stage. They went to have a fantastic day and they have potentially lost a limb. You won't tell us if they have or not."
He responded: "With all due respect, to be telling you stuff like that… That is absolutely personal information to those individuals and their families."
A petition to have Burley sacked over the incident has now gained more than 50,000 signatures.
Ofcom received 1,816 complaints over the interview but said: "We have carefully assessed whether this interview exceeded generally accepted standards.
"In our view, the interviewee was able to respond fully to the questions and put his position across. As a result, we have not taken the matter forward for investigation."
Responding to complaints immediately after the broadcast, Burley tweeted: "For those concerned I was hard on Alton Towers boss, he'll get over it. Not sure those on his ride will be so quick to recover ."
It is the second time it has shown a united stance on Syria in under a week, following last Friday's resolution on eliminating Syria's chemical weapons.
Disarmament experts began their work inside Syria on Tuesday.
But they will be hampered by ongoing fighting around the country - including clashes between anti-regime factions.
At least 19 troops and pro-government militiamen have been killed since Monday in rebel attacks on Barzeh district, to the north of Damascus, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
And in the town of Azaz on the border with Turkey, the UK-based activist group reported heavy clashes between al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Western-backed rebels on Wednesday.
The clashes, between militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA), have erupted since ISIS forced FSA rivals out of Azaz last month.
The discord - driven by claims over territory and resources as well as ideological differences - adds a new layer of complexity to the conflict which has killed over 100,000 people in two years.
More than two million Syrians have fled the conflict in their country, and many more have been displaced internally.
The statement agreed by the Security Council on Wednesday highlights those displaced and trapped by the "unacceptable and escalating level of violence" in Syria.
The nearly six million of internally displaced, "nearly half of whom are children, are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance" without which "their lives will be at risk".
It condemns "widespread violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by the Syrian authorities", as well as "any" such violations by armed groups.
And it deplores the heavy price paid by civilians caught in the conflict, saying Syrian authorities "bear the primary responsibility to protect their populations" - urging them to provide safe and unhindered access to populations in need of assistance.
Aid agencies complain that the Syrian government has hindered access to visas and tried to limit the number of foreign groups operating in the country.
Following the adoption of the statement, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the Council's task was now "to turn these strong words into meaningful action".
Syria's ambassador to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, said the Syrian government would study the council statement before responding.
On Tuesday, the opposition Syrian National Coalition warned that thousands of families around Damascus, in an area under siege from pro-government forces, were at risk of starving to death.
It said seven people had already died of starvation in the suburb of Moadamiye, and called for aid to be delivered to them.
The 54-year-old Frenchman, who left the Ligue 1 club in May after four years in charge, has signed a three-year contract with Saints.
He replaces Ronald Koeman, who took over at Everton on 16 June.
Saints executive director of football Les Reed described the search for a new manager as "diligent and meticulous" and that the "process eliminated a number of excellent candidates".
Southampton considered ex-Roma boss Rudi Garcia, while a move for former Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini was not pursued after initial talks.
"Claude clearly came out on top of a very impressive shortlist," added Reed.
He added that the Puel would "meet our needs as a club" while "taking account of our culture, vision and values".
Eric Black, Aston Villa's caretaker manager last season following Remi Garde's sacking, joins Puel as assistant manager with former Boulogne coach Pascal Plancque as assistant first-team coach.
Coach Sammy Lee has left the back-room team.
Following finishes of eighth and seventh, Southampton finished sixth in the Premier League last season, which earned them a place in the Europa League.
Reed said the club's aim was to "repeat and improve on our performances in the Premier League", adding that Puel's Champions League experience would be "valuable" in their European campaign.
Puel's first job in management was with Monaco in 1999. He had been a player there for 17 years, of which seven were under Arsene Wenger before he joined Arsenal.
Puel led Monaco to the Ligue 1 title in 1999-2000 before taking charge at Lille in 2002.
Appointed Lyon boss in 2008, he led them to the Champions League semi-finals in 2009-10 during his three years in charge.
He took over at Nice in 2012, but left this summer after finishing fourth in the table, just outside the Champions League places.
Erik Bielderman, the chief football writer for French newspaper L'Equipe, has followed Puel's career.
He told BBC Radio Solent that Puel is a "quiet guy" with the media and will "not give great headlines", but "speaks his mind" in the dressing room.
Bielderman described Puel the player as the "Roy Keane" of Monaco's "very offensive, very stylish" side in the 1980s.
He added: "He loves entertaining football but he is also realistic.
"His team will never be unbalanced but they will play to win games. They are not the kind of team, like we have a lot of in France, just to play for a draw."
Bielderman said it is a "clever appointment" by Southampton rather than a "glamorous move".
Garde, the last manager to move to the Premier League from France with an impressive coaching reputation, left Aston Villa in March after only 147 days in charge.
But Bielderman said of Puel: "This guy is suitable. Southampton is the perfect connection with Claude because he is an academy coach. He loves the academy player."
Southampton, promoted to the Premier League in 2012, have since seen highly rated managers Mauricio Pochettino and Koeman leave for Tottenham and Everton respectively.
They have sold a host of players in recent years, while midfielder Victor Wanyama has joined Tottenham for £11m and striker Sadio Mane has moved to Liverpool for £34m since the end of last season.
Winger Nathan Redmond, a £10m capture from Norwich, is Southampton's only summer signing.
Bielderman said: "Sometimes you are a bit fed up when you build a team, make the young players progress and suddenly people come and buy the players and you have to rebuild again.
"The market in England offers so many opportunities to buy and to sell that to build on a long-term basis becomes almost the impossible dream.
"In a club like Southampton, you maybe expect to have a couple of years with some consistency.
"Claude Puel is the kind of guy to have three, four seasons, but when he feels uncomfortable, which was the case at Nice and also at Lyon, he is not the guy who will fight to stay. He will say, 'This is not for me any more - bye bye'."
North Lanarkshire councillor Julie McAnulty, who is sixth is on the party's Central region list, has been accused of using racist language.
A party spokesman said she had been put on "administrative suspension".
The party's national executive has also barred meetings of the Coatbridge and Chryston association until May.
An investigation was launched after a complaint from a party member, published by the Daily Record newspaper, who claimed Ms McAnulty had used racist language during a car journey back from a canvassing session.
Ms McAnulty is said to have been has been involved in a feud with fellow SNP councillor Imtiaz Majid, with the party shutting down meetings of the Coatbridge branch until after the Holyrood elections following a "bad-tempered" meeting in January.
A party spokesman said no further comment would be made about Ms McAnulty until investigations were concluded.
He said: "Following last month's bad-tempered meeting, the national executive has ruled that there should be no further branch meetings until after the election in May.
"With 12 weeks until polling, the efforts of all members should be on campaigning for our candidate, Fulton MacGregor."
Ms McAnulty is the second SNP councillor to be caught up in a racism investigation in recent weeks, after Craig Melville resigned from his post on Dundee City Council amid a claims he had sent anti-Islamic text messages to a Muslim colleague. | Newcastle went top of the Championship as Dwight Gayle's two goals earned them victory over Barnsley at Oakwell and a fourth straight league win.
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The East Belfast MLA has served as deputy leader up until now.
She was the only candidate for the vacancy, and now succeeds David Ford, who stood down earlier this month after 15 years in the job.
Members of the party council, which has 250 members, elected her at a meeting in an East Belfast hotel on Wednesday evening.
Accepting the role, Ms Long said: "Leadership is not just a position, it is an attitude."
She said the party's message to the people was a confident one "Vote Alliance and get Alliance."
Speaking to the BBC, she said: "It's not about a change of direction, it's about a change of pace.
"I want to re-energise our membership, but also re-energise a public who are jaded with politics and what passes for politics at Stormont.
"People who are interested in the political situation, but are not interested in much of what we see happening."
The Alliance Party operates solely in Northern Ireland and has eight MLAs in the Stormont assembly.
Mrs Long was the party's only MP - until she lost her seat in 2015 Westminster election.
The former MP for East Belfast began her political career at Belfast City Council, where she served as Lord Mayor.
In 2015, she lost her Westminster seat to the DUP's Gavin Robinson, who triumphed with support from the UUP.
Speaking earlier this month, Mrs Long said she would take the opportunity to "refresh, renew and re-energise the party".
Mr Ford said: "Leading a political party is not easy, but Naomi will be her own person and will make an excellent leader."
The property at Arnol was built in the 1880s on a site that had been occupied by people for more than 2,000 years.
Blackhouses were built in the area by generations of crofting families until 1900. The home that survives today was still inhabited up to 1966.
About every 10 years, the thatch on the blackhouse is completely re-thatched.
Earlier this year, the conservation unit at Historic Environment Scotland worked on a full removal and reinstating of the thatch.
The team, aided by volunteers, used traditional skills and materials, including driftwood from nearby beaches to replace any rotting timbers.
To allow the work to be done in wet weather, a large plastic covering was built over scaffolding to completely cover the blackhouse.
Following the completion of the re-thatching the blackhouse, which is designated as a monument, was reopened to the public.
Seven inmates were evacuated and the fire brigade called after six cell fires at HMP Northumberland in Acklington last Thursday.
Violence broke out in the exercise yard following the evacuation, but the inmates surrendered after extra officers were deployed.
Sodexo, which runs the prison, confirmed the incident took place.
It is not known how the fires broke out, but they were put out by firefighters.
Six of the seven prisoners were later relocated to other jails.
The category C prison has been criticised by MPs and union officials for a series of incidents in the last year, including a stand-off in which inmates took control of a whole wing.
The prison was privatised last December, before Sodexo laid off about 200 staff.
A company spokesman said: "We can confirm there was an incident involving seven prisoners at HMP Northumberland on Thursday night (27 November).
"Prison staff resolved the situation within a few hours."
Shola Ameobi, Richard Duffy, Elliott Hewitt, Mike Edwards, Haydn Hollis, Rob Milsom, Jon Stead, Curtis Thompson and Alan Smith received contract offers.
Thierry Audel, Adam Campbell, Scott Loach and Mark Yeates have been released by manager Kevin Nolan.
"This is the toughest time of the season for a manager," said Nolan.
"I haven't enjoyed it one bit. I am, however, confident we have made the right decisions and put fair offers on the table."
They scored in each half through Gregor Buchanan's own goal and a Michael Tidser penalty.
Dumbarton worked diligently throughout and pulled a goal back through Andy Stirling.
They could not find another way through the Morton defence, though.
Morton were the more enterprising side from the outset, with Nesbitt and Ross Forbes carrying a threat with their movement and passing ability.
Nesbitt was integral to the opening goal, showing quick feet and agility to create space on the right to drive the ball into the six-yard box, where Buchanan could only bundle it into his own net past goalkeeper Alan Martin.
Forbes posed a danger further out, with his excellent control and manipulation of the ball.
He did scurry into the penalty area at one point, running on to a Jon Scullion pass, but his shot was blocked at close range by Martin. Later in the first-half, Forbes swept a shot off an upright from 20 yards out.
Dumbarton were dogged and worked hard to hold their defensive shape. They were most threatening at set-pieces, with Garry Fleming powerful in the air, but Sam Stanton saw one shot blocked by Morton goalkeeper Derek Gaston and another effort headed off the line.
The visitors were more assertive after the interval, but Nesbitt and Forbes continued to cause consternation.
After Nesbitt drove towards the bye-line with the ball, his cross was met by Forbes' first-time effort, which Dumbarton's substitute goalkeeper Mark Brown managed to push away at full stretch.
For all Dumbarton's perseverance, Morton's greater quality told, although the visitors fiercely disputed the award of a penalty against Darren Barr for tripping Nesbitt.
Tidser's strike from the resulting spot-kick allowed the home side an element of comfort in their lead.
That lasted only four minutes, though, until Stirling's shot from outside the area was deflected past the helpless Gaston, but Dumbarton could not find a leveller.
Morton's Jim Duffy: "There wasn't much in the balance of play, both teams had spells when they looked to be in control, but we created more. Dumbarton are a very difficult side to play against, they give everything and we had to match that commitment.
[We had] Aidan [Nesbitt] and young Jon Scullion, two very small strikers, so we had to try to play into feet and that meant the midfield had to take risks at times. We couldn't play it back to front or throw a cross into the box. There were some fantastic performances and Aidan was outstanding for us.
[For the penalty] Aidan ran across the box and there was a clip, I don't know if [Darren Barr] meant it or not. If we get one and get the benefit, I'm delighted for it. Like most managers, I feel we don't get the benefit too often, so you enjoy it when you get them."
Dumbarton's Steve Aitken: "We started very slow, which is not like us. Morton started really well and got a deserved goal, but we came roaring back and I thought we got a grip of the game. In the second half, we always said if you keep it at 1-0, you'll create chances, but the penalty decision is a contentious one. I've not seen it back, but the boys say it's never a penalty, the boy falls over his own feet.
"We've got great spirit in the dressing room, the players are working so hard. They're disappointed, because we came into the game on the back of a good month, but we have to take it on the chin."
Match ends, Morton 2, Dumbarton 1.
Second Half ends, Morton 2, Dumbarton 1.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Andy Stirling.
Substitution, Morton. Thomas Orr replaces Aidan Nesbitt.
Foul by Thomas O'Ware (Morton).
Christian Nade (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Christian Nade (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Christian Nade (Dumbarton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. David Smith (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Christian Nade (Dumbarton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Jon Scullion (Morton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Aidan Nesbitt (Morton) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Craig Pettigrew.
Attempt blocked. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Darren Barr.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Mark Brown.
Attempt saved. Aidan Nesbitt (Morton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Ross Forbes (Morton).
Josh Todd (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Lewis Vaughan replaces Robert Thomson.
Goal! Morton 2, Dumbarton 1. Andy Stirling (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Josh Todd.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Christian Nade replaces Mark Docherty.
Goal! Morton 2, Dumbarton 0. Michael Tidser (Morton) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Morton. Aidan Nesbitt draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Darren Barr (Dumbarton) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Michael Tidser (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Robert Thomson.
Michael Tidser (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Docherty (Dumbarton).
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Mark Docherty.
Attempt blocked. Michael Doyle (Morton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Mark Brown.
Attempt saved. Mark Russell (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Jamie Lindsay (Morton) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Robert Thomson.
Attempt saved. Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Mark Brown.
Attempt saved. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Second Half begins Morton 1, Dumbarton 0.
The actress and UN special envoy praised male leaders prepared to confront "the taboo" around the issue.
Ms Jolie was speaking alongside UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, who co-hosted the London summit with her.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said it was time to "banish sexual violence to the dark ages".
Their statements came at the close of the End Sexual Violence in Conflict summit, which brought together representatives from more than 120 countries.
The four-day event - the largest ever of its kind - was the result of an intense two-year campaign to raise awareness.
"One of the most heartening aspects of this summit has been to see so many male leaders... prepared to confront the taboo surrounding sexual violence in conflict," Ms Jolie said at a news conference to end the meeting.
"This subject is now firmly on the top table of international diplomacy - and we will work to ensure it stays there," she said.
"Warzone rape is not simply a woman's issue, a humanitarian issue: it goes to the heart of international peace and security."
The conference saw hundreds of officials, diplomats, activists and survivors of rape in conflict zones come together to discuss ways to better prosecute offenders and protect victims.
"It's been an unprecedented event and a turning point in the campaign over the past two years," said Mr Hague at the close of the summit on Friday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, who appeared as a guest speaker, echoed Ms Jolie and Mr William Hague by calling for an end to impunity.
He said sexual violence in war was a stain on the conscience of the world that must be brought to an end.
The Global Summit on Sexual Violence in Conflict aimed to:
In the two years since Mr Hague and Ms Jolie launched their campaign, a Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict has been endorsed by 141 countries.
Ibrahimovic, 34, met Antonio Valencia's cross with a typically athletic volley as United beat Galatasaray 5-2.
The Turkish side bossed the remainder of the half and led thanks to goals from Sinan Gumus and Bruma.
But a much-changed United side turned the match around through Wayne Rooney (two), Marouane Fellaini and Juan Mata.
And Swedish striker Ibrahimovic believes the future is bright for the Red Devils, who continue to be linked with a £100m move for Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba.
"There is something big on the go, it's going to be very interesting this year," he said. "Let us say that if Pogba comes too, it's going to be very interesting.
"I'm going to help the team as much as I can and do what I'm good at, creating chances and scoring goals."
Manager Jose Mourinho used 22 players and will leave Gothenburg with as many questions as answers as he ponders his starting XI for next Sunday's Community Shield, which sees his FA Cup winners face Premier League champions Leicester at Wembley.
Ibrahimovic led the line in the first half, with Rooney behind him and Anthony Martial and Henrikh Mkhitaryan either side.
But half-time replacements Marcus Rashford, Ashley Young and Jesse Lingard looked far sharper and led to United's revival after a sleepy first 45 minutes.
Rooney equalised with a clean volley from another Valencia cross before Rashford won a penalty with an individual run from near halfway, and captain Rooney converted.
Valencia then made another goal as Fellaini drifted a header into the corner and Mata - who was sold by Mourinho at Chelsea - collected Michael Carrick's clever ball to slide in.
World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger - one of nine players reportedly told they can leave the club - did not feature.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho:
"If the players were not in my plans I would not give them one single minute, I would not keep them in my squad.
"The squad is very competitive, the squad is very important for the season.
"We have 38 matches in the Premier League, we have the possibility of 15 matches in the Europa League, plus domestic cups, we are going to play 60 matches. So with 60 matches we cannot do it with 11 players.
"To be in the squad you have to understand that the squad is more important than the individual, the club is more important than all of us, and to be in the squad you have to be ready for this, to play, not to play, play a lot, play less, play 90 minutes, play one minute, not be selected, everything is part of a squad life."
Manchester United: De Gea, Valencia, Bailly, Blind, Shaw, Schneiderlin, Herrera, Mkhitaryan, Rooney, Martial, Ibrahimovic. Subs: Johnstone, Romero, Darmian, Jones, Rojo, Fellaini, Carrick, Lingard, Mata, Young, Memphis, Rashford.
And it certainly has been a no-holds-barred marathon.
Every Labour MP in South Yorkshire snubbed Jeremy Corbyn and deliberately chose to stay away from a 2000-strong rally he held in Sheffield just before the month-long ballot opened.
The next day in Halifax challenger Owen Smith told me that for the first time he was going to step up his campaign and tell his waiting audience that "Jeremy is just not up to the job".
For senior members of the same party this is pretty strong stuff.
The assembled "Corbynistas" and "Owenites" went much further.
Many in the crowd at the Sheffield rally told me that Welsh MP Smith was leading a right-wing coup to topple the democratically-elected leader. I didn't have to strain my ears too much to hear the words "sell-out"; "Tory apologist" and "traitor".
In Halifax, Mr Corbyn was accused of deception, deliberately ignoring a power grab by far-left Trotskyite "entryists" and destroying any chance of the party ever coming back into government.
It is the kind of slanging match I have not heard since former leader Neil Kinnock threw the far left Militant Tendency out of the party over three decades ago. Many Owen Smith supporters told me that Momentum, the internal Labour Party Group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn, is just a re-labelled Militant Tendency.
So how did it come to all this?
The tensions between left and right in the Labour Party had never gone away but until that remarkable ballot in 2015 to replace Ed Miliband as leader it was thought the left wing was little more than a powerless group of eccentric MPs - like the obscure and largely unknown MP for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn.
His unwavering commitment to wholesale re-nationalisation; scrapping nuclear weapons and wiping Margaret Thatcher's trade union policies from the history books was seen as a throwback to the 1970s.
But three years before Mr Corbyn's overwhelming win a little piece of political history took place that unwittingly led to Labour's current pains.
The unlikely venue was a bar in the House of Commons and the instigator was a West Yorkshire Conservative MP who was having a quiet drink with a few colleagues.
The affable Stuart Andrew, who represents Pudsey, was head-butted when Scottish Labour MP Eric Joyce went on a drunken rampage.
Joyce was later fined for assault and stood down as an MP at the next election.
It was the scandal over choosing a replacement candidate in his Falkirk seat for the 2015 General Election that led directly to the rule changes for Labour Party internal elections which had the unintended consequence of opening the door to the rise of the left.
The trade union Unite packed the small constituency party by paying the subscriptions for new members it had recruited to ensure its own favoured candidate was selected.
Labour's response, led by the then leader Ed Miliband, was to change party rules in an attempt to ensure one powerful faction could not dominate election of MPs and party leaders.
By the time Mr Miliband himself had stood down new recruits would be included in a one-member-one-vote leadership election.
He also backed incorporating the US Primary system for selecting presidential candidates where non-members could vote as long as they registered an interest in the aims of the party.
The "three quid" registered voter was born.
Unfortunately for those backing this system the new blood that flowed into the party leadership election was far redder than anticipated and went hunting a figurehead to reflect its views.
At one stage it looked as though no left-wing candidate would be able to scratch together the minimum number of MPs required which was still the first stage to allow their nomination to go ahead.
It was only because a few Labour MPs switched their votes to ensure a balanced choice was available that Jeremy Corby scraped into the contest.
The rest is history.
I spoke to Stuart Andrew last week and asked him if he knew much trouble he had caused for the Labour Party.
"A few people have mentioned that theory to me," he told me with a smile.
"I'm rather glad I'm a Conservative MP."
It is thought the vast majority of Labour MPs will not be smiling if the vast majority of its new members keep supporting Jeremy Corbyn and see him back in office when the result is announced on Saturday 24 September.
The broadcasts have reportedly affected 110 planes and ships, and can cause mobile phones to malfunction.
The South's unification ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee was quoted by AFP news agency as saying it was an "act of provocation".
Tensions have been high between the two Koreas since the North's fourth nuclear test in January.
The broadcasts appeared to have started a month ago from various locations along the border, but on Thursday the North discharged its largest amount of GPS-jamming signals, according to Yonhap, citing a senior government official.
The South Korean coastguard reported about 70 fishing vessels had been forced to return to port after GPS navigation issues, AFP said. There has been no reported disruption to flights.
The South Korean news agency said that since 2010 the North has been accused of jamming signals at least three other times. It is believed to be using equipment imported from Russia.
Pyongyang has called the allegations "sheer fabrication".
North Korea has jammed global positioning systems in South Korea before when tension between the two countries was high.
Four years ago, pilots on more than 300 commercial flights detected interference with their systems. Planes have back-ups, though, so no disaster happened.
This time, the South Korean government says 58 planes and 52 ships have been affected, again without serious damage so far.
But just the knowledge that GPS may be being interfered with from Pyongyang is still disorientating for ordinary people.
One South Korean told the BBC that the map on his phone suddenly put him far away from his actual position and he wondered if that was because of North Korea's actions.
Since the North's nuclear test in January and subsequent launch of a long-range rocket, the South has stepped up security measures including border patrols and allowing the US to fly fighter jets near the border.
The North in return has threatened "indiscriminate" nuclear strikes on the US and the South.
The homes include Beechwood Children's Home in Mapperley, where some former residents have already been awarded compensation.
Police have arrested ten men so far but seven will not face any further action.
One of the ten has died since being questioned, but two men are still being investigated on suspicion of rape.
One former Beechwood resident claims he was gang raped from the age of ten.
By Jeremy BallSocial affairs correspondent
This is one of Nottinghamshire's largest police inquiries for several years.
At the heart of this inquiry is the old Beechwood Children's Home in Mapperley, where a number of former residents claim they suffered horrific physical and sexual abuse.
The investigation has been complex because some of these allegations go back more than 40 years, making it difficult to corroborate details of where abuse allegedly took place, and who carried out that abuse.
James Cleverley said he tried to get help from police, but was not believed at the time.
Mr Cleverley, now 53, said the abuse had affected him throughout his life, and he still takes sleeping tablets and anti-depressants.
"I break down sometimes when I feel a bit down and if I've had a drink that's even worse; the memories just come flooding back," he said.
"At night time I wake up and even though I'm on very high sleeping tablets I still wake up with nightmares.
"Mentally I can never forget it, never."
He said he was also abused when he went to other homes.
"Every home I went to it seemed like they knew that I was the sort of lad that they could do that to, to abuse me," he said.
"It seemed like a big paedophile ring."
He said he went to a mental hospital for a while and has been "in and out of prison".
"It's hard for me to have a relationship with people now, especially men, my friends, because I think to myself they did it to me when I was younger, they might try it with me now," he said.
"They were supposed to be there to look after me, not to abuse me."
Head coach Jones has been in charge since the departure of director of rugby Lyn Jones on 20 April.
His role will be expanded with the region dispensing with the post of director of rugby.
"Kingsley is highly respected by this group of players and we absolutely feel that he is the right man to take charge of the team," said chief executive Stuart Davies.
"His appointment as head coach rather than director of rugby, means that we will be reviewing the roles and responsibilities of the wider management team, whilst Kingsley and I will also discuss bolstering the coaching team to add further support, skills and experience."
The 46-year-old joined Dragons in 2013 as assistant coach, at the same time as overseeing the Russian national team.
He was appointed head coach of the Welsh region in 2014.
Dragons finished in 10th place in the Pro12, one place ahead of Zebre despite winning a game fewer than the Italian side.
The Welsh region finished ahead of them after picking up 10 losing bonus points during the season.
Netherlands international Cillessen, 27, has signed a five-year deal with the Spanish champions, who could pay another £1.7m in variables.
He started his career with NEC Nijmegen before joining Ajax in 2011.
Cillessen's move was confirmed hours before Chile international Bravo, 33, joined Pep Guardiola at City for an initial £15.4m.
Bravo made 70 La Liga appearances in two seasons for Barcelona but never featured for them in the Champions League, with Marc-Andre ter Stegen their first choice in cup competitions.
The incident happened on Monday at a property in John Street, Penicuik.
The 22-year-old is due to appear at Jedburgh Sheriff Court.
Glenn Williams, who represents Bablake ward, told a colleague on WhatsApp he did not "believe in multiculturalism".
He described Enoch Powell as a "personal hero" and said if Turkey joined the EU the UK would be "overrun with kebab shops".
He claimed the comments were "banter".
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Following the publication of the conversation in the Coventry Telegraph, which came days after he contributed to a racism debate at a full council meeting, Labour councillor and Coventry Council leader George Duggins called on Mr Williams to resign.
The Conservative Party had planned to meet to discuss disciplinary action before he resigned.
Mr Williams wrote to the party to apologise, but has since defended his comments.
"What I said was in a private conversation with another member of the Conservatives who I thought was a friend, and when you're talking sometimes with friends late at night you do say things in a different sort of way," he told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.
"I hope that any resident, any member of staff at the council, or anyone I've met would say, having known me for more than five minutes, that I'm not anything like a racialist or anything like that.
"I've only ever treated people with respect."
Mr Williams said he would continue to represent his constituents as an independent councillor until the next election, which will take place in 2020.
"I'm still going to be working as hard as I can for those residents, because there's still a lot to do," he said.
A council spokesman said Mr Williams is able to continue as an elected member.
Attorney General Thelma Aldana has asked for Samuel "Sammy" Morales and Jose Manuel Morales to be detained ahead of a trial.
It is a blow for President Jimmy Morales, who pledged to clean up politics during his 2015 campaign.
The former comedian said his support for his family was "100%", but so was his respect for the law.
His official Twitter profile said: "The rule of law must prevail above all things."
Samuel, the president's older brother, and Jose Manuel, his son, are accused of fraud. The exact amount involved is unclear, but figures range from $12,000 (£9,700; €11,200) to $26,000.
Ms Aldana said so far it had been determined that neither Sammy nor Jose Manuel had made any money from the transactions.
Another eight people have been detained in connection with the allegations.
Sammy said he was not concerned by the proceedings as he had not "committed any crime", while Jose Manuel voluntarily handed himself over to the authorities.
His father, President Morales, was elected on a wave of public anger over a corruption scandal that led to the arrest and trial of his predecessor, retired General Otto Perez.
Murray, who moved from Portadown in January, said that he had come to a "mutual agreement" with the club to be released from his contract.
"I haven't been able to play the part I wish I had," said the 24-year-old striker on Twitter.
"Injuries and not enough playing time have made me make this decision with the club agreeing."
Murray added that he wished everyone at Cliftonville "the best and hope to see them back at the top soon".
A club statement said that following a meeting with the player on Wednesday evening, "Cliftonville FC can confirm that Darren Murray is no longer a Cliftonville player".
The striker moved from Portadown to the Reds on a three-and-a-half year deal with Cliftonville after being linked with the North Belfast club from some time.
Murray, a boyhood fan of the Solitude club, scored five goals in his 16 Cliftonville appearances.
His final goal for the club came in the win over Ballinamallard last month.
The Borg El Arab Stadium will host the match on Sunday 13 November.
Restrictions on fans at matches in Egypt have been in place since 2012, when 72 Al Ahly fans died in violence at a match in Port Said.
The EFA will also allow 40,000 fans to watch the Champions League final second leg also in Alexandria.
Zamalek will host that match against South African side Mamelodi Sundowns on Sunday 23 October.
The first leg ended in a 3-0 defeat for the Egyptian side.
Egypt fared better in their opening World Cup qualifier, beating DR Congo 2-1 to move into an early two-point lead in Group E.
Only the group winners will earn a place at the tournament in Russia.
Officers were called to the house in Misk Knowes, Stevenston, at 23:50 on Tuesday.
A family, including a couple with children and a visiting grandchild, were in the house at the time.
The family were unharmed but the front door of the property was badly damaged in the attack. Police have appealed for information.
Det Insp William McDicken said: "Police inquiries are at an early stage and officers are carrying out extensive inquiries in the area.
"Crime of this nature is very rare, however I can understand that members of the public may be concerned.
"I would like to reassure them that there are extra patrols in the area and anyone with any concerns should speak to the police."
It wants to hire about 1,000 people, primarily cabin crew, across the eight airports from which it operates.
Aside from Belfast International Airport, it flies from Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester and Newcastle.
It has a fleet of 63 aircraft, and serves about 220 destinations.
The four groups said Donald Trump's statements were "so lacking in moral leadership and empathy" that they had no choice but to cancel the call.
They condemned Mr Trump for blaming "many sides" for the violence on 11 August, which left one woman dead.
The White House noted the call was an Obama administration practice.
"The Trump Administration looks forward to creating its own traditions to observe the High Holidays and other important days in the Jewish faith," an unnamed White House official said in a statement to the BBC.
The traditional call was held each year to mark the arrival of the Jewish autumn holidays, which include Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah.
White supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan were among the far-right demonstrators who took part in a torch-lit rally - shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans - in Charlottesville.
The march had been organised to protest against the proposed removal of a statue of General Robert E Lee, who commanded the pro-slavery Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
But it descended into violence after the rally's supporters were confronted by anti-racism groups. A car driven by a man linked to white supremacists later ploughed through a crowd of counter-protesters and killed a woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
In a statement, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism denounced the president for repeatedly saying anti-racism protesters shared the blame for the violence.
"The President's words have given succor to those who advocate anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia," the coalition said.
"Responsibility for the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, including the death of Heather Heyer, does not lie with many sides but with one side: the Nazis, alt-right and white supremacists who brought their hate to a peaceful community. They must be roundly condemned at all levels."
Mr Trump has insisted he has done enough to condemn hate and bigotry.
The four groups of rabbis are said to represent much of the US Jewish community.
However, the organisation of Orthodox rabbis, the Rabbinical Council of America, did not sign the statement.
It has previously condemned "any suggestion of moral equivalency between the White Supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville and those who stood up to their repugnant messages and actions".
In recent years, the US president has spoken by phone to hundreds of rabbis to bring holiday greetings ahead of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Reports say the conversations mostly steer clear of politics.
Rabbi Steve Fox, executive director of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, told Politico that former President Barack Obama participated in each year of his administration.
The majority of Jewish-American voters opposed Mr Trump in the 2016 US election, with the exception of Orthodox Jews who have been more supportive.
Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka, converted to Orthodox Judaism after marrying Jared Kushner, who has since become a senior adviser to the president.
Last week, a rabbi in New York who oversaw Ms Trump's conversion penned a letter to his congregation slamming the White House response to violence in Charlottesville.
"While we avoid politics, we are deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation President Trump has offered in his response to this act of violence," wrote Rabbi Emeritus Haskel Lookstein in a letter first reported by New York Magazine.
He was acquitted by a jury following a seven-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
The 46-year-old was also found not guilty of a second charge under the Companies Act.
The jury of eight men and seven women took just two hours of deliberations to return not guilty verdicts on both charges.
Following the verdict, the SFA said it would consider pursuing Mr Whyte over a £200,000 fine for bringing the game into disrepute.
The penalty was imposed by the governing body in 2012, but the money was never paid.
Mr Whyte took over Sir David Murray's majority shareholding for £1 in May 2011, while agreeing to take on obligations, which included paying an £18m bank debt and £5m for players.
He was charged with using the club's own money for the deal while claiming the funds were his.
After the verdict, judge Lady Stacey told Mr Whyte: "You have been acquitted and are free to leave the dock."
He thanked the judge and jury before leaving the courtroom.
Questioned by reporters as he left the building, he said: "I'm just delighted with the outcome."
During the trial, jurors at the High Court of Glasgow were told how Mr Whyte struck a £1 deal to purchase Sir David Murray's controlling stake at Ibrox.
As well as the £18m bank debt and money for players, Whyte had agreed to provide £2.8m to settle a "small tax case" bill, £1.7m for stadium repairs, and £5m in working capital.
Prosecutors had alleged that Whyte pretended to Sir David, and others, that funds were available to make all required payments.
The jury were told Mr Whyte had only £4m available from two sources at the time, but took out a £24m loan from Ticketus against three years of future Rangers season ticket sales, before he owned the club.
The second charge under the Companies Act centred on the £18m payment between Mr Whyte's Wavetower company and Rangers to clear a bank debt.
Mr Whyte had denied both the charges against him.
His defence QC, Donald Findlay, had earlier told the jury that Mr Whyte had been made to look like a "pantomime villain".
He had said the Murray team had been "more focused" on securing a sale than on checking out the source of the money.
Mr Findlay said his client had met the conditions of the sale by paying the debt and investing in the club.
He blamed Sir David's advisers, saying they "let him down very badly" in the deal and did not ask where the takeover money was coming from.
Summing up the defence case, Mr Findlay said: "They were not interested in where the money came from and we know this absolutely categorically."
The defence QC had also pointed out that there had been "no loss" to Sir David Murray in the buyout.
Leslie Binns, 42, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, turned around to save Sunita Hazra, an Indian woman, who was scaling the summit ahead of him.
He said he felt "immensely proud" to have saved a life but wished he could have also helped save another climber, who died on the descent.
Mr Binns was blinded in his left eye after an explosion in Afghanistan.
He was in the Army for 13 years, serving in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan and was blown up four times. He has been awarded two medals, including the Queen's Commendation for Bravery for finding improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan in 2009.
Ms Hazra, who is 32 and lives near Kolkata in India, left hospital on Wednesday.
Her brother Kingshuk Chatterjee told the BBC the family "cannot express our gratitude" to Mr Binns for saving her.
"He's the reason why she is still alive now," he said. "He is a very brave man."
Mr Binns, who now works in private security in oil fields in Iraq, said the incident happened when he was on a climb in the early hours of 21 May.
He was approaching an area nicknamed "The Balcony" - where climbing teams store spare oxygen bottles - when he noticed a "commotion" ahead of him.
"I noticed someone sliding down the fixed climbing lines towards me.
"All I could hear were the screams of terror as the person gained momentum. I braced myself to try and stop whoever it was, and managed to do so.
"At this time I didn't know that this was Sunita Hazra. I helped her upright and looked at her oxygen regulator. It was registering empty."
Mr Binns helped Ms Hazra recover and she attempted to continue her descent by herself, but collapsed after about 20 metres.
"It was at this point I decided to cancel my summit bid to help Sunita," Mr Binns said. He was about another 12 hours away from making the final ascent to the top.
"I climbed down to her and called my Sherpa. I told him we are not going up and we would give Sunita my spare oxygen bottle and take her down."
He says the descent was a perilous and difficult one, and on the way the three climbers found another man who was also struggling to descend, bringing him along with them.
Mr Binns said Ms Hazra and the other climber "kept collapsing", adding: "I fell into waist-deep crevasses no less than five times, which was very tiring, and we were also crossing blue ice which was very dangerous as we kept slipping."
Eventually he and Ms Hazra managed to reach his camp, but due to exhaustion and difficult weather conditions they were unable to bring the other climber along.
"I gave Sunita my sleeping bag in my tent. We then tried our best to get her warm by patting and rubbing her. She was suffering from hypothermia and her right hand was badly frost-bitten.
"I then remembered we had a flask of ginger tea. I used this to try and re-warm Sunita's hand. I dried it off and told her to keep it in her fleece pocket which would keep it warm."
Mr Binns says that while in his tent he heard the other climber's voice in the distance "but I was too exhausted to go back out - I literally collapsed and fell asleep".
In the morning, Mr Binns learned the other climber had been found and taken to his team. Ms Hazra's Sherpa came to collect her and help her to continue down the mountain.
But when Mr Binns continued with his own descent that next day, he came across the body of the other climber, who had died during his journey downwards.
Mr Binns believes Sherpas took the body down from the mountain, and is unsure as to how the climber eventually died.
Mr Binns said: "I truly regret not being able to do anything more for him. But I had nothing left in me that night and I tried my level best to rescue him, but he could not be moved. No summit is worth a life.
"I am immensely proud that I helped Sunita. I just wish I could have done more."
Mr Binns, who has climbed "all the major peaks in the UK", is now in Kathmandu and due to return to the UK to see his fiancee and daughter on 6 June.
"I wish Sunita and her family all the best and hope she makes a full recovery," he said.
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Home Secretary Theresa May had said the technique was being misused so often that it was damaging relations between the public and police.
Police will now record every outcome resulting from stop and search.
There will also be more limits on using the controversial "Section 60" stops.
Officers will need higher authorisation than at present to deploy Section 60 powers, under which someone may be stopped without grounds for suspicion in a situation where serious violence is anticipated.
Police will also soon allow public observers to watch stop and search in operation.
Next year, police will start mapping where the practice is used so people can see if one area is targeted more than others, and the public will be entitled to know why this is the case.
The changes are being brought in after Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary found that 27% of stop and searches did not satisfy the requirement that there be "reasonable grounds for suspicion", meaning more than 250,000 of the one million searches conducted last year could have been illegal.
The adoption of the Best Use of Stop and Search code comes as the Metropolitan Police said it used Section 60 powers after violent incidents at the Notting Hill Carnival in London on Monday.
Ken Hinds, a member of the London borough of Haringey's stop and search monitoring group, does not believe the new code will be enough to change attitudes in some areas.
Mr Hinds says none of the 125 stop and searches he has been subjected to in the last 30 years has resulted in police finding he has done anything illegal.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "After 40 years of abuse of stop and search, we now refer to it as stop and scarred in our community. It has alienated whole swathes."
Last year, an Equality and Human Rights Commission report said black and Asian people were still far more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police.
Black people were six times as likely to be stopped overall - but this was as high as 29 times in some areas.
A black police inspector, Nick Glynn of the Leicestershire force, has already been chosen to lead reform of the way stop-and-search powers are used nationally.
He said he had been stopped and searched himself about 30 times while off duty by officers from other forces.
Metropolitan Police Commander Adrian Hanstock said the new code supports the force's "ongoing drive to make stop and search more intelligence-led and effective".
He added: "The Met has made significant improvements to stop and search over the last two years to not only reduce the total number of people we search, but also to ensure that our officers focus on those areas and types of crime that the public are most concerned about.
"Our work with communities and monitoring groups is helping to ensure we are more transparent than ever in how stop and search helps to reduce crime and keep people safe."
The Met, the UK's largest force, says 251,161 people were subject to stop and search in the 12 months to July 2014, and 47,141 arrests made.
It said 115,270 of those stopped were white, 72,016 were black and 34,267 were Asian, with men accounting for 94% of all searches.
Chief Constable Alex Marshall, who heads the College of Policing, told Today that stop and search was an important power to protect communities and the changes were intended to address its "difficult history".
He said people would support its use if searches well targeted and carried out with respect.
Scotland Yard said Section 60 and Section 60AA orders were used under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act at this years's Notting Hill Carnival.
Section 60AA gives police powers to order the removal of disguises in places where Section 60 is in use.
The Met said the measures were taken "in response to incidents of violence, and intelligence received, which have taken place within a short period of time".
Three men were stabbed and two police officers were injured in a series of violent clashes at the carnival on Monday evening.
Five people were taken ill at Kendal Calling, in Cumbria, on Friday morning.
The man, who was found in a critical condition, later died, while a woman, 29, remains in a critical but stable condition, Cumbria Police said. Three men are "serious but stable".
A man, 20, has been held on suspicion of possession with intent to supply, the force said.
The rebel group is led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a veteran of Afghan conflicts in recent decades and one of the country's most notorious militants.
There are hopes the deal will lead to a peace agreement with the Hezb-e-Islami.
The group has been linked to al-Qaeda and is accused of widespread civil rights abuses. Mr Hekmatyar has been designated a terrorist by the US.
Hezb-e-Islami has played a minor role in the Taliban insurgency in recent years and so the deal is not expected to improve security in the country.
Mohammad Khan, deputy to the Afghan government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, hailed the draft agreement as a positive step.
"We are optimistic about this agreement and we strongly support it," he told reporters in Kabul.
But he added: "This doesn't mean it's finalised."
Sayed Zafar Hashemi, deputy spokesman for President Asraf Ghani, said the agreement was at the "endorsement and verification phases" but had not yet been signed by the president.
Under the terms of the deal, the government would grant members of Hezb-e-Islami amnesty, and lobby the UN to have the group removed from a blacklist.
The group would not join the government but would be recognised as an official political party.
Human rights groups have criticised the move towards a deal with Mr Hekmatyar, who was briefly prime minister of Afghanistan in the early 1990s.
Serena Hickey, 42, from Milton Keynes, was strangled to death at the hotel in Kempston, Bedford, on 13 September.
Her partner Daren Ellis' body was later found on a railway line in Warwickshire.
Ms Hickey's brother, Zane Hopkins, has set up a foundation to support domestic violence victims and perpetrators.
"I firmly believe that if you get to the root of a problem, then you eradicate the problem," he told BBC Look East.
"This in no way means we endorse their actions, but hope to prevent further acts of violence by helping to reform and re-educate those guilty of domestic violence."
Mr Hopkins said he could not believe the news when he was first told about his sister's death.
"I kept thinking, they've got the wrong person, something's wrong. It can't be true.
"She was a really strong person, strong minded, strong bodied - she went to the gym a lot - so this is why it [her death] just doesn't make sense," he said.
"If my sister could be suffering, and suffering in silence as such a strong person, then there's got to be countless amounts of others suffering in silence too."
"We must unite to make sure this tragedy is never allowed to happen again," he wrote on the Serena Hickey Foundation Facebook page.
A fundraising campaign has been launched to register the foundation as an official charity, and open up a drop-in support centre.
"This will provide the best care, compassion and support for all sufferers of this awful atrocity," Mr Hopkins wrote.
There have been 68 recorded cases of wild poliovirus so far in 2014. Last year there were 417 cases.
Contrast that with the one million children under five who die from pneumonia each year or the 750,000 who die from diarrhoeal disease.
Like polio, most of those deaths are vaccine-preventable.
The only previous threat to have been accorded the same status by the WHO was the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009.
The reason for the WHO declaration is the risk that the goal of polio eradication may be not be achieved.
Billions of dollars are spent each year on polio immunisation and the number of cases has plummeted since the late 1980s.
There have been important milestones: it is more than three years since the last polio case in India.
While the wild poliovirus continues to circulate, mass immunisations must continue in every country in the world.
If the disease was wiped out - like smallpox in the 1970s - then the money spent on polio immunisation could eventually be targeted elsewhere.
The declaration of a "public health emergency of international concern" is a measure of the potential threat to the eradication efforts.
The WHO wants all residents and long-term visitors to Pakistan, Cameroon and Syria to have been recently immunised and carry a certificate of vaccination.
All three countries have spread the virus across their borders this year during what is usually a low transmission season.
The virus has a higher risk of transmission during May and June.
There are several other countries infected with wild poliovirus which have not exported the disease - Nigeria, Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Iraq and Somalia.
The virus - which is shed in faeces - can spread rapidly from just one infected individual.
Most people who carry the virus show no symptoms, making it a very difficult disease to wipe out.
That is why it is so important that polio immunisation levels are maintained while the virus continues to circulate.
Polio eradication would be a huge achievement. A target date of 2018 has been set - but previous deadlines have come and gone.
The next six months may show whether that goal really is a realistic target.
Glenridding Beck, in the Lake District, burst its banks three times during storms in December 2015.
More than 14,000 tonnes of gravel was removed from the river in a bid to reduce the risk of further flooding.
The material has been stored on Jenkin's Field, next to Ullswater, and the Environment Agency will start taking it away Monday.
Andy Brown, from the agency, said: "We would like to apologise to the community and visitors to Glenridding for the noise and increased traffic which will be caused by the work to remove the gravel from Jenkin's Field.
"We are doing everything possible to minimise the disruption and complete the clearance as prompt and efficiently as possible to minimise the impact."
His club-mate Ross Ford replaces Fraser Brown at hooker.
Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour and Ryan Wilson are named despite suffering head knocks in the heavy loss to England.
Finn Russell and Huw Jones are also in the starting XV, having been injury doubts from last weekend.
Richie Gray had been named in the Scotland starting line-up on Thursday but has now been deemed not fit enough for head coach Vern Cotter's last match in charge as Scotland seek a third home win of the tournament.
Gilchrist was not in the original list of substitutes and comes in to the team ahead of Tim Swinson, who remains on the bench.
The Scots, who beat Ireland and Wales, have not managed three Six Nations victories since 2006.
Italy are without a win in the competition since their 2015 visit to Edinburgh.
Brown was cleared to play after he was cited for the tackle on Elliot Daly that led to a second-minute yellow card in the record 61-21 defeat at Twickenham.
However, he drops to the bench for the first time in this season's tournament, with Ford winning his 107th cap from the start.
The inclusion of Hogg, Seymour and Wilson remains subject to the Glasgow trio completing the progressive head injury protocol.
Gloucester centre Matt Scott is called up to the replacements following injury to Mark Bennett, with regular captain Greig Laidlaw, Duncan Taylor, Alasdair Dickinson, WP Nel, Josh Strauss and John Hardie also on the sidelines.
Cotter, who has been with Scotland for three years, will be replaced by Glasgow Warriors' Gregor Townsend in the summer, with the 55-year-old New Zealander moving on to take over at French Top 14 club Montpellier.
"Matches between Scotland and Italy have always been tough affairs," said Cotter. "We have a lot of respect for them and feel they have been improving throughout the competition.
"They showed in this campaign they can be innovative, so preparation has been key to ensuring we put in a good performance. We have to be ready for anything."
Scotland: Hogg; Seymour, Jones, Dunbar, Visser; Russell, Price; Reid, Ford, Fagerson, Gilchrist, J Gray, Barclay (capt), Watson, Wilson.
Replacements: Brown, Berghan, Du Preez, Weir, Dell, Swinson, Pyrgos, Scott.
Dale Gorman and Paul Smyth had shots blocked before Rauno Sappinen put the hosts in front on 50 minutes.
Sheffield United teenager David Parkhouse levelled with a composed back-post finish on his debut.
NI captain Donnelly slotted home the spot-kick in the fourth minute of added time after a foul on Parkhouse.
It was the perfect start to the campaign as U21 clinched a deserved Group Two success in the first game in charge for manager Ian Baraclough.
Northern Ireland's Under-21s have never progressed to a European Championship finals and finished last in their previous qualifying group after picking up only two points from 10 matches.
Baraclough's Under-21 side will also face Albania, Iceland, Slovakia and Spain in their group.
Adams Oshiomhole said US officials informed President Muhammadu Buhari of the alleged theft during his visit to Washington last month.
Mr Buhari took office in May, ending the rule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The PDP has repeatedly denied allegations of widespread corruption during its 16-year rule.
Mr Oshiomhole, who accompanied Mr Buhari to Washington, did not name the minister who allegedly stole the money.
During his visit to the US, Mr Buhari said he had asked the US to help recover $150bn "stolen in the past decade and held in foreign bank accounts".
US officials described the theft during the PDP's rule as "earth-quaking", Mr Oshiomhole, the Edo State governor, told journalists in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
The PDP said Mr Buhari's visit to Washington was a failure, in particular for failing to obtain "any sort of tangible gain for the fight against terrorism".
Mr Buhari, a former military ruler, was invited to Washington shortly after becoming the first opposition candidate to win a national election in March.
He succeeded President Goodluck Jonathan.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer, but the majority of its citizens live in poverty. Its oil sector has often been hit by allegations of corruption.
Athletes in 32 disciplines will compete across 12 meetings as they aim to qualify for one of two finals.
Event winners at the finals - which will be held in Zurich and Brussels - will be crowned the overall champion, winning a prize of $50,000 (£39,650).
Previously, it was decided by accumulative points over 14 meets.
The Diamond League, which has meetings in four different continents across the world, has used the same format since it was launched in 2010.
The overall purse for the Diamond League remains at $8m (£6.3m) - the same figure as 2016.
The two finals offer a prize pool of $3.2m (£2.5m), a distribution which governing body the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) says has been "refocused" from last year's pot.
"After seven seasons which have established the IAAF Diamond League as our premier circuit it is important to assess its impact and build for the future," IAAF president and the league's chairman Lord Coe said.
"These decisions are the first step to growing the attractiveness of the series."
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Internet providers will soon be required to record which services their customers' devices connect to - including websites and messaging apps.
The Home Office says it will help combat terrorism, but critics have described it as a "snoopers' charter".
Critics of the law have said hackers could get access to the records.
"It only takes one bad actor to go in there and get the entire database," said James Blessing, chairman of the Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa), which represents BT, Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and others.
"You can try every conceivable thing in the entire world to [protect it] but somebody will still outsmart you.
"Mistakes will happen. It's a question of when. Hopefully it's in tens or maybe a hundred years. But it might be next week."
The Investigatory Powers Bill was approved by the House of Lords on 19 November and is due to become law before the end of 2016.
Now, several virtual private network (VPN) operators have seized on its introduction to promote their offerings.
VPNs digitally scramble a user's internet traffic and send it to one of their own servers before passing it on to a site or app in a form they can make sense of. A similar process happens in reverse, helping mask the person's online activity.
As a result, instead of ISPs having a log of everywhere a customer has visited, the only thing they can provide to the authorities is the fact that a subscriber used a VPN.
"We saw a boom in Australia last year correlated to when its data retention law went into effect," Jodi Myers, a spokeswoman for NordVPN told the BBC.
"And we are already seeing an increase in inquiries from the UK."
Ms Myers said her firm had just begun offering UK-based customers extra security measures - including encrypting their data twice and sending it via two servers - to address any concerns that its standard measures were not sufficient.
"Our biggest advantage is we have a zero log policy," she added.
"Our headquarters are in Panama, which doesn't have data retention laws, so it allows us to do this.
"And even in the worst-case scenario that our servers are confiscated, there would be nothing on them because of the way they are configured."
Another VPN provider said the UK government would find it difficult to prevent the use of such workarounds.
"The legislation specifically mentions connection service providers and not just ISPs, and the assumption is that VPNs based in the UK will have to give up their logs under this law," said Caleb Chen, a spokesman for Private Internet Access.
"But as a US-based company, my legal team has advised me that we would not be under any obligation to do so.
"And even if the government were to try to take it a step further and say no UK citizen could use a VPN that was not compliant with the law, those services would still be available."
He added that the widespread use of VPNs by businesses to provide staff with remote access to their email and other work-related files would also make it difficult to restrict the technology's use.
One of the UK's smaller internet providers, Andrews & Arnold, is looking into other ways to help its users circumvent the law.
"Customers can install a Tor browser, which encrypts traffic to one of thousands of different internet connections throughout the world hiding what they are doing," said managing director Adrian Kennard.
"We are also working with a company called Brass Horn, which is planning to sell Tor-only internet access.
"In addition, we may base some of our own services outside the UK to reduce the amount of information that is logged and recorded. One possible place that we might put equipment is Iceland."
A spokeswoman for the Home Office declined to discuss ways it might tackle such efforts.
"The Investigatory Powers Bill provides law enforcement and the security and intelligence agencies with the powers they need to protect the UK and its citizens from terrorists and serious criminals, subject to strict safeguards and world-leading oversight," she said.
"Terrorists and serious criminals will always seek to avoid detection.
"To ensure they do not succeed, we do not comment publicly on the methods or capabilities available to the security and intelligence agencies."
It might be useful to a few applications, he complained, but graphene will never be revolutionary: the technology is too limited - it is interesting but not a game changer.
We were talking a few months after the Chancellor George Osborne had allocated £50m to graphene research.
The year before, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of Manchester University had won the Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering work on the "miracle material" and the funding was a vote of faith in an exciting new area of research. Another £11m followed just after Christmas.
Graphene is the name given to a novel substance composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, extracted from graphite, with astonishing properties: the stuff is stronger than diamond, more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber.
However amazing, more than £60m is a lot of money to pump into one particular area of science in an age of austerity and researchers in other subjects are always bound to quibble, at the very least.
In the clamour for funding, resentment is not unusual, particularly if the money appears to be aimed at one specific project rather than a whole field of fundamental research which may deliver far more in the long run.
The objection is to what could be called the Concorde syndrome: public money being hosed at a single project, in that case a supersonic passenger plane, admired for its beauty but limited in its possible uses.
But graphene is different and has caught the eye of the British government - and other governments and companies - precisely because its potential benefits reach into an extraordinary range of areas.
Even if it fails to deliver all that is promised for it in, say, electronics, it might still prove incredibly useful in others such as energy or medicine.
In a paper in Nature last year, Professor Novoselov and his colleagues outlined a "road map" for possible applications of graphene, exploring whether it could become "the next disruptive technology, replacing some of the currently used materials and leading to new markets?"
They acknowledge that many of the material's most exciting characteristics are only achieved with the highest-grade graphene and that industrial-scale techniques for making it have yet to be confirmed.
Still, they argue that a long list of applications is plausible.
Flexible electronic screens may emerge soonest, with the most appealing idea being "e-paper". A working prototype is expected by 2015, according to the Nature study, though the costs are still far too high for any marketable product at the moment.
The authors acknowledge that the established role of silicon will mean that graphene, which is not a semi-conductor, might not play a part in processors till after 2021.
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However, they say graphene is so thin that a "paint" could act as a rust protector or an "electronic ink" or be added to advanced composite materials to make them impermeable or conductive or stronger.
It could be used to enhance solar cells and to improve the working life of batteries, though a lot of technological barriers still remain.
As a material highly sensitive to the environment, graphene could act as a sensor with a single device measuring strain, gas, magnetism or pressure.
And its purity and large surface area make it suitable for medical uses too: from aiding drug delivery to building new tissue for regenerative medicine. However, the authors admit that the sheer number of hurdles mean this will not happen before 2030.
They recognize that "established benchmark materials will only be replaced if the properties of graphene, however appealing, can be translated into applications that are sufficiently competitive to justify the cost and disruption of changing…"
In other words, the price and hassle of switching to graphene need to make sense financially.
So, the paper argues, graphene's "full potential will only be realized in novel applications, which are designed specifically with this material in mind…"
What this means is that graphene is something of a gamble: to really make sense, people will have to dream up inventions for it.
The bottom line is that graphene is too good to be ignored and - in some applications - may yet prove to be too good to be true.
But a look at the statistics for patents - a key indicator of commercial intent - reveals how many countries and companies are prepared to throw the graphene dice.
From a standing start with the Manchester work in 2004, there are now more than 7,000 patents on graphene, with the largest number - more than 2000 - held by China. Samsung alone holds more than 400.
Massive investments on this scale can turn sour - plenty of promising technologies do flop.
But the greater the level of finance, energy and sheer brainpower devoted to graphene globally, the greater are the chances of exploiting it successfully.
The miracle material will soak up a lot of money but, taking a long view, it's unlikely that much will be wasted.
Mr Hammond told MPs that no leak had occurred and said there were no safety implications for staff working on the site, or risks to the environment.
But, as a result, HMS Vanguard is to be refuelled with a new nuclear core at a cost of £120m.
The problem was discovered in 2012.
Labour criticised the government for not announcing the information earlier, calling it a matter of "national importance".
Although the news is only being made public now, the Ministry of Defence says the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the defence nuclear inspectorate were kept informed.
Mr Hammond said the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment ran at higher levels of intensity than those on Britain's fleet of nuclear submarines and was designed to pre-empt any similar problems with the reactors on board those vessels.
The defence secretary said: "These low levels of radioactivity are a normal product of a nuclear reaction that takes place within the fuel but they would not normally enter the cooling water.
"This water is contained within the sealed reactor circuit and I can reassure the House there has been no detectable radiation leak from that sealed circuit.
"Indeed, against the International Atomic Energy Agency's measurement scale for nuclear-related events this issue is classed Level 0, described as 'below scale - no safety significance'."
The refuelling of HMS Vanguard - the UK's oldest nuclear submarine - will take place during its next scheduled "deep maintenance period", due to last three and a half years from 2015.
Mr Hammond said: "This is the responsible option: replacing the core on a precautionary basis at the next opportunity, rather than waiting to see if the core needs to be replaced at a later date which would mean returning Vanguard for a period of unscheduled deep maintenance, potentially putting at risk the resilience of our ballistic missile submarine operations."
Mr Hammond said a decision on refuelling the next-oldest submarine, HMS Victorious, would not need to be taken until 2018.
New submarines for the Trident replacement programme, known as the Successor submarines, will not be affected by the problem, he added.
For Labour, shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker said the government should have told the Commons earlier about the fault.
He added: "There must be public confidence in the government to be open and transparent on these matters.
"A fault, however small, that develops in a nuclear reactor is something that the British people and this House should have been told about. This is an issue of national security and national importance." | Naomi Long has become the new leader of the Alliance Party.
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The 35-year-old, who is bidding for a record eighth title at Wimbledon next month, won 6-4 7-6 (7-5) in Halle.
Khachanov missed two set points to take the match into a decider, with Federer hanging on before taking the tie-break.
The Swiss top seed will play 20-year-old German Alexander Zverev, who beat Richard Gasquet, in Sunday's final.
Fourth seed Zverev, who beat Federer in the semi-finals last year before losing to Florian Mayer in the final, won 4-6 6-4 6-3 against France's Gasquet.
Eighteen-time Grand Slam winner Federer lost to 39-year-old Tommy Haas at the Stuttgart Open last week, his first match in two months, but is yet to drop a set as he bids for a ninth title at Halle.
However, he was given a stern test by 21-year-old Khachanov in their first meeting.
While Federer is considered one of the greatest grass-court players of all time, 38th-ranked Khachanov was playing in his first tournament on the surface.
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Federer took an early advantage after the opening three games all produced breaks of serve, going on to seal the first set at the second attempt before Khachanov pushed him in another tight set.
Federer took his opponent's serve for 5-4, leaving the world number five serving for the match, only for Khachanov to break back and level.
After missing his chances to win the set at 6-5, Khachanov fought back from two mini-breaks in the tie-break, but fired long after his own serve on match point.
Federer has already won three titles this season, including the Australian Open - his first Grand Slam success in five years.
Federer also won the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in March and, two weeks later, the Miami Open.
In May, he announced he would be missing the French Open and the rest of the clay-court season to concentrate on the grass and hard-court seasons.
Another success at Wimbledon will put Federer clear of Pete Sampras' joint-record seven men's singles victories in SW19.
Lloyd captained the United States to a 5-2 victory over Japan in July's final, netting three goals in 13 minutes.
The 33-year-old, who plays for Houston Dash in the US National Women's Soccer League, says a future move to the UK is "in the back of my mind".
"I think that league is growing a lot," she said.
"It's the next up-and-coming league. It's doing well and it's cool that it's a part of the Champions League.
"I wouldn't be opposed to it."
Should Lloyd move to the WSL, she would become the second senior United States national team player to do so, following Whitney Engen's move to Liverpool in 2013.
The two-time Olympic gold medallist, who has been capped 204 times by her country, says any potential switch would have to be carefully planned so it does not affect her international availability.
"This next year is Olympic preparation and obviously very busy but there are a couple of down years that we have," she told BBC World Service Sportsworld.
"It makes it extremely hard for our national team coaches to be able to bring us in and out of camps if we're overseas playing for another team, so it's something to maybe touch base with in those off years.
"I know a lot of our players have gone overseas and enjoyed it and I'm sure more will want to do that at some point again.
"Who's to say I won't go over and experience something new, so it's definitely in the back of my mind.
"But I haven't given it too much thought as of yet just because there's a lot going on now."
George Zimmerman, 29, was a vigilante who presumed Trayvon Martin was up to no good, the jury of six women heard.
But a defence lawyer said Mr Zimmerman acted out of self-defence after Trayvon, 17, attacked him in Sanford, an Orlando suburb, in February 2012.
Mr Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
The case drew national attention and has fuelled debate about race and the proliferation of guns in America.
Police waited 44 days to arrest Mr Zimmerman after the incident, in part because the volunteer watchman invoked a law called "stand your ground", which permits the use of deadly force if a person feels in mortal danger.
On Monday, the jury heard profanity-laced quotes from a phone call to police by Mr Zimmerman after he spotted the teenager walking in the gated community, in which the defendant tells an emergency dispatcher: "They always get away."
"George Zimmerman didn't shoot Trayvon Martin because he had to," prosecutor John Guy told the court.
"He shot him for the worst of all reasons: because he wanted to."
But a defence lawyer said Mr Zimmerman had been attacked first. "There are no monsters here," Don West told the jury.
He said that Trayvon used the street pavement like a weapon.
"Trayvon Martin armed himself with the concrete sidewalk and used it to smash George Zimmerman's head... That is a deadly weapon," Mr West said.
But prosecutors said none of Mr Zimmerman's DNA was found on Trayvon's body, nor was Trayvon's DNA found on Mr Zimmerman's gun or holster.
Trayvon's parents attended the first day of the trial but the teenager's mother, Sybrina Fulton, left the room as a recording of an emergency call moments before the fatal shot was played to the court.
The trial at a circuit court in Sanford is expected to focus on events leading up to the death.
Neither prosecutors nor defence lawyers dispute that Mr Zimmerman shot Trayvon in the chest with a 9mm handgun, nor that the teenager died at the scene.
Mr Zimmerman had been sitting in his vehicle observing the dark street when he saw Trayvon, who had his hood up while walking in the rain.
At some point the defendant, who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, got out of his car and followed the teenager. Minutes later, the fatal confrontation ensued.
Mr Zimmerman has told police he lost sight of the teenager and was attacked as he walked back to his car.
But prosecutors say it was the defendant who started the argument.
There have been conflicting reports from witnesses about how the fight unfolded.
The trial is expected to last between two and four weeks, and the sequestered jurors will be constantly supervised by the local sheriff's office.
Sickness levels have remained "fairly stable", but, anxiety and depression have risen since 2012, it added.
Its figures showed more than 700 days were lost to post-traumatic stress.
The force said life outside work was to blame and the figures "did not reflect the overall trend".
Nigel Rabbitts, chair of Devon and Cornwall Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said: "Our concern is that there has been a dramatic rise in some of the stress-related psychological disorders which coincides with the reduction in numbers.
"This needs further investigation and early intervention to protect officers and mitigate the cause and effect."
He said an operational shake-up and compulsory retirement over the past five years could also be behind the rise.
In a Freedom of Information request to Devon and Cornwall Police, it said at the end of March it had 2,851 full-time serving police officers, compared to 3,339 in March 2010.
However, if part-time officers and those seconded out of the force or on a career break were included, it would have 420 fewer officers, rather than almost 500, the force said.
The force has been cutting the number of officers because of spending shortfalls and savings plans.
Despite the fall in officers, the number of reported crimes that have ended in a conviction, caution, penalty notice or restorative justice, has stayed between 34% and 37% since April 2011.
Mr Rabbitts said: "With 500 less officers, the resilience within the system has gone.
"In the end, long-term sickness only builds further pressure on those still on the frontline."
Devon and Cornwall Police said the federation's figures did not include "a number of sub categories so did not truly reflect the overall trend".
Ch Supt Steve Swani said: "Devon and Cornwall Police recognise the demands our officers and staff face.
"Absence through psychological disorders has remained consistent.
"We monitor absence closely and we know from staff feedback and our providers, who deliver counselling support to staff, that the underlying reasons for psychological disorders are principally personal issues relating to relationships and factors outside the workplace.
"The evidence points to work having a positive impact on health and wellbeing.
"Therefore when staff report psychological illness our priority is to support them to remain at work or to return to work as early as possible."
Donegal manager Rory Gallagher has confirmed that the Kilcar man is training on his own and did not confirm any return date for the 2012 All Star.
"At present he is not in the squad," Gallagher told Donegal Sport Hub.
"He is working on his own individual strength and conditioning programme under our supervision," said Gallagher.
McHugh was included as part of Gallagher's squad for the McKenna Cup campaign but did not play against Down on Sunday.
It is not known whether he will play any part in the county's Football League Division One campaign, which begins on Saturday 30 January.
McHugh was part of Donegal's 2012 All-Ireland winning team but opted out of the panel following the 2014 League campaign, heading to America for the summer.
His last game for the county was last summer's All-Ireland quarter-final defeat by Mayo.
Donegal will face St Mary's at Letterkenny on Sunday in their next McKenna Cup game.
They said there is "painfully slow lack of change", five years after abuse at the former private hospital near Bristol was exposed by BBC Panorama.
Some 3,500 vulnerable people with learning disabilities are still resident at inpatient units.
NHS England admits it is still taking too long to review their care.
Undercover filming showed people with learning disabilities and autism being taunted, bullied and abused at the now closed Winterbourne View Hospital.
In an open letter to David Cameron, the families of some of the victims, say that promises to close all other similar units and provide more appropriate support have not been met.
They wrote to express their anger at the "lack of change" since the revelations were made.
It added despite "clear commitments" from the government and the NHS some 3,500 people, including more than 160 children... "are still stuck with places like Winterbourne View"
The letter has been signed by Steve Sollars, Ann Earley, Wendy Fiander and Claire and Emma Garrod, whose family members were all residents at Winterbourne View.
It is supported by Dr Margaret Flynn, the author of the Winterbourne View serious case review, Jan Tregelles, chief executive of Mencap and Vivien Cooper, chief executive of The Challenging Behaviour Foundation.
Ann Earley, whose son Simon Tovey was abused at the hospital, said the first she knew about what happened to Simon, and other residents of Winterbourne View was when she was shown footage of the abuse by Panorama producers.
"I was utterly speechless to see the cruelty, the physical abuse, the mental torture and the systematic nature of it all," she said.
NHS England acknowledged the the progress to date "hasn't been quick enough" and it "sympathised with the frustrations expressed" but a spokeswoman said a "real difference" would be seen over the coming months.
City boss Manuel Pellegrini said earlier he was worried about the prospect of a Sunday game as they play in the Champions League on 24 February.
The BBC and Football Association tried to find a way to screen the game on Saturday but "conflicting fixtures and safety concerns" made it impossible.
Bournemouth's tie with Everton will be shown on Saturday, 20 February (17:15).
BT Sport will show Arsenal against Hull at 12:15 GMT on the Saturday and Blackburn against either West Ham or Liverpool the following day at 14:00 GMT
They will also screen League One Shrewsbury's home match against Manchester United on Monday, 22 February at 19:45 GMT.
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Heavy rain overnight on Friday which continued into Saturday rendered the pitch at Scotstoun unplayable.
The postponement creates something of a fixture headache for Warriors.
They have already had to squeeze their rearranged Champions Cup fixture against Racing 92 into an already packed calendar, and may now need to face Leinster on a midweek date.
"The pitch at Scotstoun Stadium is unplayable due to surface water and there is a concern for both players and supporters safety given the adverse weather conditions," a Warriors statement said.
Several Scottish football fixtures have also fallen victim to the weather.
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Raith Rovers P-P Rangers
St Mirren P-P Queen of the South
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Much of the Glasgow-based firm's operations are in US dollars, and without the weaker pound, the constant currency decline would have been 31%.
Revenue dropped 2% to £1845m, though that was an 11% drop without the help of currency fluctuation.
Weir said the downturn in the oil, gas and commodities markets was the worst it had seen in more than 30 years.
Its report cited the drop in capital spending by mining companies of 50% since 2012.
The number of rigs used for fracking in onshore US oil and gas fields had fallen 80% in only two years.
However, it said commodity prices rose during last year, and trading conditions improved towards the end of 2016.
There were also signs of more activity in US onshore oil and gas towards the end of the year.
The new chief executive of Weir Group, Jon Stanton, said: "Following a challenging and prolonged downturn, the group returned to growth in the fourth quarter of 2016 as our main markets showed signs of improvement and we benefited from our on-going investment in new technology and long-term customer relationships".
The statistics are measured using the Northern Ireland Composite Economic Index (NICEI), which is roughly equivalent to Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
They are the most up-to-date figures for the economy.
The quarterly expansion of 0.4% was in line with UK GDP growth in the same period.
Compared to quarter one in 2015, the economy is estimated to be 0.7% bigger, compared to 2% growth for the UK as a whole.
The NI Statistics and Research Agency, which produces the data, said there is "some evidence that the rate of growth in NI over the last year is slowing".
In quarter one of 2015, the annual growth rate was 1.8% and has fallen in every subsequent quarter including the latest annual rate of 0.7%.
The main driver of growth over the quarter was the services sector - it is the largest part of the private sector and expanded by 0.3% percentage points.
The construction sector also showed growth while the production sector and public sector showed slight falls in output.
Meanwhile, separate official figures suggest a patchy recovery in the construction sector is continuing.
The NI construction bulletin showed the total volume of output in Northern Ireland in the first quarter of 2016 was up by 3.4% over the quarter and up by 2.3% over the year.
The increase was accounted for by a 12.9% rise in repair and maintenance work while there was only a marginal 0.2% increase in new work output.
Across the different sectors infrastructure work was up by 9.6% over the quarter while housing output was down by 1.6%.
The figures only cover work in Northern Ireland and so do not account for the output of Northern Ireland-based firms operating elsewhere in the UK.
Northern Ireland's largest construction firms do the bulk of their work in England and Scotland.
The 25-year-old Samoa international joined Salford on a two-year deal this week after leaving Brisbane Broncos.
Vidot has previously spoken about considering a career in wrestling.
"We'd actually spoke about him and then three weeks later we were told that he was going to be signing for the WWE," Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester.
Salford's director of rugby, Tim Sheens, then looked into it further to see if Vidot was definitely going to be joining the world's biggest wrestling company.
"Tim said he was going to do a little bit more digging and find out how true everything was with that," Watson added.
"Tim's gone back there and said he's hoping to be looking at a contract so that's when we moved forward with our plans."
With Watson and Sheens planning for next season there could be more arrivals at the AJ Bell Stadium ahead of the new season.
"There's a couple at the moment that we're speaking to and in negotiations with but we'll have to see whether they come off," added Watson.
"At the moment we're building a good, solid squad here with people who are going to be competitive and work hard for each other."
Josh, who retired from the Beaufort Hunt earlier this year, was discovered on Saturday trapped in a thicket on a steep bank.
The 17.2-hand (1.7m)-high horse was rescued after sounds were heard coming from the bushes.
He was checked over and was "relatively unscathed", despite a few scratches.
The dark bay gelding's owners called police after he went missing from a field in Sherston, near Malmesbury, fearing he had been stolen.
Despite an intensive search and campaign on social media and in local newspapers Josh was nowhere to be seen.
Hayley Godwin, who had been helping the search, was called on Saturday morning with a possible lead.
She said to her "amazement and utter relief" she saw the old horse trapped in the thicket and unable to find his way out.
Following some "heavy work" by farmers Antony Tuck and Guy Bostock, the area was cleared and Josh was led out to safety.
Owner Lottie Bostock said: "It just goes to show you that not matter how hard and how long you look for there is always a possibility that what you are looking for is potentially right under your nose."
Kick-off was delayed by 15 minutes with added security checks following the Paris attacks a week ago.
Hamburg had two shots on target, Pierre-Michel Lasogga's penalty and Lewis Holtby's close-range finish, with Mats Hummels adding an own goal.
Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored his 15th league goal of the season and had another ruled out.
Match ends, Hamburger SV 3, Borussia Dortmund 1.
Second Half ends, Hamburger SV 3, Borussia Dortmund 1.
Foul by Adnan Januzaj (Borussia Dortmund).
Matthias Ostrzolek (Hamburger SV) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Hamburger SV. René Adler tries a through ball, but Pierre-Michel Lasogga is caught offside.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Lukasz Piszczek tries a through ball, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is caught offside.
Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund) hits the left post with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by René Adler.
Attempt saved. Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Attempt missed. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Cléber.
Goal! Hamburger SV 3, Borussia Dortmund 1. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adnan Januzaj with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Gideon Jung (Hamburger SV) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ivo Ilicevic.
Attempt blocked. Ivo Ilicevic (Hamburger SV) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicolai Müller.
Substitution, Hamburger SV. Marcelo Díaz replaces Lewis Holtby.
Attempt missed. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcel Schmelzer.
Attempt missed. Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by René Adler.
Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Gregoritsch (Hamburger SV).
Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Holtby (Hamburger SV).
Substitution, Hamburger SV. Michael Gregoritsch replaces Gojko Kacar.
Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Holtby (Hamburger SV).
Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolai Müller (Hamburger SV).
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Adnan Januzaj replaces Marco Reus.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Mats Hummels tries a through ball, but Marco Reus is caught offside.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cléber (Hamburger SV).
Attempt missed. Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lukasz Piszczek.
Foul by Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund).
Ivo Ilicevic (Hamburger SV) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Instead the Welsh government will change its Public Health Bill so they will only be banned in schools, eating places and on public transport.
In a debate in the Senedd, Mark Drakeford told AMs his personal view had not changed.
But he said he recognised his responsibility as minister to find an agreement.
He said he would bring forward amendments to define more precisely enclosed spaces where e-cigarettes would be prohibited.
He told AMs: "I'm not prepared to do nothing in the hope that harm might not occur".
Previously the Welsh government said it wanted to restrict the use of e-cigarettes in exactly the same way as tobacco.
It was concerned their use may "normalise" smoking for children and young people while ministers feared they may act as a "gateway" into smoking tobacco.
The ban, intended to come into force in 2017, would have been a first in the UK.
Ministers pointed to concerns by the World Health Organisation and steps taken in 40 other countries to regulate e-cigarettes, but it divided opinion among health and medical groups.
Some anti-smoking groups including Ash Wales, Cancer Research UK and Tenovus opposed restrictions, saying they helped smokers kick the habit.
A major review by Public Health England found e-cigarettes were 95% less harmful than tobacco and could be prescribed on the NHS in future to help smokers quit.
Before Tuesday's debate, experts from universities and the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training wrote to AMs claiming there was no evidence to justify the legislation.
They claimed it would discourage smokers to switch from smoking to e-cigarettes.
Public Health Wales, local health boards and the BMA supported the curbs while opposition politicians called it a "huge step backwards".
The proposals also divided the group of AMs which looked in detail at the proposal.
The five Labour members supported curbs on e-cigarettes but they were opposed by four opposition AMs.
Less stringent restrictions on e-cigarettes than those on tobacco were suggested and that appears now to have been accepted by the health minister.
ANALYSIS by Owain Clarke, BBC Wales health correspondent
The decision this afternoon can be interpreted in two ways.
Some critics will view it an embarrassing climb down - and ask why did the health minister press ahead with the proposed ban in the face of significant opposition and unclear evidence.
Supporters of the Welsh government will say he has acted responsibly, listened to the debate and acted accordingly - an example perhaps of democracy in action.
The watering down of the proposed e-cigarette ban in public places does raise some questions about what exactly the Welsh government's flagship Public Health Bill will now ultimately achieve.
Previously, a plan to introduce a minimum price for alcohol from the bill was taken out and introduced as separate legislation over fears of legal challenges.
Perhaps the decision today reflects the health minister's fears that without a majority a political row about the scope of e-cigs ban could scupper the entire legislation.
This whole debate also raises another question about the role of government and the timing of the bill.
In seeking to restrict the use of e-cigarettes, were ministers acting responsibly to protect the public, just in case they were found to act as a gateway to tobacco?
Or was the Welsh government here being premature, too willing without evidence to interfere in people's lives?
Screening picks up diseases early to improve the odds of survival or improve quality of life.
But the practice also leads to "overdiagnosis" and people having treatment for conditions which would never have caused harm.
The Science and Technology Committee accused the NHS of "poor communication" on the issue.
Breast-cancer screening became hugely controversial in 2012. An independent review was set up to settle a fierce debate about whether the measure did more harm than good.
It showed that for every life saved, three women had treatment for a cancer that would never have proved fatal.
As a result the leaflets given to women offered a mammogram included more information to give them an "informed choice".
However, the Science and Technology Committee argues the lessons have not been learned by those overseeing other screening programmes.
Andrew Miller, the committee chairman, said: "While screening can increase the likelihood of curing, preventing or delaying the progression of disease for some patients, for others it may lead to false results, misdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment.
"More needs to be done to ensure that both the benefits and risks are clearly, and even-handedly, communicated so that people can make an informed choice about whether screening is right for them."
Conditions screened for include:
There are also newborn screening programmes, including hearing checks, as well as Down's syndrome and foetal anomaly screens during pregnancy.
Mr Miller continued: "Producing accurate, concise and accessible public information on screening will always be challenging, but the UK National Screening Committee must ensure there is standard process across the NHS for achieving this and facilitating informed choice."
There are hopes that screening could be extended to other diseases such as ovarian cancer and eventually prostate cancer.
However, the committee said the barriers to new screening programmes "should remain high" due to the delicate balance of risk and benefits.
Prof Kevin Fenton,, director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England, which oversees the NHS screening programmes. said: "We welcome the findings of the Science and Technology Committee's report, which has identified a number of recommendations.
"We will now consider these recommendations in full."
The British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said: "Many GPs will share the Science and Technology Committee's concerns about health screening. As the BMA has repeatedly warned, it is vitally important that people being invited for screening fully understand the pros and cons of the procedure.
"Patients must also be aware that there is a risk that false positive results could lead to unnecessary and potentially harmful further investigations."
Cancer Research UK was involved in the independent review of breast-cancer screening.
Jessica Kirby, from the charity, said: "It's vitally important that all screening programmes are based on the best possible evidence so people can be confident that screening is only offered where the benefits outweigh the harms.
"The report highlights the importance of ensuring people get the best possible information so they can make the decisions that are right for them."
Officers said the incident involved two bare-chested men in the city's Tullideph Road at about 02:45 on Friday.
A 23-year-old man required treatment in hospital as a result of the assault.
The taxi driver, who was driving a blue wheelchair-accessible vehicle, alerted officers to the assault after stopping them in Blyth Place.
The bulk of those involved against the Chiefs will not feature in the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday.
However, Lions head coach Warren Gatland insists there is still an opportunity for individuals to force their way into the reckoning.
And although the focus is on the All Blacks this weekend, a win in Hamilton would give the squad a significant lift before the main event.
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As expected, all six of the controversial call-ups are among the replacements as Gatland looks to protect as many of the Test 23 as possible.
Elliot Daly and Liam Williams both start in the backline as they bid to sneak into the Test plans, with Daly well placed.
Tour captain Sam Warburton isn't involved - which points to him facing the All Blacks - while Jonathan Joseph is another name conspicuous by its absence.
The Chiefs will be led by former Bath fly-half Stephen Donald - a World Cup winner with New Zealand in 2011. The news of Donald's recent engagement was broken by Lions boss Gatland in his pre-match news conference.
Chiefs flanker Liam Messam gave his reaction to his team-mate's news: "It's about time he grew up."
Unlike the Saturday side, the Lions midweek team has flattered to deceive so far, beaten by the Blues and the Highlanders, and plenty of players on show in Hamilton will be desperate to do themselves justice for the first time on tour.
With the Test series looming, both Gatland and the players insist the group is not about to split in half and a victory on Tuesday would go a long way to ensuring this remains the case.
The Chiefs won the Super Rugby title in 2012 and 2013 - and are coached by the highly rated Glasgow-bound Dave Rennie - but are heavily denuded by All Blacks and Maori selection.
It's time for the Lions midweek team to deliver.
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Lions head coach Warren Gatland: "Those involved on Tuesday will be playing not only for themselves in terms of further selection but also for the whole squad."
"We're reasonably aligned." Chiefs boss Dave Rennie has beendiscussing team selection with a 10-year-old supporter, Sam.
"It's about time he grew up," said Chiefs flanker Liam Messam reacting to team-mate Stephen Donald's engagement.
"Rather than disparage, let's embrace this battle of wills and contrast in styles. Roll on Eden Park." Kiwi broadcaster Tony Johnson on Sky's Rugby Nation relishing the upcoming Test series.
"I suppose I've created an atmosphere where I'm a friend first and a boss second. Probably an entertainer third." Lions flanker @jameshask channels his inner David Brent.
Lions: L Williams (Wales); J Nowell (England), J Payne (Ireland), R Henshaw (Ireland), E Daly (England); D Biggar (Wales), G Laidlaw (Scotland); J Marler (England), R Best (Ireland), D Cole (England), I Henderson (Ireland), C Lawes (England), J Haskell (England), J Tipuric (Wales), C Stander (Ireland).
Replacements:
K Dacey (Wales), A Dell (Scotland), T Francis (Wales), C Hill (Wales), AW Jones (Wales), G Davies (Wales), F Russell (Scotland), T Seymour (Scotland).
Chiefs: S Stevenson; T Pulu, T Nanai-Williams, J Fa'auli, S Alaimalo; S Donald (capt), F Christie, S Fisiihoi, L Polwart, N Laulala, D Bird, M Allardice, M Brown, L Boshier, T Sanders.
Replacements: H Elliot, A Ross, A Moli, L Messam, M Karpik, J Taumateine, L Laulala, C Tiatia.
Mohamed Abdeslam was speaking to French BFMTV after meeting Salah in his Belgian prison cell where he is awaiting extradition to France.
"There would have been more victims had I done it," Salah told him. "Luckily, I couldn't go through with it."
The gun and bomb attacks on a concert hall, a stadium, restaurants and bars on 13 November 2015 killed 130 people.
Abdeslam, 26, was arrested last month in Brussels four days before bomb attacks in Brussels killed 32 people.
Police believe the same militant network was behind attacks in both cities.
The French national, born in Belgium, had apparently been hiding in the Belgian capital for more than four months.
After his arrest, Abdeslam was initially questioned over his alleged role in the Paris attacks.
But after the suicide bombings in the Belgian capital, he chose to exercise his right to silence.
After meeting him in the Bruges prison, Mohamed Abdeslam said his brother had told him he wanted to co-operate with French authorities because he "is accountable to the French, but not to the Belgians" - a reference to the Belgian attacks.
However, Belgian authorities say Abdeslam has links to at least two of the Brussels bombers.
His fingerprints were found in a flat rented by Khalid el-Bakraoui, who blew himself up on the Brussels metro station on 22 March.
Investigators say Najim Laachraoui, named as one of the two Brussels airport bombers, was stopped by police in a car with Abdeslam on the Hungarian border with Austria in September.
Both the Paris and Brussels attacks have been claimed by so-called Islamic State.
Up to 320 tickets have been issued to drivers who parked in a loading bay in Burrows Place near Swansea museum since September.
Swansea councillor Sybil Crouch challenged the legality of the sign after receiving a £70 fine.
The council apologised and said all penalty notices would be paid back.
Ms Crouch, who represents the Castle ward, complained about the penalty charge after not seeing any of the "usual" warning signs at the site.
She said: "Having robustly challenged the adequacy of the sign, the council has finally conceded that it is not correct and they have ceased enforcing in this location until it is changed.
"I have also asked that all 320 recipients of a notice for this area be refunded as the sign has never been valid.
"Motorists are confused and misled into believing this is available for parking - evidenced by the fact that a staggering 320 tickets have been issued over a nine-month period in what is a very small area."
Swansea council said it would write to motorists to arrange reimbursement.
The incident happened in Malcolmson Park at about 16:45 GMT on Thursday.
The boy has been taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast for treatment.
DUP Upper Bann MLA Carla Lockhart said: "My thoughts in the first instance are with the child, his parents and the driver of the car involved."
She said local residents were in shock.
"My prayer is that the child will make a speedy recovery," Ms Lockhart added.
"I want to commend our emergency services once again who were on site quickly and who treated the child."
Malcolmson Park was closed to traffic for several hours on Thursday night but has now reopened.
The Labour candidate retained his seat with a total of 306,578 votes. The turnout was 30.03%.
The count at Birmingham's International Convention Centre went to a second round, with Mr Jamieson and Conservative Les Jones going head to head. Mr Jones got 176,922 votes.
Mr Jamieson, a former Labour transport minister, was first elected in 2014, after the death of the previous PCC.
That election, in which he also beat Mr Jones, followed the sudden death of Labour's Bob Jones, who had been in the post since it was created in 2012.
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It has dropped long and short-term sovereign credit ratings to CCC+/C from B-/B and says its outlook is negative.
Markets use sovereign ratings to work out the interest rate at which investors should lend to a country.
Official figures on Wednesday also showed Greece's deficit last year was higher than government forecasts.
The budget deficit - the difference between its revenue and spending - was 3.5% of GDP, compared with the prediction of 0.8%. The worsening finances of the government could see Greece's creditors pushing for further austerity, experts said.
Meanwhile, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned that an agreement between Athens and its creditors was unlikely to happen any time soon.
"Until now, we don't have a solution, and I don't expect to get a solution in the next week," he said. Greece is meeting with its creditors in the Latvian capital, Riga, on 24 April.
The Syriza government is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its eurozone partners in an attempt to lessen the burden of its debt repayments. A €750m ($800m; £540m) payment is due on 12 May, but the government will struggle to make it.
Athens faces a "choice between paying the IMF or paying the wages and pensions of its employees", Raoul Ruparel, head of economic research at Open Europe, told the BBC.
"For a radical left-wing government such as Syriza, that is a very poisonous choice."
S&P said the Greek economy had shrunk by 1% in six months, despite the twin benefits of a lower oil price and a weak euro.
"Greece's solvency hinges increasingly on favourable business, financial, and economic conditions... In our view, these conditions have worsened.
"Without deep economic reform or further relief, we expect Greece's debt and other financial commitments will be unsustainable."
It added that government finances, which appeared to be improving slightly last year, had now been dented by weaker economic activity and rising arrears on taxes.
Since the end of November 2014, Greek banks have lost about 14% of their deposit base to customer withdrawals and deposit outflows have continued.
The conditions have been made worse by the uncertainty over the negotiations between Athens and its main creditors - the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank.
S&P said that economic prospects could deteriorate further unless Greece reached a deal over the next €7.2bn tranche of its bailout loan.
But time is running out. The ratings agency said: "If the stalemate between Greece and its official lenders is not resolved before the middle of May, then there might not be enough time for the Greek parliament to enact whatever conditions are attached to a revised lending program."
It will cost $299.99 in the US, £279.99 in the UK and 29,980 yen ($260) in Japan, more than some analysts and gamers had been expecting.
The stakes are high for the Japanese firm after its most recent console, the Wii U, failed to replicate the success of the original Wii.
Nintendo shares dipped as details of the launch trickled out.
Nintendo revealed in October last year that the games machine would be a handheld device that doubles as a home console.
Previously code-named NX, the Switch looks like a tablet computer with Joy-Con controllers that attach to its sides.
The screen is touch-sensitive and the controllers can detect movement, like the Wii Remote.
$299.99
US price tag
¥29,980 Japan launch price
2.5 to 6.5 hours battery life
80+ games in development
When used at home, the tablet component slots into a dock that connects to a TV set.
Games will be delivered on small cartridges, a nod to older Nintendo consoles.
The firm said that about 80 games were in development, including a new Mario game called Super Mario Odyssey, out late in 2017.
One of the new titles unveiled was Arms, a motion-controlled boxing game, due to be released this spring.
Initially, there was some negative reaction online to the pricing of the console's accessories.
A Pro Controller, in the style of a traditional console controller, costs $69.99 (£57.50), additional Joy-Con controllers are $79.99 and a spare dock to use the Switch with another TV or monitor is $89.99.
"These are bad, bad price points," wrote video game writer Pat Contri on Twitter.
The pricing was described as a "bad, bad joke" by video game news site Polygon.
But some reactions were more positive.
"Fair play Nintendo, this looks wonderful," wrote one fan on Twitter.
Other details announced on Friday included:
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Some analysts believe the device could be Nintendo's "last shot" at selling a home console, after the Wii U proved a flop.
It was rapidly outsold by Sony's PS4 and Microsoft's Xbox One, although Nintendo has enjoyed success with its handheld 3DS device.
"The Switch release is a watershed moment for Nintendo as it puts into practice a strategy to defend its traditional console business by also appealing to those gamers that routinely use tablets and smartphones for gaming," said Piers Harding-Rolls, gaming analyst at IHS Technology.
He added that the price of the main console was "as predicted".
"This is not an impulse purchase or as cheap as other recent Nintendo consoles and at this price point Nintendo will be competing with existing consoles and tablets.
"As a result, communicating the unique aspects of the Switch - particularly the capabilities of the Joy-Con controllers - and its exclusive content through marketing spend will be key."
Mr Harding-Rolls added that he thought the decision to launch a paid online service "makes complete strategic sense" and brings it into line with rivals Microsoft and Sony.
By releasing something that allowed gamers to play Nintendo titles both at home and on the move, the firm could find a "very lucrative middle ground", said Ovum analyst Paul Jackson.
"Pure console gamers are likely to be disappointed here as it will probably be a powerful mobile device (battery allowing) but a comparatively weedy dedicated home one."
ECB president Mario Draghi said the bank had offered more help through Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) following a request from the Bank of Greece.
Mr Draghi said the ECB's total exposure to Greece was now €130bn.
Speaking at an ECB press conference in Frankfurt, he said that debt relief for Greece was "necessary".
"It's uncontroversial that debt relief is necessary and I think that nobody has ever disputed that," Mr Draghi said.
"The issue is what is the best form of debt relief within our framework, within our legal institutional framework. I think we should focus on this point in the coming weeks."
Mr Draghi said the ECB continued to act on the assumption that Greece was and would be a member of the euro area.
Mr Draghi said the ECB was in a position to extend help under ELA after eurozone ministers agreed "bridge" financing for Greece to keep its finances afloat, and after Greek MPs passed reforms as part of the bailout deal.
He expressed confidence that Greece would repay its €3.5bn (£2.4bn) debt to the ECB when it comes due on 20 July.
Mr Draghi's comments came after the ECB held eurozone interest rates at their historic low of 0.05%.
The ECB also maintained its bond-buying programme at €60bn a month.
The massive bond-buying programme was launched in March to prevent the eurozone falling into deflation. It also aimed to weaken the euro to boost exports and encourage consumer spending.
The recommendation was made by consultants conducting surveys for the Greater London Authority (GLA), which takes responsibility for the monuments.
It concluded that tourists had damaged the 144-year-old lions and this damage would worsen without intervention.
English Heritage is against a ban and said it would prove "deeply unpopular".
The report said inspections had found the bronze sculptures were in good condition, but it stated: "The lions have suffered severely as a result of the public climbing on and off."
It said cracks had been found in the tail of one lion and all four sculptures had "deep scratches running down their backs".
Inspections also found they were rusting badly and warned parts of the sculptures could fall off, although this was unlikely.
"The state of current damage, (incurred over many years) is permanent and will inevitably worsen without intervention," the report said.
The report said the GLA could continue to allow visitors to climb on the lions but with "near certainty" of future damage, partially restrict access allowing visitors to climb on the bases, or totally restrict access by putting up signs and creating boundaries around the lions.
Both a partial and total ban would be enforceable by heritage wardens and supported by police, the report said.
English Heritage said part of the value of the lions was their accessibility and the "spontaneous response" of the public who climb and pose on them.
Wear and tear could be regarded as evidence of the way in which the lions were used by the public, it said.
A spokeswoman said: "Restricting access to the lions would be difficult to achieve and maintain, costly and deeply unpopular.
"We recommend the monitoring and management of the lions continues."
A spokeswoman for the Mayor's office, which is responsible for the management of Trafalgar Square, said the report was part of the development of a 10-year plan to conserve the area.
The assessment will not be complete until later in the summer and any ban would be subject to a consultation and a change in local laws, the spokeswoman said.
Any consultation would include English Heritage, Westminster Council, police and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
At least eight people are suspected of having sent two tonnes of the drug, mixed with insulating oil inside large transformers, to Mexico.
A Mexican chemist and several Argentine police officers are among the arrested, Argentine Security Minister Sergio Berni told reporters.
It was the second seizure of liquid cocaine in Argentina this year.
Police suspect this type of trafficking is on the rise, the Argentine media reported.
In February, liquid cocaine was found hidden in a tanker lorry.
The transformers made it through customs controls in Argentina and in Mexico, Mr Berni said.
But on closer inspection, a team of Argentine investigators who had been on the gang's trail since 2012 found the drugs.
The shipment, seized in the Yucatan Peninsula two weeks ago, had a reported street value of $40m (£24m).
From Mexico, the drugs would allegedly be smuggled into the US and Europe.
The authorities also seized computers, weapons and cash, Mr Berni told a news conference in Buenos Aires.
"The important thing is to investigate, to not be afraid, to show courage like this judge did," Mr Berni praised the investigating judge in charge of the case, Sandra Arroyo Salgado.
On 22 April, a Mexican chemist was arrested in the Buenos Aires district of Belgrano after a shootout with the police.
Mr Berni said Cesar Cornejo travelled to Argentina after his partners – most of them serving and former policemen – procured enough cocaine in other South American countries.
The drug was then mixed with insulating oil and hidden in transformers.
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The flyweight, 34, said she was determined to change people's perception of her sport.
Adams told BBC Sport she had already changed promoter Frank Warren's mind.
"He said seeing me compete in the Games, he wanted to sign me as a professional," she said. "Hopefully I can change more people's minds."
Adams was interviewed on ITV's Good Morning Britain on Wednesday.
Beforehand, presenter Piers Morgan tweeted he did not like watching women punch each other.
Speaking to the BBC later, Adams said: "I don't mind if you don't watch it. I don't mind if you don't like it, just as long as you don't stop the women and girls who want to compete in boxing from achieving their goals and their dreams and becoming Olympic champions like me.
"I've grown up alongside this my whole life during my career in boxing but it's sometimes nice to be able to change someone's perception about women's boxing."
Adams is aiming to secure a world title fight in 2018 after making her professional debut in Manchester on 8 April.
Migrants attempting to reach Britain told the BBC they would keep trying to enter the Channel Tunnel, despite one man dying there on Tuesday night.
Operation Stack is due to continue into the weekend with some 3,600 lorries queuing on the M20. Severe delays are also affecting travellers.
The home secretary said new fencing was urgently being installed in Calais.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the extra security officers would be temporarily based in Calais and would help to secure the border and the Eurotunnel site.
The UK has said it will contribute an additional £7m (10m euros) to secure the Channel Tunnel, on top of £10m (15m euros) it pledged in September.
The BBC's Gavin Lee said migrants in Calais had told him they were aiming to get though a number of holes in security fences.
By going in groups of up to 400 they thought they had a better chance of getting into the tunnel, he said.
They also intended to keep using the same tactics, he added.
The man who died on Tuesday has been described as Sudanese and aged between 25 and 30.
He is the ninth person to die trying to access the tunnel since June.
French police said he was probably crushed by a lorry which was exiting one of the shuttles that transport vehicles through the tunnel.
Home Secretary Theresa May said some migrants had reached Britain through the Channel Tunnel, but did not say how many had arrived.
Speaking after a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee, she said: "Crucially what we are looking at now is improving security at the railhead at Coquelles, so we can ensure people are not trying to come through the tunnel.
"That means some urgent work in government but also with Eurotunnel, and Eurotunnel has a role to play here in the measures they themselves put in place to protect their trains."
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Labour MP Keith Vaz, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, said he believed sending extra police would not solve the problem in Calais and called on France and Britain to work together to return migrants to their countries of origin where appropriate.
Mr Vaz said: "I went to Kent yesterday and I saw 148 of them who had made the journey and who were delighted because they had been successful in coming here, having evaded all this security, they actually managed to come here."
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees' representative in France, Philippe Leclerc, said most of the migrants in Calais were fleeing violence in countries like Syria, Eritrea, Somalia and Afghanistan.
He said they were among an estimated 200,000 who have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece in recent months.
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She has witnessed the horror of the Syrian civil war. Her family, like many others, lost their house after suffering fierce bombings by the government security forces.
She wishes she could go to school (in a basement) every day, but sometimes the risk of shelling or barrel bombs makes it almost impossible.
Her story is part of a series of six short films for the BBC 100 Women season called 'Good Girl', in which young women around the world talk about the pressure to fit in with society's expectations.
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The American accepted an honorary doctorate in civil law from Newcastle University on 13 November 1967.
Tyneside's Freedom City 2017 will see outdoor events, exhibitions and public art mark that occasion.
His Newcastle speech was the last he made outside the United States before his assassination in 1968.
King had recently been released from prison when he visited Tyneside for 24 hours.
Footage of the ceremony lay forgotten in the university's archives for more than 40 years.
The launch of the programme of events, running in Newcastle and Gateshead throughout 2017, coincides with Martin Luther King Jr Day, which is held on the third Monday of January in the US.
Professor Richard Davies, pro-vice-chancellor for engagement and internationalism at Newcastle University, said: "Awarding an honorary degree was the highest honour the university could bestow and came at a time when Dr King was an increasingly controversial figure.
"Indeed, Newcastle was the only UK university to honour Dr King in this way during his lifetime and it remains one of the most important moments in our history."
A bronze sculpture will be unveiled at the university in November.
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art will host a civil rights-themed exhibition, while Great North Museum: Hancock will tell the story of King's visit.
A series of drama, dance and art performances will focus on people who have campaigned for political and social change.
In programme notes being released before the U's match on Saturday, Dave Doggett said problems had occurred since promotion to the Football League.
He said the club had identified 10 troublemakers, some aged in their 50s and 60s, and was working with police.
Cambridgeshire Police said it had seen a rise in football-related violence.
The concerns were raised as the club launches its campaign under the national Kick it Out umbrella to stop violence and antisocial behaviour.
Recent fights include a man suffering serious head injuries outside a pub in Southend.
In the match-day programme to be released at the home tie with Accrington Stanley, Mr Doggett says: "Unfortunately football clubs still attract an undesirable element of society that appear determined to ruin the enjoyment of real supporters of football clubs.
"Our promotion to the Football League appears to have encouraged our 'risk' from the 1980s to come out of retirement.
"Many of them are grandparents trying to encourage the next generation to join their 'gangs'.
"It sounds pathetic but unfortunately it is reality. We are working closely with police."
He said problems had mostly occurred at pubs and not at the Abbey Stadium, which he stressed was still safe for families.
Many fans who caused problems in the 1980s are still banned from Cambridge's ground and others internationally.
Insp Steve Kerridge said disorder had risen among a small minority of people, adding events such as that in Southend were "sickening".
"The club is working hard with us to ensure that those who use football as a vehicle for violence and disorder have no place in the terraces or association with Cambridge United," he said.
A new website is urging firms to adapt their equipment and train their staff in preparation for the arrival of the new coin in March 2017.
All machines accepting cash, whether it's in exchange for a rail ticket or a chocolate bar, will have to be updated.
But for a six-month transitional period businesses will need to find ways to accept both the old and new coins.
After that the existing round pound coin will be phased out.
The website, hosted by the Royal Mint, suggests that businesses should check before March whether any of their cash handling equipment needs updating, and make sure machines that take payment in coins can handle both the old and the new versions.
They should also consider training their staff "on the features of the new £1 coin", it says.
The new coin is being introduced because approximately one in 30 pound coins currently in circulation is a fake, according to the Royal Mint and the new coins are designed to be harder to counterfeit.
"The new £1 coin will be the most secure of its kind in the world and its cutting-edge features will present a significant barrier to counterfeiters, reducing the cost to businesses and the taxpayer," said David Gauke, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
During the "co-circulation" period the website suggests firms should accept both coins and keep customers informed which coins their equipment can accept. Businesses may need to agree with their bank or cash in transit (CIT) provider how to return the current £1 coin and new £1 coin.
After Autumn 2017 businesses should no longer accept the existing round coin from customers and should no longer distribute it themselves. However it will still be possible to deposit the old coins at most High Street banks and the Post Office.
Southern Health Trust board members are being briefed on Thursday about the latest moves to save the service.
Last week, the trust told staff overnight closure may be unavoidable due to staff shortages.
The trust says the emergency service is vulnerable at night due to a shortage of permanent senior medical staff.
In a statement, the trust said contingency plans will be outlined to ensure patients can continue to access safe, high-quality care in the unfortunate event that medical cover cannot be secure for more than one night.
The BBC understands that while there should be around 10 senior permanent doctors employed - at the moment the trust has just two permanent senior medics.
One of these is part-time and the remaining shifts are being filled by locums.
The trust says attempts to recruit have been unsuccessful, and it is now asking the Southern Trust Board to approve preparations in Craigavon Area Hospital to accommodate an additional flow of patients should the Daisy Hill service be suspended at night.
The move by the trust would suggest it is not if, but when the overnight service will close. Total closure would require public consultation.
Staffing the emergency department and meeting European safety regulations has been a challenge for several of Northern Ireland's health trusts, but particularly the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.
What has happened is partly down to the fact that the reform of healthcare services in Northern Ireland has yet to happen.
Under the Transforming Your Care health review and last year's Bengoa report, reform was suggested not as a choice but as a necessity.
Last year, more than 53,000 people attended Daisy Hill Hospital's emergency department.
It is Signature Living's second purchase in recent weeks, after buying Crumlin Road Courthouse last month.
The listed building, which has been sold by the Ballymena-based Hill family, already has planning permission for hotel use.
Signature has plans for up to five Belfast hotels over the next two years, including a George Best-themed hotel.
The Scottish Mutual building, in Bedford Street in the city centre, will not be the Best hotel.
Signature owns four hotels in Liverpool, including one themed around footballer Bill Shankly, best known for his time as manager of Liverpool FC.
Belfast is undergoing a hotel-building boom with six under construction and planning granted for a further 13 projects.
Signature's owner Lawrence Kenwright said: "The building is currently in a state of disrepair and we will be focusing on sympathetically restoring this stunning, Scottish baronial-style landmark building back to its former glory and architectural beauty.
"By committing £15m to the project, we see this as an investment in Belfast and Northern Ireland's flourishing tourism industry."
Boys as young as 10 died at Oaks Colliery following two explosions between 12 and 13 December 1866.
Many of the bodies were never recovered in what is thought to be England's worst mining disaster.
The £125,000 statue was made by local sculptor Graham Ibbeson, who lost a relative in the blast.
"I'm the son of a Barnsley miner. My mining heritage goes back 200 years," he said.
"I'm 65 and I feel as if this was a sculpture I was born to make."
The explosion, thought to have been caused by flammable gases, buried the miners in the workings. A second explosion killed 27 rescuers the following day.
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It says this "global threat" contributed to 351,000 deaths in 2010.
Unsafe foods, for example undercooked meat, can cause 200 problems - from diarrhoea to cancer.
But changes in food production mean there are more opportunities for meals to harbour harmful bugs or chemicals, experts say.
Unsafe foodstuffs can contain many types of harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemicals.
Examples include undercooked meat, fruits and vegetables contaminated with faeces and shellfish containing marine toxins.
But the WHO says investigating these outbreaks has become increasingly challenging as single plates of food often have ingredients from many countries.
In its first WHO report on this issue, its director-general Dr Margaret Chan warns: "A local food problem can quickly turn into an international emergency.
"Food production has been industrialised, and its trade and distribution have been globalised.
"These changes introduce multiple opportunities for food to become contaminated with harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemicals."
The analysis, which pulls together scientific literature from across the globe, shows:
Experts say illnesses caused by food also carry major economic risks.
They estimate the E. coli outbreak in Germany in 2011 cost about US$1.3bn (£876m) in losses for farmers and industries.
WHO leaders are calling on governments to urgently strengthen food safety systems.
On April 7, the WHO launches its food safety campaign, From Farm to Plate.
It aims to prompt the public and governments to consider where individual ingredients in meals come from and question whether these are properly and safely handled at every stage.
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Marcus Dove says he is inspired by Picasso's idea that "acts of art start with acts of destruction".
"Then I was talking to my grandfather about the war, and I've seen some Bond movies, and the idea came to me - use pyrotechnics to make art," he said.
With help from engineers he created the launcher but also uses flares, blowtorches and black powder tape.
He admitted the process had involved a lot of trial and error.
"The first time I did not ask anybody," he said.
"I was in a car park testing it out and some security came round.
"I thought they were going to tell me and off and say 'you can't be doing this' - but they offered to block off the whole top level for me."
Earlier this year, Mr Dove, who is a recent graduate of Leicester's De Montfort University, created an artwork for Baroness Lawrence to mark her appointment as the university's chancellor.
Yvonne Talbott's scooter crashed with a BMW X5 on the Roanne Ringway in Nuneaton last Sunday. She died the following day.
Her family said: "It will be impossible to fill the void that is left.
"She was dearly loved by the further four generations of her family that she leaves behind."
Anyone who witnessed the crash or who saw either vehicle beforehand is urged to contact Warwickshire Police on 101.
Although the region is home to an estimated 16,000 tree species, researchers found that just 182 species dominated the carbon storage process.
Amazonia is vital to the Earth's carbon cycle, storing more of the element than any other terrestrial ecosystem.
The findings appear in the journal Nature Communications.
"Considering that the Amazon is massively important for the global carbon cycle and stores so much of the planet's biomass, finding out just how that carbon is stored and produced is very important if we want to understand what might happen in the future in different environmental conditions," explained co-author Sophie Fauset from the University of Leeds, UK.
The tropical forest covers an estimated 5.3 million sq km and holds 17% of the global terrestrial vegetation carbon stock.
The findings build on a study published in Science in October 2013 that found that despite being home to an estimated 390 billion trees - made up by 16,000 species - just 227 "hyperdominant" species accounted for half of Amazonia's total trees.
Dr Fauset observed: "If you then take abundance into account and then analyse the data again, then maximum size is very important as well. Trees that are able to reach a large size contribute more to the carbon cycle."
As trees grow larger, they develop more biomass, which contains carbon. So the larger the tree, the greater quantity of carbon locked within its wood. As trees are long-lived organisms, this means the carbon is removed from the atmosphere for decades, if not centuries.
However, Dr Fauset cautioned against the idea of focusing attention on the 182 species and embarking on a vast planting programme to lock more carbon away from the atmosphere, where it contributes to global warming.
"While we have shown that there are a small number of species having a disproportionate influence on the carbon cycle, that is only what we have been able to measure right now," she told BBC News.
"Given the amount of changes that are occurring in tropical regions, such as with the climate and with land-use changes, in the future there might be different species that become more important."
A good example is the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa), which can reach heights in excess of 48m (160ft). It is known to thrive best in dense, undisturbed rainforests.
A study in 2010 examining the natural dispersal of Brazil nuts suggested their intensive harvesting could threaten future regeneration of the trees.
Researchers found that large rodents - such as agoutis - quickly ate the nuts, rather than caching them, when supplies were scarce. When supplies were plentiful, almost twice as many nuts were buried, increasing the chance of successful germination.
This means that the species may not play such a dominant role in the carbon cycle in the future.
"Therefore, it is important that you maintain a bio-diverse forest that has a wide range of species with a wide range of life histories and strategies that will be able to deal differently with changes to the environmental conditions, " Dr Faucet added.
"In the future, it might be different species that are more important for the carbon cycle than what we have measured right now."
In a previous study, Dr Faucet and a team of fellow scientists found that the carbon storage capacity of protected forests in West Africa had increased despite the region suffering a 40-year drought.
The team suggested the increase in the forests' carbon-storing biomass was the result of a shift in species composition.
As the drought period stretched over decades, it allowed the species that could survive under those conditions to be favoured.
Unaccounted emissions
The complexity of the global carbon cycle was highlighted in a separate study, also published on Tuesday.
Researchers suggested that global carbon emissions from forests could have been underestimated because calculations have not fully accounted for the dead wood from logging.
A study carried out in Borneo, published in Environmental Research Letters, found that dead wood could account for up to 64% of biomass. In untouched forests, dead wood made up less than 20% of the above-ground biomass.
Lead author Dr Marion Pfeifer, from Imperial College London, observed: "I was surprised by how much of the biomass dead wood accounted for in badly logged forests.
"That such logged forests are not properly accounted for in carbon calculations is a significant factor.
"It means that a large proportion of forests worldwide are less of a sink and more of a source, especially immediately following logging, as carbon dioxide is released from the dead wood during decomposition."
Estimates suggest that forestry, agriculture and land-use changes account for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. Only the energy sector emits more.
Rievaulx Abbey, in North Yorkshire, is exhibiting the collection of late 19th and early 20th Century slides, which create a 3D effect when viewed.
Dr Brian May, the Queen guitarist, co-owns a company that has made a modern stereoscope viewer, a binocular-like apparatus, to look at the slides.
It allows people to see them as Victorians would have seen them.
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Stereogram slides were invented in the mid-1800s and create the 3D effect when viewed through the stereoscope.
The slides show the abbey overtaken by nature, as a pasture for sheep and often include pictures of visitors to the ruins.
The London Stereoscope Company has created the modern stereoscope to view the abbey as it was seen.
"3D was photography that gave you a feeling of reality, rather than just a flat rendition on a piece of paper," Dr May said.
Rievaulx Abbey was one of the first Cistercian abbeys to be founded in England about 1130.
Dr Michael Carter, of English Heritage, has called the abbey "one of the most important abbeys in England and the setting one of the most beautiful".
It was destroyed by the royal command of Henry VIII in 1538 as part of the dissolution of the monasteries.
Its walls became overgrown and monastic buildings vanished under soil and rubble. It was taken into state care 100 years ago and is now run by English Heritage and attracts more than 55,000 visitors annually.
The Rievaulx: Reviewed exhibition contains images from the 1870s up to the 1930s and is open until 5 November.
In an email seen by the BBC, a serving Royal Navy officer wrote that "total electric failures are common" on its fleet of six £1bn Type 45 destroyers.
The Ministry of Defence said there were reliability issues with the propulsion system and work to fix it would be done to ensure "ships remain available".
One Royal Navy officer said the cost could reach tens of millions of pounds.
In a statement, the MoD told the BBC that to "address some reliability issues" it was considering options to "upgrade the ships' diesel generators to add greater resilience to the power and the propulsion system".
That will involve significant work, though the Royal Navy insists that the six destroyers will still be deployed all over the world.
But from 2019 each will begin to undergo a major refit that will probably involve cutting a large hole to insert at least one new generator into the ship.
The work will be staggered to ensure the Navy still has ships to send on operations.
The MoD would not give any details on cost.
Admiral Lord West, a former First Sea Lord, said the development was "very worrying" and the MoD must have known "three or four years ago" that the destroyers had problems.
The ex-Labour security minister said any delay in rectifying the problem would leave the Navy's surface fleet badly stretched, as the Navy can already "only just do some of the tasks we should be doing around the world".
"What I would hope is there is already in place a 'get well' programme and we must move very quickly to rectify these problems," he said.
A former naval officer, Rear Admiral Chris Parry, said the problems could not continue: "It's rather like buying a high-priced television to watch your favourite football team but because you don't have secure power supplies, the power goes off about every 10 minutes.
"You can't have that in combat, you can't even have that in normal operations - it is not safe."
I experienced one of the many power outages on board HMS Dauntless, off the coast of Senegal, in 2012.
Suddenly all the lights on the ship went out. It was quickly fixed but it appears to be a problem that has plagued the entire fleet.
In 2014 Dauntless had to abandon a training exercise and, in 2009, HMS Daring lost power in the Atlantic on her first voyage to the US. She suffered more propulsion problems off Kuwait in 2012.
Initially the MoD dismissed these electrical failures as "teething problems".
But it has now admitted that there is a bigger problem - one that could be disastrous for a ship and her crew in combat.
Nick Childs, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: "It's an unfortunate extra cost the Royal Navy will have to swallow to sort out an unreliable propulsion system - the major weak link in an otherwise world-beating system.
"They're essentially going to have to squeeze in an extra generator to improve reliability."
The warning signs were there in 2009 when the Commons Defence Committee published its report on the Type 45.
MPs noted "persistent over-optimism and underestimation of the technical challenges, combined with inappropriate commercial arrangements" leading to rising costs.
Each destroyer ended up costing about £1bn. The Royal Navy wanted 12 ships but ended up with half that number.
The Type 45 has an integrated electric propulsion system that powers everything on board.
The problem won't be solved quickly and it is likely to put a strain on the Royal Navy, which has already shrunk considerably in size.
It is now down to a surface fleet of 19 frigates and destroyers.
A spokesman for Rolls-Royce, which makes the WR-21 marine gas turbine used on the warships, said the company continued to work with the MoD on upgrading the performance of the propulsion system.
BAE Systems, the company which builds the warships, said in a statement that the destroyers were "among the world's most capable air defence destroyer".
It said it was working with the MoD "to deliver improvements to the power generation capability of the Type 45 destroyers".
Ashley Dyball, 23, had been travelling through Europe on a break from fighting with the YPG Kurdish militia in Syria.
On Facebook, where he uses the name Mitchell Scott, he said he could be deported to Australia to face charges.
It is a crime under Australian law to assist militant groups in the Middle East.
A spokeswoman for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs said the agency was providing consular assistance to an Australian detained in Germany.
"Due to privacy constraints we will not comment further," the spokeswoman said.
Mr Dyball's lawyer, Jessie Smith, confirmed to the BBC on Thursday that he had been detained but gave no further details.
Mr Dyball said on Facebook he was being "charged as a terrorist" and would be sent to Australia.
According to Australian media, Mr Dyball's family want the Australian government to grant him amnesty from laws primarily designed to protect the country from militants returning home after fighting with IS.
Australia is on high alert for attacks by radicalised Muslims, including those returning home from fighting in the Middle East.
In June it was reported that another Australian man, Reece Harding, was killed fighting with the Kurdish YPG militia group against the so-called Islamic State in Syria.
On Wednesday, judges gave the prosecution an ultimatum - find enough evidence to justify a trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta or withdraw the charges.
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda was backed into a corner and had little choice but to bow out.
She blamed the Kenyan government, accusing it of blocking her attempts to investigate the crimes and in doing so depriving the victims of their right to know the truth.
The prosecution accused the Kenyan government of failing to hand over what it described as vital evidence - phone records and bank statements belonging to the president - which it alleges may have shown a link between Mr Kenyatta and the Mungiki street gang, who it was claimed, the president commissioned to carry out the killings.
Ms Bensouda said her efforts had also been hampered by an unprecedented effort to intimidate and interfere with witnesses.
She referred to "a social media campaign to expose the identity of protected witnesses" along with "concerted and wide-ranging efforts to harass, intimidate and threaten individuals who would wish to be witnesses".
Liz Evenson, a senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch, has also been critical of what she describes as the Kenyan government's failure to co-operate.
"The dropping of charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya sets back efforts to end the country's entrenched culture of impunity. It's clear that a long tradition of impunity in Kenya and pressure on witnesses have been serious obstacles to a fair process before the ICC," Ms Evenson said.
Uhuru Kenyatta was the first sitting head of state to be appear before the ICC.
The world's first international criminal court was designed to end impunity by trying suspects when states were unwilling or unable to do so and thus providing a platform to hold the most powerful leaders to account.
What the Kenyatta case proves is that this is no easy task.
The prosecution was asking the Kenyan government to hand over documents that may have incriminated its own leader and asking witnesses to testify against the head of the most powerful institution in the country.
The withdrawal of the charges has also called into question the credibility of the already controversial court and raises questions about the ability of the prosecution to actually secure the evidence against those it accuses of being responsible for the gravest crimes.
Some legal experts have accused the prosecution of using the missing documents and disappearances of witnesses as excuses to disguise the multiple failures of its investigation into the post-election violence.
"The evidence is not good enough. The prosecutor didn't do enough in her capacity. She didn't explore other avenues. Symbolically, it's not good," said Dov Jacobs, a professor of law at the University of Leiden.
"It illustrates the point that it's difficult to investigate sitting heads of state. To have it collapse in such a massive way is not a good indication."
The collapse of the Kenyatta case highlights a fundamental weakness at the heart of the world's first global criminal court. It is an institution that relies on countries to co-operate in providing evidence but lacks any real power to compel them to do so.
The ICC judges have shown they will only send a suspect to trial if there is solid evidence.
The failure of this case will do little to improve the reputation of the court which many critics say unfairly targets the African continent.
President Kenyatta tweeted his "excitement" that the charges had been dropped. A series of tweets from the Kenya State House account were accompanied by "#vindicated".
The most poignant disappointment will be that felt by the victims.
So far no-one has been held accountable for their losses. Many remain in hiding and some saw the ICC as a place where they may one day secure justice.
The lawyer representing the victims said their faith had been shattered.
"Many victims are deeply shocked by today's news and feel betrayed.
"Look at Kenyatta's Tweets, he makes promises to bring justice to the victims domestically. It is now imperative that the Kenyan government makes good on those promises.
"This is what will help to heal the wounds and help Kenya to move on. The victims' expectations of justice were raised by ICC - quite clearly justice has not been delivered," the lawyer said.
The withdrawal of the charges means the most high-profile trial in the court's history is over before it even began.
Now the question is, when and where will justice be secured?
Police said he was Ryan Phillips, from the Lisburn area.
The incident happened at a lane near a park and ride facility shortly before 19:00 GMT on Sunday.
An 18-year-old man was taken to hospital with injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening.
Police have appealed for information about the incident.
They have not clarified the nature of the illness, but the Bild tabloid says its research into Andreas Lubitz's background suggests he has a history of depression.
Lufthansa has said that six years ago Mr Lubitz interrupted his pilot training at the company's flight school in Arizona for several months.
The tabloid quotes unnamed sources in the company as saying that the interruption was caused by a psychological problem, and that one point, the trainee was classed as "unfit to fly".
Overall, he was in psychological treatment for one-and-a-half years during his training, his progress in the course was frequently halted, and in 2009 he was diagnosed with an "abated severe depressive episode", according to the daily.
Security sources are quoted as saying that their working assumption is that Mr Lubitz's relationship with his girlfriend was in crisis, and that he was "lovesick".
The paper says a file on Mr Lubitz at Germany's aviation authority bears the code SIC - apparently requiring him to undergo regular medical checks.
German media examine 'depression' reports
Meanwhile, investigators searching Mr Lubitz's flat in Duesseldorf appear to have found evidence corroborating the claims he had psychological disorder, according to sources quoted by the news magazine Der Spiegel.
The magazine adds that the exact nature of the evidence is not known, although prosecutors on Friday said they had found torn-up sick notes at his flat.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung says it has been told a note potentially barring Mr Lubitz was from a local neurologist and psychiatrist who had been already treating the pilot for a while. The daily does not name its sources.
Duesseldorf paper Westdeutsche Zeitung reports that a team of seven investigators searched Mr Lubitz's flat for hours on Thursday evening, and have cordoned off the area around it.
Investigators were also present at his parents' home in Montabaur, a quiet country town south of Duesseldorf.
According to Bild, Mr Lubitz spent most of his time at his parents', where he shared the first floor with his brother.
It adds that he appears to have had an active lifestyle, running marathons and being a member of a hang-gliding club, LSC Westerwald.
Before starting his pilot training, Mr Lubitz worked as a flight attendant, earning him the nickname "Tomato Andy" among his fellow trainee pilots.
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Luke and Hazel Robertson estimate the expedition will take about 80 days and will cover more than 2,000 miles.
They plan to kayak, cycle and run the distance and will travel through rainforest, glaciers, mountains, tundra desert and the Arctic Ocean.
The expedition will begin in May.
Last year, Luke became the first Scot to complete a solo, unassisted and unsupported trek to the South Pole.
The couple, originally from Stonehaven, told the BBC Scotland news website: "It will be a real privilege to journey through this unique land.
"We're actually excited by the physical endurance challenge that comes with an expedition of this scale. We will be out there for almost three months, which will be tough both mentally and physically, but very rewarding too."
The Robertsons will need to contend with the presence of bears while in Alaska, but they will also be wary of another, perhaps surprising, companion.
"There are much smaller things to worry about - midges," the Robertsons added. "They are plentiful over there in the summer months to say the least, so we'll be well prepared for those too."
The couple, who are both 31, are keen to engage young Scots as part of their journey, which will be called Due North: Alaska. As well as regular filming and social media updates, they will work with the Scottish government body Education Scotland with the aim of engaging young people with wildlife.
Luke was inspired to undertake his first expedition, entitled Due South, at the end of 2015. He raised money for Marie Curie after undergoing brain surgery to remove a suspected tumour.
During his journey, he received tweets of support from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale and Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, as well as adventurers Mark Beaumont and Levison Wood.
Luke spent Christmas and New Year at the South Pole as part of the 39-day trek but for this expedition, there will be different challenges.
He said: "Skiing to the South Pole was an incredible experience and so heading into another big wilderness seems like the next logical step.
"It will be much tougher distance wise - we're travelling about three times the 730 miles that I skied to the South Pole and this expedition will take at least double the time."
Mr Robertson added: "Because we are effectively cycling the length of the UK, kayaking the distance from the UK to Iceland, and then running 30 marathons - all back to back - fitness levels have to be greater too, and so we've been building up the strength and fitness required.
"It'll be nice to have some company - 40 days by yourself is a long time - so I'm hoping not to hallucinate quite so much.
"Antarctica is a beautiful and very special place, but it'll be great to see a little more varied scenery and wildlife, as well as having someone to chat to other than my sledge."
Prof Jonathan Shepherd's award-winning "Cardiff Model" for identifying violence hotspots has won a £740,000 ($1.4m Australian dollar) grant.
The model will be used in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.
Prof Shepherd, of Cardiff University, said it aimed to cut "the harm violence inflicts on citizens and communities".
In 2008, he was awarded the Stockholm Prize for Criminology for the model - since used in the Netherlands, South Africa and the United States.
The model sees anonymous intelligence gathered from hospital A&E departments and shared with the police, public health bodies and local authorities.
It was trialled in the Welsh capital between 2002 and 2007, with Cardiff University finding a "significant and enduring reduction in serious violence" compared to 14 other cities.
An evaluation published in the British Medical Journal in 2011 suggested it helped toward a 32% drop in aggravated assaults and a 42% fall in hospital admissions in Cardiff.
Prof Shepherd said: "The goal of this approach is to provide basic information that complements police records so that law enforcement and alcohol licensing can take appropriate and intelligent steps to reduce the harm violence inflicts on citizens and communities."
He will team up with researchers from Deakin University, in Victoria, Australia.
The scheme will be rolled out in the three Australian cities over a five-year period, with funding from Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council.
It means citizens of one country who commit crimes in the other will serve sentences in their homeland.
International development minister Grant Shapps said removing foreign national offenders was a key priority for the British government.
There are currently 96 Ghana nationals in British jails.
Under the deal, prisoners can either apply for a transfer voluntarily or, where they are the subject of a deportation order, the transfer can take place without their consent.
Of the 96 Ghanaians behind bars in the UK, 48 would be eligible for voluntary transfers because they are serving sentences of longer than four years.
Mr Shapps signed the agreement with Ghana's deputy attorney general on a visit to the country.
He said: "Removing foreign national offenders is a key priority for the British government and the agreement I have signed this morning plays an important role in supporting this from now on.
"This is an important achievement for the UK and the latest such compulsory agreement the UK has signed with another nation.
"The British government is committed to negotiating further compulsory transfer agreements wherever it can."
The prisoner transfer agreement is subject to ratification by the UK and Ghanaian Parliaments, meaning the first transfer is unlikely to take place before the end of the year.
The UK government said it would be "working closely" with Ghana's prison service to increase capacity.
Joshua, the IBF heavyweight champion, had agreed terms to face Klitschko on 10 December but the Ukrainian will not fight unless the WBA title vacated by Tyson Fury is on the line.
"I know I can knock out Joshua because I've done it before," said Price.
"I put him down [in sparring] and he had to get helped out of the ring."
Joshua's mandatory challenger is Joseph Parker, but the New Zealander will instead fight Mexican Andy Ruiz for the WBO title, which was also vacated by Fury.
With Parker out of the picture, Joshua, who has 17 knockouts in as many victories in the professional ranks, can pick a challenger for his IBF belt.
Liverpool's Price, 33, has never fought Joshua in a competitive contest but the two did meet in a sparring session while Joshua was on Team GB's Olympic boxing squad.
Price claims to have floored his London rival in 2011, a year before he won a gold medal at the London Olympics.
"I've kept it to myself for years because I felt bad for doing it," Price, who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics, told BBC Sport.
"And I wanted to protect the lad from people shouting him out because he got knocked out in a gym with 18oz gloves.
"People think Anthony Joshua is this colossus of a man with a great physique but I am convinced it can go wrong for him in a fight with me."
Price has had to rebuild his career after two knockout defeats by American Tony Thompson in 2013 before being knocked out again by German Erkan Teper. Both opponents later failed drug tests.
"I understand why a lot of people will write me off," said Price, who has 18 knockouts in 21 victories.
"The only thing I've done to not deserve this shot is to lose to two drug cheats and I've worked hard to recover my career so I think I do deserve it."
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said it was the biggest Nato summit and would benefit the nation as a whole.
It was taking place when Russia's "illegal military actions" in Ukraine had "dramatically changed" Europe's security, he said.
Barack Obama will join world leaders at the September summit at Celtic Manor.
Mr Rasmussen told BBC Sunday Politics Wales said: "There's a lot of positive economic spin-off from such an event. [There will be] more than 50 nations and they all bring bigger or smaller delegations so you will see thousands and thousands of people going to Wales.
"Of course, there is the very positive economic spin-off, but you shouldn't underestimate the public relations aspect of this event - it's the biggest event ever in Nato's history and will be broadcast all over the world."
"This will be an historic summit. We will take very important decisions regarding Nato's future, so for many many years to come this will be remembered as The Wales Summit and this will give a lot of positive public relations effect."
He said Nato had enhanced its policing of air space and had deployed naval vessels to the Baltic and Black Seas following Russia's action in Ukraine.
"We conduct exercises on the ground and we will not hesitate to take further steps if necessary to ensure continued effective defence and protection of our allies.
"We have tried to develop a partnership with Russia, but apparently Russia considers us not a partner but an adversary and of course we have to adapt to that."
Mr Rasmussen would not be drawn on what would happen if Scotland decided to leave the UK as a result of September's independence referendum.
"I'm definitely not going to interfere with domestic British politics. It's a hypothetical situation so we haven't discussed it.
"If the Scottish people were to decide on independence, and if an independent Scotland were to apply for membership of NATO, that would be addressed exactly like applications from other nations."
The secretary general also paid tribute to the British service men and women - many from Wales - who have lost their lives in Afghanistan.
"They have really made a difference in Afghanistan," he said.
"Their sacrifice has not been in vain. On the contrary, we have a better security situation. "
He said it was important that Nato did not leave behind a security vacuum in Afghanistan.
Sunday Politics is on BBC 1 Wales at 11:00 BST on Sunday.
The bacterium, which can cause food poisoning, was detected in Specially Selected Tikka King Prawns which are only on sale in Scottish stores.
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) urged anyone who had bought the frozen prawns to return them for a full refund.
The batch numbers on the 200g packs are 6K14 and 6K15 and the best before dates are 13 April and 14 April 2018.
No other Aldi products are known to be affected.
The centres, sometimes run by private firms, vet GP referrals and decide if patients should receive hospital care.
The British Medical Association (BMA) called them "inefficient" and a "block between the GP and patient treatment".
NHS Clinical Commissioners said "in many cases" the centres "provide a useful and effective role".
All but 12 of the 209 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England responded to a BBC Freedom of Information (FoI) request. Sixty-one of them said they used some form of referral management centre.
These centres were introduced in about 2003 and were designed to reduce NHS spending by limiting unnecessary referrals to hospital. However, one GP claimed cancer diagnoses were being delayed because of the extra bureaucracy.
Since 2005 there has been a 10-fold increase in the use of referral centres.
A BBC investigation revealed there had been a rise in referrals being rejected for administrative, rather than clinical reasons, with delays due to administration queries rising from 28% in 2013-14 to 41% last year.
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, from the BMA, said: "It's a blunt instrument which is not sensitive to the needs of the patient and is delaying patient care.
"It has become totally mechanistic. It's either administrative or not necessary for the patient. It's completely unacceptable. Performance seems to be related to blocking referrals rather than patient care."
MPs in North Durham have complained about a centre which is paid £10 for every referral letter it blocks.
Some doctors in England are being offered thousands of pounds by CCGs to cut the number of patients being referred to hospital.
About £19m was spent on the centres in 2015-16 and about two-thirds of the CCGs which responded to the BBC FoI request were not able to say whether the system was saving the NHS any money.
Referral management centres
One doctor in north-east England, who wished to stay anonymous, told the BBC: "The system is dangerous.
"In one case referral of a patient to a dermatologist was rejected by the referral management system. It turned out to be a cancer…That was a disaster."
In May, Tracy Jefferies had her referral to surgically strip her varicose veins rejected by Devon Referral Support Services.
The reason given was that she did not meet new criteria for treatment because Northern, Eastern and Western (NEW) Devon CCG changed its policy on treatment of the condition.
She said: "The swelling never went down and at night I could barely move. There wasn't a time in the day I wasn't in pain for it.
"I was told on the phone I did not meet the criteria to get treatment on the NHS. I was gobsmacked.
"I had to borrow money from my dad to pay for the treatment privately. So far I've spent over £2,000."
NEW Devon CCG said: "Unless an exceptional case is presented, the CCG will not fund the treatment of varicose veins."
The organisation which represents CCGs, NHS Clinical Commissioners, said: "CCGs will balance the cost of commissioning referral management centres with the benefit they provide to GPs and patients in terms of peer review, education, caseload management and choice.
"Ensuring patients get the best possible care against a backdrop of increasingly squeezed finances is one of the biggest issues CCGs face, but we know that clinical commissioners are working hard to improve local services by making responsible, clinically-led decisions in partnership with GPs, patients and providers."
Watch BBC Inside Out's investigation into rationing of the NHS at 19:30 BST on BBC One, Monday 16 January.
Donald Nicholson, 93, initially thought he lost them on the way to the unveiling of a Bomber Command memorial in Lincoln, or at the event.
But the medals were handed in to his local police station in Tyne and Wear.
The former flight engineer, who flew 31 bombing missions, thanked police officers for returning his medals, adding he was "lost for words".
Asked about how he was feeling, he replied: "I'm on top of the bloody world."
He said: "It is unbelievable to think I dropped them outside my front door and they came back."
"I am really grateful to everybody who took part in the search."
He added: "It's marvellous to be reunited with them - they mean so much to me."
Mr Nicholson said he is looking forward to wearing the medals on Remembrance Sunday, and has promised not to lose them again.
He promised to "take more care in future".
The veteran said he must have dropped them when he was getting into a car as he left his home.
About 80 volunteers with metal detectors searched a field near the Bomber Command memorial on Friday afternoon after a week-long search.
But the search was called off after two hours, and everyone had given up hope of ever finding the medals when Mr Nicholson received a call from the police.
Staff at a Nottinghamshire service station also checked CCTV after Mr Nicholson thought he might have dropped them there.
A damning independent report said the issues at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, affect staff at all levels.
It also found "authoritarian" managers and a "significant risk of harm to patients" in how the unit was run.
Cardiff and Vale health board said it fully accepted the findings and recommendations.
It has set up an action group of staff, unions and managers to respond to the 46 points in the report.
The three-month inquiry - which also included the assessment unit at Llandough Hospital and minor injuries unit at Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan - was launched by the health board.
It followed claims of bullying, staff shortages and targets taking priority over patient care in the unit, which employs nearly 400 staff.
Unions started a collective grievance procedure last autumn on behalf of 12 staff.
The situation also led to one senior nurse likening the pressures staff were under to being in a war zone in Iraq.
The review found no direct evidence of a patient coming to harm but said there was "ongoing significant risk of harm to patients based on the current arrangement of care".
Main findings involving staff:
Staff were interviewed, seen in groups and surveyed.
The names of individuals commonly mentioned involving inappropriate behaviour have been removed from the report but the authors said "behaviours are endemic and involve many individuals and this makes it difficult to identify individual perpetrators".
The way the department was run meant patients were "regularly receiving less than optimum levels of care and experience".
Problems involving patient care:
However, the inquiry found a "huge commitment" by staff, trying to do their best for patients.
Health board chief executive Prof Adam Cairns said: "The report is hard-hitting and as such should encourage everyone to understand that we have an unrelenting focus on facing our challenges head on.
"We will now focus on our response, working together in partnership with our staff and their representatives, mindful that this band of dedicated and passionate staff must be supported, always remembering that it is they who are there for us when we are most in need."
The director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, Tina Donnelly, said there was a "sense of relief" for her members.
Meanwhile, Unison branch secretary Mike Jones said he had not heard of any example of a member of staff who had been suspended for raising their concerns.
Patient watchdog Cardiff Community Health Council (CHC) said it has sought reassurances from the health board that staffing of the emergency unit will be addressed "as soon as practicable".
The CHC's chief officer Stephen Allen said the issues of staff shortages and external pressures could lead to patient care "not being delivered in the most appropriate way or location."
Analysis by Owain Clarke, BBC Wales health correspondent
Nobody would deny they have incredibly stressful jobs.
But this report paints a picture of almost intolerable pressure faced by those working on the hospital's front-line
The demands on staff were often unreasonable, with almost all areas understaffed. Many said they felt hopeless - some claimed bosses did not care.
The report also found clear evidence of bullying and harassment - a dysfunctional culture so endemic the authors found it difficult to pinpoint blame.
Management failings meant senior nurses, even consultants, felt they did not have a say and there was little opportunity to learn from mistakes. The relationship between the unions and management had, it seems, hit rock bottom.
Although the authors found no evidence that patients were harmed - they say the failings were so serious there was a real risk it could have happened.
There are even accounts of patients with similar illnesses being treated differently depending on how they arrived at the hospital.
The quality and safety of the care given by some specialist nurses, it says, was not checked.
One key recommendation is that more doctors and nurses need to be recruited at once.
The stage door collapsed on Fisherman's Friends vocalist Trevor Grills and Paul McMullen at Guildford's G Live venue in 2013.
Shropshire-based Express Hi-Fold Doors Ltd was found guilty of a health and safety breach at Guildford Crown Court.
Director David Naylor, 57, was cleared of manslaughter by gross negligence.
The door, which allowed backstage access from outside, was designed and manufactured by the company.
Father-of-three Mr Grills, 54, from Port Isaac, Cornwall, and Mr McMullen, from Disley in Cheshire, were at the venue ahead of a performance due to be staged by the 10-piece group.
Mr McMullen, 44, died at the scene and Mr Grills in hospital three days later.
Sentencing, judge Philippa Whipple, said there was no "deliberate disregard for the law" but the company "fell far short of the appropriate health and safety standard".
The court heard the door had been folded in half and was being lifted "like a canopy" above the men when it collapsed.
Two drive chains linking the motor and gearbox to the drive shaft failed, and the chains themselves also failed, jurors were told.
The court heard there had been four similar failures involving the company's doors before 2010, including the collapse of a hangar door at Shoreham Airport in 2003.
The judge said: "The company made some modifications, but it failed to respond more fundamentally to ensure it had taken all practicable measures.
"There was an obvious risk of death or serious injury although the likelihood was not high."
The court heard the business barely traded in 2015 and was essentially liquidated.
Paying tribute to the men and their families, the judge said: "They died too young and I am sure they are greatly missed."
Fisherman's Friends had chart success with a top-ten album and performed at Glastonbury.
The NHS had planned to concentrate care in fewer, bigger centres.
There was opposition to ending surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital in Leicester and the Royal Brompton in London.
Mr Hunt ordered an independent review of the decision.
Repairing the hearts of children born with congenital defects is one of the most complex procedures in the NHS. About 3,700 such operations take place each year.
Ten hospitals currently perform the delicate surgery required, but last year the "Safe & Sustainable review" performed by the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts ruled expertise was spread too thinly.
It said surgery should be concentrated in seven specialist centres by 2014 in order to improve safety. They were:
Campaigners were concerned at a loss of local services and a High Court judge quashed the decision to stop surgery in Leeds saying the consultation was flawed and "ill judged".
Amid the tension, Mr Hunt asked the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP), an advisory body, to assess the decision.
He told the Commons: "The IRP report also concludes that the outcome of the Safe & Sustainable review was based on a flawed analysis of the impact of incomplete proposals, and leaves too many questions about sustainability and implementation.
"This is clearly a serious criticism of the Safe & Sustainable process. I therefore accept their recommendation that the proposals cannot go ahead in their current form and am suspending the review today."
Shutting services and hospitals is never a popular decision, there is nearly always a huge amount of support for a local hospital.
And yet there is evidence that creating fewer specialist centres saves lives.
In London, stroke care was moved from 30 hospitals to just eight.
The move is thought to save 400 lives a year.
This suspension by Jeremy Hunt does not change the underlying principle of fewer, bigger and better.
This is a reprieve for the three hospitals which were set to lose their child heart surgery teams.
But in the future there will be fewer hospitals providing this care and there is likely to be similar campaigns to save local units when a final decision is eventually made.
He said the consultation, which has already cost more than £6m, did not have the confidence of the public with some feeling the decision was predetermined.
He said choosing which hospitals provided surgery was one of the most flawed areas of the review, but added "we need to get on with this" as the original argument for improving care was unchanged.
The IRP's report said: "The Panel's advice addresses the weaknesses in the original proposals, but it is not a mandate for either the status quo or going back over all the ground in the last five years."
Lord Ribeiro, the chairman of the IRP, said access to services was one of the panel's main concerns.
"Many of the relatives said to us, 'Of course, we would travel to the Moon to have our daughter or son treated,'" he said.
Lyall Cookward, aged four, has been treated repeatedly in Leeds.
He was born without one of the walls which separate the chambers of the heart - an atrial septal defect.
Surgeons had to create a new septum and heart valves for him and he had emergency surgery at just four weeks old.
Further operations followed and there will be more in the future.
His family want him to continue being treated at Leeds General Infirmary, but would have been forced to travel to Newcastle if the reforms went ahead.
One of his parents, Steph Ward, said: "We're absolutely delighted, everything that we said was wrong with the review has been vindicated.
"The review has been conducted in a manner which is absolutely disgusting and betrays the parents and patients it was set up to look at services for."
"But, for them, it is also about the quality of care that can be provided for the whole family, and many of them do have to travel long distances, with great cost, and, therefore, if they could see the changes that were being provided for them would provide a service which, for them - and this is what we were told - for them, appeared to be no better than what they had locally, then they had concerns about that."
Mr Hunt set NHS England, which has taken over the responsibilities of the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts, a deadline of the end of July to come up with the next step in the process.
The fate of children's heart surgery will also be considered alongside changes to adult heart surgery.
Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director for NHS England, said: "We welcome the review, and NHS England will now study its recommendations in full to learn from them.
"We will institute a new process that recognises the very strong case for redesigning services to meet the demands of the future whilst addressing the legitimate concerns in our local communities."
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We have to be frank with people that we can't expect really technical surgery, like children's heart operations, to be carried out at every hospital in the country."
He said it was clear the original review had not been conducted properly, "so we need to make a re-start".
Sharon Cheng, of the group Save Our Surgery, which has campaigned in Leeds, said: "[Mr Hunt's] comments about the Safe & Sustainable process and outcome completely vindicate the action that we took to challenge this, and demonstrate that exposing the flaws in the review was the right and necessary thing to do."
She called for the new review to be "fully open and accountable".
Meanwhile the chief executive of Newcastle Hospitals Sir Leonard Fenwick, who had been told the hospital would keep its unit, said the decision was "a little surprising".
The Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham said: "When it was published, while I fully support the reduction in sites, I expressed concerns about the distribution of the seven sites, skewed towards the western half of England and leaving a large swathe of the east, from Newcastle to London, without a surgical centre.
"For a family in Hull or Lincoln, already at their wits' end with worry, the wrench of leaving home to travel hundreds of miles with the cost of accommodation and time off work would add to high levels of stress and anxiety."
The Glovers beat against Leyton Orient on Saturday but lost their last five games in the run-up to the 1-0 victory.
"I've come in, worked hard and stood strong. We had a bad run of defeats but I have learnt so much," Way said.
"From the moment I got off the bus [on the way to the game against Orient], there were two supporters who said 'I'm with you Darren'."
Way's side had conceded eight goals in their three games before the trip to Brisbane Road, but kept a clean sheet as Tom Eaves' 76th-minute strike gave them three points against Orient.
Despite taking just seven points from a possible 24 this term after a promising end to last season, Way says he is learning a lot from his first full campaign as Glovers manager.
"I've learnt not just about my players but everything," Way told BBC Radio Somerset.
"I went over to speak to the supporters before the game and they said they're with me.
"What I know is everyone I'm coming into contact with face to face are behind this football club."
The 78-year-old will stay as owner but his grandson, 23-year-old David Sharpe, will oversee the running of the club.
Whelan took over at Wigan in February 1995 and oversaw their rise from the fourth tier to the Premier League.
He was banned from football-related activity for six weeks and fined £50,000 in December for making racist comments after accepting an FA charge.
Whelan apologised but denied the remarks he made during a newspaper interview were racist and, prior to his punishment being announced, had stated that he would resign as Wigan chairman if he was "found guilty of being a racist".
The FA Disciplinary Commission said it was "satisfied" Whelan "is not a racist" and did not intend to cause offence by his comments.
Sharpe, who was appointed as a director in December, will be formally confirmed as Wigan chairman in the near future.
Whelan's reign as chairman ends with Wigan 23rd in the Championship and nine points from safety with 12 league games to play, but his impact on the club during his 20 years at the helm has largely been a successful one.
Wigan were bottom of the fourth tier of English football when Whelan purchased the club, but they won three promotions over the next decade to reach the top flight for the first time in their history.
The Latics spent eight consecutive seasons in the Premier League between 2005 and 2013 and lifted their first major trophy, the FA Cup, three days before they were relegated from the top division.
As well as their success on the pitch, Whelan also funded the construction of a new 25,000 all-seater stadium, which opened in 1999 at a cost of around £30m.
"The time has now come to hand over the reins," he said in a club statement.
"I am approaching 80 years old and spend an increasingly long time abroad, and cannot make it to games. It is a decision I have been mulling over for some years and I believe David is now ready.
"Contrary to some suggestions, there are no plans to sell the club, which will remain in family hands and I have every confidence that David, along with chief executive Jonathan Jackson, will lead us forwards with wisdom."
Everton manager Roberto Martinez, who led Wigan to FA Cup victory in 2013 during his four-year stint as Latics boss, said it was "a shock" to hear Whelan had stepped down.
In his media conference ahead of Everton's Premier League game at Stoke on Wednesday, the Spaniard said: "I have been privileged to see first-hand how a successful and driven football man has given so much to the town and has created an incredible example for football.
"Any professional football club could have the dream of playing in the Premier League and winning a major trophy and he showed the way to do that. It is a great football story and I am sure it will inspire many generations to come."
The hosts slumped from 78-1 to 191 all out after being put in as left-armer Hatchett claimed figures of 5-58.
Shiv Thakor (36 not out) was the only batsman to offer any resistance for Derbyshire and was struck on the helmet by a Steve Magoffin bouncer.
Thakor claimed the only Sussex wicket to fall before the close in Sussex's reply, trapping Chris Nash (37) lbw.
Access to the EU's passport-free Schengen area was a key demand by Turkey in an agreement struck in March.
But the EU says Turkey still needs to meet certain conditions, including changes to its terror laws, before access can be granted.
The agreement is aimed at halting the mass movement of people into Europe.
Mr Erdogan has also said funds promised by the EU have not yet been released.
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Under the agreement, Turkey has to meet 72 conditions to earn visa-free access to the Schengen area by the end of June.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who met Mr Erdogan on Monday, said there might not be enough time for it to be completed.
Speaking at the close of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Mr Erdogan warned: "If that is not going to happen... no decision and no law in the framework of the readmission agreement [on migrants] will come out of the parliament of the Turkish Republic."
One of the sticking points relates to Turkey's broad anti-terrorism laws. Changes to the legislation were among the conditions set by the EU under the agreement.
The EU and rights groups accuse Ankara of using the laws to intimidate journalists and stifle dissent. The government denies it, saying it needs the laws to fight militants. Mr Erdogan has accused the EU of "hypocrisy" over the demand.
The deal was largely negotiated by former Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davotuglu, who quit over a rift with Mr Erdogan.
There are fears the whole migrant deal will collapse if the visa dispute is not resolved, as the Turkish president has repeatedly warned.
Mr Erdogan also said the bloc was not delivering on its promise to deliver aid for Syrian refugees.
The EU had pledged up to 6bn euros ($6.7bn; £4.6bn) in funds as part of the deal.
"When you look at what has been done so far, we see that they are not keeping the promises they made," he said.
Under the EU-Turkey agreement, migrants who have arrived illegally in Greece since 20 March are to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected.
For each Syrian migrant returned to Turkey, the EU is to take in another Syrian who has made a legitimate request.
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Fr Arthur O'Reilly, was 13 and on a break from exams when he got his chance.
The U-boats were moored on the banks of the River Foyle in Londonderry after their crews surrendered at the end of World War Two, 70 years ago this weekend.
The German submariners were taken to an army camp in County Down and the people of Derry had a chance to explore the submarines.
Fr O'Reilly scrambled through narrow compartments of the U-boat past signs bearing the warning "Achtung!"
As he looked through the periscope, he was amazed at how clearly he could see people on the docks.
A British naval officer showed him around the vessel.
"He allowed me to look through the periscope and I could see people walking on the quay. You could identify people, I was amazed at the technology, you could see people's features," he said.
He said the U-boat was small and quite confined.
"I wondered how did they fit 30 personnel into the small space?
"They shared the bunks (between shifts), there was a shelf between each compartment, with signs saying Achtung!
"The shelf was to prevent flooding, you had to step over it, there were these apertures from one section to the next.
"I saw the torpedo bays, they were deactivated at that time, I saw the navigation instruments - it was very exciting for a schoolboy to see all these things that you had read about in the papers and heard on the radio."
Fr O'Reilly said: "It was very sad that there was such loss of life. It was a tragic consequence of the war and the belligerence between nations.
"It was a great feeling that the war was over and that there would be no more destruction or loss of life, at least that was a consolation."
Derry was once one of the command centres, close to the Atlantic's Western Approaches where so-called "wolf-packs" of the stealthy underwater machines had wrought such damage on British shipping.
The city is marking the anniversary of the German surrender with a festival of film and old memorabilia.
Among the artefacts are a set of dark green binoculars captured from a submarine, photographs of German sailors, an accordion and pictures of the submarines tied up in the city.
It was on 14 May 1945 that the first of the U-boats made their way up the Foyle to the port of Lisahally where they were formally ordered to surrender by Admiral Sir Max Horton, commander-in-chief, Western Approaches.
Margaret Edwards, from Derry and Strabane District Council's museums service, said: "For Sir Max Horton to come here to accept that surrender put Derry on the map as a place that had to be remembered for the role it played."
Muriel Nevin, 91, was stationed on the outskirts of the city and working for the Women's Royal Naval Service.
She said the city was a special place where the warm welcome made the base a second home for visiting troops from England, Canada and the US.
She was Liverpool-born and joined the Wrens during the Battle of Britain, lying about her age to get in.
"I quickly came over to Northern Ireland and was posted with the A36 and A37 Fleet Air Squadron in Maydown. The atmosphere was great. Everybody helped everybody, no matter who you were," she said.
"I remember the dances and all the lovely music. There were, of course, sad moments when you heard of people being killed and ships going down, but you had a job to do and you did it."
Ms Jolie Pitt has been speaking as part of the BBC's World on the Move day of coverage of global migration issues.
She warned against a "fear of migration" and a "race to the bottom" as countries competed to be the toughest to protect themselves.
Earlier, the UNHCR's head said the refugee crisis was now a global issue.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told the BBC that simply turning migrants away "won't work".
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A range of speakers, including the UNHCR's special envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt, and former British secret intelligence chief Sir Richard Dearlove, will set out the most important new ideas shaping our thinking on economic development, security and humanitarian assistance.
You can follow the discussion and reaction to it, with live online coverage on the BBC News website.
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Ms Jolie Pitt said that more than 60 million people - one in 122 - were displaced globally - more than at any time in the past 70 years.
"This tells us something deeply worrying about the peace and security of the world," she said, adding: "The average time a person will be displaced is now nearly 20 years."
Ms Jolie Pitt said the "number of conflicts and scale of displacement had grown so large" the system to protect and return refugees was not working.
She said that UN appeals were drastically under-funded.
"With this then the state of today's world, is it any surprise that some of these desperate people, who are running out of all options and who see no hope of returning home, would make a push for Europe as a last resort, even at the risk of death?"
But Ms Jolie Pitt said that Europe was "only a fraction of the global refugee problem".
Highlighting Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran, Ethiopia, and Jordan, she said: "We in the West are neither at the centre of the refugee crisis, nor - for the most part - the ones making the greatest sacrifice."
She warned that amid a "fear of uncontrolled migration" there was a "risk of a race to the bottom, with countries competing to be the toughest, in the hope of protecting themselves whatever the cost or challenge to their neighbours, and despite their international responsibilities".
Isolationism was not the answer, she said, adding: "If your neighbour's house is on fire you are not safe if you lock your doors. Strength lies in being unafraid."
Such policies would lead to an even greater set of problems, she said.
"It would amount to the worst of both worlds: failing to tackle the issue and undermining international law and our values in the process."
Urging the world to rally together, she said: "Whether we succeed will help define this century... the alternative is chaos."
Earlier, Mr Grandi told the BBC migration was now a global phenomenon needing a global response.
He said the burden of caring for refugees had so far fallen "on a few countries that host hundreds of thousands of refugees, usually those near wars, near conflicts and a few donors that alone, seven or eight of them, give 80%-90%, of the funding".
He admitted a solution would require "a very long and difficult discussion" but added: "There can't simply be a reaction whereby states shut down borders and push people away simply because it won't work."
Save the Children is calling for greater international commitment to ensure child refugees remain in school.
The charity's new report, A New Deal for Refugees, says only one in four refugee children is now enrolled in secondary school.
It is calling on governments and aid agencies to adopt a new policy framework that will ensure no refugee child remains out of school for more than a month.
It is an ambitious target but there is growing concern that this migration crisis is producing a lost generation of children which means conditions for even greater insecurity and poverty.
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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 decision followed a pitch inspection by the referee at 13:15 BST after heavy rain in south east Wales.
No new date has yet been set for the game to be played.
The game was due to be Newport's first with coach Sean McCarthy in caretaker charge after manager Warren Feeney was sacked on Wednesday.
The UN envoy for the Middle East peace process, Nickolay Mladenov, said he had serious doubts as to whether capital trials there met fair trial standards.
Mr Mladenov added that he was disturbed by reports that some of the executions might be carried out in public.
One Palestinian group has documented 67 executions in Gaza since 2007.
However, that figure does not include the killings of people accused by Hamas of being collaborators during wartime. At least 25 were shot dead after the 2014 conflict with Israel.
On Wednesday, Hamas-affiliated members of the Palestinian parliament announced they had approved a measure allowing executions to be carried out in Gaza without having first been ratified by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is based in the West Bank.
"We found it was important to implement the death penalty rule to maintain civil peace in society and to prevent cases of murder," Hamas MP Yehia Mousa told the New York Times.
It was not clear what authority the MPs had to authorise executions in the coastal territory, given that the full Palestinian Legislative Council has not met since Hamas reinforced its power in Gaza in 2007 following a violent rift with Mr Abbas' Fatah movement.
But the move came a week after Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said 13 Palestinians had been sentenced to death by courts in Gaza and would be executed as soon as possible.
Last month, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said a military court had sentenced three men to death for collaborating with Israel. That took the total number of death sentences issued so far this year in Gaza to 10, it added.
The Hamas authorities mostly stopped carrying out the death penalty in June 2014, when a government of national consensus was formed and officially placed in charge of Gaza.
However, that government never exercised authority there and, in July 2015, it was reshuffled without Hamas' inclusion or input.
In February, Hamas' military wing executed one of its commanders "for behavioural and moral violations". Mahmoud Eshtewi was accused of theft and of having sex with another man, the New York Times reported.
In a briefing to the UN Security Council, Mr Mladenov stressed that international law limited the application of the death penalty to the "most serious crimes" and pursuant to a trial and appeals process that scrupulously follow fair trial standards.
"I have serious doubts as to whether capital trials in Gaza meet these standards," he said.
"There are also disturbing media reports indicating that the sentences could be carried out in public. This raises even more alarms as public executions are prohibited under international human rights law," he added.
At an afternoon event in Bridgetown, Prince Harry kept the singer waiting as he stopped to greet the president of Guyana first, before turning to her.
Rihanna, who has had eight UK number ones and 29 UK top 10 hits, stood to greet the prince, who said: "Hello, it's very nice to meet you."
The pair later sat side-by-side on stage at a celebratory concert.
A senior royal aide said the prince, who wore his medals and his insignia as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, had been told 20 minutes before he arrived at the afternoon gala that Rihanna would be there.
"We thought he would be meeting her for the first time at the concert," he said.
Rihanna wore a blue dress and opted for striking yellow finger nails - both colours are on the Barbados flag.
Prince Harry read a message from the Queen to mark the anniversary of the moment - on 30 November 1966 - that the country broke away from British rule.
Prince Philip and I send our warmest wishes to the Government and the people of Barbados on the occasion of your 50th Anniversary of Independence.
Since you became an independent country in 1966, you have continued to flourish and grow into a strong and confident nation.
The extraordinary talents of your people, from the cricket field to the music industry have been admired and recognised throughout the world. Barbados remains a favoured holiday destination for British people, not only for the incredible natural beauty of your country but because you have a great warmth and generosity of spirit.
Over the years I have visited Barbados five times and you have kindly welcomed many other members of my family.
Our countries have a shared history, shared values and an affection which continues to bind us in friendship. On this day of celebration, I send my congratulations to you on your Golden Jubilee of Independence.
Later, Prince Harry and Rihanna sat next to each other on stage at a concert at Kensington Oval cricket ground in Bridgetown.
The 20,000-strong crowd cheered and chanted Prince Harry's name when he was introduced, prompting a smile from the royal.
But there was an even bigger response for Barbados-born Rihanna.
Prince Harry told the audience: "Your independence was a declaration of confidence in the future.
"And 50 years on Barbados is a country rightfully proud of its vibrant culture, its sporting prowess, and its natural beauty that attracts visitors from all over the world."
Thomas Lubanga and Germain Katanga are the first ICC convicts to be allowed to serve sentences in their home country.
Former warlord Lubanga is serving 14 years for his crimes, while militia chief Katanga is due to be released in 2016.
The ICC says it will help supervise their imprisonment in the DRC.
Lubanga and Katanga "have both expressed a preference to serve their respective prison terms in DRC, their country of origin", the court said in a statement.
Their detention in the DRC must conform to international norms on the treatment of prisoners, it said.
Lubanga was once one of the most feared rebel leaders in the gold-rich northeastern Ituri region of the DRC.
He was found guilty of abducting children as young as 11 and using them to fight his battles.
Katanga was convicted for his involvement in a bloody massacre that left hundreds of villagers dead.
Last month, the ICC cut Katanga's 12-year prison term after he voiced regret and for good behaviour.
But Lubanga's request for early release was rejected by the ICC as "unjustified".
The ethnic conflict in Ituri between 1999 and 2003 is estimated to have killed 50,000 people.
The 22-year-old woman, who has lupus and kidney problems, sought to end the pregnancy, which doctors said posed a serious risk to her life.
The foetus developed without a complete brain and skull and died shortly after birth.
Last week the supreme court upheld El Salvador's absolute ban on abortions.
Health Minister Maria Isabel Rodriguez said the baby had died five hours after the C-section.
Doctors decided the procedure had become necessary when the woman started having contractions on Sunday night, Ms Rodriguez said.
She insisted that the medical intervention did not contravene the court ruling.
Under the ruling, she said, "mother had to be given all the necessary protection to save her life, while analysing how long one could wait and do the utmost to save the baby's life".
It is not clear how far advanced exactly the pregnancy was, with local sources saying the woman was 24 weeks pregnant, while Reuters news agency said she was 27 weeks pregnant and Agence France Press agency reporting she had the C-section after 26 weeks of gestation.
Sources: World Health Organisation, Guttmacher Institute
The woman, referred to as "Beatriz", is now in a stable condition in intensive care.
Her plight had drawn international attention after the Supreme Court denied her the abortion she was seeking despite the medical risks involved in the pregnancy and the low chances of the foetus surviving beyond birth.
A medical committee at her maternity hospital, the Ministry of Health and rights groups had supported her request to terminate her pregnancy.
But the Supreme Court argued that the "the rights of the mother cannot take precedence over those of the unborn child or vice versa, and that there is an absolute bar to authorising an abortion" under the Salvadoran constitution.
El Salvador banned all types of abortion in 1999. The sentence for doctors and women violating that ban is 50 years in prison.
A non-binding resolution by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last week called on the Salvadoran authorities to take action to save Beatriz's life.
"This pregnancy is a risk to her life, a fact that merits extreme and urgent measures to be taken to safeguard her health," the regional court based in San Jose, Costa Rica, said.
Women's rights groups in El Salvador have welcomed the decision by the country's health ministry to allow the C-section but have condemned the long wait Beatriz had to endure, which they say inflicted "unnecessary suffering".
Spokeswoman for the anti-abortion group Red Familia Claudia Handal also welcomed the outcome.
"We're happy because as we said from the beginning, it wasn't necessary to perform an abortion, the point was to respect the baby's life and to give Beatriz the care and the right to health that she deserved," she told Reuters news agency.
The attack, in December 1971, was carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). One man was convicted of all 15 murders in 1978.
Police are treating the attack on the memorial as a hate crime.
Sinn Féin councillor JJ Magee said it was "disgusting" and "an insult to all those who were killed and injured" in the bombing.
SDLP North Belfast assembly member Alban Maginness described it as "deplorable".
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This time, the pledges from the main political parties have been much anticipated because of the warnings about mounting pressures on the service.
Those commitments have now been made and, perhaps unsurprisingly, comparing them is like apples and pears.
As always with public spending figures, there's a need to dig into the detail beneath the headlines to work out exactly what each party means.
The financial headline from the Conservative manifesto is "£8bn more for the NHS".
Party sources say there would be £8bn more spent on the NHS in England above inflation in 2022-23 than in the current financial year, 2017-18.
That means new money is being promised. The £8bn figure bandied about at the time of the last election was the increase between 2015-16 and 2020-21.
It appears that this is money for day-to-day spending and does not include capital investment.
Thursday's announcement amounts to a rolling programme of annual spending increases rather than an immediate hike if Theresa May is returned to Downing Street.
They imply slightly more in the next couple of years than had been previously pledged to the NHS and allow the Conservatives to say that spending per person will not fall (as had previously been thought).
The spending rises would be funded, party sources say, through economic growth, with no specific tax hikes planned.
Some extra revenue would come in through higher charges for overseas visitors using the NHS.
Labour has promised, if elected, to add about £7.4bn to annual spending in England, including capital investment.
The money would be added to the overall Department of Health budget, which includes public health as well as NHS England.
The big difference compared with the Conservatives is that Labour has identified tax increases to pay for the higher health spending, which in theory could be delivered immediately.
Some doubts, though, have been expressed over whether the tax hikes can generate the revenues Labour predicts.
The Liberal Democrats, like Labour, have promised a tax rise to pay for increased health spending.
This, the party says, allows for a £4bn hike in the first year after the election.
A one penny in the pound income tax increase will fund higher NHS and social care budgets.
Given different assumptions and timeframes, it isn't easy to compare the plans.
Anita Charlesworth, director of research and economics at the Health Foundation, has had a go.
She has looked at existing plans up to 2020-21 for Department of Health spending for England and layered on the commitments made during this campaign.
Her conclusion is that the new Conservative plans would see average annual real terms increases of 1.2%, rather than the 0.8% set out in the last spending review.
Labour's plan in theory delivers annual increases of 2.2% and the Liberal Democrats' 1.8%.
Ms Charlesworth argues that while there are sizable differences in the amounts promised by the parties, "none will match the spending increases of the past or rising pressures on the system, estimated to be 4% a year above inflation".
Whoever is in government will need to face up to the fact that patient demand will continue to outstrip budget increases.
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Substantive talks brokered by the United Nations with the aim of reuniting Cyprus start on Wednesday, after a lengthy period of stalemate.
The recent election of Mustafa Akinci as Turkish Cypriot leader is widely seen as a game-changer - one that has significantly increased the chances of finding a solution.
His first act on assuming office was to abolish the "entry visa" for visitors to northern Cyprus - something that had long angered Greek Cypriots.
For the first time since Greek Cypriots rejected the UN's 2004 reunification plan, the communities now have leaders with both the will and political acumen necessary to reach a solution.
The sight of Mr Akinci and the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Greek Cypriot Nicos Anastasiades, sitting together at a theatre in the southern city of Limassol, clearly relaxed and enjoying one another's company, sent a message to both sides that they were ready to do business.
Mr Akinci, an astute pragmatist, well-versed in the art of the possible, cut his political teeth as mayor of Nicosia in the aftermath of the 1974 Turkish invasion. The city had effectively been divided in two and its integrated sewage system had stopped working.
There was a strong stench in the air and the threat of an imminent health crisis. Mr Akinci and his Greek Cypriot counterpart succeeded in fixing it. On the face of it, a prosaic, but mutually beneficial arrangement.
But this was at a time of heightened tension, when Greek and Turkish Cypriots were angry and frightened.
The conflict was still uppermost in people's minds. There were no telephone lines between the two sides and any kind of official meeting between the two men was out of the question.
By night Mr Akinci secretly crossed the mined buffer zone dividing Nicosia, for private meetings at the Greek Cypriot mayor's home.
Like Mr Akinci, President Anastasiades is an experienced politician. A political heavyweight, who is capable of being combative, he is not afraid to speak his mind.
He was one of a handful in his party to endorse the doomed UN reunification plan, and more recently pushed through painful economic reforms - a condition of the recent IMF bailout - in the face of considerable public opposition.
So, with two pragmatic pro-solution leaders, the odds should be very good indeed. Except, as ever with Cyprus, it is a bit more complicated. The problem is getting all the squares on the Rubik's cube aligned simultaneously.
Mr Akinci, despite having a public mandate to reach a deal, has Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looking over his shoulder.
The Turkish Cypriot leader has already said he believes that the traditionally close relationship between northern Cyprus and its "motherland" Turkey should move towards a more fraternal "brother-sister" relationship. So differences of opinion with Turkey can be expected.
Cyprus country profile
Mr Anastasiades, for his part, would have to win over an electorate which is historically suspicious of Turkey and is now smarting from the financial crisis of 2013.
He has repeatedly emphasised that a political solution would bring significant economic benefits. But the recent hardship has only deepened Greek Cypriots' mistrust of their leaders.
Both men need to deal with the fact that little has been done to educate the public about what living together would actually mean.
Dr James Ker-Lindsay of the London School of Economics says that "for many observers, the key question is whether a united front will emerge to take on the hardline opponents to a deal".
Mr Akinci and Mr Anastasiades may well be the best hope for reunification in several decades, but they are not there yet.
Despite the optimism, there are now several generations of Greek and Turkish Cypriots who have no experience of living together and have passed through education systems that teach Greek and Turkish patriotism, rather than emphasising a shared Cypriot identity.
Tabitha Morgan is a Cyprus analyst and author of Sweet and Bitter Island: A history of the British in Cyprus.
Dean Doherty came off his bike on Sunday at a dirt track in Magilligan. He was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
Doctors have told the family that he suffered serious spinal injuries.
His brother, Erol, said they are praying for a full recovery.
"He went in for surgery today (Monday) and they somehow secured his spine in place," he said.
"The doctors said he has a chance of walking, they said might walk, they didn't say for definite."
Erol said the family were remaining hopeful and that there were some good signs.
"The spinal cord is intact which is a good thing," he said.
"He has a little bit of feeling in his legs. We're hoping through physiotherapy that things will get better but the doctors reminded us that it's an uphill struggle."
Erol first became aware of the accident after a phone call from his mother.
"My mum was ringing me up and crying and saying he had been in some kind of motorbike accident," said Erol
"It was on his scrambler at a circuit he was on, the bike had somehow left him and, whatever way it had fallen, he had fallen on his pelvis and that had pushed up into the back of his spine.
"It just goes to show you the danger of bikes."
The family have said they are receiving lots of messages of support and said they were grateful for all the well wishes and prayers.
The bottom club's full-back broke his leg in a first-half challenge by Isco.
Cristiano Ronaldo slotted a shot under goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu to put the visitors in front, but Sergio Leon ran clear to chip an equaliser.
Isco then darted on to a loose ball to steer a shot inside the far post, and Lucas Vazquez chipped in a late third.
A few minutes before Isco's goal, Real wing-back Danilo was carried off with an ankle injury, having been caught by David Garcia, Tano's replacement.
Real's victory moved them a point ahead of Barcelona, with two games in hand, hours after Luis Enrique's side had gone top by winning 6-0 at Alaves.
It was an untidy performance from Real, who looked uncomfortable with the 3-5-2 formation that manager Zinedine Zidane chose to go with at first.
They looked far better when they reverted to their usual 4-3-3 set-up after Danilo was replaced by James Rodriguez.
Keylor Navas, the visitors' keeper, had to be sharp on several occasions, getting down to push aside Fausto Tienza's deflected shot when the game was goalless, and saving well as on-loan Newcastle forward Emmanuel Riviere fired at goal on the turn just before half-time.
Navas was on form again shortly after half-time as goalscorer Leon cut in from the right to hit a left-footed curler towards the far corner, and dived full length to his left to save the striker's 20-yard shot in the final 10 minutes.
Sirigu, the goalkeeper Osasuna signed on loan from Paris St-Germain in January, reacted brilliantly at the other end to stop Karim Benzema at point-blank range in the first half, and prevented Ronaldo getting his second as he ran clear in the final 20 minutes.
Sadly, though, the game will be remembered chiefly for the injury to Tano, in what looked nothing worse than a committed challenge by Isco.
It was clear immediately that the defender had broken his leg, and both sets of players were visibly upset by the incident.
Osasuna, on their third coach of the season in Petar Vasiljevic, look certain to be relegated at the end of the season, but can take encouragement from a spirited performance in defeat.
Match ends, Osasuna 1, Real Madrid 3.
Second Half ends, Osasuna 1, Real Madrid 3.
Goal! Osasuna 1, Real Madrid 3. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo.
Goran Causic (Osasuna) is shown the yellow card.
James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Goran Causic (Osasuna).
Attempt missed. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from very close range is too high. Assisted by James Rodríguez.
Attempt saved. Emmanuel Rivière (Osasuna) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jaime Romero.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Mateo Kovacic replaces Isco.
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Oier (Osasuna) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Sergio León (Osasuna) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nikola Vujadinovic.
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by James Rodríguez.
Isco (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Goran Causic (Osasuna).
Casemiro (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oier (Osasuna).
Offside, Real Madrid. James Rodríguez tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Rodríguez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Salvatore Sirigu.
Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo with a through ball.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jaime Romero (Osasuna) because of an injury.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez replaces Karim Benzema.
Isco (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jaime Romero (Osasuna).
Offside, Real Madrid. Nacho tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside.
Goal! Osasuna 1, Real Madrid 2. Isco (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James Rodríguez (Real Madrid).
David García (Osasuna) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Osasuna. Raoul Loé replaces Fausto.
Foul by Casemiro (Real Madrid).
Emmanuel Rivière (Osasuna) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Alex Berenguer (Osasuna) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Real Madrid. James Rodríguez replaces Danilo because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Danilo (Real Madrid) because of an injury.
Foul by Raphael Varane (Real Madrid).
Sergio León (Osasuna) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Victoria, who was joined by her husband and parents for the investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, was recognised for her 17-year career.
Former heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill was made a Dame, and celebrated actor Mark Rylance received a knighthood.
David Beckham, former England football captain, was made an OBE in 2003.
On being given the title, Victoria said: "It was an absolute pleasure to be at Buckingham Palace today. I'm proud to be British, honoured and humbled to receive my OBE from the Duke of Cambridge.
"If you dream big and work hard you can accomplish great things.
"I'm so happy to share this very special occasion with my parents and husband; without their love and support, none of this would be possible."
Earlier this year, several of the British press printed details of leaked emails in which David Beckham criticised the honours system and the honours committee.
A spokesman for David Beckham said at the time that the emails were "hacked", "doctored" and "private".
Jessica Ennis-Hill announced her retirement from athletics in October 2016 and says she is looking forward to being a spectator at the World Championships this summer.
"I've had more than I could ever imagine out of my career so I can't stand here receiving a damehood and wish for any more - it's been incredible.
"For me, I'm in a very privileged position, having achieved what I've achieved, and hopefully I can just inspire people and encourage people that being sporty and healthy is a great way to go", she said.
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The project, a live stream entitled He Will Not Divide Us, began in New York in January but moved location twice when opponents tried to disrupt it.
It was taken on by the Fact arts centre in Liverpool on Wednesday.
But it was halted by police on Thursday when people climbed on to the roof to reach a flag that was being streamed.
The project has become a target for pro-Trump activists since it began at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York on 20 January - the day of the president's inauguration.
It was meant to be a live stream of people chanting "he will not divide us" for four years - but became the scene of numerous arrests and threats of violence.
The New York museum shut down the stream after three weeks and it moved to Albuquerque and then a secret location in the US, but each time disruption forced it to close.
LaBeouf is best known for films like Transformers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, as well as his performance art.
Speaking before its move to Liverpool, LaBeouf and his collaborators Nastja Ronkko and Luke Turner said: "Events have shown that America is simply not safe enough for this artwork to exist."
Fact said it was "pleased to be able to offer the support that the project needs". At Fact, the project took the form of a flag that was streamed online.
But a Merseyside Police statement said officers were called on Thursday after reports that a group of men "were believed to be trying to get to a flag on the roof of the building".
The statement continued: "The males had left the area when patrols arrived. Advice was given to staff at the venue about the location of the flag which has since been removed."
Fact said: "On police advice, Fact and LaBeouf, Ronkko & Turner have removed the installation HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US due to dangerous, illegal trespassing."
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Jason Yendall, 29, Aaron Brannan, 24, and Jason Britton, 23, stole 21 high-value watches from Rox in front of stunned shoppers on 24 September 2014.
They were caught after two friends - Alistair Oliver, 30, and Gordon McLay, 32, - were seen wearing stolen watches.
All five also admitted being involved in a £20,000 bank robbery in Edinburgh. They will be sentenced next month.
The High Court in Glasgow heard Yendall, Brannan and Britton were all friends from Manchester while Oliver and McLay knew each other from living in Wallyford, East Lothian.
In the run-up to both robberies, vehicles and registration plates had been stolen in Scotland and England.
On 23 September - the day before the Argyll Arcade raid - Yendall, Brannan and Britton carried out a "dry run" of the route to and from the scene.
The next morning, the trio along with two unknown associates travelled from Edinburgh and targeted the arcade, which houses more than 30 jewellers and diamond merchants.
Prosecutor Sheena Fraser told the court: "Four of the men got out of the car - two carrying baseball bats, one a sledgehammer and one an axe.
"One of them was also carrying a holdall. The driver remained within the car.
"The Crown cannot say which of the men was the driver and which four attended at the arcade."
The armed robbers - also wearing balaclavas and gloves - sprinted down Buchanan Street into the busy mall at about 13:00.
They immediately targeted Rox jewellery store which had expensive Hublot watches as well as Bell and Ross time-pieces.
As some of the gang took turns to keep a look-out, others raced inside and smashed a window display.
Terrified staff and customers looked on as 21 high-end watches were snatched and tossed into bags.
Ms Fraser said: "While this was happening, members of the group in the arcade were shouting and banging on other shop windows.
"This generated a great deal of fear and panic as it was busy with public and staff from other shops."
The court heard how one worker activated a device that saw smoke fill the arcade in a bid to "disorientate" the raiders.
Some shoppers captured the incident on their mobile phones.
Just under four minutes after arriving, the gang fled with the stolen watches, shouting threats as they left.
They jumped into a getaway vehicle before eventually heading on the M8 towards Edinburgh.
Oliver and McLay were later seen in a bookmakers in Wallyford, each wearing £2,750 watches taken from the Argyll Arcade.
Ms Fraser added: "They had been given them (by Yendall, Brannan and Britton) after they returned to Edinburgh.
"They have not been recovered and were sold on by Oliver and McLay."
In the days after the raid, Yendall made a number of internet searches looking for second-hand watch websites.
The court a total of 19 Hublot watches and two from Bell and Ross were taken.
These ranged in value from £2,750 to £23,000 each. The total haul stolen was £229,601, which has never been recovered.
The Argyll Arcade was also left with a £20,000 repair bill.
The court was told that Yendall was back in Scotland just over a week later with Brannan and Britton to carry out a copycat robbery at a bank in Edinburgh.
Police meantime had been keeping an eye on Oliver. He had been seen buying four balaclavas and an axe at a B&Q store in Edinburgh.
Oliver then arranged for Yendall, Brannan and Britton to stay a friend's flat - close to the bank in the capital's Tollcross area, that was being targeted.
On 2 October - the day of the robbery - the gang got into a van used in the watch raid.
Yendall, Brannan and Britton - all masked and carrying weapons - then held up the bank after two of them jumped the counter.
They eventually fled with £19,675 warning staff not to call police.
After initially escaping in a van, they then jumped into a waiting Ford car which Oliver and McLay were in.
But, the vehicle was stopped by watching police. Cash and two axes were found in the back of the car.
Oliver, Britton and Brannan also all had money on them - including £400 in one of their socks.
The gang made no comment, but McLay claimed he and Oliver had been eating in the car when three mystery men jumped in the vehicle and demanded they drive.
Brannan's mobile was later checked as police probed the gang's link to the Argyll Arcade theft.
On the phone was a snap of Britton wearing one of the watches.
Advocate depute Ms Fraser said: "In two of the photographs, a mirror is caught in the background and a man wearing a watch is caught in the mirror.
"He is clearly identifiable as Britton. This watch was one valued at £16,000."
The court heard that all of the gang already had a criminal past.
Yendall was on early release from a five-year jail term in 2012 for another robbery.
Judge Lord Turnbull deferred sentencing on all five men until next month for reports.
All Jayaram Jayalalitha's portfolios were transferred to OP Panneerselvam, who has stood in for her in the past, but she will remain chief minister.
Governor Vidyasagar Rao's statement said the transfer had been carried out on Ms Jayalalitha's "express wishes".
It is being seen as another attempt to quell fears about her health.
Ms Jayalalitha has been in hospital since 22 September, and there has been a veil of secrecy over the extent of her illness, which has led to tension among her supporters in the state.
There are concerns that her supporters could resort to violence and acts of self harm in the event of bad news.
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On Tuesday, police in the state capital, Chennai (Madras), arrested two people for "spreading rumours" about her health.
A political analyst, Bhagwan Singh, told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi that it was significant that the governor's statement expressly mentioned that the decision to shift portfolios was taken on the advice of the chief minister.
"They are trying to say that she is conscious in an attempt to stop further speculation about her health," he said.
A spokesman for Ms Jayalalitha's AIADMK party told BBC Hindi that "in the party only the chief minister decides everything. As per the doctor's advice she has to take rest, so she has given her portfolios to Mr Panneerselvam. He is a very loyal person."
The club said the surgery on Tuesday was "a minor but important procedure which required immediate attention."
Graham Barrow and Andy Welsh will take charge if the ex-Manchester United Under-21 boss does not attend the game.
Joyce, 52, was appointed by Wigan in November after Gary Caldwell was sacked five months after guiding the club to the League One title.
Pilot Bertrand Piccard set down the prop-driven vehicle at 23:28 local time (15:28 GMT), following a 1,240km journey from Chongqing in the west of the country.
The project is aiming to circumnavigate the globe, and it must now prepare for the challenge of crossing the Pacific.
The next 10 days will be spent giving Solar Impulse a thorough servicing.
Meteorologists on the Swiss team, which has its mission control in Monaco, will then look for a suitable weather window for the ocean flight.
It will be done in two stages, with the first reaching over to Hawaii - a distance from Nanjing of 8,000km. For the slow-moving aircraft, this will entail being airborne continuously for several days and nights.
In simulations done last year, the weather opening was found quite quickly, but the team recognises also that its stay in Nanjing could be a long one.
"I think 10 days is the time we need to get ready. Then we need to wait for a good weather window," explained mission director Raymond Clerc.
"That could be three days; we could have to wait three weeks - because this leg is really the most important and is very complex. To go towards Hawaii could last five days and five nights."
Bertrand Piccard has been sharing the flying duties in the single-seater with his business partner, Andre Borschberg. And it is Borschberg, the trained engineer, who will take the controls for the leg to Hawaii.
So far, Solar Impulse has covered about 7,000km since leaving Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 9 March.
Solar Impulse has set two world records for manned solar-powered flight on its journey so far.
The first was for the longest distance covered on a single trip - that of 1,468km between Muscat, Oman, and Ahmedabad, India.
The second was for a groundspeed of 117 knots (216km/h; 135mph), which was achieved during the leg into Mandalay, Myanmar, from Varanasi, India.
No solar-powered plane has ever flown around the world.
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Valentine Clays produces raw materials for the ceramics industry, supplying local firms as well as others across the world.
The latest investment includes a workshop, gallery and training space at the new base in Fenton.
Production is also set to move to the site in the next five years with two factories planned.
Local business leaders said the ceramics sector had enjoyed a resurgence in recent years and they are keen to show young people it was no longer the "dirty environment" it used to be, but a "high-tech, modern" industry.
Kinsella left Villa in May, having failed to make a first-team appearance for the Championship club.
The 21-year-old joined Kidderminster Harriers on loan in February, playing in 13 games.
He suffered relegation twice in one day last season, with Harriers going down on 16 April as the end of Villa's Premier League stay was confirmed.
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Mr Anderson, the MP for Blaydon in north east England, took over as Labour's frontbench spokesman on Scotland after Ian Murray quit the job.
His appointment was controversial as he does not represent a Scottish seat.
Mr Anderson, who served at Westminster for 12 years, said he had "reluctantly" decided not to stand for reasons of "health, age and my family's needs".
The former miner also fulfilled the role of shadow Northern Ireland Secretary.
Mr Anderson, 63, won his Blaydon seat with a majority of 14,227 in 2015.
He took over the Scottish role in July 2016 after Mr Murray resigned citing a lack of confidence in party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
He said the snap election in June was "nothing more than a cynical attempt by the Tories to put their interests before the country", but said he welcomed the chance to take Labour's case to the public.
He said: "I have reluctantly decided that for reasons of health, age and my family's needs, I cannot commit to another five years in parliament.
"To that end I will stand down, but I will be campaigning hard with our new candidate and the positive policy platform put forward by our leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and the whole Labour movement.
"We'll show the people of Blaydon that there is a different, more positive and hopeful way to run our country than that proposed by the right-wing, anti-public service and pro-austerity Tory party."
The boy allegedly incited another person to carry out an attack at an Anzac Day event with the aim of killing or seriously injuring people.
He is also accused of inciting another person to behead someone in Australia.
The court remanded the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to youth detention.
The case was transferred to the Old Bailey, which will hold a preliminary hearing later.
The boy was charged after officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit and Lancashire Police executed a search of an address in Blackburn on 2 April.
Anzac Day is commemorated on 25 April in memory of Australian and New Zealand soldiers who have died in war.
The 26-year-old Brazil international has signed a five-year deal and will join City on their pre-season tour of the United States.
Danilo can play in both full-back roles as well as in midfield, and is City's fourth major signing of the summer.
"There was interest from other clubs, but it has always been my ambition to play for Pep Guardiola," he said.
His arrival takes City's summer spending to almost £150m, following the recruitment of England international Kyle Walker (£45m), Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva (£43m) and Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson Moraes (£35m).
The club have also agreed a £52m deal for 23-year-old Monaco defender Benjamin Mendy and sold left-back Aleksandar Kolarov to Serie A club Roma for £4.5m.
Danilo's move is subject to him receiving a work permit, meaning he is unlikely to make his debut when City face Real on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The former Santos player joined Real in 2015 from Porto but started just 17 La Liga games last season.
In two years at the Bernabeu, he won La Liga, two Champions Leagues, the Uefa Super Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup.
"Danilo is a fine player who offers great versatility," said City director of football Txiki Begiristain.
"He can operate in several different roles in both defence and midfield, increasing Pep's options ahead of the new season."
The new study is said to be the best effort yet to quantify just how much of this debris is being dumped, blown or simply washed out to sea.
Eight million tonnes is like covering an area 34 times the size of New York's Manhattan Island to ankle depth.
The details were released at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Dr Jenna Jambeck, the study’s lead author from the University of Georgia, had another way to try to visualise the scale of the problem.
“The quantity entering the ocean is equal to about five plastic grocery bags full of plastic for every foot of coastline in the world,” she told BBC News.
Researchers have for some time now reported on the mass of plastic caught up in ocean currents, just going round and round.
What is slightly shocking about this new study, also published in Science Magazine, is that it helps quantify all the plastic in our oceans - not just the material seen floating on the sea surface or sitting on beaches.
The newly published estimate is 20 to 2,000 times greater than the reported mass of plastic trapped in high concentration in ocean gyres.
It is clear now that large quantities of debris must be hidden on the seafloor or have been weathered into tiny fragments that are just not apparent to casual surveys. The latter are being ingested by marine animals with unknown consequences.
In doing its analysis, the team pulled together international data on population, waste generation and management (and mismanagement). The group then modelled scenarios for the likely sums of plastic getting into the ocean environment.
For 2010, the estimated range runs from 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes. Eight million tonnes is the mid-scenario. It is a few percent of the total plastic waste generated that year.
That lower bound of 4.8 is roughly equal to the size of the global tuna fishery.
"In effect we're taking out the tuna and we're putting in plastic," commented co-author Kara Lavender Law from the Sea Education Association at Woods Hole.
Eight million tonnes is the mid-scenario, though. It is a few percent of the total plastic waste generated each year.
The scientists have compiled a list of the nations they find to be responsible for most of this wayward plastic.
These top 20 countries account for 83% of all mismanaged material available to enter the ocean.
China is at the top, producing more than a million tonnes of marine debris on its own.
But the team cautions against making simple judgements because this position is a result in the main of the Asian nation’s immense population, a large fraction of which lives along an extensive coastline.
Likewise, the United States, makes an entry at 20th on the list. It too has large coastal communities. It also has much better waste management practices. But what pulls its performance down is the sheer volume of waste produced by each individual citizen – and some of this inevitably finds its way into the ocean.
(The EU is considered as a bloc but would appear 18th in the list if treated as a single nation).
The team says various solutions are required.
Rich nations need to reduce their consumption of single-use, disposable plastic items, like shopping bags; and developing nations must improve their waste management practices.
It is evident from the list that a relatively small number of middle-income, rapidly developing countries are having acute difficulties.
Dr Jambeck commented: “Economic growth is coupled with waste generation. Now, economic growth is a positive, but what you often see in developing countries is that waste management infrastructure is put to one side. And rightly so to some extent; they are looking more closely at getting clean drinking water and improving sanitation.
"But from a waste perspective, I don't want them to forget about this management issue because if they do, the problems are only going to get worse."
The study suggests that, left unchecked, 17.5 million tonnes a year could be entering the oceans by 2025. Cumulatively, that is 155 million tonnes between now and then.
And with global "peak waste" unlikely to be reached before 2100, according to World Bank calculations, the situation becomes ever more pressing.
Co-author Roland Geyer, from the University of California at Santa Barbara, said it was not feasible to clean the oceans of plastic; "turning off the tap" was the only solution," he told BBC News.
"How could you even collect plastics from the ocean floor given that the average depth is 14,000ft? We need to prevent plastics entering the oceans in the first place. Lack of formal waste management systems causes high plastic waste inputs into the ocean. So, helping every country to develop a sound solid waste management infrastructure is a top priority."
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Five years ago, St Jerome's in Llangwm was in urgent need of repair with damp and bits of render falling down.
But a research project creating a 5m-long (16ft) tapestry illustrating the town's 900-year-old links has raised more than £431,000 to renovate it.
Pam Hunt, project leader, said it was a "fascinating story".
The Talking Tapestry of Langum (one of Llangwm's historical names) - which has a downloadable smart phone app to tell the story of the village's ties - forms part of the Heritage Llangwm project.
As part of the project some of the village's men had their DNA tested and found a direct link to the Flemish founders.
Norman Roach, 82 had his DNA tested and was "astounded" to discover he was directly related to the 12th Century settlers.
"To take all that in was mindboggling," he added.
After about 2,000 hours of work, volunteers in the village will celebrate the end of the history project on Saturday by putting the final stitches in the tapestry.
The Talking Tapestry of Langum will be officially unveiled by the Flemish government's representative in the UK, Nic van der Marliere. The Flemish Parliament and the Flemish Government are responsible for the legislative powers of the Flemish Community in Belgium and in Brussels.
Ms Hunt said the research project, which won £340,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, grants from CADW and other bodies, had helped save the church which was in "desperate need of work".
She said: "There's interest down here, but the whole of Wales knows so little about it."
The Twelfth Player tells the story of Northampton Town FC through three generations of a family.
The play's audience will be given a headset and handheld media player as they are guided around the club's Sixfields Stadium.
Playwrights Susanne Thomas and Sophie Jump said their work was inspired by "dark days" of 2015.
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Towards the end of 2015, financial problems at the club meant staff and players were not being paid.
The club owed Northampton Borough Council more than £10m and a winding-up petition was sought by HM Revenue and Customs against the then League Two side.
Despite problems off the pitch, 2015-16 was the season the Cobblers clinched the league title and promotion to League One.
"We are going to take the audience on a journey around the stadium and into the back stage areas where the public rarely gets a chance to go including the changing rooms," said Ms Thomas.
"They will see the world of football through the eyes of three generations of a single family."
The show will include live performances by actors as well as audio and visual media through the devices provided to the audience.
The show runs from 22 June until 12 July.
Some minor formalities of the deal have still to be completed, but the 25-year-old flew to Poland on Thursday.
Pogon Szczecin announced on their website that the former Dundee United forward will wear the number 17 jersey and he has already trained with the side.
"It's good for him to get some games," said Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers.
"It's been difficult for him because of the form of the other strikers here, but you have to give him massive credit because he's been totally professional and a great guy to have around the squad.
"I gave him some game time lately as a reward really for his hard work and endeavour. But he's a striker and they want to play and score goals. This is a chance for him to get some games between now and the end of the season."
Turkey under-19 cap Ciftci had a spell on loan last season in his home country at Eskisehirspor, playing 12 games and scoring four goals, but has made only four appearances for Celtic this season.
He joined Celtic from Dundee United in the summer of 2015 during Ronny Deila's tenure as manager and has scored four goals for the Glasgow side.
Pogon are seventh in Ekstraklasa after 21 of their 30 league games.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has also called on ministers to extend tax breaks on lower-strength 2.8% beers to include ciders and wines.
The call has been welcomed by industry bodies.
The LGA represents 370 councils in England and Wales with responsibility for public health.
The cost to the NHS of dealing with excessive alcohol consumption is estimated to be £3.5bn a year, according to the LGA.
Tony Page, the licensing spokesman for the LGA, said: "Increasing the availability of zero alcohol and weaker strength drinks will help people live healthier lives by helping to control drinking levels and tackle the harm caused by excessive drinking.
"With a new generation of non-drinkers on the rise, there is a growing demand for greater choice in alcohol-free and weaker drinks, with several 'dry bars' opening up across the country.
"Tax breaks for beer have helped fuel a rise in low-strength products. This should now be extended to cider, wine and spirits."
He also said that drinking habits were changing and "brewers needed to capitalise on this by producing a range of different options" for people.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that excessive consumption of alcohol is also associated with violent crime.
In just over a half of all instances of violent crime in England and Wales in 2013-14, the victim believed that the perpetrator was drunk.
The LGA says widening the availability of low-strength and alcohol-free drinks would "revitalise pubs, which are closing at a rate of nearly 30 a week, and re-establish them as vibrant centres of communities".
There is also a growing number of non-drinkers, with one in five adults (21%) saying they do not drink alcohol at all - up from 19% in 2005.
A spokesman for the Portman Group - which campaigns for the drinks industry on social responsibility - said: "We welcome this support for lower strength drinks.
"Official statistics show a decade-long decline in harmful drinking in the UK, and alcohol companies are committed to continuing this positive trend."
A spokesman for the British Beer and Pub Association said: "Lower taxes for lower strength drinks is a great idea, and we would support this principle for other drinks categories."
Earlier this year, tough new guidelines were issued on alcohol consumption, which said there was no such thing as a safe level of drinking.
The UK's chief medical officers said new research showed any amount of alcohol could increase the risk of cancer.
Their new advice says men and women who drink regularly should consume no more than 14 units a week - equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine. And pregnant women should not drink at all.
Ministers decided in an emergency meeting to give local municipalities the authority to treat local waste.
Protests triggered by rotting rubbish in Beirut quickly grew into a wider attack on the perceived corruption and incompetence of politicians.
Demonstrators earlier pelted eggs at politicians' cars outside parliament.
Breaking the deadlock, Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayeb approved on Wednesday a deal that devolves waste management duties to municipalities - a central demand of the protesters - and authorises the opening of two new landfills.
The rubbish crisis began after the country's largest landfill in Naameh, south of Beirut, shut down in July with no ready alternative. The government has been unable to agree on another site until now.
As part of Wednesday's agreement, Naameh landfill will also be temporarily reopened to dispose of any rubbish that remains there.
But political parties meeting at an earlier "national dialogue" session could not come to agreement on how to elect a new president. The post has been vacant since May 2014, contributing to the months-long political paralysis. Another meeting was scheduled for next week.
Protesters gathered outside the parliament building as politicians arrived for the meeting, some of them pelting eggs at their vehicles shouting "thieves, thieves, get out!"
Security was heightened in anticipation of the protests, with metal barricades erected outside parliament and armoured vehicles lining the streets.
Outside the parliament building, activists pinned a large banner onto barbed wire showing the photos of the 128 members of parliament with the words in Arabic: "You have failed in everything...Go home."
Demonstrators also blockaded a major coastal road leading into Beirut.
Thousands of people have joined the "You Stink" campaign in recent weeks, blaming political paralysis and corruption for the government's failure to resolve the rubbish crisis.
Lebanon has been without a president for more than a year, while members of parliament have extended their own terms until 2017 after failing to agree on a law on fresh elections.
The conflict in neighbouring Syria has also exacerbated political and sectarian divisions, and resulted in the arrival of 1.1 million refugees, putting a strain on the economy and public services.
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United, who won six friendlies under Van Gaal in pre-season, began their Premier League campaign with a shock 2-1 home defeat by Swansea.
Van Gaal said: "When you have preparation, win everything, then lose your first match, it cannot be worse.
"We have built up a lot of confidence. It will be smashed because of this."
Swansea's victory was their first in their history in the league at Old Trafford, and saw United lose at home on the opening day of the season for the first time in 42 years, since Ipswich beat them 3-2 in 1972.
It was a defeat and performance reminiscent of United's struggles at home last season, when they lost seven league matches under David Moyes and were beaten by the Swans in the FA Cup.
On top of United's failure to strengthen their squad significantly since Van Gaal's arrival in July, their list of injured or unfit players meant he gave debuts to two academy graduates - Tyler Blackett and Jesse Lingard.
With Luke Shaw injured, United could field only one summer signing, £29m midfielder Ander Herrera.
But Van Gaal swatted away suggestions that the display and defeat against the Welsh side will make him step up efforts to strengthen his side before the transfer window shuts on 2 September.
"Yes, I need new faces but I thought that before this match anyway," he said.
"When we were playing in the United States I thought the same. I know the positions where we need better players."
He also dismissed questions that the defeat has made him realise the scale of his task as he looks to take a team that finished seventh last season back into the top four and challenge for the title.
"I have said before that I know how big a job I face here," Van Gaal explained.
"Our wins in the United States and against Valencia meant that the expectation was so high.
"In the first half I saw a lot of my players looking very nervous and making the wrong choices. The players have to get used to that expectation because this is Manchester United and they have to cope with that pressure.
"Of course I am very disappointed to lose - for the players and fans and for myself and my staff.
"But we have to remember this is only one of many games and nobody is champions now. You are the champions in May."
On Twitter, a fan had asked if he was going to put the game back in the app store.
"Yes. But not soon," Mr Nguyen replied, later adding: "I don't work by plan. I will release it when it is done."
Mr Nguyen removed the popular game in February, saying its popularity had ruined his "simple life".
Launched in May 2013, Flappy Bird was free to download and required players to tap the screen to keep the bird in flight.
Despite its simple graphics, Flappy Bird was a notoriously difficult game since many users could only keep the bird in the air for a few seconds before it hit an obstacle and fell.
The game went viral after being promoted almost entirely by social media users and was reviewed on a YouTube channel by more than 22 million subscribers.
It was downloaded 50 million times, and at the height of its popularity, Mr Nguyen was reportedly earning $50,000 (£30,450) a day from advertising
In an interview earlier this month with Rolling Stone, Mr Nguyen said he was moved to remove the popular mobile game from the App store after users wrote to him detailing how the game had destroyed their lives.
After the game was taken down, users started several passionate petitions to get the game reinstated.
Edward Barr, 45, began terrorising Ann Begg when she became pregnant.
The attacks happened at addresses across Ayrshire, including in Cumnock and Auchinleck, between May 1993 and May 2000.
Lord Clark ordered Barr to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work as part of a 12-month community payback order.
Barr, from Cumnock in Ayrshire, appeared at the High Court in Glasgow, having earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting Ms Begg, 51,
However, before his guilty plea, Ms Begg had to give evidence against him at a trial in Livingston.
She had told the court: "It was fine at first, but I was not able to give him the full attention he was getting before, so he did not like that.
"I noticed things were not the same. There was a lot more arguments leading up to the violence that happened throughout that period."
She recalled being "pummelled" by Barr while pregnant after rowing with him for going on a day out with a friend rather than her.
She said: "I was dragged from the living room out to the hallway of the flat by the hair. All I can remember is fists coming at me."
Barr also went on to pour "a plate of boiling hot custard" over her as she cooked a meal.
Miss Begg eventually ended up staying in women's refuges.
The pair split up in 2000 when Barr started seeing someone else.
Barr has already spent the equivalent of eight months on remand.
He was earlier cleared of 10 further charges of domestic violence after a key witness failed to turn up to give evidence.
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We play finals on Sundays, most semi-finals are on Saturdays and if a tournament starts on a Monday, we're practising the weekend before.
So it's pretty rare to have a weekend when we don't do anything.
We do get days off at other times. When I got back after the Australian Open in January I had four or five days when I wasn't doing anything, and that's your time to do normal stuff. You get to be with your family, watch TV, go out for dinner, see friends and do normal things.
It's pretty rare at this time of year - at least you hope it is - but that doesn't mean I get home every night and lock myself in my room, just concentrating on my match.
Maybe I don't do loads around the house during the two weeks of Wimbledon but I still want to spend time with my family when I can.
For example, on Friday I only saw my daughter for an hour in the morning and I want to make sure I spend the time available with her.
I've got two days without a match this weekend and I'll try to do stuff with my family in the mornings and the evenings around practice. Kim and I watched an episode an evening last week of a show called The Night Of, which we finished on Thursday.
I'm fine switching off from the tennis but I like being busy over the weekends because it means I'm doing well. I'll get plenty of weekends off when I finish playing.
There was a moment the other night when I was stuck in traffic, with the fuel gauge close to empty, and I thought, 'this isn't looking good'.
Home felt a lot further than 11 miles away with Wimbledon in gridlock and about six miles' worth of petrol in the tank.
I always let it run down low, although not normally that low.
My car lets me know when I've got 35 miles left, and when I left home that morning I had 30 miles, so enough to get there and back.
Unfortunately there was an accident along the route and it was taking some people two hours to get in. I use an app that got me to the All England Club in 45 minutes, but I had to go around the houses to get to there.
It normally takes me 25 to 30 minutes, so if I'd stopped to fill up and then taken that route I'd have been late to start my physio, so I thought 'just get to Wimbledon'. The club is surrounded by lots of petrol stations within two or three miles, so no problem.
But when I left that night there was so much traffic around the venue that I was stuck.
I had a back-up plan though - the petrol station I headed for is at the bottom of a hill, so I thought I could just roll down there and up to the pump if I needed to. That would have been quite a sight for anyone watching.
Luckily I made it there with one mile left in the tank, and I might fill it up a bit more than normal next week!
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Playing Monday, Wednesday, Friday means I get the weekend free, which can work both ways.
The other half of the draw get to play every other day throughout the tournament and pick up a good rhythm, on the other hand I have more time to catch up on the practice I missed in the week before Wimbledon.
I play Benoit Paire in the fourth round on Monday and he is another talented, tricky opponent. Like in the last round against Fabio Fognini, it will be our first meeting on grass.
That means plenty of time at the club working on my game, and there's another competition I've got my eye on.
I saw Rafa Nadal and his team trying a bit of golf before he went on to play his match on Friday, they had the putter out for a little bit of friendly competition.
I don't really play much golf and I know Rafa plays all the time, but putting is a very specific skill and I fancy my chances.
Maybe we'll line that one up for next week, why not?
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery
The 20-year-old moved to Deepdale from Cork City in January 2014 and has made 41 appearances for the club.
The Republic of Ireland youth international has also captained his country's Under-19 side.
"This new contract now just gives me the freedom to go and play again and do what I do and it's great to get it done," he told the club website.
"I think we can make a big impact in the Championship and be up there come the end of the season and I can't wait to be a part of it."
Auckland Blues and New Zealand Rugby have "accommodated" a request from Williams, who said his objection was "central to my religious beliefs".
Williams, a Muslim, will continue to wear the New Zealand kit, which features sponsorship from insurers AIG.
The 31-year-old said it was important to him to "do the right thing".
"As I learn more and develop a deeper understanding of my faith I am no longer comfortable doing things I used to do," he added.
Williams already had a "conscientious objection" in his central contract that meant he was not asked to do sponsorship work with companies related to finance, alcohol, tobacco or gambling.
These are granted by New Zealand Rugby "on the basis of genuine family, ethical or religious grounds".
"Sonny holds clear religious beliefs in relation to this matter and we respect those," said general manager Neil Sorensen.
"Conscientious objections need to be genuine, and we believe this is."
Williams, who has boxed professionally, switched to rugby union from rugby league, and helped the All Blacks win the World Cup in 2015.
After his side beat Australia 34-17 in the final at Twickenham, Williams gave his medal to a young fan who raced on to the pitch to celebrate before being tackled by a security guard.
"He got smoked by the security guard, like full-on tackled," Williams said at the time. "It was pretty sad. He's just a young fella obviously caught up in the moment."
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The BBC looked at 20 of the "best of 2015" lists in music's most influential publications - including the NME, Rolling Stone, Vice, Billboard and Q Magazine - to find the highest-ranked albums of the year.
Read about the Top 10, and what the critics had to say about each of them, below.
10) Miguel - Wildheart
Like Prince on Purple Rain, R&B star Miguel ventured into rock territory, splicing flame-throwing guitar riffs on to his tales of bedroom conquests, salvation and damnation.
9) Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
Most people had written off Canadian Idol winner Carly Rae Jepsen as a one-hit wonder after Call Me Maybe, but she proved them wrong with this collection of world-class, 80s-referencing pop.
8) Grimes - Art Angels
Canadian artist Grimes, known to her parents as Clare Boucher, spent two-and-a-half years streamlining the sound of her fourth album, a futuristic collection of uncompromising pop. "The whole time I had this feeling like it might all blow up in my face and people might hate it," she told Billboard.
7) Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
Emerging from a 10-year hiatus, US rock band Sleater-Kinney worked in secret on their eighth album, retaining the stabbing energy of their self-titled debut.
6) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
A long, intimate conversation with death, Carrie and Lowell is named after Sufjan Stevens' mother and stepfather - but is principally concerned with the former, who died of cancer in 2012. Over the record, he dissects their relationship - she abandoned him as a baby - and tries to reconcile his feelings of grief, loss and love.
5) Tame Impala - Currents
Tame Impala vocalist Kevin Parker is probably more familiar as a guest vocalist on Mark Ronson's Uptown Special, but his band's third album is an equally-accomplished expedition into trippy psych-pop with some of their strongest melodies to date.
4) Jamie xx - In Colour
Jamie Smith's first solo album pillages dance music's past to create something approaching a new genre - quiet rave.
3) Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman penned his second album as a love letter to his wife, Emma. But don't be fooled by the title - the record is caustic, explicit and full of prickly putdowns, which focus as much on his own shortcomings as his passion for his bride.
2) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
With a title inspired by a poster in her grandmother's toilet, Courtney Barnett set the tone for her debut album - a selection of sloppy punk-pop grounded by her witty, conversational lyrics.
1) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
A hip-hop album built on visionary jazz and gritty funk, To Pimp A Butterfly is dizzying at first - as Lamar tackles race crime, faith, sex and his own hypocrisies, often in the space of a single track. But with repeated listens, it coalesces into a startling, compelling document of fame and fear in modern America.
The 20 best of lists surveyed appeared in: Amazon, AV Club, Billboard magazine, Consequence of Sound, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Mashable, Mojo, NME, Paste, Q Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin, Stereogum, The Sun, Time, Time Out London, Time Out New York, Uncut and Vice.
The Bees took the lead in the 14th minute, with the diminutive Mauro Vilhete sending Nana Kyei's corner looping in at the far post.
Kyei almost put the Bees two up when he raced past his man and into the box, only for goalkeeper Luke McCormick to produce a fine save.
Barnet flew out of the blocks after the break, with John Akinde denied by McCormick before Kyei clipped the crossbar.
Argyle's Paul Garita headed over from close range but Michael Nelson and Ricardo Santos weathered the storm in the middle of the Bees' defence.
Vilhete nearly made the points safe with eight minutes left but McCormick produced another one-on-one save.
And Gary Miller should have brought Plymouth level seconds later, only for the Scot to volley wide from five yards as Barnet held on.
Match ends, Barnet 1, Plymouth Argyle 0.
Second Half ends, Barnet 1, Plymouth Argyle 0.
Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Muggleton (Barnet).
Foul by Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle).
Ricardo Santos (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
David Goodwillie (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Curtis Weston (Barnet).
Attempt blocked. Dan Sweeney (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Jamie Stephens.
Attempt saved. David Goodwillie (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Barnet. Sam Muggleton replaces Harry Taylor.
Attempt missed. Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left.
Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dan Sweeney (Barnet).
Attempt missed. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Harry Taylor (Barnet).
Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Sonny Bradley.
Attempt blocked. Jack Taylor (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Dan Sweeney (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Barnet. Dan Sweeney replaces Simeon Akinola.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Yann Songo'o.
Attempt blocked. John Akinde (Barnet) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Craig Tanner (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simeon Akinola (Barnet).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces Paul Garita.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
Attempt blocked. Paul Garita (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Michael Nelson (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by David Fox.
Substitution, Barnet. Jamal Campbell-Ryce replaces Nana Kyei.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
But the move drew criticism from other business executives, who said it would hurt US companies' ability to work abroad and inhibit innovation.
Mr Trump cast his move as part of a bigger 'America first' agenda, aimed at restoring US jobs in struggling industries.
The Dow Jones closed up 0.6% following the widely expected announcement.
Before Mr Trump confirmed he would go ahead with his campaign pledge to withdraw, a slew of major companies issued statements urging him to remain in the deal.
After the announcement, they expressed disappointment.
"Climate change is real," tweeted Jeff Immelt, chief executive of GE. "Industry must now lead and not depend on government."
Tesla boss Elon Musk confirmed he would quit his seat on White House advisory groups.
He wrote on Twitter "Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world."
Several other major companies, including Morgan Stanley, Unilever, Intel and big tech firms, such as Apple, had opposed withdrawal, saying it would have spurred energy innovation in the US, among other benefits.
Energy companies including Exxon Mobil and Chevron, had also pressed the administration to remain in the pact.
Under the deal, the US, which accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emission, had committed to a 26% to 28% reduction from 2005 levels by 2025.
The US also promised $3bn in aid to a United Nations fund to help poorer countries to tackle climate change problems.
In his announcement on Thursday, Mr Trump said the deal, which involved voluntary commitments, put the US at a disadvantage. He said he would be willing to renegotiate under different terms.
"The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement -- they went wild; they were so happy -- for the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage," he said.
"They don't put America first," he said. "I do, and I always will."
For the US coal lobby, the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the global Paris agreement on climate change was a win.
Murray Energy, a coal mining company based in Ohio, applauded the move, describing it as an important part of the Trump administration's broader environmental agenda.
"In following through on his promise, President Trump is supporting America's uncompromising values, saving coal jobs, and promoting low-cost, reliable electricity for Americans and the rest of the World," chief executive Robert Murray said in a statement.
Paul Bailey, the president of the coal lobbying organisation American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, said the standards established under the previous Obama administration were too stringent.
"We support President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement," he said. "Meeting President Obama's goal would have led to more regulations, higher energy prices, and dependence on less reliable energy sources."
Oil stocks such as ExxonMobil and Chevron climbed on Thursday, as did the overall market.
The broad S&P 500 share index and the technology index, the Nasdaq, closed at new highs, having already been climbing throughout in the day in anticipation of strong employment figures due out on Friday.
Investors had been expecting President Trump's announcement and analysts said it had already been factored into prices.
Peabody Energy, the US's largest publicly traded coal company, saw its shares slide 0.66% on Thursday.
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Reports suggest the chief medical officer for England, Dame Sally Davies, will recommend abstaining from alcohol for at least two days a week.
The daily maximum intake for men could also be cut to the same as for women.
Currently, women are advised to drink no more than 2-3 units a day and men no more than 3-4.
According to newspaper reports, the review will stress there is no "safe" alcohol intake and even drinking small amounts could cause diseases such as cancer.
Scottish guidelines already advise people to abstain for at least two days a week.
The advice to be issued by Dame Sally will also be adopted by the chief medical officers for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Dame Sally's review was launched in 2013 after the Department of Health said it had heard "sufficient concerns" from experts to suggest a thorough examination of the evidence on alcohol and health risks was needed.
Updated guidelines on drinking in pregnancy and for young people were published in 2007 and 2009 respectively, but the last review of the advice as a whole was done in 1995.
The current guidance states that by sticking within recommended limits, there is "only a low risk of causing harm in most circumstances".
The recommended daily maximum for women of 2-3 units equates to no more than a standard 175ml glass of wine.
Men are told not to consume more than 3-4, not much more than a pint of strong lager, beer or cider.
Elaine Hindal, chief executive of alcohol education charity Drinkaware, said the updated advice would "help people make better choices" about their drinking.
"Our research suggests that aside from the well-known impacts on the liver, broader alcohol-related health risks such as hypertension, heart disease and some types of cancer, are not commonly understood by many people," she added.
Dr Sally Marlow, from King's College London, told the BBC a break from alcohol for several days had various positive effects.
"Alcohol, when you metabolise it in your liver, turns into a poison... and while it's a poison, it's in your system and messing your system up physically.
"But also psychologically. If you are drinking every day it becomes a habit and habits are really difficult to break."
One unit of alcohol is about half a pint of lower-strength lager, beer or cider (ABV 3.6%), or a single measure of spirits (25ml, ABV 40%)
A 175ml glass of wine (ABV 12%) is 2.1 units and a pint of strong beer (ABV 5.2%) is three units
A 330ml bottle of lager (ABV 5%) is 1.7 units
To work out how many units there are in any drink, multiply the total volume of a drink (in ml) by its ABV (which is measured as a percentage) and divide the result by 1,000
Source: NHS Choices
Dr Marlow said the new guidelines were likely to take into account the idea of an "acceptable risk".
"We drive cars knowing that we might have an accident, so are we prepared to accept the same level of risk when we have a drink?
"We accept that there is some risk associated with that, but the benefit in our own internal calculation is worth it."
In 2012, a report by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee recommended advising the public take at least two alcohol-free days a week.
Dame Sally led the review in consultation with government officials in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and considered whether there could be merit in producing bespoke guidelines for certain groups, like older people, who may be particularly susceptible to alcohol harms.
Commenting on the reports, a Department of Health spokesman said: "The chief medical officer, with advice from a group of independent experts, has reviewed current drinking guidelines.
"The proposals will be published in the New Year."
The convention will see 10,000 people get together in Docklands to celebrate all aspects of the hugely popular block-building game.
It will feature talks by the game's developers, a costume competition and sessions on modifying the basic game.
Well-known YouTube stars including Stampy, The Diamond Minecart and Captain Sparklez are also attending.
The convention comes as Microsoft announces an initiative to make more use of Minecraft in schools.
The core coding team for Minecraft is set to appear at the show to talk about future features on which they are working. Also present will be Telltale Games which is working on Minecraft: Story Mode - an episodic adventure set in the game's universe.
Prominent at the show will be the coders who modify the game who will share hints about the best way to customise the way it is played. A large panel of well-known YouTubers is also scheduled to appear to give tips about growing and serving the audience for Minecraft "lets play" videos.
The convention will also feature a "speedrun" competition to see which players can traverse a Minecraft game map the fastest. About 70 million copies of the game have been sold since it was launched in 2011.
Microsoft is giving away "golden tickets" to some attendees so they can try out the version of Minecraft being made for its Hololens augmented reality headset.
Earlier this week Microsoft also announced the creation of a Minecraft in Education initiative that will see the game become a route through which children are taught subjects including maths, history and religion.
It is also introducing tools that help schools co-ordinate what is done through the game to make collaboration easier.
This year's convention is the first since Microsoft bought Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5bn (£1.6bn) in September 2014.
Despite now being the parent company for Mojang, Microsoft had no plans to change the way the game is made and run, said Matt Booty, general manager for the Minecraft team at Microsoft.
"This is definitely Mojang's show and it's about Minecraft and the fans," he said. "We are here to listen and learn and be inspired by the fans."
Prior to the event Microsoft revealed that it was working on a version of Minecraft made for Windows 10 - the next version of its flagship operating system.
The new version will be free to anyone who already has a copy of Minecraft. Microsoft said it planned to put out a test or beta version first and then fine tune it with the help of players. The beta will be available as Windows 10 is released on 29 July.
Tickets for the event went on sale in March and sold out within hours of being available. Minecon is being held at London's Excel exhibition and convention centre in Docklands.
The Trump administration says it will tighten economic sanctions against the government in Pyongyang and activate a missile defence system as it aims to halt Kim Jong-Un's nuclear weapons programme and ballistic missile tests.
North Korea has vowed to conduct more missile and nuclear tests.
The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus answers your questions on the situation.
While there are widespread sanctions against North Korea, they are not effectively enforced. A recent UN study found that fragments from a North Korean missile test showed electronics sourced either from or via Chinese enterprises. So China could do a lot more to enforce missile specific sanctions as well as turning the screw economically.
US steps up pressure on North Korea
The problem for Beijing is that it does not want to see the regime collapse. But the existing sanctions regime could be toughened up and there are various additional financial steps that could be taken to make North Korea's life even more difficult.
The problem is that wider sanctions can be a blunt instrument and with frequent famines in the country, nobody wants to make the suffering of ordinary North Koreans even worse.
The goal of US policy has long been to roll back North Korea's nuclear programme, but that has proved impossible and the emphasis seems increasingly upon containment. There is no evidence that North Korea has any desire to give up its nuclear weapons, indeed quite the contrary. It believes they are the most important factor preventing their country from being swept away.
North Korea's missile programme
China is of course eager to find a diplomatic way forward and there are avenues that could be explored - North Korean limitations on its weapons programme, for example, in return for various concessions. But this has been tried before and it failed. This is an almost unique regime in its level of isolation, paranoia and fundamental weakness, whatever its apparent military strength.
South Korea has a long-standing mutual defence treaty (1953) with the United States, and Washington would come to its aid if it was threatened. There are some 28,500 US troops in South Korea and advanced US warplanes rotate through the country on regular deployments.
There is also the Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Co-operation Friendship Treaty of 1961, which has some defence elements, but it is far from clear that China would go to war to defend the North Korean regime, especially if it had instigated hostilities against the South.
I would stress at the outset that we are (hopefully) still far away from a full-scale military engagement. Given the North Korean military's capabilities and readiness, any war, if it did break out, is likely to lead to devastating consequences for South Korea. Seoul, the South Korean capital, is well within range of massed North Korean artillery.
The kind of forces that the US has so far sent to the region - a carrier strike group and a submarine equipped with cruise missiles - sends a signal but is far from adequate for the Americans to contemplate hostilities.
Obviously, while North Korea might have an initial military advantage, any full-scale war would see it facing the technological sophistication of the modern US military machine. North Korea would almost certainly lose. But the level of devastation in both North and South Korea would be immense and that is without considering the possibility that Pyongyang might seek to use its small nuclear arsenal.
If the Thaad missile system successfully intercepts a nuclear warhead, what happens to the fissile material in that warhead?
It is by no means clear that North Korea has nuclear warheads small enough to go on its missiles. Thaad is designed to intercept missiles during the terminal phase of their flight, inside or just outside the earth's atmosphere at a range of some 200 km, which experts believe would mitigate the effect of any weapon of mass destruction like nuclear or chemical.
Thaad is an impressive system but not a missile-proof shield. Its deployment is both a diplomatic signal and a practical precaution. It could, for example, try to intercept any errant North Korean missile that might be heading for South Korea.
Are North Korea's neighbours worried about an attack?
It is still not clear when the Thaad system and its powerful radars will actually be operational, though the deployment has begun.
China is well aware of the escalating tensions in the region and is clearly eager to dial back the crisis.
The US in turn is seeking to use Beijing's concern as a lever to get it to try to influence Pyongyang's behaviour.
China is in a difficult position. It does not much like the Pyongyang regime and its unstable behaviour. But it does not want to see the regime swept away, partly because it does not relish a US-leaning unified Korea on its border, but also because the collapse of the North Korean regime might lead to a huge wave of millions of refugees seeking sanctuary in China.
During the last Korean conflict in the 1950s, China was an active participant on the side of the North Koreans but there is no indication that it would back the erratic regime in Pyongyang in any future conflict.
While North Korea is believed to have a small but significant arsenal of nuclear weapons, it is by no means clear that it has mastered the ability to reduce a warhead sufficiently in size to place it on the end of a missile.
The bulk of its missile force is armed with conventional warheads and could easily create havoc in South Korea, perhaps even reaching US bases in Guam. It does not yet have intercontinental range weapons with which it could strike the continental United States. It is seeking to develop such a capability and this is precisely what successive US administrations have sought to prevent - so far with little apparent success.
How mixed signals on North Korea could spell disaster
Clearly, North Korea is a very long way from Europe and its weapons do not have sufficient range to reach European targets. Quite what impact a nuclear release would have more generally (on the environment and so on) is hard to say. Much would depend upon its scale, atmospheric conditions and so on.
Perhaps the most significant consequence of the use of a nuclear weapon would be the fact that it happened at all - that more than 70 years after the use of atomic weapons by the Americans against Japan in World War Two, another country had recourse to these weapons. The wider diplomatic ramifications would be considerable.
North Korea has no obvious reason or capability to attack the UK. It is a very long way away and although Britain is a close ally of the United States, we do not have a prominent voice in policy towards North Korea.
That said, if there were to be another conflict on the Korean peninsula the US might seek support from its allies. Remember the last Korean War was actually waged by an alliance of the United Nations with Washington at its head.
Britain has sought to play up its reliability as a military partner of the US, but it is hard to see what capability we might provide to the region and quickly - if a conflict did break out.
North Korea is a largely closed state where people know what the government chooses to tell them. The North Korean narrative is one of an embattled country surrounded by enemies brandishing nuclear weapons. Thus Pyongyang's response is to seek such weapons themselves and to have a highly militarised society.
The level of rhetoric coming out of North Korea sometimes sounds like parody. But they do see themselves as under threat. They are probably the most isolated country in the world with few friends.
This is a regime that, while it can build missiles, can sometimes barely feed its people. Any long-term solution to the problem of North Korea has to engage to some extent with their narrative and find ways of reassuring them that the outside world is not solely bent on taking down their regime.
Clarity in US policy is the key thing as well as a willingness to try to find inducements to open up some kind of diplomatic dialogue with Pyongyang, while equally sending a tough message of deterrence. South Korea is under far more threat of a deliberate attack from the North than the other way around.
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The 46-year-old Scot is unsurprised at being linked with former club Celtic as he mulls over his future.
Celtic will have a vacancy when Ronny Deila leaves at the end of the season while Lambert will depart Ewood Park after they play Reading on 7 May.
"You'll probably get all that [speculation] with Celtic," Lambert told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"The only connection I've got with Celtic is I played eight great years there. Fantastic club; great club," the former Scotland midfielder added.
"You like to think you've done your little bit to give them a hand in that time. Some great moments up there.
"As of this minute, I'm back to square one where I was when I left Aston Villa [in February 2015]."
Former Colchester United boss Lambert joined Blackburn in November.
Rovers currently sit 18th in the Championship, with Lambert winning 10 of his 31 games in charge so far.
He started his managerial career at Livingston in 2005 and joined Wycombe Wanderers the following year, helping them reach the 2007 League Cup semi-finals and the 2008 League Two play-offs.
He also won successive promotions with Norwich City, taking them from League One to the Premier League before joining Villa in 2012.
"I'll go and start to get on my cycling bike again for another few miles and see what happens," added former Scotland midfielder Lambert.
"Listen, I want to get back into football. That's normal. I think things here just weren't quite right."
A mild exaggeration, shall we say - but the image sticks in my mind.
Because as the leaders of the EU's 27 countries clink champagne glasses in plush, security-tight surroundings on Saturday - all is not well in the Europe outside their gates: youth unemployment persists (especially in the south), terror attacks, illegal migration, inequalities in the Eurozone, Brexit and a tide of anti-establishment populist nationalism across much of the bloc.
To name a few of the challenges. Not to mention "strongmen" Presidents Trump, Putin and Erdogan who all eye the EU with suspicion and some animosity.
"Yes," conceded European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker to me in an exclusive interview. "We are not in the best form and shape we could be in."
But, he insisted, the EU was still young, adding that what the bloc had achieved in six decades was remarkable - Europe is now a continent of stability and peace.
But that was the vision, the goal after World War Two, I countered.
Surely there's a need for a new vision? Something to capture the public imagination. To re-enchant the disenchanted?
Mr Juncker recently published a White Paper on the future of the EU. where he explored five different scenarios - from increased union to paring pooled powers back to the common market only.
In between, he breathes life into the old idea of a "two-speed Europe" - where some countries share more sovereignty for example over defence or migration, while others opt out.
That proposal appears to be the most popular amongst politicians and civil servants, but to me it sounds like an open admission that there is, in fact, no common EU vision - with everyone doing different things at different times.
All this at a very sensitive moment - when one of the EU's biggest and most influential members, the UK, is about to walk out of the door.
And unity amongst the remaining 27 countries is key for Brussels - to prove to the outside world that the EU still stands strong.
Theresa May's absence at the 60th birthday bash on Saturday will be screamingly noticeable.
"Of course we will miss her," President Juncker told me.
"I am everything but in a hostile mood with Britain. Britain is part of Europe, and I hope to have a friendly relationship with the UK over the next decades."
Well, that of course will depend on what kind of future relationship the UK and EU can hammer out during Brexit negotiations.
I wondered how the EU would balance the competing desires to keep the UK close yet not give it too good a deal so as to avoid the risk of other EU countries walking away?
Mr Juncker admitted he did not want any more "exits": Nexit, Oexit, Dexit, Frexit or otherwise.
That would be the end, he said, if three, four or five more countries left. The EU would collapse.
But he doesn't believe that will happen.
The EU and the Commission, he said, would negotiate with the UK in a friendly way - fair but never naive.
Interesting choice of adverbs there. Echoed precisely in a speech delivered on Thursday by the EU's chief Brexit negotiator - Commission man Michel Barnier.
"Not naive"…
Now, does that refer to talk of the UK aiming to cosy up to individual EU countries (like the Baltic nations with promises of security co-operation) to cajole them into pressing for a good trade deal for Britain?
Or does it perhaps allude to the government rejecting the idea of an "exit bill" as part of the EU divorce?
It's an invoice that Mr Juncker insists must be paid.
"You cannot pretend you were never a member of the union," he practically spluttered.
"The British government and parliament took on certain commitments as EU members and they must be honoured. This isn't a punishment or sanctions against the UK."
Despite mutterings about the Commission drawing up a £50bn ($63bn) bill, Mr Juncker said the precise amount remained to be "scientifically calculated."
But one thing he insisted that could not be haggled over was the fate of the 4.5 million EU citizens living in the UK and British citizens currently living across the EU.
President Juncker said no-one had a right to eject them from their homes and jobs.
"This is not about bargaining," he insisted. "This is about respecting human dignity."
As they mark the EU's anniversary on Saturday, the bloc's remaining leaders will look with furrowed brows towards the future.
But they may well take heart in a new trend emerging.
While populist nationalist, anti-establishment candidates enjoy strong followings, at the same time unashamed Europhiles like the youthful leader of the Netherlands Green party, the French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron and the German candidate for Chancellor Martin Schulz resonate with the large sections of the public too.
But Mr Juncker and others I've spoken to in the lead-up to the EU's anniversary, like his Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Antonio Tajani, the new President of the European Parliamant, all believe this is no time for complacency.
In just a few days' time Britain will deliver a letter to Brussels, officially triggering the countdown to Brexit.
How will Mr Juncker feel that day, I asked.
"Sad," he replied. "It's a tragedy.
"A failure and a tragedy."
Wrth deithio o'r Gorllewin mae nifer fawr o deithwyr sy'n ymweld â Chaerdydd yn gadael y draffordd ar Gyffordd 32 ger cylchfan Coryton.
I'r rhai sy'n aros ar y draffordd dyw hi ddim yn bosib gadael eto tan i chi gyrraedd Porth Caerdydd. Cyffordd 31 iawn? Nage, Cyffordd 30 yw Porth Caerdydd.
Felly beth ddigwyddodd i Gyffordd 31?
Mae'r ateb yn syml. 'Dyw cyffordd 31 erioed wedi bodoli.
Cafodd caniatâd cynllunio ei roi i ddatblygu Cyffordd 31 ym Medi 1991 gan hen gyngor De Morgannwg, i gysylltu ardal Y Ddraenen (Thornhill) gyda'r M4.
Y bwriad oedd i rannol ddeuoli yr A469 rhwng Caerdydd a Chaerffili er mwyn creu cyswllt addas ar gyfer gogledd y ddinas i'r draffordd.
Erbyn hyn, mae'r caniatâd wedi dod i ben. Cafodd y cynlluniau eu rhoi o'r neilltu gan Gyngor Caerdydd yn 2007.
Er gwaethaf hyn, mae'r Cyngor wedi gwarchod y tir sydd o gwmpas ardal ble byddai Cyffordd 31 wedi cael ei hadeiladu rhag ofn y bydd 'na alw am ffordd gysylltiol rhyw ben yn y dyfodol.
Ond mae'n edrych yn debyg na fydd y gyffordd yn gweld golau dydd yn y dyfodol agos o leiaf.
Ulloa has scored in Albion's last five games, including Monday's 2-1 FA Cup defeat by Hull City.
Ward told BBC Sussex: "Leo can't stop scoring and we need to wrap him in cotton wool until the weekend and make sure he's OK.
"We just need to take a bit of the weight off his shoulders."
Ulloa's run began in the 1-0 win against Doncaster on 8 February and he has scored in every game since.
"Leo's a real asset to us and the way he's playing he's back to his best," said Ward.
"We do need to pitch in and start scoring from other areas, but it's not through a lack of trying.
"We're creating chances and testing goalkeepers. He just seems to be the one who's able to put the ball in the back of the net.
"That's what good strikers do, we just need to take a bit of the weight off his shoulders."
The 27-year-old Argentine forward has now scored 18 goals in 33 league appearances since joining Brighton from Almeria last January.
Ward said the Seagulls should take the confidence gained from their strong second-half performance at Hull into their forthcoming league programme.
He continued: "Overall, the matches against Hull have been great for us. To run a good Premier League side so close in two games is good for our confidence.
"We gave ourselves a bit of a mountain to climb with our performance in the first half, but credit to Hull, they started really well - and perhaps we'd surprised them in the first tie at our place, so they were ready.
"But in the second half we were outstanding and unlucky not to force the game into extra-time, so we're disappointed, though at least we gave our fans something to cheer, it was a long journey for them.
"They've been great games for us, to run a good Premier League side so close in two games is good for our confidence."
Farmers in Northern Ireland receive more than £230m a year in subsidies from the EU, which the UFU says is "vital" for farm incomes.
A referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU will be held on 23 June.
The UFU said "future financial support is the central issue" in the debate.
Ian Marshall, the union's president, said "no alternative support measures have been put forward" by those pressing for the UK to leave the EU.
"In addition, the EU is our biggest export market, and we would need firm assurances about access to that market, should the UK vote to leave," he said.
Mr Marshall said both sides in the debate needed to set out their vision of the future for agriculture, but added that "our view for now is it will fare better in the EU".
But he said the union would not be telling its members how they should vote.
Earlier this week, Democratic Unionist Party MP Gavin Robinson suggested farmers could get a more generous subsidy outside the EU.
And on Monday, his party's deputy leader, Nigel Dodds, said the EU's focus "is moving away from food production".
"The idea that somehow there's a great guarantee for anyone in terms of the current status quo in Europe is wrong," he added.
"I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there," Mr Biden said on Thursday.
Supporters have encouraged Mr Biden to run as fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton's poll numbers have declined.
However, he has questioned whether he has "emotional energy" to run after the death of his son Beau in May.
"Nobody has a right, in my view, to seek that office unless they're willing to give it 110% of who they are. And I am, as I said, I'm optimistic, I'm positive about where we're going," Mr Biden told Mr Colbert. "But I find myself - you understand it - sometimes it just overwhelms you."
Mr Biden, 72, failed in his bids for the White House in 1988 and 2008 before becoming Barack Obama's running mate.
Representatives for Mr Biden said the vice-president would make a final decision by October.
Some had speculated that Mr Biden would use the high-profile appearance on Mr Colbert's new show as a way to launch his campaign.
Instead, the interview with Mr Colbert focused on how Mr Biden is coping with the loss of his son Beau, who died of brain cancer aged 46 at the end of May.
Choking up at times, Mr Biden talked about his son and his last days.
"'Dad, I know how much you love me. Promise me you're going to be all right'," Mr Biden recalled his son telling him.
Sgt Louise Lucas, 41, a mother-of-three, died after she was hit by a bus on The Kingsway on March 31.
Daniel Foss, 37, died in the same road in October 2013.
Swansea's acting senior coroner has said the road has a "serious design issue", which "must be addressed" by Swansea council.
Colin Phillips, who also sits as senior coroner for Neath Port Talbot, issued the report to councillors as part of his investigation into Mr Foss's death.
He said he had been made aware of 10 reported traffic incidents on the road since Mr Foss died, including that involving Sgt Lucas.
Mr Phillips said there were more than 100 incidents on The Kingsway between 2008 and 2015, with 36 passengers reportedly injured while travelling on buses when drivers took "evasive action".
"There would appear to be a serious design issue which must be addressed by the local authority to make the road safer for the public," he Phillips added.
"In my opinion, there is a risk that future deaths will occur unless action is taken," he said.
Swansea council must respond to the coroner's report within 56 days.
The current traffic system on the road allows two lanes of all traffic to travel west on one side of the road, with two lanes of public transport - one going east and one west - on the other side.
Swansea council announced after Sgt Lucas's death that it would install barriers on the road's central reservation and change the traffic flow in the bus lane "as quickly" as possible.
The ceremony marks the anniversary of a 1940 resolution calling for a separate homeland for Muslims in India.
Its resumption is a symbolic show of military strength, analysts say, from a nation which has been badly affected by militant attacks.
In his address Pakistan's President Mamnoon Hussain said that the "end of terrorism" was near.
Pakistan last held a Republic Day parade in 2008 because of fears militants might target it.
The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil, who was at Monday's parade in the capital Islamabad, said it was an opportunity for Pakistan to show off its military might to the public, with units of all infantry divisions taking part. Air force shows were held and there was an ostentatious display of weaponry.
President Hussain praised forces taking part in the operation against the Pakistani Taliban and other militants in North Waziristan, and paid tribute to the more than 150 victims of the Army Public School massacre in Peshawar in December.
"I salute the armed forces, those that have fought to protect us and those who have given their lives to protect this country. To the nation of Pakistan I say that the end of terrorism is near. We have a resolve and we will defeat them," he said.
But he also stressed that Pakistan wanted to co-operate peacefully with its neighbours, saying that Islamabad was enjoying "growing relations" with Afghanistan, and was continually trying to "improve ties" with India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted: "I have written to Pakistan PM... conveying my greetings on the National Day of Pakistan. It is my firm conviction that all outstanding issues can be resolved through bilateral dialogue in an atmosphere free from terror and violence."
The Houthis have fired more than 30 ballistic missiles across the border into residential areas of Saudi Arabia and have imprisoned and tortured their own citizens.
These, and other allegations of Houthi misdeeds, are part of a determined public relations effort by the Saudis this week to confront the growing condemnation of their role in Yemen's civil war.
Air strikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition, in support of the UN-recognised Yemeni government, have been blamed for the majority of the estimated 10,000 deaths so far.
One particularly devastating air strike on 8 October hit a packed funeral hall in the capital Sanaa, killing 140 people and injuring hundreds more.
An investigation by the Saudi-led coalition concluded the attack had been carried out in error, that normal safety procedures had broken down and that individuals involved had since been removed from their posts.
But it follows a number of reported strikes on hospitals, industrial plants, a prison and other non-military sites that have led to calls by human rights organisations for an immediate arms boycott on Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis insist that they never deliberately target civilians, that rigorous checks and balances are imposed by their Coalition Air Operations Centre (Caoc) at King Salman Airbase in Riyadh, and that they abide by the international rules laid down in the Law of Armed Conflict (Loac).
To put their side of the story forward, the Saudis have sent their top coalition Spokesman, Maj Gen Ahmed Al-Assiri to London, accompanied by a senior Yemeni foreign ministry official and a representative from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief effort.
In an interview with BBC News Gen Al-Assiri was at pains to point out that:
The general's words very much reflect the way the Saudi leadership views the Yemen conflict.
Gen Al-Assiri is also military adviser to the driving force behind the Saudi-led coalition, the Saudi Defence Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al-Saud - who could quite possibly be the the next King.
The Saudis see themselves as being surrounded on almost all sides by Iran and its proxies - in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, the Gulf and now Yemen.
When they put together their coalition in March 2015 and began the air campaign, there was an expectation that their air superiority and 21st-century US and UK-supplied weapons would soon force the Houthis to sue for peace at the negotiating table.
But the Houthis have remained stubbornly in control of the capital and most of the more populous, western half of Yemen. Peace talks have dragged on for months, in Oman and then Kuwait, with no result.
Meanwhile the airstrikes continue, against a growing clamour in both northern Yemen and in the UK.
The UN estimates that 80% of Yemen's population is now in need of humanitarian aid. There are warnings the country could be on the verge of famine.
The war is a stalemate and unless both sides can accept the latest peace proposals there is little sign of it ending soon.
A Toyota Aygo and a Renault Kangoo collided at the Local Fuels service station on the A27 near Lewes at about 11:00 GMT on Sunday,
The 74-year-old woman was found dead in the Renault while her husband, who was driving, was "unwell".
Sussex Police said the couple were not physically injured in the crash.
The 74-year-old driver was taken to hospital in Brighton in a serious condition. He is believed to have had an underlying medical condition.
The British nationals had arrived from France, where they live, hours before the crash.
"The woman passenger was sadly found to be dead and the man who was driving the car was unwell," a spokesman for Sussex Police said.
"The woman's death is being treated as unexplained."
A post-mortem examination is due to take place later this week.
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The strategy group of Bernie Ecclestone, six leading teams and Jean Todt, president of governing body the FIA, decided it needed more work.
But the FIA said some form of increased head protection would be introduced for the 2018 season.
F1 commercial boss Ecclestone said it was agreed to "look into it in more detail".
A statement from the FIA said that Thursday's decision to delay the introduction of head protection was made because of "the relatively short time frame" before the start of the 2017 season.
It added that the strategy group decided "it would be prudent to use the remainder of this year and early next year to further evaluate the full potential of all options before final confirmation".
The statement continued: "While the halo is currently the preferred option, as it provides the broadest solution to date, the consensus among the strategy group was that another year of development could result in an even more complete solution.
"Halo remains a strong option for introduction for 2018."
Let's wait for the reasoning behind the decision, but for now it could almost be seen as 'business first and safety second'.
The decision comes despite the fact that the FIA has been working on the introduction of the system for some months and all teams have designed their 2017 cars with the capability to fit the halo.
Ecclestone, who had made clear his opposition to the halo concept before the meeting, told BBC Sport: "When you look at it, it was yes and no. We haven't really got a lot of positives. But we've learned a lot about what to do. We will look into it further."
The governing body made a presentation to the drivers at last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, saying that the halo was ready to be implemented, while demonstrating how it could save a driver's life.
Alexander Wurz, the chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, told BBC Sport: "Today's strategy group decision, if ratified by the FIA World Council, represents much more than just a vote against halo, or a delay in the introduction of additional head protection.
"This decision brings F1 into uncharted territory in many ways.
"Let's wait for the reasoning behind the decision, but for now it could almost be seen as 'business first and safety second'."
Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel said on Thursday at the German Grand Prix that the drivers were overwhelmingly in favour of the device being introduced in 2017.
Speaking before the outcome of the vote was known, Vettel said: "I think 90-95% [of the drivers] voted for it. We don't like the looks of it but I don't think there's anything that really justifies death.
"We've always learned from what happened, incidents that happened on the track, and we've always tried to improve.
"Now, that would be the first time I think in human history that we've learned a lesson and we don't change. It's up to us to make sure it does happen, otherwise I think we'd be quite stupid."
However, Haas driver Esteban Gutierrez said he was pleased the halo was not being introduced because it needed more work. His team-mate Romain Grosjean also said he was against it.
The strategy group vote is not necessarily the final act in the saga.
The FIA has the right to introduce any change it wants on grounds of safety, without the approval of the teams or Ecclestone.
But the governing body's statement strongly suggests that this action will not be taken, despite the liability risks facing the FIA and F1 following the decision not to introduce a device that has been shown to increase safety.
The risk for the sport is that if the halo is not introduced and a driver is seriously injured or killed in the type of accident where it is designed to reduce risks, they would be open to legal action and have problems defending their decisions.
In addition, the strategy group voted to free up radio communications between teams and drivers after criticism of restrictions imposed this year.
The FIA had brought in a series of limitations on the amount of information drivers could be given by teams over the radio.
But that has led to a series of problems this year, including a penalty that demoted title contender Nico Rosberg from second to third place at the British Grand Prix for being given too much information on how to solve a problem.
The FIA statement said: "With the exception of the period between the start of the formation lap and the start of the race, there will be no limitations on messages teams send to drivers either by radio or pit board.
"This approach is aimed at providing improved content for fans and spectators, as teams will now be required to provide the commercial rights holder with unrestricted access to their radio messages at all times that their cars are out of the garage."
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Xavier Bettel married Gauthier Destenay on Friday in a private ceremony at the capital's town hall.
The couple are among the first to benefit after the country changed its laws to allow gay marriages last year.
The union comes after Iceland's then-PM Johanna Sigurdardottir married her same-sex partner in 2010.
Mr Bettel formed a government in December 2013 to become Luxembourg's first openly gay prime minister.
He announced that he and his civil partner Mr Destenay, an architect, would be getting married just months after lawmakers approved the law change in June 2014.
"I could have hidden it or repressed it and been unhappy my whole life," Mr Bettel reportedly told a Belgian broadcaster the night before the nuptials.
"But I told myself that if you want to be a politician and be honest in politics, you have to be honest with yourself and accept that you are who you are."
Former Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo was the EU's first openly gay national leader.
The Luxembourg newly-weds are not expected to go away on a honeymoon, as the PM has to attend an economic forum in Kazakhstan, according to AFP news agency.
A friend of the couple told the French news agency Mr Bettel was keen to keep his private life out of the public spotlight.
Pierre Leyers, a journalist in Luxembourg, told the BBC that the country's media and public were respecting the PM's wishes.
"It is something quite ingrained in society - we are quite reserved and do not like things to be too public," he said.
Among the guests spotted in the crowd was Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, according to Luxemburger Wort newspaper.
Correspondents say Luxembourg was previously a conservative Catholic country but attitudes have changed in recent years, in part due to the high number of immigrants and foreign workers.
Mr Bettel defeated conservative PM Jean-Claude Juncker in 2013 after Mr Juncker's almost two decades in power.
Joseph Nkaisserry, who is in charge of security, also admitted that the response was poorly co-ordinated.
Militants from the Somali-based Islamist al-Shabab group killed 148 people during the day-long siege at the campus in the north-eastern town.
There has been much public criticism over the alleged security failings.
Correspondents say Mr Nkaisserry's admission is the boldest yet from the government, which has largely been defensive over the terror attack.
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Last week, seven top policemen were suspended by Mr Nkaisserry following an initial inquiry into the security failings.
Universities had posted memos warning students of possible violence and the principal of Garissa University College is reported to have requested additional security at the campus, in vain.
Mr Nkaisserry made the comments before a parliamentary committee on security.
The security force's delay in responding to the university attack was caused by poor co-ordination, he said.
The structural design of the campus had also hampered the rescue mission as the accommodation hostels were "like cells as the windows had grills".
The majority of those killed could have been rescued had security officers accessed the college building where they were cornered by terrorists in the morning, he said.
The BBC's Odhiambo Joseph in the capital, Nairobi, says there was drama during the hearing when the minister became involved in a heated exchange with MP Ababu Namwamba.
Another legislator, Zakayo Cheruiyot, then walked out - signalling his dissatisfaction with Mr Nkaisserry's response over the handling of the Garissa attack.
Most of those who died in the raid were students and the attackers singled out Christians to be killed and spared Muslims.
It was worst attack to date in Kenya by al-Shabab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda.
For the last six weeks I have kept strange company. I have mixed with ewhores, quizzed hardened hackers, asked account hijackers how their day is going, tried to get malware makers to talk about their trade and debated ethics with people who steal cash using remote access viruses.
All these people are on web discussion forums I joined as part of a special project taking a closer look at cyber crime. I registered on a few sites known for their interest in hacking but spent most of my time on Hack Forums. Its three million registered members make it one of the biggest places in the world for chatter about hacking - in all its forms.
It is an exhilarating place to visit. It has separate boards dedicated to all kinds of hacking activity, many of which I had heard of and some that I had not. It is also a surprisingly complex community. For every message asking "How do I hack Facebook?" there are as many debating esoteric ways to interrogate a website and find chinks in its armour to get at what lies within.
"The site at first glance seems like a bunch of monkeys trying to figure out algebra," wrote Armada, one of the site's regular members whom I spoke to.
The big problem I faced joining the site is that I am a nobody. Sites such as Hack Forums and many others operate on a reputation economy. Long-standing members who have proved their worth to the community and who have lots of "vouches" from others have the best reputation and highest access.
By contrast newbies, like me, get almost none. I'd have to contribute 25 good quality posts before I could send any personal messages. This would make it hard to contact people directly - my preferred method.
I could, and did, post directly to discussion groups but the risk is that as a journalist I'm a tempting target for anyone keen to make their name by catching me out. Especially as some HF residents specialise in social engineering attacks that help them take control of other people's social media accounts.
So, I went around these blocks and dropped messages to the off-board accounts that long-standing members advertised. Many use HF as a place to offer their own guides and services that are available elsewhere. I got in touch via Skype names, Jabber instant message accounts, email addresses and through website contact forms.
Most often I got no response. Or no further reply after one exchange during which I told them I worked for the BBC. A few people thought I was a cop posing as a journalist looking to trick people into opening up. One asked me to prove who I said I was by taking a picture with some photo ID.
I took the snap but just as I was about to send it some of the folks I contacted, including Armada, had checked me out and reassured themselves that I was who I said I was.
"We have members on an almost universal scale with skill sets ranging from being able to turn a computer on, to critical vulnerability exploitation," wrote Armada.
"Certainly, not all members are great hackers, and not all are completely inept either, but it varies from person to person," wrote True Demon in response to my questions. "The one great thing about HF is that it is a safe place to discuss the fine art of hacking, or whatever else catches your interest."
True Demon added that he was only giving his own opinion rather than speaking for the wider hacker community.
The other main reason for wanting to spend time there is to get to grips with the sub-culture of teenagers who are dabbling with cyber crime.
It is not just me who is curious about members of this rapidly growing group who are often given the name "script kiddies" - this is not a term of endearment.
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) is also interested in them because of the growing numbers of young men it is dealing with who have been caught because they used the types of tools found on HF or employ the techniques that can be learned there.
"I can think of 10-15 arrests in the last 6 months in which all the people have been under the age of 18," said Richard Jones, head of the NCA's Prevent programme that tries to stop young people tumbling into a life of cyber crime.
Last week, the UK's South East Regional Organised Crime Unit arrested a 16-year-old from the East Midlands who is believed to be part of the Crackas With Attitude hacking group that targeted CIA director John Brennan, among others.
Earlier operations have netted fledgling hackers as young as 12.
"We are seeing more people getting into cyber crime in the UK," said Mr Jones "It is getting more accessible as well - the internet makes it very easy for young people to learn about it."
Many of the low level hacks they use are gateways to ever more nefarious activity, he told the BBC.
The "script kiddy" state of mind is one that is regularly debated on HF. On one lengthy message thread, a member called Disparity kicked off the discussion about morals by calling people who use remote access tools "worthless, ethic-lacking scum". As their name implies, remote access programs give their creators access to a victims' PC. Some use this access to spy, steal or profit.
Instead, said Disparity, such people would be better off learning more and practising more "acceptable morals".
In response, ClawzTech wrote of his victims: "If they're dumb enough to get infected, then they need to be punished."
True Demon said he was also concerned about the decisions some younger members take.
"I still worry about the ethical decisions that some HF users choose," he said. "The majority of HF users, myself included, actively discourage others from performing illegal activity with the knowledge they gain there."
He added that the "scare tactics" of the NCA and others can be counter-productive.
"They should be encouraging kids to learn this stuff, but to do so in an ethical and structured format." he said "They would have a lot more people working with their cyber-division, if they did.
"Government and law enforcement have a tendency to paint hackers as a whole in a bad light, ostracising the subculture as malicious, dangerous, and evil," he said.
"Don't you think it would be better to foster and instruct those kinds of kids to use their skills for good, rather than treating them like they are some kind of criminal?"
Konta, whose opponent is ranked 77, could face Simona Halep in the quarter-finals, as she did at Wimbledon.
However, the Romanian world number two will have to overcome wildcard Maria Sharapova at the first hurdle.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are seeded to meet in the men's semi-final.
Third seed Federer will start against American youngster Francis Tiafoe and new world number one Nadal faces world number 84 Dusan Lajovic of Serbia.
British number two Kyle Edmund is up against Dutch veteran Robin Haase.
The women's defending champion, Germany's Angelique Kerber, will take on Naomi Osaka of Japan but Stan Wawrinka, who beat Novak Djokovic in last year's final, is one of several high-profile absentees, including Djokovic.
Wimbledon champion and world number three Garbine Muguruza of Spain will play Varvara Lepchenko of the US.
Sharapova will play in a Grand Slam for the first time since the Australian Open in 2016, where she gave the positive drugs test that put her out of the game for 15 months.
The US Open is the first Slam to award Sharapova, a former champion, a wildcard to the main draw since she returned from her ban.
Sharapova and second seed Halep, one of the title favourites, have played six times, including in the French Open final in 2014, with the Russian winning every time.
Elsewhere, Great Britain's Heather Watson, who has suffered six consecutive first-round losses at the US Open, will attempt to end that streak against France's Alize Cornet.
Top women's seed Karolina Pliskova meets Poland's Magda Linette,
Murray will test out the hip that troubled him during Wimbledon. The Scot has not played a match since his quarter-final exit at SW19, losing the world number one ranking to Nadal.
Sandgren, 26, only made his Grand Slam debut at the French Open this year, losing in the first round.
The first seed Murray is scheduled to meet is Argentine Diego Schwartzman in round three, with the likes of David Ferrer, Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga waiting after that.
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Sharapova remains a big attraction, and the match is certain to feature under the lights in prime time on one of the opening two nights.
The Russian has only played one match in the past three and a half months as injuries have hindered her return from a doping ban, but has a flawless record against Halep.
Nadal and Federer have never met at the US Open. If they do so, it will be in the semi-finals, with Murray drawn in the other half with the likes of Alex Zverev and Tsonga.
The absence of Djokovic and Wawrinka makes life simpler for those three, but Murray hasn't played since Wimbledon, Federer has been struggling with a back injury and Nadal is yet to hit top form on hard courts this summer.
One of those executed was convicted over an attack on Pakistan's Army HQ in 2009, the other over an assassination attempt on ex-leader Pervez Musharraf.
The UN had earlier urged Pakistan not to resume its executions.
Some 141 people, all but nine of them children, died in the Taliban attack on the Army Public school in Peshawar.
Pakistan's military carried out operations against Taliban units in areas near the border with Afghanistan on Friday, saying it had killed 59 militants.
The two executions were carried out in the central city of Faisalabad late on Friday, officials said.
Pakistani media named the two executed men as Aqeel, alias Dr Usman, and Arshad Mehmood.
Usman was arrested during the raid on the Rawalpindi HQ and sentenced to death in 2011.
Mehmood was sentenced to death over the attempt on Mr Musharraf's life in the same city in 2003.
The home minister for Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada, told Associated Press: "Today's executions of terrorists will boost the morale of the nation, and we are planning to hang more terrorists next week."
The Pakistani army chief has so far reportedly signed the death warrants of six terrorism convicts.
UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville had earlier urged Pakistan not to resume executions.
He said: "To its great credit, Pakistan has maintained a de facto moratorium on the death penalty since 2008," he said, adding that those at risk of imminent execution were unconnected to the "premeditated slaughter" in Peshawar.
"We urge the government not to succumb to widespread calls for revenge, not least because those at most risk of execution in the coming days are people convicted of different crimes."
The human rights organisation Reprieve warned that innocent people could be executed as a result of the government's decision, accusing the authorities of routinely overusing anti-terrorism laws to secure convictions.
It said Pakistan had the world's largest number of death-row inmates - with more than 8,000 people awaiting execution.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the moratorium on executions in terror cases amid outrage at the massacre of the children.
The country's de facto foreign minister, Sartaj Aziz, said the Peshawar attack was his country's own "mini 9/11" and required a sea-change in its fight against terrorism.
Special classes were held in Pakistan on Friday in which schoolchildren chanted prayers in memory of the victims of the massacre.
The Taliban said that the attack was an act of revenge for its own losses in the army's military offensive.
The mutilated body of Tracey Woodford, 47, was found in Christopher May's flat in the Graig area of Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, in April.
The 50-year-old had admitted killing her but denied murder at Cardiff Crown Court.
Cries of "yes" came from the public gallery as the verdict was delivered.
Meanwhile, May sat expressionless in the dock.
It took a jury of six men and six women less than an hour to reach their verdict after a trial lasting more than a week.
In a written statement, Ms Woodford's family described May as a "monster".
They said: "We simply cannot understand how anyone can treat another human being in this way.
"His action on that night in April and over the following days with what he did to Tracey's body has destroyed us all.
"Our mother has nightmares most nights, waking up screaming Tracey's name, asking: 'Why would he do this to her?'"
"He didn't just kill Tracey that night, he killed part of us all."
Throughout the trial, May claimed he had either been acting in self defence or had lost control.
But prosecutors said the killing was motivated by a "perverted sexual desire" after the pair met at the Skinny Dog pub in the town on 21 April.
Some of Ms Woodford's remains were found at May's flat by two police officers carrying out routine inquiries three days after she had been reported missing.
Roger Thomas QC, prosecuting, said they were greeted by a "truly gruesome sight" after pulling back a shower curtain and discovering some of her body parts.
Her decapitated torso was recovered from a black bag in a kitchen cupboard and a right thumb was found in a handbag along with a purse with Ms Woodford's bank cards.
Her head was later discovered in an "underground chamber" of a storm drain at the Sardis Road rugby ground - home to Pontypridd RFC.
The jury was told Ms Woodford, who lived with her brother and mother, had been strangled by May, who was "determined and cold blooded".
A forensic pathologist also said the catalogue of injuries on Ms Woodford's remains suggested signs of a violent struggle.
There were 254 such deaths in 2010 across England and Wales - a rate of 0.35 per 1,000 live births - slightly down from 279 deaths the previous year.
But the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) says more needs to be done in the worst-hit region.
North-west England has a rate of 0.53 "cot deaths" per 1,000 live births.
The charity's chief executive, Francine Bates, said: "Although we have seen a small reduction in the number of deaths across England and Wales, the figure for the North West is extremely concerning.
"The region has had the highest rate for the last seven years."
The FSID says that with the help of public health agencies, it hopes to cut the number of deaths through Reduce the Risk campaigns.
Back to sleep
While it is not clear what causes the deaths, avoiding smoking is one of the measures recommended to reduce the risk.
Ms Bates added: "We know that smoking is a major risk factor for sudden infant death... the smoking rate for the North West is above the national average."
Others measures recommended to protect infants include putting babies on their backs to sleep and not allowing them to share a bed with the parents.
There is also a suggestion that bacteria may have a role in sudden infant death, although the precise nature of any relationship is not known.
The number of babies dying from sudden infant death before they are 12 months old has fallen steadily in recent years.
This drop is largely attributed to the Back to Sleep campaign, which was launched in 1991.
And for the past few years the overall number of sudden infant deaths has hovered around 300 a year.
While the change in the rate of unexplained infant deaths from 2009 to 2010 is not significant statistically, the fall since 2005 - when the rate was 0.5 deaths per 1,000 live births - is significant.
In 1995, when the figures were first compiled, the death rate was more than 0.6.
As well as regional differences, the ONS figures show that some sections of the population are more likely to experience sudden infant death than others.
The rate among unmarried mothers registering the birth alone - 1.18 per 1,000 - was eight times that of babies born within marriage.
In 2010, more than a third of cot deaths occurred over the winter period, while just over a fifth occurred during the summer. It is thought that overheating and an unsafe sleeping environment, such as the baby's head being covered, may have played a part.
The figures include deaths described both as sudden infant deaths and those for which the cause is "unascertained" after a full investigation. ONS researchers said the terms were used interchangeably by coroners.
North Wales Police said a call was received at about 19:15 BST on Friday, alerting them to the crash at Lon Gerddi, Edern, Pwllheli.
The road was blocked following the incident with police warning of delays but has since reopened.
The man has not yet been named.
Many employers will have to increase salaries when the new £7.20 an hour measure comes into effect next April.
Colin Neill of Hospitality Ulster said it would have major implications for hotels and restaurants.
He told the BBC's Inside Business programme there was a risk of more workers being paid "cash-in-hand".
Mr Neill said that while the hospitality industry was "in a much more difficult place than others", various sectors were looking at "how we're going to deal with this and, actually, how can you pass on the cost".
Announced by Chancellor George Osborne in the Budget, the National Living Wage will be paid to both full-time and part-time workers aged 25 and above.
Initially, it will be set at £7.20 an hour, with a target of it reaching more than £9 an hour by 2020.
Inside Business is on BBC Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle at 13:30 BST on Sunday, and is available to listen to afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.
In his regular radio address, Lee Myung-bak described the field as a "new growth engine" for the economy.
The announcement comes five years after a damaging scandal, when it was found a cloning pioneer had faked research.
Analysts say Mr Lee's pledge belies concerns that South Korea could fall far behind fast-moving rival nations.
The president said South Korea alongside the US had been a world leader in stem cell research a decade ago.
"Unfortunately, there was a disappointing incident which caused inevitable damage to the entire stem cell research community in Korea," he said, referring to the conviction of Hwang Woo-suk.
Hwang's claims he had succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by cloning raised hopes of finding cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, until revelations that his work was bogus.
The controversy caused shockwaves in South Korea, where the scientist had been widely regarded as a national hero.
As Seoul's stem cell programme faltered, other nations streamlined regulations and aggressively expanded funding for research, Mr Lee said.
"We must restore our national fame as a stem cell powerhouse," he said, adding the government would ease regulations and establish a state stem cell bank.
Scientists believe stem cells could be used as a super "repair kit" for the body, generating healthy tissue to replace that damaged by trauma or compromised by disease.
Among the conditions which scientists believe may eventually be treated by stem cell therapy are Parkinson's disease, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, diabetes, burns and spinal cord damage.
Lawyers for one of the men successfully sued by relatives of some of those murdered indicated a hearing planned for January may have to be put back.
The potential hold-up is due to material being sought in a bid to help overturn the original findings.
Twenty-nine people including a woman pregnant with twins were killed in the Real IRA bombing in August 1998.
After being updated duon Monday, Lord Justice Higgins told the legal teams involved: "If there is to be an application to vacate the date for which this appeal is presently fixed, that application will require to be made in the first half of November."
A separate bid by victims' families to obtain a more punitive award of exemplary damages against those deemed responsible is also due to be mounted during a scheduled two-week hearing.
In a landmark ruling last year Mr Justice Morgan, now the lord chief justice, ordered that more than £1.6m in total should be paid out to 12 relatives.
Four men were found liable for the atrocity: Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Seamus Daly and Colm Murphy.
Their planned challenges to the verdict were originally in doubt until they were all granted legal aid earlier this year.
During a review hearing on Monday Mary Higgins QC, for Daly, stressed that all involved wanted the appeal to go ahead on time.
But she flagged up potential delays over obtaining all transcripts and documents required to mount a full challenge to the original verdict.
Brett Lockhart QC, for the victims' families, claimed the only difficulty appeared to be over Daly's requests for "all sorts of extraneous material".
Mr Lockhart said Daly wanted to go over "various other conspiracy theories", but accepted it was his right to bring the appeal in whatever way he wanted.
However, he added: "The fact they wish to have such a wide-ranging amount of documentation should not be permitted to delay the trial of this matter."
Lawyers on both sides were told to meet again later this week in an attempt to finalise indexes of material they will seek to rely on.
The 23-year-old Portuguese winger, Wolves' top scorer last season, has undergone a successful operation to repair the injury which troubled him towards the end of last season.
His absence is expected to last between six and 10 weeks, which would rule him out until at least early September.
Costa was the first signing following Wolves' Chinese takeover last summer.
Shortly after Chinese group Fosun took over, he signed from Benfica, initially on loan, before completing a £13m move on a four-and-a-half-year deal in January.
That made him Wolves' club record signing, prior to Saturday's £15m-plus arrival of Ruben Neves, from Porto.
The findings come from a report published by Fair Funding for Our Kids.
In 2014, the Scottish government increased entitlement to free childcare for three to five-year-olds from 475 to 600 hours per year.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said 2015 statistics showed "97% registration" for funded childcare.
Fair Funding for our Kids submitted Freedom of Information requests in order to analyse whether working parents' needs were being met across Scotland.
The research found that some local authorities were only offering half-day places at council nurseries.
While some families could place their children in private nurseries for the full day, councils did not always fund these places, even where the nurseries were in partnership with the local authorities.
The FOI requests found that in 2015/16 almost three-quarters of all free childcare places for three to five-year-olds in Scotland were offered in council-run nurseries.
The results showed councils in Scotland were underfunding places in private nurseries, with 25 of 32 local authorities offering an hourly rate below the national average cost of a nursery place.
A spokeswoman for the campaign said the results showed there had been "very little progress" made in ensuring Scottish parents could access the childcare they were entitled to.
Scottish Labour education spokesman Daniel Johnson said: "We need to see childcare policies that fit around the lives of working families, not just on an election leaflet."
However, a Scottish government spokeswoman said there had been "97% registration for funded entitlement to early learning and childcare for three and four-year-olds".
She added that the Children and Young People Act "put flexibility on a statutory footing for the first time" resulting in local authorities being required to consult with parents on childcare that would "best meet their needs."
Alison Johnstone MSP, the Scottish Greens' children and young people spokesperson, said that childcare arrangements in Scotland were "woefully patchy and inflexible," and added that as well as increasing the hours of free childcare, there was also a need to raise "the quality training and pay for childcare staff."
Johnstone added: "If we invest in good quality childcare there's a better chance of tackling unemployment, giving parents easier access to further and higher education, and reducing inequality."
FOI requests were submitted to all 32 of Scotland's local authorities. When analysis began two local authorities (Highland and North Lanarkshire) had not replied.
Secret filming by the BBC programme broadcast last month showed residents being pinned down, slapped and taunted at Winterbourne View, near Bristol.
Police investigating the matter confirmed a further two men, aged 26 and 32, had been arrested and bailed.
Local MP Jack Lopresti has called for the hospital to be closed.
Eleven people have now been questioned in connection with the inquiry.
Earlier this week police arrested two women, aged 22 and 21, and three men, aged 58, 40 and 28. Last week, a woman and three men were arrested.
All have been released on police bail.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that South Gloucestershire Council staff may have been been told five times in two months about fears of abuse at Winterbourne View.
An e-mail from the hospital manager last November said "five safeguarding concerns" appeared to have arisen.
It is thought this may refer to concerns raised with the council's Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults panel.
The e-mail, sent by the manager to support workers and nurses and seen by the BBC, said patients had complained of ill treatment.
It said they had allegedly been teased, forced to swallow medication, threatened, restrained when it was not warranted and called nicknames which other patients then used.
The private home, which is taxpayer-funded, is to be investigated by the Care Quality Commission.
Hospital owner Castlebeck has apologised and suspended 13 employees - including the manager who wrote the e-mail.
Jack Lopresti, the MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, has now called for the care home to be closed and for an independent review into what led to the failures in patient care.
The Conservative MP said: "I will be meeting with the chief executive of Castlebeck shortly to suggest that the company permanently closes Winterbourne View at the earliest opportunity.
"I am also calling for an independent inquiry into why such serious failures occurred and what lessons can be learnt to ensure the abuse at Winterbourne View Hospital never happens again.
"I believe that a truly independent inquiry is needed to restore the public faith in the care system."
The vulnerable patients filmed by Panorama have been moved to safety. | New advice on how much people in the UK should limit their drinking is to be issued following the first review of official alcohol guidance in 20 years.
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Minecon, the global gathering for fans of the video game Minecraft, takes place in London this weekend.
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Tensions are continuing to rise between the United States and North Korea.
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Paul Lambert is keen to make a quick return to football after announcing he will leave Blackburn in the summer.
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"It's like musicians in their bow-ties playing on board the Titanic," remarked a friend of mine as I was talking to them about the EU's 60th anniversary celebrations in Rome.
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Brighton defender Stephen Ward says the Seagulls need to take the pressure off in-form striker Leonardo Ulloa with goals from other areas.
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"No compelling argument" has been made that Northern Ireland's agriculture industry would be better off if the UK left the European Union, the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) has said.
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In an emotional interview with talk show host Stephen Colbert, US Vice-President Joe Biden has said he has still not decided whether he will run for president.
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A coroner has called for "urgent action" on the Swansea city centre road where two people including an off-duty police officer have died.
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Pakistan has held its first Republic Day parade in seven years amid tight security.
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The Iran-backed Houthi rebels who seized power in Yemen two years ago are refusing to vacate the cities as part of a proposed peace deal, according to senior Saudi officials.
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A female passenger found dead in her car after a crash at a Sussex petrol station may have died of natural causes before the collision.
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Formula 1 bosses have voted against introducing the 'halo' head protection system next season.
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Luxembourg's prime minister has become the first serving EU leader - and second leader in the world - to marry a same-sex partner.
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Kenya's interior minister has said security officers ignored intelligence reports prior to the attack on Garissa University College earlier this month.
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British number one Andy Murray will face American world number 104 Tennys Sandgren in the first round of the US Open, while Johanna Konta will play Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic.
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Pakistan has carried out two executions, the first since a death penalty moratorium was lifted after a deadly attack on a Peshawar school.
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An ex-butcher who killed and dismembered a woman before carrying her severed head through a town to hide it has been found guilty of murder.
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The number of unexplained infant deaths has continued to fall, reaching an all-time low, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.
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The man's Citroen C3 collided with a Fiat 500 on the B4300 near Llanarthney at about 08:45 GMT on Friday.
The female driver of the Fiat was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
Police said the road had since been reopened.
Jan Kozlowski was the first person in Scotland to be prosecuted under new road traffic laws designed to clamp down on banned drivers.
He admitted causing serious injury to the 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
A court heard the boy sustained a broken ankle in the collision.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told Kozlowski was banned from the road last June after admitting a drink driving offence.
He had previously been convicted of being in charge of a car while drunk.
Kozlowski, a labourer, was back behind the wheel just days later - driving his works van having failed to tell his employers of his ban.
He was driving on Dundee's Pitkerro Road on 9 June at about 18:20 when he hit the boy, who was crossing the road with friends.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson said: "He stepped out between parked cars where he was struck by the motor van being driven by the accused.
"The accused did not swerve or sound his horn.
"He began to brake once hitting the boy and he remained on the bonnet of the van until the van came to a stop and he fell on to the roadway."
The boy was helped onto the pavement by his friends and Kozlowski and his brother got out of the van and approached them.
Miss Robertson said: "The accused assisted in helping the boy to his feet but said "your problem, not mine" before getting back in his vehicle and driving away."
Kozlowski, 40, a prisoner at HMP Perth, pleaded guilty to a charge of causing serious injury while driving while disqualified.
Defence solicitor Ross Donnelly said: "He accepts he should not have been driving in the first place."
Sheriff Tom Hughes jailed Kozlowski for a total of 18 months - 16 for the causing serious injury charge and two months over an unpaid fine.
He said: "This is a serious matter. You had been driving on the roads while ordered not to do so by the courts."
Kozlowski was also disqualified from driving for five years.
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Several thousand fans walked out on Saturday before Liverpool threw away a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Sunderland.
A supporters' group had urged fans to leave their seats in the 77th minute in protest at the £77 top-priced ticket in the new main stand next season.
"It's not what we want," said Klopp, who missed the game with appendicitis.
"What I know is everyone in the club has a big interest in finding a solution.
"We don't want people to leave the stadium before the game is finished."
The club have since cancelled a live question and answer session about the controversial 2016-17 pricing structure.
Chief executive Ian Ayre was due to answer queries sent in by fans on the club's television station at 18:00 GMT on Monday.
However, the event was cancelled by the club just over fours hours beforehand.
"LFC thanks fans for submitting questions for tonight's Q&A. However, due to ongoing ticketing discussions, this will no longer take place," said a statement on the club's Twitter account.
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Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was one of those to join in with the protest on Saturday.
Writing in his column for the Daily Mail, he insisted "£77 is too much to watch a game anywhere" but said that price is "particularly over the top in Liverpool".
Carragher added that the walkout was staged with supporters of all clubs in mind.
He added: "That's what people need to understand about the walkout at Anfield.
"It wasn't just Liverpool fans sticking up for themselves, it was Liverpool fans saying 'enough is enough' for every supporter across the land."
Last week, clubs failed to commit to a £30 cap on away tickets at the latest Premier League shareholders' meeting.
Football Supporters' Federation chief executive Kevin Miles said the next step in its campaign for fairer ticket prices will be discussed at a meeting next week.
One option could be a co-ordinated walk-out by fans of all 20 Premier League clubs during a weekend of matches.
Over 65s made up 35% of 39,272 fraud referrals to the charity in England and Wales in the year to September, despite making up just 18% of the population.
And 22% of victims were aged 75 or over despite making up just 8% of the population, the analysis showed.
Victim Support's director said the targeting of older people was "disturbing and despicable".
Lucy Hastings added that many other cases were not being reported.
"We need to take away the stigma, so that victims of fraud have the confidence to report it, knowing that they are not alone and will be taken seriously," she said.
Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said elderly people could be scammed on the doorstep, by phone, online or by post.
"Figures like this aren't surprising to us as time and time again we're seeing stats that highlight this horrible problem and as scams become more sophisticated the risks they pose to older people are growing," she said.
"To most of us it's unbelievable that anyone would target an older person to defraud them but unfortunately it happens and we know that older people can be especially vulnerable if they are lonely and isolated or suffer with dementia."
Case study: "I was totally drawn in"
Pat Bottomley from Hull lost her £8,500 life savings after falling victim to fraudsters posing as police officers.
One fake officer called the widow, 76, and said a teenager with the same name as her son had been arrested in possession of her bank card.
"The police officer assured me he was genuine and needed my assistance," Pat said. "He even gave me the name and phone number of a real policeman, which I looked up - so I thought he was being honest."
A second fraudster then called and talked her into transferring money into a savings account to help the "police" catch international criminals withdrawing stolen money.
When her son returned home later, she realised it had been a scam.
"I was totally drawn in and I felt absolutely gutted," Mrs Bottomley said.
"The experience made me totally lose my confidence. I felt very stupid. It wasn't about the money - it was about how I was made to feel. I didn't want to answer the phone to anyone or go out anymore."
Last month, it was revealed fraudsters posing as bank staff had tricked 65-year-old Nargess Sadjady, from west London, into handing over her £12,000 savings.
In March, a man who stole more than £17,000 from a pensioner to pay his gambling and wedding debts was sent to prison.
Cormac McGuckin, 29, from County Londonderry, was given a 20-month jail sentence after a court heard he had befriended an elderly man and persuaded him to write blank cheques.
Concerns have also been raised about the vulnerability of those approaching retirement under new pension rules, which make it easier to access money in pension pots.
The Financial Conduct Authority warned that con-artists have been keen to take advantage of the change.
Clashes between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian army flared up again in recent weeks, leaving many dead.
Ukraine's President, Petro Poroshenko, condemned the decision to recognise separatist passports.
But Russia's foreign minister said it was a humanitarian decision.
Sergei Lavrov also announced that heavy military hardware would be withdrawn from the region, and said a ceasefire would come into force on Monday.
He is currently in Munich for a Nato conference. US Vice-President Mike Pence, also in Munich, said the US would "continue to hold Russia accountable" and would demand that Russia honour the 2015 ceasefire deal signed in Minsk, one of the provisions of which is the removal of heavy weapons.
The Russian decree (in Russian) covers the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic.
"Identity papers, school or professional diplomas, birth and death certificates... issued by the competent bodies in the zones mentioned are recognised as valid by Russia," it reads.
Tens of thousands of people from eastern Ukraine have sought refuge in Russia since the fighting began.
Government officials in Ukraine reacted angrily to Russia's decision on passports, with one calling it a "deliberate escalation".
Foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin said: "This decree fundamentally contravenes the logic of the Minsk agreements."
And the former acting President, Oleksandr Turchynov, now the head of Ukraine's national security and defence council, echoed this, saying the Kremlin had "completely ruled out" a return to the ceasefire agreement.
Mr Turchynov said: "The Minsk process provides for the de-occupation of eastern Ukraine and its restitution to the legal force of the state.
"By signing this decree, Putin has legally recognised the quasi-state terrorist groups which cover Russia's occupation of part of Donbas."
More than 9,700 people have died since the Ukraine conflict erupted in 2014 after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Pro-Russian rebels later launched an insurgency in the east.
A ceasefire was agreed in February 2015 but there have been frequent violations. The latest truce began on 23 December.
Ukrainian forces say the fresh outbreak of fighting began when rebels launched an attack on Avdiivka, a flashpoint town held by the army that borders land controlled by the separatists.
The rebels say they were attacked by Ukrainian government forces.
The bodies were buried without family members' permission, it added.
Military spokesman Brig General Rabe Abubakar told the BBC the army had not killed anyone.
Reports of the deaths sparked outrage among Shia around the world and Iran called for their protection.
HRW said Nigeria's army version of events "does not stack up" and called for an independent judicial investigation into what happened.
The Shia have rejected a committee set up by the government to look into the incident, saying it would be biased.
"At best it was a brutal overreaction and at worst it was a planned attack on the minority Shia group," HRW Africa direction Daniel Bekele said.
The military accuses the pro-Iranian sect of trying to assassinate army chief Gen Tukur Buratai, which it denies.
It also released images purportedly showing Shia with sticks and some throwing stones at them when they tried to pass through a makeshift roadblock erected by the group.
But Human Rights Watch says there has been no "credible information" that any soldiers were injured or killed.
It is difficult to determine an accurate death toll but the information was gathered from hospital sources and eyewitnesses, the campaign group added in a statement.
Nigeria's Islamic spiritual leader, the Sultan of Sokoto, has warned that the raids on the sect, known as the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), could spark a new insurgency.
Militant Sunni Islamist group Boko Haram has killed thousands of people in its pursuit of an Islamic state, and has attacked the IMN.
The IMN said the military had destroyed its religious shrine and the home of its leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky during the raid.
Sheikh Zakzaky is currently being held by the police.
Those killed during the incident include the group's deputy leader and its spokesman.
Last year, three sons of Sheikh Zakzaky were killed in clashes between the army and pilgrims in a religious procession.
Meeting Sheikh Zakzaky
After a first half that only had three shots - the lowest in any match in the Premier League this season - Watford created the best chances in the second period.
On-loan substitute Tom Cleverley hit the post late on, Etienne Capoue shot over and Abdoulaye Doucoure headed wide on an emotional afternoon at Vicarage Road.
Middlesbrough's best chance fell to debutant Rudy Gestede, but he shot narrowly over.
The result means Watford remain 14th, with Middlesbrough in 16th position, four points above the relegation zone.
Former England manager Taylor died on Thursday, aged 72, and fans paid their respects to the man regarded as the best Hornets boss of all time.
He took the club from the old Fourth Division to a second-placed finish in the top flight in five seasons, and also led them to the 1984 FA Cup final, which they lost 2-0 to Everton.
Before the game there was a mosaic from the Watford fans spelling out the initials GT and a heart. A minute's applause was also heard before the match and chants of 'only one Graham Taylor' were a frequent part of the afternoon.
The game was also attended by Taylor's wife Rita and daughters Joanne and Karen while at half-time a number of former Watford players went on to the pitch to talk about their memories of Taylor.
Aitor Karanka's side are the lowest goalscorers in the Premier League with only 17 in 21 matches.
They only had one effort on target - a Fabio shot palmed away by Watford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes, who later suffered a back injury when he landed badly after he punched the ball away from Alvaro Negredo.
Cristhian Stuani wasted another rare chance for Boro as his lofted shot ended on top of the net.
However, Karanka will be optimistic by Gestede's performance when he came on for the last 25 minutes following a £6m move from Aston Villa earlier this month.
Watford also have problems getting goals with captain Troy Deeney - one of three players to be booked along with team-mate Miguel Britos and Watford's Fabio in a late scuffle - now on a run of one goal in 14 games.
He did, however, set up Cleverley with a flick-on after a long throw but the midfielder, on loan from Everton, could only hit the post.
Boro goalkeeper Victor Valdes also did well to save a shot from Doucoure and a header from Stefano Okaka.
Watford manager Walter Mazzarri said: "In the second half we had six or seven very good chances and hit the post so we were unlucky but I'm happy with the performance.
"In some of the games we were not lucky at all and today we were very unlucky, the important thing is to keep playing and the victory will come."
On the tribute to former Hornets manager Graham Taylor, Mazzarri said: "It was beautiful, there were a lot of emotions, everyone was emotional.
"We wanted to give this victory to this great person who passed away and that is the only thing we missed."
Watford captain Troy Deeney said: "Today was more about Graham Taylor and not the result. It would have been nice to get a winner and dedicate it to him.
"You could see how emotional everyone was and it showed how much people care about him. Hopefully this game can be remembered for Graham and not the result. The main thing is we didn't lose.
"There are no words that I can use to sum up how great a man he was and we just wish his family all the best at this difficult time."
Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka said: "It was not the best game to watch, for us it was a good game and we showed once again we are a consistent team.
"I would like to have had more chances but they are a strong team and we had to defend.
"We will score goals, we have good players and we created chances but sometimes it is difficult if you are playing against a physical team.
"As a coach until the 31st (of January) you are always expecting for something to happen, the aim is to finish the transfer market with a better squad than we have got at the moment."
Watford are away at Bournemouth in the Premier League next Saturday (15:00 GMT), while Middlesbrough entertain West Ham at the same time.
Match ends, Watford 0, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, Watford 0, Middlesbrough 0.
Marten de Roon (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stefano Okaka (Watford).
Fabio (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card.
Troy Deeney (Watford) is shown the yellow card.
Miguel Britos (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fabio (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Miguel Britos (Watford).
Attempt saved. Abdoulaye Doucouré (Watford) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Etienne Capoue with a cross.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by George Friend.
Foul by Fabio (Middlesbrough).
Sebastian Prödl (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Watford. Juan Zuñiga replaces José Holebas.
Attempt saved. Sebastian Prödl (Watford) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Etienne Capoue with a cross.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Víctor Valdés.
Attempt saved. Troy Deeney (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tom Cleverley.
Attempt missed. Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Adam Forshaw with a cross.
Fabio (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Younes Kaboul (Watford).
Foul by Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough).
Sebastian Prödl (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Etienne Capoue (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Tom Cleverley (Watford) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Troy Deeney with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Stefano Okaka (Watford) is shown the yellow card.
Stefano Okaka (Watford) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Substitution, Watford. Tom Cleverley replaces Valon Behrami.
Foul by Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough).
Etienne Capoue (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George Friend (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Kabasele (Watford).
Attempt missed. Abdoulaye Doucouré (Watford) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Christian Kabasele with a cross.
Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Younes Kaboul (Watford).
Foul by Marten de Roon (Middlesbrough).
Etienne Capoue (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by George Friend.
Substitution, Watford. Costel Pantilimon replaces Heurelho Gomes because of an injury.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Rudy Gestede replaces Cristhian Stuani.
British Transport Police said it was called to meet the train at Stoke-on-Trent on Sunday and asked four men to leave. Four more left of their own accord, they said.
Passengers had claimed the abusive fans were Chelsea supporters, police said.
A club representative said they were aware of the reports.
"It's not yet clear if any Chelsea supporters were involved but if they were we will, of course, be assisting the British Transport Police with their inquiries," they said.
The investigation follows allegations of racism involving Chelsea supporters on the Paris Metro in February.
A British Transport Police spokesman said: "Shortly after 22:30 GMT, officers were called to meet a London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly train at Stoke, following reports of racist and abusive behaviour by a number of passengers, said to be football fans.
"Colleagues from Staffordshire Police also attended.
"We have spoken to two witnesses, and investigations continue."
Chelsea were celebrating victory over Tottenham in the Capital One Cup final on Sunday.
Chelsea suspended five supporters following their own investigation into the Paris Metro incident, when a commuter identified in media reports as French-Mauritian Souleymane S, was blocked from boarding a train by fans travelling to a Champions League match.
Footage captured by a bystander appeared to show Souleymane being pushed back on to the platform amid chants of "We're racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it".
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said he was "ashamed" of the events in Paris while owner Roman Abramovich was said to be "disgusted".
Jasmine Lapsley, from Liverpool, was on holiday with her family in Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd, when she collapsed after eating a grape in August 2014.
She was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital in Bangor and died after treatment was withdrawn.
Prof Charles Deakin said claims she had zero survival chance "isn't possible".
Prof Deakin, a fellow of the European Resuscitation Council, told the Caernarfon hearing it was "very probable" Jasmine would have died.
But he said doctors should have waited 72 hours to try and get some balance in the little girl's system before reaching a prognosis.
"I am not sure the physical signs were interpreted correctly in terms of making a decision," he said.
Earlier on Monday, Dr Dorthe Grainger, a consultant for the North West and North Wales Paediatric Transfer Service, said she was consulted by hospital staff after Jasmine was taken there by RAF helicopter.
Giving evidence, she said: "All the medical signs gave me the evidence that Jasmine had no chance of survival.
"With the amount of oxygen starvation Jasmine had suffered, she had an unsurvivable injury."
Asked by the coroner at what stage that would have happened, Dr Grainger replied: "When she arrived at hospital."
The inquest continues.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 85 civilians were killed in the attack, as well as 50 Syrian soldiers.
Syria's state news agency Sana reported that around 300 civilians had died in the Baghaliyeh area of the city.
Meanwhile, the UN warned of "sharply deteriorating conditions" in the besieged areas.
Around 200,000 people were in these areas, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
The IS assault on government-held areas in the city began at dawn on Saturday, Syria's Local Coordination Committees (LCC) said.
A car bomb explosion was followed by a ground attack, the LCC said.
Government forces retaliated with air strikes and heavy artillery, the report said.
Russia said it had dropped aid to civilians caught up in the siege. There have also been reports of Russian airstrikes in the vicinity.
According to the Syrian observatory, IS now controls around 60% of the city.
More than 250,000 people have been killed and millions displaced after almost five years of conflict in Syria.
Blockades have been a feature of Syria's civil war. Up to 4.5 million people live in hard-to-reach areas, including nearly 400,000 people in 15 besieged locations who do not have access to life-saving aid.
March 2015: Foah and Kefraya in Idlib province are besieged by rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, with an estimated 12,500 trapped.
July 2015: Madaya, near Damascus, is besieged by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement.
September 2015: The situation in Foah and Kefraya worsens after the fall of a nearby government air base, where helicopters had been able to land with food supplies. Reports emerge of people eating grass to survive.
October 2015: UN delivers one month's supply of food rations for 20,000 people in Madaya.
December 2015: Dozens of wounded civilians and fighters evacuated from Foah, Kefraya, Zabadani and Madaya. Reports begin to emerge of people starving in Madaya.
January 2016: UN says it has received credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya. Warns of "sharply deteriorating" conditions in parts of Deir al-Zor
What's happening in Syria?
More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in almost five years of conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a brutal civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from Islamic State.
Why are civilians under siege?
All parties to the conflict are using siege warfare, encircling populated areas, preventing civilians from leaving and blocking humanitarian access in an attempt to force opponents to surrender. Shortages of food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel have led to malnutrition and deaths among vulnerable groups.
Where are the sieges?
Government forces are besieging various locations in the eastern Ghouta area, outside Damascus, as well as the capital's western suburb of Darayya and the nearby mountain towns of Zabadani and Madaya. Rebel forces have encircled the villages of Foah and Kefraya in the northern province of Idlib, while IS militants are besieging government-held areas in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said Southern Health was getting better at investigating incidents, but added there was still much to do.
Issues at the trust came to light after 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk drowned in a bath at an Oxford facility.
The trust welcomed the CQC's findings.
It's chief executive Katrina Percy resigned in October and the trust has yet to appoint a new one. Its previous board of directors quit in March.
Julie Dawes, interim chief executive, said: "This report gives us additional confidence that we are taking the right approach to improving our services.
"We are not complacent and fully accept that we have more work to do. We have clear plans in place to improve each area that the CQC has highlighted."
The report, which still rates the trust as "requires improvement", follows an inspection of 44 locations and found an "improved focus" on the the trust's response rates, the quality of its investigation reports and how it dealt with complaints.
However, it referred to delays in providing special mattresses and beds for patients approaching the end of their lives and when providing and repairing wheelchairs.
Paul Lelliott, deputy chief inspector of hospitals, said: "Some patients and families did express concerns that things hadn't changed enough and they would like to see swifter action with more effective communications when things go wrong.
"The majority of staff we met told us that they believed that the interim chair and interim chief executive were making a positive difference in changing the culture.
"The trust is certainly moving in the right direction and we hope this progress will continue under the new leadership team."
A report, which was leaked to the BBC in 2015, showed that of the 722 unexpected deaths at the trust between 2011 and 2015, only 272 were investigated.
It described a "failure of leadership" and said investigations that did take place took too long, were of "poor" quality and when concerns were raised by coroners and others "no effective action was taken".
The trust currently provides services in Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
They accuse the gang of trying to expand from its power base in the Gulf of Uraba to the eastern plains.
President Juan Manuel Santos has declared the gang, which is led by a man known as Otoniel, as one of the main enemies of the Colombian state.
The Urabenos control many of the routes used to smuggle drugs from Colombia as far away as Russia and the US.
Police said two of the men arrested were influential figures in the Urabeno's criminal structure.
They allege that John Alexander Pinto Diaz, also known as JJ, had been sent to Meta province to extend the gang's drug smuggling routes there and in the neighbouring provinces of Cundinamarca and Casanare.
Willar Duarte Arango is suspected of having been in charge of the logistical and financial support for the criminal gang in the region.
They were captured in the city of Villavicencio, south-east of the capital, Bogota.
Colombian police chief General Jorge Hernando Nieto Rojas said the capture of the two and the 20 others suspected of working with them would make the region safer.
"They were responsible for extortions, murders and the forced recruitment of minors," he alleged.
Analysts have warned that, as the Colombian government reaches a peace agreement with the largest rebel group, the Farc, criminal gangs are likely to try to expand into areas formerly controlled by the guerrilla.
Farc negotiators are expected to travel from Cuba, where peace negotiations have been held, to Colombia later on Monday to sign a revised peace agreement. The original agreement was rejected by Colombians last month in a popular vote.
The revised document is not expected to be put to another popular vote but to be passed to Congress for approval.
Dettori rode the Dean Ivory-trained horse to the far rail before leading all the way in the 26-runner race.
The seven-year-old eventually won by three-quarters of a length from Aeolus in second with Upstaging third.
"I did not expect it, but Dean was very sweet on him. I bagged the rail, and he kept on galloping," said Dettori.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
In a big field like this, there is masses of 'trouble in running', so if your horse has the speed to be right up there throughout, life is a lot easier.
And so it was with Lancelot Du Lac, who, apart from a few strides late on when the cavalry appeared to be coming, was always in control.
The horse, a significant part of Ivory's small but not unsuccessful team, is an all-weather circuit regular, hence he was a long-shot despite his jockey; before this, he had not won a race on turf for nearly four years.
The deal is likely to allow Matt Gilks, 34, to move from Ibrox in search of more regular first-team football.
Alnwick, who has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal, made eight appearances for Newcastle United and had loan spells with Gateshead and Bradford City before moving to Vale in August 2015.
The 23-year-old has played 31 times for the League One side this season.
Gilks, who has three Scotland caps, joined Rangers from Burnley last summer.
However, he has made only five appearances - all in the League Cup - after being unable dislodge Englishman Wes Foderingham as first choice.
The machine was among other components and computers the woman wanted to dispose of after her husband died.
Only about 200 of the first-generation Apple computers were made.
The company recognised the value of the old computer and sold it to a private collector for about $200,000 (£131,000).
The recycling centre, called Clean Bay Area, has launched a web and media campaign to track down the woman so she can receive her half of the cash they got for the machine.
It has produced a short video it is asking people to share to see if they can reach the donor.
In a blogpost, Clean Bay Area said the mystery woman had dropped off the boxes of electronics in late April.
It said she had been between 60 and 70 years old, had driven an sports utility vehicle (SUV) and had left the boxes at its Milpitas recycling centre.
The centre is providing no more details of what the woman looked like, but said recycling centre staff would recognise her if they saw her.
"I remember her," said Victor Gichun, a vice-president at the Clean Bay company, who dealt with the woman when she dropped off her boxes.
Mr Gichun said he had asked the woman if she had wanted a receipt but she had said she did not.
As the centre had a backlog of donated items to sort through, the boxes lay undisturbed for a couple of weeks.
When they were sorted, the Milpitas centre's manager spotted the computer under old cables and keyboards and realised what they had been given.
Designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak, the Apple I was the computer company's first product.
It went on sale in July 1976 for $666.66.
The machine had about 4kB of memory.
By way of comparison, the image at the top of this page is more than 42kB in size.
So far, only about 63 of those early machines are believed to have survived to the present day.
To get the cash, the woman just needs to return to the Milpitas donation centre.
"To prove who she is," Mr Gichun told the San Jose Mercury News, "I just need to look at her."
For some it's Britain's exit from the European Union. For others it's the prospect of Brexit being thwarted. For others still, it's whether the Chinese economy will hold up, what the outcome of the US presidential election will be or the risk of artificial intelligence taking over your job.
So what's the best way to handle the inevitable anxiety that goes hand-in-hand with all that uncertainty?
Will Borrell studied that anxiety up close after the Brexit vote in the UK earlier this year.
He manages a bar called Ladies & Gents which, as its name suggests, is located in a former public toilet at a busy junction in north London.
Before the vote, he says, things went very quiet. Then, on the evening after the shock decision to leave was announced, people came pouring back into his bar. Londoners, unlike most of the rest of the country, largely voted to remain in the EU.
"We're talking John Wayne at the bar," he told the BBC's Business Daily programme.
"You know, [saying] 'leave the bottle', like a cowboy. They were really going for it. It was Bacchanalian, end-of-the-world drinking."
This is not to suggest that hitting the bottle is the answer to quelling anxiety. Rather it's to illustrate that people are not very good at dealing with uncertainty, whether economic, political or otherwise.
The evidence is not just anecdotal. Studies have shown that, given a choice, people will opt for a definite electric shock now rather than the risk of a possible electric shock at some unknown time later. It seems that it's the not knowing that gets to us.
"It's known as ambiguity aversion," says David Spiegelhalter, professor of the public understanding of risk at Cambridge University, and president-elect of the Royal Statistical Society.
"People are much happier with known risks, when they know what the options are and what the chances are."
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That's where statistics come to the rescue. There is something very reassuring about putting a number on things and statistics can convert some uncertainties into measurable risk. It could be as simple as calculating the probability of rain tomorrow or the probability of surviving a disease.
But some uncertainties are subject to so many variables - those infamous "unknown unknowns" cited by former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2002 - that they are by their very nature untameable.
"When it comes to the economy, when it comes to politics, when it comes to these really complex things, especially when you're operating against an opponent, it's very dangerous to delude yourself that you've tamed uncertainty and turned it into chance," Prof Spiegelhalter says.
Nowhere is that more true than in combat. In fact, it's often said that war is the realm of uncertainty, what's sometimes called the "fog of war".
So how do soldiers prepare for it? The man to ask is US Army Lt Col Steven Gventer who was in the eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City in Iraq during the siege of 2004, when Shia militia staged an uprising against coalition forces.
Even before our interview started, I got a sense of what his answer might be. Col Gventer was scheduled to speak to me from a recording studio in Germany where he's now stationed, and his side made us sound check the line twice in the days before the interview (slightly alarming for us journalists who are used to winging it).
"One of the things we try to do is to cut down on the number of variables that we don't understand or we haven't prepared for," he says. "To minimise the number of variables that might hurt us - or ruin an interview, as the case may be."
In effect, soldiers make a habit out of continuous preparation, and subordinates are trained to make decisions independent of minute-by-minute supervision.
In the end, it becomes so ingrained that they stage team debriefs even after the most innocuous occasions such as family-day army events. Nothing is left to chance and everything is part of the learning curve.
It's not a strategy the rest of us could readily emulate, but then we're unlikely to find ourselves in the midst of a battle grappling with life-and-death situations.
So where does that leave us with our more mundane uncertainties? Questions like: Will I lose my job? Will my marriage last? Will my children be happy?
Would we even want to know the answers? A life devoid of any uncertainty would surely be weighed down by monotonous continuity. Any author or film director will tell you that if there is no uncertainty, there is no story. It's uncertainty that keeps us engaged.
But stories, it seems, also serve another purpose, particularly when it comes to decision-making.
At the height of the financial crisis in 2007, Prof David Tuckett, director of University College London's Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, was researching how money managers made investment decisions in the midst of financial and economic chaos.
He found that their decisions weren't based solely on hardcore research and calculations, but also on the stories the money managers told themselves. They created a narrative around the outcome of their actions and convinced themselves about it.
"In effect, the narrative removed the reason not to do it," he says.
It's not just a quirk of money managers. Most of us script our own stories for everyday decisions from buying a house to where we choose to go on holiday.
What's key, Prof Tuckett says, is our state of mind when we do it and whether we allow ourselves to be guided by curiosity.
"Arrogance is the opposite of curiosity," he says. "So to make good decisions you really need to be someone who's willing to look at things that are difficult.
"And if you get knowledge or information that makes you feel uncomfortable, rather than run away, you need to pursue those doubts."
In an ideal world you'd seek out expert advice to lay those niggling doubts to rest.
Or if that doesn't appeal, you could always take your cue from the former UK Justice Minister Michael Gove.
In the run-up to the Brexit vote he declared that the public had "had enough of experts".
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Under the deal, Iran will reduce its uranium enrichment capacity in exchange for phased sanctions relief.
US President Barack Obama said a "historic understanding" had been reached with Iran.
The world powers and Iran now aim to draft a comprehensive nuclear accord by 30 June.
The framework agreement was announced by the European Union and Iran after eight days of negotiations in Lausanne.
The talks between the so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany - and Iran at Lausanne's Beau-Rivage Palace hotel continued beyond the original self-imposed deadline of 31 March.
After a missed deadline and two exhausting nights of negotiations Iran and the six world powers presented their framework as a major achievement.
The EU's top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, read out a joint statement outlining the main points, including a reduction in the number of Iran's operating centrifuges, changes to its nuclear facilities, and a promise to lift sanctions if these steps are verified.
This is an unwritten understanding, not a formal agreement, and it lays the foundation for very tough negotiations on the details.
But for now its architects are celebrating a hard won, potentially historic, achievement.
Iran denies Western claims it is trying to build a nuclear weapon. It entered negotiations in order to see sanctions lifted.
According to a US factsheet issued after the talks, the outline deal includes the following conditions:
Mr Obama said the deal's implementation would be closely watched. "If Iran cheats, the world will know it," he said, adding that the deal was based not on trust but on "unprecedented verification".
He said the framework agreement had come after "months of tough, principled diplomacy", and that it was "a good deal".
Mr Obama's statement was broadcast live by Iranian broadcaster IRINN - a very rare move in Iran, where TV channels are controlled by the state - and there were celebrations in the streets of the capital, Tehran, over the breakthrough.
Some Iranians took "selfies" with their TV sets to mark the occasion.
In a BBC interview, US Secretary of State John Kerry said there was a point he was tempted to walk away from negotiations but added "the bottom line is we worked through it".
The draft deal was hailed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said he believed it would "contribute to peace and stability in the region".
"It will respect Iran's needs and rights while providing assurances to the international community that its nuclear activities will remain exclusively peaceful."
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini announced the deal at a news conference alongside the Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif , saying that a "decisive step" had been achieved.
Negotiators would now start "drafting the text" of the plan "guided by the solutions", she added.
Mr Zarif, meanwhile, said the full nuclear deal would be "something actually very innovative" as Iran would be able to sell enriched uranium in the international fuel market.
Russia welcomed the deal as recognition of "Iran's unconditional right to a peaceful nuclear programme", while French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters: "It's a positive step, but at the same time there are still questions and details that need to be resolved."
But Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu told President Obama in a phone call that a deal based on the agreed framework would threaten the survival of Israel.
For his part, President Obama told Mr Netanyahu the deal "in no way diminishes our concerns with respect to Iran's sponsorship of terrorism and threats towards Israel," the White House said.
The deal has also been criticised by members of the US Congress who want US lawmakers to have the right to review any final agreement.
US House Speaker John Boehner said the deal represented an "alarming departure" from Mr Obama's original goals and that Congress should review the deal before sanctions on Iran were lifted.
Mr Parry-Jones was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2009 and is cared for at home by his partner, Radio Cymru presenter Beti George.
Ms George said Wales suffered from a "division between health and social services", carers were not paid enough and care in Scotland was "far ahead".
The Welsh Government is consulting on its Dementia Strategic Action Plan.
A spokeswoman said it had been working closely with charities and people affected by dementia to develop a "team around the individual approach" for people living with dementia and their carers.
Ms George allowed cameras into her Cardiff home to film her day-to-day life caring for her partner.
The couple met more than 40 years ago at BBC Wales.
"He was ever so kind and gentle really. He was very handsome but it was more than that," remembered Ms George.
Since his diagnosis Ms George has been working to raise awareness of the condition.
"I feel like I'm giving a voice to these people who can't otherwise be heard."
During filming for BBC documentary, Beti and David: Lost for Words, Ms George visited a group of medical students at Cardiff University and told them: "There really needs to be, I think, a revolution in dementia care and I'd like to see you taking part in that revolution or even starting it."
She also visited the University of the West of Scotland in Paisley where she met experts and leaned about Scotland's approach to dementia care.
The country has a charter of rights for people with dementia and, following diagnosis, people are given a dementia link worker to provide support to individuals and their families.
Alzheimer Scotland's policy and research advisor Dr Barbara Sharp told Ms George that people with dementia and their families "were at the heart of writing the charter of rights and the other political parties came on board".
She said: "It's a world first in the terms of it gives people an absolute commitment that they have the right to have the support of an informed link worker."
Ms George said she wanted Wales to follow suit.
"I think it's a brilliant idea to have a link worker, to signpost you I suppose, to hold your hand.
"When you get the diagnosis it's a traumatic experience so you want somebody who knows about it and who can talk you through what's available to make life a bit easier.
"I think a service like that would be ideal for people in Wales."
The Welsh Government said it had provided more than £8m a year of additional funding over the last two years for dementia services, including £800,000 a year for additional primary care dementia support workers to provide face-to-face help following diagnosis.
Following her visit to Scotland, Ms George said she was impressed by the country's "enthusiasm and dedication".
"Scotland and Wales have limited resources but here they seem to think, 'well, that doesn't stop us from talking about it and doing something about it'," she said.
She praised Mr Parry-Jones's carer but was critical of homecare on the whole, calling it "inconsistent".
"Until they pay them a decent wage the problem will never go away."
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "We are committed to improving the working conditions of our dedicated care staff, which is why we recently held a consultation looking at a wide range of issues affecting them.
"We have now outlined our intentions to influence the use of zero hours contracts and are looking at other ways of improving the working conditions of these vital workers."
This week the England and Wasps star - one of the biggest noises in both dressing rooms - is tackling questions on issues on and off the pitch for his BBC Sport column.
Richard Bicknell via Facebook: Since the frustration of England's 2015 World Cup campaign [Haskell's only start was in the dead rubber against Uruguay], your form has been fantastic. Is it a big mental thing getting over not being very involved in a home World Cup and do you feel some of those heavily involved in the failure are still suffering from it?
It was devastating not to have done as well as we would have wanted, but everyone put in all the effort that they could into trying to perform. Some of that gets lost with time and journalism.
The coaches and players during that World Cup campaign worked as hard as any team I have been involved in, but the beauty of being a professional sportsman is that you get another opportunity and the chance to finish what you started.
I think for a lot of guys this is a new period and that World Cup has been consigned to history.
Tony Morris via Twitter: What different challenges will England's opponents pose this autumn?
The talk with England so far has only been on South Africa in the first Test of the autumn on 12 November.
The coaches will have looked further ahead to the games against Fiji, Argentina and Australia, but the focus is on the Springboks and the huge physical challenge that they pose.
The Australians will be interesting and another huge physical encounter.
The Argentines are a little bit of an unknown quantity. We beat them three times in a year in 2013, but they have had a resurgence since then and they are a very different team. It will be interesting to see how we match up with their free-flowing rugby.
Fiji are always tough and physical. They beat Great Britain to win Olympic gold in the sevens and, after losing to us in the World Cup opener last year, will be out for revenge.
Jason Mears via Twitter: Who is the toughest back rower you've faced?
Henry Tuilagi is the biggest and most physical that I have played against. He was an absolute machine. When I played him at sevens I would just throw myself at his ankles to try and stop him.
South Africa's Schalk Burger is very physical and, for the All Blacks, Jerry Collins and Jerome Kaino were really tough.
Greg GWilliam via Twitter:Who has put the biggest hit in on you, excluding the post in that Wales game, and who have you hit the hardest?
Sam Tuitupou of Worcester absolutely ended me when I was playing for Wasps when I was younger.
I was clean through, thought I was going to score and he just thumped me from the side, sending the ball flying out of my hands.
For my own, I put one in on Census Johnston - who is about 130kgs - when I was playing for Stade Francais against Toulouse. One of my team-mates piled in as well and turned into a bit of an illegal hit, but that was my favourite.
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Amanada Clipham via Twitter: When are you going to be fit again?
December is the plan. I have just been back running on a special treadmill that reduces the load on my injured toe. It is going well.
Tony Abass via Facebook: What are your plans after retirement?
I have my fitness business that I run already and I have written a couple of books for rugby players at different levels looking to improve their play. It's basically aimed at anyone trying to get into fitness.
I really want to go into television and radio. The punditry stuff is fine, but it is not my main interest. I would like to do presenting or try my hand at acting.
I am a big fan of Jack Whitehall's Bad Education. I think I would be limited to what parts I could play - if it was security guard number five or palm tree number three then I think I would probably get the role!
James Roberts via Facebook:After your epic pillow fight on League of Our Own, who would win in an arm wrestle - you or Freddy Flintoff?
I reckon I would nine times out of 10.
Talk About Rugby via Twitter:What did you think bout being locked in a stable with the lights out with your other half on Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live? With the music box playing, were you scared?
I went into it very open-minded, but, sadly in a way, nothing happened to me. There was not a hint of a ghost - maybe they just didn't like my chat. I think my backside was hanging out the back of my pyjama bottoms for most it - that was probably more scary than any ghosts.
We managed to upset the lady who was dong a seance - Chloe couldn't stop laughing and I banged my head on the chandelier which created a false alarm on the ghost front.
Scott via Twitter:What would you do if you had to live without social media for a day?
I would be quite happy. Social media is a tool for me, it is a means to an end. It is about building a business and sharing a little of the behind-the-scenes stuff. I don't get anything else out of it really.
I look at it to see people doing funny and strange stuff - like most people - but I could live quite happily without it.
It could be such a force for positivity, but unfortunately it tends to be a collecting ground for complete lunatics. It has given an opinion to everyone and some people just don't deserve one.
JuanJo Murrati on Twitter: Last November you had a wonderful moustache. Will it be making a comeback this year?
There has been a little confusion over this. You have to be clean shaven on 1 November and go through the pain of all the different stages as it grows out. In other years, I have had a beard going into autumn and shaved it off to leave behind a ridiculous 'tache as that was a better way to raise awareness.
This year though I have gone full bore, cleanly shaven and look about 12 years old. I just want something - anything - to grow. It is a great cause, raising money and awareness for men's health.
Luke Fellows via Facebook: Who is your favourite Friends character?
My girlfriend is obsessed with Friends and so I have seen a fair few episodes. I'm a Ross man. Or maybe Monica.
Matthew Chilvers on Facebook: Who inspired you to take up rugby?
My parents got me involved in rugby really. My mum - keen to get me out of the house - signed me up for Maidenhead RFC at the age of five and my dad used to play at school as well.
It wasn't just rugby though. I did judo, tennis, football, hockey, athletics, I even represented the school chess team. I played one match, won it and retired with a 100% record. I did school plays as well. I did everything.
That is what I tell people. Don't try and be a professional sportsperson from the age of four, just enjoy life and sport.
Jarryd Harris via Twitter: Apart from yourself, who has the best banter in the England squad?
I actually think Billy Vunipola is very funny. I really like Ellis Genge's banter. He looks like Drederick Tatum from The Simpsons, but has a very friendly demeanour and is very funny.
Nic Melton via Facebook: Do you think rugby is the best sport in the world? And if so, why?
I think it is right up there. I wish that more people would enjoy it as much as I do. The excuse that people give is that they don't understand what is going on - it is not that complicated. If you can understand American Football, you can easily get your head around rugby.
It has values that people respect. It has teamwork, camaraderie, it is sociable, rewards hard work and is great for your health.
I love the goals and skill of football, but rugby is all action. There is always a collision, a tackle, a break - you very rarely get a poor game.
Andy Madden via Twitter: Ever fancied giving rugby league a go?
I would love to have tried NRL.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment looks at how our current understanding of threat can be used more effectively to tackle new risks.
The report looks at a range of issues, such as pollution and invasive species.
It concludes by saying that more action at an earlier stage could help protect lives and the natural environment.
The report, Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Science, Precaution, Innovation, is the second volume produced by the EEA.
In 2001, the agency looked at the history of the precautionary principle between 1896 and 2000 and looked at what lessons could be learned in terms of more effective decision making.
The latest publication looks at 20 case studies, including:
"It is hoped that this volume will enable communities and people to become more effective stakeholders and participants in the governance of innovation and economic activities in relation to the associated risks to humans and the planet," said EEA executive director Prof Jacqueline McGlade.
Precautionary principle
In its conclusion, the report's authors highlighted a number of areas that they felt could lead to a more effective and efficient decision-making process, adding that precautionary measures did not necessarily "stifle innovation" but could support it.
"Not only has the body of knowledge become richer since 2001, but the number of stakeholders involved in decision-making has become larger and more diverse.
"There has also been increasing attention to communicating scientific uncertainty, especially in the fields of climate change, food safety and emerging risk.
But they observed that there had been less progress in some areas: "Many of the political and scientific 'bureaucratic silos' still remain, despite frequent calls for policy integration and interdepartmental co-operation.
"It is therefore very important that large-scale emerging technologies... apply the precautionary principle based on the experiences and lessons learned."
They added that increases in scientific knowledge had shown that the links between stressors and harm were more complex than was previously thought.
"Much of the harm described in [the reports], such as cancers or species decline, is caused by several co-causal factors acting independently or together.
"[For example], Bee Colony Collapse can be linked to viruses, climate change and nicotinoid pesticides."
They also said that research had a tendency to focus on well documented hazards rather than investing more time and resources improving the scientific knowledge of emerging threats.
"Environmental and health research overly focuses on well-know rather than unknown hazards at the expense of emerging issues and their potential impacts," they concluded.
"Funding more holistic systems science would also help achieve a greater integration among the different branches of science and counteract problems such as: short-term interest outcompeting long-term vision; competition replacing co-operation ; fragmentation of information and knowledge.
She popped into the Radio 1 Breakfast show this morning after being given the title by the record industry.
And she left Newsbeat in no doubt just how popular she REALLY is.
Many fans camped outside the studio for nearly 24 hours, armed with gifts for the super-star singer.
So here's why the Swifties LOVE Taylor so much.
"She stalks us online and she's more of a friend. She understands us on a more personal level than anyone else
She's literally an older sister, she gives better advice. She's more of a friend to me than some of my actual friends.
I got her loads of presents, a personalised coaster saying Morgan loves Taylor, cat pyjamas and all the gift tags have cats on because she loves cats.
She's the best thing that's ever happened to me, I'm not even joking.
I'm going to wee myself when I see her."
"She just connects with her fans on another level. We're not really fans though, we're an extended family
Everyone can relate to every single thing she writes. She talks to us on Tumblr.
We arrived yesterday at midday. We've been camping all night, we haven't really eaten but we don't care because we're going to see Taylor.
She's just an icon."
"She's done so much for fans which other celebrities won't consider doing.
She goes way out of her way to do it and we just love her for it.
We've been waiting for hours to see her. We ordered pizza at midnight, there was a lot of singing and Taylor Swift fangirling, screaming and crying".
We're freezing but it's OK."
"You don't see her as a world wide pop star. You see her more as a close friend.
She is probably the greatest woman out there.
She's the best and worst due to stress she causes but it's definitely worth it in the end.
We went to one of her favourite shops to buy her a journal for her to hopefully write lyrics in and a really cute headband because she's kind of in that phase of headbands."
"Her lyrics are different to anyone else's.
She's the only one who can write lyrics how she does to connect with us.
She really does write how we feel."
"Her lyrics really do make you feel like she's in our brains and she just says it.
No one else really does that and sings their own songs with it."
"She's allowed us to meet so many friends.
We're all friends because of her."
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Mr MacAskill made a statement to MSPs defending the policy of some police officers carrying handguns on patrols.
He said there had been a nationwide roll-out of a policy that was "endorsed" by three former forces.
The Scottish Conservatives said the use of armed police was "disturbing", while Scottish Labour accused Mr MacAskill of having an "indifferent attitude".
The Scottish Liberal Democrats called the justice secretary "deeply illiberal".
Police Scotland has said the deployment of a small number of armed officers was needed "to address a risk".
Previously, politicians from the Highlands and Highland Council have raised concerns about the deployment of armed officers in their region.
Petitions opposing the policy have been started by Lib Dem MP Danny Alexander and the Inverness Courier newspaper.
Chief Constable Sir Stephen House has said a routine review of the policy would take place in September, but Police Scotland has also said that the operational decision was unlikely to change in the near future.
Analysis by BBC Scotland's Home Affairs Correspondent, Reevel Alderson
Out of a total police strength of 17,318, only 275 officers routinely carry guns while on duty.
But even this number does not reflect the number of armed officers on the streets at any one time, since shift patterns and leave reduce it further.
The officers carrying weapons are members of the armed response unit, ready to attend a firearms incident immediately.
Police say when they are not deployed on active firearms duty, they carry out normal policing duties - although they still carry their side arms.
The policy was introduced by the former Strathclyde force in 2008, and followed by Tayside in 2009 and Northern Constabulary just before the single force was created in 2013.
Police say the areas covered accounted for 60% of the Scottish population.
"The current standing firearms authority is not new," MacAskill said.
"Three of the former constabularies - Strathclyde, Tayside and indeed Northern - had endorsed this position prior to the inception of the service."
Critics have pointed out the widening of the policy comes after figures for 2012-13 showed firearm offences had fallen by 32% to the lowest for 10 years.
Homicides, attempted murders and robberies in which firearms were involved were all down too.
Mr Alexander said: "This is a deeply disappointing statement from a minister with a deeply illiberal record as justice secretary.
"It will further fuel anger about the routine use of armed police officers.
"Kenny MacAskill had a chance to show he was able to listen to the sincerely-held concerns of many in the Highlands but instead he has once again turned a deaf ear.
"I hope the chief constable will show himself more willing to listen to people at the review in September."
Scottish Labour's justice spokesman, Graeme Pearson, said: "I am shocked and dismayed at the cabinet secretary's indifferent attitude towards this fundamental change to the nature of policing."
He added: "There has been significant concern expressed from both the public and the media on this matter but the SNP government has refused to acknowledge or address this and has instead attempted to stifle debate on the issue.
"The complete lack of transparency and accountability on routinely arming officers is absolutely unacceptable and the cabinet secretary must ensure that the Scottish Police Authority is enabled to fulfil its duty in holding Police Scotland and their decisions to account."
Scottish Conservative justice spokeswoman Margaret Mitchell said: "The fact that hundreds of police officers are carrying firearms while responding to everyday duties is deeply disturbing for the public.
"These fears have been heightened by the unacceptable lack of transparency and accountability in decision making by Police Scotland on this issue in particular.
"It has been consistently acknowledged that someone who carries a knife is in danger of using that weapon or becoming a victim of knife crime.
"It's an interesting analogy with the arming of police, because there is a real apprehension that if police officers routinely carry a weapon, that weapon will be used in a manner other than that intended."
Strathclyde Police, Tayside Police and Northern Constabulary allowed specialist officers to carry guns routinely before the creation of a single force in Scotland.
Police Scotland has adopted the approach across the country since its launch in April last year and it has included the use of a small number of firearms officers in the Highlands.
Following a meeting with Highland councillors last month, divisional commander Ch Supt Elaine Ferguson said the policy was unlikely to change.
She said armed police deployments were an operational decision made by the chief constable and there was not a requirement to consult publicly on the move.
"I cannot say it will never change, but it's there to address a risk that is there," added Ch Supt Ferguson.
Mr MacAskill previously spoke on the issue in the Scottish Parliament in May.
He said it was necessary for trained firearms officers to be readily available to respond quickly to "urgent and unexpected threats".
Mr MacAskill said Police Scotland has 275 firearms officers - 1.6% of Police Scotland's personnel - and they were deployed on a shift pattern basis.
He added: "Consequently, only a small number will actually be deployed across our communities at any one time."
The justice secretary also said that the police authority and police investigation and review commissioner could review the deployment of firearms officers.
Governing body the FIA has published a 21-race schedule, featuring a French Grand Prix for the first time in a decade - at Le Castellet in Provence.
China and Singapore have not yet completed commercial deals on new contracts with the F1 Group.
The season starts in Australia on 25 March, with the British race on 8 July.
The year ends at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina track on 25 November.
Silverstone is at the end of the first ever run of three consecutive races, two weeks after France on 24 June, with Austria on 1 July.
And Germany returns at Hockenheim for the final year of its current biennial deal, having dropped off the schedule in 2017 because of financial problems at the Nurburgring.
The calendar has been shuffled compared to this year's schedule to make room for the French event in early summer.
The Azerbaijan race, taking place this weekend, will next year be held on 29 April, the date occupied this year by Russia, which in 2018 will be on 30 September.
The Grecians beat Mansfield 2-0 to end a 259-day wait for a victory in front of their own fans at St James Park.
"In many ways that was hideous to watch," Tisdale told BBC Radio Devon.
"I loved the last two minutes, other than that it was hard work, but we got it and the boys have deserved it with what they did today, but also how they've continued their work."
Ollie Watkins scored his second goal late in the game to seal the win, which was Exeter's third in a four-game unbeaten run.
"We have to start looking at taking 10 points out of the next 12, that's what you have to do, you have to keep going, " added Tisdale, who is the second longest-serving manager in English professional football after Arsenal's Arsene Wenger.
"The squad is being strengthened all the time with returning injured players and we've got some spirit about us. It was a really good day at the Park and I loved it."
Estate agent George Low, 22, from Dartford, was killed near a nightclub in Ayia Napa in Cyprus in August.
An arrest warrant was issued for Sali Ahmet, 42, who fled to the Turkish-controlled north after the attack.
Officials in the south of the country said no-one had been handed back from northern Cyprus for many years.
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Mr Ahmet fled to the north with a second suspect, Mehmet Akpinar, 22, where they were arrested for an unrelated offence.
But both were then allowed to leave northern Cyprus without being charged - Mr Ahmet two weeks ago and Mr Akpinar in January.
In a statement, Mr Low's parents Martyn and Helen Low said they felt "totally let down by the authorities".
"We fail to understand why Turkey would allow a Bulgarian citizen [Sali Ahmet] suspected of murder to be set free in their own country instead of handing him over to the Bulgarian authorities to start the deportation process back to southern Cyprus to stand trial for the despicable and senseless act of violence against our son George and Ben, a lifelong friend.
"Now 11 months on both men are free to enjoy their lives. We will not let this rest."
Ben Barker, 22, who survived the attack, said he was "upset, disgusted and angry" that the men had been released.
"We've had quite a lot of lack of information, and it's always been in the back of my mind that it might go this way.
"It's looking like we're not going to get any justice for George."
Gareth Johnson the Conservative MP for Dartford, said he was also in regular contact with the Foreign Office "but frankly it's perhaps now too late".
He added he had met the ambassador from northern Cyprus, who had claimed the authorities were not receiving "the evidence from southern Cyprus that enables them to take action". | A man has died after a two-car crash in Carmarthenshire, Dyfed-Powys Police has said.
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The names and pictures of an estimated 150 million Facebook members were used in Sponsored Stories, but only those who responded to an email from the site earlier this year will be compensated.
Privacy organisations will also receive some of the $20m (£12.9m) settlement.
Facebook said it was "pleased" the settlement had been approved.
The payout was approved by a US court on Monday following a class action filed against Facebook in 2011 by five of its users.
The group said their details had been used to promote products and services through the site's Sponsored Stories programme, without paying them or giving them the choice to opt-out.
A Sponsored Story is a tailored advertisement that appears on members' Facebook pages, highlighting products a user's friends have endorsed or "liked" on the site.
US District Judge Richard Seeborg acknowledged that the $15 payments were relatively small, but said it had not been established that Facebook had "undisputedly violated the law".
He added that the claimants could not prove they were "harmed in any meaningful way".
The court estimated that Facebook had made about $73m (£47m) in profit from the Sponsored Stories featuring details of the 150 million members.
The settlement also requires Facebook to make changes to its "Statement of Rights" and to give users more information and control over how their details are used in the future.
This move was estimated by the plaintiff's lawyers to cost Facebook $145m in advertising revenue.
Approximately 7,000 Facebook users opted out of the settlement altogether, allowing them to bring their own legal action against the social network.
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Graham Phillips is a journalist working for Russian TV station Russia Today.
The station said he had been detained in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday. The National Guard later said it intended to transport him to Kiev.
The Foreign Office said it was "in contact with the Ukrainian authorities" and was ready to provide "consular assistance".
Mr Phillips, 35, who grew up in Nottingham before moving to Scotland, works as a freelance journalist and had been a stringer for Russia Today.
In a statement, the organisation said he had not been in contact with anyone via phone, email or Twitter since 15:20 Moscow time on Tuesday.
It said he had been detained that morning and was believed to have been taken for "interrogation" by the Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU.
Ukraine's National Guard confirmed the journalist had been detained and passed to the SBU. It told the BBC he would be transported to Kiev and passed to British embassy officials, after which he should go free.
Russia Today said its repeated attempts to speak to representatives of the Ukrainian security service had been rebuffed.
It appealed to the British consulates in Russia and Ukraine, as well as to the UK Foreign Office, requesting their help with Mr Phillips's release.
Russia Today said he had called to tell them of his detention but they had since lost all contact with him.
The English language TV network claimed a source had told them Mr Phillips would be released if he deleted footage he had recorded near a roadblock.
Alexey Kuznetsov, deputy head of Russia Today's English department, said: "We still cannot get in touch with Graham, we are extremely worried what could happen to him."
On Monday Mr Phillips tweeted about growing calls for him to be arrested and deported from Ukraine.
His last tweet on Tuesday said that he had been "secretly filming" with a senior doctor at a morgue in Mariupol.
According to RT, during his last phone call with the station, Mr Phillips said he had been asked if he was a spy. He also told the station his car had been searched and his laptop confiscated.
The authorities checked his documentation, looked at his reports and clips, and asked him his position on Crimea, RT reported.
Meanwhile, MPs in the Russian parliament have expressed outrage following the detention of two Russian journalists.
Marat Saichenko and Oleg Sidyakin, from the pro-Kremlin news channel LifeNews, were detained by soldiers in eastern Ukraine.
They were accused of being armed and involved in "terrorism".
Speaking on Wednesday during his visit to China, President Vladimir Putin described the allegations against the reporters as "nonsense, absolute rubbish".
An online campaign is under way to secure their release - using images of people holding signs declaring "Save Our Guys".
There has been unrest in Ukraine as government forces continue to clash with pro-Russia separatists, who have taken over government buildings in southern and south-eastern parts of the country.
It comes after pro-Kremlin Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in February, following months of street protests.
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The group has declared the day Fat Cat Tuesday, based on FTSE 100 chief executives earning £5m a year, compared with the median UK salary of £27,645.
The think tank says its aim is to highlight the "unfair pay gap".
The calculations were criticised as "pub economics, not serious analysis" by the Adam Smith Institute.
"None of these complaints are valid unless the High Pay Centre thinks it has a better way of estimating the value of executives to firms than those firms themselves," said the institute's executive director, Sam Bowman.
"The High Pay Commission's complaints only make sense if you assume firms don't actually care about making money - which is to say, they don't make sense at all."
The High Pay Centre's estimates are based on chief executives working 12-hour days and taking few holidays, giving them an average hourly pay of £1,260 an hour.
At this rate, it means bosses only need to work 22 hours - taking them to Tuesday afternoon, assuming they started work on 4 January - to reach the median full-time employee salary.
The body uses a mean average for chief executive pay and a median average for workers' pay, which means the figures are not directly comparable.
Nonetheless, High Pay Centre director Stefan Stern said its figures raised doubts about the effectiveness of government efforts to curb top pay.
"Overpayment at the top is fuelling distrust of business," he said.
High executive pay has been in the spotlight since the financial crisis.
Since 2013, UK-listed companies have had to publish a single figure detailing their top executive's salary, as well as being required to give shareholders a binding vote on directors' pay.
The High Pay Centre is calling for further measures to be taken, such as representation for workers on company remuneration committees that set executive pay, as well as publication of the pay gap between the highest and median earner within a firm.
The two Championship clubs agreed a fee, thought to be about £9m, and the 25-year-old held negotiations with promotion-chasing Boro.
However, Boro said they were unable to agree personal terms with the player.
The Scotland international has scored 83 goals in 169 appearances for Blackburn, with 11 of those strikes coming this season.
Rhodes joined Blackburn from Huddersfield for £8m in 2012.
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The US makers, Mondelez International, said the new design was a way to cut the size of the 400g (14oz) bar to 360g and the smaller 170g bar to 150g.
But Ben Torgersen's tweet reflected the views of many, writing: "Trump, Bowie dying and Brexit. Thought this year could not get any worse."
And Toblerone fan @knowleybean said: "The spaced out #toblerone won't inflict so much pain on the roof of your mouth when attempting to release an 'Alp', thus the joy diminishes."
Samuel, who uses the Twitter handle @50degreesam, was less bothered that there were fewer triangles in the new bar, stating that so long as it retained some, it still had a place in teaching geometry.
He tweeted: "I don't care about #Toblerone so long as it stays a triangular prism shape as there's no other way to teach kids solid geometry."
He also tweeted a simple solution to the burgeoning chocolate crisis, stating simply: "How to get more Toblerone: 1 Buy two Toblerones."
Even cycling star Mark Cavendish had something to say about the new configuration to the hotel mini-bar staple.
The Olympic silver medal winning cyclist tweeted: "What have they done with #Toblerone?! From a life in hotels, the stand-out comfort for staying in a decent place has been compromised."
Others predicted a worse fate for the chocolate bar once Article 50 is triggered to start the of the UK's departure from the European Union.
Mike Holden tweeted an image of significantly reduced bar with almost no chocolately peaks in sight.
On Instagram, BenchWarmersmade a slightly left-field comparison to the new pared-down Toblerone saying: "The new Toblerone is like Manchester United's performance this season."
And comedycentraluk said: "2016 did a lot of bad things, but this is perhaps the worst."
As ever, there were some people quick to spot any potential gap in the market, and Will Henryson was among the first to see the money-making possibilities of the old standard and much-loved traditional Toblerone he still had in his possession.
And Brummie Auslander tweeted that he would be running a "Toblerone aid convoy" as part of his annual Christmas trip to Switzerland next month.
Some saw the lighter side of the redesign of the Toblerone, including Will Hagerty, who tweeted that a new fate awaited the much-loved Curly Wurly.
He tweeted: "Unconfirmed reports that the Curly Wurly is to be unravelled and renamed the Straighty Waighty."
Once the news started to take hold, chocolate-lovers began to lament the demise of other favourite bars over the years.
Scott Ross looked back at the decision to no longer make the Wispa, with a tweet that said: "This is worse than the great Wispa tragedy of 03."
Comparisons were quickly drawn with the Chocolate Orange and the fury sparked last month, when it was announced it would be shrinking in size from 175g to 157g.
The chocolate segment treat is also owned by Mondelez International, a subsidiary of Kraft, which again blamed the rising cost of ingredients for the size reduction.
The company also owns the Creme Eggs, which were the centre of their own scandal when the recipe was changed in 2015, costing a fall in sales of about £6m.
At the time many fans stopped buying the new version in a protest, including Sarah Harding, who tweeted in January: "Refusing to eat a Cadbury Creme Egg until they change it back to dairy milk."
The controversial change was later reversed to try to win back its fans.
Other bars have been subject to downsizing over the years including Dairy Milk and the Yorkie, but perhaps the most distressing chocolate cut-back over the years has been the size of the Quality Street tin.
The Christmas family-favourite has gradually reduced from a satisfying 820g to 780g and this year has lost one of its stalwarts - the Toffee Deluxe - which sparked its own furore on social media.
Objectors included @mrsnickih, saying: "This, Nestle, is so wrong. It's ruined Christmas' forever... <sobs> Bring back the #toffeedeluxe."
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The 29-year-old rejoined Posh on a one-year deal last summer, but scored just three goals in 39 league appearances.
Taylor is the second player to join the Bantams this summer after full-back Adam Chicksen signed a two-year deal earlier this week.
"It's a massive club with a big fanbase and every time I've played here there's been a great atmosphere," he said.
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Labour won 30 seats after considerable gains, but needed 31 for a clear lead.
However, senior Labour figures have all referred to their wish for a Labour first minister and a "Labour-led" government in place by next week.
Former Welsh Lib Dem leader Lord German said he thought talks between parties could start this weekend.
Lord German led his party when it went into coalition with Labour between 2000 and 2003.
Labour: 30 seats (+4 from 2007); 42.3% in constituencies (+10.1%); 36.9% on list (+7.2%)
Conservatives: 14 seats (+2); 25% in constituencies (+2.6%); 22.5% on list (+1.1%)
Plaid Cymru: 11 seats (-4): 19.3% in constituencies (-3.1%); 17.9% on list (-3.1%)
Liberal Democrats: 5 seats (-1); 10.6% in constituencies (-4.2%); 8% on list (-3.7%)
UKIP: 0 seats; 4.6% on list (+0.7%)
Greens: 0 seats; 3.4% on list (-0.1%)
BNP: 0 seats; 2.4% on list (-1.9%)
Turnout: 41.6% in constituencies (-2.1%); 42.2% on list (-1.1%)
Source: BBC analysis
Labour finished on 30 seats, Conservatives 14, Plaid Cymru 11 and Liberal Democrats five. No smaller party managed a breakthrough.
Although the Tories had a generally good performance, they suffered the blow of losing their Welsh leader Nick Bourne on the Mid and West Wales regional list. Both Plaid and the Lib Dems had a poor night.
As the last results were declared from north Wales on Friday, three of the most senior figures in Welsh Labour, First Minister Carwyn Jones, campaign director Leighton Andrews, and MP Owen Smith all referred to their desire for a "Labour-led" government.
BBC Welsh affairs editor Vaughan Roderick said the use of "Labour-led" was an indication that Labour is keeping its options open.
Lord German said he believed the use of the phrase "Labour-led" indicated to him that there was already forethought from Labour about a coalition deal.
Asked what her position was on a deal with Labour, and whether contact had taken place, Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said: "The ball is certainly in the Labour party's court - they've only been able to get the 30 seats, it must be very disappointing for them.
"As I said at the beginning of this election, our approach, after the people of Wales have spoken, would be to create a stable government here in Wales and to use our influence to push forward the elements of our manifesto that we've campaigned on."
BBC Welsh affairs editor Vaughan Roderick writes:
Labour didn't get a majority but it's an entirely different position from the one Rhodri Morgan was in four years ago.
There was an alternative government then with Plaid Cymru's Ieuan Wyn Jones as an alternative leader in the proposed "rainbow coalition".
But Carwyn Jones has won the right to be First Minister, which means he is under no time pressure whatsoever.
He does not have to go into immediate meetings this weekend, and can take a week to decide how he structures government.
Mention is being made of a Labour-led government but this is just a phrase they are using. They are keeping their options open.
Pontypridd MP Owen Smith, asked whether Mr Jones would opt for a coalition deal, said: "I think he's said very clearly that there is a strong mandate that's been sent by the people of Wales that they want a Labour-led government, that they want Carwyn Jones as First Minister.
"I think the ball is in our court now, to think about how we want to take that forward, what we want to do with that mandate."
Carwyn Jones said "We're keeping all our options open".
He said these included governing alone and on a case-by-case basis.
"The people of Wales have shown that what they want to see is a Labour-led government," he said.
"If people were unhappy with the Welsh Labour Party then we wouldn't have done as well as we have.
"We've got five exciting years in government ahead of us."
Asked by BBC Wales political editor Betsan Powys about the problems in the education system that had already been identified, Mr Jones said Labour knew there were "some parts of the education system that need improvement".
He also told Jamie Owen on the BBC Wales results programme: "You are right to say that once the day is over the real work begins. I know full well that from next week we've got a lot of work to do."
Mr Jones said the impact of the UK coalition had a big impact on the election. "We did find people on the doorstep time and time again saying they were unhappy with what's happening at a UK level."
Lib Dems finished behind the BNP in a number of seats, and lost two key constituencies, Montgomeryshire and Cardiff Central.
Although Plaid's Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones held Ceredigion, deputy leader Helen Mary Jones lost her seat in Llanelli, which puts her out of the assembly for the first time since it was founded in 1999.
After a disappointing night for his party, Ieuan Wyn Jones said his party needed to look at the impact of having been in coalition with Labour for the past four years.
Labour was looking to take both Aberconwy and Clwyd West, but they were both won by the Tories. However, Nick Bourne lost his Mid and West Wales regional seat.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan paid tribute to the role Mr Bourne played in "transforming the image and fortunes of the Welsh Conservative Party".
"This result is a great loss to the National Assembly and to me personally."
Out of 60 assembly members, there will be 24 new faces in the Senedd.
But there was no breakthrough for either the Green Party or UKIP, which had each hoped to secure an AM through the regional list vote.
As well as assembly seats, people have also voted on whether to replace the first-past-the-post system for electing MPs with the alternative vote (AV). Counting started in the AV referendum at 1600 BST on Friday.
The turnout in the constituencies was 41.6%, down 2.1% on 2007, and slightly higher on the regional list.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt ordered an investigation into the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust in April.
A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report said overall care had got better but safety in maternity services "needed further improvement".
The trust said challenges needed to be resolved and it wanted to work more closely with GPs.
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Inspectors visited the trust's Princess Royal Hospital, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and its five midwife led maternity units, in December and January to check whether improvements had been made following its previous inspection in October 2014.
They found progress had been made at the trust as a whole, but gave it a "requires improvement" rating for being safe, responsive and well-led.
The CQC's chief inspector of hospitals, Prof Ted Baker, said end-of-life care services had made "significant progress" and "a positive change in culture among staff and leaders at the trust" was noted.
But he said action was needed particularly with regard to "maintaining appropriate staffing levels in the emergency department and ensuring a strong safety and learning culture within maternity services".
Seven babies died in a 20-month period between September 2014 and May 2016.
A ninth avoidable baby death was uncovered at the trust by the BBC in June.
In maternity services, the watchdog found learning from "safety incidents was not always being shared with all staff" to support improvements.
It added a lack of regular post-natal ward rounds meant "high risk" post-natal women were not regularly reviewed and on the Wrekin midwife led unit, "medicines management was also a concern".
However, the report praised "caring and compassionate staff" and rated providing effective services and caring services as "good".
The trust said it had commissioned the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to help and worked with the Virginia Mason Institute in the US to improve patient safety.
It said medical care at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital had made "significant improvement."
But it admitted failing to hit the government's target of admitting or transferring 95% of A&E patients within four hours.
Trust chief executive Simon Wright said the need to resolve challenges "is the driving force behind our plans to reconfigure hospital services and to work more closely with GPs".
The eggs from breeding pair Glesni and Monty were first spotted at Cors Dyfi Reserve on 25 April.
The pair have previously produced four eggs together in the past three years.
Monty and Glesni, which featured on BBC's Springwatch programme in 2012, returned to the site in April after wintering in Africa.
Monty has returned annually to breed at the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust site since 2011.
The birds of prey are kept under constant watch and a webcam will capture the moment the eggs hatch.
Members of the select committee on Welsh affairs will look at the impact of "increasing divergence" in health systems either side of Offa's Dyke.
They will consider the experience of patients who rely on services on the other side of the border.
The committee has said it will not examine the merits of healthcare in Wales or England.
The Welsh affairs committee last investigated cross-border health issues in 2009 and says increasing differences between the English and Welsh NHS have developed since then.
David Cameron has described the state of the NHS in Wales as a "scandal" and claimed Welsh hospital care is so poor that Offa's Dyke is a "line between life and death" .
Labour has said such comments are intended to distract attention from "ongoing scandals" in the English NHS by Conservatives "hell-bent on creating an iron curtain between two health systems that work well together on a daily basis".
Under-20 coach Graeme Murty has taken temporary charge of the side following the departure of Mark Warburton.
McLeish was in charge of Rangers for five years until 2006.
Former director of football Gordon Smith thinks McLeish will be "strongly in contention", while brothers Barry and Derek Ferguson agreed that he would be an "outstanding candidate".
McLeish's last managerial job was with Zamalek, but he was sacked by the Egyptian Premier League club following a series of poor performances after only three months in the post.
However, asked about McLeish, former Rangers captain Barry Ferguson told BBC Scotland: "I think we need a Rangers man back in there.
"There's a lot of good Rangers men out there and a lot of good managers out there.
"But, for me, we need someone who knows the club inside out and Alex certainly does that.
"I played a long time under him - he's been my manager at Rangers, Birmingham and Scotland and he would be a good shout."
Smith believes the 58-year-old would be someone who would interest Rangers.
"They will want to try and get someone who has a previous track record with Rangers either as a player or as a manager," the former Rangers midfielder told BBC Radio Scotland.
"Alex McLeish definitely comes strongly into contention."
Smith thinks McLeish is a more likely successor than Walter Smith, the 68-year-old who has already had two successful stints as Rangers manager.
"Walter Smith could, but it depends whether he himself would want to because he did come back and have his three years there, turned things around and won three titles and then decided even on a winning streak that that was enough - his time was up," he said.
"I don't know whether Walter would want to do it.
"Alex McLeish is available at the moment and if you get somebody who's done a good job at Rangers in the past who could come back in - Walter Smith's done it before - they could turn things around."
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes, whose side sit a place above third-top Rangers on goal difference in the Premiership, is another former Rangers player who could be in the reckoning for the post.
"I don't think Derek McInnes would be ready to move at this stage of his career," said Smith. "He's taking things forward with Aberdeen and doing well there."
Warburton was replaced amid much confusion with Rangers saying they accepted his resignation while he insisted he had not stood down and would be contacting his legal advisors.
Ferguson thinks McLeish, who also managed Motherwell, Hibernian, Scotland, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Genk, is the most obvious choice as Rangers attempt to narrow the gap on city rivals Celtic, who have a 27-point lead in the Premiership.
"The one that jumps out right away for me is Alex McLeish," he said. "He's the outstanding candidate.
"He's been there, he's done it and he's not working at the moment.
"He could come in and steady the ship until all this legal stuff takes its course."
Meanwhile, former Rangers defender Frank de Boer admitted he would be interested in speaking to Rangers.
The 46-year-old former Ajax coach, who had a short spell at Ibrox in 2004, is without a club after leaving Inter Milan last year.
De Boer told Sky Sports that he was not interested in taking up an appointment until the start of next season but said he would "always listen" to any approaches.
Dr Peter Barnett, 44, used an Oyster card to avoid paying the full fare for his journey from Oxford to London.
The barrister was given a suspended prison sentence last September after he admitted failing to pay for journeys on 655 days.
A Bar Standards Board (BSB) tribunal said Barnett's "dishonest conduct" was incompatible with membership.
Barnett travelled from Haddenham and Thame Parkway to London Marylebone, but claimed his journey began at Wembley.
He admitted fraud by false representation and was given a suspended 16-week prison sentence.
The Oxford graduate and former Rhodes scholar failed to pay for journeys on Chiltern Railways on 655 days between April 2012 and November 2014, City of London Magistrates' Court heard in September 2015.
It was thought he "tapped out" with an Oyster card, automatically being charged the maximum Transport for London fare rather than a rail fare.
Barnett did not hold a practising certificate as a barrister in England and Wales but was Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 2007, the BSB said.
He was a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and in New South Wales, Australia where the relevant regulators have been informed of the tribunal's decision.
Chiltern Railways had argued he should pay back nearly £20,000 in lost fares but the defence said the true value was £6,000 which he was ordered to pay back.
Barnett was also ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and be supervised for 12 months.
O'Grady, who has been with the Tour for over 40 years, will remain in position until his successor is appointed.
The 65-year-old has been chief executive of the Tour, which runs the three leading men's professional golf circuits in Europe, since 2005.
O'Grady will now take up a presidential role to represent the Tour through the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
He was instrumental in helping golf be reinstated as an Olympic sport for the first time in 112 years, and has also overseen the significant growth of The Ryder Cup.
The local authority said the town centre had a long history of flooding, with 148 properties thought to be under threat.
Problems are caused by blocked culverts and high flows in the town's Lledan brook, the council said.
The scheme will receive funding from Powys council, the Welsh Assembly Government and the European Union.
Powys council said: "The scheme aims to increase the standard of flood defences on the Lledan brook and adjoining water courses, as well as carrying out a number of flood defence improvements on the Montgomery Canal."
Plans for the project went on display for one day at Welshpool town hall on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old has agreed a long-term contract with the Gunners after ending an 18-month spell at St James' Park.
Debuchy has 25 international caps for France and represented his country at this summer's World Cup in Brazil.
"He is a quality defender who has good Premier League experience and I'm confident he will fit in very well with us," said Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.
"He has shown he can perform at the highest level with his club sides and also for France."
Debuchy, who made 46 appearances for Newcastle after joining in 2013 from French club Lille, with whom he spent the first nine years of his career, said: "I'm very proud to be joining a great club like Arsenal and to wear its colours, it's one of the biggest clubs in the whole world.
"I'm looking forward to working with Arsene Wenger and to helping the team build on last season's FA Cup success.
"Playing again in the Champions League is a big excitement for me and I will do my best to help Arsenal compete for trophies."
The defender made 233 appearances for Lille, helping them to a league and cup double in 2010/11.
Visibility in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, remained poor on Monday as officials ordered schools closed in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor state.
In Singapore air quality continued to improve after last week's record haze, as wind conditions changed.
Indonesia is working to control the blazes but so far cloud-seeding has not produced enough rain, an official says.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia's national disaster agency, said they had "carried out 14 water-bombings, dropping a total of 7,000 litres (1,820 gallons) of water onto the fires".
He added that altogether, four helicopters had been deployed for water-bombing operations while two planes were conducting cloud-seeding, AFP news agency reported.
However, Indonesian disaster agency official Agus Wibowo told AFP that two cloud-seeding attempts tried in Riau province over the weekend were not successful.
"The cloud-seeding technology is meant to speed up rainfall, but with few clouds, there's little we can do. The rain was more like a drizzle."
On Sunday Malaysia declared a state of emergency in two southern districts as air pollution levels reached a 16-year high, leaving two towns in virtual shutdown.
Conditions eased somewhat in the south on Monday but worsened in other parts of the country.
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The Air Pollutant Index (API) in Kuala Lumpur was near the 200 level, or "very unhealthy", on Monday, while in Port Dickson, located across from Sumatra, it reached 335, or "hazardous".
The smog is being blamed on illegal land-clearing fires burning in Indonesia's Sumatra island, mainly in Riau province.
Malaysia's environment minister is scheduled to meet his Indonesian counterpart on Wednesday to discuss the situation.
Malaysian and Singaporean officials are also seeking to move forward a meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) haze committee to next week instead of in August, reports say.
Singapore's prime minister has warned that the problem could continue for weeks, as teams struggle to bring the fires under control amid dry weather.
Meanwhile air quality in Singapore improved over the weekend "due to a change in the direction of the low-level winds", the National Environmental Ministry (NEA) said in an advisory.
"The prevailing wind conditions are expected to persist for the next few days," NEA said.
However, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsieng Loong said on his Facebook page that Singaporeans "must expect the haze to come back".
Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index hit a record high of 401 on Friday - the previous high was 226 in 1997 - before slowly dropping over the weekend. On Monday, readings remained below 100.
The disclosure has prompted Labour to accuse him of "jaw-dropping hypocrisy".
Number 10 said Mr Cameron had acted in his capacity as a local MP who believed Thames Valley Police could make savings without affecting front-line services.
This week it emerged Mr Cameron, MP for Witney in Oxfordshire, is involved in a row over cuts with the county council.
The PM had written to Oxfordshire council leader Ian Hudspeth saying he was "disappointed" at proposed cuts to elderly day centres, libraries and museums.
The Tory-run council said it had little choice because its grant had fallen sharply - from £194m a year in 2009/10 to £122m this year.
Downing Street has now confirmed to BBC Newsnight that Mr Cameron also lobbied Thames Valley Police to try to prevent the closure, or partial closure, of police stations in the region.
In the last parliament, Thames Valley had to find £57m worth of savings.
Despite being praised by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for being an efficient and well-run force, it still closed seven police stations, and reduced opening hours at others.
One police source told Newsnight the force had done the best it could but could not afford to keep open stations that "hardly anyone ever uses".
Shadow cabinet minister Jon Ashworth said the prime minister was "completely unaware" of the effects of budget cuts in local communities.
"I think it's jaw-droppingly hypocritical from the prime minister because the reason these services are being cut in his constituency is because he is cutting them," he said.
"He is the first lord of the treasury, he is the man who is signing off George Osborne's cuts plan, so I'm surprised that the prime minister is so out of touch with what the impact of these cuts would mean that he is now lobbying organisations in his own constituency against the very cuts he is implementing."
Steve White, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said Mr Cameron's lobbying of local police chiefs showed a disconnect between politicians in government and those implementing cuts.
"It's a bit disingenuous to have some politicians say they want to protect their own local police station but actually they know full well that it will be at the cost of other police stations around the country or indeed in the force," he said.
Downing Street denied that Mr Cameron was being hypocritical.
A spokesman said Mr Cameron had spoken up as a local MP during conversations with local police chiefs.
"He wants to see local authorities and the police making sensible savings through back office efficiencies and joint working," he said.
No 10 said the prime minister believed it was possible reduce costs without affecting front-line, high-quality public services.
Its chief operating officer, Mark Neporent, is expected to give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee.
The National Assets Management Agency (Nama) was set up to deal with toxic loans after the 2008 property crash.
Cerberus bought Nama's Northern Ireland portfolio for £1.3bn in 2014.
The Republic of Ireland's auditor general has concluded that there were shortcomings in the sale process, costing taxpayers up to £190m.
Cerberus has always maintained that its part in that process was "conducted with full integrity".
Cerberus declined to give oral evidence to a Stormont inquiry, citing a a variety of legal reasons; however it did give written evidence.
Cerberus does big deals but is not a outfit which welcomes big headlines.
In 2008, when it had a high profile involvement with the Chrysler car company, it wrote to investors apologising, saying: "We despise all the public attention we are getting."
The firm's founder, Stephen Feinberg, reportedly joked that if anyone at Cerberus gets their picture in the paper, "we will do more than fire that person - we will kill him."
So it's significant that the fund is wheeling out one of its top team to deal with the Nama issue - a story which has now been running for more than a year.
Mr Neporent is likely to face questions about the Cerberus relationship with two law firms - Brown Rudnick and Tughans.
The firms had been representing another fund, Pimco, which was bidding for the portfolio.
Pimco withdrew from the bidding process when it emerged that its fee arrangement with the firms was to involve a payment to Frank Cushnahan, a former Nama advisor.
Cerberus then engaged Brown Rudnick on what it terms "a success fee only basis", meaning a fee would only be paid if the deal was done.
Brown Rudnick agreed to share the success fee with Tughans.
Cerberus said it received "express confirmation" from both firms that no fee or commission was payable to any current or former Nama advisors.
The referendum set out plans for a buyout of the port to stop Dover Harbour Board's privatisation plans.
Ballot boxes were at the usual election points in the town and votes were being cast from 1600 until 2100 GMT.
The count was taking place at council offices with the results, which are non-binding on the government, due to be announced later in the night.
Prosecutors say Luis Cutipa diverted 45 tonnes of coca leaves and passed them on through his relatives to drug lords.
Mr Cutipa is also accused of falsifying documents to get his job and benefitting from an increase in the price of coca sellers' licences.
He denies any wrongdoing and says extra funds went to official bank accounts.
Prosecutors say they will charge Luis Cutipa with neglect of duty, extortion, abuse of power and contravening laws and the Constitution.
A separate investigation is looking into the alleged fraud over documents he presented to obtain his job.
Mr Cutipa says he was forced to raise the price of licences after his agency lost funding following President Evo Morales' decision to expel the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from the country.
According to Mr Cutipa, the funding cuts caused by the decision left him struggling to cover expenses.
After reaching an agreement with coca growers, the price of a licence was raised from $87 (£54) to $170 (£110), he says.
Mr Cutipa says that the extra income, amounitng to more than $500,000 (£310,000), was kept in official bank accounts.
He also dismissed the accusations that his two sisters helped to sell 45 tonnes of seized coca as "slander".
This is not the first time a high-ranking official in President Evo Morales' government has been embroiled in scandal, says the BBCs Will Grant.
Two years ago, the former chief of the country's anti-narcotics police, General Rene Sanabria, was jailed for 14 years by a court in Miami for cocaine trafficking.
He was working as an intelligence adviser to the government at the time of his arrest.
He was cleared of murder last year but was sentenced to five years in jail for the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
Prosecutors are seeking a murder conviction after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
On Friday, the Johannesburg High Court rejected the application by the defence team to stop the prosecutors' appeal.
After a short hearing, Judge Thokozile Masipa said procedure did not allow her to grant or refuse the application.
"In my view, to entertain this application will be tantamount to reviewing my own decision," she said.
"For one thing there is really nothing new in the submissions by counsel for the applicant."
The double amputee athlete was acquitted by Judge Masipa of both premeditated murder and the lesser murder charge of dolus eventualis, also known as common-law murder in September last year.
In South African law, this charge applies if the accused knew they might kill someone but still went ahead with their course of action.
Pistorius says he shot Ms Steenkamp accidentally, after mistaking her for a burglar.
Prosecutors are pushing for the appeal because they believe that a full bench of judges in the Supreme Court of Appeal will agree with them that Judge Masipa misinterpreted the principles of dolus eventualis and will both convict him of murder and impose a longer sentence, says the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.
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On Sunday, it gave him something money cannot buy - a greenside seat as he watched the Swede defeat Phil Mickelson to become Open champion on an enthralling last day at Royal Troon.
"I had the best seat in the house," Coventry-born Lord told BBC Sport. "The golf from Phil and Henrik was phenomenal."
Stenson, runner-up to Mickelson at the 2013 Open at Muirfield, gained revenge over the five-time major winner with a joint-record final round of 63 to win by three strokes on 20 under par - a record low-winning total at the Open.
The 40-year-old birdied four of the last five holes, including holing a 45-foot putt on the 15th, to clinch his first major title.
"Fifteen was the one for me, when he holed that to go two clear," said Lord, who has been on Stenson's bag since January 2013.
"If you're making those putts, it probably is your day and when he holed it I did think: 'Now we've really got a great chance'.
"His attitude was phenomenal. People call him the 'Ice Man' and I can tell you sometimes he's not! But he was."
Stenson's Troon triumph took him up to fifth in the world rankings, and continued his superb recovery from a poor spell of form that saw him drop to 230th in May 2012.
After coming close at Muirfield in 2013, posting two third-place finishes at the USPGA Championship in 2013 and 2014 and finishing fourth at the 2014 US Open, Lord said finally getting over the line was a great feeling.
"I'm not sure it's sunk in," he said. "The Ryder Cup's pretty special but this is different - this is the guy you work with all year, or for three and a half years. I'll remember this for a very long time - no question."
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The group tackled Africa's highest peak to raise money for the Steve Prescott Foundation, in memory of the St Helens player who died two years ago from abdominal cancer.
The group - a mixture of professional players and charity supporters - reached a height of about 5,791m (19,000 ft) before playing the match.
They will now submit details to Guinness World Records.
Illegal slash-and-burn farming has devastated large areas of Indonesia and causes air pollution which affects countries around the region.
Indonesia has repeatedly been accused of not doing enough to stop it.
Government officials said they hoped the moral impact of the fatwa would help reinforce laws against it.
At a joint conference in Jakarta, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and the Indonesian environment ministry said they were in talks about how to enforce it.
Hayu Prabowo, head of environmental protection at MUI, said most of the forest burning was done by companies, but declaring it haram - forbidden by Islamic law - should make the public feel empowered to stand up to them.
"This fatwa will make religious leaders and the general public who in the past didn't care, care and start to take responsibility to end forest burning in their area," he said.
Mrs Mayhew says: "I turned to Tris and said 'this is what we should do'. We'd never come across anything like this before, nobody was doing this in the UK.
"We thought, 'why wouldn't [British] people love this?'"
Already hungry to leave their office jobs, the couple decided there and then to set up a similar business in the UK.
So returning home after their family holiday in 2001, they handed in their notices, and immediately put the wheels in motion.
Conscious that having people whizzing about treetop zip wires required the highest possible safety standards, the couple first went to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, which gave them its backing.
Then came the issue of finding the first location for their business, which they named Go Ape.
The couple decided to go to the Forestry Commission to see if they they could build their inaugural adventure course in Thetford Forest Park, on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in eastern England, a location Mr Mayhew had previously visited and was fond of.
Their pitch - which went very well - was that they would pay a basic guaranteed rent, and also hand over a share of any profits.
Mr Mayhew says: "East Anglia [Forestry Commission] were really entrepreneurial, and innovators. They were biting my arm off."
Bankrolled by digging into their savings, and from the sale of a second home, the Mayhews opened their first outdoor adventure park site in Thetford in March 2002.
Demand for zip wiring and tackling treetop obstacles in the outdoors soon took off.
Go Ape now operates 29 sites in locations such as Southampton, Crawley, Leeds Castle and Battersea, London, employing 800 staff during its peak months.
The company, which has its headquarters in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, also operates sites in 12 locations in the US through a joint partnership.
Go Ape's financial reports show the business is in shape, with a turnover of £18.7m in the year to 31 December, 2014, following annual growth of 32%. Meanwhile, pre-tax profits for the same 12 months totalled £2.9m.
Yet the growth wasn't all plain sailing. Mr Mayhew has admitted in the past that when starting out, they forgot to account for VAT, and after the opening of one course was delayed due to a planning permission issue, the business found itself financially stretched.
To cover the cash shortfalls at the time, Mr Mayhew said he had to borrow money from his mother, before paying it back two months later.
Part of Go Ape's selling power is its wide appeal - it is deliberately aimed at people of all ages rather than just children.
"Brand awareness is really strong as it appeals to a diverse group of people," says Mrs Mayhew.
"It's fantastic for families, groups of friends, stag parties, corporate groups - actually we take over £1m per year from corporate business."
Analyst Daphne Kasriel-Alexander, a consumer trends consultant at research group Euromonitor International, says Go Ape has benefited from a growing number of people wanting to try new activities in their leisure time.
"Go Ape is doing well in its industry because people want to do something different and get out of their routine," she says. "People are keen on collecting experiences."
On a daily basis the couple, who are both 47, split their responsibilities.
Mr Mayhew is chairman, with his role involving finding new sites and working on new concept designs, while Ms Mayhew oversees the marketing.
Such is the couple's love of the outdoors, that running Go Ape seems a much better life fit for them than their previous jobs. Mr Mayhew formerly had a communications job with US giant General Electric, while Mrs Mayhew was a charity fundraiser.
Mr Mayhew, who jokes that his job title is "chief gorilla", and actually spent 11 years as an officer in the British Army prior to joining the corporate world, is currently training for the Three Peaks Yacht Race.
This sees entrants having to sail from Wales to Scotland, stopping on the way to run to the top of the highest peaks in Wales, England and Scotland - Snowdon, Scafell Pike, and Ben Nevis.
Meanwhile, Mrs Mayhew regularly escapes to the countryside on her mountain bike.
In addition to expanding into the US, the couple also launched a new UK business in 2014 - Air Space, an indoor trampoline park.
Mr Mayhew says: "As our hours tend to be reduced in winter, we thought this could be something we could run that's quite similar to Go Ape."
Air Space now has two locations - in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, and East Kilbride in Scotland - with more outposts planned.
Mr Mayhew says the aim is to keep expanding both businesses.
"We know instinctively that unless we are growing, we are going backwards," he says. "If you're a strong growth story, you attract the best of the best."
With an ambitious strategy that involves opening about five new Go Ape sites both in the UK and US in 2016 alone, the Mayhews are as determined as ever to encourage more people to monkey around in the forest in their spare time.
Members of the Unite and RMT unions, employed by Wood Group on seven Shell platforms are expected to take part in a 24-hour strike next Tuesday.
It is understood the industrial action was not the focus of Wednesday's talks.
The Wood Group has declined to comment. The RMT told BBC Scotland the strike was still expected to go-ahead.
The dispute is over pay and next week's strike would be the first industrial action of its kind in the offshore industry in almost 30 years.
The RMT and Unite unions said their members who work for Wood Group would stage the stoppage on 26 July over the firm's plans for "swingeing" pay cuts.
The oil services firm said it was "extremely disappointed" by the decision to take strike action.
The unions said it was likely to "severely disrupt" operations on seven Shell platforms in the North Sea - Shearwater, Gannet, Nelson, Curlew, Brent Alpha, Brent Bravo and Brent Charlie.
They said the strike was likely to be followed by several further stoppages.
Wood Group provides maintenance and construction services to the installations, having signed a new three-year contract extension with Shell earlier this year.
It's not going to make you look good - it's going to make everyone else in the office distrust you.
That's the finding of research into the pernicious "cc effect", carried out by a professor of management studies at Cambridge University's Judge Business School.
David De Cremer has looked into the emotional undergrowth of office email traffic.
When people keep copying in a manager, it doesn't create "transparency", says Prof De Cremer, but feeds a "culture of fear".
But what about the other unspoken evils of office email clogging up your inbox?
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After reaching 399 in their first innings, they reduced the hosts to 155-4 in reply.
With the new ball due before lunch on day three [Wednesday], it's perfectly possible they could bowl West Indies out quite cheaply and have a healthy first-innings lead to build on. So I'd much rather be in the England dressing-room at the moment.
However, that only tells half the story of a rather frustrating day for England that saw them squander some of the advantage gained on a dominant first day through tentative cricket.
The end of the England innings was a disappointment. They probably scored 100 runs fewer than they would have wanted to get after ending day one in such a strong position on 341-5.
West Indies bowled well, but England's lack of resistance was poor. Ben Stokes will be hugely frustrated he didn't go on to get his second Test hundred, while Jos Buttler, who made an uncharacteristic 22-ball duck, never got to grips with the conditions.
It suggests a lack of confidence within the team, and that's hardly surprising. That's what happens when you haven't been playing good cricket recently, when you've been on the receiving end of criticism and when the coach and a number of the players are under scrutiny.
There's also been some pressure loaded on to the team by the incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves, who has suggested there will be an inquiry if England don't win this series. Frankly, that's the last thing the players need when they're not playing assertive, confident cricket anyway.
Nothing typifies the loss of confidence more than the decline of Stuart Broad's batting. He's a decent batsman, but at the moment he's got it in his head that he's very tentative about batting against anything above medium pace.
He hasn't been the same since he was struck in the face by Varun Aaron last summer, but he's got to find a way of getting over this psychological issue that he's got, because he's got some serious quick stuff to face later in the summer when England take on New Zealand and Australia.
England's performance with the ball was generally good - what they did very well was make each run difficult to score for the West Indies batsmen. But I still think they could be more imaginative.
I'd like to see them liberate Stokes: tell him to bowl fast, bowl short, bowl bouncers, and if it costs runs it doesn't matter - we need somebody to go in and shake batsmen up a bit. At the moment the four-man seam attack is too samey.
One big positive for England was the performance of James Anderson in his 100th Test match. He bowled really well, despite the pressure of trying to overhaul Ian Botham's tally of 383 wickets to become England's all-time leading wicket-taker.
Having a big target like that dangling in front of your nose is always challenging for a bowler - I remember years ago I went in to the last game of the season on 98 wickets, and to be honest I bowled like a drain!
But Anderson is experienced enough to handle the pressure. He has a new ball to bowl with tomorrow and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he gets the three wickets he needs to break the record.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's James Gheerbrant.
The correspondence between Bohr and his then-fiancee Margrethe Norlund reveal a rocky settling in period in England.
Excerpts of letters sent during Bohr's time in England were discussed at the American Physical Society meeting.
The letters show an exchange rich with literary allegory.
Bohr was eventually instrumental in overturning the "plum pudding" model of the atom, propounded by J J Thomson of Cambridge University, instead suggesting a dense nucleus orbited by electrons - the atom as we know it today.
He came to Cambridge in 1911 specifically to work among the famous Cambridge mathematicians including Thomson. But the letters to Margrethe showed that his transition to Cambridge intellectual circles was turbulent.
"He thought 'Thomson was a genius who showed the way to everybody', and he wanted to be part of that story," said John Heilbron, a fellow of Oxford University.
"But when he got there, he found out that Thomson was busy showing the way to other people, and also following his own research," he told BBC News.
"James Jeans, another of the Cambridge mathematicians, was too shy to do battle with Bohr, and [Joseph] Larmor… would not read Bohr until he prepared a proper English version of his work and had it published in a proper English journal - which never happened.
"The Royal Society of London declined on the interesting grounds that it was 'polemical', and it would not include in its Transactions insults to anyone who had not already been insulted in the Transactions. That was a great disappointment to him, that he couldn't engage with these guys."
But what strikes Prof Heilbron about the letters to Margrethe, whom Bohr married the following year, is the intellectual character of their exchanges.
"The material concerning literature - which is essentially the core of this new correspondence - consists of their making personae of one another derived from literature.
"We have in the case of Margrethe her appearance as several heroines from Ibsen, there are all these Dickens heroines, whereas Bohr is to her some hero as in a Carlyle story, but also people from Shakespeare and other heroic figures.
"In a way, their courtship is conducted on a level above the carnal."
The letters will be excerpted in a forthcoming book by Prof Heilbron and Finn Aaserud of the Niels Bohr Archive, titled Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom.
They were made available by the Bohr family, who Prof Heilbron said "have come to realise that these documents do honour to everybody, (and) are of great interest to a much wider society".
Following the conclusion of her 17-month Prismatic World Tour, she earned $135m (£90m), which saw her jump from 23rd place last year.
One Direction lead the British top-earners at number two after their On the Road Again Tour and album release, with earnings of $130m (£86.7m)
Last year's number one, Dr Dre, has dropped to 28.
Dre's earnings of $620m (£413m) in 2014 was the highest total amount by a musician ever, thanks to the sale of headphone maker Beats - which he co-founded - to Apple for $3 billion (£2 billion).
One Direction have been joined in the 2015 list by fellow Brits Calvin Harris and Fleetwood Mac.
Forbes has made the estimates based on industry information as well as interviews with managers and agents, along with data given by the artists themselves. It covers the period June 2014 to June 2015.
Many of the artists on the list have earned their place thanks to extensive live tours which have taken place across the year.
Here are the top 10 celebrities on the Forbes list:
1. Katy Perry: $135m (£90m)
2. One Direction: $130m (£86.7m)
3. Garth Brooks: $90m (£60m)
4. Taylor Swift: $80m (£53m)
5. The Eagles: $73.5m (£49m)
6. Calvin Harris: $66m (£44m)
7. Justin Timberlake: $63.5m (£42m)
8. Diddy: $60m (£40m)
9. Fleetwood Mac: $59.5m (£39.6m)
10. Lady Gaga: $59m (£39.3m)
The left-hander starred for Yorkshire in their defeat against Hampshire in the T20 Blast final in 2012 in Cardiff, hitting 72 off 46 balls.
"Hopefully what I can do over the next couple of games is lose a few balls [in the River Taff]," Miller said.
Miller will make his debut away to Gloucestershire on Tuesday 25 July, after the home wash-out against Essex.
The 28-year-old will also feature in home games against Surrey and Gloucestershire, and away matches against Kent and Surrey.
"It's exciting times, a short little stint but hopefully I'll make an impact towards the team getting to the quarters and semis," Miller told BBC Wales Sport.
"You've got to crack on, no excuses, I arrived [Saturday], I feel pretty fresh but this is my career and you've got to make the most of it - wherever I do play, I just want to make an impact."
Miller has played 52 T20 internationals and 99 one-day internationals, including several appearances in Cardiff, and is looking forward to teaming up with Colin Ingram again.
"He [Ingram] has been doing exceptionally well, he's a seriously good player and I'm looking forward to playing with him again after playing for South Africa together early in my career," Miller added.
Miller's arrival takes the number of South African-born players in the Glamorgan side to six, the others being Jacques Rudolph, Marchant de Lange, Chris Cooke, and Craig Meschede.
Just two Welsh players, Aneurin Donald and Andrew Salter, are in the starting XI after injuries to David Lloyd and Kiran Carlson.
But former Glamorgan batsman Mike Powell believes it is a longer-term issue than current selection.
"If [the South Africans' inclusion] makes Glamorgan a stronger team, then so be it. Rather than saying 'why aren't Welsh players in' we should be saying 'why aren't they good enough?'," Powell said.
"There are some young Welsh players coming through, but Ingram, Rudolph, Miller, Cooke, they're a lot better than what is available in the second team.
"If they win this competition, everyone's happy in Wales."
During talks with Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi, the UK PM suggested she favoured bespoke arrangements rather than replicating those used by others.
"I think we should develop the model that suits the UK and EU," she said.
Mr Renzi said the EU vote was sad but he hoped "some good would come of it".
During a press conference in Rome, Mrs May confirmed that she had chaired the first meeting of the UK cabinet committee tasked with overseeing work on Brexit on Tuesday.
Mrs May, who has already visited Berlin and Paris and is scheduled to visit other EU leaders later this week, said that although the UK was leaving the EU the UK would "still very much be part of Europe".
The prime minister said Brexit meant a "new chapter" in Anglo-Italian links but she said she hoped the current £24bn annual two-way trade could be boosted and the nations would continue to co-operate within Nato, G7 and the G20 to face the "complex and global challenges" posed by terrorism and mass migration.
She restated her position that the UK would need time to prepare for official negotiations on leaving the EU and that it was her intention to guarantee the status of EU nationals already working in the UK while limiting the future free movement of EU nationals into the UK.
Pressed on suggestions by the International Trade Secretary Liam Fox - who is on a trade mission to the US - that the UK could potentially leave the EU's customs union to facilitate trade deals with other countries, Mrs May said she was "looking at this with an open mind".
The UK, she suggested, should be flexible and not look to try and emulate any other country in its dealings with the EU.
"I think we should be developing the model that suits the United Kingdom and the European Union. Not adopting, necessarily, a model that is on the shelf already."
If the UK remained part of the EU's customs union, it would not face tariffs to export most goods into the EU but it would have to accept the EU's external tariffs when trading with non-EU countries and would not have any say in setting these external tariffs.
A number of countries, including Norway and Iceland, are members of the European Economic Area but outside the customs union. They still have tariff-free access to the EU's single market via free trade agreements but those exporting to the customs union may still have to pay administrative fees and be subject to customs controls and greater paperwork.
In response, Mr Renzi said the UK's exit would be "painful" but Italy would do "its utmost to collaborate and support the process" of UK negotiations.
But he added that the talks would be "delicate" given the conflicting desire of maximising trade while restricting freedom of movement.
He said it was "important to have a vision and precise timeline for the process" but added that it would be a "message against democracy" if the consequences people voted for in the referendum didn't happen.
Mr Renzi said the EU was a "miracle" that had produced "60 years of peace and prosperity" and it was time for its members to look to the future.
Earlier on Wednesday, the European Commission said it had appointed former senior official Michel Barnier as its chief negotiator for the UK's negotiations. The UK has said it won't begin official exit discussions - known as the Article 50 process - until next year.
Tadcaster in North Yorkshire was split in two on Boxing Day, when the River Wharfe bridge partially collapsed.
The bridge is now due to be finished by 27 January rather than Christmas, after "unusual and persistent" high river levels caused delays.
The arch rings mean stonemasons can start work covering the arches.
David Bowe, of North Yorkshire County Council's Business and Environmental Services, said the arch rings had been lifted in a day early.
He said: "Last night, we managed to lift in the large formwork arch rings which will allow us to get on with the masonry for the arches on Tadcaster Bridge.
"Next the masons will start constructing masonry piers and filling them with concrete, and putting masonry over the arch rings.
"Our new target completion date is 27 January, a month after the original date, but the guys on site are really up for the challenge and determined to beat that date."
New piling and construction of the pier base, the most complex part of the operation, are complete.
Piling would help prevent future scouring of the foundations, which contributed to the bridge's collapse last year, the council said.
The government pledged £3m for repair work within days of the bridge collapse, and £1.4m was given by the region's Local Enterprise Partnership to widen and strengthen the bridge.
The Ice Hockey Elite League's Player of the year has signed up for another year in Cardiff after a standout season.
The 27-year-old Canadian forward scored 31 goals and 53 assists in 63 games to top the league's overall scoring table.
"He is our top scorer, he is a total pro, he plays [when he is] hurt, he is an absolute warrior." said Devils player-manager Andrew Lord.
The wild bird was found on Moseley New Pool at Swanshurst Park, Swanshurst Lane, Moseley, by a passer-by.
It was taken to the RSPCA Birmingham Animal Hospital for emergency treatment. Vets said it was expected to make a full recovery.
The bird is now recovering and the charity has appealed for witnesses to the attack on Saturday to come forward.
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Insp Boris Lasserre said: "The bolt has gone right through the lower part of the goose's head. Incredibly he was still alive.
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About 26% of cabinet positions in local authorities are held by women, compared to 30% in England, Electoral Reform Society (ERS) statistics show.
Two councils, Vale of Glamorgan and Blaenau Gwent, have all-white male cabinets.
The ERS said the lack of diversity was "damning". The Welsh Local Government Association said progress was "slow".
Gender equality charity Chwarae Teg said the figures were "frankly embarrassing" and women's needs could not be represented when they were not part of the decision-making process.
In 2016, more than half of the Welsh population was estimated to be female - with 1,579,112 women, compared to 1,534,038 men - according to Office of National Statistics figures.
But after May's local elections, there were 50 women in positions on Welsh council cabinets - the groups responsible for areas such as education and housing - compared to 188 men.
The number of female council leaders has doubled since the last elections, from two in 2012 to four in 2017, out of the potential 22 positions.
But two councils' decision-making groups are exclusively made up of white men, with a team of seven men in charge at Vale of Glamorgan, while five men make up Blaenau Gwent's cabinet.
Wrexham, Gwynedd, Merthyr Tydfil, Denbighshire and Bridgend all have just one female member - while in Anglesey the only woman cabinet member is council leader Llinos Medi.
But the picture varied across Wales and while no council reached 50% women in its top jobs, Caerphilly, Newport and Rhondda were at 44%, Carmarthenshire and Conwy were at 40%.
Ceredigion and Torfaen each had a 37.5% female cabinet.
ERS director Jessica Blair said: "This is a total failure of authorities to properly represent their electors and to encourage diversity.
"In 2017, we really should be doing better on an issue that is vital in ensuring our councils work as effectively as possible."
Elsewhere, five women hold positions in the assembly cabinet compared to seven men - meaning women make up 41% of Carwyn Jones' cabinet.
While the overall number of women councillors has increased - up from 26% in 2012 to 27.8% in 2017 - gender equality charity Chwarae Teg said the lack of women on cabinets meant they were not being represented.
Its chief executive Cerys Furlong said: "I find it frankly embarrassing that so little progress has been made by political parties in implementing the changes needed to deliver equality, and that, in the 21st Century, the status quo persists, where women's voices are largely absent from decision-making in our councils.
"The decisions made by these cabinets cannot truly reflect the needs of the women when policy is made without their experience, understanding and skills."
Blaenau Gwent cabinet said members were selected based on a "range of factors", including experience, regardless of gender. It said the council was proactive in creating opportunities for female members to gain more experience.
Vale of Glamorgan leader John Thomas pointed to the council having a woman mayor, adding it was felt councillors with the "most experience" were best placed to form the new cabinet.
"We will continue to work tirelessly to increase engagement with young people, to increase diversity and to attract new people into politics," he said.
The WLGA has a female leader for the first time, in Newport's Debbie Wilcox.
It said while improvements had been made, progress in terms of gender balance was "disappointingly slow".
The defending European champions ensured their last-eight tie will be in north London with a second-half try from wing Chris Ashton.
Fly-half Owen Farrell converted the try and kicked a penalty.
Toulon's bonus point for a narrow defeat means they also qualify for the knockout stage.
Despite the relative lack of points, the home fans enjoyed an enthralling contest and, crucially, the right result.
Toulon applied all the pressure in the first 10 minutes but had two tries ruled out by video evidence.
The first was deemed a double movement by winger Bryan Habana, the other cancelled out after fellow winger Josua Tuisova inexplicably kicked the ball out of his own hand in trying to dab down in the corner.
The two sides earned parity in the tackle count and possession in the first period and the rhythm of play was broken only by infringements at the ruck and maul that were tightly - and correctly - policed by referee Nigel Owens.
After a scoreless half-hour, it was a moment of ill-discipline that handed Saracens the lead.
Toulon captain Dwayne Vermeulen was shown yellow by Owens for a high tackle on Nick Tomkins as the inside centre stepped inside and home skipper Farrell kicked the resultant penalty.
Sarries' forwards pushed Toulon back in the second half, with back-rowers Jackson Wray and Schalk Burger and lock Maro Itoje to the fore.
After good work in midfield by Nick Tompkins just after the hour, scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth swung the ball left and Ashton - who will join Toulon in the summer - broke between defenders Matt Giteau and Ma'a Nonu for a clinical finish.
A thumping 47-yard penalty from Toulon full-back Leigh Halfpenny cut the deficit to bonus-point range, but a late assault from the French side was repelled, notably by a try-saving tackle on Giteau from flanker Mike Rhodes.
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall: "What we like to judge ourselves on are simple things, most of all effort.
"Everyone knows who we are missing through injury and the disruption that has caused, but for us to go toe-to-toe against an almost a full-strength side and show that effort, especially defensively, was extraordinary."
Saracens: A Lozowski; C Ashton, M Bosch, N Tompkins, S Maitland; O Farrell (capt), R Wigglesworth; R Barrington, J George, P Du Plessis, M Itoje, J Hamilton, M Rhodes, S Burger, J Wray.
Replacements: S Brits, T Lamositele, J Figallo, W Skelton, K Brown, B Spencer, T Streather, N Earle.
Toulon: L Halfpenny; J Tuisova, M Bastareaud, M Nonu, B Habana; M Giteau, S Tillous-Borde; L Delboulbes, G Guirado, L Chilachava, M Gorgodze, R Taofifenua, J Smith, JF Lobbe, D Vermeulen.
Replacements: J Orioli, X Chiocci, M Van Der Merwe, L Gill, J Suta, P Bernard, J Pelissie, S Manoa.
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Leader Michael Jones resigned last week after facing criticism over his links with the owner of a fitness company.
He denied any wrongdoing and said he stood down to avoid infighting within the Conservative group.
Cheshire Police's Economic Crime Unit will "review the available material" to see if an investigation is needed.
The council waived its financial rules when it granted three contracts to Core Fit Ltd, collectively worth £156,000.
The company, which is owned by physiotherapist Amanda Morris, runs fitness classes in schools.
McKay, who played under Mark Warburton while the Forest boss was manager of the Scottish side, has signed a four-year deal with the Championship club.
The 22-year-old has one full cap and scored five goals in 35 Scottish Premiership appearances last season.
McKay is Forest's second summer arrival after Hibernian striker Jason Cummings.
He had one year left on his Rangers contract and was left out of their squad for the Europa League game with Progres Niederkorn on Tuesday.
A part of the Rangers side that climbed up the divisions and back into the Scottish Premier League, following their demotion to League Two in 2012, McKay made 126 appearances for the club, scoring 13 goals.
He had spells on loan at Morton and Raith Rovers, before featuring more regularly for the Gers under Warburton.
He was named in the Scottish Championship team of the year for 2015-16 and made his international debut at the end of that campaign as an 84th-minute substitute against France.
Andy Burke, BBC Scotland
McKay is a talented player who is comfortable playing on the right or the left and is strong with both feet. He likes to go at defenders, is a really creative player and can pitch in with a few goals too. He has scored some spectacular goals.
Warburton is probably the man best placed to get the best out of him. Warburton placed a lot of faith in Barrie McKay when he was Rangers manager and was rewarded with a lot of great performances.
Warburton is the kind of manager - and I think this will also benefit Cummings - that makes players feel special and encourages young players to express themselves.
He can blow hot and cold, and this is the case with a lot of wingers, but when he is on it he can be a devastating attacker.
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The Electoral Reform Society branded the poll a "hold your nose election," claiming 6.5 million voted tactically rather than for what they believed in.
The Conservatives would have won a majority if just 0.0016% of voters had chosen differently, it found.
The ERS campaigns for the introduction of proportional representation.
Elections for the Westminster Parliament use the "first-past-the-post" system - under which the party that gains the most MPs, rather than the most votes overall, wins.
June's general election, in which Conservative leader Theresa May lost her Commons majority, saw an apparent return to two-party politics as more than 80% of voters cast a ballot for either the Conservatives or Labour.
But a BMG survey of just over 2,000 voters, shortly before polling day, suggested "voters did not flock back to the two largest parties with enthusiasm," according to an ERS analysis.
Some 20% of those surveyed said they they would be choosing the candidate that was most likely to beat the one they disliked, it suggested.
"This is over double the proportion who said they would do so in 2015," said the ERS report.
"Projecting this onto actual turnout would equate to nearly 6,500,000 people voting tactically," it explained.
The ERS claims the "first-past-the post" system exaggerated political divisions because of the huge discrepancy in the number of votes cast in an area for a party and the number of seats it won.
For instance, Labour won 29% of votes cast in the South East of England but got just 10% of seats, while Conservatives won 34% of the North East but returned just 9% of seats, according to the research.
"For the third time in a row, Westminster's voting system has failed to do what it says on the tin - produce a strong and stable government," said the ERS chief executive, Darren Hughes.
"June's election has shown first-past-the-post is unable to cope with people's changing voting habits - forcing citizens and parties to try and game the system.
"This surge in tactical voting - double the rate of 2015 - meant voters shifted their party allegiances at unprecedented rates, with the second highest level of voter volatility since the inter-war years," Mr Hughes added.
Mr Hughes said a system "designed for two parties" was not up to the job of accommodating the "complex electoral swings" seen in modern elections.
"The vast majority of votes are going to waste, with millions still stuck in the electoral black hole of winner-takes-all."
The ERS repeated its call for a new system to be introduced to stop votes being wasted or voters being forced into tactical decisions.
A spokeswoman for the Cabinet Office, which sets electoral rules, said: "First past the post is a voting system that offers a robust method of electing MPs.
"A referendum on changing the voting system for general elections was held in 2011 and the public voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the first past the post system," she added.
If the referendum had gone the other way, and the Alternative Vote method had been introduced, Labour would have been chief beneficiaries in 2017, gaining 24 seats, while in 2015 the Conservatives would have doubled their majority from 12 to 24, according to research by YouGov, which asked more than 13,000 people how they would have voted under different electoral systems.
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Durham's Jack Burnham scored his second century in three matches as England eased to a 129-run win.
Dan Lawrence's side will play Sri Lanka or Pakistan in the last eight in Mirpur on 7 February.
Namibia are also through to the quarter-finals after they knocked out defending champions South Africa.
In Burnham (298 runs in three matches) and Lawrence (288 in three), England have the highest run-scorers in the tournament.
The next best is the hosts Bangladesh's Nazmul Hossain Shanto, who has 186 runs in two knocks.
Lancashire fast bowler Saqib Mahmood is the competition's leading wicket-taker with 11 victims, ahead of three players with seven wickets each.
Durham Police is to become the first force in the country to introduce a scheme in which users are treated with diamorphine - medical grade heroin.
Ron Hogg, County Durham's Police, Crime and Victims' Commissioner, says such treatment lowers offending levels.
Opponents claim trials have not shown significant benefits.
Mr Hogg told BBC Newcastle existing national policies had not been effective and pointed to six-year trials in Darlington, London and Brighton which he said had helped wean users off the drug.
Addicts were given the opiate in consumption rooms, often referred to as "shooting galleries", supervised by medical professionals.
"It got them back into a normal life and it cut crime," he said.
"We saw health benefits for the individuals, we saw needles being taken off the street, so there's an awful lot of evidence both in the UK and across the world that such schemes do actually work.
"All police and crime commissioners spend a lot of money on what we call diversionary work - community projects and youth offending schemes - because we know this will stop people committing crime.
"This is just an extension of that rationale. The controversiality is because it's drugs."
Mr Hogg said the UK had the highest rate of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy use across the European Union with drug-induced deaths totalling 45 people per million compared with 17 per million in the EU.
Aiming to introduce the scheme "by the end of this year", he added the force's public health partners were working out the cost of administering the drug to users twice-daily.
He previously mooted such a move in 2013.
"If we go back to the 1960s, doctors used to prescribe heroin as a means of treating someone back to recovery. It's not that unusual," he said.
"We've got to consider the Misuse of Drugs Act has been in since 1971 and we haven't arrested the way out of the problem, have we?"
A Home Office spokesman said there was evidence "supervised use of [diamorphine] in a medical environment as part of a treatment plan can help keep patients in treatment and out of criminal behaviour".
However, David Raynes of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, warned the move "will not stop addicts being addicts".
"It doesn't stop people using street drugs," he said.
"It may reduce crime marginally, but it doesn't reduce crime permanently."
Shahid Tarafdar, 45, was hit by a silver Peugeot 307 on Stockport Road at about 15:45 GMT on Tuesday. He was taken to hospital but later died.
The car, registration number KW55 EVP, failed to stop and a passenger is shown on CCTV getting out and running off.
Footage then shows the driver mounting the pavement and going through a red light before turning right at Kirkmanshulme Lane.
The car was later found alight on Rimmers Close in Beswick, Greater Manchester Police said.
Mr Tarafdar's family said: "Shahid was a loving husband and a father to three young children. He was a devoted family man who was loved by his family and respected by the whole community."
His brother Shabuddin added: "We are in total shock and devastation."
Detectives have appealed for information and urge anyone who can identify the driver, or the passenger shown in the CCTV footage, to come forward.
Sgt Lee Westhead said: "It is only a matter of time until we find you. Come and speak to me before we come knocking on your door. This will not go away."
He warned anyone helping the driver this was not the time for "false loyalties" and police would prosecute anyone found to be involved in the incident.
Kate Stone, 44, from Cambridge, was injured by the animal near Fort William at about 02:30 on Monday.
She was treated by paramedics before being taken to Fort William's Belford hospital, and later transferred by air to the Southern General in Glasgow.
She has been put into an induced coma for a week and her condition is stable.
A statement released by a colleague at Dr Stone's print firm, Novalia, said she had an operation late on Tuesday afternoon to try to repair damage to her trachea.
It said: "The operation went well and she remained stable throughout.
"The doctors made a decision to keep her in an induced coma for the next week to minimise any movement that may rupture the wound. She remains in a stable condition and she is now in the healing process from the first operation.
"Her family are with her over this new year period and all her friends are continuing to offer support."
Dr Stone was standing with a group of friends outside a private residence in Lochailort when the incident happened.
She had been on a short break in the Highlands, staying at the Mo-Dhachaidh B&B in Lochailort, which is owned by Gary Burton.
Mr Burton said he heard about the attack when one of Dr Stone's friends returned at about 02:30.
"I think what happened was that the stag panicked," he said. "It was trapped in a fenced garden, having got through a gate. I don't think there was anywhere else to go and it charged out of the gate," he said.
"It's very bizarre and very horrific."
He described it as a "one-in-a-million event".
A firm in Suffolk was phoned and told of a virus on its internet banking facility.
A member of staff was advised to transfer money to a separate holding account while the bank put the matter right on 16 September.
The caller was able to clone the bank's fraud team number and use remote software to steal £1m from the firm.
Suffolk Police arrested a 32-year-old in Chiswick, west London, on Monday.
He has been bailed to return to police on 25 November pending further enquiries.
The royal couple were among the guests invited to attend the global financial firm ICAP's 23rd annual charity day.
Traders in London taught them how to close deals at the Central European interest rates desk.
ICAP gives away one day's revenue and commissions every year, which enables them to fund philanthropic projects and research around the world.
The event raises millions each year for charities that the duke and duchess are patrons of such as SkillForce, Place2Be and Sports Aid.
Since ICAP's fundraising day was started in 1993, nearly £120m has been raised for charity.
The duchess danced in celebration after the couple closed deals worth millions of euros over the phone.
The duke later joked about the "dodgy" outfits worn by some of the staff, which ranged from gangsters and molls to belly dancers and comic book characters such as Batman and Iron Man.
He was guided through the trade by broker Dan Lebeau, who was wearing three-inch heels.
Mr Lebeau said: "He was saying to me, basically 'where did you get them from?'
"It was very difficult to find size 10 high heels in a normal shop."
Also at the event were the prime minister's wife, Samantha Cameron, actor Jeremy Irons and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman.
Lancashire Police said a white Audi A1 was in collision with a silver Vauxhall Zafira near the Black Bull on Black Bull Lane, Fulwood, on Tuesday night.
Both vehicles then collided with a Volkswagen Golf, which shunted into a car of the same make.
A man from Bolton, who was driving the Audi, was arrested on suspicion of the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle.
Police said the 27-year-old remained under arrest at Chorley Hospital, where he is being treated for a head injury.
The driver of the Zafira, 56, and the front seat passenger, 62, both from Preston, were taken to Royal Preston Hospital with serious injuries. They remain in a serious but stable condition.
A 16-year-old boy, who was also in the Zafira, suffered a cut to his head and an eye injury.
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The 26-year-old, who has agreed a one-year contract with an option for a further 12 months, spent three years with the National League club before leaving to join Crawley in 2014.
The former Brentford trainee made just seven appearances last season.
York begin life back in the top tier of non-league football with a trip to Maidstone United on Saturday, 6 August.
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Former England batsman Wright became Sussex's Twenty20 captain in 2015, before replacing Ed Joyce as skipper in the other two formats from last season.
The 32-year-old averages 22.28 with the bat in first-class cricket this season.
"After taking some time, I decided that stepping down was in mine and the club's best interests going forward," Wright said.
"I have always been someone that loves and enjoys the game, but over a period of time now while being captain, this has not been the case and it has affected me both on and off the pitch.
"I look forward to giving my full commitment as a player to future Sussex successes."
Sussex have won only one of their four County Championship Division Two games this season, while they were knocked out in the group stages of the One-Day Cup.
Opening batsman Chris Nash has been named as captain for Sussex's next Championship game against Worcestershire, which starts on Friday.
An ambulance and police were called to the Southend-bound carriageway of the A127 near the A132 junction in Basildon at about 20:00 GMT on Monday.
The boy was taken to Basildon Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The 31-year-old driver of the BMW car involved in the crash, who is from Southend, was arrested and bailed pending further inquiries.
Both carriageways of the A127 were closed for investigations and not reopened until 00:15 GMT on Tuesday.
Police have appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to contact them.
Flintshire based-Moneysupermarket.com's ad received 1,513 complaints - double that of the second most criticised ad - claiming it was offensive.
Others told the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) the man's clothes and dance moves were "overtly sexual".
The ASA said it did not judge it to be offensive and it did not breach its code.
But the advertising regulator acknowledged some viewers might have found the television and online advert, featuring a man called Dave dancing to the Pussycat Dolls' song Don't Cha, to be "distasteful".
Moneysupermarket, based in Ewloe, said public feedback on the ad was "overwhelmingly positive".
A spokesman said: "It really caught their [the public's] imaginations: the official video was viewed more than three million times and spawned countless parodies, including The Sun front page with George Osborne, before winning 2015 Campaign of the Year."
Jack Redshaw headed the Seasiders in front on 34 minutes before being sent off for a rash challenge on David Fox.
Crewe levelled through Marcus Haber's neat flick on 83 minutes before Tom Aldred's deflected shot restored Blackpool's advantage 60 seconds later.
Brad Potts then fouled Tom Hitchcock in the box, but top scorer Inman blazed the resulting penalty over the bar.
Blackpool climb two places to 20th, one point above the drop zone, while Crewe stay 23rd, now eight points from safety, having not won in eight matches.
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Hales made an unbeaten 71 and added 88 in partnership with Jonny Bairstow, who was not out on 54.
"It was a tough day, but I knew I had to dig deep," said Hales.
"The first hour in the morning will be massive in shaping this game. It's delicately balanced."
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Hales, 27, scored just 136 runs in eight innings against South Africa in December and January at an average of just 17.
"In South Africa I was tentative outside off stump," Hales told BBC Test Match Special. "I've worked on leaving and playing with intent, looking to be more decisive."
He also praised Bairstow's contribution, saying: "It was fantastic from Jonny to counter-attack in that manner. It was just good, strong cricket shots."
Sri Lanka debutant Dasun Shanaka, who took 3-30, insisted that the tourists are "still in a good position".
"If we get early wickets in the morning, we can keep them to a low total," the 24-year-old told TMS.
"When the captain gave me the ball, I was nervous. In two or three balls, I got the rhythm. It's a great honour to get the wickets of Alastair Cook and Joe Root."
Salford led 16-14 at half-time, through tries from Niall Evalds (2) and Theo Fages. Hull replied via Jordan Rankin, Jordan Thompson and Marc Sneyd's goal.
Setaimata Sa put Hull in front for the first time shortly in the second half.
However, two Josh Griffin tries to add to one from Junior Sa'u ensured Hull's late rally was in vain.
The only sour note of an open game came when Mason Caton-Brown was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half after a big hit from Hull second-rower Mark Minichello.
After a hammering by St Helens in their last home fixture, the Red Devils were far more competitive, troubling a Hull side that had conceded only one try in their first two games.
A strong tackle from Sa'u in the opening phases set the tone, and Jordan Walne's line break set up Evalds for the Red Devils' opening score on the following set.
Soon afterwards, an offload from Salford's Weller Hauraki found Tommy Lee, who released Fages to slide over.
The home side showed their defensive mettle, resisting the Airlie Birds' pressure, although Rankin eventually crossed after Leon Pryce and Marc Sneyd combined.
Evalds took Chase's pass on a glorious line to cross for his second after a penalty against Hull but a fourth try before half-time was denied when Tim Roby chalked off a Lee score for a knock-on.
Salford's Adrian Morley went to the sin-bin and the visitors took advantage when Thompson's footwork took him over at the end of a free-scoring first period.
The second-half, punctuated by the injury to Caton-Brown, continued the rapid-fire scoring pattern, and Hull moved ahead for the first time when Sa capitalised on a ricochet off Chase to cross the line.
The lead did not last long as Chase twice teed up Griffin with sumptuous passes to restore the hosts' advantage.
And once Sa'u crashed over, not even another Thompson touchdown and Lineham's try could prevent Salford recording a first win of the season for coach Iestyn Harris.
Salford Red Devils head coach Iestyn Harris:
"Rangi was superb and when he's in that sort of form he's world class. He created opportunities for himself and others round him to make the opponents nervous.
"It doesn't surprise me because I see him do it every day at training. He can win games and he did exactly that tonight.
"We had four of five players out and then had to reshuffle when Niall and Mason went off. It wasn't pretty at times but the result was very pleasing because Hull are a good team."
Hull FC coach Lee Radford:
"We did not start well enough. We knew Salford would come out all guns blazing but they caught us by surprise and I don't know why.
"We didn't turn up and clocked off and it's hugely disappointing.
"There aren't enough hours in the day to practice defending against Rangi Chase."
Salford Red Devils: Evalds; Caton-Brown, J. Griffin, Sa'u, Johnson; Chase, Fages; Taylor, Lee, Tasi, Hansen, Hauraki, J. Walne.
Replacements: Morley, D. Griffin, Hood, A. Walne.
Hull: Rankin; Lineham, Sa, Yeaman, Talanoa; Pryce, Sneyd; Paea, Houghton, Watts, Hadley, Minichiello, Westerman.
Replacements: Green, Thompson, Whiting, Cunningham.
Referee: Tim Roby (RFL).
1 April 2013 Last updated at 13:13 BST
In a strong attack, Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister Huw Lewis accuses the UK government of "coming for ordinary Welsh people".
He also claimed the coalition was setting out to "make the poor pay the most" for the banking crisis.
But the UK government says the changes are needed and are fair.
Guto Bebb, Conservative MP for Aberconwy, said Mr Lewis' comments were "completely unacceptable".
"These welfare changes are happening because the previous Labour government was responsible for creating the biggest bust in Britain's economic history," he told BBC Radio Wales.
Mr Lewis was interviewed by BBC Wales Political Editor Betsan Powys.
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The 25-year-old was a free agent after making seven appearances for the Accies last season.
Adams began his career with Sunderland, before spells with Coventry City, Notts County and Cambridge United.
His arrival follows the signings of Jake Cassidy, Ryan Donaldson, Luke George, Scott Loach and Jack Munns.
The length of Adams' contract with Pools has not been disclosed.
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Both the old bridge and the Second Severn Crossing will become publicly owned in 2018 once their original construction costs have been covered.
Campaigners are calling for the tolls to be lowered in the future.
The Department for Transport said no decision had been taken on the future management or tolling costs of the crossings after the end of the current concession.
Ms Ferris, 40, had last been seen in September last year.
Police were concerned for her wellbeing as she had a medical condition which required medication.
Her disappearance sparked a search operation which ran over several weeks. Officers said inquiries had not revealed any suspicious circumstances.
Det Ch Insp David Hadden added: "We hope this identification gives Kelli's family some form of closure and our thoughts are with her family at this time."
Militants based inside the hospital blew themselves up when they ran out of ammunition, an official said.
Meanwhile, the UN says more than 114,000 people have fled their homes in two weeks of fighting in Ramadi and surrounding parts of Anbar province.
IS and the Iraqi government both claim to be making advances in Ramadi.
The Iraqi forces are backed by a US-led air campaign. IS is estimated to have lost about a quarter of the territory it seized in Iraq during a lightning advance last year.
However, the group still controls large parts of the north and west of the country, including the second city Mosul.
IS stepped up its assault on Ramadi last week with a series of suicide attacks. The jihadists also took over three villages near the city, which is the capital of Anbar province.
On Tuesday, Iraqi government forces backed by Sunni Arab tribal fighters took control of a hospital where the militants had barricaded themselves, an Anbar security official said.
The government forces are now reportedly advancing towards the east of the city. The official said progress had been slowed by roadside bombs left behind by the militants.
The UN estimates that more than 114,000 people have fled the Ramadi area in recent weeks. More than 50,000 of those are thought to have gone to Baghdad.
Earlier this month government forces dealt a major blow to IS by recapturing the city of Tikrit, which the group seized last June.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said last week that they would follow the victory in Tikrit with campaigns in Anbar province and in the town of Baiji, north of Baghdad, near Iraq's most important oil refinery.
But IS responded by launching its own offensives on Ramadi and the Baiji refinery.
The US military estimates that IS has lost 25% to 30% of its territory in Iraq to government forces since the US-led coalition air campaign began in August.
However, the group still controls swathes of territory in both Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
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After finishing 11th at Suzuka, Alonso told the BBC he was uncertain if he would still be with the team next year.
The 34-year-old aired his frustration on team radio during Sunday's race, won by championship leader Lewis Hamilton.
The Spaniard later clarified his comments, saying he wanted to see out the last two years of his contract.
Alonso has a fixed contract worth $40m (£26.3m) a year.
He left Ferrari last year, two years before the end of his contract because he had lost faith they would ever be able to take him to a third world title.
Alonso started Sunday's race in 12th and was up to ninth on the first lap but began to fall back as rivals with more powerful engines passed him on the straights.
After being passed by a Sauber, he said over the radio to his team: "I'm being passed down the straights like a GP2. This is embarrassing, very embarrassing."
Later in the race, after being passed by Max Verstappen's Toro Rosso, he said: "GP2 engine, GP2", before letting out an exasperated: "Rarh."
This was a reference to the final feeder category before F1, in which the cars have about 600bhp.
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By contrast, the standard-setting Mercedes and Ferrari F1 engines have about 900bhp.
At its best, Honda's engine is at least 100bhp down on the Mercedes but it loses a further 160-180bhp in the latter part of the longest straights because its inefficient hybrid system runs out of power boost.
After the race, Alonso said: "It's frustrating when you see how they overtake you on the straights and then you arrive to the corner and you see them braking late, making mistakes and you are perfect in the corner, recovering time and then on the straights they overtake you."
Team-mate Jenson Button complained the car's lack of power was dangerous when racing with rivals because the speed difference is so big.
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Asked about the drivers' comments, McLaren chairman Ron Dennis said it was "not very constructive" when the team is trying to build a stronger relationship with Honda management.
He added: "I can understand it. It's not just one race. It is several races they have been experiencing this.
"Do I condone it? No. Am I going to go ballistic? No. I will handle it in my own way and my way is not in public."
McLaren have been faced with a weekend in which the future of both their drivers have been the subject of intense speculation, despite the fact both are under contract for next year.
Button has a contract for 2016 but McLaren have an option to terminate it before 30 September.
Dennis said: "We have two drivers. We want both of them in the team and it is as simple as that. We will have a winning team."
"Jenson has a two-year contract. It has an option to stop. I told Jenson - probably too late - that we have no intention of exercising the option.
"I told him on Thursday, probably I should have told him on Tuesday."
The 24-year-old Scot, who was beaten 7-6 (7-4) 6-1, had been bidding for a second Grand Slam singles title of the year after his Australian Open victory.
"I lost to the better player. I struggled with my serve and that let him dictate the points," Reid said.
Both Reid and fellow Briton Jordanne Whiley won doubles titles.
Reid and Japan's Shingo Kunieda defended their doubles crown with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Michael Jeremiasz of France and Swede Stefan Olsson.
Whiley won her seventh slam doubles title alongside Kuneida's compatriot Yui Kamiji as they defeated Dutch top seeds Jiske Griffioen and Aniek Van Koot 6-3 4-6 10-6.
Reid led 4-2 in the opening set but Fernandez battled back and went 6-5 up before the Scot forced the tie-break, which he eventually lost.
The Argentine was the stronger in the second set, quickly racing into a 4-0 lead and there was no way back for Reid, who had won his last three matches against Fernandez.
"It's been a good week to get this far, following on from Melbourne," said Reid, who is ranked two places above Fernandez at four in the world.
"Obviously, I wanted a good result but I wasn't good enough in the final.
"He had all the momentum in the second set."
Under the sanctions, US firms and individuals are banned from doing business with him.
The election of a constituent assembly on Sunday was held amid mass protests. At least 10 people were killed.
Mr Maduro said the poll was a "vote for the revolution", saying "sanctions from the empire don't scare me".
It is unclear whether the president holds investments in the US and Washington's action was likely to be seen as symbolic.
"The emperor Donald Trump took decisions against me that show his desperation and hate," President Maduro said in a televised speech on Monday.
"I don't obey orders from foreign governments and never will... Sanction me as you wish, but the Venezuelan people have decided to be free and I am the independent president of a free nation."
Venezuela's new constituent assembly will have the power to rewrite the constitution and disband the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
The opposition coalition, which boycotted the election, said 88% of voters had abstained. It has refused to recognise the poll. Electoral officials said the turnout was 41.5%.
Protesters have blocked a number of roads in the capital, Caracas.
A march scheduled for later on Monday to honour those killed on polling day appears to have been postponed until Wednesday, the day that the constituent assembly is due to meet.
Venezuela's attorney general, Luisa Ortega, a vocal critic of the Maduro government, called the vote an expression of "dictatorial ambition".
The US had previously warned that it would not recognise the election, with President Donald Trump vowing "strong and swift economic actions" if it went ahead.
The sanctions were announced in a statement by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
"Yesterday's illegitimate elections confirm that Maduro is a dictator who disregards the will of the Venezuelan people," he said.
"By sanctioning Maduro, the United States makes clear our opposition to the policies of his regime and our support for the people of Venezuela who seek to return their country to a full and prosperous democracy."
Mr Maduro is only the fourth foreign leader to be blacklisted in this way, Mr Mnuchin said.
US National Security Adviser HR McMaster said the Venezuelan leader had joined an "exclusive club" that also includes Syria's Bashar al-Assad, North Korea's Kim Jong-un, and Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.
On 26 July, the US Treasury had imposed sanctions on 13 current and former Venezuelan officials in a bid to deter Mr Maduro from holding the poll.
Those targeted include the interior minister and the head of the army.
"Who do these imperialists in the United States think they are?" Mr Maduro said in response to these sanctions. "The government of the world?"
He called the sanctions "illegal, insolent and unprecedented".
International condemnation of the latest vote was widespread on Monday. The EU expressed "preoccupation for the fate of democracy in Venezuela", and said it doubted it could accept the results.
However, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia have stood by Mr Maduro.
Venezuela's 30 million citizens are suffering through shortages of basic goods and medicines, as the country's weakened economy declines still further.
A wave of anti-government protests has left more than 120 people dead in four months.
So far, Washington has not imposed restrictions on the country's huge oil exports to the US.
Mr Mnuchin would not confirm whether oil sanctions were being considered, but said President Trump had decided not to take measures that would hurt the "Venezuelan people" rather than Mr Maduro's allies.
The Treasury secretary also urged those elected to the 545-member Constituent Assembly not to take their seats.
Last week, he warned that those elected could be subject to US sanctions for "undermining democratic processes and institutions in Venezuela".
The 74-year-old was a student in Edinburgh when his friend, who had a summer job at the bridge, asked his supervisor if they could walk over a mesh catwalk before it was removed.
His boss pointed across the walkway and said: "Off you go then".
It was 1962 and the pair were not wearing helmets, yellow vests or harnesses.
Mr Rankine, who lives in Crossford, Fife, was also one of the first people to drive across the Forth Road Bridge once the road had been built 53 years ago.
The bridge is now being replaced by the new Queensferry Crossing, and Mr Rankine managed to become one of the first to drive across that too at 03:00 on Wednesday.
He was also "delighted" to win tickets in the ballot to walk across it on Saturday.
Speaking about his experience as a student, Mr Rankine told the BBC Scotland news website: "You wouldn't get to do something like that now without all the health and safety trimmings.
"It was a Saturday morning and my friend's boss just pointed over the mesh and said 'Off you go then' and off the three of us went."
They started on the Edinburgh side and walked up to the first tower, before going up to the north tower then along the walkways joining the towers.
"All you could see was the water when you looked down through the mesh, it was quite a long way down," Mr Rankine said.
"I wasn't scared though because we were used to climbing and it wasn't a windy day.
"We spent all morning walking across and back and taking pictures."
Speaking about being selected to walk across the bridge on Saturday, he said: "My wife and I were in Zimbabwe when the ballot opened and could only find wifi at Victoria Falls so we made the application there and were absolutely delighted that we got tickets to walk across.
"It's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we will be taking lots of pictures."
It's a glorious location and a strategic one too - about 60km (37 miles) upstream from the port of Moulmein on the Andaman Sea, and around 150km from the Thai border.
There's plenty of traffic in the early morning around the bus stop, close to the old clock tower in the town centre.
But most of the people are leaving, not arriving; young Karen women, squeezed into converted pick-up trucks, heading to Thailand to work in garment factories or as domestic servants, and men transferring from the overnight bus from Rangoon, off to work on construction sites in Bangkok.
For all of Kayin State's promising potential, the only jobs there have been in the antiquated and badly-paid agricultural sector.
That is not just due to the chronic under-development which afflicted all of Burma under military rule. Much of the state has also been a war zone for the past 60 years, its forested frontier areas battlegrounds between government forces and Karen insurgents.
The border with Thailand has offered the only economic lifeline; as an escape to employment, however menial, or as a route for smuggling. Men who did not take those choices often ended up fighting, either as insurgents for the Karen National Union (KNU) and other splinter groups, or as soldiers for the Burmese army.
Fifty-year-old widow Hla Win is typical. Her husband was a government soldier killed in battle 25 years ago. She is waiting in the back of a pick-up truck for the rough, six-hour ride to Myawaddy. From there she will walk across the border to the Thai town of Mae Sot, and take a bus to a smaller town where she works as a house-maid for around $100 (£61) a month.
"If possible of course I would love to come back and live here," she said. "But I don't have a job, I don't have a house - where would I live?"
But a few kilometres outside Hpa-an, the sound of hammering, drilling and sawing heralds the promise of a new era in Kayin State.
In an area of scrubby ground that was still subject to occasional skirmishes between the army and the KNU just a year ago, the foundations are being laid for Hpa-an's first industrial estate. The very first factory opened in early November, employing 150 local people.
The man who built it is U Myint Htay, a Burmese entrepreneur who founded a garment manufacturing company, UMH, in 1996. He already has two garment factories operating in Rangoon.
The story of the Burmese clothing industry is closely tied to the country's recent political journey.
After the mass uprising against the eccentric, isolationist military regime of General Ne Win in 1988, which was brutally put down, the ruling generals realised they needed foreign investment to end Burma's dire poverty, and they changed the law to make this possible.
With cheap labour, and a location close to global transhipment ports like Singapore, clothing was an ideal first step, and offered investors an alternative to China.
Companies, mainly based in Hong Kong and South Korea, built factories doing the simple tasks known in the industry as CMP (cutting, making, packing), where the materials were all imported, and simply sewn and then re-exported, mainly to Europe and the US.
At the industry's peak, in the year 2000, there were around 300 garment companies in Burma employing around 300,000 workers.
But the imposition of US and EU sanctions from 2003, together with consumer boycott campaigns, hit the industry hard. Some went out of business. Others, like UMH, managed to switch to new Asian markets. Today U Myint Htay makes garments exclusively for the Japanese market.
Investing in Hpa-an would have been unthinkable without the political changes in Burma over the past 18 months. The new government has launched initiatives to end the ethnic conflicts, which have continued since independence in 1948, resulting in a ceasefire a year ago, and peace talks between the government and the KNU.
It is still a very uncertain environment in which to invest more than $1m. But U Myint Htay sees two strong reasons to do so.
"I want the people of Kayin State to be able to find jobs here, close to their families, rather than go across to Thailand where they do not have real security," he said. But he also sees the potential of Hpa-an's geographical position.
He has opened a sewing school to train local people who have never done any kind of industrial work before. But he is also benefitting from workers choosing to come back from Thailand, bringing their skills with them.
Among the women busy at their machines in his factory was 22 year-old Myat Weet Yeewai, who used to work with her two sisters at a factory in Mae Sot. She said she was much happier now she could live close to her mother in Hpa-an. Her pay is lower than it was in Thailand, but so are her hours.
The UMH factory in Hpa-an is producing very basic white clothing, for Japanese restaurants and hospitals, although U Myint Htay says their standards are very high. His margins are very tight, and shipping out of Rangoon port is expensive, because its facilities are limited. Shipping through Thailand, even with bad roads, saves him significant costs.
Another sign of the changes in Kayin State is the KNU liason office in Hpa-an, where representatives from the insurgent group can interact with those of the Burmese government. Its establishment in September has been a source of dispute inside the KNU, some of whose factions still do not trust the government.
Inside I met the deputy head of the office, Captain Mann Thein, who has been fighting for the KNU in the jungle since 1976. Now, looking slightly uncomfortable in his civilian surroundings, he is giving the new government some credit for its changed stance.
"I can see the government is doing a lot for our state, bringing us development," he said. "But we still have to wait and see how far this peace process will go."
Burma's unhappy history inevitably preaches caution. But the sight of rows of humming sewing machines in what, until last year, was a battleground, is reason enough to believe that life for the people of Kayin State is improving.
Hamilton, who has yet to win a ranking tournament in his 25-year professional career, won a scrappy encounter against an out-of-sorts Allen.
Mark King beat Iranian Hossein Vafaei Ayouri 5-3 in Friday night's other quarter-final.
Kyren Wilson and Barry Hawkins secured a semi-final spot at the Titanic Exhibition Centre earlier on Friday.
English player Wilson, who beat five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan in the last round, edged Mark Williams of Wales 5-4.
Wilson, 24, came through another tight tussle after defeating O'Sullivan 4-3 on Thursday night.
The players were not separated by more than one frame throughout the match with Williams levelling to make it 4-4.
Wilson, who compiled breaks of 95 and 91, won the decider 76-1 and he will face King on Saturday.
Hawkins produced a best break of 70 in the last frame of his win over Welshman White.
Hamilton, ranked 76th in the world, knocked in breaks of 96 and 78 on his way to going 3-0 up against Allen.
Allen managed to win two frames but struggled to perform in front of his many fans in Belfast and Nottingham's Hamilton came out as the surprise winner.
"A month ago I was skint and now I'm in the semi-finals," a delighted Hamilton told eurosport.
"I'm not playing great but I'm through and that last frame was one I felt I had to win."
King trailed 3-2 but won three straight frames to clinch a semi-final meeting with fellow Englishman Hawkins.
The tax, affecting cars that cost more than 1.3m yuan ($189,000; £151,024), is aimed at curbing lavish spending and reducing emissions, authorities said.
It is part of a wider effort by Chinese authorities against flashy demonstrations of wealth, which has already hit other luxury brands.
China is a key market for high-end carmakers.
Automakers have in recent years increasingly tailored their luxury models to appeal to Chinese buyers.
Both Rolls-Royce and Aston Martin are planning to release SUV models in the next year, seen as a response to a Chinese preference for large cars over sports vehicles.
"In order to guide rational consumption, and promote energy-saving emission reductions, the state Council has approved an additional consumption levy on ultra-luxury cars," a statement by the Ministry of Finance said.
The tax goes into effect on Thursday, although observers say it is unlikely to be a major deterrent for the super rich.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a campaign against corruption a centrepiece of his governing agenda, and has cracked down on luxury spending as part of that.
The country's ruling communist party on Thursday also issued new regulations for party officials against "pomp" as part of anti-corruption efforts.
Top officials should "travel without pomp, minimise impact on public life, and not have vehicles exceeding the set standards", the official Xinhua news agency reported.
This is Down Street Tube station. It opened in 1907 but shut again in 1932 because it was too close to other stations to attract sufficient passengers.
During World War Two Winston Churchill initially held cabinet meetings here.
Later the railways were run from the corridors.
You can still see some of the baths in the staff quarters.
Transport for London is seeking expressions of interest to open these spaces to the public.
There are seven sites it thinks could be turned into restaurants or art galleries and it will work in partnerships or lease the spaces out to entrepreneurs.
Transport for London (TfL) is trying to optimise its commercial revenue and aims to increase revenue by £3.4bn in the next 10 years.
The manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index - which surveys companies about the strength of their order books - saw an increase to 55.4.
Last month the figure was 53.4 - itself a significant increase compared with August. Any figure over 50 shows an expansion in the sector.
Philip Hammond's much quoted suggestion that Britain might be due a "fiscal reset" was predicated on there being grim economic news following the referendum.
Although the chancellor has made it clear it wants to retain "flexibility" in the way he approaches fiscal (tax and spending) policy, he also had another message today.
Ultimately, balancing the books is still the cornerstone of Conservative economic policy.
Yes, it may take longer and the government may have to borrow more because of fears over the impact of the Brexit referendum - and the chancellor shares those fears - but it is still the goal.
I have been reminded time and again by those close to him - the chancellor is a "proper Conservative" when it comes to fiscal discipline.
"Fiscal reset" should never have been confused with a spending splurge, officials say, pointing out that Mr Hammond was one of the key architects of the Conservatives' original austerity plan in 2010.
The chancellor's speech today was peppered with references to credibility on the public finances, balancing the books and not returning, as the Conservatives see it, to the "tax and spend" ways of Labour.
Mr Hammond very deliberately kicked off his speech with a reminder of Liam Byrne's note that there was "no money left".
Mr Byrne was the Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury before the 2010 election.
Mr Hammond denounced what he said were Labour's economic failures of the past, the clear message being that borrowing too much can only lead to one destination.
An economic mess.
He said that Labour's economic plans for the future were anchored in "la-la land".
And when it came to listing the challenges facing the UK, "dealing with the deficit" was the first, well ahead of "rebuilding our infrastructure".
As he looks towards the Autumn Statement on 23 November, Mr Hammond knows that the Office for Budget Responsibility, the official economic watchdog, is likely to have grim news on the state of the public finances.
Deficit reduction targets set at the Budget in March are likely to be missed, meaning that the debt being carried by the UK will be higher and growing for longer than expected.
With such a warning ringing in the Treasury's ears, would that really be a time to announce significant amounts of new borrowing?
Particularly if growth is stronger than expected (the GDP - national income - figure for the third quarter of 2016 will be published at the end of the month).
And the Bank of England has cut interest rates again, as it may do at its next rate meeting on 3 November.
At this stage, and if the economic data continue to surprise on the upside, expect limited announcements on spending on infrastructure projects in November.
And don't forget we are about to get a decision on airport expansion in the south-east of England, which can be trumpeted as Britain "building for success", though, less noisily, with largely private money in this instance.
But the overall message of the new chancellor is clear.
The Conservatives want to balance the books and eliminate the deficit.
The referendum result means the original 2020 target date has been ditched.
But Mr Hammond is still, at heart, a fiscal hawk.
The incident happened outside the Spey Lounge on Leith Walk at about 01:00 on Saturday 12 November 2016.
A 22-year-old man was knocked unconscious and sustained multiple fractures to his head.
Detectives are keen to find the man pictured in the CCTV footage, who was in the bar before the assault. He is 20-25 years old and 5ft 8in - 10in.
He is white, of medium build and has short fair hair.
At the time of the incident, he was wearing a dark Nike hooded top and blue jeans.
Det Con Ryan Lee, of Police Scotland, said: "The victim was subjected to an unprovoked and sustained assault during which he suffered multiple fractures to his head.
"The man pictured is believed to be of significance to our investigation and anyone who can assist in tracing him is asked to come forward.
"Similarly we would ask the man himself to get in touch with police and help with our investigation."
Apparat will play a DJ set at Skye Live in September.
Other headline acts are Mercury Prize nominee Django Django and Irish DJ Mano Le Tough, whose genre is described as apocalyptic calypso house.
This year's Skye Live will be held at a new venue, moving half a mile from playing fields in Portree to The Lump.
The site is used for Skye's Highland games.
Taking place on 22 and 23 September, the festival is to feature more than 20 acts.
Breaking Bad, a crime drama starring Bryan Cranston, ran in the US between 2008 and 2013 and was also shown in the UK.
Twenty-five years after the long-detested "Iron Curtain" was torn down by people power, there's little left beyond the many monuments along the old route.
Yet travel some 200km (125 miles) to Germany's most easterly city, Goerlitz, and the legacy of 1989's abrupt change in the ruling political and financial system has a much longer tail.
Certainly the roads and communications provide little clue to the City's GDR past. The region shared in the fruits of the 2 trillion euros (£1.6tn) worth of rebuilding work paid for by West German taxpayers.
But in common with most of the old East Germany, the initial surge of departing young economic migrants left behind lower birth rates, higher unemployment and an ageing population.
For a poignant reminder of how economic life has changed, it's worth visiting the town's Berzdorfer See. It's a vast lake of around 20 sq km - one of the largest in Saxony and made by flooding a redundant lignite mine.
Today there's a beach for swimmers, waterside tracks for cyclists and joggers, and some perfect sites for boating and leisure investments. That's if suitable entrepreneurs can ever be found.
Yet the site is also a reminder of how the fall of communism turned financial life upside down. One shore is dotted with abandoned factory buildings and homes - untouched since the last state workers lost their livelihoods.
With about 56,000 inhabitants, Goerlitz has managed to hold on to little more than half of its population prior to German unification.
Thomas Klatte leads Europastadt Goerlitz, an organisation working to drum up new visitor and commercial interest in the city. He says the good news is that Gorlitz appears to have finally stemmed the tide of people of working age leaving with their families to find a living elsewhere.
"The economical structure was concentrated on the textile industry and brown coal mining, and there was a huge energy plant. All these activities have almost completely disappeared.
"But we do have two core employers today - a huge railway coach building company and a company manufacturing turbines. All of these have many smaller local suppliers. One of our targets is to attract new firms to offer more people a future here in the region, because many who live here still commute to Western Germany."
But head into the city centre - metres from the Polish border - and things are definitely looking up. The old town certainly looks rich because of its huge range of mercantile houses.
Some claim Goerlitz is the most beautiful city in Germany. Certainly, nowhere in the former East Germany has such a mix of well-preserved buildings - be they medieval, baroque, gothic or renaissance.
It is one reason why tourism has become an important industry.
And just as the northern Spanish town of Bilbao was famously revived by the opening of the Guggenheim Museum, Goerlitz is pinning its hopes on a new cultural and commercial landmark in the making. A cool 20m euros is being lavished by private investor Winfried Stocker on restoring a 1913 art nouveau department store as an upmarket, luxury department store.
And if you think those staircases, distinctive windows and chandeliers look familiar, you'd be right. The Kaufhaus Goerlitz building was the set for director Wes Anderson's comedy movie The Grand Budapest Hotel. In fact the whole city is being dubbed "Goerlywood" for its many exquisite period locations.
But it is unlikely that such an ambitious project could be sustained by local spending power alone. Wages in this relatively impoverished Saxony region remain up to 25% lower than those in the old West Germany.
It is also fair to say that local shopping tastes veer towards the practical rather than the designer labels. It's one reason why the store's instigators are planning a mix of in-house retailers and merchandise that will appeal to visitors from just across the border in faster-growing Poland and the Czech Republic.
It is a good illustration of a broader trend. Having spent 25 years looking westwards to upgrade standards and methods, German businesses are now turning their attention towards the east.
Prof Juergen Friedel is project leader for Kaufhaus Goerlitz. He says local retailers already made around a third of their revenue from Polish customers.
"Goerlitz has a lot of chances because it's such a great and well-preserved city for people to visit. Poland is only 600m from the department store - you can just walk across the bridge and you are there.
"The economy has been growing well in Poland and the Czech Republic, and people are earning more money than in years before. It's one reason why Western Germany has been looking more to the east, not just to Poland but Ukraine, Russia. This is a very good opportunity for companies to get experience selling to the eastern part of Europe."
What nobody quite expected was that, the 25th anniversary of reunification would also coincide with an unexpected downturn in orders and confidence in the country as a whole. In particular, criticism has centred on government policies to hold down public expenditure and wages.
Some economists are saying it is time for what amounts to a re-run of the kind of spending that boosted fortunes in Eastern Germany after reunification, only this time targeting cold spots in the whole of Germany.
Robert Schwar is a senior project manager with Erdmann, a successful Goerlitz software company that analyses data on the state of railway tracks.
You might say his is just the kind of enterprise that might benefit from a new round of infrastructure investment. But Mr Schwar is convinced Germany would be better advised to ride out any setbacks, sticking to what he sees as a proven course that has allowed small and medium-sized enterprises such as Erdmann to prosper and enjoy export success.
"I'm not sure we need a new wave of investment," he says. "The German system has served and supported businesses well compared to anywhere else in Europe. Communicating our strengths to customers is more important."
Unification spelt the end for Goerlitz's state industries. But 25 years on, the hope is that the town's strategic location halfway between Berlin and Prague will herald new opportunities.
It can certainly offer good quality vocational education. And it has something even Berlin can no longer boast - plenty of low- cost housing for rent. But what is clear is that filling many of the town's still empty old haunts with new life may take at least another 25 years. | Women hold just one in four top elected positions in Welsh councils, new figures have revealed.
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And there are dangers not far beneath the surface that could easily cause a new setback.
Even if those risks don't materialise, the outlook for this year, the IMF has said, is economic growth that is only "moderate with uneven prospects across the major countries and regions".
The recovery from the financial crisis and the Great Recession of 2008-09 continues and some areas do seem to be gaining some strength. The US is a notable example and there are signs that the eurozone may be putting the worst behind it.
But the global economy is still struggling to regain the momentum it had in the last decade, before the crisis. And then there are the risks.
The most topical case is the eurozone and the never-ending crisis in Greece. The latest developments suggest the eurozone will avoid, at least for now, the turbulence that a Greek abandonment of the currency might cause.
It is, however, a risk that remains lurking in the background. The mainstream view among eurozone governments and investors is that an exit would be very bad for the Greek economy and financial markets. But they think contagion to other parts of the eurozone, never mind beyond, would be containable.
Eurozone financial markets did wobble significantly at the start of the week, but then regained their composure. It's the bond market, where government debt is traded, which is where contagion to other countries' finances could take place.
There were moves in the direction you might expect if contagion were an issue - higher borrowing costs for Spain, Italy and Portugal and lower for Germany - but they were too small to be a problem. So far all countries bar Greece have borrowing costs in the bond market that are affordable.
That's not a universal view, however, and the US administration in particular has been wary about eurozone developments. The Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, has repeatedly pressed European leaders to reach an agreement to keep Greece inside the eurozone.
Full coverage: Greek debt crisis
A bigger preoccupation for financial markets over the last year has been US interest rates. The Federal Reserve's main rate target is close to zero (actually a range of zero to 0.25%). It has been there since December 2008 in the depth of the recession.
The Fed will raise rates, probably later this year. The economy is recovering and unemployment has fallen far from its peak. Certainly, inflation is very low and the jobs market is not as healthy as the headline unemployment figure suggests. But that just means the Fed will not raise rates very quickly once it has made a start.
The big concern about the rise when it comes is the potential impact on financial markets, especially in emerging economies. Higher interest rates in the US will encourage investors to move money back there, money that went overseas in the first place because rates were so low.
If that does happen it could force down the prices of the assets and the currencies that those investors sell. When they sell bonds - which are a form of tradable debt - a fall in the price is in effect an increase in local financial market interest rates.
So the Fed move could lead to higher borrowing costs and a weaker currency, for many emerging economies, which in turn could mean higher inflation - because a declining currency makes imported goods more expensive.
We have already had one episode of this - it was known as the "taper tantrum"- when the then-Fed chairman Ben Bernanke signalled plans to cut back (taper) the quantitative easing programme of buying financial assets. It caused significant turbulence in a number of emerging economies, though they got through the episode without any major upset.
Would they survive unscathed again? Perhaps, but there are risks and some economies are seen as a little vulnerable - South Africa, Turkey and Brazil, for example.
Economic growth in China has slowed, and that's generally reckoned to be a good thing. The 10% annual average over the last 30 years was widely thought to be unsustainable, too dependent on extremely high levels of investment.
The growth figure last year was 7.4% and the IMF forecast is for less than 7% this year.
There is a persistent concern that the slowdown might be bumpy - a hard landing as it's often called.
The property and stock markets are potential trouble spots. The IMF warned in April that "property price declines - especially in China - could spill over to emerging markets more broadly".
A more general deterioration in China's economic performance could affect suppliers of commodities - ranging from copper from Chile to iron ore from Australia and many more.
Why China's slowdown matters
Political events have the potential to disturb the global economy. The current possible flashpoints are Ukraine and, as it so often is, the Middle East. So far neither has had a major impact on the global economy.
Indeed, one of the main economic dangers they pose, especially in the case of the Middle East would be a disruption of the crude oil market leading to a sharp rise in prices. But currently oil costs little more than half of what it did a year ago.
Full coverage: Ukraine crisis
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For the longer term, there's a question over whether the world will get back to pre-crisis growth rates. Many rich and emerging countries have ageing populations. The effect may be partly offset by increased retirement ages, but it could still be a restraining factor for economic growth.
For the rich countries there is also a legacy of the financial crisis in the shape of lower levels of investment. Growth in emerging economies may be restrained as they approach what the IMF calls the "technological frontier".
They are getting closer to exhausting the relatively easy improvements in efficiency that can be achieved by adopting technology and business methods that are already established in more advanced economies.
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Coloured stones are, of course, much more affordable than their pricier, harder, relatives.
And millions more people, especially in Asia, want to buy them.
But could another explanation be that many more women are now buying gems for themselves?
That is the theory being put forward by one of Hatton Garden's most established jewellers.
Vashi Dominguez, the founder of the firm Diamond Manufacturers, believes prices are now being driven by the choices that women make.
When men choose gemstones for their partners, they often go for diamonds, he says. But when they do the choosing themselves, many women prefer at least one coloured gemstone in a piece of jewellery - a ruby, a sapphire, or an emerald.
They have also received encouragement from celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Penelope Cruz, who can afford diamonds aplenty, but who often choose to wear sapphires and emeralds instead.
Not to mention the Duchess of Cambridge, with the engagement ring she inherited from Princess Diana.
"I have a thing about colour - amethysts and rubies," says Georgina Rycyk, a marketing manager in Hatton Garden, the centre of the UK's jewellery trade.
She has just bought herself what she describes as a "sizeable" ruby.
"I just really like colours. My budget is not in diamonds, although it might be one day," she says.
Many customers appear to think along similar lines. Even if they still want one diamond in an engagement ring, they also want a splash of colour.
"What women want is a vintage setting, with coloured side stones," says Ms Rycyk.
Demand for coloured stones has increased threefold since 2010, according to Diamond Manufacturers' Mr Dominguez.
As a result, the company is selling fewer diamonds.
"It's because women are driving the market," he says, "even in China."
If men choose jewellery, he says, they tend to buy a ring with a single diamond in it, otherwise known as a solitaire.
"Buying jewellery is normally a very daunting experience for a man," he says.
"Often they don't even know the ring size, while women really know what they want. Some women even say, 'Can you change the diamonds to sapphires?'"
Georgina Rycyk believes most men are fishing in the dark when it comes to choosing jewellery for a wife or girlfriend.
"If I was to go into a sports shop to buy a pair of football boots, I would have no idea what to look for," she says.
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"It's the same when men try to buy jewellery."
The market price of coloured stones appears to reflect their growing popularity around the globe.
Gemval, which claims to offer the world's first online valuation tool for gemstones, reckons that the price of sapphires rose by 37% between January 2006 and January 2013.
Rubies rose by 47% over the same period.
Emeralds rose significantly in 2005, but between 2006 and 2013 only rose by about 6%.
According to the RapNet Diamond Index (RAPI), the price for one-carat diamonds has risen by 32% since 2006.
In other words, sapphires and rubies have outpaced diamonds over the past seven years.
But the science of pricing such gems is not exact.
"The problem with coloured stones is that there is no grading," says Martin Rapaport, whose company produces the RapNet index at its headquarters in Israel.
"But if you want a top quality ruby or emerald, they will compete with diamonds at that level," he says.
Jaspreet Chawla, a London-based gemmologist, believes the price rises reflect a growing trend in certain markets.
"In the US and Germany there is a more pronounced move towards coloured stones," she says, "increasingly so after Kate Middleton wore a sapphire.
"But the UK is still diamond-dominated."
Celebrities may indeed be helping to make coloured gemstones fashionable.
Penelope Cruz and Elizabeth Hurley both have sapphire rings, while Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie are fans of emeralds.
Chloe Fuller, a marketing manager from south-west London, bought herself a blue sapphire ring for £900, and a sapphire necklace for £700, after inheriting money from her grandmother.
She dreams of being able to afford a pair of sapphire ear-rings to match.
"Before Kate, everyone was buying solitaires," she says.
"But now a lot of my friends have sapphire rings like this. They're classic, and they won't date.
"I also wear lots of blue, so it goes with what I wear," she says.
But she dismisses suggestions that men are not good at choosing jewellery for their partners.
She brandishes a bracelet with a miniature ice cream attached.
"My boyfriend gave me this, because I like ice cream. I like it, because it's what he likes.
"It's the thought that counts."
It was Pompey who started off the livelier with former Stanley winger Gary Roberts, one of five former Reds in the Portsmouth 18, having a great chance to open the scoring in the third minute when he got the ball unmarked to the left of the area but fired across goal and wide.
Chances were limited, with an off-target Michael Doyle diving header after 33 minutes the closest Portsmouth came to scoring.
Stanley's best first-half chance came in the 40th minute when Sean McConville's corner was headed against his own crossbar by Pompey defender Christian Burgess.
The home side took the lead six minutes after the restart when Lacey collected the ball 20 yards out and found the top corner of the net with a superb strike on his league debut.
Billy Kee fired straight at David Forde as Stanley looked for a second, while McConville weaved his way into the area but his strike again was easy for the Pompey goalkeeper.
Portsmouth pressed but failed to threaten keeper Aaron Chapman as Stanley celebrated a second successive win.
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Match ends, Accrington Stanley 1, Portsmouth 0.
Second Half ends, Accrington Stanley 1, Portsmouth 0.
Foul by Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley).
Tom Davies (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth Evans (Portsmouth).
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth).
Tom Davies (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Davies (Portsmouth).
Attempt missed. Milan Lalkovic (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Jordan Clark.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Steven Hewitt replaces Paddy Lacey.
Attempt missed. Michael Smith (Portsmouth) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley).
Milan Lalkovic (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley).
Tom Davies (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Milan Lalkovic replaces Gary Roberts.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Tom Davies.
Corner, Accrington Stanley. Conceded by Gareth Evans.
Attempt blocked. Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Kal Naismith replaces Carl Baker.
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth).
Attempt saved. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Conor Chaplin replaces Danny Rose.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Romuald Boco replaces John O'Sullivan because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Janoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley).
Carl Baker (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Billy Kee (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley).
Danny Rose (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 1, Portsmouth 0. Paddy Lacey (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Sean McConville.
Foul by Janoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley).
Gareth Evans (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card.
O'Sullivan, 40, who returned from an eight-month break with a 5-1 win in the first qualifying round, had a break of 126 and runs of 51 and 64 to go 2-1 up.
Carrington, 25, levelled and then went 4-2 ahead with breaks of 72 and 87.
World number six O'Sullivan made a 94 in frame seven but Carrington sealed victory in the match, played in Wigan.
Grimsby's Carrington will go on to the main section of the tournament in Berlin in February.
O'Sullivan will focus on next month's Masters at London's Alexandra Palace, a tournament he has won five times.
The 400-kilometre (250-mile) wide area is buried deep in the earth's crust and consists of two separate impact scars.
The team behind the discovery, from the Australian National University (ANU), said the asteroid broke into two before it hit, with each fragment more than 10km across.
The impact is thought to have occurred at least 300 million years ago.
The surface crater has long since disappeared from central Australia's Warburton Basin but geophysical modelling below the surface found evidence of two massive impacts, said Dr Andrew Glikson, who led the ANU team.
"It would have been curtains for many life species on the planet at the time," said Dr Glikson.
But the team, which published its findings in the geology journal Tectonophysics, has not been able to connect the impact to any known extinction.
"It's a mystery - we can't find an extinction event that matches these collisions," said Dr Glikson. "I have a suspicion the impact could be older than 300 million years."
The rocks around the impact zone are roughly 300 to 600 million years old, but a layer of ash that would have been thrown up by the impact has not been detected as sediment in rock layers from the same period.
The large meteorite believed to have killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago corresponds to a layer of sediment in rocks around the world.
"Large impacts like these may have had a far more significant role in the Earth's evolution than previously thought," Dr Glikson said.
The apparent impact zone in the Warburton Basin was discovered by accident while scientists were drilling 2km under the Earth's surface for a geothermal research project.
The dig returned traces of rock that had been turned to glass by extreme temperature and pressure, consistent with a massive impact.
Notts, who have won just once in their past six League Two matches, face National League side Boreham Wood in an FA Cup first-round replay on Tuesday.
"We were totally inept," Sheridan told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"We could be playing the Red Lion on Tuesday and if we play like today any team will beat us."
With County already 3-0 down against the Seasiders, they were reduced to 10 men in the 79th minute after Vadaine Oliver was shown a straight red card for a challenge on Tom Aldred.
Sheridan admits they could have lost by "seven or eight" and was left "a very angry man" at full-time.
"I've been a manager for probably over 500 games now and that is probably the worst performance under my management," the former Oldham, Chesterfield, Plymouth Argyle and Newport County boss said.
"That is harsh for me to say, but I will not accept anything that went on today.
"We were a shambles. We didn't deserve anything and we didn't create a chance. If we are not at the races and perform like today we won't win any games for the rest of the season.
"I hope they realise they need to step up big time - if they don't, then there is something wrong with them."
Alan Smith, the 36-year-old former England, Leeds, Manchester United and Newcastle forward, was one player that drew some praise after the loss at Bloomfield Road.
"Smudge does all right for me. He is the only one that has a bit of fight about him," Sheridan said.
The move comes as MLAs prepare for an assembly debate on whether to make abortions legal in such cases.
A vote on whether or not to amend the Justice Bill is due to take place on Wednesday.
The proposed amendment looks unlikely to pass now that the DUP has said it will be voting against it.
Currently, a termination is only permitted in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.
Justice Minister David Ford has asked the executive to approve legislation for abortion in cases where a fatal foetal abnormality is diagnosed.
The DUP said the issue required proper consideration by the assembly and executive, and that the Bill was not intended for this purpose.
They have asked Health Minister Simon Hamilton to set up a working group, including clinicians and people with a legal background, to make recommendations as to how the issue can be addressed, including, if necessary, draft legislation.
It is to report within six months.
BBC News NI political correspondent Gareth Gordon said finding a way forward, which the majority of people can agree on, will be "a mammoth task".
"This is one of the most sensitive issues facing politicians and society generally in Northern Ireland," he said.
In December, a High Court judge ruled the law does not comply with the European Convention on Human Rights in cases of fatal foetal abnormality or sexual crime.
The case was brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
The commission took legal action against Mr Ford's Department of Justice as part of its campaign for a change in the law.
In January, the justice minister said he was lodging an appeal to the ruling, because he was concerned that a lack of "legal certainty" could lead inadvertently to abortion on demand.
The body of Chase Tate, 23, was found on the A1104 at Miles Cross Hill, Ulceby, in the early hours of Saturday.
Lincolnshire Police said it was currently looking through CCTV in a bid to identify the driver involved.
Insp Simon Heads said: "We are systematically working through it until we get to the vehicle which struck him."
He said he was keeping an open mind about whether a driver may have been unaware of hitting Mr Chase.
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However, he urged anyone who thinks they may have been involved to get in touch as a matter of urgency.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Tate's injuries were consistent with being struck by a vehicle.
Witnesses reported seeing Chase, who lived locally, walking along the road towards Alford.
The claim: Iain Duncan Smith says that more than three quarters of the rise in employment in the last year has come from people born abroad.
Reality Check verdict: The latest figures support this. You could also look at the number of non-UK nationals (rather than everyone born abroad, which includes British citizens). They account for 56% of the rise.
The figures suggest that people born abroad account for 80% of the rise in employment - as Mr Duncan Smith says, more than three quarters.
But the figure for the number of people born abroad includes UK nationals who were born in other countries.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also produces figures for non-UK nationals working in the UK, which suggests 56% of the increase in employment may be attributed to non-UK nationals.
In the context of the referendum the broader point the Leave Campaign has been making is that there's been a big increase in the proportion of people working in the UK who are EU nationals.
The proportion of UK workers who are non-UK EU nationals has indeed increased considerably.
In the first three months of this year, about 6.8% of UK workers were non-UK EU nationals. Five years ago that figure was 4.5% and 10 years ago it was 2.6%.
If you look at the numbers behind that, at the moment there are 2.15 million EU nationals working in the UK. Five years ago it was 1.33 million and 10 years ago it was 758,000.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
Announcing a new mid-term strategy to transform the company, Shell said it expected to save another $1bn (£690m) from its £35bn takeover of BG Group.
Critics said Shell overpaid for BG, but chief executive Ben van Beurden told the BBC he would do the same again.
"We actually see that it's worth more than we thought it was," he said.
He confirmed that Shell was cutting another 2,200 jobs after the BG deal, on top of the 2,800 already announced. Shell has announced more than 10,000 job cuts globally over the last two years.
In a statement, Mr van Beurden said: "By capping our capital spending in the period to 2020, investing in compelling projects, driving down costs and selling non-core positions, we can reshape Shell into a more focussed and more resilient company, with better returns and growing free cash flow per share."
Shell added that it would forge ahead with $30bn of asset sales over the next two years.
It also expects to make savings of $4.5bn from its merger with BG, up from an earlier estimate of $3.5bn.
In May, Shell announced that first-quarter profits had fallen to $800m from $4.8bn a year earlier, blaming the slump on lower oil prices.
The price per barrel is now around $50, having risen sharply since the start of the year, but Mr van Beurden told the BBC that he did not know if the price would rise further in the short-to-medium term.
The slump in prices has caused energy groups worldwide to cut spending, slash jobs and sell assets during the past year.
Since April, green-shirted members of the People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) have been mounting their own "security patrols" aboard trains.
On its website (in Slovak) the LSNS said it had had to act after a 21-year-old woman was "assaulted by a hooligan gypsy [Roma]" on a train near Levice.
Train security is the job of police and rail authorities, the ministry says.
Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska said nobody could replace the police in protecting citizens. A legal amendment will go before parliament to stop the vigilante patrols.
The LSNS organised patrols on the Zvolen-Levice line, in central Slovakia, alleging that the police were failing in their duty to the public.
The new timetable of the Slovak Railway Company says that nobody can perform activities aboard its trains, unrelated to passenger services, unless they have written authorisation.
In March the LSNS won more than 8% of the vote in Slovakia, entering parliament for the first time, with 14 seats.
Party leader Marian Kotleba is an admirer of Slovakia's wartime existence as a Nazi puppet state, and used to wear a uniform modelled on that state's pro-Nazi militia.
On its website the LSNS says it wants a Slovakia "safe for all decent citizens so they are not terrorised by gypsy or other extremists and corrupted politicians".
It also names pro-Nazi wartime leader Jozef Tiso among "our national heroes". Tiso, a Roman Catholic priest who persecuted Jews in line with Nazi policy, was hanged for treason after World War Two.
Captain Brendon McCullum struck 65 off 49 balls as the Black Caps put on a rapid 111 for the first wicket.
Kane Williamson added a composed 57 before Corey Anderson blasted 75 off 46 balls to help the hosts to an imposing total of 331-6 from their 50 overs.
In reply, Sri Lanka subsided to 233 all out, with Daniel Vettori taking 2-34.
New Zealand, who play England next, have reached six World Cup semi-finals without ever going on to make the final.
The Black Caps, however, are one of the favourites for this tournament, and this powerful performance against the 2011 finalists underlined why they are so highly-rated.
"We executed our blueprint with the bat," said McCullum. "It was a really good performance all round. We have been waiting a long time for this so it is great to complete our plans."
Put in under grey skies, the hosts immediately attacked the Sri Lanka bowlers with some explosive hitting in the first powerplay.
Williamson recorded his 13th fifty in his last 17 ODIs, before Anderson, playing in his home city, helped New Zealand to add a crucial 102 in the final 10 overs.
Sri Lanka won the World Cup in 1996 and reached the final of the last two tournaments, but they will have to improve on this performance in order to challenge at this tournament.
Influential fast bowler Lasith Malinga was disappointing, conceding 84 runs in 10 wicketless overs.
Sri Lanka's chase began well, with opener Lahiru Thirimanne hitting 65, but was soon derailed by the pace of Trent Boult and the spin of Vettori.
They collapsed from 124-1 to 168-6, with Boult, Adam Milne and Vettori, who reversed his retirement from ODIs last year, capturing two wickets each, and their innings never recovered.
They will hope for a rapid return to form when they face Afghanistan on Saturday.
"They probably scored 30 or 40 runs too many and then we needed someone in our top four to get a hundred," said captain Angelo Matthews.
"But we are not going to panic, we still have five group games left."
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Kamara, 20, made six appearances on loan at Colchester's Essex rivals Southend last campaign.
Fosu, also 20, has had previous loan spells at Fleetwood and Accrington.
He comes in following news that U's winger Courtney Senior will be out for up to a year after having surgery on an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
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A late Taqele Naiyaravoro try rescued a losing bonus point for the visitors.
"An eight-point defeat is the worst you can get, knowing that you came close and were competitive but didn't get anything out the game," head coach Townsend told his club website.
"We were down to 14 men and had used our entire bench but still managed to grind it out."
Ulster's victory in what Townsend thought was Warriors' toughest game of the season took the Northern Irish side to the top of the Pro12.
Reigning champions Glasgow are now 15 points adrift in eighth place, although they do have two games in hand.
"I was proud of the squad overall, whether it was the young guys or the older, more experienced heads," said Townsend.
"They really took the game to Ulster and that's what we have to continue to do in our upcoming games.
"It was the ultimate test for us, but we fronted up very well and our scrum was probably the best it's been this season.
"To score more tries than the opposition demonstrates the effort the players put in."
Townsend praised 24-year-old fly-half Gregor Hunter, who made his first start for Glasgow since switching from Edinburgh in 2014.
"Gregor has been out of action from pro level for two seasons through injury," said the coach.
"He's played a lot for Glasgow Hawks this year and to get his first start away to Ulster when he's up against internationalists was a big test.
"I thought he was very focused during the week and he was accurate during the match."
Townsend was also pleased that Scotland back Peter Horne had made his return from injury as a second-half replacement.
The Swansea University team said a study of 200 online groomers' chat logs delivered unexpected conclusions.
Prof Nuria Lorenzo-Dus will publish her findings soon and wants funding to turn the research into public information.
In the past five years, 155 people in Wales have been reported to police for meeting a child following grooming.
Prof Lorenzo-Dus, who specialises in English language and applied linguistics, said groomers did not lie about their age and could operate very quickly.
In one case, she said it took less than 20 minutes to persuade a child to meet in real life.
"These online groomers are highly skilled, persuasive communicators," she said.
"They're using a very sophisticated toolkit in order to persuade their victims that they need to engage in a sexual relationship with a groomer."
Prof Lorenzo-Dus said the clues for parents were there if they knew what to look for; groomers often gained trust by paying their victims a compliment which was not necessarily of a sexual nature.
"They may be complimenting their victims on their maturity, on how well they play a particular game, for example an online game, or other aspects which do not seek or target or address sexual topics."
She also said groomers would try and isolate the victim from people close to them, such as parents and friends, in order to make their relationship special and unique.
Just before Christmas, the NSPCC reported Childline was contacted by 85 children in Wales about online sexual abuse in the previous 12 months - contributing to a 24% rise in UK calls on the previous year.
South Wales Police Ass Ch Con Jonathan Drake said 12 warrants were executed against suspected offenders in the past month.
"Day in, day out teams across Wales are doing search warrants at offenders' addresses, seizing computers, immediately analysing technology and other things they find there," he added.
We asked observers how their predictions turned out 20 years on.
Back then, cosmopolitan and prosperous Hong Kong was seen as China's vital gateway to the outside world - and many believed it would stay that way for years to come.
Fast forward 20 years, and it is no longer the only jewel in China's crown, with cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangdong becoming financial or manufacturing powerhouses.
"Hong Kong was the golden goose in China," said politician Martin Lee.
"I couldn't have thought that China's economy would develop so quickly… and Hong Kong's bargaining power would diminish so fast."
Many also did not envision Hong Kong ending up as "a paradise for money laundering and capital outflow" for the mainland, said financial analyst Agnes Wu.
In recent years Chinese tycoons have sought to park their assets, businesses and even themselves within the city amid a corruption crackdown in Beijing - something which the Chinese government has frowned upon.
Many wondered in 1997 how the reunion of a freewheeling, liberal city with its tightly-controlled mainland would pan out, particularly a few years after the Tiananmen Massacre which saw the brutal crushing of pro-democracy protests.
One hope was that Hong Kong could eventually "infect China with democracy", said Keith Richburg, a former correspondent with The Washington Post.
With China's rapid pace of economic development, many believed it would open up politically as well, and "if Hong Kong could just hold on for 20 years, there would be a convergence".
Some believe the opposite has happened.
Last month, Hong Kong's last British governor Chris Patten said there had been "a steady tightening of grip on Hong Kong's windpipe" and its autonomy.
China has promised to preserve the city's rights and autonomy under the "one country, two systems" principle.
But there are fears it is not keeping that promise, following the disappearance of Hong Kong booksellers and a Chinese tycoon and Beijing's intervention in the selection of Hong Kong lawmakers.
China now sees Hong Kong "as a threat... a base of subversion, a place to be controlled," said Mr Richburg, particularly after a series of large-scale protests culminating in the 2014 pro-democracy demonstrations.
China has also become emboldened by "the fact it's become clear that outside powers, including Britain, are not going to make any trouble... it's got a pretty free hand," said Jonathan Fenby, a former editor of the South China Morning Post newspaper.
But others disagree. Hong Kong's chief executive-elect Carrie Lam recently told the BBC that the "one country, two systems" is as robust as ever", and rule of law is "better than pre-1997".
Ms Lam, a former civil servant, is herself an example of Beijing keeping its promises, according to politician Regina Ip.
"Without the reunification, a lot of us local administrative officers (like Ms Lam) would not have risen to the top.... To this extent, 'Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong' has been fulfilled," said Ms Ip.
She believes the relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland needs more time to evolve.
"'One country, two systems' is proving to be more complex and more challenging than originally expected," she said, but she hopes outstanding issues "will be resolved in the coming years, sooner rather than later."
With the handover, "many of us thought it would be only natural that young children were going to learn the (Chinese) national anthem, and learn to respect and love China in their classes," said anthropologist Gordon Mathews.
Beijing had thought Hong Kong would embrace this return to the Chinese motherland after decades of foreign rule, said observers.
Instead, Hong Kongers ended up developing a strong sense of local identity, one that is often defined by anti-mainland sentiment.
Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong recalled that in 1997 one worry was of "mainlandisation" where Hong Kong's values would be eroded, turning it into "just another Chinese city".
"But something that I didn't predict took place instead - the appearance of localism, or separatism," he said, referring to the political movement where some advocate independence from the mainland.
Local identity has only been strengthened with perceived attempts by Beijing to exert influence.
Singer Anthony Wong says "many people started caring about their own rights" following attempts to introduce mainland-styled anti-subversion laws and national education in Hong Kong, which sparked large-scale protests and a "political awakening".
But others like Hong Kong business magnate Allan Zeman believe that assimilation is inevitable.
"In the next 20 years, things are going to change... we have the bridge between Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai, we have the high-speed rail. These infrastructures will change Hong Kong and eventually the borders will become seamless."
"Hong Kong will integrate more in China, whether we like it or not."
Reporting by Tessa Wong and Grace Tsoi. Illustrations by BBC Indonesian's Davies Christian.
Speaking on live television, he vowed to "fix" the court if re-elected.
It comes a day after the Supreme Court cited irregularities in the vote and ordered a new one within 60 days.
Mr Kenyatta has said he will respect the ruling and called for calm amid fears of unrest.
But at a rally in Nairobi on Friday he branded the Supreme Court judges "crooks".
The 8 August poll raised fears of major violence similar to that following a disputed vote in 2007.
Deputy President William Ruto has called on the electoral commission to set a date for fresh presidential elections, saying the governing Jubilee Party is ready.
But opposition candidate Raila Odinga wants the commission replaced, saying it has lost credibility.
It is believed to be the first time in Africa that a court has ruled against the electoral win of an incumbent based on a court challenge by the opposition.
"We shall revisit this thing. We clearly have a problem," Mr Kenyatta said of the judiciary during his television address on Saturday.
"Who even elected you? Were you? We have a problem and we must fix it."
Although the unrest in this year's vote was not as serious as in 2007, days of sporadic protests left at least 28 people dead.
Kenya's election commission had declared Mr Kenyatta the winner by a margin of 1.4 million votes but the result was immediately challenged in court by his nearest rival, Mr Odinga.
In a ruling on Friday, Chief Justice David Maraga said the 8 August election had not been conducted in accordance with the constitution, declaring it "invalid, null and void".
The ruling did not attribute any blame to President Kenyatta's party or campaign.
Mr Odinga, 72, said the ruling marked "a historic day for the people of Kenya and by extension for the people of the continent of Africa".
Following the election, international monitors from the EU, the African Union and the US had said there was no major fraud and urged Mr Odinga to concede.
Halcyon Theuri's head was "struck by a glancing blow" from a vehicle in the early hours of 31 August 2015 in Alfreton, Derbyshire.
Coroner Louise Pinder said the driver did not see 21-year-old Mr Theuri but "an observant driver" should have.
Two men were arrested over his death but the investigation was later closed.
Mr Theuri, from Oakerthorpe and who worked as a chef, was not a big drinker but had been getting drunk that night in nearby Ripley, the court heard.
Recording a narrative verdict, Ms Pinder said the taxi driver's defective demister, low visibility in the area and a lack of any signal from Mr Theuri contributed to his death from serious head injuries.
Two men were arrested in September 2015 on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following the incident in Wingfield Road.
They were released after Derbyshire Police concluded there was "insufficient evidence" to charge anyone.
Speaking after the inquest, Mr Theuri's mother Faith Marriott said he was "a wonderful person who'll be missed very, very much".
She added: "There are lessons to be learned concerning the circumstances of his death, surrounding the care and upkeep of taxi vehicles and the duty of care they should have to passengers in vulnerable states.
"We can't leave people in vulnerable states - we can't leave their fate to chance."
Gordon Baxter CBE, company president, passed control to his daughter Audrey Baxter - the fourth generation of the family to run the business - in 1992.
The Fochabers-based family business is famed for its soups and preserves.
A spokesman for the Baxter family said: "It is with great sadness that the Baxter family has confirmed the death of Mr Gordon Baxter, aged 95."
He went on: "He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Friday evening.
"Mr Baxter became an iconic Scottish business figure during his tenure of the world famous business.
"There will be a private family funeral later this week. A memorial service will be held later in the year in the village of Fochabers where all will be welcome."
Mr Baxter was awarded his CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2010.
He said he was "very gratified, proud and pleased" to receive the acknowledgement.
Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, were electrocuted in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in October 2005.
Police had chased the boys as they made their way home from a football match.
Almost 10 years later, the court in Rennes cleared Sebastien Gaillemin and Stephanie Klein of charges of failing to assist someone in danger.
Adel Benna, Zyed's brother, said he was sickened by Monday's ruling.
"Police officers are untouchable. It's not just in this case, they are never convicted," he told reporters.
The officers had been accused of doing nothing to help, despite knowing the boys were in danger when they were seen approaching the EDF power facility. They insisted they were not to blame.
Bouna and Zyed were electrocuted while a third youth, Muhittin Altun, escaped with burns.
The deaths ignited three weeks of clashes with security forces in run-down city suburbs across France.
Vehicles and public buildings were burned and thousands of people arrested in rioting that led to the first state of emergency in the country for more than 20 years.
For years the case dragged through the courts, until in 2012 France's highest court overturned a ruling that dropped a "failure to help" charge against the officers.
But Monday's closely-watched decision, which comes after a five-day trial in March, is final and cannot be appealed.
The trial focused on a phrase that Mr Gaillemin, 41, radioed to colleagues, saying: "If they enter the site there's not much hope they'll make it alive."
The call was received by Ms Klein, a police intern at the time, who was accused of not reacting.
But president judge Nicolas Leger ruled that neither officer had a "clear awareness of an imminent and serious danger", which would be required under French law for a conviction.
The officers' lawyer, Daniel Merchat, said his clients were "relieved".
"For nine years, my clients have been completely convinced that they committed neither a mistake, nor a crime. This nine-year case has left them suffering... for them this is now a page that has turned," AFP news agency quoted him as saying.
If found guilty, the two officers would have faced up to five years in prison. However, both the defence and prosecution had called for an acquittal.
The two dead teenagers' relatives have launched a civil case, seeking a total of €1.6m (£1.2m; $1.8m) in compensation and damages.
The hashtag #ZyedEtBouna was trending in France on Monday, with many users expressing their dismay at the verdict.
But far-right National Front MP Marion Marechal Le Pen, a granddaughter of party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, provoked an angry response when she used the word "rabble" to describe young delinquents, echoing what former Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy had said two days before the two boys died.
She suggested the ruling showed that the riots had been unleashed "for pleasure and not because of a police blunder".
Clichy is one of France's most notorious immigrant "banlieues" (suburbs).
In January, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said France should no longer tolerate "ghettoisation" in the suburbs, following the Paris attacks that left 17 people dead.
Social alienation was seen as a factor in the attacks, carried out by jihadist gunmen.
Edwards had been in charge since 2011 and was appointed national women's head coach and elite programme lead in 2015.
"WRU thanks Rhys for his commitment to the role and wishes him the best for the future," the WRU said in a statement.
Wales, who finished fourth in the 2016 Six Nations, have qualified for the Women's Rugby World Cup in 2017.
But spokesman Georg Streiter declined to comment on reports that Berlin is now content that the eurozone could withstand Greece's exit from the bloc.
Greece is holding a general election later this month, and anti-austerity party Syriza is ahead in the polls.
Syriza wants to renegotiate the terms of its international bailout.
Under those terms, the so-called troika - EU, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank - supported Greece with the promise of €240bn (£188bn) in return for budget cuts and economic reforms.
"Greece has fulfilled its obligations in the past. The German government assumes it will continue to fulfil its contractual obligations to the troika," Mr Streiter told reporters.
"Every new government has to abide by the contractual obligations of the previous government."
The stability of the eurozone has once again risen up the political agenda with the rise of the anti-austerity party Syriza, on course to win the 25 January snap election, according to polling.
On Saturday, Der Spiegel cited sources saying that both Mrs Merkel and finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble now believe the eurozone has introduced enough banking reforms and support to withstand a Greek exit.
Berlin also feels that the once-troubled countries of Ireland and Portugal have made good progress in strengthening their economies, the report said.
The Syriza party, led by Alexis Tsipras, has pledged to reverse reforms imposed by Greece's international creditors and renegotiate its bailout deal.
Mark Lloyd, of Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taff, claimed £6,551.80 in Personal Independence Payments, saying a slipped disc in his back left him in agony.
At the same time, the 33-year-old competed in races, climbed Africa's highest peak, went wing-walking and skied in the Alps.
He was convicted of a fraud charge at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court.
Chris Evans, prosecuting, said: "He said he can only walk between 20 and 50 metres, can't walk on uneven ground, suffers pain when walking long distances and needs to sit down every 20 minutes."
He claimed the cash between October 2014 and February 2016, but the court was shown photos of Lloyd competing in the HSBC triathlon in September 2015 - a race he won in the adult taster category.
That month, he was also pictured posing with an African guide during his five-day trek to the peak of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania which involved walking between eight and 12 hours a day.
He also took part in the World Powerboat Championships in Malta.
Lloyd was medically discharged from the Army in 2011 after suffering an injury to his lower back while serving in Afghanistan.
In 2014, he applied for the Personal Independence Payment - up to £141 a week for those suffering long-term ill health to help cover costs of their care.
The following year, he applied for more money, saying his condition had worsened and he would be bedridden for a day if he walked more than 164 ft (50m).
Mr Evans said: "The case is not whether he has an injury or not, but if he exaggerated his condition to claim money."
Lloyd admitted filling in risk assessment forms to enter three triathlons without revealing he suffered ill health.
He said: "I didn't want any special treatment or assistance. I wanted to be self-sufficient and compete at the same level as everyone else."
James Harris, defending, said Lloyd had not been dishonest and was able to push through the pain barrier because of his Army training.
"When climbing Mount Kilimanjaro he said he pushed himself and was in agony," he told the court.
District Judge Martin Brown called Lloyd's defence "nonsense" and said he deliberately lied to get "every penny he could".
The court heard the offence took place while he was serving a 20-week suspended prison sentence for common assault.
Lloyd denied one count of dishonestly failing to disclose information to make a gain for himself, but was convicted following a trial. He will be sentenced in August.
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: "Only a small minority of people try to cheat the benefits system, but cases like this show how we are rooting out those who are stealing taxpayers' money and diverting it away from the people who really need it."
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Van Gaal is still in position and has a contract that ends in 2017 - but United's move for Mourinho increased the likelihood the Dutchman will leave at the end of the season, with 'The Special One' succeeding his old mentor.
No job offer has been made to Mourinho as United make their soundings out, but the man sacked by Chelsea in December, seven months after winning the title, now looks certain to be in opposition to old adversary Pep Guardiola when the Spaniard takes charge at arch-rivals Manchester City.
Mourinho has always been a divisive figure throughout a combustible career, liberally sprinkled with controversy - and when it was suggested just days after he left Chelsea that he might be Old Trafford-bound, opinion was mixed.
Since then Van Gaal's stock has fallen even further among United's fans, with the prospect of Mourinho taking the reins becoming increasingly appetising.
Mourinho is the man who can rekindle the fight, defiance and colour in Manchester United after the drab flourishes applied to "The Theatre Of Dreams" by David Moyes and Van Gaal since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement in 2013 after 26 years.
And Old Trafford's appetite for Mourinho's unique combination of abrasive self-confidence mixed with consistent success will have been sharpened by City's coup in luring Guardiola, the world's most celebrated coach, to the Etihad.
Put simply, post-Van Gaal, United fans will demand someone who can stand toe-to-toe with the iconic Guardiola, not just in fighting their corner, but in bringing success - Mourinho's track record makes him that man.
Chelsea's fans may have mixed emotions to see the manager they worshipped battling them on all fronts - but they will also accept it was not his decision to leave Stamford Bridge.
Mourinho's career has been characterised by success but his detractors would suggest it has come at a price that has put pragmatism before football that is pleasing on the eye - how would that sit at Old Trafford?
One of the main criticisms of Van Gaal is that £250m spent on new players has delivered a functional, joyless style that has dulled Old Trafford's senses, including a run of 11 home games without a first-half goal this season.
The shadow of the flamboyant, all-out attack of the Ferguson era has hung heavily over both Moyes and Van Gaal, and there will be pressure on Mourinho to alter his usual functional template.
He might argue, with plenty of justification, that any reservations about his methods are eased by the fact he is a virtual guarantee of trophies - something Old Trafford's traditionalists may accept as a price worth paying for the Mourinho ticket.
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And is it a valid argument anyway?
When Chelsea won the title last season, their early season performances - inspired by summer acquisitions Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas - were the perfect blend of exciting attack and defensive steel that is Mourinho's trademark.
Chelsea scored 73 league goals, 10 fewer than second-placed Manchester City, but two more than Arsenal - with Arsene Wenger's side often held up as the purists' delight.
And when Mourinho won his second title with Chelsea in 2005-06, they equalled the goal tally of runners-up Manchester United with 72, but only conceded 22 to Manchester United's 34.
Mourinho also gave the lie to the image with Real Madrid when they won La Liga in 2011-12. They scored the most league goals in a season with 121, had the best goal difference in a season of +89, the most points in a season at 100 - 87.72% of points they contested. He is not a one-trick pony.
Mourinho has observed Old Trafford for long enough to know what is required - and while his first priority is always to win, he is wise enough to know that a certain style is demanded.
Silverware will do for starters. And few managers are better at that.
Manchester United are not the sort of club to be bounced into big appointments - but Guardiola's arrival at Manchester City will have concentrated minds fiercely.
It left them in the shadow of the so-called "Noisy Neighbours", whose recent growth has enabled them to secure the most coveted coaching name in world football - a man of such reputation he would have been welcomed with open arms by United fans.
It needed a response given the uncertainty surrounding Van Gaal's long-term future. The next manager, should Van Gaal go, needs to be a manager of iron will, character and a proven winner.
United surely cannot risk putting a rookie in the shape of Ryan Giggs - no full-time management experience and nothing to suggest he will succeed - against Guardiola.
Once Guardiola's arrival was confirmed by Manchester City, the chances of Mourinho arriving at Old Trafford rose instantly.
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Louis van Gaal has been in defiant mood in recent weeks, but he has been around long enough to know the credits are rolling, with United sounding out possible successors.
United would not be doing their duty if they ignored a succession plan, and Mourinho's availability and Van Gaal's struggles appear to have brought that forward.
The Dutchman, 64, was already working under a shroud of uncertainty and revelations that negotiations have been held with Mourinho's representatives will only make that darker - but he is a proud man and will not leave quietly.
Van Gaal still believes United can end the season with a trophy - but he will surely know the talks with Mourinho's people push him closer to the door.
Giggs has sat silently at the side of Moyes and Van Gaal since Ferguson left - would he be prepared to do it again should Mourinho arrive? And would it do him any good?
There is only so much managerial experience Giggs can pick up as a sidekick, even if Mourinho wants to introduce an "outsider" into the trusted backroom staff he takes everywhere with him, such as Rui Faria and Silvino Louro.
If Giggs is passed over as Van Gaal's successor then surely it is time for that member of the influential 'Class Of 92' to strike out on his own and prove his worth as a manager to make his case as a future United boss?
It would be time for Giggs to be more than a silent partner.
If Mourinho arrives, that will surely spell the end of any late and lingering hopes that Cristiano Ronaldo would return to Old Trafford.
The pair's relationship fractured totally at Real Madrid, so that can be forgotten - and even suggestions United might want to pay £65m for Everton's Romelu Lukaku may go on ice as Mourinho did not trust the striker at Chelsea and agreed to his £28m sale in summer 2014.
One Everton player who might be of interest to Mourinho is John Stones, who is expected to leave Goodison Park in the summer and was the subject of a £38m bid when he was Chelsea manager last summer.
Mourinho is also a long-term of admirer of Real Madrid's Gareth Bale, whom United have coveted for years, but he would not be alone there. Plus Real's outstanding young defender Raphael Varane might also be on his list.
It may be bad news for Juan Mata, a popular and influential figure at Old Trafford. He was, however, also popular and influential at Chelsea, but was not Mourinho's type and was willingly sold to United for £37.1m in January 2014.
Manchester United pride themselves on a certain style - and may well insist Mourinho ditches the confrontational approach that has brought so many bad headlines over the years.
Sir Bobby Charlton is not a decision-maker at Old Trafford, but the opinion of a man of such stature always carries weight and he may have pointed up areas of concern in an interview some years ago.
When Mourinho gouged at the eye of the late Tito Vilanova, then Barcelona's assistant coach, in the 2011 Spanish Super Cup, he said: "A United manager wouldn't do that."
He added: "He is a really good coach but that is as far as I would go, really. He pontificates too much for my liking. He is a good manager though."
History tells us, however, that Mourinho has always shown respect bordering on reverence for United - particularly when returning for Champions League games with Inter Milan and Real Madrid.
Was he preparing the ground and burnishing his image for his potential appointment? We may soon find out.
DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds made the claim after Prime Minister David Cameron issued an ultimatum about his own participation in the debates.
Mr Cameron said he will take part in only one debate, with seven leaders.
The DUP has begun legal action against the BBC for excluding it from its earlier proposal of two UK TV debates.
The BBC has argued that its impartiality is crucial and UK network TV debates could not include "just one" party from Northern Ireland.
The DUP, which is the biggest party in Northern Ireland and the fourth largest party in the House of Commons, is seeking a judicial review of the BBC's decision.
In a letter to the BBC, Downing Street said the DUP had initiated what appeared to be "legitimate legal action" to challenge their omission from the debate process.
Referring to Mr Cameron's proposed single debate, the letter also stated: "The leader of the DUP should be allowed to make his case for why he should be involved."
Mr Dodds said Mr Cameron has acknowledged that the DUP had a legitimate case, but said the broadcasters handled the process so badly that it now seemed unlikely that any TV debates would take place during the election campaign.
He repeated the DUP's complaint that it is unfair for broadcasters to include leaders from parties in Scotland and Wales in UK-wide debates, while omitting leaders from Northern Ireland.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster that the BBC and other broadcasters had "messed up big style" during the entire debates process.
"We have fought the case for Northern Ireland, because at the end of the day, when the election is held, it's very likely that there is going to be no overall [majority] party," Mr Dodds said.
He said the DUP could have a "very crucial role" to play in negotiations in the event of a hung parliament, so it was essential that their voice was heard in UK-wide debates.
With eight MPs, the DUP has more members elected to the House of Commons than four of the seven parties that have been invited to participate.
The Scottish National Party currently has six MPs, Plaid Cymru has three, UKIP has two and the Greens are represented by a single MP.
The DUP met BBC management in Belfast last month to discuss the issue.
Mr Dodds said his party has not yet heard back from the BBC Trust regarding its legal action on the proposed two-debate format.
The home side threatened early on, with Sam Johnson forced to tip Giuseppe Sole's free-kick over the bar.
Woking's Chris Arthur was sent off for a two-footed tackle, but the hosts took the lead through Bruno Andrade's superb solo run and calm finish.
Walker responded before half-time with a curled free-kick into the top corner to claim a point for his team.
Woking boss Garry Hill told BBC Surrey:
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"The referee has made a decision [to send off Chris Arthur] and it was in front of the opposition dugout.
"They were very persuasive and surrounded the referee to put him under pressure.
"The lads have done well to play for 70 minutes with ten players and show that kind of character, commitment and discipline to restrict them to limited opportunities.
"I can't be disappointed with the result but it was a frustrating afternoon."
Those were the words of the First Minister Carwyn Jones at his monthly news conference in the autumn.
It would seem then that there's an inevitability about local government re-organisation.
Paul Williams, the former chief executive of the NHS in Wales, is due to publish the conclusion of his review into public services next week.
It's widely expected to fire the starting gun on local government re-organisation.
Within it will be his thoughts, and those of his commission members, on what should happen to the 22 unitary authorities that were created after the last round of changes in 1996.
The big criticism is that there are too many councils and some are too small. There are mismatches. Cardiff for example has a population of around a third of a million, while Merthyr has a population of around 50,000.
A number of negative stories about council chief executive pay levels have all contributed to the debate, and added to the calls to reduce the overheads of 22 separate senior management teams.
In time, that could free up money to go to frontline services but in the meantime there will be a big bill to pay for the changes.
I'd expect one of the first battlegrounds to be around the cost. The consultants Deloitte has looked at the cost of a number of previous re-organisations around the UK and the average cost was above £250m.
Much will be taken up with the cost of redundancies.
In its submission, the Welsh Local Government Association says that when the NHS in Wales was restructured in 2009, senior managers who were moved to lower-banded positions had their salaries protected for ten years.
It says: "Clearly there would be an expectation from the local government workforce and trade unions of fairness in these areas."
The other big costs will be IT. Since the 1990's councils have invested hugely in diverse IT systems in areas like payroll and council tax and all of these will have be connected with other systems.
There will also have to be job evaluations carried out of every staff member so new HR departments can work out how much everyone should be paid.
Critics will question whether now is the right time to carry out such big changes when councils are already facing some of the biggest cuts in years.
And are bigger councils better? The WLGA says there needs to be a compelling argument for change.
It admits that five of the local education authorities in special measures belong to some of the smallest councils but concludes that overall there's no obvious correlation between population size and performance. It says factors like leadership and deprivation have as much, if not greater influence over relative performance.
Another question is how to harmonise council tax rates. If, for example, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire were to come together to form a new authority then the council tax payers in Pembrokeshire could face paying more as their bills are currently more than £200 a year less than in Carmarthenshire.
And finally there could be political difficulties for Labour. If there's a dramatic reduction in the number of councillors in Wales, particularly in the south Wales valleys, then many of them will be Labour members who act as grassroots campaigners at the general and assembly elections.
It may well be that Carwyn Jones has more difficulty gaining support from within his party than gaining cross-party support at the assembly.
They found the courts, dating back some 1,000 years, at the Tajin World Heritage site by using laser scanners.
They believe the fields would have been used to play pelota, a game in which players used their hips to propel a rubber ball through stone hoops.
The sport was widely played by Mayan and other pre-Columbian people.
Experts from the National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) said the use of aerial photography, remote sensors and laser scanners had made it possible to find the ancient structures, hidden by layers of soil and dense vegetation.
Clue to the past
Guadalupe Zetina of the Tajin archaeological site said they would now proceed to excavate parts of the site to further investigate the find.
As well as the three playing fields, the archaeologists found remains of "balconies", platforms between 10m (33ft) and 12m high that would have provided a panoramic view of the surrounding area.
Ms Zetina said so far they had found two balconies but that they suspected there may be more.
"At the moment, we're studying their characteristics and making 3-D digital models, but we'll need to carry out excavations to determine how they were used, but we're sure they were viewing platforms," Ms Zetina said.
Ms Zetina's team also found traces of living quarters in the western part of the archaeological site, which could have housed large families.
The archaeologists hope this last find may provide them with clues as to how the inhabitants of the Tajin site lived.
Tajin is thought to have had its heyday between the early 9th and early 13th Century, at which point it became the most important centre in north-east Mesoamerica.
The discovery of the three playing fields brings the number of pelota courts uncovered in Tajin to 20. Tajin is therefore also known as the "city of pelota".
It is not known who the original inhabitants of Tajin were.
Shane O'Donoghue scored for Glenanne, with fellow Ireland international Eugene Magee leveling for Banbridge.
Banbridge enjoy a six-goal advantage on goal difference.
Banbridge entertain Railway Union in their final match, while Three Rock Rovers face Instonians.
Instonians, whose relegation was confirmed on Saturday, lost 3-1 to Monkstown on Sunday.
Banbridge beat UCD 3-2 at Havelock Park on Saturday after leading 2-0 at half-time thanks to goals from Magee and Dane Ward.
Bruce McCandless made it 3-1 after UCD had pulled a goal back and the Dublin students scored again near the end.
Lisnagarvey made sure of a place in the end-of-season play-offs with a runaway 10-0 win over Instonians at Shaw's Bridge which sealed their opponents' relegation fate.
Monkstown went down 2-1 to Glenanne and Cork C of I were defeated 3-0 by Three Rock Rovers.
Irish international Michael Robson marked his return from injury with two of the goals with Andy Williamson also netting twice for the Hillsborough side.
In the women's competition, UCD were confirmed as champions after a decisive 2-1 win over Hermes-Monkstown.
Belfast Harlequins face a relegation play-off after losing 5-1 to Loreto at Deramore while Pegasus defeated Ards 2-0 and Ulster Elks lost 2-0 to Pembroke.
Sarah Torrans scored a hat-trick in the opening eight minutes at Deramore to leave Belfast Harlequins with too much to do to secure the draw they needed to guarantee their safety.
Torrans added two more goals in the second half to complete a memorable afternoon, with Gemma Frazer on target for Harlequins when they trailed 4-0.
Quins must now beat the runners up in the forthcoming provincial play-off series if they are to stay in the national league next season.
Goals in the first quarter from Rachel Scott and Erica Markey gave Pembroke a crucial win over the already-relegated Elks which kept the Dublin side in the top-flight.
In the Ulster derby Pegasus defeated Ards 2-0 at Londonderry Park with goals from sisters Rachael McMillan and Hannah Craig and Railway Union were 1-0 winners over Cork Harlequins.
Stapleton won three Emmy awards for playing Archie Bunker's naive, good-hearted housewife Edith.
The hit series about a working-class couple was adapted from the British show Til Death Us Do Part.
She died of natural causes at her home in New York City on Friday, her son, the director John Putch, said.
Stapleton, who was known for her shrill voice, spent eight years on the show and flourished as the retiring homebody who was often at odds with her curmudgeonly and bigoted husband.
"No one gave more profound 'How to be a Human Being' lessons than Jean Stapleton," said the show's producer Norman Lear.
A stage-trained character actress, Stapleton originated the role of Mrs Strakosh in Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand in 1964.
She earned Emmy nominations for playing Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1982 film, Eleanor, First Lady of the World and for a guest appearance in 1995 on Grace Under Fire.
Her son and daughter John and Pamela Putch said in a statement: "It is with great love and heavy hearts that we say farewell to our collective Mother, with a capital M.
"Her devotion to her craft and her family taught us all great life lessons," they added.
Following All in the Family, Stapleton also featured in the 1998 Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan romantic film You've Got Mail and Michael, starring John Travolta, in 1996.
She turned down the chance to star in the popular TV mystery show Murder, She Wrote, which became a showcase for Angela Lansbury.
Other guest appearances included Murphy Brown and Everybody Loves Raymond.
"I wasn't a leading lady type," she once told The Associated Press.
"I knew where I belonged. And actually, I found character work much more interesting than leading ladies."
For years, she rarely watched All In the Family, but had softened by 2000, when she told the Archive of American Television that enough time had passed.
"I can watch totally objectively,'' she said. "I love it and I laugh. I think, 'Oh,' and I think, 'Gee, that's good'."
The star was scathing about the judges in his 1990s legal battle with former bandmate Mike Joyce, describing one as the "pride of the pipsqueakery".
The Smiths' record label Rough Trade, he said, had been "brutally drab".
And he accused music paper NME of being out to "get Morrissey" in the 1990s.
The star, who is normally protective of his private life, opened up about a relationship with Jake Walters that began in 1994.
He wrote about how Walters followed him back to his house after meeting him at a restaurant and "steps inside and stays for two years".
"For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone," he wrote.
He also revealed how he later discussed having a baby - or, as he put it, a "mewling miniature monster" - with Tina Dehgani, with whom he described having an "uncluttered commitment".
Giving his version of his 1996 court battle with Joyce, who was seeking 25% of The Smiths' earnings, Morrissey accused the drummer of "constant inaccuracies and assumptions vomited out with leaden fatigue" in court.
By Colin PatersonBBC entertainment reporter
This is Morrissey's chance to right every perceived wrong in his life - teachers, the NME, judges (50 pages), John Peel... Even The Thompson Twins, who stopped The Smiths' debut album from getting to number one.
However, it is a thoroughly entertaining read, with a laugh-out-loud moment every couple of pages. Michael Stipe is criticised for not brushing his teeth before an REM gig. His primary school teacher is described as the sort "who will never marry and will die smelling of attics".
There are revelations: Love affairs with a man and a woman; a thorough analysis of The Smiths' break-up (Johnny Marr was the "master", Morrissey "the servant"); and enough titbits to delight fans (he was a 100 metres champion, turned down a part in Friends, and is a fan of A-ha).
There is also beautiful writing. Manchester of the late '60s is described as "an old fire, wheezing its last, where we all worry ourselves soulless, forbidden to be romantic".
The group, one of the most revered bands in British music, split up in 1987 after five years together.
The presiding judge, John Weeks, came in for particularly scathing criticism, portrayed caustically in the book as an "unsmiling Lord of the Hunt, with an immutable understanding of the world of The Smiths".
"The pride of the pipsqueakery, John Weeks begins his judgment by falling flat on his face: He brilliantly announces to the world how The Smiths formed in 1992 - his judicial accuracy not to be questioned!" Morrissey wrote.
Geoff Travis, who signed The Smiths to Rough Trade, was another who failed to impress Morrissey.
When the singer and guitarist Johnny Marr turned up for an appointment, Morrissey claims he waved them away and refused to listen to their music until Marr "pinned him to the swivel chair".
Travis, Morrissey drily noted, "would have found himself wandering from kaftan to kaftan" if it had not been for The Smiths, who the singer claimed "saved his life and made it count in the long run".
The singer's bitter and long-running row with the NME began, he said, when a new editor took over and "allegedly called a staff meeting at which he has passed the command that his staff writers must now 'get Morrissey'".
In 1992, the magazine questioned whether he was racist after he appeared on stage with a Union Jack. It put him on its cover under the headline: "Flying the flag or flirting with disaster?"
The singer also detailed the brutality of teachers at St Mary's school in Stretford, Manchester, where each day was "Kafka-esque in its nightmare".
One teacher, he recounted, "stands and stares and stands and stares" at naked boys in the shower, while another was recalled for the way he rubbed anti-inflammatory cream into the young Morrissey's wrist after he had fallen over.
"At 14, I understand the meaning of the unnecessarily slow and sensual strokes, with eyes fixed to mine," Morrissey wrote.
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In its latest report on the subject, the CBI accepts there are problems with EU membership but that these are greatly outweighed by the benefits.
It says most of its members want to stay within the 28-country bloc.
Those on the other side of the hotly contested issue say the UK would be better served through a more distant relationship with the EU.
The CBI's report says the plan for a referendum on membership by 2017 means it is that essential business becomes involved in the debate.
"Just as 'more Europe' isn't the answer to every question, neither is 'no Europe'," the report says. "Being a member of the European Union helps British businesses to grow and create more jobs across the UK."
It says membership gives UK businesses access to more than 500 million customers within the single market, and the EU's size allows its trade negotiators go 'toe-to-toe' with global giants like the US and China to open up their markets.
The CBI also says membership is good for households. It says that if membership is worth about 4-5% of national income, this would mean £3,000 for each household on average.
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Will Straw, the executive director of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, commented: "The CBI report blows a huge hole in the out campaign's argument. Being part of Europe boosts the UK economy by increasing our trade and investment in turn supporting millions of jobs here at home.
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